The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1867.

IREL AND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 5.
The prosecutions which the Government have
felt it necessary to'institute against the Orange pro-
cessionists at Bangor, county Down, commenced
yesterday, and excited no slight degree of interest in
that famous little town. So full a bench and so
crowded a court have seldom been witnessed at an

ordinary petty sessions. The magistrates who at-
tended were Major J. S. Crawford (chairman), Lord
Dufferin, Joseph Eglinton, R.M., Andrew Cowan,
11. Harrison, Robert lleron, D.L., and Major It.
Maxwell. Mr. Montgomery, sub-inspector of
constabulary, was also present. Twenty-six defen-
dants, headed by Mr. W. Johnstone, Ballykilbeg-
house, attended to answer summonses charging that
they and others on the 12th of July last " formed
an unlawful assembly and met and paraded together,

and had among them fire-arms and other offensive

weapons, banners, and symbols, the display whereof
was calculated to provoke animosity between the
different classes of her Majesty's subjects, and were
accompanied by persons playing music, which was
calculated to provoke animosity between different
classes of her Majesty's subjects." The defendants
were William Johnstone, Matthew Skillan, Thomas

M.‘Cling, James 8001, Hugh Garrett, William
Mawhinney, James Dixon, Francis Whiteside, Jas.
Morrison, Samuel Alexander, Samuel Scott, Robert
Moffett, James Reid, Thomas George, Thomas
Keatinge, William Gibson, John Brown, John
Petherens, Hugh Cree, Hugh Dill, David Harvey,
William M'Eall, Joseph Spratt, William John Dill,
James M'Cully, and Thomas Graham. Mr. Magee,
Crown solicitor, conducted the proceedings on the
part of the Crown ; Mr. Kisbey, barrister, appeared
to defend 13 of the accused ; Mr. Maclean, solicitor,

appeared for Mr Johnstone ; and Mr. Crawley,
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chair to the meeting, and they were thus unani-
mously elected directors of the company.
The CHAIRMAN said he and his colleagues had
not interfered in the election ; they would receive
with satisfaction their brother directors just elected,
and would work harmoniously with them. The
businGss for which they had met had been performed,
and the proceedings were concluded.

solicitor, for M'Cling and Scott.
At the close of the evidence the magistrates de-
cided upon receiving informations against all the
defendants except Reid and Skillan, and sending
the cases for trial at the assizes. This rapid de-
spatch of the business of an inquiry which it was
thought would be protracted for some days will
enable the Crown Solicitor to take up another link
in the series of prosecutions by attending at Ban-
bridge Sessions to-day to proceed against other
parties. By way of showing the spirit in which he
treats the action of the Government, Mr. Johnstone
selected the day of his appearance before the magis-
trates to issue an address to the electors of Belfast,
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severely. The defendant, who stated that he was a
labourer on the coal quay, and had been employed
with others to keep order, excuaed himself by alleg-
ing that the complainant was interrupting the meet-
ing. The magistrate sentenced him to pay a fine of
55., or be imprisoned for 48 hours.
The investigation respecting certain irregularities
in the management of the South Dublin Union was
concluded yesterday. Mr. Horridge, the master,
was examined, and admitted that he had allowed
money to remain too long in his hands, but declared
that he had accounted for all he received, and he
repudiated the charge of permitting fictitious entries
to be made in the books. The clerk was also exa-
mined, and explained that he did not check the
accounts because he found it impracticable to do so,
owing to the pressure of business. The evidence
taken down has been transmitted to the Poor Law
Commissioners for their decision.
The annual shows of the Enniscorthy Agricultural
Society and the Wexford Horticultural Society Were
held yesterday at Enniscorthy, and were substan-
tial and creditable.
The recent declaration of war against the Esta-
blished Church appears to have startled some of its
members from their apathy, and arrangements are
now making to meet the threatened attack. The
Church Institution held the first of a series of pro-
vincial meetings in Cavan yesterday with that object.
There was a numerous attendance of the clergy. Mr.
James Storey occupied the chair, in the absence of
Lord Cavan, who was expected, but could not be
present. The Bishop of liihnore made a few obser-
vations commendatory of the institution and pointed
out the necessity for refuting the misrepresentations
which were put forward by the assailants of the
Church. He called on the Rev. Dr. Lee to give
some information, and the rev. gentleman, in com-
pliance with the request, entered into a history of
the formation of the Liberation Society in England
to disestablish the Church, and of the Church Insti-
tution to counteract its efforts. He went into
statistics to show that there was but one single
benefice
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Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches ; that
eight-ninths of the tithe-rent charge was paid by
Protestant landlords and only one-ninth by Roman
Catholics, and that a rent-charge was in the nature
of a reserved rent, which never belonged to either
landlord or tenant. Other arguments were adduced
in answer to objections. Resolutions in support of
the institution were adopted.

Railway and other Companies.

TOTTENHAM AND liLIPSTEAD JUNCTION.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was
held yesterday at the offices, Westminster-chambers,
Victoria-street ; Capt. Arrow in the chair.
The report stated that at the last meeting of the
proprietors the directors anticipated the early com-
pletion of the line and of its opening for public
traffic, but untoward circumstances, arising out of
the financial difficulties affecting railway property
in general, had hitherto prevented the opening of
the line, which was now in all essentials ready for
traffic. The directors had, notwithstanding this
difficulty, reason to believe that before the end of
the autumn not only would the local passenger
traffic be accommodated, but that, by means of
temporary connexion with the Midland Railway,
the vast traffic of that company seeking the Docks
would be also passing over the line. While those
important results were being secured, the directors
proposed to raise the authorised capital, and thus
relieve the company fram heavily pressing liabilities,
and place it, financially, in a satisfactory state. Of
its future prospects there could then be little doubt,
looking to its immediate locality and the connexion
it formed between two great companies. The capital
account showed that £386,371 had been expended,
leaving a balance of £33,300 of Great Eastern 5 per
cent. stock.
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the report and
statement of accounts were adopted, and the meet-
ing separated.

GoLEFORD, MONMOUTII, AND USK.
The half-yearly meeting was held at Newport;
Mr. T. Brown in the chair.
The report stated that the rent received from the
Great Western Company enabled them to recom-
mend a dividend for the past half-year at the rate
of 3 per cent. per annum.
The report was unanimously adopted, and the
dividend recommended was declared.
A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the
proceedings.

DUBLIN TRUNK CONNECTI-50,
An extraordinary general meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday at the City Terminus
Hotel, Cannon-street ; Mr. F. W. Russell in the

chair.

The Secretary having read the notice convening
the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN explained that the meeting was
held in compliance with a clause in the Companies'
Act, 1867, which required that four of -.the existing
directors should retire from the board, so,;.as to enable
the shareholders in the company whcr ha 1 paid up
not less than £5 per share to elect fc•ur di/ectors in
the place of those who retired.
The shareholders then nominated Mr. S. D. Wil-
liams, Mr. W. P. Patrick, Mr. F.. P. Blewett, and
Mr. W. C. Smith. They were propogod from the

ing machine ; and when the ship is set in motion
a long barrel, thickly set with arms about a foot
long, revolves, and the mud thus agitated is carried
off by the ebbing tide. It is calculated that about
800 tons of mud arc thus removed at each tide.
We are glad to learn that Commodore Caldwell,
who was compelled to resign his command at the
Cape of Good Hope from serious ill-health, and
who came home passenger by the Orontes, has
arrived in England in much better health than his
friends anticipated, the voyage homeward having
had a most beneficial effect upon the state of the
gallant officer's health as the vessel approached the
English from the African coast.
Detachments of time expired non-commissioned
officers and men and invalid troops belonging to the
3d Dragoons, 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars,
18th Hussars, Royal Horse and Field Artillery,
51st (King's Own) Light Infantry, 821 Regiment,
96th Regiment, 103 d Royal Bombay Fusileers,
106th Bombay Light Infantry, and 109th Bombay
Infantry arrived at Gravesend yesterday-, and on
disembarking from the Lady Wodehouse steamer,
which conveyed them from Portsmouth, were for-
warded to their respective depots at Chatham,
Woolwich, Canterbury, Shorncliffe, Dover, and
Colchester.

VALETTA, Aug. 30.—The Marseilles mail brought
letters from the fleet to the 16th inst., when they
were anchored at Spezzia. The previous advices were
dated off Nice, Aug. 2. Lord C. Paget arrived off
Genoa on the 6th, but did not communicate, as there
had been a few cases of cholera in the town. Ile
sailed for Spezzia the same afternoon, arriving early
the following morning, and finding there the Prince
Consort and Royal Oak, which had been sent on
previously. By the courtesy of the authorities all the
ships were permitted to remain. It was exceedingly
hot, but the squadron were quite healthy, and
Spezzia was free from any disease. In the outskirts
of the town great alterations are being made, as it is
the intention of the Italian Government to transfer
their naval arsenal and dockyard from Genoa to that
place. The only men-of-war at Spezzia were the Re
Galantuomo, gunnery ship ; the Principe Carig-
nano, floating battery; and the Curtatone, gunboat ;
English squadron
and were ex-
pectedfFEorenrraju, uiandwromn commission,
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29th, to meet the Psyche, with the mails, after
which they would probably return to Spezzia, as
that port keeps up a quarantine on arrivals from
places affected with cholera. The Tyrian was to take
the next mail from Villafranca to the squadron at
Spezzia. The Endymion joined the Commander-in-
Chief from Malta on the 10th, and the Cruizer on
the 14th, so the squadron is now complete. Her Ma-
jesty's screw steam troopship Simoom, Capt. Leth-
bridge, arrived here on the evening of Saturday,
the 24th inst., with the4th, sth, and 6th batteries
of the 10th Brigade, Royal Artillery, from Quebec,
and the Bth battery of the same brigade from St.
John's, Newfoundland, for disembarcation at this
island. She left Halifax on the 24th of July and
arrived at Quebec on the 28th, taking a. fresh de-
parture on Ist August, and arriving at St. John's
on the 6th. She left again on the Bth, and Passed
through the Straits of Gibraltar on the 20th.
Being
a troopship, she made the whole passage under
steam, using sail also on every possible occasion.
She met with fine weather throughout, although
occasionally compelled by fogs to proceed at re-
duced speed. The following is a complete list of
the passengers who arrived by her :—Lieut.-Col.
R. B. M'Crea, his wife and daughter; Capt. S.
Knox, Lieut. H. B. Harvey, Lieut. H. E. Duthie,
Lieut. 11. des Barres, Lieut. J. P. Cundill, 253
non-commissioned officers, 64 women, 105 children,
and two female servants from Quebec ; Lieut. G.
J. Dillies, Lieut. D. N. Taylor, wife, and two chil-
dren ; Surg. A. K. Rickards, wife, and four chil-
dren ; 74 non-commissioned officers and gunners,
23 women, 33 children, and two servants, from St.
John's ; and three gunners from Halifax. After
completing with coal and cleaning boilers, the Si-
moom will embark on the 31st inst. the Ist, 6th,
7th, and Bth batteries of the 3d Brigade Royal Ar-
tillery, under the command of Col. Kennedy, and
proceed to Gibraltar and North America, in execu-
tion of Admiralty orders to that effect, returning to
Malta with the remainder of the batteries of the
10th Brigade. The screw steamship Onega arrived
here on the 26th inst. from Woolwich, with mili-
tary stores for this island. It is said that Lieut.-
Col. Kennedy, R.A., has recommended that an offi-
cer and three non-commissionedofficersof the Royal
Malta Fencible Artillery be sent to England to
study gunnery at Woolwich and Shoeburyness.
Staff Captain Robert C. Allen, Master-Attendant
lately of the Malta dockyard, proceeded home in the
Euxine, via Southampton, having been appointed
Master-Attendant of the dockyard at Davenport.
This officer has been relieved here by Staff Capt.
Valentine Roberts. Allusion has already been made
to the extraordinary mortality which has
prevailed during the past month in the
Ist battalion Bth Regiment, greater, it is
said, than has occurred in the 2nd battalion
of the same regiment for the last four years, in-
cluding the cholera year of 1865. There are, I be-
lieve, at present some 70 men of the Ist battalion in
hospital laid up with fever and other maladies, aris-
ing, it is supposed, from their being quartered in
unhealthy barracks. The experiment of removing
two companies to tents on Fort Manoel island has
been followed by such a decided improvement in
the health of the men that it has been determined to
remove the remaining companies from the condemned
Lower St. Elmo, andplace then under
canvas, at all
canvas, while something is done to improve the
present very defective ventilation and sewage. A
good deal of sickness also prevails in the 24th Re-
giment, quartered at Verdala, but I am glad to say
it is not fatal. The sanitary condition of the rest
of the regiments in garrison issatisfactory. A rumour
is current that her Majesty's surveying steamer.
Hydra will probably be sent round the Cape to the
Red Sea, for service in connection with the Abys-
sinian expedition. The screw steamer Hawk is at
present engaged patching
up the Malta and Alex-
andria telegraph cable, prior to the approach of the
stormy season. Accounts from the Piraeus to the
20th of August have come to hand to-day. They
report the departure of her Majesty's screw sloop
Racer on the 9th, and her return to the Piraeus on
the 16th, after visiting Marathon and Port Mandri.
The Himalaya arrived early this morning from
Queenstown and Gibraltar with the 14th Regiment,
consisting of Major W. IL Hawley, Major C. E.
Grogan, 26 other officers, 84 non-commissioned
officers, 612 men, six ladies, 12 children, 70 women,
and 86 children. This regiment is to relieve the
60th Rifles, who, it is expected, will embark about
the 4th inst. for Canada in the above mentioned
troopship.
The screw storeship
Supply Lieut.-Commander
Bawden, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from
Malta, sailing thence on the 19th ult., and calling
in at Gibraltar on the 25th. She brought home a
few time-expired men and invalids, who were landed
from her soon after arriyal. She is ordered to pro-
ceed round to Woolwich.
The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. Phelps, is
ordered to repair and refit at Portsmouth for fur-
ther troop service with all despatch.
The unarmoured screw corvett Pylades, 17, 1,278
tons, 350-horse Power, Mr. W. M. Chambers, chief
engineer, in charge, attached to the third division
of the Chatham steam reserve, has been removed
into the steam basin, where she is undergoing a
thorough overhaul and refit, preparatory to being
brought forward for the first division of the steam
reserve, in readiness for commission.
The hired freight ship Alarm, having shipped a
cargo of war stores from Woolwich Arsenal, took
her departure yesterday for Portsmouth. The cargo
included 12 heavy guns for the armament of the
Nelson, commissioned L. t Commander Payne,
by Lieut.-Commander
R.N for
.3 service in the colony of Victoria. The
guns, seven of which are old 32-pounders, have
been bored out to carry 68-pounder shot, and are
strengthened on Major Palliser's system, and the
remaining five are wrought-iron guns (9-in.),
strengthened on the same principle, with an inner
tube by Sir William Armstron,g and Co. The guns
weigh 27,9241 b. each.
Her Majesty's iron steam storeship llesper, Staff -
commander Thain, 11 years on. the China station,
is ordered to be paid out of e0111111i,331011 at Woolwich
on the 14th inst.
Staff-Commander Dillon, commanding the steam
reserve at Woolwich, yesterday, accompanied by
other officers, inspected the work done by an old
system revived for removing the mud in front of the
docks and basins. The
apparatus, called a" mud
agitator," is attached to the stern of the 40-horse
power gun vessel Fenella, and has been working for
some days past with good results. The system, it
is stated, was first introduced by Mr. Scamp, of the
dockyard at Malta, about 30 years ago, and has lain
dormant until the Messrs. Blythe, of Rotherhithe,
obtained permission of the Admiralty to try it at
Woolwich. The apparatus consists simply of chains,
instead of buckets, employed by the ordinary dredg-

Assist.-Commissary-General J. 11. Sale, who has
been appointed to the Chatham district, has com-
menced his duties at the garrison.
A detachment of sappers and miners of the Royal
Engineers has been placed under orders to proceed
from headquarters, Chatham, to the South Ken-
sington Museum, for service at that establishment.
In consequence of the representations made to
the Government of the insecure and inconvenient
condition of the wooden drawbridge crossing the
trenches from Chatham to Brompton, the authori-
ties, after having had the subject under considera-
tion for upwards of two years, hare given directions
for the drawbridge to be taken down and a large
stone bridge constructed in its place, with a separate
portion to be appropriated to foot passengers. Yes-
terday the roads leading to the bridge wore closed to
the public, and during the day workmen commenced
taking down the structure, preparatory to the erec-
tion of the new bridge across the fortifications ad-
joining the gun wharf and Ordnance establishment.

THE MANCHESIER TRADES UNION
INQUIRY.

MANCIIESTER, Thursday.
The inquiry was resumed this morning. Mr
Pickering, Q.C., in the chair.
Towards the close of the proceedings yesterday
William Slater, one of the men convicted of the
attack on Thomas Wild, at Stockport, in 1864, was
examined. He denied that he was present when
Wild was assaulted, but admitted that he, in coun-
cil with other members of the Stockport Brick-
makers' Union, had arranged that Wild should
have a beating, and he had engaged six strangers to
commit the assault. The men were paid £lO for
the work. George Hulme, George Bailey, Thomas
Holland, and Joseph Brown were present at the
meeting of the council when the attack upon Wild
was agreed to.
On the resumption of the inquiry this morning,
Slater was further examined as follows :—The pre-
sent secretary of the Stockport Union was Samuel
Moss. There was no rule as to there being a cer-
tain number of members of the council to constitute
a quorum. The council had frequently met to
consider violations of the rules of the union, and
had passed resolutions which had produced strikes.
Kay, with whom the arrangement was made to
employ men to assault Wild, was employed by the
council several days before the assault for the pur-
pose of destroying Joseph Thornley's bricks. He
was paid more than £lO for that job; but witness
did not know how much. Witness came out of gaol
on the 14th Dec. last. Remembered the case of Mr.
Simpson, of Stockport. The council resolved that
his property should be destroyed because he would
not pay the union prices. Witness assisted in the
destruction of Simpson's bricks. Among those who
were with him were George Hahne, Thomas Hol-
land, James Garner, and a man named Jackson.
There were only a few bricks destroyed—perhaps
a thousand. It was a dark night, and it was agreed
to set fire to the shed. For this purposa the party
took with them a two gallon jar of naphtha, and
this was used in firing the shed. There was a
watchman named Platt on Simpson's premises.
Witness did not threaten, nor did he hear any one
threaten, to shoot Platt. Two of the party carried
loaded guns. Witness had no gun. The guns were
taken to shoot the dog, but the dog was not shot.
Witness heard the report of a gun, but did not
know who fired it. Holland and Garner carried
the guns. Witness heard the watchman call out,
and directly afterwards a gun was fired. There
was more than one report. Could not say whether
the watchman fired at the party destroying the pro-
perty. Witness's party had £l5 to divide amongst
them for the night's work. Witness was treasurer
of the union then, but made no entry of the pay-
ment. He was apprehended before the end of the
quarter, when the books were audited ; but if he had
remained in office the payment would not have been
entered in the books—the matter would have been
arranged with the auditors. There had been a dis-
pute between the Manchester and Stockport clubs
as to what district Levenshulme was in. Last June
about 40,000 bricks belonging to Peter Bailey, of
Heaton Mersey, were destroyed. Mr. Bailey
claimed £2O from the Stockport union for the
damage done, and the council passed a resolution
which witness, as president of the union, had signed.
The resolution was that the union would pay the
£2O to Mr. Bailey, provided he would let his men
recommence work next morning, he having in the
meantime stopped the men in his field. The reason
the money was paid by the Stockport union was
that they believed the damage to have been done by
Manchester men, in consequence of the dispute
about Levenshulme. They regarded the destruc-
tion of the property of Mr. Bailey, which was in the
Stockport district, as an act of revenge.. There had
been a case of destruction in Levenshulme last
week, but witness did not know that it arose out of
the dispute he had referred to. The Stockport
union would not allow the masters to get work-
men from any other district while there were
men in the Stockport district out of work.
If they did the union stopped them in the way
he had described. Before the bargain was made with
Kay for the assault on Wild witness got the con-
sent of Cheetham, who was president of the union at
that time, for the payment of £lO for the work.
Witness arranged with Hulme for the naphtha that
was taken to Simpson's brickfield, and Hulme was
paid out of the £l5. Witness believed that the first
shot was fired at the watchmax. There were several
shots fired on both sides, and they followed each other
in rapid succession. Some of them--those which he
thought were fired by the watchman—sounded like
shots from a revolver. It was the firing of the re-
volver that prevented more destruction than actually
took place, and dispersed the attacking party. Wit-
ness did not know who set the shed on fire, but he
threw some naphtha on the shed himself .The naphtha
jar was not emptied, and it was left on the ground.
The cases of outrage witness had mentioned were the
only ones he remembered in connection with the
Stockport union.
llollaud Cheetham was next called, and previous to
his examination he was cautioned by Mr. Barstow,
who told him the commissioners had information that
ha had been concerned in other outrages besides that
for which he had been punished, and if he wished to
obtain his certificate of indemnity he must reveal the
whale truth without disguise or reservation.—Wit-
ness said ae was a brickmaker, and a member of the
Stockport Union. In 1864, at the time of the outrage
on Wild Ile was president. A. special meeting was
held. Witness was in the chair. It was agreed
at that meeting that Wild should bo beaten. Simp-
son's affair was also determined on at a special coun-
cil meeting, but witness was not present then. Heard
of the resolution to destroy Simpson's property at a
subsequent council meeting. These things were gene-
rally agreed to by two or three members of the coun-
cil when they got outside the council-room. lie be-
lieved £l5 was granted for Simpson's job. Witness had
nothing to do with that affair, and did not know
beforehand when it was to take place. Witness gave
his consent to the payment for Simpson's affair, but
had nothing to do with the actual payment. The

FORGERIES ON THE BANK OF
- ENGLAND.

Yesterday, at the justice-room of the Mansion

house, William Henry Hodgson, a young surgeon,
who stands charged with forging transfers of stock
with intent to defraud She Governor and Company
of the Bank of England, appeared before Alderman
Sir Robert Carden on remand for further exami-
nation.

Mr. Freshfield, the solicitor to the Bank, 'again
conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Wontner, jun.,

he defence.

The prisoner had been, until about a year ago, an
assistant to Mr. Pedler, a chemist, in Fleet-street,
when he left to become a student at St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital. At Mr. Pedler's he had made the
acquaintance of Mr. Wm. Whysall, a fellow assist-
ant, which he still kept up after going to St.
Bartholomew's. In July last, Mr. Whysall, at his
request, lent him the sums of £2 and £5 on dif-
ferent days. On the 10th of August, Mr. Whysall
invested £225 in Three per Cent. Consols, and
about ten days afterwards he casually met the
prisoner in Oxford-street, who told him that he had
£250, part of a sum of £2,000, which had been
left him, and that he had been purchasing stock
with the money. Mr. Whysall mentioned that he,
too, had made an investment of that kind, and was,
therefore, rather short of ready money, upon which
the prisoner said that he would pay him £5, part
of the £7 he had borrowed of him, and he did so.
Learning in that incidental way that Mr. Whysall
had a sum of £225 in the Three per Cents., the
prisoner went direct to Mr. Roger Mortimer, a
stockbroker, in Old Broad-street, and, stating that
he was Mr. Whysall, authorised him to effect a
transfer of the sum standing in his name in the
books of the Bank of England. Mr. Mortimer,
believing the story of the prisoner, who was a
stranger to him, but taking care to have him identi-
fied at the same time, sold the stock that same
afternoon, and the prisoner, after receiving a
cheque from him for £212 15s. Gd., the
proceeds of the sale, less the expenses, forged
the name of Mr. Whysall to the transfer in the Bank
books, and also to the stock receipt. With respect
to the identification of the prisoner, it transpired
that he had asked Mr. Mortimer, the stockbroker,
to accompany him to a firm in Cornhill, to whom
he was known,which he did, and that the firm iden-
tified him by his own name of Hodgson, Mr. Mor-
timer, by mistake, believing that they had identified
him as Mr. Whysall.
There was another charge against the prisoner.
He had been a fellow assistant chemist with Mr.
William James Bentley, at a shop in Pall-mall. Mr.
Bentley had £l5O in the New Three per Cents.,
which he had invested in the autumn of 1861. The
prisoner, who knew that, went to the office of Mr.
Aston, a stockbroker, in Capel- court, on the 12th
of August, and representing himself to be Mr.
Bentley, the owner of the stock, instructed that
gentleman to dispose of it for him forthwith. Mr.
Aston sold the stock accordingly ; the prisoner was
identified at the Bank of England as Mr. Bentley,
through an act of deception by the prisoner upon
Mr. Aston, and having signed the transfer and stock
receipt in that name, and received from Mr. Aston,
the stockbroker, a check for £l4l 12s. 3d., the pro-
ceeds of the sale, less the attendant expenses, the
transaction was complete, the real owner, Mr.

reason it was determined that Wild should be beaten Bentley, was defrauded of his money without even
was that he was one of the men who returned to his knowledge, and the prisoner walked away with
work at Messrs. Meadows's during the strike. Wit- the cheque in his pocket.
ness believed it was also determined that Humphrey The evidence taken at the former hearing having
Childs should be beaten, as well as Wild. William been read over and attested by the several witnesses,
Slater came to witness and got Kay's address. He George Russell, detective sergeant, was called. no
said, " Who is to be up to-night to burn some said—l apprehended the prisoner at Mr. Mortimer's
bricks, and it has been agreed upon that he should office. He said his name was Whysall, and that he
be beaten." Kay was a delegate of the Man- resided at 199, Fleet-street. I then took him into
chester Union, and his business was to go up and custody for forgery on the Bank of England for
down Manchester, and if he saw anything that was £225. I afterwards searched him, and found
against the rules of the union he had to try and stop a gold watch and chain upon him. I also
it. IVitness was not present when Wild was beaten. found a "sold note" for £l5O in the .New
Wild had sworn falsely in saying that witness was Three per Cents. At the polite station the pri-
present. Witness was at home at the time the as- soner gave the name of Hodgson, and said his
sault took place, and was seen in his own house at address was N 0.15, Cumberland-terrace, Bayswater
10 o'clock that night by a Miss Bradshaw, who was went to that address, and found another sold not°
examined when he was tried for the assault on Wild. (produced).
Witness was concerned in the outrage at John The prisoner, in answer to the magistrate, said lie
Thorniley's, Heaton Mersey. That case was con- had nothing to say to the charge. swater.
sidered in witness's presence at a meeting of the The witnesses in a second charge of fraud also
Stockport Union council, and it was determined attested the evidence they had previously given, and
that Thorniley should suffer all the damage that George Henry Aston was called. He deposed-1
could be done to his property, in consequence of his am a stockbroker, at 2, Capel-court, City. Prisoner
employing non-union men. Brown, Singleton, and came to me on Aug. 12. He brought me a card of
Holland were present. The amount to be paid for Mr. Wm. Taylor's, surgeon, 59, St. John-street-
the job was £lO or £l2. Witness met George road (whom I have known 20 years), and requested
Hulme, William Potts, and James Kay at a public- me to sell for him £l5O New Three per Cents. in the
house at Heaton Norris, and thence they went to name of William James Bentley, of No. 1, Craven-
Thorniley's. This was about a fortnight before place, Westbourne-terrace, gentleman, sayingit Was
the Wild case. None of the party was armed all the stock he held in that fund, and he stated that
with a gun, but one man carried a screw-wrench, his present address was 15, Cunaberland-terracet
and witness, who had been in the police force, Bayswater. I told the prisoner that Mr. Taylor's
took a staff like a policeman's. When they got card was not sufficient to enable me to identify him
to Thorniley's they spoilt what bricks they could. as Mr. Bentley, and that I should require a letter
There was no watchman there. About 40,000 from Mr. Taylor. At the prisoner's wish I wrote I
bricks were destroyed. No one had been appre- letter, embracing the facts, and gave to him to get it
hended for that outrage. The money for the job signed (letter produced). Theprisoner returned with
was, he believed, paid by Joseph Brown, the secre- the letter signed, and I believed it to be the signa-
tary, or William Slater, the treasurer. One of the ture of Mr. Taylor. I then had the transfer prepared
men had a bill with him on the night of the outrage in the usual way and took the prisoner to. the Bank
and it was taken for the purpose of doing what and completed the sale. The prisoner signed the
damage could be done with it. Witness did not Stock receipt and the transfer, and I gave him the
know whether there were any barrows broken. The cheque produced for £l4l 12s. 3d., the proceeds of
sheds in the yard were set on fire by Kay. Witness the stock, on the Union Bank, which cheque the
saw Kay fire the sheds. He put some chips and small prisoner also endorsed in my presence.
pieces of wood near the boards of the sheds, and set Wm. Taylor, a surgeon, residing at 59, St. John-
them on fire with a match. As they were going street-road, said—The prisoner was an assistant
home the men said they "had done him (Thorniley) mine in January and February last. He called 111:011
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a good 'un." Most of the party were far too gone in me on the 12th August last, and said he wanted e
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drink to have much conversation about what they buy in some stock at the Bank of England, and 13.,
had done. The cases of Simpson, Wild, and Thor- wanted an introduction to a broker. I gave him 1131,.
niley were the only cases that were discussed in wit- card to Mr. Aston. The prisoner always wentby the
ness's presence. IVitness's share of the money in name of Wm. Henry Hodgson. I have never seen
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Thorniley's case was £2. Believed the cause of the
the letter produced until now, and the signature
outrage at Simpson's brick yard was that Simpson
not mine.
employed a non-union man. The prisoner was then committed to take his trial
Joseph Brown, a brickmaker, and a member of upon both charges.
the Stockport Union, was next examined. Had been
a member of the Stockport Union 14 years, and
during that time bad held nearly every office, except
that of treasurer. Did not hear any discussion about
Simpson's case, but after it was over Slater either
paid the money for the job or told witness to book it.
If the payment was entered in the book, witness
Lein secretary, must have entered it as "sundry
expenses." Witness had always spoken at the gene-
ral meetings against such things as Simpson's out-
rage. Witness was present at a meeting which was
held for the purpose of discussing the intended out-
rage on Wild, but as he objected to what was tak-
ing place he sat on one side and did not hear the
discussion. A resolution was passed, but witness did
not remonstrate against it. Ile did not vote against
the resolution, because he thought it would be
foolish to vote against so many. The effect of the re-
solution was that Thomas Wild was to have a good
thrashing for receiving turn out pay and going back to
work before the other members of the union. Some
men were to be appointed to thrash Wild, and Slater
undertook to arrange with Kay about it. After
Wild had been beaten witness paid £l4 to James
Kay for the job. Slater should have paid the money,
but was taken into custody. Witness and George
Hahne were appointed to see Mr. Roberts, an
attorney in Manchester, and employ him for the
defence of Slater and Cheetham. lie met with
Kay in Manchester, and Kay asked for pay for the
outrage on Wild. Witness got the money from the
landlord of the club-house and paid Kay. He after-
wards entered the payment in the union book as
" sundry expense 3." Witness had been secretary
several times, and had made many entries of
" sundry expenses." When the payments for out-
rages were entered they were always put under that
head, but all the entries of " sundry expenses" did
not refer to trade outrages. The money paid for
Cheetham and Slater's defence was also entered as
" sundry expenses," and not as " law expenses."
Witness had paid Mr. Roberts, the solicitor, nearly
all the money the union had—about £lOO. Hoard
the discussion previous to the destruction of Simp-
son's bricks. Was present when £5 was offered to
kind if he would sign the petition for a commuta
ion of the sentence on Cheetham and Slater.
The inquiry was then adjourned.

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