The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

TILE COMET.

Astronomy in these days has become to most
people a very cut and dried science. Sir Isaac
Newton has told us all about it. There is the sun
in the centre, and the planets revolve round it, as
we see in the orreries. The grand discovery of
gravitation started from the fall of an apple, and
ends with it. The sun is a very large orange, the
earth a crabapple, and the moon a white currant.
With a few trifling varieties, this explains the
whole solar system. Ladies' maids understand it
all, for it is far easier than needlework or clear-
starching ; and, though we have heard of one who
owned herself beaten by the " procession" of the
equinoxes, the whole affair lies within the reach of
a village school, from the nutation of the earth's
axis to the discovery of the last new planet. The
mind contemplates a vast shadowy order *revolv-
ing worlds, and is satisfied. The truth leaves so
little to the imagination, it establishes so impass-
able a gulf between us and every other celestial
body, that minds bred in the school of life and sen-
timent recoil from this, the cold certainty of solid
spheres moving by iron laws. What have we to do
with the planet Jupiter, or even our own moon ?
Tell us, if you can, whether they are inhabited; what
like beings occupy them; how they live ; and if
possible, open communication with them. What
are they to us, or we to them ? Your discoveries
only make matters worse. Desist, and let us
imagine what science forbids us to believe. Mean-
while, thanks to the dull, able men, who, with their
cold piercing eyes and subtle algebra, have dis-
sected this great puzzle, not only have illusions
vanished, but the very pageant of the visible heavens
has lost its charm. Who knows, or cares to know,
the thousand spectacles that astonomer, shepherd,
and sailor once watched and waited for The con-
stellations, the heliacal settings of the chief stars,
the planets, their onward and backward paths, the
harvest moon, the Milky Way, now brilliant, now
turbid, now in many streams, now in one, have
become almost hidden lore to us, who know, as we
think, the substance of which all these are shadows.
Happily for men of science themselves, to give a
motive for further research, and to suggest some-
thing beyond a mere eternal order, the fact which
they discover is ever in advance of the law which
they know. As they scrutinise the vacant places of
our own system, or project their gaze deeper and
deeper into the infinite, they encounter a strange
caprice, a wild variety, shapes as fanciful as those
of Flora'sowridevising, mysterious movements, and
the traces of terrible catastrophes. We see stellar
systems, or rather universes, exceeding all our
notions of magnitude in the eccentric shape of
ringlets, horses' tails, dumb-bells, crowns, discs,
and sickles. In our own system, where an eternal
law had seemed to prescribe certain planets at cer-
tain distances, that law is found to have been
rudely interrupted by the explosion of one globe
into fifty smaller ones. Even the sun itself sug-
gests the hope, or the fear, of changes affecting its
own structure, and the condition of every planet
that basks in its rays. We have, then, a celestial
history as well as order ; events as well as method.
In the noble heavens around us there is not only
an eternal present; there is a past, and there is a
future.
But of all these changes and events, portentous
yet welcome, there is none so historical, so fearful,
or that so bespeaks a still creative hand, as those
wondrous visitors one of whom is to-night, as they
tell us, at its brightest and nearest. We all speak
glibly of dimensions, and distances,:and velocities ;
but as Ariel or Puck is to. slow mortal man, so is
this heavenly sprite to the vulgar rank of planets.
As he has been seen for several nights past, with
his head in the latitude of Arcturus, vertical to
Jamaica or Bombay, he has flung a stream of light
to a latitude vertical to the northern part of this
island. Even in this hazy atmosphere the spectre
has been traced to a length of 40 degrees, which,
taking distance and angles into acconnt, cannot
stand for less than 50,000,000 of miles. But when
we ask who and what this is,—what is his sub-
stance, his work, and his law, all are at fault.
Astronomers, new and old, materialists, and mystiO
cists, mathematicians and nurserymaids, medieval
sign-mongers and modern philosophers, are all re-
duced to one rabble of guessers. When they have
made head and tail of it their discoveries come to a
standstill. What is a comet ? By numerous tests
it has been found impossible to detect any weight
in it sufficient to affect the motions of a planet or a
satellite. But for this we should have had our own
-"-ear frequently lengthened and shortened to such
an extent as to throw all our chronology out of
gear, and supersede the almanac as much as a dis-
solution does our " Parliamentary Companion."
Our shadowy visitors themselves pay the pro-
foundest homage to our superior gravity; they bow
to this planet, they linger for that; they hasten to
another ; with a series of weak compliances, they
change their speed, their orbits, even their winter
quarters in the extra-solar heavens. By all the
time, in our dull material pride, we budge not one
inch of our state or our progress for these charlatans
of space. Yet the nucleus must have gravity, for
how else would it gravitate or retain hold of its
tail, if, indeed, it does ? Is the tail solid or hollow ?
Is there any portion of it dense enough to shut
out the light of the smallest telescopic star ? Even
that is doubtful. Yet the bulk of the head
itself is sometimes immense-4.a million of miles
across. As for the tail, it defies all theories of gra-
vitation, of light, or of heat. Is it a flame ? Is it
a smoke ? Is it a steam ? Is it a bubble ? Is the
whole affair a balloon, of which the nucleus is the
car ? Does that stream of light shoot out, as they
tell us, at the rate of ten millions of miles a-dc.y,
return to the parent stock, or is it left behind ?
Does it precipitate itself, as some say, back again
on the outward-bound nucleus ? Is it a mere illu-
sion ? We hear a good deal of the heavenly archi-
tecture and celestial mechanism. Is it compatible
with our notions on those points that a column of
imponderable matter fifty millions of miles high
should move through space, entire and undispersed,
at the rate of two or three millions of miles a-day ?
The Comet of 1843, the most wonderful on record,
whisked round the sun, close to it, at such a rate
that its tail, a million of miles long, described in
two hours the half of an orbit equal to the earth's.
Supposing the tail to have held together during
this process, the extremity of it went over as much
space in two hours as we do in half a year, travel-
ling at the rate of about three miilions of miles in
one minute. As this staggers all belief, we must
conclude that a good deal of the tail was left be-
hind, brushed off in nether, if nether there be, while
the tail itself was continually restored during those
wondrous two hours by fresh issues from the
nucleus, which, however, to do that work would
have to do the somewhat less speed of one hundred
million of miles in two hours, or about one million
of miles in a minute. Can anybody now pretend
that there is nothing to be learnt, nothing more to
be discovered in the skies ?
It is stated that the periods of two hundred
comets have been calculated, which looks rather
like a step towards reducing these vagrants to order
and civilization. But there is almost always a
hitch as to the actual return of a considerable
comet. Either it does not come at all, or
it comes so overdue that people hesitate to
acknowledge it, or when it comes just at the
very.nick of time it has changed its character so
much that its own prophet,, after a most solemn
announcement, is afraid to recognize his protege.
For a long time it might be said there was no
comet in the sky. Except the tail of that of 1843,
seen by a few fortunate observers, We have had
none of any importance since 1811. So, now is the
time to attack this wondrous problem. What is a
comet ? Does it come to drown us in a deluge, to
shroud us in blight, to sadden us with fog, to
quicken us with fresh oxygen, or to burn us with
fire?

Be thou spirit of health, or goblin damned,
Bring with thee airs from Heaven, or blast. from Hail,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable ?
We trust science will set to work to question the
nature and office of these fair apparitions. We
cannot willingly believe harm of them. Ten yards
of low earth mist would utterly extinguish the
twinkle of any star in the firmament, yet on Tues-
day night Arcturus glittered through
.a million
miles of comet tail, not only with no reduction of
his brilliancy, but with a marked increase, and
with bright prismatic hues. What if we were to be
involved for a few minutes, or hours, in so pure an
atmosphere ! Our only fear is that it would never
be able to penetrate through this thick overcoat of
coarse terrene atmosphere. Possibly, however, we
may have to add to our scientific facts a brush or
two from the tail of a comet. Venus on the 17th
of this month will have a narrow escape from the
embraces of this celestial visitor. Had he come
five days earlier he would have rushed straight
into her arms. What a -warm admirer for a virgin
planet P The astronomers talk in their usual posi-
tive tone as to our security from this danger, and
tell us the odds are we forget how many millions
to one against it. On the other hand, they compute
the number of comets in our system at several
millions. To vulgar apprehension the chance of a
collision with five million tails, averaging fifty
millions of miles, dancing all sorts of pirouettes
within the contracted space of the earth's orbit,
does not seem so slight. We rather put our security
in the fact that we have come to no harm yet by
these mysterious visitations. He who made this
beauteous earth, who made sun and moon, made
comets also, and made, them•for our good—not our
ill.—Times,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE— Oct. 8

MANSION-HOUSE.---Thomas Jones, who had
been remanded upon the charge of stealing a watch
from the person of Mr. J. Messenger, of Germans-
villas' Lewisham, was again brought before the
Lord Mayor.

The evidence was to the effect that while thepro-
secutor was standing on the Onstom-house Quay on
Friday last, looking at the shipping, the prisoner
approached him, and, after standing by his side for
a moment, tore his watch from the chain. The pro-
secutor felt the tug, and accused him of having
robbed him, and the watch was then found lying
at the prisoner's feet. A mob soon collected, an 2.
the prisoner tried to escape, but Allum, the con-
stable belonging to Billingsgate-market, arrived at
the moment, and took him into custody.
The prisoner, when placed at the bar yesterday,
admitted his guilt, and said he was sorry for what
he had done.

Smith, a police-constable, said that some months
ago the prisoner was in custody on a charge of rob-
bery at Epsom, but was acquitted for want of suffi-
cient evidence.

The Lord Mayor—Have you brought anybody
here to speak to your character ?
Prisoner—No, my lord; I have tried in vain to
get into the Brixton or Westminster Reforma-
tories. The first was full, and I was not old enough
by half a year to be admitted into the Westminster
one.

The Lord Mayor—How have you got your living
of late ?

Prisoner—To tell the truth, I've lived for years
by thieving. I am very ill at the present time, and
don't know what to do with myself.
The Lord Mayor—l have received information
that you are ill. I shall commit you to Holloway
gaol for three months, and I have no doubt when
you are taken there you will be placed in the infir-
mary. When you come out of prison I hope you will
enlist in the army. Have you ever tried to enlist ?
Prisoner—No, my lord.
The Lord Mayor—Then I advise you to try that.
The prisoner was then committed for three months.
The Lord Mayor requested that the press would
acknowledge the receipt of the following donations
for Frances Johnson :—From I. H. Stephenson, 1/. ;
a few friends at Campbell's Scotch ale stores, Beak-
street, 2/. ; "M." (Brighton), 2/. ; "A Friend to
the Unfortunate," 1/. ; "F. L.," 10s. ; "R. D.," 1/. ;
Stephen L. Lucena, 21. ; Heywood, Kennard, and
Co.' 51.; "A. 5.," ls. ; Pier Hotel, Greenwich, 11.;
" A Father," 3/. ; George Forrest and Son, 1/. ls. ;
" Advena," 10s. ; Major Henry Lyster, per Mr. B.
Scott, 1/. ; " A Father and Three Daughters," ss. ;
F. A. Lewis, ss.

GUILDHA LL—William Goodwin, a shoemaker,
of Rose and Crown-court, Eldon-street, Finsbury,
was brought up on remand before Mr. Alderman
Phillips, charged with unlawfully appropriating to
his own use two 201. Bank of England notes, the
property of Mr. Nugent, a shipbroker, of 80, Lon-
don-wall.

On the last occasion Mr. Nugent stated that he
lost two 201. notes in Broad-street-buildings, and
on procuring the number of them he advertised his
loss. In consequence of the advertisement the pri-
soner called at the prosecutor's premises, stating
that his wife, Mary Goodwin, had found two 201.
notes in Broad-street-buildings, and that he was
willing to give them up on receiving a suitable re-
ward, which he fixed at 2/. His demand was, how-
ever, refused, and a reward of 11. offered to him,
which he declined, and left the premises without
restoring the notes. Inspector Edward Harding
apprehended the prisoner shortly after, and found
on him between 51. and 6/. in gold and silver, and
on making inquiries into his character he ascer-
tained he was a very clever workman, but too indo-
lent to work the whole week.

The prisoner accounted for the possession of so
much money by stating it was the proceeds of his
hard earnings, and added that he gave the notes up
to a gentleman he saw at 80, London-wall, at a
subsequent period of the day, and that he received
a reward of £2.

Inspector E. Harding now said that he had not
been able to trace the notes, but he had been in-
formed that the prisoner sold them to a man in the
same trade, who sold them again to a Sew dealer.
Ald. Phillips said there was no evidence to show
that the notes of the numbers stated were ever in
the prisoner's possession, and he must therefore be
discharged; but if any fresh evidence could be ob-
tained the prisoner could be given into custody
again.

MARYLEBONE.—WiIIiam M'Carthy, in the
employ of Mr. Robinson, a butcher in Salisbury-
street, Lisson-grove, was charged by Mr. W. Love,
chief-constable of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following
cruel treatment of a horse.
Richard Sinclair, an officer of the society, de-
posed that on the same morning, while in the
Marylebone-road, he saw the prisoner driving a
horse and cart, and, noticing the very miserable
appearance of the animal, he stopped. it. Upen
examination he found on various part of its body
large wounds which were quite raw, and the har-
ness was rubbing into them, the horse was ex-
tremely weak, both of its knees were broken, and
it had apparently fallen from exhaustion.
Mr. Broughton went to view the animal, which
was outside the court, and on his return said that
it was evidently totally unfit for work ; the wounds
were really shocking.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said it was
by his master's orders that he had brought the
horse out, and he was perfectly aware of the state
it was in, he (Firisoner)• having pointed out to him
the wounds.

Mr. Love said he believed that the present
was one of those cases in which the owner was
really the most culpable party, and he begged to
call the magistrate's attention to the 19th section
of the Act, which clearly gave a justice the
power to detain the horse and vehicle as security
for the payment of any penalty which might be
inflicted.

Mr. Broughton, on referring to the act, said he
found that such was the case, and inflicted a fine
of 20s. and costs ; he should allow the prisoner to
go, but the horse and cart would be detained until
the penalty was paid.
The society's officer took the property away to
the Greenyard, there to remain until the fine was
paid.

Chas. W. Mackintosh, late a private in the Life
Guards, was charged, on remand, with having stolen
money to the amount of £4O, the property of Mr.
Turner, 84, East-street, Manchester-square. Mr.
Vaughan, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner.
The prisoner took a lodging at the house of the
prosecutor about three weeks ago, and suddenly
quitted without giving notice of his intention to
leave; soon after his departure the £4O was missed
from a drawer, and he (prisoner) was ultimately
taken into custody by Francis, 72 D.
The missing property had not been found.
Some additional evidence of a strongly •cireum-
stantial character against the prisoner in reference
to the charge was now gone into.
Mr. Weatherall, the governor of Newgate, said
that the prisoner had been tried and convicted at
the Sessions, and sentenced to two months' impri-
sonment for forging a certificate of good character,
in order to get an appointment in the city police.
The prisoner, who, by the advice of his solicitor,
said he should reserve his defence, was committed
for trial.

SOUTHWARK.—John Shackleton, a general
dealer of Bermondsey-street, was brought before
Mr. Burch= for final examination, charged with
receiving 17 raw American hides, value £25 10s.,
well known the same to be stolen.

James Mackintosh, an inspector of the M division,
said, that a short time ago he received information
that the premises of Fish and Co., fellmongers,
Tyer's-gateway, Bermondsey, had been robbed of
a quantity of American hides. In consequence of
that he went to a warehouse in Black Swan-yard,
and there found 11 of the hides, which he took
away. The prisoner afterwards came to the sta-
tion-house and said they belonged to him. Witness
said that if such was the case he must take him
into custody for the unlawful possession of them.
The prisoner then said that he purchased the 11
hides of two seafaring men in the street, and he
thought they were all right. He (Mr. -Macintosh)
told him he had attempted to sell them to Mr.
Macree for 255. each, but that gentleman would
not purchase them unless he gave a better account
of them. The prisoner replied that such was the
case, and he afterwards sold them to Mr. Lewis
for £l3. Witness found a memorandum on him to
that effect. He then searched the prisoner's house,
and found the six remaining hides.
Chas. Eversfield, warehouseman to Messrs. Fish
and Co., fellmongers, Tyer's-gateway, said that a
month ago he stowed away 500 salted American
hides. Shortly after that he sold 400, and 17 were
missed. He identified the hides produced, and they
were worth £25 10s.

Henry Hawes, fellmonger, 43, Bermondsey-street,
said that he let a warehouse at the rear of his house
to the prisoner about three weeks ago, and a week
after he saw several raw hides in his shed, and the
prisoner asked him if he could tell him where to
dispose of them. Witness told him there were
plenty of persons who purchased hides, but he did
not specify any particular name. 'Witness's premises
were about 40 yards from Messrs. Fish and Co.'s.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said he
bought the hides in a fair and honest manner.
Mr. Burcham told him that must be for a jury to

consider, as he should, commit him for trial for re.
ceiving them knowing them to be stolen.

LAMBETH. Michael O'Brien, formerly a
labourer employed at the factory of Messrs.
Maudsley and Co. and who has been in custody
for nearly six weeks on a charge of committing
with others a very violent and serious assault on
Samuel Ecott, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Elliott, for final examination.
From the evidence in the case, which was of
considerable length, it appeared that on the night
of the Ist ult. an oyster shell was thrown into the
shop of complainant, which struck his wife, and on
his goieig to his door and asking " what was their
game," the prisoner and three other men made a
violent attack on him. The prisoner was the first
to knock him down, and while on the ground he
and his companions kicked him violently. When
taken up the complainant was found to be in a very
helpless state, so much so that it was found advis-
able to remove him to Guy's Hospital, and on an
examination there it wai found that his right leg
was broken in two placeeand that there were seve-
ral severe contusions about his head and face.

The complainant, who came from the hospital
for the first time, identified the prisoner as the per-
son who first struck and knocked him down, and
Mr. Elliott, considering the case to be one of a
serious character, committed the prisoner for trial.

COINING TURKISH PIASTRES.

(From the Birmingham Daily Post.)
On Wednesday night the Greek, Antonio Calvo-
coressi, who is already committed for trial at the
Borough Sessions, charged with the above offence,
was liberated on bail ; and the same evening wit-
nessed the capture, by Superintendent Glossop, of
another Manchester merchant, charged with being
concerned with Calvocoressi in causing the piastres
to be made. The name of the second accused per-
son is Thomas Moss, aged 66, a merchant in exten-
sive business at lleathfield, Manchester. From
information Mr. Glossop received he thought it his
duty to secure Moss, who, he had been informed,
had arrived in Birmingham. After a search occcu-
pying nearly the whole of Wednesday; the prisoner
was apprehended at the Wool Pack Inn, Moor-
street, while at dinner. He at first denied that he
was the person sought for, but his identity was
afterwards proved beyond doubt.
On Thursday the prisoner was taken before
Messrs. T. C. Kynnersley and W. Wills, at the
Public-office, Moor-street, when the charge was
partially gone into. Mr. J. Mottram, barrister of
the Oxford Circuit, instructed by Mr. A. Walter,
the public prosecutor, and assisted by Mr. G. R.
Collis, Turkish Consiil. in Birmingham, conducted
the prosecution ; the defence being intrusted to
Mr. T. Harding, solicitor. The court was crowded
during the evening by a respectable auditory.
Mr. Mottram, in opening the case, said he was
instructed on the present occasion, as he had been
on a former one, to conduct the prosecution on a
charge of coining Turkish piastres. The charge
on this occasion was preferred against a Man-
chester merchant named Thomas Moss, and was
brought under the same Act of Parliament
as the one against Calvocoressi—the 43d of
George 111., chap. 139. At that time he (Mr.
Mottram) statedthalthe evidence would to a certain
extent implicate a gentleman occupying a good po-
sition in this town. That gentleman, whose name
he then forbore to mention, and to whom the evi-
dence pointed, was Mr. Wood, of the firm of Wood
and Sons, who carry on business in Bath-street as
merchants. After giving the evidence already ad-
duced the most careful consideration, he (Mr. Mot-
tram) felt bound to say that, though there might
be some difficulty in fixing a criminal charge on
Mr. Wood, his conduct in the whole case had been
extremely negligent and culpable. They had not
been able as yet to reach all the parties who had
originated the transaction, but Mr. Wood, through
his solicitor, Mr. Wright, placed in the hands of
the prosecution all his letters, books, and papers
referring to it, by the means of which they would,
at least, reach one of the parties who had been en-
gaged throughout the transaction. That person
was the prisoner Moss, of the firm of Otho, Han-
son, and Co.' of Manchester. The evidence already
taken would be again laid before the Bench, and
would be further strengthened by the testimony of
Mr. Wood himself, who would tell the Bench the
part he had taken in the matter. He (Mr. Mot-
tram) felt bound to repeat that Mr. Wood's con-
duct had been most negligent, culpable, and indis-
creet ; but he had been informed that Mr. Wood
would tell the Bench that the supply of copper had
been forwarded to Dipple after he bad been led to
believe that the authority of the Turkish Govern-
ment had been received for the manufacture of the
piastres. Mr. Mottram then called the following
witnesses :
Mr. Heaton M'Neill, clerk to Messrs. George
Wood and Sons, was th. first witness. He said—
Otho, Hanson; and f Manchester, corres-
ponded with our firm. Co.,The defendant has called
upon us with members of that firm, and without,
to order goods. About the 2d of March I remem-
ber the defendant and Calvocoressi coming to
Messrs. Woods' warehouse. I saw them, and Moss
asked me if tokens were made in Birmingham. I
replied that they were ; and in order to satisfy
them that such was the case, I produced an
ordinary token. Calvocoressi then produced
what I have since learnt to be a Turkish piastre.
Both took part in the conversation, and I was re-
quested to accompany them to some of the manu-
facturers. I went first to Messrs. Heaton's, and
saw Mr. George Heaton. They produced the coin
again to him, and asked for Messrs. Heaton's prices.
Mr. George Heaton weighed the piastre, and gave
a rough estimate of the cost of a bulk. Mr. Heaton
also said that before they could be made the autho-
rity of the Government or Finance Minister of the
country where it circulated would have to be pro-
cured. One of them said such an authority was
not necessary. Very little passed beyond that ; we
then left, and all three went to Mr. George Bow-
ler's, in Great Charles-street. I introduced the sub-
ject to bowler, and began the conversation by say-
ing that we were come to see if he could make any
of those coins, the piastre being again produced. I
cannot positively say who produced it. Mr. Bowler
said he could make them ' • there would no difficulty
about that. I then told him the conversation we
had had with Mr. Heaton as to its illegality. Mr.
Bowler then said, " Oh, if there is anything of that
kind, I'll have nothing to do with it." One of them
asked Mr. Bowler if the coins could not be made
without its being known. Mr. Bowler said " No,
seeing that it would have to pass through so many
different hands." Nothing further was said, and we
then left. We then all three went to our warehouse
in Bath-street, by which time Mr. G. Wood was
there. After some further conversation -with Mr.
Wood, to whom what had taken place had been ex-
plained, the defendant and Calvocoressi still seemed
to think it could be done, and asked Mr. Wood to
accompany them again to the same persons.
Mr. G. Wood was next called. He said, on the
2d of March I saw Calvocoressi and Moss at my
warehouse. My clerk said they had been to Messrs.
Heaton's and to Mr. Bowler. As far as I can re-
member, I was told that they had been to Heaton's
to ascertain the price of some copper coin. I believe
a written estimate was seat for 9s. 6d. per gross.
Mr. Harding here pointed out that there cer-
tainly was a mistake in the evidence.
Mr. Wood went on to say—l believe I saw the
estimate. I think it was sent to my warehouse.
Thp prisoner Calvocoressi said they could _ give an
order at 9s, 6d., for -which purpose we went down
to Mr. Heaton again.. We first saw Mr. George
Heaton, and Mr. Ralph Heaton, jun., also came
into the room. I said we would order at the price
named. One of the Messrs. Heaton asked if we
had a proper authority ? Calvocoressi said he did
not think we wanted any authority. A little argu-
ment then took place as to the necessity of the
authority, which ended in the production of Messrs.
Heaton of the Act of Parliament, and it was read
to us. When that was read I said to them " You
see it can't be done, I wash my hands of the matter
altogether." We then left. On the way to their
hotel, at the bottom of Snow-hill, one of them said
he should like to see Mr. bowler again. I said,
" Very well, we'll go and see him." We did go,
and saw him. I again introduced the subject. Mr.
Bowler said he could make any quantity. I told
him what had taken place at Messrs. Heaton's as
to the necessity for the authority, and he said, if
Messrs. Heaton could not make them he could not.
He was urged to make them by Calvocoressi. The
latter asked if it need be known that they were
being made ? Mr. bowler said that, in a manu-
factory like his, it was impossible for them to be
made without its being known. We then left, and
I said, " You see it is impossible to get them done
without authority ; you must get authority." They
said they could easily do so. After that I went
with them to their hotel, where I found my clerk,
Mr. Neill, waiting outside the door with a parcel
of inkstands which they had bought at Mr. Bow-
ler's. Nothing further took place with me, and I
left my clerk with them. That was about the 2d
of March, and I did not see either the defendant or
Calvocoressi from then until now. On the 10th of
March I received a letter from Mr. Moss. It is in
the handwriting of the letters I usually . received
from Manchester, signed Moss, upon which I have
acted for Otho, Hanson, and Co.

Hardin; objected that such identificaiion
was not sufficient.
_ _

Mr. Mottram said he could not produce better
identifiCation that day.
Mr. Harding then said, with the exception of the
letter, the Bench had heard the whole case against
Mr. Moss. He, did not come again to Birmingham.
A witness from Manchester being necessary to

prove -tl'A handwriting of Moss, a conversation took
place PA t o the day to which the case should be re-
mandetl, in order not to interfere with the business
of the si -!.fisions. It was ultimately decided to ad-
journ it till Saturday, at 10 o'clock.
Bail tt ) the amount of £4OO was accepted for the
prison er't ; appearance on Saturday.

THE Li.iTE MURDER IN ST. HELEN'S.
THE INQUEST.

On 'Thursday- morning, at ten o'clock, the inquest
was he Id on the body of the deceased Robert Vose,
who was killed, under .circumstances of the greatest
brutality, on Tuesday morning last. The three
prisoners, Patrick Murphy, Hugh M'Cabe, and
John Henley, were p resent during the inquiry.
They all appear young men, from 19 to 24 years of
age. One only, M'Cab e, worked with the deceased
at Messrs. Pilkington's l Tlassworks. He also is the
only married man )))))) prisoners. The Peel
Arms, where the inquest was held, was surrounded
during the day by a largo mob. The first witness
called was. •
Richard Vose—l am a glassmaker in St. Helens. I
Deceased was my cousin, and lived with me in
Rigby-street. He was 2'2 years of age, and a glass-
maker. On Monday night _we went together to
the Peel Arms, with Jelin Pemberton and Thomas
Heaton, about 11 o'clock. About a quarter of an
hour after we went in the three prisoners entered,
with Andrew Pullen. I kilow the three first, but
not the other man. Son le months ago the deceased
found a block which 11 ['Cabe had hidden at the
works, and when MT abe came in, he and my
cousin began to have words. No blows were struck
in the house. I and my cousin started off home
about ten minutes past 122 o'clock, as the landlord
said it was shutting-up time. Deceased stopped
for a necessary purpose, and the three prisoners
followed us, and began _fighting with the deceased.
I did not see who struck first. Murphy was coming
to help M'Cabe, who wafs then on the deceased, but
I knocked him down with my fist. I then picked
M'Cabe off my cousin, who ran away, and I never
saw him.again. A policeman (Thornton) came up,
and ran after him. I thought my cousin had gone
home, so I went too ; but M'Cabe and Henley got
hold of me by the neck, so that I could hardly take
my breath ; they dragged: me along to the corner
of- Brook-street, M'Cabe shouting " Murder,"
"Police." An officer came up, and M'Cabe said,
" I give this man in charge." But the officer made
them leave hold of me. They all three then fol-
lowed me, and Murphy came running and said he
would have my life. I turned the corner more
quickly than they did and so got away home. I
waited some time for ii;v cousin, but as he did not
come I went to bed. Deceased and I had just three
glasses of ale each. The crisoners may have had
some, but were not all the woi-se for drink.
Police-constable Thornton—On Tuesday morning
about a quarter to one, I heard erie.s of " Murder,"
" Police. On arriving at the Peel Arms I found
the prisoners, with Richard Vose and the deceased,
fighting at the corner. There was a strange man,
whom I saw in the attitude of striking M'Cabe.
He ran when he saw me and I followed him, but
he escaped. I returned in about five minutes and
found Henley and M'Cabe holding Richard Vose
by the collar. Murphy came up behind. M'Cabe
said that Vose had kicked him when on the ground.
He wanted me to take him in charge, but I refused
as I had not seen the assault. This was in Brook-
street. They.then went again to the Peel Arms
corner. Police-constable Stewart came up just as
I met the men. I heard M'Cabe say, "I wish I
had a hold of Robert Vose for ten minutes," and
Murphy said, " He has not done with it yet."
Andrew Puller, a collier at Hollinshead, said he
knew the prisoners by sight, and was with them
on Monday night. After describing what passed
in the house, the fighting at the corner, and the
running away, he said—l came down to the corner
again, but no one was there. I heard a groaning
noise, and, on looking about, I found a man lying
on his face on the waste ground opposite the Peel
Arms. He was rattling in his throat as if he
wanted to vomit. I turned him on his back, and
went across the road and spoke to a woman, who
was standing at her door with a boiler maker. I
said there was an old man drunk, and the woman
said if a policeman came up he would take him.
On going on further, I saw the prisoners talking
with two constables. I then went home. I saw
nothing of Vose. It was not ten minutes from the
beginning of the fight to my finding the man groan-
ing. [M'Cabe's coat was then produced, and recog-
nised by the witness.]
Police-constable Hodgson—On Tuesday morning,
at a quarter to six, I was coming off duty; when I
saw a man lying on the slope on the waste ground
opposite the Peel Arms. His head was down the
slope and his feet about a yard from the kerbstone.
He was lying on his.back. I called to him, and
gave him a good push with my stick, turning him
on to his face. I went down and got hold of his
arms, when I found him stiff. I sent to the police-
station, and police-constable Turner came. We
found a great deal of blood on his breast, and a
wound below the throat. We carried the body to
the Peel Arms, where it has since remained in
charge of the police. I found a cap in Westfield-
street about half-past four that morning.
Police-constable Thornton produced a coat, found
in M'Cabe's house, in Raglan-street. The coat was
torn, and there was a great deal of blood on both
sides and on the collar. It was also very muddy.
Police-constable Turner apprehended Michael
Murphy on Tuesday morning, at his mother's house,
in Glover-street, and on searching him found a knife
and other articles, also a small handkerchief, much
smeared with blood, which seemed quite fresh.
Murphy told him that his nose had bled.
Police-constable Hoghton on Tuesday morning
apprehended M'Cabe at the glassworks. He turned
very pale and trembled. Witness helped him on
with his coat. He said, "Is it about that job last
night ?" Witness said, "It is." As they were
going along, he said something about a row, and
suddenly asked, "Is he dead ?" Witness had not
charged him at all with the murder, or mentioned
the deceased to him. On his shirt breast were a
few small spots of blood.
Sergeant Rowland apprehended Henley on Tues-
day morning in bed, and asked him if the clothes
by his side were those he had on the night before.
He said " Yes." There were small spots of blood
on various parts.
Sylvester Grimes, surgeon—l examined the body
on Tuesday. Death had taken place recently. The
cuts on the clothes corresponded with those on the
body. I found an incised wound running right
and left, above the clavicle, about two inches in
length, dividing the subclavian artery and vein,
and sufficient to cause speedy death. also found
an incised wound on the back of the arm, about
three inches from the shoulder. There is no blood
on the knife produced.
The Coroner then summed up, and the jury,
after a short deliberation, brought in a verdict of
wilful murder against M'Cabe, acquitting the other
prisoners. On the way to the police-station
M'Cabe tore his hair and cried like a child, the mob
hooting him the whole way. Manchester Guardian

SHOCKING SUICIDE AT DOVER.

DOVER, FRIDAY.
. A suicide has just taken place here under very
shocking circumstances. Air. Godden, corn and
hop factor, of Ashford, the deceased, who was about
30 years of age, has for several months past been a
frequent visitor at 25, Snargate-street, a house of
ill fame, kept by a person known by the name of
Cullen. It is stated that he has been known to take
up his abode in the house for several days together.
From what can be gathered it appears that he
arrived at Dover from • Ashford by the 9.30 train
last night, intending to proceed this morning to
Canterbury, where he had business to transact. On
his arrival here he repaired as usual to the house
above described, and there remained the night.
What passed during this time is not yet known,
but it would almost appear that he was seized with
some sudden impulse to commit the horrible deed,
as he was shaved and dressed apparently in readi-
ness for his journey to Canterbury, when his
remains were discovered at about half-past 11
o'clock this morning. According to the statement
of the people of the house, he was just upon the
point of starting, when he returned to the bedroom
he had occupied under the pretence of fetching
something he had left behind, shortly after which
they were startled by a loud report. On the room
being entered, the deceased, it is stated, was found
weltering in blood, which was rapidly flowing from
a wound in the side of his head, just beneath the
jaw, which had evidently been inflicted by the de-
ceased's own hand with a revolver that was lying
by his side. Life was then scarcely extinct, bu t
before Mr. Barton and Mr. Coleman, the medical
gentlemen who were called in, could arrive he bad
ceased to breathe. The revolver with which the
act was perpetrated is a five-chamber weapon, and
when it was found the whole of the chambers were
loaded and capped, with the exception, of course, of
the one which had been discharged. The deceased
brought a portmanteau with him from, Ashford,
and this was found in the room in which he had
slept, but on examination by the police it was found
to contain nothing which could tend to throw the
slightest light on the melancholy affair. The
•
coroner's inquiry is to be held to-morrow.

CRYSTAL; PALACE.—HALF-CROW DAY.—Friday,
Oct. 4--=Adiiiisaions pn payment, 715; ditto by riettSoll
tickets, 420; total visitors, 1,135.