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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Edward Alfred Brooke
was charged with annoying his brother Mr. H. B.
Brooke, of 4 and 5, Poultry-market, Leadenhall,
under the following circumstances :
The complainant having been sworn, said—About
half-past 8 this morning the defendant entered my
shop and demanded a suit of clothes. I told him I
would give him neither clothes nor money, and
requested him several times to leave the premises
as he was obstructing my business. He brought a

crowd of between 30 and 40 persons round the shop.
He refused to go away, and I was at length com-
pelled to give him into custody. At the station-
house I did not wish to press the charge, and con-
sented to his being released. When I returned to
Leadenhall-market I found him in the shop with 40
or 50 men about him. He declared he would have
a suit of clothes or money, and I was compelled to
give him into custody a second time.
The Lord Mayor asked the defendant what he
had to say in answer to the charge.
Defendant--I have been a citizen and liveryman
of London for years, and for many years carried on
a very large business with my brothers in Leaden-
hall-market, as poultry and game salesmen.
Through adverse circumstances and law expenses I
became a broken-down man, and about two years
ago left London for the purpose of seeking my liv-
ing in the manufacturing districts. I worked very
hard at Liverpool and Manchester, and latterly at
Sheffield. About six weeks ago I was taken very
ill, and upon partially recoverirrpr I walked from
Sheffield to London, where I knew I had good
friends, and relatives and brothers.
The Lord Mayor—What has that to do with the
case ?
Defendant—l went to my brother Henry Brooke,
who is not only my brother, but also executor to
my father. He is my own flesh and blood, and
knowing he was well off, I spoke to him civilly,
and told him if he would give me a suit of clothes
I could do for myself.
The Lord Mayor—He told you that he could not,
and you ought then to have
.gone away. After
that, you had no right to remain and demand a suit
of clothes. If you have any legal claim upon him,
that is not the way to enforce it ; but I dare say
your brother has very good reasons for what he has
done. _ _

Defendant—Many times I have lent my brother
hundreds of pounds, and he has never given me
one farthing.
The Lord Mayor—Your brother, I dare say, has
very good reasons for refusing to assist you.
Complainant—There are very good, reasons, my
lord.

Defendant—lf he would only give me a suit of
clothes, I would not annoy him.
The Lord Mayor—Your brother very kindly
released you from custody once, and you imme-
diately returned to his shop and annoyed him
again. •

-Defendant—But he is my own flesh and blood,
and if he does not assist me, I should like to know
who is to do it ? If I had gone into his shop as a
stranger, it would have been a very different thing.
The Lord Mayor (to the complainant)—He makes
a promise that he will not annoy you again. Will
you be satisfied ?

Complainant—Yes. I have no desire to punish
him, provided he will keep away from my shop.
Mr. George Brooke, another brother, stepped
forward, and said—Will your lordship allow me to
speak ? lam a brother of the complainant and
defendant. I saw the occurrence referred to, and
I consider that the complainant acted very wrongly
in giving the defendant into custody simply for
asking a question.
The Lord Mayor—Will you give the defendant
a suit of clothes ?
Mr. G. Brooke—l have parted with my all with
him, and will do so at this moment. I will not only
give him a home, but he shall never want a home
while I have one.
The Lord Mayor—l have nothing to do with
family squabbles ; all I have to do is to protect the
complainant in the conduct of his business.
Mr. G. Brooke—lf I were your lordship's brother
and in poverty I should come to you, and I know
that you would not reject my application.
A man who appeared to be an artisan here called
out—l will give half a suit of clothes, rmy lord, if
his two brothers will find him the other half.
The Lord Mayor—He is as well able to get his
living as you are. (To the defendant)—Yenr bro-
ther was perfectly justified in giving you into cus-
tody. You created a disturbance in his shop.
Mr. G. Brooke—He did not, my lord. I think
it is the duty of a younger brother in poverty to
apply to an elder brother, who is better off, for as-
sistance. .

The Lbrd Mayor—lt is an annoyance to'the com-
plainant in his business to bring a crowd before his
door, If you, defendant, will promise we that you

WORSHIP-STREET. Sarah M'Donald, a
shrewd-looking brunette, was brought before Mr.
D'Eyncourt, on remand, charged with having ob-
tained from Mary Ann and Eliza Gable several
pieces of money, by unlawfully pretending to use
certain subtle craft, with intent to deceive.
Mr. Gomm, from the offices of Mr. Young, at
Stepney, attended to defend the prisoner, and the
court was crowded during a second lengthened in-
vestigation of this singular case.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—ls there any further evidence
to be offered ?

Horton—l have not any, sir.
Mr. Gomm—But, sir, I should not be doing my
duty to the prisoner if I neglected to put the com-
plainants under a cross-examination. In fact, I
have no hesitation in saying their evidence is not
reliable. Mrs. Gable is decidedly not in her right
mind.

Mr. D'Eyncourt—lf the complainants are here,
Let them stand forward.

Mrs. Gable, on entering the witness-box, was
observed to evince less anxiety and restlessness
than on the first occasion, and replied to the ques-
tions put to her in a satisfied tone and manner.
Mr. Gomm—How 'do you feel to-day ?
Mrs. Gable—Oh, I am better, sir ; the pains are
not so acute as they were. Previously they were
so bad I was obliged to hold my nostrils.
Mr. Gomm—llid you find the human bones do
you any service ?
Mrs. Gable—l never tried human bones. You
will understand that my system is still suffering
from what occurred before the prisoner was brought
here.

Mr. D'Evncourt—Well, I will hear them.
Emma Brumsby—l am married, and have lived
opposite the prisoner's house seven years. I am not
under a spell. Never heard any reports of the pri-
soner dealing in witchcraft. Never observed any
carriage at her door, except the doctor's. Never
heard that she had the reputation of being a for-
tune-teller.

Mrs. Burke--I live next door but one to the pri-
soner, and never heard or saw anything that could
induce me to believe in this charge against her, until
I read it, as every one else has, in the newspapers.
Mr. Arnold—l have lived in the neighbourhood
16 years, and knew the prisoner , before her mar-
riage. She has a first-rate character, and a family.
Mr. D'Eyn.court—Officer, from whom did you hear
that carriages had been seen at the prisoner's door,
and that she had this notorious character ?

Horton—From some of the neighbours, sir ; and
even as I came to this court with her, persons in
the street observed, " So Mrs. M‘Donaid, you have
caught it at last."
Mr. Gomm—Then why arc not those persons in
attendance to corroborate the statement?

Horton—They would not come, as they expressed
a great objection to have their names read. in the
newspapers.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—The witnesses called in behalf
of the prisoner appear resp6ctable, and I cannot
suppose they have committed, perjury ; but it is
manifest she has taken advantage of two very weak
persons in Mrs. Gable and her daughter. Such acts
must be put a stop to—the weak intellect are likely
to be so affected by them as to become in time half
insane, and I really believe that poor Mrs. Gable
and her daughter are in such a condition from their
fears having been worked upon. I send the
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pri-
soner for 21 days to the House of Correction.
The prisoner, who had concealed her face during
Gable
mob of
the whole time evidence was received, h
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daughterte tears, and removedbieviansg followed
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both sexes when they left the court.

THE PENNY
.PRESS.—" Born to die," says the
Steordshire Adrei:tzser, " seems the ordinary fate of the
cheap papers of which the repeal of the Stamp Act pro-
duced so large a crop. The IlTednesbury Observer, a paper
half printed in London, has ceased to appear ; and a similar
fate has happened to the Dudley Express, originated by a
limited liability company, which was formerly printed in
South Staffordshire, the matter being, by a plan now becoming
common, the groundwork of a second paper published in a
neighbouring town. The proprietors of these papers do not
appear to have been equal to the achievement of publishing
papers without any literary or reporting staff, or any readers
except their advertisers, who probably do not imagine that
they are paying merely to have the satisfaction of seeing
their own announcements in print."
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will not go to your brother's shop again I will dis- I TILE ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR.
charge you.
The defendant gave the required promise, atk:
was discharged.

Mr. Gomm—Have you not told the prisoner that
yourself, son, and daughter, were full of vermin ?
Mrs. Gable—Yes, and we certainly were so, they
gathered in the hair. That was when the spell
was upon us. The pains in the eyes, nose, and back
part of the head at such times were dreadful.
Mr. Gomm—Did you not go to the gipsies and
give them the gown you wore ?
Mrs. Gable—That is a mistake. The gipsies at
Wanstead took a fancy to my muslin gown, and I
afterwards told Mrs. M'Donald that I regretted
not having given it to them off my back.
Mr. Gomm—ln your opinion what occasioned
the pain you have spoken of ?
Mrs. Gable—Why, the vermin of course ; and
they came from the spell she set upon us.
Mr. Gomm—Do you recollect the prisoner say-
ing to you, " You have some curious notions, and I
must humour you a bit ?"
Mrs. Gable—l do not recollect. She might have
said so ; but I do recollect that when I first
went to her she said, " One person is the same to
me as another, for I have to get my living, and I
expect that those persons who come to see me will
pay me." I have known her street door to be open
at all hours, the Sabbath included.

Mr. Gomm—Did she ask you for money ?
Mrs. Gable—She did not exactly ask, but I knew
what she had said about expecting it. She said
she was going into the country, and I said a little
money would be useful to her.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did the prisoner charge for
the powders, Mrs. Gable ?
Mrs. Gable—She did. She always said that the
powders were sixpence each, and it was sixpence
also for laying the cards. I made her extra pre-
sents for relieving pains in my head, and body, and
mind. She made no charge for that. She never
asked for payment of anything. I did not give her
occasion to ask.

Mr. D'Eyncourt—The question is, whether Mrs.
Gable gave the money voluntarily or was asked for

Mrs. Gable—lf I might be permitted to speak I
would say that it is very hard to be punished in
this way for five years, and by—
Mr. Gomm—Have you ever been a patient of
any other person than Dr. Ramsbotham ?
Mrs. Gable—Yes, of Dr. Frampton ; he gave me
same beautiful medicine that made me better, but
then the spell (looking at prisoner) came upon me
again.
Mr. Gomm—You say that you are better now ;
how do you account for that ?
Mrs. Gable—Why, I attribute it to Mrs. M'Do-
nald's absence from her house since her last exami-
nation, of course. _ _ _

Mr. D'Eyncourt—Then you believe your health
improved from the fact of the prisoner having been
locked up ?
Mrs. Gable—l think so in my heart.
Mr. Gomm—l will not put any more questions,
sir ; for it is clear that we shall get the same de-
scription of reply ; but, with your permission, I
will put a few questions to the daughter of this
lady.—Do you feel better this morning, Miss
Gable ?
Miss Gable—l am rather better.

Mr. Gomm—You have heard your mother speak
of the vermin—how do you account for their trou-
bling you ?
Miss Gable—Why, from the spell, of course.
Mr. Gomm—Are you annoyed in that way now ?
Miss Gable—Oh, dear, no, they have vanished.
There cannot be a doubt that she caused them to
trouble us.

M. D'Eyncourt—You believe that?
Miss Gable—Of course, and (raising her voice) I
also believe that she can at her will lay a person
on a sick-bed or raise them up from one. (Sensa-
tion in court.) On one occasion she gave my mo-
ther a root to burn, and shortly afterwards—l re-
collect it was on a Saturday night—we burnt it,
and I thought mother would have gone mad, she
was taken so violently ill. Before she was in cus-
tody I felt lost and bothered, but now I feel better.
I have not seen vermin, and am altogether different.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Have you ever seen any per-
sons at the prisoner's house ?
Miss Gable—l have seen numbers, policemen
and their wives, but not any superintendents, in-
spectors, or sergeants. Oh, I am telling you the
truth—the truth. She told me that one person
alone gave her 9s. a-week. _

A letter from Paris, in the Nord, contains some
particulars respecting Madagascar, which at this
present moment, when the French have just made
it one of their naval stations, and when there has
been much talk of both French and English pro-
jected expeditions thither, are not without interest.
The French writer says :—" The station of the
eastern coast of Africa will form the seventh of our
naval stations, the others being the western coast of
Africa, India, and China, the Pacific Ocean, the
western coast of America, the Antilles, Newfound-
land, and Iceland. I will commence by speaking
of the possessions we actually occupy on the east
coast of Africa. Besides the fine island of Reunion
(formerly the Isle of France), 150 leagues from Ma-
dagascar, we possess on the shores of this great
island the islands of St. Marie, Nossi-Be, and
Mayotte, the last being the head station of this
little Government. The island of St. Marie,
called by the people of Madagascar Nossi Ibrahim,
is situate towards the eastern point of Madagascar,
from which it is separated by a channel 5 kilo-
metres wide; it is 48 kilometres in length, from 8
to 12 in width. An arm of the sea traverses its
southern portion, dividing it into two parts. It is
surrounded in a great measure by reefs, but to the
north there is pretty good anchoring ground, and
Port Louis, the capital of the little island, is an ex-
cellent port. In the middle of this port is a little
island called Madame, strongly defended, and on
which are the barracks, storehouses, and dockyards.
Not far off, on a mountain, are the ruins of a monu-
ment recording the first occupation ; it is a pyramid,
from the middle of which a tree springs, and on
whose sides are carved the arms of France and of
the East India Company. The cession of the island
was made on the 30th July, 1750, by Beti, daughter
of the last Prince of Foulepointe, to Louis XV.,
represented by M. Cosse, a naval officer. The only
compensation for the cession was a certain quan-
tity of goods proper and suitable for her.' It
was abandoned at the time of the Revo-
lution, but Count Mole again caused possession
to be taken on the 15th October, 1818, by Baron
Mackau, and the French agents were perfectly well
received by the natives. Next year a garrison of
60 men was placed there. In 1821 the French
Government, desirous to develop agriculture in our
colonies, sent men and money to St. Marie. The
first attempts were unfortunate they were badly
directed, diseases afflicted the colonists, and the re-
sult was total failure. Just then, Feb., 1822, an
English corvette arrived at Port Louis, and its com-
mander, Mr. Moresby, demanded by what right the
French were established there and what they pro-
posed doing at Madagascar. M. Sylvan Roux,
commandant of the island, replied that he acted in
virtue of orders from the King, and that Madagas-
car was French. An animated discussion ensued
between the Governor of Bourbon and the Governor
of the Mauritius, who declared Madagascar an in-
dependent island. It was subsequently that Radama
wished to seize the sovereignty of the island, and to
crush the numerous chiefs who had recognised our
suzerainte. Radama, however, never contested our
right of property in St. Marie. They continued to
fortify the port, which in 1825 had 76 white men
and 182 blacks in the service of the colony, and 100
more on the properties of some colonists. Two men-
of-war were stationed there. But the conduct of
Radama brought things to that point, that in 1826
it was necessary to think of forming an expedition,
and to station 300 men of black troops at Port Louis-
The expedition, undertaken in 1829, failed. One of
the first acts of Louis Philippe's Government was to
evacuate St. Marie, but occupation was soon resumed.
" In 1840 our Government felt the importance of
increasing our naval power in those latitudes, and
acquired in July the islands of Nossi-Be and Nossi:
Cumba ; in 1841, the island of Nossi-Mitsiou and
surrounding islets and the island of Nossi-Fale ; the
Sultan of Mayotte ceded his island on the 25th of
April, 1841. All these cessions were obtained
from tribes friendly to France, and who felt there'
selves unable to hold their own against the Hovas•
Thenceforward we had an important position in
the Mozambique Channel ; all these islands are
situate between Madagascar and the continent;
Mayotte alone. -one of the Comore islands, is 6'
or 70 leagues from the shore ; the others are in
situations analogous to that of St. Marie. Mayotte
and Nossi-Be were at once occupied, and since then
have annually increased in importance. Mayotte►
especially, is on the way to become an important
colony ; it is 21 miles long, and has an area of
30,000 hectares. A chain of mountains crosses A
from north to south. The French establishment is
at Point Choa, where the land is very fertile. The
island is wooded, has excellent water, pasturage,
and some good anchoring places. Nossi-Be has
smiling and fertile aspect, the centre, occupied by
mountains, has 30,000 hectares of wood. The esta-
blishment is on the banks of a little river, and has
received the name of Hell-ville, from Admiral Hell,
Governor of Bourbon, when possession was taken.
Of the other islands belonging to us, Nossi-Cumba,
not a league from Nossi-Be' is very populous, and
has magnificent vegetation. Nossi-Fale, eight miles
east from Nossi-Be, is rich in rice grounds.
" According to the latest documents that have
reached. the Ministry of Marine and the Colonies,
the population of Mayotte and its dependencies is
as follows :

Mr.-IYEyncourt (to the solicitor)—What do you
say about the case now ?
Mr. Gomm—l submit, sir, that the evidence
is not reliable that mother and daughter
are as much under a spell now as before ;
and I therefore contend that their uncorro-
borated testimony should not be credited. Several
persons arc present who will give the prisoner an
excellent character.

Mayotte . . . . 6,829 inhabitants, of which 3,7481:1ieu.
Nosse-Be .15,178 If I 7,790 ,/
St. Marie .. 5,560 I 2,489 ,t
To these are to be added 500 or 600 floating popu-
lation, 52 functionaries and employes, 200 men of
European, and 250 black troops. At St. Marie'
the growth of sugar is attaining a great develore
ment ; in 1854, 339,121 kilogrammes of sugar were
exported thence to France.
" In this situation France has military establish
meats easy of development on the two casts of Ma'
dagasear ; and, moreover, Mayotte gives her an Oa
cellent position, with respect to Muscat and Zan'
zibar, points towards which French trade begins t°
direct itself. The opening of the great road by the
Red Sea (Suez) will augment the importance of this
colony, which will thus find itself considerably
nearer to the mother country, and will be the act"
vanced post of our colonial power in those latitudes.
I will hereafter trace the history of our rights t°
Madagascar, and it will be seen that M. S. Rol+
capitaine de vaissean and commandant at St. Mari.e'
was completely right when he replied to Captul,°
Moresby, of the British corvette 'Menai, " that al
the island belonged to France, and that he pre;
tested, by anticipation, against any infringement
on her right of property."
The last news received from Madagascar is t°,
the effect that Ranavalo, Queen of that island, Was
seriously ill. Her decease would, it is said here:
have a great influence on the future affairs of that
country.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

DUBLIN

-SEPT. 6

Our corn market was firm :
The supply was tolerably fai
only a few samples appeared.
White wheat, new, 22s to 24s
Red do.
Old white 268 to 28s
Red do. 24s to 26s
Barley, malting l5B to 17s

--•—
for every description of grain'
ir, except of barley, of which
No inquiry for Indian COrn.
Barley, grinding los to 176
Oats, old, 12st 15s to 16g
New do 13s to 1 is
Beans. —s to --4
Malt.... —s to "5

COAL MARKET—SEPT. 8.
Davison's West Hartley, 16s. Od ; Holywell, 14s. 3d. ;
Howard's West Hartley Netherton, 15s. 9d. ; Tanfield
Moor, 138: 3d. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 13s 3d.; Wylan'
14s. Od. ; Eden Main, 16s. Walls End—Riddell, .1.55.
94. ; Eden, —s. 04.; Belmont, —s. Od. ; Thorpe, —s. Od. ;
Bell, 15a.. 6d. ; Russell's Hetton, 16s. 6d.; Framwell-
gate, —s. Od.; Haswell, 18s. Od.; Hetton, 16s. 9d.; CassoPF
16s. 9d; Lambton, 175.6 d.; Tees, 15s. Od.; Heugh Hall, 160..
3d.; Hunwick, —a. Od. ; South Hetton, 17s. 9d. ;
Close, —s. Od. ; Shineliffe,l6s. 3d.; Kepier Grange, 175.;
Bradyll's Hetton, 165.9 d.; Nixon's Merthyr, 21s. ;-Nixon 'o
Duffryn, 21s.—Powell'o )uffryn Steam, 21s. od. Ships 5t
market, 57 ; sold; 49. Acorn