The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-05 00:00:00

ON. SATURDAY EVE'NING, OCFOBER 5, 1867.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ITALIAN MENDICANTS.—Bastiano Benedetto and
Gitano Benedetto, two Italians, were brought be-
fore Mr. Knox by Hewitt and Horsford, officers of
the Mendicity Society, charged with begging.
Hewitt stated that he saw the prisoners in Lei-
cester-square, and the female prisoner was playing
an organ which was drawn by a donkey, and on the
organ was a placard to the following effect :
" Bastian° Benedetto, by fever constrained to shift

about on hands and feet, must ring the music for
to call attention to his disability and want." The
man was crawling about on all fours more like a
dog or a monkey, being paralysed in his legs. He

attracted great 'attention, and several persons gave
him money, and on being searched at the police
station £2 10s. 81-d. was found in his possession.
In answer to the charge the man stated, in
Italian, that ho was compelled to do so for his
support.

Harth said the prisoners had gained their living
by begging, to his knowledge, for the last six
months.

Mr. Knox remarked that he was loth to convict
the prisoners, as the man was a cripple, and should
therefore discharge them on their promising not to
beg again.

The required promise having been given, the
prisoners were then discharged, Mr. Knox ordering
the placards to be destroyed.

MARYLEBONE.

ANOTHER BRUTAL OUTRAGE ON A CONSTABLE.
—Dennis Dinnehan, a tall Irishman, was brought
up on remand, charged with a brutal assault upon a
police-constable whilst in the execution of his duty.
Police-constable Smith, 302 S, who appeared very
weak, and had his head bandaged up, said—About
one o'clock he was on duty in the Leybourne-road,
Kentish-town. I had occasion to speak to a prosti-
tute, who was behaving in a disorderly manner with
a man under a railway arch. I sent the man away
in one direction and the woman in the other. I had
scarcely done so when the prisoner, in company of
two other men, came up and asked me what
the --- did I interfere with women for.
I told him to go away and mind his own
business, when he gave me a violent blow,
and knocked me down. He ran off, and I went
after him. He went into a house and brought out
a pair of tongs, and gave me a tremendous blow on
the back of my head, which stupefied me. Another
of the men then struck me on my arms, and the
third took away my staff. I fell, and the two men
who have escaped kicked me on my neck, and I
became senseless. If the mob had not come to his
rescue he must have been killed. He was now not
fit for duty.

The above evidence was corroborated by wi
nesses.

Mr. Pain cross-examined them at some length, bu
failed to shake their evidence.

Mr. D'Eyncourt committed the prisoner for tria

WESTMINSTER.

FORTUNATE DISCOVERY.—Joseph Hurst, a man
haying the appearance of a stable helper, was
charged with being found concealed in a house for
an unlawful purpose. There was a further com-
plaint against him for unlawfully possessing some
property which had been recently stolen.

Mr. E. J. Dimes, proprietor of the Duke of York
tavern, Stockbridge-terrace, Pimlico, said that hav-
ing closed his house at a quarter to one that morn-
ing he went round the premises as usual with a
lighted candle, and on looking up near the ceiling
discovered a man's feet protruding from a hole. He
called one of the young men to keep watch while he
went up to the floor to dislodge the person whose
feet be had seen, but when he got there he found
the prisoner had crawled through the opening into
the kitchen. He then pretended that he had gone
there to sleep, but that must have been perfectly
untrue, as it was a most uncomfortable position in
which he was found, the hole being so stnAll that
it must have been with the greatest difficulty the
prisoner could squeeze himself into it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt--l)o you know anything of him ?

Mr. Dimes—He and two or three more have been
about my house for a fortnight, and I have been
keeping a sharp look-out upon them, as I strongly
suspected their intentions.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Would he have access to the house
from the hole where he was found ?

Mr. Dimes—Yes, sir ; he had only to break a
pane of glass to get into the house.

Police-constable William WKenzie, 66 B
When I took the prisoner he took off his coat and
tried to get away. On searching him I found this
belt and buckle.

The keeper of the fire escape at St. Peter's, Pim-
lico, owned the belt. He had locked up his box,
near the church, on Thursday morning, and when
he returned to duty at night found it broken into,
and his clothing and belt carried off.

Prisoner—l bought it of a " navvio."
Prisoner was remanded for a week.

THAMES.

REMARKABLE CASE OF SEDUCTION AND DESER-
TION OF AN IRISH GIRL FROM DEMERARA.--.Mr.
Liddle, the assistant head constable of the East and

West India Dock police, and Mr. Murphy, a Cus-
tom House gauger, brought a girl, named Ellen
Chapman, before Mr. Benson, and said she was
found wandering about the West India Dock on
Wednesday night, and said she had recently come
to England in the ship Racehorse, and been aban..
doned here in a very reckless manner. Some doubts
of her story at first existed, but on making inquiry
it was ascertained beyond dispute that a few days
since she came to this country in the Racehorse
from Demerara. She was an orphan, and had been
seduced and abandoned. Mr. Liddle and Mr.
Murphy, as well as Lieut. Sheppy, the much-
respected superintendent of the East and
West India Dock Company's own police,
had taken much interest on behalf of the
girl, who was without a single relative or friend
in this country, and they wished to consult the
magistrate as to her disposal.
The girl, by her dialect, indicated the country of
her birth, and she was sunburnt by her stay in a
tropical climate. She said she was only 12 years of
age, but she looked two years older. She said she
was a native of Ireland, and her father was a mem-
ber of the Irish constabulary, and was appointed a
member of the police force in Demerara. He took
her out with him to the colony, and he died there.
She was a Roman Catholic and was placed in a con-
vent. The wife of another Irishman, named
Edward Brennan, who was also in the Demerara
police force, and afterwards became a storekeeper
there, took her out of the convent, the Superior of
which gave her up willingly. He had done
what was wrong to her. The Magistrate, with
some difficulty, elicited from the half-terrified girl,
that Brennan had ruined her, and Mr. Murphy, in
whose house the girl had been staying with his
family, said she was pregnant.
Mr. Benson—This girl, 12 years of age,pregnant ?
Mr. Murphy—There is too much reason to fear
that is the case.

Mr. Liddle said the girl had been staying with
his family a night and a day, and since then with
Mr. Murphy and his family.
In answer to other questions by Mr. Benson the
girl said that on the first occasion after leaving the
convent she acted as servant to Mr. and Mrs.
Brennan. She returned to the convent, and after
remaining there some time Brennan's wife persuaded
her to leave again, and soon afterwards 'Edward
Brennan effected her ruin. She made Mrs.
Brennan acquainted with what her husband had
done, and she said she could not help it.
Mr. Brennan was always very kind to her. On
reaching London in the Racehorse, on Tuesday last,
Brennan took lodgings for himself, his wife, and
herself at a coffee-shop near the Sailors' Home,
Well-street. Mrs. Brennan and herself slept in
one bed, and Brennan in another. Ile got up in
the middle of the night and kicked them both out
of bed, and she was compelled to leave the house.
She wandered about the West India Dock, in ex-
pectation of finding a ship bound to Demerara,
until Mr. Licldle found her on Wednesday night.
Brennan had a pension for services in the police
force, and he intended to return to Ireland with his

wife. She was 41 days on the voyage from Demo:tara
to London.

Mr. Murphy said he had ascertained from. the
chief mate of the Racehorse that Brennan worked
his passage over in that vessel as a seaman, any I his
wife and the girl were in another part of the ship.
He believed that Mr. Smitton, the shipowner, who
had taken a warm interest in the fate of this girl,
would grant her a free passage in oue of his vessels
bound to Demerara. Mr. Murphy added, ‘, We
will enter into a subscription to provide her a few
things."

Mr. Benson inquired of the girl if she wished to
return to Demerara, to which she replied in the
affirmative, and said the lady superiors of the Ursu-
line Convent in the colony would receive her again.

Mr. Benson—What, iu the state you are iu ?
The Girl—Yes, sir.

Mr. Benson said the case revealed a goo,: deal of
vice and wickedness, and he was surprised that Mrs.
Brennan had permitted the girl to live with her
after she discovered the treachery of her husband.
He thought the best thing that could be done for
the poor girl was to send her back to Demerara,
for she had neither father, nor mother, nor friends
in this country. For the present the sir
had better be lodged in the union-house at Poplar
and he would write to Mr. Foster, the returning
officer, a private note, requesting him to receive and
lodge the girl for a few days, until it was decided
what could be done for her. If Brennan had any
clothes or other property belonging to the girl, he
must restore them, and he would direct an officer to
make inquiries, and endeavour to find the coffee.
house where Brennan and his wife were staying.

Mr. Liddle and Mr. Murphy, whose conduct is
deserving of great praise, then left the court, with
the friendless girl, for the purpose of taking her
to the Poplar union-house.

711 E FENIAN ASSASSINATION IN

BLOOMSBURY.

LATEST PARTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.)
Dr. Lankester, the coroner, has fixed Monday
next for the commencement of his inquiry into the
circumstances attending the death of Edwin
M‘Donnell. The inquest will take place in the
board-room of the University Hospital, but beyond
the identification of the body, and the granting
permission for its interment, nothing can be done,
as the whole of the persons who can give evidence
will be required to be in attendance at Bow-street
Police-court that day, in order that the charge
on which Groves now stands accused may be pro-
ceeded with. The Coroner has ordered a post
mortem examination of the body of the deceased to
be made by the surgeons of the University Hospital
and that was accordingly performed this afternoon.
The reward of £lOO issued by the Government
for the apprehension of the person who actually
fired the pistol at M'Donnell has this morning been
increased to £3OO.

Last night the police received information that
the Feuians iu the neighbourhood of Gray's-inn-
lane intended an attack on the armoury of the Rifle
Volunteers drilling in the grounds of the Foundling
Hospital ; and such was the reliance placed on
the information that 500 of the metropolitan
police, fully armed, and equal to any emer-
gency, were kept in reserve at the Hunter-
street police-station until five o'clock this
morning, when a great many of them were permitted
to return home, but with the direction to keep
themselves in readiness for instant attendance
should such be required. This state of things
was not confined to the one particular place
we have mentioned, but the same fears were
entertained with respect to the armoury of the 40th
Rifle Volunteer Corps, in Gray's Inn. The autho-
rities adopted the most effective measures to repel
such an attempt, and doubtless the timely precau-
tions becoming known prevented the anticipated
outrage.

To prevent altogether a movement of the kind
this morning a large __company of the Guards
marched to Gray's-iun, and uhder their protection
the whole of the extensive collection of rifles and
ammunition was removed for safe keeping to the
Tower of Loudon.

The police are making the most strenuous exer-
tions to discover the ramifications of Feniauism in
the metropolis, and from the information they have
received from quarters it would be unwise to
mention there remains but little doubt of their
ultimate success.

FENIAN OUIRAGE IN MANCHESTE.b.

MANCHESTER, Friday.
This morning the case for the defence was resumed
before Mr. R. Fowler at the City Police-court.
Mr. Bennet called James O'Grady, who stated
that he worked with the prisoner Ryan at the shop
of Mr. R. Howarth, in Gaythorne. On the day of
the attack on the police-van witness and Ryan
worked together from nine till one o'clock, and after
dinner, from two o'clock till six. Ryan was never
out of witness's sight half an hour that day.
John Collins, John Joyce, John Ratcliffe, Joshua
Barratt, and Charles Sandford, all in the employ of
Mr. Howarth, gave corroborative evidence.
Mr. Roberts then called witnesses on behalf of
Thomas Scalley.
William Ainsworth, tailor, of Bootle-street, stated

that Scalley was in his employment, and on the 18th
ult. he was at work in witness's house from half-
past nine o'clock iu the morning till nearly 8 o'clock
in the evening. Witness sat on the same board
with Scalley, who was at work the whole day, with
the exception of the dinner hour, botween one and
two o'clock.

Mary Ainsworth, wife of the last witness, gave
corroborative evidence ; and a young woman named
Mary Jane Wilson stated that when she called on
Mrs. Ainsworth shortly after three o'clock on the
day of the rescue she saw Scalley at work. She did
not leave the house till half-past five o'clock, and
Scalley was there all the time.

On behalf of William Martin, Mr. Cottingham
called Mrs. Susanna Kirby, of Varley-street, who
stated that William and John Martin both lodged
in her house. On the 18th ult. William Martin
was at home from two o'clock till 20 minutes past
four. John Martin was out at work that day.
Eliza Martin; the wife of the prisoner John
Martin, was called to give evidence in behalf of Wm.
Martin, but her evidence was at first refused by
Mr. Fowler on the ground that the testimony of a
wife in favour of a prisoner with whom her husband
was jointly charged could not be accepted. The
point was, however, argued at some length by Mr.
Cottingham, and several cases were 'ited, the result
being that Mr. Fowler consented to receive the evi-
dence of the witness. Her statement corroborated
the evidence of the previous witness.
Ellen Brickle, Ann Brook, and another witness,
were also examined in support of the alibi set up on
behalf of William Martin.

Ambrose Lomas, timekeeper in the employment
of Mr. Jeffries, of Ardwick, proved the entry of
work done at Gorton by the prisoner Johnson in
the time-book on the 18th ult. In cross-examina-
tion witness said he had at first entered the name as
Rogan, having mistaken it when it was first men-
tioned to him by Ralph Potts.
Robert Fielding, a butcher at Clayton, stated
that on the 18th ult. he went to Mather and Fox-
ton's works at Clayton. They were coopers. Wit-
ness was there from about half-past twelve to half-
past six o'clock in the afternoon, and saw the
prisoner John Martin at his work there as usual.
James Heap, a grocer at Clayton, stated that he
saw John Martin about two o'clock on the after-
noon of the 18th ult. Could not say that he saw
Martin after that. Mari.iu came to witness's shop
for some tobacco.

Samuel Mather, of the firm of Mather and Fox-
ton, coopers at Clayton, stated that John Martin
was in his employment, and on the 18th ult. John
Martin was at work all the afternoon on witness's
premises. Witness saw him there from 10 minutes
to twelve to half-past six in the evening.
Edward Foxton, partner of the last witness, gave
corroborative evidence, as also did Matthew Kilgar-
ran, who said he worked in the same room as John
Martin. Ilenry Crompton, druggist, of the Ash-
ton New-road, also gave evidence in support of the
alibi set up for John Martin,

Mr. Bennet then called witnesses to prove an
alibi in the case of Michael Maguire.
Samuel Bulman, a tailor, said he was working for
Michael Maguire on the 18th ult., and saw him
every hour that day. Witness worked at home,
and did work for Maguire, but was past his house
every half-hour from seven in the morning to eight
o'clock at night.

Enoch Noble, a waiter at the Grayes Inn, Smith-
field Market, stated that on the afternoon of the
18th ult. Michael Maguire called in at the Grapes
Inn several times between one o'clock and five.
In cross-examination, witness would not swear
that he hal not told Police-constable Kirkland that
Michael Maguire might have bean away for two or
threchours on the afternoon of the 18th ult. with-

out witness knowing of it. Did not know that
Maguire changed his cloths at the Grapes Inn on
that afternoon.

Michael APLoghlan, a salesman, in the employ
of the prisoner Michael Maguire, who is a clothes
dealer, stated that on the afternoon of the 18th ult.
he saw Maguire between the.hours of three and five,
and was not out of sight for more than ten minutes.

Ann Wood, wife of a tailor, said she saw the pri-
soner Michael Maguire four times on the afternoon
of the 18th ult., at his own shop, the last occasion
being about ten minutes past four.
Thomas Field, a draper in 'Smithfield Market,
said he was talking to Michael Maguire a good part
of the afternoon of the 18th ult.: saw him at his
own premises from two till half-past four o'clock.
The examination was proceeding when our
parcel was despatched.

REMARKABLE SHAKSPERIAN

DISCOVERY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—The extreme rarity of all very early editions
of the poems of Shakspere is well known, but per-
haps of all of them, with the exception of the
" Venus and Adonis" of 1593, which was the first

published work of Shakspere, the rarest and mos

curious is the remarkable collection of fugitive pieces
called the " Passionate Pilgrim," issued surrepti-
tiously under the name of the great poet in the year
1599. The only copy of this tract hitherto known
is that preserved in the Capell collection at Cam-
bridge, where it has for long been considered one of
the choicest rarities in the library of Trinity College.
That another copy of a work believed for a cen-

tury to be unique should now be discovered is in
itself a very singular occurrence, but that a beautiful
and thoroughly perfect copy of it should be disin-
terred at this late day, bound up with an edition of
" Venus and Adonis," the very existence of which
has been hitherto unsuspected, may be regarded as
au unprecedented event in the history of Shak-
sperian bibliography.

The circumstances under which the discovery was
made are very remarkable. No one, not even the
respected owner (Sir C. Isham) of this precious
volume, and of several other rare and valuable works
printed about the same time, was aware of his pos-
sessing such literary treasures till my professional
examination a few days since of the books contained
in the old library at Lamport, in Northamptonshire,
brought them to light. There, in a back lumber
room, covered with dust and exposed to the depre-
dations of mice, which had already digested the
contents of some of the books, and amid hundreds
of old volumes of various dates and sizes, the far
greater part of which are of very trifling value, I
discovered a little collection of volumes contempo-
rary, or nearly so,with the work in question, the very
sight of which would be sufficient to warm the heart
of the most cold-blooded bibliomaniac. In thissamo
place they had remained uncared for and unexamined
for a period exceeding the " memory of the oldest
inhabitant." It was impossible to ascertain why
they had been banished from the large library be-
low stairs, which, among a considerable quantity of
common and now comparatively valueless books,
contains some of great rarity and value. The ma-
jority of these, as was shown by d)cuments which
I had the privilege of examining, and many of which
had the original cost prices affixed, were collected
by Sir Justinian Isham, the fifth baronet, a gentle-
man of great literary acquirements, who built the
library and altered the house in the time of George
1., it having been originally erected by John Isham,
in the reign of Elizabeth, and afterwards
altered and imp roved in the time of Charles I. from
a design by John Webb, the son-in-law of Inigo
Jones. The books now discovered were no doubt
collected by a more remote possessor of the pro-
perty--possibly by Thomas Isham, who died in
1605, and whose grandson, John, was knighted by
James I. at Whitehall ; and which latter, in the
ninth year of his reign, was made Sheriff of North-
amptonshire, in which county he bore great sway.
There is every evidence to show that the books have
remained in the house from a very remote period,
and that no additions of any moment have been
made to the library for the last 150 years.

It should be remarked, however, in extenuation
of the books in question having for so many years
attracted no attention, that the more precious of
them being bound in the old common vellum of the
period, and without lettering or any outside indica-
tion of their contents, would challenge no notice
except from a real and curious lover of old, and to
most people, uninviting-looking books.
The subject of the present notice is bound in the
original wrapping vellum, with strings, and with-
out any outside lettering ; and from its small size,
for it measures only sin. by 3}in., would easily
be overlooked or lost. At the end are bound two
other rare tracts namely, " Epigrammes and
Elegies," by I. D. and C. M. (i.e., Sir John Davies
and Christopher Mirlow); and " Certaine of Ovid's
Elegies," by C. Marlow, both printed at Middles-
borough, without date, but probably about 1596.

The edition of " Venus and Adonis" I have had
the good fortune to discover was printed for Wil-
liam Leake in 1599. In all bibliographical lists
hitherto published, an edition of 1600, " printed by
I. H. for John Harrison," is noticed as being in the
Bodleian Library. This copy, however, has only a
manuscript title page, and it was pointed out by
Mr. Halliwell (Folio Shakspere, vol. 16, p. 245)
that no edition bearing the date of 1600 with such
an imprint could have existed, Harrison having
parted with the copyright to Leake for years pre-
viously. It may naturally be conjectured that the
Bodleia.n copy may be the,editiou of 1599 ;,but, on
examining the collation given in the Cambridge
Shakspere, I find, that it is not. The edition of
1599, the existence of which I have the pleasure of
announcing to the public is, therefore, not only
unique, but an impression hitherto unknown to all
Shaksperian editors and critics.
I will conclude this long epistle, for which the
importance of the subject is my only excuse, by
saying, and this is not the least pleasing part of my
task, that the owner of this remarkable volume has
done me the favour of intrusting it to my custody
for a short time, during his temporary absence from
home, with permission to show it to any gentleman
interested in Shaksperian literature.—l remain,
Sir, yours respectfully, CHARLES EDMONDS,
(Of the house of Willis and Sotheran.)
136, Strand, Oct. 3.

FREEZING THE BRAIN.—The great discovery that
the brain of a living animal could be frozen and after-
wards could recover was mad() by Dr. James Arnott, who
solidified the brain of a pigeon by exposing it to a freez-
ing mixture. Here research stopped, because with an
ordinary freezing mixture it was not possible to act on
individual parts of the organ ; but the importance of the
discovery is not the loss ou that account. It was a marvel-
lous revealing. Think what it was ! Hero was a living
organ of mind, a centre of power, of all guiding power, of all
volition. It took in every motion of the universe to which

it was exposed. It took in light and form and colour by the
eye; it took in sound by the ear; sensation and substance by
the touch; odour by the nostril, and taste by the mouth;
it gave out, in return or response, animal motion, expres-
sion, all else that demonstrates a living animal. With it
the animal was an animal; without it the animal was
turned into a mere vegetable. And this organ, the very
centre and soul of the organism, was, by mere physical
experiment, for a time made dead—all its powers ice-
bound. And this organ again set free, received its func-
tions back again, and, as we know now by further observa-
tion, its functions unimpaired. Surely this was the disco-
very of a new world. —Dr. Richardson, F.R.S., in Popular
Science Review, October. _

Loss OF THREE LivEs.--Yesterday morning the
brig Venus, of Hartlepool, was wrecked on Lorton Sands.
Three of the brig's crew were drowned. The remainder
were saved by the Gerlsstcm lifeboat and a tug.