The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-25 00:00:00

DELHI PRIZE MONEY.

Mr. HElrs remarked that Mr7Baillie had offi-
cially stated that the question of the prize money
of.Dalhi was still under the consideration of Go -
vernment, and he had seen it stated that the cir-
captured in that city
ileart°he
generally,Poes inasmuch as they
property
Yof property captured in
octwhuneemlryees recovereditdtaiineffr:ee4-e
different
ft:ftehrhlm
ea
t uhich had been their own be-
fore. That might be the case with respect to Go-
vertinarnt stores, but surely not as regardei the
propertyof the rebels. Ile wished, too, to know if
there was any reluctance to grant honorary distinc-
tions for the Indian campaign.
The CHAIRMAN stated, in reply, that Lord Can-
ruing had)
in granting the soldiers engaged before
Delhi six months' batta, gone to the full extent of
o
his pow, r. The Court i Directois had, however,
granted them t ix months additionalbatta--(hear)—
and her Majesty's Government surrendered them
in prize all the property found in the city not
being Government stores, or belonging to those
who had remained loyal to British rule. A medal,
too, lie was happy to say, would be granted to the
trot), s, with a distinctive clasp for Delhi, for Luck-
now, and for service in the field under Havelock.

THE LATE SIR HENRY LAWRENCE
The CHAIRMAN, iu reply to a question from Mr.
Lewin, stited that her Majesty had granted a ba-
ronetcy to the son of Sir Henri Lawrence, with re
mainder t ) bis brother, and the Court of Directors
intended to vote their) 1,0001. per annum, in sue-
cesqon, for the suport of the dignity.

QUARTER AND MUTILATION.
The CHAIRMAN, in answer to Mr. Crawshay,
said he did not I.e!ieve that the tr opi had refused
quarter to the sepoys,
As to what Sir Henry Raw-
linson, h.td stated in the House of Commons, that
they had captured no prisoners of war, it should
be remembered that they had no cavalry to pursue
fugitives, and the sepoys were much lighter on foot
than the British infantry. He also stated, in reply
to Mr. Lewin, that after the most strict investiga-
tion, there had not been discovered a single case of
mutilation.

This statement, which gave general satisfaction,
was coLfirmed by Sir F. Curtis.

OUDE.
Mr. JONES WO proceeding to call the attention
of the Court to the suTot of the annexation of
Oude, when, on the motion of an hon. proprietor,

the Court was counted, and there not being a
quorum of proprietors present, the proceedings
were abruptly brought to a close.

ASS.iZ Tit GENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—LEwEs, March 24.
(Before Mr. Justice Erle.)
Charles Rooke, a tradesman, of Lewes, surren-
dered to take his trial for felony, in having wilfully
and maliciously thrown a stone at a train upon the
Brighton and South Coast Railway, and thereby
endangered the safety of the passengers.
Mr. Creasy conducted the prosecution. Serjeant
Parry was specially retained, with Mr. Roupell,
for the prisoner.
This case created a good deal of interest in the
town of Lewes, as it arose out of a religious'disturb-
same that took place in Nov. last. It will be remem-
bet ed that a young lady, named Scobell, daughter of
the Rev. J. Scobell, of Lewes, had seceded from the
Protestant and become a convert to the Roman
Catholic religion, and she went to reside at an
establishment attached to that religion at East
Grinstead, known by the title of the Sisters of
Mercy. She died in that establishment in the
month of November last, and at her request her
body was conveyed to Lewes to be buried in the
family vault, and the Rev. Mr. Neale, a Roman
Catholic clergyman, who was the principal of the
establishment at ast Grinstead, accompanied by
a number of the Sisters of Mercy, all attired in
their conventual costume, came with the body, it
being the intention of Mr. Neale to inter it with
the ceremonials of the Roman Catholic Church.
Upon the townspeople of Lewes, however, seeing
the procession that was formed, great excitement
was occasioned, and when the body was taken to
the church of All Saints, Mr. Scobell, the father of
the young lady, and another clergyman, were in
attendance, prepared to read the burial service of
the Church of England, and upon Mr. Neale at-
tempting to insist upon performing the ceremony
according to the forms of the Roman Catholic reli-
gion, a scene of great disturbance and violence en-
sued, and in order to escape personal injury Mr.
Neale was compelled to make his escape as well as
he could ; but it appeared that when he left Lewes
he intimated his intention of returning on the fol-
lowing day and performing the ceremony. He
acecningly did come again to Lewes on the next
afternoon, and endeavoured to obtain the keys of
the church from the sexton, and the fact of his visit
becoming known, a crowd speedily assembled, and
Mr Neale was hooted at and pelted at with stows,
and eventually the police were compelled to escort
him to the railway station, and he and one of the
Sisters of Mercy who accompan ed him we e placed
in a fiecond-class carriaL,e. The crowd that a-sein-
' bl d was very mush excited, and just as the train
was about to start it was alleged that the prisoner
threw a s, one at Mr. Neale, woose head was out of
the window of the carriage in a deviant manner,
but it missed him and struck the carriage, and it
was for this act that the present prosecution was
preferred by the railway authorities.
Mr. Creasy, in opening the caie io the jury, said
that the railway cumpauy had nothing e ha, ever
to do with the circumstances that preceded toe act
imputed to the prisoner, and the only object they
had in view was to protect the passengers travelling
by the railway from being endangere I by acts of
this description. He said there had no doubt been
a great deal of excitement in the tiwn prior to the
coartnissien of the offence, but he only felt it right
to mention that fact in order that the jury might
understand under what circumstances the act was
committed by the prisoner, and that they might be
the better able to ascertain the intent he haci in
view.

Serjeant Parry, at the close of the case for the
prosecution, subrinted that there was no evidence
to support the charge. The Act of Parliament
under which the indictment was flamed was a highly
penal one, and clearly was only intende i to apply
to the case where the intent to cause injury to the
passengers was made out in a satisfactory manner.
In the present case he contended that if any intent
at all was made out it was an jut ut to assault Mr.
Neale, and that, taking into consideration the posi-
tion of the train at the time, it was idle to suppose
that a missile such as that which had been produced
could in any manner have affected its safety.
Mr. Justice Erle, iu summing up, called the at-
tention of the jury to the precise terms of the
statute, and told them that before they would be
justified in convicting the prisoner th'-y mist be
sadsfied that he had the intention at all events, of
d)ing some serious bodily injury to the pas-
sengers in the train ; and if this was nut
mane out they ought to acquit him. He then
said that the conduct of Mr. Neale in putting
his head oat of the carriage window was c,Ttai,dy
very injudicious, and if they should think the
stone was merely thrown with the intention to as-
sault him he was of opinion the present charge
could not be supported.
Tue jury almost immediately said they were all
agreed thatithe prisoner was Not Guilty.
There was a Mist of applause vvh-u the verdict
was delivered, which was, however, cheAA by the
officers.

Mr. Justice Erie said he thought people ought
to understand that nothing was more calculated to
make a court of justice a public nuisance than that
applause or the contrary should be ,permitted at
anything that took place in it.
Th-le was another -indictment against the pri-
soner for a misdemeanour, in having attempted to
commit the offence of which he was accused in the
folater indictment.

Mr. Creav raid that this charge res'ed entirely
upon the same evidence, and, as ad the facts had
been hid before Use jury, he toought tie was not
upon to proce Al with the Er!c,,nd
alter the decision they had come to. The 'ail way
company, as he had before stated, had uo feeling
whatever in the matter, and their only object in in-
terfering in the matter was the protection of the
public.

The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty,
and the prisoner was ordered to be discharged from
custody.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Marc 24.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Jacob Mountenoy and
Charles Oliver were brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with being in unlawful possession of two
5/. Bank of England notes, under circumstances
detailed in the following evidence :
Michael Eiaydon, the detective officer, said—
About 11 o'clock this morning I was on duty with
Spittle, another officer, at the Bank of England. I
saw the prisoner Muuntenoy standing at the south
entrance of the Bank; in company with a young
man, looking up the yard. I entered the hall of
the Bank, and saw the prisoner Oliver standing at
the counter where gold is exchanged for notes. I
received a communication from Spittle, and upon
seeing Oliver receive ten sovereigns from one of
the clerks I told him I was an officer, and asked
him where be obtained the two 5/. notes which he
had just changed. He replied that ho had got
them from his waste; Mr. Jones, a barber, at 45,
Fleet-street. While we were speaking in the pas-
sage leading to the hall Mountenoy came in, and
saw Oliver_ speaking to Spittle and myself, but
passed us without recognising Lim. We went into
the hall, and Spittle followed and spoke to him. I
said to Oliver, "I saw that young man waiting
owside ; do you know him ?" He replied, "Yes,
that's the man that gave me the notes to change."
I asked him if that was Mr. Soma, and he replied,
"No, his name is Jacob Mountenoy." I remarked
to him, " Why, you told me you bad them from
Mr. Jones." He replied, " Well, the fact is, he
had them from Mr. Jones, and he gave them to
me." Mounteuoy was then brought back by
Spittle, when I told him what Oliver bad said
about receiving the notes from him. Mountenoy
said he had given the notes to Oliver to get change
for. Upon my questioning him, he said he found
them in his shop yesterday afternoon, between four
and five o'clock. I asked him why he had &lit
them to be changed with a wrong name and address
on them. He told me that the name and address
was ou the back when he found them. I asked
him if he had wade any attempt to find the owner,
by inquiring at thearldress. Hu told me he bad not.
Mountenoy said his shop was in Newmarket,
Gravel-lane. He afterwards till me that it was
in his shop, in Upper East Smithfield, that he
found the notes.

John Spittle, the detective officer, said al,out
half-past ten o'clock this morning I was standing at
the front of the Bank of England, when I saw
Mountenoy and another young man. Shortly
aferwards I entered the hall, and saw Oliver staue-
ing at the coun:er. I heard one of the clerks ask
him what number in Fleet-street Mr. Jones lived
at. H, made some reply, up.n which the clerk
said, " Toat is not right, it is 95 " Mounteiloy
entered the hall, and pass d Haydon, Oliver, and
myself in the passage. I followed him ii:t • the
hall, and asked him if he knew she young man
he bad just pass-d in the passage. lie told
me he did. I asked him if he knew what he
came to the Bank for ? and he said he did nor. I
told him that Oliver had brought two 5/. Bank of
England notes to be changed, and asked him if be
knew anything about them. He replied that he
did not. I took him to Haydon, and afterwards
head him say that he gave the notes to Oliver,
and that he found them at his shop, f,c.ng St. Ka-
tharine's Docks, -yesterday afternoon be weep four
and five o'clock. I baVe mAdeinqurie-; at No. 9?,
Fleet-street, which is the Old Bell Tavetn, but
cannot find a person of the name of Jones there.
Mountenoy,- in -arisWer to the charge,
picked up the notes yes'erday afternoon, between
four and five o'clock. I first thought they were •

bits of paper, but afterwards discovered them to be
notes. I met Oliver this morning, and asked him
to get them changed. I did not much like trust-
ing him alone, so I and my friend wo.:obed h.m
alt Thi, way th,,re.

Oliver jaid—Mountenoy aQkecl me to get the
notes changed for him, and as I had nothing to
do, I went to the Bank.
The prisoners were remanded.

BOW-STREET.—A young man-named Godfrey
Knowleg, a privat,l in the Coldstream Guards, was
brought up on rem And on a charge of attempting
to murder Charles Hammerton, a sergeant in the
same regiment.

Late on the night of the 23d of February,
Knowles, who bad been several days absent, re-
turnsd to barracks someivhst the worse for liqu tr.
He took off his boots and began throwing tient
about the room, to the disturbance of the other
men, who were in bed. Himmerton, beitz ser-
geant of the guard, remonstrated with the prisoner,
who however persisted, and on being threatened
with confinement in the gnat d-room, said that he
did not care ; he could go to tie guard-room. H
had had seven yt ars, and he would have 20 fo'
Hammerton. The latter got up, and desired tvo
men to dress and assist him to t Ike the prisoner to
tie guard-room. Defendant then went to his kit,
from whi ch, no doubt, he took t he razor which he aft er-
wards made use of. He left the tutus, as it to g
to the guard-room, but after a few minutes re-
turned, and, taking the sergeant unaware=, at-
tacked him and slashed him across his breast, neck,
and face, inflicting a series of severe wounds upon
him. 11:1.111M, rton struggle I with him, threw him
on the bed, and wear to the further end of the
room to ask assistance from one of the men. It. was
then for the first time perceived thit the sergeat,
was wounded, for though the men hid seen the
prisoner strike at 'him, they did not know that he
had any weapon in his hand. He was about to re-
new the attack on the sergeant, when the later
escaped by a window which had been opened for
him by James Pemberton, one of the private-.
Pemberton then went up to tee itrisouer and ordsred
him to " stand." He said w•th an oath that he
would cut Pemberton's throat to .. Raub rton
cowed him by brandishing a musket ovar his head,
and he was then seiz-d by a corporal and two of the
men. An open :azor was then taken from his
hand. When removed to ihe guard-room he said,
" I am not at ad sorry for what I have .lone."
Hammert. n, who was fainting from loss of blood,
w s conveyed to the military hospital, where hr
rem tined until Monday evening. The prisoner was
brought to this court on the 24th February, and
remanded from time to time till yesterday.
Mr. James Wardrop, surgeon to the Grenadier
Guards, now attended, and said that he saw HUD-
Inerton when first b ouslit to the h tspital. Eli was
then in a very dangerous state. He was now suffi
ciently recovered to leave the hospital, and heir
was no longer any danger, but wou d pro‘tably be
some time before he wool recover his strengtn.
Harnmerton, who is a fine manly looking fellow,
with a t.aedsonte countenance acrd solderly t eating,
and who wears a Crimean 'nett .1 with four elasi.s.
c tufirmed the previous evidence as to the circum-
stances of the attack. Hts had n ver quirrell,d
with the prisoner, who had not, as far as he knew,
any previous malice, and certainly wo cause for it.
The prisoner said he had no recollection of wha,
had occurred. The sergeant was a fellow-towns-
man of his and the very last man whom he would
wish to injure. He supposed it was the drink as
done it."

Mr. Henry committed him on the capital charge
of attempt to murder.

WESTMINSTER.—James Ford was fluidly
examined, charged with stealing a valuable Skyk
terrier, the property of Mrs. Rob Arts, of
Broinpton-,quare.
The circumstances of the case have been before
detailed. It will be remembered that about fie
weeks ago Mrs. Rob at=, accompanied by the dog,
was iu the neighbourhood of her own house, w.: en
prisoner threw something s-ft, resemblioz putty,
to the animal, which was in a minute afterwarts
missed. Subsequently, through the agency of a
man named Fanner, offers were made to rest
dog, which was dead, frr a sovereign, and Mrs
Robarts, accompanied by her servant, went to
.Newton-street, Hol,iorti, to identify the dog, and
:here ga.ve the prisoner, who had possession of it
into custo'iy, the other man es,li.ping, as it was
alleged, through the negligence, f t .e p lice.
On the pri-ouer being placed in the dock the
police-serg,ant of the E dmvis on, in explanation of
the nnputation thrown upon the police, sa d—T at
Mrs. Robatts, 11,.r servant, Farmer, and the pri-
soner, all came vdontatily to the stat,on with a
cab. As ho understood the matter it was a dispute
between the lady and the prisoner abouL the reco-
very of a dog, and he did not know until subse-
quently that the accused was stealing the nog. No
ot..er person was charged before him, nor did he
see the second wan spoken of at all. He had in-
quired of the differ, nt m n who were cowing it;to
the station at the tun,. for duty, but none of thAn
knew anything of the circumstances.

M: s. R ,barts rep-attd, tha' seeing two or three
policemen tone her, she painted to the prisoner',
companion, an t said, " Ttlat is the man who atuie
rey,dog—take him."

lir.-Paynter. said it was obvious that there must
have been some ruisundentandiug aliouL the thing,
which was very natural in the excitement of the
mowent.

Inspector Cummings intimated that Farmer
knew every dog sealer in Loudon, and might have
wish, d. the other man to escape.
Farmer, who admitted he kliew almost all
he "dog men," stated that he interested himself
at the requesl, of Mrs. RobArtti, to endeavour to
recover her dog, and went with I,er descrined.
In rep y to au i.,quiry fr,im Mr. Pa) Ili er, witness
set a yams of 5/. upon tue dog whs.'n
isioner pretended teat he picked up the clf g
deal im the street the morning he was given into
custody.

Mr. -Punter said that that was a very unlikely
story. There could'not be tie sligiest doubt, from
the evidence, that be was tilt man who stole the dog,
and he was determined to make what he could of i.
afterwards. There were very few offences of a mote
serious character than. dog-stealing ; was an of-
fence committ. d for the purpose of extorting money
from the p -rs. rotibed by preying upon theirkiudly
feelings. Dogs were stolen to which great value was
attached bytheir possessors, and large sums of money,
perh :ps infinitely beyond their intrinsic worth,
extorted for their restoration. Many person,
might lose their watches, or have their bou-es
broken into, and think less of either titan losing a
iavourite dig. As prisoner, however, had not b.
previously convicted, he would give h in an oppor-
tunity of paying a fine. He then ordered him to
pay W., the value of the dog, and 101. p, nalty.
He was committed in defaultforihree. months.

LAMBETH.—THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NUISANCE
Thomas Goose, lite a constable belonging to the
L division of police, attended before the Hon. G.
C. Notion, io discharge of his bail, to meet tw.)
charges, the oi:e for the wlstructing as a " tout" to
a photographic shop the public highway in the
Westwi,sitr-ro-td, and the other for assaulting a
young married female.

The Inspector of the Police informed the magi-
strate that since the gdjournmen of the charge fur
obstructing the highway against the detondant of
Saturday last, he hod wai ed on the photographists
in the Westinins•er-road, of whom there wore no
less than nine, and put the question to all whether
they were agreeable to close their places, and di--
continue taking likenesses on the Sun,lay, and only
tbree out of the nine wuuld oin-ent to d.. so. The
others said that Sunday was their hest day, that iu
fact. they made quite en -ugh on that day to pay the
whole of their expen-es, and the reason they gave
for its being their most lucrative day was that the
labouring or servant class, who were their best
customers, appeared on that day ti4eir smartest
clothes, and in those they wished their likenesses
taken.

Mr. Norton remarked that the consequences of
their persisting in such a cuutae, and creating such
a nui-ance ou the S Lbhath day, would hi die carry-
ing of acme stringent legislative enactment to put
down such prac'ice,,, pa,tkularly on the Sunday.
Harriet Burnes, a young warded tem,' ~
said
that on that-day week she was going past Ast ey's
Theatre, in conversation with a "fluor-keeper,"
i.e., a " whom she was taout toaccom-
-1 ou ,"
parry to his "gallery" to have her likeness taken,
when the defendant came from the other side of
the street; seize I her by the shoulder, and slung
her ronwt so vi,lntly as to hurt her very much,
and her impres,ion at the time was that he was in
liquor. •

Eu cross-examination by Mr. Gwynne, who ap-
p iared for ihe defendant, lie wi, n-ss ockilowledged
t ,at she was acquainted with anotlitr "tout," who
had given"G,nse a black eye, and who was ch-aged
with that t,ft.qice at this (lona oo that day w. ek,
but denied that she had been inducud to pi efei the
present charge by the police or the persons in op-
position to Mr. Billing, Goose's employer.
Mr. Norton o! served that the conduct of the
defendant was most improper, and convicted him
in the penalty of 20s and expenses for the assault,
and ss. for the ob,truetion, with expenses.
Summonses weie also • heard against two of the
fraternity named Kerby and Nails, for sticking out
projections on the pavement with likenesses. They
were fined 10s. each and expenses.
Mr. Norton directed the p lice to keep a sharp
look out, with'a view of putting down so serious a
nuisance as that couiplaked of. 1