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London, England, 1858-01-15 00:00:00

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fore us, that although so much.f dreepeemnednetance was O neat
captain, officers, and crew, appropriatelyy
placed on him, the supply
dia by him afforded was really insignificant. He nan, iecp,
) the welcome and kind treatment accorded
ofrem
was instructed by the Colonial-office, as already to Captain Rose may be conceived, he
stated, to send 6 regiments to Point de Galle for crinnot describe them. says, but he
subsequent distribution ; and it is thought by com- Sir John Bowring, we are glad to find, has
petent judges that he might and ought to have sent headed a subscription with 20 dollars to enable
10. Referring to Sir G. Grey's own account of his Captain Rose to purchase a suit of clothes and
" doings," as contradistinguished from his " say- some nautical instruments.
4,1gg," it appears that he despatched to Bombay in
- - - last &M. 's 89th and 95th Regiments (1,600
u. -
- - the whole), and about 220 men of the
strong in ~
Royal Artiltj.
ry._ Sir G. Grey further informs the
Colonial-office (A. 17:. 9) that he had forwarded to
Calcutta a detachment,' of the 23d Fusileers, but
these had merely arrived t7,'l route, and so, of
course, would count for nothing. On the 25th of
August the despatch of 500 men of I'll() 13th Regi-
ment to Calcutta is reported by the 6o;ernor of
the Cape. The purchase of horses and the further
despatch of 500 men to Ceylon in the Bosoawen,
and of sundry horses and 250 additional men to
Calcutta in the Megmra (3d of October), appear to
complete the sum of Sir G. Grey's valuable "ups sua-
plies." He was asked for six regiments ; h
constantly vaunting his desire to assist the Indian
army, and talking grandly of what he intended or
hoped to do ; and behold the result—the despatch
of two regiments, a portion of a third, a company
of artillery, and a few horses. The total reinforce-
ments reported to have been sent to Bombay and
Bengal up to the 10th of August was 1,665 men,
and to these must be added the 500 men of the
13th Regiment (already mentioned), and the 250
sent out in the Megmra, besides 560 horses. The
troops for Ceylon were merely sent to replace
others sent from that colony to India. —Times.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 14.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Thos. Pleydell, confectioner,
of No. 25, Bishopsgate-street Without, was summoned
before the Lord Mayor, for having attempted to kiss
Mrs. Elizabeth Aiken, the wife of a hairdresser who
resides in the neighbourhood. _

The complainant said—On Sunday morning I went to
he defendant's house, a little before 12 o'clock, to take

home a razor which he had left with my husband. He
opened the door and asked me if I had the razor, and I
said "yes." He then asked me to go into the bakehouse
whilst he went upstairs to get the key to pay the money.
In about five minutes he came down and asked me if I

would have a mincepie. I refused, and he said " do,"
and he put a mincepie in a paper bag and handed it to
me. He then asked me if I had change for sixpence, and
I gave him a penny and a threepenny piece, as the razor
came to twopence. When I put my hand out to receive
the sixpence from him he tried to kiss me, and he
said he would not let me go till I kissed him. He
then struggled very hard, with all his might, to
kiss me, and he pulled rlae about in a very disor-
derly manner, and bent my bonnet. I got to the door,
and then he tried three times more to kiss me.
The defendant (who is a very serious-looking charac.
ter) here said—My Lord, I never thought of kissing
her, and I am ready to take my oath that I never
made any attempt of the kind.
The Lord Mayor—The shop was not open, I suppose ?
The defendant (shaking his head) —Oh no, my Lord,
never open my shop on Sunday. (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—What did you give her the mince-
pie for ? I suppose that was to pay for the kiss you
wanted to take ? (A. laugh.)
The defendant—l gave her the pie for her civility
in coming with the razor. I didn't want any kissing,
not at all. She has not told the truth.
The complainant—My Lord, I was quite ill with the
exertions I made to get away from him. I consider
his conduct moat scandalous. •
Mr. Aiken, the complainant's husband—My Lord, I
never knew my wife to tell a lie in her life. When she
came home from the defendant's house I knew that
something disagreeable had occurred at once, for she
appeared to be greatly agitated and burst into tears.
She lay quite prostrate for some time, and more like a
dead than a living person. I wish your lordship to
understand that I do not seek any advantage from this
complaint. I merely come here to expose the circum-
stances of the case for the sake of pnblic justice.
Mrs. Pleydell (the wife of the defendant)—My Lord,
I believe what my husband says. I am sure he never
attempted to take any liberty with her at all, and that
all the woman has said is false.
Mr. Aiken—l solemnly declare to your lordship that
Mrs. Pleydell told me when she was spoken to on the
subject that she believed every word my wife had uttered
was perfectly true. (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor—And I believe so too. There is not
the slightest doubt about the matter, and yet the defen-
dant has the audacity to say that he is ready to take his
oath to the contrary. I fine him 40e. and costs, and
he will not easily forget that the mere attempt to kiss
cost him a couple of guineas.
Patrick Leary, a porter in the employment of Messrs.
Adams, of Pudding-lane, fruit merchants, was committed
to prison for having stolen 28 oranges, the property of
his masters.
Mr. Oakley, who superintends the workmen on the
premises, stated upon the occasion that it was scarcely
to be credited to what extent this plunder of fruit chests
was carried on, and
The Lord l!dayor intimated that he would deal
rigorously with every case of the kind.
Thomas Henry White, conductor of an omnibus, was
charged with having been intoxicated wuile performing
his duty.
The timekeeper of the General Omnibus Company
stated that having been informed that the defendant was
tipsy in Mansion-house-street, he took him into custody.
No doubt the man was intoxicated, but he was exceed-
ingly civil, and made no resistance whatever.
The manager of the company said the defendant was
a respectable man, who conducted himself well in per-
forming his duty. The offence of intoxication was, how-
ever, one which would not be excused, and the direc-
tors had issued orders that any one of the servants who
should be guilty of it should be at once committed to
the custody of the police.
The defendant said he had abstained from strong
drinks altogether for 14 weeks, but having met an old
friend he happened to take oae drop too much, which
gave him the appearance of being drunk, but he would
have been able to go through his business, if he had not
been interfered with. Nevertheless, he was thankful
to the officer who took him into custody.
The Lord Mayor—l trust that the directors of the
company will not discharge him, for it appears to me
that he very much regrets the offence he has committed.
The manager said he would state his lordship's impres-
sion upon the subject to the directors, and as the defend.
ant was respectable, he hoped they would not discharge
him.
The Lord Mayor (to the defendant)—Now follow my
advice and stop this horrible habit, which, if it gain upon
you, will lead to your destruction inevitably. I had a
poor fellow before me yesterday, charged with begging,
who bad served 14 years in India, and whose only fault
was, I really believe, his love of drink, which led him to
beggary, and which, if you continue to indulge in it, will
put you in a similar condition. You are now discharged.
The defendant declared that no power on earth should
prevail on him to drink, and appeared to be very
grateful.

AN ADVENTURE IN MINA.

(From the Friend of China, Nov. 28.)
Her Majesty's steamsloop Inflexible was entirely
successful in her trip to Swatow and its neighbour-
hood for the purpose of obtaining the release from
durance there of Captain Rose of the wrecked brig
Kadree. She returned here on Saturday, and we
now learn the following particulars of the wreck,
the detention, and the recapture. Straits'-owned
oversew, vessels, we need hardly tell our readers,
seldom have more than one Englishman on board,
the master—whose principal, if not only duty, be-
yond a general supervision, is that of navigating
when out of sight of land. Always when near the
coast native pilots are employed. Thus the Kadree
when pursuing her voyage from Macao to Amoy,
was in charge of three Chinese pilots, and there is
grave reason for believing that for a purpose, not
by accident, was the Kadree stranded a short
distance from Breaker Point on the 25th ult.
The Kadree, uninsured, had on board a cargo of
bark, tin, lead, &c., worth over 1,000 doll., and
specie (three-fourths the owner's and one-fourth the
supercargo's) amounting to 8,000 dols. Whether or
not this specie was the object of desire on the part
of these pilots cannot be said ; at all events, un-
less there were some collusion with the shore people,
it is not known as yet whether they obtained any

portion of it.
The vessel first struck on a hard sand-pit about 4
in the morning of a beautiful day, and eventually
drifted on to the beach, where she was soon sur-
rounded by numerous wreckers from the shore.
In the course of the day two Portuguese lorchas
came into the bay, and, seeing the position
of the brig, made preparations for assisting her,
The Christian portion of the crew of the brig, how-
ever, did not wait for assistance to come to them,
and, jumping into the sampans alongside, left the
vessel directly they had completed the ading in
one of the boats of the specie, previously put into

bags.
Prior to the appearance of these lorchas it should
be stated, a man, representing himself to be an
officer of the Government, came on boat d, and
strongly advised the Nakodah not to land, but to
engage boats and get to Swatow as soon as possible,
and it was arranged that for taking them there the
treasure should be given as a remuneration. To this
the Nakodah consented, and, with some dozen of
the crew and Captain Rose, the sampan and valu-
ables pushed off on the morning of the 26th. But
they had not proceeded far when they were sur-
rounded by numerous boats, and forced towards
the shore ; the Nakodah and natives jumping into
another boat and escaping. Captain Rose, unable
by reason of weakness from fever and swollen legs
to move from his position in the stern, was the sole

prisoner.
The first business of the captors, before dragging
Captain Rose through the surf, was to strip him of
everything he had on, and then to march him,
naked as he was born, to a village some three miles
inland, where he was forced into an outhouse among
some straw. About four o'clock in the afternoon
of the mane day Captain Rose saw 20 ctotß. paid
and he was then driven out, like a
wild animal, and beaten over his swollen legs with
bamboos till the blood gushed from them. He
was then made to go to a ferry, where a boat
was found laden with 30 fathoms of one of the
ship's cables, with which they proceeded up a rake
some five or six miles, landing at sundown ; Capt.
Rose being then shown into a hovel and made to
lie on the bare floor, still naked, a bundle of straw
for a pillow, and an old musquito curtain for a
palampo. The next day, the 127th, on they went
again overland a short distance, until Capt. Rose's
legs could carry him no further, and then a chair
was procured with which they proceeded in a due
westerly direction to a village where our unfortu-
nate countryman was again sold for 50 dols.
On the 30th of October, five days only after the
wreck, Capt. Rose was greatly surprised at receiv-
ing a letter from Mr. Morrison, chief mate of the
receiving brig Anonyma at Swatow, dated the 29th,
asking him how he was. In reply Capt. Rose said
he was kindly enough treated, and urged of course
as early assistance as possible. This day, too, he
was fortunate in obtaining the goodwill of an old
woman, who gave him a pair of trousers to put on,
and another dressed the wounds on his legs, the
females throughout the detention exhibiting a
kindness in marked contrast to that of their brutal
lords.
On the Ist of November another letter came, say-
ing 20 dols. had been sent for his release ; and on
the 4th a third letter was brought, stating that tee
20 dols. would be increased to 100 dols. directly he
appeared. But no sign of a move was made by the
flesh holders until the 6th, when a man named Sin
Kit came, bringing and paying down 230 dots. or
250 dols. On the 7th, after a good deal of chaffer-
ing and noise, a chair was brought, and in it Capt.
Rose ffroceeded on his return eastward, passing,
going and coming, no less than three walled towns,
one of them Ton-goo, and some dozen large
villages:— care being taken, however, to keep
the raree -show of an English face from
official and general gaze. It took them a
day to reach the village of Hoa-lien, Sin Kit's
dwelling-place. There Capt. Rose was kept until
the 16th, when a letter was handed to him from
Commander G. A. C. Brooker, of the steam-sloop
Inflexible, in which that gallant officer explained
that he had come to Swatow for the purpose of
releasing Capt. Rose from the villagers. In this
letter Capt.-Brooker stated that several sums had
been offered for the ransom of Capt. Robe, that a
war steamer had arrived on his account, and that
he had intimated to Sin Kit that if the prisoner
were not released Sin Kit would be handed over to
the Mandarin at -,watow, or taken to Hong Kong.
To this Capt. Rose replied that the ransom had
been reduced to 370 taels, but that without the
appearance either of money or force his release was
hardly likely. Five more tedious days passed, and
then, when almost despairing, Capt. Rose, was
agreeably aroused from a noonday nap with, "Oh,
you Englishman, prisoner I where are you I"
Rousing himself he found the house in possession
of a score of British marines and Vuejackets. Not
a moment was lost in preparing for a return to the
ship, anchored some nine miles off, Capt. Rose's
toilet being soon completed—a thick coat from his
last owner, together with the trousers before spoken
of, being his sole wardrobe.
And here we must pause in the narrative to give
expression to our sense of admiration of the very
judicious and gallant manner in which Commander
Brooker effected Mr. Rose's release. Finding from
the reply that the holders were still disposed to pre-
varicate, with a view to getting more money, he at
once, with the concurrence, of course, of Captain
Sullivan, of the Anonyma, whose generous aid, as
well as that of Mr. Morrison, his chief mate, cannot
n-h
should be too highly spoken off, seized on Mr. Abi, the
go.-between, and told him that without more ado
hislife
uld pay the forfeit unless he led the way
to the prisoouse.
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Such was the celerity of their march that every one
in the village was taken by surprise. How neces-
sary such celerity was to success our readers will as
readily perceive as we can indicate. To exhibit its
'value, we quote Captain Rose's words to us when
telling the story To march that distance from
any support, knowing, as I do, the thousands upon
thousands of infuriated Chinese who could have
been summoned at the mere blowing of a conch shell
was the pluckiest thing in Captain Brooker, Lieut.
Anson, Dr. Magrath, and the 20 men I ever heard
of. I would not have done it—no, not to save my
own brother,"
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afterwards she was at as,sher in Hongkong,

WORSHIP-STREET.— A swarthy, well-dressed
young man, who gave the name of George Miller, and
said he was a cigar maker, living in Orchard-street,
Peckham. was charged before Mr. Hammill with steal-
ing a valuable watch.
Mr. William Pedder, a master mariner, residing in
Savage gardens, Tower hill, accompanied by a friend,
went the previous evening to the Standard Theatre,
and while mixed with the crowd, gradually approach.
ing the " pay box" was annoyed by the prisoner
pressing forcibly against his left side, as though desirous
of " going a-head," which, however, when an oppor-
tunity offered, he declined doing, but fell back to
"starn." Prosecutor shortly afterwards, while in the
act of taking his box ticket for himself and friend, heard
a sudden " click," and directly finding that his watch,
which had been suspended in his waistcoat pocket, had
been snapped from the chain and stolen, he seized pri-
soner by the throat, accusing him of being the thief.
" Indeed, indeed, sir, you are wrong. Had I got it I
would tell you so," replied the prisoner. The officers of
the theatre at this juncture coming up directed the
accuser and accused to wait the arrival of a police con-
stable at the box-Stairs It was there that I observed
three ladies standing near U 9, said the prosecutor, and
the prisoner said to me, "You want your watch without
further trouble." " The less the better," I replied.
" Then," said he, "it is in your coat pocket tail."
There I felt and found it, one of the " ladies " having,
no doubt, stowed it away. I put it is my trousers
pocket for safety ; and shortly afterwards prisoner asked
—" You don't want anything more now that you have
it all right, do you t" I replied, "I am not sure that it
is all right ; you may have stolen it again ;" but I foand
it was still in my pocket, and I gave the prisoner into
custody.
Manser, 102 G, stated that prisoner offered him 5/.
to " try and make it all right," and prisoner was re-
s mended.

WESTMINSTER.--Aaron Cullen, a respectable
looking, middle-aged mac, was charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances
Mrs. Conetince Lucy Matthews, treasurer of the
School of Discipline, a reformatory for young females,
Queen's-road West, Chelsea, stated that on the previous
morning the defendant came to the house, and refused to
leave unless his daughter, who was confined in the school
under commitment, was given up to him. A policeman
was sent for to remove him, and as he would not go,
witness gave him into custody.
In acs wer to quest'ons from Mr. Arnold, witness said
that the school was-registered, and produced a condi-
ticn.al pardon from the Crown, under which the defen-
dant's daughter had been placed there.
Defendant wished to explain his reasons for claiming
his daughter. She got into bad company two years ago,
when about 15 years of age, and was prosecuted at the
Westminster sessions, and sentenced to 12 months' im-
prisonment, for stealing a watch from the house of her
employer. He told the assistant judge that he was most
desirous steps should be taken to reclaim her, when the
judge informed him that he would see what he could do,
but did not mention anything about a reformatory. She
stopped in the prison till May, when she was removed
to the School of Discipline at Chelsea. He visited her
there, and finding just before Christmas that she looked
very ill, he questioned her, when she said she had been
♦ery ill, but had not seen any doctor, and being desirous
of taking her home and procuring a situation for her, he
had demanded her, as he conceived, rightly. He had let
her remain in the institution so long as he had be-
cause he thought it would be beneficial to her. He could
not see that she ought in justice to be kept contrary to
her wishes.

Mr. Arnold observed that the pardon before him,
which bore her Majesty's signature; was given upon con-
dition that she should be subject to the rules of the
institution in which she had been placed, and that she
should remain there until duly discharged.
Defendant inquired who was to discharge ber ?
Mrs. Matthews replied Sir G. Grey, and begged to call
the attention of the magistrate to the terms of the con-
ditional pardon, "that she should be subject to the
rules," one of which was that agirl could not be received
into the school to remain less than two years.
Defendant, who appeared to have committed the offence
with which he was charged in order to raise the question
of whether his daughter was not entitled to her di:3•
clarge, argued that as her original sentence was only
twelve months' imprisonment, her liberty should not be
restrained any longer.
Mr. Arnold was of a contrary opinion. She bad been
removed from the prison to which she had been sent
after undergoing a portion of her punishment upon cer-
tain conditions offered, and if she accepted them, she
was bound by them. The magistrate then cited the act
of Pailiament to show that if any inmate of a registered
reformatory absconded therefrom, or was disobedient to
1 the rules of the institution, he or she might bo brought
before a magistrate and committed for three calendar
months, in addition te the former sentence, and unless
considered objects of the royal eltmency, might also be