The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-08 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESIMY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1866.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

THE FOREIGN ENLISTMENT ACT. Captain William
Henry Ellis was placed before Sir T. Henry on remand,
charged in conjunction with a seaman named Peters, to
answer the charge of having enlisted English seamen to
serve under a foreign flag, contrary to the provisions of
the Foreign Enlistment Act.
The first witness examined this morning was

George Shand, who said he was a native of Shields, and
he met Ellis at Sunderland, who asked him if he wanted a
ship. Ho told him ho did, and he then agreed to sign ar-
ticles. He was told the vessel was the Al. The witness
said it looked to him as if she was like the Alabama, when
Ellis said he did not make much Mistake. He was to have
£1 10s. a month. Ho was told the voyage was to be a
yachting one on the Chilian coast for two years. They
were shipped on board the Gretton Hall, but before they
could be put on board the A 1 they were brought back by
the ship Caledonia to Portland Roads.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—Ho would not undertake
to swear that the articles that were read out did not state
that the voyage was to be a yachting voyage for two
years. Nothing was said about bringing the men back to
England. He did not know what the chests contained,
but they looked like arm chests. Ho had been in the Con-
federate service during the last war, and passed there as
Francis Hammond.

The witness Kelly, who was examined on a former
occasion, was recalled, and said Captain Ellis was present
when ho signed the articles. Shand signed at the same
time as he did. When ho did so he could not closely
examine the articles, as there were a great many persons
present. Re was under the impression that they wero to
sign for a two years' voyage under the Chilian flag. The
name of the ship was mentioned as the A 1, and the voyage
was to last for two years. Nothing was said about bring-
ing us back to England.
Re-examined—lie could not say that the articles ex-
pressed that it was to be a yachting voyage. Capt. Ellis
told him it was to be so.

James Newland.—Resided in the East India-road, and
on Thursday he was at the Union public-house at Lime-
house in the early part of July. He saw Peters there,
and Bray and Hickson. He was asked by Peters if
he wanted a ship. He replied yes, and he was asked to
sign for a vessel that was going to take a run for Poru.
He said he would sign. Ho did so, and was told that his
rating would be settled when he got aboard the ship. He
was to have £4 10s. as A. 8., and £6 10s. if he was rated
as seaman gunner. He got an advance note for £9,
and took it to Hatton Garden and got it paid.
He was told by Peters that some body would meet
us the following morning at Fenchurch station. He saw
several men there all going to the same ship. Ho had a
railway ticket given him, and he was told to go to Til-
bury. Ho got into the train, and went as directed. Geo.
Smith was in the same train. When wo got to Tilbury we
went on board the passenger steamer, and went from there
to Southend pier, and after remaining there some time
ts ere put on board two tugs, taken to Margate, and put on
board the Gretton Hall off the Tongue Light. There were
200 men in all. There was a disturbance on board the ship,
in consequence of its becoming known that the men were
to be taken for a three years' voyage under the Chilian flag.
Ellis then told us wo could all leave the ship if we chose,
but there was no means afforded us of doing so, as the tugs
were steaming off. He and about eleven, others got on
board one of the boats, and eventually the tug took them
on board, and they returned to Gravesend the same day.
At this point the examination was again adjourned, the
defendants being admitted to the same bail as on the former
occasion.

The late Fight between Mace and Goes.

(From the Pall Mall Gazette.)
The Star, at great length and with great disgust,
reports the fight for the championship between
Messieurs Mace and Goss. From the way in which
the encounter is described, itis evident that the Star
either employed a converted sporting reporter for
the occasion, or else that the editor doctored a re-
port originally written in the conventional ring
dialect. We are told at the outset, that yesterday
morning took place "one of those wretched exhibi-
tions which still continue to have some charms for
a certain class—though we are happy to assert it,
a small class—of the community." Small and con-
temptible as the class may be, the Star, being a
paper of universal philanthropy, gives it nearly
a column of the details of the " disgraceful
proceedings." The reporter is clearly a gentle-
man not altogether unknown to the Fancy, for
he says, " Nat whispered knowingly in our car that
the office was St. Paul's Pier, five o'clock punctual;' "
but no one would ever suspect it from the " bewtifle,
morl, religious, and honrabble toan"—as Mr.
Yellowplush would say—in which he writes. Occa-
sionally, it is true, the Old Adam gets the better of
him. He cannot keep down his admiration of the
" fine leoline appearance " of Mace's head (this is
an improvement on the stereotyped " bull-dog mug"
of the sporting papers), or his regret that the same
gentleman " below the thighs seemed very much
shrunken, and not at all like the man who fought
Tom King;" and he talks about " first blood," and
" slipping down " in the regular way, just as Mrs.
Gamp, after asserting her aversion to ardent spirits,
" took off the dram in quite a scientific manner."
But in the main he writes in a strain of charming
innocence. Instead of rounds he chronicles " bouts,"
or " meetings ;" what coarser-minded scribes call
" hot uns," he describes as " terrific blows," and he
concludes with the fine moral sentiment, " though
we may in some measure admire their hardihood,
their disgraceful exhibition must provoke the greatest
disgust." On the whole, we incline to the second
of the two theories .we have suggested, that the
report came in the usual carnal and unconverted
state in which it would naturally come from an
ordinary fighting reporter, and that the editor, in
order to afford the greatest happiness to the greatest
number, has endeavoured to meet the wishes of all
parties by putting on a moral head and tail, and
scoring out such words as " round," " chancery,"
" nut," " breadbasket," &c., to substitute terms
less technical and offensive. We should like very
much to see an evangelical novel constructed on the
same principle out of some of the works of Paul
Feval.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, Aug. B.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze anti fine weather, but rather
cloudy. _ _

7.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—J. M. May,
froemLlHDuEe Aug.lva.

FALMOUTH, Aug. 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sarah
Payson, from Matanzas. Aug. 7.—Arrived—Charlotte
ffom Havannah.

OFF LivEnpooL, Aug. s.—Wind N.W.LArrived—Sir
R. G. 31‘Donald, from St. Stephens.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 7.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Annie
Whitburn, from Jamaica ; Eliza Taylor, from Havannah ;
G. W. Harris, from Phiadelphia.
BRISTOL, Aug. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Resebui,
from Demerara.

COWES, Aug. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Herman, from
New York, and left for Bremen.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.

Arrived, Aug. 7.—Emanuel Boutcher, from Guernsey ;
Fanny Bailey, from Tarragona ; Formosa, Calypso, and
Agamemnon, from Jamaica; Balden, from New York ;
Ingeino, from Sulina.

Arrived, Aug. B.—Vesterlenden, from Hudikswall ;
Venskabet, from Montreal ; Katinka, from Banhok ; Nep-
tunis, from Quebec ; Veritas, from Pugwash.
Sailed, Aug. 8. Anglesey, for Melbourne ; Leaping
Water, for Kurrachee.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed.—Britannia, screw steamer, from London, for
Gibraltar; Foam, from Rangoon, for London.
Sailed.—Lioughton, screw steamer, for Bordeaux ; Joseph
Straker, screw steamer, for Dieppe.