The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONION, MONDAY EVENING, NOVeMBER 7, 1859.

we daily hear how the wicked and factious, avail-
ing themselves of a disturbed condition of political
affairs; mainly occasioned by their own machina-
tions, are increasing in their efforts to destroy the
temporal Sovereignty of your Holiness, and to
alienate the Patrimony of the Church, with the fur-
ther design, which does not escape our observation,
of subverting, were it possible, the Apostolic Chair
itself, and the Holy Catholic Church, of which it
is the foundation ; and we are overwhelmed with
sorrow at the thought of the profound affliction
into which so much ingratitude and perversity of
some of your children, and the apprehension of so
many evils to religion and society have plunged the
paternal heart of your Holiness.
" But, fear not, most Holy Father : if yet to chil-
dren it be permitted to address to their august pa-
rent the language of exhortation, the faith, which
through the lips of the blesses Patrick our foie-
fathers received from your Holiness's predecessor,
St. Celestine, and our confidence in the Divine
goodness, allow us not to doubt of a speedy and
glorious termination of the difficulties which your
Holiness has to encounter.
" We know that Christ's kingdom upon earth, of
which you are the visible head, must endure un-
failing to the end of ages, and hence the winds and
the waves of the fiercest persecution shall beat in
vain against the firm solidity of the rock, fixed by
God himself, in the foundation of His Church, and
unsupported by which no structure can have per-
manence or stability (St. Leo).
" We do not apprehend that Divine Providence,
who so wisely ordained the temporal authority of
the Popes for the Church's welfare and the freedom
of its government, will cease still, as heretofore, to
protect your Holiness in the full possession and the
undisturbed sovereignty of the Patrimony of St.
Peter, and the temporal dominions of the Church ;
rather do we feel assured that, emerging from the
difficulties that surround it and menace its exist•
ence, this all-important prerogative of the Holy
See shall be still more firmly consolidated than
before, not so much by the artificial accessories with
which the wisdom of the world would surround and
support it, as by its own inherent righteousness
and its tenacious fidelity to the providential mis-
sion for which it has been ordained.

" Vain, too, and devoid of foundation are the pre-
texts of a mis-called liberty and fancied social
ameliorations, which the impious disturbers of all
human and divine order would fain have us believe
they would originate, ceasing not, moreover, in
their efforts to poison the public mind, as they fill
the ear with calumnious and most exaggerated, but,
at the same time, studiously vague and unsubstan-
tial reports of evils which they pretend call loudly
and in vain, except at their hands, for a remedy.
" We do not believe, most Holy Father, the world
does not in its inmost heart believe these calumnies.
They are falsified by the records of impartial his-
tory bearing testimony to the civilising influences
of the Sovereign Pontiffs, felt even from the re-
motest periods all over Europe, and to the untiring
solicitude and energy with which they have inva-
riably sought the greater good of the people sub-
jected to their temporal sway.
"Never, however, have accusations such as these
been more groundless, never so utterly undeserving
the attention of any reasonable mind as the present
time, when the unexampled exertions of your Holi-
ness for your people's welfare, made from the com-
mencement of your glorious potificate, and, despite
of innumerable obstacles, persevered in, are still
fresh in the remembrance of all, or even actually
present under men's eyes.
" Confide, then, most Holy Father. Now as oft
heretofore, ' The Gentiles may rage, and the power-
ful ones of the earth conspire against the Lord and
His anointed; but He who dwelleth in the Heavens
shall laugh them to scorn and mock them.'—Ps.
The Immaculate Virgin, destroyer of all heresies,
will intercede for the church and protect her Divine
son's Vicegerent, who has been so solicitous for her
honour. The blessed Peter and Paul, princes of
the Apostolic College, and special defenders of the
church, will guard its sacred inheritance and the
residence of its supreme pastor. Those pious and
religious monarchs whom God has endowed with
valour and strength for the welfare of Christendom
will not fail to regard the protection of Christ's
Vicar and the service of His church as at once their
duty, their interest, and the surest guarantee for
their own security, the stability.of their thrones,
and the endurance of their dynasties. The whole
Catholic world, in fine, will unite to visit with just
indignation, and to stigmatise as a wicked and cri-
minal invasion of rights the most venerable and
sacred, every attempt made to undermine the go-
vernment and authority of your Holiness.
" Joined by our faithful people, now as ever ready
to sacrifice themselves and all things for the sacred
cause of religion, we daily supplicate, at the throne
of Divine grace, that God in His mercy may cause
your Holiness's bitter afflictions speedily to cease,
and that the church, soon restored to tranquillity,
may enjoy the blessings of peace under a long and
glorious continuance of the pontificate of your
Holi-
ness.

" Prostrate, in fine, before the throne of your
Holiness, we humbly implore for ourselves and our,
beloved people the apostolic benediction."
. (Signed on behalf of the meeting),

" tPAUL CULLEN, Archbishop of Dtiblic, &c.

"L. CANON FORDS,
"
Secretaries.
"JAMES MURRAY,

Meanwhile there is still balm in Gilead. All is
not lost. The Freeman's Journal has a crumb of
comfort for Dr. Cullen. In its number of this
morning the organ gives all due prominence to the
subjoined copy of a communication received from
its Paris correspondent :

"Paris, Nov. 2.
" I hasten to communicate to you a fact which I
am certain will be heard with unmixed satisfaction
by all liberal and Catholic Irishmen. I am now
able to assure you in the most positive manner that
it is, and has been throughout, the firm and unal-
terable determination of the Emperor to maintain
the temporal power of the Pope in its full int?grity,
and that he is resolved to have the Legations re-
stored. I intimated this to you before as my con-
viction. lam now certain of it, having received
my information from the most authentic and re-
liable sources. You may state this with the utmost
confidence as the fixed and unalterable determina-
tion of the Emperor. No congress, no folly, no
event, or combination of events, will turn him from
this his fixed resolve."

DEPARTURE OF LORD CARLISLE FOR THE SOUTH.

His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle left the
King's-bridge terminus of the Great Southern and
Western Railway by special train for Shanbally
Castle, the seat of the Earl of Lismore. His Excel-
lency will proceed on the 7th inst. to Kenmare-
house, on a visit to the Earl of Kenmare. He will
leave Killarney on the 10th for Cork, and will leave
for Castlemartyr on the 11th, where he will remain
on a visit to the Earl of Shannon up to the 14th
inst. when he will return to the Viceregal Lodge.

FREEDOM OP THE PRESS.
(From the Times)

The power of the Press in any country can only
be measured by the weight of that portion of the
community whoss opinions- it represents. In this
country, where freedom of speech is no crime, the
Press can only exist by reflecting, and in some de-
gree moulding, the ideas which animate the most
intelligent portion of the community, however
modified by the different political sections into
which it is divided. It is emphatically the organ li
of a self-governing people ; and, while it faithfully
exposes their political differences, their quarrels,
and their weaknesses, it no less truly represents
their united sentiments upon questions which touch
the dignity and welfare of the nation itself.• It is
therefore generally in advance of the Government
as an exponent of public opinion, and, whether its
conclusions be right or wrong, the Government is
in no way responsible for them. Hence the opinions
which it pronounces on the policy and conduct of
foreign rulers, however much in accordance with
the sentiments of the community at large, are not
to be regarded as expositions of the views of Cabi-
nets, nor can they in any way compromise the Go-
vernment of the day.
It is far otherwise with the French Press. That
institution exists—it cannot be said to grow—in a
close and murky atmosphere, in which free dis-
cussion cannot breathe, and can only be said
to represent public opinion so far as that opinion
is in accordance with the policy of the Govern-
ment. The practice of signing each article with
the name of its 'writer, which the French law re-
quires, and which the few avowed enemies of the
English Press would fain borrow from it, strips
journalism in France of its impersonal character,
and suffers it to assume no higher authority than
that which belongs to each individual who contri-
butes to it. Yet, what the French Press loses in
weight as an organ of public opinion it gains as
an exponent of the wishes and policy of the Go-
vernment. M. A. or 8., indeed, dips his pen in
the ink, and signs his name, but the Emperor or
his Ministers suggest, invite, admonish, warn,
curtail, Modify, or prescribe what is to be written.
This is the obvious consequence of the French law
on the subject, and there is no getting over it.
Hence the incessant tirades of a portion of the
French press against this country have a signifi-
cance far greater than the mere names of-its contri-
butors could possibly justify, They are taken to
represent the views of the Government, and the
Government is absolute. It is not surprising that
the hostility thus evinced towards England, coupled
with preparations of a more formidable character
elsewhere, should have produced their natural
results.
They have succeeded in doing what nothing else
has ever done—what the ripe experience and
immense authority of the Duke of 'Wellington him-
self failed to do—that is, in convincing the people
of this country of the absolute necessity of being
armed and prepared at all times to encounter
foreign war, come it from what quarter it might.
Whether this was precisely the state of feeling
that the writers in question meant to produce may
be doubted. They would have been glad, we can
easily believe, to work upon the martial ardour of
their countrymen without exciting ours, and to
leave us in all the supineness of infatuated security
while they spurred them on to all the bustle of
preparation. This they could not do, but they
have succeeded perfectly in inflicting upon England
in time of profound peace many of the evils for
which war is dreaded. They have doubled our
income-tax, and they have at last convinced us that
we must garrison this country with at least one
hundred thousand effective well-trained soldiers.
They have sat us forming rifle corps, whose mem-
bers are already counted by hundreds of thousands,
and may soon be reckoned in millions. They have
set us to regenerate our navy, and to maintain a
Channel fleet in time of peace, and when we, at
least, are conscious of being actuated by the very
best intentions towards all the world, and of
desiring nothing so ardently as to devote our
undivided energies to peaceful industry and com-
merce. Then, there are the Armstrong guns, whieh
we are manufacturing by hundreds, and the rifles,
which we turn- out by thousands, and yet far too
slow for the demand for them, and the drilling and
the competition and the training at Hythe, and all
the din and preparation which make England a
place like the England of Elizabeth or William 111.,
hardly to be recognized by one who dwelt there in
the halcyon days of William IV. or the first fifteen
years of Queen Victoria. Let not the French jour-.
nals whose labours have been crowned with this
remarkable result exult overmuch. If they have
succeeded in alarming es into taking those means
for our protection which we ought to have taken
long ago, they 'have done this not by their own
strength, but because they were believed to speak
the sentiments of a Power much stremgbiand mon
formidable than themselves. It' is because the
French Press is placed under severe restraint—
" invited' not to speak of this and "advertised" for
speaking of that,—because Government is always
• keeping an account against it, in which it is debited
with everything and credited with nothing ; be-
cause the Press must not, only suppress what Go-
vernment dislikes, but must insert what Govern.
ment desires,—these are the reasons that have made
the long and steady abuse of England appear so
formidable in our eyes. The French Press is in-
vited not to touch on ecclesiastical questions, and
is warned not to deal with treaties when their con-
struction grows delicate; but abuse of England.—
that is a topic against which it is never warned, to
drop which it is never invited. People have con-
cluded, and not unreasonably, that as Government
in Franceltave allowed nothing to appear in the
Press which they do not like, and as they allow
abuse of England to appear there to any extent,
they have no objection to see England heartily, and
not always fairly, abused.
• This conclusion was not in itself unnatural,
though we are far from thinking it was correct.
It is, indeed, the misfortuno of Princes that the
world, which views at leisure that which they aro
often compelled to do in haste, or not do from pre-
occupation, persists in ascribing to them motives
by which- they were never actuated and intentions
which they never entertained. It is another mis-
fortune of Princes that they must bear the
blame of many things ignorantly done or omitted
to be done by persons whose actions are identified
with their own, though they may possess very little
of their confidence. • More especially is this the
• case with the Emperor Napoleon, who is emphati-
cally his own Minister, and who trusts his ultimate
views and intentions less than any Sovereign in'
Europe to the keeping of others. We are bound in
candour to say, that whenever any question has
come before the Emperor personally he has always
shown the utmost goodwill to the English Govern.
ment and nation, and we the more willingly resign
ourselves to the agreeable impression that all this
trouble and expense has been incurred under a false
impression, as we are rapidly arriving at a point in
our preparations which will, as it ought, relieve us
from anxiety for the future, and make us not un-
reasonably confident in our strength and resources.
We are bound to admit that the burdens we have
undertaken seem to sit `upon us very easily, and
that the Country will not for a moment regret them,
if in exchange for our heavy expenditure we can
oniy receive the consciousness, not that we are able
to do evil to others, but that others are no longer
able to do serious mischief to us.

One main cause of our preparation has un-
doubtedly been, as we have shown, the liberty, en-
joyed and abused by a portion of the French Press
of vilifying England and everything English. Yet
we do not iu any degree complain of that liberty,
nor wish to see the Press of France silenced on this
subject, as on so many others. It is not. by the
intrinsic worth of their reflections that the English
Government and people have been moved, but
rather by the indication which such attacks were
believed to afford of the true feeling of the French
Government. It was not liberty, but exceptional
liberty, that we misunderstood. If the Emperor
of the French really wishes to give a proof of his
goodwill towards this country, let him prove it by
doing away with this exceptional liberty, that is not
liberty, but the exception. We do not ask that
England and English politics should be added
to the long Index Expmgatorius which has been
framed for the use of the French Press, but
rather
,that the French Press may be left
free to discuss other questions from which it is now
excluded. Were the field of discussion larger, Eng-
land.would probably come in for less of it. The
Emperor has really no right to be surprised if, not-
withstanding all his good intentions, he finds him-
self, after all, misconstrued by the English people.
We are the least metaphysical of mankind, and not
only should never dream of making war for an idea
ourselves, but are utterly unable to understand how
anylxKly else can do so. Moreover, having the good
fortune to possess a free press, which is allowed to
write on any subject it likes, to take any side it'
pleases, and which can neither be silenced nor
forced to speak by the order of a Minister of the In-
terior, we are in the habit of attaching to statements
in our own newspapers an importance very different
from that which ought to be attached to the lucu-
brations of a press existing on the barest sufferance,
and writing only up to the point that is permitted.
It is to be feared that the intellect of our blunt
islanders does not always discriminate between the
two, and that, from our own inveterate habit of
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Rome, it'is because it believes the opinion of Eng-
land to be robust enough to bear the abuse which
it is conscious is undeserved, while infallible Rome
trembles at the very breath of criticism.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 5.

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)
Abraham Davis and Emmanuel Davis, brothers,
and of the Jewish persuasion, were indicted for as-
saulting Nathan Ilyams, also a Jew, a greengrocer,
carrying on business at 136, Wentworth-street,
Whitcehapel. The court was crowded with Jews,
and the case was one of regular hard-swearing on
both sides.

Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted. Mr. Ribton and Mr.
Dickie were for the defendants.
The prosecutor came into court well made up for
the occasion, his nose—not at all a small one—was
covered with plaister, from the end of which a little
streak of blood appeared, and his arm was in a
sling as if it was or had been broken. His appearance
was that of a man who had been dreadfully ill-used,
but to the astonishment of the whole court, which
resounded with laughter at the incident, all this
turned out to be sham. The surgeon in the case
said the prosecutor had received a laceration on the
nose and a contusion on the elbow. At the sugges-
tion of the Court the strapping was removed from
the nose, when, if there had been a scratch, it was
found that not the slightest trace of it remained,
and when told to exhibit his elbow the prosecutor
took his arm from the sling, and without the least
difficulty threw off his two coats, and the elbow had
not the least mark of having been hurt.
The counsel for the defence characterised this as
a disgraceful and disgusting imposition upon the
Court and jury.
It appeared that the parties were rival green-
grocers, living opposite each other, and a good deal
of ill-feeling had existed between them. The pro-
secutor charged the defendants with having, with-
out provocation, struck him down and ill-used him.
The defence, which was supported by many wit-
nesses, was, that the prosecutor had passed upon
the mother of the defendants, an aged and feeble
woman, an insult of a character no idea of which
can be conveyed by the words shocking and
filthy, and that the sons interfered to resent an abo-
minable and disgusting outrage upon their parent,
when a general fight took place among the men,
and women too, in which Hyams used an iron bar,
and Mrs. Davis received very serious injuries, which
necessitated her being an inmate of the hospitaljor
a fortnight.
After a long trial the jury found the defendants
Guilty, and the result seemed intensely gratifying
to the other party.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced each defendant
to a month's imprisonment, without labour.
(Before Mr. Creasy.)
William Henry Clark, a smart and intelligent-
looking youth, was indicted for stealing a tele-
graphic alarum bell, a clock, and other articles, the
property of Charles James Breese ; and Samuel
Jones, an old man, keeping a marine store-shop in
Brick-lane, was indicted for feloniously receiving
the same, well knowing that they had been stolen.
Mr. J. 0. Doyle app eared for the boy, who by
his advice pleaded guilty. Mr. Ribton defended
Jones. Mr. Dickie conducted the prosecution.
The boy was admitted as an approver against
Jones, and it appeared that he had been in the ser-
vice of the General Credit Company in Goswell-street.
The prosecutor was the resident secretary to the
company, and the boy was employed to go errands.
There were some telegraphic materials on the pre-
mises, and the boy had been in the habit of stealing
portions and selling them to the other prisoner,
who told him that he would buy all lie could bring
him. Some were found concealed in his possession.
The Jury found Jones Guilty, and the learned
Judge sentenced him to 18 months' hard labour,
and the boy to two months.
Mr. Creasy said the jury, in giving their verdict,
had recommended the prisoner to mercy. That cir-
cumstance, and consideration for his years, 65, had
alone prevented a much severer sentence being
passed upon him.

TILE CitTEEN V. FARINI.—This was a prosecution
instituted by the Associate Institute for the Pro-
tection of Women, against Pietro Parini, for inde-
cent conduct in the Regent's-park. It had been
postponed several times, the defendant not having
surrendered to his bail ; he had gone to Madrid.
An application was made to the Court by Mr.
Metcalfe for the recognisances of the bail to be dis-
charged.
The .Court directed the application to be renewed
in a fortnight.
Mr. Sleigh was counsel for the society:

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Nov. 5.

. -
LAMBETH.---EXTORTION OF A CAB-DRIVER.—
The driver of the hackney cab, No. 876, appeared be-
fore Mr. Selfe to answer to a summons taken out
against him by Mr. Henry George Bohn, the well-
known bookseller in York-street, Covent-garden,
and charging him with unlawfully demanding and
receiving more than his lawful fare.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bohn deposed that on Friday
week her daughter and herself engaged defendant's
cab on the stand near the Surrey Chapel, at 40
minutes past two in the afternoon, and desired the
defendant to drive them to Leadenhall-street. From
there they drove to Conduit-street, Regent-street,
then to the Burlington-arcade, got in again at the
Piccadilly end, from thence to the Blackfriars-road,
and finally drove to the Waterloo Station, which
they reached at a quarter past six. The defendant
then demanded 14s. as his fare, and on her remon-
stratsn 0. with him on such a charge, he said he should
take 12s.' She then offered him 7s. 6d. and her card,
when he replied " that this was no use to him, but
would take 10s. and nothing less," and she paid him
that sum.

Mr. Selfe—Did the defendant use insolence of
any kind

Mrs. Bohn—No, I cannot say he did. His tones
were insisting and determined, but that was all;
and by his attempted imposition I was very near
losing the train.

The defendant, whose face was much disfigured,
and who had a pair of black eyes, caused appa-
rently by a recent mill, in reply to the charge, said,
if he made a mistake it was by miscalculation and
not intentionally.
Mr:Selfe said he could not believe this, as he
must have felt satisfied that the sum he demanded in
the first instance, namely, 145., was a shameful im-
position, and even the amount he received, saying
he should not take a farthing less, was an excessive
overcharge. It. was his duty to have taken the
is. Gd., and the lady's card, and if he found that
the money did not amount to the fare he had his
remedy. He then ordered the defendant to refund
-6s. Gd., the excessive fare and the expenses.

li SOUTIIIVARK.—STEALING HORSES' TAILS.—
Joseph Ireson, Edward Kent, and James Johnson,
three respectable-looking lads, about 10 or 12 years
of age, were brought before Mr. Combe, charged
with cutting the tails of several horses, belonging
to Mr. Jackson, the distiller, Messrs. Pickford, and
others, in the public street, and Benjamin Mussard,
a marine store dealer, of 75, Fair-street, Horsely-
down, was charged with purchasing the hair, well
knowing it to be stolen.
The case having been proved,
Clarke, 108 M, said that the boys acknowledged
cutting the flair off and selling it to the man.
They had sold him some before, wich they had cut
off Pickford's horses and others.

The elder prisoner denied having purchased any
from them before. He gave one boy a halfpanny
for some and another boy a penny.
The parents of the lads informed his worship
that they had cut the horsehair off at the induce-
ment of the man, for the sake of getting a penny or.
so to buy fireworks on Guy Fawkes' night.
Mr. Combo said that they were very bad boys
for committing such a serious offence, and they de-
served to be punished with great severity. They,
however, appeared to be decent lads, and most
likely they were induced to steal the hair by the
man. He should therefore fine each of them 10s.
or seven days, and Mussard £5 or two months.
AN ENGLISHMAN IN DISGUISE.—CHARGE OF
ASSAULT.—WiIIiam Henry Douglas Cooke, a
nervous-looking young man, in the employ of
Messrs. Taplings, of Cheapside and Gresham-street,
and who displayed a large quantity of beard and
moustache, was charged with committing an assault
on Mr. Thomas Parke, the deputy chairman of the
vestry of St. George's, Southwark, and threatening
to do f)r him.

The complainant, an r;ldorly gentleman, residing
at 134, Blackfriars-road, that on Thursday
morning, the 27th ult., about 11 o'clock, he was
leaving his house, when he met the prisoner coming
up the steps. Witness stopped him and said,
" Mr. Cooke, I.wish your address, as I must put a
stop to your violent tongue." The defendant then
called him a scoundrel, a housebreaker, and a fence.
Witness put his hand up to the defendant's breast,
and told him that he should not go until a con-
stable came up. The defendant then struck him
under the ear and knocked him down. A mob col-
lected, and as he was getting up the defendant
struck him again.

The defendant here became very much excited,
when

Mr. Combo asked him whether he was a fo-
reigner.

Defendant (indignantly)—No, sir. I am an
Englishman to the backbone. (Laughter.)
Mr. Combo told him he could not see his back-

bone, but he did not behave much like an English
man.

In cross-examination by defendant,
Mr. Parke said he was a gentleman, and not
a bill discounter. He never went to his house to
challenge him to fight. He went to see if it vas
his right address before he summoned him. Wit-
ness took his bill of sale out of his house and
saved his goods, to keep a house over the head of
his ill-used wife.

Mr. Combe told the defendant that it, was quite
clear that he was a very violent man, therefore he
should order him to find bail in the sum of
and in default to be committed for one month.

WESTMINSTER.—FORTUNATE DISCOVER.Y.—
David M'Auliffe and Elizabeth Laws were charged
with the following robbery of a watch :
They went on Friday morning, at one o'clock,
to a coffee and lodging-house at 17, Tothill-street,
Westminster, kept by William Hawes, and, as
man and wife, hired a bed and retired to their
room. During the night Mr, Hawes had occasion
to leave his bedroom, owing to his wife's illness,
and on coming back forgot to lock the door. At
seven o'clock the watch was safe, tied to the
bed-post, but shortly before tea in the morning
Mrs. Hawes missed it. Nothing was heard of
the robbers till half-past two the same
afternoon, when, while police-constable Tufrey,
364 A, was having his dinner at a beer-shop in
Marylebone-lane, near the police station, the pri-
soners came in, and had some ale. The woman asked
the man for some money for sleeping with him, to
which he replied, he had spent it all, and she said if
he did not pay her she would " split." This having
no effect, she told the constable, who was in uni-
form, that she and the male prisoner had " nailed"
a watch that morning where they had slept, in
Tothill-street, and if her companion did not
" whack" the money she should " split." Upon
this information the constable told the man he must
consider himself in his custody. He took him to
Mary lebone station, and left him in charge of Wrn.
Wilson, 89 D, while he went with the woman to
make inquiries, and during their absence the male
prisoner told Wilson he had pawned the watch for
155., and torn the ticket up. He had spent the
money, and had not meant that his companion
should know anything about it. Mean while the
woman went with Tufrey, and having shown him
the house in Tothill-street, she accompanied him to
Mr. Geo. Attenborough's, 204, Fleet-street, where
the watch had been pawned for 155., between 9 and
10 o'clock that morning. Tufrey then brought both
the prisoners to the station attached to this court,
where they were charged with robbery. While
Tufrey was making his inquiries, the woman volun-
tarily admitted to him that her companion first
woke up, and going out of the room he shortly
afterwards returned, and telling her there was a
watch hanging up in the room the landlord and
wife were sleeping in, asked her to go and take it.
She went into the room and cut the watch from
the bedpost, but dropping it on the pillow she de-
termined to have nothing to do with it, and he
went into the room and brought it out.
Not the least remarkable part of the case was
the great contrast between what each of the pri-
soners said in defence.

The man's answer to the charge was—l went to
the house with a friend of mine, and there were
two females sitting there. They asked us to treat
them, which we did ; then they asked us to go to
bed with them, and I slept with the female pri-
soner all night. She woke up and said she wanted
something to drink. I got up and said, we'll have
something, and while I was putting on my coat
she went out, and was gone about three minutes,
when I followed her down stairs. Went out and
had something to drink. I told her I was going to
my lodgings in Fetter-lane, .Holborn, when she
said, " I have got a watch of my husband's at Wel-
lington Barracks, will you go and pawn it ?" I
said, " I will if you like," and I went and pawned
it for 155., and gave the money to her. She went
into a public-house where several more prostitutes
were, and spent a great deal of money. That is
all I know about it, as God is my witness.
The female's story was a totally different one,
and was as follows :—I saw this man in the Hamp-
shire Hog, Charles-street, Westminster, on Thurs-
day night, and he asked me to have a glass of ale,
which I did, and we remained till they shut up.
We then went to the coffee-house, and I slept with
him. In the morning he woke me up, and I asked
him if he was going to give me the half-crown he
promised me, and he said he would presently. He
left the room and went down stairs and came up
again as I was putting on my bonnet. We both
went down together, and he took me into the room
where the coffee-house keeper, his wife, and child
were asleep. He asked me to take the watch, and
I untied it from the bedpost, and left him in the
room, and went down stairs. He overtook me at
the bottom of the stairs, and we went to a public-
house in Tothill-street. There he showed me the
watch, and said if I said a word about it he'd
smash me; he was going to pawn it. We went to
the Strand and he pawned the watch and tried to
get away from me. I asked him if he was going to
give me some money, and he said, " No."
We then
took a cab and went to several public-houses ; and
he said he had missed a half-sovereign out of his
pocket. We then went to the public-house where
we saw the constable.
They were fully committed for trial.