The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-28 00:00:00

THE SCN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1866.

to take the wise and the generous course, to believe
that among the great mass of the people of Eng-
land there is great intelligence, and there are great
virtues ; and to believe further, that if three or four
or five hundred thousand more of the people of
England and Wales are included upon the roll of
electors, it will give great and permanent security
to the. Crown, and, at the same time, will do more
than any other measure which Parliament can pass
to elevate and to strengthen all that is good in the
character of the English people. (Loud cheers.)

The meeting then terminated.

D'Arcy M' Gee on the Irish.

give it to Gough. Ballard soon after took the coin
out of her pocket, gave it up, and ran away. Bal-
lard asked Mr. Gray to forgive her, and she would
never do so again. When she saw Ballard put her
hand into Gough's pocket they were not standing up
to sing, but sitting on a bench.
Mrs. Worthington, the schoolmistress at the Ink-
berrow National School, was called to speak to the
character of Ballard. She said her general impres-
sion was that she was untruthful, but she could not
recollect any distinct instance of untruthfulness.
Mr. -Worthington, the schoolmaster, proved that
Ballard had been at the school for three or four
years. He had punished her for indecent language
and for lying on her tacit admission. He had never
discovered her in any dishonest act.
Policeman Hall took the prisoner into custody
on the 12th and conveyed her to Redditch—seven
miles. They walked the whole distance; she cried,
and asked Mr. Gray to forgive her. Mr. Gray
ordered him to apprehend her, and to take her to
liedditch. No information was laid, and no warrant
was issued. He did not instruct the sergeant of
police to keep her in his house.
Sergeant Brown received the girl on the 12th ; he
locked her up for about a quarter of an hour, but
she scramed so that her cries went through the
whole building, and he did not like to leave her in the
lock-up. He therefore took her into his own house,
and she had her meals and her bed there. (Ap-
plause in court.) He took her before Mr. Millward,
who remanded her.

The Rev. G. R. Gray, vicar of Inkberrow, de-
posed that he had representations made to him of
the bad conduct of Ballard. After church on the
11th inst. representations were made to him about
this stealing of a penny. He afterwards told the
policeman to keep her at his house until he should
think what to do about it. He afterwards went to
him and said it was a serious case, and that she had
better be sent to Redditeh. If this had been the
first offence he should only have reprimanded her.

He was sorry he could not say much for the way
the prisoner was cared for at home. He had but
one object in what he had done—the proper correc-
tion of the child. He simply attended last week as
a witness, but as the case was not gone on with,
and as no evidence was taken, he did not think it
was necessary to descend from the Bench. He had
known the family for 20 years ; in fact, he had bap-
tized most of them.

The charge was then read over to the prisoner,
who was called upon to plead, and she pleaded not
guilty. The magistrates then retired, and on their
return into court,

The Chairman said the magistrates had given the
case their most serious consideration, and they were
unanimous in saying that they believed there was
no felonious intent. The prisoner would therefore
be discharged.
The decision was received with loud asplause.

YACHTS AND BOATS.

soon induce the majority of the men to join so as to
be in readiness when the yachts get afloat in the
summer, and a call is made for men to man them.
—Land and Water.

HUNTING.

THE MELTON HUNT.

We are finishing off the season with weather which
would have suited us better about Christmas, and heavy
days with but poor sport seem likely to bo the wind-up of
a first rate season. The run I hinted at last week as hav-
ing taken place with the " Duke's" was from Mr. Sher-
brook's covert (a new one) below long Clawson, and after
coming up the hill near Holwell Mouth, and carrying on
along the ridge as far as Clawson Thorns, they killed near
there, after a little more than an hour's good hunting run.
Thursday saw the Quorn at Thorpe Satchville and the
Belvoir at Croxton Park. The former drew Thorpe
Trussells with the usual success, and a fox took them down
the old line across by Eye Kettleby, and on towards Mel-
ton, where they lost him. Cream Gorse held another of
the right sort, and away he went, dashing through Ashby
Pasture, and on by Thorpe Trussells, after which ho
turned to the left, and ran down nearly to where Frisby
Windmill formerly stood, and then doubled back for his
starting point, being killed in the covert after a capital
gallop, making altogether a good day's sport ; and, as an
illustration of the uncertainty of scent, may be contrasted
with it the day with the Duke's, when, notwithstanding
they found plenty of foxes, the hounds could not run them
many yards, and the day was spent in fruitless attempts to
get a run. I did not hear what the Quorn did at Winder-
pool on Monday, but it was a wild, stormy morning, as
was also Wednesday, when the Duke's met at Goadby, a
faint sprinkling of snow covering the ground, and a suc-
cession of showers taking place all day. Melton Spinney
was first drawn, and the fox broke away a good deal in
advance of the hounds; crossing the Scalford brook he
made for the Old Hills, after which he turned, and leaving
Holwell village to the left, he ran up for Holwell Mouth
and drew into the vale, where the hounds threw up their
heads, and Cooper gave him up; this wild burst proving
the only run of the day, as all further attempts to find a
fox failed.

The Northampton meeting has cleared us out this week.
Some will doubtless return at tho end of it, and a few
more hunting days will bring to a close one of the most
successful seasons for sport ever known.—NimitoD.—
Leicester Journal.