The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-20 00:00:00

poor wretches on their knees at the feet of an ill-
looking, vulgar, and evidently ignorant man, who
was consigning all the universe to perdition with
extreme energy. At every sentence the prostrate
creatures groaned and grovelled in the earth, and
shouted " amen" and " Jesus" in constant repeti-
tion ; another batch of sinners (this time taken from
those now looking on"), were sent to hell in the
most distinct manner, then came more groans and
more ejaculations of " Amen," as if it had been a
prayer for a blessing on them. Two images were
continually repeated throughout this fanatic's ad-
dress—he appeared to have no others—the fire of
hell in every form, and the blood of Christ. On
these he raved furiously till he was satisfied or
exhausted, for he did stop at last. I could not see
that he had produced more effect at the close of his
address than at the beginning. The number of
the " affected" had not increased, and those round
him looked on with the same expression of mere curi-
osity as if they were watching a chymical expe-
riment. I could not anywhere observe any inter-
mediate state between those who remain quite
unmoved and those whom such preaching drives to
the very verge of madness—often beyond it. Reli-
gious terror, thus fostered, seems to select a few
victims, but leaves the great mass untouched. Of
all that is said about an improved life, and " awak-
ening," in this greater number, I do not believe one
word. They look on, and go out to see, just this
display of misery, as they would go to see any
ether sight, and are accessories before the fact to
what is almost worse than murder—the extinction
of reason in their fellow man. In all probability
of cases of " prostration" occurring consists the in-
terest of a " revival" meeting. I note in all the re-
ports of them an expression or tone of disappoint-
ment if no one has been " struck down."
In the minor circles of auditors—that were as
satellites in the main body of the meeting—there
were preachers quite as ignorant, but of a different
kind of fanaticism to that of the Terrorist. One
was a case of " full assurance ;" he was perfectly
contented, and wished to make others so. He was
a short man, with a well-fed look, and an oily, bald
head; he dealt with:promise rather than judgment,
and maintained that the elect were the happiest
people on the face of the earth. But he had very-
few auditors ; there was no chance of his frighten-
ing any one into a fit. Generally, the active agents
in the various groups were singularly hard-featured,
many even ill-lookino. men. One leader was an
exact reproduction of the Puritan in many of the
caricatures of the time of the Commonwealth ; he
was the " low" ideal of that day exactly repeated.
In every circle singing was a favourite, and fre-
quent exercise, and, as in the railway train, bad to
a degree that cannot be described.
Of the number present varying estimates are
given, as usual. The main body of the meeting was
a pretty compact circular mass, fronting the plat-
form. I walked round it several times, and every
point of the extreme circumference was quite within
reach of the speakers' voices. The whole space the
congregation covered did not exceed that of the
area beneath the dome of St. Paul's ; assuming thot
6,000 can stand where 3,000 can sit, the former
would be about the number of the central mass ;
the five or six groups round the irregular preachers
might include 3,000 more ; but there was a con-
stant passing from one to another during the day,
and between the town and the field. There could
not have been more than 10,000 present. It is a
large number to gather at a field preaching ; but
for " all Ireland" it is notoverwhelming. What be-
came of the " deeply affected" I do not know, but
the result appeared to me very small in proportion
to the machinery employed on the occasion.
The ground began to clear before four o'clock,
and at five the special trains were beginning to
return.

CRIMINAL COURT, Sept. 19.

OLD COURT.

George Allan, an elderly man of respectable ap-
pearance, surrendered to take his trial upon a charge
of wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. F. H. Lewis conducted the prosecution ; Mr.
Doyle was counsel for the defendant.
This charge arose out of a plaint that was pre-
ferred in the Woolwich County Court, when the
present defendant sued the prosecutor for an account
which he alleged to be due to him for goods: and
work done by him. Upon the hearing of the plaint
the prosecutor, Mr. T. S. Wood, a carpenter and
builder, residing in the neighbourhood of Deptford,
at which place the defendant carries on the business
of a blacksmith, produced a receipt for £2 as part
of a set off, and he alleged that this sum had been
lent by him 'to the, defendant on Nov. 18, 1858.
This receipt was repudiated altogether by the th...-
fendant, and he swore that no such sum of money
was lent to him on the day mentioned, and this was
the material allegation of perjury upon which the
present indictment was sought to be supported.
Mr. Doyle made a very able speech to the jury
for the defence, and he called witnesses who gave a
different version to the statement alleged to have
been made by the defendant before the county court
judge. The defendant also received an excellent
character from a number of respectable witnesses.
The Recorder having summed up,
The jury almost immediately returned a verdict
of not guilty.
Henry Woodrow Mann, 17, a genteel-looking
youth, pleaded guilty to several indictments charg-
ing him with stealing cheques, and also a gold
watch and chain value £25.

Mr. Poland was instructed to prosecute ; Mr.
Robinson was counsel for the defence.

The prisoner, who was stated to be very respect-
ably connected, pleaded guilty to the whole of the
charges, and Mr. Robinson urged, as mitigating
circumstances, his youth, and the temptations to
which he had been exposed by the absence of his
master, during which he had stolen the property
that was the subject of the different indictments.
The Recorder sentenced the prisoner to three
years' penal servitude.
James Hunt, 29, pleaded guilty to an indictment
which charged him with being feloniously at large
in this country before the expiration of a period of
transportation to which he had been sentenced.
Mr. Orridge, who appeared for the prisoner, said
he was instructed to state that he was sentenced
to transportation for 10 years in the year 1851 for
burglary, it being his first offence. He was sent
abroad, and conducted himself so well that in 1854
a ticket of leave was granted to him, and in 1856
he received a conditional pardon, the condition, of
course, being that he should not return to England.
It appeared that some property was afterwards left
to him, and in 1858, at the solicitation of his friends
he came to this country, where he had conducted
himself in a most respectable and creditable manner
down to the period when he was taken into custody.
The Recorder said that the Court was compelled
by the statute to pass a certain sentence in such
cases, but he would respite the judgment; and he
at the same time expressed an opinion that it was
a case in which the Secretary of State would inter-
fere to relieve the prisoner from any further punish-
ment.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

Thomas Rowe surrendered to take his trial for
having stolen a quantity of bricks, the property of
our Lady the Queen, valued at £2.
Mr. Clark prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton and Mr.
Dunbar defended.

It appeared that the defendant is a builder at
Woolwich, and had been engaged at the arsenal,
where some alterations were going on in the cloth-
ing stores. The defendant was at the same time
engaged in building some houses of his own in
the town. Whilst the defendant was so engaged,
Mr. Stratton Whittaker, surveyor of the works at
Woolwich, received an anonymous letter, and, act-
ing upon the information which it contained, he went
to the houses being built by defendant, and there
found a quantity of bricks, which had been at the
prisoner's direction carted from the dockyard, hav-
ing formed part of those taken down for the
alterations.

The defence set up was that another person in the
dockyard had sold defendant the bricks.
The jury found the defendant guilty of receiving
the bricks knowing them to have been stolen.
Sentence was deferred., •

William Denbigh Sloper Marshall, 31, clerk,was
indicted for feloniously marrying Jane Hayes, his
wife being then and still alive.
Mr. Carteen prosecuted and Mr. Doyle and Mr.
Best defended.

It was proved that in July, 1853, the prisoner was
married at Paddington Church to Sophia Frost
Dawson, and upon the 28th of June, 1859, at St.
George's, llanover-square, to Jane Hayes.
The second wife, a fashionably-attired middle-
aged woman, wearing a profusion of bugle orna-
ments on her bonnet and mantle, said she had no
!ntroduction to the prisoner before marriage, having
only met him by chance. She knew him about three
months before their marriage. She was a widow
having property, which the prisoner had not
touched. The prisoner stated to her that he had an
estate at Croydon, and he introduced her to a gentle-
man in the City, named Moycs, who, he said, was a
merchant.
Mr. Doyle, for the prisoner, said that he could
not resist a verdict of guilty, but urged, in mitiga-
tion of sentence, that the prosccutrix had not suf-
fered any serious wrong.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The prisoner, whose appearance is far from pre-
possessing, and somewhat indicative of a want of
intellect, iu a crying tone said be had been drawn
into the marriage, that the prosecutrix took him to
Ramsgate, where she lived with him as his wife,