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THE Si)N, LONDON, MONDAY EVERING, NOVEMBER 7, 1869.

blow to the tyrannical innovations of Joseph 11.
France, too, is cordially devoted to Pins IX., and
we may be confident that Napoleon 111., who sent
his victorious legions to drive sedition and anarchy
from the walls of Rome, will be always faithful to
his antecedents, and persevere in the course on
which he entered in the year 1848. Spain, Portu-
gal, Brazil, Belgium, are all now sincerely attached
to Rome. Sardinia is the only plague-spot on the
Catholic map of Europe; but that unhappy coun-
try is groaning under a military despotism, and the
people are ground to the earth by enormous taxa-
tion, and suffering from the misdeeds of their ex-
communicated rulers. As to the mixed Powers,
they, or at least many of them, are frienily, or must
find it their interest to act in conformity with the
feelings of their Catholic subjects. In a speech de-
livered some years ago by
-Lord Lansdowne, in the
House of Lords, he proclaimed the principle that it
would be most impolitic for any English Ministry
to insult the Pope, or to assail his rights while there
are, perhaps, 15,000,000 Catholics depending on
the British Crown who look up and venerate him
as the head of the Catholic Church. Though the
present Secretary for Foreign Affairs may not be of
this way of thinking, yet I hope that a regard for
the welfare of the empire and for the feelings of so
many millions of Catholics will compel him and
other statesmen to discountenance all attacks on
the Pope, or at least to abstain from giving en-
couragement to the treason and sedition of the
Pope's rebellious subjects. Undoubtedly all
Catholics of influence, and especially our mem-
bers of Parliament, will not fail to resist any
attacks that may be made on his Holiness.
But to return from this digression. What shall
I say of the love and affection which are every day
manifested towards the Pope by all Christian
nations, and nowhere more than in Ireland, Eng-
land, and America, where in the last century either
there were no bishops, or religion was groaning
under the weight of cruel penal laws ? What shall
I say of the feelings of the Catholic clergy through-
out the world ? Never was there a Pope so much
loved and respected by all as his Holiness Pius IX.
How edifying also the conduct of ,the Catholic
bishops in every country. Jansenism, and Zebro-
nanism, and even Gallicanism, have completey dis-
appeared ; there is no prelate in the church at pre-
sent who would walk in the footsteps of a Zebronius
or a Ricci; there is no jealousy or rivalry; all are
devotedly attached to the common father of the
faithful, and all appear to vie one with the other in
their anxiety to defend him, and to protest against
the insults which have been offered to him by his
enemies. While the Church presents to us so cheer-
ing a picture, while so favourable a feeling pervades
200,000,000 of Catholics and their spiritual heads.
may we not be confident that the present storms
will pass away, that the clouds now darkening the
horizon will soon be dispersed, and that our glori-
ous Pontiff will have happiness and sunshine to
brighten the evening of his days? But at present
he is in sorrow and affliction, and it is the part of
dutiful children to console, as far as possible, their
loving father, and especially a father invested with
such spiritual powers, intrusted by Christ himself
with the keys of the kingdom of Heaven. It is in
this spirit, I repeat it, that we have assembled; we
entertain no fear for the permanency of the Pontifi-
cal authority, which is founded on Christ himself ;
we are confident that even the temporal power of
the Popes will rise more glorious from its present
difficulties, but at the same time we feel deeply
the afflictions of his Holiness, and we are anxious to
express our sympathy with him. This is the highly
commendable and truly Catholic object of our
meeting. When our youth was menaced with the
dangers inherent to mixed education, he raised his
warning voice, and excited the vigilance of the pas-
tors of the Irish Church, teaching, them to uphold
the necessity of a truly Catholic education, and
never to sacrifice principles for expediency'or utility.
The eye of the Pontiff is ever watchful over the in-
terest of the Universal Church ; he is anxious to
promote all its interests and to provide for all its
wants. With the scanty means at his disposal, he
has done more for religion and for literature and
the arts than many rich and powerful sovereigns.
In Rome he has founded a noble college for all the
dioceses of his States, and under his fostering care,
colleges for France, Spain, South and North Ame-
rica, have been called into existence. Encouraged
by his patronage, the learned Father Thenier has
commenced the continuation of the " Annals of the
Church of Baronius " and the publication of the
Acts of the Council of Trent, as swell as the cor-
respondence between the Emperors of Russia and
the Popes, andan account of the assistance granted
by Pius VI. to 24,000 exiles, French bishops, noble-
men, and others, whom he supported for several
years. It would be impossible to describe all that
the Pope has done to repair, or complete, or orna-
ment the churches of Rome, as well as to promote
the works of public utility and Christian charity.
All I shall say is, that his Holiness's life is altogether
devoted to the good of the Church, and that all those
who had the happiness of approaching him were in-
structed and edified by his meekness, his humility,
and all the virtues which should shine forth in
Christ's Vicar on earth; for I learned last Lent from
one of his chaplains, that after saying mass, his
Holiness heard another mass each morning, and then
joined in reciting the Litany of the Saints, the
prayers for peace and any other public prayers
which were prescribed. so that he devoted nearly
two hours each day to prayer snd to communing
with his Creator before he entered on the usual
routine of business. The character of the Pope is
impressed upon all his ministers, and his whole
court breathes, like their master, a true spirit of
Christian virtue. Is it not a glory for us, and a
consolation, to have such a head for our Church,
and may we not expect that, as his predecessors in
the early ages of Christianity, by their patience and
suffering, defeated the enemies of the Cross, so he,
by his prayers, his humility, and his meekness, will
draw down upon himself and the Church the bless-
ings and protection of Heaven, and obtain all that
assistance that will be necessary to vindicate the
rights of religion and maintain the independence
of spiritual power ? If the titles upon which the
Pope holds his territory be set at nought now will
the nobility or gentry of this country be able to
maintain their rights ? Besides, the enemies of the
Pope—the agents of evangelical and Bible societies
—are teaching continually that in Italy there is no
obligation of obedience to established authorities,
that the people at every whim can resist their law-
ful sovereign, and they loudly proclaim that trea-
son, treachery, and rebellion are great and noble
virtues in the subjects of the Pope. Let their prin-
ciples bo widely spread, indoctrinate the inhabitants
of the colonies and dependencies of Great Britain
with such dangerous teaching, and may we not fear
that treason, and sedition, and rebellion will soon
rule throughout the land He that sows the wind
will reap the tempest. For Catholics, rev. brethren,
the course is clear: Though we have often reason

to complain of grievance, yet, when complaining
and insisting on redress, we never can forget the
teachinr, of the Scripture, and the Church which
commands submission to established authorities for
conscience sake—we are to condemn secret societies
of every kind, illegal combinations, and especially
all publications tending to promote treason abd se-
dition. The anti-Catholics, while impugning the
authority of the Pope, may propagate the most
baneful and destructive principles—they may
assail the foundations of civil society. We can-
not prevent them ; but let us, as far as we can,
counteract their evil tendencies by teaching patience
under suffering, obedience, submission, and respect
to every just law. By acting in this way we shall
show that we are truly imbued with the spirit of
the Apostolic See and the Catholic Church, always
the enemy of sedition and insubordination ; and we
shall be better able to secure the assistance and co-
operation of all reasonable and liberal men, and to
obtain the redress of the grievances which we
suffer. But it is now time to hear the resolutions
that are to be proposed."
The oratory having been fairly exhausted, the
following Address to the Pope was adopted nem.con.-

" Most Holy Father,—We, the undersigned
Archbishop and clergy, secular and regular, of the
diocese of Dublin, beg to approach your Holiness,
and to testify our sincere attachment and profound
veneration for your Holiness's most sacred person
and throne.

" The devotion to your Holiness and to the
Chair of St. Peter, which we have always cherished,
and cease not to instil into the willing hearts of our
faithful, we feel it our duty to manifest in an espe-
cial manner under circumstances like the present
of peculiar trials and difficulties which menace our
beloved father and Pontiff, as members of one body,
solicitous each for the other, so that the humblest
cannot suffer without occasioning pain to all
(1 Cor. xii.), how can we not feel the most acute
anguish when the head itself is afflicted ?
" Portion, too, of the Church of a nation which
God in His inscrutable designs has permitted to be
severely tried for its constancy and unswerving
attachment to the Holy Catholic Faith, we owe an
especial debt of gratitude to the Apostolic See.
" During long ages of persecution, the voice
of Peter sp2akin, to his successors directed and
supported us—their benediction consoled and en-
couraged us, their boundless munificence aide 1
us in the necessities of our Churches ;
finally, when, at a stilt later period the horrors of
1 famine and a devastating pestilence swept over the
entire face of our island, it is in the remembrance
of all, how, among the earliest acts of your ever
memorable and glorious Pontificate your voice was
raised to enlist in our behalf the sympathies of the
entire Christian world, and you even contributed
munificently to the relief of our misery from your
slender and over-taxed resources.

" With unspeakable horror, therefore, and regret

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 blessed Patrick our fore-
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 caa 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, persievered 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 afllictions 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 oli-
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),
" PAUL CULLEN, Archbishop of Dublic, &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-qrity,
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.

DUBLIN STOCK-EXCHANGE.
The opening quotations of the funds in London
to-day exhibited a decline of k, but subsequently,
upon the announcement of an understanding having
been come to by the French and English Govern-
ments on the subject of the proposed Congress, a
rally took place, and Consols finally closed at an
advance of y upon yesterday's final quotations.
The Stock-Market here has been firm, but limited,
Consols improving and New Three per Cents. 4.
to e, Bank Stock receded 4 per cent. There were
oars to buy Hibernian Banks, and to sell National
' Bank Shares. Steam shares were steady. Buyers
of City of Dublin £lOO Shares, for which an ad-
vance was asked. The Shares of 1836 were steady
at the previous price. Grand Canal Stock was
offered, and at a reduction there were buyels. Gas
shares were steady at 1-16 improvement. No deal-
ings have taken place in mines. Buyers of Wick-
low Copper Shares at 10s. advance. In railways
the business transactions were inconsiderable. Great
Southern Stock was not dealt in ; an advance was
demanded. Midlands firmly maintained their pre-
vious value. Waterford and Limericks are frac-
tionally better, and in request. Dublin and Wick-
lows are a shade better. Irish South-Easterns
were steady at 1-16 improvement. Waterford and
Kilkenny Stock was firm at the previous price.
Sellers of Belfast Junctions, Dublin and Droghedas,
and Dublin and Kingstown stock. There has been
no alteration in preference securities. A fair
amount of business was transacted in Great Sou-
thern Four per Cents, at the previous quotations.

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FREEDOM OF TILE 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 whos3 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
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 cann )t 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 "Irance 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 set 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 us 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 wero believed to speak
the sentiments of a Power much stronger and mor.!
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 France have 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 misfortune of Princes that the
world, which views at leisure that which they are
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 o 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
only 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 the true feeling of the French
Government. ItPas 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 Inelex Expurgatorius 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 light to be surprised if, not-
withs landing all his good intentions, he finds him-
self, after all, misconstrued by the English people.
Wa are the least metaphysical of mankind, and not
o'aly should never dream of making war for an idea
'iurselves, but are utterly unable to understand how
anybody 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
publicity, we are apt to forget the conditions under
which foreign journalists write, ai attach to their
lucubrations au importance they do not at all e
de-
serve. We ought to learn to treat the press
France with 'as much indifference as it is treated by
Frenchmen themselves. We will try t
the future, ond to believe that if the
Frenth Go.

vernment tolerates a freedom of comment on Eng-
land which it does not, for instance, permit on
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 Hyams, also a Jew, a greengrocer,
carrying on business at 136, Wentworth-street,
Whitechapel. 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 elb)w. 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 hospital for
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:ared 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 Gen eral 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 he 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.
THE QUEEN V. FARINI.—This was a prosecution
instituted by the Associate Institute for the Pro-.
tection of Women, against Pietro Farini, 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 i3ohn 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 rernon-
stratsng 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 ?

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
be 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
Gs. Gd., the excessive fare and the expenses.

SOUTHWARK.—STEALING HortsEs' 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 hair off and selling it to the man.
They. had sold him some before, which 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 scribus 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 saven 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. Taplingsi 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 elchny gentleman, residing
at 131, Blackfriars-road, said 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,
" Alt. 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.)
Combe 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 £2O,
and in default to be committed for one month.

WESTMINSTER.—FORTUNATE DISCOVERY.—
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, Tuthill-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
Marylebone station, and left him in charge of Wm.
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 eourt,
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 ho
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 nawn 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.

LOSS OF A BRAVE YOUNG SAILOR.

Last week we stated in the The Sun that much
sympathy was expressed in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
with the loss sustained by Mr. Belt, of the Groat-
market ; his son Anthony, a noble-hearted young
sailor, having perished by the wreck of the Royal
Charter. In the early part of this year: Mr. Belt
lost a son in England by drowning, and the young
man lost in coming home in the Royal Charter had
been sent by his two brothers in Australia to com-
fort their parents under their severe bereavement.
Mr. Belt, the father, has been across at the scene
of the wreck of the Royal Charter, and has ascer-
tained that his son, with 200 other passengers who
were in the forecastle, perished when the vessel
parted. Young Anthony Belt was no ordinary
person. In the month of July, 1853, he shipped as
third officer on board the ill-fated Bourneuf at Mel-
bourne. The vessel was bound for Bombay, and on
the 2d August in that year, and while attempting
to run into Torres Straits, a strong current came
and carried her out of her proper course, and she
struck upon a reef. Captain Bebies, with his wife
and several of the crew, put off in the port lifeboat,
but it was dashed to pieces against the side of the
vessel by the fury of the storm, and the whole of
those who took to the boat immediately perished,
with the exception of a seaman, named Booth, a
native of Newcastle. Mr. Anthony Belt, at the
commencement of the voyage, had committed to
his care by the captain a young midshipman, who
received some injuries from the water-cask, which
had broken adrift in consequence of the pitching of
the vessel. The gallant sailor attached his own life-
belt to the unfortunate youth, carried him on deck,
and placed him in a boat which the crew were in
the act of lowering. Anthony Belt stood by the
vessel till the last. On a general rush being made
to the cutter, he endeavoured to persuade a part to
remain with him and make an attempt to launch
the boat which remained amidships. On the cutter
getting clear, he and the carpenter cut away the
masts to give the vessel the only chance of holding
together until daybreak. About three o'clock in the
morning she broke in two, and as they did not get
the boat amidships launched, they had to remain
exposed to the storm until daylight. Twice did.
young Belt plunge into the sea with a line to esta-
blish a communicat:on by means of a lifebuoy be-
tween the wreck and the cutter, which could not
approach within a hundred yards on account of the
sea, and by which he succeeded in saving many
lives. He also saved the life of a Frenchman who
had been thrown into the sea by the breaking of
the line. For his undaunted courage and heroic con-
duct on that occasion he was afterwards awarded the
gold medal of the Shipwrecked Fishermen's Royal
Benevolent Institution, and the committee of ma-
nagement also passed a resolution couched in terms of
high praise. Those saved from the wreck succeeded
in reaching Raine's Island, and were picked off by
a Dutch East Indiaman and landed at Batavia.
After his return from a voyage to the East Indies,
Mr. Belt was entertained by a large number of
friends at a supper held at the Crown and Thistle
Inn, Newcastle ; and presented by the Mayor, in
the name of Mr. Belt's fellow-townsmen, with a
sextant, telescope, compass, and a set of drawing
instrummts.

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a satisfactory answer to the question, " Is Consumption In-
curable," in an original article by Dr. DENIS CRONIN,
M.D., 35, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, W. Published in
the "household Physician," in numbers, one penny each,
by G. Berger, 19, liolywell-street, strand. From Ito 9 now
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