The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1859.

what they were a few years ago, that it seems to
me we are at the commencement of a mighty change

as regards that magnificent country. Theexpect-a-
tion of such a change seems to be universal. The
Council of India have appointed an able and intel-
ligent gentleman, Dr. Forbes Watson, to report
upon the products of India ; and I regret that ine-
vitable and pressing engagements have prevented
that gentleman from being present on this occasion
to explain to you, in part, the advantages to be de-
rived from that country, and the probabilities with
regard to the future of our vast Indian empire. As
the evening is fast wearing away, I will not de-
tain you longer than to again express my thanks
for the honour you have conferred upon me.
E. BRAIILEY, Esq., proposed " The health of
Thomas Bazley, Esq., and the House of Commons."
Mr. BAILEY, M.P., said—For the honour which
you have conferred upon the members of the House
of Commons, on their behalf and for myself, I very
heartily thank you. While conscious of the privi-
leges we enjoy, I hope you will admit we are not
forgetful of the duties which are expected to be per-
formed in those positions which we are called upon
by oar large constituencies to occupy. The duty
of the present House of Commons is at present pro-
spectively most important. If it be at all time a
duty of the House of Commons to improve our insti-
tutions, and adapt them to the wants and necessities
of the age; I hope that in seeking future benefits,
by enlarging our liberties, we shall not lose the
good we already possess. (Hear, hear.) I fear the
House of Commons is disposed to be too lavish with
the public money. As a friend of economy, I hope
the day is not distant when the enormous expen-
diture of the country may with perfect safety to
our national defences be diminished; and while we
modify, from time to time, the various institutions,
I hope we shall enlarge the liberties of the people,
and increase not only our own prosperity, but also
that of our dependencies, and of every country on
the face of the earth. (Hear, hear.) With every
country upon the face of the earth we have had in-
creased transactions, and with that great depen-
dency, the British East Indies, we have had an
enormous increase of traffic. I have already taken
the liberty of reminding my right hon. friend (Mr.
Wilson) that to ensure the prosperity of any coun-
try, the material interests of that particular coun-
try must be maintained. I do hope that the material
interests of India will be developed, and that the
people of Sheffield, as well as the manufacturing
districts of Lancashire, will have an enormous ex-
port trade to India. (Cheers.) India possesses
ore of admirable quality, and just as she produces
cotton for the supply of our cotton manufac-
turers, though not as yet of the quality we could
desire, so I hope you will be able to receive
from her superior ore, and return it in manufac-
tured articles at a cheaper rate than the people of
India could have them if they manufactured the
iron themselves. The resurces of India are beyond
all calculation, and while we increase our commer-
cial relations with that great dependency, we shall
spread our institutions ; in spreading our commerce
we shall spread our civilisation ; and, above all, I
believe, we shall spread that greatest boon which
man can confer upon his fellow-men—our Chris-
tianity. In conclusion, Mr. Bazley proposed " The
Health and Happiness of the Lady of the Master
Cutler." (Cheers.)
The MASTER CUTLER returned thanks.
The Right Hon. J. WILSON—My lords and gen-
tlemen, I have to ask you to express the obligations
we feel to the Master Cutler on this occasion. I
can only say, individually, that I feel particularly
obliged to your chairman for the invitation he has
given me to this town, because it has afforded me an
opportunity of witnessing many most interesting
processes of manufacture. I hope, as the result,
that the industry of this town may be benefited, not
only as regards its exports, but by the application
of a great number of the products of India to the
purposes of your trade. Gentlemen, I rise for the
purpose of proposing " The Health of your worthy
chairman, the Master Cutler." (Cheers.) I feel that
it is no slight privilege for a stranger to be present
upon this occasion, and to have conferred upon him
the honour of proposing the health of a gentleman
who has risen in a community like this to so high
a position, and who, after enjoying that high posi-
tion for one year, has been solicited to accept it for
a second. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, these distinctions
in society have very much more import that at first
sight they appear to have ; they are distinctions
which, I am sure, animate the ambition of many
young men, and lead them to a career by which
they not only become ornaments, but of the greatest
utility to the society in which they move. I have,
therefore, the greatest pleasure, as I am sure you
will have, in wishing long life to our worthy chair-
man, the Master Cutler. (Loud cheers )
The MASTER CUTLER—Gentlemen, my first duty
is to express my sincere and heartfelt thanks for
the distinguished honour you have just conferred
upon me. To you, Mr. Wilson, for your kindness
in introducing the toast in so very flattering a
manner ; to you, gentlemen, for having received it
in so friendly, I might almost say, enthusiastic, a
manner. There is not a gentleman in this room
who would have been more surprised than I should
to have been told when I presided here 12 months
ago, that I should again occupy the chair on this
occasion. Nothing could be farther removed from
my thoughts ; hut the Cutlers' Company have
thought fit to elect me to preside over them for
another year, and I have accepted their invitation.
It is not necessary that I should go into the history
of the re-election, and I have only further to say,
that having accepted the office, I shall endeavour
to discharge its duties in the ensuing year, as I
have done during the past, faithfully, and to the
best of my ability. (Cheers.) If I had had another
opportunity earlier in the evening, I could have
wished to make a few remarks with reference to
the trade of the town, but it is now too late. I
must beg of you to excuse me, and again accept my
thanks for the honour you have conferred upon me
(Loud cheers.)
It being now 11 o'clock, the proceedings were
brought to a close by the principal guests leaving
the room. The remaining toasts on the list were :
—The Rev. Canon Sale, 1).D., and the Clergy ; the
Lord-Lieutenant, the Deputy-Lieutenants, and the
Magistrates of the West-riding ; the Mayor and
Corporation of Sheffield ; the Borough Magistrates ;
the Lord Mayor of York, and the Mayors of the
West-riding; the Chaplain, the Rev. W. Wil-
kinson ; W. Butcher, Esq., the Town Regent, and
the Town Trustees ; Thos. Creswick, the Capital,
the Church Burgesses; Wm. Hutchinson,Esq., and
the past Masters ; Jas. Wilson, Esq., Law Clerk.

A NATIONAL FEELING.—Lord Palmerston sets
his back against the Gothic. It was but natural that his
lordship should have a leaning towards the Italian, when
we remember his oft-repeated declaration of " Civis Rome-
nus Sum."—Punch.

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Marvellous cures of sciatica, stiff joints, paralysis of the
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muscles have been accomplished by Holloway's Ointment.
It is the only unguent which produces any impression on
these complaints. The Pills also work wonders. The Oint-
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the action of the one is greatly assisted by that of the other.
Why should any human being suffer from the above-men-
tioned maladies when Holloway's Ointment and Pills are
to be found in every city and town in the world ? These
noble medicines are composed of rare balsams, and are as
benign and safe as they are powerful and efficacious.
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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—ThorIey's Food for Cattle is now
beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer,
breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting
care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high
ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstand-
ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled
against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted
value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest.
Experience has proved, first, that it effects a considerable
saving in the consumption of provender; secondly, that it
produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its
influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an
early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this
singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated
to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive
mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this
he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural
desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap-
plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng,
lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an
unwillingness to rely r pen its efficacy, fancying he possessed
in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed
and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate thanby the employment
or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has
been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap
addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as in
all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely submitted
to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will be
realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time
usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becomes
apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair application
of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present
unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene •
rid use, in preference to any other of the usual articles of
food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is a
nourishing and proper food for the working horse, certainly
it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food, besid<s
possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the health
and increasing the physical power of all animals, is a tonic
and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other
food, materially assists their digestive powers—a matter of
great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that the
nourishment contained in their ordinary food is lost, conse-
quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digestiv,e
organs ; it will also be found to be particularly beneficial
in restoring to good working condition hoises which have
been over-worked, or become weak horn disease, or ar
naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects are
undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the
yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches
the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities are still'
wore remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest
superiority over every other kind of compound or manu-
factured food adopted in the feeding of swine.' Such has
been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows,
Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their cattle
on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the principal
prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded.
The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the
clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a
great incitement to this, gentleman to pursue his onward
course; and he may confidently rely, in producing so
highly-favoured
patronage.;
redascom poaundzagoo.;n a continuOton of such
wail and 4

LORD CANNING ON MISSIONARY
PREACHING IN GAOLS.

We take the following important despatch of
Lord Canning to the Punjab Government from the

Bombay Standard of August 5 :

TO R. H. DAVIS, ESQ., SECRETARY TO THE GOVERN-
MENT OF THE PUNJAB AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.
'• Sir,—l am directed by the Governor-General in

Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter,
No. 174, dated the 28th of February last, submit-
ting for an expression of the views of the Govern-
ment of India a correspondence relative to the ad-
mission of missionaries to gaols.
it 9

It appears, that in August, 1858, Mr. E. H.
Stevenson, on behalf of the American missionaries
at Scalkote, inquired of the deputy-commissioner
there, Mr. Prinsep, whether there was any objec-
tion to their visiting the Government gaols for the
purpose of talking with the prisoners and extending
among them the knowledge of Christianity ?' Mr.
Stevenson stated his belief that in the central gaol

at Lahore the gospel had in some instances been
convey ed to the prisoners by oral teaching and by
the aid of Christian books and tracts, and that the

Bible had recently been placed within the reach o
the prisoners at Goojranwallah. He asked, there•
fore, whether the missionaries might have access a.
fixed hours tot the Sealkote Gaol,' and expressed
their readiness, if permitted, to embrace so ' good an
opportunity of proclaiming the gospel among men
who from their circumstances might be disposed to
listen and profit by it.'
" 3. Mr. Stevenson also asked whether the mist
sionaries could have permission either ' to raise a
chabooral (or masonry platform) near the Cut-
cherry, for the purpose of preaching to tho hun-
dreds of idle men who are daily congregated
there ;' or to preach within the Government en-
closure without a platform ?'
" 4. On the Bth of November Mr. Prinsep, for-
warded Mr. Stevenson's letter to the commissioner
(Mr. Cust) for orders, stating that he saw no ob-
jection in either case to give the permission asked
for ; but the commissioner on the 16th of November
promptly refused permission, observing that the
practice of admitting missionaries to preach to the
convicts had been interdicted in the Lahore Central
Gaol and in other parts of the Lahore division.
" 5. On the 20th of January, however, Mr. Cust
submitted the correspondence for the perusal of the
Judicial Commissioner, observing that when em-
ployed as a district officer in the North-West Pro-
vinces he (Mr. Cust) had been in the habit of ad-
mitting missionaries to his gaol, but that after late
events he now thought the practice one which could
no longer be permitted.
" 6. On the 26th of January the judicial commis-
sioner (Mr. Thornton) submitted the papers to th 9
Lieutenant-Governor, observing that though .he
condemned the compulsory attendance of a Moha-
medan or Hindoo convict at the preaching of a
Christian clergyman, yet he questioned the justice
of entirely excluding missionaries from the gaol,
and so preventing the convict from receiving reli-
gious advantages which he might be willing to
accept. Mr. Thornton recommended that mis-
sionaries should be allowed to visit the gaols and to
preach to such, and such only of the convicts as
might wish to hear them.
"7. The subject was then referred by the late
Lieutenant-Governor to the Financial Commis-
sioner (Mr. Macleod), who on the 21st of February
reported that, so far as other gentlemen are allowed
to enter the gaols and converse with the prisoners,
missionaries might be allowed to do so, but that
under the existing orders of Government no special
opportunities could be afforded to missionaries, as
this would commit the officers of Government in
their official character to a recognition and facilita-
tion of missionary. efforts. Mr. Macleod, however,
expressed his opinion that in declining to afford a
missionary the opportunity of communicating re-
ligious instruction to a convict, especially a life
convict, the Government is responsible for with,
holding the gospel from him, and took the oppor-
tunity of proceeding to discuss the question whether
neutrality in religious matters is a position which,
a Christian Government can maintain in India or
not, and to declare his opinion, that while carefully
abstaining from everything like force, constraint,
or inducement by way of reward, with a view to
proselytism, the Government should avow and
evince a preference for the Christian religion.
" In your letter under reply the late Lieutenant-
Governor has expressed his opinion that the exclu-
sion of missionaries from gaols would not be an act
of neutrality, but rather the creation of a disability ;
that missionaries should be alloNed to visit gaols
like other persons ; that prisoners should not be
exempted' any more than free natives from the
liability to hear the gogpel preached; and that the
rear which the natives entertain is not of missionary
persuasion, but of forcible or fraudulent conversion.
His Honour, therefore, proposes that missionaries
should be allowed, as they have been occasionally
allowed heretofore, free entry to the gaols at certain
hours, and the free exercise of their pr6per func-
tions, subject to any precautionary rules it may be
advisable to make.
" J. The Lieutenant-Governor would not allow
the missionaries to erect a platform for preaching
near the Cutcherry, thinking it sufficient that they
are-at liberty, there or elsewhere, to preach to the
people.
"The Governor-General in Council cannot con-
cur in the view taken of this question by Sir J.
Lawrence and by the Judicial and Financial Com-
missioners of the Punjab.
" 11. The chief arguments by which the admis-
sion of missionaries to preach ill gaols is supported
seem to be—first, that as all gentlemen are allowed
to visit gaols, missionaries ought not to be shut out.
On this his Excellency in Council observes, that
there is no right on the part of any stranger to
visit a gaol, and that although in practice all gen-
tlemen are let in, this is done, not in order that
they may there exercise their calling, whatever
that may be, but that they may see for themselves
how the gaol is conducted. The gaol, too, benefits
by each public inspection. To the entrance of a
missionary upon this footing there is no objection ;
and, if it 13,-; allowed to him, no 'injustice will be
done to him as compared with others.
" 12. It is next contended that, as all natives,
when free, are liable to hear the gospel preached, it
it is not fair to exclude them from this advantage
because they are in gaol. On this lam desired to
remark, that if a man is free he hears the preacher
only when it pleases him, and that, if being in gaol
he should desire to do so, it would be quite right
to admit a preacher to him individpally. In the
case of a Christian prisoner this would be done, as
a matter of course, under such rules as prison dis-
cipline may prescribe ; and should the case occur of
a prisoner who is not a Christian desiring to hold
intercourse with a Christian teacher, his wish
should not be refused. But this is a very different
thing from giving to missionaries access to gaols
and allowing them to preach to whomsoever they
choose.
" 13. In the opinion of the Governor-General in
Council it is idle tostallc of prisoners as free agents,
even in the matter of listening, and even though
(as is conceded'in your letter under reply) they are
not to be collected together by guards to hear the
preaching, or to have assent to the preacher's doc-
trine forced upon them, an earnest missionary,
whose zeal would deserve nothing but praise and
admiration if exercised upon men as free as him-
self, could not be trusted so to measure his action
as to abstain from forcing himself upon those who
might desire to escape from him, but who would be
unable to do so; and to watch his proceedings
through any officer of competent authority would
be impossible.
" 14. His Excellency in Council cannot easily
imagine a step more likely to be understood by na-
tives as belying our professions of neutrality in
matters of religion than the sanctioning of the
practice which is here recommended. It would be
impossible to deny that, in adopting that practice,
we were turning the machinery of, ustice and civil
government to religious purposes. It is still firmly
believed that we have made men soldiers and have
ordered them to bite cartridges in order to convert
them. It will not do to give a handle to the sup-
position that we sentence them to imprisonment in
our gaols for the same purpose, under the pretence
of a=.ministering justice.
"15. I am, therefore, directed to state, for the
infornr.tion of the Lieutenant-Governor and for
general guidance, that the admission of a missionary
to a gaol for the purpose of preaching is not to be
permitted unless when a prisoner makes a request
for the presence of one. I am to add that the prac-
tice advocated in these papers ;s not in accordance
with the principle of neutrality in matters of reli-
gion, which the Government will observe in all its
measures, and which it will require its servants to
observe in all their official acts.
" 16. The Governer-General in Council approves
the late Lieutenant-GoverY.or's intention to pro-
hibit the missionaries from erecting a platform for
preaching in the Cutderry premises. •
" 17. In conclusion I am desired to annex a copy
of a despatch on this subject, addressed by the
Honourable Court of Directors to the Govern-
:nen t of Madras, No. 6, dated the 2d of ApriL
1845, and to remark that the question relating
to the policy of Government in matters connected
with religion has been very unnecessarily raised in
connection with the subjezt in hand, and that it is
singularly unbecoming in officers in the position of
some of the writeis who have taken part in the
correspondence to advocate and maintain views on
this important and delicate subject so directly op-
posed to the strong and lately reiterated commands
of her Majesty's Government. The Governor-
General in Council desires that the practice of ori-
ginating remarks and raising and prolonging dis-
general policy, a practice
eussionq on subjects of

which has been of late indulged in bi subordinate
executive officers in some parts of India, and which
has been too easily tolerated by the local adminis-
tration, may be entirely discouraged and repressed.
—I have, &c.,

" C. BEADON,
" Secretary to Government of India.
Fort William, May 10."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 2.

MANSION-HOUSE Angus, 42, was
charged with having been concerned with another
man not in custody in burglariou3ly breaking into
and entering the warehouse of Messrs. Surr and
Son, 12, King-street, Cheapside, silk manufacturers,
and stealing therefrom 3781b5. of sewing silk, value
£475.

E. Funnell, detective officer, said—Between three
and four o'clock I was at Shoreditch railway sta-
tion, in c Inpany with Knight and Legg, two other
officers, when I saw the prisoner and another man '
not in custody get into a cab together at the corner
of Swan-yard. The cab drove down Church• street,
where it stopped, and the two men got out, and
went through some courts, where I could not follow
them fur fear of being seen. Knight and I went to
the corner of Old Nicholl-street, where we saw
man come out of Thomas's-court with a bag, the
prisoner following behind with the life-preserver,
which I produce, in his coat. The man with the
bag saw me, threw down his bag, and ran off.
Knight pursued, but did not catch him. I took the
prisoner and put him into my cab, together with
the bag, and I told the cabman to enter No. 2,
Thomas's-court, and bring away all the silk he could
find there, while I stopped with the prisoner. The
cabman went to the house with Mr. Loveridge, and
in two or three minutes returned with a quantity of
silk w rapped up in a sheet. I took charge of the
silk while the cabman went to the house again, and
returned with some more silk wrapped up in a
shawl. By that time a mob of 200 or 300 people had
collected, and I was compelled to put all the silk
to ether, or they would have smashed me.
Prisoner—There wasn't, no force used. I begged
the officer to give the sheet and shawl to my wife
who was there, and who expects to be confined.
That's how it was.
Witness—The wife of the prisoner, assisted by
the mob, demanded the sheet and the shawl of me,
and I gave them up, after taking the silk out. The
cabman also gave me the jemmy which I produce,
which he found in a closet there. 'While coming
along in the cab the prisoner pulled a life-preserver
out o his coat, and gave it to me, saying, "I didn't
mean this for you, but for somebody else." On
searching him at the station, I found a piece of
paper in his pocket, on which was written in pencil,
" 192 balls, 82 2oz. reels, 47 half ditto, 39 11b. bun-
dles, with the figures, 24, 50, 25,12, 3, 4 cast up 891,
and then struck out and cast 881 ; and the figures
44 and 8-16 undetneath. When the charge was
hooked against him he gave his name "Wm. Angus,
2, Thomas-place, Nieholl-place, Shoreditch." On
being charged he made no reply, but on the road to
the station he said, alluding to the life-preserver,
" I meant that for the man who gave the informa-
tion, and put me away ; and if I had met him I
should certainly have murdered him, it I had been
hung the next minute. Youmay have me remanded
as many times as you like, but I'd sooner have my
throat cut than split upon my mates." On examin-
ing the bag I found it to contain 45 1-oz. reels of
black silk, 63 2-oz. reels ditto, 190 2-oz. balls of
various colours, and 39 bundles of 11b. each.
The Prisoner—l believe it's all pretty correct
what he says, but I should like to know what he
means when he says he would have been smashed
if he had not given up the sheet and shawl.
Witness—l was very much afraid of it.
The Prisoner—Why we only asked you civilly
to give them up to my wife.
Witness—There were 200 or 300 people round
me, and I should think there were 1,000 where
Knight was,
Mr. J. Surr, jun.—l am a partner in the firm of
Joseph Surr and Sons, silk manufacturers, of 12,
King-street, Cheapside. Our warehouse forms part
of a house in the occupation of Mr. Walmsley, and
the door of our warehouse leads into the passage of
the house, in the upper part of which Mr. Walm-
slcy's servants sleep. We have three distinct locks
to each door, two of which are patent. I left the
warehouse a little before six on the evening of
Friday, the 19th of August, when our stock was
safe in the warehouse. On going again a little
before nine next morning, I tried to open the
locks, but could not, and I found that a panel had
been cut of the door, and had been replaced, imme-
diately upon which discovery I went to the police-
station and obtained the assistance of the police. I
had the locks picked, and on going in I found every-
thing in the greatest confusion, and, missed silk in
reels, skeins, and balls, to the value of £475. I exa-
mined the silk whici forms a portion of thepropeity
stolen. On further examining the warehouse, I
found the iron safe broken open, as well as three
each-boxes which it contained. As nearly as I can
remember between £6 and £7 had been taken away.
The prisoner was then remanded.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. -- BRUTAL As-
sAutir ON THE GAOLER.—Thos. Biggin and George
Featherstone, rough, powerful, and determined-
looking youog Irish fellows, described as labourers,
were charged before Mr. Bingham with the follow-
ing cowardly and brutal attack upon Walsh, the
gaoler of the court, and another.
Walsh said he had gone to call a woman witness
in a case against man named Lee, who was before
his worship for an assault, and on opening the gate,
round which there were about 20 persons, for her
to pass through, the prisoner Featherstone rushed
suddenly forward and tried to force himself through.
He (complainant) on his part endeavoured to close
the gate to exclude him, upon which he seized him
" like a lion," gripped him by the throat with one
hand and pinched him tightly by the breast with
the other. A constable, who happened to be near,
dangerseeino.the he was in, ran to his assistance,
and laid hold of the prisoner, who then commenced
kicking and plunging in a most violent manner,
assaulting them both. At this moment Biggin
rushed in at the gate, and, laying hold of Feather-
stone, did his utmost to rescue him, and would in
all probability have succeeded had not three other
constables come in, and with the utmost difficulty
overpowered him. In the meantime Biggin struck
him and the constables several blows. The gaoler
concluded by saying that previous to the attack the
two prisoners' language was of the most disgraceful
and threatening character.
Gray, F 52, said he heard Featherstone say to his
companion, just before the attack, " he'd be blessed
if he wouldn't go through." The witness then con-
firmed the gaoler's statement, and added, that on
his going to his assistance, he received several
severe kicks from Featherstone, and a " punch"
afterwards under his ear from " Mr. Biggins's fist."
Other constables corroborated the assaults, and
the ferocity of the prisoners, whom they could only
restrain by handcuffing.
The defence of the fellows was, that they ought
not to have been kept from seeing their friend and
countryman Dennis Lee, who had just before
dropped in for it for ten days, for that was a man
they had great respect for sure, and Featherst one
said they had been kept out by a "little red-
whiskered man" (the messenger of the court), and
thought there was no harm in thrying it on a little.
I\lr. Bingham said he would advise them, if ever
again they considered themselves aggrieved by a
constable to put their case into the hands of the
magistrate, when justice would be done, and if the
constable was in the wrong he would be dealt
with accordingly ; but certainly in the discharge
of their difficult duty they must and should be at
all times protected. A twelvemonth ago, Walsh,
the gaoler, was attacked in a similar way, and
nearly killed by a ruffian, and was in consequence
laid up for months. Prisoners and their friends
should have all the privileges due to them. In this
case a violent assault had been committed, and he
should sentence the prisoners to 21 days' hard
labour each.

SOUTHWARK.—ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.--
A NICE Ex-POLICEMAN.—James Casey, 40, for-
merly a sergeant of the R division of police, was
brought before Mr. Combe, charged with stealing
a quantity of cigars and tobacco, the property of
his master, Mr. henry Archer, 1, Blackman-street,
Borough.
The prosecutor said that he took the prisoner into
his service some time ago as carman and porter,
and it was his duty to deliver goods to the cus-
tomers. Latterly ho had missed goods from his
stock, and, in consequence of that., he gave infor-
mat ion to :the police. Inspector Moore, M divi-
sion, went to'the prisoner's lodgings, and there
found three boxes of cigars and a quantity of
tobacco. He identilied them as his property.
Inspector M00,.e proved finding the cigars and
obacco,, and when: he questioned the prisoner about
them, he said that they had been given to him at
different times, and that he had stored them up,
but he said that he did not smoke.

The prisoner here said that it was quite true.
Although he did n It smoke he did not refuse a cigar
when offered to him.

Mr. Combo asked him whether hevould be tried
by him or go to the sessions. If the former he
must plc .d guilty.
The prisoner preferred' the former, and begged
for mercy.
Mr. Combe sentenced him to six months' lima
labour.

The prisoner, when a sergeant in the R division,
was a great annoyance to other constables, and
was dismissed. Afterwards he wrote a letter to
Sir Richard Mayne, the Commissioner of Police,

threatening to shoot him. He was taken before the
magistrates and bound over for that offence.
Mr. Combo told him he was now a convicted thief.

THAMES.— EXPLANATION. ALLEGED AS-
SAULT AT SEA.—Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor for the
master and owner of the ship Mary Henzell, lying
in the London Dock, attended before Mr. Yardley
to complain of an ex parte statement made by a
curate of the Established Church to Mr. Selfe on
Wednesday last, to the effect that his son, an
apprentice to the owner, had been ill-used on the
outward voyage by the captain and mae, and that
the most dreadful cruelty was inflicted upon him.
Mr. Selfe, on hearing from the afflicted father that
his son was drowned off the Cape of Good Hope
on the homeward voyage, was in doubt whether he
could put the criminal law in motion in the absence
of the person alleged to have been assaulted, and
suggested to the rev, gentleman an application to
the Board of Trade, and also to send to that board
a copy of a letter detailing the ill-usage which the
lad had written to his father while in Madras.

Mr. Smith stated to the magistrate that the
boy in question, whose name was Collins, had been
apprenticed to Mr. Avery, the owner of the
Mary Hinzell, by the Corporation of the Sons of
the Clergy, and that he had been treated with the
greatest kindness on board, and had never been
ill-treated; that the captain was quite willing
that his conduct should undergo the strictest inves-
tigation, and that the owner was very anxious the
matter should be inquired into, being satisfied from
the captain's general conduct and character that he
could not have been guilty of the offences attributed
to him by the Rev. Mr. Collins. Mr. Smith further
said that the boy Collins had misbehaved very seri-
ously on several occasions in the use of vulgar and
disgusting language towards the crew, for which he
had been once slightly chastised; and that the cap-
tain considered it his duty to the boy and his pa-
rents to do so, but that as to any cruelty being
exercised towards the lad he had the signatures of
the best part of his crew to the contrary, and the
captain emphatically denied the statements made
by the Rev. Mr. Collins, which were published in
the newspapers. Mr. Smith suggested that the pre-
sent case was one of a great number where parents
entrusted the care of their children to other per-
sons because they could not tame them themselves,
and then complained, with all the necessary thea-
trical appurtenances, to the magistrate of a public
police court, of cruelty having been inflicted, when
the fact was, there was only a slight chastisement
for vulgar and abusive conduct, and the parents
themselves should have prevented the disagreeable
necessity by doingso themselves in times past.
Mr. Yardley said he had no control over the
press. He should like to see the report which was
handed up to him by Mr. Smith. Mr. Yardley
having read it, said it contained serious charges
against the master and mate, but he could not
assist the parties any further than by allowing
them, as he now did, to deny the truth of the alle
gations made. He hoped the party making such
severe statements would take care that those
charged should have the opportunity of refuting
them, and he could see no reason why it could not
be done in that court.
Mr. Smith then retired.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF Y ESTERDAI

DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert George
Wyndham Herbert, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the
Colony of Queensland ; and Miles Gerald Keen, Esq., to
be a Member of the Council of the Bermudas, or Somers
Islands.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Doctor
Antonio Micallef, C.M.G., to be President of the Couit of
Appeal, and Doctor Salvatore Naudie to be one of her Ma-
jesty's Judges, for the Island of Malta.