The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

THE UTAH EXPEDITION AND BRIGHAM
YOUNG.
(Prom the New York Herald )

We observe that some little anxiety is expressed
in different quarters for the safety of the Utah ex-
peditor under the command of Colonel Johnston.
We apprehend, however, from a careful examina-
tion of the subject, that no fears need be entertained
for its safety, whether arising from the Mormons
or the severity of the weather. When last heard
from, in the beginning of October, the main body
of the expedition, numbering over 1,000 bayonets
and two field batteries—one a six and the other a
12-pounder battery—were encamped on Ham's
Fork, 143 miles this side of Salt Lake City, under
command of Colonel Alexander ; and it would
appear from his report that he intended to select
some place in that vicinity, and go into winter
quarters. There are many points both on Bear and
Green rivers—a few marches only from Ham's
Fork—where an abundance of fuel can be bad,
and where our troops can make themselves com-
paratively comfortable for the winter, and where,
also, by throwing up slight fieldworks and ar-
ranging judiciously their 500 waggons and 12
pieces of artillery, they can defend themselves suc-
cessfully against the entire Mormon host, even if
led on by the redoubtable Kimball, backed by his
25 sons and 30 wives. There is also an abundant
supply of provisions with the expedition, notwith-
standing the loss of the 78 waggons which were
burnt by the destroying angels under the command
of the saintly Bill Hickman, as the Government bad
taken the precaution to throw forward an extra
quantity of subsistence stores to meet all emer-
gencies.
In addition to the force above alluded to Colonel
Johnston, on the 13th of October, was in the vici-
nity of the South Pass, 95 miles in rear of Colonel
Alexander's command, with some 100 infantry and
125 dragoons, and long ere this he has no doubt
joined the army and assumed the command of it.
Besides these troops there were at the same time
six companies of the 2d Dragoons, under the com-
mand of Colonel Cooke, making forced marches to
join Colonel Johnston ; and we perceive from the
report of the Indian agent N'orney, from Fort La-
ramie, that they passed that post on the 24th of
October. When Colonel Cooke joined the main
body—which he doubtless succeeded in doing some
time since, unless stopped by the snows in the vi-
cinity of the South Pass and the Wind River
Mountains—our Utah forces were swelled to over
1,600 efficient men.
It is to be regretted now that the Mormons have
declared war and thrown down the gage of battle that
our troops did not arrive one month earlier in the
season in front of the strongholds of the belicose
saints, for we believe our gallant men could have
forced the mountain passes and either captured
or destroyed Brigham Young, this Mahomet
of the New World, and his fanatical followers. It
must be remembered, however, that when this
Utah expedition was organised no one believed the
Mormons would offer any resistance ; and it was
nob until the return of Capt. Van Vilet from Utah
that any opposition was anticipated, and even then
the great majority of the people and the press re-
mained incredulous ; and it was only when the
captain's judgment was backed up by Brigham's
proclamation and the destruction of our proviion
trains that the country was undeceived and the
Government found a Mormon war on its hands.
Had the Mormons offered no resistance our troops
would have bad ample time to reach the Salt Lake
Valley, and would now be basking in the smiles
of the Mormon beauties, instead of breasting the
fierce winds and cold storms of a Rocky Mountain
winter.

In considering this speck of rebelFon and civil
war it might be interesting to speculate as to the
result. That the Government will grapple with it
with all necessary energy, and in one shoit and
decisive campaign quell it, is quite certain ; but
that in so doing we shall kill Mormonism, or
rather•purify it of polygamy—for that appears to
be the great objectionable feature—admits of great
doubt.

The sword has never yet convinced a man that
his religion is false ; and we very much doubt if it
will ever conviace the Mormon that it is wrong for
him to surround himself with a dozen wives or
that Brigham Young is not a true prophet. We
are inclined to believe that a good strong corps of
parsons would do more to suppress Mormonism
than half-a dozen regiments of the United States'
troops ; and we would recommen 1, now that
KanQa,s has Stopped bleeding, that Mr. Kalloch
and the other 3,000 New England parsons—their
occupations being gone—be organised into regi-
ments and sent to Utah, in order to teach the Mor-
mons the error of their ways. Should the church
militant fail, we can then use the strong arm of
the Government.

We, may not, however, have to fight the Mor-
mons alter all, for already indications are abroad
that the taints are on the eve of another hegira.
Orden have been issued to tl,e faithful in England
and Wales prohibiting further emigration to the
United States, a 3 the Almighty has pointed ont an-
other place to go to. All their misionary atablish-
ments in the United States have been broken up,
all their settlements on this side of the mountains
and in California have been abandoned, and from
every point of the compass the Lord's annointed

are hurrying to place themselves beneath the banner
of his prophet amid the valleys of the mountains.
All these signs indicate, in our opinion, as we have
just stated, that the ormons are about to take
another flight. Having defied the authorities of
the United States, Brigham is too keen an observer
not to see the consequences. He is well aware that

he must stand and fight it out or run the country.
He is also well aware that he cannot contend mith
the United States' Government with any hope
of success, for when Captain Van Vliet, as he states
in his report, told Brigham and his friends that if
they opposed the United States' troops this fall the
Government would send next year a force which
would overcome all opposition, their answer was,
" We are aware that such will be the case, but when
these troops arrive they will find Utah a desert—
every house will be burnt to the ground, every tree
cut down, and every field laid waste. We have
three years' provisions, which we will cache,' and
then take to the mountains, and bid defiance to all
the powers of the Government."
That Brigham will carry out his threat of mak-
ing a Moscow of Utah is quite possible, but that
he will shut himself up in the mountain canons
with even three years' supply of provisions, and our
troopki occupying All the arable land, so that
he must starve when his provisions are consumed,
we do not believe. A man might very well
take care of himself in the mountains, but if he
had.3o wives, and some 30 or 40 small children to
look after and provide for, the undertaking would
be much more, difficult. We are, then efore, of the
opinion that the Mormons intend to favour some
other country with their presence, where they will
not bs annoyed by the stars and stripes—and there
is no country more inviting or more convenient
than Sonora. The Mormons have been quietly but
steadily pushing their settlements towards Mexico,
and they already extend 400 miles to the south of
Salt Lake city, more than half-way to the Mexican
frorXer ; and should they decide upon moving in
that direction they can be beyond our boundary be-
fore we can reach them, as the country to the south
of Salt Lake City can be traversed at all seasons of
the year.

We trust the saints will decide upon such a move,
and thereby relieve us of the disagreeable duty of
exterminating them. In Senora they would have
the opportunity to develop the baauties of their
religion, and if it contains within itselt the seeds of
its own destruction—as we all believe it does—it
will crumble to pieces and disappear, and will Le
numbered with the numerous false religious that
have sprung up and had their day, and are now
only know in history.

(Front the Nets York Times)

The fate which seems to impend over the expedi-
tion to Utah wears, in some sort, the aspect of re-
tribntive justice. It was delayed so long in Kan-
saq, meddling in matters in which it had no busi-
ness to meddle, that the winter has caught it while
the advanced guard is still on this side the moun-
tains. From the vt ry outset misfortune seemed to
attend it. Great numbers of the trained soldiers
of whom it was originally composed deSerted ; and
it set out on its march so late in the season that the
grass has failed, and the snow fallen heavily, before
it has made the smallest preparation for its own sal-
vation daring the cotd weatl er. For the present i t
quite clear our main anxiety must be not as to whe-
ther we shall within the next six months subdue
Brigham Young, but whether we shall next spring
have a single man or officer of tbe old force to begin
the next campaign with.
It was quite clear that all the arrangements were
made in the idea that we should enter the city of
the saints without opposition, and simply use the
troops as Governor Cumming's posse, for the sub-
sequent enforcement of the laws. In short the ex-
pedition was {Wed out, as was that of the British
to Turkey in the late war, as a corps of observation
in the suite of a plenipotentiAry. It took w;th it an
eeri:mm
us ban,- Igo train, carrying everything ne-
jsa._
Wry for the troops from Kansas to Utah, and
OlifZraasall very well, but the very important item
of g f
. It ii4rt the mules seems to have bean lostsight
the plains
Wausrus-that in th's par ticular the grasser
Only Started
early wholly relied on, and if the force had
have served themeuough in the season, this would
some thousands of must as good stead,- as it serves
Eitlltta.every
_summer. But
haat efarly enough, and the
the fact is they did not
Bled, the mules ere
result is that the grass

dropping off, and with them drop off, of course, the
stores of every kind. The scarcer the herbage the
greater the necessity for marching in small detach-
ment 3, and the natural consequence is that the Mor-
mons are enabled to perpetrate such outrages on
these small bodies with impunity as those of which
each mail now brings tidings.

It may he fairly be laid down as a rule, that a mi-
litary force should never be employed without tak-
ing every precaution to erbura its efficiency as a
fighting machine. Threatening demonstrations,
without being prepared to support them vigorously
are neither very dignified in those making them nor
very fair towards those whom they employ. If the
Mormons are only half as great a nuisance and dis-
grace as all accounts represent them to be, a
proper regard for cur own dignity as well as for
the safety of our troops would have dictated the
despatch of 6,000 men in Juno instead of 2,500 in
the fall. Nobody of course doubts for a moment
what the issue of the contest will be, but surely
the gallant men whom we have sent to vindicate
the national supremacy in the defiles of the Rocky
Mountains were entitled to every guarantee against
all perils, save those of actual conflict, which care
and forethought could supply. There is nothing
very alluring in the service under its best aspects.
The field is remote and the foe ignoble, but the
authorities have aggravated its drawbacks by placing
among their number the chance of a dog's death.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 28.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Edward Bedford Pim, a
paper maker, living at 51, Church-street, Shore-
ditch, was brought before the Lord Mayor charged
with having illegally pawned a clock of the value
of 31. 10s. which had been stolen from the ware-
house of Messrs. Ingleden and Co., upholsterers,
Bishopsgate-street Without.
Mr. J. Ingleden, one of the prosecutors, said—
On Thursday afternoon last a clock, which had been
deposited with us for sale, was stolen from our
warehouse. I gave information to the police at
the Bishopsgate station, and this morning the clock
was shown to me. The prisoner is a stranger to me.
G. Ballinger, assistant to Mr. Arnold, pawn-
broker, 188, High-street, Shoreditch, produced the
clock, which was identified by the prosecutor. Wit-
ness said the clock was pledged by the prisoner for
11., in the name of John Payne, on the 26th inst.
W. Watkins, police-constable 660, said—l have
been engaged in tracing the clock, and amongst
other pawnbrokers' shops I have visited, I this
morning called at that of Mr. Arnold, who showed
'it to me, and told me that a man of the name of Phu
had pawned it. I asked him where Pim lived, and
he replied in Church-street, Shoreditch, and that he
was a regular customer of his. I found the prisoner
at his own house, and asked him if he had pledged
the clock. He replied that he had not, but that his
brother had. He added that his brother had been at
Manchester for the last three weeks. I told him I
should take him into custody for having illegally
pawned the clock, upon which he observed that he
bought it of a man for 21., but had only paid him
225. 6d. on account. He told me that he had
known the man of whom he bought it to have been
a thief all his life.
Prisoner—l bought the clock because I wanted
it for our counting-house.
The Lord Mayor—Then why did you pawn it
immediately after you bought it ?
Prisoner—Because my father was out, and I was
rather short of money. He knew nothing about my
having purchased it. I agreed to give the man 2/.
for the deck. I handed him a sovereign and half-
a crown at the time, and ho is going to call to-night
for the remainder of the money.
The Lord Mayor—Then you will be remanded
till to-morrow, and the officer will do his best to
apprehend him.
Prisoner—Will your lordship take bail ?
The Lord Mayor—No, I cannot do that.
The prisoner was then remanded.
William Ward, a lad 14 years of age, who had
been remanded, charged with having stolen some
oranges from a poor woman's stall, was again
brought before the Lord Mayor.
The prisoner had bimiu remanded in order that
the attendance of his :'•:"..'ear might be procured.
The constable stated, he had been unable to
find the father on ee:at of prisoner's having
given a false address.
The Lord Mayor—Will you give your address
Prisoner—l fox get the name of the place, my
lord.

Partridge the gaoler said the prisoner was one of
a desperate set of thieves called the Bartlett gang,
that infested Upper Thames-street.
The Lord Mayor—Do you still persist in refusing
to state where your father lives ?
Prisoner—l assure you I can't recollect the name
of the place.
Tha Lord Mayor—Then I shall remand you
again.
Remanded accordingly.

BOW STREET'.—Mr. Richard Potts, late an
officer in the army, who was last week chsrged
with stealing a 2001 bill, the property of Mr. R. A.
B. Jennings, a gentleman residing at 7, Prince's-
road, Pimlico, and was then remanded on his own
recoanisances, attended, in discharge thereof, Lefore
Mr. bJardine.
Mr. Lewis appeared for the prosecution ; and
Mr. Bury Hutchinson for the defence.
The evidence of Mr. Jennings having been read
over, he was cross-examined by Mr. Hutchinson.
He positively swore that he had not received any
money on account of the bill, with the exception I
of 1/. 4s. The 1/. was given him by defendant at a
night house in the Haymarket. Had received one
half of a 201. note from defendant.
Mr. Hutchinson—You said nothing about that
at the last examination t
Complainant--No, I was not asked about a half
note. I said I had not received a 201. note, and I
say so still. The note was 13 or 14 years old ; and
when I showed it to the hotel-keeper, he told me
it was the last resort of a swindler.
Mr.. Hutchinson—Didyou notaskhim to advance
you money on the half note, and did he not say
that your attempt to get money in that way was
the last resort of a swindler'?
Complainant—No, he did not say that. I ulti-a
mately returned the half note to defendant.
Mr. Hutchinson—What are you ?
Complainant—l was an officer in the sth Infan-
try Militia.
Mr.Hutchinson—Were you not discharged for
telling lies ?
Complainant--No. I was discharged for writing
a letter to the Marquis of Salisbury.
Mr. Hutchinson—Did you not charge your com-
manding officer with having sold commissions
Complainant objected to answer the question, ob-
serving that it had nothing to do with the case.
Mr. Hutchinson said it had to do with the com-
plainant's credit.
Mr. Jardine said the witness was not bound to
criminate himself.

the bill, and show that defendant had discounted
the bill.

Mr. Hutchinson—Then you object to say whether
you were discharged fur making a false accusation
against your commanding officer 7
Complainant—I decline to answer that.
In answer to further questions,
Complainant stated that he was in Dublin gaol
in 1854, but was discharged by the court. He paid
no dividend at that time. He could not swear what
his debts were, but they were not 5,0001., nor
1,0001. Could not say how often he hail bean in
prison. Was last in the Queen's Bench last year—
(hesitating) this year.
Mr. Hutchinson—Have you been in so often that
you can Lot recollect when was the last time ?
Complainant, in answer to further questions, said
he had only been in Whitecross-street once. Tilat
was this year. B.ad been at Uxbridge, and stayed
at the Whitehorse Hotel. Whether ho paid his bill
there had nothing to d.,) with the case.
Mr. Hutchinson—Oh yes, it has. You aro an
officer, and we want to see whether you are also a
gentleman.

Complainant believed there was a balance due.
Had paid .his bill at the Royal Albert. Could not
say whether he owed anything at the Tavistock. If
he did it was probably put in the schedul,.. The
bill for which these proceedings were institirei was
given to him. He did not steal it. Did not receive

ft from Mr. Binks personally, but through a Mr.
Darcey. Ile did not think Mr. Darcey called him-
self Capt. Darcey. Could not say whether he agreed
to give Mr. Darcey 501. out of it. Thought- there
was something of 'hat sort talked abdut. Did not

Mr. Hutchinson submitted that there wag no
oase for a remand.

Mr. Jardine thought that if Mr. Lewis could
prove all that he proposed, that there would be no
case for the sessions.

give the money because ho never got it himself.
His name was on the bill when he received it, but
he wrote it on himself. He bad authority from Mr
Banks, who gave him the bill for his (witness') ac-
commodation.

Mr. Lewis submitted that it came under the
Act passed last session. Defendant had received the
bill and converted it to his own use.
Mr. Hutchinson—We admit having received the
bill, but we say it was not a good bill, and was not
worth more than we rave you for it.
Mr. Jardine thought the provisions of the Act of
last session could not apply, and as he saw no rea-
sonable probability of a case beinc, established, he
could not again remand the defendant.
Some conversation then arose as to a charge re-
ferred to at the last hearing by the solicitor to Mr.
Courtenay, grandson of the Earl of Devon.
Mr. Hutchinson said that the bills referred to in
that case were given to Mr. Potts to get discounted,
for which he was to receive 701. commission. He
found a gentleman who was willing to advance the
amount required-5001. ; but it then appeared that
Mr. Courtenay no longer required the accommoda-
tion, having obtained it in some other quarter. But
as Mr. Potts had been at all the trouble, and had
performed his part of the agreement, he demanded
to be paid his commission before giving up the bills.
Mr. Jardine suggested that the bills might be
sealed and deposited with him, but as Mr. Potts
declined to assent, his worship observed that he
had no power to compel him.
Mr. Lewis hoped his worship would remand de-
fendant till after the 12th, when he (defendant)
would be examined at the Insolvent Coutt.
Mr. Jardine—l don't think I have any right to
keep this up for your client to feel his way towards
making it a criminal charge. The defendant must
be discharged.

Mr. Hutchinson—Why ?
Complainant—Beclue he considered himself hi-
debted t.) me.

Mr. Hutchinson—l shall now apply for a sum-
mons for perjury against Mr Jennings, as I am pre-
pared with three witnesses to prove that a 201. note
was given to him by Mr. Potts.
Mr. Jardine—You must lay the information in
the usual way.
The parties then left the court.

MARYLEBONE.—David Paul, shoemaker, and
Emma Paul, his wife, wore charged before Mr.
Broughton with most savage assaults on Miss Char-
lotte, daughter of Mr. John Schooling, landlord of
the Lamb and Flag, James street, Manchester-
square, and also with assaulting the potman, John
Dainton.

The evidence was to the effect that about half-
past 12 o'clock that morning the male prisoner
came in front of the bar and asked for a glass of
beer, which he refused to pay for. She toll him
that he should not have it unless he paid for it. His
wife then entered and spat in her face. She at the
same time called her some vile names. While she
was speaking to the female her (complainant's)
sister came out of the parlour to her assistance,
when the woman laid hold of her sister's hair and
pulled her back with great violence. She went to
her sister's aid, upon which the man followed her
into the street. He there laid hold of the beck
Bair of her head, and pulled her with such dreadful
violence that they both fell in the street. She was
nearly insensible.

Miss Schooling produced a largequantity of hair,
which was shown to the magistrate by the chief
usher.

Mr. Broughton—Was all that pullod from your
head

Coinplainant--TEs, sir, and I am now in great
pain.
The son-in-law of the landlord proved that he
went to the assistance of complainant, and saw
them both fall in the gutter. The male prisoner
also struck the pottnan, who went to complainant's
assistance.

Police-constable D 60, who was called up, said
that when he came up he observed that the com-
plainant's face and dress were covered with mud,
her hair was also hanging loose about her neck.
The man was fined 40s. or two months for the
assault on complainant, and 20s. or one month for
the assault on the potman. The woman was fined
20s. or a month for the assault on the complainant.

SOUTHWARK.—Henry Turner, a well-known
companion of thieves, was charged with stealing a
silver watch from the person henry Eames, at
the pit door of the Victoria Theatre.
The prosecutor, a young man residing at Ken-
nington, said that on the previous evening he went
with a female to the Victoria Theatre, and it was a
little before six o'clock when they arrived at the
pit doors. Theie was a great crowd there, and
while witness 'was passing in he felt a tug at his
watch chain, and on looking on one side, he s
the prisoner's right hand leave his watch-pocket,
and he then found that his watch was gone, having
been broken off at the bar. He immediately:
tho prinoner, and him near the lamp-
post, when he fell down apparently in a fit, but see-
iug a police-constable approaching, ho quickly
jumped up and ran off. He pursued him again and
seized hold of him and handed him over to the cus-
tody of a constable, but his watch was not found.
The magistrate asked whether he saw the watch
in the prisoner's hand ?
He replied that he did not, but he distinctly saw
Lis hand leave the pocket where the watch had
been a minute before. He had plenty of opportu-
nities to pass it to any of his companions, as there
was a great crowd about,

A young man wbo uas with the prosecutor at
the time, said he saw the prisoner's right hand
leave the watch pocket, and he immediately ran off.
There were several rough-looking characters about
there, who ran away at the same time.
Police-constable 64 L said he saw the prisoner
struggling with the prosecutor shortly after six
o'c!ock, in the New Cut, and he was given into his
custody for stealing his watch. The prisoner denied
having committed the robbery.
The magistrate askel the prisoner whether be
him or going to the
sweossuilodnsplrefer being tried by

He replied that he wmlld sooner have it settled at
once. He was guilty, but it was his first offence.
Dunne, the gaoler, here informed his worship
that he was an old offender, having been several
times in custody for picking pockets, and he had
been convicted.

The magistrate said it was a very impudent rob-
bery, and he should sentence him to six months'
hard labour in the House of Correction at Wands-
worth.

Mr. Lewis, in re-examination, put questions with
a view to retort upon the defendant the charges
implied, in the cross-examination, but-was stopped
by .

WANDSWORTH.—Jamea Squires, a respect-
ably dressed man, about 30 years of age, was plite.xl
in the dock before Mr. Ingham, charged. with the
following systematic robbery of hay froma neigh-
bour's stables:—
Thos. Burstall, foreman to Mr. Wm. Simpson, a
butcher, High-street,- Wandsworth, deposed that
his employer had some stables in South-street, ad-
joining the stableyard of Mrs. Lamming, the pri-
soner's aunt. The entrance is up a narrow turning,
where there is no thoroughfare ; a'wood.en fence
divides the two yards, and the gates of each are
close together. Latterly he bad missed several
trusses of hay from Mr. Simpson's stables, and he
could not account in any 'way for their loss. At
last he marked the trusses that came into the yard,
but still they were removed, On Friday last ho
missed a truss which he had not marked, and he
consequently communicated with a constable, and
he then marked the five remaining trusses in the
stable by placing two or three pieces of stick,
which he notched with a knife, into each truss.
On Sunday he missed one of the marked trusses,
and he consequently went with the constable into
Mrs. Lamming's yard, where they found two whole
trusses of hay corresponding exactly with Mr.
Simpson's hay. In one of the trusses he discovered
the marked pieces of wood.
Mrs. Martha Lamnaing stated that she was a
widow, and followed her late husband's business,
that of a drover. Since 16th Sept. last the prisoner
who was her husband's nephew, had b -en assisting
her, and managed the stable which adjoined Mr.
Simpson's. The prisoner bought the hay as it was
required, and she always gave him the money for it.
On Wednesday last the prisoner told her he had
bargained for some hay with a man who .had a cast
—she believed for five trusses. He said ho was to
pay Os. for it, and witness accordingly gave him a
she know what bay there was in the stable.
half-sovereign. She did not see the bay, nor did
The prisoner denied the robbery, and said he had
bought the hay of a man with a cart.
Inspector Rapsley said the prisoner only came
out of gad in Sept. last, where he had been impri-
soned for six months for a robbery.at Kingston.
Mr. Ingham said he had tto doubt of the prisoners
guilt, and the probability was that he had been pur-
suing a sys'em of plunder sines he had been with
his aunt. He had n only robbed Mr. Simpson,
but he had defrauded his aunt. He committed him
for three months, with hard labour, in the Wands-
worth House of Correction.

Mr. Jardine, who obServed that the reason why
such questions were allowed to be put as regarded,
the witness was that they affected his credit, but as
the-defendant was not a witness, his ,:relit was not
at issue. .

Mr. Reginald Chancey repeated the' evidence he
had given on the former occasion. He was a lieu-
tenant in the EaSt India Company's service: He
had not a retiring pension, but an invalid, pension.
He was perfectly sure that tho note paid to Mr.
Jennings by defendant was a-whole note. If it had
been divided thatmust have been after it came into
complainant's possession.
- IVie!. Lewis Irpplied fora farther-remand in order
to bring forward Mr. Darcey, who would produce

HAmKERSMITthe son of Major Adair, of Royal-crescent, Notting
hill, was plaCed in the-dock, before Mr. Ingham,
R.—Francis. Adair, aged 17,
charged withwilfully breaking a coal-cellar iron-
`fl belonging to Mr. Henry Boyler, a gentleman
atresiding Royal-crescent.
evidencoFrom : of the complainant and his
the No. 14,
witne;seS it appeared that between 10 and 11 on
night Mr.-Boyler heard a noise in front oi
Monday
his house, and upon looking through his bedroom
window he saw several young gentlemen stand-
ing near to the opening in the pavement
loading to 'the
,coal-cellar, and the iron covering
was off. He'cotild not distinguish who thq Were,

rwr StIN, I.4ONDON, WEDNESDAY EIVF,NINO, DIMEMBE)II 20,

but upon going outside he recognised some of them
as being the sons of neighbours. The iron cover-
ing was broken and lying in the road. He accused
one of the young gen►lemen of the damage, when
the prisoner was then given into custody, and tho
complainant, at the station, offered to relinquish
the charge if ha would apologise, but he refused,
and denied that ho hal taken the plate from off
opebing. _ _ _

Mr: Martin, for the defence, declared that there
had been a misunderstanding in the words uttered
by the prisoner. He admitted that he had picked
it up, and had thrown it into the road. He denied
having said he had done it.

Mr. Ingham said the case came within the mean-
ing of the Police Act, for it was an offence to leave
open any vault or cellar, as well as not having it
properly secured. He (Mr. Ingham) had no rea-
sonable doubt that the prisoner had pulled up the
iron covering finding it was not properly secured,
and had thrown it into the road. He gave the pri-
soneri credit for admitting the fact in the first
instance, and if he had followed up that gentle-
manly conduct by apologising and promising to
repair the damage, nothing more would have
taken place. He fined him 205., and he wished all
the householders in that neighbourhood to under-
stand that Mr. Boyler was also liable for his ser-
vants not having securely fastened the plate.
The money waa paid.