The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-08 00:00:00

This witness admitted she had been to the board-
ing-house spoken of to see if the prisoner could be
received there, but denied that she had made any
arrangements for them to take him. She had heard
at that house that such men as the prisoner might
be bought in his own country for two and six-
pence, but she never heard that he had been bought
or offered for sale at Genoa. She sent two cabmen
pleased. When he got upon the roof she
up to him to get him to go with them to the hos-
pital, ifehewould give Ns. to any one who would
fetchsaidsh
him down. Her remaining evidence went to
show that when the poor fellow got on the roof a
regular hunt took place, and, to use the words of
one witness, he was " started" from his hiding-place
with various missiles, and a large crowd assembling,
the police were asked to go up, and after the pro-
secutor, a City constable, had struck at him, first
with his staff and then with an inspector's stick, he
got out on the roof, and prisoner, who had a knife,
attacked and stabbed him in a great many places ;
he was then surrounded and beaten before they
could get him off the house. He was then taken
into custody, and, as one of the constables said, pre-
tended to be insensible. The statement of the pri-
soner when at the Mansion-house, that he bad been
sold to Copello, who tried to sell him again, was
then put in and read. He there stated that he had
been hunted by so many that he thought he was
again going to be taken back to slavery.
Mr. Sleigh made a most energetic appeal to the
jury, contending that the interference of the police
was not strictly legal, and that the prisoner had
only acted in his own defence.
The learned Judge, in summing up, commented
upon the manner in which Maggi and his wife had
given their evidence, and, pointing out to the jury
the unhappy condition of the prisoner, told them
that if they thought the prisoner had done no more
than he thought was necessary to protect himself
from being taken on board ship to be returned to
slavery, it was their duty to acquit him.
The jury immediately returned a verdict of not
guilty, which was followed by a loud and hearty
burst of applause, which was not rebuked by his
Lordship.
His Lordship said that the society
most praiseworthily in taking up-the prisoner's de-
fence, and' that the City had done their duty in
prosecuting the case.
Mr. Sleigh said it was through the exertions of
Colonel Hughes that the defence had been got up.
The foreman of the jury said they had no doubt
but that it was intended to kidnap the man.

GREAT HORTICULTURAL GARDEN AT
B.ROMPTON.

One of the most important meetings which ever
the Horticultural Society held took place yesterday
in the rooms of the Society of Arts, John-street,
Adelphi, for the purpose of considering the accept-
ance from theßoyal Commission eriof the Exhibition
of 1851 of an offer of - -20 acres of land between
Brompton, and Kensington-gore, for the purpose of
constructing a horticultural summer and winter
garden in that highly influential locality. The chair
was taken by the Earl of Ducie, and among the
noblemen and gentlemen present Were the Duke of
Leinster, Sir John Ramsden, Mr. Heywood, Sir
Peter Pole, Mr. Wentworth Dilke, Mr. Cole, Mr.
H. G. Bohn, Mr. Pownall, chairman of the Mid-
dlesex Sessions, Colonel Challoner, Dr. Conolly, Dr.
Hogg,. &c. The noble chairman having opened the
proceedings by a brief review of the history and
decline of the society, and the necessity of some-
thing being done to resuscitate it by obtaining a
more commodious plot of ground in the immediate
vicinity of London than that at Chiswick, called
upon Dr. Lindley. He stated the conditions upon
which the Commissioners would grant the land to
the society, which were as follows :—Between the
two roads already named there is a plot of ground of
about 20 acres, and it is proposed to convert it into
a horticultural establishment, having summer and
winter gardens, with Italian arcades, at a cost of
£lOO,OOO. The Commissioners agree to provide
£50,000 and, the Horticultural Society £50,000.
The society will not be called on to pay
any rent except on the following conditions :
After the -society" has paid all the expenses, which
will include interest at 5 per cent. on £50,000 deben-
ture stock, aticr3,l,ooo a-year for the Management of
a portion of Ch;swick grounds as an experimental
'garden, any surplys that may be left will go for rent
up to a certain point. Should the profits reach the
sum of £2,000, the society claim that as rent, or any
smaller sum ; but should there be small profits, or
no profits at all, the Commissioners will be content,
and every year's income will satisfy the rental
claims. Should, however, the profits go beyond
£2,000 a-year, the super-surplus is to be equally
divided between the Royal Commissioners and the
Horticultural Society. The lease to be granted for
31 years, after which period the whole of the pre-
mises revert to the _ Commissioners. Dr. Lindley

explained the plan of the proposed garden terraces,
and directed the attention of the meeting to a series
of very beautiful drawings and photographs of the
proposed designs. Mr. W. Dilke read a long list of
the nobility and gentry of the surrounding locality
who expressed their desire to render every pecuniary
support to the scheme. The matter was very fully
discussed, and the Council of the society was em-
powered to carry on tke negotiations, and the fol-
lowing letter was read from his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, which elicited the most enthu-
siastic cheers, and also one from the Royal Com-
missioners containing the proposed terms :
" Buckingham Palace, July 7-
"My Lord;—l have• received the commands of her Ma-
jesty the Queen, and of his Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, to inform you that in the event of the plan being
carried out for the establishment of the garden 'of the Hor-
ticultural Society of London upon the estate at South Ken-
sington, belonging to the Royal Commissioners of the
Exhibition of 1851, it is the intention of her Majesty and
of his Royal Highness to make donations towards the exe-
cution of this undertaking of £l,OOO and £5OO respectively.
It is also the intention of her Majesty, should it be in
accordance with the rules of the society that parents or
guardians should purchase life memberships for children
or persons not yet of age, to place the name of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales and the younger Princes and
Princesses upon the list of life members. I have further
the pleasure of informing your lordship that I am autho-
rised
by her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick
Wil-
liam of Prussia, Princess Royal bf England, to ITo
se a
the intention of her Royal Highness to become owl
life member.
" I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most
obedient humble servant,
' The Earl Ducie, &c

«C. B. PHIPPS?,

for Cattle is now
—atTtrhac°rtl:res attentionF of the farmer,
beginningbreeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting
care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high
ground as a benefactor tothese interests ; and notwithstand-
ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled
against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted
EtvEurtcrsaEcuriEcuaNri.y]
value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest.
Experience hasp roved, 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 upon its efficacy, fancying he possessed
in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed
andfatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by 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
1 all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely submitted
to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will b.
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 affair application
of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present
unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene-
ral 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,
healthbeside
possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the
atonie
and increasing the physical power of all animals, is
ther
with their o
and gentle stimulant, and when mixed
niatter of
food, materially assists their digestive powers--a
ot that the
is dou fa
great consequence, since it an un
food is lost, conse-
quentn in their ordinary
t' nof the digest**
upon the impaired or defective acagcularly
beneficial
organs ; it will also be found to be p
in restoring to good working
condition horses which have
from disease, or are
been over-worked, or bec?me, weak
naturally of a feeble constatoti
on. In cows its effects are
undoubted, indeed almost-- marvellous, nearly doubling the
• tlt th fi a e same une enriches
yield of milk and butter, whilst
In pig its fattening qualities are still
the quality of both.. p
in a
remarkable, displaying few weeks its manifest
more
veil other kind of compound or mann-
superiority over e .
th
factored food adopted
that
in efeeding of swine. Such has
been its marked success, 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
nrizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded.
file patronage of Royalty, of onr 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 se
highly-favoured a compound, on a continuation of such
high and distinguished patronage.