The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGEXC'E.-Api•il 23.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Langabeer, a shoemaker,
living in White Rose-court, Coleman-street, attended
before Mr. Alderman Finnis, to solicit his advice
and assistance under the following circumstances :
The complainant, who was in much tribulation,
said that his daughter, a' girl 14 years old, had left
her home on the 11th of this month, and since that
time he had received no tidings of her: He feared
that she had been decoyed away to some house of
ill-fame, and was detained there against her will.
He had applied to all the inspectors of the district,
and had been out day and night with Sergeant
Leonard, a detective, endeavouring to find her, but
to no purpose. Not the slightest clue had been ob-
tained to her whereabouts. He now thought that
if publicity were given to the case, the parties who
had seduced her from her home would be afraid to
keep her when they found the magistrates were in-
terfering.

Alderman Finnis said he was at a loss to know
how he could render any assistance in recovering
the girl. Publicity might certainly be of use, and
he had no doubt the press would render its valuable
aid in such a case.

In answer to further inquiries, the complainant
said that his daughter, though only 14 years of age,
looked like • a girl of 18. She was a very fine
and beautiful girl, and might be picked up as an
attractive object for immoral purposes. She had
been apprenticed to a dressmaker, and left home as
usual on the 11th, without any unpleasantness be-
tween her and any of the family, and she was on
perfectly good terms with her mother. She was
sent out during the day by her mistress upon some
errand, and she never returned.

Alderman Finnis said it was a very distressing
case, and the complainant might depend upon every
assistance being given by the magistrates and the
police, and he would advise an application to be
made at once to the metropolitan, as well as the
City police.
The following is an accurate description of the
missing child :—Her name is Tamzen Langabeer,
but among her companions she sometimes called
herself Emma Lord, the name of a neighbour's child
she was much attached to. She is 14 years old, but
appears 18 ; height 5 ft. 2 in., fair complexion, blue
eyes, dark brown hair, round face, high colour in
her cheeks, and a scar from a burn on the right
side of her neck. When last seen had on a short
plaid frock and drawers, a black Cobourg cloak, a
mantle, and a black silk bonnet.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. E. Bletchly, surgeon, of
the City-road, waited upon the sitting magistrate,
Mr. Jardine, and made the following statement :
It would probably be in the recollection of his
worship that, about six months ago, a young man
of considerable position and education, named
Smythe, was committed from this court on a charge
of stealing a valuable bracelet from a jeweller's in
the Strand. He was tried for the offence and sen-
tenced to twelvemonths imprisonment. A young
girl who had been acokinted with the prisoner be-
fore his incarceration, and who had been permitted
to see him once or twice in the House of Correction,
in Coldbath-fields' called the other day, and
was informed that he was dead. She claimed the
body of the prisoner, with the view of having
it decently interred at her own expense, and,
incredible as it might appear to his worship, the
body was delivered up to her in a state of nudity.
In this condition it was taken to Mr. Shillibeer's,
the undertaker, whose premises adjoin the house
in which he (the applicant) is residing, and on exa-
mining it he saw upon the chest of the deceased
prisoner the mark of a blister, 14 inches long and
nine inches wide. In all his experience he had
never known anything like it. It would have been
a fearful thing to apply such a blister to a person
in health ; but placed upon a man in a weakly state,
living on bread and water, or some light food of
that description, he could not help feeling that it
was a most injudicious proceeding. Whatever
might be said in justification of this treatment of
the deceased, nothing surely could be said in de-
fence of the conduct of the prison officials, who
delivered up the body, absolutely baked, to the poor
girl, who out of sheer kindness had requested leave
to bury it.
Mr. Jardine—But are you sure this was the fact?
Applicant—Perfectly certain. I saw the body
myself in Mr. Shillibeer's yard as it was fetched
away, and I saw the girl bring in a shirt which she
had purchased, together with a bouquet of flowers
with which she intended to strew the body, and
feeling that such conduct was intolerable in a
Christian and civilised land, I felt it my duty to
lay the facts before your worship, and to ascertain
if anything was known of his relations, who moved
in a high position of life, in order that the sad fate
of the prisoner might be communicated to them.
Mr. Jardine—You are aware that a coroner's
inquest is always held upon the body of any pri-
soner dying in gaol ?
Applicant—l am quito aware of that.
Mr. Jardine—We, as magistrates, have no juris-
diction or control over the metropolitan prisons. We
commit prisoners to the gaols, and there our con-
nection with them ends. There is ample protection
ensured, however, we should think, in the constant
visits of the inspectors, visiting magistrates, chap-
lain, &c., against any possible ill-treatment of any
of the inmates, although I confess I am at a loss to
account for the delivering up of the body, as you say,
in a state of nudity.. I should advise you to com-
municate the facts, in the form of a letter, to the
visiting justices, and you may be sure that a strict
inquiry into all the alleged circumstances of the
case would follow, as a matter of course.

The applicant then thanked his worship and
withdrew.

SHAMEFUL DEFACEMENT OF PUBLIC'
STATUES.

On Saturday, at the meeting of the vestry of St.
Marylebone, Mr. Churchwarden Taverner in the
chair, Dr. Bachhoffner inquired whether any
advance had been made in discovering the per-
petrator of the recent desecration and outrage at
Marylebone and All Saints' churches. He added
that on that morning had been discovered another
most shameful outrage at the establishment with
which he was connected—the Royal Colosseum.
Although that establishment was not in Marylebone
parish he was sure they would regret to hear that
some miscreant had, during the night, got over the
railings, and in the first place knocked off the head
from the equestrian statue of the Queen, and then
smashed it to pieces on the ground, and that the
face of the figure.'of the Prince Consort, and other
parts of the statues had been shamefully
mutilated. The perpetrators of the crime had
also scratched on the walls some indecent
and obscene observations, and he had reason to
believe that the individual was the same who
had mutilated the pictures in the Marylebone
churches. He had offered a reward for the appre-
hension of the party, if possible.- -Sir James
Hamilton said the rector himself and his colleague
had, with the police, been doing all they could to
trace out the party who had committed the dese-
cration at the rectory church, and he had reason to
hope that they would be successful, and also that
the perpetrator was not in his right senses.—Mr.
Nicholay said, after the enormous sums paid for
the police, it was monstrous that these things
should occur as they did. Considering the close
proximity of the portico of the Colosseum to the
public highway, the noise which must have been
made, and the time taken to commit the depreda-
tions, the question arose as to what the police were
doing when such atrocities were being performed.
He thought an inquily ought to be instituted, and
that the police should be publicly censured. (Hear.)
—Mr. M'Evily did. not see upon what ground they
could censure the police, when they had not the
facts before them. He believed that the act was
that of some lunatic, and he trusted he would be
detected. The Chairman could assure the vestry
that the commissioners of police felt so much anxiety
about these outrages that the constable on duty
near Marylebone Church on the night of the out-
rage had been suspended. After some further dis-
cussion on the subject, the next order of the day
was moved and carried.

Before the closing of the Marylebone police court
on Saturday a man named Edwin Bailbrook, who,
at the police•station, stated that he had no settled
place of residence, was charged with having wil•
fully damaged statues at the Royal Colosseum,
Regent's Park. A considerable degree of interest
was excited in the court, which was crowded,
as the prisoner was believed to be the man
who, a few weeks ago, defaced tablets, and
did damage to a valuable picture,in Mary-
lebone Church, the particulars f which sacri-
legious outrage have already appeared. James
Brown, fOreman at the Colosseum, having deposed
to the nature of the injuries to the statues. Valen-
tine, 417 S, stated that at nine on the previous
evening he saw the prisoner near the Colosseum,
and said to him, " Have you got any chalk about
you ?" Mr. Long—What made you ask him that?
Witness—He has been in the habit of chalking
filthy words upon walls. Mr. Long—What did he
say in answer to your question ? Witness—He
made no reply. Police-constable Cook, S, deposed
that on the same afternoon, between 1 and 2 o'clock,
he and Whinkles, another officer of the division,
apprehended the prisoner close to the " Mother Red
Cap," Camden Town. He was told what he was
charged' with, and he said, " I have written upon
walls, and done so for the la4it 12 years." While
bringing him down Mary-street on the way to the
station, he pointed to several spots, saying,
mywords were
" That's writing." (The
quota-
tions from Scripture) Mr. Long—Have you any

further evidence to. proVe that the prisoner is
the guilty party ? Cook—No, Sir, not at present.
The officer produced several pieces of chalk he had
found in the prisoner's coat pocket. Witness added
that he and Dr. Bachhoffner had compared some
letters found on the prisoner, and the writing closely
resembled that which had been chalked upon the
pedestal and base of the statues of the Queen and
Prince Consort. Mr. Long inquired if there was
any further evidence, and it was stated that no
more could be adduced. Mr. Long told the pri-
soner that if he had really done the damage he had
rendered himself amenable to a severe punishment.
Prisoner—l have never written anything obscene ;
the Government have plenty of my writing in black
and white, and I hope they will hear of what has
taken place to-day. I'm not the man who damaged
either of the figures. Mr. Long gave him to under-
stand that if he did do the mischief he was, as he
before observed, liable to be punished ; but as he
had not been proved to be the guilty party, he
must discharge him, but the constables must keep
a close watch upon him.

MEETING OF THE BAKING TRADE AT
_HAMMERSMITH.

An association of journeymen bakers of Ham-
mersmith having invited the central committee of
the Baking Trade Reform Association to meet
them at the Albion Tavern, Albion-road, Hammer-
smith, the invitation was responded to on Saturday
evening last, and about 150 West-end journeymen
bakers accompanied the committee. The chair was
occupied by E. Landells, Esq., who spoke in flat-
tering terms of the conduct and management of
various bakers' meetings which he had attended.
He thought that while other operative classes had
progressed since the opening of the present
century, the bakers had retrograded. He
judged that the public were not acquainted
with the extent of the misery and degradation
under which journeymen bakers laboured, or
ere this their emancipation had been perfected.
He could tell them that they might depend on the
assistance of the press. Mr. E. Stevens, master
baker, in moving the first resolution, declared his
conviction that the prevailing system of the prac-
tical operations of the baking trade was repugnant
to civilisation and obstructive to the general pro-
gress of the operatives engaged. Mr. Blackmore,
journeyman baker, in support, argued that the
manual operations of the baking trade were incom-
patible with the system laid down by Christianity's
great founder. After freely expatiating on the
evils of the present system, he advised his fellow-
workmen not to let slip any opportunity for making
the public acquainted with their unfortunate posi-
tion. Other speakers followed in support, and the
resolution was unanimously carried. It was in the
following words :—" That this meeting being deeply
sensible of the evils resulting from the existing
mode of conducting the practical operations of the
baking trade of London, considers it highly requi-
site that an organisation of the journeymen bakers
of the metropolis should be forthwith effected, that
thereby measures adopted in the spirit of good-will
may be entered upon for the purpose of perfecting
an arrangement between masters and journeymen
for the abolition of night-work, and the limitation
of the time of labour to twelve hours per day so
that the opportunity may be afforded for recreation,
for mental cultivation, and the elevation of the
moral sentiments." Another resolution, pledging
the meeting to support the central committee, was
also carried, and a vote of thanks to the chairman
closed the proceedings.

LARGE OPEN-AIR MEETING OP

COLLIERS.

The Barnsley mining district continues in any-
thing but a settled and satisfactory state, and the
feeling between masters and men is far from being
what could be desired. About 12 months ago a
union was formed amongst the miners, but as an
opinion began to prevail that the union was losing
ground, it was resolved to call a public meeting of
the colliers of the district. Accordingly a meeting
was held on Friday, in a field near to the Oaks
Colliery. The attendance was large, and comprised
workmen from all the neighbouring collieries, who
were accompanied to the place of rendezvous by
two bands of music.

Mr. R. MITCHELL (secretary of the Miners' As-
sociation) was called to the chair, and, in opening
the meeting, said it was well known that the miners
produced a great deal of the wealth of the nation ;
but out of every twelve hours' labour, eight of them
went into the pockets of the capitalist. Before the
Workmen could elevate themselves they must be
better informed. The wealth produced by the
miners was enormous, and it was well known that
they were not sufficiently remunerated for their
labour, nor were they properly treated by their
masters. It was labour that produced capital, and
the reason that the workmen have not possessed
capital was because they had not sufficient know-
ledge, were not properly informed.
Mr. DAVIES proposed the following resolution—
" That it is the opinion of this meeting that a firm or-
ganisation should be maintained by the different mining
districts in the kingdom."

He said, in order that their unitstmight prosper they
ought to combine with each othieri.and endeavour to
put a stop to the tyranny that was practised upon
them. There was one system practised by the em-
ployers which he would like to see removed, and
that was the truck system. In order to put them-
selves in a position to get better remuneration for
their labour, they ought to organise ; and if they
only organised and were men of principle, they
might adopt means to enable them to obtain and
maintain the rights of labour.
Mr. THOMAS FORTH seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.
Mr, GEORGE ADCROFT moved the next resolu-
tion :

" That it is the opinion of this meeting that making our-
selves working capitalists by mutual co-operation is the
only means by which the full reward of our labour can be
secured or enjoyed by us."

The speaker showed that though the miners of this
country produced wealth in abundance, they were
in a most deplorable condition, and something must
be attempted and carried out before their position
in life could be elevated. He was not one who
railed against the masters, because if they were in
the same position and had been brought up as they
had, they would just have the same ideas, and carry
out the same principles. He, however, wished
workmen to act in co-operation with each other,
and then they would soon be enabled to be masters
themselves. The speaker next dwelt at some length
upon the evils which existed in this country, and
said they must be removed before the country could
be in a flourishing and happy condition. He was
opposed to strikes, and contended that they were
never of much benefit.

After some remarks from Mr. S. Woffendale in
seconding' the resolution, the chairman put it to
the meeting, when it was carried unanimously,
The meeting then separated. •

THE HANDS IN PICTURES.—In looking, the other
day, at a choice collection of engravings of the works of
Michael Angelo, Raffaelle, and other masters of a great
period of art, we were struck by the numerous instances in
which marvellous expression of the passions was given by
the disposition and character-of the hands of the figures—
a matter -which has been too little attended to by Eng-
lish painters. The practice of using the 'ordinary artists'
models for the hands by some portrait-painters has lel to
several inconsistencies between the hands and countenance,
which cannot fail to strike those who do not observe very
closely. All observance of nature, as it may be noted in
the figures which are presented in every-day sconces, shows,
in general circumstances, the somewhat firmly-clasped
hand of the man of intelligence, its slow but impulsive
working, which, if even the face were not visible, would ex-
press so much.; contrast with the listless and distended
fingers of those who are without intellectual ideas or edu-
cation, or the claw-like expression of the miserly man.
When walking in the street the palms of some hands are
presented on the line with the face, in others the reverse,
and in these varieties it will be found that the same pecu •
liarities of the hands are connected with certain physical
and phrenological developments.—The Builder.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.—The National
Portrait Gallery now includes a portrait of John Hunter,
which, although in the first instance only a copy, has re-
cently and most unexpectedly acquired something approach-
ing to the value of a unique picture. The original by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, stillin the Council-room of the College of
Surgeons, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and universally known by
William Sharpe's admirable engraving from it, is fast de-
caying. Within the last few years the whole picture has
been deepening and assuming a monotonous dingy hue. At
the present time, indeed, little oven .of the general forms
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quitting the easel, but simply from the fatal tendency
which the painter had to make experiments of his best pic-
tures, and from the injurious nature of the ingredients in-
corporated with his colours. Jackson, who understood
Reynolds better than any other artist—Northcoto not even
excepted=was fortunately no experimentalist; he painted
fairly and solidly, and, while Sir Joshua's picture was yet
brilliant and apparently sound. produced a oopy which now
may be regarded as the only satisfactory substitute. This
the trustees of the Portrait Gallery have recently obtained.
It belonged to the late Sir Charles Bell. A very poor copy
from the Reynolds picture was made for the College of Sur-
geons, and a favourable transcript of it hangs in the board-
room of St. George's Hospital, where Hunter died. Another
portrait will be exibited to the public on Monday next; it
is a foreign work, and at first sight, of no very attractive
character, although highly valuable as a careful study of a
well-known countenance. It is a life size study of the
head of Lord Nelson, taken from a different point of view
from those portraits with which we are familiar,- and
painted under peculiar influences of colour, light, and shade.
This curious record was taken by Fuger, the Director of
the Imperial Academy of Vienna, when Nelson passed
through that city on his way to England in 1800, It was
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the property of llerr Moritz von Tsohoffen, who
hadrec it from the son of the painter. Nelson was then (Sep-
tember, 1800) accompanied by Sir William and Lady Et,
milton and the Queen of Naples. The Gering} papers of
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THE ARMSTRONG GUN:

Viewed as a combination of various well-known
parts, and as an instrument for projecting shot and
shell over great ranges with precision, under
favourable circumstances, the Armstrong gun is
both a beautiful and a wonderful productior..
Nothing like the firing made with this gun at
Shoeburyness has ever before been seen. To the
artillerist it is a most pleasant sight to witness Sir
William peering through his glass at a target 1,000
yards distant, and, as the shot strikes, exclaiming
with perfect coolness, " Two low by three inches,'
or words equally indicative of nicety. But this, be
it remembered, is on the practising ground, with
carefully constructed sights, and other delicate ap-
pliances—not on board a ship in a seaway, nor in
the field of battle. How will it work there ? is
the question. Now, we must say, although not
without regret, that we have but little ground for
expecting much of this gun as an instrument of
actual warfare, either on board ship or in the field,
notwithstanding all that we have heard respecting
it. Nor, in saying this, are we in the least un-
mindful of what has been done, and is still doing,
by the Government to introduce its manufacture.
The Government have done something, and mean
to do much more in this respect, but we doubt
if the laws of nature will permit them to carry
out their designs. It is easy for the Govern
ment—and especially for the Government acting
under a " certain influence"—to knight an en-
gineer, to build new factories, to construct breech-
loading guns of the kind they are pleased to
prefer, and to promise great results to the nation.
But can Government prevent moisture rusting
metal, or rust choking up screw-threads, or lead
' clinging to rifle grooves, or any other of the evils
to which guns of this kind are liable ? It is only by
a bountiful supply of water during the firing that
the new gun is kept in good condition ; but has
field artillery never to be used where water is
scarce ? It is only by the most careful attention,
as every engineer knows, that screw-threads and
other close fitting surfaces can be kept in good order
when exposed to the weather ; but are ships at sea
never so beset by gales and storms for days together
as to render it impracticable for men to unscrew
and grease all the guns on board of them ? It has
been the habit of men in office to consider these
matters important ; it is fashionable now, for the
moment, to ignore them ; but warm lead will cling
to grooved iron, whatever our whim may be, and
oxygen will not lose its appetite for any fashion of
ours. We mention these things as warnings only,
and not with a desire to detract from. the real merits
of Sir William Armstrong's invention. Under some
circumstances the light long range cannon will
doubtless prove very useful to us, and it is possible
that the principles of its construction may prove
applicable to guns of far greater power than the
small experimental cannons which alone have
hitherto been tested. But let us not indulge in.
extravagant expectations, ov suppose for a single
moment that Mr. Whitworth and other improvers
of our artillery have any cause whatever to halt in
their patriotic labours: —Mechanics' Magazine.

COUNTRY MA.RIBTB.

LIVERPOOL-APRIL 23.

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The corn market exhibits a degree of tone to which it hall
for some time been a stranger, caused by the combined in-
fluences of the warlike turn affairs have taken on the Con-
tinent and the check to vegetation from the prevalence of
northerly winds. Exporters, local millers and dealers, and
speculators have each been operating, and this activity has
occasioned an advance of 2d to 4d per cental on wheat, 2d
to 3d on flour, and about Id on Indian corn.

CHELMSFORD—APRIL 23.
The wheat trade was very, good to-day, and the busi-
ness done was at an advance of is per qr. •ver late rates.
Barley, beans, oats, and peas were in request, at about the
previous prices.

Wheat, white 398 to 51s Peas, Partridge..4oB to 451
red 37s to 498 White -38 s to 401
Barley 30s to 40s Boiling 4os to 451
Chevalier ....32s to 43s Dun 38s to 401
Grinding 25s to 33s Beans, Tick ....368 to 391
Malt 579 to 63s Harrow Ticks 38s to 42s
Chevalier 609 to 66s Mazagan 358 to 38s
Oats 22s to 32s