The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-02 00:00:00

more fully and satisfactorily in the metropolis the
action of municipal representative institutions, and
the Bill which I propose to introduce yiiklybave a
tencigney 'to promote that object, mad itM quite
sure that it will not in any respect infringe a right-
nowhpossessed&c., by the Metropolitan Board of Works.
—I
" J. Thwaites, Esq. " W. COWPER."

In a subsequent letter to me. Thwaitcs, dated the
20th of Sept., Mr. Cowper states he considers the
proposed bill should be one to empower the Metro•
politan Board of Works to make such purchases of
property and to execute such works as- may be ne-
cessary for an embankment, with a roadway upon
it, from Westminster to Blackfriars bridge, and for
a new street thence to the Mansion-house, in accord-
ance with the plan recommended by the Royal
Commission, and out of the fund provided for that
purpose out of the proceeds of the coal dues by the
Act of last session. No control or interference with
the Metropolitan Board of Works will be created
by the bill in regard to the powers conferred upon
them by its provisions. He adds that, inasmuch as
the foreshore to be reclaimed from the river is vested
in the Crown, or the Board of Coriservancy, and the
surplus land along the shore may be required for
'public improvements, or for a public promenade, or
as sites for public buildings, he thinks it should be
so vested as to secure for Parliament a control over
its future desiination ; and he believes the best course
would be to vest it in the Commissioners of Works
and Public Buildings, on behalf of the Crown and
the public, and to provide that the proceeds of the
sale of such surplus land shall be paid into the
Embankment and Metropolitan Improvement Fund,
from which the purchase was made. This, he states,
should apply only to surplus land on the shore of
the river not required for works on the roadway,
and should not apply to surplus land obtained in
making the street from Blackfriars-bridge to the
Mansion-house.

The correspondence has since been referred to the
maw Drainage —uommittee or the Metropolitan
Board for consideration as to the course to be pur-
sued, and there the matter rests for the present,

(From as Times.)
If we desired to give Continental statesmen a
correct idea of what Englishmen understand by
"self-government," we could hardly find a better
illustration than is contained in the correspon-
dence between Mr. Cowper and Mr. Thwaites—
ono representing the Administration and the other
the Metropolitan Board of Works. It has been
decided at last to embank the Thames, and thus
at one and the same time to facilitate the execu-
tion of the main drainage scheme, save the Strand
and Fleet-street from a permanent blockade, and
relieve our thoroughfares of some of the traffic
which is now choking them. This resolution having
been* adopted, it becomes necessary to provide
authority and instruments for carrying out the
work. The instruments are at hand in the mem-
bers and officers of the Metropolitan Board ; but
the Metropolitan Board has no authority in the
matter. The funds applicable to the undertaking
are levied and received, not by the Board, but
by certain ether departments, and are raised from
districts over which the Board has no jurisdiction.
Tho shore of the Thames along which the Embank-
ment is to be carried is under a Board independent
of the Board of Works; and, besides all this, there
are many conflicting claims which Mr. Thwaites
and his colleagues would find it exceeding difficult
to satisfy. So, as the Board of Works could neither
enter upon the ground nor touch a sixpence of the
money provided for the enterprise, the First Com-
missioner proposed to bring in a bill under Govern-
ment sanction, and invest the Board with a Parlia-
mentary authority for proceeding in the business.
It is hard to conceive any proposition more natural.
Parliament alone can confer the powers required,
and Parliament can seldom be moved to good pur-
pose except with the support of the Government.
Mr. Cowper, in short, offered to provide Mr. Thwaites
in the most efficient and expeditious manner, with the
very authority which he needed, and without which
he could not stir a step. Little, however, did the
Minister think of the " rights" which he was vio-
lating, or the resentment with which his overtures
would be received. The Metropolitan Board rose
in arms, like a corporation in defence of its charter.
The liberties of the subject had been attacked;
" self-governmenVhadreccived a severe blow; sen
tralisation had been insidiously promoted, and the
citizens of London ought to stand up for their pri-
vileges. How such a view of the case could pos-
sibly be taken it would puzzle most people to com-
prehend ; in fact, we doubt if the subject could be
made intelligible to any but Englsh,readers. But
it is a fact, nevertheless, that Mr. Thwaites fought
stoutly against the Ministerial proposition. and
only yielded in the extremity of responsibility, and
then against his will.

The right" claimed by the Metropolitan Board
was the right of initiation. Of course, they wanted
powers ; and, of course, application must be made
to Parliament before those powers could be
ob-
tained. But what - had Mr. Cowper to do with
that ? The Board could apply to Parliament itself,
and intended to do so. The Board's engineers had
been making designs; the Board's surveyors had
prepared drawings; the Board was goinc, to comply
with the Standing Orders of the House ; the
Board's agents would draw the bill, and the Board's
bill would be duly introduced. Why should the
Board be interfered with ? What business had a
Minister to meddle with the matter What was to
• coine of it if Englishmen could not manage their
own Parliamentary affairs without Government in-
tervention,? Hero was a purely " local" under-
taking,
di o
fg.o, r byo b© l
executedocal" local" authority, and
taxation ; how could the inter.
tpat
ference of Government be justified in•an operation
like that ? The First Commissioner replied to these
expostulations with considerable effect. He re-
minded the Protesting chairman that this Board
light" to construct - the embank-
seeing that the work was to be exe-
hmaed rentaatl layll n o "
cuted on ground which they could not touch, and
with money which was beyond their reach. He
admitted that they could go to Parliament
themselves, but gently hinted that they might
fail to carry a measure of no common magnitude,
a good many debatable points,
l
's Government should decide
oainnndless her osr
ninp tivolrltliAajy
nniggetsitiem.
further stated that
Government might, perhaps,
their support to a bill, pre-
dheeerline Majesty'sta give
pre-
pared without their assent, and that in any case,
as the bill must ultimately owe its success to the
Ministry, it would be better that the Ministry should
introduce it. There was work to be done which
Mr. Thwaites would find it very hard to do. No
hands but those of Governthent could deal with the
knotty questions which were sure to arise, and the
Metropolitan Board would find it best to accept the
intervention of the Ministry, and take the powers
which would, be given them. When the requisite
powers had been granted, Government would leave
the work in their hands without further inter-
ference.

It will be seen from the statement in another
column that Mr. Thwaites did not yield even to
these reasonable representations _without a saving
protest as to the " rights " which the Board was
" anxious to defend ;" but what these rights are it
would puzzle anybody to discover. There is nothing
really 64 local" about such a work as the Embank-
ment of the Thames, if by that term is meant an
undertaking in which only a limited interest, is
taken by a small community. London is something
more than a town in the county of Middlesex. It
-is the metropolis of the British empire ; while, as to
the area from which the funds for the work are to
be raised,, that is certainly extensive enough to
justify more than local superintendence. The truth
is that the Beard had no "rights" in the matter,
and it had just as little power. It could not have
moved a step without the aid of that very agency
which it was anxious to repudiate. Except with
the sanction and support of Government, it could
never have carried its measure through the house,
and it was preposterous to expect that Government
should find all the power while the Board exercised
all the discretion. There was hardly a departMent
of the State which might not have had its say in
such a business as the Board would be undertaking,
and Government alone could deal effectually with
controversies like those. If Mr. Thwaites had
secured the "initiation" of the affair, he would have
wanted the First Commissioner always at his elbow,
and convenience and.prepriety alike suggested that
authority and responsibility should_ go hand in
hand. As the work must be done through the Go-
vernment, it was better it should be done by it.
We must now touch upon another point, and
suggest to Mr. Thwaites that it would be imprudent
in him to count upon much support or sympathy
from the community of metropolitan ratepayers.
His board is by no means a corporation that wo are
inclined to stand up for. We are not at all anxious
to see his authority increased or his powers extended.
The agency of the Board maybebeneticially exerted,
but it is not agreeably felt. It is perceptible mostly
in enormous rates and oppressive taxation. We
suppose the main drainage scheme will be actually
completed some day or other, but at present we
know little of it beyond its cost. The Metropolitan
Board is certainly not popular enough to fiold its
own against all rival authorities, and we would
far rather see it under some salutary control than ,
eon firmed in a deepot le authority over our thorough-
fares and purses. The best thing Mr. Thwaites and

his colleagues can do is to attend to the work which
they have already in hand. They have not made
such progress with the drainage of London as to
establish their title to all such business for the
future, and if_they are to execrate the Embankment
we hope it will be under conditions of wholesome
restraint. Of one thing we are certain, and that is,
if the First Commissioner can introduce economy
and expedition into the general administration of
the Board he will find few Londoners objecting to
his interference. Such intervention will be all the
better for us, and we shall not be in the least degree
terrified by any talk about centralisation. The long
and short of the matter is that the business is actu-
ally in the hands of Government, and Mr. Thwaites
could only get hold of it by Mr. Cowper's permission.
The Board could not move without Parliament, and
Parliament could not be moved without Govern-
ment support. Government is willing to give its
support and provide the authority which is -neces-
sary for the action of Mr. Thwaitcs and his col-
leagues. In return it will acquire a command over
the draught of the bill, and we trust that in exer-
cising this power it will consult rather the interests
of the public than the pretensions of the Metropoli-
tan Board.

DA N GER TO FOREIGNERS IN MEXICO.

The following facts are taken from the .News
Letter, issued from the office of the Mexican Ex-
traordinary, of August 28 :
On the 3d of this month the stage coach from Pachuca
arrived hero with one victim stretched dead and another in
great agony—the spark of lifo gradullly waning. The
former was a beautiful young Englishwoman of four-and•-
twenty summers, and the other a Frenchman of about forty
years of age. Both of these unfortunate people were on a
trip of pleasure to this city, and both have fallen victims of
the general anarchy of the times and the well-grown hatred
to foreigners.

The facts of the case are these :—The diligence from
'Pachuca on the 3d was exclusively occupied by foreigners
—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chawner, M. J. Delaporte, and
two Germans. Messrs. Chawner and Delaporte had with
them pistols, and Mr. Chawner, fearing robbers, advised
his wife that in case of an attack she was to throw herself
on the flior of the coach. Nothing happened to disturb
the journey until the diligence had passed Ozunabilla. A
sjiort distance this side of that post eight robbers suddenly
came up, and, without using any of their usual menaces,
fired into the coach. Mrs. Chawner, who was in the act of
following the instructions of her husband, received one of
the balls in her back, and fell wounded on the knees of her
husband. Another ball struck M. Delaporte in the breast.
Mr. Chawner, with his bleeding and dying wife on his
knees, extricated his pistol and fired one shot, which brought
down one of the cowardly assassins. The cries of his wife,
that called for his attention, prevented him firing again;
and M. Delaporte was too much stunned by his wound to
offer any resistance. The robbers, nevertheless, fired soma-
thing like a dozen shots more, but fortunately without doing
further damage, and then abandoned their murderous at-
tack. Mrs. Chawner expired some two hours before the
diligence arrived in this city, and M. Delaporte on the
morning of the sth, and both are now gathered with the
numerous population of the dead at San Fernando.

This new cold-blooded butchery would be sufficiently
horrifying could it be accounted for in any common
manner—that resistance had been offered, that the pas-
sengers had dared to oppose themselves to one of the hal-
lowed usages of the country, or that they had even re-
fused or offered to refuse to obey the oiders of a few of
Mexico's peculiar population. Nothing of the sort can be
urged in extenuation of this most foul and cowardly as-
sassination. We have heard it stated that the passengers
fired first; but this is a falsehood emanating from persons
as base as the assassins themselves. Wo have taken the
trouble to investigate as fully as has been possible the facts,
and for the present can only answer for the exactness of
those wo have before stated. A confession, or further
developments at a later day, may prove our present convic-
tion, that this is another manifestation of the general
hatred entertained for foreigners by a considerable organised
party in Mexico, and we cannot but repeat our well-
grounded fears; that if foreign governments do not change
their mode of protecting their subjects and citizens, foreign
life will be the sport of high-road and street assassins.

The Government have imposed a property tax of one per
cent. on all persons living in the district of Mexico, em-
bracing, we hear, foreigners who have applied for advice to
her Majesty's Minister, who, in a letter dated August 23,
has recommended them only to pay it on compulsion and
under protest. This was the same advice given in October,
1858, to Mr. Worrell, by Mr. Otway, who was in conse-
quence expelled from the republic at 12 hours' notice. But
this gentleman has hitherto bad no redress; the indemnity
awarded him has not been paid. Other foreigners have in
a like manner suffered, and notwithstanding an able report
on timed loans was sent to Lord John Russell over a year
ago, and obtained the assurances that the Btitish Govern-
ment would exact redress for these infringements of the
treaty, nothing has been done, and this indifference has
made bold the Mexican authorities to enforce new acts of
oppression.

We learn with great satifaction that a number of our
fellow-countrymen, resident in this city and Vera Cruz,
have raised a subscription for the purpose of presenting a
suitable tribute of gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Legrand for
their kind attention to Captain W. C. Aldham, of H.M.S.
Valorous, during his lengthened stay in their house after
the wound he received from the cowardly assassins who so
wantonly attacked him in the diligence. This considerate
act, whilst it will show to Mr. and Mrs. Legrand the warm
hearts of our fellow-countrymen, will be another proof of
the high esteem in which Captain Aldhant is held by all
who know him.

A very respectable and worthy English workman, named
Mathews, -was set upon a few nights since in the Calle de
la Providencia by two persons well dressed, and who were
at first suspected by Mathews to have been gentlemen.
They made several attempts to kill their intended
and'did in fact deal him several severe blows, and no doubt
thought they had accomplished their purpose. Mr. Mathew,
however, managed to escape, and we hear is now entirely
out of danger.
We learn from persons lately arrived from the Pacific
coast that a considerable emigration from California is now
pouring into the States of Sonora and Sinaloa. In the
latter State, and on the confines of Chihuahua, rich gold
placers have been discovered, and miners are . doing well.
The discoveries already made have induced several persons
to return to California for their families and friends, and it is
expected that larde numbers of emigrants will pour into
Sinaloa. and Chihuahua in the next few months. If the re-
ports we have. be correct —and we consider they aro well
founded—the gold discoveries on the West Coast of Mexico
aro likely to surpass those Jf California and Australia. If
so we shall soon have the corresponding revolution hero,
and Mazatlan will become the second, if not the first port on
the West Coast of America.

It is stated in a journal of Ciudad Victoria that the metals
now being extracted from the mine of Revillagigedo, near
that city, yield from six to eight ounc?s of puro rilver per
carga of 12 arrobas, and that as much as 25 ounces have
been taken from some of the metals. The mine can be easily
worked, but want of capital embarrasses operations, and
little is doing with a mine that might produce an enormous
amoant of silver every year. Want of security is the great
drawback 'to every good enterprise in the country at the
present time. With a foreign intervention capital would
not bo wanting to work many rich mines that aro now
abandoned in different parts of the country.
On the night of the 11th, early in the evening, a French-
man was assaulted by an assassin in the First San Fran-
cisco. The assassin struck a fearful blow with a long
poniard aphis intended vietim, but the Frenchman warded
the first blow with his umbrella, which was cut nearly
through the stock. A second blow left a considerable wound
in the wrist of the assailed, who then made his escape. The
night was dark and rainy at the time, and it was imp'.ssible
to tell whether the assassin was alone or accompanied by
others. It is-needless to add that no arrests were made.

Isidro Diaz, ex-Minister of Mirarnoa and accompliace in
the robbery of the British Legation, for which crime ho
has been for some time undergoing trial, has been declared
innocent ! Perhaps this trang incident may lead to an
idea of how other judgments have been obtained.

A party of brigands have been for some time plying their
trade within the walls of this city by robbing the diligence
for the interior. The other morning an ambuscade was set
for them and resulted in a skirmish, in which one of the
passengers was wounded and a sleeping watchman killed.
No harm was done to the actual combatants.
The Padre Celostino, a Spanish friar, who has distin-
guished himself in the last few months, as chief of a small
party of cut-throats and robbers in and about the Valley,
has been arrested in this city. The probabilities are he
will be pardoned, through the venality of some judge and
the indifference of the Government.

The custom houso of Vera Cruz is reported to be filled at
present with foreign merchandise, and for the accommoda-
tion of the importations, now on the sea, new storehouses
must be taken. The want of demand in the interior, the
insecurity of thp-road 3, the late extra impost of 15 per cent ,
and the scarcity of money in the port to pay*the duties, are
the causes of this anomalous state of affairs. Tho Indians
near Ixmiquilpan have raised the cry of " Death to the
Whites," and a few days ago entered that town and mur-
dered some 20 persons. The ingests have induced them to
believe that the whites aro opposed to their religion. Tho
t)wn of Atotonilco el Grande, near Pachuca, has been
burned by one of the clergy bands. Tlie bands of Galvan
and Castillo lately sacked the post on the Cuernavaca road,
known as the Guarda. They robbed the people down to their
clothing, and shot one unfortunate person because he could
not give them a sum of money. M. Paul Dairo, a French-
man, was assassitialed a few days ago between this and
Cuernavaca. A drscus,,i,ai is going on in the
Apers about the establishment of a dictatorship.
According to the past chromic changes of govern-
ment in Mexico, it • is about time for us to
have another trial of this style of government.
The prefect of Yautepec, Don J. M. Lara, has been assassi-
nated by the Plateachs, a party of bandits who ignore all
political distinctions and rob Without any.mask. The ex-
tensive property of Mr. Pradel, an American citizen, sita•
1/4
ated near the Llano de Salazar, and comprising a glass fao.
tory, a distillery, a brewery, and several other iAtilotriai

establishments, has beet'burned by one of the political'
bands. Olavarria, a Spanis:q clergy chief, has been taken
4
and shot, On the night of the 4th a shot was fired at the
French minister, M. de Saligny, Nvhicli came near doing
serious injury. The object of this aft, ek is not }mown, and
many rumours are afloat. Some say it
,is another demon-
stration of the general hatred for foreigners. Others think
the attack was for some personal reasen.

THE MURDER A 7 BIRIVIIVGIIIV.
THE INQUEST.

BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY.
This evening an inquest was held on the body of
the unfortunate woman,. Anne Walker, who was
murdered on Sunday last by John Thompson, with
whom she had cohabited. The inquiry took place
before J. B. Davies, Esq., at the Hope and I.'l.nchor,
Coleshill-street. The prisoner was present.
The first witness examined was Sarah Berris,ford,
who deposed that she was a single woman, living
in Tanter-street, and several young women lodges,'
with her. Deceased was a married woman, and had
three children ; but having parted from her hus-
band she had lately lived as housekeeper to the
prisoner Thompson, at Sutton Coldfield. On Satur-
day night last deceased asked her (witness) if they,
meaning herself and prisoner, could have a bed, as
it was too late for them to go to Sutton. After hesi-
tating some time she consented. The following day
deceased and prisoner went out twice for a walk
together. The second time the deceased returned at
three o'clock alone, and asked witness if sho might
go and lie down for half an hour, and she appeared
rather the worse for liquor. Deceased then went up
to bed, and in a few minutes after the prisoner en-
tered the house and said, " Where's Anne ?" Wit-
ness replied that she had gone to lie down—uyon
which the prisoner walked out of the house, but
returned in five minutes, and went up to the bed-
room in which deceased was lying. Witness, in a
quarter of an hour 'afterwards, had occasion to go
upstairs, and when she went into the room occupied
by the deceased and the prisoner she saw the latter
on his knees rubbing deceased's arms, which had
been hurt by a fall. Prisoner said to deceased, in a
kindly tone, " Will you go home, Anne ?" when she
replied; " No, I won't yet." Witness then left:the
room and went down stairs, but, hearing a scream,
she returned again, and saw deceased lying on her
back, bleeding, and heard her say " I said I would
go with him" two or three times. The prisoner
was standing about a yard off with a knife
in his hand, and it was covered with blood, and he
said, several times, " I have done it." Witness then
ran down stairs crying " Murder," and went to look
for a policeman, and, having found one, she went for
a doctor. The deceased was pregnant at the time
of her death.

The prisoner, on being asked if he had any ques-
tion to put, said, " No; but she has said a good deal
that is true, besides a good deal that is not true."
Elizabeth Green said she lived in the house be-
longing to the last witness, and on Sunday after-
noon last was sitting in the kitchen when she heard
a noise upstairs. She went up a few steps and met
Sarah Berrisford coming down, exclaiming " Good
God ! the man is killing the woman." Witness
went up into the room from which the noise and
screams came, and saw the deceased lying on her
back on the floor, and the prisoner kneeling over her
passing a knife across her throat several times.
There were no other persons in theroom but Thomp-
son and deceased. She had not heard any quarrel-
ling between them during the time they were in tha
house. She saw the prisoner enter the house and
go upstairs the last time, and he did not appear to
be drunk. She (witness) slept in the next bed to
prisoner and deceased on Saturday night, but heard
no altercation between them.

William Carless deposed that he was passing
along Stafford-street on Sunday afternoon last when
he heard a cry of murder proceeding from a house
in Tanter-street. Ile went to the place, when two
young women directed him upstairs. He went up
to the bedroom where he saw the prisoner standing
and the deceased' lying on the floor bleeding. Wit-
ness said to the man " What have you done this
for," at the same time mitching hold of him by the
coat. Prisoner replied " I have done it," and then
handed him a pocket-knife stained with blood. A
police-officer then entered the room, and took the
prisoner into custody. Could not say whether de-
ceased was alive or dead at the time.

Other evidence having been given, the jury,
after deliberating an hour, returned a verdict of
wilful murder against the prisoner.

THE BILSTON MURDER.

EXAMINATION OF THE ACCUSED.

Yesterday the five men who have been arrested
on suspicion of being concerned in this murder
were brought up at the Bilston Petty Sessions, be-
fore the Rev. IL S. Fletcher and Mr. J. N. Bag-
nall. Their names are 'William-Jones, alias Mul-
ligan, Thomas Lilley, Thomas Jukes, Samuel Bills,
and Ezekiah Webb. None of them are more than
25 years of age. They have all been under the
ban of the police, and Jones was sentenced to four
years' transportation for a burglary in Bilston
about seven years ago. He has been home about
three years, but in Bilston only about a fortnight.
There is no doubt about his being the man who was
convicted on that occasion under the name of Mul-
lighan, and that he is an Irishman from the county
Mayo. Lilley is of a slender but wiry frame, has
red hair, and has a black eye. This is the man who
describes himself as a hawker, of Birmingham.
Ever since his arrest he has expressed much indig-
nation at being in custody, and yesterday he mani-
fested much violence of temper While in the dock.
He entered the court smiling, and in the dock
cracked jokes, and looked round to the general
audience in the court for approbation. The police
have reason to believe that he has been in the Royal
Artillery, from which corps it is thought to be not
unlikely that he has deserted. The other prisoners
seemed somewhat more impressed with the gravity
of their position. The men are all of low stature;
and do not look older than they have represented
themselves to be. Bills was defended by a barrister.
Majoi• M'Knight, the deputy chief constable of
Staffordshire; informed the bench when the case
was called on that he proposed only to show that
Jones had been apprehended with property in his
possession. belonging to the murdered man, and
teat the other prisoners were in company with him
on the night of the murder.
Lilley, in an impertinent tone, said that he wished
his case to be gone on with, for he could show that
he had nothing to do with the offence, and, although
he was informed that he would probably be re-
manded with the rest, continued to interrupt the
magistrates.
_ _

Niice-constable Ilirrison then deposed to seeing
three men walking along the high road from Daisey
Bank. Jones was one of the three, and was walk-
ing behind the other two. One of the three, but
not Jones, had some clothes across his arm. He
attempted to arrest them, and they ran off, the man
who was carrying the clothes throwing them down.
He knew one of the other men. After following
them a short distance ho returned to the spot where
the things were thrown down, accompanied by
another officer. After removing the clothes to a
place of safety they watched the spot. Presently
Jones returned, and he and the other officer arrested
him, and with some difficulty got him to the station.
The clothes were new from a clothier's shop, and
there was also a coat that had been worn, and had
a pair of gloves in the pocket. All these had been
identified as the 'property of the deceased. Jones
also had in his pockets Bs. sd. and a set of studs
that it could be shown had not long ago been sold
to the deceased. When ho asked Jones }how he
could account for the studs ho said lie did not know.

Jones, who hail before frequently interrupted the
witness by impugning his accuracy, remarked,
" You are a liar ; I never spoke to you about them."
The landlord of the' King's Arms Hotel deposed
that he could identify all the prisoners but Webb
as being• in his spirit shop up to within a few mi-
nutes of 12 on Saturday night. When he attempted
to put them out one who was not present made a
violent threat to murder him.
Miss Lewis also identified Webb.

Mr. Claydon (Bills's barrister) asked to be allowed
to tender evidence showing that Bills, on leaving
the King's Arms, went home, and remained there
till he was arrested.

The Magistrates remarked that an opportunity
for calling this evidence would bo afforded after the
remand, but at present there was sufficient evidence
to justify a remand, and they could not therefore
receive it.
The prisoners were then formally remanded,
and the police were about to remove them from
the dock, when Lilley shouted out, " Hold hard;
take your time ; here, what am I to be sent
back for P I want •to produce. my witness."
Then addressing himself to one of the policemen,
he said, " Here, you give me that waistcoat you
took from me." The officer had to take him forcibly
from the dock, and as ho was being removed down-
stairs he struck at one of the officers, and made a
desperate effort to escape. Jones also stoutly resisted,
but he was in the clutches of Major M`Knighf., where
he was held as in a vice.

The effort of the men to escape created grcat ex-
citement in the court. They were evidently despe-
rate fellows.

®TJIE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The herring fishe;/
is now, being actively prosecuted off the eastern coast. Two
or triree 'boats have come into Yarmouth with about eight
lastS of their owncatcb, but recent heavy weather at sea
has caused some boats to seek harbours nearer the fishing
grounds than Yarmouth. Prices have ranged from .Cl,O
to
£25 per lest, according to quality. Soree of the long shore
beats have landed at Yarmouth several thousand ash,
which, itaw xcalitoecl 60e t 9 78, per 100,