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London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

THE A SUN, LOND'ON THURS DAY EVrNENG, OCTOBER 22

had said, Fear nothing, I will watch day and
night , sleep quietly, and the moment danger
approaches I will be with you.' We implicitly re-
ied on him, and my husband having issued some
necessary orders for the night to a native officer of
the 2d retired to rest. At 11 o'clock that night
Booran returned to us, and said we must prepare to
leave, as the cavalry were again arming. My hus-
band, hastily commending us to his care, left us to
make preparations to man the bridge between the
cavalry and infantry lines, and Beoran, placing us
in a country cart and covering its open front and
back with sheets, in the fashion practised by the
families of Mussulmans when travelling, armed
himself, and, mounting his horse, proceeded at our
side to a place some 30 miles distant, where we
halted for a time. We continued the journey for
several successive days, till we reached Ahmednug-
gur, and he endeavoured the whole time, by the
most vigilant attention and kindness, to lessen the
discomforts of the road. In the course of the four
or five days I several times offered him a bag of
rupees, which I begged, nay, besought him to take
and use as freely for his own wants as for ours, but
I could only persuade him to take very small sums
from time to time, as they were requireclifor our
expenses. Again and again, in the course of our
subsequent intercourse, knowing him to be much
embarrassed by a large and unavoidable addition
to his usual expenses, I begged him with great
earnestness to allow me to relieve his necessities, or
even (as I foundit impossible to induce him to listen
to this proposal) to accept any sum he might re-
quire for a time, and till, possibly, he
might be in better cirounastances ; he said it would
be a great disgrace ' to him to accept money
from me, and that he only_ desired that his
name might be good' among the English, and
neither by tears nor entreaties could I ever
persuade him to change his mind. I had some
difficulty in inducing him even to accept as a
memorial a ring of little value which I chanced
to have on my finger when I bade him farewell,
but the tears streamed from his eyes when I told
him I felt I owed him more than I ever could re-
pay, and that to the latest hour of my life I should
consider him one of my most valued friends. Since
the above circumstance occurredßooran's house has
been burnt down, as it is supposed, by some one
inimical to the English. "Up to the time I left India,
about 2 months ago, this good and true-hearted man
had not been promoted, but I hope and trust he
may be so ere long, for surely both policy and gra-
titude would suggest that in times like these no in-
stance of fidelity and attachment on the part of the
Indian soldier to the English should fail to be both
publicly and privately recognised and rewarded.

We (Daily News) are permitted to publish the
following letter : .
Calcutta, Sept. —.
In my last letter to you I alluded to the fact
that sundry of the natives who had been appointed
to judicial offices in those parts of India which are
now in a state of insurrection have been exercising
their functions by hanging their official superiors
and other Englishmen who have been so unfortu-
nate as to fall into their merciless hands. The mode
in which some of these murders were committed
shows how utterly unfit these natives are to be
trusted with thepower over Englishmen which it was
proposed by the authors of the Black Act to confer on
them. In some cases, it is said, when the victims were
brought up for their mock trial, the question was
asked whether any one could state anything against
them ? The answer that the prisoner had beer,
known to do some act contrary to the injunctions
of the Mahomedan or Hindooreligion was sufficient
to produce the order to hang, or otherwise put to
death, the Feringhee Soor. I do not mention this
as an instance of cruelty on the part of these people.
If I wished to do that I could relate things regard-
ing the treatment of women and children that would
make the blood curdle in your veins'• but I men-
tion it to connect it with another fact, and that is,
that although the natives of the country, and the
Mahomedans especially, in the most marked way
by acts of the direst and most insulting cruelty ex-
hibited in the day of their power the hatred that
they bear against our race, yet the Bengal and Agra
governments continue to confer offices and power
upon them. The appointments and increase of
powers are regularly gazetted, and men who only
want an opportunity to follow the example of some
of the up-country native officials are, to the disgust
of all unconnected with this rotten government,
placed in positions from which every one of their
class should be at once displaced. Some of these
appointments are perfectly absurd. It is hardly cre-
dible, yet it is the fact, that the Calcutta Gazette
of July 15 announces appointments of five Maho-
merlans to the office of principal sudder ameers of
Cawnpore, Moradabad, Furrackabad, and Bareilly
the whole of the_e places and the surrounding coun-
try being then in the power of the thew gents. But
those who have the influence to direct the Govern-
ment would rather do anything
than a.elcnovrleage
the error tiaiwy have commutedcommutedin the employment
of the natives in preference to Englishmen out of the
exclusive covenantedservice of the East India Com-
pany. This country, instead of being regarded as
the conquered dominion of England, has been ruled
as if it was a petty borough for the exercise of the
East India Company's patronage. The servants
of that company, in their selfish feeling, have
taught th*natives to despise uP, and the natives '
have learned their lesson we'l. We trust, however,
that the East India Company's rule is comink to an
end—that the people of England, aroused by the
murder of their countrymen, the gross insulting
barbarity practised against Englishwomen, and the
fiendish torture of children in their parents' sight,
will at last insist upon the inquiry which indepen-
dent Englishmen in this country have so often
asked for in vain. A petition, numerously signed,
in three days is going home by this mail, praying
the Houses of Lords and Commons to remove the
government from the East India Company, and
substitute the government of the Queen, with an
open legislative council suitable to the require-
ments of the country, compatible with British su-
premacy, Queen's courts, presided over by trained
lawyers, and English the court language. If we
get this, there will be swept away from the admi-
nistration, or mal-administration, of justice, not
only a number of incompetent men of an exclusive
service, but- crowds of natives unfit in times of
peace, but traitorous in times like the present.
People in England who know nothing of this coun-
try must find it difficult to understand why a pre-
ference has been given to natives over Englishmen
in the disposal of judicial offices, but we who re-
side in India have no difficulty in discovering rea-
sons for this. If Englishmen were generally em-
ployed in the uncovenanted services, awkward
questions would frequently arise as to the reason
why a qualified Englishman, performing the office
of a judge under one name, should receive some-
times less than one quarter the salary drawn by
another Englishman in the exclusive service who
was performing a similar office under another name.
I do not attempt to give you the news—you will
learn that probably from your own correspondent
and from the overland papers, one of which (the
Englishman) I send you. All hope of Lord Can-
ning, who had energy to gag the press, but not to
remove an incompetent general, may be recalled.
The date of the following letter is a few days
later than that of the preceding :
I offer no apolosy fur troubling you with another
letter, because I know you will agree with IBC
in thinking that in the present state of affairs
in India, and with a gagged press, it is the duty
of every man residing here to make known at home,
through the medium of his friends in England, those
facts which the government will not disclose. No
one whose opinion is worth anything believes that a
restriction was placed on the Ern lisp press because
it published matter that was dangerous to the inte-
rests of England. The belief is that those in power
feared unrestricted comment on their own folly and
imbecility, and the effect which suzh comment
would have in England. The consequence is that
every Euglish resident of Calcutta writes home a
political price current, and I address you because I
do not know anyone to whom I could wore usefully
write at the present crisis. You will perhaps be
surprised that there should exist a feeling of insecu-
rity in th:s town of Calcutta, yet such is the case,
and many people are in consequence sending their
families home. I do not partake in this feeling to
the extent that I observe in others, but at the sane
time I can well account for itsexistence. The safety
of the town is left to people in whom the inhabi-
tants (I speak of the Europeans) have no confidence.
The public have no voice, no influence, in directing
the arrangements for their own protection. It was
not until the government found that unless they
embodied the volunteer guard the Europeans would
band themselves and make their own arrangements
for mutual, protection, that that step was taken.
Until then they were told, with but sliglat courte:y
to depend on Mr. Wauchope, the Commissioner of
Police, and his myrmidons ; the native pertion of
ff .
which are suspected not without reason, of disa es-
tion. I will give you an instance of the little reli-
ance that is to be placed in the vigilance of this
official. Fortunately for him he belongs to that ex-
elusive service in which incapacity is not a disquali-
fication.the editori—allfeeowludmasyos of
thego statementaEnglishman
that 1,000 stand of arms had been purchased by a
native in Calcutta. The s
tothe appearedeffeiciti
satement attracted the
at-
tention of the government,and Mr. Waucbope, as
Oommissioner of the Police,
on the matter. He did report
twtahs directed to report
taken place, and that so large
aatenloe such sale had
not have escaped the observationa or
thearms could
This os-hand way of treating the matter police.
. was
not considered satisfactory, and he was directed
to make inquiry and then report. Re sent in a
second reports stating there was no foundation for
the statement made in the Englishman. Somehow

or 'another this did not exactly satisfy Lord Can-
nil ig, or it may have been that he was desirous of
vv siting with his displeasure the originator of the
report. The report was traced to Mr. A. G. R—.,
this gentleman who succeeded Mr. C. in charge of
the Military Orphan Press; he was called upon to
a ccount for having assisted in spreading the report,
ai id he gave, as his authority, our friend Mr. D—,
at id from him, at last, Lord Canning has learned
the truth of a matter which escaped the vigilance,
or perhaps was concealed by the treachery, of the
police. Messrs. T. E. T. and Company a short
time ago received a consignment of 1,000 Enfield
rifles, complete with all apparatus. D., hearing of
this, went to purchase four of them, and was then
told that the whole 1,000 had been sold together
to a native. He talked about it as a strange cir-
cumstance, and so it got into the columns of the
Englishman, and to the knowledge of every one in-
terested in the fact except the Commissioner of Po-
lice, whose business it was to know it. Can you
wonder after this that there is a feeling of insecurity
in Calcutta ? You are aware how, of late years, the
government of Bengal, with Halliday at its head,
has sought to advance the natives, and place them
in offices of trust and authority not expressly re-
served for the members of the East India Company's
covenanted service. Well, among others of these ap-
pointments, they have been placed in charge of the
post-office throughout the country, the security of
which has not been improved by the change. It was
discovered the other day that one of these native
postmasters had been opening letters and making
use of their contents for seditious purposes. He was
banged by a military officer. But how many are
undetected. . . . Do you remember a work
that appeared several years ego, called "Revela-
tions of an Orderly, by Panneh Kowrie Khan,"
exposing the abuses of the Company's courts ? Its
author was a Mr. Wyatt, one of the oldest and
most respected of the uncovenantad judicial officers
of Government. The poor man has been hanged
by the Kotwal, a Mahomedan, at Bareilly. This
man has given the Government another practical
lesson of the trust that ought to have been reposed
in the natives. Besides poor Mr. Wyatt, this ras-
cally native official put Mr. Robertson, the judge,
Dr. Hansborough, and Dr. Hay (son-in-law of the
late lieutenant-governor, Mr. Thomason), on their
trial, and caused them also to be hanged. Will the
people of England, after they come to the know-
ledge of such facts as these, suffer their country-
men in this land to be subjected to the jurisdic`ion
of courts presided over by natives ? I hope not,
and that you and other good men will bestir them-
selves to prevent a repetition of the attempt.
Similar sentiments are expressed in the following
letter :

Calcutta, August, 1857
You will have read, I doubt not, with intense
interest, the dreadful accounts that have gone home
by this last two or three mails. I thank God,
matters are brightening now a little. But it is
fearful to think of the imbecility and indecision
that have marked, and still rule in many quarters,
the councils and acts of our governors and of men
holding important commands. Gen. Giant is leav-
ing for Madras at this moment, under a salute from
the guns of Fox t William, and he goes terribly dis-
gusted, I hear, at the opposition he has met with
from Government in the plans be proposed to meet
the present crisis. Sir C. Campbell, I believe, is a
man not likely to allow himself to be snubbed, and
one may expect to see something like energetic
measures being adopted soon. We have been peti-
tioning for martial law for Calcutta and neighbour-
ing districts, but have not yet got it. The Mohur-
rum commences to-day, and the volunteers, of which
I am a humble member, have lots of duty before
them.

MIDDIESEX SESSIO NS.—Oct. 21.

(Before Mr. Creasy.)

James Harris, a boy, and Williatn Snoxhill, 20,
were indicted for a mis lemeanour. The charge
was framed under the 3d and 4th Victoria, c. 97,
sec. 15, which enacts " That every person who shall
wilfully do, or cause to be done, anything in such
manner as to obstruct any engine or carriage using
any railway, or to endanger the safety of any per-
son conveyed in or upon the same, or shall aid or
assist therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the
discretion of the court before which such person
shall have been convicted, to be imprisoned, with
or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding
two years." The offence charged against the pri-
soners was that they did unlawfully discharge a
loaded gun at a train, with intent to endanger the
safety of the persons the❑ passing along, and being
upon the Great Northern Railway, near Potter's-
bar, in this county.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Poland defended
Harris.

The younger prisoner, when called upon to plead,
said, "I am not guilty, for I only fired at a bird
over a quick hedge and didn't mean to hit the
train." Snoxhill said he was there by accident,
and had nothing to do with the gun.
From the evidence of several witnesses it ap-
peared that on the 2d instant a ballast train was ou
its way towards London on the Great Northern
Railway-15 platelayers and labourers being in
the break van. About a mile from Potter's-bar
there are two cuttings, with a short piece of level
between them, and, as the train emerged from
one and was entering the other, a gun was fired,
and the persons in the break were startled by a
number of shots striking the side. On looking
out they saw the prisoners in a field, the
younger one with the gun in his hand, and the
other pointing to the train and laughing. The train
was stopped at Potter's-bar, and on an examination.
of the break twelve shot marks were found. The
gun had been charged with small stones, about the
size of peas, and several were extracted from the
side of the break, having penetrated nearly half an
inch. The under guard, who had charge of the
break, ...a ee-eLai. LA. Ut Intel, went back to where
the gun was discharged, and there they found the
prisoners, who were taken into custody. The gun
was then loaded with small stones.
The defence set up by Mr. Poland was that the
boy was sent into the field to scare birds with the
gun, and was entrusted with powder, but not shot ;
that, seeing a bird on a hedge, he put a handful
gravel and small atones into the gun and fired,
when the train came out of one cutting, and be-
fore it completely entered the otherAttle contents
struck the break, which was at the end of the
train.

The jury, after the learned Judge bad summed
up, adopted the view suggested for the defence,
and acqu:ted the prisoner.
Mr. Creasy quite concurred in the verdict, and
sail sucl a boy as Harris ought not to be entrusted
with a gun, and he hoped would not he again.
Joseph Knight and William Cole were indicted
for having st•..len eight coil sacks, the property of
1.4? a, and Co., coal merchants, of Highbury, and
other places.

_ -
Knight pleaded guilty.
Colt was found guilty.
Mr. Creasy deferred the sentence.
Mr. Poland prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton appeared
for Klight ; Mr. Metcalfe for Cole.

POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 21.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Charles Stewart Mills, a
young nail of about twenty years of age, formerly
clerk to Mr. A. T. Hewitt, so!icitor, of Nicholas-
lane, wts brought before the Lord Mayor upon re
mand it custody of Huggett, the detective officer,
charged with having feloniously forged and uttered
a cheque of his master's for 2501., with intent to
defraud Messrs. HankeY and Co., the bankers.
Mr. Mullen, solicitor to the Committee of
Bankers for Protection from Forgeries and Frauds,
again appeared in support of the prosecution.
The prisoner was not defended by a legal adviser.
Mr. Hewitt, the prosecutor, was further exa-
mined, and said—l now produce my cheque book.
The forged cheque for 2501. fits with the counterfoil
at the end of the book. When I was out the pri-
soner ;lad access to the drawer in which the cheque-
book was locked. About once in every six mouths
it was the prisoner's duty to sort the cancdled
cheques tnd tie them up in a bundle. I have missed
several cheques from that bundle. I cannot say
whetherthe body of the cheque is in the handwrit-
ing of tte prisoner, but it certainly looks like it. I
have extmined the 1001. note produced and the 501.
note numbered 40,030. The latter has written on
the back of it " Robert Silvester, Manor-street,
Clapham." Mr. Silvester is a client of mine. and
( the endorsement is not in his handwriting. It is
my strong belief that both the writing and the
figures have been put there by the prisoner. The
same remark applies to the other 501. note, which
is endorsed " Robert Farley, 3, Newcastle-street,
Strand, 13-6-57."

Ate. J. J. Bunning, clerk to Messrs. Clu,ton and
Co., solicitors, in High-street, Southwark, said—l
was clerk to the prosecutor at the time that the pri
soner was in his I am ~vell acquainted wick
the prisoner's handwriting. The body of the forged
cheque very much rksenables my own haudwritit.g.
I see no resemblance in it to the writing of the put-
o and figures on the two 501.
notes
e that of the prisoner.
k in the i,sua dt pastment of the
sti rr.. I
tvbe T. ThelTi
eovled ,to e writingib e
Baon
PrDved that the one 1001. and the
w
b!en exchanged at the Bulk for
gold.
Mr. R. Farley—ltveinNevvcacitle-streef, Strand.
two 501. of England,
ote had
The endorsementouthe hack of one of the 501. notes
purporting to be mine was not made by me, nor was
it written by my authority. About a month since
t coffee-shop, and was sup-
plied with it rump (18', my
eak supper, which he had no
money
prisoner entered
to pay for. Ithok off his cap, and detained
it, till he sent for a ihilling and paid f r his IN past.
e
Mr, coffee-house-keeper, of 24,
H. Thompsol,
lea'knienatme of Fred. Rutland. (This
prisoner s'ayed at my house
left on the 6th ult. in my debt.
been obtained by the prisoner, the bills bt3i e a made
fwiC(iallresatprhaiaursegsleiedltvrt:beeseyslicit:h,
the same name at Ryde, where he inAhage i to
out "Fred. Rut and, Esq.")
victimise several hotel-keepers, at who-e establish-
ments,albpassed under
however. he had previously spent large
sums of money, the produce of the forgery, when he
visit-d that fashionable w.:tering-place for the pur-
pose of counteracting the effects of the d-b iuchery
in which he had twou revelling in the II Lyinarket.
.11ug,ett, the (ieteetive other who apprehended
the prisoner at a coffee-shop in Farringdon-street,
produced a letter he found on him, sigued. "Fred.
Rutland."

Thy prisoner, who declined putting any questions
to the witnesses, an I said he should resef ye his de-
fence, was fully cc intnit'ed for trial.
As the prisoner was in the act of leaving the dock,
a Wier, whose name did not transpire, entered the
box and said—" My Lord Mayor, pry whit am I
to do for my money? I made the prisoner the
middy's uniform he now wears, and I have never
been able to get the money fir it, though it fits him
exactly." _ _

The Lord Mayor—The clothes appear to fit him
very well ; but I think you must wait till we have
done with him at the Central Criminal Court.
(Laughter.)
The appl'cint bowed, and retired.
John Briley and James Pritchett, who had been
several time remanded upon the charge of felo
niously receiving a case of bristles, of the value of
801., which had been st.deu from the premises of
Messrs. Joseph and Turner' bristle merchants, in
St. Mary-axe were brought up for final examina-
tion.

Mr. Won' ner appeared for the prosecution ; and
Mr. Levis, km., for the prisoners.
It will be reimuriberel titanßriley is a green-
grocer in Kent-street-, Southwark, and Pritchett,
who livei opposite him, carries on a very ex-
tensive business as a brmllimaker. Briley eceived
the property of a man named Harding, Ln4
took it to Kent-street, wht•re it was purchtsed by
Prichett, at abaut litlf its value. Frim inforina-
n which reached the police, two oflic-rs, accom-
panied by Mr. Cohen, the prosecutor's clerk,
visited Pritchett's premises, and asked him whether
he had in his posse-lion stolcn br sties. He
declared he had not. The oflic-rs were not satisfied
with lin denial, and upon making a search they
found Priche t's foreman. in the act of buryittg
tub in the earth at the rear of the warehouse. This
they
fothwitli exl,uired, and upon bri aking in its
head dtscov red abou-. 351. wot th of the Iris-Licit
which had been stolen from the prosecutor'spremises.

M. Au uste Cheville Lodde, a manufacturer of
hristle4, living in
identified the
_
the officers as
p.irt of a case of brist!es which he had forwarded to
the pro3ecutors,
eatirprsis,prweadsuy;dstebryday called. Ho
Cuar;es Brown, constable, No. 654, corroborated
the evilence of Watkins, 660, with respect to the
discovery of the tub in the hole.
This being
the whole of the evidence.,
Mr. Gootitnan proceeded to read the lengthy
depositions of the witnesse, and the prisoners, who
.said they should resfrve their defence, were fully
committed for trial to the Central Criminal Court.
Mary Cane, a woman who bore the app..arance
of having had her legs amputated at the hip joint,
tn.l who carried a child in her arms, was brought

before the Lord Mayor on a stretcher belonging to
h rsf•lf.

Policeman Stride, 556—Yesterday the prisoner
was beggini, by the railway station in B shopsg-ite,
and as she ohstrudted the pavement I was obliged
to take her into custody. Several people complained
of a woman in her condition being suffered to beg
in the srreets.

Prisoner—l was confined on the roadside and
lost the use of my legs. They have not been cut off.
Policeman--They seem to be tucked under her.

The Lord Mayor—What is she sitting on ?
.13,11cennan—It is a stretcher or rather the
bottom of a chair ; and as she can't walk, a person
with whom she is connected is in the habit of
carrying her from her lodgings and setting her
down in a public thoroughfare, where people are
likely to give her halfpence. She is a notorious
beggar.

The Lird Mayor—Prisone-, whose chill is that
you are carrying
Prisoner—lt's my own; and no mistake. Whose
do you think it, is ?

The Lord Mayor—l don't think it is yours. I
believe you carry it about with you for the purpose
of exciting commiseration. Where do you belong
to?

Prisoner—My parish is Devonport.
The Lord Mayor—You must not beg in the
streets of London. You will be taken to the union,
and will be sent from there to Devonport.
Prisoner (impudently)—l won't go to Devon-
port, although you may send me to the union.
Ann Sullivan was brought up on remand charged
with having begged in the city. The evidence of
the officer who had charge of the prisoner was to
the effect that on Saturday afternoon last he saw
the prisoner who was carrying two children, one in
a most emaciated and filthy state, begging near the
Mansion-house. It was evident that one, if not
both of the children, had been starved almost to
death for the purpose of exciting public sympathy.
(A. more haggard, emaciated child never was seen
by any of the officers of the court in the arms of
the most incorrigible professional beggars.) The
officer took her into custody, and by direction of
the Lord Mayor the children were t iken to the
union. One of the children belonged to the pri-
soner's sister.

The prisoner, who had the impudence to say that
she was totally unable to provide for either herself
or the children without begging, was sent to prison
for 21 days.
The Lord Mayor reques'ed that the press would
ackno sledge the receipt of 1/. from the jury at the
Mayor's Court (per Christopher Fitch) as a dona-
tion to the poor-box.

GUILDHALL.—George Blabey was placed at
the bar, before Sir George Carroll, charged with
robbing his employers, Messrs. Baker and Co., of
L?adenlall-st reet.
Police-constable Hubble, 149, said—Last night,
about a quarter to ten o'clock, I saw the prisoner
with a basket in his possession. I asked him whose
property it was, and he said it belonged to him,
and it contained about 31b. of sugar which formed
part of a perquisite allowed him by his employers.
Mr. Bernard said—l am book-keeper to the firm
of Messrs. Saul, Baker, and Co., colonial mer-
chants, and the prisoner has been in their employ
as messenger and clerk about 12 months. The
sugar found on the prisoner consists of samples
which we have received of shipments made to us
from the colonies. He had no authority particu-
la to remove those samples, but I believe he had
an implied permission, as he had the care of the
office, and probably thought in clearing up he might
take it away.
Sir G. Carroll recommended the prisoner to be
more careful for the future how he meddled with
samples, and discharged him.

Aman named Andrews was brought up, charged
with embezzling 2/. 48. 3d., the moneys of Mr.
Botisor, a meat salesman, of Newgate-market, his
master.

Emily Wilson said—l am barmaid at the Salu-
tation Tavern, Newg,ate-street. The prisoner
called yesterday morning between ten and eleven
o'clock, and I paid him 2i. 4s. 3d. on behalf of Mr.
Bonsor. I did not take a receipt, as it is not cus-
tomary. _ _

Sir -George Carroll—Do you wish to ask this
witness any question ?
Prisoner—No, sir. It is quite right ; I had the
money.

George Dolling, potman at the Ram Inn, Smith-
field, said—The prisoner came to me in the middle
of the day and gave me 1/. 4,4. to take care of for
him. He stayed there until 12 o'clock at night, at
which timm he was very drunk, and gave me another
1.08., saying it was not his money, and wished me
to mind it for him.
Mr. Martin (ihe chief clerk)—What made you
put up this witness, officer ?
Officer—Because he was the only other witness
in attendance.

Mr. Martiu—But he is the prisoner's witness,
and un!essyou have another it puts the case out o
co ~rt.

Mr. Bonsor—The prisoner returned after he re-
ceived the money from .lat witness, and ,on going
to his lodgings this morning with a policeman, I
found the prisoner in bed, having been drunk the
night before. He told me where he left the money.
The prisoner was dischaiged.

BOW-STREET.—A respectable-looking man,
about 35 years of ago, who gave the name of Sin-
clair, and described him4ell as a traveller, wag
charged, together with a mtn named Lloyd, with
committing a burglary On the night of the 12th
instant, on the premisee of Mr. Grouse, tailor, 549,
New Oxford-street.

At seven o'clock on the 13th, Sergeant Egerton,
of the E division, saw Lloyd and another person
in Upper King-street, Bloomsbury. Lloyd 'was
carrying a bag, which he gave to his companion,
who, on seeing the officer, dropped it and ran away.
Lloyd was taken into custody, and the bag was
found to contain clothes which had been stolen from
Mr. Grouse's premises. Lloyd was brought before
the niat-zistrate,_ and remanded. The officer went
to 18, Wakefield-street, Brunswick-square, where
Lloyd had occupied a garret, and apprehended
Sinclair, who was occupying the drawing-room.
Sergeant Egerton now expressed his firm conviction
that Sinclair was the man who had dropped the
carpet-bag. Sinclair had been apprehended on his
description.

Mr. Lewis, of Ey-plac?, asked the witness how
he described him ?

Witness—l lie was a short man, dark com-
plexion, dressed in dark clothes, and respectable-
looking.

Mr.Lewis—lndeed. Then lam very glad the
officers did not meet me, or they might have ap-
prehended me on your description, for I am a short
man, of dark complexion, I wear dark clothes, and
I should hope-I look re•pee-able. (A. laugh.) Mr.
Lewis drew his worship's attention to the absence
of any Mention of the features in this description,
showing, as he contend-d, that the features had
made no impression on his mind.
Mr. Lewis called witnesses who I roved that Sin
clair travelled to Cambridge by a train which left
London at six o'clock a.m. on the 13th, and the
magistrate discharged him.
Lloyd was committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—William . Clarke, de-
scribed as an engine-driver in the service of the
Eastern Conn Railway Company, was charged
under the 16th section of the act 5 and 6 Viotori',
cap. 98, with having unlawfully neglected to stop
his engine in obedience to certain dange.-3ignals
which were exhibited for his guidance, wht.reby he
had rendered himself liable to a penalty of 101., or
two months' imprisonment.

The prix ,ner, who was driving an em.iine, paid
no attention to a danger-signal at the Mile7end sta-
tion, requiring him to reduce his speed to 4 or 5
miles an hour, and went rapidly towards the Brck-
lane station. Thera he also neglected a danger-
signal and, dashing past the station at the rata of
20 miles an hour, ran into a goods' train, the engine
of which, and his own tender, were both smasbefl
by the collision.

John Fairchild, an engine cleaner, who was act-
ing as prisoner's fireman at the time of the accident,
admitted that he understood nothing about signalF,
and only knew that the red light was a danger-
signal on Saturday last.
John Adams, an engine driver, admitted, in
cross-examination, that it wag the custom of the
compaoy, when hard pushed for hands, to employ
firemen as drivers and engine men as firemen, and
that it was the duty of both to look out for signals.
It having begin proved that the prisoner was in-
toxicated at the time of the accident, ,
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that he was decidedly of
opinion that the defendant had been guilty of most
culpable negligence, but at the same time it was
equally apparent that the wi:tre,s Fairchild was al-
together incompetent to act as fireman, and he fel
bound to say -that a want of pr .per caution had
been exhibited in his appointment to that position.
He found,. on referring to the act, that he was em-
powered to commit the prisoner, without the inn-
positibn of a pecuniary penalty, and he considered
the case as one of su .h a serious charactr, that he
had no hesitation in sentencing him to hard labour
for six months in the House of Correction.

WESTMINSTER.—A native of India, who
spoke very goad English, was charged with causing
a disturbance, while under the influence of liquor,
in the Broadway, Westminster.
Police-constable Burnett, B 146, said that on the
previous evening he was on duty iu the Broadway,
when he was informed that the prisoner was in
danger of his life. There was a crowd of men,
women, and childrei about him, all of whom