The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

IHE Su; N, LONL:ON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1868.

FURTHER EXAMINATION OF TIM

lEIVIAN COL. BURKE.

BOW-STREET-THIS DAY.

This morning the examination of Colonel Burke,
Theobald Casey, and Henry Shaw, alias Malady,
on a charge of treason-felony, was resumed before
Sir T. Henry.

Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Poland appeared on
the part of the Crown. Mr. Torr and Mr. M'Donald
defended Burke, and Mr. Lewis attended for Casey.
The first witness called this morning was _ .

Benjamin Fordhan►, police constable C 33, who
said—On the '2oth of Nov. last I was on duty in
Tavistock-square in uniform. In the evening In-
spector Thomson spoke to me, and afterwards I
stw Burke and Casey in Woburn-square. I and
Mr. Thomson went after them. Mr. Thomson went
up to Burke, touched him on the shoulder, and told
him he held a warrant for the arrest of Richard
Burke. " You I know to be that person,
and I shall consequently take you into cus-
tody. You must consider yourself my prisoner,".
and come to the nearest police-station. Burke
said, "You've made a mistake, I'm not the person
at all ; I'm a medical student, my name is George
Berry, and I've just arrived from Hamburg.
Thompson said, " Whether you are Berry or Burke
you must go along with us." We both took hold of
him, one on each side. Casey at this time was at
ithe side of Burke. Burke made a resistance uutil
we got to the end of Woburn-square. Casey
interfered to prevent us arresting Burke, and struck
Thomson and myself several blows, and tried to
get our prisoner away. Casey said, " What do
you mean by taking my friend like that ?" When
we got to the end of Woburn-square Burke struck
Thomson with his umbrella. Thomson then drew
his revolver, and told Burke if he attempted to run
away he would fire on him. Burke said, " Don't do
anything desperate." I had hold of Burke's cuff
with •my left hand. I drew my truncheon, and
then Casey interfered again, and said we should
not take his friend. I told him if he did not keep
away I would strike him. Casey called upon the
bystanders, as we were in Russell-square, to rescue
Burke. He shouted that we were arresting, his
friend without any right. Thomson called a cab in
Upper Montagu-street, into which Burke was
placed, notwithstanding the attempts of Casey to
prevent it. After we had got Burke into the cab
Casey tried to prevent us shutting the door. Inspec-
tor Thomson, however, succeeded in sh utting the door,
and as we approached Bow-street we obtained
assistance, and Burke was locked up in the police-
station. After Burke was locked up I saw Casey
inside the station. He was then detained, and
eventually locked up. I was in uniform, and the
inspector was in plain clothes.
Cross-examined by Mr. Torr—l suppose Thom-
son had the warrant to arrest Burke in his pocket.
I did not see it.
By Mr. Lewis—l don't remember exactly the
words. They might have been, "This is a mistake,
it is an illegal warrant," but I think the words used
were, " This is wrong ; it is illegal to arrest a gen-
tleman in this way."
Mr. Torr (addressing the magistrate)--Burke's
sister, sir, is in attendance outside, and I have to
ask that she may be admitted to court.
Mr. Lewis made a similar application for the sister
of Casey.
Sir Thomas Henry—Let them be admitted.
Mr. Giffard—Before they take the trouble of
coming into court, I have to apply for another re-
mand. I had expected an important witness from
Birmingham, but as he has not arrived I cannot
proceed further to-day.
Sir Thomas llenry remanded the prisoners until
Thursday.

POLICE INTELLIGENOE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS AND DRIVERS.
Samuel Trigg, a cab-driver, charged by the
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals with cruelty to a horse, by working it in
an unfit state, appeared befure Mr. Knox on re-
mand, and Martin Eatwell, cab proprietor, of No.
1, Charlwood,-street, appeared on a summons for
causing the horse to be ill-treated by allowing it
to be worked. •

Simeon Seth, officer of the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, having deposed
to finding the horse in a very low condition with its
knees distresAngly cut and quite unfit for work,

Mr. Chevy, the Government veterinary surgeon,
said that the cuts on the horse's knees were recent
injuries on other ones. He had advised the owner
of the horse to have it destroyed, and he had done
so. He considered the driver culpable in driving a
horse in such a state.

Mr. Broad, a veterinary surgeon, said that, in his
opinion, the horse had had a knee which had been
broken a few weeks previously, but which had not
healed over, and the new granulation had given
way. The horse had been put to work too early.
Mr. Knox said that to an unprofessional eye the,
wound on the knee was a ghastly one. As the horse
had been destroyed he should discharge the defen-
dants, and he wished the officer of the society to
understand that in doing so it was simply on the
.testimony of the gentlemen who had been called,
and who stated that the horse had been sent out
too early.

WESTMINSTER.
JUVENILE OFFENDERS WORKING AT CASE.—
Henry Harding, 15, and Frank Pearse, 14, asso-
ciates of thieves, were charged before 'Air. Arnold
with unlawfully possessing five pairs of braces, five
pairs of gloves, two ladies' vests, and a towel, and
not giving a satisfactory account of the possession
of the same.

Police-sergeant Squire White, 11 B, deposed
that Pearse's father said he should not trouble
coming to the court about him, and the other had
no fixed home. At 7.30 last evening he was with
P. C. Taylor, 200 B, in Sloane-street. He watched
the prisoners half-an-hour outside a fancy jeweller's
shop : they were " working at a case." Witness
went up and asked them what they were doing, and
Harding said he did not know Pearce. As the
latter appeared bulky witness asked him what he
had. He replied Nothing,' and witness unbuttoned
his coat, in doing which two ladies' vests fell out on
the pavement. He was further searched inside the
shop, and then at the police-station'a pair of gloves
were found upon him. He said he had worn them
three months, but they wore quite how. The glais
they were watching at the jeweller's had been
broken a week ago, and Harding was seen about the

place.
Constable Taylor, 200 B, said he watched them
with Sergeant White, and heard Harding say,
" Here come two slopes."
Mr. Arnold asked what " slopes" meant?
Taylor said it was a thieves' term for police.
Mr. Arnold thought they were always called
" bobbies."

Taylor continued—He found a pair of braces
and gloves on Harding, and he said. he bought the
braces for 63. at a shop in King's-road, Chelsea,
and the gloves belonged to his father. They were
new, and had been ordered for the purpose. The
braces found on both were of the same make and
pattern.

Harding, in an impudent tone, said that he
bought the braces from a man in the street for Gd.,
and Pearce said he picked up the things found on
him in Knightsbridge.
They were remanded for a week.

temporary absence a gang of daring young thieves
surrounded her shop, and one of them entered and
took a cushion of bacon off a butter tub, ran out of
the shop and gave it to another boy, and the whole
gang scampered away in opposite directions.
The alarni was given by an honest boy named
Thomas James Bennett, and two police-constables
on duty opposite the Commercial Gas Works, pur-
sued the gang. Only one was clptured. Yester-
day the prisoners were arrested, and the bacon was
discovered in the apartment of Mrs. Quarrell, in
London-strut. She admitted that she purchased
the bacon for 2s. 6d.

Mr. Stoddart said that Mrs. Qaarrell was a re-
spectable woman, who had incautiously bought the
bacon of one of the boys. It was dirty when
brought to her, and she did not think it was of
much value. She was not aware it was stolm.

Mr. Paget —The bacon is quite clean now. It is
worth 95., and you admit you bought it for 2s. 6d.
It is a most serious offence.

Mrs. Qilarrell—l scrape]. the bacon after I bought
That makes it look clean.

Mr. Paget said he should remand the prisoners
until the 9th instant, when the boy Sullivan would
appear. He hoped the whole gang of young thieves
would be captured.

Mr. Stoddart said the poor woman, who had a
baby in her arms, and eight other children, re-
gretted exceedingly what she had done. He hoped
bail would be taken.

Mr. Paget—l will not take any bail; other people
have babies and children, and I must protect them.
It is such urchins as these who fill Our reformatory
schools and convict prisons, live upon the blood and
tears of others, and foster crime. She will go to
prison.

THE OYS7ER FISHINGS IN THE FIRM
FIR7'H.

The Law Committee have given in a report
prepared by Mr. Marwick, under a remit from the
Edinburgh Town Council, to consider and report
as to an' Application to the Board of Trade for a
grant of the oyster-beds in the Frith of Forth be-
longing to the Crown, and lying contiguous to
those belonging to the city. In the report was the
following statement :—" It is apprehended the
Magistrates and Council would have no difficulty
in satisfying the Board that a grant to the city of
the neutral ground would enable them to regulate
the fishery in such a way as materially to increase
the supply of oysters, and to benefit the public. It
will be for the Council to consider whether any ap-
plication that they may make for a grant of the
neutral ground should not be preferred on the
footing of the Crown receiving a rent or royalty
according to the profits actually made, or the quan-
tity of opt frs purchased or sold by the promoters,
or those by whom the fishery might be conducted."
The Lord Provost said that the oyster fisheries in
the Frith of Forth had been spoliated for many
years, and it was their bounden duty to adopt any
measure that would have the effect of protecting
them.

Mr. R. Wilson said that there was a new com-
pany applying for powers to take the whole fishings
out of the hands of the Council, including the
neutral grounds. lie read a letter on the subject
by Mr. Jameson, fishmonger, Edinburgh, of which
the following are extracts :—" Previous to the years
1837 and 1838, the price I paid for the best oysters
was fourpence and sixpence per 100. At that time
the Town Council let the oyster scalps to an Eng-
lish company, who brought down a fleet of twenty
to thirty large smacks, each working four or more
dredges. These vessels were kept constantly em-
ployed for at least one season lifting brood and
oysters, and shipping off one vessel after another as
fast as they could be loaded, for which I believe
the town never got a penny; since which time, oysters
have every year got scarcer and higher in price, until
now I pay three shillings and sixpence for oysters not
equal to those I formerly got at fourpence per hur.-
dred." Mr. Jameson thinks the ring at present
uplsaend
laswtnhueldgapurgoepoisse
is--havetoosnlall, and says :--`' The
a ring
of two inches
and a half in breadth (inside measurement), allow
the fishermen to dredge as many oysters as they
please that will not pass through that ring, compel
them to throw overboard, on any part of the city's
scalps they consider most suitable, all the oysters
that will pass through that ring."
Baillie Skinner said that the council sent their
officer to Newhaven in 1865 to make inquiry into
this subject ; and he now held in his hand a returr,
showing that in one month oysters to the value of
no less than £1,431 6s. Bd. were taken away from
the Frith of Forth, and sent to London and other
places. He thought it was high time that the Town
Council were taking steps to look a little better after
the oysters. The produce from a single parent
oyster was immense, it having been calculated at
no less than from 800,000 to 8,000,000.
The report, Mr. Jameson's letter, and the speci-
mens of oysters were remitted to the committee.
Land and Water.

tided by the Cockermouth Bench to be the best
means of curing the prisoner of his poaching pro-
pensities. At the Petty Sessions Court held at this
place last week, five convictions were obtained
against various parties for using the click-hook.
Of these too were fined 5 each and costs ; in de-
fault, two months' imprisonment : one £3 and costs.
At the Session's held on Monday last, the following
cases were disposed of :—John Borwick, J. Hodg-
son, and Joseph Irving, were charged with having
unlawfully taken trout frona the river Ellerbeck,
which communicates with the Derwent. The bench
acquitted Borwick, but convicted the other defen-
dants, and fined Irving 20s. and costs, and Hodg-
son 103. and costs. John Starkie and -Y. Starkie
were charged with having', on the 21st instant•, un-
lawfully attempted to take salmon front the river
Cocker. Mr. Ramsey prosecuted. on behalf iof the
Derwent Angling Association. The magistrate
said the bench had decided to convict the defen-
dants, who, being the brothers of a river watcher,
ought to have known better. The sentence was

that John Starkie pay a penalty of 25 and costs, in
default to be imprisoned for two months ; and J.
Starkie. a penalty of £3 and costs, in default to be

imprisoned for six weeks.
MAXWELTON.—POACHING IN THE NlTlL—Three
men, old poaching offenders, pleading guilty to
,a
charge of fishing for salmon during the annual close
time, with a hang net, in the River Nith. The
court sentenced each defendant to pay a fine of
£5 and £1 costs, or three months' imprisonment.—
Land and Water.

SCENE IN A PARIS THEATRE.

The Paris Tenips gives the following detailed ac-
count of the disturbance at the Porte St. Martin

Theatre, referred to in our impression of yester-
day :--" On Monday evening, at the first per-
formance of the Porte St. Martin revue, Mdlle. Silly
was upon the stage, and had just parodied, in an
apropos song, the tones and gestures of .Mdlle.
Schneider, of the Varikes. It should be known
that parodies of
_this kind arc customary in revues;

that they almost always amuse the Parisians, who
vehemently applaul the:: whtm . they are well

done; Thus, on every side there was applause
and a cry Lucre.' A hiss was beard, fol-
lowed by rounds of chet:ring. The hies continued

Up to this point nothing could be

REPORTED DISCOVERY OF THE SEAT
OF FENIAIV CONSPIRACY IN PARIS.

The following extraordinary statement is given
by the Paris correspondent of the Brussels Nord :
" I have already informed you of - the complaints
made by the English Cabinet to the French Minister
for Foreign Affairs respecting the Fenian con-
spiracy. The presentiments of the English Go-
vernment are justified by the events. It has been
proved that the Fenian organisation has its ac-
complices in France, and that its name is legion.
Searches have been made by order of the Prefect of
the in a certain quarter of the Faubourg du.
Temple, which hlve led- to the seizure of correspon-
donee of the most interesting de,seripi ion between the

English Fenians. Amongst it were discovered plans
of fiesh outrages to be carried out in England—one of
which is the destruction of the fleet—and the names
of the most important correspondents of the Fenian;
movement in London. The discovery has been kept.
iluite secret, but the precious documents have been.
forwarded by till police of Paris as a New Year's
rift to the Government of Great Britain."

SPECIAL CONSTABLES.

ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN DIVISION.

Yesterday the same magistrates, Henry White
and J. G. Stilwell, sat, who have coutinuorsly
formed a bench during the-past fortnight, and ad-
ministered the oath to 355 persons, making a total
up to the present time of 1,628.
Two hundred ani twenty-one of the staff of
Drury-lane Theatre, beaded by their band, T. B.
Chatterton, Esq., and Mr. Stride, marched in pro-
cession to the Vestry offices, and were sworn in.
Messrs. Kelly and Co., publishers of the " London
Directory," with 59 of their employees, were
also sworn in. Henry White and J. D. Stilwell,
Esqs., each delivered an impressive address to the
whole body, and expressed their great pleasure in
seeing the great number of Irishmen who had come
forward while the Bench bad been sitting.

During last evening and this morning a rumour
was generally current that an attempt would be
made to blow up the vestry offices in which the
magistrates had been sitting, and after com-
munication with the police at Bow-street,

the sitting magistrate deemed it advisAle;
after consulting with Lieut -Colonel May n:; and
Major Charter, to call a meeting of the superin7
tenderit, deputy superintendents, and assistant su-
perintendents of this division, who determined that
a constant guard of special constables should be
kept on duty about the premises during the night.