The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-15 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Oct. 14.

The Court sat to-day at Clerkenwell, to tike bail
cases in arrear. Mr. BliQs, Q. C., the Attorney-
General of the Du thy of Lancaster, presided, under
tits sanction of ths Secretary of State for tne Home
Dept tuamt,for the learned Assistant-Judg., though
rec .vering from a severe and dangerous illness, is
still in such a state of health as will preclude his
resuming his du'ies for seine time.

POLICE CASE.
Died Rathgen, a carpet-bag manufacturer,
was indicted fir havine, assaulted Hugh Brady and
George Quin two'police-const-Ablos, in the exe-
cution of their duty.
Mr. Langford appeared for the prosecution ; Mr.
Sleigh for the defendant.
Brady, 185 11, stated that on the morning of the
9th July, he was on duty in George-street, Spital-
tieldst, when about 3 in the morning he beard a noise
which proceeded from the defendant and others, who
ware shouting and quarrelling. On his interfering,
the defendant was most conspicuous in obstructing
him in his effort to get them away, and struck hull
a blow on the head, which stunned him, and then
ran into his house and procured a poker, the others
beating him while he fetched it. When he returned
lie struck him with the poker,
and sail —" You
damn —, I shall do for you," and as lis continued
to strike him with the poker, he at length drew
his staff and used it about defendant's head. Ano-

then constable came to his assistance, and-the de-
fendant then ran into the house. They pursued
him, and eventually lodged hits at the station. lie
was then bleeding from the head. lie could not
say how many times he struck him on the head
with his truncheon.

In cross-examination he said Le had only been on
that beat a few days, and he had not, prior to the
altercation, called any female a prostitute. Two
females were with the defendant. He did not re-
collect the defendant saying that he would take his
number, or that he (witne=s) raid, upon bearing
anyth;ng to that effect, that he would be first with
him if that was what he meant.

The other constable, George Quinley, 125 H,
said he went to the assistance of Brady on hearing
the disturbance, when one of the women who were
with the defendant said he (Brady) had thrown her
cape over her head and insulted her. He saw the
defendant hit the constable, who had, he said, called
his wife a prostitute. In the scuffle he received a
knock on the nose with the poker, and he saw Brady
follow defendant into his house. Blows took place,
and when he came out the defendant and another
person were bleeding from the head. He heard
the defendant say he would take the officer's num-
ber, but at what part of the affray he could not
tell. Witness received a blow on the back of the
band which gave him great pain.
The witnesses were cross-examined byMr. Sleigh,
but they did not deviate from their statements in
any material particular. Mr. Sleigh, in his address
to the jury, said he should prove that Brady Lai
insulted defendant's wife, by pulling her cape over
her head and calling her a prostitute in the public
streets, as Mr. Itathgen and hie friends were re-
turning from a party, which was corroborated by
the evidence of the second constable. It was a
most infamous ewe.

Mr. Adams, house surgeon at th 9 London Hos-
pital, said the &fondant had been under treatment
at that institution for wounds on the head, such as
would ba produced by blows. He was an in-patient
twelve days, and. was not disci,argel, but left of
his own accord to join his family. His life was in
danger some time, and he was not cured when he
lef .

Emma Roberts—l live at 16, Little Sutton-
street, and am sister-in-law to the defendant. On
the morning of she 9th of Ju!yr I was with him aid
some friends, returning from a party, and I went
home with them. There was a little girl 14 years
of age with us. We saw Brady, the polic3inan, on
duty. We said nothing to him. He laid hold of
my sister's cape, and pulled it over her head, and
she asked him what h. 3 did that for. He told her
to go on, or he would lock her up, as she was only
out for the purpose of prostitution. The defendant,
attracted by this, came up, and my sister said to
Brady, " You ate here to protect, and not to in-
sult respectable people." She told defendant that
she had been insulted by Brady, and he told her to
come home, and he would reporthinithe next morn-
ing. Rathgen had not stru-lk Brady when Q aiuley
came up. My sister told him Brady had insulted
her. We went indoor=, and shut the gite after us.
A young man stood at the gate, and tried to pre-
vent the police entering, as they ware attempting
so to do, and 185 hit him on the head. They said,
"We will lock some of you up yet." They broke
open the gate, and rushed in. The defendant had
his pocket-book in his hand, and said ho would take
their numbers. They struck him about the head as
ho stood on the mat. -The defendant bad neither
st ck nor poker in his hand ; nothing but his pocket-
book. He cried "Murder," and they went away,
but came back again, and they and the defendant
went to the station. My brother-in-law has lived
in the same house in King Arms-court for four
years. _

- The jury stopped the c ISO, and said that after such
evidence for the defence it was useless to go on.
Mr. Langford claimed and exercised his right of
reply.

The learned judge was about to sum up, when
The jury said they were quite satisfied, and found
the defendant " Not Guilty."
Mr. Sleigh said a prosecution for perjury most
certainly ought to follow this fligrant ease.

PR IVES OF SHABI..

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i•U'RLIAITED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINO
LONDON, TUESDAY, Ocr. 13, 1857.
CANALS.

THE CHRISTIAN DUTY OF HELPING
THE RECRUITING SERGEANT.

The following passage is taken from the sermon
preached by the key. Mr. Robertson, of New
Ureyfriars, Edinburgh, on the day of humiliation
I have no apprehension of gibe or sneer when
I declare my belief that every man who, in his own
person or by his influence with another, adds a
single true-hearted recruit to the battalions of his
couutry performs a good deed in the sight of God
and man. On our army, humanly speaking, de-
pends the future of India, and every brave man
who joins that army is a benefactor not only to
Britain, but to India too. This is no, time f,-1
cold calculation, as if it were about the value of a
bale of merchandise, whether Britain has in time
past shown as much gratitude as she ought to have
done to her brave defenders, when the day of
danger was past. This is no time for chaffering
and bargaining for pay, pension, or bounty.' We
are not speaking of mercenaries selling themselves
for hire in a cause which is nothing to them, but of
British men combating for Britain's honour, to
maintain her high place among the nations, to se-
cure to her the van in the march of civilising and
evangelising the world, and to protect her distant
empire from the unspeakable evils which threaten
her, from years of anarchy and massacre, from cen-
turies, it may be, of the vilest Paganism. Nor let
it be forgotten that thousands of our countrymen,
with their wives and daughters, are still exposed
to the same terrible fate, and look to us for pro-
tection ; that our brave Highlanders, with their
equally gallant companions in arras and noble
leader, though they have already performed deeds
of heroism of which Scotland shall be proud as
long as she has a place among nations, notwith-
st riding theirmarvellous valour and unequalled vic-
tories, are still hemmed in by unnumbered hordes of
savages thirsting for vengeance, and that the confi-
dence which nerves their hearts with such indomit•
able daring, and cheers them in the battle-field,
where each one encounters a hundred foes, is the
confidence that they are not forgotten at home—
that there are thousands of brave hearts here burn-
ing to rush to the rescue, thousands of souls stirred
to the very depths with the longing desire to share
in their dangers, their toils, their glories, and
their triumphs. And let not the fond Christian
mother tremble in sending forth the child of many
prayers on such a mission, lest his soul should there
be placed in circumstances of greater peril than at
home, owing to the godless companions he -may
there mingle with, and the godless examples V
the influence of which he may be, subjected. The
post of duty, be assured, is always the place of spi-
ritual safety. And there are dangers to the soul
in our ball-rooms and theatres, in our haunts of
dissipation and our temples of debauchery, in our
streets and lanes and closes, as deadly, to say the
least, as are to be found in the barracks and in the
camp nay, the experience of late years has often
proved the latter to be the safer of the two. Ay,
we know that those godly instructions and holy
lessons which the young heart little heeded in the
peace and quietude of domestic life, have sometimes
been brought home with marvellous power by the
Spirit's grace in the turmoil of the march, the re-
pose .of the bivouac, or the roarof the battle. Many
a light and thoughtless heart has there been 'ravingly
impressed and solemnised, and many a one con-
strained to think who never thought before. I
speak not to others of a duty with which I would
not myself cheerfully comply. Had las many
sons as Priam I should not shrink from seeing them.
,ill in arms for a cause which from my heart I be-
lieve to be the cause not of Britain and India alone
but of the world, of civilisation of religion, and
of God." ,

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