The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 18€8.

POLICE INTELLIGENCETILIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A COURAGEOUS BOY.—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—
Ann Fay, a marri,A woman, living at Turk's-row,
Chelsea, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt - with
attempting to commit suicide at the Serpentine.
Thomas Gibson, a boy about 14 years of age,
living in Little Newport-street, said that on the
previous afternoon he was taking a walk by the
Serpentine when noticing a splash in the water and
seeing a female in it, he took off his coat and ran
into the water and pulled her to the b.mk, when
a gentleman assisted him in getting her on to the
bank.

Mr. TyrwhiLt asked the boy whether be could
swim.

The boy said he could not. He went in up to
his arm pits.
Police-constable henry May, 297 A, said that
on going to the Serpentine he was told by some
persons who were standing round khe prisoner that
the boy Gibson, who was wet up to the arm pits,
had pulled her out of the water. The prisoner
had placed her bonnet and shawl on the bank, and
then walked into the water a certain distance and
threw herself face downwards in the water. The
prisoner said she did it through distress.
The prisoner's husband, a painter, said he could
assign no reason for his wife's conduct.
The prisoner said what she had done she had
done of her own free will, as she could not tell how
she could pay her rent.

The husband said he bad been laid up for some
time, but hoped to get work soon.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he considered it safer on the
whole to send the prisoner for a week, where she
would be kindly taken care of, and where she would
have the advice of the chaplain, and if necessary
the attention of the doctor.

Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the boy a small sum from
the poor box.

WESTMINSTER,

WELL MERITED PC7 NISH MENT. —Robert Gibson,
a youth of forbidding appearance, was charged with
being drunk and committing himself in a most dis-
graceful manner.

Richard Hatton, coachman to the Rev. Thomas
Ward Franklin, said that at one o'clock yesterday
afternoon defendant, who was drunk, drove a rub-
bish cart down Cromwell-mews, where is no thorough-
fare, and damaged a carriage. Witness stopped
him to inquire his name and address, when he struck
him with the butt-end of his whip and then gallopped
out of the yard. Witness followed, when defendant
got out of the cart and again assaulted him by
striking him with his fist on the neck. He then
again jumped into his cart, and gallopped through
Thurloe-square into the Fulham-road, driving to
the great danger. of passengers. Witness was fol-
lowing in a Hansom cab, when defendant left his
cart and rushed into the cab wheels, and then threw
himself upon the pavement, and left his coat on
the road.

Police-constable 8 B It proved taking him into
custo iy. He had no business near Cromwell-

mcw•s.

Defendant said he only just touched the carriage
and then he was followed. lle denied the assault.

Mr. Arnold—• You have been guilty of most out-
rageous misbehaviour, committing assaults, and
driving about t.. the imminent pe7 il of the public.
You are committed for six weeks to hard labour.

THE APPOINTMENT OF CATHOLIC
CHAPLAINS TO BOROUGH AND COUN7 F
GAOLS.

The complaints frequently Made by Catholic re-
presentatives that the Prisons Ministers' Act has
been virtually set aside "by the county justices,
though true in too many instances, does not apply
in some few C. 1333, stub as that of Manchester, Li-
verpool, Presto", and a few ol.herltrge Owns in the
north of Engl Ind. The most recent case of such
appointments is that of Usk, where the county jus-
ticos have a2pointed a Roman Catholic priest at a
somewhat smlll salary (Z 2.5), with scarcely a dis-
sentient voice. We abridge the following r port
from the Hereforsl :hates :
Mr. RELPII, having given notice of the following
metion Tnat a It .in to C ttholic minister be
appointee to Usk prison trader the provisions of tile
orison Ministers' Act, 1633," said he was about
to move that re;olation :13 the organ of the visiting
justices of the Usk House of Correction. For
some time past they had ha 1 the services of the
Retina Catholic minister of Usk in the prison,
an I an application had been made on behalf
of t'sat minister that so:ne remuneration
should be pail him for his services he had
rendered to the prisoners. The visiting justices
recommended that a gratuity should be :given to
him, and a notice to that purport was given at the
last Quarter Sessions for the consideration of that
portion of the subject at the present sessions;
but it was found that the Court could give no
remuneration of any sort unless the minister
was appointed in accordance with the provisions
of the Prison Ministers' Act, 1863 ; conse-
quently notice was given at the last sessions
of the present motion. Mr. Relph then quoted
,the 26th and 27th Victoria, c. 79, providing
that upon prisoners wishing to see the ministers
belonging to their own body, he should attend at
certain hours during the day, and at such times as
the chaplain of the prison directed. The reason why
the visiting justices thought that it would be a
fitting step to appoint a Catholic minister was
that he had one-fourth of the prisoners under his
charge. Last year there was a daily average of
29 Catholics in the prison ; the year previous it
was rather over 30, and they must all admit
that it was not advisable to leave such a large
number of prisoners to the chance services of an y
minister who might or might not feel it his duty to
properly attend to them in the prison. He
thought the magistrates had the religious welfare
of the prisoners under their charge equally with
their general good conduct, and should see
that they were both properly maintained in the
prison, whilst this was the only object they had in
view in recommending this appointment. At the
present time the Rev. Mr. Wilson, the re-
spected minister of the Roman Catholic church
tit Usk, was attending at the prison, and
he had attended four days a week ever since
the passing of the Prison Ministers' Act. 'Ede
visiting justices thought th tt au attenda ice of
:our days a weak by the . Catholic minister was
luite ample, for with the small number of
Roman Catholic prisoners, if he attended oftener,
it would be unfair to the othe: prisoners under
the ministrations of the chaplain of the prison,
bee muse it would be taking SO much more from
,he hard labour punishment than in the case of
prisoners of other creeds ; SO that iu limiting
the time of the attendance of the ministers
they had to handicap the prisoners as it were.
lie did not think he need say more in making this
motion, excepting t 3 state that if the Court ap-
pointed the minister, he should ask them to pay
him, but he would not mix up the two matters to-
gether, although it was right the Court should
know that if they made the appointment they would
be asked to pay the minister. And, he was sure,
uo ratepayer in the county would object to paying
a man for his services, inasmuch as the Catholics
in the county were contributing, in conjunction
with all the other ratepayers, towards the pay-
ment of the chaplain of the prison, whereas their
fellow worshippers could not receive his ministra-
tions. Therefore no one could object to paying the
ninister some reasonable st'pend—and he believed
t very reasonable one would be suggested to the
Court—as it would only be doing to others as they
would wish to be done by in making the appoint-
ment. Leaving the question of remuneration for a
subsequent motion, he would noW move that Mr.
Wilson be appointed as minister at the Usk gaol
under the Prisons Ministers' Act.

Major M.DoxEr,t, was in hopes that some one
else would have seconded this—as lie considered it
—just proposition. It appeared to him that this
application was based upon a moral right, for the
Catholic ratepayers contributed as much t) the
general expenses of the country as any other reli-
gious body. Ile thought the Catholic prisoners
themselves hal a claim to the appointment,
for it was quite true that they were debarred by
their creed from receiving the ministrations of the
minister of any other denomination, or of the Estab-
lished Church, and it would not be fair that they
should be punished by having no religious consola-
tion at all ; that was not the wish of the Court.
Ile considered the appointment was one of right,
and he did not regard it in the light of granting a
favour. I

Colonel P. SOMERSET said that with regard to
the proposal brought before the Court by
Mr. Relph, he should have great pleasure in sup-
porting it for this reason. He ha I visited
several gaols and several public institutions both
in England and abroad, and he had never on any
occasion visited a place where Roman Catholics
were confined without finding that very great good
had been done—and he could now speak from an
experience of 25 years upon such matters—by the
Catholic priests and other gentlemen who had
visited those institutions,
whilst in no case had evil
resulted from the practice as far as he could
judge. He should, therefore, have great pleasure
in supporting
the resolution all that he possibly
could.

Mr. G. SOMERSET entirely agreed with the pro-
position.

In reply to the Rev. J. Farquhar, Mr. Rum
said the ministrations by the minister would be
confined entirely to the prisoners belonging to his
own persuasion.

The motion for the appointment of the Rev. Mr.
Wilson was then submitted to the Court, and it was
carried by a majority of 17 to 2.
Mr. RELFII read over his proposed scale of ply-
meat, and observed that as the daily average number
of Catholic prisoners was over 25, the salary which
the minister would at once come into was £25. But
after a conversation with the Chairman and other
magistrates, he said he believed there was some
informality in the sale of payment he had sug-
gested, and he was quite content to waive his
own views on the subject, and to propose
that the payment to Mr. Wilson should be
and they could of course increase it at
£25 per annum. He thought that was a very rea-
lms found necessary, but it was always
saonnyabtilme
esuifmit,
difficult to reduce.

Mr. T. DAvas hoped there was no iut2ntion to
reduce the salary of the chaplain of the prison.
Mr. RELPII said the honest plan would be, if 29
prisoners were taken from the chaplain, to take a
percentage off his salary in order to pay the man
who attended them ; but he thought that would
be rather too hard, and he was not going to ask it.
The CHAIRMAN —There is no notice of motion.
Mr. T. BROWN seconded the proposition, and it
was unanimously adopted.

EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA.—The Golconda, a ship
owned by the American Colonization Society, has just put
to sea with 451 emigrants for the African republic. Most
of the men are farmers and mechanics, and are well sup-
plied with agricultural implements and tools. Turning
lathes and the requisite machinery for grist and saw mills,
for which ample water power abounds in Liberia, were
taken by sonic of the well-to-do of them. Sewing ma-
chines
were net forgotten by the women. Free transpor-
tation in the ship was given them by the society, and
articles tending to promote their success in the republic
to which they go. A fair proportion of the company can
read, and some can read and write. The communicants of
churches are remarkably numerous. There aro five li-
censed ministers of the Baptist and Methodist denomina-
tions.—Savannah News.

I.::PORTING IIifELLIGENCE.

T G. t:i.d St.aud Handicap of LO sovs; once round,
1 mile and 90 yards. .

Mr Masterman's Honesty, by Young Dutchman All's
Well, 5 yrx, 861;101b (OsbOrnej 1
Mr Easton ud Puritan, 6 yrs, 6st 71b ...... ...( Whitehead) 2
Mr Sharpe's Bayleaf, 5 yrs, 6st 131 b (U: Walker) 3
Mr Dove's Staffor,l, 3 yrs, sst. 91b (Qlayton) 4
tt:ng-3 to 1 on" Honesty, who led throughout, am.'
won is a eauter by -three lengths-.

The Ca:nberlaud Plate of 100 sow:, idled to a sweepstakes
of 10 sows each, 5 ft, 2 (to the fund) if declared ; second
to save his ..,,take: One mile and three-quarters. 41 subs.,
16 of whom declared.
Mr Barb.n's The Clown, by The Car. - G.llcln,la, age.l,
7st 7ib • I (Gradwell) 1
\ls. Johnstone's The Utttr, 5 yrs, 7:1 Jib (Uarn2rou) 2
Mr Bradley n l Fl wa, 3 yrs, list 4lb ,iuc. 61b ea) (Wyatt) 3
The fullow:ng also ran : —War, Morris aicer, Fitzroy,
Feodor, Barmaid, and The Gleaner.
Batting-6 to 4 ag3t The Czar, 3to 1 agst Flora, sto 1
agst Feodor, 100 to 15 asst The-ClJwii, 11 to 1 agst War,
50 to 1 agst Fitzroy.
The Clown ma b nearly all the running and won by half
a length ; length betwaen second and third.

A Maiden Plate of 50 sous; weight for age; selling and
other allowances. About six furlongs.
Mr. Jackson's Sorcerer, by Oulston—Witchcraft, 3 yrs,
ist 9lb
lfr Johnstone's Harvest Home, 2 yrs, sst 12Ib (car. sst •
131 b) (Hudson) 2
Mr Easton's Bachelor, 5 yrs,•Bst 121 b
The following also ran : —Glenn )y, Well Done.
Thtting - 11 to 8 on Harvest Hem-, 3 to 1 agst Sorcerer,
4 to 1 agst Bachelor.

Well boue led till teaching. the Ftraight, where Glen-
moy and Sorcerer singled themselves out., awl the latter,
having the best of the struggle, won cleverly by half a
length ; two lengths between second and third. The
winner was not sold.

The Corby Castle Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ;
weight for age ; ponalties and allowances. About six
furlongs. 6 subs.

Mr W. Osborne's Master Tom, by Carnival—N Minus 1,
2 yrs, Gst 121 b (G. Walker) 1
Mr Cowen's Loney.; 2 yrs, GA 71b (3l‘llwen) 2
}lr Cowen's Sleeping M-ggie, 2 yrs, Gst 41b...(Clayton) 3
Betting-11 to 8 on Master Tom, 2 to 1 agst Lenova.
The favourite made all the running, and won by a
length; a length and a half between second and third.