The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

The prisoners were fully committed for trial.

LAMBETH.—Benjamin Bonnet, a middle aged
man, in the garb of a mechanic, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Elliott, on a charge of attempting
self-murder by swallowing a dose of laudanum.
Police-constable Lewis Batty, 314 P, deposed
that this morning he was called off his heat to the
residence of the prisoner in Weymouth-street, Wal-
worth, and on going into his room his mother said
that he had taken laudanum for the purpose of de-
stroying him-elf. The prisoner admitted that he
had done so, and said he much regretted he had not
taken a greater quantity, and his mot her informed
him (witness) that he had been drinking for two or
three days. He took the prisoner to the station,
house, and charged him with attempting to destroy
himself, and it was found that by keeping him
walking abut there was no necessity for a doctor.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his
mind was in such a state free. the effect of drink
that. he scarcely knew what he did.
He was remanded for a week.

THAMES.—Mr. James Golding, the seeretary
of the cominitt3e of ,he People's Suhan iption Band,
wait, don Mr. Selfe with a deputation, acid said
that on the las:. pe,founance of the hand in Vic
toria-park, eight guineas were collect, d from the
people assembled by the sale of programmes and
tickets. It was intended to present the same to
the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, near the en-
trance of the Victoria-park, and it,was refused by
the committee of the hospita!, on the ground of
disapproval of Sunday hands of music in tee parks
The money was next offered to Queen Adelaide's
Dispensary, in Bethnal-green, and was refused by
the commit ee of th,.t charily on similar grounds.
The committee of the People's Stibcrlption Rind
then determined to divide the inow-y bi tween. the
Thames and Worship-street Police-courts, and he
had now respectfully to tender four guineas for the
poor-box of the court.

Mr. &Ho would most cheerfany accept of the
money, and was much obliged to the deput►tion.
The poor were very much indebted to the committee
for their subscription. He did not care whore the
money came from, so long as it was honestly ob-
tained.

Mr. Golding—lt was obtained by the sale of
programmes of the music ; and we should have ob-
tained at least 201. for charitable purpo,,es, if 'the
committee of the Hospital for diseases of the Chest
had not adopted the ungenerous proceeding of eau-
tio.iing people not to give money.
Mr. Selfe—l have nothing whatever to do with
that. I shall gladly accept your money, but I say
nothing of the propriety or impropriety of playing
music in the par:is on Sunday afternoons. I give
no opinion at all.

RUSSIA IN THE EAST.

Since the Treaty of Paris Russia has become a
power occupied exclusively in making interior im-
provements, and the friends of civilisation congra-
tulate this power on its entry on this new line.
European capitalists are going to throw over these
vast countries a network of railways, and this gives
us a motive for glancing at those of Asia.
The East, even the farthest East, which touches
the boundaries of Asia, is now a great battle field,
where the different interests of European policy
come in contact and battle together, dragged on as
they are by commerce, the mighty mover of the
age. It is true that, from whatever point of view
we look at them—from whatever side we consider
them—all Oriental questions call our attention to-
wards Russia.
Siberia, that immense and myst.rious tract of
country, in which European fancy sees but a desert
without end, is.to Russia a grand base for-impor-
taut operations. In cotuparison to its extent, the
population is very small ; on 220 square leagues
scarcely 3,000,000 of inhale t .nts are to be found;
but in many places the very fertile Foil, the tempe-
rite climate, the inexhaustible vegetable and mi-
neral riche—and, above all, the facilities for com-
munication occasioned' by rivers—have given to
these oases of the Siberian desert a certain eleva-
tion with regard to agriculture, industry, the mines,
commerce, and navigation. -
For the last 15 years steam-boats navigate the
largest rivers of Siberia ; and on the banks of these
rivers, which are more like lakes, or rather inland
seas, and even on the shores of the ocean, fortified
forts and military ateenals are bring raised. A short
time since a fleet built in the p iris of We tern
Siberia obliged Japan to make witti Russia a treaty
very advantageous to her. Lately a detachment of
troops, from the interior of Siberia, advanc d to-
wards the river Amoor and the frontiers of China,
and acquired for Russia a rich and fertile country,
tendered still more important by its touching the
Sea of Japan, and thus enabling Russia to create a
fleet which, until it procures for her a prepon-
derating influence over the Pacific, will at least pro-
tect the commerce of China and Japan.
Russia now possesses in Asia four stations, which
are at the same time both naval and !military.
These stations are situated on the Caspian Sea,. on
-- Lake Aral, on Lake Baikal, and at the mouth of
WORSHIP-STREET.—William Clarke, In the • de- the Amoor.caspian Sea, within thellast few years, the
scribed as an engine-driver in the service of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, number of merchant and naval slips has been do-
under the 16th section of the act 5 and u.
was charged
6 Victoria bled. At Astrakan have been erected gigantic, buildings for the fabrication of steam-engines and
cap. 98, with having unlawfully neglected to stop
ship-building; on the shores and onseveral islands
his engine in obedience to certain danger-signals have been raised
.rmee has been augmented and
forts and military ports. The
which were exhibited for his etudance, whereby he
'
bad rendered himself liable to a penalty of 10/.) or reorganised.
Orenburg corps d a
two months' imprisonment.
The prisoner, who was driving an engine, paid A steam fleet plies the waters of Lake Aral, and
no attention to a danger-signal at the Mile-end eta- chains of Russian forts extend along the banks of
tiou, lequiring him to reduce his speed to 4or 5 the great rivers Saloon and Jihoon, which fall into
miles an hour, and went rapidly towards the Brick- this lake. Steam-ships IS war also navigatet Latk,e,
lane station. There he also neglected a danger- Baikal, forts an d timber-yards ara beinconsmriulictaer
on its shores, and in the neighbourhood
signal, and, dashing past the station at the rate of
20 miles an hour, ran into a goods' train, the engine
,
colonies are being formed on the plan of the turps
d'armee of Eastern Siberia.
of which, and his own tender, were both suaasaecl
by the collision.
fleets constrlic ed, fortresses forti-
On the banks of the Amoor a corps d'armee is
John Fairchild, an engine cleaner who was act- the Emperor Alexander, after. examining
being organised, flea
ing as prisoner's fireman at the time Of the accident, andtfiheed'reort
ofthe
scientific and military commis-
admitted that he understood nothinbout signale,
and only knew that the red light was a danoTr- sionersp sent to reconnoitre the piovince of the
signal on-Saturday last.
terminate the line
e Amoor, gave orders for the rebuilding a fortified
John Adams, art engine driver, admitted, in p oTrth oi
snAtshieatpilca
toncroofnCstraodntstiasdt.
cross-examination, that it was the custom of the of communication commencing near the European
company, when hard pushed for hands, to employ
Cronstadt.
The carrying out of this line of communication,
firemen as drivers and engine men s firemen,
ignanals. d
thus carried on land and water by means of steam,
that it was the duty of both to look a
out for s
It having been-proved'that the prisoner was in- presents few Ifficulties. •
toxicated at the time of the accident, The French capitalists intend continuing to
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that he was decidedly of
Nishni Novgorod the railway that has been 1 id
opinion th at the defendant had been guilty of most
between St. Pet-rsburg aud Moscow ; from Nishni
culpable negligence, but at the same time it was
equally apparent that the wireless Fairchild was al-
Novgorod by the Voloa and its tributaries the
together incompetent to act as fireman, and he felt
Kama and Tobol. The Russian engineers have
bound to say that a want of proper caution healtraced the plans and counted the cost of these
Yenisei.
The Tobal leads to the Obi;Obi the
He t
lando e
been exhibited iirhis appointment to that position.
,enisei. There are only a few leagues byT;hea
powered to commit the prisoner, without t
He found, on referring to the act, that he was em-
snort tract of rail will unite the two levers.
he im-
position of a pecuniary penalty, and he considered i river Angara, or Upper Toung
°use, one of the tti-
the case as one of such a serious character, that he , butaries of the Yenisei, joins the latter river to the
had no lie-itation in sentencing him to hard labour , Lake Baikal, and only thr,e miles distant the. nia-
for six Months in the House of Correction.
jestic waters of the Amoor are rolling towards the
.
1 walls of New Cronstadt. By this immense artery
WESTMINSTER.—A. native of India, who he capital of the Celesiial
the Baltic will be joined to the Pacific,a:id from the
spoke very good English, was charged with can-ing centre of Russia even t
a disturbance, while under the influence of liquor' i
Empire may be reached. _ . _
in the Broadway, Wefemin-ter. The Russian Government is planning another
Police-constable Burnett, B 146, said that on the (the Oxus of the • ) lents ,
The river Jihoon
line of cammunication mote to the-south.
previous evening he was on duty in the Broadway, .
when he was informed that the prisoner was in ' which falls4eito Lake Baikal, formerly extended to
the Caspian Sea. Its now dry and sandy bed can
danger of his life.- There was a crowd of men, 1
women% and children about him, all of whom Ibe cleared out and rendered navigable.

Mr. Bonsor—The prisoner returned after he re-
ceived the money from last 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 discharged. -

BOW-STREET.—A respectable-looking man,
about 35 years of ago, who gave the name of Sin-
clair, and described himself as a traveller, was
charged, together with a man named Lloyd, with
committing a btir4lary on the night of the 12th
instant, on the premises 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
csrrying a bag, which he gave to his companion,
who, on seeing the officer, dropped it and ran away.
1.41,,yd 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
Wakefield-street, Brunswick-square, where
the magistrate, and remanded. The officer went
tLol.olyBd, bad .occupied a garret, and apprehended
Sergeant Sinclair, EgeTtou-now expressed his firm conviction
who was occupying the drawing-room.
that Sinclair was the man who had dropped the
carpet-bag. Sinclair had been apprehended on his
description.
. _ _

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

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

Mr.Lewis—lndeed. Then lam very glad th,,,
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 reTec, 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 contended, that the features had
made no impression on his mind.
Mr. Lewis called witnesses who proved 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 wa3 comniated for trial.