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

LAW AND POLICE.

CHARGES AGAINST CITY BBOKERS.—Before the Court
of Aldermen, the Lord Mayor, and the City Recorder,
Mr. William Caudery, of 151, Fenchurch-street, a sworn
broker, was charged by Mr. Alfred D. Castle, merchant,
of 45, Mincing-lane, with delivering to him "bought
notes " of various parcels of soda ash and soda crystals,
and charging him with a greater sum than he had really
paid for them. It seemed that the defendant had been
frequently employed by Mr. Castle as broker in various
transactions, and it was alleged that this was not the first
occasion on which the complainant had been charged
more than he ought to have been. Under these circum-
stances, it was asked that the bonds which he entered into
(41,000), and his two sureties in £250 each, might be
cstreated. For the defence it was stated that though
there had been some irregularities on the part of the
broker, still there had been no fraud or collusion. After
hearing the whole of the evidence, the Recorder, on behalf
of the court, stated that it had been decided that the
bonds entered into by Mr. Caudery and his sureties should
he pat in force by the City solicitor, and that the defen•
dant should appear at the next court, to be held on the
21st inst., and shew cause why he should not be discharged
from the office of broker. During the sitting of the court it was
stated that Lieutenant-Colonel Baddeley had complained
that Mr. Alfred Whitmore, late of Change-alley, but now
deceased, had sold or otherwise disposed of valuable bonds
and securities without his sanction, and applied the pro-
ceeds to his own use, and he (Mr. Baddeley) therefore
asked that the names of Mr. Whitmore's securities might
be furnished him. The Recorder could not see what good
could accrue from the colonel's desire being complied with*
because Mr. Whitmore had not committed any offence
within the terms of his bond.

TRADE OUTRAGE AT ASIITON-UNDER-LYNE.—At the
Liverpool Assizes, Robert Ryan was indicted for taking.
part in a trade outrage, committed in 1862, upon the pre-'
reins of Mr. Clifford, brickmaker, Ashton-under-Lyne.
A number of men having their faces concealed by masks
were met by two policemen as they were returning from
destroying some bricks. The police-constables attempted
to take the men into custody, when a violent struggle
ensued, and one of the officers, named Jump, was shot.
The prisoner had absconded to America, and only recently
returned. He pleaded guilty to doing wilful damage, and
was committed to gaol for nine months, with bard labour.
THE OUTRAGE AT SWANSEA.—LOW, the man convicted
at the last Cambridge Assizes of a murderous assault and,
robbery on Mr. Williams, of Swansea, when the latter
was driving home, has confessed his guilt, and states that he
committed the assault with a hedger's hook, and after-
wards concealed it. Low, who is in his 67th yeaar, was
sentenced to penal servitude for life.
ACTIONS AGAINST RAILWAY COMPANIES.—Two claims
for damages against railway companies have been tried at
the Liverpool Assizes. In one Mr. Habane, a civil engi-
neer, residing at New York, claimed compensation for
injuries sustained by him in December last when travelling
on the London and North Western Railway. . The com-
pany had paid £2OO into court, and the jury awarded
£5OO in addition to that sum. In the other case, Mr.
Parkinson, a veterinary surgeon residing at Preston,
sought to recover damages for injuries received
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway when jour-
neying from Preston to Liverpool. A verdict was given
for the plaintiff, with £l,BOO damages.
LORD BROUGHAM'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.—An application
was made at Vice-Chancellor Malins's Chambers in the
case of Lord Brougham v. Cauvin, on the part of the de-
fendant for time to answer the evidence of his lordship for
a decree. The Chief Clerk (Mr. Edwards) gave a fort-
night's further time from the 2nd of April.
A FATHER CHARGED WITH MURDER.—At Bristol
Assizes William Blackmore, a mason, was indicted for the
wilful murder of his son Thomas, six years old. The
prisoner, who was a widower, resided with his son, and it
had often been observed that he treated the boy very
unkindly, and had refused to maintain him until com-
pelled by the magistrates to do so. On the 27th of
January the prisoner had notice to leave his lodgings, and
on the afternoon of the same day was seen walking, in
company with his son, by the side of the River Froome.
He returned in a few hours without the boy, and stated
that he bad left him with a sister, with whom it was sub-
sequently ascertained he had not been friendly for a year.
Subsequently the body of the boy was found in the river,
about two miles from the place where he was last seen
with his father. No marks of violence were discernible on
the corpse. About three o'clock in the afternoon of the
29th, before starting, the boy ate some bread and bacon.
This was found in his stomach partially digested ; and the
surgeon thought it looked as if the boy bad lived two or
three hours after he partook of this food. This was the
essence of the evidence offered in the case, except the fact
that when spoken to at various times on the subject the
prisoner gave several versions of what had become of the
deceased. The defence was that the chain of circumstan-
tial evidence was not sufficiently complete. The jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.

A STRANGE DECISION.—A woman and a respectable
man, named Long, have been charged before Mr. Newton,
at the Worship-strect Police-court, the former with being
"drunk and incapable," and thelatter with interfering with
the police. The evidence was conflicting in the extreme.
The policemen said that the male prisoner pushed one
of them and called him an unmitigated scoundrel; Mr.
Long denied this statement, and said that he only remon-
strated with the officer because the police were pulling
the woman by her arms, her face touching the pavement
all the time. He asked one of the policemen to obtain
a stretcher ; but the officer only made an abusive reply, and
on the defendant threatening to report the constable he
was seized, roughly treated, and conveyed to the police
station. A number of witnesses corroborated Mr. Long.'s
statement, and not one gave the same testimony as that
of the constables. Notwithstanding, Mr. Newton fined
the prisoner Long £2O, and told him that if he had done
his duty he would have taken the numbers of the con-
stables and then reported them, and whatever had oc-
curred he had brought on himself.

EXECUTION OF THE LUTON MURDERER.

On Tuesday, at eight a.m., William Worsley was
flanged in front of Bedford gaol, in presence of about
a thousand people, for the murder of William Brad•
bury, at Luton. At the trial an accomplice, named
Lcvi Welch, was allowed to give Queen's evidence,
and was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude on
his own confession of having robbed the murdered man
after Worsley had struck him clown with a bed-winch.
The popular idea was that Welch was equally culpable
with Worsley, and this opinion formed the pretext of
some very strenuous efforts which were made on behalf
of the condemned man.

On Saturday last, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, having exa-
mined the case and consulted the judge (Baron Bramwell)
who tried it, declared that the law must take its
course ; and the same answer was returned to two depu-
tations who had personal interviews with the Horne Secre-
tary on Monday. Up to Monday night the prisoner
appeared to entertain confident hopes that a reprieve,
would arrive at the last moment ; but about midnight he
dictated a confession to Mr. Roberts (governor of the
gaol), and also a letter•to his relatives, in which he
acknowledged the fairness of the trial, the justice of the
sentence, and the ability with which he had been de-
fended. He also expressed a hope that his fate would act
as a warning to otheri.

Worsley displayed wonderful coolness, submitted to
be pinioned with perfect docility, and walked to the
scaffold without assistance. He knelt at the foot of the
scaffold to offer a brief prayer, shook hands with all
around him, and bowed to the crowd on mounting the
steps. The dreadful business was soon over, but the hun-
dreds of men, women, and children who had tramped
twenty miles to see the execution were partially disap-
pointed, for the culprit's head was scarcely seen above the
drapery which surrounded the scaffold, and when the bolt
was withdrawn nothing but a vibrating rope remained
in sight to indicate the "great moral lesson."
The struggles of the victim lasted barely half a minute.
His body was cut down at nine o'clock, and buried inside
the gaol.

ST. ALBAN'S, HOLBORN. —The following letter
has been addresssed by Mr. Mackonochie, the perpetual
curate of St. Alban's, to the Bishop of London :—" My
dear Lord Bishop,—lt is due. to your lordship that I
should communicate to you as soon as possible my inten-
tions with regard to the judgment of the Arches Court in

the case sent to it by your lordship by letters of request.

According to the account of that judgment in the
public papers, which I assume to be correct, I am
`admonished to abstain for the future from the use of
incense and from mixing water with the wine, as pleaded
in these articles ; and, further, not to recur to the practice,
which I have abandoned under protest, with regard to the
clovatien of the blc•s;ed Sacrament and the censing per-

ons and thi:,gs.' I have taken a few days to consider what
ourse it is my duty to take under this judgment,•and
ave decided to abide by it, without appeal to the higher
curt, unless compelled to do so by any act on the part of

the promoter. It will, I know, be more satisfactory to
many of my friends that I should thus accept the decision
of the highest court which claims spiritual authority
rather than appeal to a civil tribunal. At the same time,
I cannot but feel the deepest thankfulness that a judg-
ment conceived in such a spirit of deep and true
Catholicity should have been pronounced at this time.
[t will do more than anything to calm the minds of those
who have been much troubled by many past erentii.—
Believe me, my dear Lord Bishop, yours very truly and
respectfully, AlStx. HERIOTIII.OSONoggig.",

UNIVERSITY.

THE CHARTER FOR THE CATHOLIC

The clerical leaders of the Orange ascend-
ancy faction in Ireland have unconsciously
undertaken to demonstrate both the failure of
the mixed system of education in the sister
kingdom, and the folly of the Government in
having so long refused a charter to the Catholic
University. We are old enough to remember
when Lord Derby, then Lord Stanley, intro-
duced into Ireland a system of education which
was to be administered by a board so consti-
tuted as to serve for an example of the fraternal
relations which were henceforth to spring up be-
tween the children of Orangemen and Ribbon-
men, Catholics, Protestants, and Presbyterians,
all educated in the same school. The attempt
was a noble one, and was honestly undertaken
by the then noble Secretary for Ireland. But
it failed utterly ; and one cause of its failure
is so little creditable to the memory of the
late Archbishop Whately, that had.the account
of it reached us through any less trustworthy
channel than his grace's daughter, we should
not have given credit to it. All Catholic con-
fidence was destroyed when it was discovered
that a member of the board, and a Privy Coun-
cillor, was capable of the duplicity of feigning
the utmost respect for the religious convictions
of Catholics, and of outwardly manifesting the
warmest friendship for his colleague at the
board, the Most Rev. Archbishop Murray, while
actively engaged in the compilation and cir-
culation of books which had for their real object
the secret undermining of the Catholic religion.
We need not, however, dwell upon the Whately
attempt to infuse the poison of heresy into the
books in use in the national schools. Of the
tree then planted we can now judge by its
fruits ; for it has attained its utmost growth,
and is at present in full bearing. Choice
specimens of this fruit were exhibited in En-
niskillen so recently as Friday evening last ;
and on the 6th inst. the provincial exhibition
of similar specimens commenced at Rathmines,
a village in the immediate neighbourhood of
the city of Dublin. On Friday last, the Orange-
men of Newbliss held a meeting to drink tea,
provided by a committee of ladies, and to ex-
press sympathy with Mr. Johnston, who pre-
fers a month's confinement in prison to con-
fessing that he had done wrong in breaking
the law, and promising that he would not so
offend in future. After tea, which it must be
admitted is not an exciting beverage, the Rev.
Henry Burdett took the chair, and addressing
the meeting said :—" We see people telling us
that we should not be aspiring to ascendancy.
Now, as long as ever the Lord shall leave me
breath, I will never be content with anything
but Protestant ascendancy. I think it is time
to stand on the watch-tower, and cry 'No
surrender.' I believe in my heart and soul that
the Roman Catholics of this country are in a
most deplorable state of idolatry, and I say
from the Queen down to the humblest Pro-
testant we have no right to succumb to Popery.
I believe a Roman Catholic dying as such is
lost and lost for ever." Rounds of'Kentish
fire testified to the delight with which this
characteristic Orange speech was received by
a sympathising audience. Shockingly unchari-
table as it may sound in English ears it is but
the reverberation of a sound familiar to the
frequenters of every Orange lodge in Ireland.
The Rev. John Flanagan, whose name is sug-
gestive of a parentage more familiar with
rosaries and holy water than with Kentish
fire, challenged the meeting to say if their
loyalty was not conditional. "Will you, Orange-
men of Ireland," said Mr. Flanagan, " endorse
the doctrine of unconditional loyalty ?" To
which there was a loud response of " No,
never." He went on to tell them that Pro-
testant loyalty must make itself understood—
that there were 200,000 Orangemen ready to
defend the Church—that the " Queen should
be reminded that one of her ancestors who
swore to maintain the Protestant religion forgot
his oath, and that his crown was kicked into
the Boyne." What Lord Mayo may think of
this language wc know not; but for words far
less treasonable, and less inciting to civil war,
numbers of Irishmen have within the last three
months been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
long terms of penal servitude. Referring_to
Mr. Cogan's motion for a repeal of that gra-
tuitous wrong to the Catholic Hierarchy of
Ireland, the Ecclesiastical Titles' Act, Mr.
Flanagan, amid peals of Kentish fire, said—
"lf there were a thousand Mr. Cogans in
Parliament, it was for the Orangemen to tell
them that it was by blood they must acquire
the blood-bought rights of the Protestants of
Ireland."

What is noticeable in these speeches of the
members of the Protestant Defence Associa-
tion is that they openly threaten Parliament
with civil war in the event of so much as an
attempt being made to do justice to the Catho-
lics of Ireland. They have been so pampered
—so secretly encouraged by successive Govern-
ments to trample upon their Catholic fellow-
countrymen, that the bare proposal to place
Catholics and Protestants upon a footing of
civil and religious equality absolutely maddens
them. The Rev. W. H. Ferrar, one of the
Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, addressing
the Rathmines meeting presided over by Sir
Edward Grogan, said—" If the Church Estab-
lishment were destroyed in Ireland, there can-
not, there shall not, there must not be peace in
Ireland. If they think the Protestants of Ire-
land will succumb without a struggle they
know not the men with whom they have to
deal. That I say solemnly before God." Mr.
Shannon, a solicitor, said their cry was "No
Popery." " Their ancestors marched to vic-
tory at Newtownbutler to the cry of No
Popery.''! "At Aughrim the chivalry of St.
Rutler went down before the headlong charge
of Protestants to the cry of No Popery ;' " and,
once more, " Protestants were coming out in
their strength to the cry of NO Popery and
no surrender.' He (Mr. Solicitor Shannon)
was one of a class of men in Ireland of whom
the Government should beware—of a class
resolved to maintain their Protestant rights at
all hazards."

We do not quote the disloyal and rebellious
language of these out-spoken, fair specimens
of the lay and clerical Orange fraternity in
Ireland in order to bring any ‘! railing accusa-
tion" against them. We cite them to show how
utterly inefficacious the Established Church in
Ireland has been in teaching Christian tolera-
tion even to her own clergy. There has been
no attempt, as far as we have heard, on the
part of the Irish University to call Mr. Ferrar
to account for language calculated to prevent
any Catholic gentleman from allowing his sons
to enter it. Mr. Ferrar is, we understand, one
of the college lecturers in residence, and is
in daily communication with the heads of the
University. Well may his Eminence the Car-
dinal Archbishop of Dublin observe-- A
college managed by such men must lose the
respect of all who are liberally disposed ;
whilst Catholic parents, placing their chil-
dren under such tuition in the University,
cannot flatter themselves that they have done
their duty." In fact, it would seem as if
the doomed Church Establishment in Ireland
was already so stricken by the just judgment
of a higher Power than that, of Parliament,
as to be in some measure compelled to supply
national and European evidence of the legis-
lative necessity of its suppression. Any Catholic
priest or layman, who only six weeks ago
would have attributed to any Protestant cler-
gyman in Ireland the entertaining such
opinions as have just been proclaimed by the
Rev. Mr. Ferrar, the Rev. Mr. Burdett, and
the Rev. Mr. Flanagan at the meetings in Rath-
mines and Enniskillen, and received by crowded
audiences of Protestant students, ladies and
gentlemen' with rounds of Kentish fire, would
have been denounced by the ultra Protestant
press as a foul libeller of all that was most
meek and charitable in the sister country.
And yet Messrs. Ferrar, Burdett, and Flana-
gan, are by no means specimens of Orange
Parsons weekly in the habit of discoursing of
Catholics in language not a whit more courte-
ous or More charitable. Now, as in the days
of tho late Duke of Cumberland, when Queen

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN

Victoria had just ascended the throne, Irish
Orangemen remind us of the conditional
loyalty of the ." true blue" Protestants of
Ireland, and of how " a Royal crown" was
once, and by inference may again be, " kicked
into the Boyne !" What say the loyal people
of England to7this, as a specimen of the fruit
borne by that Tree of evil without admixture
of good—the State Church Establishment in
but not of Ireland P—Westminster Gazette.