The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

THE SUN,

Mr. YARDLEY—Have you been in the practice
of acting in this manner in Irehnd ? The prisoner—
No, sir, I regret it very much. I differed from the
preacher in some respects.
Mr. YARDLEY—And knocked him down ? That
is not carrying out the principles of civil and religious
liberty. Are you in the habit of using that sort of
argument with your opponents ? The prisoner—No,
sir. I trust you will liberate me. I regret having
acted so much unlike a gentleman and a scholar.
Mr. YARDLEY—What are you, and where do you
live ? The prisoner hesitated, and Inspector Ellis,
of the LI division, said the prisoner told him he was a
priest.
. The prisoner---No, I am a clerk.
Mr. YARDLEY—What sort of a clerk ? How sin
Ito apply it ? The prisoner—l am a clergyman, sir.
Mr. YARDLEY—Oh, you are, are you, sir ? The
prisoner—Yes, sir ; a Roman Catholic priest. I re-
gret it very much. lam very sorry indeed.
Mr. YARDLEY—It is in the highest degree impro-
per for one of your cloth to be drunk.
The prisoner—I regret it very much. Pray look
over it.
Mr. YARDLEY—I will not indeed. Any punish-
ment I can inflict will fall very short of the disgrace
you have inflicted upon yourself by your disgraceful
conduct.
Police-constable Tallent, No. 102 K, here stated
that the prisoner certainly bore the same name as the
late Member for Dublin, and that he was brought to
the station-house a few weeks ago for obtaining Ss.
by false pretences from Mr. Henley, landlord of the
Blue Posts beer-shop, in the Mile-end-road, who did
not press the charge in consideration of his being a
Roman Catholic priest, and promising to pay the

money.
The prisoner continued repeating his regret for what
had happened.
Mr. YARDLEY-4 should be acting with great cul-
pability if I showed the least consideration for a man
who has no consideration for himself, and I sentence
you to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for
seven days for being drunk and disorderly.
The prisoner, after being locked up for some time,
sent a supplicatory letter to the magistrate, begging to
be relieved from the imprisonment.
Mr. YARDLEY refused to attend to it, and the pri-
soner was sent away in the van.
William Tarling, a carman, was brought up on re-
mand before Mr. Yardley, charged with uttering a
forged order for the delivery of goods, and obtaining
15 quarters of oats.
Mr. YARDLEY committed him for trial.
LAMBETH.

Yesterday John Savage, a pelice-costable, 497 A,
appeared before Mr. Elliott, by order of the Commis-
sioners, to answer the complaint of Joseph Long, a
young gentleman of the highest respectability, whom
he had grossly insulted and publicly stigmatised as a
member of the " swell mob."
The complainant, whose friends reside at Holloway,
deposed that on Monday evening last he, in company
with some friends, visited the Surrey Zoological
Gardens, and while in the refreshment-room he ob-
served a female take up a parasol and walk away
with it. It struck him at the time that the parasol
did not belong to her, and he, in consequence, took
more than ordinary notice of her, and in a few mo-
ments his suspicions were confirmed by observing a
lady looking about and inquiring for it. He told the
lady what he had seen, and also the defendant, and
walked about for some time'with him in the hope of
being able to see the woman, and pointing her
out to the constable. He did not then suc-
ceed, but in a short time after he did see
her, and instantly went in search of the
defendant, and brought him to the spot, where
the woman stood, but she was then gone away.
Soon after this the defendant asked him to go round
the gardens with him, for the purpose of pointing out
the woman to him ; but he replied he could not do so,
as he was engaged with his friends. Immediately on
his refusal the defendant said he knew him very well
—that he was a well-known character—that he had
met him at several houses, the resort of thieves. Men-
tioned the " Globe" as one of the houses, and that in
fact he was a member of the " swell mob," and must
be well acquainted with him. He (defendant) further
said that if he had kept quiet he might not have
noticed him ; though' he knew well what he was, as
he had his eye on him for some years. Finding him-
self thus grossly insulted and represented in the pre-
sence of the crowd as a bad character, he sought his
friends to take their advice as to what he should do,
and they recommended him to appeal to Mr.
Tyler, the proprietor of the gardens, for redress and
protection, and accompanied- him before that
gentleman. Mr. Tyler took them to where the
defendant was on duty, and spoke to him on
the subject, when he repeated his former charge, and
said he knew him (Mr. Long) for years as the asso-
ciate of the " swell mob." Witness gave his card to
Mr. Tyler, and assured that gentleman that the con-
stable's assertions were gross calumnies, and Sergeant
Turner coming up at the time, he gave him a card
also, and complained of the defendant's conduct. The
sergeant told him that if he had any complaint to
make against the constable, he had better attend al
the station-house at Stone's-end the following morn-
ing, and make it before the superintendent or the in-
spector. Even after this the defendant, as he passed
by, pointed him out to the people in the gardens as an
improper character whom he had known for years.
r. Henry Leach, a divinity student of Cambridge
University, corroborated a great part of the statement
of the complainant, and said he had remonstrated with
the defendant and told bim he was quite mistaken,
and that Mr. bong was a most respectable gentleman ;
hut remonstrance appeared to have no effect upon him ;
he still persisted in describing Mr. Long as a bad
character, and told him that if he did not keep quiet
he should turn him out of the gardens.
Sergeant Turner, 459 A, said, that after the com-
plainant had given him his card, Savage continued to
say he knew him as the associate of the swell mob.
The defendant, whenasked what he had to say to the
charge, admitted that all that had been stated was per-
fectly true; but the fact was, that he had mistaken
the young gentleman for another person, who is a
member of the swell mob, and he was exceedingly
sorry for it.

An inspector, who attended to watch the proceed-
ings, said he was desired by his superintendent to in-
form his Worship that the-prisoner had bean in the
force for upwards of five years, and bore a very good
character.

Mr. Randall, a solicitor in Birchin-lane, and who
attended with the complainant, addressing the magis-
trate, said he was instructed by the father of the
young gentleman, the complainant, to state that it
was not his wish to press the case harshly nor vin-
dictively against the defendant: but, at the same
time, he felt it to be his duty towards his son and to
the public to bring it forward under public notice.
He hoped that a severe reprimand from his Worship
would have the desired effect of acting as a warning
to the defendant and others to act with more caution
for the future. On account of his good character up
to the present, Mr. Long was willing to give him the
benefit of the doubt of believing that he acted from
indiscretion and not from wilfulness.

Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that the conduct of the de-
fendant was highly improper, and there were Many
points in the case which led to the belief that his acts
were more than those of indiscretion. The conduct
of the complainant in noticing the robbery of the
pirasol,, and his subsequent acts were, in his (Mr.
Elliott's) opinion, sufficient to satisfy an officer of the
slightest experience, unless indeed that his knowledge
of the fact was beyond all doubt, that he was not
what he represented, a "swell mnb thief." His con-
duct on the occasion undoubtedly - 'merited punish-
ment, but as the case froni a most kindly feeling was
not pressed, he (Mr. Elliott) would not impose that
which must result in his' discharge from the force.
Mr. Ranaall said that was by no means the wish of
the complainant.
Mr. ELLIOTT told the defendant he should feel very
grateful to the complainant and his f iends for the
very indulgent manner in which they had viewed his
conduct, and he hoped that bis escape from punish-
ment would have the effect that was intended of
making him more cautious for the future.
The defendant was then discharged.

HOLLOWAY RAGGED SCHOOLS.
The second anniversary of this laudable society
was celebrated by a dinner at the London Tavern on
Tuesday ; Mr. Sheriff Nicoll presiding, supported by
about 60 friends of the charity.

Theusual loyal and patriotic toasts having been
drunk,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening, and
in doing so stated that he believed that ragged schools
were amongst the most important institutions of the day,
as tending to develop the germs of goodness which
lurked in the hearts of even the most depraved.
There could be no doubt that the vast amount of good
which they were calculated to effect was daily in-
creasing, not so much from the increase in the
number of the schools as from their improved discip-
line, order, and efficiency. He might be allowed
to refer to an observation which he had heard from
M. Guizot, shortly after he came to this country in
consequence of the revolution of France, to show the
position in which the charities of this country stood.
That eminent individual stated that abroad every cha-
rity was supported by the Government, but that in this
country they had the genius of Britain stamped upon
them, always bearing the inscription in large letters,
" supported by voluntary 'contributions."— (Cheers.)
That was the case with the institution whose pros-
perity they were specially met to promote; and he
trusted they would not let the feebleness of his ad-
vocacy affect the liberality with which they were pre-
pared to support the Holloway Ragged Schools--
(Cheers)—but that they would do all in their power
to support them.—(Cheers.) The value of those schools
might be shown from the fact that the average at.
tendance at them consisted of 80 boys and 50 girls,
and at the present time there were upwards of 160

children attending them. He begged to give them,
" Prosperity to the Holloway Rigged School.,"
truating that, root and branch, they might live fur
ever.— (Cheers.)

The roast having been duly honoured, the toasts of
" The Lord Mayor and Corporation of London" and
" The health of the Chairman" were drank, afrer
which Mr. Aldrich, honorary secretary to the
schools, sand secretary to the Rlyal General Annuity
Slciety, proceeded to read a list of donations in aid
of the in,titution, in doing which he stated that the
present school•rooms were inadequate for the pur-
pose, and it was shortly proposed to lay the founda-
tion-stone of a new building (the plan of which was
exhibited in the room) in the Hornsey-road. He also
stated tbat the Primate of All England bad honoured
their society by preaching a sermon in its aid, which
produced upwards of 501., being the first he had ever
preached for a ragged school.
The subscriptions of the evening amounted to 2001.
(including 101. from the chairman, and about 251. from
Mr. Phillips, of Holloway, and his family).
Mr. BREWSTER proposed the health of Mr. Aldrich,
and stated that about two years since the school was
about to have perished for want of support, when that
gentleman undertook the office of honorary secretary,
and at once rdised it to the position it now held, viz.,
that it had not space to meet its requirements.
Mr. ALDRICH briefly acknowledged the compli-
ment; and some other toasts having been drunk, the
company separated at an early hour.

NEW SAFETY YACHT.
On Wednesday afternoon there was exhibited on the
Serpentine, opposite the Royal Humane Society's
receiving house, a
yacht of very peculiar material
and construction, the invention of Mr. W. Bonney,
of Claremont Villa,
St. John's, Fulham, who has
registered the design, which is so simple and so
useful as to render it exceedingly likely to be
pirated if not thus protected. The dimensions of
described by the inventor, are as
fallow
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:—Length, 13 feet 6 inches ; breadth, 4 feet 10
inches
2 feet 4 inches. The hull is clinker-
built,lo vessel,
deel , p t ah , s
planks of gutta percha (but the principle of for-
mtn aa tt ei orni awl s )i 1,1 ceelmtleanl Itye dpe andrm ci to
opfp tehr er
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tpt leodytmo
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The
sides are double from the bilge upwards to the spa deck,
and divided into water-tight compartments, as are also
the fore and aft parts of the boat, and likewise the out
gunwale. The keel and keelson are of iron, the
latter being grooved to receive the ribs, and the
whole is bolted together. The deck is double laid,
the upper diagonally, with marine glue. The bilge
timbers are deeper than usual, acting as extra keel,.,
and they, with the buoyancy of the outer wale, and
the iron keel and keelson as counterpoise,
render it next to impossible to capsize her.
All the anticipations formed, not only of her floating,
but of her sailing capabilities, were fully realised.
She was repeatedly filled with water ; men in at-
tendance got into her ; and there being a very stiff
breeze blowing, her powers of resisting overturning
were fully tested, and with complete success ; for
not only was she not water-logged, but her rate of
progression when filled was scarcely impeded as com-
pared with what would have been the case with a
boat of ordinary construction, though, indeed, any
such boat under the circumstances would have ne
cessarily been wholly unmanagable and useless.
From yesterday's experiment it may be safely as-
sumed that boats built on Mr. Bonney's plan cannot be
sunk or capsized by accident, and scarcely intention-
ally; and, as the principle of the inventor does not
interfere with external form, it is applicable to craft
of nearly all sizes. The most approved lines of
launching can be adopted, not merely in the case of
new boats, but those already built can be altered so as
to participate fully (or nearly so, except as regards
the complete substitution of gutta percha fur wood) at
a very reasonable expense. It would be difficult
to exaggerate the importance of the extension of this
discovery to life, and fishing, and race-boats; and we
look for a speedy and extensive recognition of Mr.
Bonney's merits in this matter at the hands of the
Royal Yacht Club, and, indeed, nearly every regatta
club in Great Britain. The attendance yesterday
was not as numerous as could be desired, but this
was owing to the -state of the weather, which
suddenly assumed an almost wintry aspect, threat-
ening rain all the evening, though, fortunately, there
was none to diminish the satisfaction of the aquatic
amateurs and professionals who did assemble according
to Mr. Bonney's invitation, and by whom that inge-
nious gentleman was warmly congratulated, as he de-
served to be, on the great practical value of his con-
tribution to science and safety in one important
branch of things nautical.

[The fillowing appeared in our Third Edition o
last night :—]

FRANCE.
Several conflicting 'rumours of a novel character
have sprung into existence regarding the grant of
additional moneys to the President.' One report
is to the effect that the Committee strongly recom-
mend the postponement of their report on the mea-
sure until at least six weeks shall have elapsed, the
object of such delay being to allow the excitement
caused upon the subject to subside. Another report
is that a portion of the Cabinet has agreed to a
compromise to this extent, that the debts
incurred hitherto should be paid off, but that the al-
lowance shouldstill continue as hitherto. Some of

the members of the Cabinet may certainly, it is true,
consent to this compromise, but the Prince himself
has already distinctly avowed his determination to
consent to no compromise at all—no compromise of
any kind whatever. His debts arose principally from
his munificent charities and benefactions; and it
would appear that even in the last journey of the
President to St. Quentin his expenses in deeds of
beneficence have amounted to nearly 20,000 f.
He presented, in savings bank pass-books, to the
industrious workmen of St. Quentin, 3,000 f. ; to
the well-conducted workmen of various manufac-
tories, 1,500 f. He gave to the charitable fund of
St. Quentin 1,0001.; to the Mayors of two com-
munes at La Fare, the inhabitants of which were
reduced to misery by a fire, lighted, perhaps, by some
frire egare, he gave 500 f. each. The Mayors had
implored him for some assistance for the houseless
families of the sufferers—in all 49. To the charit-
able fund of La Fête he gave 500 f.
He gave 500 f. to a postilion who, while in the act
of driving, fell to the ground and broke his legs.
He gave 500 f. to an unfortunate man who at-
tempted to destroy himself by means of poison, being
driven to despair by poverty, and with a witie and four
children starving. The money WB3 given to support
the family during the time the father is in the hos-
pital.
To the escort that accompanied him, horse and
foot, he gave 2,500 francs, making about ten sous for
each man.

The President received during his stay not less
than 500 petitions, and none of the petitioners were
sent away empty-htinded. If to all this you add the
most ordinary nod necessary exp9nses to postilions,
cmichmen, conductors of the railway carriages, etc.,
it will be seen that the sum of 20,000 francs, already
mentioned, is not more than what was actually ex-
pended, and in this,expenditure there is little or no-
thing extravagant.
One anecdote of his
journey not yet mentioned de-
serves commemoration.:—During the review at La
Fere a National Guard stepped out from the ranks
and taking off his cap cried out " Vice rEmpereur 1"
and another stalwart-looking fellow advanced and
shouted " Oui, oui, et tout de suite."

SCIILES WIG.
TV* head-quarters of the Danish troops in Jutland
is moved to Kolding ; part of the Life Guards had
arrived there, and the whole corps was to follow in a
few days. The Swedish neutral troops have received
orders to be in readiness to march. The officers
state that the present corps will be relieved by
an other.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—OnHackney omnibuses was going up
- -.- -
Ludgate-hill, when a
Tuesday one of the
little boy carrying in his arms a child about eighteen months
g
old was seen running across the road, and endeavouring to
it is supposed, was trodden upon by
being
naturally
ae
tdu
ra up l
l waso l
epass in front of the horses., d
The driver immediately checked
one of the horses, and on
his horses with All his po
thrown wer, but not sufficiently to prevent
the children from bein down. The younger child,
anin
immense crowd of persons,
a frightful state to a neigh-
bouring snrgeon's,
ywhere it expired in a few minutes. The
accident
when several gentlemen who saw it came forward and en-
tirely exculpated the driver from all blame. The latter went
to the police-station in Fleet-street, and gave his name and
address to the superintendent on duty, who expressed his
willingness to take bail for his appearance yesterday before the
magistrate. This instance shows the extreme imprudence of
parents trusting infants to the care of children in crowded
thoroughfares. 1
SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—Last week Donald Mac-
donald, from L uAbernethy,
had gone to visit a friend at
the Castletown of Braemar. On his return he had been
carrying some deer's heads; but finding he could not conve-
niently take the whole and manage his pony at the same
time, he selected one of the number, and pursued his way
homewards.•at L .ne
On leaving Avonside y chork, he went
along the hill track leiding to the braes of Abernethy, till he
arrived at a farm called the Crusk. Here his pony stumbled
in crowing a ditch, and precipitated its rider. when one of the
antlers penetrated the unfortunate man's temple. Me-
dical aid was procured, but the wounds occasioned some de-
gree of fever and delirium. He lay till Saturday, when he
was conveyed home, still seriously ill.—Edinburgh Adver-
tiser.

THE IRON IVORIES OF SCOTLAND. -- There are
four great iron-fields in Scotland, containing 28 works and
135 furnaces, which were in blast in July. 1849. The most
northerly field lies on both sides of the Forth, and contains 5
works, and 15 furnaces—Devon 1, Forth 5, Loehgelly. 2,
Mimed Carron 3. The largest is that of Clydesdale, con-
t4iniug 15 works and 85. furnaces--Garscube 1, Govan 5,
Clyde 7, Gartsherrie 16, Summerlee 6, Dundyvan 9, Calder
7, Carnbrae 6, Monkland 3, Omoa 4, Coltness 6, Shotta 4,
Castlehill 2, Chapel 3, Langloatt 6. The most westerly field
is that in the north of Ayrshire, containing 4 works and 22
furnaces—Rilbirnie 9, Blair 6, Kilwinning 3, Portland 4. The
British
most southerly field lies on the borders of the shires of Ayr,
Ltinark, and Dumtri- a, containing 4 Works and 13 furnaces._.
Lugar 4, Daltnellingtou 2, Uairkirk 3, Nithadale 3..—.0T0rt/t
Mail.