The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-22 00:00:00

THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The town is particularly
quiet this morning to all appearance. The turn-outs
are, however, meeting in various places, and the great
subject of discourse amongst them is the death of
Lyons, who, they continue to declare, was "mur-
dered by the hired assassins of the Anti-Corn-law
Magistrates." In many of their speeches delivered
this morning they referred to the Anti-Corn-law
processions which have taken place from time to time
headed by Magistrates, and declaim in no measured
terms against the Magistrates for what they call
"their most unjustifiable mode of dealing out public
justice." The police were again on duty this morn-
ing, with orders to patrol the mill district. Their re-
ports are generally favourable as to the hands resum-
ing work:, although in some mills the number of
workers has been reduced. On the whole, however,
the numbers of those at work are increased this

morning.
Joseph Lyons being the first person who came to
an untimely end in consequence of the riots in Man-
chester and its immediate vicinity, the funeral created
very great excitement amongst the turn-outs, not only
in this town, but throughout the district. In accordance
with previous arrangements, which were unknown to
the police, about two o'clock in the afternoon great
numbers of turn-outs began to arrive from most of the
towns within Bor 10 miles of Manchester. The first
of these processions which attracted the notice of the
police was one from Bury (nine miles from Man-
chester), consisting of about 200 persons, including
a large proportion of females, most of whom were
decently dressed. On the head of this procession
reaching the end of Piccadilly, on its way to the
place where the corpse was lying, they were met by a
strong body of the police, under the command of Mr.
Beswick and Sir Charles Shaw, with whom was Mr.
Maude, the Stipendiary Magistrate. The police
formed themselves into a line across the street, and
refused to allow any person whatever to pass. The
progress of the procession thus interrupted, they
divided themselves into sections, and by passing along
back streets succeeded in reaching their intended
destination, as had several thousands from various
other quarters. The police then, by the.directions
of Mr. Maude, cleared the streets, and formed
themselves into lines across the street on each
side of the house where the body was laid. Every
avenue leading to the house was completely
blockaded by the police and special constables, and it
was then ordered that the friends only of the deceased
should be allowed to follow him to the chapel-yard.
After some delay, occasioned by the interference of
the officers, the corpse was brought out, and the
friends of the unfortunate man having been formed
into procession, the police surrounded the body and
the funeral procession on all sides, and thus they
moved along the streets until they came to Mr.
Scholefield's chapel-yard, Every-street. On the ar-
rival of the police at the gates of the chapel-yard, Mr.
Scholefield refused to admit them ; but by previous
arrangement the chapel-yard was crowded by the
mob, as were also the walls, by the permission of Mr.
Scholefield. The police, however, kept the street
clear in front of the yard to the no little annoyance
of Mr. Scholefield, who on one occasion attempted to
drive the officers; but he was told by Sir Charles Shaw,
that if he interfered with the police he would order
him to be taken into custody. The police remained
on the spot until all was over, and were every now
and then assailed with groans and hisses by the mob.
Whilst the attention of the authorities was directed
to the funeral procession of Lyons, a detachment of
the rioters proceeded to Mr. Thompson's power-loom
factory in Mill-street, and almost in the twinkling of
an eye demolished the windows and turned out the
hands that were at work. Information of this outrage
was instantly conveyed to the police, but on their ar-
rival all was as quiet as if nothing had happened. The
whole of the windows and frames of the first story
were completely demolished, and a great number of
the windows on the second and third stories were also
broken. Shortly after the engine was again set to
work, and a great portion of the hands resumed their
employment. Having satiated their vengeance on
Mr. Thompson's mill, a party of them went off in the
direction of Oxford-road, and again attacked Messrs.
S. and H. Marsland's mill in Chester-street. Fortu-
nately the police arrived in time to prevent further
mischief than the breaking of a few windows. On
the appearance of the police the rioters fled in all di-
rections, and one only of the ringleaders, whose name
is Daniel, was apprehended. Ile will he brought up
for examination this day at the Borough Court.
ADJOURNED SESSIONS, NEW BAILEY.
(Before J. F. FOSTER, Esq., Chairman, and JOSEPH
LEEsE, Esq.)
MONDAY.—Owing to the unusually heavy calendar
at the last Salford Hundred Sessions, occasioned by
the number of persons apprehended and left for trial
during the outrages committed during the last six
weeks, the Magistrates, after having been occupied
in both Courts for more than a fortnight, were
obliged to adjourn the proceedings until to-day, to meet
the convenience of the gentlemen of the bar, who
were engaged in cases to be tried at the Preston ses-
sions. This morning the Court met at ten o'clock,
and proceeded with the trials of the rioters.
Edmund Lyons was the first prisoner placed at the
bar. He was indicted 'for riot at Messrs. Birley's
mill, on Wednesday, the 11th of August, and he was
further charged with assaulting the police in the exe-
cution of their duty on the same day. The Jury
found the prisoner guilty. Sentence deferred.
John Berry and Betty Kershaw were next placed
in the dock, charged with unlawfully assembling to-
gether, with other persons, at Bury, in this county,
on the 18th of August, and, in company with a large
mob, proceeded to Messrs. John Hoyle and Sons'
mill, situate at Mossfield, where, by threats and inti-
midation, they forced the workpeople to leave off their
lawful avocations. These facts having been esta-
blished by evidence, the prisoners were found guilty.
Sentence deferred.

Henry and Joseph Hibbert and Benjamin Birten-
shaw, were then brought up, indicted for riot at
Droylsden, in this county, on the 12th ult. The
Jury found them guilty. The llibberts were sen-
tenced to three months' imprisonment, with hard la-
bour, and Birtenshaw to two months.

Barnard 11.1'Vay was found guilty of riot and as-
sault at Messrs. James Kennedy and Sons' mills,
Ancoats-street, Manchester, on the 23d ult. In his
case the sentence was also deferred.

Several other rioters were disposed of during the
day, but the charges against them were not of an
aggravated character, and their sentences were of
course not severe. The Court rose about six o'clock.

The accounts from Bolton this morning are very
unfavourable. The notice to quit, which expired on
Saturday night, has been pretty generally put into
practice. There are at present 28 mills standing, and
only four in full employment. The four at work are
those of Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. Towlinson, Mr. Knowles,
and another. The hands of these four are under
notice, and it is thought they will leave off work at the
end of the week. The town is quiet this morning.
The accounts from Ashton and Stalvbridge are of a
more favourable character—there the whole of the
mills are either wholly or partially at work, and the
towns are in a state of perfect quietness.
At Stocky ort and Hyde the hands are nearly all at
work, and as far as these towns are concerned the
turn-out is at an end.

PRE;TOTN-,--MONDAY EVENING.—In the course of
last week a writ came down from the Lord Chancellor,
addressed to the 'Clerk of the Crown for the Duchy of
Lancaster, R. W. Hopkins, Esq., whose office is in
this town, ordering a gaol delivery for Oct. 1, at Lan-
caster. The writ was forwarded to T. R. IV. France,
Esq., the High Sheriff, who issued summonses for
about 100 Jurymen, addressed to various parts of the
county. There are
.112 prisoners, committed from
various parts of the county to' Kirkdale Gaol, besides
nine who are out on bail, but as it is not stated in the
writ a
<`general gaol delivery," it is not known whe-
ther those who stand committed, .far trial at the dif-
ferent quarter sessions will be included in the Com-
'mission. On this subject the decision of the three
Judges named in the Commission, Lord Ahinger,
Baron Alderson, and Baron Rolfe, will be received at
the Sheriff's office to-morrow. The prisoners in the
gaol at Salford, from Manchester and the surrounding
neighbourhood, are very numerous ; but in Preston
House of Correction there are only five, and in Lan-
caster but two, committed on charges connected with
the late riots. There will be two Courts open.
On Friday two of the rioters in the late tumultuous
proceedings in this town, on the 12th August, were
apprehended by Joseph Dearden, the town beadle,
and committed for trial by the Magistrates at the
Town Hall. Along with several others who are well
known, and for whose apprehension warrants have for
some time been issued, they had kept out of the way
until the restoration of tranquillity emboldened them
to return into the town. One of these, Thos. Norris,
was charged before John Barstow, Esq., axone of the
leaders in An attack committed by a great crowd of
persons at the mills of Messrs. Germaine, Petty, and
Co., at Leighton, where they conducted themselves
with great violence and disorder, and caused the mill
to be stopped. The hands having left work the crowd
dispersed. Thomas Pedder, the other prisoner, was
charged with having, on the same day, attacked the
factory of Messrs. Horrocks, in Canal-street, and
having led the mob up the stairs, where he behaved
with a considerable degree of violence. Along with
the other prisoner he was committed to the House of
Correction. The three unhappy individuals who were
wounded by the fire of the soldiers on the same day
still remain in the House of Correction, en-
during considerable suffering. One of these, a steam-
loom weaver, 21 years of age, who was shot through
the cap of the knee, had his leg amputatedimme-
diately, about six inches above; another, Bryan
Hutchings, a shoemaker, was wounded in the side, the
bullet still remaining in the body; and the third,
aged 21, s shot through the wrist. It will be some
time before they can leave this benevolent institution,
tut, in consequence of their sufferings, the Recorder
bp kindly informed them that, although the two

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former were recognised as amongst the most active
leaders of the mob on the late filtal occasion, their
prosecution will not be proceeded with. In addition
1 to Lancaster and Mercer, the individuals who died in
this establishment, these are the only ones amongst
the wounded who were taken there ; the two other
unhappy men died at their own homes, where also
many of the other wounded were conveyed, whose
number is not estimated, but the same forbearance is
shown to them as with those at present in the House
of Recovery. The spirit of Chartism and insurrection
is entirely broken in the town.
in connection with the new military arrangements
for the northern districts, Preston is to become the
future northern depot of a large body of troops. There
have hitherto been no barracks in the town, and the
troops now here, consisting of about 130 Rifles, are
quartered in temporary barracks, in a factory in
Water-street, in addition to another detachment who
are doing duty on the turrets of the gaol. A site of
254- acres on Pulwood Moor, and in the centre of the
former race course, has been secured by Government
for the erection of barracks capable of containing
2,000 troops. An active correspondence has lately
been carried on with the Board of Ordnance, and it is
daily expected that contracts for estimates will be ad-
vertised. The spot has been selected by Captain Bur-
rows, Barrack Master at Blackburn, and Capt. Ruther-
ford, Engineer to theßoard of Ordnance at Manchester,
and many plans and estimates have been sent
up to London for the approval of the Government.
The circumstances which have dictated this choice .
over the place proposed for enlarging the barracks at
Blackburn, in order to make that the northern depot
for troops, appears to be the facility of their transport
by railroad to the south, and to Ireland and Scotland
through the new port of Fleetwood. The inhabitants
of Preston and Blackburn have both taken up the
matter very warmly, and in the latter town a site of
land was offered gratuitously for the erection of bar-
racks. The matter has, however, finally been set at
rest by Government having acknowledged the supe-
rior advantages of this town. This decision was conie
to chiefly from the opinion of the Duke of Welling
ton, who gave his approbation to Preston, in prefer,
ence to any other place which had beet' pointed ou
in the northern district

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM TUE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—One of our Contemporaries has at
.ast opened its fire upon the new American
treaty, and as it has done us the honour to quote
with approbation one part of our judgment con-
cerning that treaty, we need hardly say the most
unfavourable, we think ourselves bound to re-
peat our conviction that, on the whole, the ter-
mination of the affiiir is one for which we have
to be grateful to the Government. We agree
with him that the treaty gives us less than we
were entitled to; and we add, that we have little
satisfaction in concessions to an adversary who
has conducted the controversy with so little
frankness and generosity as the people of the
United States. But the question is not one of
feeling, but ofpolicy. The question is—have we,
or have we not, reason to rejoice that the open
questions are finally settled between the two
countries, even with some sacrifice of what we
consider our eqUitable rights? Now, first, there
are several assumptions in the article we allude
to which could not be very well insisted on in
discussion with the American Government. The
construction there put upon one of the King of
Holland's decisions (respecting streams falling
into the Bays of Fundy and Chaleurs) is denied,
and we think with plausibility, by the Ameri-
cans; nor can we maintain with our Contempo-
rary, that the commission of Colonel Mudge and
Mr. Featherstonehaugh has "proved by actual
observation and survey, that the features of the
country along the line claimed by us agree en-
tirely with the words of the treaty of 1783."
That the line claimed by the Americans does
not so agree is clear enough, but that our
own literally and " entirely" does, is still
a more difficult thesis to maintain. The
boundary line is one which, it will be remem-
bered, is slightly more favourable than that pro-
posed by the King of the Netherlands, and the
road " from the St. Francis to Quebec," which
our Contemporary describes as so highly unpro-
tected for about 60 miles, is separated from the
American frontier by about 30 miles of country
(including that range of hills along which the
Americans wished to draw their boundary line),
and of which a strip of apparently some 10 or lo
miles in width has been gained by Lord Ash-
burton's negotiation over and above what the de-
cision of the King of the Netherlands would
have awarded us. On the subject of the free
navigation of St. John's we have already ex-
pressed our opinion. We are ready to confess,
too, that we regret the cession of the Madawasca
settlers. But are these disadvantages to be set
against the settlement, once for all, of the ever-
menacing boundary quarrel? Here we are met
by the answer that we might have settled it in
our own way; that " no country was ever less
prepared or less inclined fbr aggressive war than
the United States;" and that whatever hap-
pened, war at least they would not have
hazarded. Perhaps not. But that is not the
question. Would they have settled the dispute
on any other terms? This is the real point of
the matter. Would they not have interposed
delays—would not Maine have been refrac-
tory, and the Federal Government lukewarm ?
Would not the independence of the individual
State and the inability of the Government to act
without its concurrence, have been again played
off upon us ? And would not the question have
been thus adjourned till the next occasion when'
Grreat Britain appeared to have her hands full ?I
America is perfectly aware that every year's de-
lay is in her favour. Every year increases that
force which the growing provinces of Maine and
Massachusets are prepared to pour, nay, have
long been pouring, upon the disputed territory.
Every year consolidates by fresh facility of com-
munication and density of population the body
of the Northern States into a mass available for
supporting with effect the pretensions of their
countrymen. This growing power is ever on the
spot—it is by no sacrifice of labour or money
that it keeps itself in preparation for the contest.
That is its natural position—a position in which
without effort it is daily strengthening itself. But
year after year does not facilitate the concentra-
tion of the British forces on New Brunswick or
Lower Canada. The population of our North
American colonies is told by thousands, where
those of the United States count their millions.
It is only by the onerous presence of a large
and disciplined force that we can keep our-
selves prepared for untoward emergencies ; it
is pretty plain, then, which party is most in-
terested in clearing off such controversies as
these. The United States feel this acutely
enough, and, we need hardly say. are not likely
to give up their advantage for nothing. They
lost nothing by open questions; we did; and we
had to expect that we should be made to pay for
closing it. But there is always an alternative.
We might have threatened, we might have de-
clared war upon the United States, if they re-
fused to accept an equitable arrangement at once,
dictated, we presume, by ourselves, of a question
which has puzzled the two nations for fifty years.
Few, probably, will advocate this mode of deal-
ing with the question ; least of all, perhaps, the
partisans of a Ministry who tell us that all :our
late distress is because we impede the natural
trade between England and the United States.
But in case any such partisan should be suffi-
ciently determined to support that mode ofjn-
ducing a speedy settlement, we will remind him
how the matter stood. In 1828, after much ne-
gotiation, the Tory Government agreed with
the United States to refer the matter to the
arbitration of the King of the Netherlands. In
1831, under a Whig eovernment, that Monarch
gave his decision, awarding to the British
a frontier, as we have said, somewhat less advan-
tageous than that secured by Lord Ashburton's
treaty. This decision the English Whig Go-
vernment, in the words of our Contemporary,
" signified their readiness to accept." For two
years Lord Grey's Government pressed the
United States to acquiesce in this arrangement ;
but in vain, and in 1833 the Royal decision stood
rejected by both parties. There was no talk then
of enforcing by war the authority of the King of
the Netherlands—no disposition to assert our
whole rights at once, when it became clear that.
the Americans would not " split the difference."
It would be rather bold of a Whig advocate to
maintain that these ten 3 ears had precisely suf-
ficed to exhaust the permissable degree of pa_
tience, and that the Conservatives were bound,
to resort at once to the tre-
mendouswar to obtain that which
Whigs bad shown could not be obtained by
o coming e
xi office,npteodient
o
the
peaceful means. Such, as we view it, is the
case
for Lord Ashburton 's concessions. A d
spec y set-
tlement was necessary. It Was more necessary
for us than for the Americans—andthey knew it
was. By war, accordingly, or by
_sacrifice, the
settlement must have been purchased. The first
expedient was neither justified by
called for by honour. Least
could the ne-
cessity of such a decisive measure be urged by
the supporters of a Government which had been
already ten years (the period
of their existence)
fumbling about the matter. Concession re-
mained. That it is concession are-aware.
Wliether any part of it could ,we
have been avoided,
it would be difficult, Wit • h
out an accurate know-
ledge of American politics, to pronounce. But
that it has been less than the value of that, we
hope, lasting quiet which it has purchased, we
entertain no manner of question.
PERALD.—If Lord John Russell is not to

resume next session his congenial position as
leader ,of the Opposition, who is? The reason*
which will remove the Noble Lord from the
chieftaincy of faction are equally potent to r.s•
strain the succession of Lord PalmerSton or at y
of his late colleagues thereto. The fact is, th:t
the members of the defunct Administration wl
still have seats in the House of Commons con•
stitute the rump only of the Opposition forceis,
and for the first time in the history of party e
have the Opposition led by men whose on y
claim to its confidence is that they have been
Ministers of the Crown—responsible advisers of
the Sovereign, who were driven from office 11(...
cause their continuance therein was almost un
versally% felt to be dangerous to property an
gocd order. It is not surely sufficient that diet e
is coincidence of view between the majority of a
party and its leader on minor questions of pub is
interest? Unanimity of opinion on the sugar
duties, the timber duties, or the Corn-law---ca
the latter there is perfect discord betwe*a
Messrs. Cobden, Villiers, Bowling, and 140,34 S
John Russell and Palmerston—cannot surely b 3
the basis of a political combination such as a,t
Opposition ought to present? Agreement o a
the subject of free trade and disagreement ea
atlnied
ipiirsefdoilcalonwieezrist
sitanndw.hicThheLsoerndtimJoelnutst Res .t
tiat
the fur more important question of the suffrage, as
Noble Lord are as wide as the poles are amuck r
from those of three-fourths of the free
con .
panions who have hitherto fbught under 11 *
banner. How long, then, is a compact allure P.
so monstrously immoral as this to continue ?---n
alliance which requires a greater sacrifice of pel
sonal convictions, and of larger moral respoas -
..
bilities, than the most insane advocate of pat
combination can justify or excuse. An end
must have, and that shortly, it either Lord John
or the Radicals have one drop of sincerity I t
their bodies. The success of free-trade prin
ciples under the leadership of the Noble Lord
would only be the removal of obstacles to this
attainment of those ulterior objects of his sup •
porters which he has 30 frequently declared 13 a
never will assist in reaching. Defeat on ecouc..
mical questions, under the guidance of Lo .d
John, will only increase the demands of his fig.
lowers for an extension of the suffrage, as a mean s
of achieving the application of those commercii
views which they. and their chief entertain i t
Common. Thus does Lord John Russell, whethe r
successful or unsuccessful, as the head of the Op •
position, advance—so tar as his own party is con •
cerned—the repeal of the Reform Bill and thet
extension of the suffrage, which he is so veh.e-•
mently, and, if words are binding, so irretriev.
ably pledged to oppose.
POST.—Weexpressed our satisfaction two days*
ago on the reception which the treaty conclude-0i
by Lord Ashburton with the United States Go-
vernment had experienced in this country. Upa
to the moment at which we wrote we had heard
of nothing but expressions of satisfaction on thi
termination, upon fair and honourable terms, of
disputes which placed, during their existence, ha
continual hazard the amity of two great nation;,,
whose hostility would be a calamity to both, and
a calamity not to themselves only, but to
whole civilised world. It seems that we wer.:
premature in congratulating our readers on the*
suppression of party feeling upon this occasioa.
Yet we had allowed three days to the Oppositio
press to take its ground, and it had taken none.
It seldom happens that the journals devoted nie
the interests of a political party, when they have
a good or even a plausible reason for attacking.
their opponents, require so much time to find ix
out. We, therefore, cannot blame ourselves foe
having arrived too quickly at the conclusion--
improbable as it was—that the treaty wills%
America was not to be made the occa-
sion' for the display of party spirit. &Oil
less can we blame the Chronicle tin
the spirit of party, as displayed at last in it. 4
columns, required to be nurtured and stimulated
for no less than three days before it was in a con-
dition to show. The fault was natural on bssut
sides. Whence our Contemporary derived hiss
tardy inspiration we do not presume to guest .
But whether he resorted to the Pantheon or this
firmament—to Cupid or to Ursa Jig jor—he
plainly had recourse to a fallacious oracle.
great fault of the treaty concluded by Lord Ash,.
burton, according to the Whig oracle is, that itbi
three Objects, the boundary line, the suppression..
of the slave trade, and the mutual surrender ci•!
criminals are comprehended in one act, instead
of b eing accomplished by three separate con.-
ventions. And why is this a fault? Becaut
the American Senate would equally have et...
cepted ach of the three separate conventiom,
and England might have driven a tighter bar-
gain by dealing with each subject apart front
the rest. We collect from this merely tha
Lord Palmerston, had he attempted to settl
the disputes with America at all, would
have - niggled in the manner which thsl
Chronicle so strenuously advocates—would hav,s
given occasion to three debates in the America.s
Senate instead of one--and would have multi-.
plied, in a ratio far greater than three to one, th.:
chances of complete failure in his attempt t 4.
settle all existing disputes. But our Contempu.
rary endeavours to show that the Senate of tls.
United States would have been sure to ratif‘•
three separate treaties as easily as the one whicia
it has ratified, upon the ground that each of the:
three arrangements of the present treaty, sep:..-
rately consiered, is adverse to the interests of
Great Britain, and favourable to those of dues
American Union. And, first, with respect to Om
boundary line : the Chronicle, through thre.:
weary columns, labours to prove that the int/ .
rests of England have been betrayed, and the .t
everything claimed by the United States hat
been conceded. We will not travel with Gait
Contemporary through the intricacies of his g;to•
graphical argument. It is enough for us to per!.
ceive that the guides for whose assistance he had
the condescension to wait no less than three davit
have led him into a dilemma from which he will
not extricate himself very easily. Three days of
cogitation and consultation might surely ha eta
sufficed, if not to secure clearness and accurs.ii
of statement, at least to avoid manifest and 'pal-
pable incoherency. We may think it w artht
while to discuss with the Chronicle the new- line:
of boundary, when it has made up its own mind
whether this line is a matter of natim.al or merely
of provincial importance on the other side of thm
Atlantic.

CHRONICLE,--We are informed- that at
treaty is upon the point of being concluded ;witJt
Hanover, by which the Stade duties are to b.:
increased. In the speech which Lord Palm er-
ston delivered at the close of the session, he
stated his apprehension that the Tory Govern-
ment would make some such concession to Kin
Ernest. The supposition was repudiated at th
time as being too discreditable to Sir Robei t
Peel's Ministry. But old predilections, i t
seems, are too strong, and the Tory Gc ...
vernment is about to lery a tax upon
British commerce and British shipping—to re-
ward the King of Hanover for the old services of
the Duke of Cumberland. East, west, north, :Ana
south, it is the same story. In India, in Tieces„,
in America, in Spain, in Africa, in.
the interest s,
Hanover, ti;,,;
same systematic abandonment of
the same scandalous indifference to the charactt x
ceofinit
inofuntoilltie.r.
of this country. Upon many of our commoditie i,
upon raw cotton, for instance, we understand din
duty is to be doubled. Something like a liundri ,i
Ini.ore the
Ca n mercantile thousand pounds a year, it is estimated, is to 7t,e,
King of Hanover. We trust that by callimg
levied by the
attention to this subject in titne,
new
treatyput tli ‘‘..e may be f 7
tunute enough to
upon its guard in sufficient time to prevent th a
perpetration of this flagrant wr(ng That it is a t
doubt. resent intended, there is .
) wefear, no room t a
d
GLOBE.—The more closely the treaty negvo.
tinted by Lord Ashburton • with the American (gin. vernment is examined,
cause for dissatisfac;tioat
with the terms on wl ' ncli it has been conclude, I,
at least so far as the people of England are co,)-
cerned, will appear.
Although among the fit st
to express an opinion that British interests h )1
not been suilleien I t y protected by the noblern RA
to whose keeping they
ley were entrusted, we 3c..
cliaed to comma ourselves to a precipitate je.dt,..•
meat i a
n matter involving consequences sa iln•
portant as the maintenance of pacific rellitiu is
between two great nations. For the " care at d
caution" we felt it a duty to exercise, we we) e
taunted by a Contemporary ; who assert( d
the positive excellence of the treaty, and eul, p..
gized the wisdom of the functionary by wham. Re
on the part of the British Government, it hi A
been negotiated to a conclusion. In the interi ni
between the first perusal of the treaty and tl: a
application of the taunt, we " carefully" e:
.-....
ainined the treaty, and "cautiously" compar 4.
the boundary between the two countries, as s€ 1.,,
tied by it, with the line laid down by the Coin-
'definition v /as k,
missioners whose boundary • 1,3
corporated in the treaty of peace betw• en . the
United States and Great Britain in
17' ' .13 We
next compared it with the award of the, King %
. Llf
the Netherlands of 1831. The result of both t h lie:
methods of testing the merits of the reently-
co;:c:uded trtaty, viewed in its bearing ups a
British interests, is the same. We pronounce it
an utter failure—a surrender to America ,if
advantages for which an '
equivalent is in Vii a
looked for in the treaty itself, and in any c""
lateral act of her Legislature and Govern-me et.
The boundary prescribed, and the path assign ed
between our dependencies of New 'Brut fr.
wick and Lower Canada, is the lea, A C( IX

~.::s_

• venien a-ml- the-, nuzs-7liable" obstruction
and annoVarice,...in:-the 'event of hostilities
between Great Britain and America, of any
that could have been marked out. The
treaty assigns to the United States a larger por-
tion of land than even her wildest claims, when
put into a tangible form, ever before ventured
to ask ; and, in addition to this kind and liberal
dealing with the American Government, Lord
Ashburton has conceded tine free navigation of
the St. John, through our colony of New Bruns-
wick, to its very mouth. In addition to this
valuable concession, which may be turned against
us whenever the Power for whose special advan-
tage it is granted is disposed to annoy us, or to
encroach upon our territory, the treaty gives up a
disputed point on Lake Champlain to the Ameri-
can Government; and most absurdly recognizing
it, as, though founded in justice and ascertained
fey an application of the principle on which
ihe o:iginai treaty of 1783 defined the boundary
of :he two countries,p/edges the British Govern-
me::..: to pay to the Government of the United
States, the amount of monies received under the
name of The Disputed Territory Fund;" as
Ithough we had, during the period which has
elapsed since the territory was in dispute, been
wrongful possessors, and were equitably liable
to the American Government for the amount of
• " rents and profits" which we had received, or
the State of Maine might have received or de-
" rived, from the land in question during that
-,Period. No wonder that the Americans have
. leteti and feasted Lord Ashburton!--that his
'lrrordship has become the idol of their praise—a
. .
.p.!rteet pattern of future negotiators!
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle ofd
•this day has a most warlike article upon the
American treaty, charging the Ministers not
very obscurely with having sacrificed the iute-
' rests and honour of the empire, from fear of a
quarrel
the United States. Such a charge is
...•
• ri grave one.- Peace is no doubt a blessing above
adipriee—except the sacrifice of honour awl se-
: icarity • but honour and security are more pre-
- tions than peace, if for no other reason, for this,
' that Without them peace itself must be pre-
c:triottS. The charge, then, which the Morn-
' inj Chronicle brings against her Majesty's Go-
• wernmeat is a most serious one. Tile greatest
4i'!a ne that a Government can commit, next after
dsterioratiog the Constitution of the country com-
mitted to its charge, and depressing the condition
• i#r tire people, is the sacrificing of its honour and
iaterests ahroad-s-these are the greatest crimes of
A Government; but there are adjacent to these
csrlines of almost as deep a dye, though, notwith-
' i4tatitling their real proximity to the others, of
e•-!emingly different character. These are, the
puti.ngthe Constitution of a country and the hap-
liiess of its people in peril by rash or interested
.e
,
xiwriments—the putting its external honour
,a itt its security to hazard by unnecessary
s.traf.s. To confine ourselves, however, to the
ktnasideration of external relations. To sacrifice
• 2.l6naue and security, from fear of danger, is the
's",;.eatest crime—to risk honour and security by.
,aaotonly rushing upon danger, is a crime next
Tin.de.gree, a crime divided from the other by a
wery slight difference. To avoid both these crimes,
•Li short, to preserve peace without sacrificing
h-istiotir and security, is, in cases of difficulty, the
highest triumph of statesmanship, and this
1-rinfilph we contend the present Government has
:;:thieved in effecting the late treaty.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

inzoet THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 8 per
Toide, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s.
-to';-d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
,s:nange of 25 35,1 i, and the exchange at Paris on Lon-
(ion at short. being 25 57i, it follows that gold is
o.ttB - per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is
433 per mark, which at the English :Mint price of
.:f3/. 17s. 10Ad. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
.c :change of 13 9, and the exchange at Hamburgh oo
London at short being 13 101, it follows that gold is
0.57 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh.
So:ne interest is felt in the City as to the manner
in which the Corporation of London are likely to
ifnifil the duty which is shortly to devolve upon them,
of electing a Chief Commissioner of Police, as this is
a case in which, above all others, personal considera-
tions cannot for an instant be permitted to interfere
vitL those of the necessary qualifications for so im-
p. ,rtant an office. The Corporation have been hitherto
a tittle vulnerable on this point : and it is not wonder-
Ail, therefore, that in so valuable an appointment as
this the same imputations should be hazarded. There
is'a sufficient check upon them, however, in the con-
:sequences that may follow, in this case, any inefficient
:nomination. Were they to return to the Secretary
s'f State, who, by the Act of Parliament, has a veto,
the name of any individual that the Government
senubl not approve, it could not fail to react upon them
:A.; proof of general incompetency to such nominations,
zarfri disturb their claim to the management of the
City police itself, under which they have shown so
niich jealousy of any interference by the Government.
POST.—A chance vessel brings some interesting
ta.Counts of the late workingS of the Imperial Brazi-
lian Minas. For 20 days, the average success had
been at the rate of 101bs. of gold per diem. Several
.oithe days' produce of late exhibits the unusual, but
3citifying, result of 361h5., 381b5., and 321bs. of gold
hie,: diem. Whether, however, a vein has at length
liseen discovered in new ground at the 41st fathom, or
-whether it is a mere " rest " or bunch of gold that
lIA been met with, does not transpire. The ensuing
:arrival is in consequence looked for with much in-
!terest by the parties who have long had their capital
loerted uo in the concern, and in a state of unproduc-
. The returns, on the whole, of the last six
lnot:ths, indicate richness in the mine, the amount ex-
..;ee.pnz coisiderably 6001bs. of gold. A dividend
:meelp.3 to be, therefore, already made certain. Strict
wcopzny in the management of the affairs of the Com-
luny, and a reduction of the duty from 25 to 10 per
,:mt, were also points of- importance in the history of
er,., mine. It should be added, that it was at the 41st
7-Tl,tiloin such large returns were yielded some eight or
tea years ago by the Congo Soco. The Imperial
1;.-.17.ilian shares, lately selling at 71. to 81. per share
atee e‘‘).',v held at 81. to 101. per share,

71 :';':less,

CARD PLAYERS, BEWARE !
/twit ton of Boulogne have been in a ferment
.during the week, and justly. We shall repeat the
pirt.iculars 113 we have heard them. Two Poles of
•iistmguished families have been residing at the Hotel
Ales Balas. On their arrival they met accidentally
:an English family of the highest respectability.
''.llrougn them they were introduced to some :f
ie .iaut- ton at present here. A picnic was given
frtn the 6th, to which the Poles were invited. Darin,'
'the picnic,
.as a return of the compliment, they
7.,,quested several of the gentlemen to dine with
aileat on the following day. Two English and one
l'ren:cl; gentleman dined with them. After dinner
.• Is. were the order of the night till the Englishmen
one 16E, the other 20,000 E, the Frenchman
of which he won back 30,000 E, leaving
;..,;iself still indebted to the Poles 10,000 f. The
..I;n,.2,disinatan gave next morning his bills at short dates
4. the r-'0,00b1., one of which for 3,000 f. was paid
ti ie Same day ; the other paid his 161., but the
-end; gentleman neither paid: nor gave any ac-
-1 n of his debt. The English gentleman
▪ ) had lost only 16f. invited the whole party to
Chi( 'at his house on the Saturday following,, a clear
ti;,7‘ that either he was in league ,with the Poles, or
tc iv-. nothing. unfair or dishonourable had passed before
Oa Saturday, however, at two o'clock, the Poles
:• .re arrested and sent to prison as cheats and vaga-
b who had deluded the innocent gentlemen to
and by trickery had won their money. In vain
Nv! -.0 they expected at dinner at six o'clock ; instead
.. them came a letter stating that they were arrested.
a :ie. sr 'were so, all
s jze l'and examined to
theirs money and private. papers
-Ikeek has- been Passedmte oat a case against them ;
the examination of wit-
h
:••ses ; and the triallook.difcward to with more than
c r.aintin curiosity; of co
aurse every vile epithet has
b ,en leaped upon the
cuse
b ackened. The followiencl, and their names
I,:iumours were in-
istriatisly -spread abroad-g
1
ey invited were made regularly
th q has been disproved by the
e that thderupnakrLy
fact that the
Ev e oily drank three bottles of
oved by
in time
e wine drugged ; this again has beewinndei: second,
ait
VP: very nature of the wine on table,
and. the
'cam placed there. 3d. The c trds wereri(ea .
bii .A is proved* they were purchased on the ""
ep :ind'While the parties were at table. same
th th t. Rile,: were connected with a set of dlsre th.
pc asle-characters at another hotel, that the polic-
e
ha I orthrs to watch them closely, &e. This has been
ag i.i nail also many other sayings and doing.:
er; alkyl i..titioas, all trumped up to raise a prejudice
witether they be innocent or guilty of
'::; at present hanging over them. Whether
true o; false we cannot say. But
!I atesome fa;ts connected with this case that de-
m serious atteatim.—Boulogge Gazette, 19th inst.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 21.
IN RE THOMAS HUTCHINSON.

This day being appointed for the choice of assignees
under the fiat against the bankrupt, who was described
as a sugar-refiner, carrying on business in Old Gravel-
lane, Wapping, a number of creditors were in at-
tendance to establish proofs previous to voting. He
had lived for some time at St. Ives, and afterwards
carried on business in Crown-street, Finsbury, in
connection with a person named Hodgens. He ap-
peared in Court under an order from the Commis-
sioner, being under a detainer in the Queen's Bench.
A long discussion ensued between the solicitors on
both sides, as to the propriety of allowing his exa-
mination to be public, the solicitor to the fiat stating
that an item of 4,0001. appeared in his balance-sheet,
in relation to his connexion with Cllr. Hodgens, and
that it would frustrate the interest of the creditors,
even if the solicitor on the other side were allowed to
have a note of the examination.

The COURT eventually decided that the examina-
tion was to be considered private.

~.
S rAT.I Or. TRAM: IN PAISLEY.—By vigorous efforts
in • liy- I I.e IZ.elief Coin
on ti ,•ir I,st:'. fur a„ivfnut"' for reducing the number
thisce, the amonnt of persons de-
pee id Int flu twern has, week, been brought down to
le . : has 7,0311.., During the week, work has still con-
du 1 I scarce, acrdthere area considerable number of
pei :rats sliffring severely, but, as is just the period
wl: ,ti 01011111 trade should be at its best, till
ilt the result of a
fe,,, . dap': longer trial is obtained, we feel it our duty to
ref ,tin frOm gloomy forebodings. In the
meantime,
ma:itatfl:that one of our most extensive manufacturerscau' nu.'
bas intinuted to the workers
employed inli
factory,
_hr,.itgit t.!lt ir superintendent, that it is doubtful whether
tenot this
q; . „in. h? any, „lighting in that establishment
jam n ; and that, in the meantime, there will be none.
QJ ss,ow Argus.

the watch as a keepsake, and she pledged it the next
day. She denied that she bad ever told the prisoner's
mother that she had wounded herself; they said she
had done so, but it was not true.
In re-examination, the prosecutrix said that the
prisoner first took her from her home. •
Mr. Henry- Jay, a surgeon, deposed that on the
night in question he was called on to examine Cie
prosecutrix. I-Ie found her insensible, and there was
a wound on her left arm, about an inch and three
quartersiong, and nearly half an inch deep. The
prosecutrix, t the same time, appeared to be suffering
from pain in the left side, and while she was insensible
her hand rolled over involuntarily towards that part of
her person. Witness dressed the wound, and directed
that the pro3ecutrix should be kept quiet. There was
a mark on her side which must have been occasioned
by some external violence.

71 iously to saying, " If you don't," and there being
doubt as to whether his intent was to rob, the
Jury had given him the benefit of that doubt. The
sentence of the Court was that he should be im-
prisonel in the House of Correction and kept to hard
labour for twelve calendar months.
CHARGE OF ASSAULTING A POLICEMAN Arrant THE
CHARTIST MEETING IN LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS.—
Sykes King, aged 32, was indicted for assaulting;
Edward Sweeney, a police-constable, and cutting awl
wounding him in the head, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm.
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. BODKIN opened the case for the prosecution,
and called the following witnesses.
Edmund Sweeney—l was a police-constable. On
the 19th August last I was on duty at Long-acre, at
ten o'clock at night. I saw a crowd, and observed
that a policeman had a person in custody. 'The crowd
followed hint, calling oat "Don't let the police
take the prisoner." The crowd followed down
Bow-street. I was going to the assistance of my
brother constable, when freceiyed a blow of a stone
or brick on my head. I was about ten yards from my
CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. brother constable at the time. I did not see who
OLD COURT. threw the stone. It came from the middle of the street.
(Before the RECORDER.) It cut my hat through and wounded my had. I fell
CONSPIRACY.—Thetrialof Percival Hamilton Chain- down from the blow. I was taken to the station-
berlayne, George Fuller, Jane Sophia Matilda Fuller, house in Bow-street, and the surgeon saw me. I
and firm. Napier Reeve, which occupied the whole of suffered about a fortnight from the cut in the head.
Monday, was resumed on Tuesday. The defen- Cross-examined by Mr. BALLANTINE.—There was
darts were charged with conspiring together to bring a great crowd.
a false charge of felony and misdemeanour against Charles James Snitch—l am a surgeon, and was
the prosecutor, Thomas Alley Jones, who was last called in on the night in question to see Sweeney. I
session tried upon an indictment brought against him examined his head, and found he had received a
by the defendants, charging him with felony, and contused wound, such a one as a brick or stone might
acquitted. produce.
It appeared that the defendant Fuller carried on Thomas Wolf examined by Mr. CnAmeEtts—l
the business of a shawl dealer and silk-mercer, in Re- belonged to the F division of Police. Between ten
gent-street, in 1840, and in the beginning of 1841 he and eleven o'clock, on the 19th of August, I
became in embarrassed circumstances, and subse- was in Queen-street, and saw a mob coming
quently some negotiation took place between him and from Lincoln's Inn-fields 1 towards
,Long-acre.
the prosecutor, with a view to arrange his affairs. I went to Bew-street for assistance, and on my re•
Ultimately a fiat of bankruptcy was issued, which turn I met a brother constable with a prisoner in
was, however, set aside, and the defendant Chamber- custody. The mob was following him, and the pri-
layne, who was Fuller's father-in-law, then entered up soner was among them hissing and yelling at the
judgment', upon a warrant of attorney, for 1,6031., police. He was pointed out to ine by a gentleman.
credited by Fuller, and a sale of his effects took place I took him into custody. He resisted, but I sue-
under that instrument. During this proceeding the ceeded in taking him to the station-house.
prosecutor acted as Fuller's legal adviser, and when Cross examined by Mr. BALL.tNTINE—It was about
the sale took place it appeared that he purchased some half the length of Bow-street from the place where
trifling articles at the suggestion of the defendant, the gentleman pointed him out, to the station. Mr.
Chamberlayne, and also a mousseline de laine dress 'William Warner, or Warry, was the gentleman who
for a young lady named Laurence. It seem; that pointed him out. He is here.
subsequently a difference took place between all Mr. W. Warner—l am a basket-maker, living in
the parties, and Mr. Jones brought an action Great Alley, Long-acre. I remember hearing a dis-
against Chamberlayne to recover a sum of 6001., al- turbance on the night in question, and went into
'coned to be due to him for money advanced, and for Bow-street. I saw a man in custody of a policeman.
hiS legal services. Shortly before this action was tried There were a great many people in the street. I saw
a warrant was obtained to search the premises of Mr. Sweeney knocked down by something thrown at him.
Jones, and also of Mr. Laurence, the father of the The prisoner was the man who threw it. I saw him
lady above alluded to ; and the defendants Chamber- do it, and said it was a shame, and a mob collected
layne and Fuller, accompanied by a policeman, made round me. I did not lose sight of the prisoner until
a search and took away some blacking-brushes, a po- Wolf took him. lam sure it was him.
matum pot, and other little articles which they ac- Crass-examined by Mr. BILLANTINE —lt was two
cused Mr. Jones of stealing, and he underwent an hours after I gave him into custody that I saw him at
examination upon. that charge at the Kensington the station-house. I was next him when he threw.
Police Court, and the result was that Mr. Jones was It was a stone or brick, I cannot say which, but it was
held to bail, and was subsequently tried at this Court something heavy. I could not see which it was.
and acquitted upon both the charges that were pre- I should say that this happened about half-past ten.
ferred against him. The defendant Reeve, who, it I did not know either Wolf or Sweeney before. Se-
appears, was a solicitor, and acted in that capacity for veral people came round me, when I said that it was
the assignees under the fiat of bankruptcy, had at- a shame. They pushed me about, and asked what
tended at the police-office in support of the charge, odds it was to me ? I spoke first to Wolf, and said
and took other steps in connexion with it, and the that was the man that knocked the policeman down.
women had, it appeared, given some testimony at the I spoke first, Wolf did not speak to me before I spoke
police-office when the charge of felony was gone into. to him.
The prosecutor now swore positively, that he had pur- . Mr. BALLANTINE, for the defence,; admitted that
chased some of the articles alleged to have been stolen the prisoner had no reason to complain of
by him at the sale, and with regard to a pair of the manner in which Mr. Bodkin had conducted
snuffers and tray, which it was alleged he had stolen, the case. They would recollect that on the even-
he proved that he had given those articles to the pri- ing in question there was a large crowd collected.
soner Chamberlayne. They had it in evidence that one of the witnesses had
The prosecutor underwent a severe cross-examina- been there through curiosity, and he hoped the Jury
tion, but nothing material was elicited to shake his would consider that the prisoner had been there from
testimony, and the evidence given by him was con- the same motive. The prisoner was charged with
firmed by Miss Laurence, the auctioneer who con- committing a violent assault, and no motive had been
ducted the sale, and other persons. shown to influence him to commit it ; he was charged
A great number of witnesses were called to prove with this assault solely upon the testimony of one
these°facts ; and at the close of the case for the prose- witness. Now it would be for them to say if at ten
cution, o'clock at nightatkey thought it possible for witness to
The RECORDER intimated his opinion that, however recognise the priOnefamong a mob of persons. With re-
rashly Mr. Reeve might have acted by lending him- garcrto the resistance offered by the prisoner to his ap-
self to the suggestions of the other defendants, yet he prehension, it was just the line of conduct likely to be
did not think that his conduct amounted to the,offence adopted by an innocent • man, apprehended upon a
imputed to him by the present indictment, of having charge which he felt to be untrue. He did not in-
knowingly made a false and unfounded charge of fe- sinuate for one moment but that Mr. Warner firmly
lony against the prosecutor. , believed the prisoner to be the man guilty of the as-
Mr. BODKIN, on behalf of
.the prosecution, said he sault ; but it was for the Jury to say whether Me. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
concurred in the view of the case taken by the Court, Warner might not have been mistakeneas to the party
(YESTERDAY.)
and consented that Mr. Reeve should be acquitted. throwing the stone. The prisoner deniedahat he had MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury in a powerful committed the act in question ; and he submitted that A young Frenchman, named Easter Prisms, who
speech, commenting severely upon the conduct of the whoever threw the missile, there was no evidence to has offices in Crosby Hall-buildings, Bishopsgate-
prosecutor, who, he submitted to the Jury, was un- prove the felonious intent ; and that a common assault street, was brought before Alderman Wilson, charged
n orthy of credit. only had been committed. Mr.
The defendant (Fuller) read. a long address; in One witness, a neighbour of the prisoner, with having conspired with his partner to defraud who had John Gallowin, of St. Swithin's-lane, merchant of
which he declared that the prosecutor had been the known him for two years, gave him an excellent cha- goods of considerable value. ,
cause of the ruin of himself and his family. racter as a quiet well-behaved man.
Witnesses were called who gave the defendants a Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN summed up, prosecutor, and the Jury Mr. CLARKSON the barrister, who attended for the
good
ODKIN replied. Gu character. found the
prisoner Not ilty. goods, and stated that his client dealt in French
the prisoner professed to carry on business
i
Mr.
The prisoner, Sykes King, was again indicted for in the City under the firm of Easter Pasques and Co.,
The RECORDER then summed up, and in the course assaulting Thomas Wolf, a police constable, in the exe- and the question for the Alderman to'decide was, whe-
of his address he expressed his opinion that if the case t cution of his duty. There was another count, ther the very artful offence which had been commit-
rested solely upon the evidence of the prosecutor, they charging him with a common assault. The prisoner ted was to be treated as a felony or a misdemeanour.
would not be bound to return a verdict of guilty, and : pleaded Not Guilty. It was generally the Plan of persons accustomed to.
he said that he thought the conduct of the prosecutor j Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Chambers prosecuted, as in the carry on fraudulent transactions to act honourably in
en who were not very incredulous.
in interfering with the property of the defendant . former case, and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. their first dealings. The prisoner had
'adopted that
Fuller, when he was in a state of embarrassment, and i The witness Wolf repeated the evidence he had mode, and with the success which it seldom failed to
in taking any portion of his property, even by pur- , given in the former case as to the resistance made by produce upon tradesm chase, was most improper. I the prisoner to his apprehension. The prosecutor stated that the first transaction he
The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a I On his cross-examination 'Wolf said that he had had with the prisoner was on the 2d of September,
verdict of Guilty against Fuller and Chamberlayne. . resigned his situation in the police force since this when he intrusted him with boot-legs to the amount
The trial was not concluded until a quarter past occurred. He had received a notice that it would be
eleven o'clock. of 321,, for which a commission of 24 per cent. was
better for him to resign, and he did resign. He had to be paid him. The prisoner handed over the amount
(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and Mr. Justice , received that notice in consequence of having been with the exception of 19 shillings.
in which witness stated that he had
Subsequently the
' CRESSWELL.) charged with an act of violence against his wife. He prisoner called at the counting-house, and after some
conversation,
CHARGE OF EXTORTING Moneenr THREATS OFMAK- had never been charred with any other act of vio-
ING AN INFAMOUS CHARGE.—Yesterday Robert alias knee. He had been Charged before the Commissioners occasion for money, mentioned to him that he (pri-
Thos. Addy, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Mr. with taking a little drop too much to drink, and had soner) and his father had abundance of money, and
Henry Bellamy Webb, with intent to rob him. There been punished for it. would aecommodate him if lie would leave in their
was another count in the indictment, charging. the ' Re-examined by Mr. CIIAMBERS—He wes not possession goods for security.
The suggestion was
prisoner with attemping to extort money by sakeaus of drunk on the 19th August, nor had his leaving the acted upon. Witness deposited with the prisoner 740
threats and menaces. _ police anything to do with the transactions of that night. pair of boot-leg, the value of which was 2121. 155.,
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Clarkson Edward Sweeney repeated the evidence he had pee- and the prisonerspromised to let him have next day
and Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Payne defended the prisoner. viously given as to the conduct of the mob. the suns of 1711. On the Bth instant the prisoner
The Counsel for the prosecution called Mr. BALLenesee complained of the conduct of the took away the property in a cart, and on the 9th
Mr. Henry Bellamy Webb, who stated that he re- prosecutor in keeping back this indictment until the witness called at Crosby Hall Chambers for the
sided in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and last moment. Neither the prisoner nor his advisers mnoney, and saw the prisoner and his partner, the
was employed in the house of Baring Brothers. He . were aware of the existence of the present indictment latter of whom was equally concerned in the
had been out in the evening of the 20th of August, I until the prisoner was arraigned. The prisoner was affair. The prisoner's Partner said that they
and was returning home. When he came near St. • put upon this second trial unjustly and unfairly, and had received from abroad bills to the amount
Martin's-place, the prisoner came up and accosted , the Commissioners had no right to hunt him down in of ten thousand pounds, and that their clerk was
him. Witness took no notice of him. Prisoner for- , this way. On the'former occasion he had put it to gone to get them discounted, in order to meet their
lowed witness. "Witness turned, and said to pri e the Jury, whether they did not think there might be engagement with witness, whom they requested to
soner, " What the devil are you following ine , a reasonable doubt as to the prisoner being the per- wait. Witness waited accordingly for an hour, after
for ? Prisoner then turned back. When wit- I son who had committed the assault. They had the lapse of which, no clerk having appeared, the
ness arrived under the Piazza, in Covent-garden, thought there might be. They had given the partner said he would go out after the money himself,
prisoner came behind him and said, "If you don't, I prisoner the benefit of that doubt, and he and left the office. When two hours had passed away,
will give you in charge for an indecent assault." stood there an innocent man. Being an innocent the prisoner, who bad begged witness to posit eWitness did not notice any one near at the time. man, what right had the policeman to single him out pressed his regret at the disappointmena but ively
Witness exclaimed " 'What !" Prisoner said, " "Well, from the crowd for apprehension ; and would not any promised that the cash should be forthcoming the fol-
I will," and gave witness into the custody of a police- man, feeling himself innocent, have resisted his appre- lowing day. Witness sccordingly called at the time
man at the corner of St. James-street on a charge of pension a Could they believe the witness Wolf, a man appointed, but was informed by the prisoner that the
making an indecent assault. It was Saturday night, who, fir violence, had been dismissed the force ? 'Was difficulty of getting the bills negotiated was insuper-
and witness was locked up until Monde y morning in he a fit man to be trusted in an unruly mob .9 or rather
, , able. It was then agreed that the prisoner should
the same cell with Stringer alias Fitzgerald and New- was he not just the man, by his violent conduct, sell the goods upon a commission of two and , a half
stead, who were convictedhere lastsessions of acharo., to excite a quiet and orderly assemblaga to acts of in- per cent., the terms on which the former transaction
of attempting to extort money by threats of an infa- subordination. These were the men who brought had been completed, and the dealina to be a ready
mous nature. The prisoner did not appear at Bow- the oliee force into disrepute, and if te police force money one, without discount b ' was
direction
, y the express
street on the Monday morning. From the • 1 •I) -I -
eve enee conducted themse ves, as . .
some of them hurl done, they of the witness.
,of the policeman it appeared that if the • prisoner had ap.. would be treated with something more than hissing Here the prisoner interrueted' the prosecutor, and
peered at Bow-street that morning, he must have seen from the mob. He was, however, happy to say declared that the "m•mission was not to be so low as
Stringer and Newstead there. It appeared that the that hebelieved
the Commissioners had dismissed
of these violent 21 per cent .
prisoner had stated that he lodged in Fetter-lane, and several
persons from the force. Witness repeated the terms said were a n 11G
the person at whose house he had given his ad- The whole case depended upon the testimony of Wolf, exactly correct. On the 14th instant the prisoner
dress was examined to prove that he did not and he would ask the Jury if
they could convict the called upon him and said he had disposed of the goods
reside there.—The clerk to the Magistrates, before prisoner upon such testimon 9
Y- at the price fixed upen them; and next day he sent
whom the prisoner was taken, deposed that the pri- Mr. Justice WIGIITMAN, .in summing up, said that home the empty boxes but; the money was not forth-
soner, when asked if he wished to make any state- their verdict must depend upon whetherthey thought coming• •
, neither would the prisoner tell the name of
ment, said that'he was subject to fits, during which the prisoner was there
accidentally as a quiet the person to whom he said he had sold the articles,
he had no knowledge of what occurred ; that for six spectator merely, in which - case the police but called to request
an invoice of the property, for
weeks before the 20th of August he had had a series had no right to interfere with him, or whether he the satisfaction of the party had made the pur-
of these fits, and that it must have been during one of was there for the purpose of aiding and assisting the chase, and said the whole
cr•seharned imme-
these fits that he gave Mr. Webb in charge, for that mob in breaking the public peace, and obstructing diately afterwards. Still
would be
'.
' and wit
he had no recollection whatever of anything that the thoroughfare, and was taking a part in the X t. that no cash appeared;ofthe
is- mess, suspec tug the intentions
occurred. turbence.
Easter Pasques, and Co. were not strictly honour-
Mr. PAYNE took several technical objections to the The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. able, threatened to put the risoner into the custody
indictment, the whole of which were overruled. The William Perry was indicted for emitting and maim- of a policeman, he
if persevered in refusing to dis-
Learned Counsel then proceeded to address the Jury ing Elizabeth niggle, with intent to do her some close the name of the • - I had sold
Individual to whom ie for the prisoner, and contended first, that the evidence grievous bodily harm. the goods. As witness showed that he meant what he
was insufficient to show that the prisoner had at- Mr. Charnock conducted the prosecution ; Mr. said, the prisoner wrote the name of
• '
down oa a paper
tempted by threats to procure the goods or monies of. Crouch defended the prisoner. " Monsieur Louis, 27 G a t t Soho," as the
1 Gerard-street, -s iee ,
• ifyou don't " might allude to rosecutrix it appeared, waswhat •
the prosecutor. The ' ,The p . . , - purchaser, and was then allowed to go at liberty.
a variety of things, and it was too much to call upon monly called an unfortunate girl. She deposed that Alderman WlLsox—What 1 Before you made in-
the Jury to say that it meant "if you don't give me she had been living with the prisoner as his wife, and quiry of Mr. Louis whether the statement was false ?
money." It was impossible for the 'urya to state what a few months ago she was admitted into the Magda- I think his conduct \vas aline calculated to justify
was the intention, and if they could not do so they lea Asylum, which she left a short time before this you in suspecting that the jaaaamanon was Use.
were bound to acquit the prisoner. TheLearnedCoun- occurrence took place. The prisoner had promised to Mr. Claeinon said that the whole business was con-
sel staten distinctly that it was not his intention toeast marry her before she came nut of the Magdalen. 0.1 ducted with an air of i The property disap-
caneour.
"nYitaputation on the character ofthehighlY resPectable the Gth September she saw the prisoner at a concert pared from Cro3by. Isall
Chambers by driblets ; and
cientlernan who was the prosecutor in this case; on in Gray-street, Blackfriarg-road, and asked hint for although the prisoner had agreed to sell it fir a coin-
the contra»
ty theprisoner distinct] admitted that the soma money. A short time before this he gavesher mission of 21 per cent it "- -• h seen that lie pro-
chars made ' P s ' ~ rondo e
chard was false. half a crown and his watch, and at the same time wised that amount to mother • n for the ace )n-
M Justices 11,
er person
r. iv IGHTNIAN in summing up, said there said he could do no more for her. They subse- modatioa given in the firsttransaction, which amounted
was no doubt whatever- ' ' .°.•
ofan as- quently had a quarrel, and a policeman separated to 321.
saint by the pri__le of the commissioa
but he thought that'll and shortly after she left the place, and was Mr. William John r •amidpartner of .
the words, e
don't,"li.'ioiuronthe prosecutor, e
of Queen-street, .
of , 401115 son
were too vague to warrant standing at d-street, Soho, merchant, stated
the Jury in concluding that the assault had been cons- Prisoner came uP to her, an a , , Op. th it tile firm were dealers in foreign ,
goods. On the
mated with the intent of robb. him. I-I robrious epithet, drew a knife from his pocket 2,1 of September the firm nided the prisoner
Tubbing e recom- p
resorninc.
mended that they *lto 1 1
and
felony, and convict him of epithet,,
he would do for her, a to Messrs. Ballet-
acquit the prisoner of the opened it, and, saying . made • •
.. -I and pa4e .as a seller, . they
a common assault. thrust with the knife at her side. She put up her purchased of him to the amount of 321.,.amd paid him.
The Jury returned averd•
father - •
ict of CT ail ty of an assault. arm to avoid the blow, and received a cat upon it, Witness's. 21 per cent. from
Mr. BODKIN That is ' Iv ‘l. to have. had
an assault under the statuteand the prisoner then kicked her on the side, and she the prisoner, who stated that he was himself to re-
not a common assault ? ,
fell to the ground and continued insensible until the ceiva 5 per cent. commissions but no other transae-
Mr. Justice WlGHTMAN—Certailly found herself in St. Saviour's tion ever took place between the
prisoner and the
Mr. PAYNE Slid that the prisoner' - • next merning, when she
had been labour- workhouse. firm, and witness's father never received a farthing
ing under insanity, and perhaps the
eider that as a mitis.ating Courtcircusn would con- The prosecutrix, on her being cross-examined..said,
from the prisoner,
stance in passing that the mother of the prisoner was the instigator of Alderman WlLsoN—Then you know nothing at all
sentence.
her going into the Magdalen. She also said that upon , t bout these 744 boot-leg; which the prisoner said he
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN, in Pugin-
.D is sentence, told one occasion she tried to destroy herself by taking ,' tot l to your father? Witne3s—Nothing whatever.
the prisoner that he had had a narrow es,
heard distinctly ape. The laudanum, and that the conduct of the prisoner was IMy father is now in the country on business, but I
prosecutor had not what he had said I the occasion or her doing so. The prisoner gave her am a witness to all that took the subject,
place on

- Cross-examined—Such .a wound as was upon the
prosecutrix's arm might have been inflicted by herself,
but it appeared more like an injury caused by a thrast
than by a cut.

Eiv-iard 'Parrot proved that on th© night in question
he beard a scream, and on going to the spot from
whence it appeared to come, he found the prosecatrix
lying upon the ground imensible. Ile saw nothing of
the prisoner.

Mr. CRoucir, who defended the prisoner, said he
was instructed that the prosecutrix inflicted the
wound upon herself, and that her object was to get
the prisoner transported, to separate him from a wo-
man of Whom she was jealous. The following wit-
nesse3 were examined

George Bucklow deposed, that on the evening of
the 6th of September he was in the New-cut, Lam-
beth, and he saw the prisoner, and accompanied him
to the concert, and remained there about an hour.
The proecatrix went up to the prisoner and spoke to
him, but He did not hear what she said. She then
knocked a pipe out of his hand, and witness beckoned
to the prisoner to go out, and the prosecutrix, who
was very violent, followed him out, and when they
not into the street she seized him by his coat, and it
was with great difficulty two policemen could separate
them ; the prisoner wished the prosecutrix to be
I taken into custody—the policemen refused, and said,
if they did riot go away, they would lock them both
up. The prosecutrix went away, and witness accom-
panied the prisoner to another public-house, and re-
mained there until a quarter to twelve o'clock, and
witness then accompanied the prisoner home to his
lodging. He never lost sight of him from the time
they left the first public-house until he went home to
his lodging.
Elizabeth Perry, the prisoner's mother, was then
examined, and she proved that the prosecutrix told her,
that the prisoner was innocent, and that she had
wounded herself, and charged him with the offence in
order that she might get him, transported, out of jea-
lousy, and she also said, that she wished she had put
the knife as far into her breast, as she did into her
aria. The prosecutrix likewise told her, that if he
got over it, neither he nor herself should live over the
week.

William Cunningham also deposed that the prose-
cutrix told.him she had wounded herself, and had
charged the offence upon the prisoner out of jealousy.
Mr. Justice CRES3NVELL summed up, and the Jury,
after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of—Not
Guilty.

(Before the RECORDER.)
William &zithers, alias James King, pleaded guilty to
the charge of feloniously returning from transportation.
It appeared that the prisoner was convicted of rob-
bery about eight years ago, and ordered to be trans-
ported for life.

The RECORDER sentenced the prisoner to be con-
fined for six m )nths in the Penitentiary, and then to
be transported for life.

NEW COURT.
(YE STE RD A Y.)
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
The cases that came before the Common Sergeant
this morning were of a most trivial description.
John Smith, a very respectably attired elderly man,
was indicted upon several charges with stealing a
vast quantity of valuable property belonging to his
employer.
The prisoner on being arraigned yesterday pleaded
guilty, but in consequence of the property being in
the hands of various pawnbrokers, the Learned Judge
deferred passing judgment till to-day.
At the sitting of the Court this morning the pri-
soner was again placed at the bar, and, in consequence
of the recommendation of the 'prosecutor, was sen-
tenced to only one year's confinement in the House of
Correction.