The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-10

about 3 r. NJ. OF TIE los. May iassssd Of pr Deed
ug iuto the hsrbor ~ Hong Kong, thsa dissaas
stout bali dozen m'ies only. resolved on tsksK
passage =" Macao Ia the H-kow No. 800. Of ~Lios
CbuD Act uen the male prisou~r. vas the ragistcnA
mastf and Gamer. Mr.. Perkins took with him In
tbe ooat. three boxes, some bedding, IA umbrella,
ard scb. btslo - icb bs carrie . his person
valuable gold wsch. Tn. male prisoner stated thst
ny 70 eight Go Mf. Perkins was lying aisle /.
About hat time the wud beiog strong, he gos us
NJ went forward ofth mat ROOT Of ths b1as aonss
arc. whilst standing thee asked hun how long they
would lie getting to Maaa, Ard woat island Il was
they were then close To; To which the pr.onyf sad
he sDswstd trey we're Iesr A-chow, ard " suld he
IN Macao BY midnight. it the Si9d bsld-th a. owing
10 lurch Of the boat. h Ne. P-rains tell aya n
board, aud the boat WAS immeciately put no ut 10
pick him up, 10 wbich however, net su soee,iisp \
course WAS shaped for hong Kong-that sbo. r'y
afterwards the boat was boarded BY pirat g. asa
re, the pris0ter, was taken awas--that n was
Kept IN confinement several days az Te1psk, b,s.
managing To escape, he went 10 Canton, wnafe -
was siay ing when he heard he vas waited "a q,sr
Kong, and came down voluntarily with the intento0
OF giving INFO nation OF the accident that ia, 40,
cuueo. Tnis tale was cortoborste In the m sterid
pare (up 70 the pa iod wi en- tue at was boarded
~ pirates) by TIE vile. She being eucie.fe vxa
:, x. sno lyiDg below; but he sriog poisa aboss,
sce came up, ana was then told that ale passsa9.r
hsd fallen overheard, aud her husband mad beea
taftn away by pirates. BIT the m ale pr,sonsr
varied In his statements. HIS frat tale VISA, "a
have related 1t; q secord. AT he wes putting the
boat about, and the sail knocked Mr. Perkins over
bc arc; third, that being pursued By pirates Mr..
Perkins jumped overheard. Hlw much of these
IepsDciss bas to he laid to defective interpretar
ton IL is not possible to say.
he first witntsS examined for the proaeon
ton az Mr.. Williams, Of the firm Of williams.
Ahth.p 4 CO., who tod Of tho steps taken IA
comm nnicati with the Hong Kong police authoi-
ties when the continued absence Of Mr. Perkins
caused fears 10 be enter tanned for the safety Of bs
HE. MI Caldwell, Acting superintendent Of Police
having procured tie lrsfnce Of the pilot snsA
brought the ship into Hong Kong, soon tsaeei
the boat which bad taken Mr.. Perkins away. Assse
crew-a third could rot be found Search bsinR
mode in I'VE house of the mother OF the male pci-
soner, Mr. Perkins watch, ard some other thinas
were found. VI imstly Sr. Caldwell sue ,eeded In
getpng hold OF both the boatman aud his vile, tho
piisOI on trial.
Two witnesses were produced Who distieotlv
sw"re to the murder of Mr. Perkins by the prsonors
at the bar. The your gest of these. a lsd OF some
sixteen years, OF bad expression Of countenance.
aa,d that be was sitting with anotrer man forward
pulling, when, abous o'clock, he SAW the m ia
prisoner stab MIR Perkins Ia the breast, and t,ea
the nan and woman threw him into the water Tha
body was thrown into the water within that spaos
OF time after stsbbing which it would take to drink
cup 0ftea-the body was dead--it vas m ,s,en-
less-tbe BODY sunk. The bat was then put abost
for Sab kok. The mae prisoner altered the boaslh
course. The boxes were afterwards opened.
TIE other witness said 2 man OF the namo AZ
Nankoon was steering. Nankool 10 not to b
found. Mr. Perkins was bet zen the male prls,nse
and wife. Distinctly, though with frigned re,uO
lance and grim this witness s9ore to having sen
the murder committed b. stabbng, aud the bolv
thrown overheard by the male and female prisoners
On summing up. his Lordship tbs Acting Chise
Justice desired the jury to consider veil the bear-
ing Of the law upon the case before them, partou-
larry on two points; and rst as to whether or nok
the boat, on board Of which Mr.. Perkins took ~
PASSAGE could be taken as sailing under the British
flag. That the boat was registered in the Regstsy
Office OF Hopg Kong wa, true; but il was for the
jury to consider Whistler such registration could b
taken es placing the Chinese boatinen under The
jurisdiction of This court IN the mmn Of off.nce
committed on the high eeas, on the person Of or
WIZ was not an Eoglishman.
The Acting Attorney General objected to The
course bis Lordship was pursuing ia thus addreas-
ing the jury.
HIS Loldsbip desired the Acting AttornevG sner,l
10 refrain from pting him, and replied to to
question WI ether murder on board boat was or
was not piracy-that l. might or might not be. ne
coIdiDg TO pecn'iafity OF circupstaace. HIS Lord.
ship continue q, that IL it decided the boas was
bot under ao Eoglish flag, then the jury must dis
mics tie csse the Court hal no juFisd iction--tha
oil, nee could only be Dealt With by that flag uadsf
which 1t Was committed. In this case q foreigner
en- American ci,izen-had voluntarily placed HIM.
seu uLcer the protection Of the flag carried by the
b. at.
IIisLor5sbip then, with degree Of feeling exprex.
sive OF The interest he could u0s avoid takng in nd
son who should never have appeared at tue bar az
the Court wfrOut an advocate FOR their defence (a1d
itisa standing digrace to tbe whole oftoe Attorneys
OF be Court that they sat callousy by and lssan
to evidence without volunteering their services in
seeing justice admhistered) proceeding to gsss
to the jury the opinions he had formed If the Case
opinions, his Lofdshp said not altogether foundsa
on low, but arrived at after close and Impartial
Confederation Of the facts, aud that he felt bourk
&r.,-whsn the Acting Attorney General again roes
to say that be must beg the court to allow him -
acdress the jury also; to which his Lordsnip II
certainly not, and that the Crown Prosecutor hsl
no rghtto ADDRESS the jury whilst be (bis Lord
ship was charging them to which ons
or two expressions were added in no way
CO.; complimentary to the taste displayed y
His Lord-hp then devoted himself to the secoud
Of the points to which he had referred, viz as g
whether, according to the evidence, or b,sh a
hitting murder. And here again his loriship I'd
dussed himself to tie subject in hand with tas4
painful degree Of interest whic, strongly evinced
the result OF his long experience ia this extrsordi-
mony, perjury rules rampant; and his lordship
res proceeding to Indicate certain discrepancies
In Tie evidence Of the witnesses, when the Acting
A..rney G.nsral again rose to Protest on shs
t'cn having subsidized, his lordship told the
jury q 6 had TO consider whether any credit
-snd vfnt crcdit-could be given to the testim,uy
Of tie witnesses. AT the best, said his Lordshlp,
tn r testimony can be only taken - that Of acooD
icsf-ns the testimony, it may be, Of mon - -
! vs IA the crime rs the prisoners they have w
uesset against. His Lordship then proceeded 70 -
Mcste the nature Of the regulate copfrmstory svs
dence which the case required; but at this most H.
potant stage Of the pro ceedings his Lordship ap-
pfared so bodily weak, that the csse went to II
jury with but little said on the points, and the Jury.
who through the whole trial had never asked 3
single word Of explanation from judge, prosscutsS
or witnesses, almost immediately returned verdict
Of guilty against both prisoners, sentences bein9
passed as wo have before stated.
The Peabody Dinner In Ks0ndOn.
Ito the EDITORS OF the Boston Post - =
LONDON, Aug. 18, 1854.
My attention has been called 10 an anonymous -.
Ter Gated st London, published In your pa ,erof ~
2ls. ult., mnsBting on the proceedings st dnnr,
eivsn BY me, at Richmond, in celeb, alton OF The
18th snDyerssry Of Americ IN Independence, on the
Fourth of July, an cannot aIl,wsuc o communis
,ntion-so wanting In lbtrslity add tsuth-to pas3
through tsc press of nv country without notics.
particularly as the writer IL connected with ~
American legation at the court Of st: James; anA