Bow Street,—Tuesday, April 25.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 239, 13 September 1848, Page 3

Bow Street, — Tuesday, April 25.

Mr. TLos Steelc,*who was < linked ut the stationhouse, on Wednesday, the iOth inst., with attempting to diowti himself, by leaping from one of the recesbes on WaU'i 100-bridge into the river, ami whose examU nation lit this Com t lms since been postponed, on account of his Stveic indisposition, attended this morning, t'nd w<ia l)rought before the magistiate as soon nb the night chargis had bece disposed of. After evidence had been heaid :— Mr. Steele baid he was sure his Worship would most highly appiove ol Oie admirable exeitions of the waterman, lie also ''aid that human ljngua^e wai made" quate to cxjne<-s 1 lie depih of hu gratitude to the |)hyiic?n3, the suigcoas, the frovcinors, and, in truth, to every one onnecied wAh King's College Hobpital, for fie intensity of the sympathetic feeling which tl'ey evinced for h 10, wliile ho win an inmate ot that establishment. Had he been an unfortunate brother of every one of them, they could not have treated him wnh grcatei Kindness. The rnajMMiate ndoptcd tbe conr?e usnal'y followed in such cas,c3, and ouleted the dcftridpnt to find bai lie must enter into his veeognu^nei'b lor ,£ J iol>, and {(Iva tv/o fcuicliei in Jio') each, to lcee;i tlu peace and be of goodbcha\i;ur for twelve tnouiiis. Mri luitiiecluUcly p^OTiduc* the i cnttiiftd wiQ*

tics, Dr. Faiisli, of No. 8, I^ncastcr-plact 1 , and Ficderick Lucas, Esij , bnristur- lt-hw, of I'ombioUesquarc, Hrompton. lie was, then hheuiled. Mr. Steele appear? to have completely recovered from his illne->F, ,md indeed looks vciy well. Tun "Head Pvaurvrou."— l'nor Tom Stec-le! What ,\ dtp li". been his, «m.l v 'ut a wiinni" it p.ogents to i\\<i youlhlul 'oilo s \>'io cv.inrstly cnbi'ik m lieUnd's po'itin ' A sdinlii, a "etitlem.ni, a |>itnol, wnh mi independent foihi'ie, ,uid very rurcatfuinmi'ntj lie ontlmsi islw* >lly alticii d hunsc't U> tin 1 laic Mr. D'Cimucll, xwder the dclu-ion, tiooi mm, th 1 ! lie v-as t!i n-by nulcntifjnis Inn &flf wiLli lih to"imy ! 'I'm honest to suspect, too fincne to doubt-, too nrduit to ipfl'Cl, ho hurried forwiud lioin tho p.xintcd bubb'o, which h.is al lust bvu-ot b'foic his c>c;s, in the mid-.t of &%e, po\eity, and desp.'ir. 1113 yovitli wasted, his fortune gone, In. oiudehly betrayed, and his hopes blasted, no wji»W liis life h.ul Income a bin then. The whole Ilrpoal inlutny ic\cd<s r.ot « melanclmly'pyct.Tle. Oi'.tiidnd ot.cn, whilst the di^ust injr farce w.i-. in its juo-icss— while lit'hind'.. mwiiutcb.u'iU t'veh 'ti';eil any pioinJM 1 -, for solid plunder — while evtiy J.niu.i.y li.-iupi-t' d tlu- Nindy hoj.c, whose lainte.t cchoi-b cit'd hi luk' !) cnu'in*, e.u-h c\ouMso monUi ban; Uu 1 plundmrs' h.iirsl and lnJC{.irs' jubilpc— olten m I uli-n\ did v.c pity poor Tom S.ede ! Nmiplc ai-ndst the cialty, pure ran .t the hoidi'l, bincuifumidst llic t uthJits, lie behoved evciytluii" winch lalsehuod ullcied, and suirendeu-d all to liiu tiling Ihal called llstll pulnotism. VvMnl \\,is hi- u waul? they cn.wned iiim with a cip unboiled, and entitled him " hone&t", which, indeed, was a tlistincttion. Swift himself could not have coined an epithet whUh could hive secluded him more strikingly irorri his associates. When O'Connell thus made him the exception, he significantly disclosed his opinion of the rest; It was the ncuent approach to tnrh he .idvcntnreJ on and chaiacteristically enon»h, it is but infeientiil. Poor Steel wub craftily victimised tlnough his viilne. They eallcd him " honest," and Ins proud conscientiousness belied not the title. They Itnew lv.s n.ume shidiik from violence, and so they iintteivd him with the title of" pacificator." Mi- piv-umii', individually, what hel.ind docs in the ajjgrt 1 /; tt«— a dumpeil-raueid ded, maddened, muih lobe pi.icd victim.— Simula >d