The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

Final Heat.

Cannon and H. White, 1 ; J. Rose and S. Jamieson, 2.
Won by a length and a half, after a fine race, in which
four other pairs were engaged.
GENTLEMEN (SENIOR) SCULLERS' MATCH.
A. A. Casamajor, 1; H. C. P. Bayford, 0 ; C. W.
Lewis, 0.

It was almost a repetition of the Gentleman Cham-
pionship of the Thames last Friday, Mr. Casamajor main
winning, although Mr. Bayford was much closer all the
way. Von by two lengths.

GIG RACE, PAIR OAR, WITH COXSWAINS, FOR GENTLEMEN

-IN ONE HEAT.

Messrs. T. Turner and W. Whitehouse—H. Dobree,
coxswain (red and black).
C. Tidbury and W. Stocken—R. Taylor, coxswain
(black).
G. G. Ditton and C. Charles—A. Forbes, coxswain
(white).
H. Snow and J. Wright— coxswain, (blue).
This was a novel and somewhat exciting race. The
boats went well away, and until they passed the com-
mittee's barge they were together ; white, opposite
Searle's, however, shot a-head, followed by blue, red
and white third. Messrs. Tidbury and W. Stocken
(black), gradually drew upon white, and before getting
to Craven Cottage overhauled them, obtained the lead,
and maintained it, coming in first. The colour3 were not
hoisted for the second place.

TRADESMEN'S PAIR-OAR MATCH.
This match was rowed in ono heat, from Hammer-
smith-bridge to Putney, and was the best contested (al-
though by tradesmen) throught the day. The following
started :—W. Sanderson and W. Walker, red ; J. Pye
and W. Paytoe, white ; and G. Jones and R. Miller,
blue.

At the start, which took place at 20 minutes past 4,
the race was very good, and continued for some time ;
red, however, gradually drew a-head ; Messrs. Pye and
Paytoe (white) made a determined struggle, and kept
close upon their quarter until opposite Searle's, when
red gradually increased the distance, coming in winners
by three boats' length ; white second ; blue distanced
four or five boat's length.
GENTLEMEN'S (JUNIOR) FOUR-OARED MATCH.
This match was started from Chiswick to Putney at
40 minutes past four. The Albion Club, white ; Volante
Club, blue ; Petrel Club, red.
This match was well contested, a very fine race taking
place between the Albion and Volante club. Red had
taken the lead, but from some cause not satisfactorily
explained were thrown out of the match. The struggle
continued to the bridge between blue and white, but, al-
though the latter made almost superhuman exertions,
they could not recover their lost ground. Blue came in
first, white a good second.

The racing will be resumed at one o'clock this day.
There is a full list of competitors.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. Matthew Derome, a young
man of respectable appearance, was brought before the
Lord Mayor under the following remarkable circum-
stances:—

A cabman—l was called at about 10 minutes past 12
on Saturday night to take a young woman who was
in a state of insensibility on the pavement in Cheapside,
to Camomile-street, Bishops,ato. She was, after some
delay, put into the cab by the prisoner and another per-
son, and the prisoner got in after she was placed there.
Mine is a Hansom cab, and in consequence of what was
said to me by somebody in the crowd around her, I raised
the trap, by which I could see what was going on inside,
and I observed the prisoner acting in such a manner as
induced me to ask him what he was about with the
young woman. He then appeared to desist, and when
we got on some way further,. I again raised the trap,
and I saw him repeat the conduct to which I had ob-
jected, and again I called to him. He then said—" All
right, Cabby." I said it was not all right, and having
heard that the young woman who accompanied him was
a virtuous person, I jumped down, pulled open the
doors of the cab, and found the female quite uncon-
scious, and the prisoner in such a state as convinced
me that his intentions towards her were by no means
delicate or honourable. I was informed by somebody
that the prisoner was her brother-in-law, and I said, " If
that's the case, he is a perfect scoundrel," and I called a
policeman; and the owner of the house in Camomile.
street, to which I took her, who really is her brother-in-
law, upon hearing my account of the matter, charged
him at the station-house with the assault.

The Lord Mayor—ln what state was the prisoner
when you took him into custody ?
Witness—He was intoxicated.

The prisoner—l was so drunk that I know nothing at
all about it. I have no recollection at all about what
took place. lam sure I could have done no harm to
anybody.

Sarah Williams said—l am 21 years of age and single,
and I live with my sister and brother-in-law, a respect-
able tradesman. Ido not know the prisoner. I was in
Cheapside on Saturday night, perhaps between 9 and 10
o'clock— (the witness had no accurate recollection of the
time any more than of the occurrence which had taken
place)—with a female cousin of mine, who came from
Sheerness. We walked on through streets the names of
which I am not acquainted with, and my cousin went into
a shop to inquire about shirt-making. I was waiting for
her outside, and the prisoner came up and said to me,
" What are you waiting for ?" I said I was waiting for
my friend. He then said, "I wish you would come and
take a glass of wine with me." I said, " No, I am not in
the habit of doing so." I refused him at first, but with
great persuasion I consented. My friend, whom I left in
the shop missed me. I don't know where I went with
the prisoner, but it was to some public-house. I drank a
glass of wine, port I think it was, and when I came out
I fell immediately senseless.
The prisoner—When I met her she was intoxicated.
The Lord Mayor (to the witness)—Had you been
drinking ?

Witness—Not at all; I had taken nothing but what
I took with him.

The Lord Mayor—Do you recollect getting into the
cab ?

Witness—l recollect nothing more ; I did not come
to my senses till about eight o'clock on Sunday morning.
The Lord Mayor—Have you been visited since this
occurrence by a medical man ?
Witness—No ; there is no occasion whatever ; I have
sustained no personal injury.

The Lord 11:layor—Did you take more than one glass
of wine with him ?

Witness—l cannot say that I had more to drink than
one glass. I was at no other public-house, and I was
at no other house of any kind.

The Lord Mayor—Did he give you any money ?
Witnes3—No.
The Lord Mayor—And you were not at all intoxi-
cated
Witness—No more than I am now.

The Lord Mayor—Could you find out the house at
which you had the glass of wine, or the shop in which
you left your friend ?

Witness—l could not.
The brother-in-law of the prosecutrix said that, upon
hearing of the conduct of the prisoner, he at once gave
the brutal fellow in charge. It was, he added, most
satisfactory to know that the injury which might'have
been intended had not at all been inflicted.

A respectable person here stepped forward, and said
the prisoner must have been in such a condition as no-
body had ever seen him placed in before, when such a
charge was brought against him, and begged to be al-
lowed to bail him.

Tho prisoner—l know nothing at all about it, I can
swear, any more than tho young woman, and I am sure
I never meant her any harm.
The Lord Mayor—The charge is a very serious one,
and I hope you will take a lesson from your present
sufferings. I shall consent to take two good securities
in 50/. each, and the prisoner's own surety in 1001. to
meet the charge.

jWESTMINSTER.—ALLEGED NEGLECT AT THE AD-
MIRALTY.—A female named Hannah Archer, residing at
No. 28, Vincent-street, Vincent-square, applied for the
assistance of the magistrate under the following circum-
stances :—She stated that her husband was a seaman on
board her Majesty's ship the Hawke, which was attached
to the fleet in the Baltie under Admiral Baynes—
that she had received letters from him, authorising her
to receive his half-pay—and that she had repeatedly ap-
plied to the Admiralty for the money, but was unable
to get any.
Mr. Arnold inquired how much was due to her ?
Applicant—About six months, your worship. The
ship left Sheerness on the 6th f June, when my hus-
band says that my half-pay ticket was left for me .w him.
Mr. Arnold—Have you hoard from your liiis,!)and
lately ?
Applicant—Yes, your worship, on the 27th of July.
An officer of the court said that the half-pay ticket
ought to have been sent by the clerk of the ship to the
Admiralty.
Applicant —My husband states that it has been sent
to the Admiralty ; and when I apply there they say they
have not received it. I have been a dozen times to the
Admiralty.
Mr. Arnold—There must be great mismanagement
somewhere. How many children have you!
Applicant—Two, sir. The one in my arms and an-
other young child. lam in want of necessaries.
Mr. Arnold—lt is a very hard case, indeed. I have
no power with the Admiralty that can be of the least use
to you, but if you will produce me the letters you have
received from your husband to satisfy me that yourstory
his true, I will give you some temporary relief from the
poor-box,
The applicant said she would do so. Subsequently she
stated that she was not the only female whose husband
was in the Baltic fleet who was in the situation she was.

MARYLEBONE. ATTEMPTED M tiRDER or A
POLICEMAN WITH A 'BUTCHER'S KNIFE.—ATROCIOUS
CASE.--Dennis Daly, a young man of very determined
appearaoce, was brought before Mr. Broughton on the
charge 0' having attempted, with a large knife belong.
fivl/4 to a cixk butcher, to stab rolice-conotable Leveret%

G 8 S, by whom he had in the first instance been taken
into custody for another offence ; and it will be seen
from the subjoined evidence that, but for the resolute
conduct of a female, the officer's life would probably
have been sacrificed.

Leverett, on being sworn, said—Between 9 and 10 i
o'clock on Saturday night, as I was on duty in the
Hampstead-road, I saw the prisoner with his hand at the
pocket of a woman who was looking in at a window. She
almost immediately exclaimed, "You good-for-nothing
blackguard, you have been robbing me." She then gave
him in charge, but on ascertaining that she had not lost
anything, she refused to go to the station-house to make
a complaint. I saw that her handkerchief had been
partly drawn out of her pocket. While conveying him
along Henry-street, he resisted, and struck me a violent
blow ; and a large mob, amounting to no fewer than 200
persons, speedily collected at the spot, and many of the
mob endeavoured to effect a rescue. The prisoner struck
me and we fell, and while we were both struggling to-
gether upon the ground, he kicked me several times with
all his might upon the legs; he also knocked down a
butcher, who, upon my calling to him in the Queen's
name, came to my assistance. 1 got him into the butcher's
shop which was close by, there to await further aid, when
the mob, consisting no doubt of a great many of the
prisoner's companions, tore down the window-board,
upon which a large quantity of pork was placed, and
threw nearly the whole of the joints into the road.
Most of them were picked up and stolen by some of the
lawless parties. The mob swore that they would pull
the shop to pieces if I did not let the prisoner go, upon
which he (prisoner) seized fi om the counter a large knife,
and tried therewith to extricate himself by cutting his
necktie. I laid hold of the handle to prevent him from
effecting his object, when ho said, "You ,if I can't
get my tie off, I'll stab you," when he contrived to draw
the blade through my hand, thereby inflicting cuts, al-
though not serious ones, upon some of my fingers. The
butcher's wife, Mrs. Somers, darted forward and wrested
the weapon from his grasp. He then, in a great rage,
laid hold of another knife, again swearing that lie would
stab me, and he made an attempt io plunge it into my
chest. In this sanguinary endeavour ho would perhaps
have succeeded, had not Mrs. Somers arrested in some
measure the fearful force with which he was about to use
the said formidable implement, and managing by a dex-
terous effort to disarm him as before. In proof of the
narrow escape which I have had, it will he perceived
that there is a cut in the breast part of my coat, where
the knife entered. (The cut was here shown to the ma-
gistrate.) Other officers came to my assistance, and the
prisoner was ultimately conveyed to the station, and
locked up.
Mrs. Somers, and William Somers, her husband, gave
evidence for the most part corroborative of that of the
officer. Somers said that he was repeatedly struck and
kicked by some of the mob while upon the ground, and
that he could ill afford the loss which he had sustained
through the outrageous conduct of the multitude.
Mr. Broughton said he should make a remark on the
charge sheet as to the firm and good conduct of the con-
stable under the trying circumstances in which he was
placed. Much credit was also due to Mrs. Somers, and
he thought it only right that the cominissioners should
be advised to make some compensation to Somers for
the loss of meat.

The prisoner, who said that ho was merely trying to
cut his neck tie, and denied having attempted to injure
the constable, was committed for trial for "attempting
to stab,"

He was then locked up.

SOUTHWARK.—SINGULAR CHARGE OF ROBBERY
AGAINST THE WIFE OF A TRADESHAN.—MrS. Ann,
Downes, the wife of a bedstead-maker in the Borough,
was fully committed for trial for the following robbery :
Mary Neale, the wife of a timber merchant in Bear-
lane, said that on the 31st of July she bought a bedstead
at the shop of the prisoner's husband and directed it to
be sent home. A short time afterwards a man, accom-
panied by Mrs. Downes, brought it to her house, when
witness asked her to remain until her husband came
home to pay for it. While she was there witness, the
prisoner, and a lodger had three sixpenny-worths of gin
"to wet the bedstead," during which time Mrs.. Dowries
took a fancy to some fowls and offered to buy them.
Witness believing her to be a respectable female, took
her into the parlour and showed her some articles of fur.
ture she had recently purchased, and, pointing to a box
standing on one of the tables as containing all her savings,
said if she lost it it would be her ruin. After remaining
there for a short time the prisoner left very quickly, say.
ing she would return in a moment or so. Witness locked
the door of the parlour, and a little afterwards her husband
came in, when he said he would go and get the money
from the box. She gave him the key of the door, but,
much to her surprise, she found -that the box was gone.
No one else could have stolen the box ; therefore, when
Mrs. Downes came to the house again, she gave her into
custody. Witness remembered that when she left the
house she had something under her shawl, but she had
no idea that it was her box. The latter contained 4/.
15s. in crown pieces, several old coins (one of which was
an American shilling, with a hole in it), and some jewel-
lery. When Mrs. Dowries was searched at the police
station, witness saw the American shilling and a cap
taken from her, both of which had been locked up in the
box, the key of which her husband always kept.
It was contended by Mr. Solomon, on behalf of the
accused, that the cap was given her by Mrs. Neale after
they had drank the gin, and that the American coin had
been in her possession some years. As for the box, she
knew nothing of that, and her reason for leaving the
house was to go home and fetch the money to pay for
the fowls she had purchased. As soon as she came back
with that she was given into custody.
The whole of the depositions having been taken, at
the request of Mr. Solomon the magistrate accepted
bail for her attendance at the next Surrey Sessions.

SIR JAMES BROOM; AND THE ISLAND

OF BORNEO.

A large blue-book, published on Friday, contains the
reports of the two commissioners, the Hon. H. B.
Devereux and Mr. C. R. Prinsep, appointed to inquire
into certain matters connected with the position of Sir
James Brooke iu Borneo. The statements of Sir James
himself, the evidence adduced, and a variety of corres-
pondence and miscellaneous matter occupy a large por-
tion of the document. Into these it is impossible
to enter ; we therefore state the result of the
inquiry. The lion. Mr. Devereux, after giving an
account of the proceedings of the commission, records
his judgment seriatim, on the four points submitted for
inquiry. The first was whether the position of Sir
James Brooke at Sarawak, either as holding that pos-
session of the Sultan of Borneo, or as an independent
popular rajah, be compatible with his duties as British
Consul-General and Commissioner for Trade, and his
character as a British subject. The general result arrived
at by Mr. Devereux is that, without a knowledge of the
terms of the document in which Sarawak was ceded by
the Sultan of Borneo, it is impossible to pronounce a con-
' fident opinion in regard to the exact nature of Sir James
Brooke's tenure of that place. The question of incom-
patibility of position as ruler of Sarawak and British
subject is set at rest by Sir J. Brooke's declared inten-
tion to relinquish his position at Sarawak in case of need,
Sir James having, moreover, expressed an opinion that
the office of commissioner is, from its duties, unbefitting
his position at Sarawak.
The second point was whether SirJ.Brooke's interest as
a holder of territory and a trader in its produce be compa-
tible with his duties as Consul to promote and foster the
trade ofother British subjects. This question loses its
interest in the event of other reasons prevailing to
sever the position of her Majesty's Commissioner and
Consul-General from that of ruler of Sarawak, but Mr.
Devereux does not consider that the two sources of
revenue enumerated aro in their nature incompatible
with the functions named. Under the third head of
inquiry, whether Sir. James Brooke had sought to
injure the interests of other British subjects in order
to promote his own, no charges were investigated, and
the only complaint—one made by the agents of the
Eastern Archipelago Company—Mr. Devereux refused
to entertain, for reasons assigned.
The fourth was to inquire into the relations of Sir
James Brooke to the native tribes, and their bearings
on the piracy question.
Whether it is necessary that Sir J. Brooke should be
intrusted with a discretion to determine what tribes are
piratical, and to call in her Majesty's naval forces to
punish them, must depend, says Mr. Devereux, on Sir
J. Brooke's position (if any) in her Majesty's service.
He deems it most desirable that there should be some
authority empowered to call for the aid of our naval forces
for the suppression of piracy, to which Great Britain is
pledged by the treaty of Borneo, as far as the north-
west of the island is concerned.

Mr. Prinsep, after informing the Government that Sir
James Brooke had admitted the incompatibility of his
position as holding territory from the Sultan of Borneo
with his character of British Consul and Commis-
sioner for Trade, and that he had, since his last return to
Sarawak, abstained from exercising the latter functions,
proceeds, under the fourth head of inquiry, to report
that the relation of Sir James with and towards the na-
tive tribes on the north-west of Borneo is such in every
respect that it is neither (in Mr. Prinsep's opinion) " ne-
cessary nor prudent that he should beintrusted with any
discretion to determine which of these tribes are pirati-
cal," or be armed with any power to call for naval aid
to punish or coerce them. Mr. Prinsep considers that
Sir James's position is that of a mere vassal of the
Sultan of Borneo, and hence in the existing relations
between the Sultan and Great Britain—contracted by
5,:r James himself—his position is a very anomalous
one.
sor,,e difference appears to exist between the two corn-
missionb.rs with respect to the attacks on the piratical
tribes by Captains Keppel and Farquhar. Mr. Prinsep
thinks that 07 were prompted rather by a considera-
tion of the injurWS sustained by the settlers at Sarawak
than by any injurico or complaints of such sustained by
English subjects, and he deplores the great sacrifice of
life entailed by Captain Farquhar's operations in con-
cert with "savage allies." The charge of "wrongful
and causeless attack and massacre," however, has wholly
failed of proof, and been negatived by evidence to the
contrary. Mr. Devereux so far differs from his eolleagse
as to disbelieve that there was excessive lass of life, or
that atrocities, in the ordinary sense of the term, were
committed in 1849 in the expedition against the Serebas
and Sakarran Dyaks.

The Cardiff Guardian states that the case of Mrs.
Saunders, the poor woman who lately gave birth to four
children, having come to the knowledge of the Queen,
she immediately sent four sovereigns—one for each of
the children. As we have before stated, one of the
children died on Monday, but the remaining trio are
progressing " satisfactorily."