The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-22 00:00:00

length by Mr Metedlfe as to her former statement before tho
magistrate, and also on the occasion of the trial at the Mid-
dlesex Session. She adhered to the statement she had
made on the Ist instant.

David Cohcn, a confectioner in Spitalfields, said he saw
the prisoner commit the assault in a most violent manner,
and that he also dragged Mrs Gompertz along the lane in
a vory savage manner, her dress being all torn to:ribbons,
and her bosom exposed.
Mrs Aaron said she also witnessed the assault, that it was
most unjustifiable, and that the prisoner altogether acted
in a moat unmanly manner.

A domestic servant named Casey, residing in Ball-lane,
said she also saw the assault, and that the constable acted
in a very cruel manner to Mrs Gompertz.
Abraham Fiston said he witnessed a policeman taking
Mrs Gompertz to the station-house in a most disgraceful
manner. Her breast was exposed and her dress torn. Her
bonnet was hanging at her back.
Cross-examined by Mr Meterlre—He did not attend at
Clerkenwell because the Jewish holiday commenced on that
day. He did not hear Mrs Gompertz give her evidence in
the former trial. He was not in the court at all during the
trial. He would swear he was not in court whilst the
trial was going on. He was at Clerkenwell on the Friday,
but the trial was put off until the Wednesday. He did nut
hear Mrs Compertz give her evidence. He was not asked
to come and give evidence. He went to Mrs Gompertz of
his own accord.

Re-examined.—He heard some remark made by some
person in the shop that induced him to go to Mrs Qom-

pertz.

Alfred Harrison, in the employ of the North Western
Railway, said he partly saw the assault committed. He
heard the prosecuttix accuse the prisoner of spitting the
oarrot in her face. He called her a liar, and then said,
" Which way are you going r' He afterwards
seized her by the collar and put his knee to
the back of her person, and pulled her violently
up. Her dress was torn off and her bonnet was hanging at
her back by the strings. The constable used the prose•
cutrix in a very rough manner on the way to the station.
When they were in the station house, he heard the
prisoner admit having the carrot in his hand.
The defendant also had made use of insulting
expressions towards him (witness). Prisoner told him he
thought he was in want of -a shilling, and that was the
reason that ho had taken part in the matter. He denied the
assertion with the greatest indignation. lie attended simply
from a sense of justice.

Mr Metcalfe addressed the jury for the prisoner, con-
tending that he was a constable of the highest character,
and entirely incapable of acting in the way imputed to him,
(the jury had not returned their verdict when we went
to press.)

CIVIL WAR.—Coh Charles Russell Lowell, jun.,
was wounded in the battle of Cedar Creek, on Wed-
nesday, and died the next day. Of the (particulars of his
death nothing is as yet known ; but he fell, we may be sure,
at the head of his men—the post of honour and of day that
he never yet left in battle. Hitherto he has seemed to bear
almost a charmed life, for 12 times before has his horse fallen
beneath him pierced by bullets. But a life so carried, always
in the very thickest of the fight, could hardly fail to meet,
at length, with certain death, It is the death of the true
soldier, and one which he, though with more to live for than
falls to the lot of most men, has never shrunk from for a
moment. Col. Lowell sought service at the outbreak of the
war. Though not bred to the profession of arms, his mill •
tary genius, and his great mental resources attracted notico
at Washington the first summer of the rebellion, and a
commission as captain in the regular army was given him.
He served with the 6th Regular Cavalry and as a staff
officer till April, 1863, when he was appointed to the com-
mand of the 2d Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry. Since
then he has been for most, if not all, of the time in com-
mand of the cavalry in and about Washington, the War
Department confiding implicitly in:his vigilance and activity
a faith he has justified in many an encounter with Moscby
and his guerilla bands, protecting the city and the adjacent
country from their bold and dashing raids. For some time
he has been in command of a brigade, and when Sheridan
took command in the valley
,Lowell gladly accepted the
opportunity of serving in a regular campaign, and of
being released from the guard duty to which the depart-
ment had for some time restricted him. In every battle in
the valleyshe had won such distinction and done such
service that a brigadier-general's commission would before
long have been bestowed upon hies. Had he lived he must,
should the war continue
have taken high rank. He did
not know what fear was. Among his men he inspired con-
fidence and love;
his mind and character possessed all those
qualities which make the successful soldier and fitted him
to be a leader. Ile had great physical endurance, was
young—not yet 30 --and his whole soul was absorbed in the
suppression of the rebellion and in serving the true inte-
rest of his country, His
death is that country's great loss.
Col. Lowell was the only surviving son of Mr C. R.
Lowell, of Boston, and grandson of the late Rev. Dr Lowell,
of Cambridge, His brother, James Russell Lowell, a lieu-
tenant in the brave 20th Massachusetts Regiment, was
wounded in the battle of Malvern Hill, was left upon the
field, fell into the halide of the rebels, and died in four days.
Another grandson of Dr Lowell and first cousin 'of these
young men, Wm. Lowell Putnam, then an only surviving
son, was killed, a lieutenant in the 20th Massachusetts, at,
Ball's Bluff. Colonel Lowell married about a year since a
daughter of Francis Geo. Shaw, of Staten Island, and sister
of Col. Robert G. Shaw, the only son of his parents, who
fell at the head of his regiment, the Massachusetts 54th, in
Wagner. Theodore Markman, the
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mother of Colonel Shaw aro sisters, fell at the battle of
Newbern, North Carolina. In these four families, connected
ba and intimate friendship,
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time of their deaths, and the lest ie the second and only re-
maining son, meeting death on the field, They were all o
the best blood of Massachusetts ; young a men of the highest
culture, possessing' the first order of intellect ; graceful and
charming in person and presence; untouched by any youthful
or worldly with the noblest and
purest
might be proud to have
borne, end to whom fathers could transmit their names to be
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handed down to another generation, without a tarnish and
with now honour. They were born to fortune and to the
highest social station. They were bred to luxury and ease.
Their " lines were cast in pleasant places." Life to them
was full of promise and hope, prosperity and high repute.
An unselfish sense of duty took them to the field to endure
its hardships and its privations, and to lay down upon the
altar of their country, if need be, all their youthful hopes,
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the head with a sorrow that has no voice. Are they in vain I'
Shall there not come from such deaths a new life to a whole
0, ye who mourn over the whole land,
et in g from death ?
people, that shall snitch victory from the grave and the
surely not for naught have ye given :hero precious Jives.—
Kew York; frebtkie.
The anniversary of the demise of the great com.
poser Mendelssohn has been recently celebrated at
the Conservatoire. Several of the detached pieces
were execute
resnect and veneraion for
pupils of this establisthment.
of Mendelsechn has been regularly
the memory
Society der Gawandhans observed by the
The same tesdtimbyontyheo- .
Con-
certo at Leipzig for the last 17 years. The great
master himself once rendered these concerts famouo.
BerlinAl the Gesvilbehafe Stern did a like homage
by the executiou of the " Palua" oratorio