The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-04 00:00:00

1861

THAMES.

A GENERAL hum Row.—Patrick Sweeney, an Irish
labourer, and Julia Stafford, an English woman, wife of an
engiaeer, were brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
assaulting and wounding William Butler, a police constable,
No, 80 K.

The constable's arm was in a sling. He was wounded on
the head, his shoulder was injured and his hand smashed.
There was a general Irish row in Cotton-street, Poplar, on
Saturday night. Butler was dispersing the riotous, and a
volley of stones were thrown at him and another constable.
The was instigating his couxtry people
to smash prisonermashtbeSweeney
police,und it was believed that he threw some
of the stones. He had a severe black eye and bruised
face, which ho declared was inflicted by Butler. The
woman Stafford, who was said to be worse than the Irish,
and to have joined in all the rows that have occurred in
Poplar for some time past, threw a large tin can at Butler
w'uich struck him on the shoulder, She then retreated in o
her house, No. 68, Cotton-street, and hurled a brick at him.
It struck him on the head, and he said, if it had not been
for the leather of his hat, he should have been killed.

Sweeney called Margaret Driscoll in his defence, and she
swore that Butler hit the prisoner on the head with his
staff, and said the Irish should not get the better of him.
In answer to P,ir. Partridge, the witness said she would not
swear stones were not thrown by her countrymen.
Mrs Stafford called a very large Irish woman named
Catherine Santry, who kissed the book several times, and
so hastily as to produce great laughter in court, She said
t•be lived in the same house as the woman Stafford, who
did nothing at all. She saw Butler run after a young man
with his staff and knock him down.
partridge—Were there not plenty of stones thrown ?
Mrs/i S
Och, yer honour, I could see only a few.
Al‘rrPraaarrnttrtrirdiYdg:ge fined Sweeney 55., and sentenced Mrs
Stafford to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour.

yROII FUltioUs DRIVING —Mr Frederick
B
WESrMINSTER.
Wellingtoo-iiquare, Pimlico, was charged,
utriaCulDre ofT 16,
cboenfosreequAelnr Selfe, over a little girl, who is in
injured.
Police-constable Gittens, H 266, stated that between
sight and nine o'clock on Saturday night he was on duty
in Grosvenor-row, when he saw the prisoner driving a
horse, which was in a chaise, along the Row. As soon as
he saw him he observed the horse come in contact with a
cesleferi,ous withiy ru:ining.
little girl, who was knocked down and run over by the
Picked up the child. He had it
horse. Witness called out to the prisoner to stop. He
d was the prisoner going ?
ppulledlacierdsueipinf, e when itceanb
in which it was removed to St. George's
Hospital, where it is at present.
it he
usnaawble to do so in time. He
Witness—At between eight and nine miles an hour. The
prisoner bad been drinking.
The prisoner said that, just before his horse came in con-
tract with the child, he Was avoiding a horse and cart.
the child, and tried' to pull
np After i mhe e
dh
iaadt e
ly, passed
but
w,whitantesspsee
offered to take the little girl in his chaise to the hospital.
Mr Selfe observed that as the chili may have received
serious injuriem he must remand the prisoner.
He Was accordingly remanded.

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mARYLEBoxE.

A BRUTAL ASSAULT WITH A. CRICKET
Burgh, aged 21, painter, was Charged with the following
brutal assault:--
John Gillet, omnibus conductor, said, on Saturday night
& me passengers got out of his vehicle at Edward-street,
Hampstead-road, where also the prisoner and another
young man alighted from the roof.
liroof:saPidrilaseonwearngteadveanhoimthear
shilling, and told him to take the fare for the two. Prose-
cutor gave him sixpence, when
twopence. They were told that as they had come from the
Breckuock Arms the fare wit= threepence each, and the
same was charged for all distances beyond the Britannia.
when prisoner caught
hWolidtnoesfs
htoisldarhmis, driver to go on,
however, prosecutor wrenched
away. As he was about to mount on his step again, the
prisoner gave him a tremendous blow with his wicket bat
on his right e 3 e, saying, " d-- You, take that." Prose-
cutor was senseless for a time, and had to be at once re-
moved to a surgeon's. Prisoner ran off, but was stopped
by a young man and given into Custody.
Prosecutor handed in a medical certificate, which set forth
that his eyo was most fearfully cut, and the bone of his nose
broken.

Mr Mansfield said he did not know what injuries the pro-
secutor had received, but he trusted that he would go on
well under the surgical treatment. Unfortunately in such
cases as these erysipelas
might set in. The prisoner must
be remanded for a week. Bail would be accepted, the pri-
soner Limself iu LlO, and two earetiec in £5O each.

FESTIVITIES AT COWES.—On the marriage of
the Pi ince and Princess of Wales the plot of land
known as the Green, and which was Then in the market for
sale, was purchased by Mr G. R. Stephenson, C.E., for
presenta'ien to the town as a place of recreation for the
inhabitants. Some time has been occupied in building a
new sea-wall, returning and draining the Green, and erect-
ing a very handsome drinking fountain and stand for the
band, The whole expense of these improvements, amount-
ing to nearly £3,000, has been liberally defrayed by Mr.
Stephenson. On the occasion of the opening the townspeople
made a general holiday—shops were shut up, and flags innu-
merable flying in every direction. The schools and various
societies of the town formed in procession, and at 2 o'clock,
headed by the bands, proceeded to the Green with their ban-
ners. A salute having been fired from the yacht Tyne was the
signal for hoisting the royal standard, which soon floated
from the flag•stafl in the middle of the Green—the bands
then struck up the National Anthem, in which the people
joined heartily, and the Green was formally declared o, en
by the town council. The poor of the town were provided
by Mr Stephenson with a substantial dinner, and the school
children, 1,400 in number, were_regaled with tea, cake, &c.
Then came the tradesmen's dinner, followed by an open air
concert by 400 voices, selected from the different choirs in
the island, Southampton, and Winchester. A handsome
orchestra was erected, and the ringers, having been provided
with a cold collation under the marquee belonging to the
Agricultural Society, took their places on the orchestra,
and sang through a variety of natiunal part songs, &c., to
the manliest delight of nearly 20,000 people. Special
steamers and trains brought their thousands from Ports-
mouth, Southampton, Ryde. Newport, and other places.

LORD PALMERSTON.—The London eurrespon.
dent of the Liverpool Albion says :—" Lord Palmer.
ston is game yet, notwithstanding his failing health and
increasing infirmity. On Tuesday night, in the House of
Commons, he showed himself perfectly au fait with the
phraseology of the stable In the discussion about our
broeclx of horsps, he was full of turf technicalities--" leggy
weeds," " two•year-olds," " feather•weights," handicap-
ping, &c. On Thursday he rode on horseback down to
Harrow and back—a distance of at least 22 miles, 11 each
way—and was in the House of Commons the same evening-.
It was speech day at Harrow ; and the boys cheered him
lustily. The name " Henry Temple" remains on one of
the desks there, where he cut it with a penknife 70 years
ago, when he was a Harrow boy

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 24th ult. says
—Yesterday were launched from the naval building yard
near Cronstadt the ironclad floating battery Ne trone menia
(fcuch me not), and the ironclad gunboat with two towers
the sn:rtch. The tenth and last monitor with one tower
will be hotly launched. The Russian squadron of iron-
clads will be :his year composed of two floating batteries
and eleven monitoo with towers, on the system of Ericcson
and

Iu the Belgian CLatober of Deputies, two days
back, before resuming the c'iscusbion on the Buaget
of Public Works, M. Orts, a memi.o of the Left, brought
forward a motion for adding to the null.lbar of deputies in
the Chambers. The constitution fixes a representative for
every forty thousand inhabitants, accordh to which
calculation there is at present a deficiency oi six de-
puties and three senators. The motion was accepted
by all the Opposition members, and a considerable
portion of the Ministerial supporters, and referred to a com•
mittee. Should the proposition be definitively agreed to,
ss appears probable, Antwerp, Charleroy, Waremme, and
Philippeville will each gain one deputy, and Brussels two,
The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs has re-
ceived from M. Max, Consul of Belgium at Athens, an
account of the progress of the cultivation of cotton in
Greece, from which it appears that this year's crop will
amount to between 11 and 16 millions of kilogrammes.

THE ROYAL WILTSHIRE LIFEBOAT.—A grand
demonstration took place at Marlborough a few
days ago on the occasion of the naming and presentation
of the "Royal Wiltshire" lifeboat, the cost of which had
been collected in the county by Captain N. Reed, R.N.,
of Marlborough. Early in the morning the town mani-
fested great interest in the humane undertaking; anti when
the lifeboat mounted on its transporting carriage, ve3s
drawn through the town by a team of fine horses, gaily
decorated, thousands of people followed the procession,
hich was headed by a band of music. Captain Reed,
R.N., on behalf of the county of Wiltshire, presented the
boat to the National Lifeboat Institution. He said it was
a proud day for him to assist in presenting the society with
so splendid a lifeboat on behalf of the county of Wiltshire ;
and he felt assured that every one present wished the life-
boat "God Speed." Richard Lewis. Esq., Secretary of
the National Lifeboat Institution, then acknowledged
the lifeboat in an appropriate speech. He said that he felt
assured the crew of the liceboat at Dover would always dis-
tinguish themselves in the Royal Witshire when the hour
of need came. (Hear, hear.) He referred to the remark-
able fact that last winter the neighbouring lifeboat at Rams.
gate, in conjunction with a steamtug, had saved 120 per-
sons from two shipwrecks on the Goodwin Sands, during
an awful midnight storm. The lifeboats of the institution
rescue on an average between 400 and 500 persons every
year; and alrogeth_r, since the establishment of the society,
nearly 14,000 shipwrecked sailors hal been rescued through
its instrumentality. (Cheers.) He requested them to imagine
such an army proceeding through their principal street, and
then to conceive the number of persons connected with
these 14,000 men, and they would probably find that 40,000
persons had been saved from being widows and orphans.
The Rev. T. W. Dowding then pronounced, in suitable
and impressive terms, a benediction on the lifeboat. Mrs
Kean, Capt, Reed's daughter, in the unavoidable absence
of the Marchioness of Ailesbury, proceeded, amidst hearty
acclamation of the people, to name the boat the Royal Wilt-
shire. The lifeboat was afterwards sent by rail to Dover.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending the 2d of July was 3,923, of which 1,291 were
new cases. _ _

The Hon. Edward Chandos Leigh is appointed
Recorder of Stamford, in the room of l'ar Flowers, appointed
a metropolitan police magistrate. —Obser &Tr.
MR. COLLEY GRATTAN, THE VETERAN AUTHOR
op " HIGUWAYS AND BYWAYS," now lies, we grieve to
learn, in a precarious state.
MR. CtiVENTRY PATMORE, the popular poet of
the domestic affections (side " The Angel in the House")
has recently become a convert to the Roman Catholic;
religion.
Daring a violent storm a few days ago the
lightning fell on the north-east side of the Puy-de••Dome,
and caused considerable damage to that part of the moun-
tain. A large mass of earth, roots, and turf was preci-
pitated dowp the steep, so that for a length of about 50
yards, by a breadth of 15, the rock which forms the top of
the Pay has been laid bare.
The Emperor of Austria has just appointed M.
Mendel Consul-General of Austria at Amsterdam. M.
Mendel is a Jew.

Count Wulewski and the Countess Walewska
have arrived at the battle of Mont•Dore.