The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ANSION-HOUSE. —David Farlain was charged
with cruelty to a cat.
The defendant had walked into a public-house in
Jewry-street with a ferocious dog. A poor " harmless.
necessary cat" was sitting at the fire, and the defendant
set the dog, which was one of the bulldog breed, at her,
and caused her to be bitten across the back in such a
manner that, after struggling in great agony, she died.
The complainant told the fellow he was a cruel beast,
and that he deserved to be well cut across the back him-
self. " Oh," said the defendant, "if you talk that war,
come oat, and I'll give you an upper cut or two; " aHd
he immediately prepared to set his dog to work. Not
fancying the bulldog grip, the complainant quietly sat
down, without attempting to provoke either the animal
or his master; but he thought he was bound to take
the opinion of the Lord Mayor upon the subject, and he
accordingly applied for a summons.
The defendant said he had no intention to set his dog
either at the cat or gentleman; but it was well known if
an animal of the breed was insulted, either by one or the
other, there was no answering for his temper.
Sir George Carroll said the conduct of the defendant
was most brutal, and sentenced him to imprisonment
for seven days.

GUILDHALL.—SamueI Mickallis, of 131, Bunhill-
row, and Jacob Hyams, a general dealer, of 130,
Petticoat-lane, were brought up for further examination,
the former charged with robbing Mr. Baumann, cap manu-
facturer, of 22, London-wall, his employer, of property
to the value of about 2001., and the latter with receiving
the said property, knowing it to have been stolen.
Bull, one of the detective officers in the case, said that
on taking the prisoners from this court to the Giltspur-
street Compter, Hyams drew him on one side, and
wanted to shake hands with him. He said, " This is a
very serious case ; will you go down and advise my wife
what to do." Witness told him ho could do no such
thing, but that he would see her in the course
of the day, and tell her where he had lodged
her husband. Hyams then replied, " L's a very
serious case, and it all depands upon the prose-
cutor." Witness compared the cloth found in the
carpet bag with which Hyams was stepped, with prose-
cutor's stock, and ascertained that it corresponded, and
one piece exactly fitted in end to end with a piece on Mr.
Baumann's premises, from which it had been cut. The
other articles in the bag also tallied with other goods.
When witness took Michallis into custody he vdmitted
'having seen Hyams that evening into Milton-street, but
made no reply when asked if Hyams had visited his
house afterwards.

The Ald,,rman said he had not the least hesitation in
sending Michallis for trial on the charge of stealing the
property in question. The circumstance of the conceal-
ment of goods in Hyams' house, and the removal of all
the private marks, were sufficient, ho thought, to justify
him in committing Hyams o❑ the charge of feloniously
receiving the property.
Bail was refused.

THAMES.—James Cunningham, an Irish labourer,
aged 43, was charged with assaulting and wounding
several persons.
When the prisoner was first brought up, a man named
George Horn, of Alfred-street, Mill-wall, Poplar, stated
that ho was returning home from market about half-past
12 o'clock on Saturday night, with his wife, brother-
in-law, and nephew, when they met with a number of
Irish, to whom they did not utter a word, but who
appeared determined to have a row. Mr. Evans, a
young man, horn's nephew, was first struck by an
Irishman on the mouth, and in an instant he was covered
with blood. He ran towards his unc:o, and appealed to
him for protection. Mr. Horn remonstrated with
the Irish, but had no sooner addressed them than
he was fiercely attacked by several persons, ono of
whom seized him by the hair of the head dragged him
down the street, and kicked him, while several others
beat him about the head and body until he was quite
senseless. Mrs. Horn, who was far advanced in preg-
nancy, implored mercy from the savages fJr her husband,
and she was knocked down and kicked. The man Horn,
when ho appeared before the magistrate on Monday,
was in a very weakly condition, and his head and face
were much cut and disfigured. The neighbours hearing
a noise, and cries of murder in the street, rushed out to
ascertain the cause, and the prisoner and three or four
others armed themselves with pokers and other weapons,
and assaulted every one they came near. At one time
there were seven or eivht persons of both sexes lying
bleeding on the ground, and the opportune arrival of a
mounted police patrol, who heard the shrieks
end cries of the wounded, and rushed in among
the Irish with his drawn sabre, prevented more
bloodshed, and perhaps murder from being com-
mitted. The prisoner has all along stoutly persisted in
assorting his innocence, and on Monday he called a
countryman, named James Delaney, strongly suspected
of being one of the actors in the outrage, who swore that
the prisoner never had a poker in his hand, and that the
prosecutor Horn came out of his house with a cutlass
and struck an Irishman on the breast with it, and
wounded him so severely that he was confined to his bed
in a very dangerous condition. Horn, who had been
so grievously injured, could not appear yesterday, and
is confined to his room.
Mr. Yardley said he was strongly inclined to think the
man who had sworn the prisoner had no poker in his
hand ought to be standing in the dock with Cunning-
ham. The prosecutor had been most cruelly and wan-
tonly assaulted. Things had come to a dreadful pass in
England when six or seven persons were ill-used and
wounded close to their own homes without any provoca-
tion whatever. He should commit him for trial.

LAUNCH OF THE BENGAL, SCREW-
STEAMER, FOR THE PENINSULAR
AND ORIENTAL COMPANY.

In copying the following interesting account from the
Glasgow _Herald, wo may add that this enterprising
company have a much larger ship than the Bengal,
building in the Thames by Mare and Co. She is to be
named the Himalaya, of 3,200 tons burden, and screw
engines of 700 horse•power:—
" On Saturday last there was launched from the build-
ing•yard of Messrs. 'rod and Macgregor, the largest iron
steamer ever constructed by the hands of Glasgow engi-
neers. She is named the Bengal, and is intended to
augment the fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany in the Indian Seas. This magnificent ship is ten
feet longer than the Great Rritain, but having less depth
and breath of ,beam, she has not, of course, the same
amount of tonnage as the latter. The dimensions of the
Bengal are as follows:—
Length on deck .. .. .. ••• 310 feet.
Length from figurehead to tafirail 330
Breadth of beam ... ... ... ... 39i
Depth ... ... ... ... ... 28
Tonnage ... ... ... 2,300 tons.
Engines ••• ... ... ... 470 h. power.
Diameter of the screw .„ 14 feat.
She will be fitted up with four of Lamb's patent flue
boilers, the advantages of which are that they are easily
kept up, and burn less fuel; and her furnishings will be
on a scale of Oriental magnificence. She has 135 first
class family and single cabins, each furnished with a
port. bole, and all situated on the main deck. Below aro
40 cabins for servants. The duck is flush, and presents a
splendid sweep, o❑ which a regiment of soldiers might
with easo be drawn up. The Bengal is to be commanded
by Captain Powell, a gentleman well known to Indian
voyagers. from having been in comma❑d of the Precursor
and Orientel. Wh,,n in the Indian seas, the Bengal will
be manned by a crew of 200 English and Lascars, in-
cluding engineers, firemen, &e. The ceremony of
christening the noble ship was performed by the Lady
of the Rev. Mr. Johnson, of this city, the sistor-in-law
of Mr. Anderson, ruauagidg director of the Peninsular
and Oriental Company. The ship did not wait for her
name. but it was wafted after her.

" The Bengal:will, in all likelihood, be put for a'voyage
or two on the station between Southampton and Alex-
andria, and afterwards she will bo transferred to her
permanent line, between Suez and Madras, Ceylon and
Calcutta.