The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—A policeman, named
Lyons, aged 23 years, belonging to the Stafford-
shire force, and stationed at Willenhall, died yesterday
from the results of several dreadful injuries which had been
inflicted upon him by Thomas Lockley and five other men,
who are now in custody. Last Saturday week Lyons was
upon his beat in a low part of the town, when he had occa-
sion to order the prisoners to move on in consequence of
their making a drunken row. Instead of doing so they
assaulted him, and he arrested two of them, but their
comrades rescued them, and knocked hint down, kicked
him, and dragged him along the ground by his staff, which
was fastened to his wrist. Daring the struggle Thomas
Lockley's brother, wbo is one of the prisoners, was wielding
a large open clasp knife, and a civilian who attempted to
take it from him had his hand cut. Thomas Lockley was
afterwards heard to say, "Come back and let us murder
the -;" and ho was seen to go up to the deceased as he
lay on the road, and, having called out, " Stand out of the
way, let me settle the --," he dashed upon the left side
of his head, a little above the ear, a broken brick. The
officer then became insensible, and was carried bleeding
into the residence of a gentleman living near. On Wed-
nesday last delirium set in, and the surgeons deemed it
necessary to take away five pieces of the skull, altogether
about the size of a florin, and also some of the brain. Con-
vulsions came on, however, and he died yesterday morning
at six o'clock, in the presence of his sister, in his room at
the police barracks. The deceased officer was an exceed-
ingly quiet man, and greatly respected by the other mem-
bers of the force.

TUN NEW EMBANKMENT,-.-,Thank got:Kitten' we
are going to get rid of the chin:lay old dummy and
the rickety stage leading to it, which have so long dis-
graced our noble river. As the embankment will be pro-
jected so far into the Cher, there will always be sufficient
water close to it, and the flow of the stream will no longer
be impeded by clumsy wooden piers which would disgrace
a fishing village. In their place indentations will be made
in the fate of the embankment wall, and the floating stage
approached by long flights of stone steps, runn4ng
will le llelto the wall itself, whilst magnificent blocks of
granite, surmounted with imposing groups of statuary, will
remind
-us of some of the poetical visions of J, W. M.
Turner, when depicting the building of Carthage by Queen
Bide, rather than an ordinary Thames steamboat pier of
the present day. The land at that portion of the embank-
ment lying behind Whitehall-gardens is Government pro-
perty : it is impossible, therefore, to say how that portion
of it not occupied by the roadway will be used; but in all
probability, it will be simply planted, and this portion of
the line, backed by the existing gardens of Whitehall-place
and of Buccleuch House, and still further on, of the finely-
timbered grounds of Northumberland House, will furnish
a noble back ground of verdure very attractive to the eye.
We shall see once more Inigo Jones's beautiful water-
gate revived, and no longer standing as a sham at the
bottom of Buckingham-street, but a real gateway for the
living tide making use of the now disused landing-place at
this spot, At Hungerford-bridge, another noble landing-
place for steamboats will project ornamental piers into the
river, and break in some measure the monotony of the
balustrades of the river wall, by rising at least 30 feet above
it, crowned with sculpture,—Once a Week.