The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-24 00:00:00

PIER AND HARBOUR BILL.

The Lords' amendments were considered and agreed to.
VACCINATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Lords' amendments were considered and agreed to.
SHEEP AND CATTLE (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Lords' amendments were considered and agreed to.

STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES
The Lords' amendments were considered and agreed to.
MISAPPROPRIATION BY SERVANTS BILL.
The Lords' amendments were considered and agreed to.
The sitting was suspended a half-past one o'clock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—George Neal, a determined-
looking young man, was charged with stabbing David
Young. _ _ _

The prosecutor said on the 10th of July he was in Covent-
garden market, when out of a lark ho tapped prisoner on
the shoulder, he turned round very savagely, struck him a
blow on the cheek, which he returned, and the prisoner
rushed up to a coffee-stall, and, taking a knife therefrom,
he stabbei him in the cheek and also over the left eye, which
injured him to such an extent that the eyeball was
completely displaced. He sank to the ground from the
effects of the blow, and on recovering he found himself in
the hospital.

George Davis said he saw the prisoner running towards
the coffee-stall, and when he got up to it he deliberately
opened a drawer in it an took a large white-handled table
knife from it, and then he attacked the prosecutor. He
went up and seized the prisoner, but he struggled very
violently, and having dropped the knife, succeeded in get-
ting away. He continued to follow him, and ultimately.he
was taken into custody,
Police-constable Smith said he took the prisoner into
custody for stabbing the prosecutor. As soon as possible
he went to the hospital to ascertain the injuries he had
sustained ; and the house surgeon considered it of such a
serious nature that the prosecutor was unable to leave
the institution. He had been there ever since the assault,
and it was only this morning that he had been
considered sufficiently recovered to attend and give evidence.
He had the certificate Gt the house-surgeon, stating the
injuries the prosecutor had received.
Mr. Henry said he surgeon's certificate was not evidence.
He should commit the prisoner for trial, but before ho did
so the surgeon must attend and state the nature of the
injury the prosecutor received. He would remand the case
again to enable the surgeon to attend.
A PALTRY CHARGE —A Hansom cab-driver, No. 9,401,
was placed t.t the bar charged with stealing one of the ordi-
nary bits of granite with which the roadways are paved.
Inspector Brunbacombe said—This morning he saw the
cabman walking with the stone in his hand, and on asking
him what he intended to do with it, and also where he had
got it from, he replied that he had picked it up from the side
of the road, and he was going to put it into his cab to steady
it. He then took him into custody.

One of the contractor's foremen attended, and said the
atone was similar to that the men were using in St. Martin's-
lane, but ho could not speak positively to it, neither could
he estimate the value of it.

The Defendant said the horse was rather lame, and find-
ing the cab hanging upon him rather unevenly he picked
up the stone to steady the cab. He did not think it was of
any value, neither did he think he was doing wrong.
Mr. Henry said if every cabman picked up a stone and
took it away the pavement would soon be removed. He
could not, however, treat the case as a felony, and therefore
he should discharge the case.