The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-11 00:00:00

RIOTS ON LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

BOW-STREET POLICE OFFICE.
Yesterday Thomas Lightfoot, a constable belonging to the city
of London, was charged before Sir it 111 UNTIE and Mr. HALLS
with an assault upon John Waters, a constable of the F division
of police,
'I he plaintiff' was on duty the preceding night at about seven
o'clock at l'emple—bar, on the west side, where a crowd of persons
were endeavouring to force their way through the bar from the
City. Witness, assisted by two constables, succeeded in driving
them back through the archway At the south side of the street.
Just as he (witness) was in the act of returning through the
Bar, the defendant struck him with violence upon the head.
hlr. Savage, the Common Councilman, by whom the defendant
was accompanied, asked the complainant whether this bad not
occurred eastward of 'Pemple-bar I—The complainant was stand-
ing at the time as near as possible in the centre of the Bar.
Sir R. BIHNIE observed that it was of very little consequence
where the blow was struck, provided that the complainant had
been assaulted in the way he described.
Mr. Henson' the solicitor who appeared Ca. the defendant,
begged to say that if the assault had taken place in the city of
London, Magistrates who sat in Westminster could not take
cognizance of it.
Sir lt. Hum IF, did not want to be told what he knew already.
Mr. lIALLS—The question is not so much as to which side
of Temple-bar the blow was struck, provided an assault cap be
proved. I fit was struck at the City side the cause must go to
the City_ if not, we hate jurisdiction here.

Sir It. 1111tNIE-1 hope that the question now at issue may be
carried into the Court of King's Bench, to ge. my Lord Tenter.
den's opinion upon it. Wally this petty warfare between con.
stables appointed to preserve good order, and keep the peace, is,
1 must say, most disgraceful to those by whom it is exhibited
Mr. Savage—l have no objection) for my own part, that the
question should be carried to the king's Bench.
Sir It.. BIRNIE—Sir, I did not ask you whether you liked It or

HALLS. after looking at the truncheon with which the
blow had been inflicted, and which was at least three feet long,
said that one end of it might have been in the hand of the defen-
dant while he WAR Standing in the city of London, and at the same
moment the complainant might have felt the effects of a blow from
the other end, although he stood a long way in the county of Mid.
dlesex.—(Loud laughter.)
John Migrant, a ►olice co,' stable of the same division, was at
Temple-bar at the time mentioned, and stood near the complain.
ant, whom he saw struck by the defendant. After he (defendant)
struck the blow, he ran back to the Cite side, and laughed; And
then said, Take that, you meat"
Mr. Savage asked if the defendant would be allowed to call wit.
MUM.

Mr. 11AL.L&.-Mo t certainly. Wesirequite willing to hear tlwm.
Mr. ;3a eago—The defendant means to prove that the assault took
place in the City.
Sir It. lIIHNIE—oh, but I have a question to ask the com-
plainant first. Upon your oath, where were you standing when
you received the blow ? Were you in the city of London or in
Westminster ? Complainant-.. 1 was in Westminster, your Wor-
ship.
Mr. H A US. A ntl you (addressing the witness Magrath), where
did you see the complainant stand when you saw him struck Y
Magrath—He was standing in Westminster, by my oath,
After some Rather observations, not very relevant to the goes.
lion at issue, the defendant Lightfoot, and his witness, Monk,
were both held to ball to answer at the Sessions fur the assault
which had been sworn against them,
George *lnky was charged by poclieman, division E, 49,
with crying Down with the police.'
Sir It. that I call gabble.
Policeman—The prisoner has no regular Place of residence,
Sir It. 81115 IL—You appear an stupid and Ignorant a brute as
to be incapable of mischief; I therefore discharge you. I think
it to the credit of the police to be abused by such brutes.
Joshua Deacon, carpenter, Spit/110k% Mlle up all in tears.
Sir It. BIRNIE—WeII, you contemptible thing, what's the
matter with you ?—lits was charged with riotous conduct, and
striking the officer. The officer's hat was cut through. this
the prisoner denied.
Sir 11. Alit NlE—Well, there's the cut, and here's the stick.
The hat is made offelt, and felt the blow.
Policeman—My head felt the blow,—Lockml up for the present.
James Middleton, desk.maker, 48, Lombard-street, was
charged by John Magrath with striking him on the head, at
Temple.bar, with so much force that they both fell together.
The policeman was two hours before he came to his senses, The
prisoner took the stick in both hands. The stick was very heavy.
He was committed for trial. It was not decidtal whether bail
would le taken.

IV. Moore, agent, Cecil-street, had been given In charge by
the watchman at the bottom of Southampton-street, In the
strand, where he had been actively employed in pulling dawn
the fence.

Ordered to find bail, and give 24 hours' notice.
Wilday was taken, attempting to force his way through
Temple-bar, and being abusive to the officers. Hu was fined 40a.
which he could not pay i and was committed tp the House of
Correction for one mouth.

John inite Nag charged with anning himself from a building
In Chancery-lane... Ordered to find bail.
Edward Wheatley was charged by a policeman; incognint,
with carrying two placards, bearing Ewart and Independence,"
which relatea to the Liverp.ol election,—Ordered to find ball.
Samuel Wilms was charged with striking and taking the
officer by the collar.--Fined Ps. or to be confined ten days.
Josiah Hall, baker, was taken on Tuesday night between nine
and ten o'clock, by a policeman, division F. v.hile throwing a
stone, and crying Down with the pollee." This took place on
the Westminster side of 'remple.bar.
Sir R. BIR NI E-1 wish there was a was, except fur the sake
of the country, that we might get rid of soma of these hikes.
Policeman—.lf you had seen them. your Worship, last night--
Sir R. BlRNlL—Perhaps I saw more than you think. I have
been at the Rotunda till two o'clock in the morning.—Ordered
to find bail.

POSTPONEMENT OF VISIT.

(From the Brighton Ganette.)

The universal consternation which was flung an Mon.
day over the whole metropolis, and reverberated from
thence to every corner of the empire, can only be matched
by the needlessness of the infliction. When it was an•
nounced to the astonished and panin-struck town that such
was the awe of feeling in the city of Loudon, that the
Sovereign,—who to the natural love which it is the cha-
racteristic of the English nation to pay ei-clicio to the
hereditary Chief Magistrate, had added, by virtue of his
own private character, his own popular acts, and his un-
precedented eagerness to met the wishes and to contri-
bute to the bappinesv of his people, a measure of personal
affection and devotion, or indeed, we may almost say, of
idolatry, such as we never, even in history, tecollect to

:have been the lot of any Prince who ever eat upon the
British Throne,—could not proceed in safety with his
Royal Consort, who alone rivals him in the esteem,
respect, and affectionate veneration of his subjects,
to dine with his loyal citizens of Loudon; every man,
as Lord Grey emphatically expressed his own feelings,
was humiliated at the sudden degradation of moral
feeling which the charge inferred again►t the town.
Dismay was painted on every countenance. No Man
would believe that upon light and trivial grounds, in time*
like these, when a rclt•sonfidenca in the Government, but
more especially a selficonlidene in the strength of ,the
Throne, must be of push vital importance to the stability
of the Monarch, that a Minister would easily be prevailed
to mound an idle alarm, or to volunteer a proclamation of
the moral weakness of the Monarch in support of his
people. The more men reflected, the more to dread -they
found in the mysterious, but portentous letter of Sir
R. Peel. The Funds, which bad already tumbled four per
cent. upon the Speech which Minktera thought fit to-put
into the King's mouth, soon rolled hack three steps more;
and ruin, and confusion, and dismay, apread through the
holders of stock.

The 4tstomslanent anti indignation Are more easily to he
imagined than described, when, but not till the evening,
not till the news of unexplained alarm, with all its scram.
!liniments of disaster, had been permitted to go faith to
every corner of the Etryire, it was told by the Seereta:y

of Statito the, assemblel at d breathks Commons, tbat
all the alarm was not fw the King, or his Coning t,—who,
one or both, it W:l4 on all hinds admitted, could have gone
nninterruptcd, sove by the obtrusive enthusiasm and ,df.e.
:ion of an united populace, from one end of the City to the
uher,—but fur the popularity and persona of himself awl
the Premier ! We appeal to the good sense of our nistiers,
whether men who can I,e guilty of such posilla-
nimi.y and imbecility, are fit to hold the helm of State in
wihl and stormy times like these ?

A•protns to the fatal anti-M•ron Resolution of the
Doke of Wellington, which has added in no Alight degree
to his (Jrceia nnpopnlarity, and by reqeetion from the
has even impaired an node ervetny that of the
Monarch himself, we happen indisputably to know that
the King, not three months ago, at a barge dinner at St.
James's, declared his own conviction of the fitness and
justice of a modera►e extension of the electoral rights of the
people. We know too that it was the King's personal
feeling for the distress of his people, to stop the ex •
travagant waste of public motley at Buckingham Palace,
declaring that he was perfectly content and satisfied with
the old Palace at St. James's, How unjust, therefore, is
it to confound the act. of so considerate anti kind •hcarteJ
a Monarch e•ith thme of his unpopular Ministers!

APPREHENSION OF SOLI E 01? TIIE SUP-
POSED INCENDIARIES IN KENT.

Canterbury, Tuesday, Three o'clock.
This morning, at three o'clock, the principal turnkey of
St. Auguatine'r, accompanied by some Bow.street Averts
and the toit'tts constables, to the numb..r of eight, pro.
ceeded hence to the tillage of Bridge, on the Dever.ni,„l,
about three miles distant; they were armed with pistols,
cutlasses, and crow bus. When they leached Ileitiot
they pr,seettled to the cottage of a man name Taylor,
whom Ory took Into custody,' without him nicking the
least resistance, telling them that he did not care what
happened to him, as his condition in life could not be
made worse. Part of the officers then proceeded to the
village of Kingston, where they surroginied the house of
souther cottager, whom they also apprrlientl,a, and con-
veyed both their prisoners into Canterbury poi this
morning.
Wei since levneri that infirmstinn has been aired
against the prisoners, as having been amongst the too.t
active in the late depredations on machin.ry. Taylor is a
shoemaker, but states that, not being able able to procure
full employment, he has occasionally gone to apieultural
libmir.--tlist his condition in life has b-eil miserable, cool
his family nearly starving. _ .

The parishes of Preeton and Wingham are now pt.
trolled nightly. The great& alarm prevailed at the !attar
place this morning, in consequence of the head officer
having delivered in a report that they had heatil during
the night several slintsj and one of the patrol was hit
with a spent ball on the hat, whirls, however, slid him no
injury. Rockets were also seen in vArintis directions.
There was a sale of some woo'i at WAblotto, near this
city to-day, belonging to Sir ,I*. Courtney lionvywood,
Rart. One person who purchased i'irt of the word w;ts
openly threatened that unless he raised L..;' labourers' wgei
it should be consumed by fi