The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, Aug. 27.--Wind this day at noon—East;
moderate breeze, and fine weather.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 26.—Wind E. to S.E.—Sailed—
Caroline, for Quebec.

ABERDEEN, Aug. 26.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Martin
Luther, for Quebec.

STOCKTON, Aug, 26.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Enighe-
den, from Gothenburg.
CLYDE, Aug. 25.—Arrived—Runnymede, from Bahia.
Sailed—Demerara, for Montreal.
TROON, Aug. 26,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lord Met-
calfe, from Quebec.

EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Edward, from Sunderland ; Ellora, steamer,
from Alexandria; Atalanta, steamer, from Jersey; Tartar,
steamer, from London.
Sailed—Jane Cochrane, for Cardiff.

(1r MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 26—Havanna, packet, from Havanna ;
Il Trovatore and Saviour, from Guernsey; Francis, from
Dantzic; Laurel, from Rustersiel,

Arrived, Aug. 27—Calatia, from Cronstadt ; Fremad,
from Aalborg.
Sailed, Aug. 26—Duke of Northumberland, for Bombay;
Great Britain, for Montreal,

Sailed, Aug. 27—Azorian, for Canaries and Nassau; Sir
R. Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk; Belgium, steamer, for
Ostend.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed—Her Majesty's yacht Victorja and Albert, from
the westward, for the river; Esperance, for Cardiff; Ad-
venture, for Newport; Three Sisters, for St. John's—all
from London,

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
—At the Public-office, Birmingham, yesterday, a man
named James Clegg, who has been in the service of Messrs.
Glover end Co., dried fruit merchants, of Liverpool, as
traveller, was charged with embezzling various sums of
money belonging to his employers. Clegg resided in Bir-
mingham, end on. Saturday last his wife called upon a mem-
ber of the firm resident in the town, and handed to him a
list of defalcations to the amount of £228. This was made
out by the prisoner himself; there was a further sum of
£l2O, which the prisoner stated he had remitted to Liver-
pool, but which had never been received. Clegg had a salary
of £2OO ; the amount of his defalcations will, it was said, be
little short of £l,OOO. On the application of Mr. Alfred
Suckling, who appeared for the firm, a remand was granted
for a week.

ANOTHER MEMBER'S REVENGE.--4, We should
always provide against a rainy day," as the member of the
* * * Club said wnen he stole the umbrella out of
the hall,--punch.

"Prevention is better than cure," as the pig said
:when it ran away with all its miglit,to escape the killing
attentions of the Pork-butehet,—;Pginch.

POLICE-THIS DAY.

Prisoner said he remembered being drunk, but nothing
about the assault.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was too bad. Besides being drunk
with his horse and cab he assaulted the constable. He
should commit him for 14 days.

WESTMINSTER.

A RUFFIAN LIGHTLY PUNISHED.—Edward Copley,
ruffianly-looking fellow, was charged with the following
A disgraceful assault upon a police constable :
Police-constable Watson, 167 B, said at 20 minutes to 10
he was on duty in the Fulham• road, when he was told that
he was wanted at Mrs. Audrey's, the Black Lion, Oakham-
street. On going there he was told that the defendant had
broken a pane of glass and a beer glass, and found him
drunk. He was directed to turn him out by the landlady,
and asked him to go quietly, upon which the defendant
struck him a violent blow in the face with his fist. Witness
told him that would not do, he had better go away quietly,
and put his hand upon the accused's shoulder to eject him,
when the defendant seized him by the back of the head,
and dashed his face against two panes of glass, which
were broken by the violence of the blow, and
witness's face cut about, as could now be seen. [Witness's
face was covered with sticking plaister, and was very seri-
ously cut.] Witness then got the defendant out, when he
knocked him down and kicked him. Witness got up again,
when the defendant knocked him down again, and con-
tinued to strike and kick him for a quarter of an hour.
Ultimately he procured assistance, and the defendant was
conveyed to the station.

John Vine Toovey, late a licensed victualler, assisting
Mrs. Andrews, corroborated the constable's testimony. The
policeman was very quiet, but the defendant behaved in a
most brutal manner.

Inspector Butler having intimated that the defendant had
frequently been charged with assaulting the police,
Defendant admitted the charge, and said he was very
sorry for what he had done.

Arr. Dayman committed him to`prison for a month.

SOUTHWARK.

A HOARY SINNER.—Henry Kemp, aged 66, a varnish
maker, residing at Jamaica Level, Bermondsey, was
charged with indecent'y assaulting Jemima Clark and Mary
Ann Stewart.
Jemima Clark, having been sworn, said that she lived at
Glebe-terrace, Rotherhithe, and that she and Mary Ann
Stewart met the prisoner yesterday about 11 o'clock in the
morning, near the Spa-road station, as they were going to
school. Ho asked her the day before to go with him to
Camberwell, and she told him that her Lather would not
allow her. He asked them to go with him to London-
bridge, which they did, and the other girl went away. He
then took her on board a steamboat, and they went as far
as Hungerford-bridge, when they got out. They had some
dinner in the neighbourhood, after which they went to
Islington, and then he wanted her to come into a house in
Suffolk-street, in the City-road (a most infamous locality).
She refused to do so, and a young woman interfered and
took her 'away from him, A policeman was then called
and the parties were taken before the magistrate at Clerken-
well.

Mr. Binns, who appeared for the prisoner, said that the
whole of the:case had been before the magistrate at that
court, and he dismissed the case in the first instance. His
client was in a most respectable station of life, and it was
not until some conversation had taken place between the
constable and the witness that he considered it necessary to
send the parties to this court, the offences alleged being out
of his jurisdiction.
Police-constable 83 G proved to having taken the pri-
soner into custody at Cleskenwell, and to the witness hav-
ing made a statement to the effect that he had behaved in-
decently to her on a previous occasion. She was twelve
her last birthday.
Jet-ill= Clark's examination was then resumed. She
said that she and Mary Ann Stewart had been asked last
Saturday to go to his house the day following, which they
did, He let them in, and they saw no other person in the
house. They went into the kitchen, and he put his hand
under her clothes and then pulled them up. Stewart was
present at the time, The prisoner had given them some
walnuts and plums, and the day before he gave her a penny.
Stewart told her before they went to his house on Sunday
that he had taken liberties with her. He hurt her when
he put his hands under her clothes, and it was then she
told him to leave off, which ho did. At that time she was
sitting down and he was sitting oppssite her. She was
not in the room altogether more tt an a minute; and she
went into another room, leaving Stewart alone with the
prisoner.

Cross-examined by Mr. Binus—She lived with her

father, who was a carpenter, and she had three brothers
and three sisters. When she returned home on Sunday
she did not say anything to her• father about what had oc-
curred. She was examined by a doctor, after which the
magistrate at Clerkenwell dismissed the prisoner. It was
only when she had spoken to the polio man that the magis-
trate sent the case for trial to this court.
The witness, in reply to Mr. Burcham, said that the
prisoner bad not Leen guilty of any further indecency to
wards her, and she would have gone to Camberwell with
him if her father had allowed her.

Mary Ann Stewart was sworn, and said that she lived at
Stephens's Cottages, Rotherhi he, with her father, who
was a tanner, and her mother. She was in the habit of
going to the prisoner's house, and last Friday he took
liberties with her. She and the last witness went to his
house on Sunday. He put down his trousers and behaved
most indecently towards her, and Clarke was present at
the time. He hurt her very much. She was in the house
with him before and he treated her the same way each
time. On one occasion he gave her sixpence and desired
her not to tell her mother what took place between them.
She allowed him to d 9 what he liked to her. She was 13
years of age. The other girl was with her all the time she
was at the prisoner's house last Friday, and saw all the pri-
soner had done to her. He gave her (Clarke) twopence on
Sunday.

Mr. Binns submitted that there was no case against the
prisoner according to the evidence, and from the fact that
the girls were consenting parties.

Mr. Burcham said that both girls being above 12 years
of age, a period when, according to law, they might be con-
senting parties, which from their evidence they appeared to
be, he regretted he could not punish the prisoner for his
gross misconduct. He must be discharged.
Mr. Binns advised the accused to get home as quickly as
possible to avoid the violence with which it was not un-
likely he might be treated by the women, a hint which was
promptly adopted by the party, who left the court with a
colerity unusual at his advanced age.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ASFAULT BY A CABMAN.—John Keevil, badge 2,004, a
cabdriver, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being
drunk and incapable of taking care of his horse and cab,
and also assaulting James Price, 315 A.

The constable saw a large crowd assembled in Charles-
street, Haymarket, at about one this morning, and on going
up to see the cause found the prisoner with a horse and
cab by his side, bleeding profusely from a wound on the
head, he having fallen from his cab while in a state of in-
toxication. He then took the prisoner to the Vine-street
station-house, and on the way the prisoner kicked his legs
from under him, causing him to fail on his forehead, which
was swollen in consequence, and the rest of the way the
prisoner was very violent.