The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

LAW-THIS DAY.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
SOTTE V. MA.RTINDALE.
This case was resumed and concluded this morning. The
jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £lOO.
The case of Davy v. Pemberton was proceeding when we
wont to press.

POLICE-THIS DAY.

WESTMINSTER.

A COUNTRYMAN'S FIRST VISIT TO LONDON.-Mr.
Charles Miller, of No. 10, Finsbury-pavement, City-road,
accountant, was charged before Mr. Arnold with being
drunk, and with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, at the
Coach and Horses, Queen's-road East, Chelsea.
Mr. John Wildey, licensed victualler, and landlord of
the house, stated that between eight and nine o'clock the
previous night, the prisoner came to his bar with a friend
and ordered a pot of porter. He asked the prisoner for the
money, when he said that he would pay presently. He ob-
served that he had plenty of money in his pocket, and asked
him (complainant) to take the ♦alue of the beer. Com-
plainant declined to do so. He again asked the prisoner to
pay, when he broke a pane of glass. He was above an
hour in front of the bar.

Mr. Arnold (to the prisoner)—What have you to say to
the charge ?

Prisoner—lt is my first visit to London.
Mr. Arnold—lt is a very bad beginning.
Prisoner—Yes, sir. I went last night with a few friends
to the Crystal Palace, after having paid a visit to the Inter-
national Exhibition, and took too much champagne. I have
been a teetotaller for twelve months, and what I took had
an effect on me.

Mr. Arnold—Why did you break the pane of glass ?
Prisoner—l was not aware of it.

Gibbons, B 266, said that the prisoner was given into his
custody. He was very drunk.

Prisoner was fined the value of the glass, or, in default,
.0 days' imprisonment, and ss. for being drunk.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A CAPTAIN ASILORE.—A SCENE IN COVRT.—Michael
Murphy, a costermonger, was charged with assaulting and
robbing Captain James Browning, of South-crescent, Bed-
ford-square, of his watch of the value of £3O.
The captain on getting into the box, said—l am the
captain of a merchant ship. That chap gave me a blow
on the nose, :;and I gave him another. He gave me an
up-righter. I don't know the street. I never trouble
myself about the names of streets. He smothered me with
blood. I told him if I had him with me for a month I'd
take it all out of him. He damaged my nose, and it won't
be well for a week, If he had not run away, I'd have given
it him. He called me a fool. I gave him no offence, not a
bit of it. (Laughter.) I've got my watch again, thank
God. (The prosecutor caused a good deal of merriment by
the way in which he gave his evidence.)
Sergeant Glass, 3 C, who took the charge, said the pri
seller overnight was charged with stealing the complain-
ant's watch and assaulting him, but it had since turned
out that complainant when he was first assaulted gave a
person his watch to take care of.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Before going into action I suppose.
(Laughter.)
The Captain—l dare say it was so.
Mr. Forsyth—Perhaps the defendant will make an apo-
logy.

- - Captain—l won't accept it. He's a blackguard. He
gave me a regular nor'-wester, I can assure you. (Laugh-
ter.) I should like to punish him myself very much, for
ho behaved lika a bull dog, and I do like justice.

Subsequently the Captain was satisfied with an apology,
and left the court, having evidently been indulging pretty
freely over night, and the prisoner was discharged.

WORSHIP. STREET.

SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Rebecca
Roberts, a neatly dressed young girl. was charged before
Mr. Cooke with attempting to drown herself in the Regent's
Canal.

Ward, 79 N, said—This morning at '.3 o'clock I was on
duty near Haydon-place, Hoven, and saw the prisoner
walking hurriedly towards the canal, to reach which, how-
ever, she was from that spot compelled to get over some
palings. This she did, and her object then being certain,
I sprang after and seized her as she was in the act of
plunging into the water. She struggled very hard to
accomplish her purpose, and afterwards, when I questioned
her as to the motive of such a wretched act, she replied that
her mistress had, late on the previous evening, sent her out
on an errand, that some man zot into conversation with her,
and afterwards induced her to accompany him to some house
where he accomplished her ruin, that she was consequently
ashamed and afraid to return at two o'clock in the morning,
and after walking about for more than an hour in great
trouble, she resolved to destroy herself.
The parents of the prisoner, very decent persons, in great
distress, stated that they h9.d not seen their daughter since
last Whit-Monday, until made acquainted with the lament-
able circumstance now before the court, and that they
thought she was comfortably settled in service. She had
always been a very good girl, and they could not at all
account for her having been thus lured to ruin.
The constable added, in answer to questions from the
magistrate, that he had seen the prisoner's mistress, who
refused to take her back after the commission of so serious
an attempt as that in question.
The prisoner made no contradiction of her story to the
police, and was remanded.

Every one who went to see the Dog Show at
Islington must have been struck with the number of muti-
lated dogs which were exhibited, the mutilation chiefly con-
sisting in the cropping of the ears. Sir Edwin Landseer,
one of the judges, tried to establish the principle that all
mutilated dogs should be excluded from the competition ;
and as he could not well press this without previous notice
to exhibitors, he has suggested that at no future show shall
dogs with cropped ears, or otherwise mutilated, be admitted.
A renewed attempt has been made to plant the
Cinchona, from which quinine is obtained, at Trinidad. It
has been planted at a height of 2,800 feet above the level of
the sea. The soil is of the richest description.
OPENING OF NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE FOR
PASSENGER TRAFFIC— (THIS DAY.)—This morning,
shortly after seven o'clock, the footway on the eastern side
of the new Westminster-bridge was thrown open to the
public. In order to do this in honour of the marriage of
the Princess Alice, a large body of men were at work
throughout the whole of the night, and about the time
above-mentioned, at a given signal, the unsightly hoarding
was removed and displayed to view a handsome footway 14
feet in width, and laid down upon the most improved me-
thod. In a few days the lamps will be in their places, and
judging from two or three now fixed, will have a brilliant
effect. The footway on the opposite side is being rapidly
proceeded with, and before long the old and ugly tempo
rary wooden bridge will be removed.
THE BALLOON COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH
ASSOCIATION.—Yesterday an attempt was made to inflate
the balloon, and 58,000 cubic feet of gas had been turned
into it, when an accident happened owing to the boisterous
nature of the weather, which has suspended the operations
of the committee for certainly a week. Notwithstan g
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G IN F
PRIN TIN RAN C E . --The
GOVERNMENT
f Paris observes, as an extraordinary fact, that
h Government, with all its resources, cannot pub-
lish Temps o
early
the French
a, many of those which
in the morning a debate which, after all, is not
near so long
private enterprise in
England never fails to give to the public without any delay.
The letups might have strengthened its argument by the
observation that whereas debates in England last till two,
three, and four in the morning, the discussion of Friday,
which the Monsteur could not manage to print ail at once,
vfas °Ter at half-Past six in the afternoon.