The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

11TJEVIANLY ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—John Daly, aged
20, and Thomas Farrow, 39, seamen, belonging to a coaster
in the riYer, were brought before Mr. Partridge charged
with being drunk.and disorderly in High-street, Shadwell,
and violently assaulting James Stockley, 164 K, and Jere-
miah Reardon, 469 K.
Last night Daly was drunk and noisy, and he was re-
quested by Stockley to go home or return to his ship. He
refused to do either, and, after abusing the constable, said,
" Stop till I draw my staff "—put his hand in his pocket.
Stockley rightly suspecting that he was about to draw a
knife seized his hand. The prisoner released it and made
a second attempt to draw a knife, which he called a staff,
and succeeded. The prisoner said "That is my staff " and
flourished it. At the same time the prisoner made a kick at
the lower part of his person. He stepped back and avoided
the kick. Reardon then came to the assistance of Stockley,
and Daly put his legs round him and tried to throw him.
A struggle ensued, and Daly made an effort to bite Reardon,
and said he would ruin him for life. The policemen secured
Daly, and Farrow then came up and said " You shall not
take him." He laid hold of Daly and tried to pull him away
Another severe struggle took place, and ultimately other
constables arrived, the disorderly people, thieves, and loose
women who abound in Shadwell were dispersed, and pre-
vented rescuing the prisoners, and they were secured.
Mr. Partridge said a serious outrage had been committed
by Daly, who had the audacity to draw a knife on the
police-constable who was doing his duty very properly.
But that was not all. The prisoner attempted to injure
the constable for life. There was no doubt Daly was a
very savage fellow, and he sentenced him to be imprisoned
two months' and kept to hard labour. He sentenced
Farrow to pay 405., or bo imprisoned one month.
WILD SPORTS OF THE EAST.—Julia Connor, aged 27,
and Mary Pay, aged 30, were brought before Mr. Partridge,
charged, the first with assaulting Honorah Sweeney with
a knife, and the other with striking her with a poker.
A police-constable, named Charles Gilbey, 171 11, stated
that the injured woman, Sweeney, was in the London
Hospital, and could not be removed for some time.
It appeared that the prisoners and Sweeney dwell in an

Irish colony called London-terrace, Commercial-road East.
This terrace is a close and narrow alley, where rows and
bloodshed have been frequent. There was a disturbance
there a few days ago, and some persons were injured. An
officer of the court named Howland, 89 H, holds a sum-
mons against some of the parties. This gave rise to another
quarrel last night, and the prisoners attacked the woman
Sweeney, cut her with a knife and beat her with a poker.
They left her bleeding and insensible. The contest was
described by another, Honora Sweeney, of No. 7, Bowyer's-
buildings, St. George, as a frightful one. The prisoners
were furious and mad.

Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoners until Thursday
next.

WESTMINSTER.

A NOTOILIOVS THIEF AND IMPUDENT DEFENCE.—Jane
Mansell, a middle-aged woman, who has been repe itedly
charged with felony and other delinquencies, was placed at
the bar charged with robbing Henry Hayes, a working
man, of his purse containing £1 6s.
Prosecutor said that he met the prisoner, whom he had
known for years, yesterday afternoon, in Chelsea, and went
with her to a beershop in Oakham-street, where they had
something to drink, and while standing engaged in con-
Versation afterwards the prisoner put her hand into his
pocket and robbed him. He seized her hand and endea-
voured to take the purse from her, but she struggled vio-
lently and got away for a moment to some companions,
and prosecutor again seized her and held her till the land-
lady came and a policeman was fetched.
Mr. Arnold—Has the money been found ?
Prosecutor—No, it has not. . _

Prisoner—How should it be when they've taken the
wrong party. If they had taken Mary. Elliott they'd have
found it. I saw her take the purse. She was going to do
it, and I said, " Don't, he has paid for some beer," and she
said, "Mind your own business," and then she took the
purse and walked out of the house. The policeman knows

it as well as I do.
William Beat, 238 B, was called, and said he found pri-
soner in the grasp of the prosecutor, and took her in
charge.
Mr. Arnold—Did she give this account then ?
Policeman—Not a word, until after she had been locked
up some time.
Prosecutor—Her hand was in my pocket at the moment
I first laid hold of it.
Prisoner was remanded.

RAILWAY ON EPSOM DOWNS.—Epsom races will
this year be .signalised by the opening of a new
railway—the Banstes4 and Epsom Downs line—terminat-
ing within a short distance of Tattenham-corner, and not
more than half a mile from the Grand Stand. This rail-
way, which does not exceed 4i miles in length, was pro- '
jected by an independent company, but it has now passed
into the hands of the London, Brighton, and South Coast
directors, whose main Epsoin line it leaves at the Sutton
station, and gradually ascending to the village of Banstead,
terminates, as already mentioned, between Tattenham-
corner and the Grand Stand, each of which are within a
a few minutes' stroll over the greensward. Captain Yol-
land, of the railway department of the Board of Trade, has
certified the line to be in perfect working order, and it is
fully anticipated that the great bulk of the railway passen-
gers to Epsom will thts year adopt the new route, thus
avoiding the extortion of fly-drivers, and the insufferable
nuisance of traversing the dusty road between the village
of Epsom and the racecourse. The new line is in direct
communication with tho Victoria and London-bridge Rp.ii-

way stations.
PROOF POSITIVE.—The Graaf Reinet Rerald tells
the following amusing story anent a wool farmer,
who was anxious to get full value for his produce. It says :
—" Since it was known that there has been no assizing of
weights in this town for four years, and that there were
differences in the scales of several dealers, an amusing in-
cident occurred. A. farmer who reads his newspaper came
to town resolved to be wide-awake in selling his wool ; so
he went to the first store, and brought up the subject of
weighing people. Stepping on the platform scale, he said,
"I wonder what I weigh now ?' His weight was read off,
and away he went to the next store ; and so on to others
When he came back he knew who had the lightest scales,
and did not go there with his wool."

THE MAOPIES.—As to the natives being " neither
cruel nor vindictive," not less than 38 cold-blooded mur-
ders of unarmed me; women, and children were committed
by them during this war, as shown in the Governor's pro-
clamation exempting from the amnesty the perpetrators of
those crimes. In the war of 1845 and 1846 a naval officer
was scalped, a captain of the regiment I belonged to was
mutilated and partly eaten, a wounded soldier was roasted
alive, another soldier, who had strayed from the camp,
was found with both his eyes scooped out, and his tongue
and cheeks cut off. In the present war some of the soldiers
were decapitated, and Captain Lloyd's head was paraded
about for months as a trophy. I know not how a people
who act thus can be considered " neither vindictive nor
cruel," though no one can dispute their bravery and mili-
tary qualities. I have no feeling against the natives; but
as a military officer who served in the colony for a number
of years, commencing from a very early period of its history,
I think myself an impartial and competent witness, and,
considering the colonists to have been grossly maligned, I
write in the interests of truth and justice, in opposition to
a Sentimental but mistaken philanthropy---" mistaken"
even in the interest of the natives themsolves.--New Zea-
land Examiner.

No change has taken place in the value of English hops
since we last wrote. The supply of home-grown produce
on sale is very moderate, and the demand rules steady at
full currencies. In foreign hops a fair business is doing at
late rates.
Mid and East Kent ......•• 110 s to 200 s per cwt.
Weald of Kent
Sussex .
Yearlings llos to 130 s
Oder hops Boe to 915
American --a to