The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1853:

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER RACES-WEDNESDAY.

The densely-crowded streets testified to the undimi-
nished popularity and attraction of the Chester Cup. The
vicinity of the betting-room was completely obstructed,
and so great was the increasing throng of visitors that
the " rows" were rendered almost impassable.
Until noon special trains arrived in rapid succession,
but so efficient were the arrangements at the railway
station, and so ably were they carried out under the
superintendence of the station-master, Mr. Critchley,
that disorder and confusion were effectually avoided.
The scene on the Roodee was of the most animated
and striking description. The Grand and Dee Stand were
chokefull, and swarms of spectators clustered on the
slopes and walls, and filled the windows of the neigh-
bouring houses. The weather was all that could be
desired for the occasion. The preparations for the start
for the Cup were regarded with the most eager curiosity,
and the preliminary canters of the competitors were
watched with intense interest. The drawing of lots for
places was judiciously discontinued. The start was,
however, so unfairly made that it is to be hoped that
the disapprobation which was expressed will at length
prove to Mr. Topham the necessity of having the respon-
sible duties of his office properly discharged in future.
After much tedious delay, which considerably heightened
the prevailing excitement, the flag was finally lowered,
and the race commenced. The result was unexpectedly
favourable to the "fielders," Goldfinder, the winner,
never having figured either frequently or conspicuously
in the betting.
HELTER SKELTER HANDICAP Of 5 sovs. each, with 30
added. Second to save his stake. T.Y.C. (10 subs.)
Lord Chesterfield's c by The Emperor—Begum,
3 yrs, 6st 81b (Ashmall) 1
Mr. Phillips's f by California—Miss Kitty Cockle,
2 yrs, 4st 81b (carried sst) (T. Cliff) 2
The following also ran :—The Gift, British Farmer,
King David, Evening Star, Fairplay, and Dressmaker.
SECOND YEAR OF THB SECOND TRIENNIAL PRODUCE
STAKES of 10 soya. each, h ft, with 30 added ; for
3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 91b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; those by
untried stallions, or out of mares which never bred a
winner, allowed 31b ; both, 61b. From the Castle
Pole, once round and in. (8 subs.)
Mr. J. Osborne's Mocassin, Bst 61b (J. Osborne) 1
Mr. Stevens's Oxonian (late Haynau) Bst 91b (Marlow) 9
Mr. Worthington's Jaquenetta, Bst 21b (Bramwood) 3
TRADESMEN'S PLATE of 200 sovs. in specie, added to a
handicap sweepstakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft ; second
to receive 50 sovs. out of the stakes, and the third to
save his stakes ; extra weight for winners. Cup
Course, about two miles and a quarter. (216 subs,
85 of whom declared.)
Mr. Palmer's Goldfinder, by Faugh-a-Ballagh, 5 yrs,
7st 61b (Aldcroft) 1
Mr. Knowles's Talfourd, 3 yrs, sst 61b (including 101 h
extra) (Ashmall) 2
Mr. T. Parr's Trifle, 4 yrs (11 b), sst 121 b (Wells) 3
The following also ran :—Little Jack, Retail, New-
minster, Lady Evelyn, Leopold, Indian Warrior, The
Black Doctor, Timid Fawn, Bellewston, lanthe, Scare-
crow, Constantine, Missive, Snowdon Dunhill, Peggy,
Helena, Hannah, Contentment, Lord Lieutenant, Auch-
inleck, Guicower, Rosalba, Ann Page, Braxey, Allegro.
King of Trumps was struck out at 12.5 p.m., Mon-
tague at 2 p.m.

Betting 2-3 'to 1 agst Trifle, 6 to 1 agst Talfourd, 7 to
1 agst Peggy, 12 to 1 agst Missive, 10 to 1 agst Lord
Lieutenant, 15 to 1 agst Newminster, 15 to 1 agst Little
Jack, 16 to 1 agst Black Doctor, 20 to 1 agst Lady
Evelyn, 30 to 1 agst Contentment, 30 to 1 agst Gold-
finder. After a delay of upwards of 20 minutes, a very
straggling start was made, several horses being so far
in the rear that they had no chance of making up lost
ground. Timid Fawn took the lead, with Scarecrow
second, and Talfourd third, Trifle, Retail, Goldfinder,
Snowdon Dunhill, and Lord Lieutenant being in front
of the ruck, Peggy a long way behind them. After
rounding the turn into the Dee side of the course, Trifle
took third place, Talfourd, Lord Lieutenant, Retail,
Missive, and Goldfinder heading the next lot. At the
lower turn Scarecrow was in full possession of the lead,
with Trifle second, Timid Fawn third, Talfourd, Lord
Lieutenant, and Goldfinder well up. No change of
moment occurred in these positions until they re-entered
the further side of the course, when Lord Lieutenant-
drew into the third place, but at the T.Y.C. post he
dropped off, and the race from this point was with Trifle,
Talfourd, Scarecrow, and. Goldfinder. Scarecrow gave
way at the. Grosvenor Post. Trifle was beaten at the
distance. Goldfinder then challenged Talfourd, and a
fine race with the two ended in favour of Goldfinder by
half a neck, the second beating the third by a length.
Scarecrow was fourth.. Constantine fell. _ _

SIXTY GUINEAS (clear), the gift of the members for
the city, added to a sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each ; the
latter to go to the second horse ; 3-yr-old colts, Est 121 b,
fillies, Est 101 b ; 4-yr-old colts, Bst 61b, fillies, Bst 31b.
Once round and a distance.
Mr. Gulliver's Chilton, 3 yrs (Crouch) 1
Mr. Dawson's Lerrywheut, 4 yrs (T. Lye) 2
Mr. Flintoff's Whalebone, 3 yrs (Wells) 3
The following also ran :—The Major, the Judge,
Game Tommy, Whittington, Landscape, and John Bull.
SCRAMBLE HANDICAP of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added,
for all ages ; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs. (7 subs.)
Mr. Dawson's Ada, 3 yrs, Est 51b (Waddington) 1
Mr. Morrison's Margaret of Anjou, 3 yrs, Est 10113
(Hiett) 2
Mr. Darling's, jun., Welsh Harper, 4 yrs, Bst 71b
(Whitehouse) 3
The following also ran :—Mire Hill, Gannymede, and
Mushroom. _ _ _

Bettina-6 to 4 agst Ada, 4 to 1 agst Margaret of
Anjou. Betting—
by half a neck ; half a length between
second and third.

HER MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 gs. ; 3-yrs-old, 7st
121 b ; four 9st 21b ; five, 19st ; biz and agod, lOst 51b.
Thrice round.

Audubon, 3 yrs
Massaroni, 3 yrs

Deerhound, 3yrs
Nine ran. Even betting on Audubon

ASCOT HEATH.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE ASCOT STAKES.—Two miles
and a half.—Gossamer, 4 yrs ; Lord Fauconberg, 3 yrs ;
Father Thames, 4 yrs ; Joe Miller, 4 yrs ; Cardinal
Wiseman, 5 yrs ; Bird-on-the-Wing, 4 yrs ; Little David,
3 yrs ; Lucio, 4 yrs ; Elcot, 4 yrs ; Nancy, 5 yrs ; Con-
vulsion, 4 yrs ; Break-o'-Day-boy, 3 yrs ; Rackapelt, 3
yrs ; Denique, 4 yrs ; Miss Tennyson, 3 yrs ; Chief
Justice, 6 yrs ; Lady Evelyn, aged ; Jacqueline, 3 yrs ;
Buckthorn, 4 yrs ; Ireland's Eye, 3 yrs ; Lamartine, 5
yrs ; Harbinger, 4 yrs ; Sextus, 3 yrs ; Chief Baron
Nicholson, 4 yrs ; Montague, aged ; Waterfall, 5 yrs ;
Octavia, 4 yrs ; lanthe, 5 yrs ; Mayor of Hull, 3 yrs ;
Phantom, 4 yrs ; Leopold, 4 yrs ; Daniel O'Rourke, 4
yrs ; Hurworth, 3 yrs ; Songstress, 4 yrs ; Aristo, 5
yrs ; Waverley, 4 yrs ; Black Doctor, 5 yrs ; Gavotte,
3 yrs ; Azael, 4 yrs ; Extasy, 3 yrs ; Garforth, 6 yrs ;
King of Troy, 4 yrs ; Nutshell, 6 yrs ; Nutpecker,
3 yrs ; Nervous, 3 yrs ; Audubon, 3 yrs ; Hirsuta,
4 yrs ; Adine, 4 yrs ; King Pepin, 4 yrs ; Ho-
thorpe, 5 yrs ; Poodle, 4 yrs ; Knight of the Shire,
4 yrs ; Tavistock, 3 yrs ; Babette, 4 yrs ; Jack-
the-Giant-Killer, 3 yrs ; Alp, aged ; Merry Bird,
4 yrs ; Erycthon, 3 yrs ; Puritan, 4 yrs ; Lady
Emily, 3 yrs ; Trifle, 4 yrs ; Defiance, 4 yrs ; Red
Lion, 4 yrs ; The Italian, 6 yrs ; Russborough, 6 yrs ;
Mary Aislabie, 3 yrs; Don Quixote, 3 yrs ; Sir John
Barleycorn, 4 yrs ; Ammonia, 4 yrs ; Toosey, 3 yrs ;
Follow-me-lads, 5 yrs ; Tartuffe, 3 yrs ; Ethelwolf, 4 yrs ;
Little Davie, 4 yrs ; Sleeping Partner, 5 yrs ; Nonsuch
(h b), 4 yrs ; Pancake, 4 yrs ; Caurire, aged ; Crassus
(late Dacony), 3 yrs ; Talfourd, 3 yrs ; Indian Warrior,
4 yrs ; Lord Lieutenant, 3 yrs ; Kingston, 4 yrs ; Master
Norton, 3 yrs ; Ben Nevis, 4 yrs ; Herbert, aged ; Grey
Tommy, 4 yrs ; Nabob, 4 yrs ; c by Cotherstone out of
Lucy Banks, 3 yrs ; Lina, 3 yrs ; Hazel, 4 yrs ; Moun-
tain Deer, 5 years ; Sharavogue, 4 yrs.

. LEV
ACCEPTANCES FOR TI
One mile
Age st. lb. Age. st. lb.
Madame Wharton 5 7 12 The Handsome
Don Pedro 5 7 12 Doe 6 7 5
Worthless 5 7 9 Nonsuch (h b)..... 4 7 3
Don Quixote 3 6 5

"ES.

FIE LEWES HANDICAP.
and a half.

APROPOS OF WAGES.—A remarkable feature of the
times is the advanced, and still advancing, price of nearly
all the necessaries of life, both in articles of food and
clothing— a circumstance which, coupled with the call
for labour of every description in the colonies, and the
other numerous inducements to emigration, has led to a
general demand for enhanced wages on the part of the
workmen in different portions of the kingdom. This
feeling was first exhibited to a great extent by
the porters and labourers upon some of the most
important of the midland and northern railways.
It was followed by similar demands from other
inferior railway servants, by dock labourers and ship-
wrights in the north, and even by the agricultural
labourers in several counties. In some cases the con-
cessions required by the men have been yielded, and in
others their claims are still under consideration. Dis-
putes between employers and employed are always of a
most painful character. They result in injury to
both parties. The master usually suffers in his
pocket, and the man not unfrequently in his person,
for] strikes and combinations arise, and he places
himself within the meshes of the law. But it is
the delight of a good master to let his servants share in
his own prosperity; and where large masters are thriving
and flourishing, the propriety cannot be too strongly
urged upon them of volunteering to their men some slight
addition to their wages. Liberal landlords reduce their
rents when prices are low ; why should not liberal em-
ployers of labour increase their wages when prices are
high ? Prudence and kindly feeling, and also abstract
justice, dictate this step. It would be a graceful and
becoming act, it would strengthen the feeling and con-
nection which it is so desirable to cultivate between the
classes ; and such a timely concession would prevent de-
mands of an exorbitant and outrageous character, which,
if this be delayed too long, will unquestionably be made.
—Edinburgh Advertiser.
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THE PROGRESS OF OCEANIC STEAM
COMMUNICATIONS.

(From the Sydney Herald.)

Vast and all-pervading as have been the leading inci-
dents in those changes which are rapidly spreading a
more humane feeling over the sentiments of civilised
man • important as have been the events and valuable
the discoveries which are knitting the whole family of
mankind into closer intercourse—they could not have
received that full and extraordinary development, to
which all communities are now turning with mutual con-
gratulations but for the discovery and wonderful appli-
cation of steam power—the great civiliser, the right hand
of industry, the agent of peace and promoter of good-will
and friendly intercourse between nations. It is not our
present object to refer to the facilities by which this ele-
ment is adapted to creative purposes ; to the multiplying
the productions of genius and industry ; to the relieving
human labour from many hard, tedious, and repulsive
employments. We shall confine our remarks to some
consideration of that grand field of its action to which
no other limit can be assigned than the bounds of the globe.
From the moment that the breadth of the Atlantic was
found no bar to the exercise of its power, it was clearly
seen that steam would not stop in its triumph until it had
encompassed the world. "At the green earth's furthest
verge," the colonists of New South Wales have neces-
sarily bad great difficulties to contend with in realising
to themselves the certainty of this important final result ;
nor has the Government of the mother country (ad-
vanced as she is in the knowledge and use of this vast
power) shown any great alacrity in enabling this distant
colony to enter upon the path to which the foresight and
energy of its sons knew how to point, but could not fol-
low, unaided and unencouraged. At length the unceas-
ing representations of the local Legislature and the local
press, and, above all, the wonderful discoveries of our
gold fields, compelled the British Government to yield
its tardy conviction, and to take steps to extend the
benefits of this new means of ocean navigation to the
colonies of Australasia.

We have just observed that steam is the "agent of
peace ;" but that it is also one of the most powerful
agents of war seems to have been a fact chiefly kept in
view by the British Government, when calling for tend-
ers for mail steam contracts for the ocean service be-
tween England and Australasia. We must remind our
readers that for some years before the latter tenders
were called for, England had extensive mail contracts
for steam communication with the Peninsula and the
East, with North America, the West Indies, the Pa-
cific, and the Cape of Good Hope • and that, when
steam to Australia was seriously resolved upon, it was
stated that the mother country employed in the trans-
portation of her ocean mails about 120 steam-ships, of
an aggregate tonnage of 96,000 tons. In the policy of
encouraging the wealthy companies which had under-
taken these contracts to build for these great ocean lines,
vessels that were convertible at the pleasure of the Go-
vernment into efficient men-of-war, was involved the
principle of naval expansion, and the sinews of that ma-
ritime strength which has rendered Great Britain the
greatest power on the ocean that the world ever saw.
In illustration of the effects of this policy look at the
almost incredible fact that, during the late Burmese
war, seven of the powerful Bombay mail steamers were
in three days completely fitted out with armaments and
troops and dispatched to Rangoon. In a word, the
objects of the English Government in respect to the
construction, the appointments, the arrangement, and
the distribution of this formidable armament of steam-
ships have been twofold To have at its command
a sufficient number of these vessels so constructed that
they may be almost immediately converted into men-of-
war of the first class. 2. To keep up regular lines of
communication between all the great commercial cities
on the face of the globe, and so to form by these exten-
sive steam lines a vast net work covering every ocean
and every sea, yet constructed and kept in successful
operation by private enterprise and private wealth. Ca-
pitalists have been induced to invest the money neces-
sary to establish this stupendous system of ocean steam
communication by the heavy contracts entered into with
Government for the transportation of mails—a system
of encouraging and stimulating private enterprise, which
the United States are now following under the firm
conviction of its wise policy.
We have deemed it necessary to offer these prelimi-
nary remarks, because, as Sydney has many reasons to
be dissatisfied with the unsuccessful passages made by
the steam-ships which arrived in Port Jackson during
the past year, it nay not be without its use to suggest
political reasons why England will not be likely to with-
draw financial support from the companies who are now
forwarding their vessels by the Singapore and Cape
routes ; while, on the other hand, it will be our duty to
show that by throwing a third belt of steam communi-
cation round the world, and by subsidising a line by the
western route vi?l Panama, the political, commercial,
and social objects of Great Britain will be most mate-
rially advanced, and every interest of the most impor-
tant and influential portions of Australasia, continental
and insular, fostered and benefitted.

The dissatisfaction which Sydney has loudly expressed
at the unsuccessful passages made by the mail steamers
since the first arrival of the first pioneer in August last
will be easily understood by a perusal of the following
memoranda :

" The Chusan, belonging to the Peninsular and Orien-
tal
Company, arrived in Port Jackson on the 3d of
August last, having left Southampton on the ,16th of
May, the Cape of Good Hope on the 29th of June, and
Melbourne on the Ist of August. This passage of 79
days, including detentions, was hailed as an auspicious
commencement of the new system ; the more especially
as it had been made in spite of some heavy weather be-
tween Table Bay and Cape Otway.
" On the Bth of September the first mail ship, the
Australian, dispatched by the other contracting parties,
the Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company,
arrived, having left Plymouth on the sth June, Table
Bay on the 22d of July, King George's Sound on the
24th of August, Adelaide on the 29th, and Melbourne
on the 6th of September; thus accomplishing the pass-
age in 95 days, including the detention in the various
ports ea route of 151 days. A few hours before the
Australian's arrival we had received London and New
York news (only a few days older than that broughtby
our mail steamer) and which had reached us by the cir-
cuitous route of Liverpool, Halifax, New York, Aspin-
wall, Panama, Acapulco, San Diego, San Francisco,
and the Sandwich Islands ; the whole running time hav-
ing been 92 days, the detentions 10.
" On the 22d of October, the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer the Formosa, arrived after a fair
passage of 76 days.
" On the 16th of November, the second of the Aus-
tralian Royal Mail Company's steamers, the Sydney,
arrived, after a voyage extending to 104 days from the
date of her leaving Plymouth. She brought 3,017 let-
ters and 25,000 newspapers, the dates of which ranged
from the Ist of June to the 31st of July. A few
August papers were procured at Melbourne from the
Great Britain, which had arrived there before the Sydney
left ; but, excepting these, not one item of news was
brought by the latter which had not already reached
us by sailing vessels direct from England, or by the
way of New York, Panama, and New Zealand. On the
very morning of the Sydney's arrival the Vimiera, which
left Portsmouth five days after the former's departure
from Plymouth, entered Port Jackson ; and in the after-
noon the ship Exchange arrived from San Francisco,
bringing us dates from New Orleans to the 22d, from
New York to the 20th, and from London and Paris to
the 4th of August.
"On the 27th of November the Great Britain (placed
on the line by a private company) arrived, after a tedious
voyage of 98 days, her detentions at the miserable coal
depots having been of the most vexatious character.
"But a more annoying proof of the uncertainty of the
new steam arrangements was yet to come. On the 10th
of December the Chusan (which had sailed hence at the
latter end of August last for Singapore, via Port Philip,
Adelaide, King George's Sound, and Batavia, with the
view of acting in conjunction with the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Company's steamers from Singapore to
England, via Egypt) returned to Sydney. Her. English
dates were to the 24th of September ; but she brought
us the unwelcome tidings, that when she arrived at Sin-
gapore
with the Australian mails she was three days too
late for the other steamer, and that thereby the letters
forwarded by her would not reach England before the
middle of December—say 110 days from the date of their
being posted here.
" The next arrival from England was the Sarah Sands
(dispatched by a private company), anchoring here on the
24th of December, after a passage, vitt the Cape of Good
Hope and Melbourne, of 97 days, including detentions
of 151 days.
" The last of these steam voyages which we have to
include in this memorandum is that of the Cleopatra,
which arrived here on the sth instant. She also is the
property of a private company. She left Plymouth on
the 7th of September, and having, like her predecessors,
had erroneous calculations made for her as to calling, her
detentions at Madeira, St. Vincent, Table Bay, Ade-
laide, and Melbourne, included 36 days, and thereby ex-
tended her protracted voyage, in so far as Sydney was
concerned, to the unusual period of 120 days, just double
the time in which we had hoped before this to see the
distance between Sydney and Plymouth performed.
"On the day following the Cleopatra's conclusion of
her long voyage, the Beejapore, a noble ship of 1,676
tons, entered Port Jackson, having performed the voy-
age from Liverpool in 84 days, and bringing us 37 days'
later news than we had received by the Cleopatra.
" The commanders of each of the steam-ships which
great changes in the arrangements the pre-
sent have already visited these shores have admd itted that
coaling an
required touching at the southern and western
effectedheregbaerfdoedre eaisthaenr the
Singapore or the Cape route can be regarded as an ad.
line for steam communication between Eng-
land and New South Wales. We have already adverted
to the political reasons which will prevent England from
abandoning either of these routes ; but we will add the
u
expression of our belief that a wise and provident Go-
vernment will soon add to its dependence upon them.
In the event of a war in Europe, or convulsion in the
Mediterranean, the Cape route would not add to Eng-
land's present dependence on the Isthmus of Suez ; it
would be a mere negative advantage. But the western
route, by the Isthmus of the Americas, would secure an
alternative line ;wo, and with Calcutta of but a few days'
one which, as regards China, is the
speedier of the t
difference. It would therefore prove of the very highest
importance to the empire, and to the security of Eng-
land's intercourse with India, China, and Australasia,
thaht this isthmian route should be adopted. By pro-
moting postal intercourse and traffic with her Australian
post essions this way, England would perfect her system
of nian-of-war steamers, constructed by mercantile com-
panies, with a trifling bounty from Government, ready
for any adverse public contingency, but manned and
sailed in time of peace on private account. It is the more
inaportant that this step should be at once seriously con-
sidered and taken, as American steam ships are likely
saps to crop all parts of the Pacific under Gruen:mot

subsidies ; and unless our own rulers encourage and
foster in like manner British enterprise in these seas the
whole trade of the Pacific may become what America
boasts it will their inheritance.' In the recent report
from the committee on American naval affairs presented
to the House of Representatives the fact of Oregon and
California being now 'Americanised' is forcibly dwelt
upon, and the House is reminded that Bombay, Cal-
cutta, and Singapore, and the ports of China, Japan,
the Australias, Polynesia, and the islands of the East
are many thousand miles nearer to the United States
than they are to England."

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—May 4.

(Before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant Judge at
Clerkenwell)

John Judd, a young man having the appearance of a
labourer, was indicted for having unlawfully assaulted
Mary Colston, with intent, &c.
While Mr. Parry was stating the case, it was inti-
mated that the defendant would plead guilty to the
charge of common assault.
The Assistant Judge said the view he took of these
cases was, that it did not follow that if a man committed
an assault of this description, he had the intention of ob-
taining his object by force if resistance was offered, un-
less such a conclusion was inevitable from the evidence.
After some discussion, the defendant pleaded guilty to
the second and third counts of the indictment.

The Assistant Judge then read the depositions, from
which it appeared that the prosecutrix, a girl about 19,
living with her mother, a widow, at No. 3, Angel-
court, Shoreditch, had been keeping company with the
defendant for about six weeks prior to the transaction,
which led to the present prosecution. On the evening
of the 23d April he called at her mother's house, and re-
quested
her to take a walk with him, and she consented,
on his promising to take care of her. They went to the
Victoria-park. On arriving there. about ten o'clock, and
before they had gone far, he suddenly threw her down,
placed one hand on her mouth, and with the other dis-
arranged her dress. She screamed out loudly, in conse-
quence of which he desisted and went away. She fol-
lowed him in the hope that he was going out of the park
as she did not know the way, when he suddenly turned
round and repeated his conduck with the exception that
he did -not disarrange ber dress. She succeeded in
getting from him, and begged of him to take her home,
but the only answer he made was one of a very gross
description. She again begged of him to take her home,
upon which he conducted himself in a most indecent
manner. He then went away, and she followed him out
of the park, after which he asked her to drink with him,
but she refused, she told a female she met, named Stepto,
what had happened, and seeing her in conversation with
her the defendant came up and used a very base expres-
sion. This female, who lived at No. 4, Grove-street,
Hackney, took her home with her, and informed her
husband what had taken place, and he went out to look
for the defendant, but, could not find him. The prosecu-
trix was placed in the dare of a park-keeper, who took
her to Cripplegate, and subsequently a warrant was ob-
tained for the defendant's apprehension. Her mouth
bled very much.

Mr. Cooper said there was no doubt an assault had
been committed by the defendant, but he desisted when
he found the prosecutrix refused compliance. The de-
fendant pleaded guilty to the assault, and deeply regretted
that it had occurred. He had a great affection for her,
and had it not been that he had been drinking, in all
probability it would not have taken place.
A witness gave the defendant a good moral character.
The Assistant Judge, after conferring with Mr.
Witham, sentenced the defendant to three months' im-
prisonment.
Ephraim Hill was indicted for having assaulted Sarah
Peto, Susan Price, and William Halsworth.

The defendant went with a prostitute named Price to
a brothel kept by the prosecutrix Peto in the Vinegar-
ground, St. Luke's, and having a dispute with her, Mrs.
Pete interfered, whereupon he assaulted them both with
a poker, and also assaulted Halsworth, a constable, whO
was called to the spot.
Mr. Horry addressed the jury for the defendant, and
called two witnesses, whose evidence went to show that
the defendant was not the aggressor, but really the
aggrieved party.
fig The jury found the defendant Guilty of the assault on
Peto and the constable, and the Court sentenced him to
two months' hard labour.