The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOuSE.—Mr. V. De.Tacquiere was sum,
moned before the Lord Mayor under the following cir•
cumstances :

Isaac W. Davis, general postman, said—My duty is
in Fenchurch-street, and, amongst others, I deliver
letters to the defendant. I have had some difficulty
with respect to the postage of my letters, in consequence
of which I determined not to leave them. On the 9th
of December I went with some foreign letters to the de-
fendant's office, and offered them to a person there de-
manding the postage, and I could not get it at first.
The door was slammed in my face, and I was called
opprobrious names several times, in consequence of not
leaving the letters without the postage. The defendant
put his fist in my face, and I left his office, and was fol-
lowed by him and another person, which person said I
could not pass without giving up the letters. I said that
I did not want to retain the letters, that I only wanted
the postage, and that I would not deliver them without
receiving the duty upon them. He then asked me to
give him change of a 51. note. He pulled out a purse,
but he did not open it, nor did he show me any note or
money. During all this time I was on the stairs a little
above him, and he pushed me down the- stairs, and he
caught me by the collar, and said I should not pass with-
out giving him his letters, and made a grasp at them in
my hand. I said he should not have them till he paid
the postage. Some gentlemen on the second floor called
out, to induce him to refrain from striking me.
The defendant declared that the statement was un-
true; that he had not struck the official at all; that he
was most desirous to get his letters, and that he had no
intention of avoiding the payment of the postage.
The postman said that the postman from another dis-
trict from which the defendant recently had removed,
made a communication to him, in consequence of which
he considered it necessary not to leave the letters ad-
dressed to the defendant without immediate payment of
the postage.
Alderman Wilson said he was quite satisfied that the
charge had been substantiated. The defendant, although
foreigner,a must have known that the duty of a postman
required him to obtain the payment of the postage of
letters.

The defendant was then fined 205., which he imme.
diately paid.

LAMBETH.—Mr. Samuel Kelly, a middle-aged man,
of respectable appearance' residing at No. 12, Thomas's-
terrace, Jane.street, Old Kent-road, and who was re-
presented to be the proprietor of a printing establish.
ment in the vicinity of Doctors'-commons, was brought
up in custody, and placed at the bar before the Hon. G.
C. Norton, charged !with the commission of a violent
assault upon the person of the Rev. Robert Gibson, who
described himself as the proprietor of the Grammar
School, in East.lane, Walworth, and was represented to
be an independent Wesleyan preacher.

The complainant, a small man, about 33 years of age,
who wore a large cloak, had his head enveloped in a
shawl, and seemed to have lost a quantity of blood, said
that, on the preceding evening, the prisoner walked into
his school, and, without saying a word to him, struck
him first several times with a thick stick, and then with
the fire-shovel, inflicting a deep wound on his forehead,
from which he had lost a quantity, he should think
quite a pint of blood.
In his cross-examination, by a clerk from the offices
of Mr. Hick, who attended on behalf of the prisoner,
Mr. Gibson said, "I have had the school that I now
keep since October ; before that, I had charge of an In-
dependent chapel in Bethnal-green, and was knowr. as
the Rev. Mr. Gibson. I knew the defendant's wife at
that time ; she frequented my chapel ; I knew she was
a married woman, and had a family. I left that chapel
six months ago ; I was not turned out of it on account
of my living with the defendant's wife ; I will swear
that, and that I 'left of my own accord. I have no
answer to give to the question, as to whether at the
time I left the chapel I was living with this man's wife
or not. _

Two lads, scholars of the complainant's school, said
they saw the prisoner strike their master two or three
times on the head with the stick produced.
The prisoner's advocate said, that some years ago, the
wife of Mr. Kelly unfortunately became a member of the
complainant's congregation, and in the end he (Gibson)
succeeded in seducing her. The husband having con.
firinatory proof of the fact, turned his wife out of doors,
but latterly, on account of his five children, and wish-
ing to reclaim her from her improper courses with her
seducer, took her home, but had not taken her to his
bed.

Mr. Isaac Morgan a house-agent, said, he had many
dealings with Mr. Gibson, and entertained so good an
opinion of him, that he was about to take a chapel in
the neighbourhood, which was to let, and make him
minister of it. Having heard something, however, pre-
judicial to his moral character, and of his living with the
wife of the defendant, he spoke to him on the subject,
but he denied it all, and said the reports were gross,
calumnies. He also saw the defendant on the subject,
and he not only declared that the reports respecting his
wife were true; but that he was prepared to confront
Gibson. On the evening before witness and the defend-
ant went to the complainant's school, and, leaving Kelly
Outside he went in and again questioned Mr. Gibson on
the subject of Mrs. Kelly, and again he denied the truth
of the report. Witness said that Kelly was present to
prove the truth, and the complainant said it was a
slander. Kelly here approached them, and addressing
Mr. Gibson, said "You know very well you have
seduced my wife, and have lived with her." Mr. Gib-
son replied, " You are a liar and get out of my place,"
and at the same time rushed to the fire-place, and took
up the shovel. A. rencontre took place, and blows were
given ; but as witness was between both, and was endea-
vouring to separate them, he could not say by whom.
One of the lads who had been before examined corro-
borated the last witness, that it was the complainant
who took up the fire-shovel, the instrument by which
his wound had evidently been inflicted.
Mr. Norton observed that the wound appeared to him
to be of a somewhat dangerous character, and ho should
therefore remand the case to a future day, but should not
object to good bail.
Bail to the required amount was given, and the pri-
soner was liberated.

THE CHOLERA IN CORNWALL. —The cholera has been
making sad ravages among the inhabitats of Redruth, in
Cornwall, where the disease broke out with great viru-
lence a few weeks since. The epidemic is confined
chiefly to the dirtiest part of the town, where the greatest
want of sanitary regulations is apparent. The town has
been divided into five districts, which undergo domi-
ciliary inspection daily by competent medical officers.
The retui ns to the 13th inst. report 80 fatal cases,
mostly poor persons, and the disease was then slightly
on the decline.