The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Elizabeth Lucas, a well-dressed mar-
ried woman, was charged with creating a disturbance
and damaging the confectionary at the shop of Mrs.
Warne, 112, High Holborn.

The prosecutrix said that at five o'clock yesterday after-
noon the defendant came to the shop, and pointing to a
very large bun in the window, expressed a wish to have
it, and put down a penny in payment. Witness declined
to ".pick and choose," but told defendant that if she
thought proper to take sixpenny worth, the big one
should be included. The defendant objected to this, and
demanded the monster bun, because it was placed among
the others, which were ticketted " One Penny." Wit-
ness declined to serve her, and then defendant began
picking up the buns one after another, and pelting wit-
ness across the counter. Her conduct attracted a crowd
of at least 150 people, and about ss. worth of buns were
destroyed by being strewn over the shop and broken to
pieces. No policeman could be got for more than
half an hour, but eventually the defendant, who ap-
peared under the influence of liquor, was given into
custody.
The defendant, who fainted during the examination,
said that the buns were chiefly broken by the prosecutrix
herself, in resisting her. She considered that she had a
perfect right to pick out the bun in question.
Mr. Henry considered it unfair to put a large bun
among the penny ones, and then refuse to sell it at the
price at which they were ticketed.
The defendant's husband said she was a rather excit-
able woman, but a very good wife upon the whole. He
did not believe she was ever drunk in her life.
Mr. Henry ordered her to pay the damages, which
was done, and she was then discharged.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Joke Rudd, a well-
dressed young man, who described himself as a clerk in
the Ordnance-office, Woolwich, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Hardwick, charged with being drunk and
assaulting Mr. Aaron George Jones, 29, Soho-square.
The complainant stated that about 7 o'clock last night
he was crossing Regent-street, into Air-street, when the
defendant, who was drunk, pushed violently against him,
and on his remonstrating with him, he (defendant) called
him by an offensive epithet. Complainant, not wishing
to be assailed by such disgusting language, walked on
into Piccadilly. The prisoner followed him and repeated
the offensive language. Complainant, feeling intimi-
dated by defendant's conduct, called a constable and
gave him in charge.
In answer to the charge, defendant said he was very
sorry for what had occurred ; but he had been drinking
with some friends and had forgotten himself.
He was fined 40s. The money was immediately paid.
Henry Ossultre, a well-dressed person of foreign ap-
pearance, who stated he was a near relative of an ad-
miral now on service, was brought before Mr. Hardwick,
charged with having assaulted the police, and otherwise
misconducting himself in the public streets.
Inspector Monkton (C division) said—About three
o'clock that morning he was in the Haymarket, when a
he
found the prisoner surrounded by a mob of persons in
i
state of intoxication. The defendant had a
whip in his hand, and one of the personsbywhom heavy
whip
was surrounded complained that the defendant had ba
lashing him with the whip. Witness requestmeda.the_
de-
fendant, who was very violent, to cease from
ed a
disturbance and to go away. The defendant_edi
low filthy epithet to him, and told him if b
off he would give him a good thrashing. n, put his
ing the defendant would not listen to res..
dant in-
The defen
d
t him with
Witnessl, eLfiitnbde-
hand upon him to move him on.
Plunge 3
avoided
the drew back and then made
the thick end of the whip.
the blow by stepping aside,
much. Witness next re-
Witness, however,
the next blow fell on the
back of his hand, and hurt
ofhbiutb
his head, and after some
ceived a blow on the back
' struggling the prisoner secured and lodged in the
Wig- station-house the defend-
ant's conduct and language was of the most disgraceful
description.
Police-constable Ballard, and Cole C 53, corroborated
the evidence' t denied the assault, and attributed the
The defendan
charge to some personal feeling of the inspector towards
him.
Mr- Hardwick said it was clear that a violent assault
liad been committed on the police, because they did their
duty,
namely, attempted to preserve the public peace.
Aperson
to have of the defendant's appearance and position
comit him to prison forget'h known be and he should therefore
days.
The prisoners's real name is believed to be Pozzi.

WESTMINSTER.—Thos tas Uutcheson, 28 13, was
charged with being found upon the premises of Mr. J.
W. Lyon, Pleasant-row, Mill-bank, with intent to com-
mit folony, and further with assaulting another constable.
Complainant said that between 11 and 12 on the previ-
ous night his servant girl informed him that a man was
getting over a fence on his outhouse. He immediately
called out, and was answered in reply, " It's all right ;
hold your tongue." He found defendant on the parapet

CONGRESS OF MECHANICS" INSTITUTIONS.

TAMWORTH, WEDNESDAY.
The annual congress of the Midland Association of
Mechanics' Institutions was held in this town yesterday.
In the morning, a meeting for business matters took
place at the Town-hall, attended by about fifty delegates
from Birmingham, Derby, Wolverhampton, Stafford,
Worksop, Grantham, Lutterworth, Lincoln, Leicester,
Chesterfield, Nottingham, and other places in the Mid-
i land counties. The Earl of Yarborough presided at the
commencement of the proceedings, but was soon after-
wards succeeded by Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the Presi-
dent-elect for the ensuing yfar. Suggestions of a prac-
tical character were discussed, some of which it was
thought expedient to adopt in the conduct of the va-
rious institutions, with the view to increase their effi-
ciency and usefulness, and a very general concurrence
of opinion was expressed on the subject of the advan-
tages which had been found to result from this annual
congress.
In the afternoon the delegates visited Drayton Manor,
on Sir Robert Peel's invitation, the celebrated gallery,
containing portraits of his illustrious father's distin-
guished contemporaries, being opened to public view.
A conversazione took place at the Town-hall in the
evening. Sir Robert Pee] in the chair. Amongst the
company were th'Earl of Yarborough, Sir H. Wilmot,
Mr. Adderley, M.P., Mr.. M. Arilnees,Ama,mr. Bass,
M.P., Lyalualmfa• tr, Mr. X,-
..-114-Q.0., Re-
corder of Birmingham, Mr. W. S. Dugdale, oniferivale.
hall, Mr. C. H. Bracebridge, of Atherstone-hall, the
Mayors of Birmingham, Tamworth, &c.
Sir ROBERT PEEL first addressed the company. Un-
like a conference which had recently been held elsewhere,
they had assembled to devise the best means of promot-
ing the cultivation of the peaceful arts and sciences by
the working classes in the country. This assembly had
neither for its object the crumpling up of Russia, nor
the protection of the Ottoman empire ; the far nobler
object they had in view was to stir up a spirit worthy of
the working classes of this great country in respect of
that which most materially affected their interest, their
happiness, and their general welfare. What this asso-
ciation had, too, especially in view, was to give to the
industrial branch of the community at as cheap a rate
as possible literature of the highest class. If that were
done, he believed the class they were anxious to assist
would avail themselves of the opportunity afforded to
them of improving themselves. All the scientific re-
searches of the age were directed to economising of la-
bour : the reaping machine, one of the greatest novel-
ties in that particular, was proof of that ; to the same
object was directed the labours of M'Cormick, Garratt,
and Bell. When witnessing, the other day, the splen-
did evolutions of the mighty fleet at Spithead, and con-
templating the gigantic Duke of Wellington walking
the waters like a thing of life," he could not help feeling,
if even that was a thing of war, it was also an emblem
of scientific knowledge and artistic skill. With our
knowledge, and looking at what had been done in this
country, there was no reason why we should be behind-
hand in anything capable of being mastered by re-
search and study. Yet we were : that could not be
denied. The fact was solely attributable to the defec-
tive education of the people. Now, the chief object of
mechanics' institutions was to benefit the adult popula-
tion whose progress in the acquirement of knowledge had
been impeded by the want of primary instruction. It
was true that the number of schools had greatly increased
since 1850, but still in Manchester, the first provincial
city in the kingdom, the absence of education amongst
the people was still very great. He for one had the
fullest confidence in Lord John Russell in reference to
this matter, believing, as he did, that he, of all the
statesmen of this country, was most capable of dealing
with this all-important question. (Hear.) And if Go-
vernment did its duty, and took care of the education of
the children, society must do its duty also, and take
care of the adult population. Once do thi and those
unhappy disputes betweed the emph.yer Rai employed
would very soon cease. Only the other day, when
20,000 men were out on strike in the neighbourhood of
Stockport, he heard that in a few days the actual loss in
wages to labourers and profits amounted to no less than
150,0001. ; lost, absolutely lost, as much as if it had
been a loan to the Emperor of Russia. (Laughter.)
The same thing was going on at Preston, where he
would like to go and explain to the men the folly of
their proceedings, and endeavour to convince them that
their arbitrary measures—their combinations and strikes
—must result in injury to themselves, because, after all,
the price of labour must be regulated by the supply and
demand—wages being, in fact, entirely dependent on
and regulated by the standard of trade, its buoyancy
and depression. In this our age, great progress had un-
doubtedly been made ; there was, he believed, a dis-
position pervading all men's minds to appreciate the
blessings of peace; it was our duty to make ourselves
worthy the enjoyment of those blessings ; and we could
not do so more than by endeavouring to improve the
moral and social condition of the working classes.
(Cheers.)

17..•

Mr. M. MINEs spoke to the sentiment—" The ad-
vantages which have resulted from the establishment of
reading-rooms." It was by the study of books alone
that the working man could expect to fairly maintain
his ground in any comparison or competition with the
educated workmen of other countries. He deplored as
much as any man the schisms between the employer and
the employed, to which the chairman had referred ;
let but the working man get an insight into the science
of political economy, and he had no fears for the result.
(Cheers.)
_ _

Mr. A DDERLEY, M.P., spoke "on the advantages of
early education as preparatory to the enjoyment of the
advantages of Mechanics' and similar institutions."
Professor PLAYFAIR next addressed the assembly in
advocacy of systematic instruction, instead of desultory
lectures in mechanics' institutions. It must now (he
said) be admitted that the intentions of the founders of
mechanics' institutions had not been fully realised.
Most of the bad tastes which characterised the adult
population might be traced to the deficiency and bad-
ness of primary instruction. In secondary education
there was the same deficiency ; the habits of observa-
tion had been also perverted by the child's primary edu-
cation ; still a man who attempted to touch our time-
honoured schools and forms was looked upon as a demo-
crat, and at most of our great schools in this country
all experience was ignored save that up to the thirteenth
century. At Liverpool, Edinburgh, and other places,
wherever this difficulty had been grappled with,
and
a
a with the
better system established, it bad been always
best success ; in fact, it had been provedth that there
was no want of taste amongst the people for
course of scientific lectures when ataste
created. Dr. Playfair proceeded to
point
outfor it w
t e man-
neras
tions by enabling them to obtain diagrams
assist mechanics
and ap'
pi na
rs
at ittuus-
at a small cost to illustrate particular sciences ; the com-
petition
t
should
to f
last n industry sb
et ryh
donead madei nreference
!t essential
othese matters
that something
almost all civilised nation had seen this except Eng-
land ; intellect was being substituted for brute force, and
esoeodnucsautedffer.proptewrlasy,
our commercial prosperity
iaht carry on his trade without
unless the workers of En
quite true that a mar! in
knowing anything
anything of them he would
nee
that if he did know a glawadouwlcolr
of its principles, but it was
do
omtureuhe
not possess the dignity of reason-
ablehat they
showed t
better ; for men to
didgo on in such a state of ignorance
beings.
institutions.
n amongst mechanics
advantages of union The Earl of YARBOROUGH spoke in f
reference to the
Mr. FOSTER, secretary of the Society of Arts, next
various difficulties,
after encountering
mentioned that
menhad consented to supply books
addressed the meeting , in the course of his speech he
atdiscountsaveraging 40 per
for some seventy
mechanics
institutions
cent.
Air. C. H. BRACEBRIDGE spoke in reference to foreign
reformatory schools, and the system of primary educa-
tion on the continent. He narrated several interesting
anecdotes illustrative of the defective state of primary
education in this country, and of the difficulties which
the promoters of education had to contend with in the
way of inducing parents to send their children to school.
These facts (he said) came under his own observation
every day, and abundantly proved how greatly to be
preferred was the system of education practised in some
states on the continent.
After a few observations from the Mayors of Bir-
mingham and Derby.
The Earl of YARBOROUGH moved a vote of thanks to
Sir Robert Peel, which the hon. baronet suitably ack-
nteonwole,cdlgoeodk,. and the proceedings terminated shortly after

AUSTRALIAN EUIGRATION. - The ship Agincourt,
Captain Pashley, of 660 tons, belonging to Messrs.
Duncan Dunbar and Sons, of Limehouse, sailed from
Southampton, on Tuesday, for Geelong, with a full
complement of emigrants and a general cargo. She
anchored at the Motherbank the same night, and on
Wednesday morning, the wind being foul for putting to
sea by way of the Needles, commenced beating out into
the Channel past the east end of the Isle of Wight.
While off St. Helen's she missed stays twice, andshortly
afterwards touched the elbow of the Horsebank at Spit-
head, knocking off her false keel by the force of the
strike. As the ship commenced making water, the corn
inander put back to Southampton Docks, where the Agin-
court has arrived, and where the cargo is being discharged
previous to the ship being placed in the dry dock for
repairs. The emigrants, 248 in number, will be removed
from the vessel to the Government depot while the ne-
cessary repairs are effected, or until another ship can be
provided for their conveyance to Australia. The Agin-
court was dispatched hence by Mr. George Drysdale.
On Wednesday Messrs. Dawson dispatched the fine ship
Tudor, Captain Quilhampton, 1,064 tons, for Melbourne,
with 380 emigrants, embarked from the Government
depot, equal to 340 statute adults, of which 187 were
single women.