The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-02 00:00:00

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) olice-constable Roper, having repeated his testimony I master shipwrights.
giren on the former examination, stated that the signa- I The. success,- old • line-ofsbattle ship, at. Portsmouth,tures of the Russian, French,. and Belgian Ministers on i and the Meteor, at Sheerness, are ordered to bo broken
the subscription lists found in the prisoner's possession, 1 up at these ports.
with the sums (which varied in amount on the different 1 The Nigeritnd Basilisk, steam-sloops, have left Devon-
papers) opposite their names were fraudulent: they had 'port for their
ten days' trial steamings and sailiegs in
in any
neither placed their names there, nor subscribed -
way. vessels is of the most important and interesting character.
Lieutenant Szuleb wshi, the sccritary to the
Lite y The Sphynx, steam sloop, Commander Hewlett, left
Association of the Friends of Poland, and Horsford,rath% Deal on Thursday for -theta•estward.
chief officer of the Mendicity Society, completed the • The Rey-nerd, steam-sloop, Commander Crecroft, is in
account of the prisoner's character. Lieutenant Szuleiew-
I the stream ready for sea. She will go out of Ports-
ski said, that all that could be ascertained from the mouth harbour to-day, and will proceed to Plymouth, to
result of the most diligent inquiry was, that the pri- take on board the mail for the coast of Africa, and sails
sneer was an ancient forest keeper—and had be ever with it on the sth inst. From St. Helena she goes on
served, as he had represented, in the army, there of to the East Indies, and relieves the Inflexible.
The Apollo, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, has
course would be many who could prove it. He had Era_ The
sails, and lidded her topgallant masts. She will
veiled through Rome, Italy, and Spain as en impostor,
and last year, availing himself of the state of that coon- go out of Portsmouth harbour to-day, and probably sail
try, went to France, but on the restoration of order he for Cork on Sunday, to take on board the 59th Regis
was expelled again. The rank ho then assumed was went fur Hong-Kong.
The four pinnaces belonging to the Excellent were
that of a colonel. Horeord stated that he had known
the prisoner between eight and nine years as a gross out of the harbour's mouth on Thursday, exercising
impostor. He apprehended him with a woman in 1845, small arms and their great guns.
iii Charles-street, Berkeley-square, where they were The Arrogant, 36, screw steam-frigate, Captain
1 soliciting charitable contributions. The lady called her- Fitzroy, sailed, on Thursday afternoon, from Spithead,
self a countess, and, at any rate, was the prisoner's for the Mediterranean, touching at Plymouth.
countess at that time.
The electric telegraph recently placed at the Land-
Mr. BURRELL said that the case was clearly made out port terminus of the South-Western Railway, coin-
against the prisoner, and committed him for three menced operations lea Wednesday; it will be a great
months to hard labour. convenience to the people of Portsmouth.
It was stated that amongst other false representations The Plumper, screw sloop, was taken into dock on
made by the prisoner in the course of his frequent de- Thursday, and is waiting for some part of her machinery
ceptions, was one that he was brother to the late King from Woolwich.
of Poland. Several newspaper reports were produced PLYMOUTH, MAY 31.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel
of the examinations of the prisoner and his wife at the 1 the Columbia was paid wages, and sailed on Monday for
various police-courts, and an extract, printed in the I North America and Bermuda on a survey.
shape of a handbill, of the examination at Marlborough- The Gladiator steam- vessel arrived from Pembroke on
street Police-court. Tuesday, and was placed at her moorings in Hamoaze,
WORSHIP-STREET. with the reserve steamers.
The flag-ship Hibernia, 104, Captain Charles Wise,
Timothy Lea,y, a powerful Irishman, was brought up
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before Mr. Arnold, charged with the following brutal
been some time expected here from the Mediterra-
neon. Her officers will not be paid off, but on arrival
and unprovoked outrage upon a journeyman shoemaker,
named Thompson, living, in Little Wentworth street, will be transferred to her Majesty's ship Queen, 110,
Whitechapel, and also with seriously injuring Ante
which continues off the dockyard, under temporary corn-
•rhcimpson his wife. e mend of her Master, Mr. James B. Tucker.
The wife,The frigate Spartan, 26, Captain Thomas M. C. Sy-
whose head was partially covered with ban The
stated, that while in bed with her husband at three 1 monds, shortly expected from Gibraltar, will be paid off
o'clock that morning, she was roused from her sleep by when she returns home.
a noise on the stairs, and immediately afterwards the The Government convict ship Stately, Captain Gin-
prisoner, accompanied by three or four other men, burst der, with female convicts for Hobart Town, Van Die-
in the door, and rushing into the room, advanced to the
men's Land, put in here on the 24th inst. in consequence
bed where she was lying, from the side of which he 1 of heavy weather, and consequent sickness among the
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seized a heavy stool, and, a ithout the slightest observe-
l prisoners. On Sunday morning one of the cases proved
tion or reason for such conduct, dealt her a violent blow fatal, and the next day an inquest was held, and a verdict
from , returned of " Died of erysipelas." On Tuesday, Di.
on the head with it, inflicting an extensive gash,
which the blood poured in a stream down her neck. i William Rae, Medical Inspector of the Royal Naval
This was ins'antly followed by a second blow over the. I Hospital, minutely examined the fittings of the Stately,
and the condition of the convicts, and expressed himself
eyes with the prisoner's fist, and would have been sue-
cee,3ed by further ill-usage but for the interposition of well pleased with the internal arrangements of the ship,
her husband, upon whom the assailants then proceeded . and the medical treatment of the prisoners. The Stately
to wreak their vengeance, and the witness ran down will probably sail en Saturday or Sunday.
into the street, where she was screaming for assist-
CHATHA3I, JUNE I.—The Castor, 36 guns, Comm°.
since, when all the men rushed past her and escaped. A dote C. Wyvill, Commander 13unce, fitting for the flag
constable, however, shortly after came up, and, from the ship at the Cape of Good Hope, will not be ready to
description she furnished him of the men who had corn- proceed to sea before the 11th instant; she is ordered to
witted the outrage, he took her at once to an alley in the be fitted with Messrs. Brown and Barratt's patent con-
neighbourhood, called Mulberry-court,where the prisoner tinhorn.
and two other men were standing, and she immediately The Cleopatra, 26 guns, Captain Thomas L. Massie,
identified the former as the man who had assaulted her, towed from Chatham on the 29th ult. by the Pigmy
and gave him into custody. The injuries both she and steam vessel to the Nore, sails this day for Plymouth, at
her husband had sustained were of so serious a character which place she is now ordered to be paid in advance.
This ship is fitted with a portable anchor, invented by
that they were obliged to be conveyed to the London
Hosrital to have their wounds dressed, and she had suf-
Mr. George Costell, master-smith at this dockyard; its
fared the most acute ain ever since,
weight is 39 cwt. 2 qrs. This anchor consists of two
p
Benjamin Thompson, the husband, whose face was parts—the shank, the arms and palms. The parts are so
shockingly disfigured with contuions, and whose upper constructed that they embrace each other by means of
lip was cut completely through, stated that upon seeing clamps or jaws, aud are firmly held. together by a bolt.
his wife struck with the stool, he leaped out of bed Its principal dimensions are the same as the Admiralty
to her assistance, and was met by the prisoner, anchor, the shank and arms are flattened to give more
who had a file in his hand without a handle, strength in the lice of the strain, and the inner
with the sharp end of which he made a blow at his surfaces of the palms are kept straight to the
face, and the tail of the file cut through his lip and pene- proper angle, which will cause the anchor to nip the
stated the flesh of his mouth. At the same moment ground readily, and to hold firmly, when once inserted.
another man struck at him with a knife, and on witness For the purpose of weighing or tripping the anchor the
attempting to ward off the blow with his arm the blade external curvature of the arms is preserved. It is very
deeended upon his hand, and cut a piece out of one of simple and strong, may be cheaply made, and easily re-
his fingers ; while another man, whom he believed to be paired, can be fished, catted, Sec., with facility, and pos-
the prisoner, jobbed some sharp instrument into the sesses all the properties of the ordinary anchor with the
back of his head, inflicting a deep wound, from which advantages of portability. It is presumed from the con-
the blood flowed down his back. The whole of the men t struction of this anchor that under excessive straining it
then commenced an indiscriminate attack upon him, will be less liable to be broken at the crutch than the
beating him furiously about the head and face with their ordinary anchor. The angle of divergence may be
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fists, until he was reduced to the condition in which he somewhat increased, and still its holding properties re-
thenmain unimpaired. There is no actual deflection in this
was, when they appeared to have become alarmed
by the screams of his wife in the street, and the whole anchor until the strain becomes very great. This an-
of them ran out of the house. The prosecutor added
chor was made pursuant to an Admiralty order, 25th of
that he was wholly at a loss to account for the brutal February, 1848.
attack which had been made upon him, as he had never Mr. Childs, the newly appointed store receiver from
before even spoken to the prisoner, who was an entire Pembroke-yard, has arrived, and commenced his duties
stranger to him, was not aware that he had ever offended yesterday; also, Mr. Peter Suther, surgeon, of Wool-
any of the other men, and could only imagine that they wish-yard, appointed to this yard, in consequence of the
had been hired to ill-treat him by scme one eke who en- death of Dr. Warden.
tsrtaincd malice against him. Professor Moseley paid his annual visit to the appren-
Bolton, a constable of the H division, stated, that tices at this yard, for the purpose of selecting two youths
upon hearing the cries of " Murder," he ran to the as students at the central mathematical school, at Ports-
spot, and found the wife of the prosecutor standing un- mouth, and left yesterday afternoon for Sheerness Dock-
dressed at the door and bleeding fearfully from a wound yard, in order to make a selection of one youth for ad-
in her head. Upon her pointing out the prisoner as the mission into the same school, at Portsmouth.
man who had attacked her, the prisoner denied that he
had seen near the house at all, swore that he would not
be ten, and, flinging himself upon the ground, fought
so desperately, that it was only with the greatest diffi-
culty that he, and a number of other constables, could
overpower and get him to the station.
The prisoner protested his innocence, declaring that
the prosecutor and his svi:'es were entirely mistaken in his
identification; hut
Mr. ARNOLD, who considered it a gross and lawless
outrage, ordered the prisoner to be remanded for a week
fcr the completion of the evidence against him, and di-
rected the police to make unremitting exertions in secur-
ing the other men who had aided him in the commission
of tho offence.

FRENCH AND ROMAN REPUBLICANS.
ODE TO LOUIS NAPOLEON.
Louis Napoleon—l won't say that he
"Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat,"
But a Republic's President should be
Republican himself—l will say that.
When Rome shook off her priestly- yoke,
What right had you to put 3 our spoke,
I beg to ask you, in her common weal?
What ground had you for interference,
When of the Pope she made a el,"arance?
Pray, who called you with her affairs to deal?
The Romans may be right or wrong.
I don't care which, in turning Pius out,
And tending all the Cardinals along
With that good Pontiff to the right about;
But let them choose their form of government,
And what's the odds, so long as they're content?
Are you to cram down their reluctant gullets,
The kind of. Constitution you think best,
By means of swords, and bayonets, and bullets?
Against such tyranny I must protest.
I really'wonder you've the cheek
To talk about your Republique.
In dignity you merit an advance;
Tfitiel ere is a
to postb e Presidenthich yo
of
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;far
To
Instead of that you ought to be the Czar.
The Roman people to coerce and menace,
You send your howitzers and bombs,
With Oudinot to play the modern Breunus—
What of this intervention comes?
Disgrace, defeat—in point of fact,
Your troops got regularly whack'd.—Punch.

GRAND CALEDONIAN BALL.—.The ladies pa-
tronesses of this ball met in committee on Thursday at
Willis's Rooms, for the purpose of making preparatory
arrangements. The Duchess of Roxburgh, the Coun-
tess of Kinnoull, the Countess of Morton, the Countess of
Careperdown, the Countess of Seafield, the Countess de
Flahault, Lady Willoughby de Eresby, Lady Anne
Mackenzie, the Baroness Stratheden, Hon. Mrs. Heath-
cote, and the Hon. Mrs. Ferguson (of Pitfour), were
among the ladies present. The chief business of the
meeting was the arrangement of several fancy quadrilles,
in which large parties of the junior branches of the aris-
tocracy will take part. Herr Strauss is engaged to at-.'
told with his full orchestra, and a very brilliant
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anticipated. The Duchess of Somerset, whose active
co-
operation in this, as in many other works offs!) ant y, has
been of such essential service on former occasions, Ie Un-
lla l
fortunately prevented from taking
part in the
the recent
arrangements for the present ball, owing
any active
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demise of her Grace's lamented mother, the Dowager
Lady Shaw Stewart.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CITY..--...The alterations
which have been ordered for the new street, commencing
at Cannon-street, are rapidly adv%ie immense cinmass of
g.Within the
last few days nearly the by Cloak-lane, Little St.
Thomas of
houses, bounded respectively
have been Thomas the Apostle, and Queen-street,D
t h"11
re-
moved, as well as a large cluster . between owp e- i
and Watling-street, The old burial. ground of St.
. John
the Baptist and St. John Zachary is covered with vast
piles of rubbish, and will, when cleared, form a portion
of the new street. Immediately the materials of the
houses already demolished shall have been removed, the
workmen will proceed with the new thoroughfare in its
advance towards St. Paul's.

THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.—OR Thursday was
published a series of papers relative to the proposed
alterations in the constattrion of the Australasian colo-
nies, lately presented to both Houses of Parliament by
the royal command. These papers occupy a space of
some 45 pages.
A CHINESE ARTIST ON FEMALE BEAUTIro—LUM•
qua is called by Europeans the Sir Thomas Lawrence of
China, and he well deserves this proud distinction, as
the colouring of this artist's oil-paintings is exceed-
ingly fine; although his ideas cf female beauty differ
materially from our own. In the course of conversation
we asked his opinion of au English belle then at Can-
ton, and the reply was completely characteristic of a
Chinaman's ideas of female beauty; her face is too
round, she has colour in her cheeks, her eyes
are too blue, too large; she's too tall, too plump,
yi-yaw; her face talks: (meaning the countenance
Was expressive) and she has feet so large that she can walk
upon them. In Lum-qua's a:ilder we saw many portraits
both of Europeans and Chinese, many of which were
excellent likenesses, and although deficient in light and
shade, were executed in a reost masterly manlier.—
China and the Chinese.
LEICESTER TRADE.—This being holiday week,
there has been very little doing. The wool markets are
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growing flat, but the prices of yarns are unaltered. The
glove hands still remain on strike, and have been peram-
bulating the streets this week, seeking assistance from
the laftbitante,---Zfettingham &mi.

SHORT PARLIAMENTS.--A Bill has been brought
into the House of Commons, in accordance with the
recent vote of that Asermbly, for shortening the du-
ration of Parliaments. It is prepared by Mr. Tenny-
son D'Eyncourt and Lord Dudley C. Stuart, the Mem-
bers for Lambeth and Marylebone. Clause 1 repeals
the Act of Ist George 1., cap. 38 (second statute); and
clause 2 enacts that henceforth this present and all
future Parliaments shall and may respectively have
couticuance for - year;7, and no longer, to be ac-
counted from the day on which the then Parliament
was summoned to meet by writ, unless sooner dis-
solved by her Majesty, her heirs, and successors. The
blank spack will be filled up in Committee, se the House
May determine.