The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARY LEBONE.
William Jones Campbell, a well-dressed man, was
brought before Mr. Broughton, the sitting magistrate,
on a charge of robbery; and it will he seen, from what
transpired in the course of the inquiry, that there is a
probability that more cases than the present one will be
brought against him.
It appeared that on the 9th ult. the prisoner, who
represented himself- to be a gentleman of independent
property, entered upon the octilip-sncy of apartments at
the house of Mr. Harris, 12, Union-place, New-road,
and hnd with him his wife, mother, and child. On Sun-
day, the 30th ult., Mrs. Harris and her family. went to
church, and on their return it was ascertained that three
sovereigns had been abstracted from a desk. The pri-
soner, who was admitted as a lodger without inquiries
being previously made with regard to the reference he
had given, absconded one day from the dwelling ; and
his site, mother, aed child also took the opportunity or
qui, ting. No notice whatever of their intention to do so
having been given, it was naturally enough imagined
that the thee sovereigns were stolen by the prisoner,
who was ultimately taken into custody by a constable of
the D division of police.
Tee prisoner, on being asked what he had to say,
asserted via innocence ; but es it was stated that there
was good reason to believe that he bad "
other lodginghouse-keepers to some extent, he was re-
manded for a week
Charles Whitby Parker, a hanger-on at county and
other courts, and who passes himself off as a member of
the legal profession, was charged with having traudu•
lently obtained sums of money from Mr. Crothers,
Carlisle-street, Portman-market, under pretence of set-
tline an action at the suit of a Mr. Joseph.
Mr. Beard, from the office of Mr. Bucbanan, solicitor,
Basingh-all•street, attended for the prosecution, and the
witnesses, whom he examined at soma length, fully
proved the case.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
WEST.ii INS TE
Stephen Gibbons, a labouring man, and Ann, his wife,
a desperately violent woman, were charged with the
following unprovoked and murderous assault upon Mary
Ann Callaghan, who, owing to the serious nature of her
injuries, was unable to attend before the magistrate.
I Upon the accused being placed in the dock, Mr. BRO
DERIP recognized the male prisoner, who were a linen
bandage round his head, as a man who had applied to
I him on the previous day, while in a st le of drunken-
, ness, for a warrant against some person, which, of coarse,
under the circumstances, was then refused.
It appeared from the testimony of two or three wit-
nesses that the unfortunate sufferer -in the present case
went, accompanied by Mrs. Caston, a filen-. to look at
some apartments to let in Bell•yartl, York-street,
Westminster, about half-past one yesterday ( Tuesday)
efternoun. She had no sooner est:oiliest the first
flight of stairs than site was attacked in the most
ferocious manlier by the female prisoner, who hurled
a jug at her with so much v;ela nee, that on striking
the unfortunate woman near the temple it broke
in pieces; after which she run isle) her room, brought
out a poker of the ordinary isiz and struck ;he untcr-
tunate object of her fury one or two blows with it on
the head ; the male prisoner then endeavour. d to lift
their prostrate victim from the floor—where she
.was
lying bleeding profusely from her wounds, in order
to throw her, as one of the witnesses believed, over the
banisters ; but, finding her too heavy to raise, he
struck her a violent blow with his clinched fist. The
police were immediately called, and the prisoners given
into custody.
In reply to a question from the clerk, Mrs. Caston,
who accompanied the injured woman to look at the apart-
ments, declared no words of any description had taken
lilac-, between them when the attack was commenced as
described.
The male prisoner declared that he never raised his
hand against any one, and his wife entered into a long
incoherent story, from which it seemed there was some
dispute with respect to the tenements in Bell-yard.
She alleged that the injured woman suddenly bounced
into her room and struck her, and teen she flung the
jug at her.
Mr. Buoriwnen having made some inquiries with re-
spect to the condition of the ill-used woman,
Mr.' Cummings au inspector of the B division, said,
that he considered her to be in great danger. She had,
atter her wounds were dressed, tainted three times io
the police-yard, and appeared in a very precarious state.
Mr. BRODERIP remanded the prisoners until Tuesday
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good sureties were produced, as also for the woman, as
soon as the injured woman was out of danger.
The prisoners were both locked up.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Two powerful Irishmen, named Thomas Mansfield and
Nicholas Quick, were brought up before Mr. Arnold,
charged with being concerned with.others not in custody
in the following brutal attack upon two labouring men
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havingred rcalled at a public-house in the City-road to pro-
sure some refreshment, they were standing at the door
in conversation, when they heard a loud laughing and
uproar behind them, and on turning round saw a body of
Irishmen advancing towards thetn, in company with two
women, one of the latter of Whom, upon coming up to
'Batson, pushed intentionally against him Batson took
the annoyance in good part, and, wishing the woman
" good night," was about to re-enter the house, when
Quick rushed at him, accused him of insulting the
woman, and felled- him by a blow in the face. On
endeavouring to regain his feet be was instantly struck
to the ground again, and then the whole of the party,
seven in number, closed upon him, forced him into the
gutter, and, whilst some of them held him down, the
others beat him with their fists and kicked him furiously
about the body and face. On witnessing this brutality
the second complainant (Burton) ran to Betson's assist-
,,nee, and tried to rescue him from the hands of his as-
ssilants, but he was also hurled to the ground in the
same manner, and beaten and kicked with such fero-
city that one of his eyes was terribly bruised and swollen,
the flesh of his nose laid open, and some parts of his
face seemed almost reduced to a jelly. Their cries of
" Murder " at length attracted the attention of the
pulice, and the prisoners, after a determined resistance
from Mansfield, were both secured and lodged in the
station.
The prisoners generally denied the greater part of
what Ras alleged against them, and d chased that the in-
juries the complainants had sustained had resulted from
an iesult offered to the woman referred to, which they
felt justified in resenting, and called a man and woman
named Scott to prove that such was the fact; but the evi-
dence of the first failed to support this assertion, and the
man himself candidly acknowledged that he was so
drunk at the time us to be totally unconscious of all that
had taken place. Two constables, named Murray and
Welch, were then called, the former of whom deposed to
seeing Mansfield fell Burton to the ground, and savagely
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tempting to secure Quick. the prisoner Mansfield, whom
he had hnd the greatest difficulty in dragging away from
the complainants, resumed the attack upon Burton and
beat him severely.
Mr. AREOLD commented upon the grossness of such
an outrageous and wanton attack, and sentenced Quick,
whose conduct was the least culpable, and who appeared
to have acted upon a bevy and mistaken notion of
avenging an insult which had been offered to his female
companion, to pay a penalty of 205., or in default to un
dergo a fortnight's imprisonment in the House of Cor-
recta n; and Mansfield, whose violence was wholly with-
out justification, to pay the lull penalty of 5/. or in
default to stand committed for two months to the House
of Correction.
The prisoners were both unable to pay the fines, and
were therefore removed in the van.

SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH. FUND FOR CHURCHES
AND SCHOOLS.—The Eerl, of- Harrowby, the Earl of
Effingham, Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Ashley,
M.P., Sir F. Lawley,,Bart4-• the Bishop of Winchester,
the Bishop of Oxford, the-Archdeacon of Surrey, Alder-
man Huwphery, M.P., and ether noblemen and gentle-
men, have determined upon making a renewed appeal on
behalf of the fund which-Aran opened in the month of
June, 1845, for the purpose, of endeavouring to supply
the spiritual and educational:deficiencies of a most ex-
tensive and important district. Since the committee
commenced their labours five- new ecclesiastical districts
have been legally constituted and two others conven-
tionally assigned. Four new churches have been
erected, and schools have been built in connexion with
the churches of St. Mary, Southwark; St. M.chael,
Stockwell; Camden Church, Camberwell; Sr. George
the Martyr, Southwark; St. Paul's, Bermonds,y ; and
Sr. Peter's, Southwark. The next object to which the
committee propose to direct their attention is the
erection of a large church and schools in the Westmin-
ster-road, on a site which has been obtained in the im-
mediate vicinity of the New Roman Catholic cathedral.
The church will be dedicated to St. Thomas, and the
officiating minister will be the Rev. J. W. Weeks, M.A.,
formerly Principal of the Church Missionary College, in
Sierra Leone. A new church, dedicated to All Saints,
will also be erected in Lambeth. With respect to two
other churches on the list, namely, one in the parish of
Christ Church, Blackfriars, and St. Mark's, Horslydown,
the committee have for some time past b en negotiating
with the trustees of the late Mr. Marshall', estate, who
are patrons of the livinte, to take up a grant, and build
the church on terms which have been proposed to them;
and in the other instance ground has not been found
available for the erection of a church within the district.
The committee state that to provide church accommoda-
tion for one-third of the population of these parishes, a
deficiency of nearly 68,000 sittings will still remain, and
to provide the school-room considered necessary under
the Parliamentary estimate, accommodation for upwards •
of 25.000 children will be required, even when the com-
mittee shall have done all that they can now promise
themselves to accomplish. Upwards of 30,0001. have •
already been granted for the purposes for which the
fund was established.
SALMON.—The improvement in the salmon fishing
in the northern rivers still continues. Last week, at
Sandstell fishery, near the river mouth at Ben% iek, no
fewer than 650 fish were captured during one tide, and
two hauls in succession brought to laud 60 fish each
time.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—Mr. E. Brown, late of
this town, who, it will be remembered, has made some
important discoveries in chemistry, has, since his paper
on ."fhe Prevention of Poisoning by Chloroform
and Sulphuric Eqier," yaw; read betore the Royal Si-.
ckly, dit,m,,vered the liquifaction of hvdrogcn 795, 9 0(
bdet-4 LILL .11.1 .1, i
was eff.cted by Faraday, iu 1823. Mr. Brown intends
contributing a paper on the subject to the Royal Society.
—Preston Chronick.