The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON

the days appointed for holding the sessions for th,..? pro
sent and ensuing year :
Monday, November.
„ 17th Ikcetub
~ 7th January, 1850.
If 4th February.
4th March.
„ Bth April.
6th May.
10th June.
79 Bth July.
19th August,
„ 16th S-wernbcr, and
„ 21st October.
The Court then a6jout Led to M,...nda,y the 26th inst.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS _DAY.)
A NEW FARCE AT THE ADELPHI.—T vvo y ming
bargemen, named Pocock and Ramsey, were charged with
having assaulted Mr. William 'lading, a tailor, residing
in Fore-street, Finsbury.
The complaimnt stated that last night he was in the
gallery of the Adelphi Theatre, sitting on the second
row of seats. There were four persons in front of him,
who went out in the course of the first piece, and brought
in two more, but as the latter could not secure seats,
they were obliged to stand up, which oceasiontd some
little annoyance, and ultimately led to the police being
called in to restore order, and find seats for the two per-
sons who were causing the disturbance. The two pri
sorters, who a ere of the party, feeling displeased with
the complainant for having called for the police, amused
themselves during the evening with passing sarcastic re-
marks upon his person and dress, directing attention to
the fact that he wore a" white choker," and towards the
close of the performances they seated themselves behir.d
him. The complainant, suspecting that they wanted to
get up a row, said to a friend, " These men mean some-
thing, let us get out before the piece is over;" and
ho accordingly left the theatre, followed by his
friend. Scarcely, however, had he reached the bottom
of the stairs in the Strand before Ramsey came up and
struck him in the face. Not knowing what to do at the
moment, he struck him again, and then ran away into a
public-house. Pocock followed him; and while at the
bar, which was in charge of only one female, Pocock
repeated the assault, and succeeded in extracting his
watch from his waistcoat pocket, when a policeman
entered, and put a stop to the fray.
Pocock—Do you think I wanted to steal your watch?
Complainant—l don't know. You had got it in your
hand.
Pocock—Well, I deny that. It might have dropped
out of your pocket in the scuffle.
Mr. James Lea, carpenter, of Great Russell-street,
Grosvernor- place, confirmed the statement of the com-
plainant. _ _ _

Pocock did not deny that some confusion was occa-

sioned by his friend Ramsey being introduced into a
front seat during the performances, nor did he dispute
having followed the complainant into the public house,
but the complainant brought all the annoyance upon
himself by being insolent in the theatre, and afterwards
knocking Ramsey down against a cab-wheel, and cutting
his bead open.
Ramsey said the moment he entered the theatre lie
stood up to look for a seat, when the complainant roared
out, " Sit down, you fat-looking hound, do ;" and until
some gentleman was good enough to make room for him,
the complainant kept up a constant cry of " Sit down,
broadshoulders ; now, then, spooney ; turn him out."
When, therefore, he got outside, he asked the com-
plainant what he meant by insulting him in that manner;
whereupon the complainant up with his fist and knocked
him down, and his head coming in contact with a cab-
wheel it was cut open, and seriously wounded.
Two witnesses spoke to the irritating nature of the
complainant's observations.
Mr. JARDINE, however, was of opinion that the pri-
soners were the aggressors in the first instance, and he
fined them 10s. each, or ten days' imprisonment.
The fine was paid.

THE WRECK OF THE ST. JOHN.
The American mail has brought further particulars
of this disastrous wreck. It will be recollected
that the St. John struck on Grampus Rock, on
the American coast, on the morning of Sunday,
the 7th ult. A letter, dated Cohasset, Monday,
seven o'clock, r M., says :
" When Captain Oliver left the brig he passed
within hailing distance of a life. boat, in charge of
Captain Prouty, which had put out to the assistance
of another vessel at anchor in the cove ; but he did
not give information of the peril in which he left his
vessel, and the life-boat proceeded on her way, the
bold hearts who manned her not knowing that so
many human beings in their immediate vicinity
were about to be swallowed in the raging waters.
It is, we understand, the unanimous opinion of the
men in the lifeboat that, had not Captain Oliver
been criminally negligent, or actuated by selfishness
or fear, a large proportion of the ill-fated passengers
would have been saved.
" The beach is strewed with fragments of the
wreck, and the sight of dead bodies, as one by one
they are dashed upon the shore by the foam-capped
waves, forms a heartrending and most fearful picture.
We have no time to enlarge upon this most melan-
choly subject, but rust leave it to the imagination of
our realer:. A large portion of the bogies washed
ashore were females, and among them several beau-
tiful children, who in death retained the sweet,
innocent, and confiding expression which knocks so
forcibly at the heart.
"Patrick Swany, whose body was recovered, lost
eleven children, washed from the wreck by the same
wave which carried him into the surge. Being a
good swimmer, he attempted to save his youngest
child, whom he held in his arm as the timbers parted,
and struck out for the boat in which Captain Oliver
and the crew were making for the shore; but no ear
was open to his cries for succour, and the strong
wan and his helpless child went to join those who had
gone but a few minutes before,
" One remarkable incident, however, I will men-
tion. A fine looking, bright boy, whom I have just
been conversing with, not more than fourteen years
old, sprang from the wreck into the boiling sea,
struck out boldly and manfully in pursuit of the boat
containing the captain and crew, and after swimming
for some time in the wake of the boat was picked up
and saved ! His two sisters met a watery grave. Mr.
Sarsfield O'Gorman has proceeded to Boston, for the
purpose of inviting Bishop Fitzpatrick to assist at
the obsequies of the dead. The last rites will be
performed to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon, at two
o'clock, the Rev. Messrs. Osgood and Reed, of this
town, also being present, and taking part in the
solemn exercises.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.—The Boston Mail,
.of
the 11th ult., contains the following particulars of
the loss of the brig St. John, at Minot's Lodge, on
the 9th :
" The following list, comprising the crew and pas-
sengers on board the St. John when she was lost, has
been prepared with care, and is principally obtained
from Captain Oliver and others of the survivors. As
there are some conflicting statements in regard to the
number of passengers on board, J. B. Monroe, Esq.,
our commissioner of alien passengers, has taken steps
to obtain from Ireland a duplicate list of thepassengers
shipped in the St. John, if any is in existence, and
otherwise to obtain all information possible upon the
subject. The following names make the whole
number on board (including the crew), one hundred
and twenty :
" Crew Saved—Captain Oliver; sailors—Benjamin
O'Brien, Thomas Walker, Michael Kennelly, James
Flaherty, Ist Mate Henry Cummiford, John Larkin,
Andrew Forest, Isaac Cummerford.
" Crew Lost—Antonio McDonough, William An-
gers, William Thompson, Edward Kennelly, Michael
Conners (apprentices).
" Passengers Saved—Austin Ream, Catherine
Flannigan, Betsy Higgins, Mary Kane, Michael
Fitzpatrick, Michael Gibben, Barbary Kennelly, Mary
Slattery, Michael Rootching, Honora Coulin (she
lost three children, and is now lying very sick, and
suffering from her injuries, at the house of Mr. Lo-
thorp, in Cohasset), Mary or Honora Burke (she also
lost three children, and is at Mr. Lothorp's sick ; her
husband is in Ireland).
" Cabin Passengers Lost—Mary Flannigan, Nancy
Flannigan, Margaret Flannigan, Bridget Quin, Eliza
O'Brien.
" Steerage Passengers Lost—Ann Slattery, Bridget
Slattery, Bridget Kennelly or Counlin and three
children, Patrick Sweeney, Mary Sweeney, Patrick
Sweeney, jun., Miles Sweeney, Joseph Sweeney,
Sally Sweeney, Thomas Sweeney, Cath. Sweeney,
John Sweeney, Bridget Sweeney, Mary Sweeney,
Peter Greally, James Greally, Patrick Cormorn
Miles Sweeney 2d, Michael Hannigan, Patrick Lahiff,
Thomas Riley, Bridget Maddigan, Hugh Glyn, John
Belton, Patrick McMahon, Bridget McMahon, Cath.
McMahon, John Dolan, Mary Dolan, his wife, Thos.
Fahey, Nappy Fahey, Bridget Fahey, Martha Fahey,
Thomas Donnelly, Mary Freeman and child, Mrs.
Michael Eagan, Mrs. Honora Eagan, Miss Bridget
Eagan, Jeremiah Murphy, James Morgan, Margaret
Keenan, Mrs. Brooks, Honora Mullen, Catherine
Heniff, Heniff, sister to Catherine, Mary Cahill,
Patrick Noonan, Martin Sexton, Daniel Byrnes,
Michael Griffin, Catherine Byrnes, Peggy Malley,
Mary Nolan, Ellen Hasset, Patrick McGrath, Jemmies
McGrath, Minny Galvin, Mary Galvin, Margaret
Kane, Mary McNamara, Mary Landsky, Mary
Frowley and chid, Bridget Doherty, Peggy Mullen
and sister's child, John Butler, Thomas Burk (mother
saved) Eliza Burk ditto, Patrick Burk ditto,
MeDerratt, Miss McDeratt, Mary Joyce and child,
Catherine Fitzpatrick, Bridget Mulligan, Bridget
Burk, Peggy Purky, Martha Purky, Thomas Lahiff
or Kwen, John Lahiff or Kwen, Mary Curtain, three
Mulkennan children.
"Summary—Whole number of passengers, 106;
crew, 14; total, 120 Saved of the passengers, 11;
crew, 9 ; total, 20 ; making the total number of souls
lost by the wreck 100."

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—Drem, in Haddingtonshire,
N. 8., having been constituted a post town, the Post-
office there will be opened for the issue and payment of
money orders on and after the 6th November next.
The grander art, whether of poet or painter, ever
seeking for the true, abhors the real; you must seize
nature as her master, not lackey her as her slave.—
Eliza Cook's Jfaurnal.

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

[From the subjoined communication—addressed to
us by a party eminently qualified to form an opinion
upon the subject—it will b seen that reflection only
tends to increase the conviction th At the intelligence
brought to this country by the Truelove is less the
detail of facts than the effu6ion of fancy. And as huma-
nity, at the very least, requires that no effort should be
overlooked which could possibly tend to diminish the
perils of the isolated expedition, the project of Gale's
balloon ought, to our thinking, to be attempted as a
means of communicating assistance. Every day the
matter is becoming more and more serious, and it
behove's the Admiralty to direct every available energy
towards the succour of the heroic but otherwise
doomed navigators.—En. Sun.]