The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-09 00:00:00

-MAR I;LEBONE.

Mr. Frederick 1V e-w—enham—, an artist, residing at No. 11,
Douro-cottages, St. John's-wood, was charged on a war-
rant with having committed an assault of a most violent
and unprovoked nature upon Charles Wilson, a con-
ductor of one of the Atlas omnibuses (Fisher's) running
to and from St. John's-wood and Camberwell-gate.
Complainant, whose face was much swollen a few days
ago when he made application to the magistrate, deposed
that at twelve o'clock on the night of Wednesday, the
31st ult., defendant got into his 'buss in the Quadrant,
and took his seat by the door; on arriving at Boston-
street, defendant called out "Have you change for a
sovereign?" he (complainant) replied that he had not,
adding that there was a light in a house (pointing to
the Windsor Castle) and that he would get change
for him there. He said, " I'll see you d—d first; I owe
you one or two." Complainant then told him that he
would procure change at the Nightingale; the vehicle
proceeded and defendent suddenly struck a blow wish
his stick, no doubt intended for complainant, which
missed him, but took effect upon the omnibus window
frame. He next struck complainant three times in the
face with all his force, in consequence thereof he nearly
fell from the step. He at length gave defendant into
custody, and he was conveyed to the station house, when
the inspector on duty recommended that a warrant
should be applied for, which was done.
The defendant's answer to the charge was, that he
was driven alo'ng the road a greater distance than he
wished to go, and feeling that he was confined in the
omnibus against his will he certainly 'did use force to-
wards complainant in order to remove him from the
step, as he prevented him ,(defendant) from making his
egress.

—Other evidence was gone into and the defendant was
fined in the full penalty of 51. The money was instantly
paid.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Thomas Hinchcliffe, a thick-set powerful young fel-
low, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged
with being a begging impostor.
Newell, a constable of the N division, said, he was on
duty at 10 o'clock that morning in Windsor-terrace,
City-road, when be saw the prisoner knock at a great
number of doors in succession, and clamorously solicit
charity, upon the ground of his being in great distress,
and that he had sustained some very serious injury in
his arm, which was suspended in a sling, and appeared
to be crippled. Witness was dressed in plain clothes, for
the more ready detection of offenders, and the prisoner,
after leaving the last door he had applied at, at once
made up to him, and in a canting whine commenced a
harrowing detail of his real or assumed misfortunes, which
would have no doubt been successfnl in the extraction of
money from any casual
passenger, but which instantly
stopped upon the witness seizing him by the collar,
and, pointing out his mistake, telling,. him he should take
him to the station. Ile then asked him what he had
been doing at the houses he had knocked at, and the
prisoner, without the slightest prevarication, answered,
" Begging." "And what is the matter with your arm?"
said the witness. "Oh, nothing at all," said the pri-
soner. " Then what do you put it into a sling for?"
" Why, you see," said he, "when I went about with my
arm not suspended and wrapped up in this way, I found
that I could get nothing out of anybody, as the people I
asked for assistance immediately exclaimed, "Oh 1 you
are a strong young man, and ought to get a living by
work,' and then went off without dropping
I put my arm into a sling, as it is now, because found
that those who did so got more money." a penny; so
.1
Mr. HicamiLL committed him as a rogue and vaga-
bond, and sentenced him to a month's imprisonment,
with hard labour, in the Ilouse of Correction.
The Magistrate requests us to acknowledge his re-
ceipt of a letter from 11. W., enclosing a contribution of
W. for the purposes of the poor •box, which the benevo-
lent donor expressed a wish to see a notice of in this
paper.

BOLTON ELECTION.
RETURN OF SIR J. WALMSLEY.
Yesterday, the election commenced with great spirit,
and Mr, Bridson's friends were very sanguine of suc-
cess; but the first return of the poll published showed
that Sir Joshua Walmsley had the start. At half-past
nine o'clock he was upwards of thirty a-head of his op-
ponent, and gradually improved his majority until, near
the middle of the day, his advantage was upwards of
one hundred. The Conservatives made a vigorous push
in the afternoon, and reduced the majority by three
o'clock. But there was little hope of winning at this
late hour, and the fact that from two to three o'clock
little more than fifty voters polled for both sides, showed
that the contest was as good as terminated. At four
o'clock the return was:—

CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Walmsley (Liberal)

Bridson (Tory)
Majority for Sir J. Walmsley —56
The borough was in a state of great excitement to-
wards the close of the poll ; and though the Liberal
candidate abstained from feeing publicans to keep open
house, and oven carried the purity principle so far as
not even to have a band of music, and to wish his friends
not to exhibit colours or favours, there was no lack of
drunkenness in the streets.

FIER AT SAw'rgT, HUNTS.—Upwards of 170 per-
sons have been rendered homeless by the destructive
fire which occurred last week. Out of the twenty-seven
houses destroyed only half wore insured,. and the loss to
many of the villagers is completely rupous. A com-
mittee met on Tuesday, when a subscription was com-
menced on behalf of the sufferers. Amongst the sub-
scribers are J. M. Heathcote, Esq., 251.; Rev. G. Heath-
cote, 201.; and Mr. Ballard, a gentleman connected with
the Great Northern Railway, 10/. The ladies of the
parish and neighbourhood, under the superintendence of
Mrs. Birch, the lady of the rector, have distributed
clothing to those in need.

SAL—more tacksmen of the Stirling
fishings, and those of Blairdrummond and Craigfortit
began their season at twelve o'clock on Wednesday
night, and had their boats on the water until six o'clock
on Thursday evening, but we are sorry to say without
any success—not a single fish having been killed.
This may be attributed to the late heavy floods, and we
hope may not prove to be a criterion of the auccess
which may yet attend our fishings for the year.—Stirliny
Journal.
TIIE ISLAND OF NEVIS.—The Lords Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury have been phased by their
letter to the Commissioners of the Customs Department,
through Mr. Parker, one of their Lordship's secretaries,
dated the 29th ult., to approve of the arrangements ne-
cessary to be made in consequence of the repeal of the
imperial duties heretofore levied in the island of Nevis,
and the requisite instructions having been issued by the
Commissioners for carrying theiriLordships' orders into
effect, the same have been communicated to the collectors
and comptrollers of the customs department, and other
principal officers at the_ several ports and places through-
out the United Kingdom and ,the, colonies, for their in-
foralitiOn and government.