The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

LEVANT MAIL.

By the Levant Mail we have received Athens
journals to the 28th, and Constantinople journals to
the 24th ult., inclusively. The Journal d Athena
announces as follows the departure of Sir E.
Lyons :
" On Friday last Sir E. Lyons had the honour of be-
ing received by the King, to present his letters of recall.
The King was pleased to speak in the most flattering
terms of the services which he had rendered, during
his long career in Greece, to that country. Sir E.
Lyons was afterwards received by the Queen; her
Majesty expressed herself in the most gracious man-
tier to both him and Lady Lyons. The next day Sir
Edmund dined wilh the King, and the latter having
heard that there was neither an English nor French
steamer in the Pyrseus to carry him to the isthmus,
where he was to ombark on board one of the Austrian
Lloyd's vessels fur Trieste, ordered the Otho state
steamer to be placed at Sir E. Lyon's disposal. That
gentleman and his family left on Monday last, being
accompanied to the waterside by M. Persiany, Charg6
d'Affaires of Russia, and M. Thouvenel, the French
envoy. A crowd of carriages was also seen in attend-
ance, end never did any diplomatist, on quitting Greece,
receive greater marks of attention. It was remarked
that none of the representatives of the German courts
were present. Nothing is- yet known as to when Mr.
Wyse, his successor, is to arrive. Meanwhile, Mr.
Griffith, Secretary of Legation, remains acting as
Charge d'Affaires."
A letter from Tauris, of March 1, in the Journal
de Constantinople, says :—" The last courier from
Teheran announces that DJSFER•KOULI-KHAN,
the chief of the insurgents of Khorassan,
had just arrived in that town to make his
submission to King NASREDHIN SCHAH.
This event will put an end, it is hoped, to the war.
For some time a religious sect has been
spoken of which has taken up arms in the
Mszenderan to defend its doctrines, and the
head of which is now in prison. They are called
Babis, and profess ultra socialist doctrines.
Now that the Government appears delivered from the
annoyance of Khorassan, it will probably reduce
them." We read in the same journal A letter
from Bucharest of the 9th of this month informs us
that the greatest number of the political prisoners
hayseusbpeiecnion restored of havtion
their have been set at liberty, some on bail, and others
without condition. A great number of civil and
military employes, who had been dismissed from their
gtakpenlacpesaratftehrs
an investigation.
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CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Wrou'rmAN.)
MR. DROUETT'S CASE.
Upon the Learned Judge taking his seat on the bench
this morning,

Mr. BALLANTINE applied to the Court to fix Mr.
Dronett's trial for Friday morning, as Sir Frederick
Thesiger had been retained for that day, and it would
be convenient to that learned gentleman if his Lordship
would grant the present application.
Mr. L3LARKSON, for the prosecution, had no objection
to Friday being fixed for the trial.
Mr. Justice WIGHTHAN acceded to the request, and
appointed the trial for Friday.
The second edition of the calendar contains a list of
305 prisoners, being an addition of 51 to the first
calendar.

ATTEMPTED MtrunEL—A young man named Joseph
Cushway, described as a labourer, and aged 19, but
whose appearance scarcely indicated that he was more
than 14, was placed at the bar, and indicted for felo-
niously shooting at Emma Tyler, with intent to kill and
murder her.

Mr. RYLAND stated the case for the prosecution,
which from its recent occurrence must still be in the
recollection of the readers of The Sun. The prisoner
is the son of a silk weaver, residing in one of the nume-
rous courts running out of Bishopsgate-street; and pre-
vious to the committal of the offence, he had been keep-
ing company with the prosecutrix, who lived in the same
neighbourhood. From some cause or other, which could
not be explained, the prisoner took a sudden dislike to
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The shot which the pistol contained took slight effect on
the side of her head, but she was speedily conveyed to
a medical man, who extracted the lead and dressed the
wound, which very soon healed.
Emma Tyler, the prosecutrix, who appeared much
older than the prisoner, deposed that on the -night in
question, after she had been conversing with the priso-
ner for a long time, she went home. She had not been
in doors long, before a young girl, named Eliza Graves,
came and said the prisoner wanted to speak to her. She
accordingly returned to the bottom of the court where
they had been previously standing, and asked the pri-
soner what he wanted with her. He replied that she
should know presently, and took hold of her left hand.
They continued to converse in this way for about ten
minutes, when she felt something pierce the side of her
head, and she fell to the ground. She was taken up and
conveyed to a hospital, where the wound was dressed.
She saw the prisoner fire a pistol.
On cross-examination by Mr. WOOLLET she said she
was 16 years of age, but could neither read nor write.
The prosecutrix here exhibited symptoms of fainting,
and by the direction of the Judge she was allowed to
retire into the open air.
Eliza Graves confirmed the evidence of the prosecu-
trix. After she, the prisoner, and prosecutrix had been
talking good humouredly together she saw the prisoner
take a pistol from his pocket and fire it at the prosecu-
trix, who instantly fell into her arms, while the prisoner
took to his heels and ran away. As he ran away she
saw him return the pistol to his pocket.
On cross-examination she said she was 14 years of
age. She had said she thought the prisoner did this for
a lark, and she thought so still.
Evidence was then adduced as to the nature of the
wound. A medical gentleman from St. Bartholomew's
Hospital proved that it was caused by a bullet. The face
was scorched. The wound was probed, but no bullet
was found in it. The prosecutrix bad remained in the
Hospital ever since, and the wound would have been
dangerous had inflammation supervened. A piece of
lead or copper, like a bullet, was found in the prosecu-
trix's hair by a nurse on the morning following the com-
mittal of the offence.

One of the inspectors of the City Police proved that he
arrested the prisoner, who said the pistol was only
loaded with paper. On the road to the station-house he
said Emma Tyler asked him to buy a pistol to shoot
either himself or her. The pistol he had used, he added,
he had thrown away amongst some ruins, but although
search had been made over the ruins, it could not be
found.

One of the City police stated that the prisoner told
him that he saw the prosecutrix larking with John
Sumner on the night in question, and it had very much
annoyed him; so much so, indeed, that upon Emma
Tyler seeing it, shq proposed to him and Eliza Graves
that the three of them should go and throw themselves

over London Bridge, but they reused to do so.
Ile added that he took out the pistol more to frighten
than injure the prosecutrix, whom he loved dearly.
The prosecutrix was recalled and her cross•examina-
ticn confirm, d. She said the prisoner was in the habit
of carry log the pistol about with him, which she had
frequently had in her band, and on one occasion he had
snapped it before her. She did not believe that he in-
tended to murder her by firing off the pistol.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. WOOLLET then addressed the jury for the defence,
contending that the evidence fully established that the
prisoner had no intention of injuring the prosecutrix,
but rather that he fired off the pistol with the view of
frightening her, not knowing that it was loaded with
ball, and the night being dark, he had unfortunately
placed the weapon too near her person. The action of
the prisoner could not, therefore, be said to be dictated
by malice, and as there could be no motive assigned for
this offence, it was reasonable to suppose that the in-
jury was an accident and not the result of premedi-
tation.

Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN having summed up, the jury
returned a verdict of guilty on the count in the indict-
ment charging the prisoner with shoot' ng at the prose-
cutrix with the intention of doing some grievous bodily
harm, but not guilty on the count charging him with
attempting to murder her.—Sentence deferred.

VENTILATION OF TLIE COURT.

At the close of the last trial,

Mr. CLARKSON rose, and said—My Lord, I hope 'your
Lordship will interfere to prQvent us from being killed
by the artificial means used for ventilating the court.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—Oh, certainly. I find these
artificial means arc never successful.

Mr. CLARKSON—I only wish, my Lord, that any
scientific gentleman would sit here for half an hour, and
he would soon be of your Lordship's opinion.
Mr. Justice WI.HTMAN—I only wish the old means
of ventilating were again resorted to, namely, that of
opening and shutting the windows. It is decidedly the
best and safest plan.
Mr. CLARKSON—Anything would be better than the
present system of blowing hot sad cold.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—The worst part of these
scientific means is, that they make the head hot and the
feet cold.
The subject then dropped.