The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-21 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

James Billingsley, a waterman, was charged with
assaulting the groom of Lord Francis Gordon.

The coachman stated that he and the groom hired
the defendant's boat to put a small parcel on board the
Scotch steamer at Irongate-stairs, near the Tower, and
on their return he demanded four shillings, which they
refused to give, but gave him eighteen-pence; upon
which the defendant seized one of the carriage-lamps,
and on the groom attempting to take it from him, he
knocked the groom down, and assaulted the witness.
This evidence being confirmed, the prisoner denied
asking for four shillings.
The MAGISTRATE condemned the conduct of the de.
fendant, and fined him 31., which he was unable to pay,
and was committed to prison for one month.
George Ash, a conductor of Bonner's Mile-end omni-
bus, was charged by Miss Robinson with the following
outrage :

The lady got into the omnibus at Whitechapel, and
finding something the matter with the wheels, she
was about to get out, and had got on the step, when
the defendant ordered the coachman to drive on ; and
when she caught hold of the defendant to save herself
from falling, he shook her off and struck her on the
head, by which she was thrown with great violence into
the mud, and her clothes were spoiled.
The defendant at first denied the lady's statement ;
but on two witnesses partially confirming it, he said she
had fallen accidentally.
The MAGISTRATE said he had felt much inclined to
commit the defendant to prison at once ; but he should
fine him 20s. for the assault, and a like sum for the
damage done to the complainant's clothes.
The money was paid.

HA TTON- GARDEN.
FATAL FIGHT.—On Saturday, IVildam Pressdee was
charged with killing end slaying Thomas Banks. The
prisoner was brought to the office by Inspector Miller,
of the N division, who stated, that on Friday a battle
took place between the prisoner and deceased, near
Hornsey-wood House, and from what he could learn it
was as fair as prize battles are generally conducted.
Banks was thrown several times, and eventually was
carried from the ground in an insensible stite, and in'
two hours afterwards he died. The quarrel commenced
in a public-house, and money was then and there put
down to decide which .was the " best man." The de-
ceased was a cab-driver, and the prisoner is a barber,
living in Cromer-street, St. Pancras.

The prisoner declined saying anything to the charge,
and was remanded.

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Our attention has beets drawn to a paragraph in
The Sun of Monday last, in which the Spectator is, not
uncivilly, charged with adopting a suggestion from The
Sun, respecting the necessity of improving the condition
of engine-drivers, and enforcing it as our own. NJtv we
bad not, and bare not vet, seen The Sun's article on the
subject; but we are glad to find that the same doctrine a.;
our own has the benefit of a still more zealous and efficient ,
advocacy.—Spectator.
The Dublin Correspondent of a Contemporary
denies the accuracy of the Dublin Monitor's report of the
Irish Law changes, which we copy from that paper :
" The newspapers here (he writes) have put forward a
list of legal appointments consequent upon the presumed
retirement of Lord Plunket from the Chancellorship. It
is asserted that Mr. Solicitor-General Moore is to be the
new Lord Chancellor, to he succeeded by Dr. Stock, who
is to vacate the borough of Cashel, and that either Mr.
Monaghan, Q C., or Mr. Hatt:hell, Q C., is to be the
new Sergeant. Having made inquiry on the subject, I
am enabled to state, in the nicnt positive terms, that there
is no foundation whatever for any of those statements. No
such change:, are contemplated by the Government, and
the entire affair is the result of groundless rumour."
CITY POLICE CONINIITTEE.-There were
nearly one hundred persons summoned before the Police
Committee, on Saturday. an drivors of cabs, omnibuses,
and other vehicles, for offences against the City Police
Act, viz., obstruction, loitering, &c. Mr. Aiderroaa
Harmer presided in one court, and Mr. Alderman Cope-
land in the other. The police of the city were the inform-
-1.1"8, and upon their evidence the major part of the Jehus
were fined in sums which varied from 21 to 51. and cots.
Same of the knights of the whip grumbled, but they were
teld by Alderman Copeland that in strict law every omni-
bus ought to drive into an inn yard, and that it was only
by sufferance they were allowed to stand in the streets and
ply for hire. Tie city aulhorities had laid down certain
ruien with the siew mf accommodating all parties, and those
who were convicted of setting these rules at defiance rest
tr.ke the consequences. Two memorials had been sent in
from Bishopsgate-strect, sane d by a number of respect-
able tradesmen, who complained of the omnibus nuisance.
A DONKEY'S LIFE.-Crossing the highroad
to Dover, by which the Heath is intersected, a nu-
merous assemblage of ponies and donkeys, including
the " maimed, the lame, the halt, and the blind."
are descried ready caparisoned, to scud across the plain,
with the equestrian amateur. The dependent heads and
projecting ribs of these poor creatures plainly indicate the
poverty of their fare, and the hard labour to which they
are subjected. The Jerusalem pony, no longer a sacred
animal," knows no cessation from toil : his work is always
beginning, never ending. lie is stimulated in his almost.
perpetual motion by a ruffian with a bludgeon, whieb is
applied most unmercifully, whenever the untortunate
beast, taint and weary, relaxes for a single instant in his
course.—A Summer's Day at Greenwich.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN CHE-
SHIRE. At the very time that exertions were made to de-
tect the perpetrator of the murder near Beeston, another
murder was attempted not far from the same vicinity. On
Tuesday night last, an under agent to Messrs. Jackson
and Beane, railway contractors, who have a contract on the
Chester and Crewe Railway, was returning from Wardle,
through Crimes Lane, near Beeston, to his residence, when
a shot was fired at him from behind the hedge, and a ball
passed through his hat, and knocked it off, so as to cause it
to fall several yards from him. He stooped to pick it up,
and another shot was fired; he heard something whiz
past him, but luckily the charge did not take effect.
lie at once hurried home, and, as might be expected,
in a state of great agitation. Next morning information
was given to Mr. Hill, superintendent of the Chester
police, who has since been indefatigable in endeavour-
ing to detect the perpetrators of these sanguinary
crimes. It appears probable that the villains had been for
some time waiting for their victim, as from the place
where the shots were fired there were footmarks, which
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—Manchester Guardian.
" The Dukery" is about to lose one of its most
splendid ornaments, by the dismantling of the mansion of
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for 380,0001. to his adjoining neighbour, the Duke of Now -
castle being desirous of adding largely to his fine property in
Sussex. The noble owner of Clumber, by the union of the
two, now possesses one of the finest estates in the kingdom ;
it extends about twenty miles in length, and will give him
entire command of the county ; as, however, the residence
at Clamber, only four miles distant, has been the family
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as many solid mahogany doors in the man4i9a.

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