The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

Mr. Henry Delaney, civil engineer, of Cumming-
street, Pentonville, appeared before Mr. Cornbe,
pursuant to his recognizance, charged by Mrs. Jane
Rose, of No., 6, Mount Pleasant, with having violently
assaulted her.

Mr. Humphries attended for the defendant.
The particulars of the case have already been fully
detailed in the, newspapers.
Mr. COMBE said he would send the case before a
jury if Mr. Rose pressed for such a course.
Mr. Rose suggested that he only wished the sur-
geon's bill should be paid.
Mr. Humphries said that the story of prosecuttix
was improbable. A person of his client's respectability
was incapable of the conduct attributed to him, and
feeling his innocence of the charge, nei+her himself
nor his friends would yield to any compromi3e of the
case.

Mr. Delaney was then ordered to find one respect-
able housekeeper as his bail to appear at the sessions
to answer the charge, which he did, and he was
liberated, when he left the court with a host of friends.

MARYLEDONE VESTRY.—At the meeting of the
Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, the report of the com-
mittee appointed to answer the allep•ations which had
been preferred against the Vestry by the Almshouses
Board of Management, was brought under consideration.
It is necessary to state, in order that the question may
be understood, that in the year 1833, there having boy]]
a dispute between the Vestry and the Imperial Gas
Company as to the performance of the contract by the
latter, a fine of 500/. was inflicted by the Vestry on the
company. A cheque for that amount was paid by the
company, and a few months back it was discovered that
the cheque, which had been placed by the Vestry of 1833
to the paving and lighting account, was made out in
favour of the Marylebono Almshouses. Hence the
charge of misappropriation made by the Almshouses
Board of Management, and tLo demand that the
Vestry should hand over to them the sum of 500/.
Mr. Churchwarden Mallalue presided. The report
which was read at the previous meeting, and ordered
to be printed, was then brought up. It was an exceed-
ingly volumnious document, extending over 16 closely
printed pages of foolscap. It completely exonerated the
Vestry from all blame, and after giving the facts of the
case at:great length, it concluded as follows :—" These
facts are convincing proofs that the appropriation made
was right, and any other would have been illegal. The
Vestry Committee strongly condemn the report of the
Almshouses Board of the 20th of October, 1849, con-
taining, as it did, a tissue of unwarrantable charges
against the Vestry and its officers. This would not have
occurred if that Board bad at the outset requested a
joint committee, or examined the minutes and evidence
laid before the Vestry in this report. Tbo committee
conclude by recommending the almshouse charity to the
continued support of its present subscribers, and hops
that this groundless claim way not injure their charity,
and the committee desire that the present directors may
be animated by the same good motives which actuated
these who, in 1832, laid the foundation of the society."
Mr. Bridgman, as the chairman of the committee, iu
the absence of Me. Garnett, the original chairman, from
ill-health, moved the adoption of the report, which after
some discussion was agrm d to by a majority of 59 to 1.

THE WE:amine-41e weather during the week
has been again varied: rains, snow, sleet, frost, and
storms of wind have prevailed. Yr sterday the skies as-
sumed a brighter and more agreeable aspect; but the air
was slightly colder than on Saturday. At Douglas, on
Friday, a tremendous sea prevailed at the mouth of the
bay, and occasionally the steamer King Orry, whilst
entering the harbour in the trough of the sea, could not
be seen from the pier-head. A similar storm has pre-
vailed on the east coast of SJotland, and an Aberdeen
steamer was twice driven back to port by its violence.—
Liverpool Albion.
BRUTAL ATTACK.—CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC
Oa the night of Tuesday last, or early on Wednesday
morning, as a gentleman was passing down Gloucester-
:spare, nearly opposite Hyde Park, he was suddenly
attacked by a ruffianly-looking man, wearing a fur cap
and a great coat, who pinioned his arms, thrust his hand
against his mouth, and then rifled his pockets. The
gentleman immediately raised an alarm, but there not
being a policeman near the spot the scoundrel got off.
A SOMNAMBULIST.—About five o'clock on Saturday
morning last one of the workmen in the employ of Mr.
Evans, carver, of Little Paradise, Bedminster, and who
resides in the house, whilst in a state of somnambulism,
rose from his bed, and after throwing about the furni-
ture in the room alarmed the neighbourhood by several
loud cries of "Murder !" He then jumped out of the
window, a height of 12 or 14 feet, and, strange to say,
alighted without in the least injarine himself. He then
clambered over an out house, and uftsr passing over
several gardens and enclosures, scaling several palisades
in his way, arrived at the boundary-wall of Mill lane,
which is situate about 100 yards from Little Paradise.
On getting into the lane, however, the exertion attendant
upon his climbing over the wali awoke him, and Mr.
Evans, who had gone in search of him, met the poor
fellow in a state of nudity on Bedminster-causeway,
greatly prostrated by cold and fatigue. Mr. Evans,
however, convey( d him home; and having administered
some brandy to him, he soon recovered. The somnam-
bulist states that he was under tho impression that he
was about to be murdered, and was endeavouring to
escape from the supposed assassin.—Bei• le/ Mercury.
Our readers will learn with pleasure that the de-
gree of LL.D. has been conferred by the University of
Glasgow on the Rtv. W. 11. Stowell, Theological l'ro-
fessor of Rotherham College.—Shcb'eld Independent.
HUNGARIAN EMIGRANT 3 TO THE UNITED STATES.
—A party of forty Hungarian officers have arrived at
the port of Leith par steamers from Humburgh, for a
passage via Glasgow to New York, being about to emi-
grate to the United States of Atucrica.

By the courtesy of the committee we were last
night admitted to a private, or what, through usage,
has come to be designated a "press" view, of the
Christmas exhibition of prize cattle, at the show yard,
King-street, Portman-square, which will be open to
-the public on this and the three successive days of the
present week. The show is one that cannot but prove
roast interesting, not only to those who are immedi-
ately connected with agriculture, but to all who
appreciate the vast national importance of improve-
ments in the Ms rustica, and we are pleased to record
the fact that in every respect it may be classed as upon
parity with the best of previous exhibitions. In
point of number, and as cotnpared with last year, its
superiority is apparent at the mearest glance ; the en -
tries in all classes last year amounting to 208, whilst
on the present occasion they are 275. Perhaps there
never was a show at which so keen a competition pre-
vailed. Heretofore the beast or sheep which has
carried ofT a gold medal, has almost invariably borne
some characteristics which at once struck
the looker-on as evidences of its relative
excellence ; but not so on this occasion.
The stock is all of first-rate quality, and to the tyro
in agriculturalmatterathe adjudication of a first prize
would prove—if he were an honest man—a matter of
extreme difficulty. These remarks apply, however,
more to the competition in neat cattle than to sheep,
or pigs, though in each of these departments, particu-
larly in the former, there is a degree of excellence
displayed both in feeding and breeding that is
most commendable. The Hereford ox of Mr. Richard
Jonesrof Woodstone Lodge, near Petersborougb, to
which was awarded the gold medal for the best ox or
steer, the first prize of 30 sous. and a silver medal,
was a perfect animal of the sort, and fully justified
the handsome awards made to its feeder and breeder.
The connoisseur in what constitute the " good points"
of an animal would find in this ox combined every-
thing that goes to form a symmetrical beast—the
broad and short forehead, the tapering nose and jaw,
the fine muzzle, the gently-arched neck, the small
and fine head, the well set shoulder, the round barrel,
without a hollow big enough to place your hand
between it and the shoulders, the ribbed home sides,
the compact belly, the wide and round hips, the
straight and flat back, the fore legs straight, clean
and fine-boned, thighs full, long, and close together
when viewed from behind, large and open nostrils
and fine animated eyes.
The system of over feeding seems to have been
almost entirely abandoned. We noticed the first
alteration In this practice last year ; and on the present
occasion the change is still more remarkable. But it
should not be forgotten that though prize oxen and
sheep have sometimes been fattened to a distressing
extent, the experiment has not been without its utility,
albeit unperceived and unappreciated by persons who
are mere theoretical, and not practical, agriculturists.
A good grazier will tell you that breed, the nature of
the diet, its quantity, and the time of fattening are all
points to be taken into consideration. Hence the
accumulation of fat is regarded in the light of a test
by which the properties of such and such breeds are
tried. A well-informed writer upon the subject has
truly observed that "An ox is fattened for exhibition
beyond a useful marketable condition, by way of
showing the capacity of the breed for acquiring, at
the least expense of food, and at the earliest age,
such a condition as the public demand really ren-
ders necessary." At all events, the present exhibi-
tion, as a whole, will not be open to objection
on that score; an we have no doubt that the sale
will be profitable alike to grazier and butcher;
and that very many of her Majesty's lieges will,
on the recurrence of Christmas-day, fully estimate
the value of the attention and pains which are devoted
to the production of such glorious specimens of
English beef as grace the show-yard of the Smith-
field Club cattle show. But if the show of oxen was
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near York, to which were awarded the first prize of
201, the gold medal for the feeder, and a silver medal
to the breeder, was a superb animal, and displayed all
the qualities which are described in the following
quaint but pleasing lines :

" She's long in her face, And fine in her horn;
She'll quickly get fat without cake or corn;
She's clean in her jaws, and full in her chine;
She's heavy in flank, and fine in her loin.
" She's broad in her ribs, and long in her rump;
A. straight and flat back, without ever a hump;
Sht,'s wide in hor hips, and calm in her eyes;
She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs.

" Shu's light in her neck, and small in her tail;
She's wide at the breast, and good at the pail;
She's fine in her bone, and silky of skin;
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She's a graz'er's without, and abutcher's within,"

In that department of the show which is allotted to
sheep we observed that the Duke of Richmond ful-
filled the promise he made at the last annual dinner of
th ;club ; and that his pen of three 33 months old south -
down wethers, bred and fed by himself, carried off
the prize of 201. and a silver medal ; and that his
pen of three 21 months old southdown wethers carried
off the prize of 10 soya. for one-vear•old short-
woolled sheep.
The Prince Con7ort was an exhibitor in several
dasses, and, as will be found upon reference to the
list of prizes below, in more than one instance, a
successful exhibitor. More beautiful animals—if
anything porcine can be called " teautiful "—than
his Royal Highness's pen of pigs we never saw.
The show of implements was choice, and comprised
all the best specimens of machinery that have re-
ceived the approval of the agricultural public at the
country meetings of the Royal Agricultural Society
of England.
The eihibitors of roots and seeds were Messrs.
Thomas Gibbs and Co., of Half Moon-street; Mr.
Skirving, of Liverpool ; and Messrs. George Gibbs
and Co., of London.

The following is the award of prizes :
STEWARDS.

Beasts and Long-wool Sheep—Mr. Chamberlain,
Mr. W. Torr, Mr. George Turner.
Short-wool Sheep and Pigs—Mr. Ellman, Mr.
Grantham, Mr. Jonas Webb.