The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-25 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

John Bond Ratelo.;,,, the lessee of the Victoria
Theatre, was charged with abusing and threatening to
assault J. W. Monnery, a hosier in Blackman-street,
Southwark.

The complainant stated that between two and three
o'clock that morning, as he was returning home from
Westminster, in passing along William-street in the Wa-
terloo-road, he was attracted :to a part of the street
where the defendant and two other persons were lark-
ing with each other. When he went up they com-
menced " chaffing" him, and when he retorted upon
them, the defendant approached Itim, and in a menacing
manner, threatened to punch his head ; being fearful
that he would carry his %threats into effect, the com-
plainant called police, and even then was not desirous of
making any charge, but the defendant continuing to
abuse him, calling him sundry disagreeable names, he
gave him into custody, and even at the station-house he
again repeated the threat to punch his b—y head.
Pepper, the policeman, said that when he went up,
on hearing a wrangle between the parties, he endea-
voured to make peace between them, but they would
not listen to reason. In the course of the dispute they
taunted each other with " not being gentlemen ;" and
no sooner had this phrase been applied, than they both
pulled out their card-cases, and each thrust a card of
address into the witness's hand, in order to prove
whether or not they were justified in using such lan-
guage towards each other. The parties, however, stil
persisting in quarrelling, and fearful that it might end in a
meeting at Chalk Farm or the Red House, he (the police-
man) recommended a visit to the station-house, where
all might be amicably settled, and thither they all pro-
ceeded. At the station-house the complainant evinced
every disposition to let the affair drop ; but not so the
lessee, who frequently applied the epithets "fool" and
" monkey" to his opponent, besides threatening to punch
his head again in the hearing of the inspector on duty.
The policeman added that both the parties were under
the influence of liquor, and as the complainant said that he
apprehended he went in personal danger owing, to the
threats held out by the defendant, the latter was de-
tained until he procured bail.

Mr. Ratcliffe declared that he was not the aggressor
on the occasion, and that it all arose in consequence of
the interference of the complainant with him and his
friends when they were proceeding home. He added,
that although he admitted being a little " by the head,'
yet that his antagonist, the hosier, was much more so,'
for that person was really what might be termed glori-
ously drunk.
Mr. Monnery, on the contrary, urged that he was
sober, and that his threatened assailant was as drunk as
a lord.

The Magistrate decided the case by adjudginz the
defendant to enter into his own recognizance in '2Ol. to
keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next
three months.

THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND THE
LABOURER.—In a report of the proceedings of the Aylesbury
Petty Session on Saturday last, it is stated that the Governor
of Aylesbury Union Poor-house observed, in reply to an ob-
servation of some of the magistrates that Bs. a week was a
shameful rate of wages, that " a young man came into the
workhouse on the previous day, who had been hoeing beans for
the Duke of Buckingham, and who earned but 4s. a week;
who had been living on bread and lard, with only half a pound
of meat a week; and who was so reduced that he had the ap-
pearance of an old man, although he was not more than nine-
teen years of age ! !" At this statement, says our reporter, the
Magistrates appeared thnnderstruck—and well they might.—
Aycsbury News.

THE LADIES.—At a festival given by the
kremen of Detroit city, an engineer, Pierce Yeblet, gave thee
following toast :—" The ladies, the onl incendiaries who
In a letter to
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TwilKl notiL seyxtTinHgutsh.
the Rev. Dr. Willis, the Moderator of the Glasgow Presbytery,
the Rev. Mr. Burns, of Kilsyth, thus describes the result of
the late attempt to effect a revival of religion in the parish:—
" I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that the remark-
able outpouring of the Divine Spirit, with which we werelately
so graciously favoured, has for some time back appeared to have
entirely ceased. The general interest in the public mind on
divine things has now in great measure disappeared, Multi-
tudes, once impressed with concern about their souls, but never
having reached the point of decided conversion, having relapsed
into their former indifference ; several of whom good hopes
were once entertained, have returned more or less decidedly to
their former ways ; prayer-mectings have in many instances
fallen off, both in numbers and in fervour ; the house of God
does not continue to be thronged on week days and on Sundays
as heretofore ; and in general the administration of divine ordi-
nances seems now to be attended with little more than an or-
dinary blessing."
MOST INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF ANGLO-
SAXON COINS.—On Friday last a large collection of most
valuable and interesting Anglo- Saxon coins, and other reli-
ques of olden time, was discovered close to the river Ribble, at
Cuerdale, near Preston. We understand that some workmen
were employed in removing some ground on the banks of the
river, which had become undermined by the action of the
water, when they turned up an old leaden chest, containing
about 10,000 of the coins alluded to, several silver bracelets, and
and a quantity of ingots or bars of silver. The coins are of
silver, and weigh about twenty grains each. Mr. Assheton,
of Downham Hall, near Clitheroe, is the owner of the pro-
perty on which the discovery was made ; and the chest and its
contents have been removed to the Old Bank, Preston, until
Mr. Assheton, who is now at Rome, can be communicated
with, and give instructions as to their disposal.—Blackburn
Standard.
HYTHE.—At a meeting held in this borough
on the 30th ult , it having been stated that the present Mem-
ber, Lord Mclgund, would not offer himself at the next general
election, the electors present unanimously resolved to invite
their old Member, Mr. Stewart Marjoribanks again into their
service.
ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE CAL-
ANNIVERSARY
JURY.—A numerous meeting of the Milton-
street Committee took place on Wednesday last, at the Ja-
cob's WAI, Milton-street, to celebrate the above verdict. Mr.
APKenzie in the Chair. After several patriotic toasts were
given, the Chairman proposed the health of the gentlemen who
composed that Jury, which was responded to with three times
three; after which Mr. Stockton, in a neat and appropriate
speech, returned thanks, and concluded by proposing the health
of the Editor of the Morning Advertiser, and prosperity to
that journal for its able advocacy of popular rights.