The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-29 00:00:00

THAMES.

Yesterday Alexander Green, a wretched looking
man, aged 34, was charged with feloniously wound-
ing John Miller, a labourer.
The prosecutor, a young man, stated that he lived
at 22, Star.strect, Commercial-road, and was a dock
labourer. On Wednesday morning, shortly before one
o'clock, he was on his way home with another man,
and saw the prisoner, who lived at 8, Star-street, lying
across the pavement close to his own door, with part
of his body in the passage. Ho was not aware
whether his companion touched the prisoner or not;
but be immediately got up and ran after them, and
threw a stone at them. They left the street and pro-
ceeded to the public-house close by. On coming
back to Star-street, the prisoner ran after them
again
without hat or shoes, accompanied by his wif- who
had only her nightclothes on. The -prisoner ";truck
at him with a large bamboo cane, and hit the wall.
The '
bamboo was split by the force of the blow, and
witness took up a piece and made a blow at the pri-
soner. They struck at each other and closed, and
the prisoner then dropped his stick, took a clasp knife
out of his pocket and opened it, and made a stab at
his breast. He felt the blood trickling down his
body immediately, and called out" -Murder, murder !
good God he has stabbed me !" The prisoner made
a second attempt to stab him, but he caught the knife
in his hand, which was severely cut. The prisoner
then attempted to stab the young man who was in
his company, but he evaded the blow. HQ was quite
sure the prisoner had a knife, for he heard the click
of it when it was opened, and also saw it in the pri-
soner's hand. The prosecutor admitted that he had
been committed for trial from that court for a violent

assault on the police, and was convicted and sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.
John Spence said he lived in Star-street. He was
awoke by a disturbance near his dwelling on Wednese
day morning, and upon looking out of window saw
the prosecutor and another man dreadfully:ill-using the
prisoner with pieces of a bamboo cane. Miller struck
the prisoner a great many blows about the head and
body. All at once he heard Miller call out ,4 Mur-
der," and say he was stabbed. Prisoner repeatedly
tried to get away from his assailants.
Another witness also spoke to the brutal treatment
of the prisoner by Miller and his companion.
Thomas Sanson, police-constable No. 85 K, Was
informed a young man was stabbed, and went to the
spot and took the prisoner into custody, when he de-
clared that he had no knife, and had not stabbed Mil-
ler ; adding, at the same time, " I wish I had had a
knife, I would have run it through him."
Henry Haywood, 401 K, was also called upon to
interfere. There was a mob of thirty or forty per-
sons about the prosecutdr, who was bleeding at the
breast. He took hold of the prisoner, who threw
something on the ground. It sounded like a knife,
and a woman, whom he could not overtake, picked it
up and ran away with it. A man in the crowd said
to the woman, as she was running away, " Don't you
make off with that knife." The prisoner said be
had no knife, and had lost his own in the docks three
days ago.
Mr. Daniel Ross, surgeon, of High-street, Shad.
well, stated that he was called upon to attend Miller
in the station-house, and found him bleeding profusely
from a wound on the breast half an inch in depth, and
of the same width, over the fifth rib, which had pene-
trated to the bone. There was a cut on the prosecu-
tor's shirt, corresponding with the wound, which be
had no doubt was inflicted with a knife or other sharp
instrument. A splinter of a bamboo cane could not
have inflicted such a wound. If the knife had been
struck a little more to the left, it would have entered
the prosecutor's heart and killed him. The wound
was a dangerous one. He also found an incised
wound on the prosecutor's right hand, an inch In
depth and an inch in width. He had examined the
prisoner by the direction of the Court. There was. *
contused wound over the left eye, some scratches on
the face, and an abrasion of the skin on the lower part
of his person.
The prisoner, in defence, said he was wantonly
kicked by the prosecutor, that an oyster shell waa
thrown at him, and that he was severely beaten.
used a piece oibamboo cane in his own defence, but did
not use a knife.

Mr. YARDLEY said, the wounds could not have been
inflicted with a bamboo cane, and had no doubt the
prisoner used a knife and stabbed the prosecutor. He
had as little doubt the prisoner received a considerable
amount of provocation, and that he was first assaulted ;
but the use of the knife could not be justified except
under the most aggravated circumstances. The prz.
soner in this case took the knife from his pockets
opened it, and deliberately stabbed the prosecutor.
He could not say the provocation was sufficient to jos;
tify the prisoner drawing his knife upon a man, an'
he should commit him for trial for the felony.

SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY

AUCTION.

At Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale, on Wednesday,
there was a very considerable improvement in shares'
We note a few of the quotations:—
Northern and Southern Connecting .£o 6 6
Manchester and Southampton.. ,:.... 0 8 0
Madrid and Valencia
Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. 0 19 0
London and Blackwall, No. 1
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 0 17 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 2 18 0
North Staffordshire _ 7 4 0

Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Paris and Lyons 3 1 0
Sambre and Meuse
Eastern Counties, York Extension .....
Eastern Counties
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 „. 4 5 0
Royston and Hitchin
Lond., Brighton, & South Coast,
South Wales
Newmarket and Chesterford .. 9 0 0

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Ocronan 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are— Birkenhead, Lallell"
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 311. Shares, 16 c. __Gres,
Northern, 5% dis. —Great Western, 10% c. p.—Ditte, 171.
Shares, 1 p. —Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, par--14°11-
don and North-Western, 151 c.—Ditto, Quarters, 12 1".":
Ditto, New Quarters, 6 c.—Ditto (Manchester and Birnulo
ham), 601/2 c.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), p.
ditto (C), 3 p. c.—Midland Stock, 108% c.—Ditto,
Shares, 40% c.—Ditto, Halves, 2% dis.—North Brztas
251 c.—North Staffordshire, % dis.—Shrewsbury
Birmingham (B). Ai.. Sh,ewsbury and Chester-t,L urs.u..
Oswestry, and Cheshire, ./.2 dts.— 6.
Ea-
stern and Dover, 271/2—Ditto, Consolidated,lo..3'
—Ditto, No. 4,2% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick,
Ex-
tensions, No. 1, p.—Ditto, G. N. E. Purchase (guar• 6
per cent. till 1850), % p. c.—Dutch Rhenish, 4% dis-
MANCHESTER, Ocronsa. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Dublin and Dro
heda, 28 dis.— Ditto, Thirds, dis.—Eastern Counties,ls,9
—East Lancashire, New Quarters, 1 7-16 dia.—East Lin-
colnshire, 1 dis.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters. 104—*
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (22/. paid),
4.(1 dis.—Ditto, Thirds, 1% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Fifths, is c. dia.—Ditto, 321. (late Extension), 61/.
Ditto ( West Riding Union), 23/4 c. dis.—London and
North- W estern, 148; —Ditto ( Manchester and Binning"
ham) Quarters (B), 314 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and 1-4,,L1.1"
colnshire, Quarters, No. I, dis.—Ditto, Preference, 4-
—Manchester and Southampton, 134 dis.—North Sta ord.
shire, 15-16 dis.—North Union (A), 200—South-Eastern
and Dover, 27'4—Ditto, No. 3,5% dis.—Ditto, 4'
2 9-16 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Extension,*
No. 2,

LEEDS, OCTOBER 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire, 6614.
c. dis.—Ditto, New, 6% dis.—Ditto, Quarters,
dis.
—G
Yorkshire,rea Union), 3 is,
14 ll' dis.
—Leeds and Thirsk, 18% n. dis.—Ditto, New, 14
tFiNfthosr,thSesr.nd,is.-51.D1h6tso.
(West Riding
andd
Leicester and Bedford, ss. dis.—Malton and iffield June
Lion, 31. 19s. 4d. dis.—North British, Thirds, 9s. n.
Ditto, Quarters, 17s. 6d. n. dis.—Ditto, Extension, ss. dja
North Staffordshire, 7f n. dis.—North- Western, 474 cile•--
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (late Newcastle and Do'
wick), 27%—Ditto (New Berwicks), No. 2, par.
HULL, OCTOBER 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been dull to-day'
and prices much lower. The sales are—Ambergates, 17s.
6d.—North Staffordshire, 10s. dis.—North-Western„
dis.—North British, Extension, 4s. dis.—Hull and Selby,Halves, 48—Shropshire Union, 30s. di.s.—West a
Union, 555. dis.

NE W CASTLE-UPON-TYNE, OCTOBER 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 2%
—Great Northern, 5% dis.—Newcastle and Carlisle, parr'
North British, Thirds, par—North Staffordshire,r_york,
Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference (G. N. E. arch.), %
p.—Ditto, New, No. 2, 2 p.
EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 27. Perth,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Dundee and re-
r
Quarters, 49s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves,_ 131-A
div.—Edinburgh, Leith, and Grantou, Quarters, Reg., 55*—.°
Edinburgh and Northern, 16%—Ditto, N ewport. New, Reg'
17s. 6d.—Great Northern, 58s. 6d.—North British,
Ditto, Quarters, 945. 6d.---Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), ""'
3d.—Ditto, Thirds, Reg., 43s.—Scottish Central, 24 ex bola.

-
A GOOD APPETITE.—A Havre journal has the
following almost incredible story :—At the last fair at
Yvetot two persons, one of them of sickly appearance,:
entered an inn, and ordered a dinner, consisting of
mutton-chops, a large turkey, 12 Neufchatel cheeses, 12
pots of cider, and a 61b. loaf. The servant of the inn,
thinking that so substantial a meal was for 12 persons,
consequently prepared the table for the reception Of .12
guests; but her surprise was great to see the two indivi•
duals enter at the appointed time, unaccompanied by any
one, and the surprise increased to perfect astonishment
when the sickly-looking man said that the dinner was for
him alone ! At the same moment he sat himself down
at the table, and in the course of a short time succeeded
in swallowing all the immense mass of food which had
been prepared. He had laid a wager with the other
man to eat this formidable dinner, the stake being a
sheep. When the glutton had won his wager, ho coolly
offered the astounded loser to make a similar bet,
to
.be
decided in two hours; but the latter refu,sed.--Galig-
nani's Messenger.
One hundred and sixty-four shipowners and cap-
tains of Havre have addressed a petition to the Minister
of Finance, praying that a clause may be inserted in the
conditions for the supply of about 38,000 tons of coal,
which are to be contracted for Is), the post-office, to the
effect that the coal shall bo conveyed to its destinations
is French vessels.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]-THE BILE INFALLIBLY CIIBND
BY HOLLOWAY'S Puas.—Many who suffer from bile are unconscious
of it ; they cinnplain of sick heada,lns, a derangement and slaking
at the stomach, loss of appetite, lowness of spirits, want of energY,
feet, hand, and face swellings, and know not that these symptom
denote the imperfect action of the liver, an !, if not remedied, might
lead to a dropsy. Holloway's Pills will always be found to act
i.
directly upon the liver and stomach, and carry off the redundanclf:
humours, and thereby' immediately restore the patient to a full jvue,
joyment of health. The blue Pill is a mercurial and destinued At
medicine, which no one should take. Soil by all druggists'
Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.
On the 17th inst., at Bonn, Germany, the lady
of A.
Cobham Cobham, Esq., of a son.
On the 25th inst., at Lansdowne-crescent, Kensington-
park, Notting-hill. Mrs. T. Hegarty, of a son.
On the 26th inst., at the Vicarage, Chesterford, the Lady
Harriet Hervey, of a daughter.
On the 2Gth inst ,in Sussex-villas, Cheltenham, the lady
of James Riley, Esq., of a son.
On the 26th inst., at Streatham, the wife of John Cowie,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 27th inst., Mrs. Arnold, of King William-street,
London-bridge, of a daughter.
On the 27th inst., at Elrnstead Lodge, Bromley, Kent, hire.
Tooke, of a daughter, still-born.

MARRIED.
On the 23d of August last, at Madras, in the East Indies,
the Rev. James P. Fletcher, to Clara Rosalie, eldest daughter
of the Ray. W. T. Blenkinsop, of the Madras Establishment.