The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-30 00:00:00

PROMOTION.

Assistant Surgeon—John M'Whinnie (1838) to
the rank of surgeon.

APPOINTMENTS.

Rear-Admirals—Phipps Hornby, C. 8., to suc-
ceed Sir G. Seymour, as Commander-in-Chief in the
Pacific ;—Shirreff, to succeed Rear-Admiral Parker,
as Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.
Captains—J. Toup Nicolas, to be Superintendent
of Plymouth Hospital, vice Sir T. Fellows, promoted;
Thomas Dickinson to be Captain of Greenwich
pits], vice vice Bowker, deceased ; Robert F. Stopford to
the Asia.
Commanders—William Morris (b), to the Arab, 18,
at Chatham; Lord Francis Russell, to study at the
Naval College.
Lieutenants—F. A. Boyce, C. S. S. Stanhope, and
Henry J. Bloomfield, to the Asia; P. W. Parnell, to
be First of the Fury.
Master—James Tonkin, to the Asia.
Deputy Medical Inspectors—John G. Stewart, to
Jamaica Hospital ; Dr. James W. Johnston, to the
Vindictive.
Surgeons—David Geddes, to the Poictiers; Dr.
John Dunlop, to the San Josef; Dr. Charles
O'Brien to the Cambrian.
Chaplain—Rev. R. J: Halke, to the Cambrian.
Paymasters and Pursers—C. H. Niblett, confirmed
to the Phcenix ; John Ward, to the Asia.
Second Masters—C. L. F. Stephens, to the Asia ;
G. A. Stabb, to the Cambrian.
Mate—F. M. Fraser, to the Amphitrite.
Midshipmen—James G. Purcell, to the Trincoma-
lee ; R. Elliott, D. Broad, and W. B. Alexander, to
the Cambrian ; James Wilcox, to the Amphitrite;
A. G. D. Haithwaite, to the Excellent ; Samuel F.
Jeyes, to the Penelope ; J. G. Malcom, to the
William and Mary; G. E. Sidebottom, to the
Ocean ; St. John Coventry and Charles Grant, to
the San Josef.
Masters' Assistants—Edwin Wise and W. Ifl
Willing, to the Penelope ; Alfred Lidbetter, to the
Victory; J. R. Allen, to the Trincomalee; J. Miller
and 11. L. Kelly, to the Cambrian ; H. R. Harris, to
the Imaum ; H. Hussey, to the Fury ;J. A.
Parks, to the Antelope ; C. T. Wilkinson, to the
Firefly.
Naval Cadet—G. P. Haighe, to the Queen.

DISSOLUTION OF
'THE IVIARYLE-
BONE REFORM ASSOCIATION.
On Saturday a special and very numerous meeting
of the electors of the borough of Marylebone, mem-
bers of the borough of Marylebone United Reform
and Registration Association , took place at the West-
morland-
for the purpose of considering the financial state of
rooms, George-street, Manchester-square,
the association, and other matters connected with its
operation.
unani-
mously called to the chair.
state BROTHERTON, the secretary, having read
state of the finances of the association, which showed
ielaYsluorferG,srheaatndPso,rtland-street, was
tlhat after paying all liabilities there was a balance of
11. C.
ECt.lWlLsort said the subject which must now
meet-
ing was, whether it was desirable longer to continue
force itself upon the attention of the
the association in existence.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BELTON expressed his conviction that great
mischief would result to the Liberal cause if the
association was abolished, and he therefore moved the
appointment of a. committee to revise the laws.
Mr. BEDFORD seconded the motion.
Mr. Douor.as said he rose for the purpose of
moving, as an amendmnent, " That the asociatlon
be now dissolved, and that the funds in hand be ap-
propriated to the purposes of the ensuing registra-
tion." Lie considered with Mr. .Wilson that the
association was so constituted that they could not
necessarilys iCliirrn.'
work together for one common object, and another
point was that it was not supported by the electors
at large as it ought to be. They had been before the
borough holding meetings in every district continu-
ally for the last two years, and what was the result ?

Why, on the eve of the election, a large number of
electors bef!aulf, ±n-mil,r.= by t,rl,.'ing• their pnirterly
subscb ipt;oo, t.qd inembeis and
upset all that had been done previously. It was
quite clear that the reformers of Maryiebone and
St. Pancras could not work harmoniously together,
and, therefore, it would be better hereafter that they
should have separate associations.—(" No, no," and
" Hear, hear.") He did not apprehend that the
present Parliament would last long, but he con-
sidered that it was mot important that the delusive
statement Of the Tories as to their gains on the
registration, should be counteracted by the appearance
of the liberal party in the registration courts.
Mr. H. C. WILSON seconded the amendment.

A lengthened and rather warm discussion ensued,
and at its termination, on the amendment being put,
it was carried by a majority of 2 to 1.
The association is thus virtually dissolved, although
the resolution requires confirmation, which will no
doubt be carried.

After thanks to the chairman, the meeting sepa-
rated.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
WANDS NORTH COUNTY COURT.
PUDF.Y V. COLLINGRIDGE.

On Saturday an action was brought in this court
by the plaintiff, a master shoemaker, to recover of the
defendant, a money-taker in the service of the Iron
Steam-boat Company, the value of a coat, damaged
by the latter.
The plaintiff stated he took two tickets at the
British Flag-pier, Battersea-fields, and then passed
down a passage to the pier with a friend to go on
board a boat, when the defendant ran up to him, took
hold of him by the collar, and said, " You have not
got your ticket." He replied he had, but the de-
fendant, as he endeavoured to release himself, violently
tore his coat, so as to render it valueless—the coat
cost him 3/. 153. in May.
Emma Vale, in company with the plaintiff, proved
the assault, and affirmed positively that the plaintiff
took two green tickets, and he was not allowed time
to show them.

Mr. Cattarns, on behalf of the company, said that
Sergeant Emmerson, and Searle 49 V, saw the plaintiff
go down the pier without paying, and sent the de-
fendant down to him. The complainant refusing to
show his ticket was the cause of his coat being torn.
Sergeant Emmerson was in court.
Sergeant Emmerson said the complainant never
went near the money• box before he went down to the
pier. He did not say to him, " You must plat up
with it ; it is an accident."

Kirby, the touter, said he was close to the money-
taker's phce, and the plaintiff took no ticket.
The JUDGE was satisfied that the plaintiff had
taken his ticket. The witnesses for the defence had
proved too much. The man had his ticket, but they
treated him as one attempting to cheat. The touter
was also mistaken. He could not go from the girl's
evidence, that the plaintiff had paid for two green
tickets. He should order the defendant to pay
3/. 3s. for the coat, being a deduction of 12s. for the
wear, and all the costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.

On Saturday a young man, named Win. Reid,
was charged o, ith feloniously cutting and wounding
his sister, a girl twelve years of age, and also
with thrtaening the life of his mother, a widow,
tilling the office of assistant nurse in the London
Hospital.
It appeared from the evidence of the mother and
daughter, the latter of whom was very pile, and had
the right side of her lace strapped up with adhesive
plaster, that the prisoner, who had been all his life
addicted to the most indolent and profligate habits,
had for a long time refused to do any work, threw
up every situation that was procured for him as fast
as he got it, and insisted upon living entirely upon
the earnings of his mother. On the preceding. day
he would not get out of bed until. three o'clock in
the afternoon, when he got up to dinner, but imme-
diately began abusing his mother because the meal
was not to his taste, and his sister having ventured
to remonstrate with him upon his ungrateful conduct,
he suddenly caught up one of the table-knives and
dashed it at her face with such force, as to inflict a
frightful gash extending nearly the whole length of
her cheek. The mother interposed for the protection
of her daughter from further violence, and the pri-
soner then commenced a ferocious attack upon her
also, threatening to serve her in the same manner ;
but she and her daughter both at length succeeded in
escaping into the street, and, having procured the as-
sistance of a constable, returned and gave the prisoner
into custody.
A certificate was handed to the bench from Mr.
Garrod, the divisional police surgeon, by whom the
injured girl had been since attended, and which de-
scribed the nature of the wound as being of a very
serious description.
The prisoner refused to offer any defence, and
Mr. ARNOLD, having told him that the offence he
was charged with amounted to a felony, for which
he was liable to transportation for life, ordered him
to be brought up again this week for the depositions
to be taken.

A powerful fellow, named William Rawlings, was
next charged with the following series of outrageous
assaults :

The prisoner, who was described as being one of
those lazy, insubordinate characters who are continu-
ally throwing themselves 'upon the workhouse, and
are a nuisance to all about them, was standing in the
yard of Shoreditch workhouse, idling about, at one
o'clock that day, when Maria Franklin, one of the
nurses, was sent for to the master's office, and the in-
stant she came out the prisoner rushed upon her, and,
without uttering a word, struck her such a terrible
blow between the eyes, that she was felled to the
ground. At the same moment an elderly pauper
named John Hall happened to be entering the gate
with half a pint of beer in his hand for his dinner,
and although he had not even spoken to the pri-
soner, the latter ran up to him and dealt him a
violent blow on the mouth, which cut it severely, and
knocked him do.an also. The cries of these two in-
jured persons attracted the notice of Smith, the gate
porter, who, seeing Hall lying upon his hack with
his face covered with blood, ran forward to help him
up, but was instantly stopped by the prisoner with a
blow on the eye. All three witnesses exhibited se-
rious contusions, and all positively declared that they
were totally at a loss to account for the attacks which
had been m ,de upon them, as they had done nothing
whatever to provoke them.
The Magistrate sentenced the prisoner, who offered
no defence to either of the charges, to pay a fine of
5/. for the assault upon the woman Franklin, or in
default to undergo two months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction, and in addition to find two bail
in 201. each for his peaceable behaviour for the suc-
ceeding six months.
LAMBETH:

Thomas Foster, alias Chitty, and Emma Eaton,
alias Fitzgerald, were charged with being concerned
with others in robbing Mr. Thomas Jones, a gentle-
man residing at Carshalton, of a gold watch, chain,
and seal, of the value of 60 guineas.
Mr. Jones deposed that on the night of the 28th of
last month, during the Goodwood races, while going
up the High-street, in the city of Chichester, his
friend who was with him and himself were joined by
two women, who, up to that time, were strangers to
them, but both of whom addressed them in a familiar
manner. llis friend having occasion to go into a bye-
place was followed by one of the women, while the
other remained talking to him in the street. They
had not been speaking more than a moment or two,
when a man approached them, who, exclaiming,
" What do you stand here for ?" gave him a violent
blow, which knocked him down, and both he and the
woman instantly ran away. On recovering from the
effects of the blow, the witness instantly missed his
watch, and lost no time in pursuing the parties. He
succeeded in ,coming up with, and securing the man,
but the instant he had done so he was attacked by
two other rneTt, each of whom struck him and again
knocked him aown twice, and all the parties effected
their escape. By this time, however, his friend had
given the wor can who had followed him, as before
stated, into cl istody, for robbing him of ls. 6d., and
she was locked! up for the night. On the following
day she was taken before the Mayor of Chichester,
when she gave the name of Emma Eaton (the name
given by the pr:.soner at the bar), and represented
herself as a stra w.honnetmaker residing at Brighton.
This woman he (Mr. Jones) had seen in one of the
avenues leading to this court on that morning, and
she was then in the court.—(The prosecutor here
pointed out a w' 3H-dressed woman in the body of the
court, and Mr. Elliott directed that she should be
placed in the dock with the other prisoners).—Mr.
Jones identified) the watch and seal produced by
Sergeant Morto n as his property, and as those of
which he had been robbed at Chichester, as he
described.

In his cross:-examination by Mr. Games, the pro-
secutor said tae prisoners Foster and Fitzgerald were
strangers to him, but the third prisoner, who gave
the name of Mary Taylor, he was quite confident was
the person who had been charged at Chichester. His
friend, who gave charge of her, was a stock-broker,
and was at preaent in Scotland, and the reason she
was dischareq on that occasion was, that it was con-
sidered by the Mayor and constables that it was much
more likely tilt/ it her associates, by whom the robbery
had been comn iitted, would be taken by her being at
large than in pi :ism].
Sergeant a orton, 7 P, stated that on the morning
of Monday Las'i, in consequence of a hamper, contain-
ing a quantity of stolen cloth, being directed there, he
went to the house of the prisoner Fitzgerald. On
enterixg the 'hack parlour, which was occupied by
herself, he observed a small box on a dresser, and
asked to whorni it belonged. The prisoner replied
that both it trnd its contents were her property. He
then got the. ley of it from her, and, on examining it,

found two gold watches and three gold chains, one of
them o!' noisive description, and of th,o va!oe of 20
prisoner subsequently said that only
one of the watches belonged to her, and that the other
had been left with her as a security for rent by a per-
son named Chitty six months ago, though it bad only
been stolen from Mr. Jones on the 28th of last month.
On that occasion he (Morton) saw the third prisoner
at the bar (Taylor) at the house of Fitzgerald, and
took a person whom she represented to be her hus-
band, as well as another young fellow, named Smith,
with Fitzgerald and Foster, into custody, on suspicion
of having been concerned in a burglary and robbery
at Tunbridge-wells. Two of them, namely, Taylor
and Smith, had since been discharged.
In reply to a question from the Magistrate, Mor-
, ton said the prisoner Taylor occupied an apartment at
the house of her companion Fitzgerald, and lived
there with a common thief, whom she represented as
her husband. The prisoner Foster also lived there
with a woman of equally low character with herself;
as did also Smith, and a third woman of the same
class.

Mr. Games asked Mr. Elliott if he thought there
was any charge against the prisoner Taylor, to justify
her being detained ?
The MAGISTRATE replied that he should remand
her, with the other prisoners, to a future day.
Mr. Games applied to have the prisoners admitted
to bail, but his application was refused, and the pri-
soners were removed from the bar.

SUPPOSED INTENTION TO
MURDER.

BRIGHTON, SATURDAY.—This morning John Gold-
spink, a footman in the service of Captain Fulcher,
late of the East India service, and at present residing
at 13, Montpelier-terrace, was brought before T.
Jones Bellamy and C. Carpenter, Esqrs., magistrates
of the Brighton bench, under the following extraor-
dinary circumstances. No formal charge was made
against the prisoner, owing to the legal difficulty of
framing one.
Mary Harriet, wife of Captain Fulcher, deposed
that the prisoner had been in her husband's service
about seven months. On the evening of the 30th of
July, a little after ten o'clock, she told the prisoner
to go to bed. About half an hour afterwards, having
finished her supper, she we it up stairs to her bed-
room, and a few minutes after twelve, having dis-
missed her maid servant, and before locking her bed-
room door, she, as was her custom, looked under the
bed, and not being able to see distinctly to the wall,
she took her candle, and was in the act of lifting the
valiance, when the prisoner darted out from under
the bed, seized her by the throat, and squeezed her
so hard that she could not speak nor make a noise.
In order to defend herself she tried to set fire to his
hair with her candle, but in making the attempt she
extinguished the light. She then seized the bell rope
and pulled it down, but she did not hear the bell
ring. The prisoner continued his grasp of her throat ;
and she thought she should be choked. In a few
minutes she got away and rushed out of the door and
into the nursery, threw up the window, and called
for assistance.

Policeman Jenner deposed that, attracted by cries
of murder, he went to the residence of Captain
Pulcher, and found the prisoner with his throat cut.
He went for a surgeon, and on his return found in
the prisoner's pocket a piece of stout cord, like that
used by the laundresses in drying clothes. A razor
was lying by the side of the prisoner.
The prisoner was taken to the hospital, and re-
mained there till that morning, not being previously
sufficiently recovered to be examined by the magis-
trates.

In reply to questions from the magistrates' clerk,
Mrs. Fulcher stated that the prisoner was aware that
some valuable jewels and the key of the plate chest
were kept in her bedroom.
Dr. Dill was examined to prove that Mrs. Fulcher
sustained considerable injury, requiring medical
treatment, from the prisoner's violent grasp on her
throat.

The prisoner, who looked very pale and wild,
asked no questions, nor did he say anything in de-
tence. He was committed for trial at the East
Sussex adjourned sessions, for an aggravated assault,
and the witnesset were bound to prosecute.