The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-28 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

John Sacks, driver of the cab No. 474, was placed at
the bar, before Mr. Long, charged with the double of-
fence of attempted rape and robbery. Ann Ormond, a
delicate-looking young woman, about 19 years of age,
stated that on the previous evening she rode in the priso-
ner's vehicle to Portman-square, and after setting down
a gentleman who accompanied her she gave directions
that she should be driven to the City-road. The priso-
ner then got inside, passing the reins through the front
window, and had not proceeded many yards when he
behaved with the greatest indecency, and otherwise con-
ducted himself towards her in such a manner as to con-
vince her that his object was to violate her person. She
made a violent resistance, and while struggling with tho
prisoner he tore from her side a pocket, containing two
shillings in silver and some papers.
Police-constable 157 D said that hearing some one
cry out for assistance, he hastened to the spot and found
the prosecutrix, who had alighted from the cab, standing
in the road. The prisoner was upon the box, and when
he saw witness he jumped down, exclaiming that he had
lost his whip. He (witness) saw him go round to the
back of the vehicle and pick up something, which he
threw away into an area, and on taxing him with the
robbery he said " I snatched the pocket off, and you'll
find the two shillings in the bottom of the cab ; don't be
a fool, but let me go, and I'll give you a crown for your-
self." Witness then took the prisoner into custody, and
subsequently discovered the two shillings in the bottomn
of the vehicle as before stated ; the pocket, with the pa-
pers in it, were also picked up in the area.
The prisoner. who it was stated was not a licensed
driver, and that he had no right whatever to have been
in possession of the cab, was committed.

•
A great singing festival has just been held at
Ludwigsburg (Louisburg), at which 74 singing societies,
comprising 2,300 singers, from the towns and villages of
the neighbourhood, assembled. The North Germans will
also be astir next month, for the Hamburg Festival, at
which, among other attractions, M. Liszt has been en-
gaged to appear. But the greatest piece of foreign mu-
sical news during the week, figures in the Belgian jour-
nals, which announce the invention, by M. Sax, of a steam
organ—a monster-instrumer t, with vibrating plates (huge
steel bars to which immense paessure alone can commu-
nicate vibration),—capuble of being heard ooer a whole pro-
vince !—Athenawn.
• COUNTY or CARLOW.—NO contest in the
empire excites a deeper interest than the approaching
struggle in this county. The reports are most gratify-
ing, and leave no doubt whatever of the triumph of the
Reformers. During the present campaign, Mr. O'Con-
nell has proved that his powers of assailment against
the Orange faction were never greater than at this mo-
ment, and that he never employed them with better
will than against the. Carlow Exterminators.—Dublin
Evening Post,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From tke Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH JUNE 26.—Report already asserts chat
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam prefers the West India
and North America commands to that in the Mediter-
ranean, as being more lucrative, and that he will cer-
tainly. succeed the lamented Sir T. Harvey ; Sir Wm.
Gage is spoken of as likely to go to the Mediterranean ;
Capt. Boxer, it is said, succeeds Commodore Douglas
at Jamaica, and Capt. Alexander Ellice obtains the
command of the Pique, 36.

Arrived this morning her Majesty's brigantine
Griffon, flieutenant-Commander D'Urban, 24 days
from Bermuda, and 37 from Barbadoes, having been
nearly five years in commission ; she brings home
Sir T. Harvey's son, with despatches. The Comman-
der-in-Chief died suddenly at Bermuda on the 28th of
May, and was buried at Ireland. The Griffon left the
Winchester and Pilot at Bermuda. The Pilot was to
sail for Jamaica with despatches for Commander
Douglas, as soon as the packet arrived from Halifax ;
and the Winchester was to sail for Halifax on the 18th
of June. The Ringdove had left Bermuda for Halifax ;
the Seringapatam was at Barbadoes on the 19th of May.
The Griffon had only lest three men by death on the
West India station, though fever has been on board her
three times ; but the number of men invalided from the
effects of fever and rheumatism, at different times, has
been so great that she has had nearer three ships'
companies than two ; the Commander is the only officer
now on board who went out in her, and about fifteen of
the men. The last fever was caught at Demerara.

The Driver steam-vessel is ordered to be fitted tor
service. •

The Pelican, 18, Commander Napier, arrived at Lisbon
on the Bth instant

The Alban steamer sailed on Tuesday to Lisbon, with
the depot of the 82d Regiment.
The Electra, :16, Commander Mainwaring, was paid
off on Tuesday and re-commissioned, and Commander
Gostling is appointed to command her. The other officers
remain in her.

The Confiance steamer arrived on Wednesday from
the Mediterranean, and sailed the following day for
Woolwich, to be paid off.
The Jaseur, 18, Commander Boultbee, has returned
from Plymouth to the Gibraltar station.
The Rapid, 10, Lieut. Tryon, arrived yesterday from
a cruise off Brighton and Hastings, for the protection of
the Fishery.
The Salamander, steam-vessel, arrived on Thursday
from Sheerness, and proceeded to Plymouth.
The Avon, steamer, arrived on Thursday from Ply-
mouth. She returned yesterday- with supernumerary
seamen for the Cornwallis, 72, which was to sail to-day
for China, to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir W.
Parker.

All gunners are in future to be borne on the books of
the Excellent.

A new 36-gun frigate, the Cambrian, is to be launched
at Pembroke Dockyard, on the 3d July.
The Seringapatam and Essex, Indiamen, are at Spit-
head, taking in supplies and passengers for the Eastern
world.

APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Pring, from the Inconstant
to the Powerful.

Commander—Philip Gostling, to the Electra.

Lieutenants—John Allan Wright, to command the
Skylark ; Charles John Walton, to the Princess Char-
lotte ; Edmund Heathcote, re-appointed to the Electra.
Master—John Kellock, late Acting, confirmed to the
Electra.

Pursers—John Milner, late Acting, confirmed to the
Electra ; James Pinhorn, of the Edinburgh, to be Secre-
tary to Rear-Admiral. Thomas..
Surgeon—G. Gammon to the Monarch.
Mate—W. D. Carroll, to the Royal George.
Second Master—Henry Hill, additional, to the Victory.
Acting Assistant Surgeons—J. Simpson and Dr. H.
Richardson, from the Queen to the Cornwallis.
Midshipman—F. W. Gough, to the Dublin.
Gunners—W. Richards to the Dublin ; James Mitchell
to the Electra.

Acting Carpenter—W. Kingdom, to the Electra.
COAST-GUARD.—Lieutenants—Ross Connor (1807),
and Augustus Bolton (1825), to be Chief Officers.
Mr. Geo. A. Hollinworth, of the Cornwallis, and Mr.
G. T. Graham, of the Electra, passed for Lieutenants
at the Naval College, on Friday.

THE g, HAUNTED" HOUSE AT
CLEWER, NEAR WINDSOR.

The extraordinary knocking (supposed to be against
the door of the water-closet) having still continued with
even increased violence, an intelligent man, belonging to
the Windsor police, has been stationed on the premises
during the week, and notwithstanding he has frequently
been. within two or three yards of the spot from whence
the sound proceeded, at the very time, he has not been
able to make the least discovery of its, apparently, mys-
terious origin.
A scientific gentleman, from London, having seen in
the papers on account of the noise heard in the house,
has visited the premises three times during the last ten
days (the last time was on Monday, at the request of the
tenant), and tried various experiments to endeavour to
discover the cause, but without the least success. The
boards of the floor, both inside and around the closet,
have been all taken up, and excavations made to the
depth of several feet. The drain has been opened and
closely examined, and the party has even gone so far with
lats experiments as to have the water in an adjoining ditch
analysed. Mr. Manley, the parish sexton, attended with
the grave-digger's sounding iron, and sounded the ground
within and without, to the depth of upwards of five feet,
but no clew was obtained, and the knocking still con-
tinued, at intervals, as before. On Monday last, the
noises were more frequent and violent than ever. The
policeman, who was on the alert during the whole day,
counted, within 12 hours, 13 distinct knockings, of the
safne character as have been before described.

On the following day (Tuesday) at two o'clock, the
family removed from the house, taking with them the
whole of their furniture. Previously to their leaving,
the knocking came on at half-past seven o'clock that
morning, the policeman being there.
As an extraordinary sensation was created throughout
the neighbourhood on the subject, as well as certain sus-
picions excited, four respectable gentlemen of Windsor
were determined to endeavour to ascertain if the noise
had been caused by means of trickery (which was
strongly suspected) or not. They, therefore, by permis-
sion of the agent of the party to whom the property be-
longs, agreed to go to the house that evening, and re-
main there during the whole of the night. They did so,
accompanied by the policeman, and two other persons
who resided in the neighbourhood. From nine o'clock,
the hour at which they arrived, until eight o'clock the
following morning, when they left, " not a sound was
heard," nor did either the candles or the fire burn blue!
The policeman has been in the house ever since, and not
the slightest noise has been heard.
It does, certainly, appear exceedingly strange that
these " mysterious," and by some called supernatural
noises," should have ceased from the time of the family
leaving the house. If it were a trick, of which there
can now be but little doubt, it was an exceedingly clever,
although a very mischievous and wanton one.
It appears to be a second edition of the Cock-lane
ghost.