The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT.—George
Henry Desirabogi Neville Plantagenet Harrison, Esq.,
13, Verulam- buildings, Brigadier-General, Peru, Argen-
tina, Uruguay, and Yutacan, &c., was placed before Mr.
Bingham, charged by Richard Leslie Dundas, Esq., with
violently assaulting him.
The complainant on being sworn, said, lam a major
in the army, and reside at No. 27, Manton-street. This
morning between the hours of eight and nine, I was
asleep in bed, when I was awoke by the defendant break-
ing into my room. Directly he had entered he came to
my bedside and in a furious manner addressed me, and
presenting his card demanded to know why I had tra-
duced the chat acters of certain young ladies. I replied,
that I certainly did not do any such things. Noticing
something in the defendant's accent, I asked him if
he was an Englishman. He said he was, and that if I
did net give him a written paper, denying
that assertion, he would flog me with his stick.
I told him if he attempted to strike me,
I would do my best to hand him down stairs. He then
demanded to know if I was a gentleman. I said yes, 1
am an officer in the army. I then requested him to sit
down and compose himself for a few minutes. He re-
tused, and immediately made a rush at me, and whilst
my head was on the pillow struck me several blows with
a thick walking cane. I got up and defended myself the
best way I could, but the defendant followed me up so
closely that I was obliged to call for assistance. Subse-
quently some gentlemen who lodged in the same house
came to my aid, and the prisoner was given into
custody.
Mr. Ballantine, who appeared for the defendant, said
that as the case would probably be carried to the ses-
sions, he should decline offering any remarks or calling
any witnesses.
Mr. BINGHAM said the case of assault had been proved
against the defendant. It was a case that he could not
adjudicate himself. He should therefore send it to the
quarter sessions, and hold the defendant to bail in two
sureties of 100/. each, and himself in the sum of 2001.,
for his appearance.

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.)
At the opening of the court this morning several par-
ties, one after the other, were placed in the dock,
charged with assaults; &c., in all which cases no prose-
cutor appeared.
In one case, particularly that of Susanna Atkinson,
charged with creating a disturbance, the police-constable
K 251 acknowleged that he had not witnessed any part
of the transaction, upon which
Mr. YARDLEY observed he had noticed that police-
constables in this district were by far too ready in taking
people into custody. It was well known that, particularly
in cases of assault, the party aggrieved was frequently
given in charge by the aggressors, as there was in all
such cases, generally speaking, most conflicting evi-
dence, and the party charging being on oath, their testi-
mony Ras generally received. Now, with regard to this
young woman no one appeared to press the charge, the
presumption therefore was, that she was innocent, and
if this were the case the constable had added greatly to
her wrongs by incarcerating her for the night. He
tru,ted these remarks w, uld have the effect of discounte-
nancing a practice which actually threatened to degene-
rate into a perfect nuisance. Policemen probably might
not be aware that in such matters they were liable to
have proceedings commenced against them for false im-
prisonment.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Daniel Waddy, a barman, in the service of Mr.
Payne, landlord of the Black Boy public- house, in
Whitecross-street, was placed at the bar, before Mr.
Combe, under the following singular circumstances :
It appeared that certain circumstances having induced
the prosecutor to suspect the barman of robbery, on
last Sunday morning he searched the prisoner's box ;
at first the prisoner refused to allow it, but eventually
consented, when Mr. Payne discovered, scattered about
the bottom of it, upwards of 200 sovereigns. He ques-
tioned him closely, but the prisoner refused to render
him the slightest information. A constable at length
being sent for he said that one morning, a long time
ago, as ha was passing the Bank of England, he picked
up a bag containing 180 sovereigns, opposite the large
door going towards Cornhill.
The prisoner—l did pick up 1801. right opposite the
Bank of England in September, 1845. There was no
ground for Mr. Payne's suspicion.
The officer who had the prisoner in custody said, the
prisoner's statement with respect to his mode of becoming
possessed of the money found in his box, must be false,
because no less than twenty-five of the sovereigns were
of the coinage of 1847. and consequently could not have
been picked up in 1845.
The prisoner said those coins might have formed a
par of the money he received as wages.
Mr. Vickers, who kept the Black• boy before Mr.
Payne took it, stated that the prisoner had been in his
service for seven months, and during that time he
seemed to be in want of money, as, whenever he went
out for a holiday, he always asked for a small sum in
advance. He never saw anything in the prisoner's con-
duct to induce him to suspect his honesty.

The prisoner was remanded.
Mr. CONDE said that, under all the circumstances
of the case, he should accept the prisoner's own recogni-
zances in the sum of 200/. for his appearance.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUN-
TIES RALILWA S.-Yesterday evening, between five and'
six o'clock, a dreadful accident, accompanied with loss
of life, occurred upon the above railway to a fine young
man named William Coldwell, in the service of the
company as a carriage cleaner. It appeared that the
deceased, who had no friends or relatives in ttiwn, came
up from York about nine weeks since, and representing
to Mr. Grimshaw, the station-master at the Shoreditch
terminus, that he had lately been employed in a similar
office at Huddersfield, re quested a situation upon the
railway, and was engaged in the above capacity. He
had repeatedly exhibited the most foolhardy daring in
dashing across the line while trains were in motion, and
been as frequently cautioned on the probable result of
his fay, but treated the cautions with indifference, and
persisted in the same course. On the pre ceding evening,
about half-past-live o'clOCk, be we's again seen crOssilW
the line before a train, and was called to by Me. Grim-.
Shaw to take care or he would be smashed to pieces. but
the deceased made a careless answer and walked about a
thousand yards up the rails, and at the very moment
that a pilot-engine was running towards the station to
pull out some luggage vans and horse boxes, he
attempted to run across the line. He was called to
by several of the porters not to do so, but he rushed
on, and before he could reach the opposite line
he was struck by the engine, felled to the ground,
and instantly killed upen the spot, his blood and brains
being scattered upon the rails, between which also two
holes of consideraole depth were dug in the gravel by
the force with which his body was driven along. The
engine was instantaneously reversed, and upon raising
the corpse it presented the most frightful spectacle; the
right shoulder was cut and mangled in the most horrible
manner, the arm only holding to the trunk by a few of
the ligaments, and the flesh was torn away beneath the
shoulder, exhibiting a large hole, through which the
cavity of the body was perfectly visible; in addition to
which, the whole of the upper half of the head, from the
mouth to the crown of the skull, was completely crushed
off, the latter injury being manifestly inflicted by one of
the wheels of the engine, and that to the trunk and
shoulder by the guard of the wheel, a projecting piece of
iron, about a yard long, and half an inch in thickness.
Mr. Richardson, the company's superintendent, and Mr.
GrimshaW hastened to the spot, upon learning the occur-
rence, and immediately procured the attendance of Mr.
Wildbore, the surgeon of Shoreditch; but the latter
gentleman, upon his arrival, pronounced life to be totally
extinct, and said that the man must, as a matter of
course, have been dead the instant he was struck by the
engine. All the persons present at the time of the
calamity concur in describing the occurrence as purely
accidental, and that it was wholly owing to the rashness
of the deeeast.d's own conduct.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—DOWNPATRICK, JULY 14.
—Many persons, in vehicles of all descriptions, from
coach and four down to the humble jaunting car, were
at the bay long before the time of high water, to witness
the first effort to raise the ship with artificial appliances.
At about nine o'clock she began to move, and in less
than halt an hour she had evidently attained the water-
line. The crashing of the descending boxes was very
loud, and the filling of one on the sea side, a little
before ten o'clock, was tremendous. After the tide
began to go back, or between eleven and twelve o'clock,
the spars of three other boxes refused the strain, and
snapped in two and three pieces, letting the boxes into
the water. At low water, we learned on board that the
ship rose fully two feet, and that, in consequence of the
breaking of the first spar alluded to, Captain Claxton
and Mr. Bremner did not think it prudent to let her
come higher, and about an hour and a half before high
water, the plugs were drawn, and the water let in. At
this time we were informed there was not more than
three feet of water in her. The ship went back about a
foot; therefore, she stands another foot higher than she
was before. Thera has been no trial to-day, but it was
said that .to-morrow there would be. It was said on
board that she was not wanted higher than a couple of
feet more. The damaged boxes are not going back, the
power with the levers, screws, and fifteen boxes still in
plaCe, being supposed ample for all purposes. The
southerly
.breeze sprung up again as we left, and if it
freshens, it was said no effort could be made, it being
above all things necessary to keep her steady.—Aeun
Telegraph.
A general feeling of sympathy has been created
amongst all ranks of people for the difficulties in which
Mr. Caleraft, the lessee of the Theatre Ro) al, Dublin,
has been plunged, through his long exertions to support
the drama in the Irish metropolis. A committee of the
officers of the garrison, under the immediate patronage
of Sir Edward Blakeney, the Commander of the Forces,
and of his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge,
has been formed, for the purpose of giving a performance
on Saturday, the 24th instant, for the benefit of Mr.
Calcraft. The committee consists of Major-General Sir
John Burgoyne, K.C.B , Colonel Mansell, Lieutenant-
Colonel Greaves, Major White, Captain Ponsonby,
Captain Tupper (7th Fusiliers), and Captain Leicester
Smith, who are exerting themselves zealously in the
praiseworthy work they have undertaken. We under-
stand that Mr. Charles Kean will go. to Dublin specially
to play on the occasion.
ETZER.—Ohe Tuesday morning, an Englishman
named J6hilsortc-4mployed on the Rouen and Havre
Railroad, in attitinpting, at Malaunay, to jump from a
waggon at rest to one which was in motion, fell between
them, and had nearly the whole of one of his hands so
dreadfully crushed, that on being taken to the hospital,
amputation was found necessary. On this occasion the in-
halation of ether was used, and the effects were such ,that
not only was the operation performed without the patient
suffering the slightest pain, but when he recovered his
full senses, his spirits.were so lively as to interfere with
the dressing of the stump.— Galign-ani.