The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-15 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

John Tucher, a stylishly-dressed person, who stated
that he was a solicitor's clerk, was charged with having
assaulted Harriet Holland, a comely and modest-looking
girl, 16 years of age.
The complainant stated that she was in the service of
a gentleman named Andrews, who resided in Cumber-
land-street, Hackney-road. On the preceding day she
attended her master and mistress to the house of one of
her friends in the City, and in the evening they sent her
Dome before them to make some domestic preparations.
As she was passing through Cheapside she was accosted
by the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to her, and
who informed her that he intended to spend the evening
at the Britannia Saloon, Hoxton, and invited her to ac-
company him. She refused to do so, and repelled his
advances, but he continued to annoy her, and asked her
to drink gin with him at different public-houses. He
afterwards followed her to her master's house, and she
escaped from his importunities with great difficulty.
The complainant's master stated that on reaching
home he found the prisoner in his front garden, and on
asking what he wanted, there the prisoner walked away
without making any reply. The complainant, who was
in tears, and excessively agitated, opened the door, and
informed him that she had been insulted, upon which he
followed the prisoner and gave him into custody.
Upon being asked if he wished to say anything, the
prisoner admitted having kissed the complainant, but
denied that he assaulted her in any other manner.
He complained that after he was locked up the police
refused to allow him an opportunity of communicating
with his friends, or of apprising "his wife " of his
situation.

Mr. BROUGHTON ordered him to pay a fine of 505., or
to be imprisoned for two months m the House of
Correction.

LUCILY DREAM.—The form of the small shot
used by sportsmen are exactly spheroidal. The manner
in which this advantage is secured is highly ingenious.
It is said. that a Mr. Watt, a native of Bristol, and a
plumber by trade, had a dream, in which he saw the
whole contrivance. A person appeared before him on
the top of a high tower, with a sieve in one hand, and
a ladle of melted lead in the other • the lead was poured
into the sieve, which he shook violently, and the liquid
metal fell in drops like rain to the floor of the tower ;
but in its fall had recovered its solidified state. The
imaginary person then descended from the tower, and
examined some of the shot ; and among them Watt saw
several that were not either perfectly round, or had ts)::„
to them. To separate these from the others,.tl a man
removed the shot to an inclined plane ; th(ne that were
round ran down the plank, while those: that were mis-
shapen wriggled over the side. A perfect separation
was thus effected. This was ‘a lucky dream for Watt,
as he sold his patent fbr 10,0004 ; and a similar
method is still emple:, ed by manufacturers.—Experi-
mental Philosopher,
A lad of only twelve or thirteen years of age
waa returning, a few evenings ago, from Rheims to
V ieea, with a cart, and carrying a good sum of money
u belt round his person, he was stopped by three rob-
bers, who demanded his money, and, on his refusing to
give it, threatened to put him under the wheel of his
cart. "
move Do," said the boy, " but you shall not have my
y." The proceeded to carry their threat into exe-
cution, the boy in the mean time calling in vain upon
his dog to assist him. The robbers alarmed, lest while
the boy resisted they should be discovered, at length
left him. On his return home with his money the boy
gave it to his father, and then taking his gun shot the
dog, which had returned before him, observing to his
father that the animal was a coward and a traitor.
A rumour is prevalent that Mr. J. Martin,
M.P. for Tewkesbury, intends accepting the Chiltern
Hundreds, to admit the late defeated candidate, Mr.
Easthope. Should this step be taken, it is said that a
Conservative candidate will be brought forward.—Aris's
Birmingham Gazette.