The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-28 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
James V' Mahan ,vns Oared at the bar before Mr.
Jardine, -charged with attempting to stab-several per-
sons in the strcets, and violently assaulting two police
men.

Policeman E 28, said that he saw the prisoner last
night in Holborn, drunk, and brandishing a knife, mak-
ing several attempts to stab the passers by. Witness
took him into custody. The prisoner resisted violently,
and struck and kicked him several times. Policeman
E 109 came to his assistance, and they at length suc-
ceeded in taking him to the station.
Mr. JARDIN2 sentenced him to three weeks' inprison•
meet.

CHARGE OF FORGERY BY A CLERK IN SOMERSET-
HousE.—Mr. William Gates, One of the clerks in the
Property •tax department, Somerset-house, was charged
with forging a receipt to an official document, passing in
due course through his bands. The prisoner is a man
of gentlemanly appearance and address, and is said to
have filled his present office for some years.
Mr. Hoggins appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ballantyne for the defence.
Mr. Hoggins stated the case. The document which
he held in his hand was, as ho would show in evidence,
a warrant for the return of the sum of 1371. to Mr.
Lawford, on behalf of the Drapers' Company, that sum
having been paid by way of income-tax, and they being
by law exempt from that tax. At the end of the docu-
ment was a receipt for that sum, purporting to be signed
by Mr. Lawford, on behalf of the company, which re-
ceipt would be proved to be a forgery. The document
passed in due course through the prisoner's hand, and it
was his
.duty to pay the money to Mr. Lawford. It
would be proved that he had received the money for that
purpose, and had not paid it. He was not prepared to
complete the case to-day, and would therefore apply for
a remand.

Mr. Ballantine said that a remand would evidently
be necessary, and as the prisoner had not had an oppor-
tunity of consulting his solicitor, it would, perhaps, be
as well to remand the prisoner at once, without entering
into the case, and hear the evidence complete at the
next examination.

DINE also agreed to it, but taking down,
Mr. Hoggins-Zsented to this course, and Mr. JAR-
form, the evidence of' one of the clerks in the same de-
partment with the prisoner, that he had paid the money,
as a matter of
on the warrant and receipt produced, and that of Mr.
Lawford, that the document purported to be an order
for the repayment to him of the sum of 1371., " being
the amount deducted from certain dividends described
in a claim made by him (Mr. Lawford) on the 4th of
January, 1847, as the property of the Drapers' Com-
pany, and as being exempt by the Property-tax Act from
the property and income-tax." Mr. Lawford further
stated that the receipt at the bottom of the document,
purporting to be in his hand, was not so, and that
he had not received the money.

The prisoner was remanded by agreement to this day
week.

MARLBRU-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
James Lunter, a well-known thief, was placed at the
bar, charged with stealing from the Pantheon Bazaar, a
gold pencilcase, value 125. 6d., the property of Mrs.
Sophia Garnett.
The complainant, who keeps a stall in the bazaar,
stated that on the previous afternoon, about half-past
five o'clock, the prisoner came to her stall and asked to
look at some gold and silver pencilcases. She placed a
large case full before itim, and turned away to attend to
another customer. Whilst she was so engaged, she heard
the prisoner rattling the pencilcases about, and on her
looking round, saw him with a lot in his hand, which be
was attempting to put in his pocket. She seized hold of
his hand, and taxed him with attempting to rob her.
He denied the assertion, and was about leaving the stall,
when she detained him, and sent for the door-keeper,
and gave him into custody.
James Brown, doorkeeper at the Bazaar, proved re-
ceiving charge of the prisoner, and conveying him to the
manager's-room, where he was searched, and the gold
pencil case now-produced found in his pocket.
The prisoner denied the robbery, and said he pur-
chased the pencil case at the Bazaar, but could not tell
at which stall.
Mr. HARDWICK committed him for trial.
A batch of vagrants, men and women, were brought
before Mr. Hardwick, charged with being found sleep-
ing in Hyde-park.
It appeared that in consequence of the numerous de-
predations that have lately taken place in the parks,
the Commissioners of Woods and Forests issued in•
structions to the park-keepers to take into custody all
persons found in the parks before the usual hours of ad-
Culwick, the
o'clock,morning,cnasttafboluers,foun the prisoners
sleepingmin istptaecnte ad-
mittance.
in oTtfhhetihs
plantations, park
k
and accordingly took them
into custody:
Being their first offence Mr. HARDWICI discharged
them with a caution.

SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.--The proprietor
of this very attractive place of public resort and amuse-
ment, Mr. Tyler, has this week increased the attractions
by exhibiting, in an appropriate partof his grounds, a per-
fectfac simile representation of the house of Shakspeare at
Stratford-upon-Avon. Those who have visited the
native town of the bard will at once recognise the

extreme fidelity with which the original has been copied,
or rather repeated; and those who have had no oppor-
tunity of seeing the house itself may rest satisfied that
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the copy is a true one, and affords a perfect notion of
the original. It is not a scenic representation of Shaks-

peare's house, nor a mere box of boards run up for the pur-
pose of a show, but an actual house built by measurement
on theplan and of the dimensions of the house of the poet.
The erection of this copy of a home so celebrated and so
venerated, in a locality where all can see and examine
it, deserves the public patronage for its spirit and its
patriotism, and will no doubt be duly appreciated by
the public. The minor details of this very interesting
object are all preserved with accuracy, from sketches by
Mr. Forrester, well known as Alfred Crowquill, who
has performed his task con amore, and with something
like sympathy with the recollections of genius. The
proprietor of the gardens has offered the use of this
house, in connexion with a fancy fair to be held for ob-
taining a sum of money for the purchase of the real
house at Stratford-upon-Avon. The suggestion is a
good one, and if carried into effect, will enable many
persons to contribute to the fund proposed.
FALL OF A BRIDGE.—On the evening of Thursday
last the bridge in course of erection over the Tweed at
Ashysteel fell with a tremendous crash into the water.
The ruins of it now lie like a vast dam across the
Tweed, with only a narrow outlet in the middle through
which the water passes. The whole wooden framework
supporting the arch was literally smashed to pieces. No
individual saw the bridge fall, the workmen having al
left it a short time before. Mr. John Smith, one of the
architects, had just examined it, and seen nothing wrong.
The cause of the accident is not properly ascertained.
The arch, which was 135 feet span,
and constructed
entirely of whinstone, was a double one; both arches
were finished, and they were putting on the balancing.
Some attributed the accident to the haunches or outer
ends being overloaded, but this is mere conjecture. We
understand Messrs. Smith have commenced active opera-
tions to have it rebuilt this season on the same gigantic
scale as at first.—Border Watch.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—The following
are the steam vessels which have been ordered to ren-
dezvous in Cowes Roads, for the purpose of convoying
the royal yacht, Victoria and Albert,
on her voyage to
Scotland with the Queen and Prince Albert on board:—
The Black Eagle, the Garland, the Fairy, and the Un-
dine. No others have been named at present.
MONEY MARKET.—The preniium on gold at Paris
is 12 per milk , which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an
that gold is 0.39
exchange of 25.45 ; and the exchange at Paris on Lou-
don at short being 25.35, it follows
per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advises
from Hamburgh the price of gold is 431 per mark,
exchange of 13.8;
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per
ntet eove ke nefirn the doors,
ounce for standard gold, gives an
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being
13 81, it follows that gold is 0.15 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
DEATH FROM FALLING INTO A COAT PIT.—
OR the body of John
Badger, Rig , at the Infirmary,
morning from having
Higginbottom, aged twenty- . ~
On Monday an inquest watisvetaykeenarsb, eotofreGiTeandoimesass.
Sheandayvious Wednesday
prenight.
appeared that, on Wednesday
fallenFrem common,itoh eowaehvcoiodadelta.-epediet ooi ntn
night, the deceased, William Nutton, Samuel Ellis, and
James Howson, were working at one of Mr. Rhodes's
gd.rewAta aboutcorf
out eleven
o f
theo'cl o'clock,
pit,k,
pits, at Woodthorpe colliery. The deceased was banks-
went to his work at half-past
oNaeuet,toane
d saw w
while
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ca whilem came.
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man for the night, and t
sNeuvettnonectlhocekenigni
pit,
Ellis, whichwha i
was
ae eighty hb tei-a yards
r disf
and landed it at the top 0
but went to pit, and • • the missing the de-
ceased,answeraskedheard it out u
noise
called
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.in
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butor ..
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the deceased had fallen pit. At the pe-
riod of the accident, Ellis was at the bottom of the
near the fall, and he was just going to pull the
pit, very
out of the chair at the bottom of the pit,
empty corf
.at the shaft,
when he heard a noise
down a t the
Sampson of
and he tried to run
out of the waY• The corf_e came down first, and knocked
his light out. James 11,
called out
with him at the bot-
tom of the pit, and so he out for him to come with
his light. When Howson came, c, they saw the deceased
lying at the bottom of the ic,
die almost unable to speak, and they
expected he would immediately. It was sup-
posedthe deceased, after having that taken away the
the empty
full corf, bad taken
and - corf from the south in-
stead of the north side, that in doing this he had
fallen clown. The gearing was all good, and there was
a good light burning in the fire-pan at the top of the pit.
The deceased was an unmarried man, and was
perfectly
sober at the time. The deceased reached the infirmary
at two o'clock on Thursday morning, but
every
attention was paid to him, he died at midnight on Sun-
Ally the witnesses were of opinion that his death
had. been purely accidental, and the jury tre urned a
verdict of accidental death from falling into a coal-pit.—
Sheffield Times.
A splendid swimming race came off othis morning
at half-past ten, at the National Baths, Westminster-
bridge-road, for an elegant silver pencil-case, by Mor-
clan. The competitors were Master Thompson, J. K.
Stevens, and Henderson, when, after a sharp contest,
Stevens came in first. They were started by Captain
Stevens.
The late Samuel Housley, Esq.,
of Gloucester-
terrace, Regent's Park, died possessed of personalty
within the province of Canterbury, amounting to
70,0001., which, together with all his freehold and
copy hold estates, and all other property, he leaves to
his wife, providing an annuity fur his brother Francis,
also a pecuniary legacy to his brother Thomas, and fifty
pounds to each of his executors. He executed his will
in 1841 with three codicils, and died on the 9th of June
last.