The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

John M'Cartney was brought before Mr. Broughton,
charged with creating a mob, and violently assaulting the
police.
201 G stated that, on Saturday night last, about half-

past ten o'clock, he was on his beat in Horseshoe-alley,
Shoreditch, when he saw the prisoner in a most ex-
citeable state, is the midst of about sixty persons. Wit-
ness desired him to go home. Prisoner refused, but
witness, thinking that he would be quiet, walked off, but
as he was proceeding he suddenly received two tre-
mendous blows on the neck from the prisoner, who then
fastened on him, and both fell to the ground. Prisoner
then commenced kicking and biting witness, and, he be-
lieved, he would scarcely have escaped with his life, had
not a brother police-constable come up to his assistance.
The prisoner was then secured, but not without the ut-
most difficulty.
This statement being corroborated,
Mr. BROUGHTON said that the police must be pro-
tected from such ruffians as the prisoner, otherwise they
were of no use. He should commit him for three weeks
to gaol, with hard labour.

SALT MONOPOLY IN FRANCE.—The monopoly of
salt has recently been made the subject of a report to the
French Academy by the celebrated traveller in America,
M. de Tocqueville. The Academy, M. de Tocqueville
states, is aware that the question of the production of
salt, and its price, is one of the most important consider-
ations with reference to public health and agriculture
that can occupy the attention of political economist
and statesmen. This subject has of late years very much
agitated the public mind in France, and M. de Tocque-
ville complains that salt is, in general, only viewed by
the Government in connexion with taxation, and that
the tax bears no proportion to the value of the com-
modity, which is thus raised to an exorbitant price. It
appears that the salt makers in the south of France have
entered into a confederacy for the purpose of keeping up
the price, and it is even feared that the salt monopoly
will soon be in the hands of one individual. "Of what
advantage, then, is it," M. de Tocqueville asks, " for the
state to lower the tax, if the maker has it in his power
to command the market, and raise the price at his
pleasure ? " M. de Tocqueville is not in favour of
abolishing individual monopoly for the purpose of
establishing one by Government in its stead. Such a
measure, he thinks, would be dangerous, and that the
state has already greatly exceeded its proper sphere of
action, meddling with many details with which it ought
to have nothing to do, and thus exposing its power, at
once extended and enfeebled, to become at the same
time oppresive and weak.
Exposuaz or HUMAN REMAINS.—Throughout the
whoie of Sunday, the greatest excitement and disgust
pervaded the neighbourhood of the Caledonian road,
Islington, Maiden-lane, and King's-cross, en the disco-
very of a large quantity of human bones and
pieces of coffins exposed in the public thorough-
fares of these localities, under circumstances of
a most suspicious and mysterious character. The
secresy observed in bringing the remains to the various
spots has been such as almost entirely to prevent
the detection of the parties who have been guilty of
this gross act. In Albion- street, a new street running
from the Wharf-road, Maiden-lane, to the Caledonian-
road, a cart-load of earth, &c., was shot on Saturday in
the middle of the road, which is in the course of con-
struction, and emitted a most disgusting effluvium, but
was not noticed to contain the remains of human beings.
The stench caused an examinatisn to be made, and seve-
ral other portions of coffins half rotted, and human
bones were found. In Bath-street and River-street, two
new streets in the course of formation on the north side
of the Regent's Canal, a more disgusting proceeding
has been resorted to—upwards of three waggon loads
of black earth, intermingled with human bones,
have been deposited in these streets, and men
have been employed to sift the earth for the
purpose of mixing portions of it with lime. The bones
left in the sieve, composing all parts of the human frame,
were thrown on one side and partially buried under clay.
The stench arising is of a most dreadful description, No
one can tell where the bones, &c., have been brought
from, nor who are the parties concerned. The reporter
was present at the various spats, and saw leg and arm
bones and portions of human skulls thrown about in all
directions. What the police could have been about in
allowing such a proceeding to take place without inter-
ference is asked by every one, as it is stated that two
cart loads of the black earth, &c., were deposited in
River-street on .Sundaylmorning at two o'clock.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT A BREWERY.--On Sa-
turday afternoon, between the hours of five and six
o'clock, an accident of a most fearful character, and
which it is feared will prove fatal, occurred to a man
named Edward Windsor, a bricklayer, who was engaged
at work at Messrs. Harrison's, the extensive brewers,
in the Hampstead -road. The unfortunate man was at
the period in question on the top of the building, and
by some unaccountable means lost his footing and fell
into a well, from a height of above 250 feet. He was
conveyed in a cab to the London University College
Hospital, when it was ascertained by the house sur-
geon that he bad sustained a broken leg, fractured
both arms, and other serious injuries, so as to leave no
hopes of his final recovery.