The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-01 00:00:00

the Star coach for some time, and knew nothing what-
ever of the transaction.
Mr. Dashwood said that before the establi•hment of
the Eastern Counties Railroad the utmost regularity was
observed in the delivery of parcels at Christmas, us well
as at all other times, but that since the line was in opera-
tion nothing could surpass the marvellous irregularity
of the whole system. He considered that he was most
severely imposed upon, for he had been put to trouble
and expense, and after all disappointed, and when lie did
get the parcel the turkeys were spoiled.
The LORD MAYOR said that over the Star coach he,
unfortunately, had no control, or he should be happy to
render a service to Mr. Dashwood in such a case. _

Mr. Dashwood called his Lordship's attention to the
improper use made of the respectable names of Messrs.
Chaplin and Horns to give authority to the additional
demand which he had been compelled to comply with,
or part with his parcel.
The LORD MAYOR regretted that the only remedy
for Mr. Dashwood lay in a court of law.
Mr. Dashwood declared that he could bring forward
a dozen gentlemen of Greenwich who had been treated
in exactly a similar manner.
The LORD MAYOR—I am very sorry for it. But
Mr. Hudson. who is now chairman of the Eastern
Counties Railroad, will, I dare say, cast his eye upon
some account of this complaint, and his activity and zea
will not be wanting to abate so disagreeable and inconl
venient an evil.

Dennis Shine, a young man who had been a police-
man some tine ago, was brought up for final examina-
tion, on the charge of having committed several most
desperate assaults in the Bell, in Little Friday-street,
on Friday evening. The person most injured, a
policeman named John Monaghan, was not able, in cup-
sequence of the injuries he sustained, to attend until yes-
terday.
John Monaghan (policeman 541) stated that he was
sent for to the house in consequence of a very serious
disturbance there on the evening in question. When he
arrived there were five or six policemen round the door,
and he saw the prisoner inside a room on the second
floor, through a hole in the panel of the door, and asked
him to give himself up. The prisoner refused, and said
he would kill any policeman who attempted to enter.
Witness at once pushed in the door, and on going into
the room was violently assaulted by the prisoner, who
struck at him with the handle of a tire-shovel, which he
(the prisoner) held .with both his hands. Witness re-
ceived the blow across the arm and under the eye. The
prisoner then levelled another desperate blow at the
witness, which broke through his hat, and inflicted a
severe wound on the back part of his head, but witness,
laid hold of his assailant, and managed to get him down,
and then the prisoner said he should submit. The wit-
ness was obliged to leave the room immediately after-
wards, and was for a time quite blind in consequence of
the desperate nature of the assault.
It appeared from other evidence that the prisoner had
been previously quarrelling at the bar, where he knocked
down the waiter and jumped upon his face; that when
the police were called for in consequence of that vio-
lence, he ran into the tap-room, seizes the kitchen
poker, knocked a man senseless under the table with a
back-hrnded blow of it, cleared the room of all the cus-
tomers, and then ran up stairs, and fastened himself in
the room, in which he was at length apprehended, and
in which he very nearly committed murder.
The prisoner said, that he had been struck by one of
the policemen above stairs through the panel of the door,
before he touched Monaghan, and that in his rage he
had retaliated, without being particular as to the person
whom he punished.

The Lul) Mayort—l commit you for trial, and I shall
direct the City Solicitor to prosecute you at the Central
Criminal Court.

Prisoner—Won't your Lord:hip take bail?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly not.
The prisoner was then committed fur trial.

John. Luba, a Dutchman, was charged with having, on
the 25th of June last, stolen three watches, worth seve-
rally 65 guineas, 40 guineas, and 30 guineas.
Mr. John Burley, of No. 56, Ernest street, R' gent's-
park, watchmaker, stated that on the 25th of June he
was sent by a Mr. Viner to No. 3, St. George's-terrace,
Bayswater-road, to show some watches and clocks to a
Mr. Delara. Upon inquiring fur Mr. Delara he was
sent up to the first fluor, where he saw the pris&sner,who
WAS quite at his ease, smoking a cigar Lice a gentleman.
The prisoner, upon being asked, said that he was Mr.
Delara, and that the watches, but not the clocks, were
for him; but he expected a captain would call very soon
who was going to make a present to the lady of a watch,
and probably his choice would fall upon one of them.
The prisoner then took a watch, covered with pearls,
value 65 guineas, out of the room, f,r the purpose of
showing it, but soon returned, and then took away the
three watches under pretence of exhibiting them to his
lady. Witness waited, but Mr. Delara never returned.
The servant girl, upon being spoken to by witness, in-
sisted that Mr. Delara was in the drawing-rootn, but the
hall door being found open the matter was fully ex-
plained—the prisoner had absconded with the property.
The prisoner—l am not the man ; it is quite a mis-
take. I was in Rolland in June, and I never came 'lyre
till November.

The Loiw MAron (to the witness)—Have you any
doubt of the prisoner's identity? Witness—Not the
least.

Inspector Shackell, to whom information of the rob-
bery had been given, anti who apprehended the prisoner,
said he had traced the pearl wateigfo a gentleman in
Regent street, who had purchased it of Mr. Phillips, by
whom it had been purchased of Mr. Delara. Witness
said he had met with the greatest facilities from both the
parties mined in pursuing the investigation.
Mr. Phillips, of Castle-street, Houndw.litch, watch-
maker, said that he purchased three watches of the pri-
soner at the «,nd of June or the beginning of July, and
the pearl watch produced was one of them. He was con-
vinced the prisoner was the man.
The father of the last witness also identified the pri-
soner as the person who had sold the watches.
The L _RD MAYOR.—WeII, prisoner, what do you say
to all this evidence ?

The prisoner—Why, I say they mistake the person. I
know nothing about the watches or about them. I can
write to Holland to prove I was there at the time you
speak of. I was there in June and I was not here till
November.
The LORD MAYOR.—You mir,bt have been there in
June and here too, and you might have been there in
November too.
Prisoner—But it is all a gross mistake.
I❑spector Shackell said he should be able still more
strongly to confirm the identity, and the prisoner was re-
manded.
GUILDHALL.

A butcher, named Tay/or, who sometimes retails meat
at the stalls of Mr. Sadler, a wholesale butcher, in New-
gate. street, was summoned before Mr. Alderman Challis
for vending a leg of pork, unfit for human food, on the
23d inst.

Henry Gatfield, of George•street, ;Cambridge-heath,
stated that he and his wife came to Newgate market to
buy their Christmas dinner, hoping to fare better than if
teurehased nearer home. At Mr. Sadler's stall they
they
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~-:-T fur which they
,paid 7s. GI Aeared to be a very suitab:e joint, a leg of
found what
perk, weighing 16,,e, on Christmas-day, and
good blazing, fire was made u,
+n be thoroughly
big us it was, the leg was expecteu l'eura the
roasted in four hours. At the end of two ..
family were astonished that there was no savoury fumes
about the premises, such as might be expected from the
action of a good fire on a nice leg of pork, arid it was
examined and found to be as soft and raw as if it had not
been placed at the fire at all. It was curious, and in the
next two hours it was looked at pretty often, but still
presented the same uncooked, be-devilled appearance.
At the appointed dinner hour it was taken up and
strictly examined. The meat had become redder, oddly
red, but it was evidently still raw. A stronger fire was
made up and it was put down again, and at the end of
six hours it was in the same state of rawness as at the
end of four hours or two hours. It was clear the leg
would not roast, and that something else must besub-
stituted for the Christmas dinner. When he called early
next morning on the salesman, he gave him the name of
defendant as the person who had the use of the stall at
the time. lie produced the joint, which had an un-
sightly appearance and a tough skin.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said this story put him in
mind of the nursery rhyme, " fire, fire, won't burn pig."
What was the reason the meat would not mast ? The
complainant said he was unable to tell the cause. He
could only speak to the fact.
It was surmised that it was the leg of a very old boar
pig, fattened up fur sale, and that he had died of smother-
ing, and without having the blood drained out of him,
upon some railway.
Mr. Alderman CuaLus asked if he could show that the
animal must have been infected with some disease ?
The complainant said he could not.
The defendant said he could prove by the clerk of the
market, and another butcher, to whom he showed a part
of the pig, on receiving the summons, that it was not
diseased.

Mr. Alderman CHALLIS asked him to look at the meat,
and say if it was good.
The butcher replied, he could not say.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS reminded the complainant
that he had been accustomed to buy meat, and if
there was nothing in the appearance of the meat when
fresh cut up to excite suspicion, might not the butcher
be also deceived ? If he ordered the butcher to repay
the whole money, he must help him to recover it from
some other party, and he did not know where the pro-
cess would stop. They had both erred in judgment
while buying, and should, perhaps, divide the loss.
Both parties agreed to this, and the matter was settled.
A.B. remitted 21. for the poor•box.
BOW-STREET.
Richard Kean, the carman who was charged, on this
day week, with running over a woman named Elizabeth
Lee, and thereby causing her death, and was then set at
liberty on his own recognizances to appear yesterday, came
forward, in pursuance of his recognizances, when it ap •
peared that an inquest had been held on the body of the
old woman, and that a verdict of accidental death had
been returned by the jury.
Mr. TWYFORD, being satisfied from the verdict of the
jury that the prisoner was not blameable, ordered him
to be discharged.