The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

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John Morgan WAS charged with stabbing a constable in the
employ of the Great Western Railway Company, named
O'Hara.

The complainant said he went into the Cock public•house,
New-street, Blrwick•street, about nine o'clock on Saturday
night, and when about to quit the house, the prisoner, who
was standing in front of the bar, with a number of other
young men, called out, "Here's a Great Western police-
man," and drawing a sword from a stick which he had in
his hand, made a pass at him and stabbed him in the right
shoulder.

Police-constable Wills said he took the prisoner into cus-
oody. He examined the complainant, and found a punctured
wound under the right arm.
The defence of the prisoner was that the wound was acci-
dental. He was flourishing about the sword at the time the
complainant pissed him, and the point of the weapon went
again,t tile constable.

The prisoner was eommitted.to Newgate fur trial
IVOJ!S RIiFsT.

Colonel Montmorency Tucker, of her MAjesty's service,
aceompanicd by Dr. V. 0. Zienkiewickzi, of Trevot.-stpure,
Brompton, and several Polish officers, Atencled before Mr.
Broughton yesterday to apply for assault warrants against the
Rev. G. Roberts, curate of Christchurch, Spitaltieks; Mr. J.
Root, his clerk ; Pilbrow, the parish beadle, and e police-con-
stable of the U division, under the following remarkable cir-
cumstances :

The Rev. Doctor stated that, between 4 and 5 o'clock on
the afternoon of Sunday last, he proceeded, in the company
of a large body of Polish gentlemen, to Spitaltields Church,
to take pa-t in the funeral obsequies of a deceased officer
named Karozmarcki, who had greatly distinguished himself
in the service of his country; and that, previously to the
burial service being read by the Rev. Mr. Roberts, the offi-
ciating clergyman, an application was made to the clerk, on
the part of Captain Ludovic Pruszynski, for permission to
deliver a funeral oration over the grave of the deceased, in
accordance with the prescriptive usage of his country on
similar occasions. Not the least objection -was Offered to
this prop rsition, and after the clergyman had completed
the service, and retired with his officials, the chief
mourner, in his native language, commelic,d an ad-
dress commemorative of the merits and services of
the deceased veteran; but, after proceeding for some time
withou4 molestation, he was suddenly disturbed by the
abrupt interference of a policeman, who told him that he
was directed to put an immediate stop to the proceedings,
and required the wholtetlarty to leave the ground. Oa an
intimation, however, that the ceremony would only occupy
a few minutes longer, the constable respectfully withdrew
to the spot where the clergyman and his subordinates were
atanding, and the speaker again proceeded with his oration,
but had only uttered a few sentences, when the parish clerk,
accompanied by the same policeman and the bea,ne, forced
his way through the throng of mourners, and, having im-
peratively ordered him to desist, the whole three simultane-
ously seized hold of him, and dragged him forcibly from the
grave. Fiuding that they were precluded from discharging
the last offices to their deceased friend, without resorting to
an unseemly act of violence, they were induced to submit
passively to this vexatious treatment, and quitted the
ground ; but., as they could scarcely believe that such op-
pressive conduct was sanctioned by the laws of this country,
they had determined to seek redress at the hands of the ma-
gistrate.
Colonel Tucker here intimated that he had been previously
an entire stranger to any of the complaining parties, but
happening to be accidentally passing the burial-ground at
the time in question, his attention was attracted by loud
cries of " Shame" proceeding from a crowd of persons assem
bled in front of it; and on entering the gates, he met the
body Of Poles quietly departing, but expressing to each
other their sense of the indignity they had suffered, and ex-
claiming that they would have met with greater toleration
even in Russia than had been shown to them in this free
land. Having made himself acquainted with the facts of
the case from some unrrejudiced bystanders, who evinced a
strong feeling of indignation at the scene they had wit-
nessed, he alt himself called upon to interfere on behalf of
the complainants, who considered themselves greatly ag-
grieved at such a harsh prohibition of those usual military
obsequies which were universally tolerated in all other
countries.

Mr. BROUGHTON said that, without entering into the
question as to how far the clergyman was jos' Itie:l in direct-
ing his subordinates to adopt the course they were alleged
to have taken, he certainty did not himself appear to have
committed any overt act, that would justly a magistr,ve in
issuing process against him ; but with regard to the three
other parties, he should order stuntninses to be made out for
using a greater degree of violence than the. circumstanees
demanded.