The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-02 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 28.—The port of Antwerp has pre-
sented a very animated appearance since the day before
yesterday. The first basin is crowded with ships. In
less than 24 hours, 26 vessels have arrived, most of them
returning from long voyages. The Courier d'Anvers
say, " If we are well informed, the financial results of
the new sugar law are very satisfactory. The receipts
have increased considerably. A few days ago the total
amounted to more than three millionv; thus the antici.
'pations of the framers of the law are completely
• verified.

The Rubens, a fine Belgian vessel, .vas to sail on
Friday from Antwerp, bound to Valparaiso, in Chili.
Part of her cargo consists of 1,143 barrels of refined
sugar.

The Minister of the Interior has just sent a new•
circular to the governors of the provinces, recom-
mending them to assure the makers of the exact execu-
tion of the important measure of the census. He de-
sires them to take particular care to make it under-
stood:—

1. That the census of the inhabitants, being founded
on the principle of the actual population, all the indivi-
duals, natives or foreigners, who shall be in the Bel-
gian territory, shall be counted in the locality where
each of them has passed the night of the 14th of Octo-
ber, so that the number of persons present on a fixed
day, in each commune, may be exactly known, with all
the distinction indicated in the bulletin.

2. That the persons who, on the day of taking the
census, shall be absent from their home, are, neverthe-
less, to be inscribed in the bulletin of the family to
which they belong. It is expressly recommended that
the absence be mentioned in the c,ilumn of abreviation.
3 and 4, Contain particular directions relative to far
mers, and to manufacturers, artizans, and shopkeepers.
STUTTGLIRT, SEPT. 23 —The Crown Prince and
Princess, who had already been most unexpectedly
wel .owed on their arrival at Heillroum, by their Ma-
jesties, arrived about twelve o'clock this morning at the
royal country seat of Rasensteim, where they were re-
ceived with the most heartfelt joy by their Majesties and
several members of the royal family, who are at pre-
sent staying there. After breakfast they made their
public entry into the capital, conducted by the royal
family and the Court, amidst the ringing of the church
bells and the firing of cannon. The royal bride and
bridegroom were met at the Neckar-street, where a
triumphal arch was erected by the magistrates and chief
civil authorities, and various companies with their ban-
ners. The Princess then proceeded to the royal Palace,
Konigsstrasse, all the streets through which they passed
being lined with military, and decorated with branches,
flowers, carpets, and banners, and various tasteful de-
signs and ornaments. The Prince and Princess were
attended by an escort of the royal body guard, a nnmber
of young men of the class of citizens, and the city guard
on horseback, and the civic companies, as far as the
court of the royal residence, when the Stuttgard Philhar-
monic Society awaited their arrival, and executed a con-
gratulatory ode. On their arrival at Wilhelms Plata, a
company of young ladies presented to her Imperial
Highness the Crown Princess baskets of grapes and
other fruits, the produce of our vineyards and gardens.

AN AMERICAN SENTINEL.—A New Orleans letter
relates the manner of the death of Captain Pope, which
was caused by his neglect to give •the guard the counter-
sign. The sentinel was a boy of sixteen, who, hailing
and receiving no answer, fired and killed him. The
sentry is reported as saying, " I challenged somebody
twice --gin him fair warnin'—he didn't answer, and I
jest plugged him." The men sprang into the bushes,
and in a short time dragged into the clearing the dead
body. Just then the moon, which had risen behind a
heavy bank of clouds, emerged from behind them, and
shed a pale light upon the group, disclosing the uni-
form of a volunteer officer. " Why, what have you
done ? This is one of us," said the corporal, and, raising
the head of the dead man, be gazed for a moment on his
features, and exclaimed, " My God ! boys, its Captain
Pope !" " Captain Pope I" echoed the lad, " well,
who'd a'thought it ? I'm mighty sorry, but it wasn't my
fault. If it had been the Colonel, or General Taylor,
'twould bin jest the same." " They took me into
arrest," said the boy, relating the occurrence to my in-
formant, " tried me by court-martial, and acquitted me.
I'd only done my duty ; but they went and discharged
me under pretence that I was under age."—American
Paper.
EARLY CLOSING AT ROCHESTER. —On Saturday
evening a meeting of the inhabitants of Rochester, Chat-
ham, Strood, and Brompton, was held in the Guildhall,
Rochester, pursuant to a requisition to the Mayor signed
by nearly 300 tradesmen of the neighbourhood, for the
purpose of adopting measures for the general early closing
of places of business. The Mayor occupied the chair.
The several resolutions having been carried by acclama-
tion, a committee was named for the purpose of forming
an association of the tradesmen of the towns in order to
carry out the system of early closing, which is to com-
mence from Monday next. 'Thanks-having been voted
to the Mayor the meeting separated. The hall was so
crowded on the occasion that it was difficult to obtain
admission. It was fortunate that the meeting was brought
to a close at the time it was, for scarcely five minutes
afterwards a chandelier, hanging in the centre, of im-
mense weight—under which, but a few minutes pre-
viously, a dense packed crowd had been standing—fell
with a tremendous crash.
Sir William Denison has left town to embark for
Van Diemen's Land, to assume the government of that
colony.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant. ADA AIS, Assistant Judge, and a

Bench of Magistrates.)
ROBBERY IN AN OMNIBUS.

C. M'Caskill was indicted, on Thursday, charged with
having stolen seven half-crowns in an omnibus, from a
lady of the name of Sorrell, on the 10th of September.
Mr. Wilde defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the testimony of the prosecutrix that
on the day in question she had taken her seat in an om-
nibus with the intention of going to Poplar, and had
scarcely taken her seat ere the prisoner got in. At
that moment there was only an elderly lady besides
themselves in the carriage. Shortly after both were
seated the prisoner, addressing the other passenger, in-
quired if she could favour him with change for a sove -
reign. The reply was in the negative; whereupon he put
a similar question to the prosecutrix, wkp made the like
answer. A minute or two subsequen!Yy, however, re-
collecting that she had a sufficiency of silver in her pocket,
she told him she should be happy to meet his wishes.
She accordingly gave him eight half-crowns, when he
placed-in her hand in return a coin which, on examina-
tion, proved to be a shilling. The prosecutrix instantly
called his attention to the circumstance, presuming that
he had made an unintentional mistake, bat was much sur-
prised at his taking back the shilling and giving her as
its substitute one of her own half-crowns. She remon-
strated with him, but he instantly told the omnibus con-
ductor to stop the carriage, which having been done, he
got out, tendering the very shilling which she had her-
self returned to him in payment, remarking that the
lady was a friend of his, and he would pay for the two.
The prosecutrix indignantly repudiated all knowledge of
the man, and accused him of having robbed her. The
prisoner ran off, but ere he could get beyond her reach
she laid hold of his coat tail, and called for the police.
The prisoner endeavoured to free himself from her
clutches, but the lady was too powerful in her grasp, and
retained her hold until a policeman came up, into whose
care she handed him. The prisoner was ultimately con-
veyed to the station-house and searched, when the seven
half-crowns and a sixpence were found in his hand.
Upon being asked for the sovereign for which he had
required the change, he said he did not possess one.
Two policemen were engaged in the affair, and to the one
he said that he had not got any money, whilst to the
other, who forced his hand open, he stated the half-
crowns, as well as the sixpence, to be his own.
IA the cross-examination of this witness, it was
elicited that upon inquiring about the prisoner, he had
ascertained that he was a highly respectable man, living
in the Bing's-road, Chelsea. A publican of the name of
Webb stated that the prisoner had borrowed a shilling of
him a few minutes only before he had entered the
omnibus. As many as thirty duplicates were found in
the prisoner's pockets.
Mr. WILDE, on behalf of the pisoner, submitted that
the offence of which he was accused, especially as:proved,
was not a felony. He was prepared to cite a case ex-
actly in point. His Lordship would find it in the 9th of
Carrington and Payne, page 741, and it was under the
head of " The Queen v. C. Thomas." There the pri-
soner was indicted for stealing a sovereign, the property
of Thomas fins.- It appeared that the prosecutor and
the prisoner, having entered a beer-shop, were drinking
together, and that the prosecutor, who had agreed to
treat the prisoner, took a sovereign out of his pocket for
the purpose of paying, and offered it to the landlady to
change, and upon her declaring her inability to do so,
she placed it on the table, and the prisoner thereupon
said, " I'll go and get change." The prosecutor said,
" You won't come back with the change," to which the
prisoner replied, " Never fear;" and, taking up the
sovereign, left the house and did not return again.
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that
he was not aware of the last remark of the
prisoner, nor at first that he had gone out wih
the sovereign, but he had not offered any oppo-
sition to the prisoner taking it, having left the
sovereign on the table after his reply to the prisoner's
offer. The Learned Counsel in this case, on behalf of
the prisoner, then contended, that as the taking had
been with intent to get the change, any subsequent
felonious intent of converting it to his own use would not
constitute a trespass sufficient to render it a felony ; and
that the prosecutor having parted with the legal posses-
sion of the sovereign, the subsequent appropriation of the
money by the prisoner did not amount to larceny.
Mr. Justice Coleridge observed that the passive conduct
of the prosecutor was a sufficient sanction of the taking.
The Learned Counsel for the prosecutor (Mr. lluddle-
stone) submitted that the prosecutor had not divested
himself of the property in the sovereign by even giving
it to the prisoner for change, and that it remained his
till it was actually changed. Mr. Justice Coleridge
(having conferred with Mr. Baron Gurney) said, " It
appeared quite clear that the prosecutor, having per-
mitted the sovereign to be taken away for change, could
never have expected to receive back again the same
specific coin, and he had therefore divested himself, at
the time of the taking, of the entire possession of the
sovereign, and consequently he thought that there was
not a sufficient trespass to constitute a larceny." The
prisoner was accordingly acquitted. Now, his Lordship
would see that the prosecutrix, having given the eight
half-crowns to the prisoner, never could have expected
to have received the self-same pieces of coin again, She
had, therefore, divested herself of all possession of them.
It was manifest that when the lady handed over the half-
crowns she had not expected to receive them, but a so-
vereign back. Possession consequently had been given
up ere there had been any appropriation by the prisoner.
The Learned JUDGE raid, if the judges of the superior
courts had expressed an opinion in such a case that the
transfer of the money was complete by the mere handing
over of the half•crowns, without the sovereign having
been given to her, then the argument of the Learned
Counsel might carry some weight with it. It was quite
clear to him that the lady had parted with the half-
crowns upon the faith that she a as to receive a sovereign
in return for them. In his opinion there was no complete
transfer of ownership in the half-crowns, because the
sovereign had not been given in exchange.
Mr. fAYNE, as amicus curia, remarked that that was
the customary principle. In the case of " the Queen v.
Oliver," 2 Leach, 1,072, one man had offered to give
another gold for notes. The prosecutor placed the notes
on the table for the purpose of their being changed for
gold. The defendant took them up and ran away.
There the court held that the act was larceny, and the
jury thereupon found that the defendant had the animus'
furandi at the moment when the act was committed.
Then, again, in the case of a man named Williams, re.
ported 6 Carringt,in and Payne, 370, the man went into
a shop and asked for change for half-a-crown. The
shopman gave him 2s. 6d. The prisoner did not give
the half-crown, but took up the 2s. 6d. and ran away.
The Court held that the offence committed was a larceny.
The Learned JUDGE was quite clear upon that point,
but as there appeared to have been two opposite decisions
according to the view of the Learned Counsel for the
prisoner, he would ask the opinion of the judges, for the
purpose of removing all doubt in future.
A number of witnesses of the greatest respectability
gave the prisoner the highest character.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE ordered that the prisoner should
be brought up for judgment upon another occasion.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday Edward Evans, a draper's assistant out of
place, was brought before Sir W. Magniy, charged with
obtaining goods by false pretences from various whole-
sale houses.

Mr. Stillwell, of White Lion-street, Norton-folgate,
stated that on the sth of September the prisoner came
in and asked for a piece of crimson damask. A piece
was shown to him, and ho approved of the quality. The
prisoner had been in the habit of coming for goods from
Messr3. Miles and Edwards (now flindley and Sons), in
Oxford-street, and witness was about to make out the
invoice to them, when the prisoner observed he had left
them, and was at Gillow's, in Oxford•.street. Witness
made out the invoice accordingly, and delivered it with
the goods to the prisoner. On the following Tuesday
he came again, and said he wanted another piece of the
same sort. Mr. Meteyard (one of the firm of Gillow
and Co.), liked it very much, and was going to send this
piece to a lady in South Audley-street. The value of
the two pieces was upwards of 401.

Aaron Burgess, in the service of Mr. Grimolt, of Milk-
street, silk manufacturer, deposed to the prisoner having
obtained a rich piece of tabaret from him on the 26th of
August, pretending he had been sent from Messrs.
Saunders, in Regent-street. He delivered it, having
known the prisoner in the trade for six or seven years
past. _ _

There were some other cases, and the pawnbrokers
produced the goods. .
___ _

Packman, One of the City detective officers, stated,
that some of the property discovered had not yet been
owned. Ten duplicates were found at the prisoner's
lodging, and one of them related to a piece of very wide
window line, containing about forty yards, pledged on
the 19th of September; and another to about eighty
yards of purple silk, pledged on the 21st of August. It
seemed to be the practice of the prisoner to pledge the
goods on the same day he obtained them. The owners
of these had not been discovered.

Lewis Harris, assistant to Mr. Walter, a pawnbroker,
in Goswell-street, with whom the tabaret was pledged,
said, when he questioned the prisoner about his name,
he pulled 'out his pocket-book and tore out a leaf on
which he wrote it.

William Goodeve, the City policeman who had the
prisoner in eustody, produced the pocket-book he found
on the prisoner. The leaf for the 34th week was want-
ing, and that produced by the pawnbroker corresponded
exactly in the part where it was torn.
Sir W. MAGNAY said, he had heard quite enough to
warrant the remanding of the prisoner.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Robert Long Andrews, a young man, was summoned
by Fanny Andrews, his wife, for ill-treatment.
The wife said she had been married not more than
two months, and ever since she had had bitter reason to
repent her choice. She had only been married eight or
ten days when her husband began to ill-treat her. Being
of a lively disposition, and fond of laughing, her husband,
whenever she laughed, beat her about the face. If she
attempted to joke or play with him he turned upon her
in a savage mood, and repulsed and struck her. lie had
pledged all her clothes, and, in addition, frequently kept
her without food. On Saturday last he seized her by
the hair of the head, and knocked her head against the
wall, merely because she pulled his hair playfully as he
was lying on the sofa.
The husband, in reply to the charge, said, in a surly
tone, that his wife wouldn't let him alone. lle wanted
to lie on the sofa to read a good book, as he was a Me-
thodist, but his wife would not let him alone, but kept
on teasing him by pulling his hair.
The wife said that her husband could be frolicsome
with other girls when they called, without treating them
in the same savage way as he treated her.
A woman was called, :who said she had often wit-
neseed the huebaide ill-mage et' hie:young wife, no wife

was of a lively temper, and naturally thought she could
joke with her husband, but whenever she did so her hus-
band was sure to beat her. The wife was frequently
left without proper food.
The wife's mother came forward, and said her daugh-
ter had married against her parents' consent. The hus-
band had taken the girl away from a good home, and
had put her into a shabby lodging, where there were
few comforts, and where she was frequently without
more than one meal a day. The girl had a good stock
of clothes when she left her home, but now all her
clothes were pledged by her husband, even to her flannel
petticoat. " A pretty sort of a man he must be," con-
tinued the mother, warmly, " to pledge his wife's flannel
petticoat. But it's just as I foresaw. I told my poor
girl, before she was married, that I was sure Robert
would beat her; but she said she was fond of Robert,
and she knew he would treat her kindly. My girl is of
a very lively temper, and when ahe used to be playing
about and joking at home her husband used to say that
he liked lively girls. Why, I've -been married twenty-
four years, and I often play and joke with my husband
and pull his hair, but I don't expect to be beaten for
that."—(Laughter.)
Mr. HARDWICK asked the -young woman what she
wished to do? The wife said she wished to part from
her husband, provided he would allow her a trifle out of
his earnings towards her support.
Mr. HARDWICK—What will you allow your wife ?
Husband—Shan't allow her a halfpenny.
Mr. HARDWICK —Your wife says she cannot endure
any longer your brutal and unmanly treatment, and that,
therefore, she must separate from you. I think she has
reason for her resolution, and I am of opinion that you
ought to make her the required allowance.
Husband—Shan't allow her a farthing.
Mr. HARDWICK—Then I fine you 51., or, in default of
payment, two months' imprisonment.
MARYLEBONE.

Thomas Dell, a cab-driver, was charged with leaving
his cab unattended ; also with being drunk and assault-
ing police-constable Handley, 121 S.
The case was first brought before the magistrate a
few days ago, and it was then adjourned in order that
time should be afforded for producing witnesses on the
part of the defendant. Numerous cases have of late
been dismissed by magistrates at the various metropolitan
police-courts, upon the evidence given by policemen,
and it will be seen from the subjoined statement that
another case of perjury has been committed, in order to
ensure, if possible, a conviction.
Mr. Davies, solicitor, Princes-street, Leicester-square,
attended for the defendant..

Handley's evidence was to the effect that on the 24th
ult., at half-past nine in the evening, he saw a cab stand-
ing by the Jolly Gardeners, Crescent-street, Euston-
square, unattended, and he therefore laid hold of the
horse with the view of taking the vehicle away, when
defendant came up and struck him violently with his
badge. He was very drunk, and witness conveyed him
to the station-house.

In his cross-examination by Mr. Davies, witness ad-
mitted that it was 11 o'clock when he took defendant in
charge.
Another constable and sergeant were called, both
of whom deposed to the prisoner being the worse for
drink.

Mr. Forrest, an anatomical artist, residing at 33,
Southampton-street, Euston-square, stated that he gut
into the cab in Drummond-street, accompanied by a
friend, and desired to be driven to Long-acre ; on the
way he and his friend alighted at the Jolly Gardeners,
Crescent-street, and while they were partaking of some
refreshment at the bar, his (witness's) attention was at-
tracted by a noise near the door. He went out, and saw
the policeman taking fast hold of the reins of the horse's
head; the defendant, who had been taken into custody,
did not inflict any blow whatever upon the officer, but
the latter shook him, without any occasion for so doing,
in a most violent and unwarrantable manner.

Mr. Phillipps corroborated the preceding evidence, and
it was quite clear from the replies which he and Mr.
Forrest made to questions put to them, that the cabman
was perfectly sober; he had taken up a fare at Steven's
Hotel, and had not set his party down at the railway
station more than five minutes when he was engaged by
Mr. Forrest.

Mr. Davis, addressing the magistrate, said, that from
the evidence brought forward, he thought that enough
had been stated to justify a dismissal of the police-con-
s table's charge.
Mr. LONG expressed an opinion, after the evidence
which he had heard, that the defendant was not drunk,
as stated by the officers, and he (defendant) was there-
fore discharged.
John Jones, a well-dressed young man, was placed at
the bar, charged with having indecently exposed himself
to a young woman, named Mary Ryles, servant to Mr.
Price, Gloucester Cottage, Upper Albany-street, Regent's
Park. The short facts of the case are these:—Com-
plainant was watering some flowers at the kitchen
window on the previous evening, when the prisoner
came up to the front of the house, and there committed
the offence imputed to him. She communicated what
had taken place to her master, who pursued the prisoner,
and, after a hard run, succeeded in collaring him. He
was given into the custody of 292 S, and on the way to
the station-honse, he said he went to the place for a
Particular purpose, and he had no intention of insulting
any one.

The prisoner denied the charge imputed to him, and
said that, having just left an adjacent mews, he was ad-
justing his dress, and, having done so, was going away,
when Mr. Price laid hold of him. He was quite inno-
cent of the offence alleged against him.
The MActsTnAms, after putting one or two further
questions to the witnesses, came to the conclusion that
the charge had been satisfactorily substantiated, and
sentenced the prisoner to three months, with hard la-
bour, in the House of Correction.

WORSHIP4fREET.
Thomas Plummer, described as a bedstead maker, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Binghhm, charged with as-
saulting and wounding a poor woman named Mary Red-
ford, who appeared in Court with one of her eyes en-
tirely closed and bore numerous other evidences of most
brutal usage.
' The complainant stated, that after struggling for a
long time, procuring a precarious subsistence by needle-
work, and enduring the greatest privation, she was at
length induced to accept the prisoner's overtures and
place herself under his protection, but had ever since
been subjected by him to a continued series of privation,
cruelty, and ill-treatment. On the preceding afternoon
he returned home in a state of partial intoxication, and
not finding a hot dinner provided for him, although he
had not left her the means of procuring it, assailed her
with the foulest epithets, and seizing a poker, struck
her such a violent blow on the back of her head with
it that she instantly fell to the ground stunned and in-
sensible. On recovering her feet the prisoner again at-
tacked her, heatheg her about the head with his fists,
closing up one of her eyes as the magistrate then saw
her, a second time felled her to the ground, and re-
peatedly kicked her with such violence that nearly the
whole of her person was covered with bruises. Her
screams at length attracted the attention of some of the
lodgers in the house, who rescued her from further ill-
usage, and carried her up to bed, in which she remained
for several hours unable to move, but at last succeeded
in making her way down stairs to the street-door, where
she waited until a policeman came up, into whose cus-
tody the prisoner was given.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said that he ac-
knowledged having struck the woman with the poker in
the manner she had described, but declared that he had
acted under feelings of the strongest provocation,
induced by the exciting language she had used towards
him.

Mr. 13iiimum characterised the case as one of the
worst of its kind that had ever come under his notice,
and, regretting his inability to subject the accused to a
greater punishment, ordered him to pay the highest
amount of penalty it was in his power to impose—
namel7, 51., and in default of so doing he must stand
committed to the House of Correction for two months,
with hard labour. _ _

The prisoner was unable to pay the fine, and at the
close of the Court was removed to gaol in the van.

L AMB E TH.
William "Inglis, a notorious thief and a desperate cha-
racter, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton on a
charge of violently assaulting and attempting to rob
Mr. Robert Calton,: a toy-manufacturer, residing in
Kennington-green, on the preceding night.
Mr. Calton, whose countenance bore the most un-
equivocal proofs of savage violence, both his eyes being
blackened, his cheeks and lips much cut, and his whole
face in fact presenting a swollen mass of discolouration,
nuts, and contusions, deposed that he had been to the
King's Arms public- house, Lower Kennington-lane, on
the night before, and there met the prisoner, who claimed
acquaintance with him, and said he knew him well,
though he might not recollect him. He (prosecutor)
was at this time a little the worse for drink, but still
knew very well what he was about, and prisoner and
himself left the King's Arms together and went to the
Black Prince, in Princes-road, Kennington. They left
about half-past twelve, and the prisoner would insist
upon seeing him home from the Black Prince. When
they had got near to his (prosecutor's) house the prisoner
said he should go part of the way home with him; but
he refused to do so, upon which he struck him three or
four desperate blows on the face, and knocked him down.
The instant he fell the prisoner knelt on his 'sliest and
tried his utmost to force opeu his coat, and get at his
watch, which was in .his right-hand waistcoat pocket,
but he held it tight and called out " Murder" as loud as
he could holloa, when fortunately a constable came up
and :took the prisoner off him. He then got up and
found that his watchguard was broken, though it had
been perfect just before the prisoner's attack. The
prosecutor further stated that before be got opposite
to his own house he found the prisoner pressing closely
upon him, and he in consequence buttoned up his coat,
bnt the prisoner unbuttoned it. He buttoned it up a
second time, and had not proceeded many paces further
when the prisoner, as he had before stated, struck him.
The two black eyes, the cut lips, and the several other
cuts and bruises on his face, were all the effects of the
prisoner's violence.

Mr. Thomas Henry Evans, the landlord of the Black
Prince public-house, iu Princes-read, Kennington, de-
posed that the prosecutor and prisoner came into his
house together on the preceding night, at about a
quarter-past 12 o'clock,
andappeared
friends, and drank together. They remained at his
to be excellent
out a watch from his pocket,
house about a quarter of an hour, and while there the
prisoner kept drawing
which ho partly displayed to the prosecutor, and said
once or twice he had that to fall back upon if he should
be out of work.

Police-constable Samuel Clerk, 14 L, said that about
a quarter before one o'clock that morning he heard a cry
of " Murder," and on running to the spot whence it
proceeded, he saw the prisoner rise from off the prose-
cutor, who was calling " Murder." The prosecutor in-
stantly gave charge of the prisoner for assaulting and
attempting to rob him of his watch. The prisoner re-
plied, " What me ? I only came to see you home."
And the prosecutor said, yes, you vagabond ! And to

rob me." The prosecutor, who was intoxicated, was
bleeding profusely from the face, and the prisoner had
also evidently been drinking, but pretended to be worse
for liquor than he really was. Oa searching the pri-
soner at the station-house he found upon his person,
with some other things, a " sham" watch, which he then
produced. He also found, where the prosecutor had
been knocked down, a watch key belonging to Mr.
Calton, and which had been torn away from the watch-
guard chain. This witness added that the prosecutor
was ko severely cut and bruised that it was found neces-
sary to send for a surgeon to attend him at the station-
house.

Charles Burgess Goff, a police-sergeant, 9 L, said he
was present at the Surrey Assizes, Kingston, in March,
1845, and heard the prisoner convicted of stealing a
copper, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
The prisoner had also been frequently in custody for
other charges, and when the present case was dis-
posed of, he (Sergeant Goff) should request his wor-
ship to order his being brought up on a future day, as
he had no doubt, from information which had reached
him, that he was concerned in a daring burglary a few
nights ago, and of being able to establish that charge
against him.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge of assault and
attempted robbery, said he did not intend to rob the pro-
secutor, and that he should not have assaulted him had
he not been drinking,

He was fully committed on the charge, but ordered
to be brought up again on that day week to meet the
charge of burglary.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 30.—The progress of discontent has
ended in bloodshed, and serious riots have taken place at
Dungarvan, in the course of which the military fired on
the people. The following particulars are extracted from
a letter received to-day by the correspondent of a London
morning journal :
" Dungarvan, Tuesday Evening.
" Serious riots, I grieve to say, have taken place in
this town. Yesterday vast numbers of people, to the
amount of eleven or twelve thousand, marched in here
from the surrounding country, and proceeded to attack
bakers' shops, from which they took quantities of bread.
The mob were about to attack the stores of merchants
and others, but, fortunately, a troop of Dragoons, which
had been ordered in consequence of the apprehension of
riots, arrived from Kilmacthomas, and, with the co-
operation of the military force already here, pre-
vented further depredations. In the afternoon, how-
ever, in the dusk of the evening, some of the popu-
lace commenced throwing stones, and the Dragoons
had to charge them repeatedly. The people,
however, still continued throwing stones, and
the state of affairs began to look very serious. The
Dragoons were then ordered to fire, and it is stated
about twenty shots were discharged. Two men were
seriously wounded. They are still living; but several
others, it is feared, were wounded more or less severely
amongst the crowd, who fled subsequently to the firing.
The town has been since perfectly free from all disturb-
ance; but dreadful excitement and alarm prevail amongst
all classes here. It was owing to the commendable for-
bearance of the military that much more disastrous re-
sults did not ensue.

" The shipping of grain from this port to Liverpool
had been suspended, owing to reports that the fishing-
boats prevent any vessels from exporting food; but one
of the merchants is now about to dispatch a vessel with
wheat.

"So far as I can learn, those riots are attributable to
discontent amongst the peasantry as to the amount of
wages on the public works—no definite sum having been
fixed as yet. In the first instance, eightpencc a day was
offered, but the people refused that rate as utterly in-
sufficient. Tenpence was then offered, but also refused.
In the course of yesterday a written paper was handed
from the people to the magistrates, requiring that their
wages should be one shilling per day, and that they
should be supplied with Indian meal at a corresponding
price by the stone, to enable them to give sustenance
to their families. My own impression is, that if those
terms are complied with we shall have no further dis-
turbances."