The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-14 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

On Saturday, Robert Ball, a stripling youth, and son of
Mr. Matthew Ball, the proprietor of a number of Brix-
ton omnibuses, appeared to answer to a summons, charg-
ing him with four distinct charges—viz., one for an as-
sault, a second for using abusive language, a third for
loitering during the journey, and a fourth for acting as
a conductor without being duly licensed to do so.
From the statement of Mr. Twigg, a professional gen-
tleman, it appeared that, on Tuesday evening last he got
into an omnibus at the Elephant and Castle, of which
the defendant was the conductor, to proceed to Brixton-
hill, where he had an appointment to dine. The vehicle
proceeded pretty regularly on its journey for about a
mile and a half, when it changed horses. Soon after
the driver drew up for a minute or two, but drove on
for 200 or 300 yards, when he drew up in front of the
Crown and Anchor public-house, by direction of the
defendant. Here the defendant got down from behind,
and telling the coachman that there was only one pas-
senger inside, proceeded towards the public-house. The
coachman got off the box, and was about to follow his
master, when he (Mr. Twigg) remonstrated with him,
and told him that unless the vehicle immediately pro-
ceeded on its journey, he should get out and get into
another omnibus. Finding that his remonstrance had
not the desired effect, he at once got out of the vehicle,
and was proceeding on foot, when the defendant came in
front of him, caught hold of him, and with lofty and
menacing language insisted upon being paid his fare.
Complainant, after taking the number of his badge, 5,679,
gave him sixpence. This, however, was not the only
inconvenience he experienced, for the driver and conduc-
tor of the next omnibus passing, though comparatively
empty, refused to take him, having " received the office,"
as it was called, from the defendant and his coachman.
The defendant acknowledged that he had insisted
upon his fare, and had refused the card of the gentleman
because he did not know him. He denied committing
any assault or using improper language, and called two
witnesses in support of his statement.
Mr. ELLIOTT commented with some severity upon the
defendant's conduct, and concluded by imposing a pe-
nalty of 205., and 2s. costs for the assault only.
The leniency of the sentence ,surprised every person
present, and none perhaps more than the defendant him-
self, who instantly paid the money, and was discharged.
HAMMERSMITH.
THE SWELL Mon.—Throe fashionably-dressed men,
who gave the names of William Barnet, tobacconist, of
No. 7, White Lion-place, Paddington ; George Davis,
of St. Pancras-road, Somers Town ; and James Al* Lean,
who declined to give his address, were placed at the bar
before Mr. T. Punter, the sitting magistrate, on a
charge of having committed a daring robbery at the City
Barge public -house, Strand on the Green, Chiswick.
Mr. Robinson, solicitor, of Hatton-garden, attended for
the prisoners Barnet and Davis. It appeared that on
the previous evening, between five and six o'clock, the
prisoners-went into the above public-house, and were
met by Mrs. Richardson, the wife of the landlord, at the
foot of the stairs leading to the front room on the first
floor, which is a public room. They ordered a glass of
cold gin and water, and a glass of ale, with which they
were supplied. While they were in the front rood,
Miss Richardson, who was dressing in a back room
leading out of her parent's bed-room, on the same floor,
heard footsteps, and an attempt was then made to open
the outer bedroom door by turning the handle. She
subsequently heard the door forced open, and being
alarmed, hastened out of her own room, locking the door
after her. On getting below she gave an alarm,- when
the three men suddenly decamped, and the bedroom be-
ing searched, the drawers were found to have been
opened, and a gold watch was missed, also twenty
shillings in silver. The fellows were pursued and taken
at Hammersmith, when M'Lean threw the watch behind
him. Skeleton keys and a jemmy were also found upon
them.
They remanded,agast m.theas other charges are expected
to Tbepy werereferred against

METROPOLITAN FREE lIOSPITAL.—.The Lord
Mayor, as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Metropoli-
tan Free Hospital, in Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
will take the chair at the anniversary festival, to be held
at the Freemasons' Tavern, on the 17th instant. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, are the Presidents of this very
useful institution, which is situated in a densely popu-
lated neighbourhood, where hospital accommodation is
very limited. In this institution, as that in Gray's Inn-
road, no letter of recommendation is necessary, and
every sick poor applicant is admitted. The hospital has
been opened for nine years, during which time upwards
of 70,500 patients have been under medical treatment,
and the number last year was 9,989.
We have received the following information in re-
gard to Lieutenant Walker's valuable invention to pre-
serve iron ships from the effects of cannon shot :—On
Friday the fifth experiment of this invention was made in
the Arsenal at Woolwich, in the presence of Sir Howard
Douglas, General Smith, Colonel Chalmers, Captain
Iloustan Stuart, Captain Superintendent of the Dock-
yard, and forty or fifty officers and gentlemen interested
in the experiment. Twelve 321 b. cannon shot were fired
through a target six feet square, covered with the
kamptulicon composition, which instantly closed over
the holes. It was attached without bolts or bars by a
solution which, when wanted to be detached from the
iron plate, engaged upwards of twenty men nearly an
hour ; thus proving every proposition of the inventor
west satisfactorily.—Railway Herald.

FOREIGN CATTLE AND PROVI-

SION&
The following comprise the principal of the arrivals
of cattle, fruit, and provisions, from the continental
ports, at the port of London during the past four or
five days and since our last notice of this interesting and
important subject :—The steam-ship Countess of Lons-
dale, from Hamburgh, brought 315 packages of butter,
38 oxen. 116 sieves of walnuts, 18 baskets of onions,
and a quantity of flour ; the Venezuela, from Havre,
16 • packages of eggs, 242 baskets of various kinds of
fruit, and a variety of other articles ; and the Flora,
from Harlingen, 852 casks of butter, the produce
or manufacture of Holland ; the Coq, from Cher-
bourg, brought 190 casks of eggs ; the Sir Edward
Banks, from Ostend, several packages of pears and
eggs, 49 casks of apples, and 16 cases of poultry ;
the Attwood, steam-ship, specially dispatched to Rot-
terdam for cattle, 106 oxen and cows, 36 calves, 95
lambs, and 387 sheep, the produce of Holland ; the
Rainbow, from Rotterdam, 40 packages of flower roots,
62 casks of pickles, 60 cases of and 230 cheeses, 48
baskets of yeast, 2 baskets of eggs, 1 of poultry, and 1
calf, 52 baskets of grapes, 8 of onions, 23 of pears, 35
baskets of filberts, 562 baskets of walnuts, and a va-
riety of ether articles, the produce of Holland ; the
Loch Ryan, from Tonningen, Denmark, 100 oxen and
cows, being the first importation of cattle from this
particular place or port ; the Caledonia, from Ham-
bugh, 191 casks of butter, 103 half sieves, and 40 sieves
of plums, several barrels of pork, 2 rams, 4 ewes, 45
oxen and cows, and 4 calves ; the Rapid steam-ship,
from Harlingen, 14 packages of poultry, 48 of geese, 999
casks of butter, 199 barrels of chicory, 113 bags of
beans, 110 cows, two oxen, 24 calves, and 255 sheep,
altogether an extensive cargo of Dutch productions ; the
James Watt, from Havre, brought 55 cases of eggs,
208 baskets of various kinds of fruits, 54 baskets of
dried fruits, and 25 boxes of plums ; the Wilber-
force, from Antwerp, 11 baskets of pears, and 2,909
baskets of walnuts, the growth of Belgium ; the Dee,
from Harlingen, 2,160 packages of butter ; and
the steam-ship Magnet, from Harlingen, several
packages of poultry, 97 cows, 31 calves, and 499 sheep,
the production of Holland. A vessel called the Marton,
from Bordeaux, among other articles, had 30 tons
weight of linseed for feeding cattle, and 1,800 strings of
onions, the produce of France ; the Augusta, from
Gravelines, 163 packages of eggs, and 81 cases of apples ;
and the Jeune Henri, from the same place, 205 packages
of eggs, and 24 of apples, also the produce of France ;
the Batavia steam-ship, from Rotterdam, 21 sacks of
nuts, 107 baskets of grapes, several packages of onions,
melons, and yeast, 18 calves, and 40 oxen and cows, and
all of Dutch produce ; the Soho, from Ostend, 25
packages of poultry, and several of eggs and butter, the
growth of Belgium ; and finally, the steam-ship Att-
wood, specially sent to Rotterdam for the purpose, 132
oxen and cows, 39 lambs, and 288 sheep, the production
of Holland ; the whole forming a list of arrivals from the
continent during a period of five days of an extensive
and important character.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 12.

STOCK Excluaroz.—The sales are—Boston, Stamford, and Bir-
mingham, 12s.—Buckingham and Bletchley Junction, 14 dis.—
Caledonian, 4 dis.—Cambridge and Oxford, 56 p.—Direct Northern,
74 dis.—Eastern Counties, 22—Ditto York Extension, :1% p.—
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 1754 Huddersfield, Halifax, and
Bradford, 2% p.—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and. Canal,
254 p.—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 654 p.—Leeds and
Thirsk, 3% dis.—London, Manchester, and Birmingham, Quarters
(C). 7% p.—Manchester and Leeds Extension, 24 p.—Manchester
and Southampton, 15s. 6d. dis.—North Western, 28. 6d. p.—Old-
ham, Birkenhead, &c.. % d.—Preston and Wyre, Halves (B), 5-16 p.
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 4 dis.—SoulD-Eastern and
Dover, Halves, No. 4, 11-16 p.—West Riding Uniee• 2% p.

LEEDS; SEPTEMBER 12.

STOCK Excamm.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 1% p.—East Lancashire, 8% c. p.—Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, Docks, c. p. —Huddersfield and Sheffield, G% p. Leeds
and Dewsbury, 21. 11s. c. p.— Ditto, Branches, 245. p. —Leeds and
Thirsk, c. dis.—North British, Half Shares, ss. p.—Ditto, Carlisle
Branch, 575. p.—York and Newcastle, New, 10 —Clitheroe Junction,
18s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, 14s. dis. s. —Leeds, Wakefield, and 311d-
land, 12s. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 10s. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 4% p.—Mallon and Driffield Junction, 15s. p.—Man-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 295. p.—North Western,
Is. Gd. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 12s. s. dis..—Shropshire
Union, ss. dis.— West Riding Union, 41. 16s.

HULL, SEPTEMBER 12,

STOCK Excuswoz.—The sales are- Buckinghamshire, 7s. 6d. dis.
—Leicester and Tamworth, 395. 6d.—North Western, 2s. 6d. p.—West
Riding Union, 4% —Leicester and Bedford, 12s.

SHEFFIELD, SEPTEMBER 12.

STOCK Excuaxem—The sales are —Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 345. p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dis.—Ditto, Ex-
tensions; 1/. dis.—Ditto, Docks, l dis. —Clitheroe Junction, 18s,
dis.—North Western, 3s. p._ _