The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

Mr. Peter Mellish, the vestry-clerk of the parish of
St. Paul, Shadwell, accompanied by the churchwardens,
overseers, and other functionaries, came before Mr.
Broderip to obtain summonses against various persons
who endangered the public health by carrying oa nui-
sances in the parish. The complaint originated out of a
public vestry meeting, held a few weeks ago, to consider
the best means of abating the nuisances in the parish,
and which followed the exposure of the carcases of dead
cattle, removed in a putrid state from a screw steam-ship
from Molland to the premises of Mr. Cowan, a bone mer-
chant and tallow-melter in New Gravel-lane, adjoining
the London Dock.

Mr. Mellish said, the parochial officers were anxious
to carry out the 9th and 10th of Victoria, cap. 96, for
abating nuisances; and he held in his hand the certifi-
cates of two medical gentlemen, that they had examined
the premises of Mr. Swinott, a dust contractor, Mr.
Cowan, bone boiler, Mr. Parsons, the proprietor of a
laystall, and Mr. Rumsey, a tripe dresser, and that they
carried on nuisances prejudicial to the public health.
Mr. BRODER!? said he would grant the summons.
This was a step in the right direction, and he hoped it
would be followed up by others, for the improvement of
the district and the comfort and health of the people.
Yesterday Thomas Henfield, a coal-dealer and green-
grocer in the Commercial-road East, was charged before
Mr. Broderip with assaulting a lad named James Brown,
a toll-collector, in the Commercial-road East.

The complainant, a boy about fourteen years of age,
said the defendant drove his horse and cart up Jamaica-
street, which is at right angles with the road, and
crossed the road to the opposite side of the way, where
he took up a chest in his cart. On being asked for the
toll, sixpence, or the ticket of the day, the defendant
said he would not pay any toll, and attempted to drive
on. Witness held his horse, and the prisoner then
struck him a violent blow on the mouth, cut his lips,
and caused him to bleed profusely ; threw him down, and
after falling upon him, forced his knees into his breast,
and put him in great pain. He tried to rise, but the de-
fendant would not let him, and seized hold of his necker-
chief, and twisted it until he could scarcely breathe.
The defendant also put his foot on the top of his
throat, and cut him across the hand with his whip.
He was very seriously injured, and he really believed
he should have been ridden over and killed but for the
interference of the bystanders. His statement was cor-
roborated by two of them.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said the lad was
holding on by the horse's reins, and that when he put his
foot upon his neck it was to prevent the horse treading
upon him. He called a witness, named Greenwood, who
said the boy was not struck intentionally. The defen-
dant added that an important question was involved,
whether he was liable to pay the toll, which he contended
was illegally demanded.
Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, said the defendant hai
no right to assault the boy. If he considered the toll
illegal, he might have paid it and summoned the boy,
and in that way have tried the question.
The defendant observed, that the tolls on the road
were most exorbitant, and he considered he had a right
to resist the demand of 6d. He only crossed the road
from Jamaica-street, neither swerving to the right or
left. He was always given to understand that on every
trust in the metropolis he might drive his horse and cart
100 yards without being subject to toll; but the boy ran
from a side bar, where there was no turnpike-gate or
table of tolls, and demanded 6d. of him.
Dempsy, a police-constable, No. 247 K, believed the
distance was not more than 60 or 65 yards.
Mr. Symons thought, in that case, the defendant
would not be liable to the toll.
Mr. BRODERIP said that, prima facie, the case of as-
sault was made out, and it was a most violent one. He
would give the defendant an opportunity of raising the
question at the sessions. He held him to bail, :himself
in 30/., and two sureties in 15/. each.

ESTMINSTER.
Anne Thomas, a dirty, dissipated-looking woman, wag
finally examined, charged with stabbing Esther Weave
with a table-knife.
Prosecutrix stated that she entered the Castle public-
house, Great Chapel-street, Westminster, on Sunday
evening, and was advancing to the counter to get some
refreshment, when the prisoner, without any provoca-
tion, struck her a violent blow in the face. She inquired
what she did that for ? when prisoner suddenly raised
her hand and stabbed her with a table-knife in the left
cheek. Prosecutrix and prisoner both fell on the ground,
when the latter made several other thrusts at her with
the knife, and wounded her slightly in the arm. Pri-
soner was secured by those around, and prosecutrix con-
veyed to the Westminster Hospital. Prisoner was heard
to say, a short time before prosecutrix entered the public-
house, that she would stick the first person who came in.
A witness proved that the prisoner took the knife
from her bosom and inflicted the wounds as &scribed.
Prisoner, who had been drinking very freoly, endea-
voured to escape.

Mr. F. Wildbore, house surgeon, Westminster Hos-
pital, proved that there was a superficial incised wound,
an inch and a half long, on the left cheek, near the ear,
which he dressed. There was also a slight wound on
the arm.

Prisoner impicred forgiveness, and the prosecutrix
oinod in the entreaty.
Mr. BURRELL observed that it was a very serious
offence, and it was his duty to send it for trial at the
Central Criminal Court.

CLERICAL DISQUALIFICATION EXTRAORDINARY.—
It is stated by a correspondent of the Times, that the
Bishop of London hits refused to receive a clergyman
into his diocese on the ground of his being an Irish
clergyman. The prejudice against poor Paddy seems
to be increasing. Perhaps we shall have the Bishop
advertising for a curate, atter the manner of a publican
in want of a potboy, with the notification—" No Irish
need apply."—Punch.
A FRENCH SUICIDE WITH GUN COTTON
account is given in a French journal of a gentleman com-
mitting suicide by cramming his ear full of the cotton
and igniting it with a cigar.