The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-05 00:00:00

were followed by the mob, who assailed them with
horrible imprecations and threats, and pelted them
with stones and other missiles all the way to the
station.
Constable Peck, 87 11, gave a similar account of
the fray, and described the defendant's conduct as so
violent that it was only by the use of the truncheon
in self-defence that his capture could be effacted.
When called upon for his answer to the charge, the
defendant complained that the police had been guilty
of a wholly unwarrantable interference with him in
the first instance, and afterwards kicked him and
used their truncheons in such a wanton manner that
he felt perfectly satisfied that both constables were
intoxicated. He called two witnesses—a fancy
trimming weaver named Harding, and a young wo-
man named Angelina Fairweather—who corroborated
his account of the transaction to some extent, and
also declared that the police were in their opinion in-
toxicated ; but this was unhesitatingly negatived by
Inspector Scott, who proved that the officers were
perfectly sober on reaching the station; and
Mr. ARNOLD, who said that in these times of com-
motion and popular disturbance it would have been
more becoming in a person of the defendant's posi•
tion in society to afford the police every assistance in
his power, instead of impeding and resisting them,
sentenced him to pay a penalty of 405., or in default
to stand committed to the House of Correction for a
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constable Davis, of the same division, who stated that
while returning to his beat, after assisting in dispersing
a tumultuous mob, he was stopped by the prisoner,
who ran after him, and exclaiming that he had been
for some time on the look out " to have a go " at a
policeman single-handed, instantly attacked him by
striking him several violent blows in the face in rapid
succession. Witness pulled out his staff to defend
himself, and after a sharp contest, in which he was
obliged to handle the prisoner rather roughly, at last
overpowered and secured him.
The prisoner, who exhibited a dreadfully contused
eye, and said that he was aching from head to foot,
declared that he had been drinking so much that he
had no recollection of anything that had taken place,
though he had no doubt, from what he had since
heard, that he richly deserved all that he had re-
ceived ; and
The MAGISTRATE, in consideration of this candour
and the severe chastisement he had evidently already
undergone, sentenced hint to a merely nominal
penalty or three days' imprisonment.

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ELECTION COMMITTEE.
DUBLIN.
At the re-assembling of the Committee on Saturday,
the argument relative to the ♦alidity of the borough rate
was resumed. It was contended by the counsel of the
sitting Member that the borough rate could not be con-
sidered as a municipal assessment within the meaning of
the Reform Act.
The Committee, however, after considering the point
at some length, decided that the Act but expressed an
opinion that before any voter could be objected to on the
ground that he was a defaulter of the rate, it must be
distinctly proved that a demand had been made upon him
for payment before the last election.
The scrutiny case was then proceeded with, whe❑ it
was proved that a voter named William Clerbury, who
polled for the sitting Member, had made default in pay-
ment of the rate after a demand had been made upon
him for the purpose, and the Committee decided that his
vote should be struck uff Mr. Reynolds' list.
The vote of Felix Birmingham, who plumped for the
sitting Member, was then objects d to, but the collector
of the borough rate failed to prove that he had de-
manded payment of the elector, and the Committee
decided that the vote should be retained.
The remainder of the sitting was taken up with
similar objections, but up to the rising of the Committee,
at tour o'clock, the petitioners had only succeeded in
striking off one vote.