The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-08 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

At the meeting of the vestry of Marylebone on Sa-
turday, the Clerk to the Board intimated that he had
received the following lett:r from Lord Duncannon,
in reference to the recent appointment of Clerk and
Sexton to the parish :
" Office of Woods and Forests, Sept. 3, 1841.
" Sir—ln reference to the conversation I had with
the deputation of the Vestry last week, I beg to inform
you, that the Rev. F. Braithwaite has been appointed
by her Majesty clerk and sexton of the parish of St.
Marylabone, under the 36th section of the Act 51st
George 111., to officiate by himself or .his sufficient de-
puty throughout the entire parish, which will include
St. John's chapel and burial-ground ; and that it is not
the intention of her Majesty to appoint a distinct clerk
and sexton for the last mentioned chapel and burial-
ground, under the 41st section of the Act. I have
thought it right to make this communication, although
it be not required under the Act, the right of appoir t-
ment which her Majesty has exercised being absolutely
vested in the Crown, and not requiring the consent and
approbation of the vestrymen.-1 remain, &c.

~ DUNCANNON."

" Mr. C. Flood, Vestry Clerk."
The Report of the Committee which had been di•
rested a few weeks since 'to communicate with Lord
Duncannon upon this appointment was then brought
up and read. It ran as follows :

" S:.. Mnrylebone, Sept. 3, 1841.
" At a meeting of the Committee appointed to con-
fer with Lord Duncannon on the subject of the recent
appointment of the Rev. F. Braithwaite to the office
of clerk and sexton, vacated by the death of Mr. Pau ;
present, Mr. Sapsford in the Chair, the Committee beg
to report that Messrs. Biers, Clipp, and Gomm, in
pursuance of a letter received from Lord Dun-
cannon's Secretary, attendel at the office of Woods
and Forests on Tuesday, the 24th of ,August, and
bad a lengthened interview with his Lordship in the
presence of Mr. Pemberton, the solicitor. The
deputation were anxious to ascertain to what ex-
tent, and under what section or sections of the
51st of Geo. 111-, cap. 151, the appointment in ques-
tion had been made. They endeavoured to show his
Lordship and Mr. Pemberton that if the appointment
was confined to the n6th section of the Act, the vestry
had no desire to interfere ; but that if it extended to
the 41st section, then the appointment was not valid
until the consent and approbation of the vestry had
been obtained thereto. Lord Duncannon stated that
tbe appointment had tot then been signed by her Ma-
jesty, and that he was unab!e to staty how far the ap-
pointment extended, and under what particular section
or sections of the Act it had been made : but he pre-
sumed that the appointment was similar to the one
formerly made, and granted to Mr. Pau. As the re-
sult of the interview, his Lordship wished Mr. Pem-
berton again to examine the extent of the appointment
after which his Lordship promised to communicate with
the vestry on the subject.

" S. SAPSFORD, Chairman.

" .1. GOMM.
H. BIERS.
" WILLIAM CLAPP."
The reading
of this Report and the preceding letter
gave rise to a long discussion, in which Messrs. Biers,
Skinner, Eyre, and Glazier took part, and eventually it
was resolved that the Committee be requested to hold
a further communication with her Majesty's Govern-
ment for the purpose, and with the view of obtaining

a legal compliance on the part of the patron of the ap-
pointment with the provisious.of the Churehei Act, 51
Gee. HI, cup. 151.

ASSAULT BY POLICE-OFFICERS.
(From the Liverpool Times.)
Oa Saturda:, Mr. o::ver Shannon, a publican and
master steieiore, residing in Norfolk-street, appeared
at the Police Court, to bring a charge of assault against
three police-constables. The case had been seat over
by the Watch Committee to Mr. Rushton.
Shannon stated that shortly after twelve o'clock on
the morning of Wednesday week, he left his house in
Norfolk-street, to see a friend on board the Carlisle
pa•:ket, which was lying in the Clarence deck, and
which was to sail about 4 A.M. He was accompaniel
by Henry Dobson and Thomas Langley. Having
seen his friend on board, lie and Dobson and Langley
returned by the higher pfurt of the town, between two
and three o'clock in the morning. At the corner of a
street between Vernon and Orange-streets, he saw
three officers standing together ; hut he did not inter.

fere with them in the least, either by word or deed.
Alter he had passed them about ten paces, one of them
came running .up, struck him on the back with his stick,
and said " D-- your soul, get along out of this."
The officer then struck him (Shannon) on the temples,
and knocked him down in the channel. The
blood flowed copiously from his temples. Dob-
son and Lang'ey were two or three paces in advance
at this time. Neither of them had spoken to the
offices. The whole party were quite sober. After
having **necked him (complainant) down, one of the
policemen took him by the hair of the head and
dragged him along. the channel ; another lifted up his
leg, and inflicted four or five blows on the sole of his
foot with a stick. His companions, ufter the officers
had retired, lifted him up, placed him on some steps,
and endeavoured to stop the effusion of blood from his
temples. Tney then led him up Tithebarn-street.
After having gone forty or fifty yards, they met police-
man No. 199, stated what had occurred, and asked
him for the numbers of the men on that beat. He re-
plied that he could not tell the numbers. They then
went to the main bridewell, made a similar statement
there, and preferred a similar request. They were
told that they might obtain the required information by
application at the watch-office, at ten o'clock in the
morning. No. 265 was the man who held him down
while the other officer was laying ou the soles of his
feet. He (complainant). had not been drinking at all
previous to the occarrence in question.
Henry Dobson, a smith, residing in Watkinson-
street, corroborated Shannon's evidence in nearly every
particular.
Thos. Langley, a labourer, who lives in Crosshall-
street, was then called.. His detail of the circum-
stances connected with the assault differed but little
from that of the preceding witnesses. He added that
No. 288 was present ; but, though this man told his
brother officers that "it was a shame" to boat Shan-
non, he did not interfere to prevent it. On being cross
examined by No. 265, Lingley's evidence was directly
opposed to that of the complainant and Dobson, on one
collateral circumstance. He said that after seeing Mr.
Shannon's friend off, they went into Langan's public-
home. Mr. Shannon had a glass of sherry there. He
(witness) had a glass of ale. They had only the one
glass each, and probably stopped in the house about
half an hour.
No. 228 was then ordered to be sworn, and to give
his evidence. He was reminded that his first duty
was to the public, and not to the corps of which he was
a member. He at first distinctly denied that he had
seen either of the three men on the morning of
Wednesday week, and then said that he had no recol-
lection of it.
Dobson was recalled, and said he could not distinctly
swear that it was No. 288 who used the words " It's a
shame ;" but Langley was quite positive as to the iden-
tity of the man.
Oaieer No. 265 was then asked what he had to say.
He leased that on the morning in question two men
passed him when he was; standing alone in Tithebarn-
street, and one of them said—" Here is another
of those perjured villians." He (officer) asked him
what he said, and then tolddiim to go home. Shannon
thereupon made a blow at him, and lie (the officer) bit
him on the rise. Shannon then struck again, and he
(the policeman) hit him on the head. He should have
taken the complainant to bridewell, had it not been for
his two frieads, who said that he was a decent man,
and that they would take him home. There was not
another officer present at the time, and Shannon only
received those two blows. He (the officer) struck in
self-defence ; for he knew that Shannon was a man
who had fought pitched battle;.
Mr. Rushton painted to the discrepancy io the evi-
dence, with respect to entering a public-house, and
asked Shannon why he denied the fact of hating en-
tared Langan's?
The complainant persisted that he did not,enter
either that or any other house. Dobson and Langley
went in, but he stood at the door.
Mr. Rushton then pointed out to Shannon that
there was net only a discrepancy between his own evi-
dence and that of his witnesses, but that there was a
considerable portion of the time, from 12 to 20 minutes
past two o'clock. left unaccounted for. There was also
the unaccountable circum:t ince of Shannon returning
from the Clarence Dock to Norfolk-street, by such a
route as that selected. These things threw some
doubt over the case ; but still there was sufficient evi-
dence to justify him and his brother Magistrate (Mr.
Theodore W. Rathisone) in the conviction that the
complainant had been struck by N 0.265, with unjusti-
fiable violet ce. If the whole story of the complainant
had been borne out in those collateral circumstances
admitting of proof, they should at once have committed
No. 265 to prison, to answer an indictment ; but as this
had not been done, they should not send him to trial.
They believed, also, that he (No. 265) had received
provocation, and grievous provocat on ; bid still he
ought to have abstained from siolence, and to have
called for assistance. No. 288 had given his testimony
in a very discreditable manner. The Magistrates
would inquire more minutely into the circumstances, and
thea give their final judgment ; but in the meantime,
Nos. 265, 137, and ,288, must be suspended, and they
woull net be restored for some time; if at all. This
case, as invariably happens when charges are brought
against the police, was most minutely, patiently, and
carefully as well as skilfully investigated by Mr. Rush-
ton, and lasted for about two hours.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN POLICE. - HENRY-STREET
OFFICE.

On Friday List, as a constable of the C division was
proceeding on his beat, in the neighbourhood of the
Custom-house Docks, he saw a sailor-boy, who seemed
to be wandering about without any fixed purpose, and
whose we-fraught visage Evidently betokened a mind
but ill at case. The policeman questioned him as to
the 'lice he was bound to, &c., and finding his
;Answers anything but satisfactory, and seeing, moreover,
something vary suspicious in " the cut of his jib," he
considered it his duty to take him into custody, and ac-
cordingly he was brought before the Ma3istrates of this
offict?, when, after some vain endeavours to support the
character assumed—

'rite bashful look, the rising breast,
Alternate spread al trms ;
The lovely stranger stands confest
A maid in all her charms I

On being interrogated by the Magistrates, she gave
the following account of lersell:—Her father, she
said, was a boatman, named Lanigan, who resided at
Tarbert, near Glin,on the banks of the Shannon. Ow-
ing to some 'family difference, and the severity of an un-
amiable step-mother, who treated her vary cruelly, and
continually reproached her for not going forth to earn
her bread, the poor young girl rashly fled from the pa-
ternal roof, and determined to wend her way towards
Dublin, in the hope of procuring a situation. She
walked the whole of the weary way, and on Sunday
last arrived in the metropolis. In a few days her little
stock of money was expended, and there appearing
no prospect of her obtaining a s'tnation suitable to
her sex and habits, she for a long time revolved in her
mind as to what expedient she should adopt to mend
her fortunes and save her from that dishonour and de-
gradation to which poverty and desperation have too
often reduced the friendless. She resolved at length
on assuming the garb and character of a sailor boy, and
in that capacity earn an honourable subsistence. To
this resolution her romantic mind was prompted the
rather from having rea 1 in the columns of the news-
papers recently the glowing account of an adventurous
damsel who assumed the character of a mariner, and
succeeded in preserving it for many years. With this
view she was proceeding down the quays with the in-
tention.of making application to the captains of the ves-
sels, when, as we have already stated, she was appre-
hended by the constable.
The Magistrates appeared to take great interest in
the prisoner's case. air!, after giving her many admoni-
tory cautions, told her they could not detain her in
custody.
She thanked their Worships, and expressed her deter-
mination to give up her roving thoughts, and to return
to her father's roof, if she could only procure means suf-
ficient to enable her to do so. She knew that the step
she bad proposed to herself was one indelicate and ill-
advised ; " hut," said the poor girl, " *hat could I do ?
It was better than to stay in Dubiin, where I have no
means of honest livelihood, and temptation besets me
on all sides."

Several gentlemen present, sympathising with the
poor girl, contributed variously, for the purpose of rais-
in;; a fund to convey her in safay back to Limerick ;
and Inspector O'Conner, with a feeling of humanity
highly to be commended, offered her an asylum in his
house for that night, having previously ascertained that
she was worthy of such countenance. He volunteered,
moreover, to make a collection among his friends on her
behalf.—Dublin Register.

The villages thrOughout Ttenfrewshire are now
suffering to almost as great an extent as Paisley. In
Johnstone, where there are 15 or 16 public works, only
four are at present in operation.-- Gllsgow Argus.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PREROGATIVE COURT-TUESDAY.

IN TILE GOODS GF ALICE KELHAM.

The deceased died on the 27th of July, leaving per-
sonal property of the value of 34,0001., besides a real
estate worth 2,0001. She left a will and two codicils,
which were found locked up in a box, of which she had
the key in her bedroom. The will was dated i❑ 1829 ;
the codicils in 1833 and 183 g. The will when found exhi-
bited alterations made by the deceased herself, appa-
rently after the year 1838, in favour of Mr. lielham, her
executor ; but, unfortunately, she had not had the alter-
ations attested ; they were consequently void under the
Act, and it was difficult to ascertain what the words
were before the alteration, except having recourse to
parol evidence, which is excluded.
The COURT directed that the paper should be exa-
mined by persons skilled in making out writing attempted
to be obliterated.
IN THE GOODS OF JOHN LYNN, OTHERWISE FINLAY.

The deceased in this case died on the 11th of March, a
widower, without child or parent. On the 7th of April
administration of his effects was granted to Alexander
Lynn, his brother, but who described the deceased as a
" bachelor." The alias was accounted for in this way :
The deceased had been impressed into the navy in 1796,
and deserted ; upon which he assumed his mother's name
of Finlay, which he retained till his death, at which time
he was a publican, having been a master of a vessel till
1823.

The COURT required some explanation as to the cir-
cumstance of certain stock, of which Mr. Alexander
Lynn had got possession, having been purchased in the
name of " John Lynn, mariner" as well as proof that he
was the same person as " John Finlay, publican."
The COURT disposed of several other motions of no
interest. Dr. Daubeny sat for Sir H. Jenner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday George F. Carden, a barrister, was charged
with creating a disturbance at a station-house door,
and refusing to go away when desired by the constable
on duty.
It appeared that a violent assault had been committed
on a female in Long-acre, and when the. accused was
conveyed to the station-house, the defendant, who had no
evidence to offer, wanted to enter. He was prevented,
upon which a crowd collected ; and as he persisted in re-
maining opposite the door, he was taken into custody and
locked up for the night.

After a lengthened investigation, the particulars of
which are of no public interest, the defendant was or-
dered to enter into his own recognizance in the sum of
2M. to keep the peace for the next six months.