The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

SHOCKING MANSLAUGHTER.

It is with the utmost regret that we have to record
the occurrence of another death from that brutal and
sanguinary mode of lighting for w hich th s county is
so notorious, in the case of a yount, labourer, named
John Boyle, residing at Stretford, who expired at the
Royal Infirmary on Saturday last, from tee dreadful
injuries inflicted on him by kicking, or " purring."
The case is rendered more deplorable from the fact
of its having originated in " a lark," aad the appa-
rent probability that no such fearfull result was con-
templated. On Al cnday, Mr. Chapman, the borough
coroner, held an ingurst on the bony, when the follow-
ing was the account elicited from those present at the
time of the fatal occurrence:—Deceased, Dennis Lowe,
Heaton Brown, znd other farm servants of Air. Tho-
mas Warburton, farmer, of Stretford. were getting no-
t Aces in a field, about half-past five o'clock on Monday
evening, the sth instant, when they began to throw po-
tates at eabh other in play, and one of them hit de-
c.2ased. Deceased became very angry, and gathering
up a large piece of soil, said, " The next person that
throws at me I'll throw this at him, choose who it ii."

He hr.d no sooner resumed his work than he was again
hit with a potato, when, suspecting Brown had thrown
it, deceased aimed a piece of soil at him. Brown then
threw at deceased, who slipped and fell down over the
soil, when enraged at having missed his aim, Brown
ran at him, and kicked him as he lay. The kick, a
most terrific one, was inflicted on the most tender part
of his body, Brown swearing at the t7me he would
punch his b— eyes out." Deceased then got up,
and said to Brown, " Thou hast done for me," in-
forming him at the same time he felt blood running from
his body. This Brown denied, and offered to - bet a
shilling it was not so, but deceased replied that was no
proper place, and he would show him when they got
home. Deceased then resumed work, and continued at
it a few moments, when leaving-off time (6 o'clock) ar-
rived, and the parties went home. A surgeon was sent
for, but deceased continuing to get worse, was next day
conveyed to the Infirmary. Here he continued to get
worse, mortification ensuing, and on Saturday he died in
a most dreadful stive of suffering. Brown wore a strumg
pair of excavator's boots, with steel tips on the toes, and
is described by the witnesses as having taken a furious
running kick at his victim. Since the fatal occurrence,
Brown has been unceasing in his attention to the de-
ceased, and has manifested deep regret at the fatal con-
sequence. The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaugh-
ter" against him, and he has since been brought before
Mr. Trafford, at the New Bailey, and committed to the
assizes.—Manchester Examiner.

We see by the French journals that Mr. Lumley
engaged Carlotta Grisi, soon after her return from Ire-
land, for the three years next ensuing.
STOPPAGE OF TIIOROUGHFARES.-011 Saturday
the Westminster commissioners of sewers stopped the
following thoroughfares for the formation of new ones :
Bloomsbury-street, Denmark-street ; all that part cf
Holborn between Oxford-street and St. Giles's Church,
St. James's-place, and St. James's street.
IMPROVEMENTS IN TOWER WARD.—On Saturday
a copy of a letter from the Duke of Wellington to the
Alderman, Common Council, and inhabitants of the ward,
respecting the proposed new street through it, in answer
to their memorial, was exhibited triumphantly in several
of the tradesmen's windows, the Duke having expressed
himself favourable to the widening of Great Tower-street
in preference to a new street.
FOREIGN CATTLE.—A sailing-vessel is arrived in
the London Docks from Ham berg, with, in addition to
a cargo of speller, 40 head of horned cattle. This ar-
rival presents two distinct features of novelty, it being
the first importation into the port of London of live
cattle in a sailing-pocket from this distant Hanseatic
port, and the first time also, we believe, that a vessel has
entered any of the dock establishments having a con-
signment of live horned stock on board.
THE LATE FIRE IN SOUTEWARK.—On Saturday
afternoon John Cantill, who received such fearful in-
juries at the fire on the 9th inst, in Kent-street, St.
George's, Southwark, expired in the accident ward of
Guy's Hospital. The girl Emma Sharp also lies in a
state which leaves no hopes of her recovery.
FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE RIVER.—On Sunday
afternoon a party of children were proceeding up the
river in a small pleasure boat, in the charge of a water-
' man, when a lad fell overboard whilst attempting to reach
some article out of the river. Every exertion was made
to save the poor little fellow, but without the slightest
success. The occurrence happened a t hurt distance abou
Wr stminster-bridge.
NOVEL CASE.—On Monday one of the debtors in
our gaol died, and the gaoler has been placed in an
awkward position ns to what he shall do with the body,
it being the opinion of some of the most eminent legal
men here, that if the gaoler delivers up the body, he
will be answerable for the debt. Cases have been cited
where the debt had to be collected before the body could
be buried; but whether in this case they think, the poor
fellow having paid the debt- of nature is to get off free
without paying his creditors, is likely to furnish em-
ployment for clever men to decide the case.—Norwich
Advertiser.

INTERMENT IN Towtss.—The Registrar-General's
last report informs us that the mortality in the metro-
polis is higher than that in the country, being in the
proportion of 2,294 to 2,209 per cent., a clear proof that
there are some causes in operation to shorten the lives
of the inhabitants of large towns. What those causes
are it is the duty of the Legislature to discover, and, if
po;sible, to remedy ; and one of them is so plainly in-
dicated by Mr. Chadwick, in his supplementary report
on the practice of interment in towns, that we consi-
eider it quite unnecessary to reargue this
part
of the
question. Those who contend that the practice is not in-
jurious to health are taking up a view contrary to fact
and reasoning, and contrary to the principles upon which
they proceed to legislate in other cases. Other argu-
ments have been adduced in favour of a change in the
practice, and among these we may select that which
is based on the indecency of the practice. We know,
on good authority, that in a certain London grave-
yard, in which the soil is rank with the decomposed
remains of the dead, the charge for interment is re-
gulated by the depth—a practice, we believe, quite com-
mon in the metropolis, A person is informed that, by
the payment of a high fee, a coffin will not have to be re-
moved from the grave in order to allow another coffin to
be placed beneath it. The low fee leads not merely to this
act of desecration, perpetrated as it must bounder the eyes
of those who ought to be most earnest in checking it, but
probably to the entire removal of the body, the selling
of the coffin and the funeral ornaments, with the
destruction by fire, or in other ways, of the
last remains of the dead ; and so nicely are the
fees adjusted, that the earth piled at the side of the
grave is calculated in the measurement as part of the
depth, whence it happens that even when the remains
are left undisturbed, they become a source of putrescent
exhalations to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood.
Many flagrant instances of the desecration of the re-
mains of the dead have been recently made public,
and we are coolly told, in reference to these abomina-
tions, that when they have once taken p'ace the parties
may be punished by indictment ! No consideration ap-
pears to be given to the prevention of such indecencies by
removing the causes—i. e., by shutting up and entirely
prohibiting interments in graveyards, whether private or
parochial, already overcrowded ; but these gross of_
fences are to take the chance of exposure, to lead to
the expense of a parish prosecution, and the risk of
a compromise or of an acquittal upon some trickery
or technicality in the law proceedings. With the
existence of a proved public evil, a certain in-
jury to public health, and the fact that the pre-
sent practice must in time cease of itself, it is scarcely
necessary to examine the arguments which have been
adduced for the continuance of this vile practice. There
must be a limit to the elevation of graveyards above the
street, and to the enlargement of vaults in churches,
unless some secret and inexpmsire method is taken,
by those who profit under the preterit system, to get
rid of the surplus bodies. The annual interments are now
much about the same as if the whole population of Leices-
ter were brought to be buried in London. Decay cannot
proceed fast enough, and it will require more frequent
holocausts, or more frequent contracts with dust contrac-
tors to cart away as rubbish human remains, in order to
make room for the increasing deaths in a rapidly in-
creasing population. Legislation may be protracted,
but sooner or Inter a measure will be forced upon the
Legislature either for providing cernetriei out of towns
and cities, or fur preventing that secret and extensive
desecration of the graves which in some measure tends
to postpone the necessity for• immediate interference.—
Medical Times.
BLOODY AFFAIR.—A CANAI BOAT CAPTAIN CUT
TO PIECES 'WITH A BoWIE KNIFE.—On Saturday
evening last a most bloody affair occurred at Stoy's
Landing., in New Jersey, six or seven miles from Cam-
den, between Captain Washington B. Swain, of a lime
boa', and a negro man living in the neighbourhood.
The altercation commenced between them on seine
trifling subject, when the negro suddenly drew a Bowie
and cut and carved his antagonist in a most
shocking manner. Several punctures were made, one of
which entered the abdomen just above the hip, ar.d some
thirty incisions on the face, neck, and back. One
of the cuts is entirely through the lower lip and
chin to the bone. One on the side of the neck, four
inches long, separates the jugular vein, and one on
the back of the neck, five inches long, is entirely
through the muscle. One on the chest is five inches
long, and one on the back, from the shoulders to the
hips, twenty-five inches long. Nine are ten inches in
length, many of them running through the skin, flesh,
and entire integuments. Notwithstanding this horrid
cutting and butchery the captain walked to the dwell.
ing of Mr. Phillip Stay, about 150 yards distant. Dr.
C. D. Hendry, at Haddonfield, was sent for, who, with
the aid of one of his students, Mr. D. M. Stout,
thessed his wounds, seventeen of which it was
found necessary to stitch up. Though the doctor
found his patient sinking and insensible from
the great loss of blood, he left him about ten o'clock with

some symptoms of reaction. Two men were present at the
time of this bloody outrage, and stood paralised with
fear, unable to afford the defenceless victim of the armed
Legro the slightest aid, and permitted the scoundrel to
make his escape. The neighbourhood, however, soon
became aroused. and a vigilant search was set on foot to
ferret out the offend( r. Captain Swain, we learn, resides

at Norristown, where he has a wife and child. He was
still alive yesterday, at three o'clock, though little hope
was entertained of his recovery.—Philadelphia Paper.
LIE PRICE or , GRAIN.—We feel more regret
than surprise at,finding that the price of wheat continues
to advance in all the principal markets. The weekly
average for the kingdom, which was made up on Thurs-
day last, is 561. 10d. per quarter ; and we find that the
Wakefield average for this week, which will enter the
general average of next Thursday, and is usually about
the same in amount as that for the whole kingdom, is no

less than 595. 31d. per quarter. Since the sales were
made on which that return is founded, prices have been
further advanced about 2s. per quarter ; so that the ave-
rage price of the whole kingdom is now certainly above
60s. per quarter.—Manchester Guardian.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANS I ON-HO USE.
Joseph Chambers W 46 brought before Alderman Fere-
brother, charged with haring committed a robbery in
the house of Mr. Isaacs, merchant, in whose service he
was engaged as errand boy.
Mrs. Barrow, sister-in-law to Mr. Isaacs, in whose
house she resided, stated, that she had left her gold
watch, gold chain, and two gold rings, which were worth
131. or 20/., upon the first-floor. Tne prisoner went out
on Tuesday, and did not return, and after his departure
the property was missed. The witness met the prisoner
en oaturday evening near the Surrey Theatre, and placed
him in the custody of a policeman. Without receiving
any promise of pardon, the lad acknowledged the MO-
meat he saw the witness that he had robbed her, and he
said be had pledged the goods at the shops of different
pawnbrokers.
The policeman complained to the Alderman that he
had found amongst seine of the piwnbrskers disinclina-
tion to give him the usual facilities.
The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday, and
Alderman FAREBROTHER directed that the pawnbrokers
complained against for incivility should be denied the
usual expenses paid after trial.
Emma Neal, a person who was recognised by the
police as an old rogue in the habit of watching and rob-
bing children sent after errands, was accused of having
stolen a saucer aid three-pence halfpenny from three
very young children.
The prisoner was seen by a person, who suspected her
honesty, to follow the children, who were going to pur-
chase butter. She went up to one of them—a boy about
four years and a half old—and, giving him a halfpenny,
took from him the saucer and halfpence, telling him to
go on, and she would follow bins with the butter. The
child ran on exulting, and witness observing that the
prisoner passed the butter shop and was getting away,
took her into custody.
The prisoner declared that she bad no dishonest inten-
tion, but that, thinking such young persons ought not to
entrusted with money, she was acting the part of a
mother to them in taking care of the money, with which
she was about to purchase the butter, but, by the merest
accident, she passed the shop.
Alderman FAREBROTHER—Prisoner, you are an old
hand at robbing children.
The prisoner never thought of so mean and vile a
thing. " What, me rob a mere baby?—not a bit of it."
Alderman FAREBROTUER—I'II make you sick of it.
Yon must go to Bridewell for three months.
Patrick Leary, a young fellow who came over from
Ireland in the hopping season, was charged with having
broken two windows in the house of Mr. Jopp, the re-
lieving officer of the City union.
Mr. Lloyd, assistant relieving officer, stated that,
about two o'clock on Saturday last, the defendant ap-
plied for relief, and witness requested that he would
wait his turn. While witness was writing down his name
he went out and deliberately broke two panes of glass
with a stoue.
Alderman FAREBROTIIER—Prisoner, why did you
break the window, when the officer was complying with
your request ? Leary—Why, I was in a hurry to get
back to my own country, and they didn't seem to care a
pin about it, and I thought the best way to talk to him
was with a paving-stone in my hand. I want to go off
to Ireland at once.
Alderman PAREBROTHER said the union had no longer
the power to grant passes. That authority lay with the
parishes, and as the Irish who came over to hop were in
the habit of sending back their profits, and then return
ing upon charity, the parish officers thought it necessary
to exercise caution. The fine upon the prisoner was
four shillings.
The prisoner—I have no money to give away.
Alderman FAREBROTIIER—Then you must go to
Bridewell for fourteen days, and that judgment includes
scanty allowance of food.
GUILDHALL.
Sir PETER LAURIE, on taking hie seat on the bench
this morning, requested that the press would give pub-
licity to a short statement which he wished to make re-
specting the continued operations of the " notorious
Joseph Ady." His only object in calling the attention
of the press to the matter was to put unwary people on
their guard. He hoped the press would assist the ma-
gistrates by giving the widest publicity to the following
statements :
" 1. That Joseph Ady was convicted at the February
Sessions, 1835, of the Central Criminal Court, of obtain-
ing from the Rev. Francis Tebbutt, twenty shillings,
under pretence of " informing him of something con
siderable to his advantage," and sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven-years, which sentence was commuted
to imprisonment in the City House of Correction for
twelve months.
"2. That in consequence of Joseph Ady referring to
several Alderman of London for his character and re-
sponsibility, the Court of Aldermen, on the 7th of Mae,
1833, ordered the following advertisement to be pub-
lished in all the morning and evening papers for a con-
siderable period:—
" CAUTlON.—Whereas it bath been represented to
this Court, that a person calling himself Joseph Ady
hath for some time past been in the practice of sending
letters to various persons in all parts of the kingdom,
stating himself to be in the possession cf information
for their pecuniary advantage, and offering to afford the
same on payment to him of twenty shillings, and in
some instances of five shillings ; and referring falsely
in such letters for his character, integrity, and respon-
sibility, to Sir William Hoygate, Baronet, William
Taylor Copeland, Esq., and other members of the Court
of Aldermen ; and to Mr. Francis Hobler, the Chief
Clerk at the Mansion House, without having any autho-
rity for such references; and also falsely adding to some
of the said letters that the said William Taylor Cope-
land, Eq., would be security for hini to the amount of
one thousand pounds. This Court do hereby caution the
public against paying any attention to such references,
relative either to the character, integrity, or responsi-
bility of the said Joseph Ady.
(Signed) " WOODTHORPE."
Ire (Sir Peter Laurie) thought that it would be very
useful to let the public see the formula of the circulars,
which are no e* current from Joseph Ady's bureau, and
of which he (the Alderman) received two or three every
morning. The following was addressed to Mr. Arbuth-
not, Cutters Mills, Aberdeen :
"The undersigned is able to inform you of something
to your advantage, value of 100/. and upwards, long
overlooked, on receipt of 205., by Post-office order on
Whitechapel, as an equivalent for his trouble and costs
generally.—Respectfully,
" JOSEPH ADY, Accountant,
"No. 5, York-street, Charlotte-street, quarter-mile
east of Whitechapel Church, London,
" Personally known to each of the Aldermen of Lon-
don, haying been a freeman and housekeeper fifty years.
"Oct. 12, 1846.
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e should you find any difficulty in getting the money,
the Right 0
PeterLaurie,wayDeputyln
Lord Mayor, will frank you from all expenses,
except
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expressed his surprise
thateprconclusion,asney nP°spersons
representations, as many undoubtedly must do, to enable
him to keep up the game. He was a'so surprised that
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Alderman
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ould be so foolish as to listen to Ady's
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any one would take in his letters, ae they were all un-
paid. For his part, he (sir Peter) would be obliged to
the press for their assistance in giving his remarks pub
licity.

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BOW-A:IZ
A well-dressed young
Charles Shebbiere, waslbrought before Mr. Hall upon the
following charge, preferred by one of the beadles of the
Lowther Arcade.
The complainant said that at about half-past ten
o'clock on Saturday night the prisoner, who was passing
through the Arcade, caught hold of a young 'woman,
who screamed out for help, and struggled to escape from
him. Witness was about to go to her assistance, but
she succeeded in getting away before he came up to the
spot where it occurred. He rebuked the prisoner
for his misconduct, and warned him not to re-
peat it, but the prisoner said he would do just as be
pleased. He took off his coat to fight, and made several
blows at witness, and the other beadle coming up took
the prisoner in charge.
The statement was corroborated by Mr. Sampson, a
shopkeeper in the Arcade.
The prisoner said he was drunk at the time.
Mr. HALL fined the prisoner 405., or in default, sen-
tenced him to 21 days' imprisonment.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Morgan Bryant, a stalwart Irish labourer, a navie,
was charged yesterday morning, before Mr. Hardwick, as
being one of the ringleaders in a squad of twenty, who
made a serious assault on the police.
Police-constable C 6G said he was led by hearing a
riotous noise, a little after twelve on Saturday night, to
go to the corner of Duke-street, at the top of Robert-
street, where he found the prisoner and some twenty
more quarreling in front of Diplock's public-house ;
Constable 56 of the C division was stretched insensible
on the pavement in the midst of them, and the
prisoner was beating him at the time. When
he had seized the defendant, several of, his
companions struek at him, dealing several severe blows
about the head, which knocked him down. He still kept
a firm hold of the -prisoner, however, who upon that
struck him, and struggled to get away ; and some four
others, with their heavy hobnailed boots, kicked him in
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they had kicked a hole in his great
coat, and all his left side was as black as his hat.
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Police-constable 56 C said the prisoner and his com-
panions had been put out of the public-house for rioting
qiiugohrt
in whichthe theystre
eta dlyhhaedi
and then began to quarrel and t
he went to part t he m he received a heavy blow on the
ro. anzsitct.r)ce said,visit
visited
that temple from one of them, which knocked him down and
rendered him insensible.
The prisoner denied the charge.
the police caonndducchtetc7eadrdins
time, otherwise they should have to double the force.
He sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment,
and hard labour in the House of Correction, on each of
the two assaults, the punishments to be borne succes-
sively. The first complainant was also granted a war-
istuhesilevberruitt;l,
rant against the others who were engaged in the assault,

SOUTHWARK
71omas Murray, a tall, powerful-looking man, was
eharged before Mr. Seeker with assaulting and biting
off the greater portion of one of the fingers of a Mrs.
Randall, l
the wife of the master of a coasting vessel.
The
complainant, who had ono of her arms in a sling,
stated that at a late hour the preceding night, as she and
her husband were passing a bottle in Windmill-street,
they heard a great noise and screams of murder. Her
husband immediately went into the house, and on seeing
the prisoner attacking two women, he immediately inter-
fered for their protection when he was assailed by the
Insoner, who, being a very'
powerful man, got him down
on the floor. The complainant finding that her husband
had no chance in a struggle with such an adversary, pro-
ceeded to his assistance and in attempting to extricate
him from the grasp of his assailant, the latter got one of
her fingers into his mouth,
and actually bit a portion of
it off. By this time the police came to the spot, and

• after some difficulty secured the prisoner, and took him
off to the station-house.:
In the course of the investigation it was ascertained
1 that the prisoner had entered the house in the first in-
stance with a female, and insisted on remaining there.
The landlady, however, insisted on his quitting, and in
attempting to enforce it was struck by the prisoner, and
her cries for help having attracted the attention of the
complainant and her husband, they went to the land-
lady's assistance, when they were treated in the brutal
manner above described.

The defendant said that he was attacked by the par-
ties, and in defending himself he was compelled to resort
to violence, but was not aware that during the affray he
had bitten the complainant's finger.
The complainant having expressed a wish that the
charge might be summarily disposed of, the Magistrate
inflicted a penalty of 40s. on the defendant, and in de-
fault of payment he was committed to gaol for 21 days.