The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-30 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

:sr!tesday William Jackson, Richard England, Wm.
Hill, Brown, and Robert Lewis, American sailors,
belongit4; to the St. James New York liner, at present in
the St. Kul-Wine Dock, were placed at the bar before
the Hon. G. -Norton, and charged with the following
outrage
Pol;ce-constable John M`Mahon, 1-1 32, said that be-
tween four and five o'llock on the preceding evening he
was sent i;)r to go to the Phcenix public-hous,r, in East
Smithfield, and en going there he found a sailor, named
John Thomas, in a frightful state, having been despe-
rately beaten and his under lip bitten completely off. He
removed him to the station-house, and from thence to
the London Hospital, where he at present remained.
Richard Maroney, II 167, deposed that on the evening
before, between [our and five o'cl.Jek, in consequence of
what-had been communicated to him relative to the out-
rage in East Smithfield, he went on board the St. James,
American liner, in the S(': Katharine Dock basin, and
Jackson and England being poipted out to him as two of
the persons elv.,,eged in the atfetty, he told them they
must come with him. They refused to do so. He told
them there was not the slightest use in making resist-
ance, as they would be-noon overpowered by the police,
.::nd therefore it was better for them to go along quietly.
Other constg;u!es came on board by this time, and the
row r prisoners were secured and taken to the station-house.
Ponsonby, a waiter at the Phmnix public-
house. in -East- Smithfield, deposed that between four
and fivo o'clock on the evening before he saw the prisoner
collar a young Iran, a sailor, and strike him two or times.
The young man Thomas then took off his coat, and Jack-
son, England, and Hill instantly attacked hiiu. The
ieormer knocked him down, and, as he was getting up,
England and Hill kicked him violently in the chest and
lower part of the abdomen. The young man, however,
struggled with them until Jackson, while they were on
the ground, pt his under lip in his mouth and held it
fast. The young man cried out " Murder ! he's biting
_my lip off," once or twice, while England and Hill also
siontinued to cry out with dreadful expressions, "Give
'it him !" " Serve the English -- out ?" and such like

expressions.
Mr. Lawrence Levy, a clothes dealer in East Smith-
field, corroborated the statement of the former witnesses,
and declared that anything more savage and brutal than
the condm}.; of Jackson, England, and Hill, it was im-
Tossible to cmceive. "In fact," said the witness, " when
that person, Sackson, -caught the lip of the young man
in his mouth, he was more like a ferocious bull-dog than
a human being." The more the young man cried out the
more he-shook, until at length he severed the lip from
the jaw, and she sight was so horrid as to create a feel-
ing of horror amongst all who had witnessed it. A female
who was present culled out-f%». God's sake not to murder
rhe man, and culled them a ut of cannibals, upon which
the prisoner Hill called her a eve name, and kicked her
one: or twice.
Catherine Connor, the person allubd to by the last
witness, and who is in a state of pregnancy,,,deposed that
she kept a fruit-stall opposite to the PhoOix
public-
:house, and that on seeing the young man so ~i.vagely
treated. she made use of the expressions just
when Hill called her a -, and kicked at her violently.
Me witness added, that while Jackson was ill-using
Tioruas, England and Hill cried out, " Kick him, and
show'llint the American fashion."

Othor. witnesses spoke to all the facts above stated,
and added :hat the prisoner England, on reaching the
dock-gate, Ai:ter the affray. drew a large case knife
(such as all the. kmerican sailors belonging to New York
liners are in "h.' habit of carrying about with them
while on sltore). from a leather pouch, and flourishing
it about, and with .vile imprecations, exclaimed, "he
would show them (tf:e -crowd) 'a little of the American
fashion of doing thing:47_

Mr. Nowroxremand- all the prts' oners except Lewis,
whom he discharged. •'
Mr. NORTON animadvert hi 'strong terms against
the practice of the .American sailors carrying knives re-
semblinfr those used by .porl butchers, in pouches by
their sides, a practice from Which there have been two
or three fatal results at this Court. .

. ,
' WORSRIP-STI?EET. • • ,
SERIOUS REVOLT IN ST. Lu E'S WO ITRIIOUSE.—
Nary Aire Gibbons, Mary Ann Smith' Mill White
Fietcher,,Eltzabeth Ferguvon,
,S'arahrd, and E
E lrL
a-
bet • -
h. Rob;ftworz, female paupers of St. Luke's, whose ages
'varied from 15 to
.18 years, were charged before Mr.
-lilt having conducted.themseeves in a riotous.
:Bingham ‘,.% manner in the workhouse, and the
and
Gibbonstlisort
was further charged with having vio-
prisoner
lently assaulted Mr. Arnott, the master of the house.
The master
stated that the workhouse had been kept
in a constant state of uproar for some time past in con-
sequence of the turbulent and rebellious conduct of the
At eleven o'clock on the receding morning
prisoners. the girls' hall in which the prisoners
he was passing
were, when a olume
of smoke issued from it, and on
v
he found that some of the
rntering the apartment
fire a quantity of oakum which
-
prisoners had set on
they had been ordered to pick. He obtained assist-
ance anti the flames were extinguished, and upon in-
quiring who were the authrorls
laoufgh, andthethenfistochldiehf,imto
o
prisoners burst into a general
They continued their
-
ea
Lind out as he best
arnedrdineg:
refractory behaviour throciighoutitliiedf derisionay,andon ti
to bed at night they set up a shout u
_fiance under his window. On corning down stairs next
morning they resumed their riotous proceedings, and
perceiving that the girl Gibbons was their ringleader,
he desired her to withdraw into the wash-house, which
she refused to do, and after abusing
She after-
him she took up a
large basin, which she broke over his head. „
'svards hurled at his head several other articles or
en-cad-try, which were smashed to
pieces, and she then
:snatch•;,:l no a knife, which. she threw at him, but by
suddenly stooping down he escaped the serious injury
he must otherwise have sustained. The other prisoners
in the meantime urged her on by voice and gesture,
and th ey all joined in such an obstreperous chorus of
shoutit tg and shrieking, that the whole neighbourhood
was 514..r.med, and the occupants of the opposite houses
ran tut'. to learn the cause of the uproar. He was at
length •••om pAle!I to summon the police to his assistance,
and the prisoners were Conveyed to the station-house.
Th e X`AotwritATt said that the prisoners were evidently
so (Lep Gritvlia. WWI Itattlened that he despaired of making
the si
,impreasion on their feelings. by any ex-
hortati tun that he could address to them. He. Should
remand' the girl Gibbons until Tuesday, and commit all
• the oth( T, ; for twenty...one -dayS to the House of Correction.
. • The pi. :sellers, whose behaviour displayed the most
callouS ha rdihood, were removed by the gaoler.

TH E 1 TEATHER.—NOON,ISEPTEMBER 2,9.
ROYAL GI;LLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELATnE-STREET.
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Therm( mete 1'... 59 ;
Highest........ 59 I Lowest .
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'Wind N.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.