The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-31 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

About a fortnight since two powerlul fellows, named
Donovan and Murray, well known to the police from
their previous practices, were placed at the bar of this
court charged with a ferocious assault and attempted
highway robbery, in concert with another man, who
then effected his escape, and has till now evaded appre-
hension, upon Mr. Abraham Hyman, a furrier in
Steward-street, Spite Melds, and Mr. Charles Connorton,
the lessee of the Pavilion Theatre, who, while engaged
in coversation at the end of Baker's•row, Whitechapel,
were suddenly set upon by the prisoners and their con-
federate, struck to the ground repeatedly by violent
blows in the face, and otherwise so seriously injured
that one of them, Mr. Hyman, was scarcely able to ap-
pear and give his testimony. The prisoners were then
remanded for the depositions to be taken, and upon being
again brought up, and it being announced that Mr. Hy-
man, from the severity of one lof the injuries he had
sustained,would be incapable for some time of attending,
they were locked up in one of the cells, in company of
several other men under remand or committal for
various offences. Only a short time elapsed, however,
after they had been placed there, when a load outcry
was raised from the cell that one of the prisoners was
cutting his throat, and upon Alderman, the gaoler, has-
tening there, he found the man Donovan seated upon
the bench and holding his neck, in which there were two
shocking gashes, extending nearly the whole width of
his throat, with the blood pouring so profusely from the
wounds that his arms were stained down to the elbows.
It then appeared that Donovan, upon entering the cell,
became very dispirited, and having obtained a clasp-
knife from one of the men he was confined with, under
the pretence of cutting off a worn piece of his shoe, im-
mediately turned round and commenced sawing at his
throat with the blade,
.the edge of which was fortu-
nately very dull, when the blood was caught sight of by
one of his fellow-prisoners, who raised an alarm, and,
after a violent struggle, he was disarmed. A neighbour-
ing surgeon was sent for, who dressed the wounds, and
pronounced them not to be fatal, and the prisoner, who
sullenly expressed his determination to complete the act
on the first opportunity that presented itself, was trans-
ferred to the infirmary of the House of Detention.

LORD PALMERSTON.
The fall of Lord Palmerston, which was announced
on Wednesday, took the country completely by surprise.
It had been long rumoured that there was a feud between
him and the Grey section of the Cabinet—it was even
asserted that Sir Charles Wood declared he would never
sit with him in Council again. It wa3 well known that
he was hated by all the despotic powers of Europe.
simply because be was too liberal and too clever for
them, and we had just learned that difficulty bad arisen
with Austria in respect of some expression of his relative
to Kossuth. But his character as a statesman, his ability
as a debater, and his popularity with the people, all
stood so high, that it was believed Lord John Russell
would have sacrificed a hecatomb of Greys rather than
one Lord Palmerston; and as to throwing him over as a
sop of reconciliation to Austria, an act of that kind
would be received with such indignation in this country
that it was hardly possible the Premier, however pressed,
could venture to adopt it. Still these were at the mo-
ment the only two causes to which conjecture could trace
so sudden and significant an event; and the fall of the
veteran statesman whose name has been so long con-
nected with the foreign policy of this empire, was at-
tributed partly to personal intrigue, and partly to a dis-
position in the British Government to succumb to the
dictation of those who with the strong hand of military
p )we r are lording it so arbitrarily and so haughtily over
nearly the whole of Europe.—Esser Herald.

MONEY MARKET.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about par (according to:, the new tariff), which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10id. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.17; and the ex-
change at Paris on London at short being 25.20, it follows
that gold is about 0.12 per cent. dearer in London than
in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is 426 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13.5 a and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at
short being 13.61, it follows that gold is 0.61 per cent.
dearer in London than in llamburgli. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is
11( per cent., and the par of exchange between England
and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.80 per cent. in favour of England;
and, after making allowance for difference of interest and
charges of transport, the present rate leaves a small profit on
I the importation of gold from the United States.