The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-11 00:00:00

JUNE ll, 1851.

LAMBETH.

THE EGO-THROWING ON THE OARS DAY.—Yester-
day being the day on which the warrants granted
against Messrs, henry and Thomas Dimsdale, the
sons of Bsron Dimsdale, and Captain Williams, of the
Army and Navy Club, for the very aristocratic amuse•
went of egg-throwing, Mr. Jarman, Mr. Watson, and
others, who had been seriously assaulted, and had their
clothes completely destroyed, attended to substantiate
the charge.
The defendants, however, did not think proper to
make their appearance, and •
Saunders (the officer who held the warrants), up')
being sworn, stated that he had been to the Army and
Navy Club several times for the purpose of seeing Cap-
tain Williams, but was not su •cessful. Hs ha I left
word, however, that if be (the captain) did not attend
before his Worship on that day, he should take the
consequence of being locked up when apprehended,
and preparatory to his bin taken bet the ma-
gistrate at this court. He (Saunders) had also celled at
Ne. 10, Bury•street, St. James's, for the purpose of see-
ing the slessrs. Dimsdale, but was told they were out of
town. He, however, left a message at the club-house,
that unless they attended before his Worship on that
day, they too would have to submit to the consequences
of being taken up on the warrant Saunders, the officer,
added, that agreeable to his Worship's instructions, he
had served a summons upon Mr. Pierce, the landlord of
the house, No. 10, Bury-street, to give evidence in the
matter, and that person was then in attendance.
Mr. Eetiorr here directed Mr. Pierce to get into the
witness-box, and told Mr. Shields, the chief usher, to
administer the oath to him in the usual way.
This having been done;- Mr. Pierce was examined as
to his knowledge of the egg-throwing on the return from
the Oaks, when ho declared that he knew nothing what-
ever about it. In reply to the questions of the magis-
trate, he (Pierce) said, that on the Oaks day he had
lodging at his house Mr. Henry Dimsdale; Captain
horntou, of the Ist Royal Dragoons; Lieutenant Little-
dale, of the same regiment; Lieutenant Sertens, of the
16th Lancers; the Hon. Mr. Anstey, of the 16,h Lan-
cers; Mr. Ibbard, late of the Scotch Greys; and Messrs.
Dent and Huwphry, private gentlemen. These gentle-
men did not start from his bowie, nor did he accompany
them to or from Epsom on the Oaks day, but went in a
bri•ska in company with Captain Foster, Mr. Hatton,
Mr. Barclay, and Mr. Goff, all officers belonging to the
16th Lancers, and returned rather early.
Mr. ELLlOTT—Witness, I would advise you to be a
little cautious in answering the questions. Now I ask
you again whether you were not present and saw the
parties in the four-wheel coach fling eggs at the com-
plainants and other parties? Pierce—l did not see it,
Sir. I came home some time before the four-horse
coach.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Have you told Saunders the officer
that you witnessed the egg-throwing? Witness—l did
nor, Sir.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Did you say anything to the officer
about it beiug very foolish on the part of Mr. Peat
cowing forward to give the information he had, and that
it would be the ruin of him, as he was a military sad-
dler and they were military officers? Witness—l do
not think I said that; but I might have said I thought
lit was foolish on the part of Mr. Peat to give informa-
tion against officers.
Saunders was here sworn, and swore positively that
Mr. Pearce distinctly told him that he had witnessed a
part of the throwing of eggs from the four-wheel carriage
in which the Messrs. Dimsdale were, as ho was iu a
drag" immediately following. Pearce bad also said
that it was a very foolish thing of Mr. Peat coming for-
ward as he did, as ho was a military saddler, and that
it would be the ruin of him, as the gentlemen were all
military officers.
Mr. Collins, one of the parties assaulted, spoke posi-
tively as to the identification of Pearce as a person he
saw taking an active part in the affray at South Lam-
beth, when the complaining parties were stopped and
given iato custody, but the police were not in sufficient
force then to secure them.
Mr. Peat here came forward, and said that his inter-
ference in the matter was in the first instance perferely
accidental. He did not a itness any of the alleged egg-
throwing, but rode up just at the time when the four-
horse coach was stopped at South Lambeth, and know
ing Mr. Jermar. and Mr. Watson, two of the complain-
ants, and also recognising the gentlemen in the drag, he
undertook, in the confusion of giving addresses, to give
the former gentlemen the names of the latter. The
Messrs. Dimsdale particularly app sled to him, and asked
if he would riot be answerable for them? and he replied
" Certainly he should." When last in this court, he
(Mr. Peat) had represented the Messrs. Dimsdale to be
the sons of the banker, but found since then that contra-
dictions to his assertions had appeared in the pubiie
papers. The mistake, however, arose from his belief
that their father, Baron Dimsdale, was a partner in the
banking-house of that name. He (Mr. Peat) regretted
exceedingly that anything coming from him should have
given the baron Dimsdale a moment's unhappiness, as
he believed him to be one of the kindest and best men
in existence. With regard to the anticipation of Mr.
Pearce as to the consequences of the information which
he had given, and which wag not tendered voluntarily,
he (Mr. Pear) had little to fear while the army was offi
cored by gentlemen; and in conclusion be wished to say,
that an intimation had reached him that it was the wish
of the accused party to make the most liberal compensa-
tion to the complainants for the injury they had sustained,
provided his Worship would permit of the matter being
settled in this way.
Mr. ELLIOTT replied that he could not listen to such a
course. Besides the number of persons wile had come
forward publicly to complain he (Mr. Elliott) had re-
ceived numerous complaints of similar outrages by the
same parties, and one in particular from an aged gentle-
man, who, with his wife and two daughters, had been
shamefully treated while passing over Clapham-common
in an open carriage.
Mr. ELLIOTT has directed that the warrants, which
are in the hands of Saunders and Sergeant Goff, should
be executed without loss of time; and if the accused
were put to any inconvenience by being locked up they
had only themselves to blame.

THAMES.
CHARGE. OF EMBEZZLEMENT.— /Vahan' Cowley. a re-
spectable-looking young man, 22 years of age, was finally
ex,iminei, charged with emb. zzling various sums
amounting to about 31. the moneys of Mr. James Cantor,
proprietor of the Lord Nelson public-house, Bromley.
The prisoner entered the service of Mr. Cantor a
little more than a fortnight since. He boarded and
lodged at the house, and his wages were a guinea a
month, and a halfpenny on every pot of beer he sold.
His business was to visit Messrs. Maudslay's (the engi-
users) hulks and the other ships at Poplar, and supply
beer to the labourers, and notwithstanding the liberality
of his master he absconded on Saturday week with the
above amount. Ho was apprehended on Wednesday by
Westfield, 329 IC, in the East India-road, when he coolly
said, " Oh, it's only a breach of trust; I sold the beer
and got the money."
Threo cases were proved against the prisoner, and he
was fully committed for trial.

THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION.
BRISTOL, JUNE 10.--Three more of the sufferers
from the late dreadful boiler explosion at the Sterveall
Colliery, Kingsvrood, near this city, the particulars of
which were given in The Sun of Monday, have since
died, making altogether seven persons now lying dead.
John Burchell, the engineer of the works, and two of
whose sons are amongst the killed, is also so seriously
injured that his death is hourly expected. Tho other
persons wounded are at present progressing favourably.
The following is the list of those now dead:—Jose-ph
Long, bailiff of the colliery; William Burchell and John
Burchell, jun , Francis Bryant, Daniel Mountain, James
Ricketts, and Samuel Bryant. Mountain has left be-
hind him a wife and eight children,. and the others have
also left families to deplore their loss.
Five of the party having died in the county of Glou-
cester, an inquest on the bodies has been commenced
before Mr. W. Joyner Ellis, the coroner for the district,
at the Rose and Crown Tavern, St. George's.
The jury having been sworn,
The CORONER said they had a very painful investiga-
tion before them—indeed, he might say that during the
many years he had held the office of coroner he had
seldom had to deal with a more painful case. It de-
mauded, and he had no doubt that it would receive at
their hands, a most patient and attentive investigation.
By the provisions of a recent Act of Parliament they
were prohibited from proceeding in inquests on the bodies
of persons killed in connexion with the working of coal-
mines until they had given two clear days' notice to
one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State,
in order to afford time for the attendance of a Govern-
ment lospector. He had sent information of the acci-
dent as soon as he heard of it to Sir George Grey, and
no doubt he would send down an inspector to watch the
inquiry, and pending that circumstance he would not
be warranted in receiving evidence; but he would at
present confine the duties of the jury to viewing the
bodies and making a careful examination of the scene
of the accident, the boiler, &c., which would materially
assist them in the investigation.
The jury then proceeded to view the bodies, which
present° I a dreadful spectacle. The engine-yard. boiler,
&c., also exhibited a perfect mass of ruins; and some
idea of the violence of the explosion may be formed from
the fact that the boiler, weighing seven tons, when torn
from its bed was blown into the air to the height of be-
tween 60 and 70 feet, descending on the top of a stack
over 50 feet high, when it separated, falling one portion
on the east end the other cn the west side of the engine-
house. The masonry round the boiler was shivered to
atoms, and a portion of the boundary wall was thrown
down. The precise causes of the accident have not Set
been determined, although many speculations aro afloat
relative to the subject.

MACCLESFIELD.—
We regret to learn that Mr.
Williams, one of the Members for this borough, is at present
eulferizig froth severe illnesa: cc ktrield

having set up a fictitious firm, " Merton and Co," at
No, 4, Pickard-street, St. Luke's, and obtaining ten gold
rings under false pr,,tences.—The prisoners were fully
committed on the charge.
A second charge was made by Mr. John Swainsland,
of 5, Curtain-road, St. Luke's, for obtaining a work-box
and other srticlev; his property.--Committed for trial.
. third charge was preferred against them by Mr.
William Wickham and Cu., stationers, No. 165, Strand,
for feloniously stealing a number of account-books, their
property.—Fully committed.
A fourth charge was preferred by Mr. Pierre Class
Sasse, of No. 7, Chapel-street, Pentonville, for obtaining
under false and fraudulent pretence ten card-cases and
other valuable property.
The prosecutor is a mother-o'-pearl fancy goods manu-
facturer, and be identified both prisoners.—They were
fully committed for trial on this charge.
Numerous other charges were made against them,
and in the course of the day they were conveyed to
Newgate.

A committee was then nominated to act on the sub-
ject, and the thanks of the meeting being given to ➢lr.
Dlowatt, Sir W. Molesworth, and the chairman, the
meeting separated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
' Letters from Rio express some disappointment at no
relief being sent out for the Southampton, 50, flag-ship,
' the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Reynolds. C. 8.,
having expressed a wish to be superseded. It was re-
ported at Rio, however that Rear-Admiral the Hon.
' Fleetwood Pellew would be the new Commander-in-
Chief it he pleased. The flag-ship had suffered a few
cases of fever, one of which terminated fatally, but the
cold air to the southward soon put the remainder on
their legs again. The squadron was healthy. Nearly
all caught the distemper at an island called Cobrao,
where the storehouses are situated. The Brazilians
were going to blockade the River Plate; by all ac•
counts they had sailed from Rio for that part of the
station, but had not arrived up to last advices from
thence. The Brazilian squadron is comminanded by an '
Englishman.— Herald.
The Master-AitenOant (1 Portsmouth Dockyard, Mr.
Underwood, accompanied by the officers of the pay
office, went off to Spithead to pay the Ajax, 60, screw-
ship, Captain Quin, and Hogue, 60, scree-ship, Captain
WDougall, six months' wages Both vessels are to
proceed to Cork to-day.
The wind moderated on Monday morning, and the
Devastation, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Campbell,
sailed from Spithead for l)evonport, where she will
await final orders fir thus West Indies.
The Hecate, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Hand, sailed
from Portsmouth on Monday morning to help the screw-
ship Megsera, en route to Queenstown for the Cape.
The royal yachts not being required for some time,
were removed up Portsmouth harbour to their moorings
yesterday morning.
The Porcupine, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander
Bacon, is returning stores and dismantling at Ports-
mouth.

Sappho, 12, Commander Hon. A. Cochrane, arrived
at Halifax \lay 22, from Bermuda.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—We had a heavy gale of
wind last night 'ruin the westward, but the ships at
Spithead rode well with their topgallant masts on deck.
A barge, laden with ballast, belonging to -Mr. P. Role,
the contractor, in coining out of Langstoue harbour,
shipped a sea and sapk. One man was drowned.
The Wellesley. 72, Captain G. Goldsmith, with the
flag of Admiral Earl Dundonald, arrived at Spithead
this afternoon from the West Indies. She came in
through the Needles, and saluted the flag of the Port-
Admiral with 17 guns, which the Victory returned
with 15.

DEVONPORT, TUESDAY.—The Chapman, from Sierra
Lgone. coming to Catwatar on Monday evening, fouled
the Dutch steam frigate Merapi, and though injured
her but trifitng, it will detain her three or tour days.
APPOINTMENT.
WOOLIVICU, JUNE W.—Mate—John George W. P.
Edwardes (1850), from the Retribution steam-frigate,
on her passage home from Lisbon, to the Ajix, 58,
screw steam-ship, ordered to return from Portsmouth
to her former station at Cork.

The Hydra, 6, paddle wheel iteam•sloop, had her
steam up yesterday to try her engines, and will soon be
ready for commission.

Tae
Stwarwater, 8, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, is also
nearly ready for active service.

Captain. Johnson, of the Compass Department, has at
present in the hands of the principal compass-maker to
the Admiralty a standard compassin every respect the
sane as the one he uses for adjusting the compasses of
the vessels of the royal navy, and it is intended to be
submitted to the inspection of the public i❑ the Great
Exhibition at Hyde-park.

_ •
Upwards of 100 foreigners visited Woolwich Dock-
yard last week, having obtained cards of admission from
the Legations of their respective countries, and upwards
of ninety visited it during the previous week. It may
be advisable to mention, to prevent disappointment, that
when application is made at the Legation for a card of
admission the names of the whole of the persons in-
tended to form a party should be given, that they may
be written on the card, as several disappointments have
taken place, owing to persons having applied for a card
and talon several friends with them whose names had
not I:Pea previously given, and were consequently. not
permitted to visit the yard, the instructions to the direc-
tor of police being very stringent in that respect.

SEABORNE MAILS.
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Chili .. .. .. . M 17th of the month Southampt. June 20
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GOVERNMENT WATER SUPPLY BILL.
A meeting of the constituency of the borough cf
Southwark was convened, in compliance with a requi-
sition numerously signed, and held at the Town-hall,
Southwark, yesterday afternoon, to take into considera-
tion the Bill introduced by Government to consolidate
all the existing water companies without the power of
municipal or parochial control.
Mr. Pritchard, High Bailiff for Southwark, presided.
Excuses for non-attendance were read both from Sir
B. Hall and Mr. Wakley, and
Dr. CHALLIcE moved the first resolution, which was
to the effect—that the meeting considered the Govern-
ment Bill unfair in principle and subversive of sanitary
improvement, particularly as the water supplied by the
companies supported by the Bill was unfit for human
consumption; and they were prepared by every legal
means, to prevent its passing into law. This was se-
conded by Mr. Day, and carried unanimously.
Mr. A. PELLATT moved the second resolution, which
stated that the water service of London could never be
properly accomplished until it was placed under the con-
trol of a repreaentative body chosen by the ratepayers,
and they would support the principle of Mr. Muwatt's
Bill, which was designed to carry this oui.
Mr. C 01.1.11,15024 seconded the resolution, which was
put and carried.
Mr. MoWATT, M.P., said the Prime Minister did not
deny any of their statements. The fact was, they did
not want to trouble themselves with tee matter, and the
Bill was really a water company 's Bill. In one word,
they made no provision for the 700,000 who were wholly
without water. Did they propuse to reduce the price?
They did so for the class who did not require it, and
threw the burden on the middle classes. Ia the schedule
of rates he found that, after combining the nine mono-
polies into one—and they must remember that, at pre-
sent, they had no legal tenure, but the Bill gave them a
legal exietence through all time—they not only enabled
them to charge the present rate, although at present, for
very sh fine'e sake, they only tack 35., but they proposed
that they should have the maximum rate till they had a
net dividend of 5 per cent. on a fictitious c ,pital of
4,800.000/., and that then they should reduce their rive if
they had a greater dividend. He would now say a few
words on his own Bill. The great pinciple in it was
that the ratepayers who bad to drink and pay fir the
water should have the control over it. He bad divided
London into 17 districts, all lying within six miles of
Charing-cross. The ratepayers in each district would
nominate four of their body, the city of London four,
and the Government four, to form a general
commission for the whole metropolis, in all
amounting to 76 persons. Tbey should be unpaid, and
would nominate from their own body five members and
a secretary to form an executive committee, who would
be paid, and would have to devote their whole time to
the work. At the same time they would only be the
mouthpieces of the ratepayers; for the ratepae ers would
choose the 76, and they would choose the acting com-
mittee. One of them would be nominated by Govern-
me:nt. He did not fix any source of supply, as be thought
the commissioners should he left to judge and choose fur
themselves. With regard to expense, he must premise
that none of the estimates by eminent engineers for
a constant supply of pure water exceeded by much
2,000,000/. In his opinion, the present companies
had no claim for compensation, but he provided
that the commissioners should have the power to buy
them out on terms not exceeding ten years' purchase.
It went against the grain with him to allow this, as he
thought half would be enough, but, as there were 70
members in the House who were interested in water
companies, it was perhaps better to give a little more,
than have a ruinous contest.
Mr. THWLITZB moved, and Mr. SHAND seconded, a
resolution that a petition (which embodied the foregoing
resolutions) should be presented to Parliament by Mr.
Alderman Humpbery, and that Sir William Molesworth
be requested to support the same.
Sir W. MOLEMORTEI said he had attended to hear the
opinions of his constituents, as he wished to act altoge-
ther in compliance with them. They coincided perfectly
with his own.