The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-18 00:00:00

VENAFRA V. JOHNSON, CLERK.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the cele-
brated Italian ballet-master, against the defendant, to
recover compensation for false imprisor,ment. It appeared
that the p'aintiff took part of the defendant's house in
Regent-street, who is a respectable clergyman, in which
he instructed several private pupils in dancing. In
March last plaintiff proposed to give his pupils a ball,
and advertised his intention of so doing. The defendant,
upon hearing it, wrote to plaintiff, prohibiting him from
doing so. Plaintiff got into possession, and was heard to
use some threatening language towards the defendant by
his servant. The defendant went to Marlborough-street
Police-office for the purpose of binding over the plaintiff
to keep the peace. A summons being granted, the p trties
attended, but the plaintiff not being able to procure the
necessary bail a warrant issued, and the plaintiff was
taken into custody and confined in a roam in the Police•
office.

Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE consented to a nonsui; being
entered.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARYLEBONE.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.— IVilliam Blake
was charged wit'i having violently assaulted Edward Shay.
ler, a police constable, under the following cis curnstances :
Complainant was on duty in Phillips-buildings about
half-past twelve o'cl,clc on Sunday night, when he heard
a cry of " Murder" and " Police" proceed from the house
No. S. The stre,t door being open he went in, and in
the back parlour he discovered the prisoner beating his
wife, who was lying down on a bed, with her head hang-
ing over the side, apparently insensible. On the prisoner
observing his presence he exclaimed, " What do you want,
you policeman ? I'll do for you ;" and immediately
caught hold of witness's collar with one hand, and with
the other took a shovel from the fireplace, with which he
commenced a furious attack on witness's person, inflicting
three dreadful gashes on his cheek, and cutting his legs
about till he could hardly stand. He, however, managed
to extricate himself, and got the assistance of two other
constables, with whom he succeeded in conveying the
prisoner to the station-house. The prisoner's wife was
beaten in a very severe manner, both her eyes being black-
ened and her face swelled to an immense a.ze.
The prisoner was committed in default of bail.
Q UEEN-S Q UARE.

MARY BOND Acrant.—Yesterday Mrs. Mary Bond,
who has gained considerable notoriety by breaking publi-
cans' windows when they refuse to serve her with liquor,
was again charged with wilfully breaking one square of
glass at the house of Mr. George Moore, the landlord of
the Hero of Waterloo, in the Waterloo• road, Lambeth.
" Here I am !" exclaimed Mrs. Bond, as soon as she en-
tered the outer office. " Here I am, Mary Dund, again ;
I am as good as my word ; I told Mr. Moore I would
have another smash at his windows soon after I got out of
prison, and I'm now ready and willing to have another
jolification at the tread-mi 1."
Some time back Mrs. Bond was committed from this
office to Brixton for breaking five squares of glass at Mr.
Moore's, which she said she did to see life at the tread-
mill, promising at the same time to pay Mr. Moore
another visit as soon as she came out.
It appeared that o❑ the previous evening Mrs. Bond
left her domicile in Gray's Inn-lane, to have what she
calls a spree on the Surrey side of the water. Between
eleven and twelve o'clock she was smoking her pipe i❑
the Waterton-road, when she wdked up to Mr. Moore's
house, and deliberately dashed her hand through one of
the squares of glass, exclaiming, " Here I am ; Al.try

Bond come again- .. Mr. Moore ran out, when, to his
astor7shoient, he saw Mrs. Bond standing outside. He
called out for the police, when Mary Bond exclaimed,
r t
" It's of no use; 1 broke the glass, and I'll walk quietly
tthoethreeassntnatwi"Fty- hsoluiesel;';okwelltiheell wsihnedodwisd.On said, d
nised to do it, and I'm a woman of my
she
s word: , ,
I panin.L..
my name .
Bond, and my word is my bond."
! ri , being
.plat:ed at the bar Mr. GREGOEIE asked if
Moore
_r. I.t', L ooimree nwaassincaalltetdensdeavnecrei:
31
times by the constable, but
llig
be
did
n, at answer, and Mr. GREGORIE said that, as he
iar against her, she must tie discharged.
did not apps.
t Abe would nut mind waiting an hour or
mi.,tre,B Bt. irrd appeared very much disappointed at this
and declared tha
two for him.
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ANECDOTE G'F Loan CLIVE. When
CLIVE was a young .man, a friend called on him one
day, and found him sitting with books and a pistol on
the table. " Take that pistol," said CLIVE to his vi-
iter, ~and fire it out at the window." He did so at
s. Before the smoke subsided, and while the room
once. report,, LIVE sprang to his feat, rxclaimirg
tome tor site to do yet. I so.. ,pped
WY. —v head before you came in, yet it did
, • • i twice at
that pls.!).
ran!, sGviotph ..hta's
~.,cae_
e me yet."
not go off: li."l3cin has work ..
"1u Tuesday last
TREM Ui ENDO STORM.--‘,.
i 4,1 s storms
Nvo, wpre visited by one of the most tretnern...
~
''••+ai; ?we have witne m
ssed for some tie. The morning w... 7%
(-- ' ' ~,t4 sultry, apt about nine o'clock ttta clouds began
brigh. -(14 show every. indication of an apprc.a4;nl;
to gather,
',at an hour rain came, and in a chit time ;
storm. In at.
torrents, mixed with large hailstone',
it poured down in
,rd vivid and frequent gashes of
-..als of thunder, added to the
or rather
~ , . ~sir remembrance has
fearfulness of a storm, wii!'n
,Ptio'rloesw:dt ilciye'loud N.
in .
About twelve o'clock the heavy clouds, which llit, alinost
scarcely a parallel. Happily it did not: e43nt.:ih_u: !Pug.
turned day into night, began to hi-4c away, the ran,
ceased for a time, and the thunder and liglitLioa were no
more heard or seen. In the course of the afternoon the rain
began to fall again, aad continued fur asveral hours, accom-
panied by a coil high wind from the north west. All our
streets were flooded to an extraordinary extent, ;nd in
some of the lower parts of the town it was impossible to
pass along without wading to a considerable depth. Some
of the channels had the appearance of little rivers, and
swept along the streets with amazing rapidity. The rivers
by which our city is surrounded soon began to swell. The
C blew and the I').etteril rose rapidly, sweeping away every
loose thing that lay In their course. All the lower grounds
along their banks were speedily flooded, and great
damage we Par has been ,done to iii,; ?say crops in
the meadow lain.. The most serious damage of
which we have yet iteaard, 7.vas sustained at the '
new bridge now being erected acioss the Eden at
Warwick. The flood, rushing with Ippetitosity
through the arches of the old bridge, drove with
irresistible force agc.inet this work, and about 3 o'elt;elt on
blown Wednesday up, and scattered about in fra.gments. Same idea
morning its ectre frame-work was literally
ort,:ihreinntreinmdeyndhte.ufsnrfomrecde, wwithhenwhwiceh
sittatsevastharctot from itsel
ti
e iaiet
alone attached to the framework weighed upwards of six
.m
tons (besides the weight of timber), and was 147 feet in
circum'erence ; and that this was driven upwards nf eight
feet into the air, with a noise that was he Aril at the die-
taneP of several miles ! Carlisle 4ournal.
.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, ~TuNE 18.

The LORD CHANCYLLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
Aon after five o'clock.
Lord LYTTLETON presented a petition from the
School of Medicine in Birmingham, praying that no alte-
ration might be made in the Apotheclries Act.
The Duke of RICHMOND laid on the table a report
from the Turnpike Roads Committee.
Mr. C. GRANT, Mr. MACAULAY, and others from the
Commons, appeared at the bar, and desired a conference
with their Lordships on a subject of the highest impor-
tance to the possessions of his Nlaj,,sty in India, and the
prosperity of the commerce and revenue of the kingdom.

The LORD CHANCELLOR informed them that their
Lordships had agr€ed to hold a conference, which would
be held forthwith in tie Painted Chamber.

The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Wellesley,
the Lord Privy Seal, the Earl of Roslyn, Lord Amherst,
Lord Ellenborough, and the Bishop of Hereford, were then
appointed to hold the conference on the part of their Lord-
ships.

Mr. BERNAL and others from the Commons brought up
and presented a copy, of tire evidence taken before the Secret
Committee that sat last year on the question of renewing
the Bank Charter, with the report of the said Committee.
The Lords appointed on the conference then went out
in procession by the bottom door, having' been informed
that the Commons were ready.
The Earl of WICKLOW said, as be had been informed,
that there had been a measure introduced into the other
House of Parliament for a ❑ew mode of paying the clergy
of Ireland, he begged leave to give notice that on Tuesday
next he would move for certain returns connected with
tithes, in order to have an opportunity of expressing his
opinion of that measure.
Earl GREY suggested Tuesday, which was agreed to.
Lord ROLLE was anxious to ask a question of the
Noble Earl (Grey) relative to a measure upon which
many petitions had been presented to the House ; it w,,
whether there was any intention of making any alteration
in the Beer Act, from which great evils had resulted,
Earl GREY said a Select Committee bad sat upon the
subject in the other House, and he considered it rather
premature to say any thing on the subject before that
Committee made their report, which he believed would be
in a few days.

The Lords of the Conference the❑ appeared at the table,
and reported the resolutions as they have already appeared.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH wished to know whether
the Noble Earl opposite (Grey) had ny objection to lay
before the House copies of the correspondence which had
taken place between the Board of Control and the East
India Directors, relative to the change in the local go-
vernment of India. At present the House had no pa-
pers throwing any light upon the subject before it.
Earl GREY said that if the Noble Baron had given
him notice of his request before hand, he should have
been better prepared to answer him. At present, how-
ever, he did not see any objection to the production of the
correspondence, hut. he would inquire into the subject,
and would inform the Noble Lord to-morrow. If it met
the approbation of the House, he would propose that the
resolutions be taken into consideration on Friday se'nnig ht.
—Agreed to.