The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-16 00:00:00

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Mr. INGHAM said the fact of Mr. Arnold being
charged at the station-house and locked up, would,
no doubt, satisfy Mr. Butcher, if he made him an
apology; and he should advise the defendant not to
annoy any one else in a railway carriage.
Mr. Butcher accepted the apology, and defendant
was discharged from custody.
WANDS WORTH.

The prisoner, having received the usual caution
from the magistrate, declined to say anything in hia
defence ; and
Mr. BEADON fully committed him for trial.

hti been to nerve him with a summons, he re
qtfested
parties there to state that he could be found at Long s
Hotel, should the officer return asith the summons.
Some misunderstanding., however, took place between
the parties, and the officer returned on Thursday un-
succe.sful. Perceiving the report in the papers, and
thinking that it might he prejudicial to him as a gen-
, tletren and an :officer in her MejeSey's service, he
aught it advisable to attend before his Worship, and
state that he was not only ready to meet the complaint,
but to make a charge against the railway guard for
assaulting him.
• Guest, the summoning officer, said he had crew
taialy been unsuccessful in serving the process when
he went to Woolwich lu the first instance; but that
morning he had bean treated with the greatest cour.
tesy by the adjutant and one of the commanding
officers at Woolwich while in search of the applicant-.
r The adjutant received the summons, and informed
Ihim that the lieutenant would attend to the complaint
on the day named in the summons.
I Mr. litionam.told .thc applicant that he knew no-
thing of what appeared in the newspapers, but if he
was ready to meet the complaint of the railway com-
pany he had better attend on the day named in the
summons with any witness he might have.
Lieut. Bradshaw—l was assauited by the railway
guard while in charge of her Majesty's troops, and
think 1. ought to be protected. Cannot you grant me
a summons, your Worship ?
Guest here informed the magistrate that the sumo
moos taken out against the lieutenant was for assault-
ing George Richardson, one of the guards, on the
evening of the Sth ins'a
Lieut. Bradshaw—But I was assaulted, --before all
my men, by the guard in the first instance ;`therefore,
being on her Majesty's service, I claim protection
against the railway guard.
Mr: lalogmayeaid- that if such was the caeo he
would
grant a summons, and order it to be heard on
the same day with the other. He directed Guest to
take care and serve it in time to be disposed of on the
same day.
Mr. Arnold, a gentleman connected with an office
in the City, was charged with assaulting ,Itrid annoy-
ing Mr. John Butcher in one of the carriages on the
North Kent Railway.
Complainant stated that he was coming up from
Woolwich, in one of the second-class carriage. in
which he saw defendant and several females. Ilhe
defendant appeared to have been drinking, and pi.'
his feet on the opposite seat to which he had been sit-
ting, when the complainant told him not to do so, but
sit in a gentlemanly way. He refused to put his
feet down, although witness wanted to sit there, and
when he remonstrated with him he took witness by
the arm and shook him violently. He made no cora•
plaint to any of the guards on the railway, and should
not have given him in charge, but for his calling him
ugly names.
Defendant—What did I call you ? Complainant
—An " ugly humbug," and that you repeated all the
Way Up.
Defendant denied the assault, and contended that
if he had any charge to make he ought to have done
so to the railway authorities. He bad actually left
the station some time and had partaken of some re-
freshments at the corner of Duke-street, when com-
plainant came up to him with a policeman and gave
him in charge. He acknowledged having his feet on
the seat, which could not have interfered with com-
plainant, who was sitting some distance off on the
other side, and very likely be might have called him
a humbug.
Complainant—You kept calling out " look at the
old humbug" all the way up, and I felt.annoyed.
A respectable young female was called on behalf of
the defendant and denied the assault. She, however,
said he called the complainant an ugly humbug. He
had been drinking a little.
Complainant—Yes, he had been drinking, and I
could not bear the smell of his breath, for I have
been a teetotaller these last fifteen years.

REVIVAL OF AN OLD DODGE.—JOh7I Wilson, alias
'Wright, a young man well known to the police as an
associate of thieves, was brought before Mr. Beadon
for final examination on the charge of stealing two
great coats and two neckerchiefs of the value of Si.
from the hall of Devonshire House, Wandsworth-
road, in the occupation of Mr. Edmund Jye.
From the evidence adduced by the witnesses, it
appeared that on Thurday morning, the 7th inst., the
prisoner was observed by two police-constables of the
V division, named Blackburn and Spice, who were in
plain clothes, walking along the Wandsworth-road,
with a large black bag similar to the one used by Jews,
twisted across his arm. As he passed along he looked
over the various fences and railings into the private
houses, apparently for the purpose of taking the ad-
vantage of any door that might be left open, and
entering the hall, and carrying away in the bag any
property that was lying about. The officers suspect-
ing his designs, followed him, and saw him enter the
gate of Devonshire House. He then opened the hall
door, and entered, where he remained some minutes.
Soon afterwards he quitted the premises, and his black
bag appeared to contain something bulky. The ser-
vant girl employed in the service of Mr. Jye saw the
prisoner leave the house, and called after him. The
prisoner instantly ran off, and shot two coats and
neckerchiefs from the bag into the road. He was
pursued and stopped by Spice, who found the black
bag in his possession. The prisoner said nothing to
the charge.
Charlotte Figg, the servant girl, identified the
coats and neckerchief's as the property of her master,
and said they were banging up in the hall just before
the prisoner was seen to leave the premises. The
catch of the hall-door was very insecure, and could
easily be opened by any person on the outside.
Spice, the constable, said he had made inquiries
about the prisoner's character, and ascertained that he
had been summarily convicted for stealing a coat
under similar circumstances. That system of rob-
bery was very much on the increase, and thieves
were in the habit of carrying the black bags for the
purpose of concealing their intentions. If they were
found upon gentlemen's premises, they would ask if
there were any old clothes to sell, and assume the airs
of the Jews. _

AIELANCHOLY DEATII 131 DROWNING.
On Thursday evening an inquest was held in the Town
Hall, Gravesend, before Mr. Hilder, Coroner for the
borough, on the body of Charles Coney, who was
drowned on the previous day.
It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased, who
was twenty-five years of age, and a native of Birming-
ham, had come to Gravesend on Wednesday, in com-
pany with his wife, to whom be had been but recently
married, and his father and brother, from London, where
they had been to visit the Great Exhibition. At about
three o'clock in the afternoon of that day the whole
party went to the Clifton Baths, and deceased proposed
to his rather to join him in having one of the bathing-
machines, and having a swim in the river. Both ac-
cordingly got into a machine' which was wheeled to a
proper depth in the river. The old gentleman die
from the machine, and rose at a short distance, when
observed deceased, who had waded from the macbma
into the water, which was about breast high, suadolir
borne away by the tide, then rapidly ebbing. 4!
Lyoung man, of the name of Thompsof,. s_eff°o.
ary to the Gravesend Mechanics' Institute,
drugging
went observing from the bank the deceased ir
to regain the machine, threw off his !. and boots,
eclat: He got
and rushing into the river, swam to
outside of deceased, and pushed fahisrr
hi
deceasedfo bad been
towards the shore. At this time
dre_
d yards from the
borne down the river, over one boas
ter, but Thompson
several yard,
bathing-machine, and into
-11114hia efforts to save
deefsrderable way towards
did not again rise.
succeeded in pushing him
bate young men, and
the shore, when he suddenlya;_rigk
Boats had come off to th.e_otate"ci by
Thompson, now quite "„icked up. The body was soon
Da
the life of deceased,
too late to restore animation. To this
after fished up, buttthte
Who could render no assistance It
wife of deceased was El witness, as
melancholy scene
was also his father,
withing
.two s boatmen
ohi
ne when
uard against accident resulting from always
from
appeared that
bathing' to of
swimmers, or what '
Conti sous people
th .e. Ir.
ua
ase ;rapt
la more to be appro.,
thof
. d tho strong the current, particularly with
heude , .
bb tide, but on this occasion it seemed the boatmen
the e
bad but a few moments before left the boat, which was
moored close by the machine from which deceased and
his father had descended into the river. Verdict--
“ Drowned by accident."
The jury and the coroner passed a deserved encomium
on the gallant and generous struggle made by Thomp-
son to save the life of deceased.
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Belfast, and Cork
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which does not afford sufficient room for the purpose, gur"
rangements have been made, with the sanction of the
thorities, to afford more convenience and render greater
facilities to the Government veterinary inspector of foreign
cattle on importation from abroad for the requisite examina-
tion of the cattle, for them to be removed directly they are
landed from the wharf to spacious premises situated witkin
a convenient distance, where every facility and dispatch can
be rendered for their examination by the surgeon and de-•
livery to their destination. Foreign cattle are free of dUtp
and would be immediately delivered from the imp
g•
were it not legally necessary for them undergo as =tee-
tion by the Crown officer on landing, in order to ascertain
their entire freedom from contagious disease previous to de-
livery, and this. arrangement will remove the cenfusiore
arising from their temporary detention at the place of land..
ing, and provide for their due inspection preTicul to diaiyuy
to their destination.