The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-25 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, SAT CfRDAY VENING, AUGUST 25, 1860.

POLICE INTELLIGEN CE-( THIS .DAI .)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE BELT AGAIN.—SAVAGE ASSAULT.—RIOT IN THE
HAYIIARKET.—WiIIiam Taylor, Ist Battalion Grenadier
Guards, and Alexander Young, Ist Battalion of Coldstream
Guards, were charged before Mr. Beadon, the first-named
with being drunk and riotous, and the latter with assault-
ing, with his belt, Thomas Wrentmore, manager, at the
Grapes, public-house, Haymarket, and also assaulting
Police-constables Newham, 96 C; John Hurne, 308 A ;
and John Wheatley, 344 A.

THIRD READING.

Air. T. Wrentmore said, about one this morning, the sol-
diers came into the house and had a pint of porter, but be-
coming abusive and making use of gross language, he re-
fused to serve them with more, and was about to eject
them, when Young took off his belt and, with the buckle,
struck him a severe blow on the head, cutting it severely,
and causing great loss of blood, and rendering him very
faint for some minutes. He then ga'e them in charge,
when they became very violent, Young throwing himself
on the ground and kicking all around. Taylor tried his
utmost to rescue Young from custody.

Newham, 96 C, said he was called to assist in taking the
prisoners into custody. The last witness was bleeding
from the head, and pointed out Young as having struck
him. Taylor then seized him by tie throat, and tried to
rescue Young. Young then threw himself on his back
and kicked him, and a large crowd of persons came up, but,
instead of assisting the police, thrust their umbrellas in
their sides, and 1 ried to rescue the soldiers.
Wheatley proved being struck two or three times by
Taylor. Both prisoners were drunk, and were striking
and kicking the police. _ _

Other corroborative evidence having been given,
Mr. Beadon said it was very sad that those whose duty it
was to assist the civil power should do all they could to
create confusion, and that after all the cautions so fre-
quently given, the belt should be continued to be used.
If they would continue to 'use the belt they must be
punished for it. They might have cut the prosecutor's
eye cut. The whole affair, it was quite clear, arose through
the cursed drink. He should fine Taylor for attempting to
rescue the prisoner Young and impeding the police 205.,
or 10 days, and Young, for using his belt, 405., or a
month.
John Wilson, of 13, Royal-crescent, Notting-hill, Jamas
Rowe, 7, Furnival's-inn, architect, and Charles J olm Mar-
chant, clerk, and Fanny Brown, a prostitute, were then
charged with being drunk and assaulting the police while
taking the soldiers into custody.
The evidence of Amies, 343 A, John Wheatley, 314 A,

Hurne,3oB A, Gordon, 336 A, and Pierre Marmon, aFrench-
man, went to show that in consequence of the conduct of
the defendants there was a regular riot in the Haymarket,
the police being knocked about and kicked in a shameful
manner, and about 20 constables being called from their
beats to quell it and take the defendants into custody.
Mr. Beadon having commented in severe terms on the
defendants' conduct, fined the males £5 each or a month,
and the female 40s. or 14 days.

It was stated by some of the defendants that it was their
first peep into London life.

THAMES.

EXTENSIVE DEPREDATIONS IN LEAD.—John Sweeney,
aged 16, and William Nugent, 23, both old and daring
offenders, were brought up on remand before Mr. Yardley,
charged with stealing lead.

The case against Sweeney was first heard. Police-con-
stable Franklin, 482 K, saw the prisoner on the roof of a
house, No. 63, Broad-street, Rateliff, on Sunday night
last, in the act of rolling up lead. The policeman, who
was on the roof of a loftier house, called to him, and he ran
on to the roof of the next house. Franklin pursued him
over several houses and out4buildings until the prisoner
reached the premises of Walton 'and Gowland, coal mer-
chants, and just as he was getting over the gates of their
wharf he was captured by the policeman, who said,
" I want you for stripping the lead from Mr.
Coker's house." The prisoner trembled very much and
offered no resistance. The constable afterwards proceeded
to the roof of Mr. Coker's house, and ascertained that
168 lbs. of sheet lead had been cut away from the roof
which the prisoner was prevented from carrying away by
the opportune discovery made by the constable. Another
man was with the prisoner when he was seen on the roof,
and made his escape.
Mr. William Coker, the landlord of the premises, said in
addition to the 168 lbs. of lead now produced which he
identified, upwards of a cwt. of lead had been removed pre-
viously from the roof of the same building, and great mis-
chief had been done to it.

THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

Mr. Yardley committed the prisoner for trial.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE 'WEEK.

Miles Opened.

Receipts.

e• -
1800.

THIR EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(This DAY).
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at 12 o'clock.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
the Spirits, Savings Banks and Friendly Societies Invest-
ment, Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act 1856 Amendment,
East India Loan, Spirit Duties, Consolidated Fund Appro-
priation, Exchequer Bonds or Bills (X 2,000,000), and
Militia Pay.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITIES BILL.
On the motion that this bill be read a third time,
Lord MONTEAGLE moved an amendment, the opera-
tion of which was to declare that the bill should not affect
the law of superstitious uses, and that prayers for the dead
might not be considered superstitious ; consequently, any
bequest for a charity, accompanied by a stipulation that
prayers should be offered up for the deceased donor, should
not be considered illegal.
The LORD CHANCELLOR could only repeat that
which he had already said, namely, that the amendment of
the noble lord was quite unnecessary, for there was nothing
in the bill which did, or could, be construed to affect the
law for superstitious uses. He was surprised at
the noble lord introducing this amendment after the
course adopted last night. Such an amendment had been
negatived by this house and the Commons. The noble
lord said the words of his amendment were harmless, but
he denied that useless words in an act of Parliament were
harmless, for instead of removing doubts they created them,
and encouraged rather than decreased litigation. He
should advise their lordships not to agree to the amend-
ment of the noble lord. _ _ _

The amendment was put from the woolsack, and nega-
tived, after which the bill passed.
CHURCH TEMPORALITIES (IRELAND) ACT

AMENDMENTS BILL.
The Commons' amendments to this bill were agreed to.
DIVORCE COURT BILL.
The Commons' amendments to this bill were agreed to.
TRUSTEES, MORTGAGEES, &c., BILL.
'the Commons' amendments to this bill were agreed to.

TENURE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND
(IRELAND) BILL.
On the motion forithe consideration of the Commons' rea-
sons for disagreeing to their lordships' amendments to this
bill,
. . . . . _

Lord DESART protested against the hurried manner
in which the alterations had been made to this bill. There
was ono amendment which had been made when there was
a very full attendance of Irish peers, of very great import-
ance. That alteration had been reversed by the
Commons, and now the house was asked to agree to such
a proposal when there were only two Irish peers present.
He thought such a proposal on the part of the Government
highly censurable.
The Earl of LEITRIM thought the Commons' amend-
ments were such as their lordships ought not to agree to.
After a few words from Lord MONTEIGLE,
Earl GRANVILLE said it was very desirable, after
the labour that had been bestowed on this bill, that it
should pass during the present session. The effect of dis-
agreeing to amendments would be that the bill would be
lost, and the whole question left open for another long dis-
cussion next year.
Lord RE DESDALE hoped that some arrangement
might be come to in order that one or two of the amend-
ments might be retained, especially those relating to the
granting of leases. •
After some further conversation, the majority of the
amendments were agreed to ; but on the question that one
of them, in effect setting aside the 100 years' lease, should
be disagreed to, their lordships divided, where there ap-
peared—
Contents
Non-contents
Majority
The amendment was then agreed to.
MINES REGULATION AND INSPECTION BILL.
Their lordships resolved not to insist on their amend •
meats to this bill, against which the Commons had assigned
their reasons.

LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BILL.
'1 heir lordships did not insist in their opposition to this
bill.

TITLES TO LAND (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Commons' amendments to this bill were considered
and agreed to.
TRAMWAY (IRELAND) BILL.
Their lordships did not insist on the alterations they had
made to this bill.
Their lordships then adjourned until half-past one o'clock
on Tuesday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Tins DAT.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 25 minutes to one o'clock,

Sir F. SMITH gave notice that early next session he
would move f)r the appointment of a select committee to
inquire into the working of the War-office with a view to
effect an improvement in that department of the public ser-
vice.