The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-04 00:00:00

XtA.RYLEBONE.

DARING ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —Til is
day, henry' Battey, a young man well known to the
police, was charged before Mr. Long with being drunk
and assaulting two police constables.
Policeman Young, A 360, stated that about half-past
seven o'clock the previous evening he was on duty in
Duke-street, Manchester-square, when he was informed
that there was a gentleman in front of the bar of the
Bunch of Grapes, Duke-street, who was the worse for
liquor, and that there were three men by him, who
would be robbed by them, as they appeared to be hust-
ling him. He looked in at the door, upon which the
landlord called him in. He said that the prisoner was
drunk, and that he wanted some gin, which he (the land-
lord) laad refused to supply him with, but he would
not leave. The gentleman' who resided in Ox-
ford-square, came out. He was capable of walk-
ing. Witness spoke to him, and persuaded him
to go home. Ho walked as far as Edward-
street, Portman-square, where he observed the prisoner,
who was in the company of another man, go up to him.
They turned into Edward's Mew., taking the gentleman
with them. He ran up the Mew 4. Witness was about
to speak to the gentleman when the prisoner said "What
the have you to do with it ?" He then gave wit-
ness a push. Witness followed the prisoner, who gave
him a blow on his body which knocked him down. The
prisoner ran away. He was pursued by witness and on
his way he fell. Witness seized hold of him. He was
very violent.
Mr. Long—What occurred after that ? . .

Policeman—l was obliged to call for assistance, upon
which Brown 299 D came up. lam convinced that it
was the intention of the prisoner and his companion to
rob the gentleman, and that they would have done au
had I nut followed them.

Brown corroborated the evidence of Young, and
stated that he (Young) had out touched the prisoner
befc.re he was struck by him.
The prkoner was fined 205., or in default of payment
14 days' imprisonment in the House of Correction.

The Senatus Academicus of the Edinburgh Univer-
sity have voted to Dr. Alison the sum of 250/. a-year, as
a retiring allowance, from funds at their disposal.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—SHILLING DAY, JAN. 3.—Ad-
missions on payment, 1,068; ditto by season tickets,
236 ; total, 1,304.
Two Montenegrins have been judicially executed for
robbing an Austrian officer. This is almost the begin-
ning of the administration of justice in the savage
Tchernageva.
THE CHARGE AGAINST THE REY. MICHAILL CROTTY.—
At the Preston Town-hall, on Wednesday, the charge
against the Rev. M. Crotty, for obtaining money on
false pretences, was dismissed by the magistrates, on the
ground of insufficient evidence to warrant a committal.
—Manchester Guardian. _

MINING, COMPANY Or IBELAND.—DUBLIN, Thursday.
—At the half-yearly meeting held to•day, a highly satis-
factory report was read, giving an encouraging account
of the copper, lead, and coal mines. After paying for
permanent improvement., the profits for the half•year
were 11,1161., out of which 4,0001. has been paid for
mining and agricultural estates in Wicklow. A divi-
dend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared
on the paid-up capital of the company, being 7s. per
share.

KING'el COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 3.—Wasey Sterry
and John Thomas Watford, Esqrs., late Scholars, have
been elected Fellows of this society, the latter this day.
The salary of the Secretary to the Commissioners in
Lucacy (the appointment just conferred on Mr. John
Forster) is fixed by the 8 and 9 Vic., o. 126, s. 9, at
8001. per annum. The salaries of the commissioners,
one of whom is Mr. Proctor (better known to the public
by his poetic pseudonym of Barry Cornwall) are fixed at
1,500/. a year.
The New " General Omnibus Company " has already
become an accomplished fact. The first omnibuses under
the new regime will commence running on Monday next,
being those from Stoke Newington and Kingland to the
Bank, lately the property of Messrs. 'Willing, Mrs.
Woodford, Mrs. Hunt, and Mr. Foye. The Chelsea line
of omnibuses will next fall into "correspondence,"
Messrs. Rhodes and Johnson, Mr. Bennet, and Mr.
Martin having sent in their adhesion and sold their studs
and stocks to this remarkable alliance. Fulham and
Brompton, until now under the administration of Messrs.
Hartley, Webb, Rhodes, and Johnson, as well as Hack-
ney, represented by Messrs. Barber, Martin, &c., have
been passed over, so far as regards their vehicular ac-
commodation, to the " CemPagnie Gdarale," while
Pimlico, under the well-purchased influence of Mr. John
Clarke, contributes its well-known Royal Blues to the
united stock. The well-known Post-office contractor,
Mr. Macnamara, has surrendered even the two remain-
ing royal mails out of London.