The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-18 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A CONTRA.PICTORT CHARGE.—At Guildhall, on Monday,
a labourer, named Russell, was charged with assaulting a
constable. It Le ms that the constable, whose name was
Outram, was looking for a woman who had robbed a man
in Barbican, and caught hold of defendant's wife, suspect-
ing her to he the thief. She called her husband, who
knocked the constable down. The constable was in plain
clothes at the time. The man Russell bore a very good
character, but Sir R. Carden said he believed he knew the
complainant was a constable, and sentenced him to seven
days' hard labour. Afterwards, on representations being
made to him, he mitigated the punishment-to 20s. fine. .
. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—On Monday, at the Clerkenwell
Police-court, Richard Beech was charged with cutting
his wife's throat. The particulars of the case shewed
the evils of intemperance. Both 'the prisoner and
his Nvife were drunk, and • one of the witnesses
deposed that the man was usually a sober,
hardworking man, while the woman pleaded for
him on the ground that he did not intend to do her any
harm. He was only prevented by farce from taking his
own life. The magistrate committed him for trial.
THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A BIRMINGHAM TRADESMAN.
--At the Birmingham Police-court, a day or two since,
Baker, the young man who was'eharged with threatening to
shoot Mr. WEvoy, was brought up on *remand. Mr.
Duke, who appeared for Mr. M`Evoy, said there would
be no prosecution, and Mr. M'Evoy was' not now
in any danger. The prisoners further had arranged to
send him to America, and undertook to look after him till
he left the country. Mr. Cutler, for the prisoner, said
that he had been much deceived with regard to Mr.
M'Evoy, who had in reality befriended him. Balser was
then discharged.
CHILD-STEALING.-At the Liverpool Borough Police-
couit, a respectably-dressed woman, named Sarah Hind,
- has been charged with child-stealing. On Wednesday
she met a girl carrying an infant in her arms, two
months old. She took the child in her arms and sent
sent the girl away on some pretext, and then went
away with the infant. As subsequently shewn, her object
was a most curious one. She had .been living with a man
named Farrel, to whom she went with the child, and said
she had been conflned of it the preceding Monday, and
that he was the father. Farrel gaVe information to the
police, whose inquiries elicited the real facts of the case,
and led to the restoration of the stolen child to its parents
and the apprehension of the prisoner. The prisoner was
remanded.

The night mail train between Dublin and Belfast
ran of the line near Portadown. The passengers escaped
unhurt, but the guard and a letter sorter received injuries.
A rumour, unconfirmed however, states that the engine NVA
thrown off by a stone maliciously placed on the line.

The Roman Catholic Bishop of 'Liverpool is not
satisfied with the Irish Church Bill: The substance of a
sermon delivered on Sunday was a demand for more.. Dr
Goss uomplaiued that Mr. Gladstone did not do full. justice
to the question. He ought to • have treated it • from first
to last as a crest:ou of State. If the Prime Minister.
had determined to see the. Aablsbed Church distinct
from the State, it was his duty to have Landed over
to the Catholic Church all endowments which it possessed
previous to the Reformation. The Catholics of Ireland had
been defrauded of their rights and theendowments which
they possessed previous to the Refoirnation. The liberality
of England deprived the Doman Catholics of liberty of action.
He denounced thb bill intended to be brought forward in
faVour of secular education, arguing that if such a bill were
to pass tt would prevent them from training up their child-
ren in the proper faith.

THE TREE OF LIBERTY.—A French journal is
responsible for the following :—ln a certain small pro.
vincial town one of the residents, 11.1. A. 8., found that
his house was rendered both damp and dark by the con-
tiguity of a large tree which was inconveniently near to
liis windows. He would gladly have had it cut down,
but the tree belonged to the commune and was
not ,to be- meddled with. 'Being a 4 Alan of
resources, be sent for insertion to one 'of the Paris
papers'_the folleWing paragrilph There is still- in
existence of the trees of lib.erty_of the date of 179.3.
It n3ey bq- sorn at X., close to the house of M..A.13., and
the passers ,by reverently uncover' their heads to -this
vener'a'ble witness of our grandest struggles and-.our most,
i‘ rri:v;etory." Three dai-s afterw::-L\:,is an order came
from the I.Cfeetiirb in Paris' or the,..-.lfayorof;:y.. to cause_
the said-tree to he cut down—vhicii.wits-acCorCiiigly done
forthwith.

PROPOS gD ItATLIViY TUBE UNDER' THE SEVERN:
--It is. stated that a sCheme 'will be introduced nat.
session of Parliament to construct a subway between the
.dock.' Lydney and the intended new basin of. ihe•
Gloucester Canal at Berkeley Pill, by sinking in the bed
of the river an iron tube, and to connect the, mouth
thereof with the railway running east, to a junction with
the N6dland and Great Western at Stonehouse, and the
railway running west, connecting the subway with the
Midland at Thornbury, the South Wales Union at Pilning,,
and the' Bristol Port and Pier at Avonmouth. The Glou-
cester and Berkeley Canal Company contemplate an ex.
tension of the canal, and the construction of a new
entrance and a floating harbour fur vessels of, a much
larger.cla.qs than ^.an now trade to Gloucester.