The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-11 00:00:00

a con is cierki.
rison, warehouseman,
underw,ent a final ex_
embezzling money belonging to his employer
amount which has never yet been exactly fixed by
the complainant, but which has always appeared.
on the -charge-sheet at the neminaLfigure of
though a much larger sum has been alleged by him.
The case had been repeatedly remanded at the
instance of the defendant, who always contended;
through Mr. Lewis who'appeared for lhim, that if
he had an opportunity afforded him to e xamine the
complainant's books he should be able 1.;11 establish
his innocence by making it clear that h,s had paid
away in complainant's business at various times the
whole of the money which he was chs rged with
embezzling. He alleged, too, that with t he view to
deceive a person in the country, for whor a the com-
plainant acted as agent, the complainant had syste-
matically omitted receipts and paymen is from his
accounts, to which he (the defendant), , who acted
as his cashier for some time, and kept his books,
. was privy against his mind. The comp lainant, oil
the other hand, always denied and rid iculed that
allegation, but evaded the questions put t to him to
such an extent as to draw down upon hart (self a sharp
rebuke from Sirlt. Carden, who first 'aes .rd the case.
Eventually, however, at the sugges.,tion of the
Lord Mayor, on whom the final adjunishition of the
case devolved, the complainant grail ted the requi-
site permission unconditionally ; ar id he and the
defendant, each assisted by an accor entant of their
own choice, went over the disputed • accounts. The
result of this examination was that yesterday Mr.
Lewis, on the part of the defendant, , put in a state-
ment of accounts, showing, on the one hand, that
the total amount received by the di 3fendant for his
master, and not entered in the book s, was £l7O 16s.
4d., and that he had paid away for his master, and
not entered in the books, £l7l 1 3s. 7d. ; so that,
upon that state of facts, and it was scarcely, if at all,
questioned by the complainant's a accountant, there
was a slight balance in favour of dblendant, There
was then a dispute about £l3 16a., which the com-
plainant charged the defendant wiit hmisappropriat-
ing, but that was eventually a h endoned by the
complainant ; so that, in the end, aLle case fell t o the
ground ; and the Lord Mayor, amid some tnanifista-
tion of applause, discharged the doPendant.

GUILDHALL.—Patrick an and John
Foley, a couple of stalwart Irishmen: were charged
before Alderman Conder with the fol lowing brutal
and savage assault upon a young woanan of the name
of Sullivan :

Julia Sullivan, who appeared with an extensive
wound upon the right side of her fonthead, about
half-an-inch in width and three inch es in length,
said she was standing at her own door, in Union-
court, Holborn, about seven o'clock an Saturday
evening, when the prisoner came up th.e court, and
called out for the best Kerry men to come out and
fight them. After a while they went away, but
returned in a short time, one being arrne d with a
shovel and the other with a pair of tongs. Mrs.
Shannon, a neighbour, was standing alsa a .t her own
door, when Sullivan threw the tongs at 114 a. Com-
plainant, with others, endeavoured to get the tongs
from them, and, failing in doing so, she t hen went
in search of a policeman, and when she canal) back she
found Mrs. Shannon in danger of being asi vaulted and.
tried to pull her away from them, upon w lich Sulli-
van struck her (complainant) upon the for. ehead with
the shovel. The blow stunned her for tb Le moment,
she reeled, and was near falling, when F. tley struck
her on the arm, then upon the shoulder, and finally
upon the back of the head with the tongs She was
just able to walk down the court togo for a police-
man, and on the way she met a man na med Sulli-
van, who, seeing the blood flowing from her head,
advised her to go to a hospital. She accordiin,gly went
to the hospital, which she was not able to leave till
this morning. •

Mrs. Sha.nnon was examined in corrobo ration of
the complainant's story, after which
Mrs. Sallivan was called on behalf of the pri-
soners, and said she had been drinking with them
on Saturday night, and took them to her o•wn house
in Union-ceurt, to get them a cup of tea. Directly,
Mrs. Shannon saw them she sent for all her friends
to come and murder them; and young Jack Shan-
non, her son, threatened to do for them. Mary
Shannon had the tongs and struck Foley with them
on the head, and he put his hands behind him and
said he would never strike a woman. Mrs. Shan-
non's friends then made their appearance armed.
with full ginger-beer bottles, which flew about like
cannon balls. The tongs belonged to her, but she
could not say how Mary Shannon got them.
Julia Sullivan, another of the clan, but no rela-
tion to either side, said she heard one of the pri-
soners call out for the best Kerry man, and Mrs..
Shannon replied that she was a woman who was
able to stand up in her clothes any day against the
best of them. She then struck Sullivan with the
tongs, and although he had got the shovel he did
not strike her.

John Sullivan was then called, and although it
was stated by all parties that he could speak Eng-
lish as well as anyone, he persisted in answering.
every interrogatory in his native Irish, which was,
of course, perfectly unintelligible to the ec,u-ct,
and he was therefore ordered to leave the waness-
box.

Alderman Conder said this was a most scanda-
lous outrage, and the conduct of the pr'Lsoners in
getting drunk and fighting unoffending 7.comen was
most disgraceful. They seemed to hrAv eno power
over their own actions except to do mSischief. As
Sullivan appeared to have acted mach worse than
Foley, he should make a difference in. the sentence,
and he therefore committed Sunivan for six
months, and Foley for three mon the, with hard
labour.

WESTMINSTER.—EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.
—Thomas Constable, a grey-haired, mild-looking
man, attired in a blue frock., was char ged with
creating a great deal of terrcer under the following
circumstances :

Caroline Exhall, a smart, dapper little girl of 18,
who described herself as the daughter of a shoe-
maker in the neighbourhood of the Old Kent-road,
said she had left her home a ~nonth ago, and had
lived with the defendant under.. promise of marriage;
and two or three days ago he r sister, age et 16, came,
with her father's consent,, to live with her at a
coffee shop defendant hri.c.l. taken, at 1.„ Oakley-
terrace, Chelsea. On 'll.ursday afternoon com-
plainant heard her sist,er s..cream, and going to the
spot found defendant conducting himself 'la a very
indecent way to her sister. Defendant 'then seized
an enormous bowie knife, sharpened the edge of it,
and then approaclliing mile a stab at ID:r, and the
point of the Wife cut her dress, although she re-
ceded a little. He then f astened a belt round him
with two bowie knives said a revolver in it, and
paraded hiT.nself in front ,3f the house:. Then he
took off the things and la3r down on the bed, and
finding he had no weapons N vith him she awoke him,
and asked him for money t o enable her to return.
home. He had frequently 1 4tfore threatened to cut
her to pieces, and she and t rcerybody in the house
feared that when night cam and all were asleep
something dreadful would ht t ppen.
Further evidence was giro ❑ showing that so much
consternation was caused b; P defenCiant's extraor-
dinary conduct that some o f the neighbours went
to the police station and (;n treated the police to
come and take him into custody.
The knives and revolver /ere produced by the
police, and it was clearly shown by the sister that
defendant had put his hand. upon her in a very in-
' decent manner.

Defendant declared that I Le had always treated
the complainant very kindl3 r, and denied that he
had been guilty of any ipar, (ropriety to her sister.
He had brought the knives and pistols from Aus-
tralia, and neither atternptod to stab, nor had any
notion of hurting complain, ;he merely got the
things out for a joke.
Complainant said it would. have been no joke if
he had cut her head off, which she really believed
he would have done in the ni I:ght.
Mr. Arnold thought his c( mlduct very
i unbecom-
ng and extraordinary, and calculated to create
great alarm. Supposing he had not meant to do
any harm, it was most danger !oils for a person to be
brandishing about such wee pans, which no Eng-
lishman needed here, and it was natural that the
complainant and others in tb ,e house should feel great
alarm. As no specific charge had been made against
defendant for the in decent assault upon. the sister,
he (Mr. Arnold) would not punish him for that,
but should require him to find bail.
He was comraitted in default.

HOPLEY, 'THE CONVICT SCHOOLMASTER.—Hop-
Iey was rem oved on Thursday 'morning from the county
prison at Lewes, where he has been confined since his con-
viction, to the convict prison at Millbank, Westminster.
To avoid 'popular ex':itoment the prison authorities con-
veyed the prisoner to Cook's 13ridge Station, about three
miles font the town, to 'meet the up train to London.
Airs. Hopley, who has exhibited the most devoted affection
for her unhappy partner, left Lewes by the same train, and
thus had the opportunity of accompanying him through the
journey.

" DISTREF3SING SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning
ft:t.
respectable. tradesman, carrying en business in Clarno;viii_,,
Holborovr, a
ket, comnii tted suicide. It seems that a parson 4.,..e`:,
ar market.
bacon merchant and butter-man,c 8. had i''
great IluT Al ier of years kept a warehouse
In con-
lie was air. ,gle, and about 60 years of age, and
the ma na-
(s, ement of his house to his housekeeper.
at his usual early
B,egilel.lee o 1 his not making his appearance
having elapsed, the house
apnedr. entrusted
Par, and a considerable time
Keep'er prc‘ceeded to his bed-room, and the unfortunate gen-
m tlean w a s found hanging and
ru-
mours ai lii afloat as to the cause quite dead. Various
a
of the act;one is that he
became be indsman for £5OO, and that he hi d been called
1 upon. to
,pa T that amount.