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

LAW AND POLICE.

A CONTRADICTORY CHARGE.—At Guildhall, On Monday,
a labourer, named Russell, was charged with assaulting a
constable. It se: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 tinaP. The man Russell bore a very good
character, but Sir R. Carden said he believea he knew the
complainant was a constable, and sentenced him to seven
days' hard labour. Afterwards, on representations being
made to him, lie mitigated the punishment to 20s. fine.
ATTEMPTED Mum-mt.—On Monday, at the Clerkenwell
Polico-court, Maar,' Beech was charged with cutting
his wife's throat. The particulars of the case shelved
the evils of intemperance. Both the prisoner and
his wife 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 force from taking his
own life. The magistrate committed him for trial.
TILE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A BIRMINGHAM TRADESMAN.
—At the Birmingham Police-court, a day or two since,
Baker, the young man who was charged with threatening to
shoot Mr. M'Evoy, was brought up on remand. Mr.
Duke, who appeared for Mr. M`Evoy, said there would
be no prosecution, and Mr. 11P.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. Baker was
then discharged.

CHILD-STEALING.—At the Liverpool Borough Police-
court, a respectably-dr,ssed 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 curium one. She had been living with a man
named Farrel, to whom she went with the child, and said
she had been confined 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 lino near Portadown. The passengers escaped
unhurt, hut the guard and a letter sorter received injuries.
A rumour, unconfirmed however, states that the engine was
thrown off t•y 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
ormon delivered on Sunday was a demand for more. Dr
Gcss complained that Mr. Gladstone did not do full justice
to the questim. Ile ought to have treated it from first
to last as a cptesCon of State. If the Prime Minister
had determ:nel to see the E:tablshed Church distinct
from the State, it was his duty to have banded 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 the endowments which
they possessed previous to the Reformation. The liberality
of England deprived the Roman Catholics of liberty of action.
110 decounccd alb bill intended to bo brought forward in
favour of secular education, arguing that if such a bill were
to lass it would prevent them from training up their child-
ren-in he proper faith.

THE TREE OF LIBERTY.—A French journal is
responsible for the following :—lna certain small pro-
vincial town one of the residents, M. 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
his 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 man of
resources, he sent for insertion to one of the Paris
papers the following paragraph :—" There is still in
existence one of the trees of liberty of the date of 1703.
It nifty be seen at X., close to the house of M. A. 8., and
the passers by reverently uncover their heads to tiiN
venerable witness of our grandest struggles and our most
is ustri,,us victory." Three days afterwards an order came.
from the prefecture in Paris for the Mayor of X. to cause
the said tree to be cut down—which was accordingly done
forth with.

PROPOSED RAILWAY TUBE UNDER THE SEVERN.
—lt is stated that a scheme will be introduced next
session of Parliament to construct a subway between the
dock at Lydney and the intended new basin of the
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 Midland and Great Western at Stonehouse, and the
railway running west, connecting the subway with the
Midland at Thornbury, the South Wales Union at Eking,
and the Bristol Port and Pier at Avonmouth. The Glou•
tester and Berkeley Canal Company contemplate an ex.
tension of the canal, and the construction of a new
entrance and a floating harbour for, vessels of a much
larger ;lass than,:anuow trade to Glopeoter,