The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

BOW-STREET.

ATTEMPT TO SMOOT A POLICEMAN BY A BOY.—A.
la,' named Beaumont, aged 15, was this morning placed
at the bar, charged with attempting to shoot Police-
constable 4 F.

Mr. Thomas Naylor stated that last evening he, with
with his wife, went to Chancery-lane, the residence of
the prisoner's mother, who is a relative of his (witness's)
wife, to ascertain the state of her health, she being in
the last stage of consumption. While be was there the
prisoner began to use very bad language, which had a
very serious effect upon his mother, who was in bed in
the apartment. He remonstrated with the prisoner, and
told him he ought not to act in the way he was doing,
for the sake of his mother. He continued to use dig-
gusting language, and be (witness) boxed his (prisoner's)
ears, when he turned round and attacked him with a
knife, which he took from him. The prisoner then
stooped down and picked up the poker, with which he
was about to strike him, but he closed with him, and
knocked it out of his hand, but not before he received a
blow on the temple, the mark of which was visible.
The sister of the prisoner was so greatly alarmed
at his outrageous conduct that it was deemed
advisable to send for a policeman. He went down stairs
with the intention of getting a policeman to frighten the
boy, as bethought if he gave him in charge it would have
a fatal effect on bis mother. A policeman came up, and
he mentioned the circumstance to him, and the constable
went up stairs. In a very short time after, while at the
foot of the stairs, he heard a slight report.
Police constable 4 F said he was on dirty last night in
Chancery-lane, and at about half•past eight he passed
the house in which the prisoner resided, No. 30, and
saw Naylor talking to a constable. He stopped, and he
then heard the first witness say he had taken a knife
from the boy, but he did not wish to charge him as his
mother was so ill. While he was at the door Naylor's
wife came down stairs and said she must give the boy in
charge, as it was not safe to have him in the house, and
she then asked him to come in and take him into custody.
He entered the house and went up stairs, and saw the
prisoner standing in the passage of the first floor, and
the female said to bim, " That's bim." Ho was about
to take the boy into custody, when be said, "Wait a
minute," and he then ran into the kitchen, and his sister
screamed and said he had got a pistol. Before he could
get the weapon from him he levelled it at him and pulled
the trigger; bat, fortunately, the percussion cap only
exploded. He then seized the prisoner, and the pistol
having been secured by his father, he (constable) asked
if it was loaded, and the prisoner said "Yes." He was
standing about a yard and a half from the boy when he
shot at him. The prisoner was then taken to the stat'on-
house,and on his being searched a sniallquantityof gun pow-
der and a box containing some small shot and percussion
caps was found on him. The pistol was a double-bar-
relled one, and on the charge being drawn at the sta-
tion-house it was found to have been properly loaded,
and contained about 30 small shots. On his way to the
station-house the prisoner said that either his brother or
sister would have been served the same way if they had
been first. He also said the powder was damp, and that
he only acted as he bad done to frighten people.
Mr. Jardine asked the boy what he had to say in
Answer to the charge.

The boy, who during the hearing of the case had
evinced the greatest indifference, declined saying any-
thing.
Mr. Naylor asked the magistrate if he would deal in
a summary manner with the case.
Mr. Jardine—You might as well ask me to deal sum-
marily with a case of murder. The offence with which
the prisoner is charged is nest to it. If the pistol had
gone off, the officer would no doubt have been killed.
Mr. Naylor.—l think his intellect is not so clear as
it might to be.
_ _

The father of the boy, a very respectable man, being
in court, the magistrate desired him to come forward,
and he then put the question to him whether he thought
the mind of his son was disordered.
The father said he had not the slightest reason to
think so.
158 162

The depositions were then read over and signed, the
witnesses were severally bound over, and the prisoner
was fully committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

A SUSPICIOUS CASE.—Joseph Howard, a middle-aged
man, who described himself as a metal dealer, residing
at No. 5, Liverpool-road, King's-cross, was brought be-
fore Mr. Bingham, charged with having a large quantity
of metal in his possession, supposed to have been stolen.
Police constable 75 F deposed that about ten o'clock
that morning he was on duty in Crown•street, when he
saw the prisoner approaching him with a bag con-
taining something heavy across his shoulders. Witness
watched him for a few minutes, and saw him,
e iter a marine store shop in the same street kept
by a man named Church. Witness followed him
and saw him shoot a quantity of brass taps, bellg,
and pewter measures into the scales. Witness asked
the prisoner where he got the metal from, and
he then said he was a metal collector, and had
bought it in the usual way of business. Not being satis-
fied with that answer, he took the prisoner into custody.
On examining the articles he found a quart pot, with the
name of Argent, Cock and Bottle, Strand, engraved
thereon, several pounds weight of run metal, and a
number of bells and brass taps; the whole of which he
now produced.

The prisoner denied that the metal was stolen, he pur-
chased the run metal of Frederick Knowlton, a marine
store dealer, in the Broadway, Westminster, for 61d. a
pound, and the pewter pot be bought of Knowlton's
brother, in Holles-street, Clare Market ; the rest of the
metal he picked up in the regular way of business.
Mr. Bingham said the case was full of suspicion, and
remanded the prisoner till Friday next.

take them up it turning. She then took of their
pinafores, rolled them up under her shawl, and
left them. Witness stopped her, and asked her
what she had been doing, with these children,
when she replied that they were her own, and she was
going to take them home to 41, Union-street. 'Witness
looked under her shawl, and found the two pinafores
produced, when they went back to the children, who
were too young to tell their parents' address. They,
however, told him that the prisoner was not their
mother.

James Thomson said he resided at No. 21, Horsley
place, Belvedere•road, and that the children, Richard
and Robert, belonged to him. They strayed from home
on Monday afternoon with their pinafores on, and in
the evening he found they had been stolen from them.
He identified the two pinafores produced as his pro-
perty.

Elizabeth Miller, 8 years old, raiding with her parents
in Paradise-street, Lambeth, was next sworn. She said
that one day the week before last the prisoner met
her and two other girls in the Westminster•read, and
asked them to accompany her to Kennington•park.
They all went there, and while sitting on one
of the benches the prisoner took off their shoes,
bonnets, and shawls, saying that she was going to
show them to a lady, who would send them back new
ones. She then went away, but never returned. The
two other girls here identified her also, but they were
too young to be sworn as witnesses. The mothers of
the children said that they sent them out with all their
clothes on, and the poor things were brought home
nearly naked and crying very much.
The prisoner, who laughed nearly all the time the ex-
amination was going on, said in the most impudent
manner that the children, as well as all the other wit-
nesses, were liars. She knew nothing of them.
A former conviction having been proved against her
for similar robberies, the magistrate fully committed her
fur trial at the ensuing sessions.

Miles
•pened,
1856.

115
37%
17

26%
117
191 4
9414
6%
20

6714
93
417

BRITISH.

183%
283
203%
388
25
90
286%

161
637

54
1633 A
267

Scottish Central .... • . • •....
Scottish Midland ••••• • • . ..

57%
289
171%

27%
12
682

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

EASTERN COUNTIES.

The committee f consultation, appointed on the 29th
ult., at the half-yearly meeting of this company, for the
purpose of consulting with the board of directors as to the
retirement of four of their number, to make rcom for four
gentlemen to be selected by the committee of consultation,
subject to the approval of the shareholders had their first
interview with the Eastern Counties Board on Thursday,
the 4th inst., Mr. C. Fano presiding. It appears that the
reception was by no means in accordance with the views
of the committee. At the request of the chairman of the
board, Mr. Malins, the chairman of the committee, handed in
a written proposition, which was to the effect " That four
members of the board should resign, agreeably to the reso-
lution of the general meeting of proprietors passed on the
29th ult." The committee report that to this proposition
a verbal reply was sent out by the secretary (Mr. Owen),
"that an answer would be forwarded." The committee
feeling that they were entitled to "confer" with the board,
remonstrated at such summary treatment, and were again
ushered into the board-room, when, after considerable
pressure, Mr. Fane, to the astonishment of the committee,
consented that the draught answer of the board should be
then read on the following condition —"provided there was
no discussion upon it." The secretary then read the fol-
lowing resolution :—" Resolved, that this board does not
consider itself authorised, and therefore declines, to take
any step in reference to the retirement or appointment of
directors, the regulations relating to their retirement and
appointmeut having been prescribed by Parliament." Mr.
Malins then endeavoured to ask a question, when Mr. Fane
replied, " You may ask any question you like. I shall not
answer you."

The committee then withdrew, not a little surprised at
the discourteous treatment which they had received at the
hands of the chairman of the directors. The committee
now call upon the directors to summon a special general
meeting for the purpose of carrying out the resolution
passed at the last half-yearly meeting with reference to
the retirement of four old, and the appointment of four
new directors, and they protest against such resolution
being set at nought. should the board decline to accede
to this request, the committee of consultation state that
they will take the necessary- steps to present a formal re-
quisition to the board, according to the act of Parliament,
calling upon them to convene such meeting. The com-
mittee conclude their report by expressing an opinion,
in which they trust the proprietors will concur, that the
treatment which they, as a body delegated by a large
meeting of shareholders, received at the hands of Mr.
Pane was not such such as could be tolerated by gentle-
men under a prosperous state of affairs, much less under
difficulties mainly attributable to an improper and reck-
less management.

Aberdeen •.•••• •••• •• •••••••• • ••••
Belfast and Ballymena •• .• •• •• •• •• ••
Belfast and County Down• • • • • • ••
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • • •
Bristol and Exeter ...... ••...• •• • • .•
Ca1ed0nian............. .

1,125

2.561

876

Chester and Ilolyhead.•... •• •... •• ••
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• •• ••
Cork and Bandon ...........• •• •• • •
Dublin and Belfast J unction • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda."... • • •• • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown,— •• • • •• •• •• ••
Dundee and Arbroath .. .. •• •• • • •• ••

7,48 g
13,720
7,115

262
1,294
1,571
1,424

Dundee, Ferth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen.• .. • • • • • • • •
East Anglian•—• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••••
East Lancashire ••• • •• •• „. •••• • • • •

Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • .. 1
Eastern Union .. • •

Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... -• •• •• • •
Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee......
Exeter and Credlton.. •• •• • • • • ••
Furness Railway •• . •• .. • •
Glasgow, and South-Western........
Great Northern . ..... ..........

673
1,099

779
7,439
23,535
6,227
7,376

2,455

Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
Great Western .. ••.••••••• • • • • • • • .
Irish South Eastern • • • • • • • • .. • •
Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • ...• ..... .
Lancashire and Yorkshire.... • • • •
Leeds Northern .. • • •••• • • • • • • • • • • • •

Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
London and North Western .....
London and Blackve all .• • • •• • • • • • • • .
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South We5tern.........
Londonderry and Enniskillen ........
Manchester, Batton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Sheffield,and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction
Maryport and Carlisle

7,511
23,11 ft

7,331
31,898
226

7,364
12,063
6,793
247

255
1,106
1,669
1,191
586
913

Midland Great Western (Irish) ......

Newcastle and Car1ia1e........ -... .
North British •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• -
North Staffordshire •• •• .... •• •- •• •
North-Western •-.. •• •..... -• .• •..,

824
6,655

Shrewsbury and Birmingham► ......
Shrewsbury and Chester ............
Shropshire Union • . • • •i • • •• • • • • •• ••
Routh Devon ..• • • • • • • •• • • • • •• • • • • • •
South Eastern • • • • • • • • • • go *. •• ••
South Wales ................, ......

7,304
26,102

70,338
1,842
19,155
11,724
695

10,389
895
1,116
82,398
3,815

22,030
6,534
6,457

5,488
7,206
1,021

South York., Doncaster, and Goole
Taff Vale
Ulster . • .....................
Waterford And Limerick
West Cornwall .... • • • .... .

0,691
' 22,030
7,530
25,415

1,898
8,587

260
6,556
22,600

Whitchaven Junction .........
York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds..

65,417
1,611
17,95
17,800
818

POZEIGN.
Dutch Rhenish • • • • •• • •
Lyons and Mediterranean ..........
Montereau and Troyes
Namur and Liege .. • • .......... • • • •
Northern of France ••• • •• •• •• • • •• ••
Orleans and Central ..
Paris and Lyons .... •. • • • • ......
Paris and Rouen..• ,• •• •• •• •... •• ..
Paris and Strasburgh .• •• •• • .
Rouen and lls.vre •• •• •• .• .• •• •• • ..
Western of France •• .• ..

9,254
849
1,056
3,636

830
3,240
26,380
6,946
2,586
4,202
1,453
1,156
574
443

5,095
7,08
1,210

1,565
2,827
812
2,647
26,36
6,282
2,010
2,726
1,305
996

2,863

2,367