The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-19 00:00:00

ANOTIIER POLICE CASE,

At the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Monday
Edward Mullany, of Newport-market, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk, disorderly, and using
obscene language in Newport-market; and Mr. Willian
Lingner, provision merchant, No. 25, Frith-street, was
charged with assaulting Police-constable Portch. Mr
Edward Lewis appeared for Mr. Lingner. Police-constable
C 87 said, about half-past twelve o'clock on Satur
day night ho was in Newport-market, when he
saw two women quarrelling over their irtarket stands
and while advising them to be peaceable, Mullany
came up and interfered, causing a great crow(
and a disturbance. Ho told Mullany to go away, but he
wieul4 not, and on being taken into custody he became very
vioience and it required the united strength of several
.conseribles. to get him to the station. Police-constable
Patch saw Mullany and the constable struggling together
and went to the constable's assistance. Lingner came llf
and cried out, " Down with the police !" and afterwards
put his foot between witness's feet and tried to throw hier
down. Lingner followed him to Dean-street, and thee
gave him a blow on the head with his fist. Another con
stable took Lingner into custody. On cross-examination
the constable said be was certain he heard Lingner
shout out " Down with the police !" It was not
true that he had kicked Mullany. Police-constable Fillmet
saw Lingner deliberately strike Constable Portch with hie
fist, and heard him hissing and hooting the police, calling
out that the police had kicked Mullany. Mullany's conduct
was that of a madman, and Lingner followed and shouted
" Shame!" two or three times on the way to the station
Tho police were pelted by the mob. Mr. E. Lewis said
he would throw some light on the manner in which
Mullany had been treated. Witnesses would shew
that one constable at least had been guilty of unjusti
fiable conduct towards him. The defendant Lingner
was a respectable householder, a person more likely tc
assi:t than obstruct the police. No doubt Mullany was
troublesome, but when one constable (Portch) was seer
to kick him deliberately on the head, then Lingner inter
fered to prevent further violence. Lingner was not taker
into custody until he arrived outsidd of the station with
the intention of befriending Mullany, if necessary, and stating
what the conduct of tho police had been towards him. Mr
Billington, hairdresser, 27a, Frith-street, saw five or six police
constables dragging a man to the station, and thinking
the matter so disgraceful he followed with Mr. Lingner
and saw a police-sergeant kick Mullany on the back of the
head as he was being carried along. Witness believed that
Portch was the constable, but was not certain, as the con-
stable had the stripes of a sergeant on his arm. When Mr
Lingner said, " You ought to be ashamed of yourself for
kicking a man in such a manner," one of the constables
turned round and took Lingner into custody. Lingner
struck nobody. As soon as the constable laid hold of Ling-
ner witness said, "If you take him into custody I will ro
port you for kicking the man." The constable then re.
leased Lingner. Mr. Tyrwhitt having remarked on the
large body of police and sergeants in court, and having
stated that he had noticed that the same thing occurred
whenever a constable was charged, said he could only think
that this was done to overawe the magistrate. It was hie
duty to stand between the public and the police. From
the evidence he had no doubt that Mullany had been
very violent and resisted the police. It was very
probable that Mulleny had been roughly treated
but it was a question how far he had brought this
rough treatment on himself by his violence. He was not
prorated to say that it had been made out sufficiently tliat
Mullany had been kicked on the head. Mullany had
been taken in such a way to the station as to justify
Lingner, who appeared to be a respectable and.sensitive
person, in thinking it was his duty to interfere for his pro
tection. He did nut think Lingner assaulted the police
and should dismiss the charge against him, and fine Mul-
lany 20s. and costs.

A. lil6l case is being brought against the publishes
of the Indian Daily News for a letter inserted in that
paper. The damages claimed are 25,000 rupees.

It is said that the head-mastership of Rugby
School, about to be rendered vacant by the elevation of Dr
Temple to the see of Exeter, has been offered to the Rev
J. Percival, head-master of Clifton College.

In Wheeling, a few days ago, a photographer tool!
the picture of a well-known toper as he was lying or
the side-walk, and he was soon on exhibition in all thr
shop windows. The inebriate signed the pledge.

An Exeter correspondent telegraphs that Dr. Temple
has arrived in that city. The opposition to his appointment
appears to ho collapsing. Canon Hook is one of his warmest
supporters, and the clergy are Occlining to sign the memo
riai to the Dean and Chapter against his election.

Three coloured men recently obtained admission tc
the dress scats cf a Washington theatre. They were coin•
pelled to leave their places, and have sued the managers of
the theatre for a breach of a municipal law. The case it
not yet settled. Another negro became engaged in a Arrel
with some white men in New York, and shot one of them
dead.

The story is told of an honest countryman who wa.!
taken to the New York Gold Room by a city friend, uncle)
pretence of showing him an " asylum for the insane," and
who immediately rushed from the building, crying out that
the madmen were all loose down there, and he didn't know
what might happen!

The banquet to the Duke of Abercorn, which
was to take placo on Wednesday, and the great Tory de.
monstmtion under the presidency of the Duke on Ulf
succeeding evening, both of which were adjourned in con
sequence of Lord Derby's illness, are to take place on tht
Bth and 9th of December respectively.

The Correspondanee Italienne says that since th,
circular of the 30th of September, relative to the demand
of several Italian bishops to be authorised to proceed tc
the council, had announced that the Government would
not put any obstacles in their way, a new demand hat
been made by semo other members of the Italian
episcopacy to obtain a special authorisation. It it
believed, however, that the Minister of Grace and
Justice Chas replied with reserve, as in his formes
circular.

THE Column Bisnorntc.—ln reply to a memo-
rial from the clergy of West Cornwall, Mr. Gladstone
in a letter addressed to Captain Vivian, M.P., writes :
"I will not fail to bring the subject of the memorial be-
fore my colleagues. The new bishop, you may rely upon
it, will not place any undue obstacle in the way of the
division of the diocese. But there are other difficulties
The funds of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are all
appropriated, I believe, by Parliament. Local contribution,
might, perhaps, be deemed necessary as a proof of local
desire. And, lastly, the mind of the Church, so to speak
does not seem to be clearly made up on the question what
should bo the status of new bishops."
Of how new a thing is American literature we are
pleasantly reminded by the fact that William Culler
Bryant, who may be said to be the father of American
poetry, is at this moment engaged on a new translation of
Homer's Iliad, the first part of which is in the press
There are English readers who can remember the time
when aristocratic travellers, while deploring the sordid
materialism of the new Republic, admitted that the
poems of " one Bryant " were readable, and even worthy
of the attention of the English public. Ever
long after this period, when Bryant's beautiful "Lines tc
a Waterfowl," and other poems, were first embodied it
popular collections of poetry here, Longfellow and Whit•
tier and Lowell were names yet unknown. Bryant is now
in his seventy-fifth year, and is said to be still accustomed
to "work most laboriously." His letters from the East
which have been just published in New York, were how-
ever written in 1853, during his tour in Egypt, Palestine
Turkey, and Greece.

" OTELLO " AND MALlBRAN.—Malibran almost
always fainted at the conclusion of " Otello " Desdemona it
which was one of her great impersonations. The reason oi
this was as follows :—When quite a child she accompanied
her father the famous Garcia, to New York, where ho was
engaged as tenor of the Opera. On Monday he returnedtc
his daughter, who was also his pupil, and informed hes
that the prima donna was seriously ill, and that she muss
be ready to play Desdemona on Wednesday. She knew
the music perfectly, but as she had never sung on a public
stage, she naturally wished to get off this sudden ani
unexpected debut, but Garcia would not hear of it. Witt•
a brutality which, by the way, was not unusual with hlm
he told her she must sing the part, and that if she did no'
come up to his expectations he would kill her on the spot
for which purpose he should on that night take a real dagger
instead of a stage one. The night arrived and Malibran
achieved quite a success. All went well until the last aci
Then, as Otello was stealing up to the recumbent Desdemona
a shrill scream ran through the house, and Malibran
jumping up from the couch, rushed off the stage. The
curtain was let down, and the opera, came to an un-
timely end. It was soon discovered that Malibran was
missing. Scarch was instituted for her by the police, but
for two days she could not be found. Then she was dis
covered hiding behind some timber in a timber-yard, halt
dead with fright and starvation. The effect of this, her
first appearance in the part, was so indelibly imprinted or
her recollection, that whenever she sang it the circum•
stances came back to her, and ()ten resulted in the super
vening of a fainting fit at the close of the opera. As an inti•
mate friend of Malibrau's, who heard the story from her
own lips, I can ronch for its authenticity.—Theatrical ani
Musical Review.

A FACT APROPOS OF THE LANL

QUESTION.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
mentions some facts that have been communicated to him.
When describing the condition of certain estates in the
valley of the Suir, the Times' cosrespondent, in one
of his recent letters, dwelt with laudatory emphasis
on the comfort and content of a district the property
of the late member for Nottingham, whose wife's grand-
father, Sir William Osborne, had let it on lease at mode-
rate rents to the industrious peasants, who had by thou'
own industry reclaimed it from the mountain waste, as
mentioned in his travels by Arthur Young. The story is
picturesque, the social moral admirable ; and the first and
the last mentioned facts are stated accurately. But the
chain of cause and effect is sadly broken by a circum-
stance wholly omitted in the narrative, namely, that during
the famine of 1847, the multiplied progeny of the original
tenants were reduced to a state of poverty and suffering
so desperate that, as the only expedient for their effectual
rescue, Mr. Bernal Osborne undertook to furnish them
with the means of emigration to America, compensating
them at the same time in money for the surrender of their
holdings. Those were subsequently somewhat consoli-
dated, and let to small farmers having capital enough to
cultivate them.