The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-29 00:00:00

THAMES.

A RARE EVENT.—William Henry Jarvis, a very staid
and respectable looking man, was brought before Mr.
Paget charged with being drunk and disorderly, and while
in that stato assaulting Joseph Targeut, a police-constable,
697 A.

The complainant stated that he saw the prisoner in the
Whitechapel-road on Saturday night, at half-past eight
o'clock, very drunk and noisy, and with a largo number of
disorderly persons about him. He took the prisoner into
custody and conveyed him to the station-house. On the
way there the prisoner kicked him on the leg below the
knee.

Mr. Paget—Did ho hurt you ?
Witness—No, sir, be did not.
The prisoner, in defence, said be was very sorry for
what he had done. He was drunk on Saturday night. It
was a very good job the police took him into custody. if
they had not done so he might have been robbed and ill-
used.

Mr. Paget—What are you ?
Prisoner—A master shipwright, and my. residence is
No. 9, Circus, Minories.
Mr. Paget—lt is a rare event for me to inflict fines for
assaults on the police. They have difficult, and in many
cases dangerous, duties to perform, and my convictions for
assaults upon the police in the execution of their duty
is properly done, as it was in this case, have been almost
invariably followed by imprisonment and hard labour. In
this case the constable was not hurt, and I think I may
with propriety fine the prisoner 405., and not send him to
prison.
The money was paid.

THE FENIAN TRIALS. -- DUBLIN, SATURDAY
NIGHT.—The further hearing of the trials for high trea-
son wore resumed this morning, at the Commissioners'
Court. Corydon stated in evidence that it was he who
gave information of the intended attack on Chester Castle,
which was arranged tho night infore, at a meeting of
American officers, in Edgar street, Liverpool. The
Fenian leaders, suspecting treachery, countermanded 4he
enterprise. On cross-examination he admitted that he had
been supplying the Government with information since the
middle of 1866, and he kept the authorities well posted as
to where they would secure concealed arms and Greek fire.
At that time two sources of income were open to him—
the Government money on the one hand, and Fenian
gold on the other. lie came to the conclusion that the
Fenian organisation was not worth spilling a drop of
blood for, and ho then resolved to become an informer.
General Massey stated on Friday " that ho served in the
Crimea as a private in the Transport Corps ; that ho went
to America and became an officer in the Confederate
army ; that he joined the Fenian Brotherhood in America,
and used all his influence to bring about an insurrection
in Ireland ; that ho received £550 in gold, British money,
from Colonel Kelly, on leaving New York, for carrying
on the rebellion; that he met twenty centres in Dublin,
to whom he gave orders for the general rising on the sth
of Mardi ; that ho visited various districts for the purpose
of organising the war; that the numerical strength in
Dublin was 14,000 men, with 3,000 stand of arms, and in
Cork 20,000, with 1,500 weapons, and he was about to
meet the concentrated forces at the Limerick Junction
when ho was arrested, and determined with his whole
heart to establish the Irish republic, and that when iu
prison ho was persuaded by his wife to give information
to the Government.