The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-21 00:00:00

MARYLE BONE.

A RUFFIAN.—Charles Field, aged 24, a Carman,
was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and
assaulting William Burgess, the landlord of the
Portman Arms, further charged with biting his
arm, also further charged with wilfully damaging
his waistcoat and scarf.

Mr. Burgess said—Last evening the prisoner
came in and called for half a pint of beer, with
which he was served. Without paying for it he
took it outside. He, in a few seconds, brought it
back, and said he would have it filled up. He was
asked for the money, when he told him (pro-
secutor) he would see him -- first. He
got over the counter and turned prisoner
out. Prosecutor was returning inside his
house again when prisoner seized him by the throat
and tried to strangle him. He then bit him on the
right arm, biting a piece of flesh clean out. (Pro-
secutor had his arm bound up.) Prisoner was again
put out, and he 'gain seized prosecutor by the throat,
and then bit him in the left hand, and had not a
man pulled him off by the hair of his head he (pro-
secutor) would have been still further injured.
rwo officers came up and took the prisoner. Pro-
secutor's scarf and waistcoat were torn and ren-
„dcred _unfit for further use.

Mr. Mansfield said the prisoner was more like a
wild beast than a human being. llc must bo impri-
soned and kept to labour for two months.

THE RIOTING AT BIRMINGIIAM.

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday Evening.

Neither last night nor to-day has there been any
attempt made to renew the disturbances ; the streets
have been open again to-day, and there is every ap-
pearance of a restoration of order. Some degree of
alarm has been created by rumours that particular
places were to be attacked, chiefly those belonging
to the Roman Catholic body, but nothing has been
attempted, and the authorities are prepared. Mur-
phy's lecture was thinly attended la3t night. To-
morrow it is "The Confessional Unmasked." The
subject is exciting, but every precaution will be
taken against an outbreak.
Some of the magistrates paraded the streets last
evening, and they meet again at 6 to-night.
The principal of those who were wounded in the
melee on Monday received scalp wounds ; in most
cases they are recovering. The m.)st serious case is
that of Frankon, a policeman, who, according to
the evidence of Dr. Wright, house surgeon to the
Queen's Hospital, has two very severe scalp wounds
and a dislocation of the left shoulder. The skull is
also exposed, but the man is going on favourably.
The two men in charge for this offence have been
committed for trial at the assizes.
No estimate of the amount of damage done has
yet been made ; but the property destroyed was of
a very poor description, and the rioters on Monday
were beaten before much mischief to more valuable
property was done.
Lieutenant-Colonel Brockman presided at the
lecture last night. In the course of his remarks
Murphy said—" I will show that the Virgin Mary
was a Protestant, and no Roman Catholic. (Hear,
hear.) And I will prove it from their own Bible. I
am now quoting from the second chapter of John's
Gospel, and mark my words. On th 2 third
day there was a marriage in Cana of '
Galilee, and the mother of Jesus wa,3 there.' What
does this prove? That proves to me that; the Virgin
Mary was loved and married the same as any other
woman. (Cheers.) Now, I say that the blessed
Virgin Mary was not a liver in nunneries and so-
cieties of misery. (Loud cheers.) She would not
have been at the marriage feast if she had approved
nunneries in any sense of the word. (Hear, hear.)
She believed that woman was a help meet for man.
(Hear, hear.) She thought it was not good for man
to be alone; and I ask you, my friends, what hap-
piness had the sisters of misery who were locked up
in the prison cells of Rome? (Applause.) And I
ask you, as Protestants of Birmingham, while our
hospitals are inspected, while our prisons are in-
spected, our -workhouses are inspected, our asy-
lums are inspected, why not the nunneries ?
(Hear, hear; loud and prolonged cheering.) My
beloved friends, if there is nothing wrong carried
on in the nunneries they should not be afraid of in-
spection. (Cheers.) If there are things wrong
carried on in the nunneries it is our duty as Eng=
lishmen and Englishwomen to demand that the nun-
neries be inspected. (Cries of " Hagley-road.")
Suppose my wife to-nightl/4died suddenly, and that I
buried her without a, coroner's inquest, would she
not be taken out of the grave again? (Yes.) Then,
I say, we know not of what the nuns die. (Hear,
hear.) Then, I say, we should have coroner's in-
quests over the nuns. (Loud cheers, and cries of
"We will.") In conclusion he said—" His object
was to protect their wives and daughters. If mayors
and magistrates did not care for their wives, and
daughters he did. (Applause.) He cared for his wife,
and therefore she should not go to the confessional.
And if other folks were careless about Popery, he
should not be so, because if Popery got the upper
hand he could not speak. (Hear, hear.) It was a
shame and an insult that in the 19th century the
military had to be employed in such work as they
now had."

A letter has been received from the home-office
approving the measures taken to preserve the peace.
The Mayor has issued a notice requesting the inhabi-
tants to remain as much as poaajble at home, and

that they will abstain front frequenting unnecessarily
the central streets during the evening.
MIDNIGHT.

The riots are at an end, and order is restored.

No fresh outbreak is at present anticipated. The
police and military, however, are still kept in readi-
ness.

The attendance at Murphy's lecture was not so
large, although the public had perfectly free access
to the building.

IREL AND.

DUBLIN, June 20.
The lawless conduct of the mobs in some of the
Southern towns should not be taken as an index of
the state of the population generally. In the towns
excitement spreads rapidly, from the gregarious
habits of the people, who spend much of their time
in the streets in fine weather, listening to local
agitators, who misrepresent and exaggerate political
and religious matters, with the more effect because
a great many of the labouring classes arc unem-
ployed, and suffering more or less from poverty and
privation. The conduct of the jurors and witnesses
during the trials at the Special Commissions in Dub-
lin, Cork,and Limerick proves that the heart of society
is not so unsound as might be supposed ; and, with
few exceptions, the classes who possess property,
and might be expected to possess the franchise, even
under a Reform Act, might be reliedon to discharge
their duties to the Constitution fairly and in a loyal
spirit. In closing the Commission at Limerick yes-
terday the Solicitor-General spoke in the highest
terms of the conduct of the jurors and of the wit-
nesses, and especially of the constabulary, who
showed so much courage, intelligence, and fairness
between the Crown and the people. At 10 o'clock
the Judges took their seats on the bench. The
court was densely crowded. The prisoners con-
victed of treason-felony, but not senteneed, were
ordered to be put forward. Chief Justice Monahan
then passsed sentence as follows :—Hennessy and
Sheahan to penal servitude for seven years each ;
Sullivan, penal servitude for five years; Michael
Riordan, who pleaded " Guilty," two years'
imprisonment at hard labour. Michael Grogan,
who had only been married on Shrove Tuesday,
and next morning, Ash Wednesday, left his
house and joined the insurgents, and Carroll,
were sentenced by Judge Keogh to two years'
imprisonment at hard labour. Edward Cahill,
a respectable young farmer, and of gentlemanly
appearance, was then put forward, and arraigned
under the Whiteboy Act. He pleaded " Guilty,"
and, with the consent of the Crown, he was allowed
out on bail, himself in £2OO and two sureties
in £lOO each, to keep the peace and come up
for sentence when called on. The following pleaded
" Guilty" to appearing in arms, and were sentenced
to periods of imprisonment varying from 12 to six
months, with hard labour :—Daniel Murphy, Thos.
Ahern, Patrick Barrett, Thomas O'Donnell, Patrick
Pigott, Patrick. Warde, Patrick Maguire, Michael
Foley, Thomas Begley, Patrick Crowly, Michael
Daley, Daniel Curly, Michael Walsh, Robert Rior-
dan, Thomas Meehan, William Turner, and Mi-
chael Hogan. The trials of five prisoners in cus-
tody were postponed to next assizes, and eight
others were discharged by proclamation. The
Solicitor-General then rose and delivered an elo-
quent address in reference to the evjl consequences
of the Fenian conspiracy, instancing the baneful re-
sults which had followed from the movement.

At Waterford a subscription has been commenced
for the mother of the young man who was killed,
and who was her sole support. The constable
who is accused of inflicting the fatal wound is an
object of great popular hatred. So also is a woman,
named Dalton, who volunteered to give evidence in
his favour, stating that she saw a number of per-
sons beating him, and that she heard him cry for
mercy. For the moment the deceased is treated as
a martyr, but the excitement will soon subside.