The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON SESSIONS.

THE CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST THE
MASTER OF BREWER'S SCHOOL.

The City of London Sessions commenced this morn
ing at the Guildhal, before R. Gurn3y,the Recorder.

The grand jury having been sworn,

The learned Recorder informed them that their ser-
vices would only be reqnired for a short time,
there being only one eve of a peculiar charac-
ter to be brought before them—viz , a charge of
assault against the Rev. Dr. May, bead master of the
Brewers' School, for an assault on one of the boys. The
learned gentleman then entered into the nature of the
case, as deposed to recently before the Lord Mayor when
the charge was preferred, the particulars of which have
been so recently reported, as not to need recapitulation.
The Grand Jury then retired, and after an absence of
about an hour, returned into Court with the indictment
ignored.

The Recorder said he entirely concurred in the opinion
of the Grand Jury. It was one of those cases in which
he considered the master had done no more than was
necessary to preserve his dignity and maintain the
discipline of the school.

Tiie Foreman said that 22 out of the 23 forming the
Grand Jury voted for the ignoring of the bill.

Mr. Bodkin who bad been instructed to defend Dr.
May, in the event of his being put upon his trial, said
that a large number of the boys who had been educated
at the school under Dr. May, and were now pursuing
their various avocations in life as well as many who
were now at the school were present to have spoken, if

necessary to the doctor's uniform kind treatment. They
also (as we understood the learned gentleman to say)
determined to subscribe together and defray the ea•
peaces which the doctor hal been put to.
Mr. Sleigh, who appeared for the prosecution, said
that the prosecutor had no desire to bring the case to
that Court. He would have rather it had been
decided by the Lord Mayor.

The Recorder said it was impossible for the Lord
Mayor to have decided it without the doctor had
admitted the correctness of the charge.
Mr. Alderman Finnis said that if the charge had been
preferred before him he should have dismissed it.
Mr. Bodkin said that the Court of Assistants met a
short time since and came to a resolution expelling,the
boy from the school.

The doctor then left the court surrounded by his
young friends, who cheered him heartily along Guildhall•
yard, flourishing triumphantly in the air the cane with
which the chastisement was inflicted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.

WESTMINSTER.

A DESPERATE CHARACITER.—Mary Flynn, a woman
of most forbidding appearance, without bonnet or shawl,
was charged with wilfully breaking tradesmen's windows.
Mr. George Legg, of 102, York-street, Westminster,
coffee-house-keeper, said that last evening the defendant,
as she was passing, jumped and wilfully dashed her elbow
through a pane of glass, the value of which was 21. She
was a perfect stranger to him, and she had not been in
his shop.
Mr. R. Kennett, of the Hoop and Grapes, Broadway,
Westminster, said that the defendant came to his house
and conducted herself so badly, that he was obliged to
put her out. He had no sooner done so than she went
round to the other side of his house and broke a pane
of glass.
Mr. Arnold—Do you know anything of her ?
Mr. Kennett—She has repeatedlybroken my windows
and been in prison.
A policeman said that after breaking the window at
Mr. Kennett's she ran fleetly, as it seemed, to Mr.
Legg's. She was pursued after the second act of damage
and given into his custody, when she threw herself down
and conducted herself in the most indecent and filthy
manner, and the stretcher was sent for to convey her to
the hospital. She broke the buckles and straps by her
extraordinary violence, and it required six constables to
convey her to the station. She had only time out of
prison that morning after serving three months for like
oonduot.

Defendant coolly said that she did not remember
anything about it.

Mr. Arnold said that hor conduct was most disgrace-
ful, and committed her to hard labour for six months.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.)

LONDON, Jan. 9.—Wind this day at noon, S.W; mo-
derate breeze and cloudy.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 7. --Wind S.E.—Arrived—Edward
O'Brien, from New Orleans; Kaloolah, St. John's, New-
foundland; Odencasse, Derail •' Henry Harbuek, from
Cardiff for Alexandria, very leaky, and with foremast
sprung; Dolphin, from Liverpool for La Guayra.
NEWPORT, Jan. 7.—Wind W.—Arrived—Libra, from
Antwerp for St. Thomas. Sailed—'Helmirth Marie, for
Point de Gallo ; Shakespeare, for St. Thomas's, after re.
pairing.

FALMOUTH, Jan. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Riepe,
from Havana ; Kossuth, ditto, for Bristol ; Derma Sol,
from Antwerp for Havannah.
GLOUCESTER, Jan. B.—Wind S.—Arrived—William
Duke, from Cadiz.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. B.—Wind S.—Arrived—Nina, from
Rotterdam for Buenos Ayres.
CARDIFF, Jan. B.—Wind W.—Arrived—lda' from
Barcelona; Eujcole, Gibraltar. Sailed—George and Sarah,
for Havannah.

OFF HURST CASTLE, Jan. 9.—Arrived—North Star (a),
from Now York.
(BY ELECTRIC! TELEGRAPH.)

Wind W. S. W.
Arrived—Australia,
Put back—Elena C., for Venice.
Off—Monro, Anglesea, and Oerd Van Ness.
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WATERFORD, Jan. 7.
Wind S. to S.W.
Ermain, from Odessa, was aground for several hours on
the west part of the bar in coming in.

BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND Saturday Morning.
Wind S.; tide -two hours' ebb• nioderate.
Arrived—Dublin Lass, from' Guernsey; Belvedere,
Dunkirk.

DiAL, Saturday iforuinz.

Wind W.S.W.;
Passed—liellona, from London for Malta.

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launch this morning were
the way so rapidly as she did yesterday. The dis-
proportion between the bow and stern distance were
trot
dentin'
'shed today by the application of additional
hauling power, and at two o'clock this afternoon
the Leviathan had gone nearly six feet further
towards the water.
THE COAL TRADE
Derby-
shire during the .
The production of coal in
the opening
of 8 past year has been largely increased by
which now in Operation is 240, employing upwards of
was 4,000,000 workmen,tons In 1855 the quantity of coal produced
1857, 4,510,000 to" ; in 1856, 4,500,000 tons ; and in
in operation, and ".
In Yorkshire there 343 colleries
the production last year shows a con-
siderableincrease on that
IRON TRADE of the previous year.
THEIt
IN &Ina WALES.—The iron
trade of South Wa
a has experienced a slight change
for the better, more confidence being shown. Several of
the works have received an amount of orders that will
country shall be yen until the reviving trade of the
fully restored. The Tredegar works
are fully engaged,
EFFICIENT I' • good orders for rails being on hand.
ofacE —T h
and that of Derby have e town-Council of Bradford
Home-office that the received an intimation from the
police force in both those boroughs
are in such an efficient at
ate that henceforward one-fourth
of the cost of maintaining those bodies will
be paid out
of the Treasury to t'
the credit of
tively. the two boroughs respec-
t; A TREMENDOUS IDEA.—A
des Sciences of Paris, who is alsomember of the AcadiSmie
has invented an apparatus which
e he thinks will enable
an eminent chemist,
human beings to breathe as fr
sea as on the surface of the eart!ly at the bottom cf theh
an association for collecting all the Ho proposes to form
at the bottom of the ocean, and estimates at about
treasures now lying
800,000,000/, sterling the harvest of treasure to be
gleaned on the route between England and India only:
—Paris paper
FRAUDs AND FORGERY BY A S
On Thursday a warrant was obtained from the magis-
trates of Ashton-under-Lyne
clerk from the office of Mr. m n
Marriott,
application of a
Man-
chester, against Mr. Mellor, a solicitor,
solicitor, at
icitor, late of Ashten,
but who has absconded, charging
Mellor has occupied, up to the timehim with forgery. Mr.
of his di-appearance,
a position of great respectability, but it has now been
discovered that he has commuted frauds and forgeries
to the amount of several thousand
bankruptcy was presented against Mellor
A petition in
Mellor in the Man
chester Court of Bankruptcy 00 Saturday last, and the
inquiries instituted by creditors haveA led to the discovery
of these serious delinquencies.
was Mrs. Clarke, of .Bowden, who some other creditors
trusted 12,0001. to Mr. ReginbotZome years ago in-
Ashton to invest in mortgage,. ara, attorney, of
'
Subsequently,
Mr.
Heignlaotbain was made a bankrupt and his business
and the investment of the moneys were transferred
to Mellor. At various subsequent
furnished to Mrs. Clarke what
etperiods, Mellor
Purported to be
mortgage deeds, by means of which he got hold of sums
. b
of 5001., 3001., and other moneys ,
an examination
of these istruments has shown that theyut
are of no value,
the properties purporting to be mortgaged not belonging
to the persons whole names are inserted in the de.ds.
defrauded Mrs. Clarke alone has thus been out of some
thousands of pounds. It is believed
that Mellor had a
when
considerable sum in his possessionhe absconded
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