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

M ARYLE 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 sepnds, 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 hire by the throat
and tried to strangle him. Ile 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 again 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.
Two officers came up and took the prisoner. Pro-
secutor's scarf and waistcoat were torn and ren-
dered unfit for further use.

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

THE RIOTING AT BIRMINGHAM.

BIIIMIXOHAM, 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 last night. To-
morrow it is "The Confessional Unmasked." The
subject is exciting, but every precaution will be
taken against an outbreak.

evening, and they meet again at 6
__.
Some of the magistrates paraded the streets last
to-night.
The principal of those who were wounded in the
melee on Monday received scalp wounds ; in most
cases they are recovering. The most 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 Alary
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 the third
day there was a marriage in Cana of
Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.' What
slhvyharileenot the nunneries ?
does this prove? That proves to me that the Virgin
Mary was loved and married the same as any other
mywfhrioenvid.
woman. (Cheers.) No
Virgin Mary was not a lisvve'r
so-
cieties of misery. (Loud cheers.) She would not
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have been at the marriage feast if she had approved
nunneries in any sense of the word. (Hear, hear.)
not good
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was
to be alone ; and I ask you, a help meet for
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(Applause.) And I
gharn, while our
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spection. (Cheers.) If there are things wrong
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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-night died suddenly, and that I
buried her without a coroner's i
-nquest, 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, wo 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 a.nl daughters. If mayor 3
and magistrates did not care for their wives, and
daughters he did. (Applause.) He eared 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.
Possible requesting the inhalit-
fld
ossible at home,
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