The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-01 00:00:00

fHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1867.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

BOW-STREET.

TILE OUTRAGE IN BURTON CRESCENT.—John
Seates, who stood remanded with being concerned
in the outrage on Police-constable Saunders, in
South Ores Cent-mews, was brought up.
Superintendent Searle said the evidence he had
to offer on that occasion would be merely corrobo-
rative testimony relative to tho evidence already
given, that of the constable who apprehended th(
prisoner, and that of the divisional surgeon relative
to the condition of the injured man. He, how-
ever, was in a positio❑ to say that if anoCier re-
m And was granted he should be enabled to bring
forward some evidence of a very important nature
in connection with the case.

Mr. Vaughan said, after such a communication,
he would have no hesitation in remanding the pri-
soner, and, therefore, the police-sergeant who
apprehended the prisoner hal better give h s evi-
dence.

Sergeant Chown, of the 2❑d division, sail—On
the morning of the 29th of October, about a quarter-
past 11, he was watching the house No. 7, Bruns-
wick-street, in which the parents of the prisoner re-
sided, when he saw the prisoner come up to the
street door, which he opened with a key. When
he got into the passage witness asked him if his
name was John Scates. Ile said " ye," on
which witness told him he was a police-con-
stable, and that be should take him into
custody on suspicion of being concerned
in the assault of George Saunders, a police-con-
stable, in North-crescent Mews. lie said—." It's
not me you want. I'm not the man whot shot the
policeman. I've just been to Charlton fair, and I
have just come from Draper's-place in order to see
Jack Thomas, and ascertain if I could get a night's
lodging. Not succeeding, I went to the mews to
sleep that night, and as I was about to get into the
van 1. heard the shot fired. Iran to the con-
stable's assistance, and asked him if he would allow
me to spring his rattle, which ho refused to do."
Witness said he had been watching the house ever
since the morning of the assault, until ho took the
prisoner into custody on the 29th ult.

Mr. Vaughan asked the prisoner if lie had any
questions to put to the witness, but he made no
reply.

In reply to the magistrate, Dr. Paul, the divi-
sional surgeon, said the injured man was quite un-
able to attend, and if any statement at the present
time was taken from him he did not think it could
be relied upon.

Mr. Vaughan said the present evidence taken
in ;connection with that already given, was quite
sufficient to justify him iu remanding the prisoner.
It was then arranged that the prisoner should be
again brought up on Wednesday next.

DEATH OF 2:HE EARL OF BOSSE, K.P.

A telegram from Dublin informs us of the death
of the Earl of Rosse, which took place yesterday at
his residence in that city, after a protracted illness.
It is a remarkable fact that three distinguished men
—distinguished for their great knowledge in astro-
nomical science—namely, the Earl of Rosse, Sir
James South, and Lord Wrottesley--have died
within a period of 10 days, men who have left a
mark behind them in scientific progress. The late
Earl of Rosse had contributed papers to the Philo-
sophical Transactions of th•! P.-.)yal Society, and bad
been awarded the royal medal by that learned body,
of which he was president from November, 18i8,
to November, 1851. lie WAS' a member of many
learned and scientific societies, and also of the Im-
perial Academy of St. Petersburg. lie was also
nominated a member of the Legion of Honour of
France for his great scientific attainments. Tli,‘
noble earl's name will for ever be identified with the
wonderful telescope he erected on his estate at Par-
sonstown, in Ireland—a work of great labour, ex-
pense, and time—commenced in 1828 and com
pleted in 1845, at the outlay of upwarcls of .Z 20,000.
It still remains the most wonderful instrument in
Europe, being the largest and most perfect ever
constructed.

The late Right Hon. William Parsons, Earl of
Rosse, county Wexford, and Baron Oxmantown,
county Dublin, in the peerage of Ireland, of which
his lordship was a representative peer in the House
of Lords, was the eldest son of Laurence, second
Earl of Rosse, by his wife Alice, daughter of Mr.
John Lloyd, of Gloster, King's County, and was
born 17th June, 1800, and married 14th April,
1836, Mary, eldest daughter and co-heir of the late
Mr. John Warren Field, of Heaton Hall, Yorkshire,
by whom, who survives him, he leaves issue three
sons, the eldest, Laurence, Lord Oxmantown, born
in 1810, being successor to the title.

The highly respected earl was educated at the
Dublin University before going to Magdalen Col-
lege, Oxford, at which university he took high
honours, being first class in mathematics in 1822.
He was M.P. for King's County, Ireland, in the
House of Commons from 1821 to 1834, and suc-
ceeded his father in the earldom in 1841. In 1845
he was elected a representative peer of Ireland, and
had been Lord Lieutenant of King's County Militia
front 1831. Since 1862 he had filled the distin-
guished post of the Chancellor of the University of
Dublin. Latterly ho had directed his attention to
the local interests of Ireland, and had published a
very valuable pamphlet on the state of that country.
The deceased nobleman was a Conservative in
politics, and during the last Session of Parliament
invariably supported the Government, and was
among the peers who voted for the Reform Bill.

The late Earl of Itosse, independently of his great
scientific attainments, was a genial companion and
a liberal landlord. By his friends and tenantry he
was deserredly beloved.