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London, England, 1858-12-24 00:00:00

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_ASSAULT OY MR: :ALDERMAN
SALO M. ONS.

At the Mansion-house yesterday, Lieutenan t
Higginson, whose name a few weeks ago was pro-
minently before the public in consequence of seve-
ral applications which he made before Mr. Alder-
man Salomons, at Guildhall, for a summons against
the directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company,
whom he charged with deceiving and robbing the
public, appeared to answer the charge of having
assaulted the worthy alderman in the public street.
The case was heard before Sir It. W. Carden, the

bench as well as the whole court being occupied
by most influential and respectable persons, many
of them personal friends of the complainant.
Mr. Roy attended on part of the complainant.
The defendant, who 19 gifted with an extraor-
dinary flow of languaiN, and who took copious
Rotes of the proceedings in shoilhand, stood at the
clerk's table. He wore on his breast a silver medal,
which had been presented to him for having been
engaged in the capture of the French frigate Clo-
rinde, by the' Eurota, on the 25th of Feb., 1811.
Mr. Roy- said that on the 15th of Oct: last tho

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defendant applied at Guildhall, where Mr. Alder-
man Salomons was the sitting magistrate, for a
summons against the company.
Sir R. W. Carden (interrupting)—l do not think
we have anything to do with that : we have nothing
to do except with the case of assault.
Mr. Roy—When you hear all the facts—
Sir R. W. Carden—l have nothing to do with
any facts relating to any other transaction. The
defendant is here charged with an assault.
Defendant—ln connection with the proceedings
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company.
Sir R. W. Carden—The defendant is here on a
charge of assault, and I do not want other questions
to be opened.
Mr. Roy—A summons was applied for by the
defendant against a company of great respectability
who were standing forward almost as a national
company in the attempt to connect the two coun-
tries by means of the Atlantic cable. Upon that
occasion the worthy alderman asked=
Sir R. W. Carden—That is exactly what I want
to avoid. I do not want to enter into what has
previously taken place. This is a case by itself.
Here is a charge of assault preferred against a gen-
tleman ; I must hear that. With what previously
occurred I have nothing whatever to do.
Defendant—l justify the assault on that account.
Sir R. W. Carden—lf you open that you open the
whole proceedings.
Defendant—l request that the whole proceedings
maybe fully gone into.
Mr. Roy—l only want to address to you a few
preliminary observations, in order that the matter
may be perfectly intelligible. When the applica-
tion was made the worthy alderman requested that
the company should have notice of it. The com-
pany had notice ; they attended the next day, and
showed clearly that the information filed against
them had no grounds whatever, inasmuch as the
were relieved from the operation of the Joint Stock
Companies Act.

Sir R. W. Carden—l have nothing whatever to
do with that.

Defendant—l hope everything will be listened
to. I request you, as a British magistrate, to hear
the charge of assault. I justify the alleged assault
by circumstances that previously occurred.
Sir R. W. Carden—l am hereto perform my duty
in the way I think best. It is a charge of assault.
Defendant—Yes, sir; but that is iu consequence
of the very thing which this gentleman has been
stating. Will you allow me respectfully to ask a
question ?
Sir R. W. Carden—Let me see what the charge
is.

Mr. Goodman, chief clerk—The charge entered
on the sheet is assaulting the complainant in Bar-
tholomew•lane.

Sir R. W. Carden—That is the charge, and I will
dear nothing except with reference to that charge.
\ Defendant—Will you permit me most respect-
fulky to ask you a question ?
Sir R. W. Carden—Yes.
Defendant—l beg to ask if you are a shareholder
in the Atlantic Telegraph Company ; because if you
are I object to your jurisdiction.
Sir R. W. Carden—l am not. I never have been,
and never intend to be, if that is any satisfaction to
you.
Defendant—That is satisfactory to me.
Mr. Roy—The question is whether what took