The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

ASSAULT ON A DOCTOR'S ASSISTANT.—Lovy 'MRCS, a Jew,
who described himself as a fruit salesman, of No. 2, St.
James-place, Iloundsditch, was brought before Mr. Paget
charged with violently assaulting Mr. Richard John Bacon,
assistant to Mr. Budgett, a surgeon and apothecary in
Back Church-lane, Whitechapel.

The prisoner made a purchase of a pennyworth of lint
at Dr. Budgett's shop on Saturday night, and he com-
plained of the smallness of the quantity sold to him ; an
altercation ensued between him and the assistant, and the
prisoner threatened to put his finger up Mr. Bacon's nose
and told him to put that in his pipe and smoke it. Mr.
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continued to act in a very disorderly and abusive manner
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which he refused to do, and
At last an attempt was made to expel him from the shop,
and he struck Mr. Bacon a severe blow on the mouth
caused his lips to bleed, and loosened one of his teeth.

:Lewis Tisley, No. 139 11, said that Mr. Bacon's mouth
was bleeding when ho came to Dr. Budgott's shop, and the
prisoner was extremely noisy and violent.
The prisoner, in defence, said that the complainant
struck him first and he retaliated.

Mr. Paget said ho did not believe the prisoner, and fined
him 40s. In default 14 days improvement.

A DISHONEST WATCHMAN.—James Mayhew and James
31‘.Neill were brought before Mr. Page; on remand,
charged with stealing a quantity of rope, the property of
the London and St. Xatherine Dock Company, from their
premises.
Mr. Weatherhead, clerk to Mr. Thomas Beard, solicitor,
defended MVeill, Mr. Gomm defended Mayhew. The pro-
secution was conducted, for the Dock Company, by Mr.
Morgan, of the firm of Humphrey., Son, and Morgan,
solicitors.

Mayhew was a watchman, and specially employed by
the Dock Company to protect the stores on the pierhead of ,
the London Dock at Wapping. M'Neill was the con-
ductor of the fire-escape, opposite Wapping Church.
A few nights since a police-constable of the II
division, saw the prisoners near the fire escape. Mayhew
was carrying a bag of rope weighing 661bs, which he
put against the fire escape. The constable asked him
where ho obtained it, to which he replied that he brought
it from a barge in the London Dock. The constable
said he should take him into custody. Tho watchman said,
" You will not do that ; you know what business is." The
watchman was taken at the, time, but M'Neill made his
escap3. He had previously said to the constable, " Don't
take any notice of that ; it's all right." The rope was iden-
tified as the property of the London Dock Company, and
was stated to be worth lls.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoners for trial.

WESTMINSTER.
SCREENING BRL•TAL HUSBANDS.—James Reardan, a
powerful Irish:labourer, was charged with violently beating
his wife.
The latter, on getting into the witness box, endeavoured
to screen a black eye by holding a handkerchief to her
face, and on being asked to make her statement, observed,
" I have nothing to say, I don't think he hit me at all."
Mr. Selfe—You are tellin a deliberate falsehood. Speak
the truth ; did he not strike you ?
Complainant—He might have done so once.
Mr. Selfe—That will not do for me. You camo before
me on Saturday and applied for a warrant against your
husband, and you then swore that he violently assaulted
you and you have abundant marks. Your husband has
had a month for assaulting you before, has he not ?
Complainant—Yes, he has.
Mr. Selfe—You swore, when you were here on Satur-
day, that your husband threatened to kill you, and struck
you six times. What do you mean by now swearing that
he might have done so once.
Complainant—lt must have been the boy that said that,
not me.

Mr. Selfe—l have it in writing from your own lips, and
not from a boy.
Inspector Halhem, of the B division—She came to the
station and complained of hor husband violently assault-
ing her.
Mr. Selfe (to the woman)—Did ho make you bleed ?
Complainant—No.
Mr. Halhem—She had a black eye and was covered
with blood.
Mr. Selfe—She was in a pitiable condition when she
came here. lam determined to know all I can upon the
matter.

Defendant was remanded for the attendance of a buy
who was present at the time of the assault.

THE REPORT OF THE JAMAICA COMMISSIONERS is

likely to be laid before Parliament to-day.
FIRST LESSONS IN RIDING.—Teach the boy to sit
first. Fasten the pony's had into the right place
with a pair of reins buckled to the flaps of the saddle, and
a standing martingale if necessary. Then put the boy into
the saddle carefully, fit the stirrups to his legs, tell him to
keep his shoulders back, his back slack, his heels down, and
cross his arms across his chest. Then, repeating the cabal-
istic words " Heels down, back slack"over and over again,
lead the pony about at a walk for a day or two until the boy
gets his balance; or what the French happily call son assiette.
Then give him a single pair of reins, and explain that in
riding the hands are always to be kept lower than the
elbows, and generally as low as the hips. Impress on him,
" If you raise your hands you are lost," and that the bridle
is not a safety handle to hold on with, but a pair of lines
for steering: "If you want to turn to the right, pull the
right rein ; if you want to turn to the left, pull the left
rein." . There are boys and men who learn to ride,
and ride well, by instinct, imitation, and practice, especially
if they have good models before their eyes, and are not
spoiled early by flattering toadies ; but there are many mon
who never ride with any sense at all, although, they
ride all their lives. Some people seem to think
that falling off does boys good. That is not the writer's
opinion. A boy should, as a matter of course, learn not to
make a fuss about a fall, or any other hurt or accident ; and
he NI ho is not afraid will fall the most cleverly; but the
first point of good horsemanship is not to fall until your
horse falls; the next is so to guide and hold him that he
shall fall as seldom as possible. Many a fine boy has
been cowed and spoiled as a horseman by being put on
ponies too restive or spirited for his strength and imma-
ture seat. But there is a mistake in the other direc-
tion. Teaching is wasted unless principles are fol-
lowed by practice, and unless what has been learned in the
home park or the school is practised on rough ground and
across country, up and down steep hills, across moors, and
through woodland. For this purpose there is nothing
better than an occasional day with the harriers ; boys and
horses both learn to be quick to turn, to stop, and to start
again. No horseman or horsewoman is safe who has not
learned to leap real fences, ditches, banks, and hurdles ;
for the quietest horse will buck sometimes, and the slowest
ride end in an inevitable short cut.—Dickem's "All the
Year Round."
THE CANNON-STREET MURDER —When William
Smith, lately tried on a charge of having murdered Mrs.
Milsom, returned to Eaton, after his acquittal, on Friday
night, he was received with cheers by numbers of the
people amongst whom he had lived, He was waited for
at Windsor Station, and his friends, forming in proces-
sion, marched arm-in-arm to his home, about which hun-
dreds of people gathered. On his approach thew received
him with loud shouts of welcome.