The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-17 00:00:00

W OR SHIP- STREET.

Yesterday John Wright' Baldork, a police-constable of
the G division, No. 106, was brought up from the station-
house in Featherstone-street, and placed at the bar before
Messrs. BROUGHT.ON and GROVE, charged by Mr. Dixon,
the superintendent of that division, with having made a
most desperate attempt to murder Francis Brown, the ser-
geant of the section to which he belonged. The sergeant
had reported the prisoner for misconduct, and, in revenge,
the latter attacked the prosecutor with his truncheon,- and
inflicted some dreadful injuries.
After hearing several witnesses, Mr. BROUGHTON was
satisfied that the sergeant had acted in a most zealous,
spirited, and creditable manner. The prisoner, if he had
now anything to offer in his defence, might say it ; but he,
as a Magistrate, advised him to be cautious of what he did
say, for he bad decided for the present on treating it as a
capital offence.

The prisoner was quite sober at the time, and had not
been drinking at all. He was so aggravated at the ser-
pant when he visited him the secon time (after the first
complaint) that he could not controul his passion. He had
been a private in the force about a year and seven or eight
months.

Mr. BROUGHTON should commit him to prison on the ca-
pit it charge, and he would again be brought up for further
examination on Monday next.
The prisoner was then removed to the lock-up cell. He
is a very good-looking and fine-shaped younc, man, about the
age of twenty-seven. He is married, and has two children.
His wife, with an infant at her breast, was present in the
office while he was under examination, and she appeared
greatly affected.

RYDE.—The weather has been very tempestuous
during the last three or four weeks, and a large fleet are wind.
bound at the Mother Bank. During the heavy gales we are
happy to say no accident whatever has occurred.—Hants 'Ad-
vertiser.

TI-.IE WEATHER AT DEVONPORT.--011 Satur-
day, during the morning, it blew a perfect hurricane from the
westward—the wind sending forth a drift of spray that pre-
vanted vessels being seen to each other, although but half a
cable's length off.---At this critical period the Magnet, of
Exeter,. drove on the rocks off Queen Ann's Battery, and beat
very heavily, with but a shadow of &chance of preserving her
masts or herself entire. However, a pilot, with about twenty
or thirty men, soon boarded her, and a strong hawser (one
end attached to a cannon on the pier at the Barbican) being
carried out to the vessel, a very strong and effectual purchase
was made ; and the schooner fortunately being only in bal-
last, and the tide still making, was hove off, and safely
brought into the Pool. On the examination of her bottom,
not so much damage was found as anticipated. Her stern-
post shook—after-part of keel cut and carried away, and some
of the buttock planks penetrated by‘ the rocks, and chafed.
It was favourable that the rocks on which the vessel drove
were of a soft texture, proved by her having beaten some of
their crests down, and bringing in portions of the same at-
tached to her bottom.

INFLUENCE OF MUSIC ON THE MIND.---Of ,the
solace of music—.nay more, of its influence upon melancholy,
I need not look for evidence in the universal testimony Of
antiquity, nor remind such an audience of its recorded effect -
upon the gloomy distemper or the perverse mind of Saul. I
myself have witnessed its power to mitigate the sadness of
seclusion, in a case where my loyalty as a good subject, and
my best feelings as a man, were more than usually interested
in the restoration of my patient ; and I also remember its salu-
tary operation in the case of a gentleman in Yorkshire, many
years ago, who was first stupified, and afterwards became in-
sane, upon the sudden loss of his property. This gentleman
could hardly be said to live; he merely vegetated, for he was
motionless until pushed, and did not speak to or notice any
body in the house for nearly four. months. The first indication
of a return of any sense appeared in his attention to music
played in the street. This was observed, the second time he
heard it, to have a more decided force in arousing him from
his lethargy, and induced by this good omen, the sagacious
humanity of his superintendant offered him a violin. He
seized it eagerly, and amused himself with it constantly. After
six weeks, hearing the rest of the patients of the house pass
by his door to their common room, he accosted them—" Good
morning to you all, gentlemen ; I am quite well, and desire I
may accompany you." In two months more he was dismissed
cured.—Sir tL Halford's Essays and Orations.
STEEPLE CIIACE—AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR.
The match between Harlequin and Speaker which came off
last Wednesday has led to a fracas. It appears that Mr.
Lucas, having won the choice of the ground, imagined that he
had also acquired a right to break down some walls which
seemed to him unnecessarily to impede the course of the
horses ; but Mr. Newman, feeling that no such stipulation
had been entered into, and no such right conceded, ordered the
walls to be restored to their former state. Mr. Lucas, how-
ever, being thrown out of his calculation in running, by this
unexpected repair of the " lets and hindrances," complained in
no very measured terms of the conduct of the Umpire, in de.
tiding against him under the circumstances. Not content
with venting his reproaches on the ground, he, in the course of
the evening, addressed a letter to Captain Jenner, couched in
terms so little reserved, as to render it imperative on that gen-
tleman to demand an explanation ; and that being refused,
there was only one course left to him, and that was a pe-
remptory demand of satisfaction ; and arrangements were ac.
cordingly made for a hostile meeting, which was to have taken
place on Thursday morning, on the Old Race Course. The
affair,, however, got wind ; and reaching the ears of Mr. George
Russell, our vigilant Superintendant of Police, he succeeded
in taking Mr. Lucas into custody, just as he was about to step
into a carriage, accompanied by his second, to proceed to the
appointed redezvous. Captain Jenner, being on the ground at
an early hour, eluded the search of the conservators of the
peace for some time ; but on his return to his residence was
brought before the Magistrates, as Mr. Lucas had previously
been ; and both Were required to enter into recognizances,
themselves in 5001. each, and two sureties in 250/. each, to
keep the peace for six months. —Cheltenham Journal.
HORRIBLE MURDER IN WESTMORELAND.—
A man named Grisdale, a noted wrestler, was in a public.
house with two of the Greenside miners, who owed him, it
would seem, an old grudge, and who became so extremely
abusive to him that he called upon the landlord to put them
out of the house, which was done. Shortly afterwards this-
dale set out to go home, accompanied by two men, friends of
his, who insisted upon setting. him upon his road for his pro=
tection, as they feared the miners might waylay him. When
they had got a little way on the road Grisdale's friends went
into a hedge to arm themselves with sticks, and whilst so en-
gaged the two miners sprang out upon Grisdale, arid one of
them stabbed him in the abdomen -with a clasp knife.. They
then both ran off, and us Grisdale immediately called out he
was stabbed, his two companions instantly ran in pursuit of the
assassins, one of whom, with the aid of another man whom
they chanced to meet, they soon succeeded in taking; the
other got off, but was afterwards taken at his house in bed.
Grisdale was taken back to the public-house, his bowels
actually protruding through a deep wound of an inch-and-a.
half in length ; lie was also cut, on the breast, and had the
mark of a bloody hand on his shirt-breast, from which it is
supposed the murderers had struck a second blow. Medical
-assistance could not be procured before two hours had elapsed;
the surgeon had to enlarge the wound in order to return the
protrusion ; the unfortunate man only lived an hour afterwards.
The assassins were committed to Appleby gaol, and would be
tried at the Assizes there this day. We have received intelli-
gence from Appleby this day ( Saturday) that one of the pri-
soners arrested for the above murder, named Greenwell, has
been found guilty, and will be executed at Appleby on Monday
next. No bill was found against the other prisoner.—Carlisle
Patriot.