The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-09 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE-OFFICE.

Yesterday, Daniel Hurley, James MDwyer,
and Michael Connolly, Irish coal-whippers, and
John Joycey, a master shoemaker and shopkeeper,
were brought before Mr. BRODERIP, for final exami-
nation, charged with riotously and tumultuously as-
sembling with others, in Shadwell.-market, on the
night of Friday, the 28th of September,and assault-
ing and beating John Lucock and John Hill, with
intent to murder them.

One of the wounded men (Hill) has been confined
in the hospital ever since the affray, and was now
brought from thence in a chair, to give evidence. He
was a fine tall young man, but, in consequence of the
dreadful injuries he received, presented a frightful
spectacle, every part of his person having been either
kicked or trampled upon. He appeared in a weak
state, and to be suffering great pain. Lucock also
presented marks of severe blows, and his face and
head were still covered with cuts and bruiser.

It appeared that the complainants, with several
other Englishmen, had become exceedingly unpopu-
lar with the great body of coal-whippers, princi-
pally Irishmen, for having, during some former
disturbances, delivered the colliers at five farthings
per ton, though latterly they have worked for and
obtained the full price—three-halfpence. In con-
sequence of this, the Englishmen had been re-
peatedly attacked and nearly murdered by the Irish-
men, for which more than 50 of them had been
fined .5/. each—a sum which has invariably been col-
lected by subscription. On the night named, it was
resolved by a party of Irishmen to attack Cope, the
baskettean of a gang of men to which the complai-
nants belonged, in revenge for the evidence the for-
mer gave against two of the prisoners' companions
who had assaulted him, and also for having worked
under price. About 9 o'clock the Irish coal-
whippers repaired to the Three Compasses public-
house, in Shadwell-market, where Hurley, who
acted as ringleader, called out, " Turn out the five-
farthing —, we mean to have blood for supper to-
night.' Conolly and some others then drag-
ged Lucock, an aged man, one of Cope's party, out of
the tap-room, and he had no sooner reached the street
than the prisoners knocked him down. Cope managed
.
again ti CE iiiVontiolly, who called out, " Come
on," and the Irishmen then, with horrid impreca-
tions, threw him down, and kicked and trampled
upon him in a most brutal manner, until he was
quite senseless. While this was going on, Hill had
left the Three Compasses, and was met by Hurley
at the door, who called our, " Jack Hill, you five-
farthing rascal, we mean to have your life." Hill
asked what for, and was told he had worked a ship
for five farthings. He said he had not, and walked
on, but had not proceeded many yards before
Hurley gave some signal in Irish, and Hill was
knocked down by a tremendous blew on the neck.
He was dragged up the hill, at the top of which he
was kicked and jumped upon from head to foot,
until he was reduced to a state of insensibility. He
spoke particularly to two men named Higgins and
Clarke, who have fled to Ireland, and to the pri-
soner-M‘Dwyer, as having jumped upon his sto-
mach, and said that he had received a kick on the
lower part of the abdomen, which he should never
get the better of. Dr. Arthur, the surgeon who
attended him, was shocked at the sight of his muti-
lated body, and it was a long time before he reco-
vered his senses. Others belonging to Cope's
party were roughly handled, and but for the inter-
ference of the police would no doubt have been
murdered.

Hurley, who is an old man, and was proved to
be the most active in the outrage, repeatedly
laughed, and behaved with great levity.
Mr. BRODERIP said the prisoner Hurley was the
most atrocious old ruffian he had ever met with.
Mr. Thomas Deen, landlord of the Three Com-
passes, said that Hurley, on the night of the affray,
said he would burn his house down for serving the
five-farthing men with beer, and swore he would rip
his guts open and make garters of them. At that
time he saw Joyccy exciting the Irish coal-whippers.
Witness's life had been repeatedly threatened, and
he had lately received the following let. er, which
was read by Mr. Broderip :
" Mr. Deen, I have to inform you i ham comeing to
pay you a visit has soon as convenient, it will not be long
for you a set of Dam Rascals wants my company. You,
Mr. Cope, and Miller (a witness) will not forget you some
evening. I think a hand Grenade or two among you that
xvill send the whole of you to hell, would be of service
when you are in company. lam 'my in St. Giles. lam
eotneing your way. I have left the Sister Isle with good
intent to come to see some of you. I have done a many
good things, and I will not forget you.
" Captain ROCK and SWING."

Mr. BRODERIP desired the witness to be under no
fear. That murder was intended he had no doubt,
and he called on all the prisoners to find bail, them-
selves in 400/., and two sureties of 1001. each, to
appear and take their trial at the sessions for the
riot and assault. The prisoners, in consequence of
a large number of coal-whippers having assembled,
were instantly removed under an escort to prison, as
a rescue was talked of.
UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Lieutenant Mortimer, of the 15th
Hussars, was charged with being the reputed father
of an illegitimate child, born in and now charge-
able to the parish of Bermondsey.
Jane Head, a tall ruddy-complexioned stout young
woman, stated the defendant to be the father of her
child, and that it was born in Bermondsey work-
house on the 20th of last August. When asked
where the connection took place between her and
the defendant, she replied that it was at her father',,
house, in the parish of Lingfield, Surrey, about the
14th of November, upon which occasion he came
down in a gig, and slept there that night. In reply
to defendant's solicitor, she said that she did not
remain with him all night, that she was in the bed-
room with him about ten minutes, and had never
seen him since that occasion. She was confident
that be was the father of her child, and he wore
mustachios then, as he did now. She admitted
that she had a bastard child before by a gentleman,
and that it was now living with her father. Slit.
added, that the father of her former child was a
gentleman, as he did not disputa the matter like the
defendant, who had equally as much right to sup-

The defendant said that, independently of the evi-
dence given by his brother officer, the orderly-book
of the regiment would at once show that he was not
absent at the time she had asserted on oath that he
was with her in Surrey.
Mr. CHAMBERS was satisfied with the Ciptain'A
evidence that the defendant was not the individual
.rho was the father of the child. The woman
Head had, in all probability, been on intimate term;
with an officer of some other regiment, or probably
a private, who wore mustachios, and she had selected
Mr. Mortimer, imagining he was better able to sup-
port her offspring. Mr. Chambers added, that
under all the circumstance, 're should make no order
)n the defendant, and he was joined in this decision
by Mr. Wedgwood.

The Hague Journal of the 30th ult. speaks
in the following contemptuous terms of the late ceremony
a Brussels :—" Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cohurg has just
seen distributing at Brussels monuments of shame, and
.triking emblems of perjury and robbery, under the ap-
pellation of standards of honour. The city of Paris,
iowever, disdained to send any person to receive that
which was destined for it. Prince Leopold, during the
•eretnony, conversed affectionately with the respectab'e
General Mellinet and the honourable Majsr Kessels."

The Pekin Gazelle employs two columns to
•elebrate what it denominates a trait of heroism and rare
•nagnanimity of the Princess Kars, ninth daughter of the
present EMPEROR. According to the wish of the Em-
rcuos., she was to espouse the son of the grand officer of
-he yellow banner of the body guards (consisting of per-
sons of the highest rank). Everything was prepared for
:he ceremony, when LEEN CHE, the distinguished bride-
;room, was carried off by death. The lady, in despair,
,tut off her hair, and determined to remain a virgin for
'ife ; and the EMPEROR, on being informed of her de-
Trinination, decreed her a tablet of honour to be suspended
t the door of her chamber, and a surname to celebrate her
virtue.

In scrubbing the bottom of the Donegal, at
~pithead, by the proce‘s of hogging her, on Saturday last,
in immense substance was rubbed off, weighing 173113,.
It is nearly a solid cube of two feet, but of a nature difficult
to be described—its gravity is about that of oak timber,
odour white, and looks like chalky clay, very much honey-
combed; it readily pulverises between the fingers, but is
lot calcareous, as it will not effervesce in acids. It is im-
trossible to say whether it is a mineral, a vegetable, or an
.nimal production; but it is sent to the Naval and Mili-
,ary Museum, and will doubtless be analyzed by able chy.
nista. As the Donegal is coining into dock immediately,
in opportunity will be afforded of seeing if ar, more such
•xcrescences have formed on her bottom. She got on
&lore on the Horse sand about 15 months since, but it is ri• k
likely she picked it up there, or if she did, that it would
save remained attached to the copper for so long a period,
.onsidering how long she has been to sea.—Hampshire
Telegraph.
ARBITRARY MEASURES WITH REGARD TO
CHOLERA IN THE UNITED STATES.-It is curious to ob..
,erve how frequently republican forms of uorrontecit,
-o display the most arbitrary propensities. Among us
here has been, on several occasions, an outcry against the
tttempts of the government to carry into effect the mea-
gires requisite for acquiring accurate information as to the
xtent of the present epidemic, and for staying its pro.
cress, although the plans actually adopted have never been
nore than the necessities of the case obviously pointed my.
Our friends in America proceed in a much more sum-
mary manner; the most rigid returns are enforced, stating
,lie name and residence of every patient, under heavy pe-
ialties ; and the power vested in the Boards of Health may
to judged of from the resolutions of one of them, which
low lies before us, in which any person who has been in a
louse which a cholera patient has inhabited, and who
.ball presume to enter the town of Hudson, shall be fined
100 dollars and imprisoned for three months. A pretty
.trong measure this—we guess. The opinion that the
lisease is contagious seems to be general, if not universal,
in America.—Medical Gazette.

BATH ELECTION. The opponents of
11r. ROEBUCK, in the utter hopelessness of their cause,
tre reduced to the necessity of endeavouring to trump up
L charge of infidelity against him. We approve of the
,atechising system, when confined to the only subject upon
vhich a candidate can be expected to reply—politics; hut
ye cannot conceive how any man, possessing the feelings
if a gentleman, could, in a public meeting, stand up and
.k any one what precise shade of religious belief he had
olopted. If the situation of Minister to the parish were
subject to popular election, and Mr. ROEBUCK had put
airnself forward as a candidate for the office, his religious
,ifinciples would become a fair subject of inquiry ; but as
it would be highly inconsistent to make politics a conside-
ration in such a case, where religion was alone concerned,
we submit that it is equally inconsistent to introduce sec-
tarian opinions upon religion, where nothing is required
to be known but the political opinions of the candidate.
rile two questions are perfectly distinct ; and no man that
meant honestly by his countrymen would introduce so
fruitful a source of division. The indignation of every
one present should at once have silenced so invidious a
•tuerist. Mr. ROEBUCK has, however, answered the ques.
tion—he avows himself a Christian, and a member of the
Established Church ; but, as he also avows himself a friend
to Church Reform, and does not wish that Dissenters
should be taxed to support his church, his opponents retort
disingenuousness—seeming him a charge of disingenuousness—seemg ro think
it utterly impossible that any man can be a true membec
if the Establishment, unless be is for the Church as it is,
.nd an inveterate stickler for her privilege of taxing other
docks beside her own. The efficiency of Mr. ROEBUCK
nay be very well estimated by the nothings which are
•harged against him.—Bristol Mercury.

On Friday, the 28th ult., after a short illness,
Arnuam Woon, Esq., of Summer-hill grove, Northam.
'ierla.nd, died aged 64. In an age of improvement like the
resent, it is a duty to mention and commemorate the ger.
dices of those persons who, by their talents and exertions,
iave conferred benefits on their fellow creatures. Such
n individual was the late Mr. Woon, who in the earlier
tart of his life devoted his abilities to the producing of an
irticle called patent felt, an invention which has been
lighly effectual in the preservation of ships, and in guard-
ng the life of the mariner. Residing of late years in the
.iorth of England, where the blasting of coa; mines cast
iccasionally a fearful loss of life, besides mutilations, and
'tiler circumstances of a deeply painful nature, it was his
.ndeavour to try and avert those disastrous catastrophes ;
'nit property being more consulted than humanity, the
dans, which had cost him both trouble and expense, were
weer adopted; but still he hid the consolation of knowine.
-hat his exertions had been so far beneficial, inasmuch that
,ccidents are of a much rarer occurrence than formerly.
.Vhen the awful disease of cholera broke out, true to his
me great desire of being useful, he brought into notice
Aid use small tin baths, which can be applied to various
tarts of the body, and which have been found highly ser-
viceable in procuring a regular dry heat. Within the last
zvvo years of his life he took out another patent for work-
iig coal, in a manner heretofore unknown. The princip'e
tf itmiescqhuanitiecsn, whenafford
ewanditmisay
understoodncrease of power to an immense extent, without less of
hoe. It has been tried in the mines, and found to answer
other
that fields
i t for
produces od u discovery
s an
SO well, that the first experiment (to which much indul.
hence was to be granted) has fetched a considerable ad-
lance on the market. Its object is to save coal, and to
end it to the market in a sound and uninjured state. It
greatly to be regretted that Mr. WOOD bail not lived to
.ee it put in practice, or that he was stayed in that ho-
iourable career which his eminent talents and kindness
if heart and disposition allowed hint to pursue, whet so
nuch satisfaction to himself, and benefit to those uroui.d