The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-22 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday, three ruffianly-looking fellows, named Daniel
M'Donald, Richard Regan, and Michael Harrington, were
charged before Mr. WALKER and a county Magistrate,
with the following outrage and assault :
John Arnold, a waiter at Mr. Smith's, the Harrow, at
Poplar, stated that shortly after seven o'clOck on that morn-
ing, the prisoners came into the tap-room of his master, and
called for a pot of beer, with which they were served. They
then called for another, but his master by this time perceiv-
ing that they were intoxicated, refused serving them any
more liquor. On being made acquainted with this, they
instantly became noisy, and expressed their determination
to kick up a row. He requested them to go away peace-
ably from the house, but instead of doing so, one of them,
Harrington, seized him by the throat, while the others struck
at him violently, and he got severely used by them.
Mr. Smith, jun., said, that on his going to the assistance
of the last witness, he was instantly struck by Regan, and
knocked down. On getting up, he kept them at bay as
well as he could, but still he got most roughly handled by
them, and his clothes torn to pieces from his back.—(Mr.
Smith here exhibited a coat, which was nearly new, but
which was literally torn to shreds.)—ln continuation, he
said that the conduct of the prisoners was the most outra-
geous he had ever witnessed. They had even knocked
down, in the most unmanly manner, two females who had
been exerting themselves to pacify them ; and it was with
considerable difficulty that they were removed from the
house and taken to the station-house.

The MAGISTRATES convicted them in the penalty of 20s.
each, or in default of payment to a month's imprisonment.

QUEEN SQUARE.

Two Irishmen, named Ryan and Lines, were brought up
in custody and placed at the bar, charged before Mr. Hos-
KINS with stealing a quantity of branches of timber trees
from Hyde-park.
From the evidence of the Park-keeper, it appeared that
several oak trees are being cut down near the Magazine in
the Park, which are shortly to be disposed of by public
auction, and the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests
have been plundered to a considerable extent by persons
taking away large quantities ofthe branches and other parts
of the timber. Ryan had been employed upon the spot,
and was detected by a police constable of the A division, in
company with Lines, in taking away about eight feet ten
inches of the timber.

Both prisoners begged hard to be forgiven, protesting
that they thought there was no harm in taking away the
wood.

Mr. HOSKINS told them he considered that they ought
to be punished, and sent them for one month to the House
of Correction.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday the Magistrates of this Office were occupied
a great portion of the day in the investigation of charges of
assault, so prevalent on the South side of the Metropolis
during Greenwich fair time. Some of the cases were of an
aggravated nature, especially one in which a respectable-
looking man, named Dickies, a watchmaker, was charged
with stabbing William Ansted, with a pen-knife, in the
Kent-road.

At the request of the complainant, the case was allowed
to stand over until the extent of the injury was ascertained,
the medical man not having probed the wound, owing to
the degree of inflammation which existed.
Henry Miller was charged with committing an assault
on Joseph Osman, commonly known by the cognomen of
" Jack Ketch's assistant," and who presented a petition
some short time back to the Court of Aldermen, to rein-
state him in the office of assistant executioner.

Osman, on the afternoon afore, took his wife arid little
uns for a walk along the railroad, and as they was a going
along, his wife says, " Joe, let us stop at the Dun Cow,
and have a drain, afore we go on to Deptford." Says Ito
my wife, " I don't care if we does," and so in we goes, and
while we was making ourselves comfortable over a pot of
beer and some saveloys, in walks Miller (that's the roan
wot struck me), and guv'd me those here two black eyes.
Well, your Worship, Mister Miller had no sooner corm
into the room, than he begins to throw out his hugly hints
about my calling ; and, not satisfied with that there, he
attacks my wife on the score of her vartue, and said as
how she was a konkybine afore she knowed me. That
was nothing whatsumdever to him, as I told him at the
time ; and I said that he was no man for so doing, and

I no sooner said the words than he challenged me out to
fight ; but I said that I wanted to have no rumpus with
him about such consarns, and to show that I had no ani-
mosity against the man I axed him for to drink out of the
wery pot as my wife and I was a drinking from. He says
in answer to that there, " I'll go out of the room and ax
myself a few questions afore I drinks with the likes on you."
" Very well," says I, " do ;" and when he comes in again,
a'ter axing himself the few questions, he says, " No, I'm
blow'd if it shall be said that Harry Miller was ever the
man that took a draught out of the same pot with a hang-
man. Well, your Worship, that there word was enough
to wex any man having the feelins of a man about him, and
I told him so ; and instead of saying as how he felt sorry
for what he had said, he turns up his sleeves, and pitches
into me right and left, and never left off until he made my
face in the pickle your Worship now sees it." The com-
plainant's countenance was very much battered. " I do
believe," added Osman, " had not the police come to my
assistance I should not be here all alive to tell my story ;
and what makes the thing worse, I have been prevented
from executing a job that I had to do in the country."
In reply to the Magistrate, Osman stated that the job
he had on hand was not in the way of his " profession," but
to try and get some money which was coming to him at St.
Alban's.

Osman's wife stood forward, and explained that the de-
fendent was her nephew, and that the quarrel first began
between her husband and the latter about family affairs,
during which she came in for her share of abuse. She said
that although her husband was what he was, " Yet," said
she, " he never was arraigned at the bar of the Old Bailey,
or any bar for an offence, and as long as he did his
duty • honourably and fearlessly, she did not see why he
should not be respected as well as another man."

Miller, the defendant, said that Osman was the aggressor
in the first instance, and that he had been endeavouring to
prejudice some of his relations against him.
The Magistrates perceiving a spirit of conciliation in the
parties towards each other, being relatives, they were per-
mitted to retire to settle their differences.

CONVERSATION.—The first ingredient in conver-
sation is truth; the next, good sense; the third, good humour;
the last, wit.

On the 4th inst., eighteen horses were destroyed by
fire at Clery in the Cote d'Or, and a woman and a child
perished in the flames.

The telegraph between Liverpool and Holyhead has,
during the last week, been used for a purpose of which its pro-
jectors had certainly no idea—namely, for that of instructing
horticulturists as to the best time for preparing their gardens
and getting ready the seeds for their plants. It may, per-
haps, be remembered that both the wind and weather changel
on Tuesday last week, the wind from east to south, and the
weather from drought to rain. On the afternoon of Monday,
when the dust was flying about in clouds, and there was every
prospect of continued dry weather, a gentleman went into the
shop of a seedsman in Liverpool, and, after buying a quantity
of seeds, desired that they might be sent home directly, as he
intended to sow them next day. The seedsman, thinking
that they were not very likely to vegetate in such cold and dry
weather, asked him if it would not be well to put off the sow-
ing until the weather changed. The purchaser replied that
the reason why he ordered them to be sent immediately was,
that the weather was sure to change next day, as he had just
seen the telegraph news, which stated that it was bloviing south
and raining at Holyhead, and the change was sure to reach
Liverpool in 24 hourA. The result showed that the purchaser
was right in his observation ; for the wind veered about early
next morning, and before noon the ground was watered by a
refreshing shower, which continued all the day, and has sinco
changed the whole face of nature.

The publication of Tint SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
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