The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

threatening to shoot him. He was taken before the
magistrates and bound over for that offence.
Mr. Combe told him he was now a convicted thief.

THAMES.--EXPLANATION.—ALLEGED AS-
SAULT AT SEA.-Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor for the
master and owner of the ship Mary Henzell, lying
in the London Dock,.attended before Mr. Yardley
to complain of an ex parte statement made by a
curate of the Established Church to Mr. Selfe on
Wednesday last, tst the effect that his son, an
apprentice to the owner, had been ill-used on the
outward voyage by the captain and mate, and that
the most dreadful cruelty was inflicted upon him.
Mr. Selfe, on hearing from the afflicted father that
his son was drowned off the Cape of Good Hope
on the homeward voyage, was in doubt whether he
could put the criminal law in motion in the absence
of the person alleged to have been assaulted, and
suggested to the rev. gentleman an application to
the Board of Trade, and also to send to that board
a copy of a letter detailing the ill-usage which the
lad had written to his father while in Madras.

Mr. Smith stated to the magistrate that the
boy in question, whose name was Collins, had been
apprenticed to Mr. Avery, the owner of the
Mary Hinzell, by the Corporation of the Sons of
the Clergy, and that he had been treated with the
greatest kindness on board, and had never been

ill-treated; that the captain was quite willing
that his conduct should undergo the strictest inves-
tigation, and that the owner was very anxious the
matter should be inquired into, being satisfied from
the captain's general conduct and character that he
could not have been guilty of the offences attributed
to him by the Rev. /Mr. Collins. Mr. Smith further
said that the boy Collins had misbehaved very seri-
ously on several occasions in the use of vulgar and
disgusting language towards the crew, for which he
had been once slightly chastised; and that the cap-
tain considered it his duty to the boy and his pa-
rents to do so, but that as to any cruelty being
exercised towards the lad he had the signatures of
the best part of his crew to the contrary, and the
captain emphatirlly denied the statements made
by the Rev. Mr. Collins, which were published in
the newspapers. Mr. Smith suggested that the pre-
sent case was one of a great number where parents
entrusted the care of their children to other per-
sons because they could not tame them themselves,
and then complained, with all the necessary thea-
trical appurtenances, to tho magistrate- of a public
police court, of cruelty haiing been inflicted, when
the fact was, there was only a slight chastisement
for vulgar and abusive conduct, and the parents
themselves should have prevented the disagreeable
necessity by doing so themselves in times past.
Mr. Yardley said he had no control over the
press. He should like to see the report which was
handed up to him by Mr. Smith. Mr. Yardley
having read it, said it contained serious charges
against the master and mate, but he could not
assist the parties any further than by allowing
them, as he now did, to deny the truth of the elle
gations made. He hoped the party making such
severe statements would take care that those
charged should have the opportunity of refuting
them, and he could see no reason why it could not
be done in that court.
Mr. Smith then retied.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAT

DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert George
Wyndham Herbert, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the
Colony of Queensland ; and Miles Gerald Keen, Esq., to
be a Member of the Council of the Bermudas, or Somers
Islands.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Doctor
Antonio Micallef, C.M.G., to be President of the Court of
Appeal, and Doctor Salvatore Naudie to be one of her Ma-
jesty's Judges, for the Island of Malta.