The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-13 00:00:00

THAMES

EXTRAORDINARY AND VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Alexander
Creighton, a tall and powerful man, a shipwright, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with violently assault-
ing Mr. George King, a tradesman, and also with creating
a disturbance at the house of Mr. Edmund Wood, a sur-
geon, of No. 13, Globe-street, Wapping.
Mr. Wood stated that the prisoner was a neighbour, and
a very troublesome one. The prisoner had been in the
practice of getting periodically inebriated, and committing
violent excesses. On Saturday evening the prisoner came
into his surgery and said he had a grievance to remedy,
and demanded an account of his (witness's) treatment of a
certain case. He remonstrated with the defendant, and
advised him to come next day when he was sober. The pri-
soner on this became exceedingly violent and troublesome,
and struck at him repeatedly. He endeavoured to remove the
prisoner, who became worse and worse, followed him
through the house, and struck at him right and left, at the
same time calling him a murderer and a butcher. If he had
not displayed considerable activity ho should have been
severely injured. The prisoner's shouts, threats, and
violence caused an immense mob of people to assemble. The
wife and servants of witness were greatly terrified and
rushed from the house.

Mr. George King, of No. 58, Hermitage-street, Wapping,
said that Mrs. Wood came to him and implored him to
assist her husband. He went to the house and saw the pH-
goner, who was raving and swearing. He endeavoured to
remove the prisoner who caught him under the arm, threw
him, and fell upon him. The prisoner did this twice and
injured him severely. He did not wish to hurt theprisoner,
who ho believed would not have acted as he had done if he
not been intoxicated. _ .

Mr. Yardley fined the prisoner 40s. or fourteen days'
imprisonment.

THE ORION AT GENOA.

Rear-Admiral Erskine, in a letter to a morning
contemporary, says :—M. Kossuth, in his speech at
Manchester on the 24th ult., is reported to have
made the following assertion :
" The English ship Orion, after ships had been sent to
sea with secret sealed orders, was found moored at Genoa,
so as.to impede the disembarkation of French troops."
Will you permit me, having been at Genoa at
the time the Orion lay in that port, to give the
above statement the most unqualified contradiction?
A private letter to myself from Captain -Wallace
Houstoun, the gallant captain of the ship referred
to, dated Malta, June 4, after stating (what I know
to be the fact) that the Orion was anchored by the
King's pilot in the position which he (the pilot)
thought best, says, with reference to M. Kossuth's
statement of her having been moored so as to im-
pede the disembarkation of French troops,—
"Now, that is exactly what she was not. Ido not think
it possible to have placed her more perfectly clear of the
disembarkation, and no doubt that was the pilot's reason
for placing her where he did."

As I presume no person will believe that Captain
Houstoun received orders to act as M. Kossuth
states he did, I trust you will do me the favour, in
justice to a most able and judicious officer, to make
this contradiction as public as the accusation which
has called it forth, and to add my testimony, as an
eye-witness, to the truth of Captain Houstoun's
account of the position of the ship.