The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-09 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A BRUTAL RUFFIAN.—^UNNRCESSARY USE OF THE
TRUNCHEON.—MichaeI Neal, a fellow having the appear •
ante of a drayman, was charged with assaulting Mary
Carman, of 4, White Hart•court, Windmill-street, Tot-
tenham-court-road, and also severely injuring an elderly
female by breaking her ribs.

Complainant, who had a delicate infant in her arms,
said she was a distant relation of the prisoner's, and on the
previous night she was at prisoner's place, when a female
with whom he lived came in, and the prisoner then began
making use of bad language. She told him not to do so,
when the prisoner struck her a severe blow in the eye, fol-
lowing it up by striking her a second blow on the head and
then aiming a third at her, but which struck the infant
she had in her arms. (The complainant and the infant had
received severe blows in the eye.) Her mother then got
between them, when the prisoner struck her a blow on the
head and broke some of her ribs. The prisoner had been
drinking. She ran after the prisoner, who tried to make
his escape, and she saw him give the constable a severe
blow, Nearly knocking him down.
Mr. Albert, the agent to the Society for the Protection of
Females, said—As the mother of the complainant was
unable to attend, if a remand were granted he had no doubt
the society would prosecute.

John Seath, 30 E, said, hearing a noise in White Hart-
court, be went up the court, and the prisoner rushed past
him, and the woman came up and showed him her eye. He
told the prisoner he was given in charge, and he then gave
him two deliberate blows, one in the face and the other on
the back of his head, and then ran off. Prisoner was caught
by another constable, and became violent, and he was
obliged to draw his truncheon and strike him on the head.
He had made inquiries and found the complainant's mother
was very bad that morning.

BenjinLees, 341 E, said the prisoner tried to kick
Mr. Man,ficld (to Seath)--Why did you not seize the
them,aanmdthen Seath struck him.
man's hands ? Ido not think you were justified in treat-
ing the man in this way (the man had evidently received a
very severe blow). I should think that when two constables
get a man there is no occasion to treat him in such a way.
It is a matter that ought to be carefully investigated. I
have known cases where a single constable has risked his
life without using such violence.
Prisoner—Can I see the doctor ?

Mr. Mansfield—Yes ; and you will be remanded for the
attendance of the injured woman.

THAMES.

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Smith,
were
brought
charged with stealing a coat
value 305., in the shop of Mr. George Corner, a pawnbroker
and salesman in Sidney-place, Commercial-road East.
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Woolrych,Ais,w char
It appeared from the evidence that the three prisoners
entered Mr. Corner's shop, and that Davis said he wanted
to purchase a coat. Several were shown to him by a sales-
man named Back in the employ of the prosecutor, and all
this
in the shop, pulling their coats
about, and rustling their crinolines which all female
thieves now wear of ample dimensions. The sales-
mantime
things
at
the the
women were very busy talking and look-
ing
missed a coat, and he charged the prisoners
with stealing it. They all very indignantly denied having
done so, and talked about prosecuting for defamation of
character. The females were transferred to the care of
Miss Emma Corner, the prosecutor's sister, who was about
to search them, when Davis, who was called Hemming,
dropped the missing coat from under her dress. The pri-
soners were given into custody. While they were in the
shop a man, one of the gang, came to the shop door pre-
tending to be drunk, and made a noise to create a diver-
sion and draw the attention of the salesman from the
prisoners. He saw the ruse and was not to be cheated of
his coat. All the prisoners had been in custody before.
The prisoner Davis said she was very sorry for what she
had done. She certainly did steal the coat. She had been
drinking heavily. If she had been Bober she would not
time,l intoxication is no
have done it.
l~s. ee lrf
don't care whether
Back said the prisoners came into the shop together and
acted in concert, and that the pretended drunkard made a
yexowlreo:ScrirtritYrancke. or sober h—T
hter won't
a t th de
6 good deal of noise at the door.
Mr. Woolrych said he should commit the prisoners sum-
marily. The coat was actually in the possession of ene,
but legally of all three. He convicted the prisoners of un-
lawful possession of the property, and sentenced them to
two months' imprisonment and hard labour in the house
of Correction. •

This Day,
between 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. I. S.
9 a.m.
-
Nairn 29'61 59 57 W.S.W. 2 7 c. 1
Leith 29'69 63 59 W. 2 5 c. 2
Berwick 29'67 62 61 W. 5 5 b. 1
Ardrossan
Portr ash
Shields
Galway 29/8 62 61 S.S.W. 2 8 r. 1
Scarborough 2919 63 58 W.N.W. 2 2 b. 1
Liverpool
Valentia
Queenstown 29.82 65 61 S.S.W. 4 7 r. 2
Yarmouth 29.85 63 62 N.W. 4 2 c. 4
London 29'95 63 61 W. 2 8 c.
Dover 29.95 66 62 S.W. 3 9 o. 2
Portsmouth
Portland
Plymouth 2998 61 GO W.S.W. 4 7 r. 4
Penzance

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b., blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ;
f., fog. ; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0.,
overcast (dull) ; r., rain; a., snow; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
ance (1 to 9).

The marriage of the Marquis of Bath with the
Hon. Miss Vezey is postponed, in consequence of the death
of Lord Herbert. Miss Vezey was the niece of his lordship.
By the demise of the Countess of Newburgh,
which we announced in our impression of yesterday, a pen-
sion of £l,OOO a year reverts to Greenwich Hospital. Her
ladyship was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, member of
the aristocracy, and became entitled to the said annuity of
£l,OOO upon the death of her husband Anthony James,
Earl of Newburgh, in 1814. The late earl, as the grandson
of Charles Radcliffe, third brother of James, Earl of Der-
wentwater, became entitled to £2,500 as a rent charge upon
the estates of the family (given by Parliament to Green-
wich Hospital in 1735), the Act having been passed in the
28th year of the reign of Geo. 111., c. 63. The Earl of
Derwentwater was exec uted in 1715 for high treason, and
his brother, Charles Radcliffe, attainted at the same time,
must have joined in the rebellion of 1745, as he was exe-
cuted for high treason i u December, 1746, under his former
conviction of 1715.

ROBBERY BY A CHARWOMAN.—An old woman,
aged 62, named Curtis, was yesterday fully committed for
trial for stealing a quantity of plate from the residence of
Mr. E. C. Clarke, Gray"2-inn-square. The proceeds of the
robbery were spent in g in.
At the Wells assizes an action was brought by
the representatives of J ohn Hutson against the Railway
Passengers Assurance Society for the recovery of £l,OOO,
for which sum it appe 3
.red the deceased had insured his
life against accident. 1 1;:te defence was that the policy was
voided through drunker Iness. The jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiffs for the full amount.
DESPERATE ASSAI ITT UPON A LADY AND HIGH.
WAY ROBBERY.—John , Weldon and James Healey were
brought before Mr. Bur :ham, at the Southwark police court
yesterday, on final exa. vination, charged with being con-
cerned with another r at in custody in garotting Mrs.
Frances Frost, a middle. aged lady, in Long-lane, Bermond-
sey, in a violent marine r, and robbing her of a purse con-
taining two sovereigns and a quantity of silver. The
prisoners were fully con =Wed for trial.

About the building itself there are plenty of signs
of activity and progress, but still everything is in
that confused state which renders the obtaining a
definite idea as to the future impossible. Thre
are forests of scaffolding, and formidable heaps of
stores of every kind, the latter consisting princi-
pally of the iron work, all ready to be put up when
the masons and bricklayers have done. It is said
that already £40,000 worth lies strewed about the
wharf, and £25,000 more within the building.
The work required of the masons and bricklayers
is, it appears, very trifling, and hence the slight
inconvenience felt in consequence of the strike.
The main structure of the building will be iron,
and that has all been cast and forged, ready to
hand. There area few Sappers and Miners en-
gaged, but chiefly in superintendence ; they do no
work for the contractors, but take theirinstructions
exclusively from the Royal Commission. Without
going into any tiresome details about the number
of bricks which are laid daily, or the cubic feet of
ironwork which are intended to be raised, we may
state generally that the picture-gallery will most
probably be roofed in in October, and that there is
not the slightest doubt, humanly speaking, of the
building and its multifarious contents being quite
ready to receive the rush of the million at the time
appointed next year.
With respect to those contents, we have not as.
yet got much beyond expectation. The Commis-
sioners have sent their cards of invitation to
the four corners of the earth, and in every case
have, we were informed yesterday, received the
most satisfactory replies. The universal cry is
" space, space," but what the applicants intend to
put into that much desiderated " space" can only
be ascertained by a reference to Mr. M'Culloch's ex-
haustive dictionary of commerce, where their various
staples of product and manufacture are accurately
noted down. It is to be hoped that the Commis-
sioners will exercise a tasteful and careful dis-
cretion with respect to the articles they admit.
They must remember that to make their ex-
hibition a success, and thus to relieve their very
liberal guarantors from ultimate responsibility, they
must consider attractiveness as well as utility, and
not allow exhibitors to swamp their space with
clumsy articles at which nobody will care to look.
In the exhibition of 1851 how many of the thou-
sands who crowded to Hyde-park were attracted by
the novelty of Paxton's unique Palace of Crystal,
the noble elms in the central transept, with the
birds singing amongst the boughs, the oriental
splendours of the Indian Court—where are they
now P—the Russian malachites and the wondrous
jewellery and plate of all the master craftsmen in
the world ? The huge lumps of coal and unwieldy
shafts of granite were placed judiciously out
of sight. Those who wanted them were
told where to find them, but they were not allowed
to mar the general coup-d'cell. This hint may be
unnecessary, as of course the point has not escaped
the Commissioners ; but an ominous array of "tons"
already crops up in newspaper paragraphs. Galig-
nani, for example, says, " The Imperial Com-
mission for the London Universe Exhibition
of lobZ nas aireaay receives 2,681) applications
from persons (in Fiance) who wish to be ex-
hibiiors. At the Exhibition of 1851 the number
of French exhibitors was 1,700, and the total
weight of the packages sent 730 tons. It is already
certain that the French section of the coming Ex-
hibition will be much more extensive, as five Paris
houses alone purpose sending goods weighing 736
tons, or six tons more than the total weight of all
the articles exhibited in 1851."
We must beware of these "tons." The Koh-i-
-noor, to see which people came from all parts of the
world, weighed rather less than three ounces!
In addition to the French, the Belgians, the
Swedes, the Prussians, the Austrians, and the
Swiss are most anxious to exhibit. The United
States are otherwise engaged just at present, but it
is not impossible that peace may yet be restored
in time to send over some of its offerings to the
world's fair. The sympathy and exertions of our
myriad colonists are, we believe, worthy of all
praise. Victoria has voted £B,OOO, New South
Wales £3,000, Queensland £3,000, Tasmania
£2,000, to enable the inhabitants to send over their
products to London. From many of these places
delegates have already arrived, and are at present
in active relations with the Commissioners. It is
to be presumed that these gentlemen travel at
their own expense, as a voyage from the antipodes
and a lengthened sojourn in London would absorb
far too large a proportion of the votes of these en-
terprising colonies. The whole of British South
Africa is making strenuous exertions, and there
are scattered over its vast surface hundreds of ob-
jects well worth transmitting for inspection to
London. _ . . .

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The demands for hanging room in the picture
gallery continue to pour in, but as yet nothing has
transpired as to the merits of the applicants or the
character of their pictures. The commissioners
will have a very difficult duty to discharge in this
department, as they will no doubt be made the
targets of all the enraged victims of all the hang-
ing committees in the world. What makes the
matter worse is, that their English choice will be
limited to living artists, or to those of the century,
whilst the foreigners will have liberty to range
over their whole artistic history. All the great
collectors have been written to, as in the case of the
Manchester Exhibition, but there is no information
as to how many of their treasured masterpieces
will grace the walls. No doubt is however enter-
tained but that the number of pictures will be very
great.
Amongst the business arrangements it may be
mentioned that an additional piece of ground has
been obtained from the Royal Commissioners of
1851, running along the side of the Horticultural
Society's garden, and opposite the "annexe" of
the original plan.