The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-24 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—IMPRI-
SONMENT WITHOUT A FlNE.—Mary Roadie and
Michael Hendry were charged before Mr. D'Eyn-
court with being drunk and assaulting the police at
St. Pancras.
Police-constable Winterborn, 136 E, said he took
the prisoners into custody for being drunk and dis-
orderly. The male prisoner struck him on the mouth,
knocked him down and kicked him on the shins.
Ha got hold of the constable by the stock, and had
it not been for the strap breaking, the constable
would have been strangled. The constable's back,
neck, mouth, and legs were black and sore from the
effects of the prisoner's violence. He (the constable)
was so injured that he is rendered unfit for duty.
Police-constable Coldry, 1.57 E, said the prisoner
kicked him several times in We chest. The woman
was making a great disturbance.
Police-constable O'Donnell, 78 B, said the prisoner
severely kicked him, and also bit Lim in the hand.
The prisoner denied the charge, and said that the
police first assaulted them.
Inspector Pearce, E division, said that the male
prisoner was a very bad character, and had been
frequently in custody for assaults on the police.
Mr. D'Eyncourt sentenced the male prisoner to
three months' hard labour, and the woman to pay a
fine of 10s., or in default 10 days' imprisonment.
COMMITTAL FOR FRAUD.—Edward Keen, aged
28, a potman, was charged with obtaining £lO from
Mr. Warwick, and £2 from Mr. Connell, under tha
following circumstances :
The prisoner was in the employ of Mr. Grist, the
landlord of the Jolly Gardeners public-house,
Coburg-street, St. Pancras. Last Thursday the pri-
soner was discharged, and immediately afterwards
he went to the above parties, and stating that he was
sent by Mr. Grist for some change, obtained the
above sums of money and absconded. The matter
was placed in the hands of police-cot. stable Cook,
198 8, who apprehended the prisoner at Cirencester.
When the prisoner was told the charge, he said,
" I thought if any one came for me it would be
you" (meaning Cook).
The prisoner denied that he represented that he
came from Mr. Grist.
Mr. D'Eyncourt fully committed the pziLioner for
trial.

MARYLEBONE.--VioLENT AND UNrnoV ORED
ASSAULT UPON A SOLDIER.—Two young feb:OWS,
named Thomas Coglan, 30, Castle-street, Fitzt oy-
square, and Nicholas Pferr, a German, both piano-
forte makers, were charged with the following un-
provoked assault upon George Asprey, a private in
the Royal Horse Guards Blue, stationed at the
Regent's Park.
From the evidence adduced it appeared that pro-
secutor was proceeding through Cumberland-mar-
ket, about twelve on the previous night, in company
with another young man and a female, and he was
pushed against by one of the prisoners. Ho was
turning round to expostulate when one of them
kicked him behind. Herr then struck him in the
eye ; but prosecutor could not say whether it was
with an instrument or with a large massive ring
which he had on his finger; but whatever it was it
cut his eye, which bled very much. (Prosecutor's
left eye was cut, and both much blackened.) Two
of the prisoners' companions then seized him behind
and held him whilst the others struck him about
his head and body. His regimental jacket was
also torn. He managed to get away, and got into
a little shop for protection, when the prisoners
were taken to the station-house.
Mr. Yardley fined the prisoners 40s. each, or 14
days, but gave them the option to retire and
arrange it with the soldier.
They returned shortly after, having compensated
the soldier, when the magistrate discharged them.

LAMBETH.—TIIE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN
LAMEETIL—Arthur Wm. Castell, the young man
who has been in prison since Thursday week, on a
charge of committing a murderous assault on his
wife, Ann Castell, was again placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. Elliott for further examination.
It will be recollected that on that da3 (yesterday)
week, so dangerous was the state of the injured
woman that Mr. Elliott deemed it necessary to pro-
ceed to Guy's Hospital and take what was considered
at the time her dying declaration. The poor creature
was in a frightful state from a violent attack of
erysipelas, and her recovery was considered by the
medical officers in attendance upon her almost a
matter of impossibility; but, fortunately for the
prisoner, her malady has taken a favourable turn,
and yesterday, on the case being called on, Mr..
Inspector Constable handed to the Bench a certifi-
cate, of which the following is a copy
" Ann Castell, an in-patient of this hospital, is
daily getting better.—T. M'CaNN, House Surgeon.
" Guy's Hospital, Dec. 23."
On reading the. above, Mr. Elliott remanded the
prisoner for a week, but consented to accept bail for
his appearance, himself in £5O and two suretiesin
£25 each.
BURGLARS ON THE LOOK-OUT.—Thomas Morris
and Henry Smith, both of whom refused their ad-
dress, were charged with being found at large with
housebreaking implements in their possession.
From the evidence of Sergeant Barrett, 16 L,
and Constable Morton, 63 L, it appeared that on
Saturday evening, after dusk, they observed the pri-
soner Smith go up to a door in Kennington-lane,
give a single knock, and try to open the door, but
the key being in the lock in the inside he could
not succeed, and walked away. They then appre-
hended both, and found on them a jemmy, a number
of skeleton keys, and other housebreaking imple-
ments.
The prisoners were remanded.

SOUTHWARK..—PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS.
—Wm. Yatcr, a young fellow who was described
on the charge sheet as a hawker, was brought be
fore Mr. Burcharn, charged with stealing two
geese and two ducks, the property of Wm. Weare,
Ebenezer Meades, 488 A, said that about 2 o'clock
on Sunday morning he was on duty in Prospect-road
Bermondsey, when he met the prisoner carrying
something bulky in a horse's nose-bag. He stopped
him and asked him what be had got, when he re-
plied that it was only some corn for his horses in
the Borough-market. Witness saw some feathers

d him he did not think it was
et,.:amine the contents of the bag.
pcoerenp,ing so
heo ut
rar ruasntd °1
He then discover c3d two fat geese and two fat ducks
quite warm. The it necks had recently been cut, and
bi,nod was flowin g from them. Prisoner then said it
was all right, " t man had given them to him to
carry
as far as re-street." Witness took hita
aid afterwards found from whence
itnhteoy ch,al.stody,
beell
.wm. A 'Ware, a sa,idler, carrying on business in
Prospect r lad,Bermom2sey, said the ducks and geese
were his. hte saw them safe on Saturday night, and
missed them on Sunday motlning. They were fat,
and worth 2 3s.
The prism ter pleaded guilty.
Mr. Bore ram sentenced him to three months'
bard labour } tt Wandsworth.
A LUCKY i F.S GAPE.—Mary Taylor and Catherine
Green, fashiolnOly dressed women, were brought up,
for final examin, ation, charged with frequenting the,
termi.L'us of the South-Eastern Railway at London.-
bridge, .for the p urpose of committing a felony.
Scannell, 177 M, a detective officer specially em-
ployed by the railway company, said that on Mon-
day ni,o;ht, the 1 6th, he saw the prisoners on the.
South-Eastern p latform, just as the mail train was
getting ready to start. He saw that they were very
busy among the ladies, and he watched them.
Tay 10. lifted up a -.lady's dress, but whether she stole
he could not say, as the train left.
anything or not
They remained 1 eiteri.ig about from one station to
the other, and sin: .pecting them to be railway thieves:
he took them into, custody.
Mr. Burcham a iked if he actually saw either of
their hands leave lady's pocket.
lie replied that he did not.
Mr. W. Edwin, who appeared for the prisoners,
contended that them was no evidence for a convic-
tion, as they were not seen to do anything improper,
neither were they known as thieves. He therefore
asked for their discha] ge.
Scannell informed his worship that he had in-
quired abut them since the last examination, but
could not aseertixin whether they had been convicted.
They were however known as associates with rail-
way thieves.
Mr. Burcham told. tb.,l prisoners he had no doubt
in his own mind what' they were doing at the rail-
way terminus, but there• was not sufficient evidence
to convict them. He trefore discharged them,
ilt,
with a caution that, should they be brought before
him again on a similar charge they would not get
off so easily.
The prisoners, who seemekl rather surprised at
the decision, hastily left the oourt.

THE BRUTAL 31U.R11.ER NEAR

CARLISLE.

CARUS i.E, MONDAY.

A man named -William Charlto.'l, an engine-
driver on the Newcastle and Carlisle AT -tailwaY) was
apprehended on Sunday night by the po2ice, on the
charge of murdering the old woman, Jane .Bmmer-
son, at Durran-hill crossing of the Newcastle anti
Carlisle Railway, and then robbing her house. On
the morning after the murder the prisoner had to
go to Newcastle in charge of a mineral train at
4.30 a.m. According to the rules of the company
he went to the engine-shed about an hour before
that time to prepare his engine. He soon left,
however, telling the firelighter that he was going
for his breakfast—a very unusual thing to do.
When he was away his mate, the stoker, came and.
oiled the engine. The prisoner, on returning, told
his mate, not that he had been for his breakfast, but
that he had been for a knife. They started with
their train in about half an hour, and when ap-
proaching the B:2ene of the murder, about a mile
from Carlisle, Charlton directed the attention of the
stoker to a nursery garden on the opposite side of
line from where the dead body of the murdered
woman was lying, and as they were going through
the gates and past the cottage he ordered the
stoker to put more coke on the fire—a most unusual
and needless thing so early on the journey. The
stoker thus did not observe anything peculiar
about the gates or the cottage as he passed through.
They arrived at Newcastle about 10 o'clock, and
and on being told by the driver of the next train
from Carlisle that a murder had been committed,
and asked what he had seen, Charlton said he had
seen a light in the cottage, and be appealed to the
stoker. The stoker, however, remembered that he
had been firing at the time they passed. Charlton
afterwards said he might be mistaken about the
light. He also made other conflicting statements,
and has appeared latterly to be in a despondent
state. Upon one occasion he directed the attention
of the stoker to a man working with a pickaxe on
the sloping banks of the railway when there was
, really no such man there. The police are in pos-
session of other evidence against the prisoner which
they do not wish to be divulged at present, as
they expect it will lead to a conviction.

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton, Jan 18
' ..„.

via Marseilles . ..Jan. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pa&zet. Jan. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Jan. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jan. 2.
via Marseilles ...Dec. 27.
Falkland Islands ..
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 2.
via Marseilles Dec. 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. 26.
via Marseilles Jan. 4.
Lisbon Dec. 21.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 26.
via Marseilles Dec 27.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Dec. 25.
by U.S. packet
by Canadian packet. Dec. 25.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Jan. 16.
Mexico...
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, J Dec. 30.
Californi.a,and British Columbia..

A memorial to Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell
urging that the American question be referred to arbitra-
tion, is now in coarse of signature in Dublin.
Colonel Shad•well, who is well known in Man-
chester, has been appointed Quartermaster-General in
New Brunswick.

A letter from Turin has the following :—" The
Committee of Genoa (Mazzinian) has been reor-
ganised, and has taken the name of " Italian Li-
beral Society." The following is its programme :-
1. The subscriFtions to be continued, as well as the
protests, by meetings and demonstrations against
the French occupation of Rome; 2. To advocate
the arming of the nation, national rifle matches,
and the military organisation of the people; 3.
To demand that the law shall recognise all Italians
as citizens,because there cannot be Italian emigrants
in Italy ; 4. To protest against the arbitrary and
unconstitutional acts of the Government ; 5. To
insist upon the reform of the electoral law in
order to introduce universal suffrage into poli-
tical and administrative elections. 6. To appoint a
commission to establish a connection between the
various patriotic committees and associations. The
committee, composed of five deputies, is to present
its report within a month."