The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

A VIOLENT AND DANGEROUS ASSAULT.—DenDiS
Donovan, a tall Irishman, was brought up on remand
before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting and
wounding James Manning, a young man.
The complainant, whose arm was bandaged, wall
on a visit to his sister in the house No. 6, Star-and-
Garter-yard, Wapping, where the prisoner and 10
wife were also lodging. The prisoner, who was in'
toxicated, was making a disturbance and abusing
his wife, and threatened her. The complainants
fearing he would do mischief, shoved him back-
wards on a bed. The prisoner then kicked his wife and
lamed her. The prisoner soon afterwards went down
stairs and appeared to be qui3t. The complainant
went down stairs soon afterwards, and was suddenly
attacked by the prisoner, who had a large iron
sack hook in his hand, and said, " Now, you
I have caught you," and tore his arm with the hook,
inflicting a severe wound, from which the com-
plainant has been suffering ever since. In cross-
examination by the prisoner, the complainant said
—" I had a pair of fire tongs in my hand, but did
not use them."

Mr. Alexander Russell, assistant to Mr. Ross,
surgeon in the Commercial-road, said he dressed the
wound, which was a lacerated one, ten days ago'
The wound was 2k inches long, laying bare the
muscles of the arm. The wounded man was 110
out of all danger.

Peter Dawl;Urst, 10 K, said he found in the Pri:
soner's pockets a quantity of knives, forks, and
stones.

Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to two months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

OPERATIC AND THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Leader.)
Workmen are very busy preparing for the alterations at
Drury-lane necessary for its conversion into an opera'
house. The dramatic season terminates this day (Saturdai)+
and on this day week, the 28th instant, Mr. Mapleson eeni-
mences his operatic season. The artistes will be the same a°
last season, with a few unimportant changes. The reper-
toire, which is an extensive one, will include the princiP'
works of Mozart, Rossini, Weber, Beethoven, Glunil
Meyerbeer, Gounod, Donizetti, &c., and, for the first dine
in this country, the " Lohengrin" of Richard Wagner"
The skilful and energetic Signor Arditi resumes his ..„5t
of director and conductor.
Auber has been invited to write yet one more dratnat
work, and is said to have answered that, considering
great age, the score must come from Montmartre. 11°"..
over, it is well known to his intimates that he is writing -
new work for the stage ; and fragments that have been
heard are said to be as melodious and dramatic as all of
his former compositions.
Our popular young Welsh vocalist, Miss Edith WYnne't
is in Florence pursuing her vocal studies. We learn thile
she has turned the heads of the Florentines by her siro,l
and charming singing of English ballads. to
Mr. W. Ganz has been engaged by Mr. German Ben-
conduct the operettas as St. George's Hall oa alter's'it,
evenings with himself. t°
Signor Fraschini has accepted an engagement at
Royal Italian Opera for the season. He has arrived
Paris, en route for London.
Mr. John F. Barnett's new grand overture, composed 14
the request of the directors of the Philharmonic Sociati94
is finished, and has just been rehearsed.
We hear that the Hon. Seymour Egerton is busy
his opera, and that it will be produced this season, no,
Mdlle. Nilsson and Mr. Tom Kohler in the princiPal c
racters.
A rumour is current in the theatrical world that 1110
fir,
Burnand, the popular dramatist, is about to becota°
01
lessee of Astley's Theatre, and that he will produce a Pd of
spectacular drama founded on the old English legend
Lady Godiva. it is also reported that a famous a p
and equestrienne, who well-known in London and clyo
by her performances, will impersonate the princiPal Fo

ractere. A tli°
W hear that Miss Fanny Josephs has abandones-,l
idoea of inaugurating her management of the Now f
b
Theatre with Mr. Boucicault's dramatio version
Foul Play. if
We regret to hear that Mr. carry Widdicombe,
not the very best, is certainly the very funniest of °ur,„.-°go
comedians, continues very ill, and his return to the
is considered hopeless. ,01
The English admirers of Mr. Barney WillianA
regret to hear that he has lately sustained serious fojil*°
10•
while performing at the Walnut-street T P I
heatre, 0-
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delphia. A pistol exploded in his hand and seriously
j ured it. . •

SINGULA
R OCCURRENCE.—On the morning or
17th inst., after a wet and stormy night, a vast Iluillb°fore
myriapoda (or many-legged insect), Julus Sabulosa,
discovered in Trinity College, Oxford. They we° t'011;e0
entirely confined to the second quadrangle, "cer
into the garden, and were spread so thickly
face of the hard gravel as to make it difficult to t'le:nr•
step without crushing.some of then'. The insect is
001,
anon, and known as the black hundred legs, or 011PVotir
and feeds on decaying or soft vegetable matter. :5°
factory explanation of the matter has yet been gig di"
At the O,tio.bt
'METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.—
nary weekly meeting yesterday a report was br°;of
up from a committee, recommending that, insteb3o,lo
accepting paid sureties from contractors, theY 6 our
make the payment depend to a larger extent on ttlo
pletion of the work. A letter was received fr°7,l,car
offering to co'o fee
Metropolitan District Rail way Company, over thou
with the board in making a solid embankment, 1 After
wide between Temple-bar and Blackfriars-bridge'
,er iOO
some observations, the board determined not to e°i'd 000
arbitration with the company unless the latter 01"
a deposit of a suns of money as a guarantee.