The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-23 00:00:00

IN RE JOHN SWASH.

The insolvent in this cast waS.a painter and glazier.
his petition was opposed by Mr. Sandford, on behalf
of a creditor named Rogers, and he was supported
by Mr. Woodruffe.
It appeared by the evidence that Rogers was a bill
diieounter' and that insolvent borrowed 201. on his
hill payable in three months, for which he was to get
1. 'lle insolvent now owed :la, including interest,
and had paid up the interest as long as he was able.
Mr. Commissioner PoLLocx inquired who Rogers
Wes.

Ir, SArinzo4D replied that he was his client.

Mr. Commissioner PoLLocK said his occupatiop
seemed to be taking 12/. a-year for the loan of 20/.
Another creditor, named Ives, opposed under cir-
cumstances precisely similar, and as unsuccessfully,
for the insolvent was ordered to be discharged forth-
with.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MAR YL E B ONE.
Peter Kyley was charged with having been dis-
orderly on the previous night in Orchard-place,
Orchard-street.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor, who sat at the clerk's desk,
explained to Mr. Rawlinson, that he was present at
the time the prisOner was taken into custody, and that
seeing the brutality of the police-constables, he had
felt it his duty to come forward and give evidence.
With the Magistrate's leave he would also examine
the witnesses. Mr. Rawlinson, after a brief conversa-
tion, assented, and
Richard Bartlett, 82 D, was sworn. He stated that
at half-past nine on the previous night he was on duty
in Orchard-street, and at the bottom of Orchard-place
(formerly Calmall-buildings), he observed the pri-
soner with his coat off and a knife in each hand ; the
one was a long table knife, and the other such as is
used for pruning baskets. He swore that by the
Holy Cross be would rip up any policeman that came
near him. Mr. Lucas, a portrait-painter, then told
him not to go rear, or he would be injured. He
(witness) therefore went and got more assistance, and,
wken they returned the prisoner had got another
person with him, who was also offering to fight.
Cross-examined by Mr. O'Connor—He was there
when the mats was taken into custody, and remained
with him till taken to the station-house. A crowd
followed from Orchard-street, and they were throw-.
ing stones at the police. Four constables carried the
man, one at each arm, and one at each leg. Saw the
prisoner get some blows. Could not say whether he
got one, two, Or twenty. He was struck by the
police. He heard the prisoner cry out, "lam a re-
pealer." He did not see anything particular occur
then. Did not hear any of the constables say " Oh,
the rebel, strike him !" neither did he see him get
blows on the head. He was laid down on his back
on the pavement.
After some further evidence Mr. Rawlinson said
that he should send the case before a jury, and Mr.
O'Connor then stated that he should wish to state
what he saw of the conduct of the pace. Having
been sworn, he said, I live at 24, Conduit-street, Re-
gent's-street. I was yesterday evening coming down
Orchard-street, and hearing the rattles springing, I
went, with the intention of perhaps aiding the police.
I saw some constables standing near the door of 22,
in Orchard-place, and I also saw, the man at the bar
and another man stripped. I said to one of the
police, " Why don't you go in on the men,
they will hurt each other." The constables re-
plied, "Oh ! they will not hurt themselves, Sir,
they are only in fun." The men were, as. drunken
men will, flourishin4 about, and one of the knives,
dropped, and I told a person there to pick it up,
which was dOtte. The police then rushed in on the
prisoner, and with one blow knocked him down, and
when so dragged him along. Slime of the women
cried out, " Oh, cruel ! he has just recovered from a
sick bed." When they carried him out as described
into Orchard-street, the man commenced to struggle,
and said, " I'm a Repealer."• Then one of the police
said, " Oh ! the rebel, strike him ;" and at that time
he was thrown on the street, and received a blow
over the head with a truncheon, which quite
stunned him. He was used in the same way,
behig repeatedly struck over the arms and hands,
on the road to the station-house ; and, on my oath, I
never saw a shadow of resistance from the. crowd. I
have often seen faction fights and election fights, but
I never saw such brutality as was exhibited by those
men. If a body of thetti had been ordered- to do the
most cruel thing in the most cruel mariner they could
not have done their duty better.
Mr. RawmiesoN said that Mr. O'Connor's state-
ment only induced him the more strongly to send the
case for trial, and he would also cause a copy of the
depositions to be sent to the Commissioners, that thay
might see whether, in their opinion, the police had
exceeded their duty.
C LE RK EN WELL.
A fresh, able-looking young man, named Antes
Brown, was charged with begging.
It appeared that the prisoner, who, on his exami-
nation, looked so healthy, appeared in Brunswick-
square on the previous evening the most afflicted and
miserable looking of God's creatures ; his head was
swathed in flannel, his right hand was in. 4. sling, and
he limped along as if enfeebled by want or: stricken
by disease.
Police constable 26 E saw him supplicating several
ladies and gentlemen, to whom he stated that he had a
terrible abscess on his neck, and that his right arm
was utterly powerless. He received numberless cop-
pers, and when the officer took him into custody a
good deal of copper coin was found on his person.
The first question the mendicity constables asked on
hearing his description was, where was his flannel,
and being told it was now in his hat, they at once re-
collected him as a very old customer.
The prisoner was remanded.
BO W- S TREE T.
This morning Mr. Le Ilreton, the Vestry-Clerk of St. Martin's
parish, attended upon Mr. Hall, the Chief Magistrate, in order to
ascertain what was to be done with the individual William James
Kin ern, who was found, on Friday afternoon, in St. James's
Palace, and who was taken into custody, as it was supposed he was
insane. Since then he has bven examined, and the surgeons have
pronounced him in such a state of mind as to make it dangerous for
him to go at large. As soon as Mr. Le Breton came to the offiee
this morning, Mr. Hall consulted with him in a private room, and
our reporter, from inquiries he made, understood that it was de.
cided to send the prisoner to Bethlehem Hospital. it was pro.
posed to send hiM to Hanwell, but this course was found to be at-
tended with great expense, and the unfortunate man was, there-
fore, sent to Bedlam.

A FATHER SETTING FIRE TO
HIS OWN CHILD.

Ana nconcluded on Tuesdaynight, which had
on the body of Eliza An-
tivrmhiicnli heghdaimsclosed the following revolting
beedinjoquurenstedwtwagice, at t King's Arms, in William-street,
Tuesday morning, the 9th inst., an alarm of fire was
given in No. 10 Court, Vale-street, and it was dissevered, a
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little before eight, that a room in the court was on fire, and
the deceased, who was alone in the house, was so dreadfully
burnt as to cause her death in the Queen's Hospital the next
morning. on the jury meeting on hursday, circumstances
of so much suspicion against Richard Andrews were elicited,
that he was ordered by the Coroner to be forthwith placed in
custodythe evidence taken en that occasion was that of
who said,-1 live in No. 10 Court, Vale-street.
prisoner, sienregresawnthoillailvles in the same court. I knew the
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about three weeks. Themofarthoiearg,aandlittthlee
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sincrmeaatmess'in Andrews Tdreuwes6'dbaYed-room. I ran up into my attic, where
I could see into his room. I there saw the child in flames
amongst a Parcel of shavings, on which she slept. She ap-
, and brought the child out,
and o oacrked. t e
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clothes peared as if fighting with the flames. I ran down, and found
the doorburstu witooli as
I could. No one was in the
house but the child ; there was no fire in the grate upstairs,
but there was a fire down stairs. The child was taken imme-
diately to the Queen's Hospital. It was burnt more in the
upper part of the body, and the clothes as well were mostly
burnt at the top.
Elizabeth Chambers, after describing the state of the fire,
and the burning of the child, said, that after it was taken to the
hospital, the father came up the court with a key on his finger.
I said "Do you know that your child is burnt to death ?" He
said "Isit ?" Ile took no further notice whatever. He did
not display any feeling. I never saw him ill use the child ;he
seemed very fond of it.
Betsy Woodhall, of 53, Vale-street, heard Andrews slap the
child about six o'clock on the morning of the accident, and de-
clare that if it did not go to sleep he would dash its brains out.
Sophia Griffiths, of 10 Court, Vale-street, Mr. Bull, the
agent of the landlord, Lucy Ridding, who resided with Sarah
Griffiths, and Caroline Pearce, of the same court, all swore
positively that a cinder was found among the remains of the
bag of shavings on which the child lay.
Mary Whittaker, a patient in the hospital, raid that about
eight o'clock on Tuesday the deceased said she was cold and
had gone down stairs to warm herself. She afterwards fell
asleep, and on awaking about eleven o'clock, when I was giving
her some drink. I said, " My dear, you will not set yourself
on the again?" She said, " I did not set myself on fire, it was
my father set me on fire, and he gave me a slap and covered
me with a rug, and called me a little naked frog. ' I consider
the child was in her senses when she said this to me. She re-
peated the same thing many times, and said, "Oh ! naughty
father !" The father came to see her in the hospital, and she
clasped him round the neck.
The CORONER pointed out the various bearings of the evi-
dence upon the case, and the jury having retired for about
ten minutes, gave in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Ri-
chard Andrews.

VIENNA, JAN. 2.—The fete yesterday at Prince
Metternich's was one of the most splendid given by the illus-
trious Prince for many years. The Prince entertained at
dinner the Ministers of State and the corps diplmatique, and
in the evening received, in the name of the Emperor, the
congratulations, on the occasion of New Year's Day, from the
nobility and foreigners of distinction at present here. His
Imperial Highness the Archduke Stephen has left for Prezio,
to assume his high functions in the Bohemian capital. The
amiable character and disposition of the noble Prince are cal-
culated to produce most beneficial effects in that part of the
Au3trian dominions. Active correspondence is kept up be-
tween this Court and those of France and Sardinia rela-
to Spanish affairs, and at one time it was thought that the
Court of Turin would have followed the Court of Naples in
the recognition of Queen Isabella, which would have led to
the same step by the other Italian States, the negotiations fcr
owchciacsihownedere on the best footing when the last news from Spain
again a pause in regard to the intention of the
King of Sardinia on this subject. His Serene Highness the
Grand 'Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin is expected here, en
route for Italy, where his Imperial Highness the Archduke
Rayner intends repairing next month. The funeral of Prince
Colloredo Mansfeld took place a few days ago. The Prince
died in the seventy-second year of his age, and was one of the
richest noblemen in the country. His son, who iv a captain in
the Emperor Ferdinand's Chasscur Regiment, succeeds to the
princely fortune and title.
ASPARAGUS.----A medical correspondent, on whose
statement we can most implicitly rely, informs us that the ad-
vantages of this plant are not sufficiently estimated by those who
suffer from rheumatism and gout. Slight cases of rheumatism
are cured in a few days by feeding on this delicious esculent;
and more chronic cases are much relieved, especially if the
patient carefully avoid all acids, whether in food or beverage.
The Jerusalem artichoke has also a similar edict in relieving
rheum itism. The heads may he eaten in the usual way, but
tea made from the leaves of the stalks, and drunk three or four
times a day, is a certain remedy, though not equally agree-
able...Toth Courant.