The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-20 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 20,
Will be performed the Opera of GUILLAUME TELL. Arno'd,
M. Duprez ; Gessler, Mr. G. Horneastlei William Tell, Mr.
Stret, on ; Lutern, Mdlle. Albertazzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer ;
Martha, Miss Betts,
'I °conclude with the Drama of THE BRIGAND. Allessandro
Massaroni, Mr. Hudson • Ottavia, Miss Collett.
Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.,
S2cond Price 3s. ; Pit 3s , Second Price 25.• MAidie Gallery 25.,
S !coed Price Is. ; Upper Gallery Is., Second ?Ace (Id.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
MR. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 20,
Will be revived Shakspeare's Comedy of The TAMING OF THE
SHREW. Petrucio. Mr. Webster; Grumio, Mr. Buckstome ;
Katherina, Mrs. Nisbett.
After the Comedy, Mr. JOHN PARRY will give his Operatic
Scene," Norma."
After which, SUZANNE. Mr. Brinsly Bounceby, Mr. Webster;
Simon Swallow, Mr. Buckstone ; Suzanne, Madame Celeste.
To be followed by a New Petite Musibal Drama, called DER
NECHT TEUFEL. Baron Gillestern Mr. Strickland Oscar, Mr.
Howe; Baroness, Mrs. Glover; Matilda, Miss I'. Horton; Ca.
roliae, Miss Julia Bennett.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper
Gallery, Is. Half-price—Boxes,
_3s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper
H
Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at alf-past Six, and the l'erformances
commence at Seven.
Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box-
office, from Ten till Five.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET.
LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 21,
Will be performed THE ANGEL OF THE ATTIC, in which
Messrs. Walton, Walter Lacy, and Madame Eugenie Prosper will
perform.
To which will be added GONE TO TEXAS, in which Mr. and
Mrs. Keely will perform.
After which, a New Petite Comedy, called AGED FORTY. Sir
Harry Wilder, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Mr Dapper, Mr. Oxberry ; Lady
Clifton, Miss Fortescue.
To be followed by a New Farce, in One Act, entitled THE
YOUNG SCAMP , • or My Grandmother's Pet. Joseph, Mrs.
Keeley; Mildew, Mr. Feeley.
To conclude with a New Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the
May day Bride. Patrick, Mr. Chicheley ; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert ;
Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Mr. ALLEN begs respectfully to acquaint his Friends, his
Pupils, and the Public that his FIRST BLNEFIf will take place
TO-MORROW EVENING, the 21st of March, on which occasion
ROSSINI'S OPERA, 0 I'HELLO, will bo performed for the FIRST
TIME on the ENGLISH STAGE.
Private Boxes and Places may be had of Mr. Massingham, at the
Theatre. Tickets may also be obtained at the principal Music-shops,
and at Mr. Allen's residence, 19, Baker-street, Lloyd-square, Pen
tonville.

THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHL
THIS EVENING, MARCH 9.0.
Will be performed a Melo-drama, called HEN RIETTE, THE
FORSAKEN. Principal Characters by Messrs. Lyon. 0. Smith,
Maynard, Forman, and Wright, Mrs. Yates, Miss Woolgar, and
Miss Chaplin.
To be tollowed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED
AND SETTLED. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar.
To conclude with, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE
CHRISTMAS CAROlriOcipal Qkaracars—Messrs. 0. Smith,
Wright, Lyon, Mayna an, MD Wdallgar. Mrs. F. Mathews,
Miss Chaplin, and Miss
Boxes. 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors
open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven o'Clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, MARCH 20,
Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL-
LING, supported by all the Company.
After which, a } avourite Interlude.
To conclude with ABELARD AND HELOISE, revived with
New Scenery and Dresses.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box-
°lice, from Eleven to Four.

THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 20.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 47 ; Noon, 48.
BAROMETER, 29.6.—Wrsn, N.E. _ _

of the time for the line of conduct he pursued in 1814 ;
but ha was most painfully situated, the interests of
his native country demanding one course of policy—
the interests of his adopted country another ; under
such circumstances, being without the power to pre-
serve neutrality, but compelled to take a decided part
in the great struggle, we do not think he could have
acted otherwise than he did, though we are aware
it may be alleged against him that the decision he
came to was precisely that which best suited his
own personal interests. At the period of his death
BERNADOTTE must have been nearly eighty years of
age ; and whether we consider him as a soldier or a
sovereign, he was undoubtedly one of the most
reputable of that numerous band of publio adven-
turers whom the Revolution called forth from ob-
scurity into the broad glare of notoriety.

In the House of Lords the Three-and-a Half per
Cent. Annuities Bills were read a third time and
passed. They will receive the Royal assent in a
few days, and one of the greatest financial operations
of the age will be completed without a murmur.
This shows the advantage of keeping faith with the
public creditor.
In the Commons, Mr. HUMS gave notice of a mo-
tion for abolishing the office of Lord Lieutenant for
Ireland.

Mr. PETER BORTHWICK gave notice, that in a fort-
night he should move an address to the Crown, for
the purp6se of referring all matters ecclesiastical to a
Convocation of the Clergy—in other words, for re-
storing a system which experience had shown was in-
compatible with free legislation, and which was only
intended to give power to the Church.
Sir ROBERT PEEL gave notice that on an early
day he would move for a Select Committee on Con-
troverted Elections.

In answer to a question from Mr. LABOUCHERE,
Lord ASHLEY said on Friday night he should en-
treat the House to affirm the proposition that the
words " ten hours' " labour in manufactories should
be substituted for " twelve."
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the Government would
take the sense of the House on the motion of the No
ble Lord.

In answer to a question from Captain Rots, rela-
tive to rumours that the QUEEN was, in the course of
the summer, to pay a N.risit to the King of PRUSSIA,
Sir ROBERT PEEL said: he believed those rumours
to be entirely without foundation.

Mr. RICARDO moved for an Address to the Crown,
the object of which was to make alterations in the
Customs' duties without any reference to the com-
mercial policy of other nations. Mr. GLADSTONE,
Lord Howic.a., and Mr. HUME spoke on the motion,
but the House did not seem to take any interest in
the affair. At a quarter to eight o'clock, a Member
moved that the House be counted, and there being
only thirty-nine Members present, it adjourned.

NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.

'HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 47 minutes after 2 Evening • • 1 minute arter 3.

The " appeal from PHILIP drunk to PHILIP sober"
never could have developed a more impressive con-
trast than the comparison of the natural advantages,
and resources, and riches of Spain with her present
disabled, degraded, and ruinous position, must suggest
to every reflecting mind. This comparison has been
forcibly recalled to us by a perusal of the " Thirteenth
Part" of Mr. MACGREGOR'S invaluable work, "Com-
mercial Tariffs and Regulations of the several States
of Europe and America ;" for the Part in question is
devoted to " Spain."
If it be no longer THE Spain of those palmy and im-
perial ages in which her Sovereigns justly claimed a
pre-eminence among the Monarchs of Europe, as being
" Lords of Spain and of the Indies"—if their proud
boast may no more be heard " that, on their domi-
nions the sun never set" a (a prestige which has long
since quitted the sceptre of FERDINAND or of CHARLES,
to attach to that which has been wielded by our
GEORGES and WILLIAMS, and is now sustained by
VICTORIA the FIRST)—it is still one of the most mag-
nificent countries and most anciently-settled kingdoms
of the Old World. It is not necessary to insist on
the entire accuracy of the Count DE LABORDE'S
assertion, that " no country in Europe is so generally
fertile as Spain, or has equal advantages at all sea-
sons of the year." Nor are we bound to accept, with-
out large qualifications indeed, the recent estimate of
M. ARGUELLES, which assumes the total annual
value of her territorial wealth to be so much as
8,572,220,591 reals, equal to nearly 90,000,0001.
sterling: But the fact seems certain, that in spite of
all the foreign and domestic convulsions to which the
pursuits of her native agriculture have been subject
ever since the commencement of the present century,
the amount of grain, especially of wheat, produced in
Spain, even at this time, is very enormous. After
making every allowance on account of the disastrous
operation upon all the prospects of husbandry, of
civil wars and dilapidated finances, and of the more
primary elements of inadequate tillage and defective
cultivation, and the precariousness of all investments
in land, arising from the impolitic and .oppressive
character of such tenures as the "inalienable, indi-
visible Mayorazgos," for instance ; and still more
from the paralysing influence of that great corporate
monopoly, the " Mesta," or associated land pro-
prietors (for Spain, among her other visitations, is
cursed with agricultural protection (1) to the most
orthodox extent of that delusion)—we may yet
marvel at the extent of her flocks and her herds, the
variety and the quantity of her wines, and the
abundance and richness of her mineral products.
In these last there is reason to believe
that, could her mining operations be conducted
with the application of sufficient capital, and main-
tained without interruption from violence or their
external causes—and always assuming in the first
place, that the spirit of her Government could be
so - ameliorated as to maintain its relations with
foreign capitalists, with some pretensions to a small
stock of common faith and honesty—Spain would
find herself richer, at this moment, than she has ever
found herself at any former period of her history.
The lead ores of that country have long been cele-
brated for their surpassing richness ; the quality of
the lead is unexceptionable ; and its argentiferous
production is singularly rich. • " The silver and lead
mines (writes Mr. MACGREGOR, p. 81) lately dis-
covered in the Sierra Almagrera, in Almeira, near the
borders of Murcia, are described as remarkably rich."
Coal is found in great plenty in the Pyrenees, in
the Asturias, in Andalusia, Valencia, and other parts.
Iron is chiefly smelted in the Basque provinces, the
ore of Somorrostro is there made to yield one-third
of good iron ; that of Mondragon forty per cent.
Copper abounds in Navarre and the Asturias. In
Arragon, Andalusia, Valencia, and Catalonia there
are (especially, in Arragon, neglected), mines of gold
and silver, cobalt, antimony, zinc, arsenic, salt,
manganese, &c.—in Almaden (La Mancha) some of
the finest mines of- quicksilver in the world, a great
part of whose treasures is raised by English capital,
and exported hither.
Yet with these elements of wealth, with "a climate
preferable to that of Greece, Italy, or France," with
sea coast affording infinite commercial facilities on
the shores of the Mediterranean and the coasts of the
Atlantic ; with noble rivers watering her compact and
naturally fortified home territory, 640 miles in length
by 550 in breadth, with her valuable possessions of
the Balearic and Canary Islands and their important
trade ; with her noble colonies in the West, of Cuba
and Porto Rico, in the East, of the Phillippines—the
foreign commerce of Spain is of comparative insigni-
ficance." All the accidents of climate, of geographical
position, of territorial surface, and colonial connexion
are in favour of its extension to any point which
could be predicated of their capacity for pushing it.
But centuries of the most vicious and immoral go-
vernment, a succession of feeble or wicked Princes,
the lamentably degraded state of public character
throughout the whole administration of the State,
debasingwhanicdh,dseisntrcuecttihveederaetshulotsf
post*
RtphiezasuNci:
ca en ss id the
factions
VII., have fought out their sordid feuds and steeped
their ambitious swords in the best and bravest blood
of the kingdom, have diverted or choked up the
stream of that bounty which PROVIDENCE intended
for the maintenance and the happiness of a whole
people. A grinding yet despicable, timid yet fero-
cious, military despotism tramples in the dust of the
most abject bondage, the posterity of the
old conquerors of Italy—the former terror
of France ; ,the discoverers and vanquishers of
a new world, in which, as if in expiation of their
cruelty, they founded some of the most beneficent of
the municipal institutions of their ancestors. To
what has the once imperial revenue of their Pinurs
and their CHARLBSES dwindled, in these days—a salu-,
tory lesion to the suicidal criminality of those whd

govern, that from the wrong and oppression of the
governed the only permanent spoil which can be
reaped consists in the alienated affections, corrupted
morals, the vanished virtues, and torpid spirit of the
latter ; the restless jealousies, incessant treasons, and
insatiable demands for blood and sacrifice which are
the righteous legacy of their own crimes.

The whole of the present revenue of Spain does not
exceed about 9,000,0001. sterling. " The debt of
Spain in January, 1842, is stated to amount," says
Mr. MACGREGOR, "to 14,160,968,047 reals, or
157,344,0801. sterling. Of this debt, about
65,000,0001. is only admitted to be due to foreigners,
the interest of which has not been discharged for
several years." The above statement evidently does not
include " the amount stated in 1833, as debt without
interest, which see." Now on referring to the
table here indicated (it is at p. 85), we find that the
heading " debt without interest" is composed of these
items :

Francs.
Amount of arrears of public debt 2,537,050,574
Unsettled debt of Treasury, prior to 18th
March, 1808 123,651,243
Ditto of the first restoration
Ditto of the Constitutional Government
and of second restcration.

3,010,705,817
If, on Mr. MACGREGOR'S authority we are to add this
amount to the capital above stated, the aggregate of
the debt of Spain will he, not 157,344,0801., but
282,790,1551. sterling. What must be the Court
venality, the unprincipled profligacy of administra-
tions, and the rapacity of soldiers of fortune, and Mi-
nisters like those we see now in power in a country,
which a judge as competent as Mr. MACGREGOR deems
to be still so gifted with natural wealth, and the
means of rapidly multiplying capital, could she but
find trusty and able ministers, that he does not hesi-
tate thus to notice what she might :become, despite
what she is.

" Spain, however, neQd not, in her financial burdens or
obligations, be considered in a desperate condition. She
has abundant resources, and requires only an honest
and enlightened administration, a wise and sound re-
form of her customs-laws and duties, and of her direct
taxation, to attain, in ten years at furthest, from the
adoption of such reforms, an independent treasury,
and the honourable distinction of fulfilling her na-
tional obligations."

Madrid Papers, of the 12th, have been received. Ac-
cording to the Castellano, the unfortunate BONET had
made important disclosures which compromise certain
individuals at Madrid, and promised more, on condition
that his life should be spared. RONCALI, however, rejected
the proposition, and refused even to see him. On the same
day on which the horrid scene took place at Alicant, a
somewhat similar tragedy was enacted at Lugo, where the
partizan Chief CASTRO VILAR, and three of his companions,
were shot by order of one of her MAJESTY'S superior offi-
cers. Acconnts from Carthagena state that the insurgents
had signified their willingness to admit the QUEEN'S
troops on a promise of their lives being spared, and on
condition that none but the QUEEN'S troops should
enter. To this proposition it was replied, that on the
first point the orders of the Government would be carried
into execution; and on the second, that the National
Guard, which formed the advanced guard, would enter
at the head of the division.

The English and French Consuls had left Carthagena
for Escombrers, with the intention of saving the lives
of those that might fall into the hands of RONCALI.
The Three per Cents. were done at 31i for eash, and
321 at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 22f for cash,
and 23 at 60 days.

Most of the Paris papers of Monday publish the do-
cuments relative to Otaheite, which have been laid be-
fore the House of Commons. They, of course, are far
from satisfying the Opposition party, who complain that
they are only garbled extracts, put forth to mislead the
public, but such absurd remarks really deserve no
notice. On Monday the Chamber of Deputies resolved,
almost unanimously, to take into consideration the
motions of MM. BEA.UNONT and LACROSSE, for the
prevention of fraud, bribery, and corruption at elections.
The debate on the Secret Service Money Bill then com-.
menced. We find no domestic intelligence of interest in
these papers. The Journal des Deficits, however, has a
long article on the affairs of Greece, which throw some
new light on the manceuvres of Russia in that quarter.
The following extracts from it will be read with in-
terest :

"At the same time that we receive the account of the
discussion in the House of Commons on the affairs of
Greece, we receive intelligence from Athens, announci4g
change in the Ministry. formed after the Revolution of Sep-
tember: It is known that M. Metaxa, who is considered as
the head of the Russian party, was the Yresidnit of this
Ministry. M. Metaxa had solicited the aid of M. Coletti and
M. Mavrocordato, who are looked on as the leaders of the
French and English parties, and those statesmen had
promised their support to the Cabinet, although they refused
to form a part of it. Hitherto MM. Coletti and Mavrocordato
had merely served as a counterpoise to the Russian party, which,
in Greece shows itself as liberal as it is despotic in Russia.
What would prove, if necessary, what we say is, that the com-
pact hitherto 'maintained with much difficulty has been
broken on a question in which the most precious prerogative
of Royalty was concerned. The National Assembly had to
discuss the constitution of the Chamber of Peers or Senate.
Was the nomination of senators to be left to the King, or to
the elective body 74' This question had been resolved con-
formably to monarchial principles. But were the senators to
be named fer life, or for a certain fixed period? This is what
the National Assembly was called on to decide. The Radical
party, with which the Russian party united, wanted to have
the senators appointed for ten years. The moderate party,
headed by MM. Colletti and Mavrocordato, were of opinion
that they ought to be named for life. A first vote divided
the Assembly into two equal parts, but after two days' dis-
cussion, 112 votes were given for the appointment for life,
and 92 for the nomination for a certain period. This vote
caused a great sensation in Athens. The Russian, or
Nappist party, endeavoured to turn the popular passions
journals appeared in mourning ; • and MM.
Mavrocordato, ;and London were pointed out
Coletti,
ooie accounttti3Opposition ; pamphlets were distributed in the city ;
as objects for public disapprobation, but the people
did not respond to those attempts at excitement. 31.
Metaxa gave in his.ni
resignation as President of the Council,
as did M. Shynas,Mi ster of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Never-
theless, the other members of the Cabinet remained at their
posts. A man who bears an historical name, already Minister
of Marine, has taken the office of President of the Council ;
M. Melas, Minister of Justice, has taken, ad interim, the port-
,
folio of Ecclesiastical Affairs ; M. Drosses Mensolas, Minister
of Finance, has taken the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, and
that of the King's Household. It is, therefore, still the Mi- ,
nistry of the Revolution of September which administers the
affairs of Greece ; and Colonel Kalergi, who was then at the
head of the garrison, also preserves his functions, and has
known how to maintain that order, which guarantees the in-
dependence of the deliberations of the National Assembly..
" The question of religion will no doubt give rise to serious
difficulties, as Greece appears determined to have a national
religion, and that the Sovereign shall be a member of the
Greek Church.
" This resolution, in our opinion, will bring about serious
complications. The presumptive heirs to the throne, the
Princes of Bavaria, are Catholics, and the 39th article of
the Constitution is an act of exclusion pronounced against
There-
fore, if the Bavarian Princes are put out of Court, a King
them, and a virtual infraction of the treaty of 1832.
must be looked for possessing the Oriental religion. Two
eventualities may occur. A Greek may be chosen, but that
internal jealousies may prevent—or a Prince belonging to a
foreign
nfarnily
of the orthodox Church may be selected. In
that case the Imperial Family of Russia would be called into
action; but, on the. other hand, the Great Powers have
stipulated that none of the three protecting Powers shall from
their own families furnish a King to the Greek nation.

"The representatives of France and England have protested
againsithe new article of the Constitution, as in contravention
of the treaty of 1832, and there is little doubt but that this
question will call foir the intervention of at least two.. of the
three protecting Powers."

The French Funds were firm on Monday ; the Three
per Cents. closing at 83f. 25e., and the Fives at 121 f. 90c.

T Lt BOURSE-MONDAY, MARCH 18.

First Highest Lowest

PriCe. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. ex city* 121 60 • • 121 GO • • 121 55 • • 121 60
; Four per Cents. ex div 105 105 50 .. 105 • • 105 50
Three per Cents. •• • B3 20 • • 83 25 • • 82 20 83 25
Bank of France....... 3225 3225 ..3210 • • 3210
Lafiltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllls • • 1115 • • 1115 ..1115
5,000 f. gharessoB7 50 5087 50 • • 5087 50 —5087 50
Belgian Bank ..... 660 • • 660 • • 660 • • 660
Belgian Fives.
1840 ........ 1081 .. 108 f .. 108 f .. 106 f
1842 .
Dutch Two-and-a-Half .•• • . 58t • • 581 • • 58t • • 581
Spanish Active ...... • ..... 34 • • 34 • • 34 ..
34
Passive ............ 61 • • 6 t • • 6f • • 61
Threes
Neapolitan ......
Roman 1051 • • 1051 • • 1051 .. 1051

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. 8............. 390 •• 390 .. 387 50 •. 387 50
L. 8............. 175 •• 176 25 .. 175 • • 176 28
R0uen..•••..... 897 50 •. 900 .• 897 50 .. 900

Rouen to Havre... .
Orleans •• •

.. 686 25 • • 685
.• 890 • • 890

• • 685
• • 890

Strasburg to Bale.. ••. • • 248 75 .• 247 50 246 25 • • 247 50
Avignon to Marseilles.. 765 76.5 765 765
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. 8..••.
L. 8............. 177 50 •• 177 50 176 25 .• 176 25
Rouen .• .• ••• • • 900 . 900 897 50 • • 900
Rouen to Havre.•
Strasburg to:Bale.. ..... 247 50 •• 248 75 246 25 • • 247 50
Orleans ••.•••
Avignon to 31arae111e8•• • • 768 75 768 75 767 60 767 50

In another part of The Sun will be found a brief
report of a meeting held last night relative to
Annoyance Juries. Some of the complaints of
tradesmen on this subject are well-founded. The
Act was meant only for fraudulent dealers, and not
for honest men ; and it is a great hardship that shop-
keepers who are really guilty of no offence should be
subjected to investigations which were intended only
for egregious offenders. The Act of itself is good ;
but, like most Acts of Parliament, is not carried oat
in the way in which it was intended.
PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—We perceive by the play- ,
bills that Mr. Massinghaph box-book-keeper, takes his
benefit at this theatre on )'ridgy next, March 22d. As
he ie 1111 efficient and courteous public servaut, wad the

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1844.

bill of fare that he announces is a highly attractive one,
we have no doubt that his benefit will be fully and
fashionably attended.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CLERKENWELL-(THIS DAY.)
William Turney, a painter, rather stylishly attired, was
charged with violently assaulting Benjamin Greene, police-
constable 82 E.

It appeared from the evidence that on the previous even-
ing the prisoner had picked a woman's pocket of half-•a-
crown, and ran out of the house where the offence was
committed,-followed by the woman and several other per-
eons, crying " Stop thief." He was stopped by the officer in
Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, between two and three
o'clock this morning. The prisoner made a desperate effort
to escape, but finding it fruitless attacked the constable in
a very savage manner, strove to knock him down, and
kicked him in the side and on the hip. The officer shouted
for assistance, and :pollee-constable E 117 came up, and
with his help the ruffian was secured. At the station-house
he used the most disgusting language, and it required the
combined exertions of four officers to restrain him from
committing further violence.
Mr. COMBE sentenced the prisoner to sever days' impri-
sonment, without the power of releasing himself by the pay-
ment of fine.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

Frederick Johnson, a young man very fashionably-dressed,
and who was described on the Police charge-sheet as residing
at No. 5. Ely-place, Holborn, law student, was charged with
committing five different assaults of an aggravated nature,
for which penalties were imposed, amounting altogether to
181. It appeared that between eleven and twelve o'clock last
night, the prisoner, in a state of extreme intoxication, vio-
lently assaulted a respectable tradesman, named Brockling,
as he was passing along New Bond-street. Not the slight-
est provocation was given by the complainant, and the
prisoner would have further ill-treated him, but that
police-constable, No. 106 of the C division, came
Up and took the prisoner into custody. He then violenty
assaulted the constable by striking him, unawares, a tremen-
dous blow on the right eye, and afterwards on the forehead;
and he aiso kicked him on the leg so violently that a serious
wound was caused, which will prevent the constable from
going on duty for several days. After that he assaulted po-
lice-constables Nos. 38;22, and 58, kicking them in the groin
and abdomen ; and, finally, his conduct became so outrageous
that it was foUnd necessary to strap him down on the police-
stretcher and carry him to the station-house.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was extremely
sorry for what had occurred, and it pained him very much to
think that he had so misconducted himself ; he should not
have done so, but that lie had taken more wine than he was
accustomed to. •

Mr. MALTBY then apportioned the penalties as follows :
For the assault on Mr. Brockling, 2/., or twenty-one days'
imprisonment ; for that on the constable, No. 106, 51., or
two months' imprisonment ; on No. 38, 5/.,:0r six weeks' im-
prisonment ; No. 22, 4/., or one month ; and No. 58, 21., or
twenty-one days.—The fines were instantly paid.

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