The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-14 00:00:00

.s"'--- I / . -e--Z-- .- 11
I'
,/ 7 .' .
40'
~, '
. .
. e ' '
't, % - 4q tv
I
\z. .!:14,-,...,,-,...-....41-„ .
..,,,, -.-
i, ~: 4.:„.,
.
, _
_____ _
..,
. . .
---- —7-- ii, .1 -' "... - N ~..,
_-- -- -- -- - ,-- , ip.,'„;,,,w_,..,.,,- , , ..,
ikt- *All° 4 L-ISIP 4 ,
1.1,; 4:
I 1 pri r.a \77741':._ , • 0.,.. • ;---___,i--- /
. 14, „.NiRP,•-,..":...,--....„77---,.._e...A.--,?. i. ~
, .vi,. (741:,- .?:.-...__,‘.i - ~.:
.• .....„- e...- , Ctl -
,S i.Le ' ' ' ,', . . .4's
' ~, -', ' ' . 41., \ ~, 1! ,SS' ‘'."'Z ~: /; /I
'' -- _ ..,§, , , ~., , .
_,....•,.....
4:* i
le ''. `-..-111^, ~- , ---,_ . - I.' ,. k,,Atte.t. \, -, -21 -, '' '' 'OP"'"7 .....fik, ', .i., ~...4,4,0,. •
- 1 i ii° i„,,„, , 4.,,4 ...,
.s..rz.-, ",,,+
t:A C.
,`"-'" - Wii C i A
..,4,, ',...\•:6,k4.4 ~z,::
_:-... ,
~,,%,),2, ' _.-_,.- / • - ',5.'
, ....,,, I -i
1 ''',
~'t.•, F. ; : H,
_ ~,50,,., - ,
t_4:--,,,,z--.....,--„•-.,.„......---.7,,,,;(..t---,-,,,;7., 4.--,-e-4-----",,........,.....4F.://-t5,4,7,,:.-, ~..„-510 -,_.
____\,_ .„0.4 .r.?„,,, , ,_,4 \
~- .44
l'. (R,c--- 4 /44- --
, v,, l---, '',:-'-... 1/ ,
'....,,a,,,ativ-i-- ' (..• ~ . ' -..,
~,---A. —.. 46 ,A
L<,...,----...„;:, di a ,-,.. -......2!..„.„2, . tr+ pt.- ....,....,,,, IL__----
~ - -------
,77-1

[PRICE SD.

' explosion as the one contemplated will, it is expected,
throw out an immense fall of cliff into the sea, form-
ing an enormous chalk groyne, which, it is hoped,
Will prevent the beach from drifting eastward, thus
weakening the natural barrier of shingle which pre-
vents the progress of the sea inland. These works
will not only protect the extensive tide mills erected
here by the Messrs. Catt, who, we believe, have
contributed liberally towards the expenditure in-
curred, but the martello tower, the forts, will be
rendered secure.
Cheap special trains will he run on the occasion by
the London, Brighton, and South-coast Company,
and an immense concourse of spectators is expected
from all parts and of all ranks and classes. Seaford is
about two miles from the Newhaven station.

BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.
The fdlovving report from Mr. Walker, the engi-
neer, has been presented to the Corporation, with re-
spect to the rumours concerning the state of this
bridge:—

23, Great George-street, Sept. 13, 1850.
" reply to the question as to there being
reason for the report of imminent d..lnger in the pre-
sent state of Blackrriars-bridge, I beg to refer you to
oar (Walker and Barges) report to you.
" The following are the principal facts in reference
to danger ;--
`'That between the 2G h June, when our (Walker
and Barges) attention was called to the state of the
bridge, and the 24th August, a period of nine wecks,
there has IN en a sinking of one inch in the fifth pier
from the Middlesex side; that from the 24th August to
this date there has b-en no sinking in the above pier,
and that the sinking has been confined to the fifth
per.

"That the previous sinking in the fifth pier, which
took place from the completion of the great repair in
1841, to June 1850, and also the sinking of one inch
above stated, have arisen from the bed of the river
being lowered by the current of the tide and the wash
of steamboats, so as to be six feet under the tops of
the piles that enclose the pier (the former level of the
bed of the river), and that the stoppage to the sinking
is to be ascribed to the stone and other heavy material
(upwards of 3,000 tons) which, during the last two
months, have been thrown in to restore the level, and
also to the repairs which have been done to the
paving, and piling of the foundation by the diving
bell.
"We have nothing new to report, and you will
judge from the above if there is any good foundation
for alarm, or sufficient reason for putting the public
to the inconvenience that would arise from stopping
the traffic upon the bridge.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " JAMES WALKER.
"P. Brand. Esq., Comptroller of Bridge•huuse
Estates."

FATAL OCCURRENCE AT LEEDS.
An inquest was held at the Court-house, Leeds, on
Thursday, before Mr. Blackburne, the coroner for
that borough, on the body of Anthony Devine, aged
52 years. The deceased was an Irish labourer, and
resided in the neighbourhood of York-street, Leeds,
which on Sunday night last was the scene of great
tumult and violence, occasioned by the apprehension
of a drunken Irishman, at the Lloyd's Arms public-
house, on a charge of felony. No sooner had the
prisoner been brought into the street than he uttered
a cry which brought a great number of his fellow-
countrymen and women who inhabit that quarter of
the town to the rescue. Brickbats, stones, sticks,
broken pots, and all the dangerous missiles that could
be procured were hurled at the heads of the police
officers—lnspector Child, Ottwell Kell, and Samuel
Gregson—while they were endeavouring to convey
the prisoner to the lock-up, and after withstanding
the knocks and blows fur some time, they were
ultimately quite overpowered. The prisoner, after
nearly all his clothes had been torn from his back,
was carried off in triumph by the lawless rab-
ble, with two pairs of handcuffs on his wrists, and
he has not been beard of since. In the riot the police
were compelled to use their staves, and one man,
Anthony Devine, the deceased, who was a ringleader,
received a blow on the forehead which caused his
death, at the Infirmary, on Tuesday evening. The
policemen and other witnesses, who might be sup-
posed to be disinterested, described the riot as one of
a most violent character; and, according to the evi-
dence of policeman Gregson, he struck the deceased
with bis staff and knocked him down, after the de-
ceased had struck him several times. Policemen
Child and Kell spoke to seeing Gregson strike the de-
ceased over the head and knock him down, and they
also saw that his head was bleeding when he got up;
and, according to the evidence of one of them, which
was confirmed by other witnesses, the deceased again
struck Gregson. The Coroner stated that several
witnesses had been summoned at the request of the
son of the deceased, and he thought it was hut right
that they should be examined. They were called, as
was al o the deceased's son ; and their evidence was
altogether contradictory as to the nature of the tu-
mult—some of them stating that there was no riot at
all, that no missiles were thrown at the police, that
the police were never eruck, that policeman Kell
went up to the deceased (who was standing quietly
on the causeway looking at what was going on) end
struck him a blow wt ich knocked him down, and that
afterwards policeman Cl ild punched him in the side
with his staff. They also said that Gregson never
struck the deceased at all.
The CORONER summed up with great clearness. He
remarked on the contradictory evidence which had
been given both as to the person who struck the de-
ceased and the circumstances under which he was
struck ; on the impossibility of believing the testi-
mony of acme of the last witnesses that there was no
riot at all, and that the deceased was altogether an
unoffending person (in which case, in his judgment,
the party who struck the blow which killed the de-
ceased would hava been guilty of murder); on the
difficulty which he feel always experienced in get-
ting the truth from Irish witnesses respecting mat-
ters of this kind, through the prejudices they had in
favour of their own race ; and on the unlikeliness of
Gregson saying that he struck the deceased if he did
not do so. He thought the jury would have no dif-
ficulty in coming to the conclusion, from the evidence,
that Gregson was the officer who struck the deceased
and knocked him down. There was no doubt that
the deceased d;ed from the wound on his head ; if the
jury came to the conclusion that Gregson struck the
blow, the next question would be whether he was
justified in doing so. As to the law of the case, if a
constable was resisted with violence in the legal
execution of his duty he had a right to repel force by
force; and if in so doing he killed a person who was
resisting him, it was justifiable homicide. if the
jury were satisfied that Gregson was the party who
inflicted the blow which caused death, then he (the
Coroner) thought that all the circumstances would
fully warrant them in saying that that officer was jus-
tified in what Fe did, and their verdict in that case
would be justifiable homicide. Some of the witnesses
had said that Kell gave the blow, but he (the Coroner)
thought the jury would be of opinion that those wit-
nesses had not stated that which was correct. If the
jury thought that the fatal blow was not given by any
policeman,
then he did not know what verdict they
could return except that the deceased received a blow
which caused death, but that how or from whom he
received it there was no evidence to-show.

Mr. Burniston (one of the jury)—We are of
opinion that the conduct of the police was above all
praise.

The jury, after a very short consultation, gave the
following verdict:—" That the deceased appears to
have come to his death by a blow or blows in a riot-
ous affray and an attempt to rescue a prisoner ; that
it appears from the evidence adduced that the
police-officers used no more force than was necessary
for the protection of the prisoner and the preserva •
tion of their own lives. Verdict—Justifiable ho-
micide "

The CORONER supposed that the jury meant justifi-
able homicide against Samuel Gregson.
The Town• Clerk said he did not understand the
verdict as applying to policeman Gregson any more
than to any other officer.
The foreman of the jury explained that they did
not fix a fatal blow upon Gregson, Kell, or Child ;
but their opinion was, that whoever struck the blow
was, under the circumstances, perfectly justified in
so doing.

TILE ELECTRIC DETECTIVE.—The great utility of
the electric telegraph was demonstrated on Sunday evening.
Some young fellows had induced the son of a respectable
citizen to rob his parent of 201. The parties left Lincoln for
Hull by the six r 31. train, consoling themselves with the re-
flection that they could not be stopped, as there was no tele-
graph along the line. The father, having discovered his
loss, and communicated with the superintendent of police,
the latter, at twenty minutes past seven, communicated by
telegraph, via Derby to Hull police .station: ,he message ar-
rived at forty minutes past seven, upon which one of the
officers went down to the Humber side, and apprehended
the young delinquent as he was stepping from the packet at
8.25. Unwisely, the father would not permit direction that
the others should be stopped ; and, consequently, though he
recovered his son, he lost his 20/. It seems that, when pas-
sing Itasen in the train, the coinpinions of the youth advised
hint that the money was not safe, and prevailed upon him to
entrust it to one of them. The lad has since informed his
father that they clio;e this route because they imagined there
were no means of telegraphing from Lincoln to Hull.—
St auford Mercury.

PA RTRIDG E SHOOTING —The breed of birds is very
partial. There are many barren pairs—many envies of very
small birds, evidently second broods; taken altogether the
breed is not a good one. Ilares, where preserved, are i.ret ty
numerous. The birds are wild, owing to the number of
persons at work in the fields finishing the harvest. The
scent has been unusually bad ; dogs have been of little ser-
vice, and the sportsman must fag hard (as be cannot expect
much assistance from his dog) to make a respectable bag.
The heat has been very great, the ground hard and dry ; the
dogs have consequently suffered much from sore and swollen
feet. The harvest bobs are plentiful. If sportsmen will rub
their legs with strong vinegar (which kills them) on their
return home, it will prevent the tormenting itching they
create.—Decizes Gazette.

›L--.--' --i---
i _-1

fr