The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-27 00:00:00

A HORSE IN A CHINA SHOP.

On Thursday last, a gig and horse, in charge of a
servant of Colonel Low of Clatto, having been left
standing before Mr. David Reid's shop door while
the servant was inside executing some orders, the
horse got startled by the noise, it is said, of a wheel-
barrow which some person was rolling out of a neigh-
bouring court. He immediately darted into Mr.
Newton's stoneware shop opposite; and having broken
from his traces, left the gig at the door, in order to be
more at his freedom, and began dancing about among
the crockery. Mr. Newton having endeavoured to
stop this outrageous beast in his mad career, was soon
disposed of with his broad back on the floor. Tu-
reens he overthrew with his feet, basins he knocked
about with his nose, and he whisked the smaller arti-
cles of crockery off the counter with his tail, pricking
his ears all the while, and snorting with evident glee
and delight. Amidst all the fearful desolation
which he created, the inhuman creature, far from
feeling the pangs of remorse for his crimes, seemed to
take a savage pleasure in the thing, and continued to
go-ahead, and try how much of Mr. Newton's
valuable stoneware he could destroy, knowing that
the whole was to be charged to Colonel Low's account.
Nothing so utterly lawless and wild in the dancing
department as this beast's style of pirouetting and
side-cutting was ever seen in this world, or even in
Cupar, within the memory of man. Luckily, the
finer branches in the stoneware line were in the back
room. The horse, now wishing to extend his depreda-
tions, set his face towards the quarter. Mrs. Newton,
who throughout the whole of this trying scene had
displayed the utmost fortitude, had the pre-
sence of mind to fasten the glass door, and
to barricade it inside with the furniture as
well as she could, and then fled for safety and
for succour into a press, the door of which she kept a
little agee, in order that, if her life should be spared,
she might witness the issue of the day's eventful
transactions. In the meantime, the horse having
satisfied himself with smashing two pounds nineteen
shillings' worth of good pigs (Anglice, crockery) in
the front shop, resolved to have a shy at the elegant
china in the back room, and accordingly manfully
knocked his head through one of the panes of glass ;
but was checked in the assault by the defences skil-
fully erected by Mrs. Newton, who still maintained
her position in the press. While in this retreat she
saw the monster thrust his bleeding head and gory
locks into the room, and coolly stand and take a
vidimus of the whole premises—gazing earnestly upon
her, while he allowed the blood to flow from his reek-
inF temples into one of her most fashionable basins.
His spirits, however, being at last cooled by plentiful
phlebotomy, he was with some difficulty backed out
into the Bonny-gate. Mr. Newton does not recollect
of any customer having done so much business in his
shop in so short a space of time, and with so little
speaking.—Fifeshire Journal.

SluP, WESTMORELAND.—It appears that the direc-
tors and Mr.
Stephenson, and the other contractors for
the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, are determined to
suppress the further repetition of the brutal and disor-
derly conduct of the workmen engaged on the line, and
to lend every assistance to the civil authorities for that
purpose. A meeting of the directors was held on Thurs
day last, and .it was agreed that efficient policemen be
engaged, and stationed at suitable distances on the line,
to preserve the peace at Shap and other places, to be paid
out of the funds of the company. Upwards of 200 spe-
cial constables have been sworn in at Shap, Orton, Pen-
ube n day hopedthat every pre- 1 save a little 1
rill], &c., to assist the police. All was peaceable at Shap
last,
and Orton on Saturddayit
and
iI
to
S
" flare-up" or two, an
caution will be taken to prevent disorder and riot on the
next pay-day. The magistrates are determined to pro-
em. the Peace*

The REVISING BARRISTER said he did not see what
inconvenience there could be in having a full descrip•
tion of the voter.

Mr. Jeans said that, some time ago, it was three
years before he could get a party into court, in con-
sequence of his having placed the description of his
residence and also his place of business upon the
register. The notice of objection was sent to his pri-
vate residence, and the Revising Barrister ruled that
a notice should also have been sent to his place of
business. In the case he alluded to, when he did at
length get the voter into court, it turned out that he
had no qualification, and yet his name had been re-
tained, for three years, upon the register.
The REVISING BAREISTEZ said he was quite sure
that he had not decided that notices to both places
were necessary. If a notice of objection was served
at the private residence, it was abundantly sufficient,
and the insertion of the place of business was mere
sw 'plusage.
The claim was then left in its original form.
One of the overseers of Thames Ditton attended
wi:th the list of voters and new claims in that parish.
It will be remembered that his duty was to have
attended at Kingston, but he did not do so, neither
did he send any lists, and the Revising Barrister ex-
pressed his intention to fine the overseers for their
negligence. The overseer now stated that the reason
he did not attend at Kingston was, that he received
no notice of the places of holding the courts in East
Surrey, but that by mistake the West Surrey meet-
in were sent to him.
The REVISING BARRISTER said this might be a
reason for his not attending at Kingston, but it was
no excuse for his neglecting to send the lists to the
clerk of the peace, when no less than four applications
were made to him for them.

The overseer said he left it to his brother overseer.
The REVISING BARRISTER said this did not alter
'le ease, and he should fine him 50s.

At the close of the business, Mr. Fish proceeded to
consider the Thames Ditton lists, and it appeared
that the overseers had not placed the list of new claims
upon the church door.
The REVISING BARRISTER said this was really most
gross and unpardonable neglect of duty. The clearest
instructions were sent to every overseer by the clerk
of the peace, but it appeared in this case they were
determined not to comply with them. He must ad-
.
joeurn the consideration of this list a second time, and
he should require the attendance of the other overseer,
whom he should certainly fine, as well as this one, for
his neglect.
Mr. Meymott said that these lists were made out
in the most bungling manner of any he had ever seen.
The REVISING BARRISTER said he was of the same
opinion, and it was high time the overseers were com-
pelled to perform their duties properly. There was
no excuse in this case, and he felt bound to prevent
the recurrence of such gross negligence in future.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
Two persons appeared before Alderman Johnson,
for the purpose of complaining against the officers of
the General Steam Navigation Company, under the
following circumstances :
They stated that they had taken and paid for, to the
individuals acting for the Company, their passage in
one of the vessels to Hamburgh, and they were in-
formed that the vessel was to sail at six o'clock in the
morning. They accordingly went to the place at
which they supposed they should see her lying, a
quarter of an hour before the appointed time, and to
their surprise and great disappointment they found
she was gone, and were told that she had taken her
departure a considerable time before they attended.
As no fault lay with them as to punctuality, they con •
sidered of course that they were entitled to the resti-
tution of the passage-money, or to be accommodated
in another of the Company's vessels, but they could
obtain no satisfaction of the kind.
One of the clerks of the Company stated the com-
plainants were informed of the exact hour at which
the vessel had been appointed to sail, and she did sail
at that hour, and they were therefore entitled to no
part of the passage-money.
Alderman JOHNSON asked in what manner they
were informed that the vessel was to sail ?
The clerk replied that they had been, according to
the custom of the office, informed regularly by one of
those in attendance.
The complainants stated that they could produce
five persons who could prove the correctness of their
statement, and they handed to the Alderman the re-
ceipt for the passage-money, on which no time for
starting was specified, but a blank was left for the
hour.
Alderman Jonwsoic expressed his great surprise
that so loose a practice was allowed to exist at an
office in which business of such importance to the
public was transacted. It was quite evident that the
blank should have been filled up with the time of ap-
pointment; and the fact that it was not so filled up,
was calculated to mislead, and therefore to impose
upon persons.
The clerk said, if parties wished to have the blanks
filled up, there never was any objection made ; but
the complainants had never made any application of
the kind.
Alderman Jourcsort declared that it was the duty
of the Company to write down the hour of starting,
whether a request to that effect was made or not ;
and he would not hesitate to say that the complainants
were entitled to receive their money back.
The clerk stated that he should intimate the opi
nion of the Alderman to the authorities.
As the complainants did not return to the Mansion
house while the Alderman was sitting, it was con
jectured that the money was returned to them.
UNION-HALL.

Eliza Smith, a masculine-looking woman, blind of
an eye, was charged with nearly biting off a police-
man s thumb, in his attempts to convey her to the
station-house.
The policeman, whose hand was bound up, from the
severity of the injury inflicted on him, stated, that
while on duty in High-street, he saw the prisoner
sitting on the steps of a door. As she attracted the
notice of the passengers by the oddity of her appear-
ance, baying no shawl or handkerchief on to cover
the upper part of her person, he mildly advised her
to leave the spot and go home. The moment, how-
ever, he spoke to her, she flew into a most violent
passion, and scratched him down the face, and in his
attempt to protect himself from further injury, she
got his thumb into her mouth, and held it there, as
one of the witnesses described, for five minutes, until
she was obliged to be seized by the nose and her
breathing stopped, which alone compelled her to let
go her hold of the policeman's thumb, which was
found to have been nearly severed from his hand.
Even after this display of her ferocity, the defendant
with her teeth seized the arm of the man engaged in
extricating the policeman's thumb from her mouth,
and also bit him very severely, and it took the united
strength of four stout men to convey this Amazonian
offender to the station-house.

Even in the presence of the Magistrate, the defend-
ant exhibited the fury of her temper, by venting exe-
crations, and when told that she would be committed
for a month, she tore off her bonnet and flung it at the
witnesses, expressing her regret that they were not
within arm's length, that she might let them feel the
weight of her fists. In taking her from the bar she
hit out right and left at the gaoler and his assistants,
and it was with much difficulty she was at length se-
cured and locked up in the cell.

HAMMERSMITH.
Yesterday Henry Jones, William Benson, Thomas
Holt, John Key, Samuel Foreman, the five men who
stand charged with having caused the death of a man
named George Benson, the brother of one of the pri-
soners, in a fight which took place on Sunday last at
Kensington, were brought up for final examination.
Mr. Wolfe, from the office of Mr. Flower, attended

on behalf of Jones, the surviving principal in the fight.
Inspector Morgan said, he had been desired by Mr.
Wakley, the Coroner, to request that the prisoners
might be again remanded over Tuesday next, as in
the meantime he intended to apply to the Secretary
of State for the Home Department for an order for
the prisoners to be produced at the adjourned inquest,
which will be holden on that day.
Mr. PAYNTEE said, he knew of no power which be
had to remand the prisoners to the place where Mr.
Wakley had adjourned his inquest to. It was alto-
gether a new application to him, and if the Secretary
of State gave- an order to that effect, he (Mr. Poyn-
ter) would not be responsible for it.
The evidence of the witnesses examined on Monday
last was then read over, and some slight additions
made thereto, after which the following additional
witnesses were examined

Mr. W. G. Bennett deposed that he was the land-
lord of the Wellesley Arms public-house, Robert-
street, Chelsea. On the night of Saturday last,
about ten o'clock, he was told there was a scuffle in
the tap •room, and on going there he found the de-
ceased George Benson, and the first four prisoners,
with other persons, there. The prisoner Foreman
was not there. The deceased and Jones had their

coats off, and were scuffling together. He Immedi-
ately parted them, and told them he would allow
nothing of the kind, and that if they continued doing
so, he would give them into the custody of the police.
Jones said he did not went to fight, and put on We

EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.
The Revising Barrister yesterday held his Court at
the Vestry-hall, Camberwell.
Mr. E. Meymott appeared as the Conservative
agent, and Mr. Jeans attended for the Liberals.
In the Camberwell list, Mr. Thomas Moseley had,
under the head of " residence," described his place of
business, and also his private residence.
Mr. Jeans applied to have either one or the other
description removed from the list, as it was productive
of great inconvenience, in the event of any objection
being made to the vote, that there should be more
than one address.