The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-06 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Alfred Parker and his wife Mary Ann Parker, both of
whom were very respectably attired, were placed at the
bar before Mr. Henry, charged with the following mur-
derous assault on a"police-constable :
The prisoners were defended by Mr. Lewis.
Police-constable 128 F deposed that he was on duty
on Saturday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, in Hol-
born, nearly opposite Day and Martin's blacking manu-
factory, when he heard a great disturbance in Bull-in-
Gate-yard. He went there and found the prisoners
quarrelling with a number of other men and women, all
of whom live in the yard. He told them that they must
not create such a disturbance at that hour, and that if
they did not desist be must take them into custody. He
then left them to go round his beat again, but before he
had got half way he was followed by a gentleman who
implored him to go to Bull-in-Gate-yard as a murder
was being committed. He hastened thither and found
a general melee between the whole of the residents in the
yard. He again endeavoured to quiet them, but all he
said was of no avail. On the contrary, they assailed him
in the following manner:—They threw him to the ground,
trampled on him, took his truncheon from his pocket, with
which they struck him on all parts of the body, and broke
a pitcher on his head having previously thrown the beer
which was in it in his face in order to blind him. Had
it not been for the assistance of his brother constables
who arrived directly afterliards, he had not the slightest
doubt he would have been murdered. Yesterday he
was hardly able to move from the effects of the blows
which he had received.

The cross-examination by Mr. Lewis did not shake in
,he least the evidence of this• witness.

Police-constable 156 F deposed that he was on duty
in Little Turnstile about twelve o'clock on Saturday
night, when a gentleman came up to him and told him
that a policeman was being murdered in Bull-in-Gate-
yard. He went there and found constable 128 on the
ground surrounded by a number of cabmen who were
striking him in a most brutal manner. The prisoners
were with the greatest difficulty conveyed to the station.
Inspector Dodd said that the first witness was very
ill from the blows he had received, and that he was
obliged to send him to bed.
Mr. Lewis then called several witnesses to endeavour
to prove that the conduct of the police was brutal in the
extreme, but the evidence altogether showed that a
murderous assault had been made on the constable.
Mr. HENRY said he should adjourn the case till Mr.
Beal could attend, a gentleman who witnessed the whole
transaction, and the assault on the police.
The prisoners were accordingly liberated on bail.

HER MAJESTY'S HEALTH.
The following bulletin of the Queen's health was
issued this morning :
" BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAT 6, 1850, 9 ♦.M.
" Her Majesty's recovery goes on favourably.
" The infant Prince continues well.
" JAMES CLARK, M.D.
"CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D.
"ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.
" The next bulletin will be issued on Wednesday
morning."

THE BEITANNIA-BRIDGE.—The engineers are now
busily engaged in the preliminary preparations for floating
the parallel line of tube, the first great section of which it
has been arranged by Mr. Stephenson, Captain Claxton, and
Messrs. Clark shall be turned round upon a fixed radius at
one end, and swung into the excavations at the close of this
month. This intiatory operation, expected to be a very beau-
tiful one, will have the effect of bringing the tube 200 yards
nearer its appointed position, but it will then, owing to its
having been constructed at that greater distance down the
coast, be only in the position occupied by the other tubes on
their first starting. With this additional difference, the
operation will be a counterpart of the first floatation& The
final removal of the monsters is fixed to take place on the
10th and 11th of June, and the arrangements are progressing
for that purpose.
APPOINTMENTS.—Lord Seymour, Chief Commis•
sioner of Woods and Forests, has appointed 'Mr. Patrick
Vernon (son of Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P.) to be his Private
Secretary. Mr. George Lowenfeld is appointed Receiver-
General of British Guiana. Mr. Thomas Springfellow is
appointed Civil Commissioner and Resident Magistrate of
Fort Beaufort, Cape of Good Hope. Mr. W. Inglis is ap-
pointed a Stipendiary Magistrate of the Bahamas;
Mr. and Mrs. Milner Gibson received at dinner,
last week, the Turkish Ambassador, the Portuguese Minis-
ter and the Vicomtesse de Moncorvo, the American Minis-
ter and Mr. and Miss Lawrence, the Earl and Countess of
Ducie and Lady Georgians Moreton, the Earl and Countess
of Lovelace, Sir William and Lady Molesworth, Mr. and
Lady Theresa Lewis, Lord Clarence Paget, the lion. Charles
Villiers, Mr. Hope, Mr. Bentinck, &c.