The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

ALLEGED ROBBERY ON BOARD TIIE ESSEX EAST
INDIANIAN.--JOha Watts and Jame. 3 Webber, two
young men, called loafers, were brought before
Mr. Benson charged with being on board the ship
Essex in the East India dock with intent to com-
mit a felony.

The ship-keeper of the Essex, lately arrived from
Australia with passengers and cargo, found the
prisoners in the cabin of the ship yesterday after-
noon. There was a large iron box containing
valuable property, and another box filled with books
in the cabin. Both had been opened and tampered
with. Theprisoners could give uo satisfactory account
of their business in the ship, and the officers en-
gaged in the case, including Mr. Charles Douglas,
head constable of the Dock Company's police, had
no doubt their object was plunder, and were afraid
some of the valuables had been abstracted from the
two boxes.

Mr. Gibbs, chief mate of the Essex, said that the
boxes were the property of a deceased passenger,
and an inventory of the articles in those boxes were
taken by the surgeon of the ship.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoners for a week.
ASSAULTS AT SEA.—SOIOIIIOII Duffney, aged 20,
was brought up on remand, before Mr. Benson,
charged with cutting and wounding a Frenchman,
named Auguste Durant, on board the ship Castle-
ton, at Manilla.

The prisoner has been in custody since the 9th of
August, and the man he wounded, and who was
put on board another ship by our consul at Manilla,
has not arrived.

Inspector Clarke, of the Thames police, said that
the ship in which the Frenchman was coming to
England was spoken with off the Western Isles
twenty-one days ago, and the ship was hourly ex-
pected.

Mr. Benson said he had no alternative but to re-
mand the prisoner for another week.
One of the witnesses, a seaman, complained he
had been detained here more than three weeks on
this case, and wanted to go to sea.
Mr. Benson—Your evidence will be required on
the trial.

Another seaman said he wanted to go home into
Yorkshire, and not be knocking about London.
Inspector Clarke said he had told the sailors sent
here by the Consul at Manilla that their expenses
would be paid by the Board of Trade.
The sailors said that was not satisfactory to them.
They wanted to go to sea and fulfil other engage-
ments.

Mr. Benson said it was unfortunate that the
ship in which the Frenchman was coming
home had been delayed on her passage. If
that had not been so the trial of the prisoner
would have taken place at the last Old Bailey
Sessions, and the witnesses would then have been
at liberty to pursue their own business. He was
very sorry he could do nothing for the witnesses.
He referred them to Mr. John Pyer, the chief clerk,
a gentleman of long experience, who would write
letters for them, and if possible obtain some com-
pensation for their losses.

THE WOUNDS OF C.ESAIL—At the last meeting
of the Academy of Medicine a curious paper was read,
on behalf of M. Dubois, of Amiens, entitled " In-
vestigations into the Death of Julius Camr." M.
Dubois, having looked up the various passages refer-
ring to this famous historic incident to be found in
Dion Cassius, Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, &c., and
comparing them with one another, has fixed the snots
where the first four wounds were inflicted and the
names of the conspirators who inflicted them. The first
blow, struck by one of the brothers Casca, pro-
duced a alight wound underneath the left clavicle;
the second, struck by the other Casca, penetrated
the walls cf the thorax towards the right; Cassius
inflicted the third wound in the face ; Decimus
Brutus gave the fourth stab in the region of the
groin. Contrary to the general opinion, Marcus
Brutus, though one of the conspirators, did not strike
the Dictator. After the first blows Cmsar fainted,
and then all the conspirators hacked his body.

lic - was carried by three slaves in a litter to
his house. Anstistius, the physician, was called in
and found 35 wounds, only one of which was, in
his opinion.' fatal—that of the second Casca. It may
be remarked of this curious production of IL Dubois
that Shakspere, who seemed to know everything by
instinct, says--
"See what a rent the envious Casca made;"

and though he mentions "the well-beloved Brutus"
as stabbing, he seems to have entertained some
doubt, for he speaks of Caesar's blood as rushing
out of doors after Brutus withdrew his steel, in
order to be resolved "if Brutus so unkindly knocked
or no."