The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-13 00:00:00

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and carried before Alderman Gibbs at the Mansien-
house. He was there accused of having been e
in a burglary committed in the dwelling-;cr=use of Mr.
John Harley, of New Bond•street, but the AMerrnee
having no jurisdiction in the matter, he direct:•:: that the
prisoner should be tak en to the Merlhorough-4=e- eL --
court. This was done, and the sitting magistrate, alter
hearing the evidence of several witnesses, rewaected the
prisoner for a week ; this was on the 25th of April.
On the 4th of May the prisoner was again taken to
Marlborough-street offiee and locked up in a c.ll shortly
before ten o'clock in the morning, preparatory to his
undergoing a second examination on the charge of bet.
glary. There were four other persons secured in Vie
cell with him, but about a quarter past ten the keep, r.
'a policeman named Leicester, went to see that all was
right, and was surprised to find that the prisoner and
One of the other parties had escaped. The efficer had a
distinct recollection of having locked and bolted them
in, and how they got out could never be ascertained.
The prisoner was not heard of afterwards till the Derby
day, the 29th of May, when Storey, the policeman who
_had first arrested the prisoner, fancying that some of his
companions, who were also implicated in felonious trans-
actions, would not resist the temptation of the races, he
stationed himself on the City side of London-bridge
about nine o'clock in the morning and kept a close watch
Upon every suspicious-looking vehicle that passed. The
result proved that the officer was not mietalien in his an-
ticipations, for he had not bean on the alert long before
he saw a horse and cart coming down King WMiarri-street
driven by a man in whom he immediately recognised
One of the prisoner's companions. Besides the driver•
there was a woman in the cart, who was visible to people
in the streets, but there was something in their manna?
Which induced the officer to think that a third party
Was with them. Accordingly he ran up to the cart and
called upon the man who was driving to stop, when the
Prisoner, who hai been lying at the bottom of the cart
tinder some sacks, looked up t:) see what was the matt, r,
and no sooner caught sight of the officer than he sprang
from the cart and took to his heels. The officer pursued
. and overtook him near to the steps leading from the
. bridge into Thames-street, where the prisoner suddenly
produced a life-preserver and made a desperate assault
en the constable, whom he beat terribly over the head
and forehead, and inflicted very severe injuries upon
him. Ultimately he tripped the officer up, and once
more ran off in the direction of King William's statue,
but in the mean time the officer recovered, and conti-
nued the pursuit, crying out,' Stop thief! stop thief!"•
These cries attracted the attention of the passers-by alai
eventually the prisoner, after making attempts to coin-
' trait other assaults, was recaptured just as he was escaping
into Lower Thames-street. The officer was then con-
ducted to a surgeon, who dressed his wounds, while the
Prisoner once more found himself before the sitting
-Alderman at the Mansion-house, who committed him on
the present charge. The injuries the officer received
have ever since rendered him unfit for duty, and he
still remains under the care of a medical gentleman.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the jury for the prisoner, con- I
tending that the evidence failed to establish any felonious ,
intent upon the part of the prisoner, and he ought, there-
fore, to be convicted of a common assault only. With
regard to the prisoner having used the life-preserver
• With so much desperation, the Learned Counsel endea-
voured to explain that away by observing that at the
time the officer—as was admitted in cross--examination—
held the prisoner tightly round the neck, and the prisorer
ha 1 recourse to the weapon, not to prevent his lawful
apprehension, but to save his own life.

Mr. Baron ROLFE summed up, and the jury after a
short consultation found the prisoner Guilty of the larger
offence of assaulting the constable to prevent his lawful
apprehension, or to do some grievous bodily harm.
The COURT sentenced him to be transported for 1.5
Year..

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
John Williams, a desperate-looking character, was
Placed at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged with the fol-
. lowing robbery:—
Police-constable 68 F deposed that he was on duty
this morning about nine o'clock in Covent-gard,•n-
ttarket, when he noticed the prisoner running away
With a valuable great coat on his arm. He followed
bin), and the prisoner dropped the coat, and then ran off
'as last as he could. Witness picked up the coat, and
• succeeded in overtaking the prisoner, whom he removed
• to the station house. When the coat was searched a
• letter was found in it addressed to the prosecutor, offer-
ing to return the coat for a certain sum.

The prosecutor stated that he kept a shop in Covent-
garden-market, and that he must have been robbed
about eight o'clock, as up to that hour from two in the
kerning he had been sitting in it. The letter was con-
' acquently written about ten minutes after it was stolen,
11hd there was no doubt the prisoner was going to leave
lt at the shop of the prosecutor when he was taken into
custody.
' The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the coat,
• *ag fully committed to take his trial.

THE PRUSSIAN REFUGEES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN:

SIR,—For some time past we, the undersigeed Ger-
. tnalo political refugees residing in London, have had oc-
casion to admire the attention paid to us not only by the
Prussian Embassy but also by the British Government.
e should net have taken much notice of this, as we
should be at a loss to conceive in what respect we might
Possibly come into collision with what the Alien Bill
thes " the preservation of the peace and tranquillity of
thse realms," but we have of late read so much in
the public papers about orders given to the Prus-
sian Ambassador to insist upon the removal from
• -r4tiglitud of the most dangerous refugees, and we have
been for about a week past so clotely watched by En-
glish police agents, that we really think we must lay the
ease before the public.
No doubt the Prussian Government exert themselves
,trso have the Alien Bill enforced against us. But why?
illecause we interfere in English politics? It would be
Llnpossible to prove that we had done so. Why, then?
the shot fired at the King in Berlin was the result of a
Wide-spread conspiracy, the centre of which is to be
taught in London.
Now, let 'us look to the facts of the case. Can the
Prussian Government deny that Sefeloge, the author of
the attempt, besides being a notorious madman. is a
Member ;of the ultra-Royalist Society the Treubund ?
Cats they deny that he is registered in the books of that
tkeiety as member No. 133, section No. 2, in Berlin ?
'daub they deny that he has received, not long ago, pe-
' 'etudary aid from that society ? Can they deny that his
FaPers were deposited at the house of a Major Kunowaki,
an ultra-Royalist, employed at the Royal War-office?
It is really ridiculous to pretend, in the face of such
Wets, that the revolutionary patty had anything to do
with that attempt. The revolutionary party have no
kterest in seeing the Prince of Prussia arrive speedily
at the throne, but the ultra-Royalists have. And yet
„the Prussian Government is making the Radical Opposi-
'an pay for the attempt, as is shown by the new law
against the liberty of the press, and by the activity of
the Prussian Embassy in London.
'We may state, at the same time, that about a
Irtnight before the attempt, persons whom we have
e conviction to be. Prussian agents, presented thi na-
ntle;lves to us, trying to entrap us into regicidal conspire-
: "'s- We were, of course, not to be made the dupes of
4401 attempts.
If the British Government desires any information ri -
,Pecting us, we shall always be ready to give it. What
It can hope to learn by sending spies after us we are at
loss to conceive.
The Holy Alliance, now re-constructing under the
rgid of Russia, would be too glad if they could succeed
,it making England, the only stumbling-block in their
Iv aY, adopt a reactionary policy at home. Whet
lTotild become of the anti Russian feeling of England, c f
i
diplomatic notes and Parliamentary assertions of her
",oveinment, if commented upon by an enforcement of
t,40 Alien Bill, called forth by nothing but the revenge f
Gnarla oly Alliance, of which Prussia forms part and

The Governments of the Holy Alliance, we hope, will
litt succeed in deceiving the British Government to such
411 extent as would call furth from the Home-office mea-
441'es which would seriously affect the long-established
, e,PetaCon of England as the safest asylum for refugees
all parties and of all countries.
CHARLESFRED.
MARX, Z Editors of the Neue Rheinische
4RD. ENGELS, S Zeituny of Cologne.
411 G. WILLICH, {Colonel in the Insurrectionary
Army in Baden.
4, Dean-street, Sono-Nuare, June 14, 1850.

t I\T,otwithatanding, the prohibition of the refect of
be Gard a bull-fight took place a few days ago in the corn-
-1,1141e of 'Oenerac, and a man named Gimenard was struck
• ~w-ler the chin by the horn of one of the animals, and killed
11,4 the spot, and another man had such a violent fall that he
Nita his leg,— Galignani.
' 18_4UDDERSF1ELD AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.—It
,peeted that this line will soon be opened for goods and
-"eoger traffic, extending from Huddersfield to the Man-
Itater, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway at Penistone.
•be works are exceedingly heavy, consisting of tunnels,
`eP cuttings, long viaducts, and high embankments. alio
h-'4h line to Homforth is of a similar character, and will
°Pened at the same time as the above. The total lengt
ofh
14. the railway and branch is 15i miles, and the amount
loe authorised expenditure 709,333/. This undertaking be-
Clgs te the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company,
4i',g been amalgamated by Act of Parliament in 1846.
w 4 MINISTER KNOCIEING HIMSELF OUT OF HIS
o
PULPIT.—A Sabbath or two ago, in a small church
betao hundred miles from the Solway, a young preacher of
tailean ability, physical and mental, was approaching the
front za'of one of his Roman bursts of eloquence, when the
tit
'of the pulpit, which had for half an hour been treated
it;'),,,st cruelly, suddenly gave way. and the earnest and strik-
. ibt.. still Preacher (to the great consternation of the audience, and
-greater horror of the precentor) was pitched head-
-4a halfway up the area of the church. The preacher
ar-aPed with a few slight bruises, but the poor precentor, we
,‘;e sorry to state, was severely injured. Good hopes, how-
er„l, rae now entertained of his recovery.—Dumfries Courier
11,,Y,/•I)VEItTISEMENT.] —Bell's Life in London, on
ef-thuaY next, June 16, Ascot Heath Races. Engravings
e i'Tiperor's Vase, the Queen's Cup, and Royal Hunt
ObserVations by " Pegasus." The Battle for the
4,llPionship ; After Thoughts and Iccidents. Price of
21elps ir-ife, Sixpence. Office, 170, Strand. Average sale of
3 4,ife, 28,000.
' • We
tfly have good authority for stating that the Boird
len irection of tohe Royal West India Mail Company has at
a4t,lldecided n the routes of their ships, and that the
ta,tttiOn will commence on the 2d of September next. The
date' t',(2 Bermuda, which has hitherto occasioned so much
ett)lon and irregularity in this branch of the mail service,
Nvi
tb e abandoned on and after the above date; nor will any
irt th company's slips call at that colony. This alteration,
taro.) route rid St. Thomas and Chagres will enable the
Nola' an)' to defy attempts at rivalry in the rapid trail:anis-
Id %et .nails and specie from the Pacific to this port. The
tl~ls al eat India Mail Company are, about to contract fur
A arer""ing of several new ships of unrivalled speed and
crazu. upon the completion of which, and not before, the
lan route will be opened.—.Hants Advertiser.