The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

A CLERGYMAN COMMITTED FOR

TWO MONTHS.
Yesterday the Reverend John Dean, who described
himself as a clergyman of the Established Church, ap-
peared at Clerkenwell, pursuant to his bail, charged
with being drunk and riotous, and also with having vio-
lently assaulted police-constables 95 and 163 G, and
Jane Dean, his wife, was charged with being drunk and
riotous.
Constable 95 G stated that at a quarter to one o'clock
on Sunday morning he heard a great noise in Goswell-
street, which proceeded from the prisoners. He told
them to desist, when the male prisoner told him to go
to h-1, and said they would make as much noise as they
pleased. They were both drunk. They continued their
noise, and on again requesting them to be quiet, the
male prisoner said the police were a gang of thieves, and
might go to h—l. He was about to take them into cus-
tody, when the Rev. Gentleman struck him two violent
blows on the head with his stick, and it required several
policemen to take him, when he 'behaved in a most vio-
lent manner. At the station-house he sprang on wit-
ness, seized him by the throat, and said he would do for
him. There were two gentlemen with prisoners when he
first saw them, who were very noisy, but they escaped.
They were not singing songs or psalms.
Constable 103 was assaulted by the male prisoner. A
large mob was attracted by the noise. Mrs. Dean said
she would do as she pleesed. He confirmed the evidence
of 95 G.
220 N and 205 G confirmed the evidence. Mrs. Dean
attempted to rescue the male prisoner, and begged of
them not to break her husbands leg.
The lawyer's clerk said it was unfortunate that the two
gentlemen who wme with his clients were not present,
and that the police had acted with great and unneces-
sary violence on the occasion. Ile would leave the Rev.
Gentleman to make his own statement.
The Rev. Gentleman said himself and wife had been
spending the evening with some friends, who were play-
ing on a key organ, and on returning towards home they
were talking about the music and humming a tune, when
the officer, 103, told them to hold their " din," and he
shook prisoner violently on coming op to hint a second
time. He denied the assaults, or having uct-d in the
way attributed by the policeman. His wife fainted away
twice on the road to the station-house. She was not
drunk, she only bad one glass of liquor during the day,
and he had only taken two glasses of ale and two glasses
of brandy and water.
Mr. COMBE said, if he were a clergyman he was now
in a most degraded position, and he hoped, for the sake
of the clergy generally, but more especially for himself,
that his description of himself was fictitious. If the
police had acted as he imputed, they were not fit to hold
their situations any longer. He knew them to be proper
officers, and thought they had done their duty. The •
only question for him was, whether he should commit
him to the House of Correction, or fine him 54
Inspector Barton, G, said the prisoners were only
living at a coffee and beer-shop, and had no luggage or
boxes there. '
Mr. COMBE said it was impossible, in his opinion, that
he could be a clergyman, living at such a place, and be-
having as he had done, and he convicted him in the
penalty of SL, or two months' imprisonment. He dis-
charged Mrs. Dean, who left the Court crying, while her
husband was locked up.

Tits WEATimit.—The atmosphere was so ex-
tremely thick yesterday on the river, and at the docks
and wharfs on either side, and it was so excessively dark
during nearly the whole of the business portion of the
day, that all business was completely suspended, it being
found impossible to distinguish either the marks and
numbers or the contents of the packages which were
being landed and housed, or examined for delivery. It
necessarily caused immense inconvenience to trade, and
particularly during the present time, when, from the
long prevalence of easterly winds, and the sudden influx
of shipping into the whole of the departments in the
port, great difficulty is found in providing officers to
meet the emergency without the hindrance caused by
the dark and unfavourable state of the weather. The
gloominess afforded rare opportunity to smugglers and
other ill-disposed persons to carry their operations into I
effect, and it is much feared that we shall hear of nume-
rons robberies having been successfully accomplished in ,1
consequence.
FATAL SHIPNVIIECK.—Letters received in town ,!
inform us of the total loss, in Carnarvon Bay, of the
ship William Turner, commanded by Captain Evans,
with all hands on board. The melancholy catastrophe
occurred either during the night of the 10th or early en
the morning of the 11th inst. The wind was blowing
strongly from the south-west at the time. TheWilliamTurn,r was 488 tons burden per reg!ster,. and was Is d.
P
with guano at the port of lehaboe tor Liverpool.
baorbeam*tions of the wreck and manifest were found on the
~—Liverpool Albion.