The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-25 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL.

John Fuller was charged with stealing 2/. ss. 6d. from
Edward Gibbins, a .patient in the Royal Free Hospital,
Gray's Inn-road.
The prisoner, who was suffering from a severe attack
of erysipelas, was likewise a patient in the hospital.
On the 23d ult., a day or two after poor Gibbins had his
leg amputated, he asked the prisoner to take some money
for him to the nurse ; he did so, but in the course of the
same night, stole Gibbins's trowsers from beneath his
pillow, and having pocketed the money, the whole of the
prosecutor's earthly treasure, decamped, but was ar-
rested in St. Giles's a few days after.—Committed.
Assaults on the police have been of late exceedingly
frequent in the districts over which this Court has juris-
diction, and some of them of a very savage and unpro-
voked character. They are, for the most part, com-
mitted in Islington and its immediate vicinity. Mr.
Combe yesterday remarked on the great increase of of.
fences of this nature. He was of opinion that fifty as-
saults were committed on each policeman in the dis-
trict in the course of a year. If the system were not
put down, the Worthy Magisttate observed that no de-
cent person could be obtained to serve in the police.
Mary Anne Harris was charged with violently assault-
ing Charlotte Franklin.
Great excitement was produced in St. Giles's on the
previous evening by a report that Harris had cut Frank-
lin's throat, and an immense mob followed the prisoner
from the George-street station-house to the Court this
morning, hissing and shouting all the way. The pro-
secutrix was conveyed from the hospital, where she had
been all night, to the Court, and she presented a truly
frightful spectacle. Her head was bandaged, and her
face was so livid and swollen that hardly a feature was
discernible. The parties live in Church-street, and
quarrelled about some trifling matter, when Harris
seized an iron shovel, and struck the unfortunate woman
on the head with it until she was insensible, inflicting
several severe wounds. The iron shovel was exhibited,
and had spots of blood on it.
The prisoner was discharged because Franklin declined
to prosecute.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday. night, about
half-past eleven, a watchman in Candleriggs, Glasgow,
found the dead body of a man, dreadfully mangled, lying
in a back court off the above street. It appears that the
deceased lived in the fourth storey of a tenement over-
looking the court, and the supposition is, that he had
been attempting to -get admission to the house by
stepping from a stair-case window to the kitchen
window, when he lost his balance, and was preci •
pitated to the ground. It is known that, on previous
occasions, he had effected an entrance in this way ;
and there is scarcely a doubt that he was making
the effort in the present instance, when he failed,
and met his dreadfnl fate. The deceased was a
stout heavy man, and death must have ensued
instantaneously, as his head was bruised and
battered in a shocking manner. The attempt to
enter the house by so dangerous a path, and at such a
giddy height, seems little short of madness; but perhaps
an explanation is to be found in the fact that he was
much addicted to liquor, and there is too much reason to
fear that he was intoxicated when the accident occurred.
Glasgow Argus.
Our military friends have now got their new
" military cap," and of course we civilian lookers.on
must give a diffident opinion on such matters. We hope
they will not be distressed when we express our opinion
that the " cap fits" them extremely well. Its appear-
ance is rather foreign, but so was that of the curvilinear
"chako" at first, which was a Prussian importation.
The "poke" is a far more sensible thing than .the up-
and-down affair, which gave no shade or comfort, _how
ever knowing might be its look.. The leather chin-strap
is bad. but then that was used latterly with the former
chako; it has an especially shabby appearance, whereas
the lately introduced brass curb chain, fixed on one side
and hooked on to the other—looked both serviceable
and elegant. Why discontinue it ? One great advan-
tage realised by the smallness of this head gear (besides
lightness and comfort) is, that it is so much inoro becom-
ing to the figure ;—it adds two inches of apparent breadth
toithe shoulders. We wish it might furnish a hint in this
way about those monstrosities the Grenadier caps.—
Hampshire Advertiser,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 24.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
NEW MEMBER.

The Marquis of BLAWDPORD took the oaths and his
seat for Woodstock. _

Mr. DENNISTOUN presented petitions against the
Prisons Bill, from the Magistrates and Councils of
Glasgow, Rutherglen, and Renfrew; from the Glasgow
Emancipation Society, against the admission of sugar
produced by slave labour, and from the merchants and
bankers of Glasgow, for the repeal of the Duties on
Cotton Wool.
MASTERS AND SERVANTS BILL.

GIBSON presented a petition from Nottingham
against the Master and Servants Bill.
Mr. AGLIONBY presented a petition from Cocker-
mouth. _ _

Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Exeter to the
same effect.

COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE BILLS.

Mr. GREENE, as Chairman of the Committee of Se-
lection, begged leave to state to the House, that some in-
convenience had been occasioned to the persons inter-
ested in the Hull Docks Bill, in consequence of the
agents not having received notice of the adjournment of
the House and the Committee till Friday. That Com-
mittee had been appointed for Thursday, and as it could
not sit on that day, he now moved that it should have
leave to sit on Friday.—Ordered.

An Hos. MEMBER presented a petition from a place
in Tyrone in favour of Presbyterian marriages.
The British Iron Company Bill was read a third time
and passed.
SUGAR DUTIES.

Mr. DIVETT presented a petition from Exeter, pray-
ing for the admission of sugar the produce of free labour.
Lord HOWICK presented a similar petition from
Sutherland.

Mr. WARBURTON presented a petition to the same
effect from Kendal.
COAL DUTIES.—COTTON DUTY.

Lord HOWICK presented a petition from the Town
Council of Sunderland, praying for the repeal of the
export duty on coal.
Lord SANDON presented a petition from the manu-
facturers of Heywood, in Lancashire, praying for the
repeal of Ow duty upon the importation of raw cotton.
THE CHARITABLE PAWN SOCIETY.

The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from the
iawnbrokers of Liverpool against the Charitable Pawn
societies Act.

Mr. HAWES presented a similar petition, but the
names of the petitioners were not heard in the gallery.
Mr. TATTON EGERTON presented a petition
against any alteration in the Bishoprics of Bangor and
St. Asaph.
Mr. DICKENSON presented a petition from a regis-
trar in Somersetshire, praying that Taunton might be
placed in schedule C in the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill.

NEW ZEALAND.
Mr. AGLIONBY said, that on Friday evening last,
when the estimates were before the Committee, a consi-
derable part of the discussion arose on the subject of
New Zealand, the state of the colony, and the manage-
ment of the Company's affairs. He then implored the
Government to grant an inquiry, and the Noble Lord
at the head of the Colonial Department acknowledged
that the matter was a very important one, and, as he be-
lieved that the Noble Lord would not object to the ap-
pointment of a Select Committee, he now begged to
move that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire
into the state of tho Colony of New Zealand, and the
proceedings of the Company, the said Committee to re-
port its proceedings to the House.
Mr. LABOUCEIERE thought that the consent of the
Colonial Secretary was not alone necessary. The House
ought also to decide whether the subject was of impor-
tance enough for a Select Committee, and was entitled
to have some notice of the motion.

Mr. AGLIONBY said the blame of not having given
notice was entirely his own ; he would comply with the
suggestion of the Hon. Member, and give notice of his
motion for Friday next.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.

Sir R. PEEL moved that the House at its rising do
adjourn till Friday next.—Agreed to.
NOTICES OF MOTION.
LORD LIEUTENANTCY OF IRELAND.

Mr. HUME gave notice that he would, on this clay
fortnight, bring forward the motion of which he had
given notice respecting the abolition of the Lord Lieu-
tenantcy of Ireland.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL.

Mr. BORTH WICK gave notice that, on the motion
for going into Committee on the Ecclesiastical Courts
Bill, he would move that the House resolve itself into the
same Committee on that day:Six months.—(Laughter.)
FACADE OF THE -BRITISH MUSEUM.

Mr. M. MILNES gave notice that, on Friday next, be
would ask the Right Hon. Gentlernan the First Lord of
the Treasury, as a trustee• of- the British Museum,
whether the new façade httd been definitively agreed
on; for, if not, he would move for a Select Committee to
reconsider the plan.
INFLUENCE OF PEERS IN ELECTIONS OF
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE .gave notice that on Thursday
fortnight he would move for a Select Committee to in-
quire what persons had been, either directly or indi-
rectly, nominated through the influence of Peers or other
persons, to sit for boroughs as Members of the House of
Commons.