The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-07 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

In consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Hall, who should
have sat to-day, Mr. Jardine consented to preside.
A stout looking woman, with a baby in her arms. well known
to the police as a mendicant, and who might frequently be seen
in the Strand with two or three small children, was charged
with being drunk and disorderly.
Police constable, F 139, stated he was on duty on Wednesday
night about 12 o'clock, in Dungannon-street, when he found the
prisoner in a helpless state of drunkenness. He could not as-
certain from her where she resided, and he, therefore, deter-
mined on taking her to the station-house. She immediately
became very violent, and he required the assistance of two po-
licemen to take her to the station-house.
Mr. JARDINE said he wished that every person in the Strand
who gave her money knew the use she made of it.
Prisoner set up a very pitiful story, and
Mr. JARDINE at last consented to let her go this time ; but
he told her that the police should keep their eyes upon her, and
if she werefound in such a situation again, she should go to
gaol for a month.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
INDECENT OUTRAGE ON FEMALES.—James 21PLaren,
a middle-aged man, who said be was a gentleman's servant,
was placed at the bar on the following charge : con•
stable No. 74 of the C division, stated that about half-past
o'clock on Wednesday evening, as he was proceeding on duty
along Jermyn-street, St. James's, he saw the prisoner, who
was excessively intoxicated, throw his arms round the neck of a
lady who was passing by him and attempt to kiss her, but being
baffled in doing so, by the lady's exertions, he seized her round the
waist, and committed a most grossly indecent annuli. Wit..
ness directly ran forward to secure him, but, before he could
get up to him he had assaulted three other ladies in a similar
manner, the last with great violence.
The police constable said that on taking the prisoner into
custody, be struck him (witness) a severe blow on the face.
Mr. HA anwics: said he should impose a fine of 405., and,
in default the prisoner would be committed for 14 days.

CLERK EN WELL.
One of the Deputies of the Sheriff of Middlesex made the
following application to the sitting Magistrate.
He stated that one of his constables had been sent to act as
keeper, by virtue of an execution, in Bellevue-terrace. He
had been brutally assaulted, having received several dangerous
wounds on the head. Under these circumstances, he applied
for a warrant against the parties.
Mr. GREEN WOOD said that where a question of title was in-
volved, he could riot decide. All he could do was to send the
matter for trial. He would recommend him to apply for .an at-
tachment to the Court of Exchequer.
The officer stated that lie did not know the names of the de-
linquents, but had obtained a warrant fram the Magistrates in
Bow-street under similar circumstances.
Mr. GREENWOOD said, all he could do was to grant a war-
rant against the proprietor of the house, which the officer re.
ccived.

• WORSHIP-STREET.
Joseph Johns, a young man of fashionable exterior, was
charged with having created a disturbance in Spital-square.
Police-constable II 49, stated that shortly after one yester-
day morning he noticed a crowd of persons in Spital-square,
amongst whom was the defendant, who had thrown off his
coat, preparatory to engaging in a fistie encounter with one of
the bystanders. He desired the parties to move on, and the
defendant's antagonist immediately did so, but the defendant
refused, and he was compelled to take him to the station-house.
In his defence, the prisoner said that he was returning home
from the City of London Theatre, when he met three men, one
of whom insulted a lady who was under his protection, and he
was about to chastise his insolence, when the policeman came
up, and although he heard the man abuse hint in a gross man-
ner, he allowed him to depart, and took him (defendant) into
custody.
The Magistrate considered that the policeman had not ex-
' ceeded his duty under the circumstance?, but as the prisoner
had already suffered sufficiently he should discharge hint.
Yesterday Aaron Jones a milkman, and Mr. Joseph Shad.
bolt, the proprietor of the Mitre Tavern in Aldgate, were
charged with drunkenness and furious driving.
Mr. Charles Hill, a gentleman residing in the New Kent-
road stated, that on the preceding evening he was driving
through Shoreditch With his brother in a pony chaise, when he
perceived the defendants approaching him from the opposite
direction in a chaise, which was driven by the defendant Jones
at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour. He endea-
voured to avoid them by drawing up close to the kerb, •but a
collision took place, and his brother and himself were thrown
out on the pavement. They were both stunned by the fall,
and on recovering themselves they found that their chaise
was turned completely over, and that the off-shaft and wheel
were broken. The defendants attempted to make their escape,
but they were given into custody.
Jones was ordered to pay a tine of 405., the utmost ponalty
for furious driving, and also the amount of the damage, or, in
default, to be imprisoned for three weeks. The other defen-
dant was fined ss. for being drunk. Both fines were paid.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.C. H.
having expressed his desire to obtain from Mr. Jeffrey, the in-
ventor of the new composition for caulking and strengthening
ships—with which the experiments were made a few days ago
in the Marshes—some details of the nature of the materials and
the experiments which had been previously made before it was
tried by the Ordnance Department—Nlr. Jeffrey attended on
Thursday at the Observatory, near the Royal Militaryßepository.
Woolwich, and at one o'clock Lieutenant-Generel Lord-Bloom-
field, Colonel Paterson, Colonel Lacy, Colonel Cleaveland, and
Colonel J. E. Jones, Assistant-Adjutant-General; Lieutenant
Colonel Dancey, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Blaehley, Lieute-
nant-Colonel Jackson, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. W. Ar-
buthnot, Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, Major Sandilands,
Major Vaughan, Major Hope, Major Anderson, and Brigade-
Major Cuppage, Captain Bloomfield, Royal Horse Artillery ;
Captain Bent, Captain Grant, and a great number of the
officers of the Royal Artillery, assembled in the large room to
hear the explanations relative to this important discovery.
Mr. Jeffrey commenced his details by exhibiting pieces of
copper covered wiah the composition, to show that it was
equally applicable to the preservation of metals from the
effects of salt-water as it was to wood, preventing, when
mixed with certain materials, the adhesion of barnacles or
other shell-fish, so injurious to wood er to copper when not
properly prepared, or which may, from some unexplained
cause, have lest its power of protection from the attacks of
ma,ine insects and shell-fisb. A block was next exhibited,
fixed together, composed of three pieces, having on one side
of the centre-piece about three-quarters of an inch of the
composition, and on the other side a similar thickness of the
substance at present generally used for vessels in the naval
and mercantile service. This block had been submitted to a
pressure of twenty-two tons, to show the effect that would be
produced in very cold climates. The new composition, under
that pressure, retained its softness, but the present caulking
materials became as brittle as rosin, and could be broken into
powder by the slightest strain or sharp blow upon it, whi:s
would have no effect on the new composition. The two pieces
of teak formerly referred to as having been joined together and
tested with a strain of twenty-one tons, by the hydraulic ma-
chine in the dockyard, were then exhibited, and it was aston-
ishing to witness the strong and sound iron bolts of I i-inch in
diameter, which had broken without the least symptom of
the material with which the pieces were joined yielding to
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of wood with it, and another piece he broke and fixed again in,
its rough state, and in about fifteen minutes he submitted
them for the purpose of being broken, which could only be
effected by breaking with a hammer the solid wood on each
side. At half-past three o'clock the whole of the Royal Horse
Artillery assembled in review order, and continued exercising
until five o'clock, several of his Lordship's friends being pre--
sent on the occasion.

SINGULAR Occ URREN CE.—Wednesday infonnfitien
was forwarded to Mr. Wakley, the Coroner for Middlesex, of
the following extraordinary occurrence, with a view to ascer-
tain if he considered it was a case which called for the trxereise
of his judicial functions. A few days since Mrs. E'rizabetb
Rogers, the wife of a respectable bricklayer, residing in Vine-
yard, Kentish Town, was standing in her kitchen, when she
felt something crawling down her arm under her dress. She
undid her gown at the wrist, and immediately discovered
that the cause of her annoyance was a black beetle, to which
she had a dreadful aversion. She brushed it off on the instant,
but was at the same moment seized with a shivering, and was
observed to shake violently from head to foot. She continued
so for some minutes and then fainted. Mr. Sands, a surgeon
in the neighbourhood, was sent for and prescribed for her, but
she never recovered, and her death is attributed to the fright
she sustained at finding the black beetle upon her person-
DINEns Our, BEWARE !—ln the Court of the
Juge-de-Paix, last Monday, was heard rather a sing filar ease,
in which plaintiff and defendant were both English. The
plaintiff had stood godfather to the defendant's sister, and was
on habits of intimacy with the whole family; the consequence
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was he frequently dined, particularly on the Sunday, with
the defendant. In return, he sent vegetables
from his garden to the lady, and she and
visited sometimestook tea there. The
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doubt a codoeil in his will might remunerate for dinners
or little attentions. In the meantime, however, the
lady could not wait for the will, and, by way of instal-
ment, borrowed 250 francs which were cheerfully lent.
Time passed on, but there seemed to be no hurry to re-
turn the 250 francs, when the old gentleman having a bill to
pay, took the liberty of writing first and calling after wards for
the money. llis surnrise may be imagined when the lady put
into his hand 200 fraires and a bill for 50 sundry dinners, teas,
and glasses of brandy and water taken at her table. But the
gentleman had livrd too long in the world to be done in such a
manner ; remonstrance was useless, the lady was positive and
determined, therefore be summoned her before the Juge-de-
Paix, who, after hearing both sides, decided, as the lady neither
kept an hotel nor boarding-house, she must repay the 50 francs
and pay the expenees.—Boulogne Gazette.
THE IhvEß.—Soon after the commencement of
flood tide, early on Thursday morning, the Thames, from the
More upwards, presented a very bustling appearance, is conse.
quence of the arrival of a large portion of the feet of vessels
that had been so long detained by the easterly winds in th •
Channel.