The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

130 IV-STREET.

" TIIE TABLET" SPLIT.—A respectably attired man named
Hawkins, who bore the marks of ill-usage on his countenance,
and whose back was completely covered with mud, was placed
at the bar under the following circumstances :
Police Sergeant F 4, stated that about eight o'clock this
morning, having received intimation of a riot and great dis-
turbance taking place in 13rydgei-street, he, in company with
some other policemen proceeded to the spot ; having arrived
opposite the office of the Tablet newspaper, he found there a
crowd of about •200 or 300 persons collected, amongst whom
were about 50 men of the lowest class armed with bludgeons
and other weapons, with which they were demolishing the
front of the Tablet office, having already broken several
windows, and succeeded ig tearing down the shutters ; though
the Tablet office appeared to be the principal object of attack,
the whole was one general riot, and blows were freely given and
exchanged amongst the crowd. When the police advanced,
the men who were most actively engaged in the melee retreated
into the office of another Tablet, where they remained secure
from the aggressions of the police ; being unable to
secure the ringleaders, the police felt it their duty
to disperse the mob outside, and seeing the prisoner
with marks about him, which indicated that he had been (how-
ever unwillingly) a party in the strife, they desired him to
move on ; be did not accede to their request, and they took
him to the station-house.

The prisoner, in reply, stated that he was coming down
Brydges-street, in company with two friends, to look for a
cab. Whilat they were looking about them, a leg of a table,
which had been violently thrown by some unseen hand, struck
him on the back of the head, and felled him to the ground. He
knew nothing of any of the parties engaged in the strife, but
having been grossly ill-treated, he followed the crowd, in order
to ascertain, if possible, who it was that had assaulted him.
The police coming up, ordered him to move on ; to this he
objected, for the reason just mentioned. They then said that
if he would not go away, he must go with them ; to this he at
once consented, thinking probably that that would be as good
a way as any to enable him to find out the parties who had
assaulted him.

Two other witnesses, named George Mason and Benjamin
Thompson, most respectable men, who had been in company
with the prisoner during the whole of the transaction, corro-
borated his statement, which at once met with the full credence
of the Magistrate.
• The policeman, in answer to a question from the Magistrate
relative to the origin of the riot, stated that some time ago
there was a weekly paper started on Roman Catholic prin-
ciples, calved the Tablet, but there had lately been a split be-
tween the editor and the proprietor, or some of the parties
concerned, in consequence of which this morning appeared
a new paper, under the title of the True Tablet. lie pre-
sumed that this had caused a considerable jealousy in the heart
of the proprietor of the Tablet, and that this disturbance had
resulted from it—the men with the bludgeons having been en-
gaged by the one paper to demolish the opposition " stoup
and coup," imagining, we suppose, that a little gentle physical
force reasoning in this instance would be preferable to strong
moral force argument.

The MacaszanTr. at once dismissed the prisoner, and ex-
pressed his regret at the circumstance, as well as the happi-
ness he should feel to assist him in discovering and punishing
the man who had so wantonly assaulted him.
The prisoner thanked the Magistrate, and expressed his de-
termination to institute a search after the unknown.

John Davis, the driver of cab No. 1,996, was charged with
attempting to extract more than his fare from Mrs. Meggy, the
wife of a barrister.
The complainant stated that she and another lady got into
the defendant's cab, in Trinity-square, and desired him to drive
them a mile in the direction of Cheapside. He directly ordered
them to get out, saying that he would take no eightpenny fares.
Witness told him rot to be impertinent, upon which he said he
only could be fined. She told him that she would certainly
have him summoned. He said that he only could be impri-
soned, and that he would sooner be locked up in a gaol than drive
such as they were, who stuck up themselves for ladies. The
witness added that she and her friend afterwards got out ; and
he then called after them, and put up his hand to his nose, by
way of derision, desiring them to " take it out of that."
'fhe defendant was fined 40s. ; and the Magistrate desired
that a copy of the evidence be sent to the registrar of hackney
carriages.

THAMES POLICE.
A young man named John Thurstell, a journeyman baker,
wasplaced at the ha. before Mr. BALLANTINE, charged with
robbing his employer's till.
Samuel Rayner, 46, Church-road, St. George's-in-the -
East, stated that the prisoner had been in his employ about
three weeks. A few nights since prosecutor and his wife had
counted up a quantity of silver, which was taken up stairs, leav-
ing in the till 13 fourp, nny pieces and a 6d. The shop was then
lo led up, and they retired to rest. On the following morning
he discovered that the money left in the till had been removed.
Suspicion fell upon the prisoner, whose duty it was to be at work at
an early tour in the morning. Prosecutor resolved upon
marking some money, and on Friday evening placed in the till
three shillings, four sixpences, four or five fourpenny pieces,
ten penny pieces, and forty-six halfpence, all marked, and
ninety-six halfpence and thirty-four farthings not marked. On
going into the shop this morning he counted the money, when
there was found to be Is. 90. missing, all in coppers. The
prisoner shortly afterwards went out to get his breakfast, and
was seer to enter a pork-shop opposite, where he paid two of
the marked halfpence. The prisoner was given into custody,
and on being searched at the station-house twelve more of the
marked halfpence were found upon him, which the prosecutor
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identified by the marks.
In answer to a question from Mr. Ballantine, the prosecutor
said that the prisoner had not access to the shop early in the
whichori morning,
intoas it
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window out of the bakehouse, or had a false key by which he
let himself through the parlour info the shop.
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finding the marked money now prouuce up n im.
Police Sergeant K I, deposed to searching the prisoner, and
The prisoner who denied that the money belonged to his
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master, was fully committed for trial.

calves were the only descrip-
tion
old at high prices. Sheep
EXETER MARKETS, FRIDAY.--Cattle Mar-
ket—Owing to the fair, on Tuesday last, this market had a
very deserted appearance this morning—stock and buyers being
and although a considerable
equally scarce. A few cows and
tion worth noticing, and they were ,
3d to 4d each ; turnips
were more plentiful, but there was no demand, and the market
Fork Carcases—The demand
was altogether exceedingly dull.
was quite glutted this morning,
reduction has taken
snipe 3, la 6:1 per couple ; hares,
mains on hand. Prices were from 7s 9d to 8s 6d. Pannier—
place in priceadvepryerlairb:e quantity re-
Vegetables—Asparagus, 2s 6d per hundred ; rhubarb,
each;
doyen s2edn
t;o
per lb ; sea kale, I s per Ib ; cauliflowers, 3d to 4d
savoys, Id to 2d each ; red cabbage,'
brisk thist 7s 6d to 8s ; barley, from
and carrots, 3d per bunch ; onious,
—This market has been tolerab
celery, Id to
klelypse, rusttiock,s; ; pgoetealseo,e4s,9
t7odSis,e;r lb. P-oultry and
5s
-
53 3d to 6s ; barley, 3s 3d to.
3s 6d to 4s ; rabbits, Is each. Fruit—Pears, Is to Is 6d per
Eggs, 16 for is ; butter,
o ini apples,
so3r ,di
i4ripdget.ro
lb. 5d
Wheat,pceor
Corn—This dr ofar
from
ran.
3s 6d to 3s 1041. No alteration in oats. Seeds—Oats, ,p
'm
white, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; beans,
black, from 2s 7d to 2s 9d per bushel ; mixed, 2s 4d to 2s prime
e
tl! 9(1; linseed, 68 to lOs ; 31,ring tares, 8s to 9s ; partridge
peas, es._ gr..:-#:.m Times. _ ,
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT tAIELMSFORIL—On Mon-
day last, Mr. William Maryon, of the above town, who had for fifty
years filled the office of confidential clerk to C. G. Parker, Egg , as
registrar of wills, and who had reached the advanced age of 76, was
found by iiis servant, suspended in his stable, lifeless, The rope was
attached to a hay-raok, and pas„.d over one of the rafters, the end
hanging at a distance of about five feet from the ground, and it is
supposed that the deceased lumped from a heap of straw which was
found lying near the manger.