The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-01 00:00:00

CLERKEIVWELL.

Mr. Thomas Ehon, grocer, High street, Windsor,
preferred a charge of assault against Mr. Thomas
Saunders, solicitor, No. 11, Gray's Inn-square, under the
following circumstances.
Mr. Bowles, solicitor, stated on behalf of the com-
plainant that his client having received a letter from
the defendant concerning the payment of a bill of 51.,
which was overdue, repaired to Mr. Saunders
office, . and tendered him five sovereigns as
liquidation. The defendant refused to accept
the money without an additio-all five shillings for the
attorney's letter. This Mr. Elson refused pay, alleging
that he had been very badly treated in the matter. inas-
much as he had not received the letter demanding pay-
ment until a few hours before a writ would have been
issued againSt him for the amount of the bill. When
Mr. Elson refused to pay the five shillings, Mr. Saunders
collared him, and shook him in a most violent manner.,
A scuffle then ensued, in which Mr. Elson received;
a cut over the left eye, from which he bled'
profusely. Mr. ElSon shouted murder, and two of th 6.
mn porters
.ruching in, the affair was put an end to.
Finally the 'five sovereigns were received by Mr. Saun-
ders, and Mr. Elson took the bill with him.
Mr. Saunders stated that he had not struck Mr. Elton
at all, and that the scuffle ensued in consequence of Mr.
Elsou wanting to go away with the bill and money.
The defendant was fined 1/. and costs.

DISCOVERY OF HIDDEN
TREASURE.

From an early hour yesterday morning about
150 persons of both sexes, and of all ages, were
busily employed in digging up the mud and
gravel of the banks 'of the • Thames, opposite
the whole line of beach from the Lambeth
steam-boat pier, to the extremity of the east-
end of Lambeth Palace. The object of this ex-
traordinary activy is the recovery of buried
treasures, which, according to sonic reports,
amounts to several thousands. It appears tliat,a
few days since as a " Jack in the Water," was
raking for coals, he found several old coins,
which proved to be of the reigns of the monarchs
of the House of Tudor. This obtained circu-
lation, and accordingly, as soon as the tide re-.
ceded, the shore became crowded ; shovels,
pokers, chisels, in fact every thing which would
turn up the soil being in requisition. A consi-
derable number of coins were found in the
course of the day. They are of various reigns,
including- some of Edward IV. and Edward VI.,
but principally of Henry VIII., whose profile
is in admirable preservation. The pieces are
of various value, including sovereigns, half sove-
reigns, shillings, groats, half-groats, pence, half-
pence, and farthings of the British •coinage of
those times. There were also in the collection
various rare and curious gold, silver, and copper
coins of foreign nations, including France,
Spain, Portugal, Germany, &c. Mr. Solone, of
Bridge-street, Lambeth, a coin-dealer, pur-
chased some of the collection, and amongst
them a gold piece of large size and very beau-
tiful die, and evidently of the time of the
Crusaders, having the Grecian cross, surrounded
with the motto " Ire hoc signo. winces." It is
supposed that the coins were deposited for safety
and secrecy in the
.bed of the river by some
ecclesiastic apprehensive of confiscation of his
property for hiS opinions; and this surmise is
strengthened by so many 'of the coins being of
the reign of Henry VIII., and the contiguity
of the deposit to the Episcopal church. The
shore of the Thames opposite. the Archbishop's
palace was literally crowded yesterday, at low
water, with men, women, boys, and girls, armed
with all sorts of mining implements. The dis.
covery has created quite a sensation in the
neighbourhood.

• THE HINDOO GIRL—The New Haven Register
states, that Mr. Pierpoint made the.following interest-
• ing statement in his lecture before the ..I"orwich Ly-
ceum :—" At the present day, the uneducated Hindoo
girl, by the use of her hands simply, could surpass in
delicacy and fineness of texture the production of
the most perfect machinery, in the manufacture of cotton..
and muslin cloth. In England cotton has been spun so
fine that it would require a thread of four hundred.
and ninety miles in length to weigh a pound—but
the Hindoo girl had, by her hands, constructed a
thread which would require to be extended one. thousand
miles to weigh a pound; and the Dacca:o muslins of her
manufacture, when spread on the ground and covered
•
with dew, were no longer visible."
PUBLIC PETITIONS.—It appears from the twelfth
Report, delivered yesterday, of the Committee on Public.
Petitions, that the total numbcr presented to the House
of Commons this session,, to the, 18th instant Lclusive,
is 6,425. Of these by far the most numerous are the
petitions against the Corn-laws ; of which there are, for
the n peal of the corn and provision laws 2,188, with
796,177 signatures ;- for the repeal or the Com-laws
I,lone, 740, with 490,000 signatures ; for their repeal
connected with freedom of trade, 454, with 271,379 sig-
natures ; and for the revision of the import duties 137,
with 11,263 signatures. For the amendment of the Mar-
riage Law in Ireland there were presented 184 petitions,
with 65,395 signatures. The total number of petitions
for the repeal of the Union with Ireland is 123, and the
signatures are 196,966. •
Ws learn from Marseilles that a number of sailors
with their Officers, and some engineers, ,
have arrived
there from the Pontifical States,- to go in the Amsterdam
steamer to Havre, thence fo England, -to ' receive three
steam-boats, which have been purchased for the Pope.
Several of the sailors wore insignia conferred upon them,
it is said, on account of their having been to Egypt, and
brought home the alabaster columns presented by Mehe-
met AU to his Holiness.