The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
KIRITTAL ASSAVI.T.=-L•Richard Jordan and Benjw•
min Stevens wereTlarged with having committed a
most violent assault on. Thomas Croaker.
The parties charged went to Newgate-market,
Where the complainant lives to purchase some
calves' feet. They bought three sets, at 9d. per
set, but did not take them away at that moment.
When they returned to take them away, they at-
tempted to take three sets and a half, which
Croaker refused to allow, upon which one of the
parties struck him most violently in the region of
the liver with one of the feet, which has brought on
14flantmation in that part.
'lllr...Evans, a most respectable surgeon, in Cat-
eatnn-street, attended, and stated that he had seen
Croaker, who was in a state that rendered it im-
possible for him to be moved, without imminently en-
dangering his life. The further examination of the
Panes was consequently postponed.
------ Sullivan, who was entitled a collector of
rabbit skins, by his landlord and countryman, Mr.
John O'Righlev, was charged with having, not
Only broken the pace in his dwelling, in some court
ln Shoe-lane, and dreadfully alarmed him, by compel-
ling the poor wife of the collector to utter a human
cry, but seriously injuring the landlord's own wife, by
knocking nearly the half of her already rather diminu-
tive nose off. The facts of this important affray were,
that on the collector's getting to his lodgings last
night, he did not find his better half at home ; he
went out again, and when he got back the second
time, she was there. lie took her up stairs, and beat
her most unmercifully. On uttering the human cry,
O'Righley went to her assistance, aided by his
spouse ; they shared the fate of poor Mr. Sullivan,
and the result was, that the collector was delivered
into the hands of an officer, who deposed, that he
verily believed, had he not made his appearance at
the time he did, murder would have beencommitted.
The prisoner, in defence, said, that his wife had
been drinking all day with Mrs. O'Righley, and he
thought them entitled to chastisement. The fellow
'was ordered to find bail, and committed in default.
His wife was unable, to leave her bed, and the poor
creature.was only confined about six weeks ago.
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_RVONPORT COLUAIN.---ThiS magnificent
CONrilD, erected to commemorate the . alteration
in the name of the town from. Plymouth Dock
to Devonport, was completed owSaturday. The
last stone of the capital, with four of the work-
seated on it, was on that evening hoisted
into its situation
course amidst the cheers of a vast con-
c i rse of the inhabitants, the Royal Standard
flyng at the top. The conclusion of this un-
4,erteking amidst 20 many difficulties is a subject
°f congratulation. ' It has been raised by public
aunseription, and cost altogether about 2,0001.
The foundation was laid on the 12th of August,
1824; The column is by far the most conspi-
"us object in the whole neighbourhood, rising
112 feet above the brow of Windmill-hill, which
is itself on a level with the pinnacles of the Old
Church tower, at Plymouth. It presents one of
1.,_1'.e finest pieces of masonry of the kind in the
I"rnVoln, and does infinite credit to the genius
~°` IYIr•. Poulstone, the architect, and the work-
hear of Mr. Rickard, the builder. We
hear that the old Windmill is shortly to be re-
pllllult.ed;.and the surrounding ground cleared and
Ipanted with trees.. The sooner this is done the
ter, for the unsightly heaps of earth and ruh-
lkwhieh'deform this part of the town, detract
e:Vtl.elrabiy. from the effect of the Town-hall
an the handsome buildings which stand near
4.----iyfred. . . 0
. 9n Wednesday last a dreadful fire broke out
111,,the parish of South Walsham, Norfolk ; it
°nginated, as is supposed, from the carelessness
c4l a cottager, who imprudently threw a shovel
(?.t- ashes into, a yard in which was a quantity of
OrY iminure, inclosed. by a fencing of furze ; after
4 short time the-faggots ignited, and being acted
,12Pon by the wind, large portions of the destruc-
ive element were carried in a north-east direc-
'lon, and some communicated
?f NVln. Jary, Es to the premises
q. destroyed four of his
tarn. and
bars,. and the vicarage barn in his possession,
Ihe harks ee .stacks of wheat,' which, with the corn in
r, amounted to nine score coombs ; a
hay-stack,
cart-hod ay-atack, 50 or 60
yards long ; the dwelling-
ges, piggeries,- &c. The roof
aud interior of the church is completely con-
sumed, and the bells falling within the surround-
tlllig flames, one was entirely melted down and
haye others rendered useless. Several cottagers
ufe been deprived of their habitations by this
_b ortunate. occurrence. The church destroyed
i;v.aa that of St. Lawrence ; of which the Rev.
pl''..Toplitz is the Rector, and the Master and
4°4 of Queen's College, Cambridge, are the
Petro
„...,413.---BOston Gazette,
t william Cross, aged 19, was, n Thda
Illunaitted for further examination, o
by theurs
Rev.y, Liam. Ellicombe, charged with a violent as-
:111t upon Eliza Hunt, a child only six years of
ge' whom he had enticed into a field a short
,stance from the poor-house, at Sandford, near
1-ireclit°l. The child is in the Devon and Exeter
hl,°4 P 44") end the examination is deferred until
eivill euffieiently recovered:—Ayred.
t ,-- i.,l_l' PfIOVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—AbOIIt
five -'el'elr irt the afternoon of Saturday last,
Inv-
.;),r aitterches of the
_public high road, lead-
and guireet
" °fit Ennis to Tomgreany and Scariff,
r iel°" by the Lough of Ballinahinch, sud-
oell Y disaPP.eamd, when its place was immediately
alitie4ied bY water.; a number of men with horses
thill cvars,. 6.4 been,.during that day, repairing
. -,,ery part. of the road, and had only gone into
~acli.olning field to annoke and thus were pro-
s_Yeineritially resened from destruction: But what
finders this.
citeuinstance more extraordinary is,
(hat a ehaisaltintiiair, With a gentleman from this
town (Doctor Castle) could not have been five
blinutes named over when it fell in, as, when Mr.
°'Calleglan of Maryfort, who was riding on the
r°4"fle•rAe'.- Doctor' • it •
ill • s carriage, and had still
VIeW came to thi
down.: On .sub lace ' '
, it was quite gone
segue P 1
With a line and wnittY fathoming the place
sunk over forty eight,feet. ..en:Zasehrtained to have
SEDUCTION, Multrort ran'
We find `in a $eW 'Orleans P4,:b SUICIDE.—
ul,dorf the 7th of
-April, a horrid, account oft hear;
at Grenvielle°f
Mini named James Gray, a young
, near Port
Gibsoniby a Mrs. Gable, with.whvorn he board d.
lie was :a respectable young merchant, ely er)
tPointed :u. ostraaster of the place. The hat
esna n
tY.:l.duc,ed tin.,.arici then endeavoured to inveigle
n.to matrimony, but without success. His
aenEusal kaisedber jealousy to the highest pitch,
did' Bhe declared to her servant girl, that if he
the 4„Qt Yield.to her she would kill hi
turn rifr_st o,tportunity. Accordingly on his re..
bush, worn Ne*'Orleans, whither he had been on
in t;-48, Ale sent for him, and, with this direful
wards prevailed on him to stay all night. To-
"ltornin and when he was asleep, she ap-
Peared-t , g?. .
• - o:nave got up, laid her burial dress, pre-
"444l - . ' • '
Y pre ared on the table, took one pistol
arid shot 1/4 '
deth iii :the back of the head, and then,
'rat* lying down on-the bed by him, placed
auothex. to.
and tif.,•!. ._hr.rehead, and blew off the whole
in this.4l)er part of her head. They were found
houis condition-the next morning by the neigh-
et into' who had to creep through the window to
the kOciin.