The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-03 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Mr. John Edward Rathbone, the secretary of the Leicester
and Tamworth Junctign Railway, attended before Mr. Alder-
man John Son, the Lord Mayor Elect, to answer the com-
plaint of Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Lewis and Lowe, adver-
tising agents, for assatilting him on applying to the defendant
respecting the settlement of the account.
Mr. Horry, the barrister, detailed the circumstances at some
length, and described the assault as. one of a rather serious
character. _ ,

Mr. Lewis, of Castle-court, Cornbill, eeposed that he had
an account against the above-mentioned Company for ad-'
vertisements published in various newspapers. After re-
peated applications for paynient, he on Wednesday last
received cheque drawn for 4061.05. 6d., the full amount of
his bill, signed by Edmund Peel and two of the directors,
but altered to the sum of 8001. Witness inquired about the
uliFilue at the banking-house, and finding it would not be
paid on account of the alteration, not being verified by the
initials of the three gentlemen who had signed the cheque,
witness waited upon the secretary at the offices, in
Coleman-street. Witne;s was accompanied by his clerk,
and they were shown into the secretary's private room. De-
fendant said, " Well, you have got your cheque." Witness
said, " Yes, but it is of no use. The Committee drew it for
the full amount, but you have altered it to 3001., and your
bankers will not pay it." Defendant replied, "They will
not pay you, of course, because it is crossed." Witness said
he was aware of that, and had inquired if it would be paid
when it came through his banker. It was refused because
the alteration was not recognised by the three drawers. The
defendant called a clerk, acid dispatched him to the bankers
to say that the cheque was all right. and that he had altered
it. Witness remained to hear the result, and said if payment
was refused, he hqped it would not be inconvenient to
give him another Cheque. Defendant replied that could
not be done for six weeks. Mr. Peel was now ill, and
Mr. Harris had gone to Italy. At this moment a head
poked in at the Board-room door announced to the
Secretary that Mr. Villiers, the Deputy Chairman, wished
to speak with him. Witness observed that he should
like to speak with the Deputy Chairman about the cheque ;
lie would be a proper person to see upon his business.
Defendant said he could not be detained then, coin-
plainant must leave; he should not see the Deputy Chair-
man.
'Witness said Mr. Villiers was the best person to see
to overcome the difficulty. The defendant said he should
not see him, and peremptorily ordered him to leave, at the
'same time catching hold of him and swinging him half
round. Witness again pressed to see Mr. Villiers. Defend-
ant replied, "- you shall go, or I will turn you out;'' and
catching hold of his collar with one hand, and witness's
right hand (in which the cheque was), tried to remove him,
but failed. Defendant seemed to want to get the cheque.
.Defendant released him to lay down a paper knife, with I
which he had cut complainant's hand. Defendant renewed
the attempt to force him out with greater violence. Defend-
ant seized him by the throat, and by pressing his thumb on
complainant's gullet, and tightening his stock, almost
strangled him. Witness felt the blood rush up into his
head, and was reduced to gasping for breath. H. felt the
injury he then received very severely still. Witness struggled
and got away from him. The -defendant then rushed to the
fire-place, seized the poker, and again got hold of his collar,
and holding the poker over his head, cried out, "I'll split
your skill', and knock your - brains out, if you do not
go." Witness called out " Murder !" till a dozen per-ions
rushed in from the adjacent offices. A policeman came, but
he refused to take charge of the defendant. '
Mr. Huson, the defendant's solicitor, said by the com-
plainant's own showing nothing would have happened to
him if he had quitted the room, as he ought to have done,
upon tieing so peremptorily required to do so.
The LORD MAYOR elect said of course no violence would
have been used if he had left the place voluntarily; but his
staying would not justify the extredte violence the secretary
had resorted to.

Mr. Huson observed that when Mr. Lewis refused to leave,
Mr. Rathbone attempted to put Hirt out, Mr. Lewis's clerk II
attacked him, and he was obliged to seize the poker to defend
him,elf.
Mr. Horry said Mr. Lewis's statement was otherwise, and
his clerk could confirm it.
11fr. Rathbone begged to explain one point. The cheque
was altered before Mr. Edmund Peel affixed his signature.
On the biard-day witness exhibited the account and prepared
the cheque; but in consequence of the Chairman see►ng in a
newspaper then on the table, something about advertising
agents' bills, he suggested the alteration of the cheque, that
3001. should be paid on account, and the account subjected to
a strict inquiry.
The LORD .IAYOR elect said he should send this case to
the sessions, but the parties Would be at liberty to settle
their differences together in the interim. He hound Mr.
Rathbone to appear at the next London sessions.
• Edward Blake, one of the express boys employed by The
sun newspaper to deliver newspapers in the City, was charged
with seriously injuring John Langton, aged 15, the son of
Mr. Langton, a butcher, in Eastcheap.
Mr. Neil Drununo,.d, of the Adelaide, a gentleman con-
nected with the Great Leeds Railway, stated that he was in
Newgate-street, about six o'clock the previous evening, and
saw the defendant ride off on horseback at a furious pace to
the Post-office. He nearly rode over a gentleman at the
crossing, and fifty yards further on he knocked down the lad
Langton.
The father of the lad said he was labouring under symp-
toms of concussion of the brain, and was considered to be
doing well, but not out of danger.
The defendant said he was much pressed for time. The
lad crossed out just before him from behind a cart, and
therefore neither of them saw the other in time to prevent
the accident. He was very sorry fir it.
The LORD MAYOR elect observed, that however he might
be pressed for time, he must not endanger the public. He
remanded him till Monday, in the hope that by that time
Langton would be out of danger.
BOW-STREET.

Excess OF LOYALTY.—Archibal7lClinepbell, a naval officer
on half pay, having only one arm, was brought before Mr.
Twyford, charged with being drunk and disorderly in front
of Buckingham Palace, and throwing his cap, which was
trimmed with a gold band, at her Majesty's state pages as
they were alighting from the carriage.
Inspector Ilowit, A division, who does duty at the Palace,
stated that about four o'clock on Thursday afternoon,
shortly af;er the Queen rwurned from Lincoln's Inn, he
observed the prisoner, who was acting in a very boisterous
manlier, and surrounded by a crowd, make an attempt to
enter the southern gate, but was prevented, and taking off
his cap he threw it at the window of one of the carriages
which had just driven up.
Mr. TWYFORD inquired if it was done for the purpose of
insulting any of the attendants, or as an exhibition of exul-
tation? The Inspector replied that the prisoner was drunk,
and took deliberate aim at the persons in the carriage.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that, according

to the account given by the officer, he had intended to
haVe committed an offence, which was not the case; but
he was induced to act in the manner described to show
his love for her Majesty at the impulse of the moment.
Inspector Russell, A. division, said that the prisoner had
been.-repeatedly in custody for drunken and disorderly con-
duct ; and, notwithstanding his being disabled, there was
great difficulty to' manage him at the station-house.
Mr. TIVICIORD said that it was a most disorderly mode of
exhibiting what the prisoner termed a love for the Queen,
and ordered him to pay a fine of 205., or go to prison for
seven days.

RAILWAY PROJECTORS.—Simon, Rendell, No. 11, Cle-
ment's Inn, solicitor, and. Lennox Horne, 78, Wimpole-
street, Cavendish -square, the registered proprietors of the
important Economic Railway-Traction by the Leviathan Air-
engine, intended to be adopted by the Shrewsbury, Chester,
and Crewe Junction Railway Company, were summoned to
answer a complaint preferred against them by Charles Barry
Baldwin, Esq , M.P , " for that they on the 27th of Octobtr
did make a certain false pretence, knowing the same to be
false, in an advertisement printed and published in a cir-
cular purporting to be a prospectus of the important Eco-
nomic Hallway 'fraction by the Leviathan Air-engine in-
tended to be adopted by the Shrewsbury, Chester, at d Crewe
Junction Railway Company for completing a direct comnm-
nication between Bristol and Liverpool, which said pretence
was as follows :—That . the said Chas. Barry Bald-
win, Esq., M.P., was, by the name and description of C. B.
Baldwin, Esq., M.P., of Parliament-street, one of the Provi-
sional Committee of the said Company."
The complainant, after remaining a short time on the
bench, left the Court. •

A Solicitor's Clerk, who appeared for Mr. Rendell,
to hive the case postponed to a future day, as the de-
fendant was at present at Chester on railway business..
The Solicitor who attended to prefer the charge said he had
no 'objection to an adjournment on such grounds, and the
parties left the Goutt. •
GfiEENIVICIL

Muunitrious AssAtTur.-7Emanuel Todd, • a young man,
about 25 years of tig..„ having the appearance of a respectable
mechanic, was charged with the serious offence of cutting
and maiming a young woman, named Diary Hensler.
The prosecutrix, whose head was bandaged up, and her
eyes covered by a large green shade, was led into Court, and
deposed that on Thursday, the 22d of October, she and her
husband had a few words respecting the prisoner's sister, of
whom she admitted she was jealous, The prisoner lived
with a girl named Cox, at the house of her husband's father,
in Bridge street, Greenwich. Witness's husband having
struck her, she rushed into the house where the girl Todd
was, and inflicted summary vengeance on her. The pri-
soner, who was sitting on a chair by the fire, got up to inter-
fere, and prevent his sister being struck by witness, and
pushed her away. lie then sat down, when she rushed up
to him, seized him by the hair and struck his head against
the wall several times. Daring this the prisoner seized the
poker, and gave her a violent blow across the eyes, abso-
lutely cutting one out, which lay upon her cheek until re-
placed in the socket by a surgeon. The sight of her eye was
gone for ever.

The evidence of the prosecutrix, was fully bOrne out by
the testimony of the prisoner's sister, Ellen Todd, and that of
another girl, 'named Louis Cox.
Mr. Dashwood, surgeon,.Greenwich, deposed that he was
called upon to attend the prosecutrix. The eve was torn
completely out. The curbed point of the instrument had
caught the outer part of the orbit, throwing the eye along
the cheek, and kept it so merely by the ligatures. Had the
weapon caught the orbit inwardly, it would most probably
have been attended with fatal consequences. The sight was
totally gone, and the sight of the other eye, he believed, was
irreparably injured.
The prisoner offered no defence.
Mr. JEREMY slid, this was a case resulting, unfortunately,
from mere uncontrolled passion. The prosecutrix had partly
brought this on herself by her attack on the prisoner; and
although he might have resented such attack, and been
quite justified in so doing, he had no right to use such an
unlawful weapon. He should commit the prisoner for trial,
but allow him to put in bail until the next sessions.