The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-27 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

On Tuesday Robert Bligh, the keeper of a beer-shop in
Queen-street, Chelsea, appeared to a summons charging
him with having assaulted the police and obstructed
them in the execution of their duty.
Luke Buck, 73 V, stated that on Thursday morning,
the 20th inst., between one and two o'clock, he heard a
noise in defendant's house us though a number of per-
sons were there. The door stood ajar, and on pushing
it open he observed a number of persons in a back room,
where-there were glasses and pots, as if they were drink-
ing. In a moment defendant came from within, ant.
asked witness what he did sneaking about there, and
! struck him three or four times on the head. - A police-
, serjeant came up, and seeing that defendant was intoxi-
cated, they thought it advisable to leave the house.
Sergeant Ligne, 5 V, said that as he came up he
found the constable, who informed him that ho had been
assaulted.

Defendant, in reply, declared that the whole charge
was false, and had been concocted at a rival beer-shop,
for the purpose of injuring him. lie never struck the
policeman, nor did he even see him, until, hearing a
noise in the passage, he came from a room behind the
bar, and saw him strike his son.
The son and a person named Watson were called, who
both swore that the constable had not been touched by-
defendant ; but, on the contrary, that he had struck the
son twice over the head.

Mr. BURNELL made no comment, but at once dismisses
the case.

WORSHIP- STREET.

Charles Sheffield and James Johnson, two young men
of notorious character, were charged with having stolen
a box containing a quantity of miscellaneous property
belonging to Mr. Philips, an auctioneer in Chiswell-street.

George Moore, a warehouseman in the prosecutor's
service, stated that between eleven and twelve o'clock on
Monday night, a van, laden with property that had been
purchased at a sale, having reached the warehouse, he
went round to the private door to apprize his master of
its arrival, and on returning back in a few minutes, he
found the prisoner Sheffield, with a woman and a man,
whom he believed to have been the prisoner Johnson,
and who were all briskly engaged in removing a box
which they had taken out of the van. He immediately
seized hold of Sheffield, upon which the other man took
to his heels, and escaped, but the woman commenced a
violent attack upon him, and compelled him to relin-
quish his grasp of the prisoner, who made off, and
although witness succeeded in re-capturing him, the
woman renewed the attack with so much impetuosity
that the prisoner was eventually rescued.
Sergeant Brennen, of the G division, stated that on the
preceding evening he was passing, in company with In-
spector Barton, through Long-lane, Smithfield, when
they met the prisoners, and being satisfied from the de-
scription given of the persons who committed the rob-
bery that the prisoners were the same, they took them
into custody. The prisoner Johnson resigned himself
to his fate, and walked quietly towards the station-house
with the Inspector ; but the other prisoner made a most
determined resistance, and swore that " he would not be
taken by such a Greek as witness was." After a
severe struggle he succeeded in overpowering the
prisoner, but whilst he was dragging him along the latter
made a sudden snatch at his watch-guard, which was
snapt in twain, and having secured the watch he threw
it away. As they were followed at the time by a tu-
multuous mob, who took part with the prisoners, wit-
ness gave his watch up for lost, but to his great sur-
prise it was restored to him in a few minutes by a little
boy, who had picked it up, and who disappeared im-
mediately afterwards among the crowd.
Mr_ BROUGHTON remarked that it was a great pity
the boy was not to be found, as his conduct was in the
highest degree praisworthy, and he deserved to be re-
warded. Ile should remand the prisoners till the day
appointed for the re-examination of their female ac-
complice.
The prisoners, who declined saying anything, were
remanded until Saturday.

Her Majesty will leave the Castle for Bucking-
ham Palace on Monday next ; and it is stated that the
Court will proceed to Brighton for a short time, about
the 14th of February.
The Augsbur? Gazelle, in a letter from the
frontiers of Poland, gives some curious details and ex-
planations respecting the King of Prussia's last visit to
the Emperor of Russia, at Warsaw. It would appear
that his Prussian Majesty's policy-in regard to the Poles
in the province of Posen, as well as the reception which
some Polish emigrants had experienced in Prussia, had
excited the of the Russian Autocrat, who availed
himself of the moment of the Prussian Monarch's pre-
sence to strike the last blow at the nationality and con-
stitution of Poland, by issuing the famous edict which
places all judicial and administrative attributes in Poland
on the same footing as those of Russia. The Emperor
of Russia got wound up to such a pitch, on reading the
speech of a French Deputy, in fitvour of Polish nation-
ality, that he gave immediate orders to his Secretary of
State to convert the Polish Lt oiwodschaften into Rus-
sian Governments, without attempting to conceal the
motive for pursuing such a course from the French
Ambassador. For the same reason, he also again hit
upon the day of the King of Prussia's arrival to publish
his decree of denationalization for Poland. The
Poles, however, are not to be deterred from maintain-
ing that spirit of independence awl nationality which
are inherent in them, and therefore they look upon the
attempt to Russianize them as a certain step to produce
a contrary efThct. They are prohibited front singing in
the Polish language, "Poland is not vet lost," so they sing
it in Russian, and even in the forts which are garrisoned
by Russian troops. So long as Russia is unable to extend
her measures to those parts which are unit, d to Prussia
and Austria, so long will her efforts to Russionize, or
denationalize, the Polish nation be useless. For this
reason the inhabitants of Warsaw, on obtaining a glimpse
of the King of Prussia, could not refrain from shouting,
" Long live the King of Prussia," which was re-echoed
by the troops, although they had but a few moments
before shouted the official Russian cry, " Hourrah,"
with the utmost difficulty. It is generally believed that
the policy of the Emperor of Russia with regard to
Poland is one of revenge, which is likely at some future
period to be attended with serious results.