The Sun. — 1865-10-26 (London, England)

THAMES.  CONVICTION OF A CIUMP.—DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER A SEAMAN.--John Scandoff, a Danish boarding house-keeper, of No. 1, Denmark-street, Rateliff-highway, who was apprehended last night on a warrant, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting Edward Howlaud, a police-constable, No. 89 11. The prisoner was fined £lO yesterday for detaining the tools, clothes, chest, and effects of a:ship's carpenter, namq.d Wilson, and ho was also ordered to pay £4O more or deliver the property claimed by the sailor immediately. In pursuance of the order of the magistrate, Howland proceeded to the dwelling of Scandoff with Wilson and two other seamen to see that their property was restored by Scandoff. While engaged in this task he was violently assaulted by the prisoner, and the affray took place in a room where a boarding-house keeper was murdered by a seaman about four years ago. Tho sailor was found guilty of wilful murder, and ordered for execution. His sentence was commuted to transportation for life. Howland said he went with the prisoner to Standoff's house to got their clothes. The prisoner was very much excited on reaching his house. He begged of the prisoner to be calm, and go into his parlour and lie down on the sofa. The prisoner complied with his request, and witness sat down on a chair near him. The seamen began to pack up their things in the passage. The prisoner no sooner heard them doing so than ho jumped up from the sofa in a violent passion, said something in his own language, which he could not understand, and knocked him off the chair he was sitting on. He fell on the floor, and was half stunned by the blow. The prisoner then advanced towards the carpenter Wilson with a knife in his hand, and attempted to plunge it into his body. Ho seized the prisoner by the arm, pulled him back, and secured him. The sailors removed their chests, and the whole of their property, with the exception of a pair of shoes, which were afterwards recovered. Mr. Paget said it was entirely owing to the presence of mind and the promptitude of Howland that the prisoner was not about Lc) be sent to Newgate for trial for a more serious offence. Howland saved the sailor's life. The prisoner, however, would not escape punishment for the assault he had committed upon Howland, and it would be the most severe penalty the law allowed him to inflict. He would teach the prisoner and all others of his class that it was their duty to conduct themselves in an orderly, peaceable, and proper manner, and that they could not resist the proper execution of the law, and impose upon sailors with impunity. Ho sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.  The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric situation yesterday : barometer has fallen 10 millimetres I"reAlanned.v at Nairn, in the North of Scotland ; the winds blow between S. and W. on all the British coasts, and gale The appears this morning on the coast of generally in all the quarters west of France, and in the basins of the North Sea and of the Atlantic. In the circuit of the gale in one half of France the sky is generally cloudy or obscured, and rain falls at intervals, although the rise in the barometer has continued. In Provence, and above all in the Spanish Peninsula, more elevated pressures exist, and the sky is generally clear. This gale will probably advance towards the South, threatening the Scandinavian Peninsula. Squalls are to be apprehended on the coasts of Italy."—ln Paris yesterday the early part of the day was fine, but the weather changed to rain towards the evening. The thermometer at three in the afternoon marked 16 3 Centigrade (60 2-5 Fahrenheit).