The Sun. — 1864-05-19 (London, England)

MURDER OF A POLICEMAN.—A policeman, named Lyons, aged 23 years, belonging to the Staffordshire force, and stationed at Willenhall, died yesterday from the results of several dreadful injuries which had been inflicted upon him by Thomas Lockley and five other men, who are now in custody. Last Saturday week Lyons was upon his beat in a low part of the town, when he had occasion to order the prisoners to move on in consequence of their making a drunken row. Instead of doing so they assaulted him, and he arrested two of them, but their comrades rescued them, and knocked hint down, kicked him, and dragged him along the ground by his staff, which was fastened to his wrist. Daring the struggle Thomas Lockley's brother, wbo is one of the prisoners, was wielding a large open clasp knife, and a civilian who attempted to take it from him had his hand cut. Thomas Lockley was afterwards heard to say, "Come back and let us murder the -;" and ho was seen to go up to the deceased as he lay on the road, and, having called out, " Stand out of the way, let me settle the --," he dashed upon the left side of his head, a little above the ear, a broken brick. The officer then became insensible, and was carried bleeding into the residence of a gentleman living near. On Wednesday last delirium set in, and the surgeons deemed it necessary to take away five pieces of the skull, altogether about the size of a florin, and also some of the brain. Convulsions came on, however, and he died yesterday morning at six o'clock, in the presence of his sister, in his room at the police barracks. The deceased officer was an exceedingly quiet man, and greatly respected by the other members of the force.  TUN NEW EMBANKMENT,-.-,Thank got:Kitten' we are going to get rid of the chin:lay old dummy and the rickety stage leading to it, which have so long disgraced our noble river. As the embankment will be projected so far into the Cher, there will always be sufficient water close to it, and the flow of the stream will no longer be impeded by clumsy wooden piers which would disgrace a fishing village. In their place indentations will be made in the fate of the embankment wall, and the floating stage approached by long flights of stone steps, runn4ng will le llelto the wall itself, whilst magnificent blocks of granite, surmounted with imposing groups of statuary, will remind -us of some of the poetical visions of J, W. M. Turner, when depicting the building of Carthage by Queen Bide, rather than an ordinary Thames steamboat pier of the present day. The land at that portion of the embankment lying behind Whitehall-gardens is Government property : it is impossible, therefore, to say how that portion of it not occupied by the roadway will be used; but in all probability, it will be simply planted, and this portion of the line, backed by the existing gardens of Whitehall-place and of Buccleuch House, and still further on, of the finelytimbered grounds of Northumberland House, will furnish a noble back ground of verdure very attractive to the eye. We shall see once more Inigo Jones's beautiful watergate revived, and no longer standing as a sham at the bottom of Buckingham-street, but a real gateway for the living tide making use of the now disused landing-place at this spot, At Hungerford-bridge, another noble landingplace for steamboats will project ornamental piers into the river, and break in some measure the monotony of the balustrades of the river wall, by rising at least 30 feet above it, crowned with sculpture,—Once a Week.