The Sun. — 1840-09-18 (London, England)

RECORDER.) Timothy Sheehan, 49, was indicted for cutting and wounding Robert Hood, with intent to murder him, or to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Phillips defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor was 15 years of age, and the nephew of Mr. T. Martin, a lithographic printer; in Long-acre. The prisoner had been in his uncle's service, but was discharged about a fortnight before this transaction took place. The assault took place on the 22d of August, about nine o'clock in the morning, when the prosecutor opened the shopdoor to let a person out ; and when he had done so, the prisoner rushed in, and immediately commenced a violent attack upon him with an instrument called a basket-maker's knife, which is a sharp pointed iron instrument, about a foot in length, and fixed in a handle, and with this he struck him several tremendous blows on the arm and head, and then ran away, but was pursued and taken into custody. The wounds bled profusely, and the prosecutor was for some time under the care of a surgeon. There appeared to have been no provocation for this outrageous proceeding, except that the prosecutor had been instrumental in getting him out of his situation, but for which, it appeared, there was not the slightest ground. In answer to a question from the Court, the witness said that the prisoner made no other observation when he commenced the attack upon him, then calling him " a - heretic ;" and he added that he supposed the prisoner meant that he was a Protestant, the prisoner, who is an Irishman, being a Catholic. The evidence of the prosecutor was corroborated by other witnesses ; and it also appeared that the prisoner had borrowed the tool in question of a basket-maker named Higgins, on the same morning the assault was committed.  The Jury On cross-examination the witnesses stated that the prisoner appeared to be either mad or di uuk, at the time of the occurrence. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character. the prosecutor, v.ith intent to do him some grievous bodily harm found the prisoner guilty of an assault upon ; and the Recorder sentenced him to be transported for fifteen years. Charles Mitchell, twenty-three, was indicted for stealing, a gold watch, eh ' &:e the property of Mary Anne Ivers. atn, "  l'hc prosecutor was the keeper of a brothel in Yorksquare, Regent's Park, and she lost the watch in question on the 15th of August. On the 29th the stolen watch was found in the possession of the prisoner. The Jury found the risoner Not Guilty. The Grand Jury hpaving concluded thei: labours, made a communication to the Court to :oat effect, and at the same time made a presentrue,;;,, expressing their high opinion of the efficacy or the New Police, and clear and excellent manner they gave their eviGr'arnlide 111. it said he was glad to find that the dence. ~r ary concurred in the opinion that had been so r erently expressed by other Juries. file Grand Jury were then discharged.  THE REPORTED Loss OF HER MAJESTY'S Snit, FArn RosAmoxn —Fears have for some time been entertained that the above vessel was lost, which were increased by a report which appeared in our paper of the 13th inst., as furnished byceived the information from the the Duncan, arrived in the river on the 11th, which had re Lord Wellingtou, from Sierra Leone to London, spoken with on 231 August. All uncertainty on the subject is, however, to day dispelled, as by a tel,'graphic messaire received yesterday afternoon at the Admiralty, sho h stated to have arrived on tae English coast.