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On Tuesday, Mr Watt, jeweller, of
Castlereagh.street, was agnin had before the
bench for the assault committed on Mr Temple
ton, the undertaker, his next door neighbour.
The evidence gone into was precisely that de
tailed on the former examination, with the ad
dition of Mr Templeton's testimony, thu Mr
Watt drew the sword from the sheath, lunged at
him with it, nnd inflicted a wound on the lleehy
part of the cheek, which was closed with plaster.
Mr Teropleton added, that Mr Watt would
certainly have repeated the lunges had he not
providentially been restrained. Dr Savage de
posed simply to a wound of the depth of two
inches having been made on Mr Templeton's
cheek with some sharp instrument, and the bench
committed Mr Watt, to take his trial for the
offence, admitting him to bail for bis appearance,
when called on, as well as to keep the peace
towards Mr Temple ton, in bis own recognizance
for £10 -, with two sureties in £50 each. It
appealed, by the general tenor of the evidence,
that an ill feeling has long subsisted between the
parties, and, upon the present occasion, there
was recrimination on either side, but it did not
appear who was the tint mover in the quarrel
which led to the unpleasant result.
On Monday evening last, the lower
part of George-street was in a state of uproar
from the boisterous behaviour of a soldier,
wearing the uniform of the 50th regiment. The
man was half drunk, and had been discovered
by Mr Folk, dealer, secreted in his yard, evi
dently for no honest purpose. Mr Folk know
ing the difficulty of obtaining redress against the
military, who are generally cloaked by their
comrades on duty, endeavoured to get rid of the
fellow as quietly as possible, but received several
blows from him, and after continuing his freaks
in the street for some time he was carried away by
some of his comrades who happened to come up
at the time. Not a constable was to be pro-
cured, although several parties were despatched
for them in all directions.
The brutal system of flogging is, we
are happy to say, getting almost into disuse by
the magistrates throughout the territory, and the
reports of the effect of solitary confinement on
the prisoners which has been substituted, is
most satisfactory, and is likely to altogether
supercede the use of the lash except in cases of
great aggravation. The government have called
for tenders to erect solitary cells at the various
look-up stations in the interior where they are
not already built. We are happy to hear that
the cells in the factory at Parramatta are pro-
gressing rapidly for the reception of refractory
women, who particularly eschew this mode of
punishment.
Water.' The government have offered
a reward of live pounds for the detection of the
persons who amuse themselves by wantonly
injuring the cocks, and letting the water run
to waste at the public fountains. The
inhabitants in the vicinity of the fountain ought
to put five pounds more to it, which might be the
means of bringing some of the rascals to justice.
It has been suggested whether there might not,
with little expense to the government, be another
train laid from the principal pipes for the supply
of the water casks on the Race Course ; the
aingle train which alone supplies about three
hundred carriers in the day, is insufficient for
the purpose, by reason of the smallness of the
bore. Some of the water carts are detained at
the pipes four or five hours before their turn for
supplies arrives, it being usual to Bee from thirty
to fifty awaiting their turn, and this causes the
high price of water. Two extra branch pipes,
or even one, would be of great accommodation to
the town people.
Pedigree of the chesnut colt imported
by C. Roberts, Esq., ex Brilliant, from London.
This colt was bred by Mr Fuller, of Reading, in
Berkshire, on the U)th of November, 1837. He
is by Colonel, out of Jessy, by Velocipede, out
of a Juniper mare by Blacklock, or Sultan. The
Colonel was the best horse of his year, running
a dead heat for Dei by, afterwards winning the
Great St. Leger at Doncaster, and then sold for
three thousand guineas.
' He was a Friar of Orders Gray.'
— Imagination plays strange fantastic tricks at
times, and there is no accounting for impres
sions, which fix themselves on the miud, and
will not be 'discharged.'' A decent middle-aged
woman, whose philosophy was over-balanced by
her passions, -was invited to appear at the Police
Office, on Tuesday, to answer for an assault,
where, for the first time, she saw the Colonel in
his chair of state ; audso vivid was lies impres
sion that his Worship belonged to some order of
the penitential brotherhood that she, in the
course of 'her replies, invested him at once with
the gray mantle. In answer to the first question
put by his Worship, she answered ?' yes, your
Reverence,' dropping a most reverential curtsey,
the Colonel smiled when his eye glanced over his
' fair proportions,' which told mortified tales of
fasting. In answer to the second question, she
repeated, ?? yes, save your Reverence,' and the
Colonel frowned, as the giggle passed round the
Court. The rosy olerk ot* the exchequer endea
voured to convince the woman that his Worship
was his Worship, and whs no reverence, but I ha
impression had been made, and his Worship re
mained his Reverence to the end of the chapter,
which he did not object to, after the first ebullition
of the audience.
Attorneys at Botany Say. — 'The
recent importation into the convict settlement of
some choice specimens of the attorney tribe,
from the parent country, has, it would appear,
created some considerable alarm among the free
population at the dangerous inundation of law
and lawyers ; and defensive measures have been
taken in consequence, to avert the impending evil,
though they will be viewed by the mujority of
the body of London practitioners as of a pecu
liarly novel description. The folks of Sydney
seem rather fastidious in their notions of the
requisites to constitute a respectable solicitor,
which would startle a legal vulture in Chancery
lane. The articled clerks in the colony are re
stricted from receiving any salary— are to have
cert.ficatei of their moral and religions conduct,
which, by the bye, are to come from their em
ployers, thus affording an indubitable guarantee.
They are to undergo an examination, before
appointed commissioners, not only as to their
Knowledge of their profession, but also as to
their acquaintance with those familiar subjects in
those parts, Latin and Greek ; and by way of
finish, they are expected to be conversant with
the first six books of Euclid.' — Satirist. — Doubt-
less, in framing these ' somewhat astringent
regulations,' as they are called, their Honors the
Judges had in view persons qualified for their
task as commissioners. — Comspondtitt.
The person Duff, to whom we al
luded in our last as being in custody for an
outrageous assault on his wife, has been re
manded for a week, in consequence of a surgeon's
certificate having been produced to the bench,
that Mrs Duff is in a dangerous stats, from the
blows she received. There is considerable doubt
whether the man has been of sane mind for some
time, and he is one of the fearful examples of
the retributive consequences of habitual drunk
enness.
The Military. — For the last month
or six weeks, the town has been in a state of
comparative quiet front the aggressions of the
military, of which the public daily complained,
some time back. But it would appear, that, like
the sirocco, the partial calm is likely to be fol
lowed by a freshening of the tempest. On Mon
day evening, two soldiers of the 50th regiment,
named Durant and Gleeson, the latter in a state
of intoxication, accosted a constable, one of the
newly arrived Scotch emigrants, and asked him
if he was going to Mrs Taylor's benefit, to which
he replied in the negative ; takiug him for
some raw importation, which the broadness of
his accent indicated, they followed him until near
the Roman Catholic Chapel, when they rushed
on, knocked him down, and attempted to rifle his
pockets. The constable, however, was a tall
raw boued Highlander, and be made play with his
faet so effectually that one of them sheered off,
and he was enabled to shake the second clear of
him. Their purpose was to rob him, as they
asked him when down, and struggling, where his
money was. They threatened his life, beat him
severely, and behaved outrageously. The pro
secutor occasioned considerable merriment by his
description of the affray in the poetical language
of his native hills, describing the scene of action
as ' half.way doon the brae, by the bonny kirk,
where they waughted him at sic a rate that he
could no carry his airm to the heed.' The
soldiers were remanded for the evidence of the
non-commissioned officers of th« regiment, who
were summoned to account for their absence from
their quarters.
The appearance of the vegetable
market is daily improving from the effect of the
daily showers with which the country has been
blessed. Some remarkably fine vegetables were
exposed in Mr Baptist's stall on Tuesday, amongst
which were carrots weighing upwards of a pound
and a half, for which four pence a piece was
demanded. If the present favourable weather
continues, the gardeners say thnt vegetables will
suon be reduced to the old standard price.
We -cut) give no intelligence at pre
sent, relative to thu stnta of the weather at
, Batburst, in consequence of the Mail not arriv
ing on Tuesday morning. Since the Mail con
tract has been thrown up, tbe .Mail Bugs are
conveyed by the mounted police men, from
9UUOU to station.
Monsieur Gautrot's concert takes
place to-morrow evening. We think the proofs
this gentleman and bis lady have given of their
vocal and instrumental talent will ensure them a
well filled Saloon. Referring to the able assist
ance they are to receive, the entertainment
promises to be such as the lovers of music will
do well to avail themselves to attend.
Court of Claims. — It is much to be
regretted, that the commissioners of the Court of
Claims have been unavoidably obliged to adjourn
the hearing of^the many cases at present on the
list for adjudication, in consequence of the severe
indisposition of the secretary, Mr Thompson,
whose cognizance of the routine of the office
business renders his presence absolutely neces
sary during the sitting- of the court. The delay
will occasion inconvenience to parties who are
prepared with their witnesses, but being oc
casioned by the dispensation of Providence, it
cannot be complained of as matter of reproach
to the court. The adjournment -is to the 29th
instant.
A full Court of Petty Sessions sat in
the private room of the Police Office yesterday,
to consider the applications for licenses, of
which an unusually large number have been for
warded. We shall be able to give a list of
licenses granted in our next.
Sard Swearing. — 3tfr Hanson, of
the Rum Puncheon, at the Queen's Wharf, ap
peared yesterday to answer the charge of selling
spirits on a Sunday at unlawful hours. Constable
John Riley, swore, that he went to Mr Hanson's
house on Sunday and entered it along with three
or four other men who went in and were served
with liquor and beer at the bar. It was between
seven snd eight o'clock, and there were about
nine persons at the bar drinking. Mr Hanson
came to him and asked him to have a glass of
grog. For the defence, a Mr Bredner, an emi
grant of character, who superintends Mr Han
son's business, swore, that on the day in question
he was at home the whole of the afternoon, that
Mr Hanson left the house between six and seven
o'clock to go to chapel and did not return until
about ten o'clock— that no person was sorved
with liquor or beer on the day and at the time
stated by the constable, nor were any persons in
the house but the regular lodgers. Mr Windeyer,
said, he was puzzled how to decide, as there had
evidently been perjury committed by one of the
parties, and he accordingly dismissed the case.
Mr Bredner is a young man who emigrated about
two years back, paying his passage, and is well
esteemed as a sober correct man. The constable
was entitled to half the fine — the balance is
easily struck.
Harbouring Prisoners of the Crown.
— The constables are beginiug to be a little more
upon the alert in bringing parties who make a
practice of decoying away andemployingjnssigned
servants to the injury of their masters. No
fewer than a dozen informations were filed yes
terday, and several of them pleaded guilty, and
paid the mitigated fine. A person named Duncan
Campbell was fined severely yesterday on two
informations, charging him with harbouring two
convicts iu the service of Mr Birt, baker, who
stated that his men absconded on the 8th, and
remained away all night, and were taken out of
Campbell's house, where they were secreted. The
men were punished with fifty lashes each.
A person who has come over-land
from Bateman's Bay to Sydney, has informed as
that three settlors in tbat part ot' the country,
have a great quantity of last years' wheat stored
up in their possession, and it is expucud that it
will shortly be forwarded to Sydney.
Ship News.
The schooner Ami, belonging to Mr
Chapman, laden wilb corn and cedar, we regret
to learn, was aground on tbe bur at the entrance
of the iM'Leuy liiver, and it is feared will be
totally lost. The Monitor lay* sbe had been sold
on arrival for the sum or' £?o(-, and raluits tbe
cargo at £500, adding, ' This w* fear, will be
a serious loss to Mr Chapman, as he has been
anything 'but fortunate in uis siipurng specula
tions ot lati-.'
The Abel Gomer proceeds to London
during the day.
The Skerne, will be brought to the
Hammer by Mr Isaac Simmons, on Saturday,
and her cargo imediately afterwards.
Coroner's Inquest.
An inquest was holden, on Monday
last, at Mr Lord's estate, Cook's River, on 'view
of the bodies of two fine lads, brothers, named
Walter Charles, and Francis Reed, the children
of Mr Lord's gardener, who had charge of the
place. It appeared, that the boys went to amuse
themselves by sailing boats on a large and deep
pool of water which had filled up with tho late
rains, in doing which, the youngest fell in, and
the elder, in trying to save his brother, was pulled
in by him, and they were both drowned. A ver
dict of accidentally drowned was returned.
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