The Press.
London, England, 1855-10-27 00:00:00

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many of whom were flinging stones in all directions.
Many kept pelting with pieces of granite, brick, &c. I
distinctly saw Williamson throw at the windows of the
house, and there were loud cries of " Go it 1.. " Keep it up
with the stones !" and " Cheap bread !" Upon every
smash of glass taking place the mob shouted, " Hurrah !"
More constables arrived, and we at last succeeded in
motoring order. The whole neighbourhood was in a state
of the greatest excitement and alarm.
The prisoners were fined 30s. for the wilful damage
at Mr. Attride's, or a month's hard labour in the
House of Correction.

WIFE-BEATING.
ON MONDAY, James King, a plasterer, .living at
Barnsbury, was charged before Mr. Corrie, at
Clerkenwell, with having violently assaulted his
wife. The complainant stated that she had three
children, and got her living by washing and ironing,
and that the prisoner had constantly beaten and ill-
treated her because she would not give him her
money :

On Friday night, while I WU at work in my room, the
prisoner come home, and said, " I will now give you all I
wish." He then locked the door, and struck me twice
with his clenched fist on the head, once on the eye, and
once on the forehead, which knocked me down nearly in-
sensible. I bled very much. He then kicked me on the
leg, and i bled from the wound. It is now bleeding. A
surgeon was sent for and my wounds were dressed.
While he was beating me I screamed and called
" Murder!" The neighbours came and burst open the
door. He made his escape out of the back window.

The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said his wife
was always " nagging" at him. Mr. Corrie, remark-
ing upon the brutality of the case, sentenced the
prisoner to six months' hard labour in the House of
Correction. The wife fainted away upon hearing
the decision of the magistrate.
MR. BARON MARTIN, at the Central Criminal Court
on Thursday, sentenced to transportation for life
one George Mulley, for a brutal assault upon a
woman. The particulars of the case, which appeared
in the police reports of September last, are briefly
these. The prisoner, who had repeatedly threatened
to do for the prosecutrix, came home on the night of
the 21st of September, and, on her asking him for
some money, he attempted to cut her throat with a
clasp knife, stabbed her four times, and then beat
her on the head till she fell senseless. Upon this
he ran away, leaving the poor woman to the care of
her neighbours. The jury returned a verdict of
" Guilty," and Mr. Baron Martin, in passing sentence,
said :

It. was truly horrible to bear and read daily of the brutal
outrages upon women ; and he felt some surprise that the
justices did not send more for trial before the judges, and
he wished it to be well known that if convicted before
the judges, that they had come to the determination of
passing the fullest sentence allowed them by law, in the
hope of making an example to deter others from similar
arts of brutality. In this case he should sentence the
prisoner to transportation for life.
ON Wednesday a painful case was examined into
by Mr. Jardine, at Bow-street. The case had been
remanded for some days, and at the conclusion cf
this examination was again remanded for a week.
The particulars which came out in evidence were
briefly these :—Elizabeth Joyce, an unfortunate girl,
of twenty years of age, finding herself near her con-
finement, on the 6th of Oct..ber last consulted a
chemist, who gave her medicine, and told her to get
to bed as soon as possible, as she would probably be
o )nfined before morning. The girl, assisted by a com-
p mion, went at once to St. Giles's Workhouse, and
begged for admission, as she felt the pains of labour
coming on. The porters spoke sharply to her, and
one pushed her hard in the stomach, and said, " Oh,
there's nothing the matter with you. You are not
in labour !"—and at length, after some hesitation,
sent her up to the midwives. The midwives ex-
amined her, declared that nothing was the matter
w.th her but disease, and sent her back to the por-
t'rs, who "pushed" her out of the house. With her
o nnpanion she went to Bow-street, to entreat the
interference of the police. An inspector heard
her tale of suffering, and blandly recommended her
ti go back and "try again." Finding expostula-
tion useless, and that the police would give no
assistance, the wretched girl went away, and by
chance met with a young man whom she had once
known. She told him her condition, and he instantly
took her to a house in Eagle-court, and hired a
room for her. The poor creature, now in acute pain,
undressed and got into bed, but had scareely been
there a few minutes before she was delivered of a
dead child. The landlady of the house hearing her
orbs came into the room, and, as soon as she was
aware of what had happened, said : " Dress yourself
immediately, and leave my house, or I will give you
into the custody of a policeman for coming into a
strange house for such a purpose." Elizabeth Joyce
upon this got up, and the landlady, wrapping the
dead child in an old shawl, took her out and pushed
her along into Red Lion square. Having arrived
there, this humane woman proposes to go for a
policeman, upon one condition—" that Elizabeth
Joyce will say she was confined in the street, and not
in the house." A policeman is soon found, and, being