The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-02 00:00:00

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAT.)

SOUTHWARK.
ALM= ATTEMPTED NITEDER OP ♦ FEMALE.

TA•fm,u Jael:con. a vagabond•looking fellow, was brought
before lir. Madam. charged with cutting and wounding
no unfortunate woman, residing in Wit-
luimstreet. Newinoon-causeway, with intent to do her
...me grievous bodily harm.
. .

,rt;ennt 21 X, the acting invector at the
--one, end Police-itation, ',reduced the following •!ertitiosjir:
" I hereby certify that Catherine Upton has received a
-.cycle scalp wound musing intensive beioorrhage..—
I. W. If House Surgeon, Su it Thomas's .
The injured woman was not in attendance.
Coleman, ZI M, said that he wan oe duty in Sewing-
• • causeway about four o'dock yesterday afternoon,
when be received information that a woman
bet bad her throat cut in a house in Wil-
Iwo-street- He proceeded there, and on entering the
~,nn, he haw Cathenne I "pton lying on the door in a pool
A 01111) of which was running •lown her fa..:e and neck,
gal a bade wa lying by the aide of hid'. .1 dolor WA/ is
Mend ince, and he said to witness " that the wound was mot
done be that. He bad done what he could, and she had
better be taken to the boggled." The prisoner was in the
i.hgo, and uaderatandiug from the female that he bad done
he took him into custody, and had the injured woman
,4,tiveyed to the hospitaL
Mr. litirebam asked whether there was any wound on
her neck .

M gnats replied that there was not. He hail soeo her
thu mornieg, and she told him that she had lived with the
prisoner about twelve months. That on Monday night she
went tr• a masquerade, and was drunk all Tumidity, and
that they had a quarrel. The prisoner push••d her down,
tel .he fell with her bead against the fender.
The prisoner here said that such were the facts. She
.crittehed his face very much, as his worship could see, be-
fore he struck her. The knife was one she had been
itsing at the time, and it fell with ►er, and got over blood.
Mr. Benham said that wirmethlas 'serious might turn
•rot from such a wound, therefore be should remand the
primmer fur a week.

A SUNDERLAND MAIL WRECK ED.--.V RROW

ESCAPE OP THE CREW.

1117NDMILAND, TIIIIWAY.
YeAter.lay afternoon, s hurlest of laden vessels
left the Hear with • light brew Navies at the WS., but
ire tnedietely they got outside lien was a dad isle, o that
it was found impowsible to coke an An. Under these
ircurtistasoes, An additional dangler appeared is the shape
.4 a very thick fog, and the heavy sea reaming at the time
tented to drive the ships on *bore. The harms Vibilia,
Forster. bound for Montreal, laden with coal mid coke, was
or of the vessels so unfortunately situated, and as she could
not get • steam-tug to tow her oft the 1111141 she drove to the
oortlyward, and touched the rocks at Snotty Poiat. tki•
,ache, was immediately let go. and, when the dagger became
wore apparent, another was dropped. Them meamee,
I..irever, were too late to be of any avail, for the vessel
weet swag the breakers, and the crew had barely time to
lump late, their boat and push off when the vessel
went thumping umon,g the rocks, and was sooe dashed
to pieces by the sea. The crew next had a very narrow
oreaps with their lives, for in the fog and darkness
they were obliged to let the boat drive on shore anywhere,
tad trot to Proviileme for a safe landfall. The boat was
arried adore by the wave% and, dashing again.t the cliff,
era. soon koockod to pieces. The crew fortunately succeeded
ix itag the rock.. and by wading along the shore they
Mit bed a dry spot of beach. Here they met the ci.,uit.guard,
who took them up to the station. 'Chit was between
',levee o'clock and midnight, and after sheltering and dry.
ma themselves in the hut, they returned to Sunderland. The
aie-i saved oohing but the a loth+r they had oo their hacks,
od the captain eared o.me of 111, rrhu.bl.e eseeiot a watch.
The Yiirilia we. built in 1.431, oo the Wear, was 271 tons
r.iiiter, and the pr q.erty of Messrs. T. Reed and T. A.
.t. Thi. moron 4 she lay On the roofs on her broad-
tompletely 4.B.Tered to pieces.
The I hmau Queen, Barry, for London, was also to dill'.
*tias during the night, and was so near the rocks off
W hitborn village that her anchor was let go. The crew were
roll apprelteneive lest she should drive on the rocks and
is, mile a wreck, so they took to their boat, and had ap.
oreuily bees either afraid or unable to return, fir they
I.oded at the Sunderland sea outlet about +even o'clock
this monde's. About the same time the steam tugs Bel-
"Piet and Willem and John made a triumphal entry into
the river, towing the abandoned vessel, which they picked
ip as • derelit, and for which they will claim mileage. If
'hey he .aceeisful in making out their claim, their prize
Ad! be worth about 540'. to them. The crew numbers six
In all, the tugs carrying three men each. The other vessels
which west out had lain quiet, by a timely casting of their
iie hors, until a favouring brew sprung up and earned
then, out to sea in the morning. Had the fog sod sea been
iccompanied by a wind from the eastward, the eeftee9oence,
would have been most disastrous, as in all probability the
whole of the vessel, would have been driven ashore and
wrecked oa the coast.