The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-31 00:00:00

scene of a court of justice sitting on a Sunday, and both
judges in the commission proceeding from the altar to the
bench to discharge a jury.
JULY 30.

At the opening of the courtthis morning Mr. Phillimore,
on the part of the crown, havit g declared bis intention to
put the prisoner on her trial a thud time, Mr. Huddleston
put in an affidavit and made an application for a postpone-
ment of the trial until the nen mein", to which his lordship
assented. It having been rumoured that Mr. Justice Brie
would try her this morning, the Ourt was much crowded.

P OLICR-YESTERDAY.
_ WORSHIP STREET.

MUIDIROUS 01;;;;07.-71Sai;17171;00. keS was charged
with cutting and weunding another woman, named Bliss
Williams, and also with stabbing a Germao gentleman,
named Trinkeld, in various pane of his pow,.
The prosecutrix Williams, who laboured under such
exhatis'ian from loss of blood as to be incapable of supporting
herself in the witness box, and was therefore allowed to be
seated in the clerk', office, where the case was t ken, stated
that while proceeding towards her own retidence in Buttis-
hand-street, floaton, at 11 o'clock on the preceding ev. sing,
accompanied by Mr. Trinkeld, who was a friend of her.,
the prisoner suddenly ran up to them, and accused .he wie-
ners of inveigling away a sweetheert of hen named Bruce.
She then looked the prosecutor Trink•ld closely in the face,
and though she acknowledged she lad been mistaken, p• r-
sided that th. had been in her e mpany, and insisted that the
witness had coeceeled him in her house. She assured
her she was roietaaen. and offered to admit her, that she
might be d of the groundlessness of her suspicions,
but the prisoner refused to enter the house, and after follow-
ing her down the street until she reached her own door,
Limed round, aoparently to go away, hut, instead of doing
so. rushed at her and levelled a blow at her right eye with
same sharp ins•runient, but whether it was a pair of scissors
or the blade of a ki.ife she could not distinguish. The in-
strument, however, missed the eye and penetrett d the bridge
of her nose, inflicting s deep wound, from which the blood
poared down her fare in a stream, en caused her such agony
that she scresmed end clung to the gentleman for support;
whilst so doing, and blind rt by the blood and pain she en-
dured, she felt herself stabbed in two oth places, one
in the right side of the neck and dr! other in the inner p..rt
of the thigh, and at the same moment her hi. nd
Trinkeld uttered an ejaculation in Germen denoting that he
had also been stabbed in several place!' by her, and
pointed to his thigh and arm, from which the blood
was pouring copiously through his clothes. The prisoner
then fled rapidly down the s:reet, but was punned
be a constable who bad been attracted by wittiese'e screams
of "Murder,' and who ultimately oserook tier and con-
veyed her to the station, en reaching which she f press.: d
her gratification at what she had done, and said the only re-
gret one had was that she had not cut her nose emirate off.
Toe witness produced the clothes she wort at the time, which
were cut through in several places, and completely saturated
with blood.

M Trinkeli was 1111,10 in attendarc', but frrm his
inability to express him.elf with Auflici nt elssrress in
English, and no interpreter being readily pfoeurable,was not
esamin, d.

Mr. Coward, the divisional surgeon, who was called in to
a•.teod the complainant, deposed to the nature of the injuries
th.•y bad sustained, which, though not scch as to endenger
life, were of a very serious description.
The prisoner was ordered to be IJ:ought up in a week for
;he completion of the evidence, the mapistr.te refusii.g to
accept any amount of hail for her future appearance.