The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

Tor.! f;rITT
EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1860.

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The prisoner held down his head and cried very much as
his landlord volunteered this character of him, and, on the
question being put to him, he elected to be sentenced by
Wa court inst.sad of being sent for trial.
The Lord Mayor said he would take time to consider
what sentence be should pans upon him.
John Revere, a cigar:maker, was charged with an a;gra.
vated assault upon his wife.
The wife, though she gave the prisoner into custody, did
not attend to state the charge ; but a young woman, a
stringer to both of them, who happened to witness the as-
sault, came voluntarily forward to speak to it. She said
she was in Bishop gate-street on Monday night, and heating
a cry of "Murder " and "Police," she ran to the spot,
when she maw the prisoner dragging a woman along by the
hair of her head. A gentleman- who saw the assault broke
an umbrella over the prisoner's head ; and a policeman who
aim had the greatest difikulty in forcing him to re-
lates his bold of the weenaa. At her request
the witness went with her to the police-station, when
she gave the prisoner in charge. There she said she was
his wile, and they had been married some years., but that
she could not live with him by TOWS of his ill usage, and
had left him four or five times. Her face was very much
swollen, and a great deal of blood was upon the front of her
drew.

The prisoner said the blood had flowed from his own
face, from a wound which his wife inflicted with a large
door-key. Three weeks ago she sold everything he had and
left the hones, and be had not since seen her until Monday
night, when be met her in Biaboyegate-street, and taunted
her with her ill-behaviour, and they had a quarrel
The Lord Mayor said, as the pnsoner's wife was not in
attendance, he should discharge him.

IuoH•9TREET.

Edward Byrne, 9, Tichborne-street, described as a ladies'
dressmaker, was re-examined on the charge of long-con-
tinued ill-treatment to Hannah James. hie young servant
girl, and for an assault on Sunday, the sth not. The court
was much crowded, end Viscount ltsynhani, M.P.,as on the
former examination and the previous application, occupied
a seat at the magistrate's table.
Mr. Edward Lewis, as before, attended for the defence,
and at his request the witnesses (there were several present)
were ordered to withdraw.

Yr. lyrwnitt having eked if the girl, as complainant, was
present, a youn poorly clad girl, who, though stated by a
witness, Who 19, certainly did not look more than 13, came
forward and inu sworn. _ _

--lir7vion—s—toTieTieVilienee, Mr. Levis submitted that the
=MOM Maw for an assault on the sth, that was the only
affair the court ought to go into.
The girl gave her name as above, and her present address
Praderyn, near Merthyr Tydvil, Glamargaoshire, with her
paresis. She stated that she entered the defendant's
service but ebristmas-day, and that Mr. and Mrs. Byrne
beat her every day.
Mr. Lewis—What did he do on the Sth

Complainant—He struck me with the handle of the
weeping broom.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—How was it
Com*inent—Xm Byrne found a live thing on my
clothes, and told Br. Byrne, who spoke to me in his room
about it. I told him my mother never used to find such
things on me, and he said "Don't tell a he," and struck me
with the handle over the back of my hand, which hurt me
very much, and it swelled up. I screamed out, and Mrs.
Warren came up to me—it she hadn't, he would have beaten
me more. The next morning I was sent home, and didn't
know I was to go till then. He took me to the station, and
sent me off.

R r:- hitt—Do you know the girl Ellen Wing
Corn • t—Yes, sir. She is Mr. Byrne's work-girl.
Mr. hitt—Have you had any quarrel with her?
Coin ' t—No, sir ; but she mils me bad 11111:116L
In reply to the magistrate, complainant said her father
had bought her a frock, but she hadn't many things, and
what she had she washed herself. She wu 17 last
birthday.
The witnesses as to previous ill-treatment and beatings
were not called, Mr. Lewis, immediately on the conekt-
lion of the complainant's evidence, and some little masa-
examination, observing that he did not think he need make
any observations on the case as it stood.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it had very properly been brought
before him. He had adjourned the case for the pur-
pose of hearing the girl's own version of it, and
the feelings of her friends and relatives on the subject, if
not sooner satisfactorily settled. The girl had now attended,
and. be must my, had given her evidence in the
simple and unvarnished style of the poor of the principality.
As to the amault itself, be could understand n man's tatim
in a passion, which we were all more or less liable to
his striking a blow, bat in this be was by no means justi-
fied, and his doing so was likely to expose him to remark
out of doors. The girl evidently was of the poorer class, and
did not appear in age more than 13. It was fortunate for
the defendant that the case bad come out so mildly. If the
girl was dirty it was to be traced to her poverty and her
want of proper clothing. For the assault of the sth August
he should fine the defendant ilk, or fourteen days in the
House of Correction.