The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-10 00:00:00

WANDSWORTH.

A VIOLENT TEMPER.—IMPitImoNMENT WITRIIET A FINE.
Martha Boyd, living near the Fox and Grapes, 'Wim-
bledon. appeared before Mr. Ingham to answer a sum-
mons charging her with committing a serious assault upon
Mien Howes, who came into court with her eyes black-
ened.

The defendant having pleaded guilty, the complainant,
who was represented by Mr. Wilson, was called upon to
state her case shortly. It appeared iet there had been a
dispute between the two women with reference to en
untruthful statement made by the defendant against the
complainant's daughter. The complainant went to the
defendant on the 2nd inst. for an explanation, when the
latter took a kettle full of water from the fire-place and
threw it at the former. The complainant was struck
violently on the face, both her eyes were blackened, and
her clothes were saturated with water.

The defence was that the complainant would not go
away when she was requested. In the heat of passion the
defendant got off her chair and threw the kettle at her.
The defendant denied that the kettle contained boiling
water.

The complainant said there was a fire in the grate, and
the water smoked after it touched the ground. She, how-
ever. did not feel scalded.

Ellen Boyd, the defendant's daughter, who appeared to
be in a sickly state of health, was called, and sobbed
loudly while giving her evidence. She said her mother
told theoomplainant to go away twioc. She refused, and
her mother said she would make her go away. Her mother
had a violent temper, and she threw the kettle at the
complainant.
Mr. Inirham, after requesting the witness to retire, told
the defendant he was very sorry for her daughter. but
he could not allow such an outrage to pass without pu-
nishment.

The defendant then said the complainant's daughter had
been keeping company with a young man. After he was
gone she took up with another young man, and she (the
defendant) expressed surprise after so much profession of
love for the other.

Mr. Ingham—Twentyonc days' imprisonment,with hard
labour.

Defendant (looking at the complainant)—l hope she is
satisfied.

A remarkable occurrence took place yesterday
morning at Wimbledon. At breakfast time, in the re.
freshment department, a loud cry for a doctor was
raised, and surgeon-Major Wyatt, of the Guards,
who happened to he passing at the time, went
in and found one of the assistants lying on the floor,
already black in the face, and with a very few seconds of
life remaining ifabelp were not promptly administered.
The man had been in the act of swallowing when seized
with a fit, and a large morsel of bread had stuck fast in
the windpipe. There was no time to send for surgical
appliances, so the doctor put in his fingers, and with them
removed the fragment that was causing suffocation, but
the moment this was done the patient, who all the while
was utterly unconscious, closed his teeth with a spasmodic
jerk, biting the fingers of the doctor nearly to the bone.
The men bad recovered sufficiently in the afternoon to
call and thank Dr. Wyatt for his timely aid, but the latter
retains a souvenir anything but agreeable of the oc-
currence.

The inauguration of the opening of the Hamp-
shire and Isle of Wight Loan Exhibition at Southampton
will be celebrated on the 17th inst. by a grand ceremony,
consisting chiefly of a selection di sacred music performed
by a choir of 200 singers. The exhibition will contain up-
wards of 2,000 works of art, modern and antique curiosi-
ties, and specimens of useful and beautiful manufactures
of the southern counties of England, the value of which
is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling. The Queen,
as an inhabitant of the Isle of Wight, has contributed a
number of valuable works of art. The whole of the
Hartley Institution in the above•named town, together
with a contiguous edifice erected at an expense of nearly
1,000/., will form the exhibition building. The Hon.
W. Cowper, who succeeded the late Lord Palmerston as
President of the South of England Literary Institution,
will preside at the inauguration ceremony, assisted by the
nobility and gentry of the county. Railway trains will
run to and from Southampton on the day of inaugura-
tion, and there will be grand musical performances every
week in the exhibition building. The exhibition will re.
main open neatly three months.

SHARE LISTS.-(THIS DAY.)

0111 o'CLooK.

The railway market is tirm to-day, and a rise of
Lthl per cent. has taken place in Metropolitan,
n on and North Western, Lancsahire and
Yorkshire, South Eastern, and Great Eastern
stocks.

London and North-Western stock is now quoted
1181 to 1; Great Western, 51i to 52k ; Midland,
126 to k ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 123 to
1; South-Eastern, 691 to 701 ; Great Eastern, 321
to 331 ; Caledonian, 126 to 127; Metropolitan,
134 to ; Great Northern, 121 to 122 ; ditto A,
131 to 132 ; and Loudon, Chatham, and Dover,

204 to 21i.
Foreign and colonial railway securities have
been dealt in to a fair extent, and prices generally
are steady.