The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

THAMES.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO A WlFE.—George Rood, a la-
bourer, a singularly ill-favoured, dissipated-looking fel-
low, of No. 2, John-street, Charles-street, St. George-
in-the East, was brought before Mr. Ingham, charged
with attempting to murder his wife, Ann Rood, and
throwing her from the first•floor window of her dwelling
into the street.

The prosecutor, who was led into court, and was in a
very weakly condition from loss of blood, stated that
her husband had long been in the practice of ill-using
her. He came home last night drunk, and took her
child from her, and after throwing it across the room,
commenced swearing at her, and kicked her. She went
to the assistance of her child, and he said, " It's you I
want. I have been waiting to do this a long while, and
I am determined to be strung up for you, and I shall
not be satisfied till I have taken your life." He then took
the child from her again. She took it from him, and a
struggle ensued, and he agaite kicked her and beat her
She went towards the window, which was broken, and
threw up the sash, and, being fearful the child would be
killed, she dropped it into the arms of a neighbour in
the street, and called out "Murder." She was hanging out
of the window, and calling on the neighbours to assist,
whe❑ her husband raitied her by the heels and delibe-
rately threw her out of the window into the street. She
was most feat fully bruised, and was rendered insensible.
The poor woman, who was in great pain, here sobbed
aloud, and was assisted to a chair. _ _

Several neighbours of the parties spoke to the brutal
conduct of the prisoner, and said that he had often
threatened to kill his wife, and Mr. Field, an undertaker,
said the prisoner was a most brutal drunken scamp, con-
tinually inebriated : the wife was a sober woman and
very industrious.
Henry Groves, 251 K, said he beard screams of murder
last night in John-street, and saw the woman hand her
child to the people below. Directly afterwards the pri-
soner lifted her up and, using horrible imprecations,
threw her out of the window.
The prisoner on being called on for his defence, said,
in a sullen manner, "I have nothing to say."
Mr. Ingham—Of all the abominable and cruel cases
of assault on woman it has been my lot to hear this is
the worst ; and if the Legislature had given me the
power
to inflict a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment
and bard labour, I would have enforced it in this case.
I sentence the prisoner to six months' imprisonment and
hard labour, and at the end of that period he is to enter
into sureties to keep the peace towards his much ill used
wife, and all her Majesty's subjects for the space of 12
months.

The prisoner was immediately sent away in the van
to prison.

LLOYD'S SECIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

'LONDON, Sept. 15.—Wind this day at noon, N.W., mo-
derato breeze and fine weather.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Arrived—Tribune, from Terranova ; Brunswick (a.),
Plymouth; Courier (a.), and Transit (a.), Jersey; Marga-
ret and Sarah, London ; Atalanta (a.), Havre.
Sailed—Brunswick (a.), for Plymouth ; Alliance ( ),
Havre ; Despatch (s.), Jersey.

LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning.

Wind S.

Sailed.—Hesperns, for Stettin ; Nathaniel Thompson,
Calcutta ; Mary, Quebec; Merw Winkel, Harborg ; Siri,
Lisbon ; Apollos, Groningen ; Vatrona, Constantinople
Stephen and Sarah, Syra ; Cassandra, Rotterdam ; Me
teor, Boston.
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 13.

Wind, W.
Arrived.—Drab, from Iquique ; Havana, Miramichi ;
Primrose, Quebec ; Withelmine, Jamaica.
DUBLIN, Sept. 14.

Wind S.S.E.
Arrived—Elizabeth Moore, from Barbadoes ; Edin,
burgh, Danzig.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday, 10.12 a.m.
Wind variable ; tide nearly low water; fine.
Arrived—Ledbiter, from Husum.
DEAL, Sept. 15, 9.4 G a.m.

Wind N.W. ; fine.
Passed—Sutton Midge, from Enos ; Neptunns, Quebec ;
Omer Pasha, Liverpool ; Claudia, Dominica—all for Lon-
don ; Emperor, Moulmein, for Sunderland ; Royal Thistle,
Havana, for Gothenburg; Blanch, Newcastle, for Calder ;
Prince George, for Glasgow'; Advance, Cardiff; John
So )tt, Demerara ; Remembrance, Crimea ; Mooltan, Ma •
Bras—all from London ; Arruais, Hartlepool, for 'long
Kong ; Laura, Demerara, for London.