The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-07 00:00:00

His Honour now held that he had no power to release.
It was different from an application under the 112th sec-
tion of the old act, which gave the Court a discretionary
power. In the case of Colonel Waugh, there was
a great doubt whether this Court had a power
to diecharge as against the order of the superior court, but
in this case the court above had been applied to, and had
up to the present time upheld the proceedings of its own
court, His Honour therefore refused to order the release,
but would, as the liberty of the subject was so important,
afford an opportunity for appeal, and fix the amount of
deposit at the lowest possible amount, £lO.
It was intimated that the appeal would be entered in due
course, but, in the meantime, Mr. Smith must remain in
custody.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

THAMES.
ATTEMPTED SUIOIDE.—DISTRESSING CASE.—Margaret
Cotton, a very respectable young woman, who has been in
good situations, Was brought up, on remand, before Mr,
Partridge, charged with attempting self-destruction.
A few mornings since the prisoner went to the banks of
the Lea Cut, in Limehouse, and plunged into the water.
She would have been drowned but for the tact and bravery
exhibited by a man named James Park, of No. 9. Flower's-
lane, Stainsby-road, Limehouse, who got into the water
and held her until further assistance was rendered. She
was quite exhausted when taken out of the canal, and
was removed to the station. house in Poplar, where police-
sergeant Bridgland, No 651 i, succeeded in recovering her,
and after providing her with dry clothing,sent her to the Step-
ney Union, at Bromley. Her recovery soon followed, and
she was brought before Mr. Partridge on Monday, and re-
manded. Her statement was a very distressing one. She
had been seduced by a man named Alexender Mamoth, a
native of Hungary, who is well known at this court, and
who turned out to be married. Ho laughed at her, and
treated her with scorn, and she resolved that her life and
her miseries should end together, and was very sorry that
she had not accomplished her purpose: She now appeared in
a better frame of mind, and Mr. Partridge read a letter he
had received from the Rev. Mr. Jephson, the; chaplain of
the Clerkenwell House of Detention, which stated that the
prisoner had expressed great penitence, and had promised
not to repeat the attempt on her life. Mr. Flowers, the
principal of an excellent Christian Institution in Silver-
street, Stepney, had been kind enough to interfere in this
case, and he thought the best thing would be to send her to
a refuge. He should discharge her, and hand her over to
the care of Mr. Flowers, who would provide her with an
asylum.

DARING ROBBERY ON BOARD A BARGE.--WM. Jones,
a lad employed about the barges on the river, was charged
with stealing 12 bottles of beer.

It appeared that a watchman, named Edward Cole, in the
service of the East and West India Dock Company, stopped
the prisoner as he was about to leave the East India Dock
at the river entrance, and asked him if he had anything
about him, to which the lad saucily answered "Nothing.
What do you think I have got in my pockets P" The
watchman dragged the prisoner into his box and took from
each of his trousers pockets a bottle of ale, and from his
breast pocket a third bottle of ale. They were sealed for
exportation. The prisoner said he found the three bottles
of ale on the quay, but he afterwards told another dock
watchman that he found them in a dust bin. He was
asked why he came into the dock, and he made an absurd
reply. It was subsquently discovered that a case of bottled
ale on board the barque Martha in the dock had been
broken open and 12 bottles of ale taken out. The three
bottles taken from the prisoner were a portion of them. The
barge was owned by a lighterrnan named Perkins, who was
in charge of the ales for shipment.
The prisoner, who began crying, said be was guilty, and
ho was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard
labour in the House of Correction.