The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WIFE.--William Neville,
a rigger, who has been in custody 12 days, was brought
up on remand, charged with cutting and wounding his wife
in a very shocking manner.

It appeared from the evidence of the wife, who was a very
reluctant witness, and did all she could to save her husband,
that she was dwellin, with him and her five children in
Sophia.street, Poplar, up to the 2d instant. On the even
mg of that day she went to the White Horse public house,
in Poplar, in search of him, and, finding him there, asked
him for money to buy victuals for the children. He came
out of the house, and sbe spoke very angrily to him several
times. Two or her children came up and spoke to him
while he was speaking to a young man, and he gave one of
the children 2d. They went home together, and she threw
the halfpence at him, and aggravated him, and, of comae,
he struck her with his knife which he always carried about
with him. She had five children, and a better father to
them and a better husband to her never lived than the pri-
soner when he was sober.

Michael Barry, a police constable, No. 313 K, produced
a rigger's knife of large dimensions with which he prisoner
had inflicted a severe wound on the arm and which caused
a large effusion of blood. The prisoner said his wife in
flitted the wound on her own arm. There was a pail with
a good deel of water and blood in it in the room where the
transaction took place.
The woman was recalled and said she did not know
whether her husband struck ber or not. She got the blow
in the confusion between the lights.
Mr. F. IL Anderson, a Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons and assistant house-surgeon at the Poplar Hos-
pital, saw Mary Neville on the 2d instant. She was evi-
dently in a slight state of collapse. There was an extensive
lacerated wound with blunt jagged edges, evidently inflic ed
with some very sharp weapon on the right arm. It was
three and a half inches in length and two inches deep.
Iha muscles were cut through. The only wonder was how
toe knife escaped the radial artery. The woman was very
ill, and lost a very large quantity of blood. The knife pro-
dueed would have inflicted such a wound.

The prisoner said he did cut his wife with his knife, and
was very sorry for it. They had lived happily together 16
years, ann he never raised a weapon to her before. She was
a good wife, but her temper was " hot," and she provoked him
very mucb,but for all hat he ought not to have struck her. He
had always endeavoured to do his duty to his wife and chil-
dren. His wife thought he had been'at work on the 2d of
May, but he had not. and he had no money to give her ex-
cept 2d., which she threw at him. When the wound was
inflicted he wantel to bind his handkerchief round the
wound, but he was too agitated and was quite unable to do
so, and that caused the filor of the room to be covered with
blood as described by the police constable.
The depositions were completed by Mr. Bowdler, the
second clerk, and the prisoner was committed for trial.

SHIPPING---This Day,

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Weunesday Morning.
Arrived—Courier (steamer), and Halcyon, from Havre;
Georges, from Cherbourg.

EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Wednesday MornTEg.
Arrived—Criterion, from Porto Rico; Rifleman, from
Jamaica; Margaret, from Trinida J ; Lena, from Wolgast;
Son Belle, from Colombo; Marksa, from St. Kitt's ; 11,4-
bola, from Mauritius, 'Protean from Savanna; Ornelis,
from Port Augusta.
Arrived, May 14—Telegraph, from Mauritius; Eliza-
beth Ann, from Colombo; t.oleroon, from Penang; Elec-
tric Spark, from Cal ao ; Esukralda, from Tarragona;
GieLbrook. from Jamaica; Eicott, from Trinidad.
Sailed, May 14.1-Owen Glendower, for New Zealand ;
Royal Visitor, for Port Philip; w illiam Carey, for Wel-
lington, New Zealand • Ulysses and Duman for Calcutta;
Reba, for Nassau.

DEAL, Tuesday Morniug.
Passed—Truro, from Belize ; Osbert, from Trinidad ;
Adam, from Calcutta (iu tow); Salvadorc, from Terceira;
all for London; Morning St r, from Lonaon for Antigua,
Merida, from London for Jersey, Loaner, from London for
Montevideo; Augusta, steamer, from Liverpool for London.

THE 0.

RELIEF FUND.--The 'widows and
relatives of the crew of her Mhjesty's late ship
Orpheus, who have been paid allotments for the month of
April from the relief fund at the Royal Naval College,
Portsmouth, are requested to attend at the college at 11
o'clock An Friday morning, the 29th of May, when thty
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