The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

THAMES.

Ann bolt, a dissipated and bloated-looking woman,
the wife of a carpenter and joiner, was brought before
Mr. Yardley charged with violently assaulting her two
children, one about two and the other six years of age.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
an habitual drunkard, and grossly neglected her husband
and children. She was in the practice of wasting her
husband's earnings and selling the children's shoes and
clothes to enable her to indulge her sensual gratifications.
She had been twice held to bail by the magistrates of
the Westminster police-court for violence to her husband
and children. Five months ago the family hired apart-
ments in Gill-street, Limehouse. Since then the pri-
soner had behaved worse than ever, and hor unfortu-
nate husband generally found her on coming home
after a hard day's toil lying on the floor wallowing in
dirt and quite drunk. He was compelled to perform
all those offices for his children which ought to have been
done by the mother. She beat the children a fortnight
ago, and, when the neighbours remonstrated with her,
she abused and. threatened them. Last night, while
she was in a beastly state of intoxication, she beat her
children and threw them about the room.
Mr. Yardley said the prisoner was lost to all sense of
decency and shame. He would not ask her whether she
was ashamed of herself. This was not a solitary instance
of a drunken and infamous woman neglecting her hus-
band and children, sacrificing them for the love of drink;
but the public seldom heard of those cases, numerous as
they were. From some cause or other the women in
the district had become worse and worse. He ordered
the prisoner to find bail to keep the peace for 6 months.
She was committed in default of bail.
VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A POLICE SERGEANT.—James

Wecalierall, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Jewett, an
outfitter, was brought
,hefore'Mr. Yardley charged with
committing a violent assault on William Haynes, a po-

ice sergeant, No. 400 A.

The police sergeant stated that, at an early hour this
morning he was called to a house in John's-place, Back-
road, Shadwell. There was a mob in front of the dwell.

ing, and a woman in a room above was screaming and
calling out murder. He went upstairs and found the
prisoner on the top of his wife, and pummelling her
with his fists. She was bleeding profusely, and ap-
peared to have been dreadfully beaten. Three prosti-
tutes bad seized the prisoner by the hair of the head, and
were attempting to drag him from the woman. He
pulled the prisoner away from his wife, and asked him
what he meant by such conduct, to which he replied,
"What the hell is that to you?" and struck him a violent
blow on the head. A struggle took place, and the pri-
soner got him outside the door and endeavoured to throw
him down stairs and nearly succeeded in doing so. He
then got the tongs from the fire-place and made a blow
at his head, but it fell on his shoulders. The prisoner
then made a rush at him and threw him down stain,.
He procured assistance and went up stairs into the room
a second time. A desperate struggle took place in the
room, and he was compelled to strike the prisoner on
the head with it before he could subdue him and effect
his capture.

Mr. Yariley sentenced the prisoner to 14 days' impri-
sonment in the House of Correction.

SEAMEN'S ADVANCE NOTES. A tradesman named
Myers came before Mr. Yardley and said that he had
been directed by one of the shipping masters of the port
of London to ask his worship's advice under these cir-
cumstances :—About 12 months ago he cashed an ad-
vance note for the payment of a month's wages for a
seaman who had signed articles to proceed on a voyage
to the East Indies and back. The note was made p .y-
-ab'e three days after the sailing of the ship, provided
the seaman sailed with the vessel. The mariner aban-
doned the vessel, which sailed without him, and the
note was cashed. The seaman shipped on board another
vessel, and obtained another
,note, which was cashed,
and played the same trick over again. The dishonest
fellow shipped a third time in a ship bound to the Euxine
with stores for the troops, and sailed in that vessel, which
had just arrived, and the crew of it were paid off this
morning. He demanded the cash he had given for the
advance note, and the sailor refused to pay him. The
shipping master bad detained the man's wages until the
magistrate's opinion was taken .
Mr. Yardley—My opinion is, the shipping master bas
no right whatever to detain the wages, and I am very
much surprised he has done so. Your remedy against the
sailor is in the County Court for money lent, but the

Merchant Shipping Act no longer recognises advance

notes. If tradesmen cash them, or accept them in pay-
ment of goods, they do so at their peril. If advance

notes are given to sailors the owner cannot be com-
pelled to pay them. The law recognising these instru-
ments, and enabling holders of them to sue owners and

agents of ships, has been repealed. So many tricks
have been played by mariners who obtain advance notes,

abandon their vessels, and sail in another, that trades-
men, slopsellers, and licensed victuallers ought to be
very cautious in dealing with them.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Oct. 23.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W. ;
cloudy.
POOLE, Oct. 20.—Wind W,—Sailed----Nelson Packet,
for Newfoundland. 22. Wind variable.—Sailed—Fairy,
for Balaklava.

DARTMOUTH, Oct. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Escort,
from Labrador. Off the port—Panama, from New York,
for Hamburg; Snowdrop, Akyab, for Falmouth.
LERWICK, Oct. 17. —Davis' Straits Whale Fishery.—
The True Love, from Davis' Straits, reports the whale
fishery to be a failure, there having been only nine whales
taken there this season.

CLYDE, Oct. 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Noel, for New-
foundland ; Wild Wave, Shanghai.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 21.—The Albania was met, in lat. 43,
long. 54, waterlogged, and the crow taken off by the Loo-
choo, arrived here.

GLOUCESTER, Oct. 21.—Arrived—Ariadne, from Syra.
QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 21.—Wind N. W.—Arrivod—Bank-
side, from Callao; Dawn and Lord Raglan, from Syra.
Sailed—Volant, for St. Michael's. Off the port—Gem,
from Syra; Greenock, Mauritius, and sailed for the
Clyde.
SHIELDS, Oct. 22.—Wind W.—Sailed—Caspian, for
earth agena.
NEW YORK, Oct. s.—The Kaffir, of Damfrios, from
Rio de' la Hache to Liverpool, with wood, was wrecked
on the west side of Inagua on the Gth Sept.; cargo and
materials saved and sold. _

ST. JOHN'S, N. 8., Oct. B.—The barque Albion, of.
Hartlepool, waterlogged and abandoned, was passed on
the Ist Oct., in lat. 41 N., long. 57 W.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived.—Courier (s.), from Jersey; George, Ply-
mouth ; Atalanta (s.), Havre.
sailed.—Wortby and Don, for Newport ; Georges,
Cherbourg ; Despatch (s.), Jersey; Wonder, (s.), Havre.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind W

Arrived.—Centurion, from New York ; superior, New-
foundland ; May Queen, Mamba ; John and Edward,
Havre ; Arcturus, Mazagan ; Annie Worrell, Buenos
Ayres.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10 son'
Wind W. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; fine.
Arrived, Oct. 22.—Palestine, from New York; Louis?,
Gefle ; Walter Hood, Sydney ; Brutus, Stettin; 3'1,41
Bay, Denia ; Rose, Guernsey ; Gleaner, Memel ;
Emden; Weyborn, Maiodor ; Justinian, Memel.
Arrived, Oct. 23.—Rose and Hohenzollern, from- .uon-
zig air d. ohn Mecrowet,lemfor , GuGenoa ernsey ; Arabia, .
Hobart T 4 Iwn ;
S—S
Magellan, Geelong.

DEAL, Tuesday, 9.30 a..-a.
Wird, S.W. ; light, thick, and hazy.
Anchored.—Ellen, from London, for Newport.
Passed.—Brig Necker, from the westward for the
north.
Several of the outward bound ships sailed last evening
some of which have put back; ono is the Investi,lator,
Captain Prynn, for Adelaide.