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

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—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 Jamee 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 65 K, succeeded in recovering her,
and after providingher 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. He laughed at her, and
treated her with scorn, and she resolved that her life arc,
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. JOll3B,
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 ? " 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 subequently 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 lighterman named Perkins, who was
in chargo of the ales for shipment.

The prisoner, who began crying, said he was guilty, and
he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard
labour in the House of Correction.

WESTMINSTER,

STRANGE APPROPRIATION OF STOLEN PROPERTY,—
Amelia Johnson was placed at the bar before Mr. Selfe,
charged with stealing a dress and a great number of
children's frocks, &c., valued at upwards of £5, the pro-
perty of Mt. Batchelor, solicitor's clerk, 67, Charlwood-
street, Pimlico.

Elizabeth Batchelor, wife of the prosecutor, said that the
prisoner, who is 17 years of age, entered her service about
two months since and stayed there till the previous evening,
when, on account of some property being missed, she was
given into custody. Witness went to Margate a month ago,
and when she returned on Friday she found that her morn-
ing dress and various other articles were missing. Prisoner,
when accused of the robbery, denied it, but aft erwards ad-
mitted she had stolen the things, and from a communication
made by her, witness went with Sergeant Huddy, 2 B, to
Lambeth, where the prisoner's mother resides, and on en-
tering the room found some of the stolen articles, consisting
of 12 pinafores and some frocks, in the process of washing.
There were two children in a bed in the room, and on one
of them was found a night-shirt belonging to the prosecu-
trix, and on the other a similar article. The mother ad-
mitted pledging some of the articles, and some duplicates
were given up.

Prisoner declined saying anything.
Prisoner's mother said she had brought the things home,
and said her mistress had given them to her. They were
all old, and she thought there was no harm in keeping them
and pledging some of them.

Mr. Sella remanded the prisoner till Friday for the pawn-
brokers to attend.

EARTHQUAKE IN CANADA.—The Quebec Gaeztte
of the 20th nit. says :—" This afternoon, between
I and 2 o'clock, a smart shock of earthquake was felt
throughout this city, lasting for several seconds. The
houses were so violeatiy shaken that all who were in them
made their way to the streets as quick as possible. We are
happy to state that no damage was done, as far as we have
heard, except the falling of a few bricks from chimneys.
The atmosphere at the time was clear, with a strong bretz-i
from the north-east. The present shock exceeded in power
that which we experienced in October, 1860." Telegrams
state that the earthquake was not felt at Montreal ; two
shocks were felt at Danville, at Father Point, and at L'lslet,
and at this last place, which is 43 miles from Quebec on the
south side of the St. Lawrence, "several of the cars were
nearly capsized."

THE DUTIES OF NEUTRALS.—Mr. Thomas Baring
will on the motion for an adjournment on Friday
next, call the attention of the house to the fact "that an
armed steamer is now in the port of Liverpool, which, hav-
ing been originally manned and equipped from British
ports, has preyed upon the commerce of a friendly nation,
and has never been in any port of the belligerent under
whose flag she sails ;" and will ask the First Lord of the
Treasury " whether ho thinks the admission of such ves-
sels to British harbours consistent with our international
obligations, our professions of neutrality, and the preserva-
tion of British interests."