The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY A HUSBAND ON HIS WIFE.—
Thomas Haddin, a morose and determined looking fellow,
aged 46 years, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged
with assaulting his wife Henrietta.
The complainant's face was terribly disfigured, and her
eyes were swollen and blackened. This was one of the
most aggravated cases in the annals of wife-beating. The
unhappy couple have been married 24 years, and have been
lately dwelling at No. 2, Thomas-street, Commercial-road
East. The prisoner is a tobacco pipe maker. He has been
frequently charged with assaulting his wife, and punished
for so doing. On one occasion he was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment for a violent assault upon her.
Repeated punishments had no effect in checking
his brutality. This morning at one o'clock he came
home intoxicated, bringing with him a disreputable
strumpet, and on the door being opened he turned his wife
out of the house, and told her he had brought home her
mistress. The wife forced her way into the house again,
on which the prisoner beat her in a savage manner over the
head and face with his clenched fist. Blow after blow suc-
ceeded each other, and the unfortunate creature bled pro-
fusely from the nose and mouth. She was covered with
blood.

George Vincent, of Plaistow-marsh, Essex, said—l was
passing the end of the court named Thomas-street this
morning, and heard cries of "Murder," and "Police."
The prisoner opened the street door of his dwelling, and
struck his wife on the mouth, and again on the nose and
head, and also kicked her. The wife forced her way into
the house again, and directly afterwards I heard the noise
of a most tremendous blow. When the wife came out of
the house again she was a frightful sight. She was
covered with blood and sould not see out of her eyes. I
heard the prisoner say, " You go out, I have brought home
my mistress, and don't want you."
Samuel Rawlings, a police-constable, No. 116 A, said
he found the complainant on the ground exhausted and
bleeding from the nose and mouth. She was carried to the
station house, and was very weak and exhausted. The pri-
soner was taken into custody aria said he had had three
months' imprisonment, and did not care if he had eighteen
months.

The prisoner, in defence, said his wife was a drunkard,
and he could not live with her. •

The wife admitted that she had taken to drinking too
much at times. Her husband had driven her to drown her
sorrows in intemperance.

Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner was a savage ruffian, and
ought to be the last man to complain of any intemperance
on the part of his wretched and ill-used wile. The pri-
soner was a drunkard and a savage, and had the audacity
to bring home an abandoned woman as well as himself,
and turn his own wife out of doors. He never met with a
more unmitigated ruffian. He sentenced the prisoner to
six months' imprisonment and hard labour.

Naval Notification by the Polish Govern••

ment,

The following circular has been ussued by the
Polish Government:—

VC? ARsAw, Nov. 9, 1863.
The captain-general hereby informs the mer-
chants of neutral powers that on the Ist January,
1864 (new style)
he will open hostilities against
:Russia. From that date, and in conformity with
the dispositions of the treaty of Paris with reference
to naval hostilities, all ships and vessels under the
Russian flag aro declared lawful prize ; but the
Polish navy
will always and every where respect
the rights of neutrals, and the captain-general
hereby solemnly engages to do so, in the name of
the Government and of all who have adopted its
flag. For it is not a war of piracy which he declares
against Russia ; it is a regular war, made in the
name of a people regularly constituted, and under
the authority of a power emanating from and sus-
tained by the national will. The Polish sailors
will use the rights of belligerents, and will respect
the obligations which that title imposes, while
knowing how to make them respected with regard
to themselves.

It might nevertheless happen that during a
battle, or in order to ensure the safety of Polish
vessels, it will be necessary to drown or burn
prizes without its being possible to examine the
.
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which inevitably results for commerce from the
chances of war, and the captain-general hastens to
point it oaultl,
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merchants,
its occurrence,
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inviting by
neutral States to abstain from loading and insuring
Russian ships in future.
The captain-general finds it for the present im-
possible to address this manifesto to regularly esta-
blished Governments, but he is confident that
merchants will see In the publicity he gives to this
man!lesto a certain guarantee of the straightfor-
wardness with which he carries on the struggle.
lle has been enabled to act for several months, and
as a proof of this it will be sufficient to recall the
v.:tent and fortunate expedition he directed on the
coast of Circassia. But he has not wished to do
anything in the dark, for by so doing he might
have compromised the interests of neutrals and the
flags of ships under his commend.
If he has thought it his duty to wait, ho now
declares it his duty to act ; and in conclusion he
again begs to state that he has fizEd the let of
January next us the date of the commencement of
hostilities.
The Captain General of the Naval Forces of Poland,
UAGNAN.

The Price of Gold.

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The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mill,
10isli Mint price Of .C 3
Pee .C 1 ster'lC" and
1
withl.,o ld ottikeisl2:,s,.g3
17s. 100. per ounce fin- standard gold, it appear that gold is
et the
pstaioirntg ex
fici
elisaenrzaetcensi
nearly 3-10ths Fer cent. dearer in Loudon than in r aria.
By udvices fromllamburg the price of gold is 425 i per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per .C 1 stcrlin,
Standard gold at the English Mipt:price is, therefore, about
1-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg thau in London.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
GO days' sight is 1516.t0 1130 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 456 to 451 per cent. At these rates there is scarcely
any profit on the importation Of gold from the United
States.