The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-08 00:00:00

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Yesterday, Sarah Hayes, a miserable-looking dissi-
pated creature, the wife of a small tradesman living in
Brick-lane, St. Luke's, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Broughton, upon the double charge of having at-
tempted to destroy her own life and that of her infant
child, aged ten months.
From the evidence of the prisoner's eldest daughter,
whose feelings were painfully distressed, it appeared
that her mother had been for many years an inveterate
drunkard, and after having spent the preceding day in
tippling about the neighbourhood, she returned home
at about seven o'clock in the evening in her usual state
of intoxication. Witness advised her to take some tea
and get to bed, but she refused to do so, and urged
witness to bring her the child out of the cradle, which
she reluctantly did. On receiving the child she clutched
it in her arms, and appeared to fondle it at first, but all
of a sudden she pulled out a shoemaker's knife, which
she had concealed in her bosom, and attempted to draw
it across the poor child's throat. Her husband, how-
ever, frustrated her horrible design, by snatching the
infant from her, upon which she turned the knife upnn
herself, and was in the act of plunging it towards her
throat, when her son caught hold of her arm, and wrested
the weapon from her. A policeman was called in, into
whose custody she was given.
The husband was examined, and gave a sad account
of his wife's drunken habits. She pawned everything,
even her children's clothes, and had repeatedly at-
tempted self-destruction.
The prisoner was ordered to find good bail for three
months.

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.—The elections for
the present year have been more adverse to the Liberal
party than any than have occurred since the passing of
the Municipal Reform Act. Ihere is no use in striving
to deny, disguise, or mitigate the fact. We have been
beaten, not only in those Wards where the influence of
Conservatism had heretofore been prevalent, but in some
of our strongest holds. What, then, is the secret of
these reverses ? Is it that Tory policy has found more
favour in the eyes of the electors ? Not so. Is it that
a reaction has taken place ? Not a whit. The num-
bers polled, in comparison with former struggles, show
that the Liberals have mustered as strong as on 'any
former occasion. The secret lies in two sentences.
The Tories have more means at their command, and are
less scrupulous in using them.—Bristol Gazette.
The Assistant-Barristership of the East Riding
of Cork is vacant by the death of Mr. John Martley,
which took place in Dublin on Tuesday.
THE CITY OF GHUZNEE.—The City of
Ghuznee, or more properly speaking, Ghizni, recently
the scene of the triumph of our gallant countrymen,
under the command of Sir John Keane, is not less cele-
brated for its strength than for its antiquity and its his-
torical associations. Mamood, the Sultan of Ghizni,
was the first Mohammedan conqueror of India; he added
the province of Lahore to the Ghiznian dominions, and
made several successful expeditions into the Ghuzzerat,
from each of which he returned to Ghizni laden with
plunder. His successors were the Emperors of India,
of the Affghan Dynasty, who removing the seat of Go-
vernment to Delhi, subjected nearly the whole of the
Indian Peninsula to their sway. They were conquered
early in the sixteenth century by Baber, the grandson
of Tamerlane, and founder of the Mogul Dynasty, the
Sovereigns of which continued to enjoy the title of Em-
perors of India, until they were subdued by the British,
who have now rolled back the tide of conquest upon
Ghizni itself, and rule over a territory of greater extent
than was ever claimed by any former Sovereign of India,
of eith'r th, MU, ,t 1 tho D. picty.