The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-13 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS.-A respectable looking
working man from the bister isle, solicited the magistrate's
assistance.
Applicant said he wished to procure the release of a
female child from a convent where she was at present de-
tained, and had thought it best to see a magistrate on the
subject.
Mr. Selfe—Whereabout is the place at which you say she
is detained ?
Applicant—ln Bloomsbury.
Mr. Selfe—lt is one of the reformatory or industrial
schools for females.
Applicant—Yes, your worship.
Mr. Selfe—l have no power to interfere—a magistrate
has no control in such matters. Persons are sent to these
institutions in the ordinary way, and there have to remain
for the appointed time.
Applicant—But may not they be taken out if they are ill?
Mr. Selfe—That is a matter for the consideration of the
Secretary of State, to whom alone you can apply for any
remission of the original order. _ _ _

Applicant—The little girl is my child, and I very much
wish to get her out. At the time she was got in there I
had no power to assist her, but things are altered now, and
I wish to take her out.
Mr. Selfe—Why ?

Applicant—She is labouring under very bad health, and
I don't see if I am able to take care of her and maintain
her why she should be kept there a prisoner, and I wish to
have her.

Mr. Selfe—l must refer you to the Secretary of State;
who alone can order the liberation of the girl.

THAMES.

THE SHIPWRIGHT IN SEARCH OF HIS WlFE.—James
Black, a shipwright, about 30 years of age, who was not
quite sober, was the first of 40 night charges which the
magistrate commenced hearing at 12 o'clock, after disposing
of the applications. The prisoner held on to the dock, and
looked as indignant as possible.
Police-sergeant Bridgland, No. 39 K, said that he was in
attendance at the Eastern Music-hall, Litnehouse, on
Saturday night, when the prisoner, who was intoxicated and
very noisy, presented himself, and wanted to go upstairs to
the concert-room. He told the prisoner he could not be
allowed to enter the concert-room, and must leave. The
prisoner said his wife was in the concert-room, and
wherever his wife was he had a right to be, and
added, if you try and prevent me going up-stairs I'll knock
your b-- head off. At the same time the prisoner made
a blow at his face and missed him, but struck his hat, which
fell off. He seized the prisoner, and quietly removed him
from the building. The prisoner again put himself in a
fighting attitude, and said " I'll smash you up unless you
/et me pass, and again knocked his hat off He then took
the prisoner into custody an I locked him up.
The prisoner said he was in search of his wife, and hear-
ing that she was in the Eastern-hall he went there atter
her.

Mr. Woolrych—Why did you not go there sober ?
The prisoner—l was vexed—very much vexed, and got
drinking. The police sergeant seized me by the neck and
nJarly si rangled me. _ _ _

Bridgland was recalled, and said be seized the prisoner
by the arm and not by the neck.
The prisoner—I went after my wife.
Mr. Woolrych—You should keep your wife at home, I
believe you have acted very badly to the officer, who has
done his duty very properly in keeping a drunken man out
of a house of public entertainment, and particularly out of
a concert room. People who go to a place of amusement to
enjoy themselves must be protected from the intrusion of
drunkards and noisy characters. You are fined 10s., and in
default of payment one week's imprisonment.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On ►Saturday a shocking
accident occurred at No. 19, Broad-street-buildings, Broad-
street, City, by which a man named Thomas Freeman lost
his life. It appears that the premises were being pulled
down to make room for the works of the North London
Railway. Deceased was standing on the top of a wall,
when b) some means he fell headlong down, and was within
a few inches of crushing police-constable 121, of the City
police, in his fall. As it was he came on his head on the
pavement, his brains were dashed out, and his ribs broken.
He was removed to the hospital, when life was, of course,
found to be extinct. The escape of the police constable
was most miraculous, the body of deceased almost grazing
him in the descent,

UNPRECEDENTED OCCURRENCE.—A scene of
great confusion occurred two days back at the cattle fair of
Pizany (Charente). A sudden panic, the cause of which is
unexplained, suddenly seized upon the whole of the horned
cattle at the fair, and nearly 300 bullocks and cows, bellow-
ing with futy, rushed about, trampling under foot, men,
women, and children, Twenty-eight persons were more or
less seriously injured, one woman having her face badly
torn and an eye forced out by a bullock's horn.
On Fri-
SUICIDE BY ANARTILLERY SERGEANT.--
nt George
day morning, at an early hour, Sergeant
a clerk at
Black, of the Royal Artillery, and employed as
his throat
the clothing stores, committed suicide by
cloonifield-road,
with a razor, at his residence No.
27:3ed had been very
Plumstead. It is stated that theldineeceesae,
his
wife.
desponding in consequence of the IA
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took place on the Edinburghrid
persons were killed. An
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Jury Court, Edinburgh,
where a widow lady nams__, who was killed on that occa-
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damages for the loss ofd h
engaged in the case. After a
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lengthened trial theraa £1,750.
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in a eonversatiu
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the celebrated f f
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woman to the man who loves her; for if a woman looks
with affection on a man, should ho go to the uttermost ends
of the earth, the recollection of that look will bring bins
back,"