The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

OMNIBUS COMPANY.

This was an action to recover for damage to a cab; Mr.
Buchanan arpeared for the company.
Plaintiff said that on a certain day he was in Cornhill,
and defendant's driver knocked the cab on to the pavement
and broke the springs.

Mr. Buchanan called the 'busman, who described the
language used by cabby ; the latter calling out " Why did
you drive me on t ) the pavement, you pig." Witness
said, " I didn't;" when plaintiff retorted, " You're a --
liar ;" to which witness answered " Thank you."
All the witnesses described plaintiffs language as being
highly figurative, and much interlarded with adjectives of
an expletive character.
Plaintiff, in answer to the defence, said—Why, it is a
well-known fact that the company can get as many wit-
nesses as they like, as I was told to-day in court.
After asking one of the witnesses if he had ever been
employed in that capacity before for the company, plaintiff
closed his case with " Oh, it is no use going on, they will
swear anything."
Verdict for defendants.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

COMMITTAL OF A WELL-KNOWN THIEF.—A PROSE-
CUTOR REBUICED.—Ann Manning, a woman known to the
police, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a
gold watch, of the value of £2O, the property of Mr. John
Frederick Howriett, watchmaker, of 21, Brewer-street,
Golden-square.

The pro:ecutor said that at the prisoner's solicitation he
treated her with some ale at the Feathers, in Oxford-street,
and afterwards accompanied her to another house and had
more drink, and then to a house in Union-street. On
going up the stairs he was pushed or knocked from the top
to the bottom by a man or woman, and on getting up missed
his gold watch as.d money. The watch produced was his
property, and of the value of £2O.
Police-constable Tidy, 118 C, said that at three this
morning, seeing the prisoner suddenly leave the prosecu-
tor, he went up and asked him if he had lost anything. At
first he said he had not, but afterwards said he had lost his
watch. He (the constable) then went after the prisoner,
who ran away across Oxford-street into Cavendish-square,
and on asking her where the gentleman's watch she dropped
it on the pavement, with the remark, " There it is." He
then took the prisoner to the station, and went back to the
prisoner in Union-street, when he identified the watch. The
prosecutor and prisoner had been drink ng.
Boden, the messenger of the court, said prisoner had been
aente_..e.mi inna years' penal set vitude.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial.

After the case was over, the prosecutor said he wished to
make a complaint against a constable he spoke to on first
finding he was robbed. _ .

Mr. Tyrwhitt told him he ought to be ashamed of him-
self, as he had gone about drinking with the prisoner and
got robbed, and had had the good fortune to get his watch
back entirely through the exertions of the police. He (the
magistrate) would listen to no complaint at all, and if the
prosecutor liked, he could go to Scotland-yard.

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—James
Macdonald, a man about 48 years of age, who appeared to
be half starved and very ill, was brought before Mr, Wool-
rych charged with attempting to commit self-destruction.
A police .constable named Meades, 488 A, stated that at
two o'clock this morning he was both alarmed and surprised
at the discovery of a man hanging to the railings in front
of a house in Hardwick-place, Commercial-road. He cut
him down immediately, removed him to the station-house,
and obtained madical assistance. The man was nearly suffo-

cated, and in a few minutes would have been dead if he had
not discovered him.

Mr. Woolrych—How did the prisoner hang himself ?
Meades—He made his handkerchief fast to the railings,
and made a slip noose for his neck, which tightened when
he threw himself down. He was quite black in the face
when I came up. The constable then produced the old
cotton handkerchief which the prisoner had used. He added,
the prisoner said he " was tired of his life, and in great
poverty and distress."
Mr. Woolrych (to prisoner)—How came you to do this
rash and wicked act ?

The prisoner feebly replied that what the policeman said
was true, and that he was in great distress, and in want of
food.

Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner to the Clerkenwe
House of Detention for a week.

A. SCAMP. Richard Stollard, a lighterman, was brough,
before Mr. Woolrych charged with deserting hie wife and
six young children, and leaving them chargeable to the
parish of St. George-in-the-East.
Mr. W illiani Rolston, a relieving officer of St. George,
said he was desired by the Board of Guardians to prosecute
this case, which was a very bad one indeed. The prisoner
was in the receipt of good wages, and had abandoned his
lawful wife, the mother of his children, and been living with
a loose woman who knew he was married. The pari.hhad
been allowing six shillings per week for the support of the
wife and five children. The sixth was maintained by a
relative. The prisoner was before the Board of
Guardians on the 30th of January. He then promised
to maintain his family, but that promise had
never been realised. Yesterday (Monday) morning he
visited Mrs. Stollard and her five children in a miserable
room, No. 84, Old Gravel-lane, Ratcliff .highway. There
was no furniture in the room, the children were in a state of
nudity, the wife cold and insufficiently clad. It was a scene
of desolati,n such as he had never before witnessed. " The
place," continued the witness, stunk so dreadfully that I
was compelled to run into the street to recover myself in
the fresh air—l shall never forget it.
Mr. Woolrych—What, has the parish expended for the
relief of Mrs Stollard and her children ?
Mr. Rolston-42x., I believe, sir; the prisoner promised
to pay that, but he has not done so.
The prisoner, in defence, said his wife neglected his
home and children, and was a very dissipated and drunken
Woman. When he allowed her £2 per week she expended
nearly the whole of it in strong drinks. He found 65 dupli-
cates in her possession for property she had pawned. He
was in one situation for 13 years. He obtained others, and
his wife came to the residence of his employers and made a
disturbance, and he was thrown out of employ several times
by her bad conduct. He rave his wife 6s. on Saturday.
Mr. Woolrych said the English vocabulary was insuffi-
cient to express his detestation of the conduct of the prisoner,
who left his wife and family to the cold charity of the parish
while he was carrying on an adulterous intercourse with
another woman. He sentenced the prisoner to one month's
imprisonment and hard labour, and he (Mr. Woolrych)
would repeat that sentence every time prisoner was brought
before him, if he did not properly support his wife and
children.

Mt. Woolrych—l am very glad to hear it.
Mr. Rolston—The wife and family will now be taken

POPULATION
" Bureau des LongiotardeAB:::, GutßoBD.-ec.A3cle, oidd le,
Algiers
l al
aor a
hadthe
increase
.of 11,183 heads withi
a European population
woiftthhethyeeacrenlBsu6sl, 01f,8188558
marriages, 8,227 births, and
205,888 th souls, which shows an
of the last three years, com-
e same date. In the
5,850 deaths took place in Algiers. the births were
7,072 legitimate, 671 recognised, and 4m197g
88eftimate born.
The proportion of deaths was 1,603 men,
pcoaurerdse
women, aid
3,366 children. Compared with the atalistics of Pa ,
Algiers has less marriages, the number of births is
n
_ . larger
and that of deaths smaller than in the 20 arrondissements
of the capital.