The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

A ERY HARD CASE AND SEVERE ,PUNISHMENT.—
Daniel M'Carthy and John Holland, two respectable look-
ing young men, were charged with conveying tobacco into
the Milbank Penitentiary contrary to the regulations.
Denis Parr, chief warder of the Milbank Penitentiary,
said that the tobacco had been brought into the prison that
morning. The defendants were persons accompanying a
van of wood which was taken into the artisan's yard.
While the defendants were there M'Carthy was seen to
throw the tobacco produced (about a quarter of an ounce)
to a prisoner at work in the yard, and the tobacco was im-
mediately taken possession of. The prisoner to whom the
tobacco was thrown came from the same quarter as the de-
fendants—Whitechapel—and were in all probability inti-
mate.
Mr. Selfe—Did you say anything to the defendants ?
Witness—Yes ; I spoke to M'Carthy, who admitted that
he threw the tobacco to the prisoner, and said he did not
see any harm in it. The defendants were both together
when M'Carthy threw the tobacco.
M'Carthy—l went to the prison weekly with some wood,
and one of the prisoners in the yard asked me if I could give
him a bit of tobacco, and I threw him a little bit about as
much as would fill a pipe, and that is all, and I had no no-
tion that I was doing any wrong.

Mr. Selfe—What have you to say, Holland ?
Holland—l have nothing to say. I went with M'Carthy,
not knowing that he was going to the prison. I never was
there before. I know nothing about the prison or the
tobacco.
Dennis Parr—l have no doubt that the prisoner is well
known to the defendants. _ '

M'Carthy—l know nothing of the prisoner, I can get a
six years' good character. I merely threw the poor fellow a
bit of tobacco, because he asked me for it.
Holland—l know nothing whatever of the prisoner, and
when I accompanied M'Carthy this morning I was ilot
even aware he was going to the prison.
Mr. Selfe—l have no discretion about this matter. lam
obliged to enforce the law as I find it. Any person carry-
ing prohibited articles into the prison is liable to a penalty
of 40s. I must, therefore, convict you, M`Carthy, in that
amount. I cannot inflict a less fine. Holland is discharged.
M'Carthy was removed to pay 405., or undergo a month's
imprisonment.

THAMES.
The hearing of the night charges did not commence until
12 o'clock. The K division brought 28 prisoners to the
court, and the H division 7. There are 4 prisoners under
remand to be brought up after the night charges are die •
posed of, and 12 summonses for hearing. This a compara-
tively light Monday for the Thames Police-court, but the
calendar is likely to be swelled by the additions of other
prisoners from the docks and other places in the course of
the day,
Mary Neale, an Irish woman, was brought up before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with assaulting and wounding Chris-
, tiana Weller. _

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The parties were in the same house at No. 6, Charles-
street,
Brick-lane, St. George-in-the-East. The prisoner
is the landlady of the house, and having lost a saucer of
little or no value, she went to Mrs. Weller's room to look
for it in the absence of Mrs, Weller and her husband. On
their return they quarrelled with the prisoner, who called
Mr. Weller, a German, a foreign b----. Mrs. Wellerjoined
in the quarrel, and the prisoner seized her by the hair of
the head, beat her, and kicked her several times on the
stomach and abdomen. Mrs. Weller was taken to the Lon-
don Hospital. _ _

Mr, James George King, house surgeon of the London
Hospital, said Mra. Weller was brought there on Saturday
evening at eight o'clock. She was suffering a good deal of
pain in the region of the stomach and also on the abdomen.
He had do doubt she had been severely kicked.
The prisoner, a respectable woman who carried a fine
child in her arms, eaid the Weller family had been living in
the house since Thursday: and had been very troublesome.
Mrs. Weller was the aggressor, and called her Irish, and
she had many English witnesses to prove what she said.
The Germans in the district were very bad people.
Mr. Woolry eh remanded the prisoner fora week.

BACON'S WAR MAPS.—Messrs. Bacon, the pub-
lishers of American war maps, have just issued two
maps which supply the information the public require at
the present moment. One of the maps illustrates the line
of General Lee's retreat from Gettysburg, and the other the
defences of Charleston harbour, the Sebastopol of America.
Readers of the American news will find these charts of the
greatest service, as that which appears indistinct by de.
scription becomes clear enough upon reference to a map of
the particular place mentioned.
NUTS TO CRACK.—The Historical Society,
of
Upper Bavaria has been presented—for their annual dinner--
—with filberts somewhat above 1,500 years old. They were
found in the neighbourhood of Traunstein, under a stratum
of peat 10 feet thick.
M. AUGUSTE NICOLAS, the author of gg Etudes
Philosophiques sur le Christianisme," is preparing a refu-
tation of M. Renan's book, which
Christ est le file de Dieu," will be called "Jesus