The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

A PRECIOUS COUPLE.—John Sullivan, a dirty and
rough•.looking fellow, was brought before Mr. Woolyrch,
charged with violently assaulting a woman of the town,
named Margaret Maloney.

The complainant said that she and the prisoner came
from the same town in Ireland, and were distantly re-
lated. They had lived together off and on for some time.
There was not an ounce of her flesh that was not beaten
black and blue. Last night he came home out of temper,
and said take that, and struck her a violent blow on the
head and knocked I her down, and when she was down
kicked her. He had repeatedly said he would take away
her life, and that he did not mind going to prison. He also
threw her down stairs and bruised every bone in her body,
and if it had not been for her crinoline she would have been
killed. The witness, like all the frail sisterhood, wore a
huge crinoline, which any lady of title or fashion in the
West might hare envied.

The prisoner here pointed to a scar on his forehead, and
said :—She out my head open with a teacup. She says my
half a crown a day for dock labour is not enough to keep
her.

The complainant—He abuses me for not bringing horn e
money enough. _ _

Frederick Martin, a police constable, No. 13:5 H, said he
was called in to the lodgings of Mr. Sullivan and Mrs.
Maloney, in Lambeth-street, Whitechapel, last night.
Everything in the room was broken and smashed up, the
complainant was bleeding from the nose and mouth, and
the man's clothes were torn. They were continually quar-
relling and fighting.
Mr. Woolrych—They are a most disgraceful couple--
worthy of each other. The prisoner has committed a most
cowardly assault, and he is sentenced to one month's im-
prisonment, and hard labour.

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THE ROBBERIES IN THE LONDON Docx.—John Healey
and Thomas Ward, labourers in the employ of the London
Dock Company, were brought before Mr. Woolrych charged
with stealing tea.

There have been numerous convictions of dock labourers
and others for stealing tea. On Saturday, the Bth instant,
Mr. Selfe sentenced a fellow named Watson to six months
imprisonment and herd labour for stealing 191 b. of tea,
whic„h he had ingeniously contrived to secrete about his
person, and on. Monday, the 10th instant, a labourer named
Haggerty was found guilty by a jury at Middlesex
Sessions, and sentenced to four months imprisonment and
hard labour for bringing 31b. of tea out of the dock. Three
summary convictions for stealing tea took place at this
nom t last week. The officers have been called upon to ex-
ercise unusual vigilance in detecting the tea thieves,
and yesterday they captured the prisoners, both labourers,
as they were leaving the dock. On Healey, an old man,
six ounces of black and green tea were found concealed in
his pockets and neckerchief. Ward had managed to secrete
fourteen ounces of tea about his person; it was slang in
front of him, to his waistband.
In answer to Mr. Woolrych, the officer said the prisoners
would never be employed in the dock again on any account
whatever. There were now 17 tea ships discharging their
cargoes in the London Dock.
Mr. Woolrych said the prisoners had been guilty of a
very gross breach of trust and betrayal of confidence, and
ought to protect, not plunder, their employers. He sen-
tenced them each to ten days' imprisonment and hard
labour.

THE WAKEFIELD BRIBERY PROSECUTIONS.—
The Wakefield correspondent of the Manchester Guardian
states that information has been received in that town to
the effect that the Government do not intend to proceed
further with the bribery prosecutions.

Tho Emperor Napoleon has decided upon con-
verting the old Chateau of St. Germaine, once the habita-
tion of the exiled monarch of England, James 11., into
a museum, which is to contain all the remains
of the Gallic period of various times found
in France ; and a series of antiquities down to the
middle ages, where, archeologically speaking, the Hotel de
Cluny commences, is to be brought together. There has
time when Julian the Apostate was prevalent, some,
lately been discovered, is canalising a portion of the Seine,
the authority
a number of antique medals which were struck as early as
ithet s periodeeni
seems, as
a when hf
far
back n thee Roman
ka
had his palace on the banks of the river. The King of
Denmark has recently sent to the Emperor some antiquities
relating to Scandinavia, illustrating the
Runic times, which
are to find a place in this museum. Models of Celtic sculp-
ture of various forms are being transmitted from various
parts of the Continent,