The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

A MOST UNHAPPY PAlR.—William Fisk, aged 27, a
cellarman, of No. 1, James-street, Limehouse-fields, was
brought before Mr. Partridge on a charge of being drunk
and assaulting Anne Fisk, his wife.
The complainant, a very pretty well dressed woman, said
she had been separated from her husband five or six months
in consequence of his cruelties. She met him one day last
week and, he struck her and gave her a black eye. She
gave him into custody for that offence, but did not appear
against him. Last night she met him again in the Com-
mercial-road, near the George, and he asked her to take
him to her home and live with him again. She refused to
do so, on which he used very bad language and swore he
would kill her. He then pulled her clothes off. Her shawl
and dress were torn to pieces and her bonnet crushed.
Mr. Partridge—What are you ?

Witness—A feather maker.
The Prisoner—l was tipsy last night, and am very sorry
for what I have done. I could a tale unfold respecting
my wife, but I will not expose her, and there is an end
of it.

Mr. Partridge—Whatever your differences may be, you
have no right to strike her or tear her clothes off.
The prisoner—l know that, sir.
The complainant—l would not live with him again if
every hair of his head was hung with diamonds. -
Mr. Partridge said if the prisoner was brought before him
again for illusing his wife he would punish him severely.
He ordered him to enter into his own recognizances in the
sum of £lO to keep the peace to his wife and all her Ma-
jesty's subjects for the next six months.

THE CITY OF FLORENCE.—Few towns possess so
excellent a pavement as Florence, which consists of
large squared stones fitted together like masonry, with close
joints. Such a pavement many would be inclined to think
dangerous to horses, but their apprehensions would be en-
tirely dispersed after a few days' observation of the speed
with which carriages whirl through the streets, requiring
the utmost vigilance on the part of the pedestrian to escape
being run over: The streets always seem clean, for there
aro really no materials out of which to make a puddle. The
walls of the city, which are nearly six miles in circuit, re-
main entire with the exception of two lengths, which have
been taken away to make room for the two modern citadels
of the Belvedere and the Fortezza da Basso. The palaces
of Florence are, generally speaking, on a smaller scale than
those in Rome, but are purer in style, being many of them
of the first period of the revival before the Renaissance had
run into those excesses which make it so distasteful to Mr.
Ruskin and the Gothicists. They aro also chiefly built of
stone, which after all is the material, in any climate, for a
building of consequence. The kind of stone used is called
"pietra serena," which is of a brownish colour, a little deeper
than Yorkshire stone, and of fine grain, almost like
marble.—Building News.

HER MAJESTY'S SIIIP BOMBAY.—ARRIVAL OF
CREW AT LIVERPOOL.—The surviving officers and crew
of H.M.S. Bombay, recently destroyed by fire at Monte
Video, arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning in the
steamer Herschel. There were 474 persons in all. After
marching through the streets to the railway station,
headed by their band, they took their departure for Lon-
don. The men appeared to be very meanly clothed; but
it was stated that they refused fresh clothes, as they
wished to receive whatever might be due to them in hard
cash.