The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-14 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVEMNG, ULY 14, 1865.

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

POLLING THIS DAY.
(BY TELEGRAPH.)
BANDON-10.30.

Bernard
Shaw

BELFAST-10.30.

Cairns
Getty ...
Hay ...

DUNGARVAN-10.30.

Barry .
Palliser .
KNARESBOROUGII-10.30.

Wood
Holden
Collins

Swart
Horsfall
Graves

E wart
Horsfall
Graves

Innes
Kirk

LIVERPOOL-10.30.

NEWRY-10.30

638
617
523

103
74

2,076
1,501
1,476

... 3,380
... 2,782
... 2,709

OXFORD UNIVERSITY-10.30.
Heathcote ... ... ... ...
Hardy ... ... ...
Gladstone ... ... ... ...

772
443
431

DUMFRIES BOROUGHS.
Ewart and Kennedy nominated yesterday. Poll-
ing going on to-day.

SOMERSET (WEST).
Hood and Langton returned.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.
Foley and Foster returned.

DAYS OF N
. . July.

►MINATION.

July.
Kent (Ea,sternDivi-
sion)

Clackmannanshire
and Kinrossshire. 14
DAYS OF
July.
.—. . .

POLLING.

Ayr (District)
Dumfries (District) 14 1

July.
Staffordshire (Nort
Division)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A SAD STORY WITH A GOOD END.—Esther Baker was
charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and disorderly.
A constable of the E Division proved being called to the
house in which the prisoner lived in Cleveland-street in
consequence of her having assaulted her little girl with a
poker. As she was very drunk and disorderly, ho took her
into custody:

A nice Hale girl, about 10 years of age, was sent for, and
said the prisoner, who was her mother, had not assaulted
her, and never did assault her, only when she was drunk.
Mr. Knox asked her what her mother was, and she said
"a milliner."

The constable said she was a prostitute.
The prisoner said she had two more children.
Mr. Knox asked the prisoner if she would allow him to
send the child to school, and to bo taken away from the
scenes she was likely to witness.
_ _

The prisoner said she would be glad to let her go.
A person here stepped forward, and said he had only
lodged three weeks in the house where the prisoner re-
sided, and there had been frequent scenes of violence with
the prisoner and those she brought home. Last night the
other lodgers were aroused by the prisoner belabouring
her child with a poker, and the aid of the police was
called in. The prisoner's language at times was abomin-
able. When the child was assaulted she made her escape
in a state of nudity. On examining her that morning he
found she had a bruise on her arm.

The prisoner said sho had not got a poker in the place.
The witness said that had it not been wrested from her
grasp more serious injury would have been done.
The prisoner retorted that the person was in the habit
of illusing his child, which ho denied.
Mr. Knox said he was told the prisoner was not only a
drunkard, but a prostitute. He supposed she would not
like her child to be brought up like her, and ultimately be
ruined.
The prisoner said she would not.
Mr. Knox asked tho little girl whether she would like
to go to school ?
She replied in the negative.
Mr. Knox (who Eves very anxious to do something, with
the view of saving the child), said ho was very sorry, but
that, perhaps, if she had a talk with her brother, she would
change her mind.
The little girl, after some conversation with her brother,
consented to go to go school, and the prisoner promised to
bring her to-morrow for that purpose, entering into her
own recognisances to be of good behaviour.