The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-01 00:00:00

THAMES.

A GREAT FALL IN EGGS.—James Smith, a seaman,
aged 34, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
being drunk and disorderly, and with wilfully and mali-
ciously doing spoil, damage, and injury to 1,200 eggs,
against the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, her
Crown, and dignity.

Ann Magner, egg merchant, in Ratcliff-highway, said
the prisoner was intoxicated, and throw himself right
against the shop window, which gave way and was
broken, and all the eggs on the window board rolled out
into the street and were destroyed.

Mr. Partridge—How many eggs were broken ?
Witness—Only 1,200, sir.

Mr. Partridge—Only 1,200. Why how many do you
keep in your window ?

Witness—Sometimes as many thousands. We only had
a small quantity. He would have paid me, only he found
the number so great.

Mr. Partridge—Did he do this on purpose ?

Witness—No, sir ; he did not do it purposely.
Elijah Long, 380 K, said tho prisoner was very tipsy,
and had not yet been paid off from his ship, an homeward
bounder.

Mr. Partridge said ho would not detain the prisoner for
breaking the eggs, as he had not done it wilfully.
Mrs. Magner said it was done wilfully. The sailor put
his shoulder against the window and smashed it, and away
rolled every egg on to the pavement.
Mr. Partridge said the witness had most distinctly sworn
the breaking of the eggs was not done purposely.
Mr. Magner—l quite misunderstood you.
Mr. Partridge advised the sailor to pay the woman for
her 1,200 eggs, and took his own recognizances to appear
this day. On the case being called on the sailor was not
in attendance. It was stated that ho had been paid off at
a shipping office, but he had not paid for the eggs and the
window.

Mr. Partridge told Mrs. Magner she had better sue the
sailor in the County Court. lie would not adjudicate upon
the case, for he was not satisfied with the evidence of
wilful damage.

WILD SPORTS IN THE EAST.—Catherine Dacey, aged 24,
was charged with wounding her mother-in-law with a
boot, at No. 2, Crown-court, Rosemary-lane. Mary Carroll,
30, was charged with scalding Bridget Hyde, at No. 10,
Slough-alley, High-street, Wapping, and Patrick Granton,
a labourer, was charged with beating his wife in Blue
Anchor-alley, Whitechapel. The parties are natives of
Ireland, and live in Irish colonies where rows, "scrim-
mages," fights, and bloodshed are frequent. Mrs. Dacey was
quarrelling with her husband, and hurled one of his heavy
boots, studded with iron heels and large hob nails, at him.
The boot missed him and struck his mother on the head.
A severe wound was inflicted, and the sufferer was taken
to the hospital. Chandles, a police-constable, No. 117 H,
produced a medical certificate that the woman in the Hos-
pital could not be permitted to leave at present, and
that the wound was a dangerous one. The prisoner
was remanded. Tho evidence against Mrs. Carroll
was that while quarrelling with a neighbour she
poured some boiling water out of a tea-kettle into a basin
and threw it over Mrs. Hyde, scalding her neck and
shoulders in a fearful manner. Hughes, 206 H, the police-
constable who had charge of the case said, that some of
the hot water went down the woman's throat. She was in
the London Hospital and could not be moved. The prisoner
was unmarried. Mrs. Mary Glunton, a most audacious
woman, charged her husband with hitting her with his
fists and marking her face, and stated he took her shawl
and a sheet from a room and made an attempt to burn
them. She had not lived with him for.six months, and
he " bate and murthered her last summer." The prisoner,
whose face was scared, said his wife " fell upon him like a
bull-dog, and tore him to atoms." Roche, the gaoler of the
court said, the prisoner in a fit of jealousy scard his wife's
person with a red-hot poker, some time ago, and their own
daughter then proved an act of adultery against her mother.
Mr. Partridge said that Glanton and his wife were a very
bad couple. He ordered that tho prisoner should enter
into his own recognizances to keep the peace towards his
wife.