The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-13 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

RUFFIANLY ASSAULT UPON A WOMAN.—Patrick Cook, a
forbidding-looking fellow, 19. years of age, was' charged
with the following violent assault :
Lydia Morgan said—l am a married woman, my husband
is a cabman, and lives with me at 43, Pond-place, Chelsea.
On Saturday night, at about '2O minutes to eleven, I was
at the Oak public house, Keppal-street, Chelsea, in company
with my husband. There was some disturbance, and my
husband was having some words with some one else, when
I asked him to come home, upon which the defendant in-
terfered. I told him quietly it was nothing to do with him
upon which he struck nio a desperate blow in the face with
his fist, breaking my nose. (Complainant's face was
covered with surgical bandages). I was sober, and gave
him no provocation whatever. Ife was also sober. After
striking me he ran out of the shop.
The constable in charge of the case here put in the fol-
lowing certificate :

" This is to certify that Mrs. Lydia Morgan is suffering
from a fractured nose.

"Nov. 12,1865." .G. 11. REUTZSCH, M.R.0.P., S.A.
Thomas Cook, landlord of the complainant, corroborated
her statement in every particular, neither she nor her hue-
band offered the prisoner anyprovocation, and the husband
was merry but not quarrelsome.

Defendant declared that her husband had his coat off to
fight him, and on Mrs. Morgan interfering he merely
pushed her away.

This having been flatly denied by Mrs. Morgan and wit-
ness Cook,

Mr. Selfe remarked that ho thought the defendant had
been there before.

The police intimated that he had been at this court in
September, for stabbing a man with a fork, when he had
six weeks' imprisonment.

*Mr. Solfe then observed to defendant, " What a ruffian
you must be. The instant you get out of prison here you
are indulging in your unnaturally savage propensities.
You have committed a serious and perhaps permanent in-
jury upon this poor woman, who it is clearly shown offered
you no provocation whatever. If you had struck her
more than once I should have given you the utmost pun-
ishment the law allows, and as it is I will stop your brutal
habits for a little time by imprisoning you for three months
with hard labour." Committed accordingly.

CONCESSION OF ANADVANCE IN COLLIERS' WAGES.
—The colliers in the employ of two leading firms at Long-
ton having given notice of an intention to demand an
extra 3d. per day, the Longton Coalmasters' Association
gave the subject their consideration, and decided that it
was advisable to comply with the demand, and to make
the advance general. In the Longton district the wages
of colliers are now, therefore, 4s. 6d. per day. The masters
intend to recoup themselves by increasing the price of coal
to consumers.

NAPOLEON 111. AND THE CHOLERA.—Under
his title the Unita Cattolica, a journal usually but

little favourable to France and the Napoleon dynasty,
publishes the following article :—"Being just to all, we
owe a tribute of praise and admiration to the Emperor
of the French, who, when the cholera commenced its
ravages in Paris, proved himself the real father of the
people, and showed that he was animated with the most
noble feelings of Christian charity. A few days back
he proceeded to the Hotel Dieu, visited all the wards
of cholera patients, stopping at each bedside and consoling
each sufferer. He afterwards went over the hospitals
Beaujon, Lariboisiere, and others. He besides refused to
quit Paris at a moment in which that city was suffering from
the cruel scourge. Napoleon 111. made those visits in a
manner to exclude all suspicion that he was prompted by
political motives, and not by charity, for he in each instance
arrived unexpectedly and almost incognito. Therefore,
glory be to him, and may God reward Lim for that holy
work. In concert with the people of Paris we cry out,
Vivo r Emperor P "