The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

THE GJO:NERAL ELECTION.

POLLING THIS DAY.
DURHAM (SOUTH)-9.

Pease

Beaumont

615
581
465

Sartee's

HERTFORDSITIR--:11.

Cowper.
Lytton
Surtees
Smith

••• •1216
••• 1050
•.• 1039
1028

INVERNESS-FINAL CLOSE.

Baillie ... ••.•• 336
Grant ••• ' - 297
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE
.(SOIHERN
' DIVISION)L-9. .1T

Milton
Beaumont
Denison
Stanhope

754
735
663
662

LEICESTERSHIRE (NOR'I'IIERN'DIVISION),
Day.of polling, July 24.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This ray.

VICTORIA CLUB, FRIDAYS .2 rqd.
• GOODWOOD STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Claremont (offered) '
8 to I.agit Redmire (taken)
100 to
.8 .agst Blackdown (taken)
100 to 7 agst Sister to The Drake. (offered)
100 to .6 agst Sprite (offered)
100 to G agst Hopper (offered) '•
20 to lagsi Suspicion (taken)
20 to .I.agst Scamander (taken)
25 to I.agst Swordsman (taken) .. •
83 to 1 agst Guide (offered)
STEWARDS' CUT'.
20 to I on the field offered.
GOOD WOOD CL r.
. • •
4 to 4.•agst Union Jack (offered)
4 to .1 agst Eltham (offered)
sto 1 agst Gladiateur (offered--:--take 6to 1)
10 to 1 agst Breadalbane (offered-7-take 12 to 1)
10 to I.agst General Peel (offered)
12 to 1 agst Ely (taken) • .

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A STRANGE DELUSION.—Mrs. Elizabeth Williamson, an
old Scotch monthly nurse, probably the most incorrigible
drunkard in London, having been charged at this court,
Bow-street, Marylebone, and Westminster above three
hundred times with being drunk, and who has for many
years been a source of much trouble to the police, and
often puzzled the magistrates to kn'ow how to do deal with
her, was brought before Mr. Knox, by the parish officers
of St. Martin's, that an order for her admission to Hanwell
Lunatic Asylum might be signed. It appears that for
some time past Mrs. Williamson ha's been labouring under
the delusion that she had been appointed, laundress to the
Prince of Wales, and on several occasions sho has gone to
Marlborough House and caused so much annoyance that
the police have had to remove her. Another of her delu-
sions is
.that the Prince of Wales has settled a thousand a
year upon her. These delusions have at length had such
an effect upon her mind that it has been found expedient
to place her under restraint.
Mr. Knox signed the order.

THAMES.
Dana ROBBERY IN THE ST. KATHERINE Docx.—Henry
Murray, aged 27, a cooper in the service of the London and
St. Katherine Dock Company, was brought before Mr.
Partridge charged with stealing two bottles of brandy, the
property of his employers. .
A watchman named Foreland saw the prisoner coming
along the quay in the St. Katherine Dock. He looked
bulky, and was stopped and searched by the watchman,
who took from his loft-hand coat pocket a bottle contain-
ing a quart of brandy. He took the prisoner before the
superintendent of police, and he threw another bottle of
brandy away and made his escape. The prisoner came
from the floor where cases of brandy were deposited.
Mr. J. P. Mumford, superintendent of the dock com-
pany's own police, stated that he saw the prisoner run
away, and seized him. He had a severe struggle with the
prisoner before he was secured. The prisoner was a
cooper, and in the receipt of good wages.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and asked the magistrate
to be merciful.
Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had been guilty of a very
serious offence, and abused the confidence placed in him
by going to a warehouse where brandy was deposited, and
to which he had access, and stealing two bottles. He con-
victed prisoner of larceny, and sentenced him to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
MT.TuDERous ASSAULT.-:-Timothy Hennessy, an Irish
labourer, aged 30, was brought before Mr. Partridge,
charged with violently assaulting Benjamin Brooke and
Henry Peters, a police-constable, No. 185 K.
The drayman had been delivering beer at the Coopers'
Arms, public-house, in Poplar, and was just coming out of
the cellar when the prisoner wantonly seized him by the
hair of his head and pulled him out of the cellar. He then
doubled up the drayman's hat and spoiled it, and struck
him repeatedly with his fists about the head, face, and
body, inflicting severe contusions. The drayman fell, and
the prisoner kicked at him, but did not succeed in
kicking him, for the drayman rolled on the ground,
about his pulleys, ropes, and empty butts. A police-
constable named Peters seized the prisoner in the midst of
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had not tasted the least dhrop of liquor for three or four
years till yesterday. It turned him upside down any how.
Mr. Partridge said that drunkenness was no eacuse for
this incredibly savage outrage committed on an unoffending
man without the semblance of provocation. The assault
on the constable was also a very gross one. He sentenced
the prisoner to be imprisoned two months for the first
assault and orie month for the second, in all three months.