The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-27 00:00:00

Mr. Selfe—And your hand is cut, how was that done ?

Witness—By the prisoner. My glass was broken to
pieces when she struck me on the eye, and 1 am afraid I
shall never recover the sight of it again.
The prisoner said, in her defence, that the complainant
was abusTng4aer sister-in-law, and about to strike her, and
she took her part, and hit Cummings on the eye with the
glass.

The complainant—lf you please, sir, she did it delibe-
rately. We quarrelled in her house, and she brought th
glass away from her home, and some time afterwards
struck me with it on the eye and face.
Mr. Selfe said the complainant had put it very properly.
The act of the prisoner was a deliberate one indeed, and
very savage. She brought the glass from her own house,
with the intention of doing mischief. The complainant
had no business in such an infamous place as that kept by
the prisoner, and he went there for no good purpose. He
could not suffer such outrages as those to go unpunished.
He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for one month,
and kept to hard labour.

MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning
Mary Mobbs, aged 29, the wife of a surveyor, residing at
Nelson-place, Old Ford-road, was found lying upon the bed
with her throat cut, and by her side was one of her children,
a girl aged ten months, in the same condition—both being
quite dead. The deceased woman leaves two other children.
An inquest will be held forthwith. At present the cause of
the shocking act is unknown.

COUNTSOUT.—The following forty-three mem-
bers composed the minority who voted on Tuesday night
for Mr. Bentinck's motion directed against the practice of
counting out during the delivery of a speech :—Messrs. H.
E. Adair, E. Ball, T. Barnes, H. F. Berkeley, Sir B. W.
Bridges, Lord R. Cecil, Messrs. W. Cox, R. Dalglish, C.
Da Cane, M. E. G. Duff, W. Ewart, W, E. Forster, H.
W. Freeland, Colonel French, Mess'rs. C. D. Griffith,
G. Hadfield, J. P. Hennessy, J. T. Hopwood, W. W. F.
Hume, G. W. Hunt, N. Kendall, P. J. L. King, W.H.G.
Langton, W. S. Lindsay, E. MacEvoy, A. Mills, AV. J. Mon-
son, Lord R. Montagu, Mr. C. N. Newdegate, the O'Conor
Don, Major W. Parker, Messrs. D. Pugh, It. T. Rowley,
G. Sclater-Booth, Augustus Smith, J. Somes, M. Stani-
• land, Sir H. Stracey, Col. W. H. Sykes, Lord E. Thynne,
Admiral Walcott, Messrs. S. H. Walpole and J. White.
Tellers—Messrs. G. W. P. Bentinck and Knightley. Mr.
Disraeli, Lord Stanley, Mr. Spooner, and a few other Con-
servatives, voted against the motion.
FLOGGING IN THE NAVY.—A Parliamentary re-
turn issued yesterday gives the following particulars rela-
tive to cases of flogging in the navy in the year 1860. Total
number of corporal punishments, 764 ; lashes inflicted,
26,201; number liable to corporal punishment, 5(,379 ;
lashes inflicted by sentence of courts martial, 1,614 ; highest
number of lashes inflicted, 50 ; lowest number, 6.

" We think," says the Bulletin de Paris, "we
are correct in stating that the Treaty of Commerce between
France and Prussia was signed on Monday by the Com-
missioners of the two Powers, and that it now only waits
for the approval of the Zollverein, which may be shortly
expected."

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.---A grand morning
entertainment was given here yesterday, under the patron-
age of his grace the fluke of Wellington. The programme
included the usual vocal performances, a novelty being the
appearance of the infant Koenig (who is stated to be only
eight years old), who played on the cornet-a-piston Ettley's
" Zorline Polka," in a style which stamps the young aspi-
rant for fame as a remarkable specimen of precocious talent.
His execution is rapid, and the tone produced is wonder-
fully good, looking to the tender age of the executant, who
evidently is imbued with a taste for better and more culti-
vated subjects. Mr. Steve Ethair's entertainment on the
barrel as usual afforded much gratification to the audience.
The performance concluded with (we quote from the bills)
" the thrilling performances of the wondrous Leotard,"
who really outdid himself in several new feats on the
occasion. At the close he was rapturously applauded, and
made his obeisance a second time to the audience, among
whom were many ladies and gentlemen of distinction.