The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-27 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

The above court was opened this morning before the
Right Hon. the Recorder, Aldermen Wilson, Kelly,
Finnis, Sir R. Carden, Carter, and Sir J. Musgrove,
Mr. Sheriff Muggeridge, Mr. Sheriff Crosley, Mr.
Under-Sheriff Farrar, Mr. Under-Sheriff Crosley, lac.
The first edition of the calendar contains the names of
131 prisoners.

The Recorder, in his charge to the grand jury, ex-
pressed his regret that the number of prisoners for trial
precluded him from anticipating a very speedy termina-
tion of their laboirs ; although be said it was satisfac-
tory to see that the calendar did not contain a single
charge of murder, and that there was also an absence of
the more serious class of offences. The oily case he
referred to was a charge of manslaughter arisiag out of
an explosion of a firework manufactory, and he explained
to the grand jury that inasmuch as the making of fire works
was in itself an illegal act, in every case where death
resulted from it it would amount to the offence of man-
slaughter. His lordship, in conclusion, called the atten-
tion of the grand jury to the act of Parliament for the,
formation of reformatory schools for juvenile criminals,
and he expressed his regret that in the extensive juris-
diction of this court no such establishment had yet been
provided. He said he was fearful that at the present
moment, when the public attention was rivetted almost
exclusively upon the subject of the war, it could hardly
be expected that much could be effected, yet he felt it
his duty to allude to the subject, in the hope that, if
possible, something alight be done in reference to so ire•
portant a subject.
The grand jury then retired. •

MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY).

MATRIMONIAL DIFIeBRINCRS.—Thontas' Hunt, A clerk
residing at No. 1, Vickerage-terrace, Greenwich, was
charged before Mr. Bingham, with creating a disturbance
at the house of Mr. Edward Pierpoint, surgeon, 23, Little
Pulteney-street.

It appeared from the evidence, that in consequence of
some matrimonial differences existing between defendant
and his wife, the latter had taken up her abode at the
residence of the complainant, who was her brother-in-law,
and that on Sunday night, between ten and eleven o'clock,
defendant entered complainant's surgery, and said he came
there with the intention of stopping as long as his wife
remained. Complainant told him ho would not have
hint there, and desired him to leave the place. Defendant
then stood up in a menacing attitude, and complainant
immediately closed with him to push him out. Defendant
resisted, and took up the tongs and aimed a blow at him,
but his wife stepped in, and prevented its taking any
effect, and he then threw them at him (complainant).
Defendant still persisted in remaining, and as he would
not leave a policeman was sent for, and he was given in
charge.
Defendant admitted that complainant's statement was
mainly correct, but denied the attempt to strike com-
plainant with the tongs, and he exceedingly regretted
what had occurred.

Mr. Bingham said defendant bad no right to enforce his
matrimonial rites, as a husband, in another person's house,
where his wife had sought protection, unless she was really
detained against her will. He (Mr. Bingham) after that
explanation, said he thought the justice of the case would
be met by defendant entering into his own recognizancos
of 501. to keep the peace for the next three months.