The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-24 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday Mr. Richard Panora, residing' at Battersea,
was charged with committing a violent assault on Eleanor,
his wife, under the following circumstances :
Mrs. Parsons, who exhibited a deep cut over the left
eye, which was also much swollen and black, stated that six
weeks ago she separated from her husband by mutual agree-
ment, and, having property of her own, she made no claim
upon him for her maintenance. On the preceding day she
met her husband for the first time since their separation in
the neighbourhood of Battersea, and they recognised each
other, and entered into familiar conversation about OA'
children ; after which they parted on friendly terms. She
proceeded home, and in the course of the same evening a
knock came at her door, and, when opened, her husband
rushed into the passage with a knife in his hand, and in a
passion exclaimed that " he had come there to murder
her." She drew back with the candlestick in her hand, but
lie follow`e.d her, and struck her several blows with his
fists, and ultimately seized the candlestick from her, and
struck her with, it over the left eye, and inflicted the wound.
now observable on that part. She screamed aloud, when
some persons came to her help, and but for their interposi-
tion she verily believed her husband would have carried his
threats of murder into effect.
Mr. TRAIL asked Mrs. Parsons if she could acconnt for
the violence exhibited by her husband on the occasion ;
but her reply was that she was totally ignorant of having
given him any provocation.
The defendant here was called upon to give his account
of the affair.
The defendant the.n proceeded to describe that the origin
of their separatissa was owing to his wife's familiarity with
a gentleman 'Whose visits at their house he had forbidden,
but who was still encouraged there by her. On the morn-
ing in question he (defendant) had great reason to believe
that the person to whom he alluded was secreted in his
wife's house, and he went there accordingly, to convince;
himself of the fact. When he got into the house he se.
quested his wife to give him the candle, in order to go &,,w
stairs to look into the coal-hole for the man, whom be. sus-
pected was concealed there ; but to prevent the er.arnina-
tion she blew out the light, which, however, was 'tit a se-
cond and a third time, but she always extinguislsed it ; and
in the scuffle to search the premises and discover the in-
truder, he (defendant) might have acted more violence
towards her than the law allowed. He e.dded that his wife
had left him with five children, and ssomplained loudly of
her unnatural conduct.

Mrs. Parsons—lt was a voluntary separation on both
sides, and you have no right to come to my house, and you
have broke your agreement, by which you were hound by
the deed of separation.
Here a young man, who stood by the side of Mrs. Par-
sons, said something, when the defendant, who appeared
much excited by his interference in the case, exclaimed—
" Mr. Martell, you have no business here with my wife, and
if you—"
The MAGISTRATE here interposed, and said that, how-
ever improper the conduct of the defendant's wife might
have been, and he (the Magistrate) did not know but it
might be, the defendant had no right to attack her in the
violent manner he must have done, as her cut and bruised
face exemplified ; and to prevent a repetition of such con-
duct, he must find two sureties of 501. each to keep the
peace.

- LAMBETH- STRERT.
Mr. Fisher Jackson, whose friends are highly respectable,
and who is in the enjoyment of a pension of 1201. a year
from the east India Compar:y, but who presents in his
person. a perfect personifieation of gin-drinking dissipation,
wi!..s charged with violP:itly assaulting his wife and a re-
spectable lady, named,, Allen.
The wife of Ole defendant, a most respectable-looking
female, said that for four years past her life had been to
her one continued scene of wretched misery. Her husband
(the defendant) was seldom sober—in fact, he spent seven-
eighths of his time in the beershop or public-house, and
when intoxicated, which was almost always the case, he was
more like a maniac than a rational being. She was sel-
dom without two black eyes, besides oter severe marks
of his brutal violence, and the present was the tenth time
that she had been reluctantly corarelled to take him be-
fore the magistrates at this office. She had now, however,
made up her mind not to sacrifice herself to his inhuman
treatment, as she felt assureul her life was in imminent
danger.
The defendant admitted that when drunk he was insane,
and offered to give up 31;4 of his income to his wife to live
apart from him.
This the plaintiff accepted ; but the defendant was or-
dered to find bait on the other charge, which, not being
able to procure, he was locked up.
Th,--

~n bursday last our Member, Captain Polhill,
vdth his usual beacvolenee, distributed amongst the. poor
inhabitants of the borough nearly one hundred tons.of coals.
—Bectford Paper.

RIVAL CA RICA T UR ts.—Lord Townsr-mti was very
fond of drawing caricatures, in which he excelletl. He pub-
lished a set of twelve, to which he affixed tlre name of Aus-
tin, a drawing-master, but well known not t o have been done
by him. Whilst Lord Townsend was -Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland he had an Aide-de-Camp, vd*.o was not far inferior
to his Lordship in drawing caricattrfes. His name was Cap-
tain Teasdale. One day thitt "Ceasdale was the Aide-de-
Camp in Waiting, and sittiots at the foot of the Vice-regal
table, he observed Lara i:ownsend taking a sketch of his
face, which was by r,,c, r.eans remarkable for beauty. Teas-
dale immediately took his pencil from his pocket, and drew
a portrait of '.:ne Lord Lieutenant, who was too much en-
gaged with, his own drawing to perceive what his Aide-de-
Camp 'etas about. Lord Townsend, greatly satisfied with
his 'tierformance, handed it to the person who sat at his right
band ; and Teasdale, at the same moment, presented the
portrait of the Lord Lieutenant to his nearest neighbour at
the bottom of the table on his right hand ; and the two ca-
ricatures simultaneously made the tour of the table. Lord
Townsend took it with great good humour, and was not
offended.—Horace Walpole's Letters.

MA
unnAN.—The body, on its arrival in London,
was taken to the residence of Mr. Olivier, an intimate friend
of the deceased, in Finsbury-square, where all the members
of the corps operaliquc now in town were assembled. The
weighty coffi❑ was enclosed ►n a strong case, closer), nailed
down. On the corpse being taken on board the steamer,
although the whole was conducted with the greatest privacy,
a number of persons assembled to witness the melancholy
removal of the remains of one who during her lifetime had
been the delight of thousands, not only in this country but
on the Continent, where her generous hand bad so often
been opened to the distressed. The vessel was brought up
close to the General Steam Navigation wharf near St.
Katharine's Docks, so as to avoid all difficulty, and the
coffin was let down into the chief cabin, covered over with
a pall. Early on Thursday morning the steamer left for
Antwerp, having on hoard Madame Garcia, the, mother of
the deceased, and several near relatives, all of whom ap-
peared deeply affected at the mournful scene. The total
cost of the removal of the remains, including all the law
expenses, and the re-interment of the body in Belgium, is
estimated at 1,200/.

Holland, the blacksmith, of Walpole, whose appre-
hension fbr sheep-stealing took place last week, effected his
escape in the following manner :—Suspicion bad fallen upon
him, and he was watched and taken just as he had
slaughtered a sheep belonging to Mr. Stockdale of Walpole.
He was handcuffed and taken into the village, when his wife
came up, and made sore lamentations. She requested that
they might be allowed to go into a room alone for a short
time before he left, and her entreaties and excessive grief
prevailed upon the officers, who thought with his handcuffs
he was safe. She then gave vent to her grief, nor did it
all abate,stbd at length the officers felt themselves compelled
to put an end to it ; but, lo ! when they entered the room
the good woman was soliloquising, and most probably had
been during the greater part of the performance. Tke
principal actor had made his exit by the window—a task of no
small difficulty with his handcuffs ; and we are informed he
was afterwards relieved of them by a " trusty }',rother of
the trade," and has not since been heard of.--Cambridge
Chronicle.
The diligence to Laval, Ile-et-Vilaine, was attacked
in the night of the 15th inst., near Cantache, by a band of
fifteen robbers. On stopping the coach, they made all the
passengers alight, and made a minute search in every part of
the vehicle for money, without touching any thi•ng else they
found. Being disappointed in their object, they suffered
the passengers to take thcir scats again, an ordered the
postilion to drive on. qut.young man bad. with him a bag
containing 500 f. in silVy, which he concealed under his
cloak. Some of the hail wanted to search the passengers,
but he who appeared to be the captain forbade them, say-
ing, " We are not common robbers ; Ise want only the Go-
vernment money." It is believed ',hut their intention was
to stop the mail-coach for which t:ney mistook the diligence.
—Galignaries Messenger.