The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THANES OFFICE.
A WOMAN STABBED BY HER HUSBAND.—DanieI
Crawley, a robust Irishman, about 40 years of age, was
brought before Messrs. BALLANTINE and CLARKSON,
charged with attempting to murder his wife, on Saturday
evening.
Ca.'herine Crawley stated that her husband came home
about elbven o'clock at night, and in a surly manner in-
quired if his daughter was at home. She was so alarmed
that she forgot, whether she answered yes or no ; but the
prisoner immedini:ely knocked her down, and while on the
ground stabbed her t:vice with a clasp knife he held in his
hand. Witness called put murdcr, and some persons came
to her assistance, who g-aye the prisoner into the custody
of a policeman. The wound.c she had received, although
not of a dangerous nature, were very serious, and she was
likely to want medical assistance for some time to come.
The poor woman could not stand, aid was accommodated
with a scat while giving her evidence.
Mr. BALLANTINE.—What was the cause of your hus-
band acting in so violent a manner? Was 11e intoxicated
Witness.—No, Sir ; he was quite sober, and I bad given
him no cause of complaint by word or act ; but I think he
was mad.
send him before th?, Judges, who will provide an asylum
BALLANTINE.—I think so, too ; and shall therefore
for him.
Prisoner.—l am not mad. lam as much in my senses
any of you.
Mr. BALLANTINE.—Why, then. did you commit this
outrage on your wife ? Prisoner,--Because the devil has
got hold of me. I have been tied to the devil ever since
I had her (pointing to his wife).
The Magistrate then directed that the prisoner should
he taken proper care of until the evidence was complete,
when he will be committed to take his trial on the capital
charge.

CATARACT OF TITE EYE.—" By the simplified
and extraordinarily successful system devised and earned to.
+be highest degree of perfection by the science and mecha-
nict2 ingenuity of our author, cataract is no longer an object
of term,' or fearful apprehension. Could, indeed, the most
timid and irre:olute witness, as we have done, the consummate
dexterity with wh::11 Mr. Stevenson performs his bloodless
operation (in every van,ty of cataract—at any period of life,
and without the necessity o; a previous and rigorous pre-
paration), in the short space of ti Dm thirty seconds to two mi-
nutes, and that, too, in many instances, without the conscious-
ness of pain on the part of the patient, he would banish every
emotion but that of silent confidence in the skill of so great a
benefactor, and a firm reliance on his important improvements
in the treatment of this disease."—Extract from a Review of
the new edjust
Mr. Stevenson's Famiti Treatise on
Catara ct ," published in the " Metropolitanar Magazine" fur
June, 1836.
On Sunday last a young ta:m, named Thompson,
while bathing in the Serpentine river, was seized with the
cramp and sank, and a person of the name o; Grove, residing
at No. 14, Romney-terrace, Westminster, who was also bathing
at the time, saw the young man sink, and with feelings of hu-
manity immediately swam to the spot, dived, and fortunately
grasped him by the hair of his head, and brought him on shore.
Had he been in the water a few minutes longer he must have
perished—he is now doing well.
OIL FROM FLIES.—The Augsburg Gazette con-
tains the following curious fact :—" The Hannetoni (May.
bugs, beetles, or May-flies,) have of late become an important
article of trade. A society, formed at Qedlinburg, has caused
about 19 millions of these insects to be caught, in order to
extract oil from them. An essay of the kind has already been
made in Hungary, where three measures of-oil were extracted
from eight measures of flies. The insects are placed in earthen
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MR. HA RDY.—The Hon. Member makes a very
ingenious distinction between bribing and paying head-money ;
and the difference is this, that a bribe is money paid before-
hand for a vote, and head money that which is paid after the
vote is given. Whether this subtle distinction satisfied the
majority of the House, as it appeared to satisfy Mr. Hardy's
own conscience, does not appear from the proceedings; but
we imagine that most people of plain understandings out of
the House will think that the morality of the two things is pre.
chfely on a par ; and that, when Mr. Hardy denied having
been guilty of bribery, he sailed rather too near the wind—to
say the least of it,--Manchester