The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-20 00:00:00

POLICE INIELLIGENCL,

G UILDHALL.

On Saturday Sophia Sellers, the young woman
who *alked from Barking to Blackfriars-bridge to
drown herself, was again brought before Alderman
FAREBROTHER. Since the last heating; Whining,
the patrol, had fetched up from Essex her landlady,
whO had the cafe of the child; and also her husband,
an inoffensive-looking young man; who stated him-
:elf to be a basket-maker. XiThen they came before
the Magistrate, he asked the husband how he at-
counted for his wife making up her mind to commit
• hat enormous crime, suicide P---The husband was
in a vk43/ painful situation, 14e felt it as a man
should do, and was very sorry for it.

Alderman FAREBROTHER—But how do you ac-
count for it ? Husband—lt is not done under the
influence of liquor, for we have been married nearly
seven years, and I never saw her drunk.
Alderman FAREHROTHER—The officer has in-
q
uiretl intohe
ryourgta
statement, t
ter and his report
confirms i
thlven to at-
tempt this dreadful act through your neglect, that
you earn fiom 30s. to 2/. a week, and spend your
Money and waste your leisure hours in playing at
skittles. Do consider for a moment what would
have been your feelings, if, entirely owing to your
Misconduct, your wife had been brought home to
you and your children a corpse!
The picture evidently presented itself to his
mind, and his face became flushed. Hanging down
his head, he said, he knew she laid her conduct to
his playing at skittles, but it was her weakness of
mind, in truth, for she had offered to dtoWn herself
before he married her, and she had made repeated
attempts on her life. Once lie had to wrench two
knives from her, with which she made successive at-
tempts to stab herself, and marks of violence might
now be seen on Ler bosom. His earnings were from
twenty to thirty shillings a week, and when they
had but one child he had proposed to his wife to
allow her 11. a week, and if he got a shilling or so
over, then that he should be at liberty to spend it
like a man; but she insisted on having eve!y shilling
of his wages.
Whitting, the patrol, said he now went to another
extreme, and spent all his money at skittles at his
employer's cheap beer shop.
The Alderman inquired of the landlady, whether
the husband neglected his family, or brought his
money home ? She said she could not tell what
money he brought home, but he had not paid his
rent:

The husband had to meet heavy expenses. Last
week he had to pay twelve shillings to the doctor,
on account of his little boy having swallowed a half-
penny, which he expected would cause its death in a
few days.
The wife should not complain if he would keep
away from the skittles.
The Alderman asked whether they had quarrelled
on Thursday ?—The wife said they had ; the dis-
pute arose out of his losing 5s at skittles on Mon-
day last.
The husband denied that he had lost that sum.

Alderman FAREBROTHER asked why he lest any-
thing at skittles, recollecting that be had been out
of work last winter, and might be out of work next
winter, and would have occasion for all he should be
able to save. Surely, he had an affection for the
wife who had borne him two children.

" Yes, I have," exclaimed the husband, quivering
from emotion, " I love her as my life. Will she
33y I was ever unfaithful to her bed ?"
Some person laughing aloud at this expression—

The Alderman, raising his ioice to the highest
pitch, said, if the heartless brute who had so inter-
rupted the Court, were pointed out to him, he would
instantly commit him to Bridewell.
The wife had no complaint to make, except that
he squandered his earnings at the skittle-ground.
The Alderman felt it his duty to write to the
Magistrates of the &strict in which it Vtas situated,
to acquaint them with the mischiefs which arose
from it in this instance. He proceeded to impres-
sively lecture both the husband and the wife on the
conduct they should observe to each other, and the
affection and duty they owed to their offspring; and
the couple retired, mutually confiding in each other's
firm determination to live happier during the nest of
their days.

EDINBURGH MEA.

M A RKET. 7June 14

We had a small supply of Oatmeal at this day's market,
v‘ hich met with a very dull sale at last week's p-ices.
Per Sack of 2801 b. hop. Ver Stone ot 141 b. Imp.
First Oatmeal £2 7 0 First Oatmeal ....• .£0 2 6,
Second ditto 2 5 0 Second ditto
Barleymeal 1 14 0 Barleymeal
Peasemeal 1 14 0 Peasemeal
Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 145.--9.11. 165.—.3.1,20,—Pearl 245.