The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-13 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday a respectable looking female, bordering on
sixty years of age, who was obliged to be assisted into the
Justice-room by two persons, and on whose face there were
several large running sores, applied to the Magistrates for
a warrant against her husband for assaulting and treating
her in the most brutal manner. The applicant stated that,
since her marriage with bet...present husband, he had treated
her with the most incredible cruelty and unkindness. On
Friday night last, in order to avoid his threats, she locked
herself into her bedroom. Her husband, however, in a
short time burst it open, and as soon as he got in he com-
menced heating the ends or bowls of two tobacco-pipes
with the candle, and applying them to her face and diffe-
rent parts of her body, having first stuffed a handkerchief in
her mouth to prevent her calling out for assistance. The
applicant here exhibited her hands and arms, which, as well
as her face, presented a shocking spectacle, being covered
with large wounds and blisters, produced by the.application
by her brutal husband of heated pipes. The poor woman
in conclusion said, that, not content with the injuries in-
flicted on her in the way above described, her husband
dragged her out of bed, beat her severely with a stick, and,
.with the most dreadful imprechtions, said he would poison
her, and that she should drink some beer with arsenic in it,
which he would prepare for her.
MAOIsTnATE—How long have you been married to this
brute of a husband of yours ? Applicant—Nearly twelve
months, Sir.

MAGISTRATE—I suppose he married you for your money?
Applicant—There is very little doubt of that, Sir, though
he has got plenty of his own.

MAGisTRATR—What is he ? Applicant—llc has a
good situation in the West India Docks, and has besides a
pension of 2001. a-year.
The warrant Will then granted.
SINGULAR CAsE._Some weeks ago a communication
was received by the Magistrates of this office from Lord
Glenelg, the Secretary for the Colonies, requesting that
they would inquire into the circumstances attending the
case of a female, named Taylor, a native of the Island of

St. Helena, who was left here in a very destitute condition.
In 1834 the female in question, who had been at one time
in the service of Madam Bertrand, and had been fre-
quently in the presence of the Emperor Nal:oleo❑ at St.
Helena, had married a private soldier belonging to the East
India Company, named James Taylor, then doing duty on
the island. The regiment to which Taylor belonged being
disbanded, he, together with his wife and an infant child, as
well as a girl of six years of age, which his wife had by a
former husband, returned to this country, where they had
not been many days when the husband, Taylor, absconded,
leaving the remainder of the family in a destitute state.
In the course of her inquiries after him, the poor woman
learned that her husband had got another wife living, but
that) in consequence of his having had a letter forwarded
to his friends while at St. Helena, stating that he had
been shot, she was married to another man, by whom she
had had some children ; and being without friends or means
of subsistence, she forwarded a memorial to Lord Glenelg,
praying that he would send her and her children back to
St. Helena. his Lordship's reply was to the effect that
there were no funds applicable to her case, and that there-
fore he could not comply with her request. He, however,
forwarded the papers and documents to the Magistrates at
this office, with a view of punishing the husband for being
guilty of an act of bigamy. The Magistrates o❑ looking
into the authorities on the subject, found that the case
was not within their jurisdiction, and that therefore they
could not interfere. They, however, forwarded a report of
the evidence and particulars of the case to Lord
Glenelg, and then the matter here rested. The poor
woman subsequently made application to the Magistrates
as to the burial of her infant, who had then died, and
the circumstances of her case a second time got publicity.
Nothing, however, was heard in her behalf until Friday
last, when a second communication was received by the
Magistrates from the Secretary of State's Office, to the
effect that the Government would pay the expence of tak-
ing the woman and her children to her native place, St.
Helena. Yesterday the poor woman attended at the office,
and on being told by Mr. Hardwick that the Government
were willing to send her back to St. Helena, she expressed
much gratitude, but said that she had been obliged to pawn
almost every thing which she possessed to support herself'
and child.

Mr. HARDWICK humanely told her to bring the dupli-
cates of what things she had pledged to the office on the
following (this day), and he would see and provide her with
the means of redeeming them.