The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 10. 1841

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Charles Taylor and John Williams were charged with
having committed a violent and unprovoked assault upon
a policeman.
It appeared that at an early hour in the morning the
constable saw thirty or forty women of the town leave the
Crown public-house in Cranbourn-passage, Leicester-
square, and as they were very noisy he told them to go
on ; they did so, and several men, among whom were the
defendants, then suddenly came up and without notice
commenced a savage attack upon him. He defended
himself with his staff, and assisted by several of the
neighbours secured the defendants, but the others es-
caped. _

In reply to the charge defendants denied being the
persons who struck the constable.
The Magistrate inflicted the too-moderate fine of 20s.
or one month's imprisonment.
Frederick Kalmus was finally examined on the charge
of having stabbed Henry Hatchett, proprietor of the
Golden Lion Coffee-house, Wardour-street.

The prisoner a few days back took some coffee and
bread and butter at the house, and when asked for pay-
ment commenced an attack on the complainant with a
stick, which broke ; he then put his hand within his
waistcoat, and withdrawing it stabbed the complainant in
the head.
The surgeon said that had the wound been only an inch
lower the man must have died; he considered that it had
been inflicted by a sharp instrument, but would not swear
that it had not been made by a stick. No knife or dagger
has been found.

The prisoner, in a French patois, and afterwards in
German, said he was angry at being asked to pay a se-
cond time for what he had had. He was fully commit-
ted for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET..
Matilda Wiles, a young woman of delicate and inte-
resting appearance, was placed at the bar on a charge of
having attempted to destroy herself.
The police-constable stated that he apprehended her in
the act of throwing herself into the New River.
The prisoner's mother stated to the Magistrate that in
the early part of last summer the deluded girl,bad• the
misfortune to form an intimacy with a silly romantic
youth, to whom she became passionately attached, and
in a fit of mawkish and maudlin sentiment of the French
caste he induced her to believe that they were doomed to
misery in this world, and it were better to end their lives
and woes together. They accordingly each took a strong
dose of poison, the effect of which proved speedily fatal
to her monomaniac lover, but by the aid of prompt reme-
dies the life of the infatuated girl was saved. Ever since
that melancholy event she had been miserable and broken-
hearted, and had made no less than three attempts on her
life previous to the one that was frustrated by the po-
liceman.
After admonishing her upon the impropriety of her
conduct in feeling and forcible language, which, however,
did not appear to make 'any impression upon her, the
Magistrate delivered her up to her Mends.

UNION-HALL.
A FANCY BALL. Mrs. Louisa Leonora Fell, the land-
lady of the Montpelier Tavern, Walworth, was summoned
for allowing drunken and disorderly conduct in her
house during a fancy ball held there a few evenings ago.
It appeared that the room was let for the night to Mr.
Albert, a print colourer, who acted as master of the cere-
monies, and had issued tickets at is. each for the "Fancy
Ball," at which many of the company had become drunk,
and their conduct was very disgraceful and indecent.
The landlady denied any knowledge of what was going
forward, and supposed that the persons occupying the
room were perfectly respectable.‘
The master of the ceremonies gave evidere, and
acknowledged having seen some of the ladies "
disguised
in liquor," but that they were very pror:,Hy
of the room directly, turned out
Mr. TRAIL said that altkough the defendant might
have had nothing to (1.0 with the getting up of the ball,
yet she was responsible for the drunken and disorderly
conduct which had takpn Place in the room, and he
therefore fined hel• 40s, and costs.

lIATiRDEN.
tord Kalmaine, attended by his solicitor, waited on Mr.
Combe to solicit his advice under the following circum-
stances ;—•His. Lordship stated, that having for some
time past noticed an advertisement in a morning paper
for the sale of three horses, which were standing in
Fitzroy-mews, he, in the beginning of the week, was led
to pay a visit there and examine the animals. He took i
a fancy to one of them, and being assured that it was
perfectly sound and without vice, he gave it a trial, and
was so pleased with it that he purchased it, at three