The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-14 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Elizabeth Hardy, a well-looking and fashionably
dressed female, the wife of a gentlema❑ of property
living in Chapel-street, Pentonville, was charged under
the following circumstances :
A policeman of the N division said, that he saw the
defendant in front of the house in which she lodged,
abusing in the most violent terms at least 150 persons.
He endeavoured to induce her to enter the house, but
remonstrance was vain, and by order of her landlord he
at length lodged her in the station-house.
Defendant's landlord said, the accused had been his
tenant for some time, 'and, he regretted to say, a niz•st
troublesome one too. It would be useless for him or
any other human being to attempt to describe her real
character so that any one could form a just idea of it ;
he would, therefore, merely observe, that from morning
till night, and from night till morning, she was quarrel-
ling with some one or other, and she was the nuisance
and terror of all that knew her ; her husband, fortu-
nately, had become so used to her, that the clatter of her
tongue generally lulled him to sleep at night.
A witness, who described himself as a licensed vic-
tualler, here said, " I wish it would me—l have lodged
in the house three weeks, and the devil a bit of sleep
have I had yet. When she bas talked her husband to
sleep, she will begin and blow herself up. and continue
to do so until he awakes, or she sees some other unlucky
night upon whom she can vent her wrath."

Mr. GREENWOOD-Why it appears to me that she
is the common enemy of mankind.—( Laughter.)
The landlord—l consider her to be so ; but, perhaps,
you will take her husband's opinion in preference to
mine. He is here.

The husband, on being thus appealed to, stepped
forward, and, shaking his head, said, " There is no mis-
take about it, Sir—she is just as you say."
Mr, GREENWOOD inquired if she was drunk when
apprehended ? The policeman replied that she was.
The worthy MAGISTRATE remarked that it grieved
him to commit to prison a female whose husband was
moving in such a respectable sphere of life ; but he
had a most responsible duty to perform, and he would
show the defendant that he would not shrink from it.
He had described her as the common enemy of man-
kind, and very aptly so too, as her own husband had
formed the same opinion of her. Such conduct as
had been described could not possibly be tolerated, and
he hoped that the punishment he should order her to
undergo would teach her better. He then sentenced
her to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for
seven days.

The defendant, whose tongue had been wagging in
silence, for a miracle, from the time she was introduced
to his Worskip, here gave a specimen of the rapidity of
its motion, appealing to his Worship for mercy, and
begging that he would not commit her to that horrid
place.
Mr. GREENWOOD refused to alter the sentence, and
she was speedily removed to the treadmill.
THE GAMING TABLE.—Charles Evered, a gentle-
manly-looking young man, who has been in custody
several days, was charged with stealing a quantity of
geld watches, the property of Mr, Bird, of St. John's-
algae, Clakowoll. Frauch, d; C 0041911 COllll.