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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
James M Cann, a journeyman tailor, working in
Fleet-lane, was charged with assaulting Maria Partridge,
a married woman, about 35 years of age.
The complainant stated that her husband carried on a
small business as a cook, supplying chops and steaks,
tea and coffee, to the men working at the printing-offices
in the neighbourhood. The prisoner was an acquaintance
and an occasional customer. Yesterday he came in, and
had a beef-steak in their parlour, in Fleet-lane. At one
o'clock her husband went out with some chops to a
printing-office in Bishop's-court, Old Bailey, and while
he was gone the prisoner asked her to give him a kiss.
She said she would do nothing of the sort, and he pro
ceeded to try to get one by force. She struggled with
him and foiled him, but he threw her down upon the
floor, and kneeling down, attempted to raise her clothes.
This also she prevented, and compelled him to desist by
screaming murder, which brought a neighbour to her
assistance.

Mrs. Waters, the neighbour, said she heard Mrs.
Partridge scream "murder" twice. She paid no atten-
tion to the first call, but when she heard the cry re-
peated in the course of three minutes, she thought she
had better see what was the matter. As she entered the
room the prisoner retired to the further end, sat down
upon a bed, and hastily adjusted a portion of his dress.
Mrs. Partridge was much excited, and had a child in her
arms, and she complained that the prisoner had thr3 Wh
her upon the floor and attempted to take liberties with
her.

The prisoner said he had just been drinking two pots
of beer with her husband, and he did not know what he
was doing, but did no more than attempt to take a kiss.
Mr. Alderman MOON said the prisoner must find bail
to answer the charge at the sessions.
The prisoner found sureties.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mr. Henry Yillebois, ot%Grosvenor-place, was sum-
moned before Mr. Bingliartr an assault on John Fra-
zier, coachman to a gently Rial named Auhljo.
The complainant said, as he was coming down Park-
lane with the carriage one of the horses was injured by
another carriage. He was desired to get down and ascer-
tain the name of the owner. To do this effectually he
was obliged to lay hold of the heads of the horses in the
other carriage. The defendant got out of the carriage
and knocked him down.

Mr. Villebois admitted that when he found the com-
plainant bolding his horses, he proceeded to free the
animals from the complainant.
Mr. BINGHAM—But the complainant says you struck
him down. Mr. Villebois—Oh, yes; I freed them effec-
tually.
Mr. BINGHAM said that the blow was more than ne-
cessary violence, and as the law would not justify blows,
the defendant must either come to some arrangement
with the complainant or he must be fined for the assault.
The defendant then gave the complainant 21., and the
summons was discharged.
Mr. Auldjo wished to know, in case an injury was in-
flicted by one carriage passing another, whether it was
lawful for the party sustaining injury to attempt to de
tain the other party?
Mr. BINGHAM said be could give no advice in a sup-
positious case. The party aggrieved must act on his own
responsibility.

A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED.
An occurrence of a most appalling character, by which
six persons have been prematurely hurried into eternity,
and the lives of three other parties greatly jeopardised,
took place in the village of Kensal New Town, Harrow-
road, on the afternoon of Sunday last. The following
particulars were obtained from an authentic source, and
may therefore be relied upon as being perfectly free from
exaggeration:—lt appears that a man named Thomas
Hickman, aged 34, occupied, with his wife and six chil-
dren, a small cottage in Penton-villas, Middle-row, ad-
jacent to the cemetery at Kensal-green. On Sunday
morning last Caroline Bonerny, a sister of Mrs. Hick
man, called to spend the day with her relatives, and
during the morning she was asked by her sister, who
was otherwise engaged, to prepare a rhubarb pudding
for dinner. It appears that after the batter was mixed,
and all the flour exhausted, the substance was too thin.
and on going to an adjoining cupboard she found in a
paper bag what she imagined to be another package of
flour. This she added to the former mixture, and the
whole was sent to the bakehouse. At dinner the family,
including the sister of Mrs. Hickman, partook heartily
of the pudding, little suspecting that it contained a deadly
poison. Shortly after they had partaken of the pud-
ding very alarming symptoms were perceptible in the
whole of the children. They were first seized with
violent sickness, accompanied by a burning sensation in
the throat and stomach. Whilst Mr. and Mrs. Hick-
man were attending upon their offspring, they were,
together with Caroline Bonerny, attacked in a similar
manner, and they then for the first time imagined that
the fruit in the pudding had caused the symptoms, and
assistance was called in.
Mr. Abercrombie, a surgeon, of the Kensal-road, was
promptly in attendance, and seeing the state the parties
were in he inquired what they had eaten ? He was told
that they had eaten a quantity of rhubarb pudding, and
w is shown the remainder of it, which was lying on the
table. From the symptoms which showed themselves
he was positive that it was not the fruit in the pudding,
but some violent poison that was acting on their consti-
tution ; and from the metallic taste they described as
having in their throat he felt convinced that they had
partaken of arsenic. He make known his suspicions to
the sufferers, when Mrs. Hickman's sister exclaimed,
" It must be that white composition which I found in
a bag in the cupboard, and which I mixed with the
wouldbi e
permt immediatelyoa James
pudding." Hickman, on hearing that, exclaimed,
"My good God, why that is the white arsenic I have
had in the house so many years." Mr. Abercrom-
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child
usual antidotes, and did all that the nature cf the case
died from the effects of the poison. In
p3ta the course ridxs. o°f'
cAalogceof
also died at half-past ten. Seeing 3 thrast
the children, named John, three
gh.teeaen mouths, named
Diary
Browne,A Ann,
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were a
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Henry, next died.
hopes of saving
Notting-hill, and Dr.
any of the sufferers, Dr. Barnes, of
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adbyaus but
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night
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attendance
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rexertionsorifets Abercrombie
Ea
Sunday
Eliza-
beth, were unable to effect much good, and at eleven o'clock:.
night and yesterday morning, but in spite of all his
efforts the father of the above unfortunate children died
at half-past twelve yesterday. He was only thirty-four
years of age, and up to the time of his death he exhi-
bited the greatest anxiety for the fate of his wife and
offspring.
Mrs. Hickman, her sister, and her son Thomas, aged
twelve years, were at six o'clock last evening all three
alive, but it was the opinion of the surgeons that, al-
though there were strong hopes of the sister and son's
recovery, from the fact of Mrs. Hickman being enceinte,
she could not possibly survive many hours. Mr. Aber-
crombie has taken possession of the remainder of the
pudding, and what they had thrown off their stomachs.
The latter he has analysed and found that it contained a
considerable quantity of arsenic, and on questioning
Caroline Bonerny, he learned from her that the bag
contained at least halt a pound of that poison.
The statement made by the husband prior to death,
and which was confirmed by his wife, was, that a quan-
tity of arsenic had been kept in a bottle; but some time
since, by mishap, the bottle was knocked down and
broken, and the contents were afterwards placed in an
old flour bag and deposited in one corner of the cup-
board, whore it remained until removed by his sister-in
law- For what object the poison was In the first in-
stance obtained, or why it should have been placed in
the cupboard, will be fully investigated at the coroner's
inquest.
The whole of the six bodies were lying last evening in
the washhouse adjacent to the cottage, and the imme-
diate neighbourhood was visited during the day by many
thousand persons. The police very properly refused the
admis don of strangers, who were incessant in their ap-
plications to view the bodies.

DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON.
SIR JOHN BECK BART.
We have to announce the demise of the Right Hon.
Sir John Beckett, Bart., 'who expired at six A.lll yes-
terday, at Brighton, the Right llon. at
having re-
paired to that watering place with the view of regaining
his health. The highly-respected deceased had been ill
for the last month, but no serious apprehensions were
entertained till the close of the past week, when it be-
came apparent to his medical attendants that he was
sinking rapidly, Lady. Anne Beckett has been in con-
stant attendance on Sir John, at Brighton, throughout
his illness. The deceased Baronet was eldest son of Sir
John Beckett, by the daughter of Dr. Wilson, Bishop of
eterCeadinthberitouse of Commons,
He entered
in 1820, Rad sat for Hasle-
Bristol, and was in his 71st year, having been born in
1776. He married in January, 1817, Lady Anne Low-
Earl, thoif r dLdoanusgd
ales t e o f
st hi
re l
ja toah an n d
attainedsister
mere in 1826, 1830, and 1831. In 1832 he unsuccessfully
contested East Retford, and in 1334, on the vacancy
caused by Mr. T. B. Macaulay 's appointment in India,
aNsr honoursamnegnl
member
ae
irt
o'l Trinity n9cisnt.ye
kCie
ior
he had a severe contest for Leeds with Air. Baines—Sir
John polling 1,917 votes, and Mr. Baines 1,951. At the
general election in the following year he was returned
for that populous borough at the head of the poll. The
deceased baronet was judge marshal and advocate-
general during the Duke of Wellington's Administration
from 1828 to 1830, and during the short period of office
of Sir Robert Peel, in 1834, he again filled the same
appointment. Sir John was a zealous and consistent
Conservative, and when in the House of Commons voted
against the Reform Bill, the Municipal Corporations
Bill, and the Irish Tithe measure. He was appointed a
Privy Councillor in July, 1817, and was a fellow of the
Royal Society. In the ab-ence of male issue by his mar-
riage, the baronetcy devolves on his brother, Mr. Thos.
Beckett, the eminent banker of Leeds. Mr. W. D.
Beckett, M.P., brother' of the deceased, and Lady W.
Powlett returned to town on Saturday, from visiting the
lamented deceased and Lady Anne at Brighton.