The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-31 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

CHARGE OF MURDER.—Yesterday Thomas Olds,
a bricklayer, wits placed at the bar, before Mr. Elliott,
on a charge of causing the death of his wife, by in-
flicting severe injuries upon her person.
Inspector Shaw, of the P division of police, stated,
that on the night of Saturday week the son of the
prisoner came to the station-house, in Lock's-fields,
and requested the assistance of a constable, stating
that his father was murdering his mother. He (Mr.
Shaw) instantly sent a constable with him, and on
reaching the house of the prisoner, in John-court,
East-lane, Walworth, the officer found that the pri-
soner had been ill-using hia wife in a very serious
manner, but she, notwithstanding, refused to give
him into custody. Witnesses were in attendance
who heard the cries of murder issue from the pri-
soner's room ; on the Saturday night and the fo-
lowing day his wife complained of having been seri-
ously injured, exhibiting marks upon her throat, and
said her husband had attempted to strangle her and
knelt upon her body; and one of the witnesses saw
her vomit a quantity of blood on the Sunday. She
lingered in great pain until the Thursday following,
when she expired. Since that time a post mortem
examination had been performed ; and from informa-
tion conveyed to him, he (Mr. Shaw) felt it to be his
duty to tike the prisoner into custody.
Three witnesses were examined, who corroborated
the inspector's state-meta, and the prisoner was re-
manded to a future day.

INDFCENT ASSAULT UPON A MARRIED FEMALE.—
Mr. William Praisk, a stout, mildk-aged man, who
had cried on the business of a brewer at Clapham
for some ye...rs, and who it was said is a man of some
property, was brought up in custody on a warrant,
charged with committing an indecent assault upon the
ners in of Mrs. Sarah Ann Rea Eldridge, the wife of
a grocer in Park-street, Old Kent-road.
The complainant, a fashionably-dressed, handsome
young woman, and who gave her evidence with con-
siderable modesty, deposed that OD Friday afternoon.
last, the prisoner, who she had seen but once or
twice before, came to her shop, and asked to see her
husband. She replied that he was not within, but
told the prisoner when he might see him, and added
that she expected him in in a short time. The pri-
soner then sat down on a cask in the shop, and asked
her to meet him at the Bank some evening, and take
wine with him, or if she would permit him to call on
some evening while her husband was out. She at
once refused to comply with his extraordinary
requests, and told him she was very much
astonished that he should use such language
to her. In a few moments after, she had occasion
to go into the parlour, when the prisoner, without
her perceiving him, seized her round the waist,
twisted her round so as to place her on his left arm,
and held her so while he kissed her, and with hie right
hand assaulted her in an exceedingly indelicate man-
ner. She with some difficulty got from his grasp, but
in doing so had received an internal injury, from the
effect of which she was still suffering. On getting
away from the prisoner she went to the shop door,
and waited there until the arrival of her husband, and
the prisoner remained in the shop. She felt so
affected that she could not tell her husband at once
what had happened, but called him into the parlour for
the purpose, and while doing so the prisoner ran
away. The witness, in reply to questions of the
magistrate, and in as modest a manner as she could,
described the nature of the outrage committed upon
her.

Mr. Eldridge, a respectable-looking young man,
said that after what had been communicated to him
by his wife, he went in search of the prisoner, and,
upon remonstrating with him upon his gross conduct,
he denied the accusation, called his wife the most im-
proper names, said it was a mere attempt to extort
money, and offered him a sovereign to bring an action
for trim. con. against him.
A disinterested witness deposed to the violent and
improper conduct of the prisoner towards the husband
of the complainant.
The prisoner, in defence, said that on going to the
house of the complainant and asking for her husband,
her reply was, that her husband was out with some
of his fancy ladies, and that she did not see why she
should not go out with some fancy gentlemen. He
(the prisoner) then said something about the garden,
upon which Mrs. Eldridge invited him in'o the par-
lour to see it, and, while there, he would admit that
he had kissed the lady. He denied having committed
the slightest indecency towards the complainant, and
slid That, b3vin...! a large finnily of his own, he should
be the !,v;t to do so.

The prisoner's 'Aire, a well-dressfA female, who
had been in Court all the time, here said she had been
married to her husband nearly twenty years. bore him
rifteen children, and she had never known him to
have been gviity of the dig' test indecency towards
temales.

The prison er was remanded to a future day, bui
bail was accepted for his appearance.

REGIMENTAL AIEsSES. " The cankers of a calm
world aid a long peace" have done material injury to
mess society. Regimental messes were urigirially formed
to give the officers a respectable dining-I.lace, and cheap;
the furniture and utensils were all of the plainest and
most substantial kind, suited to the consumption of
spoon and solid meat, with plain table glass, just enough
for the party and any guest or two that might add to the
number. " What a change!" The tables are covered
with the fin'es.t damatk linen, cut glass, plated dish
covers, and righted by splendid candelabra, filled with
wax lights; the sideboard groans; and well it may, for
it is general rickety with the weight of ponderous chased
silver, mach of which is of no use—all this to gratify the
vanity of seem e commanding officer, or to please the
fancy of mont,yed dandies who come into the army to
pass a few yea es, and like to have guests at the mess by
way of " ast *ishing the natives." All this is very fine,
but it is at variance with the principle of making the
mess econon deal to suit the tastes or means of the pro-
vident or the. poor. You can dine cheaper at a Loudon
club than at any mess in the army. Why is this? Not,
surely, from the annual subscription. To keep up the
mess every sulsaltern in the army contributes more than
the subscription of the clubbist, and he is obliged to pay
his daily divirier whether he eats or not. The man of the
club pays n at when he eats not, and has further privilege
in the way of feeding; if he wishes to go to the theatre,
or has an eug agement for the whole evening, he can have,
before 4 o'clt ick, as much cold meat, bread, and beer as
he pleases ft r 61; if economy is his object, he can dine
there most ft agally. Now the officer has no advantage
of this kind; if he goes to the mess to eat luncheon, he
pays more fro: it than at the club, and is obliged alio to
pay for bile skinner, although he may be 20 miles off, and
he has no me ins of dining cheap. Leaves of absence
are now so s hort, that going home to friends, if he has
any, will & no good to his finances, as the travelling
takes away the saving. From what has been said, it
will appear that regimental messes are not like the
" American. S.. oothing Syrup," a blessing to mothers, nor
to fathers I tit] eer. Their value has teen altogether over-
rated; they- s night be dispensed with, and no loss occur
to any one.. There is a set of patent phrases about
messes—" honour of the service," " the respectability
of th.. corp " the comfort of the officers," &c. In the
French seint' ice they know nothing about regimental
messes, and 99 out of 100 of the officers live on their
pay; yet tl soy are pretty good in their way, as we have
found now sod then to our cost. The Foot Guards have
no mess; y are they less respected than the officers of
other corps!:— -United Service Magazine.
THE AR RI.PAL or TIIE HEAD QUARTERS or TUB
63D.—CIIATE am, AUG. 30.—0 n Saturday the head
quarters of th is regiment (West Suffolk) arrived at this
garrison, alto ran absence of twenty years. It consists
LA' the gretiq :tiers and No. 6 and No. 9 company, with
part of the he hi- company-, and numbers 14 sergeants and
:232 reek and file, with 8 evintwn i.c.d 16 children, undiir
th,, eotilualait of Ctilonel A. Curihifo Pole. The troops
I•Milark:A Madras art 6,h Aeril last, on board the ship
Ctpt din Santry, arrived at Gravesend ou this
27th, after w p o.3sage of 137 days. Previous to the ship
arriving at; the Cape, she encountered some severe
weather, are! S. rgetint Goble was washed overboard and
drowned, and about 100 miles from tle- Cape, C..ptain
W. J. Dar cirsg, , who was afflict d with the liver com-
plaint, ex p.ret They also lost by d, arks, during the
Paebageo axle a ergeant, twelve men, one woman and two
children.

The d saes . from Port Philip are to the 25th of March,
but the pi' )eri advise little of interest. Labour was
still in rt 1914 at among the fanners and flock-maters.

THE LATEST DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE RE-
SPECTING THE SLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.—The
Weser Gazette states—ln a note communicated to
the Aust ian, as well as to the Russian Cabinets, the
Danish Court insists that the basis of all nego •
tiation shall be the integrity of the Danish
States, the necessity of which needs no
proof; it then Acknowledges the existence of the
agnatish rights of the agnatic, but considers that they
may be set aside by an indemnification, and vindicates,
in case of collusion every axiom of pre-eminence. It
declares itself rescly to meet the right of the agnatic,
and feels assured that the two German Courts
will not be wanting thereunto with their
powerful co-operation. Upon this Austria and
Russia have declared themselves unanimous in
maintaining with all their power the integrity of
the Danish monarchy, but have at the same time
stated that if the agnoti of Sleswig-Holstein are not
inclined to renounce their claims, there must be a
separation of the dukedom and of Denmark.
BERLIN, AUG. 20.—Madame Bettina d'Arnim,
sister-in-law of M. de Savigny, the Minister, was in-
dicted before the court this day for having slandered
one of the magistrates of our town. She
was committed for two months to imprisonment and
the costs. It is imagined that the sentence will not be
carried into execution, and that the court passed it
merely to frighten her ; this, however, is certainly
not the effect which it produced, for upon hearing it,
the "lady" exclaimed, laughing, "How excessively
amusing to be shut up in a fortress. All Europe
shall see how thoroughly I shall enjoy myself in my
prison-house."
PosEN, AUG. 13.—The inquisitorial prison has for
for some days contained an unusual guest in the per-
son of an interesting young lady, the daughter of one
of the authorities of this place. The cause of her
detention is, that having been called upon by the
Court to give evidence in the case of Babinski, she
most positively refused to take the oath. All who
are acquainted with the resolute character of the
Polish ladies are convinced that this incarceration will
not produce the slightest change in the line of con-
duct which she has adopted.—Hamburgh Papers,
Aug. 24.

lIAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, AUGUST 24.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents .
107
Bank Shares ........................ 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan .......
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 101%
Ditto Ist serieslnscription.....• •• .. 102%
Ditto,Nope and C0.,3d and 4th series•. 97
Ditto, In Certificate•....... ••• . • • .... 97
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 90
Ditto Stieglitz -•.••••••• • • • •• • • .• 89U
Spanish New 5 per Cent• ••••••• • • •• .. 14% i4g
Ditto 3 per Cent ...... ••••• • • • • ... 234 23
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...... 56
Ditto 3 per Cent. •••• •• • • ••• • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. J oan, 1844.... 80
Loss, 3 per Cent 83
National Bank Shares.. •• •••••• •• • • ••

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, ItansT 18.
5 per Cent. Metalliques• • • • • • • • • • •• • . 106%
4 per Cent. ditto•• •••• • • • ...... ••••• •• •• 964
3 per Cent. ......................ditto•.6B%
Loan, 1834 ........ • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 155
Ditto, 1839 .• .• • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 121
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • 169 S
Esterhazir's Loan .. • • •• • • . ••• • • • •• •• ••

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, et Ferdinand .......... . ICS%
Glogguita • • • • • • • •• • • •• • • • •• • • •• • • 121%
Vienna—Milan • ••• • •
Leghorn •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • ••• •• 91%
Sienna .....• .. ••.• • • ...... •. • • ........ 77
Grosetto •. • .......... .............. 97%
Oldenburg •• • . •• .. •• • • .... ••• • • • 55
Perth Lridge
Apennineu • • 94%
DUTCH FUNDS.—AxsTEXDAII, AuclaT 24
Money. Bibs
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent• •• •
Ditto, 3 per Cent •. • ..... •
Ditto, 4 per Cent... .... .... •• • • • • 88 88%
Amort Syndic. 3% per Cent •
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .• 169% 169%
East India Loan, 4 per Cent ..........
Exchange on London, at sight • •.• • •• 12 05
Two inonths... • • •••• •• 11 . 92
On llamburgh, at sight .. 35 50
Two months.•••••••• •• •• •• 35 12
On Paris • 57 06
56 50
BELGIAN FUN DS.—BinsaxLs, AuOVST 24.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent....
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditto,ditto,lB.4o•• •• •••.••••• • •• • • • • .• 987 i
Ditt0,ditt0,1842...................... 98%
Ditto, 1844... •••••..•••• • • • • •• • •• 94%
Ditto, 1838 68%
Ditto of the City, 1832 .• 99
Ditto, 1843 ............. ...... 96%
Bank of Belgium.. • • • •• • • • ••••• • • • • • 85
—Brussels Papers. Aug. 25.