The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Giovanni Lombard, a tall and rather good-.
looking Italian, was brought in by Sharpe, a patrol, charged
with threatening to murder his wife, to whom he had been mar-
ried about one month.
Sharp stated that he was passing through Broad-Court,
Long-acre, when he heard loud screams and cries of murder,"
in a female voice, and at the same time was informed that a
man was attempting to murder his wife, He ran into the house,
and found the prisoner with a penknife open in his hand, but
he and his wife were then separated.
The wife, a pretty-looking young Englishwoman, was in at-
tenclance, with Mr. Rigby, a wine-merchant, in Southamp-
ton-street, her brother-in-law. She was so much agitated, as
to be scarcely able to speak; but Mr. Rigby stated, that she
was very respectably connected, and some time ago he procured
an engagement for her to go to Ireland, to superintend the fittink
up of the interior of a nobleman's residence, as far as the drapery
and other ornamental portions of it were concerned. She return-
ed a few days ago, and, to the astonishment of all her friends,
was accompanied by the prisoner, in the character of her hus-
band. She had, it seemed, for Med a sudden and violent at-
tachment to him, and they were married about a month ago.
His situation was that of a butler. From the second day of.
their union, he had pursued towards her a course of treat-
ment of the most brutal kind, and the principal cause of it
appeared to be her refusal to supply him with money to enable
bun to go to Paris, where he pretended to have urgent
business to transact. He endeavoured also to persuade
her to make use of a sum of money which she had in
trust for another person. On the occasion when the officer
interfered, he had got hold of her, and placed his penknife to
her throat, swearing that he would murder her if she did rot
act as he desired. The prisoner had also come several times to t
his (Mr. Rigby's) house, and made use of threatening and
abusive language.
The prisoner denied the charge altogether, but was ordered
to be locked up until he should find good ail. He had been
some hours in custody, when, at the intercession of his wife, he
Was liberated on his own recognizance oflool. to keep the peace,
and an understanding that he would set out for Paris, and not '
again molest her.

The Queen of Sw corm, who we believe has
not yet visited Sweden, is about to set out for Stockholm, in
order to he present at the.celebration of her son's marriage with
' the Princess of Leuctenberg.—(Brussols, April 21)
It is slated in a recent communication from St.
Petersburgh, that an Englishman of the name of I% Potts had
had an Imperial patent granted him, covenanting an exclusive
privilege as to profit for 10 years, for inventing a highly useful
Machine adapted to the purpose of washing and drying all
aorta of coloured linens and woollens.
There is a progressiveness in science that justly
endears it to the philanthropic mind; nor is humanity ever
better engaged than when essaying to ameliorate the mod:-
titan of the less fortunate of the sons of men. It is thus
we introduce the praise-worthy exertions now making by
the Prussian Government at Ilreslaw, to educate and' in-
struct the blind. Last year twelve individuals of this tinier-
tunate class were dismissed from the Institute as fully qualifiedto earn their bread by the labour of thuirhands. And (hiring the
course of the four previous years, 30 persons, of both sexes,
similarly circumstanced, had been returned to their friends, .
in like manner competent to gain a livelihood by manual
industry.
We understand that there is no truth in the report of the
apprehension of Wm. liorthwiek, late of the East Lothian
,Hank, in Ireland, an account of which appeare4 in an Irish
paper, and was copied into several journals in this country......
.Edinburch Courant.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

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Extracts front the Morning Papers, May 6•

LNEW TIMES.]
How long the war in Spain may be protracted
by the obstinacy of either party, ox what may be
the eventual result of the lamentable state of
disunion- which exists in that country, we pre-
tend not to anticipate : but it is our duty to im-
press as strongly as possible on the minds of our
readers,
_that the Spaniards are a disunited
people ; and unhappily both parties are disposed
to go to extremes. We alike abhor both ex-
tremes—we alike abhor the absolute power of a
despot, uncontrouled by any wise institution, and
the wretched anarchy of the democratical system
established by the mutineers of 1820. For the
sake of Spain, for the sake of Liberty, and for
the sake of our own Country, the sincere friend
of both, we do certainly wish that the sound and
excellent advice given in January last by the
Duke of Wellington may be ultimately followed ;
anti that the conflicting parties in Spain may be
brought to sacrifice their respective prejudices on
the altar of a wisely-balanced Constitution.

[THE TIMES.]
The French Papers last received are not de-
void of interest. It is clear that the Duke of
Angouleme has spent his first strength, and is
batting for want of breath, even before he
reaches Madrid ! It is said that fresh forces,
amounting in the ,first instance to 30,000 men, are
to join him. The first colour which it was en-
deavoured to give to this delay was, that ne-
gociations were on foot for peace—for peace
hardly yet broken by the Spaniards, except,
indeed, according to the old comic writer—
"ld sit beilum, übi to pulsas ego vapulo." 11 ow-
eves, the rumour of a negociation may allow
us to say a few words upon that topic.—
We recollect, at the time st lien Buonaparte,'s
foolish invasion of England was most talked of,
and appeared to have made some impression on
the public ,mind, a resolution to have keen pro-
posed by Mr. Sheridan,—whiclt was only not
carried into effect because it was not rendered
necessary by the occasion,—that all the penalties
of high treason should attach to any one who
proposed treating with the enemy whilst he had
any footing in the Kingdom. We trust that
this principle of action will be adopted
by the Cortes, and that 64 the son of our love,"
Prince Hilt, having attempted to reach Ma-
drid, for the purpose of making a peace, will
find, when there arrived, that he has to go back
again, in order to effect that object. how-
ever, the mischief having begun, we confess we
feel no zeal, for the speedy termination of the
war ; at least, we would have those who have
thus disturbed Europe, and wish to mislave not
only the bodies but.. the very minds and reasons
of men, removed from that power of which,
through their stupidity and prejudices, they know
not the right use : and then let the contest close,
anti peace be established as soon as may be.

[MORNING cilitotstct.E.J
The number of Inquests which have lately
been held on the bodies of prisoners who have
died in the Milibank Penitentiary has attracted
much attention, and the .notice, which the sub-
ject has obtained in the House of Commons has
excited a desire to have a more full inquiry, into
it than any, which has yet token place. it was
notorious that the situation selected for this
extravagantly expensive establishment «as the
most unhealthy that could possibly be chosen;
and it turns out that the regimen of the
prisoners was every way unsuited to that
situation. The proceedings on a late in-
quest have induced the Medical Gentlemen
connected with the Penitentiary to come forward
and disclaim being responsible for that. regimen
which was even disapproved of by them. It is
clear, however, that blame attaches somewhere.
Mr. Peel, to be surf'', in the usual cnut of Ace,
expresses " WS high and unqualified confidence
in the Coirunittee to Omni the House has en-
trusted the managetnent 6f the l'enitentiary,",
while at the same moment he is obliged to
change the regimen, in order to check. the
mortality consequent on bad and.insuflicient diet.
This is quite a matter of course ; We never yet
knew a case, from Aris to Brittle, where abuse in
gaols has been detected., in which one honour-
able or Right Honourable Member has not
vouched for the humanity of the gaoler, another
for the salubrity of the gaol, another for the
vigilance, of the Visiting Magisttates, a fourth
for the piety of- the Chaplain, a fifth for the
skill of the Surgeon, and a sixth for the hap-
piness of he prisoners.. To these optimists the.
only danger appeared to be, that all the world
would break into gaol, the only grievance was,
that honest men should be_excluded from such
comfortable abodes, a good house over his head,
and oranges after dinner ! ! And yet we find,
notwithstanding these eulogies, that prisoners
will die, of cold, of damp, of neglect, of bad
food, and little of it ; that obstacles are thrown
in the way of inquiry, as if something were wrong
about the 'system, that plistmers are afraid to
give evidenee, lest they should be ill used, and
that a gaoler, (we beg his pardon), a Governor, is
afraid to.trust a WRIWSS alone with a Coroner's
Jury. Why all this hatred of inquiry ? Why
this anxiety to exclude the public eye ?

[MORNING POST.]
The Paris Papers of Sunda'y last arrived yester-
day by express. They contain nothing new from the army ;
for tie assertion that it is received with enthusiasm wherever it
appears, and expected with impatience in every village, or
town which it haa not yet catered, has been so often repeated
as to have lost the charms of novelty, without having acquired
the credit of truth. The flight of the traitor Amarante into
Spain is confirmed • but what its the result of defeat and despair, ,
is represented in die Ultra Papers as the effect of previous at-
rangernents, and. the arrival of the " Royal Portuguese
Army" (swelled to 11,000 infantry, and 1500
citvalry), to co-
operate with the-In vatiors, is exultinglY-annotinced as an event
which must.give the last blo to
betsnthat Itego'dence of th $
force,
e Pen-
insula. We shalt_ probably vr
next told
before which .Anutrente. has constantly fled for the last three
weeks, does not cc exed CO or 10041 men ; for illese Jour-
nals have math it so regular a practise to treble the number
of the Rebets, and to decimate that of the Constitutionalist4,
tempttrength of habit betrays them into the same at-
Sts delllBlol4 OM when those attempts cannot fail to