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London, England, 1846-08-20 00:00:00

excite an impression upon his mind that they acquiesced in
the step their daughter had taken.
Mr. CorriNGnAm asked him what assistance he could
render him? and said that he could not find his wife and com-
pel her to return to him again. The magistrate then inquired
if he had any reason to believe she had gone off with any man ?
The applicant said, that since his wife's departure he had
ascertained that a Frenchman used to be seen in her com-
pany when he was from home and engaged in matters con-
nected with the title and estates to which he aspired, and to
which he was the rightful heir. He, however, did not in-
tend to impute infidelity to his wife, but he considered she
acted imprudently in forming such an acquaintance without
his knowledge or concurrence. "If, however," added the
applicant,. "my wife will return, I will forgive and forget
everything that has happened, and never allude in anger to
the subject."
Mr. Cerrixannat said, that it did much credit to appli-
cant's feelings. The manner in which he spoke of his wife
had evinced, in a remarkable degree, the strength of his
affection for a woman who seemed unworthy of it. The
magistrate then, in reply to a que,tion from applicant, as to
whether he was responsible for the debts his wife might have
contracted after her elopement, said he was not. He, how-
ever, would advise applicant, in order to guard against such
a contingency, to apprise tradesmen not to give her credit,
either by public advertisement, or any other way which he
thought best adapted for the purpose.
The applicant having thanked the magistrate, withdrew.

WESTMINSTER.
Just before Mr. Burrell left the court, at 5 o'clock on Mon
day evening, Mr. Henry Walter Parker, late an Assistant
Poor-law Commissioner, who conducted the Andover in-
quiry, applied to the magistrate, and informed him that he
apprehended, from certain expressions used by the lion.
John Henry Thomas Manners Sutton towards Mr. William
Dougal Christie, M.P. for Weymouth, in the committee-room
of the Andover inquiry, and of which they both form mem-
bers, that he intended to challenge him to fight a duel. In-
structions were accordingly taken on the oath of Mr. Parker,
and a warrant granted against Mr. Sutton. Instead of this
instrument being placed, as usual, in the hands of the sum-
moning officers of the court to execute, it was, after a great
deal of private conversation, handed over to an inspector,
with certain instructions of a strictly private nature as to
the course he was to pursue. It is quite obvious that the
intention of the authorities was to hush the matter
up in secresy ; but the reporter, having from a private
source received information that this court was to
sit half an hour earlier at least than usual yester-
day morning, was in attendance before the specified
time. What had occurred between the inspector and Mr.
Manners Sutton it is of course impossible to say; but that the
warrant had not been executed upon the gentleman was
evident from the fact of the Hon. Gentleman beinie driven up
to the private entrance of the Court at ten o'clock in the
morning, accompanied by Mr. Frere, his solicitor. and
another gentleman. Mr. Frere, having been admitted by
the magistrates' entrance, was ushered into the justices'
private room, the two others being left in the carriage.
After the lapse of four or five minutes Mr. Burrell arrived,
and was engaged for a short time in conversation with Mr.
Frere, when Mr. Burrell advanced into the Court, and with
an air of embarrassment hastily called for the clerk, and on
his appearance motioned him towards the private room,
whither they repaired, and in a moment afterwards Mr.
Sutton and the other members of the party. In such haste
was the maVer conducted that the hall door was left open
and rt mained so for five minutes, when Mr. Frere, Mr. Man-
ners Sutton, and the other gentlemen, precipitately left. It
was alleged hat the matter ended on Mr. Burrell's feeling
assured that there was no hostile feeling on the part of Mr.
Sutton, and there being no necessity for a hearing.
THAMES.
THE USE OF TIVZ KNIFE. -- MURDEROUS ASSA UI T.
on Tuesday, a well-dressed young Irishwoman, named
Margaret Hayes, was brought before Mr. Broderip, charged
wi,h feloniously cutting and wounding William Thomas
Ball, her paramour, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm. The prosecutor, whose nose was slit, is an omuibu
driver, and he had been cohabiting with the prisoner for
the last four months. They lived at No. 19, Gill-street,
Linaehouse, where, it appeared, very frequent quarrels had
taken place between them, arising from the jealousy o
the woman. On the 10th instant she stabbed him in the
arm with a fork. She was given into custody for the outrage,
but her paramour did not appear against hers On Monday
night several friends visited the parties, and the prisoner be-
came jealous of a female, one of her visitors. After Balls
bad parted with them at the door, the prisoner commenced
abusing him, and said, " she saw his doings," which con-
sisted of nothing more than a friendly parting with his
guests. The jealousy of the woman was, however, aroused,
and after Balls had undressed himself and was about to get
into bed, she threw a candlestick at him, and cut open his
head; and before he had time to recover himself, she at-
tacked him with a knife in her hand, and cut his nose and
mouth. The blcod flowed very copiously from the wounds,
and the prosecutor exclaimed, " For God's sake, don't kill
me, what have I done ?" and called for a policeman.
The prisoner begged of him not to give her in charge, and
said that what she had done was in the height of passion.
The man, however, had been so often annot ed and assaulted
by her, that he gave her into custody of policeman 91 K,
who found the man all over blood. The prisoner concealed
herself in a water-closet, where she was discovered by the
constable, who dragged her from her hiding place. Ott her
way to the station-house she stated that she was eating her
supper and her husband (Balls) pulled her off her chair and
struck her several times with his fist; that he fell upon her,
and that she, having a knife in her hands, cut him by acci-
dent. She made a similar statement in her defence before
the magistrate, and added that he had threatened to be re-
venged on her on Monday night. The whole of her state-
ment was denied, and the evidence clearly made out that she
was a passionate woman, and deliberately threw the candle-
stick at the man and wounded him with a knife.
Mr. BRODERIP committed the prisoner for trial for cutting
and wounding Balls, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm. The worthy magistrate then expressed himself to
the following effect :—Not a week elapses without cases of
this description being brought before me, and it is lament-
able to observe the frequency of resort to the knife in quar-
rels even of a most trivial nature—a practice which was for-
merly termed un-English ; but that epithet will, I fear, be
inapplicable if these mutderous acts are not speedily put
down. I am glad to see that the Learned Recorder of Lon-
don has expressed his intention of visiting with severe
punishment every case of stabbing or cutting made out
ag inst any delinquent."
The prisoner was then sent to Newzate.