The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-31 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

On Friday Diana Briswick, the wife of a tradesman resid-
ing in the vicinity of St. George's Church, Southwark, was
charged with threatening to murder her husband that
morning.

The complainant stated that he had been living apart from
his wife for a considerable time, owing to her profligate habits
as well as the violence of her conduct; that on a recent oc-
casion she attacked him with a butcher's cleaver, and he had
great difficulty in preserving his life. On that day she
rushed into his shop, and, ejaculating that she came for re-
venge, swore that, she would never be at rest until she had
his life. The complainant added, that he was compelled to
have her taken into custody, or else murder would ensue.
The defendant, a fine-looking woman, was in such a state
of excitement, that it took two of the officers of the Court to
restrain her from rushing towards her husband while he was
giving his testimony in the witness-box. She denied all
that lie had stated, and declared that she was turned out of
her home for no just cause.
The complainant said had ample proof of his wife
having been guilty of adultery ; that she was in the habit of
bringing men to his house when he was out on business;
and that the fact was well known to all the neighbours.
The defencant here became so excited that sire was near
getting into fits, and frequently held her clenched hands
at her husband, exclaiming that she was too good anct
virtuous for him, and that she would yet give ' LOO
_ a pill
from which he would not easily recover
The Magistrate in vain e
defendan- excited itavoured to tranquillise the
geAncei tte and, as she still Towed yen-
Ttz, moment rteidlehy to find bail or be committed.
scream
heard the magistrate's deci-
sion she begin to eismosifaut with all her might, and it
1004 the united strength four policemen to remove her
Irons the bar to the cells at the rear of the Court.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

FRIDAY, JAN. 30.

London and South Essex Railway—Committee on Petiti•n, Mon-
day, Feb. 9.

Leicester and Bedford Railway—Committee on Petition, Monday,
Feb. 9.

Direct London and Manchester Railway—Committee on Petition,
Monday, Feb. 9.
London, Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 9.
Leeds and Bradford (Alteration of Levels in Bingley) Railway—
Committee on Petition, postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday,
Feb. 4.

Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway--Com-
Mitten on l'etition, postponed from-Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
North Staffordshire (Potteries Line) Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
North Staffordshire (Churnet Valley Line) Railway—Committee
on Petition, postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Nutt Staffordshire (Ilareoastle and Sandbach) Railway—Com-
mittee on Petition, postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
South-Eastern (Greenwich Railway to Chilham, near Canterbury,
with Branches to Sheerness and Faversham:Creek) Railway- Com-
mittee on Petition, postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Soutlt•Eastern (from Greenwich Railway to Chart, near Ashford,
with Branches to Tunbridge and Riverhead) Railway—Committee on
Petition, postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
South-Ea tern (from Waterloo-road, near liungerford-bridge, to
the Greenwich Railway) Railway—Committeb on Petition, post-
poned from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Manchester and Birmingham Railway—Committee on Petition,
postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway—Committee on Petition,
postponed from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
East Lincolnshire Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed
from Monday 2 till Wednesday Feb. 4.
Epsom and Dorking Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed
from Monday 2 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches
(No. I)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till
Wednesday, Feb. 4.

Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Braaches
No. 2)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till
iVednesday, Feb. 4.

Glasgovi,- Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches
(No. 3)--Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till
Wednesday, Feb. 4.

GlasgomT, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches
(No. 4)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till
Wednesday, Feb. 4.

Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches
(No. s)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till
Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Brartblies
(No. 6)—Committee on Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 tiu
Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena Railway—Committee on Petition,
postponed from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Railway—Committee on
Petition, postponed from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Blackburn and Preston Railway—Committee on Petition, post-
poned from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway —Committee on Peti-
tion, postponed from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb, 4.
Liverpool. Ormskirk, and Preston Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, postponed from Tuesday 3 till Wednesday, Feb. 4.

FLANDERS MAIL,
BRUSSELS, JAN. 27.—The averne price of Wheat, in
the week ending Saturday, the 24th instant, was 25f.
3c., and that of Eye 19f. 260,
The Chamber of Representatives continued the debate
on the artjelo of the Project of Law, relative to the
chase (the game-laws). It adopted article 5, with the
amendments proposed by the Government, and by three
Members.

Some questions were put to the Minister of Public
Works, by Messrs. Delsosse and Delahaye, to know
whether the Government was considering of means to
prevent the disasters which are occasioned by the an-
nual inundations of the Meuse, the Lys, and the Schelde.
The Minister answered in the affirmative. He declared
that this important question was the subject of serious
and profound investigation, which would shortly be
completed, and the result embodied in a project of law.
The Minister of Finance announced, in reply to a
question of Mr. Osy, that the revisal of the law on
sugars would be presented to the Chamber in a fort-
night.
The sugar refiners of Antwerp have just addressed
a peti.ion to the Chamber of Representatives, in which
they declare that they join in the desire of the refiners of
Ghent, for the speedy revisal of the existing law on
sugar. Monsieur Odin, Bishop of Texas, is now at Ant-
werp. He is one of the oldest missionaries in America,
where he has resided twenty-four years, and for the last
ten in Texas. He is thoroughly acquainted with the
States of the Union. The Bishop has come to Europe
to engage priests for Texas, where the population is
rapidly increasing. Twenty-seven are to embark with
him at Havre. He has been to Rome, and had an audi-
ence of the Pope.

The LORD Mayon—The Corporation are either right or
wrong in the view they are taking of this question. lam
determined to give the most complete opportunity of trying
the merits cf the question. I consider that the river is the
Queen's highway as well as the public streets, mid that to
obstruct the navigation in the public plying-place for craft is
a violation of the statute. The case is satisfactorily proved,
and I adjudge the defendant to pay, the fine of 20s.
Mr. Flockton—Am [ entitled to appeal against your Lord-
ship's decision?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly.
The defendant then entered into recognizances to appeal.
The complainant then said the barge remained in the same
place still, and he applied for a summons calling upon Mr.
Flockton to answer for the repetition of what the Lord Mayor
considered to be an offence. He at the same time said, that
he would not press for the summons if the defendant would
promise to remove his barge forthwith.
Mr. Flockton—No, I shall make no promise of the kind.
The object of making Paul's-wharf a place for steamers to
touch at for the public accommodation is to end this dis-
agreeable dispute about Blackfriars-pier.
The Loan MAYOR—I can say nothing about Blackfriars-
pier, as the subject is not before me.
The complainant declared that the body to which he be-
longed had never violated the City regulations in any way,
and that they had appealed by petition in the year 1844 to
the Navigation Committee upon the subject of the serious
damage they had sustained.
The second summons was then granted, and it appeared to
be the intention of the complainant to proceed by summons
daily against the defendant, who is a gentleman of un-
questionable respectability and a personal friend of the Lord
Mayor.
F. Tyler Russell, assistant to Mr. Saner, surgeon and apo-
thecary, of No. SG, Finsbury-square, was brought up in
the custody of John Forrester for final examination, upon
the charge of having committed a forgery upon his em-
ployer.
A gentleman from the firm of Messrs. Freslifield, soli-
citors to the Bank of England, attended for the prosecution.
Mr. Saner deposed, that the prisoner had been employed
by him about 11 months as an assistant, and had frequently
seen him write his name. On Tuesday last, on arriving from
his country residence at the surgery, he found that the pri-
soner had gone away without leave or notice, and he also
found that his desk had been broken open, and that four
blank cheques had been taken from his cheque-book. He
then hastened to the Ihnk of England, where he kept cash,
and there he found that a cheque for 551., purporting to be
drawn by him, had been cashed. He immediately pro-
nounced the instrument to be a forgery. The handwriting
was so like his own that he could hardly distinguish the
difference. Since that time he had received a letter from
the prisoner. He had never authorised the prisoner, or any-
body else, to sign his name upon any occasion ; but the pd.
soner might often have received accounts for the house and
given receipts in his own name.
The prisoner's letter was in a very supplicatory tone. It
called upon the complainant in the name of Heaven to for-
give him ; intimated that good would spring oat of evil, and THE " EDINBURGH EEVIEW."—We have learned,
that the pardon for which he sought would have the effect from a well-informed correspondent in the capital, that it
of preventing him from making any attempt upon
his
life, has been confidently stated there, in some of the highest
as well as turn away the mind of his wife from the contem- circles, that the article on Parliamentary, Privileges, in the
last number of the Edinburgh Review, is from the
plation of a similar act. It stated that poverty was hispen of no
crime, that he had merely used the cash he had taken up loss distinguished a writer than Lord Chief Justice Denman ;
as a loan, and would expiate the offence without fail, and
it concluded by invoking blessings on the bead of his bene- iitihtehearsatimclee
numberthe,
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claimsi•ai characters 0
paternitysoefsEb ayrl son Grey
froefaythsatnoi
still
factor.
give this
Mr. Puzey, clerk in the Bank of England, stated that hebean offered the premier
and
fSmepwoeri more conspicuous
a.
o
frustrated
much. o as to have only a
of its purposes uship by his Sovereign,
had paid the cheque for 551. produced. and signed with Mr. an offer unha
anecdote just as
Saner's name, to a person whom he believed to be the pri• evil incidentsPwPihifehsometimes affect the destinies of nations
soner. The heque had been paid in sovereigns.
it • believing it,
—namely, Lord John Russell. W
John Forrester, the officer, stated that the Bank authori- we have received ~ however, to be perfectly
veracity,.h except that the article itself bearsproofsof its
evidentlypluct production ns
speaks
a k
s one
inwahno
unhesitating has
anbeednaiuntbmedoritaiar.
ties having applied for a warrant against the prisoner, he true, but without being ourselves able to add aught to its
went, eccompanied by his brother Daniel, in search
f ll'th-
sell, and found him in a room at No. 9, Upper East Snmluin,cy beinusg thee
field, on Wednesday. Witness asked him where the h ~,
handed him a
was, and the prisoner opened a drawer and
then live tone, far removed from that of ordinary authorship.—
purse"soner put on Manchester Guardian.
containing 85/. 10s, in gold. The pm
his clothes and acoompaeied
toeswitn MYSTERIOUS CIRCUDISTANCE.—Yesterday afternoon
anything, and
The prisoner said he did not hto say Mr. Baker entered into an inquiry at the Gun, Wapping,
was committed for trial. relative to the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Robertson, aged
I 1( )W-STREET. thirty-six, the widow of a licensed victualler, formerly pro-
On Fridays builder, named Macey, occupying business pre- re-
PrietOr of the Vine Tavern, Kentish-town, whose body was
mires in Drury-lane, appeared before Mr. Jardine to solicit t
ound on Tuesday morning off Wapping, at a depth of about
his Worship's protection against the future violence of a poor sixteen feet, in a bed of sand. A solicitor and the brother of
old Woman of unsound mind, who, he alleged, had recently, the deceased attended, as it was intended to prefer a serious
en two or three separate occasions, set fire to his workshops charge against a person now carrying on business as a
and the adjoining buildings.
licensed victualler, but who was not at present in custody,
The woman was placed in the prisoners dock, and was therefore the Coroner, having heard the statement, adjourned
undoubtedly insane.
the inquest. It appeared that the deceased on the death
The complainant made a statement relative to the recent of her husband had above 1,0001. left her. Some months
fires in Drury-lane, the repeated occurrence of which induced after she was induced by a person, who persuaded her that
him tg apply to the coroner to institute an inquiry into their he was a cab proprietor, to allow hini to pay her some at-
probable origin. No satisfactory result was arrived at, and tention, the effect of which is stated to be that they were
the inquest was consequently adjourned. On the previous married, They subsequently went to France. After residing
night (Thursday), whilst engaged in his counting-house, at there a short time they returned to England, when she found
about eight o'clock, he again discoveted .that his premises that he was previously married. She called upon him
were in 44mes, and it was only by extraordinary efforts from last Saturday, but was not admitted. She the same evening
the firemen that they were prevented extending to a vast called on a female living in Vine-cottages, Kentisb-town,
range of buildings on either side. Having heard that the and, showing her arms, which were bruised, said, " See how
woman at the bar had often threatened to destroy his work- the black-hearted wretch has served me." She left them,
shops, near which she resided with her husband, he felt it haying, changed her clothes, and went in a cab towards
his duty to take her before a magistrate, in the hope tlAt his Hammersmith-bridge, near which she was seen to fling her-
Worship would hear evidence irppeting her, and'rhen take self into the river, and shortly after sank, It is supposed
steps to insere his future safety. Mr. Macey stated that he that the body must have been ought by a steauser and so
took the rent of the rooms in which she lived, and had have been brought down tg Sliii, spot where it ;;as picked of'•
known both her and her husband for many years. They The inquiry Wp ;turned to lamb.-
had earned a respectable livelihood by weaving; but three 408' STocx XC Sr .• ' ../ •
_..AGE.—Notice was gi
'von on the
years ago, in consequence of her evident insanity, tliti Oirigh share Las s, s - rt at the
it is intended to inse
h artier
authorities were applied to to. take ettee'erher. ' They did so r.--. • . asonday, that
he names of such pa
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for a few slept, ling tll4ll iniss4lieil gie husband. that ),,, - .
eos of the list, from time to time,
tt
committee) wsworte.„
vi
be required tolo wto the union aim re ,
would as have been found (by a select
sslllEl tof tn-
of the 110114 men pas e
I kliet, TWft ho dsclin-i ''-' ~. sue remained any confidence, in consequence
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.... .4vuag, so long as he could earn his gagements.—Leeds Mereurr

HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, JAIL 24.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents .........• 113
Bank Shares 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan .. •••• ..
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 103%
Ditto Ist series Inscription. • •• •• •••••• 104%
Ditto, Hope andCo.,3d and 4th series..
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Ditto Stieglitz • • •••••••• • • • • • •• 99%
Spanish New 5 per Cent .... 20 20%
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Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •.. • .
Ditto 3 per Cent .• • • • • • • • • —
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.... 83
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent
National Bank Shares .......... •
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Bills. Money.
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