The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

CHARGE OF STABBING.—Ann SinnOi alias Nance
Ruffey, was charged with having stabbed a man named
Daniel Crawley.

Sergeant King said, that between twelve and one
o'clock on Saturday night there was a disturbance in
Flower and Dean-street, Spitalfields, which he quelled,
and he then saw Crawley go into a sort of en,ting, house
of the lowest kind, kept by the prisoner. Presently he
came out holding his hand to his breast, from which ho
was bleeding profusely, and ran towards witness, ex-
claiming, Fin stabbed! Pm stabbed to the heart! Oh,
stop the blood and save me!" He said that Nance
Ruffey had done it, and after having been seen by a
surgeon was conveyed to the London Hospital, where it
was found that a wound, an inch and a half deep, had
penetrated the chest. The prisoner, on being taken to
the station-house, said her landlady was quarrelling with-
her, and had sent. Crawley to break her door open, and
that when he came in he threw the meat in her face,
and that she must protect herself.
A certificate from Mr. Wordsworth, house surgeon at
the London Hospital, was prOduced, stating that Craw-
ley had a punctured wound in the chest, and was in a
dangerous state.
She was remanded for a week.
SOUTHWARK.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—EIiza Jarvis, the wife of a
wine merchant, late of Bush-lane, City, was brought be-
fore Mr.. Seeker, charged with having made a very de-
termined attempt on her life the preceding morning, at a
coffee-shop in the Waterloo-road.
A young woman named Bade, servant at the coffee-
shop, stated that on Saturday night the defendant came
to her employer's house, and, after having taken some
coffee, engaged a bed for the night. The following
morning she requested that her breakfast might be
brought up stairs to her bedroom, and she ordered a
slice of bacon, desiring that a knife and fork might be
provided. Her wishes were complied with, and a consi-
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Acting-inspector Simmons, L division, stated that in-
quiries had been made respecting the defendant, and
that it was ascertained she was the wife of a merchant
in Bush-lane, in the City, who had some time since
failed for 44,0001. Ile had absconded from his creditors,
and a reward of 3001. was offered for his apprehension.
Since the flight of her husband, the defendant had been
lodging at a house in White- street, Southwark, and was
supporting herself on a small weekly pittance which she
was allowed by parties whom she did not know, but
whom she had occasion to believe were friends in the
country.
Her landlady came forward and said, that for some
days she had been in a very desponding condition of
mind with regard to two of her children, who had been
taken away from her, and placed at a boarding-school.
Their board and education were paid for by unknown
parties, and she was possessed of the idea that her chil-
dren would be taken away from her entirely. This latter
circumstance preyed heavily on her mind.
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Mr. SUCKER said, that in the defendant's condition of
mind, he could not take her own word, and that it was
necessary she should find two sureties of 101. each to be
bail for her.

The defendant not being prepared with the required
sureties was committed.

THAMES.

PRIVATE BURIAL-GROUNDS.—Mr. Rayner, chairman
of the board of guardians of St. George-in-the-East,
accompanied by Mr. George Findlay and Mr. Staples,
also guardians, waited on Mr. Ballantine, for the pur-
pose of calling his attention to the overcrowded state of
a burial-ground in Cannon-street-road, in the rear of
Trinity Episcopal Chapel, with which edifice, however,
the cemetery has nocennexion.

Mr. Findlay said he was constable of the parish, and
he was requested, in his official capacity, to bring the
disgraceful practices carried on in the burial ground before
the notice of the magistrate. The burial-ground, which
was of small extent, was overcrowded with human re-
mains. For some time past a most disgusting and re-
prehensible practice had been adopted. The coffins and
bodies had been taken out of the graves, which ought
not to have been disturbed, and after the coffins were
broken up, large holes were prepared, into which human
remains were thrown in a heap. Pieces of coffins were
often seen about the ground, with pieces of decomposed
flesh and hair adhering to them. The parishioners were
most anxious to prevent any more interments in the
burial-ground, and to abate the nuisance, and he was in-
structed to apply for a summons.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he was not aware that he could
interfere at all in this matter. Ile believed the only
thing that could be done was to indict the nuisance: and
if the parties did so, they would have to pay the ex-
penses themselves, for the auditors would not allow them
to be defrayed from the poor-rate.
Mr. Staples said his residence unfortunately over-
looked the burial-ground, which was choked up with
bodies, and it was impossible to prepare a grave without
removing other coffins and their contents. A nauseous
effluvium arose from the ground, which he considered
to be highly detrimental to the health of the inhabitants.
Mr. Findlay said he had seen flowers and fresh turfs
placed over newly filled-up graves to make it appear ,
they were of long standing.

Mr. BALLANTINE regretted he could; not assist the
gentlemen who had waited upon him, but he had no
d übt their object would be attained by the publication
of what had transpired in the Court that day.
GROSS PERJURY.—Mary Swift, an elderly woman,
was brought before Mr. Ballantine, on a charge of having
used threatening language, and assaulted Mary Ann
Evans, a girl about fourteen years of age.
It appeared from the statement of the girl, that she
was in the service of a gentleman named Still, residing
at No. 77, Lucas-street, Commercial-road, and that on
Tuesday last she gave evidence against a man named
Nott, who was charged with having stolen a quantity of
wearing apparel, the property of her master. Nott was
convicted, and sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment. As she was leaving the Clerkeuwell Sessions
House, where the trial took place, the prisoner, who had
appeared as a witness for Nott. and spoke of his good
character, commenced abn°,lng her, and said if the pri-
soner was a husbar?, of her's, she would have her liver
out. On Wednesday night she met the defendant again,
and she beset her, and used very bad language.
A policeman, named Rowbery, confirmed the state-
went of the complainant as to the abusive language used
on Tuesday morning on the termination of the trial.
The defendant said she knew that Nott was an innocent
man, and that the girl Evans had sworn falsely against
him, and thatpshe certainly did make use of some harsh
terms on Tuesday morning, but she could prove she was
a mile from the spot where the complainant swore she
had met her on Wednesday evening.
Inspector Valentine, of the IC division, made a long
statement, from which it appeared that Nott, who was
an industrious and respectable man, was quite innocent
of the robbery of which he stood convicted, and that he
had been a victim to the malice of the girl Evans. ,On
Saturday the complainant Evans sent to the station-
house for a police-constable, and said that, whilst she
was walking about her master's parlour with a child in
her arms, the woman, who had threatened and beaten
her on Tuesday and Wednesday last, came out of the
bedroom from under the bed about two o'clock in the
afternoon, armed with a knife, and, after swearing she
would stab her, gave her a blow on the face and knocked
her down, and decamped by the front door. The police-
man made inquiries, but could obtain no trace of the
woman Swift, and was satisfied from the inquiries he
made that she was at home at the time the girl said she
was in her master's house. The defendant was, how-
ever, apprehended on the warrant previously issued, and
on being taken to the station-house was confronted with
the girl, who persisted in her statement. While this
was going on, a lodger residing in Mr. Still's house
found a bundle containing wearing apparel, which Evans
declared had been stolen by Nott, and secreted in the
chimney of her room, and the girl had that morning
signed a declaration that she put them up the chimney
herself ; also that the story about the defendant Swift
leaving the bedroom with a knife was unfounded and
trumped up from motives of revenge, and that Nott was
innocent of the robbery she had sworn against him.
Mr. BALLANTINE discharged the defendant, and di-
rected the inspector to make a representation of the case
to the Commissioners of Police, who would communi-
cate with the Home Secretary on the subject of Nott's
conviction and innocence.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—John Harmer was charged with
having assaulted Mr. Frederiok White, a druggist, of
No. 45, Gloucester-terrace, Commercial-road East, and
robbed him of his watch.

The prosecutor was coming home, between one and
two o'clock in the morning, and was within ten yards of
his own home, when the prisoner and another man ran
against him in a violent manner behind, and threw him
down. The two thieves immediately fell upon him, and
in an instant his watch was taken from his waistcoat, the
guard, a black ribbon, was drawn over his head, and the
two thieves decamped in opposite directions. Mr. White
pursued the prisoner, who was stopped.
The prisoner was stated to be an old thief, and he had
been frequently in custody.
Ile was committed.

FATHER MATHEW DESCENDED

FROM A WELSH KING.

Father Mathew is descended from a very ancient
Welsh family. The records of the principality carry the
pedigree haCk to Gwaythvocd, king of Cardigan, in di-
rect descent from whom was Sir David Mathew, the
great standard-bearer of Edward IV., whose monument
is in Llandaff Cathedral, as also those of his grandsons,
Sir William and Sir Christopher Mathew, of about the
date of 1530. Edmund Mathew, Esq., the grandson of
Sir William Mathew, and heir to the ancient estates
of the family at Llandaff and Aradyr, was high she-
riff of the county of Glamorgan in 1592. Two
of his sons, George and Edmund, went to Ireland
about the year 1610.
.11ere-,.. in 1620 i. George mar-
ried Lady Monks, widow of Lord Thurles, and mother of
the first and great Duke of Ormonde. Thus closely
allied by blood and friendship with the Ormond family,
and possessed of the vast estates of Thomastown,
Thurles, and Annfield, in Tipperary, and in the counties
of Clare, Galway, Cork, and Limerick, the family con
tinned down to the present time. Francis Mathew, son
of Thomas Mathew, of Annfield, was a gentleman of
the highest consideration in Ireland, and became succes-
sively Baron, Viscount, and Earl of Llandaff. At his
death, in 1806, the estates amounted to upwards of
40,0001. a year. His successor, the last Earl of Llan-
daff, greatly encumbered them, and on his death in
1833, intestate and without issue, the property was
entered upon by his sister, Lady Elizabeth Mathew.
This old lady, who before her death was said
to be not unfit for a lunatic asylum, died in
1842, and in direct violation of, and opposition to
the will and desire of George Mathew, as above-
named, from whom her grandfather, Thomas Mathew,
of Annfield, had derived the estates, bequeathed the
whole, entirely from her name and family, to a French
nobleman, Viscount de Chabot, highly connected in Ire-
land, but in no way allied in blood to the Mathews.
Thus were the estates of the Mathew family, after the
lapse of centuries, conveyed away from them. What
is singular enough, the old lady, who, we believe, had
adopted and brought up Father Mathew, made him an
executor of this very will which deprived his family of
its property. He naturally declined to act. The will,
it is said, can be disputed, but we are not aware of any
steps having been taken by the Mathew family as yet.
The castle and domain of Thomas town is regarded as
one of
i the most beautiful places in Ireland, and is situ-
ated n what is termed the golden valley, about four
miles from Cashel, in the county of Tipperary. Thus,
by one of those mysterious ordinances of Providence,
which occur in all ages, as if to point out the finger of
God in particular events, needing nothing but its own
energy to produce them—Father Mathew is deprived of
the fortune which could greatly assist in affecting his
work ; yet he is called forth, and does it.— Monmouth-
shire Merlin