The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Hen-y Savory, the keeper of a house of bad repute L.
Buckle's-buildings, Waterloo-road, was charged with
striking Margaret Scully on the head with a poker, with
intent to do her grievous bodily harm.
The complainant having been made acquainted that
her sister, a young girl, had quitted her situa ion, and
bad been inveigled into a house of bad repute on the
south side of the water, went to look after her, for the
purpose of prevailing upon her to leave such a place. In
the course of the complainant's inquiries she learned that
her sister was an inmate of the prisoner's house, in
Backle's-buildings, Waterloo-road, and that it was a
rendezvous for the worst of characters. On Friday last
the complainant accordingly proceeded to the house in
question, and on knocking at the door, was answered
out of the window by the prisoner, who, in reply to
the question as to whether her sister was there, said
she was not, and referred her to the next house. Com-
plainant went there, and finding, from all she heard
respecting her sister, that she was in the prisoner's
house, although he denied the fact, she Murned there
again, and insisted on having an interview with her
sister. The prisoner, who again answered her from
the parlour window, still declared that the young
woman was not in the house, and threatened to strike
complainant with a poker, if she did not go away.
She, however, remained at the window, insisting on see-
ing her sister, when the prisoner lifted up the poker,
and struck her a severe blow on the head, which cut it
to the bone, and she fell down insensible, and in that
condition was conveyed to the house of Mr. Brooks, a
surgeon in the Waterloo-road, where she was seized with
a strong fit, but after some time she recovered sufficiently
to be enabled to be conveyed home. The prisoner ab
sconded after perpetrating the outrage, but was since
taken into custody.
The surgeon having given evidence of the serious na-
ture of the injury inflicted on the complainant's head,
and the danger arising from it,
The prisoner, in his defence, said that, the complain-
ant's sister was not in his house at the time, and he told
her so, but she still continued to abuse him, and ulti-
mately broke his window, which caused him to strike
her with the poker; that he regretted the circumstance,
and was willing to make her every reparation in his
power.
Mr. SECKER said the assault was of such an aggra-
vated character that he would neither listen to any
compromise, however willing the complainant was to
accede to it, nor should he decide the case summarily,
but send the prisoner for trial.—Committed accordingly.

Hop INTELLIGENCE.
MAIDSTONE.—The duty still continues to rule at
220,0001., with various opinions as to the accuracy of
the estimate. This ►nay, perhaps, be in some degree
tested by the amount of the Canterbury collection,
which we hear on pretty good authority will turn out
something very like 45,0711. 17s. Id. There were seve-
ral buyers at our fair on Saturday, but it seems of late
years not to have been the fashion to sell here, otherwise
there is no doubt sales might have been effected. A
correspondent informs us that there is an inclination on
the part of some growers, encouraged by the success of
the late experiment at Staplehurst, to establish a hop fair
here. He says, "No time should be lost. The growers
should meet and form a committee of management. They
should be the acting men, and with energy and deter-
mination much good might be accomplished."—Maid-
stone Journal.

The estimated bop. duty has fallen off materially
during the past week. A high duty backer gives the
following estimate :—Canterbury, 45,6001. ; Rochester,
66,0001. ; Sussex, 63,000/. ; Worcester, 30,0001.; Farn-
ham, 16,000/. ; Kingdom, 4,oool—Total, 224,0001.
But general accounts say that it will not much exceed
200,0001.—Canterbury Journal.
CHESTER HOP FAIR.—The importance of this fair,
as regards the trade in hops, has for several years been
on the decline, and the practice of pitching hops here in
balk has altogether ceased. At our fair on Saturday
last there was a good attendance of merchants from
Worcester, and the crop in that district being this year
both very abundant and excellent in quality, a good
business was done at satisfactory prices; choice samples
were much sought after, and prices ranged from 90s. to
115 s. per cwt. for fine Worcesters ; but the trade in
Sussex and Bents was limited.—Chester Courant

NORTII 13arrtsx.—we are glad to learn that the
damages done by the recent floods to the North British
Railway at Linton-bridge have now been so far repaired
as to render the line at this point passable by the trains.
By great exertions on the part of the contractors, Messrs.
Ross and Mitchell, the works have just been completed,
and we are assured that the erections, though only tem-
porary, are of the moat substantial description, and that
four trains with materials of the heaviest kind passed
safely over on Friday. The mails from London are still
late in the arrival—say about two hours in general—in
consequence of the injury to the North British Railway.
Yesterday forenoon, however, tho mail train which
should arrive hero at nine in the morning did not reach
town till twenty minutes past one in the afternoon. This
delay was said to be caused by the locomotive getting
off the rails somewhere on the road.—Caledonian
Mercury,