The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-07 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. C. BUXTON, M.P.

Alfred Shelley White, 27, was charged with feloniously
shooting at Mr. C. Buxton, with intent to murder him.
It will be recollected that the prisoner was formerly in
the service of Mr. Buxton, but that he was discharged
for neglecting his duties, and shortly afterwards he
attempted to take the life of his employer.
On being placed in the dock the counsel engaged for
the defence informed the Court that the unfortunate man
was in a condition of mind quite unfit to plead.
Mr. Gibson, the surgeon of Newgate, said the prisoner
was now of unsound mind, and quite unable to under-
stand the nature of the charge made against him.
The Learned Judge then directed the prisoner to be de-
tained until her Majesty's pleasure should be known.

POLICE IN TEL LIGENC E. —(YESTERDAY.)
CRUEL DESERTION OF A FAMlLY.—William Nicholas, a
tall, strong, able-bodied man, was brought before Mr.
Lushington, at the Thames Police-court, charged with
deserting his three children, aged 11, 9, and 7, respec-
tively, and leaving them chargeable to the parish of All
Saints, Poplar. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor for the
prosecution, said the prisoner was a moulder in iron and
steel, could earn 50$. per week, and when apprehended
in Furness, Lancashire, on Saturday, by Walton, an
officer of the Court, had £5 in his possession. The pri-
soner left his children with some woman in the early
part of March last without the means of support, and
she transferred them to another woman, who took them
to the workhouse. Mr. Courtenay, a relieving officer of
the Poplar Union, said the children had been chargeable
to the parish since the 13th of March last, and the ex-
penses of their maintenance was £6 Bs. The prisoner had
forwarded 30s. to the parish since he had been away.
Walton said he discovered the prisoner at the Barrow, in
Furness Ironworks, and took £5 in money' from him. The
prisoner was in receipt of Bs. per day. He was sent to
prison for two months' with hard labour.
BRUTALITY TO WOMEN.—George Sparks, a rough-look-
ing man, was charged at the Westminster Police-court
with the following brutal and unprovoked attack upon a
woman. Mrs Barnes. a young married woman, said that
she was returning home with her husband and a friend
last night when the defendant came up and used a very
disgraceful expression to her. She threatened to give
him into the custody of the police, when he gave her a ,
violent blow in the eye and she fell up against some rail-
ings. Defendant said the account given of the transac-
tion was all wrong ; but an independent witness informed
hia worship her version of the outrage was quite correct.
The fellow was condemned to 14 days with hard labour.
A WEDDING NIGHT IN A POLICE CELL.—Robert Par-
sons, maohinist, of No. 26, Little Windmill-street, was
eharged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street
Police-court, with violently assaulting a young man named
James Thomas. Police-constable Charles Ridgment, 170 C,
said that last night he was on duty in Brewer-street, when
he was informed that a man had been ill-used in Wind-
mill-street, and on going to No, 26 in the street, and
charging the prisoner with ill-using a man of the name of
James Thomas, the only reply he made was that Thomas
had been interfering with him all day, and that he could
stand it no longer. He took the prisoner into custody, and
the injured man was taken to the Charing-cross Hospital,
and was at present unable to attend. Mr. Tyrwhitt re-
mande d the prisoner, who it was stated was married yes-
terday, till Wednesday next.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE BY

A MOTHER IN POPLAR

Yesterday Ellen Wallis, aged 27 years, of 6, Blackwall-
harbour, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Lushington, at
the Thames Police-court, charged with attempting to
drown herself and two illegitimate children named Jane
Wallis and John Christian Wallis, in the River Thames.
John Chapman had cohabited with the prisoner several
years, and a few weeks ago separated from her, when he
agreed to allow her 10s. per week for the maintenance of
herself and their two surviving children. On Sunday at
the Blackwall pier the prisoner took the two children in
her arm, and jumped into the water with both. Chapman,
who was standing by, called out " Murder ! Save them,
save my children !" and they were got out alive. The
youngest, a baby six months old, was insensible, and was
eventually with difficulty recovered. Chapman denied
having goaded the prisoner to do such a desperate act as
to drown herself and children. The Prisoner—You did,
you did : iyou said several times "Do it, do it ; drown
yourself and the children." He wants to get rid of me
and the children. Mary Ann Webster, wife of an engi
neer, was on the Blackwall Pier, and heard the prisoner
ak 1 Chapman quarrelling. Chapman said, "Do it ; do it,"
several times, and goaded her to madness. The prisoner
took up the children, and 'was running towards the water,
when she fell down. She got up again, and then plunged
into the water. Mr. Lushington committed the prisoner
for trial at the July Sessions of the Central Criminal
Court for the attempt to murder her children.

The Bishop of Winchester has instituted the Rev.
S. L. Warren to the rectory of Esher, Surrey. The
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has instituted the Rev.
G. G. Coventry to the vicaraorie of Oxenton, near Chelten-
ham. The Bishop of Norwich has instituted the Rev. W.
J. Kitching to the rural deanery of Stow. The Bishop
of Oxford has nominated the Rev. C. P. Longland to the
rectory of Headington.

Pressure on the barometer was yesterday uniformly
high. Temperature also has risen everywhere except in
the South, where it fell several degrees in the morning.
Winds are light and variable at the British stations, but
easterly on the French coasts, blowing rather strongly in
the Bay of Biscay. The sky has now cleared generally,
and the weather is very fine in the United Kingdom. The
sea is calm.

Chinese pirates attacked the Prussian ship George,
which left. Hong Kong on the 16th April, on the first
night of her voyage. The pirates approached the ship in
two junks, almost without making a sound, surprised and
bound the sleeping crew, and then searched the vessel un-
disturbed. After they had secured a rich booty, they
bade farewell to the captain and the men, and shook
hands with them most cordially.

Oil Sunday afternoon the Right Rev. Dr. Wilkin-
son, the newly consecrated Bishop of Zululand, preached
in Norwich Cathedral on behalf of his missionary diocese,
which he states is sadly in want of the help of devoted
men and women. As many as he can obtain he proposes
to take out with him when he leaves England in the
autumn.

The death is announced of the Rev. Canon Dr.
Thomas Mackreth, who has for many years past been a
prominent member of the northern province. He was
ordained in 1812, fifty-eight years ago, when twenty-three
years of age. In 1854 he was presented to a canonry in
Manchester Cathedral, which falls to the gift of Bishop
Fraser. _

SILVIA :" a Novel. By Julia Kavanagh, author
of " Nathalie," &c. 3 vols.—" Miss Kavanagh's heroine,
Silvia, is charming. Though there is much pleasant
writing upon other points, and the subordinate parts have
a distinctness and originality of their own, it is on Silvia
and her fortunes that our interest is concentrated ; and
tho Ugh secondary picturas are nowhere left incomplete,
she stands out from the canvass - naturally, and
undoubtedly. predominant. Her story is told with much
subtle and delicate knowledge of humanity. The book
abounds with humour.—Aflienccuirt,