The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-29 00:00:00

" DUTY ON SPECIAL DAYS IN EACH WEEK.

" Monday—Two bed-rooms to be swept and scoured,
walls dusted, and everything to be well dusted, grates and
fireirons to be cleaned.

" Tuesday—Water-closet to be well washed out, all the
washing to be done.
" Wednesday—Clean one bed-room ; passage and stairs

cleaned, scoured, and dusted.
" Thursday—Drawing-room to be well swept, with tea-
leaves ; walls dusted ; grate and flreirons well cleaned.
Marble and table covers, and outside of windows, to be well
washed with soap and water ; and everything moved and
well dusted. Ironing to be done. Water-closet cleaned out.
" Friday—Tins, coppers, and all kitchen utensils to be
cleaned ; drawing-room stairs to be cleaned.
" Saturday—Kitchen and back kitchen to be thoroughly
cleaned, passages and water-closet to be scoured,&c."
George Wood, a stalwart Liverpool fellow, between 35 and
40 years of age, of forbidding look, and dressed in prison
clothes, was charged with committing the following outrage :
Between eight and nine o'clock on Friday, the prisoner was
begging of every person that passed him in Macclesfield-street
and King-street, Soho ; he was drunk, and his conduct to the
persons of whom he solicited alms was annoying and insolent.

William Horsford and Thomas Roach, officers belonging to
the ➢lendicity Society, came up at the instant and took him
into custody. At first he walked quietly for a short distance,
but then commenced a most furious at tack upon the constables.
Horsford, who is himself a very powerful man, was most
severely beaten, and had the back part of the right hand
bitten through in a shocking manner. Roach, in addition to
several fearful blows, was kicked with desperate violence.
Eventually he was conveyed to the station-house.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that the Mendicity
officers had a " bad feeling" towards him. What they had
said was all perjury and lies.
Mr. MALTBY asked if the prisoner was known?
Horsford said he was the most desperate of the whole gang
of London beggars; he was even a terror to his own
fraternity. Since January, 1840, he had been committed
from the different metropolitan police-courts fourteen times,
and had undergone twenty-two months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

Mr. MALTBY again imposed the severest punishment the
law allows, viz., three months imprisonment.
The prisoner, as he left the Court, shook his fist menacingly
at the Society's constables, exclaiming—" I am determined,
if I wait ever so long, to put a knife into you, although I
know I shall hang at the Old Bailey for it."
CLERKENWELL.

BlGAmv.—Mr. Thomas Connor, lately the proprietor of an
extensive fur warehouse in Regent-street, was charged with
bigamy.
Mr. P. Hobler prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson defended the
prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, a gen-
teelly-dressed man, about forty years of age, began life as a
tutor, and in 1839 married his first and lawful wife, who was
the daughter of a highly-respectable tradesman. The mar-
riage took place in St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, and was
duly proved by Major Dixon and by other witnesses. Their
means becoming narrow, the prisoner was obliged to betake
himself to his original occupation as tutor, and engaged in an
establishment at Twickenham, visiting his wife occasionally.
Next door to the house in which the prisoner resided lived
the uncle of the second wife (the prosecutrix), Miss Carr Burt,
a very fine-looking young woman, the daughter of a gentle-
man holding a Government situation at Bridport, in Dorset-
shire. Miss Burt, in the beginning of 1843, came to Twicken-
ham on a visit to her uncle. She had not been long there
when the prisoner met her, and addressed her as a
suitor. The intimacy ended June, i
1843, in Marylebone Church,
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a furriery establishment in Regent-street, and the first and
lawful wife for a time lost sight of him. Some months after
the second marriage, however, he visited Mrs. Connor, but
never hinted his change of circumstances; and she remained
in ignorance of the matter until a few days ago, when she
accidentally met the prisoner with his second wife leaning on
his arm in Holborn, and the wife, Mrs. Connor, claimed him
as her husband ; he was endeavouring to put off the thing as
a joke, when a friend of Miss Burt's came up, and hearing
what took place communicated with Miss Burt's father, who
could hardly believe that the prisoner had so grossly imposed
on his daughter, but having been convinced of the fact,
caused the present prosecution.
The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed for
trial.