The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-03 00:00:00

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nswer there might be, but. there was a prima fade case of
a series of aggravated essaulte, and it was his duty to send
it to the. Central Criminal Court. He called upon the de-,
fendant to find bail, himself in 100 k, and two sureties of 50!.
each, to appear at the next sessions.
The case of Singleton,,tha Aeward, was next gone into.
He is an intelligent man of colour, and stated-that he had
been treated very cruelly indeed. On the 4th of May he
was knocked down by the Captain, who drew a good deal of
blood from him. Four or live days after that the captain
horse whipped him with his riding-whip.
Mr. 13nonumr —Were your clothes off or on at that time?
Witness—l had my jacket off, ar.d my shirt sleeves were
tucked up. The same day I was compelled to stow myself
away in the hold, to prevent his beating me. Three Sundays
before I got in here he knocked me down on the cabin floor,
just after dinner, and stunned me, I don't know how long ;
and then he called upon the chief mate to fee! my pulse, and
ascertain if anything ailed me. That was after I recovered
my senses and got into the pantry. doubling the
Cape, and while the weather was very cold, be threw four
buckets of water over me. It was raining at the time, and
he deprived me of my bed, and obliged me to sit up in the
pantry, and I was shivering with cold. The witnes3 then
produced the shirt he wore when the first assault was com-
mitted. It was covered with marks of blond.
Mr. IlnonErm, said the defendant must find bail in this
case also, himself in 100/. and two sureties of 50/. each, to
appear at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
The defendant was unprovided with the required s-...veties,
and was locked up.

Mr. Green's Nassau Balloon descended on Monday
evening in a field of barley belonging to Mr. Kynaston, is
the parish of Stanford Rivers, Essex, a mile and a half from
Ungar, and 21 miles from London, having travelled this dis
lance, besides the entire length of London from east to west,
and the farther distance that Cremorne Gardens are from
the capital, in the short space of half an hour. The strong
wind that was blowing throughout the afternoon obliged air.
Green to use the heaviest of Ns grapnels and ropes, weighing
together close upon 5 cwt., the difference between them and
his mild weather apparatus being equivalent to the ordinary
weight of three persons. Nevertheless, eight gentlemen be-
sides Mr. Green participated in the aerial flight G.
Lawton, of Ditchley-park, Essex; il,r. J. J. Fryer of
Kensington ;M. J. Armstrong, of the College Civil En-
gineers, Putney-; Mr. Powell. of Benson, Oxfords Lire; Mr.
Sargent, of Fleet street; Mr. G. H. Davidson, the publisher
of the well known Music.for the Million; Mr. Spencer, the soli-
citor; and Mr. Van Buren, of the Cremorne-gardens. The hal-
laon took a direction perhaps the best possible for a perfect
view of London and all the adjacent places. It traversed
the great and main lines of St. James's Park, Trafalgar-
square, the Strand, &c, and left London by crossing St.
Maitiu's-le-Grand, Finsbury Shoreditch, &c., whence it
continued its course over Hainault Forest, and the inter-
vening places, till it was made to descend as stated, after
having had Chelmsford in close view, and the Nore, and an
immense range of country of corresponding distance in the
prospect. While over the grounds of Buckingham Palace,
her Majesty's health was drunk, and the National Anthem
was sung in a style that showed some of the party to be no
mean vocalists. The next round of champagne was quaffed
in respect to Ibrahim Pacha, who had done the aeronauts
the honour of his company at starting. After landing, the
balloon sustained some damage, from the boisterous state of
the weather; but Mr. Green and his party reached London
in safety, without ally accident to detract from the enjoy-
ment of the trip.
BOTANIC GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK.—The last
flower-show of the season, which took place in these gardens
on Wednesday afternoon, was patronised by a large assemblage
of aristocratic and fashionable vi-itors, although the lowering
state of the weather was far from favourable to such under-
takings. The flowers were placed, as before, under awnings
erected for the purposs, and there were many beautiful va-
rieties exhibited. Military bands were in attendance. The
following is a list of the principal prizes awarded
Gold medal to Mr. Barnes, gardener to G. W. Norman, Esq.,
and to Messrs. Fraser, Lea-bridge-road, for a collection of
thirty stove and greenhouse plants ; to Mr. Don, gardener
to F. G. Cox, Esq.; and to Messrs. Rollisson and Sons, Toot-
ing, for fifteen exotic orchids. 2d. Gold medal to Mr. Ingram,
Royal Gardens, Frogmore, for a collection of ten dishes of
fruit ; to Mr. Hunt, gardener to Miss Traill ; andto Mr.
Ayres, gardener to James Cook, Esq., for twenty stove and
greenouse plants; and to Mr. Plant, gardener- to J. H.
Schroder, Esq., for ten exotic orchids. 3d. Gold medal to Mr.
nnt, for fifteen Cape heaths. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge came to a private view. Ibrahim Pacha
and suite promenaded the gardens during.the fete.
Strsrrcrous CASE.—On Monday, an inquest was he'

y adjournment before Mr. W. Baker, jun., at the Mulberry
Tree, Mile-end Old Town, on the body of James Perryman,
aged 42, late foreman to a fish salesman in Billing-gate-
market. The wife of the deceased was a very profligate
woman, and on several occasions, when the deceased re •
turned home, he found some strange man sitting there.
About two years ago she was tried at the Old Bailey fur
robbing a man of eight sovereigns, and on that occasion a
quantity of arsenic was found in a cup in her house. She
bad been heard to wish that her husband was dead, and to
say that a fortune-teller had told her he was to die in the
course of next year. Various alarming rumours had gone abroad
that the deceased had been poisoned, and stispici,-na was directed
against the wife. The deceased's relatives applied to the
Coroner to hold an inquest,. and a post mortem examination
was ordered to be made. Evidence was given as to the bad
character of- the wife. The suspicion which rested on the
wife was, however, cleared away by the evidence of Dr.
Leatheby, lecturer on chemistry to the London Hospital,
who deposed that he analysed the contents of the stomach,
and found that the abdomen contained fluid indicating a
previous state of inflammation. The liver was very munch
decaved, and a very large abscess had formed. Witners also
said that ho had carefully analysed the stomach, but could
not detect any trace of poison, and he was of opinion that
death was caused by the bursting of the abscess. The jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict in accordance
with the medical testimony.

MURDER AND SUICIDE AT THE BRIGHTON WORK-
HOUSE.—BRIG2ITON, TUESDAY.—This morning a horrid
murder was committed at the workhouse bv a woman named
Norman, on her infant, six months oil, and just weaned. It
appears that the murderess had lately been subject to pains
in her head, and this morning declined getting up with the
other women on account of illness. About eight o clock she
asks I for her child, which was, brought to her in bed, and
immediately afterwards she ran out of the room with her
throat dreadfully cut. On proceding to her room, it was
found that the child's throat had likewise been cut in a
shocking manner. The murderess died instantly, but the
poor child lingered till four o'clock this afternoon, when it

expired. S::e was a married wo:r,an, and about 30 years of
age. Her buz,band is'a prisoner in Lewes Hous3 of Come-
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ti on, undergoing a sentence fur felony. She had request, d
only a short time before that her other two children might
be brought to her, but by a fortunate Occurrence they were
not is the way at the time. The inquest will be holden on
the bediee thin day,

CaLTEITY AT SEA.—Captain William Graham, the master
of the barque Grange, of Greenock, lying in the West India
Dock, appeared' before Mr. Ballantine to answer a charge of
committing a series of cruel assaults on William Francis
Singleton, the steward, ar.d William Baine, the cook of the
same so•sael, on the high seas, on her homeward voyage from
the Meuritiva
Mr. Pelham appeared for the eh fence.
Baine's case was first taken. He stated that on the 10th
of April last he was engaged with the rest of the crew in
tacking the ship, when the captain, without any prove-
! cation, shoved him from one side of the ship to the other,
and knocked him down amcng the spars on deck. He
got up, and told the captain he did not come on board
to be .used in that way. The captain immediately seized
him by the throat, kicked him, knocked him down among
the spars again, and struck him several times about the
head and face, and blackened his eyes. The captain then
dragged him forward, and knocked him down in the fore-
caatle head, and after putting hi, lenees on hie breast, held
him by the throat till he was quite black in the face, and
could scarcely breathe. He got up, snd on looking round
him saw William Minor, a seaman, standing further aft.
He appealed to Mutter, who said he saw the whole of the
ill-usage. The chief mate then came forward by the cap-
tain's orders, and held witness by the arms while the captain
again seized him by the throat and dragged him aft to the
quarter-deek. He laid hold of the niizen rigging, and the
captain, after a little struagling, ordered hint clown into the
cabin. He refused to go, and requested the captain to make
him fast on deck if he wanted to do it. The captain then
made fast a rope to his I ge, and, with the assistance of the
first and second mates, dragged hint to the companion, where
he jumped on him with his feet until he jumped him down
the hatchway. He was then put in irons in one of the state
rooms, where he was compelled to remain fur two days and
three nights, without bed or budding, his only allowance of
provisions during that time b -ing two biscuits per day and a
little cold water. The ship was then off the Cape of Good
Hope. The weather was very cold, and he suffered a good
deal. All the clothing he had on was a blue flannel shirt and
a pair of canvass trousers while he was in irons. On the
second night he asked the captain for some bedclothes, and he
refused to give hint any, but sent the steward below to
shake his nose, pull his cars, and ascertain if he was tamer.
Oa the morning he was released he went to his duty as
usual, and continued to work until the 2Gth of May, when
the chief mate ordered him to draw rif water from the tank
below and fill a cask above. While he was engaged upon
this duty the captain, who was sitting on the quarter-deck,
amused himself by calling him a brute, a beast, and a d—d
brute, every time ho passed him. Ile answered that he was
neither Ireute lair beast, which so euragel the captain that
he seized him by the threat, end after compressing it in a
manner which geve hint much pain, he shook him, and
pushed him up against the irizen rig rote. After passing
the captain with two or three mere buckets of water, lie
was again called a beau, and upon making the same
reply he had done before the captain pushed him off the
quarter-deck on to the main deck. He fell from the violence '
of the shove, and a bucket of water was capsized alongside
of him. He got up and was going forward, when the captain
1. flowed him, and overtook him abreast of the longboat, and
shoved hint down again. He rose once more, and went right
forward close to the windlass, where the captain forced hint
upon the chain cable, and then peremptorily ordered him
into the forcastle. He was descending the hatchway, when
the second !mite called him aft, and he was met by the cap-
tain, who ordered him to return to his duty. He went down
the cabin stairs with a bucket, to fetch more water, and had
not got more than half way, when the captain jumped
upon him with the whole weight of his body, and severely
bruised him about the head and shoulders. He called out
" murder," and was ordered upon deck. As he was coming
up, the captain repeated his violence. He was sent up and
down four thnes, the captain each time jumping upon him as
hard as he was able. On reaching the cabin, and calling
out " murder," the captain struck him several times on the
face with his clenched fists, and then ordered him to return
to his duty. He was very weak and disabled from the
brutal treatment he received, and said he could not do any
moee work. He was again put below, and confined in irons
for thirty days, and was not released until the ship came
into the dock, and was moored on Friday last. During
fourteen days of his last confinement he was only allowed a
biscuit and a half per day, and the rest of the time a half
pound per day only. The captain, as a further punishment,
disfigured him by cutting his hair very short.
In cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, the cook said, he
never offered to fight the captain ; he never called him
names, and lie never gave hint the slightest provocation.
He was asked repeatedly to return to his duty during the
first eight days of his confinement, and said he could not, on
account of the usage he had received. He was brought open
deck several times, and the captain said, let the brute beast
down to his den again.
Mr. BRODERIP said, it was impossible for him to tell what