The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-15 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A respectably-dressed man, named Henry Reid
Griffiths, described as an artist, was charged before Mr.
Arnold with causing a mob to assemble, and using ♦io-
lent and seditious language, calculated to promote a
breach of the peace.
In answer to the charge, the defendant earnestly
disclaimed being actuated by any intention to promote
disorder, or that he was i❑ any way connected with the
Chartist fraternity, and that he must candidly admit he
had been indulging to such an extent that he had no re-
collection of anything that had occurred.
The detendar t called three witnesses, who had known
him intimately for several years, and proved that he had
never at all meddled in political matters, and that his
previous conduct had always been marked with the
strictest decorum and propriety.
Mr. ARNOLD said that if the language the prisoner
was proved to hare addressed to the crowd had been
used in a less respectable neighbourhood, there was
every probability that it would have been productive
of the most serious danger to the public peace, and
but for the favourable testimony that had been
offered as to his previous character he should have
committed him at once to prison without the imposi-
tion of any pecuniary penalty ; but, un ler the cir-
cumstances, he should order him to pay a fine of 505.,
or, in default, be committed for fourteen days, for
resisting the police, and further require him to enter
into his own recogniz ince in 60!., and find two sure-
ties in 401. each, to keep the peace for the next three
months.

Tne bail and penalty were immediately produced, and
the defendant liberated.
WESTMINSTER.

John Welch and Daniel Keefe, two powerful Irish
labourers, who had been remanded from the precious
dsy, were brought up for re-examination, charged with
the following desperate and murderous attack upon
Edward Ward, a poor man, living in Exeter-buildings,
Chelsea.

The circumstances of the case are briefly these:—On
the previous morning James Page, 147 B, was called
upon to disperse a number of persons assembled oppo-
site the Globe public-house, Chelsea. He observed de-
fendants an.l two other men standing outside the door,
apparently waiting for some person, and in a moment
afterwards, upon Ward coming out, the whole four men
attacked him with great fury, struck him violently about
the head and body, and having knocked him down,
kicked him in the most brutal manner. The constable
immedisted seized Welch, when he saw the other defen•
dant throw a very large stone at Ward, which struck
him on the side of the head, and the stone fell on the
ground covered with blood, from the wound it had in-
flicted. Ward, who was not only bleeding profusely
from this wound, but from another by the side of the
mouth, and whose face was much contused and swollen,
besides other injuries about the body, was immediately
conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where the surgeons
pronounced the injuries of so serious a nature, that it
was necessary he should remain there in order to receive
proper attention. Keefe made his escape after the
attack upon the poor man, but was subsequently appre-
hended.

The following certificate was put in:—
" This is to certify that Edward Ward is an in-
patient, afflicted with a wound on the head. He will
not be free from danger from two or three weeks,
although at present progressing favourably. C. W.
PEYTON. House-surgeon."
Defendants said they were in the public-house, all
striking one another. Keefe said that atones hid been
thrown at him, but denied that he ever struck Ward, or
threw a stone at him.
The defendants were remanded for a week.
Thomas Pevor, a boy apparently not more than fifteen
years of age, was charged with violating the person of
Ellen Wynn, an intelligent child, between seven and
eight years of age, who resided with her aunt, in the
same house as the accused.
The particulars are totally unfit for publication.
Mr. BRODERIP committed the prisoner to take his
trial at the Central Criminal Court.
LAMBETH.
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Peter Carlton, a servant in the family of Major Turner,
of the Clapham-road, was placed at the bar upon the
following singular charge of bigamy:—
From the testimony of the prisoner's second wife it
appeared that about twelve months ago the prisoner en-
tered the service of Major Turner, in whose family the
witness had lived for nearly eight years, and soon after
commenced paying his addresses to her as a single man.
The courtship went on until three months since, when
they got married unknown to their master or mistress.
In reply to the questions from Mr. Games, who ap-
peared on behalf of the prisoner, the witness said she
had no fault whatever to find with the prisoner, on the
contrary, he always treated her with the greatest affec-
tion and kindness, and it was by no means her wish to
prosecute or injure him.
It appeared, however, that the prisoner about eight
years since got married in Dublin to a woman who re-
presented herself as a widow, but who he subsequently
found was no widow, she having a former husband still
alive. He accordingly left her, but as he had three
children by her, he continued to remit money to her for
her maintenance. A few days since she found her way
to London, and gave the prisoner so much annoyance
that he procured her arrest, and it was on the way to the
station-house that she turned the tables on him by bring-
ing against him the charge of bigamy. The prisoner's
defence being that this woman could not have been his
wife, and that it was she who really was guilty of bigamy.
She, on the other hand, stated that she had discovered
her own first husband to have a former wife still living,
and that her marriage with him was therefore invalid,
and her marriage with the prisoner legal.
The MAGISTRATE seemed sadly puzzled with the com-
plicated nature of the case. He should, however, remand
the prisoner to a future day, but would take bail for his
appearance. The required bail was at once put in, and
the prisoner, who bears the character of a steady man
and excellent servant, was liberated.