The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-17 00:00:00

unfortunate, was charged before Mr. Knox, at .he Marl- .
borough-street Police-court, with being drunk and dis-
orderly in Hyde-park. The prisoner was taken into
custody on Monday night in Hyde-park, by Police-
constable Alexander Worler, 101 A, and as she refused to
walk she was obliged to be brought to the court yesterday
on a stretcher. She was three times brought before Mr.
Arnold, being carried into court. She, however, con-
ducted herself in such an extraordinary manner—raving;-
crying, and pretending to be in fits—that Mr. Arnold
ordered her to be taken out of court, and marked the
charge sheet to the effect that she was not in a fit con-
dition to be brought into court. She has been several
times in custody, and on every occasion has behaved
in a similar manner. Her conduct is said to be
nothing but the effect of temper ; and in more
th

tan one instance the mention of the galvanic battery has
had the result of calming her. On being brought into
Court to-day Worler proved seeing the prisoner behaving
in a very disorderly manner in Hyde Park, stopping
gentlemen and acting in a disgusting manner. On telling

her that he should take her to the station she flung herself
down and behaved in a very violent manner, kicking and
trying to bite everyone who came near her. Barns, the
gaoler, said the prisoner had been several times in custody
and always conducted herself in a similar manner.
Worler said that at 9 o'clock last night the prisoner was
all right, but as soon as he (Worlerj went into the cell
she threw herself down and began again. Mr. Knox
committed her for a month.
COWARDLY ASSAULT.—John Dines was charged before
Mr. Knox, at the above Court, with assaulting a
female named Sarah Slade. Mr. Moore, of the
Associate Institute for Enforcing the Laws for
the Protection of Women, watched the case.
The complainant said she was leaving a tavern at the
corner of Dudley-street. the previous evening with a
sister, who was going to Devonshire, when the prisoner
followed them out, and without a word having passed
between any of them, gave her two severe blows, one on
the nose and the other on the mouth—one of the blows
being given in the presence of a constable. Police-con-
stable Dennis, 237 E, proved seeing the prisoner strike
the complainant in the mouth, stating that the com-
plainant had drank his liquor. The complainant said that
the prisoner had told a falsehood. Mr. Knox said it was
a cowardly assault, and committed the prisoner for a
month, with hard labour.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF RECEIVING.—Mr. Josiah Cox, a
general dealer of 4, Lower North-street, Chelsea, was
brought before the Westminster Police-court, charged
with feloniously receiving 15 yards of Brussels carpet and
a hearth-rug, the property of Messrs. Rogers and Dear,
Knightsbridge, stolen recently. Mr. W. D. Smyth, of
Rochester-row, defended. A. Watts, a detective, proved
that he went to Mrs. Palmer, No. 4, Montpelier-row,
and found the carpet and hearth-rug perfectly new. From
what he was told he went to the [prisoner, who denied
at first selling it, but afterwards owned he had
sold some which he had bought of a woman. The pre-
mises were searched, and no book or memorandum was
found relating to the purchase of the carpet. Mrs.
Palmer proved giving prisoner £2 for the carpet. She
knew nothing of him before, and did not know where he
lived. She gave 2s. a yard for it, and the hearthrug Bs.
Mr. Woolrych said it appeared good carpet, worth 4s. or
s. per yard. In cross-examination Mrs Palmer admitted
prisoner had sold her three lots of carpet ; she asked no
question, and believed her son sent the prisoner to sell the
carpet. Mr. Alfred Dear, St. George's-place, upholsterer,
proved that the carpet and rug were the property of the
firm; pieces had been missed for some months, and two
months ago four carpets and some chintz were stolen. He
saw some of the carpet hanging up outside the prisoner's
shop, and gave information. They suspected a woman
who was now in their employ. There was nothing un-
common,in the pattern. A second case was then gone
into 'of receiving a table belonging to Messrs. Dear.
Prisoner was remanded for a week, without bail.
MUTILATION OF AN INNOCENT.—Edward Deborich, aged
24 years, of No. 22, James-street, Shoreditch, was charged

at the Thames Police-court with destroying and breaking
a child's hand. Mr. Lushington, the magistrate, asked
for an explanation, and was informed that the hand
the prisoner was charged with breaking was mado
of wax. Mr. Francis Palmer, wax-work exhibitor,
said he was displaying for the gratification of
the public a beautiful wax-work exhibition, and
there was a representative of the Marshall family
murdered at Uxbridge. The prisoner entered the room
in which the murdered children were on a bed, and put
one hand on the face of one of the children several times.
He was told to leave the children, but he continued

his eccentric conduct by slapping their faces,
and at last cut the hand of one child upon
another's face with such force that he completely
demolished the innocent's hand, which was rendered use-
less. A new hand would cost him 4s. The prisoner :
You offered to take ls. last night. Palmer: So I did,
rather than come here. Mr. Lushington doubted very
much whether the damage was wilful, and recommended
a compromise. The complainant fell in with the magis-
trate's suggestion, and accepted 3s. for the infant's
mutilated hand, and the prisoner was discharged, and
claimed the hand as his own. Palmer : You may have it.
All the murdered little ones are perfect, except this one.
STRANGE DIVORCE CAGE.—In the Divorce Court, be•

fore Lord Penzance, the cause of "Ironsides v. Ironsides"
was tried. The petitioner, a person in a respectable posi•
tion, met the respondent at Margate, and became ena-
moured of her. She confessed that she had not altogether
led a proper life, but he married her, and took a
house in -London. They lived happily for some
time, until the petitioner discovered that his wife had
forged his name to several cheques. He remonstrated
with her, and she left him. Hearing that she was charged
with stealing £4 from the house of the woman with whom
she lodged, the petitioner paid the amount, got her re-
leased, and renewed the cohabitation. He bought a
stock of sewing macuines, and took a shop, in but on co-
ing home one night he found that his wife had
decamped,
and had taken everything with her. He, however,
allowed her £1 per week when he next heard
of her. When he had been married less than
a year the respondent led him to believe that she was
enceinte, and on his return one night it was stated she had
been confined. Inquiries, however, shewed that the re-
spondent, a person named Skelpinghorne, and his wife
had agreed to foist a strange child on him. For this
offence they were sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment at the Central Criminal Court. Abundant evidence
was given of the adultery, and Lord Penzance granted a
decree nisi.

SINGULAR CHARGE AGAITST BOYS.—Two young but
desperate burglars, whose ages were respectively 20 and
22, , were brought up at the Marylebone Police-office,
charged with breaking into the chapel of St. Mary of
the Rosary, in Homer-road, and stealing the
Communion plate. Their booty was in an iron
safe, but by introducing gunpowder into the lock
they shattered the fastenings. They also broke, open and
plundered the poor-boxes. They were apprehended on
suspicion, and being placed in cells Nos. 2 and 4, a police-
officer was stationed in No. 3, and by the conversation
which afterwards passed between the rogues information
was gleaned which will probably lead to the recovery of
the property. They were remanded.
AN IRISH DIVORCE CASE.—The Taylor divorce case is
the theme of general conversation in Dublin. The re-
spondent is the son of a clergyman, and enjoys an income
of more than £l,OOO a year. The evidence has revealed
some extraordinary details of domestic misery—a more
ill assorted•pair could scarcely be imagined. Mr. Taylor
is represented as a man of ferocious disposition when
under the influence of drink, and one of the many acts of
cruelty charged against him is that on one occasion he
dragged his wife round the room by the hair of her head.
Amongst the minor acts of violence of which it is
alleged he has been guilty are included the throwing
of a chair at her, and the destruction of what women
usually hold so dear—her trinkets. Mrs. Taylor's sister
seems to have fallen in for a considerable share of his
violence. The evidence of the plaintiff is in its main
features supported by the testimony of the domestic ser-
vants, one of whom put Mr. Taylor to bed together with
a bluftderbus he possessed himself of for the purpose of
shooting his wife.

Some well-informed Americans, lately arrived in
London, states that the Harvard gentlemen will again,
throw down the gauntlet to the Oxford Boat Club, al-
though it is probable that the challenge will be delayed
until the new year.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL.—Sinoe the return of his
Royal Highness Prince Arthur to his military duties at
Woolwich, the Prince Imperial has been a frequent
visitor at the Royal residence in Greenwich Park. The
English Prince takes great interest in his young guest,
I who,' on his part, is never better pleased than in hearing
his Royal Highness's descriptions of life in Canada and
the United States, or in examining the photographs and
presents which he brought home with him from America.
Amongst these are some old muskets and other trophies
taken from the Fenians in their celebrated raid into
Canada last year, on which occasion the Prince's regiment
(Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade) was sent to the front.
Prince Arthur occasionally rides over to Chislehurst, on
a visit to the Empress and Prince Imperial at Camden-
house.