The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-08 00:00:00

Oil and cloves, v..l)lcn invitation she consented to
accept, and adjourned with him into a neighbouring
gin-shop, where Shanks requested to be shown into
a private room. Her friend Shanks, having given
the landlord an order for a drop of something shor.,
repeated to be furnished with a knife for the pur-
pose of carving some bread and cheese, which he
averred was then hanging behind him in his coat..
tail pocket. The knife was brought, and Shanks
possessed himself of it, flourishing it about with a
theatrical air, and threatening, unless she consented
to renew former acquaintance, he would end with
it her cruelty and his own torments. In suiting the
action to the word, the despairing Shanks brought
the knife so near her person, that in order to disap-
point his blood-thirsty intentions, she seized it, and
succeeded in wresting it from him, but not until
she had received a gash on her middle finger, which
she was ready to exhibit in proof of her statement.
Mr. CHAMBERS applied to the prisoner to know
what he had to say in Ins defence ?

Shanks, who stood " sighing like a fu.nace,”
while the complainant was making her charge, de-
clared that the whole business had arisen out of a fit
of jealousy on his Emma's part. The feet was she
had omitted to state that he had on a former even-
ing invited a lqiss Jemima Green to take a glass of
brandy and bitters, which circumstance having come
to his Emma's ears, she had sent him word of her
determination to cut the connection. On Friday
night, continued Shanks, wiping his eyes, I met
this here young homata, who accosted me of my in-
witation of Miss Green, and so, determining to put
an end to the hanksiety of my mind, I vent vith
her into a wery respectable public-house, and axd
for a knife to cut some bread and cheese as I gam-
moned I'd got in my pocket. Vert the knife was
brought I collared it, and arter unbuttoning my
coat and veskir, I took a solid oath as I'd plunge it
into my naked bussum if she vouldn't promise never
to say nothing no more concerning that there Miss
Green. As for vishing to hurt her vith the knife,
she nose I never had no sitch an idear, for I vas
alvays too fond on her.
Mr. CHAMBERS having learnt that the defendant
had contrived to present his Emma with a pair of
black eyes, while in the station-house, ordered him
to find bail for the common assault, and discharged
him from the more serious offence.
W OR SHIP- S TREET.

Yesterday, a bricklayer, living in Noble-street,
Goswell-street, appeared under the following cir-
cumstances :—lnspector Brundley, of G division,
stated that he received information that a woman
had been found hanging in Noble-street. She had
suspended herself from a nail over the door, while
her husband and children were in bed in the same
room. Her feet were nearly touching the ground.
The bricklayer said his wife sat up on some pre-
tence, and he dropped asleep. When he awoke
he was horror-struck to see his wife suspended near
the door, and quite dead.
It appeared that the deceased was much addicted
to drinking, and there was no doubt but that she
had committed the act herself.
Q UEEN-SQUARE.
THE DYING MlSER.—Yesterday Inspector Ba-
nister, of the B division, made the following state-
ment :—About eight o'clock on Sunday evening,
policeman Burke was informed that an old miser
was dying in a wretched hovel at a place called the
" Five Chimneys," in Vauxhall-road, and that a
crowd was assembled round the house. The po-
liceman found the old man in a dying state, quite

helpless and imbecile, without a rag to cover him,
and lying on the bare boards, there not being a
vestige of furniture in the place. It appeared that
his name was Bickerton, and that he was nearly
80 years of age. The neighbours sent him various
articles; and a humane young man, named Rice,
volunteered to sit up with him. The parish officers
were informed of the citaumstanee, but no one was
sent to the old man, nor any notice taken, and he
died yesterday morning about twelve o'clock. A
description of the wretchedness of the hovel, and
the miserable starved appearance of the old man, is
impossible. He made his appearance in the Vaux-
hall-road about six years ago ; and notwithstanding
he was evidently a superior man, he spent all his
time in gathering bones and rags. Sometime ago
he bought a freehold property, of which the hovel
forms part, for 3801. It is rumoured that he was
very highly connected, and that be left society in
disgust.