The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-30 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Isaac Russel, aged 24, and Mary Russel, his
wife, were brought before Mr. LAING for re-examination,
charged with coining.—They were fully committed for trial.

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday Dennis Donovan, who has been in custody for
the last week on a charge of having nearly cut off the left
Land of Owen Sullivan, a countryman of his, with a bill-
hook or chopper, was brought before Mr. WALKER and
Mr. HARDWICK for final examination. A certificate from
one of the surgeons of the London Hospital was handed to
the Bench, in which it was stated that the life of the com-
plainant was out of all danger.
The parties it appears live in the same house, and on
Saturday night the prisoner, while in a state of intoxica-
tion, entered the room of the complainant and commenced
abusing him. The complainant forced him into the pas-
sage, and in order to get rid of his abuse went to the house
of a neighbour for some time, and remained there until he
thought 'he had gone up stairs to his own apartment. On
his return, however, he found the wife of the prisoner still
in the passage, who on seeing him recommenced her abuse,
and obstructed his entrance into his own room. In endea-
vouring to remove her be placed his hand on the door-post,
when the prisoner, whom he had not seen before after he
returned to the house, jumped forward and made a despe-
rate cut at his hand with a chopper, and cut it throd parts
off about midway between the knuckles and the wrist. He
would have cut it clean off had it not been for the tugged
and uneven surface of the door-post upon- which it was
placed at the time. In reply to the questions of the Ma-
gistrates, he said that it was the opinion of the surgeon un-
(l._r whose care he had been during the weak, that he would
lose the use of two fingers, if not three.
The prisoner, as on the former occasion when examined,
said that the whole was owing to his being intoxicated at
the time.

Mr. WALKER said he had a great mind to commit him
for trial for the capital offence ; for during his experience
he did not recollect a more atrocious assault than that of
which he had been guilty. In disposing of the case sum-
maxiiy would inflict the highest punishmnnt on him

which the law would permit, namely, that he pay .5/., or in
default stand committed to the House of Correction for
two months.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday James Frederick Smith, one of the performers
at Covent-Garden theatre, attended to answer a charge of
assault preferred against him by William Johns, landlord of
the Pheasant at Standgate.
The complainant staled that he preferred a bill of in-
dictment against the, defendant for a violent assault which
confined him to his bed for three weeks. The defendant
not having appeared to answer the charge at the Sessions,
the complainant, accompanied by Creasy, an officer of this
establishment, went to the neighbourhood of Covent-
Garden on Saturday eveninc, for the purpose of serving a
warrant against him. At the time they entered the house
where the defendant was waiting previously to going into
the theatre, he was surrounded by several of his theatrical
friends, and when the warrant was exhibited he snatched it
out of the officer's hands and tore it up, exclaiming that he
paid no attention to such documents. On being told that
he must then consider himself to be in custody he declared
that he should go on the stage and enact his part first.
This, however, was not granted, and he became so obstre-
porous in his conduct that it was at length found necessary
to handcuff him. When the handcuffs were on he again
struck the complainant a violent blow on the face with one
of them, and the resistance he made throughout was de-
scribed to have been of that nature to require the harsh
mode which was adopted in order to secure him. The de-
fendant also attempted to strike the officer with the hand-
cuffs, and would have effected his intention bad he not
stooped and got out of his way at the time.
Mr. WEDGWOOD said that it was an aggravated case of
assault, and asked the defendant what he had to say in an-
swer to the charge ?
The defendant said that he was excited at the moment
the affair happened. The fact was he had just entered
into an engagement at Covent-garden theatre. This was
11 known to the complainant, whose objest in serving a
arrant on him on Saturday night was to have him locked
and prevent him from fulfilling his engagement at the
are that night. The defendant added that the com-

:;ant succeeded_ in his object, as he had forfeited his
ation in consequence of being taken away from the
itre. The defendant did not deny the assault on the
complainant, but said that he only attempted to strike the
officer out of fun, as he thought at the time that he was
only a sham officer, and that he had come to serve an arrest
upon him out of a joke, as such jokes were of no uncommon
occurrence.

The MAGISTRATE held the defendant to bail to answer
the charge at the sessions, and he was adjudged to give
twenty-four hour's notice.
Eliza Brand, the wife of a private in the Coldstream
Guards, made application to the Magistrates under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
The applicant, who appeared to be half starved, stated
that her husbaand was compelled to enlist owing to his be-
ing unable to obtain employment in the country as a la-
bourer, and having a wife and three children. When her
husband became a soldier, the parish allowed her 4s. 6d. a
week for herself and children, and he went and joined his
regiment. With this pittance she contrived to live, al-
though with great difficulty, and her husband, knowing the
dreadful state of poverty in which she and the children were
at Battisham in Cambridgeshire, wrote to them to come up
to town, and share with him what he had to receive as a
private in the Guards. Upon receipt of this letter the ap-
plicant showed it to the parish officers, who advised her to
join her husband, and they procured her and her three chil-
dren a conveyance from Battisham to town in a waggon,
and charged her 12s. for the journey. She had been in
London for the last five weeks, and was solely dependent
upon her husband, who could only allow her four shillings a
a week out of his pay to support herself and three children,
three shillings a week out of which sum she was compelled
to pay for their lodgings. She added that she and her chil-
dren were starving in London, and that her husband was
not in a much better state, owing to what he gave them our
of his pay as a soldier. Bad as she was doing in the coun-
try, she should be glad to get back again, for she saw no
prospect but that of absolute starvation if she stopped here
much longer.
Mr. WEDGWOOD seeing the poor creature was a real ob-
ject of commiseration, gave her some temporary relief, and
desired her to apply to the officers of the parish where she
her children slept, and they would not hesitate, he was con-
vinecd, to pass her back again to Cambridgeshire.