The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-04 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE.

SAVAGE ASSAULT.—Yesterday John Skelton, a
private belonging to the first battalion of Grenadier
Guards, quartered in the Tower, was charged with
assaulting a lad named James Graham.
The complainant stated that on Saturday evening
he was nursing his little brother, an infant, on the
swivel bridge in New Gravel-lane, and was standing
near the defendant, who was talking to two females.
The defendant, without any provocation being
offered to him, turned round and said, " What do
you want here ?" He made no answer, and the de-
fendant lifted up his foot and gave him a violent
kick in the eye, which knocked him down and
nearly deprived him of the sight of it. The de-
fendant immediately ran away and went into a
house in Farmer-street.

Mr. Jackson, a respectable tradesman, confirmed
the evidence of the boy, and said the defendant,
who seemed the worse for liquor, laid hold of the
boy's -collar, and kicked him in a very ruffianly
manner.

The soldier, in defence, said that he was having
a few angry words with two women, and the com-
plainant was behind him, listening to their conver-
sation, and in sharply turning round to drive him
away he knocked him down. He denied kicking
him.

Mr. BALLANTINE ordered the prisoner to pay
the doctor's expenses, and sentenced him to pay a
fine of five shillings for the assault.

MARYLEBONE.
On Monday, a poor man, far advanced in life, and
suffering under the dreadful affliction of a recent para-
lytic attack, which had deprived him completely of the
use of one side, applied to the sitting magistrate. ,s
Messrs. RAWLINSON and HOSKINS, for an order to be
admitted into Marylebone poorhouse.
The old man stated that he had lived in Marylebone
parish upwards of 31 years, and that during the greater
portion-of that period he had been master of a flou-
rishing business, and spent thousands of pounds in
bringing up a numerous family ; his trade, however,
went gradually to decay ; and to crown his misfortunes,
he had in his old days been seized with paralysis, which
deprived him wholly of the means of obtaining a live-
lihood, and he was now in a state of great destitution :
in this extremity he .had applied to the parochial au-
thorities to be admitted into the workhouse, which had
been refused him.

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Mr. RAWLINSON asked Mr. King (one of the parish
officers in attendance) why the man had been refused
admittance ? Mr. King replied, that it was in conse-
quence of his having refused to say where his wife was,
as the Board had decided that they could not receive
one without the other.

The old man said that she had run away from him,
and that he did not know where to find her.
Mr. RAWLINSON directed that he should be sworn
to that fact.

The old man took the book in his hand, when
Mr. King, addressing him, said, " Are you a Ca-.
tholic ? Old man—l was bred to that persuasion, but
have long since renounced it.

Mr. RAwLiNsoN—What are you?„ Old man—Your
worship, that's best known to my Maker. ( After a
short pause)—l'm of no religion at all.
Mr. RAWLINSON—Then I shall not compel the
parish to relieve one who professes to have abjured
religion. Go about your business.
The old man then quitted the office, sighing as he
limped away.

The Marchesa Talga (late Lady Strachan)
and her husband, the Italian nobleman of that name,
have arrived in Park-lane, from Paris, where they
stopped a few days, on their route from Naples. Her
ladyship is accompanied by her youngest daughter,
Miss Strachan, whom she will leave in this country
under the care of a relative of the late Admiral, her
first husband, and then return to Italy.