The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-19 00:00:00

SAVAGE AFFAIR IN GLASGOW.

A most brutal case of " pounding" or smashing
took place here at a late hour on Saturday night
It appears that an Irish hawker named Patrick
Ward, and his wife, reside in a room in Commer-
cial-court, 106, Gallowgate, which is sublet to them
by Anthony Hannay, a tailor, who occupies the
other part of the house. Ward and his wire went
out in the course of Saturday evening, 'and he re-
turned about half-past ten without her, and went
into his own room. The woman also returned soon
thereafter, but on trying to obtain entrance, she
found that her husband had rocked the door, by
which she was denied admittance, upon which she
retired to the room of a neighbour named Mrs.
Macara, on the other side of the lobby. Hannay
and his wife, who were out marketing, had left
here their two male children ; one aged three years,
and the other an infant of a year old. The woman
- employed herself in nursing this infant until her
* husband should be pleased to admit her ; but he
suddenly emerged from his room, came into Ma-
- cara's apartment, and dragged his wife by the hair
of the head, and the infant which she carried along
with her, into his own room. Here the fellow
looked the door behind him, and, seizing the child
from his wife, he chucked it violently under his
"oaten" He was next observed (for it happened
that his window was overlooked by another on the
opposite side of the court) to seize the tongs and
brutally beat the woman with them about the head
until she was clashed to the floor, when he kicked
her and jumped upon her body. While the fellow
was continuing his savage assault, he appears, from
the cries, to have become aware that he was ob-
served from the opposite window, upon which he
struck out the light. Meanwhile the court had
become completely alarmed, and the police having
. been called to the spot, accompanied by Hannay
and his wife, who had now returned, the door was
burst open, and the savage was seen to administer
a finishing stroke to the woman, who had struggled
up in the interval, and who was now rendered to-.
. tally insensible. In the paroxysm of his fury, the
fellow had dashed Hannay's infant from him, and
it was picked up' in a corner of the room with its
skull fractured, it is believed. The child is not
expected to recover, and the woman is dangerously
wounded. Ward was disarmed of the tongs, of
which lie had made such brutal use, and taken to
the police-office. Ward was brought before the
sitting magistrate at the Central Police Court, on
Monday, and remitted to the Sheriff.—Glasgow
Saturday Post. ,

FATAL AFFRAY WITH TFIE ,STUDENTS
AT SOUTH CA hOLINA COLLEGE, U.S.

The Wilmington Commercial gives an account of
some serious distnrbances which occurred in Co-
lumbia, South Carolima, on Feb. 17. Three stu-
dents of the college were walking round the city at
9 o'clock p.m., intending to murder the chief of
police. This gentleman, hearing a noise in the
street, came to the spot, when one of the students
punched him in the abdomen with his club ; the
policeman, thinking ho had been stabbed, imme•

diately struck the student with bil'hludgeon, s:

Ling liis skull dreadfully. This being done, he com-
mended his fellow policemen to assist in conveying
him to the guard-house. As soon as he was lodged
there the cry of " College" was raised by the stu-
dents, and in less than two minutes 160 students
were present, all armed with pistols, bowie knives,
swords, hatchets, and clubs. After cutting all the
guard-house doors and windows into fragments,
they rushed in upon the chief, each student giving
him a wound with a knife, bludgeon, or sword, and
threw him out of the second storey window on to
the brick pavement. Next morning the students
and several of the citizens had a desperate en-
counter the street with pistols, swords, and
knives. Several of the students were carried to
their various homes, dreadfully cut and bruised.
The students had sworn to kill the policeman, and
they broke into the guard-house, where he had been
put for safety, and pulled him out in front of it,
where they were each giving him a blow with their
clubs, and some of them cutting him with bowie
knives. The few citizens that were present rushed
upon thein,and they had a dreadful fight. The alarm
bell was rung to summon the military companies,
and in a short time five military companies were
present, including the artillery, clearing the side
walk. One of the students died after the fight,
and others are not expected to survive. On the
20th the students despatched messengers to Charles-
ton to buy ammunition ; they also procured rifles
from a neighbouring town, and in addition broke
open the municipal armoury and took the weapons
therein. On the 21it the governor demanded the
arms from the students, telling their: if they did
not surrender lie would fire upon them. This
being done they gave up their. arms, and the dis-
turbance was finally quelled. The hief -of police
s said to have died of his wounds.