The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-19 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge, and a
Bench of Magistrates.)
William Ward was indicted for unlawfully selling.,
uttering, and publishing certain obscene libels, and inde-
cent books and pictures, at premises in the Strand.
The defendant pleaded guilty.
Mr. CLARKSON said this was a prosecution by the So-
ciety for the Suppression of Vice, and it was due to the
defendant to say that he had now given up to the society
a very large quantity of that for selling which he was
indicted, and he had undertaken that certain drawings
on lithographic stones belonging to him should be obli-
terated. There was reason to believe that ho would
abandon the trade altogether, and the society would be
content if he were bound in a recognizance to come up
for judgment when called upon.
The Learned JUDGE said this was a very lenient
course, for which the defendant ought to be thankful,
and he would recommend him not to break the under-
standing upon which such a course was adopted, as the
Court looked upon all such violations seriously, a person
a short time ago having been sentenced to two years' im-
prisonment after breaking similar conditions.
The defendant was ordered to enter into a re-
cognizmc of 1001. to come up for judgment when
called upon.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
ZeIANSION-HOUSE.
Catherine Jane Henry, alias Vandenhoff, and Mary
Ann Ward, were brought before the Lord Mayor for
final examination, upon the charge of having burned the
clothes of Sarah Young with vitriol.
Mr. nobler appeared for the prosecution.
Marian Miller said—l am a single woman. I know
the prisoner Henry. As I was walking down Cheapside
on the night of Monday week, at half-past ten o'clock,
I met and W 0,3 spoken to by her. We walked together,
and at the corner of Bucklersbury she asked me if I had
twopence. I said "No, but I have a fourpenny piece,"
and I gave it to her. She returned it to me, and said
she was going to a chemist's shop for some vitriol; but
as she was timid, for fear the doctor should think she
was going to poison herself, she requested me to go for
it. I consented, and I went into a chemist's shop in
Cheapside, near Bow-lane, and was served with two-
pennyworth of vitriol by a young man (pointing to the
son of Mr. Lucas, the chemist), and I came out and im-
mediately gave is to her and left her.
Mr. Hobler—Did she tell you for what purpose she
wanted the vitriol? Witness—She said she wanted to
take it home to her landlady's son to clean some coppers
with. I did not see her again, but I observed my name
in the newspaper about w hat took place, and I thought
it would be right to go to the police. I had heard her
threaten the prosecutrix, and I was afraid of her too;
and was only acquainted with her because I feared her,
because I know she was in the habit of carrying an in-
strument about her.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you see the prosecutrix or
the prisoner Ward that night.? Witness—l did
not. I have known Henry, not personally, but by
passing her, for the last twevo months in the street
at night.
Henry—l was drinking brandy with her and the
prosecutrix on that night, and they both owe me a spite.
F. Bachelor (City police)—l know Henry and the
other girls. In consequence of instructions which I re-
ceived from Mr. Mitchell, the inspector, I went in search
of Henry at a little before twelve o'clock on the night of
Monday week, and found her at her lodgings in Whit-
field-street, Tabernacle-walk, at three o'clock next morn-
ing. I told her v;hat she was charged with. She made
no reply. I afterwards searched the premises. Her
landlady pointed me out Henry's frock burnt with vitriol,
and afterwards sent her shawl, which was also burnt to
the station•house. I apprehended Ward the same
morning. One of our force knows Henry to be a very
desperate characrer.
The LORD MAYOR then discharged Ward, against
whom nothing at all had been stated, except that she
had been in the company of Henry when the ♦itriol was
thrown upon prosecutrix.
Henry, upon being asked whether she wished to say
anything, stated that Miller had spoken falsely; that
she defied any one to prove that she was the aggressor;
that the prosecutrix had first thrown vitriol upon her,
and then she threw vitriol upon the prosecutrix, but
without any intention to do her bodily harm at all.
Henry was then committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Mehemet Abraham, a thin, sinewy East Indian, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with
the following murderous attack upon another East In-
dian, of the same surname :
It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who
seemed to have been terribly injured, that he and the
prisoner came over together in the same ship from the
East Indies, as servants in families, and had known
each other for three years. They lived in adjoining
houses in George-street, Whitechapel, and while the
prosecutor was quietist smoking his hookah in his own
apartment at eleven o'clock at night on the 9th instant,
he received a message that the prisoner wanted particu-
larly to see him. The prosecutor is totally blind, and
groped his way up into the prisoner's place, which, as
soon as he had entered, the prisoner called out in broken
English, " What for you come my room when I out?'
Prosecutor said he was tired, and was about to explain
more, but before ho could do so the prisoner struck
him such a violent blow upon the right side of his head
with some heavy blunt instrument, that he instantly
dropped to the ground, then seized him by the hair,
dealt him a second heavy blow between the shoulders
with the same weapon, and the prosecutor became en-
tirely insensible, and did not recover consciousness until
he found himself in the street some time afterwards,
bleeding profusely, and his clothes perfectly soaked with
blood. He had not struck the prisoner, was totally at
a loss to account for such an outrageous attack being
made 'upon him, had suffered excruciating pains in his
head and back ever since, and was still doing so.
A man named Smith, a cook in Wentworth-street,
who was present in the prisoner's room at the time of
the occurrence, described the affair in similar terms,
and stated that the prosecutor was so seriously injured
that, after rescuing him from the prisoner's fury, he
had literally to carry the prosecutor out of the house
totally senseless.
Mr. Meares, the divisional surgeon, deposed to being
sent for to the Leman-street station at one o'clock on
the night in question, when he found that the prosecu-
tor was labouring under the effects of a contused wound
an inch and a half in length on the forehead, close to the
right temple. He was very faint and exhausted, had
bled terribly from the wound, as his hair was all matted
tegether, and the injury had evidently been inflicted with
a heavy poker, such as had since been produced by the
polio.. He had again examined the man's head that
morning, and, though somewhat improved, and no serious
symptoms were at present apparent, he could not say
that ho was then even out of danger.
Pearce, a constable of the U division, deposed to find-
ing the prosecutor covered with blood, as he expressed
it, and a large pool of it also upon the floor. On taking
the prisoner into custody ho acknowledged striking the
man with a poker as he had described, but said that he
had previously struck his wife with a walking•stick,
and he had therefore retaliated. There was a woman
in the room at the time, whom he called his wife, and
she had a mark on her head, bat how inflicted he could
not make out.
The prisoner repeated much the same defence he had
already given to the officer; and, the depositions having
been completed by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, he was
fully committed to Newgate for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Jahn Robins, chemist's assistant, 373, Oxford-street,
was summoned for refusing to contribute towards the
maintenance of an illegitimate child of which he was the
putative father.
Albina llolgate, a handsome young woman, dress-
maker's assistant in Regent-street, said she became ac-
quainted with the defendant at his shop in Oxford-street
through the introduction of a friend. On the 9th of
August the defendant took her to Gravesend, and in-
duced her to pass the night with him at the White Hart
Inn. It was un the same night the great fire happened.
The defendant frequently visited her at her lodgings in
Carburton-street, and the intercourse continued until
she proved enceinte. She told the defendant of her con-
dition. He said she must take some pills, and he gave
her some. In consequence of taking these pills she be-
came very ill. Sho mentioned her state to the defend-
ant, who said if she continued the pills she would be
better. She took more pills, and finding herself grow-
ing worse she sent for a female friend, who on being told
what she had done said she would die if she kept on
with the pills, and advised her to say nothing about
what had taken place, otherwise the consequences would
bo most serious to the defendant. Complainant had not
mentioned this fact until the present moment. Would
swear no other person had been intimate with her.
Mr. Wakeling, for the defence, cross-examined the
complainant with the view of eliciting that she had been
intimate with another man, who was the real father of
the child. The cross-examination, however, did not at
all aff,ct the evidence in chief.
The chambermaid at the White Hart Inn was called
by Mr Fisher, who appeared for the complainant, to
prove that the defendant and complainant slept at the
house as men and wife on the night of the fire. She
could swear to the defendant, for he had not paid his
bill.

Another witness proved that the defendant came to
visit thu complainant in her bed-room. She knew that
the complainant had taken pills.
Mr. laaowtcx was only surprised that such a case
should have come before the Court. There was not
the slightest pretnee for resisting the claim of the
complainant. ilad the law given power to award five
times half-a-crown, he should have awarded it to com-
plainant.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-
office, to the Governor of the Canadas, and the Governors
of the other North American colonies.