The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-23 00:00:00

THAMES.

ADULTERY IN Low LlFE.—Catherine Callaghan, a dis-
sipated, quarrelsome woman, aged 36, and described as a
costermonger, of Darby-street, Rosemary-lane, was brought
before Mr. Yardley charged with cutting and wounding
Mary Quick, of Carstine-place, Goswell-street, St. Luke's.
The complainant, a pale and careworn little woman, who
appeared to have lost a good deal of blood, and who had a
surgical plaster on her forehead, said the prisoner had
stabbed her with a knife.

Mr. Yardley—Explain how it was, and tell me what
brought you from Goswell-street to St. George's-in-the-
East ?

The complainant said her husband had abandoned her,
and had been living in a state of adultery with the prisoner.
She went to Rosemary-lane and St. George's-in-the-East
in search of him, and ultimately found him in a public-
house with the prisoner, Sho was about to
speak to him, when he abused her and shoved her
away from him. She was about to follow him fur the pur-
pose of remonstrating with him, and advisinghim to return
home, when the prisoner seized her and hell her while her
husband made his escape. The prisoner then beat her and
tore the hair out of her head, and, while they were strug-
gling together, stabbed her with a knife on the forehead..

In answer to questions by the magistrate, the witness
said that her husband ill nsed her before he left home, and
had been cohabiting with the prisoner for several weeks.
She lost a large quantity of blood after she was stabbed.
The prisoner said all that was said against her was en-

tirely false, and then abused the prosecutrix, and said Mrs.
Quick's sister was a common woman of the town, and Mrs.
Quick was no better.

Andrew O'Brien, a respectable working man, said that
he saw his two countrywomen, Mrs. Quick and Mrs. Cal-
laghan fighting and tearing each other, and a lot of low
blackguards looking on and laughing at them. He asked
if no one would interfere, and there was no answer. He
then assisted in taking the women's hands out of each
other's hair, and each brought a bunch of hair away with
her. The women afterwards got fighting again about the
complainant's kusband,and Mrs. Callaghan took up a knife
and plunged it into Mrs. Quick's head.
After some other evidence, proving great provocation on
both sides,

Mr. Yardley said the conduct of O'Brien was. highly
praiseworthy, and convicted the prisoner of an aggravated
assault. Ile sentenced hor to two months imprisonment
and hard labour.

THE SEA SERPENT CAUGHT AT LAST!

(From the Bermudian of Jan. 25.)

Every one who has read that fine old poem by
Andrew Marvel, entitled " The Emigrants in Ber-
mudas" will remember how skilfully ho describes
the wonders in Nature which Providence displays
at these Islands—that while " eternal spring"
reigns here and fruits, delicate and luscious, abound,
it is nevertheless a spot

"Where He the huge sea-monsters wracks
That lift the deep upon their backs."
This characteristic, which the good old Puritan poet
ascribed to the Bermudas, was not inaptly exempli-
fied by the remarkable occurrence at Hungary Bay
on Sunday last. Between ten and eleven
o'clock a.m., on that day, a very singular fish was
actually wrecked on the shelving shore at the en-
trance to the bay we have mentioned. Mr. George
Trimingham and Mr. D. Trimingham were near
the shore at the time, and, hearing a noise like that
made by a large fish floundering in the water,
rushed to the spot whence the sounds came. There
they found alive, but rapidly dying from exhaus-
tion, "huge sea-monster.' Its colour
bright and shining silver. This brilliant coyer-
ing of the skin was, from the struggling of the
animal, scattered in great profusion about the
place. The skin had a rough, warty feeling to
the touch, but was destitute of any scales.
There was a dorsal fin running nearly the whole
length of the creature, composed of short slender
rays united by a transparent membrane, and
separated at intervals of less than an inch ; in other
words, the slight back fin had a number of regular
gaps in it. It had a curiously shaped head, the like
of which we have not seen in any or the numerous
illustrations of icthyology we have examined.
From a drawing which is now before us (for we
had not the good fortune to see the creature itself)
the conformation of the head in profile is not unlike
that of a dog. There is a defined forehead, with
a projecting mouth. The eyes, large, flat, and ex-
ceedingly brilliant. It had very small pectoral
fins, and minute ventral fins proceeding from the
thorax. It had large gills, but was, we are told,
destitute of teeth. But its most remarkable feature
was a beautiful crestal appendage, consisting of eight
long spines, of a rich red colour, which sprang
from the top of the head, commencing at the fron-
tal edge of the forehead and following each other
singly about an inch apart, the three first of these
spines being connected half-way upwards from the
cranial covering by a gauzy filament, but all the
rest were wholly destitute of any membraneous
appendage. These delicate crestal spines, which
the creature had the power to raise or depress at
pleasure, were of irregular lengths—the longest,
the
head, from about the centre of the top of
head, being three feet in length, and the rest rang-
in.. from 18 inches to 21- feet. The larger number
of these appendages were flattened at the extreme
end, somewhat like the tip of a spear.
The length of this singular inhabitant of the
briny world was 16 feet 7 inches from the front
edge of the lips to the end of the tail. It was 11
inches deep measuring through from the top of the
back, at about one-third of its length from the head,
and its thickness, laterally, was from 5 to 6 inches,
at the same distance from the head. Thence the
body tapered gradually until it terminated in a
bluntish point of about half an inch in diameter—
the tail having no finny or any other appendage.
This singular fish was opened by one of the
spectators, and Mr. George Trimingham informs
us there was found in it a roe, about three feet
in length, showing that the creature was a
female. It was also inspected by Dr. H. J. Hinson,
Dr. P. B. Tucker, Dr. Cullen, and other gentle-
men, including J. Matthew Jones, Esq., the last-
named gentleman being well known as the author
of " The Naturalist in Bermuda." Mr. Jones is in
possession of the head, a considerable part of the
tail, and a section of the dorsal fin ; and is, we be-
believe, engaged in preparing a paper bearing upon
the peculiar features of this wonderful specimen.
The question is, What is the proper designation of
this "sea-monster?" It has already been widely
spoken of as the " sea-serpent," or as an offspring
of that seldom-seen and much-doubted denizen of
the ocean. Eminent scientific men have declared
that a " sea-serpent" is a fabulous creature—
that, although intelligent naval officers and com-
manders in the commercial marine assert that
they have, while traversing the ocean, seen such
a " monster," observed its appearance and watched
its motions, not only with the naked eye but
through powerful telescopes, yet these observers
were mistaken, and that what they took to be an
"animal" was nothing more than "seaweed."
We certainly shall not undertake to de-
cide whether the theory of the men of science
or the experience of the nautical observers
is to have the greater weight; but we are in a
position to assert, that the " sea-serpent" (or by
whatever name it may be called)
which
our shores on Sunday last, was not a
darctiemd e unpoonf
curiously-entangled " sea-weed," butva
resentation
gar piscatory character, unlike any p
specimen
singu-
of rare or remarkable fishes to be found in books,
and from its long, tapering form, as well as the
mode by which it probably. p
”
the water, is not undeserving of o wiled itself through
being styled " A.
Member of the Sea-Serpent Family.

It is stated that, since November last, when the
experiment of shipping
gold to the India markets com-
menced, the total sent has amounted to nearly £600,000.
At first the consignments yielded a profit, the native im-
porters sing
the quantities to be melted into 10-ounce
eau
ingots, which were found convenient in many transactions
in place of the usual heavy sums of silver. The profit, how-
ever,
led to supplies being despatched in excess of the grow-
ing demand, and, according to the tlatest advices, the so-
vereign was worth only 20s.—a price which, reckoninethe
charges of transmission, would involve a loss to the im-
porter of 3 per cent. The remittances, therefore, will now
again bo limited to silver, which, as the last quotations of
exchange show no alteration, may be expected to continue
on their recent scale.