The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

, TAW AND POLICE.

,BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—In the Secon-
daries Court, before Mr. Secondary Potter, an action.was
tried to assess damages in the case of Yardley v. 'Tyler.
It was a breach .of promise case, and in the Court of
Common Pleas the defendant suffered judgment by default.
It appeared that the defendant had met Miss Yardley on
the Boulogne boat in August 1865, and in October 1866 he
proposed for her hand. lie was accepted, and the court-
ship continued until March 1867, when the defendant's
manner became constrained and altered towards plaintiff,
and in April he wrote saying that plaintiff's coldness has
altered his mind, and though the plaintiff's father urged
him to be honourable the match was broken off. There
was some talk on the plaintiff's side of the defendant's
possessing a "hunter" and a "dog cart," but this
possession was denied on the part of the defendant. The
jury returned a verdict for £750.

STABBING BY AN ITALYAN.--At the Mansion House Vin-
cenzo Visoni, an Italian, was charged with stabbing rolice-
constable Isaac Gilbert with intent to do him grievous
bodily harm. It appeared that on Sunday he was walking
up and down in front of the Italian Consulate. When
informed by the police-constable that the Consul would
not be at his office that day he became exasperated,
muttered something about Fenianism, and commenced
unbuttoning his waistcoat. He was immediately sesz
when he (prisoner), drawing a knife, stabbed Gilbert in the
hand. The wound, though painful, is not very serious.
The prisoner turned out to be an Italian exile, who had
been kept in St. George's Workhouse for three years and
a half. The prisoner was remanded. -
TUE CASE OF REVOLTING CRUELTY TO A CHILD AT
MARGATL—At the Dover quarter sessions yesterday,
before Sir W. H. Bodkin, Recorder, and a full bench of
magistrates, Adelaide Lomax pleaded not guilty to a
charge of gross cruelty to her daughter Agnes, aged 7.
At the time the mattes was first before the magistrates
we gave the particulars of the case, but another brief out-
line may now be necessary. It will, perhapS, be remem-
bered that the prisoner, with her husband, eccupied a
respectable position in Margate. It was spoken to by
several persons, their servants, and others, that
gross cruelty had been systematically practized on the
child. Her hands had been for hours, and, indeed, whole
nights, tied behind her, and she had been held by the
prisoner under the pump, and water poured on her. She
had been seen to strike her with her fist, so that the child's
body was much bruised. She had also struck her with a
hairbrush, and her violence was so great that the brush
broke in two. One witness swore that she had been told
by the prisoner to rub chloride of lime over the bruises;
and had done so. The jury, after hearing the evidence,
thought that the case had been proved ; and the learned
Recorder sentenced the prisoner to twelve months with
hard labour.

AN EXTENSIVE ROBBERY FOILED.—A National
"zaplc messenger was assaulted and robbed of $3,200,000
in exchange cheques, and $5OO in bills yesterday in Wall-
street, in broad daylight, and in the midst of the usual
throng of busy passers. The exchange cheques fortunately
are useless, and the bold robbers have secured only the
$5OO booty,—New 31/47qrk Herald, Dee, 14.