The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-10 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—March 9.

GUILDHALL.—Fraucis O'Reily was charged
with assaulting his wife.
In this ClBO the wife complained that the prisoner
commenced ill-using her within a month after her
marriage, and his brutality for a long time was
huch that she was at length obliged to leave him.
On Monday week last she had been seeking him,
and when she returned she found him at home
drunk, and upon asking her for money he struck
her on the heal, and knocked her down three times
and there lett her. On Tauriday he watched her
from her work, and on arriving in Chancery-lane
he gave her such a violent blow between the eyes
that on being taken to a surgeon's she fainted from
loss of blood, and was afterwards conveyed to the
hospital where she was attended to. She said she
worked at the sewing machine, and had been
obliged, for some time, to keep her husband, who
was a costermouger, but be did not bring her home
any money. On Saturday last the prisoner ha I
threatened her life, and said be would kill her at
once, as ho did not mind hanging for it. She was
afraid to live with him, and asked for a divorce.
Sir George Carroll said he understood the pri-
soner was charged here, about 18 months ago, with
annoying the complainant's parents, and thst they
strongly opposed her wish to marry the prisoner,
and notwithstanding that-, and the magistrate's re-
commendation, she had linked herself for life with
the prisoner, and this was the fruits of her dis-
obedience. However, the priaone. had blhaved
with great cruelty to her, and he, therefore, com-
mitted him for two months, with hard labour, and
required him to give security in 201. to keep the
peace for a further term of four months.
The prisoner was then removed.

SOUTHWARK.—T_HE UNEMPLOYED LABOUR-
ERS.—During the afternoon about a hundred hard-
working men having the appearance of " navvies"
entered the court to ask his worship's advice and
ass stance to procure food for their families.
One of them, who stated his name to be Patrick
Leary, stepped forward and said he had been chosen
sooke,mau for the others. They had all been
turned out of work through the inclemency of the
weather, and the consequence was that their wives
and families were almost starving. He stated that
he lived in St. John's, Southwark, and had•been to
the relieving officers for a trifling asaistance until he
got work, but they refused him any, and -told him
to come before the
.board on ThurSclay with his
family.
Mr. Burchatn asked him if the relieving officer
did not-offer to receive them fir() the workhouse.
Applicant . replied that he did, bitt then their
w littleas a
tr IT
ing
homes waosu„,„l,,dtabnecebrutkiteint
he
got pg into work.. All he . wanted
i
Cornelius Ryan then came forward, and said he -
194 S out of Vf 0r k , and belonged to the same pAriih.
He had a wife and four children, and on his going
to the relieving officers they refused to asiist him)
but gave him an order for the workouse.
Mr. Burcham tol,d both applicants that the re-
lieving officer 1:a,(1 performed his duty, aid no fault
could be found wail him. 'Wily not enter tbe I
workhouse with their la.atilies?

Ryan said that they had both their little homes,
which would then be broken up, and they would
never Le able to get together again. All they
wanted was, a little out-door re.liet until they ob-
tained work.
Mr. Burcham asked them whether they went to
the relieving officers alone ?
Ryan replied in the negative. The whole of
themproceeded there together.
Mr. Burcharn toldthem they had done wrong.
That looked very winch like intimidation, and must
not be allowed. lie Considered that they had no
right to complain, m the parish officers had con-
formed to the law.
Another man, who said be belonged to St.
Saviours, said be bad broken fifteen hundred
weight ofstone, but they refused to givnhim more
work or relief.
Mr. Burcham mired him if the officer had not
offered to take them all into the workhowe ?
Applicant replied in the affirmative ; but ho did
not want to go there. The weather might alter in
the course of a few days, when they could obtain
employmen t.

•
Burcham told him the relieving officers had
exercised their di,cretion in acting as they had
tte'and if themselves and families were in want,
enymust enter the workhouse. Ha should, how-
evt-r advise them not to go about in such largo
bodies, as such proceedings were likely to attract
the attention of the police.
The men thanked his wore Lip, and left the court.

L A:M BETH. --SALE or EXCISEABLE LIQUORS
WITHOUT A LICENSE.--William Hilkins, a person
living at a private house 18,e
Mr. Elliott to
Elizabeth-place,
Waterloo-road, appeared 'befor
a, swer a summons, Wit!' out against him by order
of the Commissi9ners of Police, and charging him
with selling certain exciseable liquors by retail, to
be drunk on the premises, without being duly
licensed so to do.

Police-c im.tAble 49 L deposed that on Sunday,
the 28th of last month, at about half-past eleven
in the forenoon, he, accompanied by another eon-

MIDLAND CIRCIIIT.—LINCOLN, MARcir 9.
CROWN SIDE.
(Before Mr. Justice Coleridge.)
Ann Sharp, 21, domestic servant, stood indicted
with having wilfully murdered her female illegiti-
mate child, at Pinchbeck Fen, on the 28th Nov.
last. She was also charged with the same offence
upon the coroner's inquisition.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Mr. W.
; W:
Adams,
H.
M.P., appeared for the pro-
secution Stephens was assigned by the Coart
counsel for the prisoner, she being undefended.
Mr. Adams, after briefly 1151 rating the facts of
the case to the jury, called Mrs. Sirnson, in whose
service the prisoner was at the time of her confine-
ment. WI; ness deposed that on the 28th of Nov.'
last she found a child in the prisoner's box with a
list garter tied tightly round its neck, and that the
prisoner said it was hers. It appeared to have been
strangled. Dr. Morris was sent for. Prisoner
wanted the child to be buried and nothing said
about it. She (the prisoner) told witness the child
bad cried.

Ann Wyers, another witness, corroborated this
evidence, but did not recollect hearing prisoner tell
Mrs. Simson the child had cried, but the prisoner
told her Ehe had tied the garter round the child's
neck because it was alive.

The jury, after having been locked up for some
time, returned into the court with a verdict 'of
manslaughter against the prisoner.
Sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Messrs. Ellis and Fick-
ling, sbipbrokers and emigration agenis, of 132,
Leadenhall-street, appeared before the Lard Mayor
and Mr. Alderman Wire, on a summons obtained
against them byFrederick Pearce, for a breach of
the 51st section of the Passengers' Act, 1855.
Frederick Pearce, the complainant, deposed that
in the mrnth of October be went to defendants'
office, and paid 1201. for the passages of himself,
wife, son, and daughter to Melbourne, in the Wind-
s. r. The vessel quitted dock on the 2d of Novem-
ber, and put to sea ou the sth, having 29 passengers
on board.
complainantOn the Ist of December the vessel was
wrecked in broad daylight, on the island of Buena
Vista, complainant losing his clothes, money, and
everything, escaping to the shore only in his shirt
and trousers, and then having 30 miles to walk, over
the mountains, to Port Sal Rey, and being for-
warded to Southampton by the British Vice-
Consul. Since his arrival in England he had been
unable to see the owners; but he had repeatedly
applied to the captain and the defendants for sus-
tenance-money and a passage out by another ship,
but without elfeoe When he paid his p lssage-
money he received no contract-ticket, but only a
-receipt.
Oe cross-examination, the witne s stated that he
and about 20 other passengers messed with the cap-
tain, and were all cabin passengers, while there
were four or passengers who messed by themselves,
and he admitted that be had the full space provided
by act of Parliament.
Mr. Bodkin, at some length, contended that the
rot be sustained, inasmuch as the act
provided that the c.mtract ticket should.be
givecasen
couldt o cabin
passengers in a passenger ship,
because she did not carry more than 30 ptssengers,
and had ben passed, after inspection, as a nen-pas-
senger ship by
pv
ai -sistee
ndg theers
o ship u
board. before she sailed , and passed her as
.Captain WestbrJoke, R N., assistant-emigration
the ernigra' ien agent. Ho calle
offier of the Port of London, who deposed that ho
a non-passenger ship, as she had only six steerage
l.
Wm. Gold, captain of the Windsor, also deposed
that he took out altogether 28 or 29 passengers, of
whom only six were s eerage
passengers, who were
duly provided with contract tickets.
On completing a prima facie case, an order was
taken by consent, for payment forthwith to com-
plainant, by defendants, of 1201., the amount of hes
passage money, and 5/. ss. costs, it being under-
sto id that the case should be argued as speedily as
poerible before a judge in chambers; that mean-
while, defendants should make arrangements for
maintaining complainant and the other passengers ;
and that the decision of the judge should be hell to
apply equa ly to the case of the other passengers as
well as to the present complainant.