The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-08 00:00:00

The child was accompanied by her father, a for-
mal old personage, attired in a snuff-brown body
coat, with gaiters and wig to match.
Mr. Turner, having made a'low bow, clapped on
a pair of green spectacles, pulled out a quantity of
papers, advanced to the Bench, and said, " Please
your Worship, I appear as the legal ad wiser of my
d trter. I charge Mrs. Mary Young with having
been guilty of a serious of assaults on her, the me-
morandums of %%hich I shall now proceed to read
The first beginning of the commencement of the
outrages is, according to my memorandum, on the
20th of October, when she knocked my darter's
head against the corner of the table designedly for
the purpose. The second assault was on the Wed.
nesday following, when she filled my darter's shoes
with dirty water. The third assault took pl'ce on
the 2d November, my wife's washing-day, when—
Mr. CONANT —St op, you must confine yourself
to the assault committed on the day specified in the
warrant.

Mr. Turner—Oh dear, no I If this case was in
his Majesty's Court of King's Bench I might prove
five hundred assaults if I pleased.
Mr. CONANT—WeII, you know the law, if it is
so, better than I do. At all events you must stand
back, and let the girl give evidence herself.
Mr. Turner pulled off his spectacles, and pocketed
his papers in a huff, remarking, if he was before the
Judges in the Court of King's Bench, they would
hear every syllable he had to say.
The Magistrates at length elicited, from hearing
both sides, that the defendant was landlady to M..
Turner, and had lately distrained for five weeks' a-
rears of rent, amounting to 1.55.
" Yes, your Worship," said Mr. Turner, " she
'strained on my goods, and I 'strained on her back
in the Court of King's Bench."
" 1 suppose you mean you replevied ?" said Mr.
CONANT.—" I did so; and before I have done with
her," said Mr. Turner, turning round with a threat-
ening look to the defendant," I'll put the laws on
her before the Lord Chancellor."
Evidence having been brought forward to show
that Mrs. Young did act in the mariner described,
Mr. CONANT directed that she should find one
good bail to answer any charge at the en,uing
Sessions.
A GOOD-NATURED WlFE.—Andretv Morris, a
man advanced in life, whose face showed he had
been in some hard service, was turned into the dock
by a private soldier and a middle-aged woman, when
the following conversation ensued:—
Mr. CONANT—What is this man charged with ?
Soldier—He was g ven into my charge just now.
Mr. CONANT—What for? Soldier—As a de•errer.
Mr. CONANT—By whom was he given into your
custody? Soldier—By this woman. She was
leaning on his arm; but when I approached she let
go, and gave him into my custody.
Woman—l charge him with having deserted from
his regiment.
Mr. CONANT—What do you know of the pri-
soner ? Wornati—Know of him ? Why, he's my
husband !
" Husband !" ejaculated the worthy Magistrate.
" What ! do you charge your own husband ?" Wo-
man—Yes, my lawful husband.
The prisoner denied that he was a deserter.
The wife declared that he was, but did not know
the regiment he had belonged to.
Mr. CONANT said that it was a very singular
charge for a woman to make against her husband.
He could not possibly detain him on her evidence.
He was therefore discharged.
UNION- H ALL.
Yesterday a tall elderly woman, named Dickin•
son, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with
assaulting a gentleman on the Southwark-bridge.
The complainant, on passing over the bridge on
the preceding night, was accosted by the defendant,
wt.°, in consequence of his refusal to accompany
her, immediately seized the tails of his coat, and
pulling them asunder rent the garment up to the
collar. There was no policeman on the bridge at
the time, and it was represented to the Magistrates
that gentlemen were frequently much annoyed and
exposed to abuse and vile language from improper
females, who made the bridge a kind of rendezvous
every night.
Mr. CHAMBERS expressed considerable surprise
that the bridge was not properly watched, as well
as the roads on either side.
Inspector Hock said that the superintendent of
the division to which he belonged gave directions
that the bridge should be patrolled at night; but
the men were warned off by Mr. Brown, the city
marshal!, who disputed the right of the metropo-
litan police to act on the bridge, and the result was
that the city police only patrolled from the Middle-
sex side to the centre arch, leaving the south side
from thence to the toll-house unprotected.
Mr. PAINTER, the Magistrate, who is one of the
director, of the bridge in question, expressed very
great surprise at the information just given by the
inspector.

The defendant was committed for a month to
Brixton.

MIDNIGHT REVELS—HIGH LIFE BELOW DECK.—
Yesterday six sailor boys, be, ween the ages of 12
and 16, named Kitehin, Craven, Gray, Thompson
Dzeggin, and Shearn, were charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—On Tuesday night, at 12
o'clock, Rowe, a watchman, was passing the ship
Adrian, in the Dock Basin, when he heard the
sounds of revelry proceeding from below. He got
on deck, but found all the hatches snugly fastened.
On looking through the crevices, he saw lights in
the forecastle, and such a jovial scene was going on
as really made his mouth water. The six pi Bone's
were seated, with a roaring fire and plenty of lights,
while the table literally groaned under bottles of
brandy, rum, wine, and porter, with drinking glasses
of no small dimensions. One of them was singing
" Old King Cole was a merry old soul," while the
others, who were each provided with a pipe (from
which, however, they had suffered the tobacco to
fall out, in the heig!it of their enjoyment), were
drinking, laughing, and nodding to one another.
The watchman called another officer to him ; aim
t was truly laughable to behold the prisoners, who
heard the unwelcome call—their countenances
changing, in a moment from the picture of hi-
larity to the most woe-begone fright. For a moment