The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-21 00:00:00

THAMES OFFICE.

Yesterday John Gallswitz, a remarkably tall man, who
upon being put at the bar assumed a most martial attitude,
was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. COOMBE,
charged with committing an outrageous assault on a young
woman named Mary Kelly. _

The prisoner, in answer to questions by the magistrate,
was a Spanish soldier belonging to one of the regiments at
the depot in the Isle of Dogs.
The complainant was standing at the corner of Dock-
street, St. Geerge's, on Saturday night, about a quarter
past twelve o'clock, when the prisoner came up, and, with-
out speaking a word, knocked her down and kicked her
several times in the back.

A policeman, 236 K, witnessed the assault, and every
word the girl had stated was true. She gave no provoca-
tion whatever.

The prisoner, in his defence, said the woman boxed his
ear, and hit him in the breast.

The policeman.—That's false. This here lady (pointing
to a little woman by his side) can prove the assault.
" This here lady," one Maria Everett, a costermonger's
wife, said she saw the Spaniard strike the woman in a very
" awful" manner.

Mr. BALLANTINE—How came you out of the barracks
at such a late hour ? The prisoner made a reply in broken
English.

Mr. BALLANTINE—Can you speak French ?
Wayling, an old and active officer of the establishment,
finding the prisoner made no answer, bawled in the pri-
soner's ear, " Polley, woo ?"—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. BALLANTINE, (who joined heartily in the laugh)—
There, you hear what the officer says, " Polley woo"—can
you explain that ? The prisoner, in very bad French, said
absence had been allowed him for a few days.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the prisoner's French was worse
than his English.

The policeman handed in a paper which appeared to be
written by the Adjutant of the 4th regiment of the corps
attached to the cause of Queen Isabella of Spain, which gave
the prisoner leave of absence.

The policeman believed the prisoner intended to leave
the service.

The Magistrates should send him back to the depot.
He had better be campaigning in Spain that among women
in London. He was then handed over to the police, who
had orders to remove him forthwith to the depot, Mr. Bal-
lantine threatening to commit him as a vagabond if he made
his appearance again.

STATE OP TIKE POOR IN IRELAND.—The ac-
counts from Mayo are frightful. Young and hitherto healthy
persons are dying, absolutely dying of starvation. The state-
ment is made in a letter from the Priest of Newton- Pratt, the
Rev. James Hughes, inserted in a Dublin contemporary Jour-
nal. It is this :—On yesterday, about twelve o'clock, A. M.,
died of starvation in the village of Murrivough, on the wectern
part of this parish, Mary Carolan, aged about 20 years ; her
family I have known to be, the entire season, in the greatest
destitution. This poor unfortunate girl had been always re-
markable for rude and strong health ; she lived at her service
up to the present distress, when she was sent home. It must
be truly frightful to reflect what effect famine must have on the
debilitated constitutions of more than seven thousand indivi-
duals, out of a population of 11,761, who have not the usual
clothes worn by persons moving in the humblest walks of life,
and of more than eight thousand who sleep on the bare ground,
svith no better beds than rotten straw, and heath of green rushes.
The two principal landed proprietors in this parish, whose
starving drivers I fed last week with the meal sent here by the
London Committee, and who take annually out of this parish
nearly 5,0001. from their present starving tenantry, have not
contributed so much as a single farthing towards the allevia-
tion of the present distress.—Cork Reporter.
MAIL COACH CONTRACTS.—The mail coach
system was admirable at the time of its establishment. But
why now combine the conveyance of mails and the conveyance
of passengers ? A light but strong framework, with seats for
the coachman and guard, and a box for the mail, might be
constructed so as not to be one-fourth, certainly not more than
one-third of the weight of the present mail coach with its load,
and might be more easily drawn at the rate of thirteen miles
an hour than the clumsy and ponderous machine is at ten. We
might thus have letters front London at ten or half-past ten
in the morning, instead of two or half-past two in the after-
noon ; and as the letters to London would not require to be sent
off till four hours after the present time of departure—say till
a quarter to two o'clock—time would be given between arrival
and departure to write answers and execute orders, and thus
one whole day would be saved in communication between the
two places,—Nancheger Times,