The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-16 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1866.

The Atrocious Outrage with Vitriol.

DOW-STREET-THIS DAY.

John Wainwright, described as a surgeon, residing in
Old Quebec-street, was placed at the bar, charged with
feloniously throwing a burning fluid over the person of
Mrs. Peacock, the wife of Mr. Peacock, the manager of a

fruteror's establishment in New Oxford-street.

It will be recollected that early in the month of
January the prisoner was arrested on a charge of throwing
corrosive sublimate on a lady in Museum-street, and
that such was the injury the lady had sustained,
that she was totally incapable of appearing in court
to give evidence against the prisoner. On the first exami-
nation Mr. Lewis, of Groat Marlborough-street, who
appeared for the prisoner, applied that bail might be
accepted, but this the magistrate refused, and the prisoner
has been under remand ;aid in custody ever since.
Mrs. Peacock was this morning, however, so far re-
covered as to undergo examination, and accordingly she
was brought to the police court, but her appearance
excited the greatest sympathy. Sho is a lady of
about 30 years of age, and has sustained irre-
parable injury. The sight of one eye has altogether been
destroyed, and it has only been been by the greatest skill
and care that the partial sight of the other has been pre-
served.

The evidence of the surgeon, it will be recollected, stated
that the liquid which had produced the injury was sulphu-
ric acid.

Martha Sarah Peacock said—l am the wife of Beckett
Peacock, of 477, Oxford-street. About half-past 10 on the
night of the 2d January last I was going up Museum- street,
waiting for my laundress, who had gone to the oil shop. I
then saw a man cross the road wearing a cap and a cape.
He stood sideways to me, and I then recognised it was the
prisoner. I was just going to speak to him when he pulled
his cape on one side, and then I saw something white in his
hand, which looked like a basin, which he threw at me. It
came over me like a basin of cold water I held my head
down and it streamed over me. I screamed and stood still.
I could not open my eyes. I don't recollect anything more
but being taken into the shop and from thence to the hos-
pital.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

OBSTRUCTING A POLICE INSPECTOR.—JuIia Cal-
laghan was charged before Mr. Knox with being
drunk and disorderly in the Haymarket ; and Mr.
James Thompson, of No. 16, Colville-road, Bays-
water, wine merchant, was charged with' being
drunk and obstructing Inspector Bowles in the exe-
cution of his duty.
Pole-constable Fisher, 331 A, said that hearing a
disturbance in the Haymarket that morning about
2 o'clock he went up to ascertain the cause, and
found the prisoners having a dispute with a cab-
man and making a great disturbance. He per-
suaded her to go away, and she did so, but after-
wards returned and smacked his face, and said " You
rogue and vagabond, give me my purse." She then
tried to strike him again, but he prevented her, and
with assistance took her into custody.
Inspector Bowles said that while on the way to
the station Callaghan's skirt came off, through some
of the crowd treading on it, and Thompson then
came up while he was following with the skirt on
his arm, and pushed him into the road, saying at
the sametime, " What the have you to do
with it." He told Thompson he was an inspector,
but notwithstanding that he pushed him twice more
into the road. He then took Thompson, who was
drunk, into custody.
Peskett, 143 C, having corroborated the inspector,
Thompson said no doubt he had taken a little too
much to drink, and he was sorry for what he had
done.

Mr. Knox said Thompson had made the best
defence he could, brit he must not interfere with the
police. The defendants would have to pay a fine
of 20s. each.

WOE BEATING.—Michael Hurley, a rough-look
ing man, was charged before Mr. Knox with as
saulting his wife.

The Complainant, on the charge being first brought
before the Court, stated that her husband was in
the constant habit of ill-using her, and at the same
time she exhibited her arm, which was much dis-
coloured. She also described other conduct on the
part of her husband of a disgraceful nature, and
said he was a lazy, drunken fellow.
The prisoner said his wife was a drunken, aggra-
vating woman, and that she had struck him on the
head with a poker.
The complainant said she was a charwoman at
the Reform Club, and could call witnesses to speak
to her character. She had not struck her husband
with a poker, but her son struck him in taking the
poker from him and protecting her.
The son was called and bore out the complain-
ant's statement.

Mr. Knox ordered Paice, the warrant officer,
to make inquiries respecting the parties, and the
officer now stated that he had ascertained that they
were both in the habit of drinking, and that there
was very little difference between them.
A waiter from the Reform Club was called by the
complainant, and he gave her a good character, and
two witnesses were called by the prisoner, and they
stated that the complainant was a woman of a most
aggravating nature, and said that her voice could
be heard iu the street hours after she came home of
an evening, and they believed she wanted to get rid
of her husband. She was also in the habit of drink-
ing.
Mr. Knox said he had no doubt what the officer
had represented was the truth of the matter, and
that sometimes one drank and sometimes the other,
and that there was not a pin to choose between
them. The prisoner was a strong man, and had
assaulted his wife, and he must be taught to keep
his hands off his wife. He would not send him for
the full term, as at first he intended to do, but
would commit him for twomonths with hard labour.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack a
five o'clock.

THE CATTLE PLAGUE.

Tho Earl of ELLENBOROUGU drew the attention of
the house to the alleged misconduct of a magistrate in
connection with the question of cattle removal under the
order of the Privy Council. Since he had drawn the at-
tention of the house to this subject circumstances had
arisen that rendered it very important that the attention
of Parliament should be directed to the matter.

Earl GRANVILLE said that the subject, no doubt, was
of great importance, and an inquiry had been instituted
into the circumstances connected with the conduct of the
magistrate, who was stated to have acted contrary to the
order of the Privy Council.
JAMAICA GOVERNMENT BILL.

On the motion of Earl RUSSELL this bill went throng'
committee.

MARINE MUTINY BILL.
NATIONAL DEBT REDUCTION BILL.
These bills severally passed through committee.

MUTINY RILL.
On the motion of the Earl DE GREY this bill was read

a second time.

ADJOURNMENT OP THE HOUSE FOR THE
EASTER RECESS.
Earl RUSSELL gave notice that to-morrow he would
make the usual formal motion for the adjournment of the
house for the Easter recess. Ho would move that the
house should adjourn until the 12th April.
Their lordships shortly afterwards adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING.
Mr. DODSON, in the absence of the Speaker, took the
chair at four o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed:—
Banbury Gas, Drayton Junction Railway, Manchester
Royal Exchange, and Wigton Water.
The following bills were withdrawn :—Crystal Palace
and South London Junction Railway, South Eastern
Railway (London, Croydon, and Caterham Junction),
and Devon and Cornwall Railway.
THE LEEDS BANKRUPTCY COURT.
In reply to Mr. FERRAND,

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he had expressed
an opinion that the Lord Chancellor had the power to
suspend Mr. Welch, but it had since been discovered that
no such power existed. It was thought while one charge
was pending against Mr. Welch, it was not advisable to in-
stitute another touching his suspension. With respect to
Mr. Miller the Lord Chancellor thought, and he (the At-
torney General) was also of the same opinion, that no facts
had appeared for removing that gentleman from his office.