The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT THE MARBLE ARCH.—James
Colman, a young man, was charged with attempting to
commit suicide by hanging himself with his pocket handker-
chief to the gate of the Marble Arch.

Wm. Atkins, 211 D, said that while opposite the Marble
Arch that morning, about a quarter after one, he heard
loud groaning, and on crossing over he saw near the Arch
a coat and waistcoat lying on the pavement and the pri -
goner suspended by a pocket handkerchief to one of the rails
attached to the gate post of the Arch. He got him down,
and he remained insensible for some minutes, and when he
recovered, and on his telling hint that he must take care of
him, he said he was sorry he had not been a little longer
before he came, and if he only knew the trouble he was in
ho would have let him done it. He understood he had been
at sea ; but his sister was present.
His sister, a good-looking, respectable young female,
said, in answer to the magistrate (Mr. Beadon), that she
could not account for the prisoner's act, but that she had
had a little quarrel with hint in the evening. He had been
thinking before he loft home. He was living with his
father and mother, and had never attempted anything of
the kind before. He had only been home from America
three months,

Mr. Beadon said he would remand him for a week, that
he might be attended to, and have the advice of the chap-
lain.

THAMES.
A RUFFIAN.—John Watson, a tall and determined-
looking young man, was brought before Mr. Selfe charged
with assaulting Ann Briant, a comely-looking female
about 28 years of age, who carried a fine child in her arms,
Complainant said she was a single woman.
Mr. Selfe—Then, why are you called a married woman
in the sheet ?

Policeman—Last night, at the station-house, she said
she was a married woman.

Mr. Selfe asked the complainant if the child she carried
in her arms was her own.
Complainant—Yes, sir, it is.
Mr. Selfe—Who is the father of it?
• Complainant—A young man that has gene to sea.
She then stated that she was just leaving her own house,
No. 4, Park-street, Borough, when the prisoner came up
to her with a knife in his hand and said, " I'll cut your
b—y eyes out."

The prisoner (loudly)—lt's false, sir, it's false, sir.
Complainant—lt's quite true, sir. He then followed mo
up and struck me on the eye with his fist, and gave me this
black eye.
Mr. Selfe—Why did he strike you ?
Complainant—For nothing, sir.
Prisoner—lt's a lie, she called me a monkey.
Mr. Selfe—Do you know the prisoner, young woman ?
Complainant—Ho lives in the same street, that's all I
know of him.

Jane Smith, of No. 4, Park-stroet, Bromley, saw the
assault committed, and heard the prisoner say—" I'll cut
your b—y throat."

Prisoner said he was intoxicated yesterday, and now all
the women wanted to swear his life away.
Margaret Connor, an elderly woman, said the prisoner
was her lodger, and that he came home last night and took
a piece of bread and meat out of the cupboard and began to
cut it and eat it.

Mr. Selfe—Have you left Bromley this wet morning to
give that important piece of evidence?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Mr. Selfo--You had better have stopped at home.
The magistrate then said the prisoner had no business to
strike a woman in the fast,.
Prisoner—l did not strke her.
Mr. Selfe—l believe you did. You are fined 10s., and if
you do not pay it, to 14 days' imprisonment.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

HAY MARKETS.

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SmmtPtEt.n.—Meadow hay, £2 i 6 to ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 IN per load.
Trade dull.

CU➢[BERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2 12s to £4 OA ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 Os ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 lOs per load.
A slow inquiry, on former terms.
WIEITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2los to £4 Os; clove?,
£4 5s t• £5 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 8s per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our quotations.