The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-21 00:00:00

TN RE ABBOTT.

This was an examination in the matter of the bankrupt,
described as of Hanwell, undertaker.

Mr. Brough (instructed by Messrs. Mason and Sturt)
opposed for the assignees.

It was alleged that the bankrupt kad made away with
his property, and that the palls had been sold to a butcher,
whose wife turned them into dresses for the children.

Mr. Brough expressed his intention of reserving all
questions for the certificate meeting, and it was expected
that the bankrupt would pass.

POLICE 1.N.7 ELLIgENCE—( This Day).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULT ON A PARALYSED MAN.—John Leary, an
inmate of St. George's Workhouse, was charged with a
ruffianly assault OR John Patfield, also an inmate of the
house.

The complainant, a poor paralysed man, said that on the
previous morning, just after breakfast, the prisoner came
up to him and told him to move from the place where he
was in, and, because he could not move quick enough for
him, the prisoner said, "If you don't move I'll give you
something," and he then struck me two severe blows—one
on the nose, and one on the head.

The assault having been confirmed by another inmate
of the house, Samuel Newson,

Cartwright, one of the officers of the house, said the
prisoner was a very bad fellow, and had been guilty of
several assaults, and was once charged with knocking a
poor old man's teeth down his throat,

Mr. Beadon asked the officer whether he had any reason
to suppose the prisoner was not right in bis head, and
having received an answer that there was no reason to sup-
pose anything of the kind, after some remarks on the
prisoner's conduct, fined the prisoner £5, or two months.
SAVAGE ASSAULT WITH A HAMMER.—Henry Wise,
apprentice to Mr. Smith, engineer, of 69, Princes-street,
was charged before Mr. Beadon with committing a violent
assault on another young man in the same employ, by
striking him on the head with a heavy hammer.
The complainant said that about nine that morning he
was in the top shop of the works fixing up a shelf, when
the defendant came up and asked for the hammer he was
using, when he told him he could not spare it. On this the
prisoner tried to wrench it out of his hand, and having
done so, struck him two blows on the head with the ham-
mer, rendering him nearly insensible, cutting his head
severely, and causing great loss of blood. The defendant
then went down stairs and left him.

The defendant said there was a scuffle, and the com-
plainant was struck by accident.

Robert Crane, pattern maker, in the same employ, was
called, and proved seeing a scuffle between the complainant
and defendant, but his evidence, given reluctantly, only
went to show that the complainant was struck.
Another witness was called, and he said that all he knew
was that " somehow or the other" the complainant was
struck.

Mr. Beadon said that any one could see that complainant
had been struck a severe blow with a heavy hammer, and
fined the defendant £3, or one month.

THAMES.

STEALING SUGAR IN TILE WEST INDIA DOCK.—Three
foreign seamen, named Christian Sansum, Hunrick Brick-
man, and Hannah Matthes, were brought before Mr.
Yardley charged with stealing sugar in the West India
Import Dock.

A dock watchman, named Thomas Cook, said that he
saw prisoners yesterday evening in the Import Dock, about
50 yards from the gate, proceeding towards their ships.
Sansum was carrying a handkerchief containing 101bs. of
sugar; Brickman, a handkerchief with 4lbs. of sugar; and
the third,'Matthes, a handkerchief containing 11b. of sugar.
There was a hogshead of sugar, with a canvas cap over it,
on the quay. There was a hole in the canvas. The sugar
in the handkerchiefs corresponded with that taken from the
prisoners.

Mr. Yardley'said it was too much the practice for foreign
seamen in this port to plunder the hogsheads of sugar in
the dock, and he should make some very severe examples if
the practice was not discontinued. He sentenced Sansum
to pay a fine of 405., and the others 20s. each.

AN OLD ACTRESS IN THE WoßKnousE.—The
oldest female in the Blackburn Workhouse, born in. 1772,
is named Miss Ann Mainley, who for upwards of 50 years
delighted the busy thousands assembled at the country
fairs, she having been an actress at Mr. Wild's traN
theatre during that long period. The old lady is co; gort-
ably housed, and well taken care of,