The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-02 00:00:00

THE SITTINGS OF THE NEXT SIAIORALTY.

This morning the learned judges attended at this
court for the purpose of fixing the days for the sittings
of the Criminal Court during the next mayoralty. The
judges present were Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr.
Justice Ciesswell, Mr. Justice Crowder, Mr. Justice
Villiams, Mr. Justice Willes, Mr. Baron Bramwell, Mr.
Baron Watson, and Mr. Baron Channel!. Mr. Justice
Crompton was present, but not in his official robes. The
Lord Mayor, who attended officially, was accompanied
by Alderman Wilson, Alderman Carroll, Alderman
Salomons, Alderman Hale, and the Common Sergeant.
The following days were fixed for the sitting of the
court during the next mayoralty :—Nov. 23, Dec. 14,
1857 ; Jan. 4, Feb. 1 and 22, April 5, May 10. June 14,
July 5, Aug. 16, Sept. 20, and Oct. 25, 1858.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THZ LATE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN A BROTHEL IN
UNION STREET.—Mary Ann Po well and Tilley Cla-
rendon, were charged before Mr. Beadon, with being
drunk and disorderly.
Evidence having been given corroborative of the fact,
the prisoners were about being discharged, when In-
spector Parke stepped forward and informed Mr.
Beadon, that on the 26th of September last the woman
Clarendon preferred a charge against a man of the
name of Launiog, whom she alleged had attempted to
cut her tbroat with a knife in a brothel in Union-
street. The evidence she gave on that occasion went
to show that she accompanied the man to the
house in question, when some words ensued about some
money. The man, who was in liquor, seized her by the
hair of her head, threw her back on the bed, and then
with a penknife, which he took from his pocket, inflicted
a dreadful wound in her throat by drawing the knife
across it several times. She struggled with him, and
fortunately, being the stronger of the two, succeeded in
preventing him carrying his bloodthirsty intentions into
effect. He ran out of the house, followed by the prose-
cutor, streaming with blood, calling out " murder," and
s" stop thief." The prisoner was eventually taken into
custody by Mason, 12 C, on the above charge, and the
prosecutrix conveyed to the station, where her wound,
which the surgeon pronounced to be but slight,
and not at all dangerous, was dressed. The
prisoner Lanning was then remanded for a
week, At the expiration of that period the proseau-
tr:x watt not in attendance, and it was stated that she
had received a sum of money from the friends of Lan-
ning to keep away, and now refused to appear. Mr.
Bingham was determined that justice should not be
defeated, and remanded the prisoner from time to time
until the 10th of Oct., when he was remanded on bail,
and directed the poli.ie to try all they ornild to get hold
of the prosecutrix. However, nothing more was heard
of her till last night, when she was taken into custody
on the present charge.
Mr. Beadon asked the woman if she intended to press
the case any further against Lanning, who was now in
custody.
The woman replied in the negative, and said it was a
drunken freak, and she did not wish to hurt the young
man.

Mr. Beadon said, under the oircum►taaceß, he could
not detain the man in custody, and he was therefore
discharged.