The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-23 00:00:00

POLWE INTELLIGENOM—March 21.

GUILDHALL.—E.Duckworth, omnibus driver,
No. 7,802, bearing:the name of "John Kiucaid"
as the proprietor, was summoned before Alderman
Cubitt for loitering in the crossing at the end of
Prince's street by the Bank.
The policeman stated that the defendant followed
vary c'.osely ano'her omnibus plying on the same
_road, and it was in endeavouring to push in on his
wrong side, to prevent the other omnibus taking
ap any passengers, that the delay was occasioned. •
A gentleman in the habit of travelling in the
other omnibus attende t before the magistrate for
the purpose of drawing public attention to the un-
fair attempt resorted •to by the London General
()nimbus Company, or others in their behalf, to
prevent those proprietors who are independent of
them from running omnibuses upon their lines of
road, and so to °brain a monopoly for themselves.
He further stated that three omnibuses had been
st irted by different proprietors, and run to and
from Hornsey-road and ffighbury and London-
bridge Stition, and the one referred to as preced-
ing the defendant's was one of them. The defend-
ant's omnibus was put on to run against the other,
to follow it .vherever it went, an never to lose
sight of it. This bad been carried out to slush an
extent that if the driver of the other omnibus put
up at the stables in the City, after completing his
morning journey, the defendant did the same, and
waited to accompany him back in the afternoon,
or whatever time he might start. •
Alderman Cubitt asked Mr. Wooifoird, who
represented the proprietor of the defend ant's omni-
bus, if it was the property of the company, or if
they exercised any influence over it in any way.
Mr. Woodford said the company did not inter-
fere with this omnibus, or recognise it as their pro-
perty at all.
Alderman Oubitt said that was no answer to hie
question, but of course he could not decide such a
matter. However, the London General Omnibus
C.impany must take it as a warning, and if this
really was their omnibus he would recommend
them to discontinue the unfair practice complained.
of. As the defendant had not been summoned be-
fore, and had been civil to the police, he won d not
fine him beyond requiring him to pay the costs. 4
_ The costs were accordingly paid.

BO W-S TREE P.—HORRIBLE ClttraTY. —Mary
Beckett, a dirty, ragged woman of about 45 years
of age, was charged with skinning c its alive.
It appears that this horrible practice has of late
been very much on 'the increase, as is shown by
the nuuater of skinned cats found every morning in
the areas and cellars of back streets. The prisoner,
who had long been suspected, was watched on Sa-
, turday morning• last, ahout 5 o'clock, by a coster-
monger named Williatn.FaYne, who saw her stoop
down and thrust two skinned cats under the flap of
a cellar. He then went for a policeman and gave
her into custody. At first she den'ed what she had
been doing, but afterwards admitted it. Upon the
bodies of the cats being taken up they were found
to be quits warm and quivering. On examining
the carcases, a mark of a sple was found gt the
back of the head of each cat, the usual mode of
performing this horrible operation being to fix the
head of the animal to a spike, by which it is half-
stunned, when the skin is removed. In answer to
questious put by the magistrate it was stated that
the value of a cat's skin, when taken from the
living animal, is 2s. 2d. ; otherwise they are not so
valuable, as the fur loses its gloss.
Mr. ienry sail it was a most barbarous and
atrocious act, and he should inflict the highest.
penalty he could, which was three months' impri-
sonment, with hard lab Our.

MARYLEBONE. Charle3 Seymour, an ill-
looking man, was brought before Mr. Long, charged
with the following scandalous outrage upon Emily,
his wife, a respectably-dressed woman, about 35
years of age.
Complainant deposed that in consequence of the
prisoner's continued ill-treatment she, on Monday,
left him, and sought the protection of her father,
living at the White Lion stables, Edgeware-road.
On the previous evening she was pa, sing along the
New-road, near High-street, when the prisoner flew
at her and struck her with great violence on the eye.
She screamed out iv Ipud as ;she could for assistance,

end immediately. afterwards haled a cab. She got
into it, when the prisoner followed her, and
also struck and kicked her in the vehicle, in addi-
ti‘mn to which he tore of her bonnet and shawl,
and threw them into the road. He then alighted,
and after jumping upon the articles, saying that
they were bought with his money, he ran off.
Thomas Walden corroborated the above evideneP,
and complainant's mother-in-law also spoke as to
the prisoner's frequent assaults upon his wife.
Police-constalle 399 A stated that hearing cries
of "Murder," he stopped the prisoner, who was
'tinning at the top of his speed, when he (prisoner)
told him that his wife was continually annoying
him, and that she was living with another man.
The prisoner, who denie having acted with so
much viohnce as had ly.ien sworn to, and said that
his wife. struck him first, was sent to hard labour
in the loose of Correction for two months. He
was then locked up.

THAMES.—WM. Hall, 40, day watchman in
the employ of the East and West India Dock Com-
pany, was charged with stealing rum, the property
of his employers.
The magistrate sentenced the prisoner to be im-
prisoned and kept to hard labour for six months.