The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-22 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING,

child, there was no evidence before him at all to im-
plicate any of the prisoners, and the medical evidence
was such, as regarded the immediate subject of in-
vestigation before the Court, that he Could not corn
mit any of them for trial for wilful murder. He had
heard much about the concealment of the birth, but
that charge was quite done away wish by the testi-
mony given, that Barker had prepared baby linen,
given notice to the midwife, and informed her friends
that she was pregnant. There were certain marks of
violence not altogether satisfactorily accounted for, but
after the medical evidence, be could not detain the
prisoners, and they must therefore be discharged.
SOUTHWARK.

Elizabeth Wilkins and Elizabeth Page were
brought before Mr. A'Beckett for re-examination,
charged with stealing a 201. Bank of England note,
the property of Mr. Edward Porter, a furrier, resid-
ing in Lsnt-street, Southwark.

the prisoners, who declined saying anything in
their defence, were committed.
WANT) S WORTH.

, Yesterday Hugh Davis, a respectably dressed mar,
who described himself as a general dealer, residing at
Chelsea, was charged, before Mr. Thadon, with a most
wanton and cowardly assault on a respectable marries
lady.
Mrs. Mary Withal!, of 1, York-cottages, Battersea-
fields, one of whose eyes was most frightfully dis-
coloured and lacerated, stated that on the previous
afternoon she was with her children in Jews-row,
Wandsworth, near to the fair. There were some
donkeys there, and she was treating her children to a
ride. The defendant came up, and pushed and pulled
the donkeys about. Complainant said he must be a
" wicked ' man to try and throw the children off,
when he directly struck her on the eye and knocked
her down. lie struck at her as if she had been a horse
or a bullock.

Mr. BaADoN here asked the defendant what answer
he had to make to the charge ?
The defendant; in a 'very cool and unconcerned
manner, said the woman who had charge of the don-
keys struck him, and he struck the complainant. He
did not know what could have induced him to have
committed the offence, and he was sorry for it. He
further said he had been in service nearly all his lifo,
and with Colonel Rowan for several years. He
would apologise to the complainant, and make any
reparation required.
It was intithated by the police that other parties
were present to give evidence, and accordingly
Mr. Evan Sayers, a butcher of Wandsworth, was
sworn, and proved that he was in Jews-row at the
time in question, that be saw the defendant, in the
most unmanly manner, endeavour to get on the back
of the donkey on which the eldest young lady was
riding; that the woman belonging to the donkey did
strike the defendant with a mere switch, when the
latter struck tke complainant a most violent and un-
provoked blow, which knocked her on the flat of her
back. He then, coward like, ran behind a van in the
fair, and mixed among the crowd ; but the witness
and some others who could identify him searched for
himand•delivered him up to the police.

Mr: -Bsi.Dom said, if ele defendant had been in
Colohel Rowan's service, he ought to have known
better ; it was the most unprovoked assault he had
ever had before him, and he did not think he should
be doing his duty to the public if he did not impose
the highest penalty which the law allowed. The de-
fendant would therefore pay 51. for the assault, or be
committed for two months.

The defendant, riot being provided with the money,
was removed to the cells.

Prior to Mr. Beadon leaving the bench, the pri-
soner made an earnest entreaty for a mitigation of
the fine, but the magistrate pereinptorily refused to
grant it.