The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-11 00:00:00

UNION HALL.-(THES DAY.)

Thomas Aberrow, a butcher, a as charged with wound-
ing his wife on the head ; and there was also a charge
preferred against ti.e wife of attempting to drown herself
at Nackfriars- bridge.
It appeared that, on the preceding night, a woman was
prevented from throwing herself into the Thames near
the above bridge, and was taken into custody. When
conveyed to the station-house, she there said that she
determined to destroy herself in consequence of the bad
usage of her husband, and she, at the same time ex-
hibited a severe wound on her head, which was
inflicted by him. From the woman's statement before
the Magistrate it appeared that her husband had formed
an illicit intercourse with another woman, and that it
caused a good deal of quarrelling between them. That
on the preceding night she (the wife) and her husband
having had some high words on the subject alluded to,
her husband struck her on the head, and inflicted a
wound, which rendered her insensible, and a surgeon
having been called in he dressed the wound, and
when she subsequently recovered her senses she
became so excited at the bud usage she was constantly
receiving at the hands of her hustand, that she deter-
mined on destroying herself, and fur that purpose prO-
ceeded to the bridge, for the purpose of throwing her-
self into the river, when she was prevented as above de-
scribrd.

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Mr. COTTINGRA3I said that lie should not decide the
case until he heard the evidence of the surgeon as to the
nature of the wound inflicted on the unfortunate woman.
Alexander Andrews and John Newman were charged
with attempting to pick pockets this morning, during the
confusion that prevailed at the lamentable accident that
occurred by the falling in of the roof of the terminus of
the South-Eastern Railway, and by which accident some
lives have been sacrificed.
It appeared that about seven o'clock, when the acci-
dent referred to took place, the two prisoner; were ob-
served busily engaged in their vocation, that of attempt-
ing to pick the pockets of several persons attracted to
the :Tot. Being known as reputed thieves, they were
taker; into custody, and were committed by the Magis-
trate for a month each to the treadmill.

CHATHAM, APRIL Io.—This morning, at six o'clock,
a Convict Guard, consisting of one sergeant and 34 rank and
file of the 58th Regiment, with 15 rank and file of the 80th,
marched from this garrison, accompanied by the band of the
58th, for Gravesend, from which place the troops proceeded
by steam-vessel for Deptford, and embarked the same morn•
ing on board the transport Maria Soames. The guard is
under the command of Lieutenant Waldegrave, of the 3d
Buffs, with Ensign Walsh of the 80th. 'lhree women and
five children accompany the guard. The transport will take
in convicts from Woolwich, and Kingstown, in Ireland, for
Van Diemen's Land. The whole of the 58th will leave this
garrison during the summer months, as Convict Guards. On
Monday last the whole of the invalids, consisting of 100
men, were removed from Fort Pitt establishment to Bromp-
ton Barracks, at which place they are to remain unlil the
Casement Barracks, at St. 11Iary's, arc ready for their recep-
tion. Accommodation will be afforded for 500 men, which
number is expected from India during the month of July
next. Fort Pitt is now only to be used as a military hos-
pital.
The name of the new ballet in rehearsal at Drury-
lane is definitively arranged to be Henrietta; or, The Statute
Fair. The new danseuse, Mdlle. Grahn, has arrived from
Milan, where site was engaged lig 40 nights.