The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

HAMMERSMITH.

A retired licensed victualler, named Wm. Bolton,
living at Hammersmith, appeared before Mr. G. Clive,
the sitting magistrate, to answer a summons for assault-
ing- his wife.

The case disclosed circumstances which excited much
disgust in all who heard the evidence. It appeared that
the defendant and his wife had been married upwards of
twenty years, during which period she had borne him
nineteen children. Of late years defendant had treated
his wife very unkindly, by beating her, and more parti-
cularly by cohabiting with a niece of his, who had lived
with them from two years of age, and by whom he has
had four children, the youngest of which is eight months
old.

The defendant denied most positively the truth of his
wife's statement, declaring that he treated her with the
greatest kindness, although she had continually robbed
him ; that she was insane, and had been in no less than
16 madhouses, and he called two witnesses.
One of the witnesses was his own son, a boy 14 years
of age, who acknowledged that the niece had a child
eight months old, and that she was living with his father.
Mrs. Grant, a friend of the wife's, said, in answer to
questions by the Magistrate, that the wife was not insane,
but that a sense of the wrongs she had received had
driven her to drink.

Mr. CLIVE said, although the assault complained of
was a slight one, he had determined on fining the de-
fendant in the full penalty of 51., and he would inflict a
sirrilar fine every time that he appeared at that Court
under the same circumstances.

The defendant declared that he would not pay the
money. He would appeal. -
Mr. CLIVE said he then stood committed to the House
of Correction for two calendar months.
Defendant was then locked up.

EAST INDIA COMPANY'S MILL
TARY SEMINARY.
A public examination of the gentlemen cadets edu-
cated at this Institution took plase on Friday, the 12th
inst., in the presence of the Chairman, Sir Henry Wil-
lock, ; the Deputy-Chairman, J. W. Hogg, Esq.,
M.P. ; and several members of the Court of Directors
amd visitors.
The class brought forward consisted of thirty-nine
cadets, four of whom were selected for the engineers,
viz. :—W. S. Oliphant, G. Chapman, H. W. Gulliver, B.
Pollard.
Twelve for the Artillery, viz. :—C. J. Barton, G. C.
Nlellersh, A. 0. Mayne, the lion. Fergus Kennedy, A.
Fraser, G. Dangerfield, T. B. Gibbard, H. M. Smith, A.
H. Dawson, J. C. Wood, H. W. Lumsden, S. W. Dewe.
Twenty. four for the Infantry, viz. :—W. B. Caste, J.
D. Swayne, C. Baddeley, A. K. Comber, 11. B. Pearson,
P. 0. Gibbes, R. Wallace, R. T. S. Lawrence, C. M.
Longmore, G. Pickering, F. A. Dickine, R. C. Birch, F.
Demole, E. A. Wilde, E. A. Rowlandson, W. C. Par-
sons, W. G. Farquhar, J. Yorke, T. E. Higginson, W. L.
Webb, J. Burn, G. G. Murray, W. R. Gordon.
After the reports had been read by Mr. T. R. Clerk,
Chief of the Cadet Department, the Chairman presented
the following prizes, viz.:—.

FIRST CLASS.
second, Hindostani ; first, Good Conduct,
Mathematic.s:
Gentleman Cadet G. Chapman—First,
W. S. Oliphant—Second, Mathematics ; second, For.
tification; second, Good Conduct.
H. W. Gullivcr—First, Fortification.
G. I). Mellersh—Military Drawine•
~
The Hon. F. Kennedy—Military Surveying.
W. G. Dangerfield—Civil Drawing.
S. W. Dewg—Latin
James C. Wood—First, Hindostani ; Geology.
U. Wallace—French.

SECOND CLAS3.
C. Adey—Fortification ; Military Surveying ; and
,hird, Good Conduct.
R. Roberts—Mathematics ; Fieneh.
A. Garnett—Military Drawing.
C. Xlll uu—Civil Drawing.
R. Mallock—Hindostani.
THIRD CLASS.
C. Stewart—Fourth, Good Conduct.
J. T. Hyde—Chemistry.

COMBINATION AND STRIKE AMONG THE JOURNEY-
MEN BAKERS AT BELFAST.—It appears that the Belfast
journeymen bakers have th aught fit, whilst the fear of dis-
tress is so pressing, to indulge in some combination tricks.
The employers are ready to pay high wages ; but that will
not be enough—they must submit to tyrannical dictation
besides. The plan for the masters to take, in this case is, to
dismiss all their men who belong to the combination, and set
intelligent young men to work, who will very soon learn the
business. In the meantime, the consumers, if made fully
aware of the circumstances, would readily submit to some ir-
regularity, or put up with bread made in a less workmanlike
style. Indeed, for that matter, people could easily make
tieir own bread for a time, until new hands could be trained.
It is rather too bad that there should be combination and die:-
tation connected with a business which requires so very little
skill and training. We understand the combination has
already produ •ed outrage, so that we shall, most probably,
have to recur to the subject —Northern Whig.
The family of the Rev. C. D. lUD, of 12, fans_
down-place, were plunged into the deepest grief last Friday
morning, by a melancholy and fatal accident which befel his
son, a fine boy about eight years of age. It appeared from
the evidence given at the coroner's inquest, which was held
on the following day, that the unfortunate child was playing
in an ppper apartment at the back of the house, and that the
window being open he looked out, overbalanced himself, and
fell to the ground from a height of about forty feet. The
cook, who saw him fall, immediately ran out and picked him
up; but he died almost instantaneously. The jury returned
a verdict of " Accidental death."—Brighton Gazette.
NEW MANURE.--The German papers give currency
to the statement that M. Liebig, ,the celebrated professor of
chemistry at the University of Giessen, has discovered a
mineral substance which, when combined with guaco, will
produce one of the most fertilizing manures known. It is
added, that a joint-stock company, with a capital of 120,000/.
sterling, composed, for the most part, of leading English capi-
talists, was, immediately on the discovery being made, formed
for the purpose of carrying on, upon a large scale, the manu-
facture of the new compound.
DETERMINED SUICIDE AT MATLOCK, \BATH.—An
awful event, which caused great excitement in the quiet
village of Matlock, Bath, occurred on Tuesday last. A man,
named John Smedley, a spar and marble turner, was ob•
served early in the morning sharpening a large knife for the
purpose of killing a pig (as his family supposed), but on
their going to make preparations they missed the deceased.
After a little time his daughter went in search of him, and
found his neckerchief on the bank of the river Derwent.
Proceeding a little further, she discovered a large pool of
blood under a rock that projects over the bank, and traces of
blood to the avater's edge, which showed too plainly that
Smedley had thrown himself into the river. Boats, drags,
and assistance were immediately obtained, and the river
dragged until night arrived, but without success. The search
further Peter A
pr kr
ow rgwater,is
put and
toptrhe e.
was resumed on the following morning, and in the course of
a few hours the body was found; it had been taken by the
stream down the " goat or mill trace" that supplies Mr.
riegs
11
re,
as cottonstopp
stopped
b factoryythweh grateeel withthat
vent sticks and rubbish going on to the wheel. The body
was immediately taken home, and on examination by Mr.
Ward, surgeon, it was found that deceased had inflicted a
deep gash in his throat.—Derby Reporter.
PRIZE EssAy.—We understand that the prize of
504 offered for the best essay on " The Office of 'the Ruling
Elder," has been, by the arbiters (the Rev. Drs. Gordon,
Hough, and
ru St t hers) adjudged to the Rev. John Kerrow,
D.P., Bridge of Teith,.....E
dinburgh Witness.