The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGHeSTREET.—WaIbourn, theteacTer
of dancing, better known under the title of Dusty Bob,
appeared yesterday at this office as complainant against two
persons of the name of George King and Peter Howes, for
creating a disturbance in Mr. D. Bob's ball or dancing-
room, No. 17, Euston-crescent, on the preceding night.
It appeared that R splendid dress ball was appointed to
be held at the above time and place, fo admission to which
two shillings for gentlemen, and one s ng for ladies -were
demanded. In consequence, between seventy and eighty
were assembled at the hour of half-past eleven o'clock OR
Monday night, when the unfortunate Peter and George,
accompanied by a lady, arrived, and the fracas which now
formed the matter of investigation took place. According
to the complainant, the three persons alluded to had ob-
tained regular tickets, but the defendants were objection-
able, as he considered, from their coming, with malice
afore-thought, to kick up a dust in his party, and he hope('
their Worships would sift the matter thoroughly. He
had reasons also to believe the lady to be of a caste not suf-
ficiently qualified to be heaped upon his pasty. He there-
fore refused them admission; the consequence was that e
battle ensued, which terminated by Peter and George, and
their fair companion, being danced off to the watch. house.
The defendants said that they had fairly paid their
money for their tickets, and therefore considered therns&,,,e3
entitled to admission. As regarded the objection raised by
Mr. Walbourn, they could, perhaps, afford sonic explana-
tion. The truth of the matter was, that one of them
(George King) paid 80 guineas to the complainant, for
which he agreed to teach him the art of standing upon one
toe, the dustman's jig, &c., and was to have three years'
tuition. Unfortunately Mr. Walbourn found his pecuniary
means not to keep pace with his toes, and was compelled
to take the benefit of the Act for the relief of Insolvent
Debtors', leaving Mr. King's education in an unfinished
state, having received only three months instruction instead
of the same number of years. The complainant had since
refused to complete his engagement, and hence arose the
bye be-
lieved they
ill-blood between the parties. As regarded the fair
alluded to, he (Mr. King) could bring forward tb.-e most
unanswerabletim )a
se instestimonialsinsinuation
onf
that her respectability,bad ieers
made and
complainant against her, arose entirely front jealousy.
The Magistrate, having heard all parties, said he con-
sidered the complainant had not the power of refusing to
admit the party, after having paid for the tickets of, admis-
sion, and dismissed the complaint.

UNION-HALL.—Yesterday, an elderly female, named
Afeirguret Trout, was brought before the sitting Ma-
gistrate, Ai. SWABZY, Esq., charged with committing so
violent an outrage on her husband that his life is de-
epaired of.
From the evidence of a roman named Susannah Smit:
who is a lodger in the same house with the prisoner as,,T,
her husband in Kent-street, it appeared that on the v-e-
-ceding night she was awakened by hearing a consicluable
noise in the room immediately over her, which was in-
habited by the female at the bar and her husband. The
voice of the latter she distinctly heard calling out, " Fors
God's sake do not murder me, you have stabbed me."
Witness, who is a single woman, Was so much terrified
that she was rendered incapable of proceeding up stairs to
see what was the matter. The noise continuing, and the
cries of the man for help being incessant, witness at length.
threw up her window, and called aloud for assistance.
After having communicated to the watchman the disturb-
ance, the prisoner was heard to leave the room in which
her husband was lying ; and while on the stair-case to nx...
claim, "D— you, I have ham-stringed you, and there
you may lie," while the former was imploring her to come
to his assistance, saying that she had cot him, and that
he should bleed to death if she did not stop the wounds
which she had inflicted. The prisoner, however, regard-
less of what had occurred, vocifer.ted that she should not
help him; adding, that the next time she would cut his
windpipe, and put an end to his noise far ever. ti this
time the watchman got into the house, and on proceeding
up stairs to the second floor, he observed the 'unfortunate
man lying on the bed, with blood flowing profusely from a
wound in his throat, and also from a w,-,,und near the calf
of his leg. He stated that his wife had inflicted them
both with a case-knife, which was subseqneutly found near
the bed-side, on the floor, covered with blood. The ',wounded
man was c iuveyed to ono of the Borough Hospitals.
and prisoner was secured and taken to the watch-house,
from whence she was brought up to this office. Ham-
mond, the officer who apprehended her, produced a certie
fixate from the Hospital, describing that the prisoner's hose
band was considered in a dangerous state. The prisoner
was therefore remanded until the fate of her husband is.
known ; and the Magistrate directed that in the event of
the man's death the officers ;I the parish in which the out-.
rage was committed should be informed of it, in order that
the circumstances should undergo an investigation before a,
Coroner's jury. _ .

The prisoner was described as a woman of the most vio-
lent temper ; that she and her husband were in the ha. 141
of quarrelling ; and that on the night in question, kieiT
irritated with one another while in bed, the tonics
out, and in the heat of the moment seized a dap-
_knif.,,n,
inflicted the desperate wounds above desctib-,:d I. the thr"o7t,
and on the leg of her husband.

LOSS OF TIIIRTEP_S LIVES ON THE
F,,IIANNON.

Twenty-five persons embarked iu a sail-boat, near Beagh
Castle, in this river, on Wednesday, to collect sea-weed in
the neighbouring islands, for the purpose of manure. When
heavily laden, and about to put off, several of those oa
board took alarm at the angry aspect of the waves, which,
ruffled by the tempest, lashed the surrounding shore with
unsparing fury. An all-wise Providence prompted the idea
of danger; they disembarked, and left their ill-fated com-
panions (eleven men and two women) with a determina-
tion to encounter the passage home. The frail vessel, way
so overloaded by the anxiety or avarice of the owner, to
secure a large cargo, that she absolutely kundered, in the
coming tide, which, rushing Eke a torrent, overwhelmed
her in an instant, within a few yards of land, leaving g
wild blank, diversified only by the evanescent prospect of
thirteen human beings struggling between gilt world and
the next. The agonising cries or the wretched sufferers
' were hurried on the blast towards shore, where their dis-
tracted friends, unable to afford assistance, gazed intently
on the spectacle of life and doe,Via. But the airiest intole-
rable suspense existed Inc a moment only—idle was the
contest of weak mortality—when an immense surge choked
the last effort of expiring nature. In the space of fifteen
minutes, their bodies, borne on the bosom of the rulleu
waves, rolled slowly and I;eavil' to the nearest shore, where
the receding watel-a lift them without a spark of life, t
be vainly shaped in the fond embrace of despairing friends
andknclred, whose bitter cries not even the howling blast
cpuld smother. _

This deplorable record of calamity has plunged many
families into the depth of sorrow and distress; in one in-
stance, nine children have become destitute orphans. The
boat wee the property of a man named Grady.
Two sail-boats foundered in the same gale of wind at
Kildvsart ; but the crews were fortunately saved..—Linie-
ri ek chronicle,