The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-12 00:00:00

BUTCH MAIL

THE HAGUE, JULY 7.—We hear from Scheveningen that
early on the morning of the 6th a splendid English Govern-
ment steamer appeared off that port, at the distance of 300
ells, where it cast anchor opposite the bathing-house. It was
soon seen to put off a boat, in which the captain and some officers
and cadets came on shore. Various conjectures were made
during the whole day by the numerous spectators on the cause of
the arrival of this steamer. A report passed from mouth to
mouth that the intelligence published by the Dagblad, of the
Hague, was going to be realised by beginning to take sound-
ings for the purpose of making a harbour for small steam.
boats, for the English correspondence, which will be of incal-
culable advantage to Scheveningen and the Hague.
About six in the afternoon a fine Dutch merchantman was
seen to approach in full sail, which passed close by the steam-
boat. This sight was loudly cheered by the thousands of spec-
tators assembled on the terrace of the bathing-house, especially
when the Captain of the merchantman fired a saliste of three
guns, but whether it was intended for the steamer or for the
fair sex, or for the fine band of music directed by Mr. Dunck-
ler, is a mystery. The English Captain, Officers, and Cadets,
having announced themselves among the numerous company in
the bathing-house, returned to their vessel, which immediately
weighed anchor, and was soon out of sight.
COLOGNE, Jutv 2.—Official information was received from
Berlin yesterday, that the Prince of Russia will are in our
city on the 25th, and the King and Queen on the 27th of this
month. It is thought they will stop here only a few days, and
will go down to the castle of Stotzenfels. There is some reason
to hope that their Majesties will be present at the fete in ho-
nour of Beethoven at
.Bonn, on the 1 lth of August, and that
Queen Victoria, who is expected at Stotzenfels on the Bth of
August, will likewise be present.

To THE LADIES.—The high and universal cele.
brity which ROWLAND'S RALYDOR continues to main-
tain, as an active yet mild and soothing extirpator of all
impurities of the skin, is, during the present period most
pleasingly evinced. This preparation eminently balsamic,
restorative, and znvigorating, is equally celebrated for
safety in application, as for unfailing efficacy in remov-
ing all impurities and discolorations ; and imparting a
healthy freshness to the skin and complexion. Its uni-
veri-ally great demand excites the cupidity of unprin-
cipled Shopkeepers, who give the title of " Genuine"
KALvnort to some compounds of their own manufacture,
of the most deleterious character, containing mineral
astringents utterly ruinous to the complexion, and, by
their repellant action endangering health. It is, there-
fore, imperative on purchasers to see that the words
" RowLA ND'S KALYDOR" are on the wrapper. All others
are FRAUDULENT COUNTERFEITS I

EADVERTISEMENT.]—BRUSHES.—NEW INVENTIONS
—The Triple flair Brush, One stroke of this is equa
to the effect of one penetrating, five small-tooth combs,
and one even-cut brush ;to be had in four sizes, No. 7
ss. 6d, ; No. 8,7 s. Gd. ; No. 9,9 s. 6d. ; No. 10, I Is. 6d
The Double Anti Pressure. Nail Brush, which does not
divide the quick from the nail no pressure being re.
quired, and thoroughly cleans and polishes the nails in
a tenth part of the time of any other method ; price in
bone, No. 1, 25.; No. 2,2 s. Gd.; No. 3,3 s. 6d.; No. 4,
55.; and of all sizes and prices in ivory. The New
Tooth-pick Brush, which entirely enters between the
interstices of the closest teeth ; marks, full-sized
brushes, No. 1, hard; No. 2, lsss hard; No. 3, middling;
No. 4, soft. The narrow brushes, No. 5, hard; No. 6,
less nard; No. 7. middling; No. 8, soft, at Is. each, or
10s. per dozen in bone; and 2s. each or 21s. per dozen
in ivory, the hair warranted never to come out. The
Medium Shaving Brush, between the usual balger hair
and bristle brush, being a selection of the strongest hair
only from the badger skin, in a variety of sin's, both in
bone and ivory. The above articles are the ieventions
of Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street,
London, and, being protected, any one imitating them
will be proceeded against.

[ADVERTISEMENT].—DR. DE DASSEL OF VAN DIE-
MAN'S LAND AND HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS!—Extract of a
letter from John Knight, Esq., dated Launceston, Ist of
Nlareh, 1845.—" Professor Holloway, dear Sir—l am au
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that, having witnessed here in several instances the ex-
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induced to say that you make use of his name as attest-
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late proprietor of the Launceston Advertiser." These
pills act upon the foundation of the system, thus curing
the most deep-rooted complaints, even when every other
treatment has failed.—Sold at Professor Holloway's
Establishment, 244, Strand, and by all respectable medi-
cine vendors throughout the civilised world.
BRISTOL AND SOUTH WALES JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY.— EXTENSION LINE To Moxstoum.—The manner in
which the Parliamentary proceedings under the South Wales
Railway Bill have been lately reported, is calculated to
create an erroneous impression of that Company's plans. It
is stated that they have obtained a preamble "for a Bill to
make a railway to Chepstow, with a branch to Monmouth,"
instead of which it should have been with a branch "from
Newport to Monmouth," that being the branch which the
South Wales Company take power to construct. The line
from Bristol to the South Wales line near the Passage, and
the extension from thence to Monnzouth, are both left to the
Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway Companies; and
the branch which the South Wales Company make from
Newport to Monmouth will be upwards of twelve miles dis-
tant, in quite a different direction.

SAFETY OF THE APOLLO TROOP SHIP. - The
gratifying intelligence of the safe arrival of the Apollo troop
ship at Quebec, on the 14th of June, was received at Lloyd's
psterdap

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Abingdon, July 10.
Mr. Justice Patteson arrived here at about three o'clock this
afternoon, and having opened the commission at the Idridewell
Hall, proceeded to attend Divine service at St. Helen's Church.
The assize sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Yates, the
Vicar of St. Mary's parish, Reading. There are eight causes
entered for trial, one only being a special jury case; and it is
expected that it will probably not come on at these assists.
The calendar contains the names of nine prisoners, of whom
one is committed for arson, one for wounding with intent to do
grievous bodily harm, one for forgery, two for robbery with
violence, two for housebreaking, one for sheepstealing, and one
for larceny. The small number of prisoners is accounted for
by the assizes following so quickly on the sessions, at which it
appears a great number of cases were disposed of.
July 11.
Lord Denman, immediately on entering the town, at about
half-past ten this morning, proceeded to the Shire-hall to pre-
side in the Nisi Prius Court.
The ease of Simmons v. Gibson, the only special jury cause
in the list, and which it was supposed, if tried, would have
lasted a considerable time, was, by consent, made a remanet.
No case of any public interest was tried in this Court today.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON. )
Henry Scott, aged 28, was indicted for having, at Cookham,
in this county, on the 18th of May last, wounded his wife, with
intent to do her grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Pigott conducted the prosecution ; Mr. J. J. Williams
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutrix, the wife of the prisoner,
had been for abJut a week working some distance from home,
at a place called Haygate Lodge, and that she returned to her
house on Saturday the 17th, and, being unwell, went to bed,
and did not rise till four p.m. on the Sunday following. She
went down to get some water, and it would seem that there
then took place some altercation between her and her husband,
he wishing her not to go to church, and she persisting in
doing so. She then went up to her room, and, on endeavouring
to open a boa belonging to her, in order to get from it some
suitable apparel to go to church, found that the lock had been
tampered with, and that she could not succeed in unlocking it.
On this she went down and taxed her husband with having
opened her box, and asked him what he had done to the lock.
He answered, " nothing," and she said she would not have
her place examined by any of his friends, and then re-
turned to her room. While kneeling before the box and
striving to open it, she received a blow on the back of
the head which knocked her down. She tried to rise, but
fell; and, on actually ruing, fell a second time. She dis-
covered her husband, and with much difficulty got from him a
hammer about a foot long, weighing nearly a pound, with
which the blow had been inflicted. The hammer was pro-
duced in Court, and there was on the handle, just under the
iron, a slight and very faint trace of blood. The prosecutrix
could not tell with which end she had been struck, whether by
the wood or the metal. The prisoner took her handkerchief
off her bosom, and tied it on her eyes, telling her he was going
to wipe them, when she replied that he need not wipe her
eyes, after treating her as he had done. She went down stairs,
and endeavoured to get out through the back door, but it was
bolted, and while she was trying to open it, the prisoner took
the hammer from her. He then tt ok something out of a box,
in which he kept razors, went up stairs, and was seen no more
that evening by his wife. The prosecutrix at length opened
the back door, through which, however, she did not then leave
the house, but went to the front door, an= called out to her
neighbour, Alrs. Johnson, for help, but no one heard her.
She then returned to the back door, and through it made her
way to Mrs. Johnson's house. Mr. Johnson, who saw her,
said she was in a very fainting state, and bleeding profusely
from some wounds in the head. He took her into his house,
and at once sent for medical assistance. The surgeon described
the injury to be a narrow contused wound on the back of the
head, two inches long, going to the bone, and a small bruise
adjoining it, just such as might have been inflicted with the
hammer produced in Court. It would not appear that the
prisoner made ary attempt to escape, as he was on the follow-
ing day apprehended in his own house.
Mr. WILLIAMS addressed the jury for the defence, and con-
tended that there could have been no intention to commit
grievous bodily harm, serious as the injury was, and that the
prisoner, who was a carpenter by trade, and therefore must
have a hammer frequently in his hand, had in all probability
been irritated by the dispute about going to church, and then
by the accusation respecting the box, and had followed his wife
up stairs, and in this excitement had struck her with the
wooden handle. It was quite clear that had he aimed a blow with
the iron end, no human skull could have escaped being frac-
tured, and death must in all probability have been the result.
Mr. Justice PATTISON having summed up, the jury, after a
very short deliberation, acquitted the prisoner of the felony,
and found him guilty of a common assault only.
His LORDSIIIIP then addressed the prisoner, and told him
that he had had a very narrow escape, as, if his wife had died
of the wounds, his crime would have been murder, and he most
certainly would have been executed for it. As it appeared,
however, that while working on a railway, and also while in
prison, he had suffered from most violent headaches, which
almost deprived him of his senses, that would be taken into
consideration in meting out the punishment, though it was no
defence whatever for the brutal assault he had committed. The
Learned Judge then sensenced the prisoner to nine months'
imprisonment and hard labour.

HOME CI C UIT.— fie? tford, July 11.
This circuq commenced on Thursday, on which day the Com.
mission was opened with the usual form. The business is very
light, there being only seven prisoners for trial on the Crown
side. Twenty-one causes are entered on the civil side, but the
greater part of them are undefended, and there are only three
special jury cases.