The Sun. — 1844-09-20 (London, England)

CENTRAL CILLMINAL COURT.  UNION•HALL.  OLD COURT.  William Robinson, 23, sailor, was indicted for cutting and wounding John Gay Walters, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Crouch conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Horry defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor is an omnibus driver at Woolwich, and on the night of Sunday, the Ist of Steptember, there was a fight and squabble at that place, and upon the prosecutor interfering and endeavouring to take away his friend who was engaged in the disturbance, the prisoner stabbed him in two or three places. There did not appear to be any malicious feeling entertained by the prisoner towards the prosecutor, but the affair was evidently the result of a drunken disturbance.  A respectable-looking elderly female, named Caroline Powell, was placed at the bar, charged with attempting to cut her husband's throat with a tableknife.  Complainant, a diminutive sort of a personage, informed the magistrate he was living on a private income, at 14, Bowling-green-lane, Kennington. The prisoner had been married to him fourteen years, and within these last four months had been in the habit of coming home at various hours of the night in a state of intoxication, and not only breaking everything she could lay her hunch on, but threatening his and the children's lives. On the previous night she came home in a state of intoxication, and began to abuse him. She also said she was determined to have his life that night ; at the same time she pulled a tableknife from under her shawl, and made an attempt to cut his throat. In warding off the knife he received a cut across his right hand. He then succeeded in reaching the door, when he called police; fortunately a constable was passing at the time, or she would have murdered him.  The jury found the prisoner Guilty of an assault, and he was sentenced to be kept to hard labour for your calendar months.  William Henry New was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding his wife, Sarah New, with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Payne defended the prisoner. The circumstances under which the charge was made against the prisoner have appeared within the last few days. The prisoner and his wife, it will be remembered, resided at Richmond, and on the 22d of August they had a dispute which led to the prisoner striking the prosecutrix on the shoulder with a knife. The injury inflicted was not of a very serious character, and according to the admission of the prosecutrix, she had thrown a cup full of hot tea in his face before he acted towards her in the way described. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.  Police-constable 82 L stated that he found the prisoner very much excited. She was flourishing a knife, and exclaimed that she would cut her husband's throat and murder his children. He took the knife from her, and conveyed her to the station-house. In answer to the charge the prisoner said that her husband received upwards of 1,0001. from her when they were married, which he said he intended to embark in his own business, that of a watchmaker ; instead of which he had done nothing but spend her money in keeping his children in affluence. His family turned her out about two years ago, because she would not give them any more money. She had been so cruelly treated by them that she certainly did threaten to murder them. Mr. COTTINGHAM asked the husband whether it was true that he had received that money from her ? —He replied that he had, but she might live comfortable at home if she pleased.  A New York paper advertises that the owner of the perpetual motion, lately exhibiting at Boston, has absconded without paying the man who turned the crank in the cellar