Star. — 1826-07-21 (London, England)

BOW-STREET. Doctor Bally, and Miss Elisabeth, his daughter, aged 18, were charged with assaulting Ellen Healey, their maid f ail-work. The complainant, it seems, went to see her mother, who was ill, without asking leave, and on her return she found Miss Eady busy cooking the dimmer; she had spoiled the fish, and in taking them op, they dropped in pieces about the kitchen floor. Ellen was anxious to assist in taking up, the rest of the dinner, but Miss Ell• ninth called.her a good-for-nothing honey, and struck her in the breast repeatedly; and the Doctor himself came down and shook ' bet violently, and threatened to kick her out, if the did not leave the house quietly. The complainant called -as evenness the Doctor's man-servant, a strauge-looking lipre, from whom everybody instinctively shrunk back as be approached, but be swore that no blew or shaking took place. Mr. HALLS said, where such conflicting testimony bad been adduced, he could not bold the parties to bail, but Ellen might, no. vertheless, go to the Sessions and indict if she thought fit. A mechanic charged one of the privates in the Foot Guards with thrusting his bayonet into the side of his right eye, is the yard of St. James's Palace. The complainant said, that he was amongst the crowd in front of St. James's Palace, to hear the band play, and the prisoner and another private, who were on duty at the gate, prevented the crowd from entering as they had been allowed many years. He kept back till the sentinels went to their posts, when some of the people were admitted, and he was forced in by the crowd pressing behind him. The prisoner came up from his box, and presented his musket, and thrust the point of the bayonet into the side of his (witness's) head near the eye; be (the sentinel) then burst into a fit of laughter, and exclaimed," you have got it : I have given you a poke in the eye." It was done wilfully. A witness was called, who corroborated the above statement. The prisoner, in his defence, said that be had received orders from his serjeant not to admit any one into the Palace yard ; that be tried to keep the crowd back, and in doing so he accidentally scratched the face of the complainant. Complainant—Scratched ! Why it entered half an inch, and the surgeon, in St. James's-street, ordered me to-bed. You laughed, and said " you bad poked my eye out." Soldier—l said no such thing; you would net go back, and I was obliged to use force. If I bad let you in, I should have been punished for disobeying orders. The sentinel who was on duty with the prisoner, said, that the crowd thrust in, and they were obliged to use their muskets to keep the crowd out. He was sure that his comrade did not thrust bit bayonet into the complainant's eye wilfully, He admitted that his comrade laughed, and said, " You ought to be glad that I did not poke your eye out." The Sergeant of the Guard was examined by Mr. Haus, and be said, that Colonel Freemantle had given orders that no person should be admitted into the Palace-yard that morning. Mr. HALLS said that be should dismiss the case. The soldier had acted properly in discharge of the orders he had received from his superior Officer and the complainant had no right to thrust himself into the Palace-yard, when be was told that he could not be admitted. Soldiers were but men; and he was often surprised that they acted with so much temper, subjected, as they often were, to gross insult. In this case, if the soldier had not obeyed his Officer's orders, he would have been punished; end; for obeying them, he (the Magistrate) was called upon to send him to prison; but he should do no such thing. The soldier had acted in conformity with his orders ; and, if any one had acted wrong, it was the complainant himself. The soldier was discharged. A charge was heard in the private room, of a young Gentleman, whose intellects were impaired, having attempted to murder his father, by stabbing him with a dirk, which he had bought for that purpose. • It was proved by the evidence of a great number of wit. noises that the young man was deranged ; and certificates of surgeons to that effect, as required by Act of Parliament, being produced, he was conveyed to a Lunatic Asylum.