The Sun. — 1862-04-08 (London, England)

SOUTHWARK.—S'ar'ah Beech, a Imascnline looking woman, with am infant in her ai"ree, Nvlte charged with maliciously wounding Edwart.lßeeent her husband, with a knife, and nearly severing the nose from his face. The following medical. certificate was put This is to certify that Edward Beech has a WY severe cut across the nose r in fact, it is nearly severed from the face. Erivsipelas may follc"W' which world be dangerous. W. Tow SEND, Surgeon." Edwin Coleman, 53 M, said hat on Sunda forenoon, between 10 and 11 o clock, he was onr duty in Newington-cause way, when a young matt came running up to him atzd tobi him he believed a woman had murdered her hus band in Tivertonstreet, close by. The witness proceeded there, and on entering No. 11 in that fa 'met he saw the prisoner in a very excited state. He was shown hate a room, where he saw the injured man under the treatment of a surgeon. He was covered withblood. His nose had been cut so deep down from the bridge that it actually hung fron.l a piece of skin above the upper lip. The doctor strapped up as well as he coui,d, and stopped the hrem orrh age, when the prisoner w4's painted out as the per,lee who inflicted the wound, and he then took her in ce custody. Witness understood that they (the pr,' soner and her husband) had been quarrelling all the morning, and that in her passion she snatchea up the knife, rushed at him, and cut him over the nose with it. The prisoner here said that the man was not hee husband, but that she lived with him as his vil' He struck her first, and in a .state of irritation .she snatched up the knife to defend herself. Mr. Burcham observed that according to the) medical certificate erysipelas was apprehended, and if that took place death might soot' follow. Under those circumstances he should reman d her for a week. The Rev. Mr. Tugwell, the inc umbent of St. Andrew's District Church, Stamford-s treet, attended before Mr. Burcham to complain of thke annoyance caused by a large number of lads asoembling on Sunday to gamble under the arches of tLie Charingcross Railway, in the vicinity of his churoh. el kept quarrelling and swearing. all day. The nuisance at last got so intolerable that he communicated with Sir George Grey on the subject, the result of which wasi that the police had orders to interfere and take into custody all offending. Oa Sunday, during Divine service, there was a COar plete riot, and one of the constables was yell roughly handled by the mob. Mr. Burcham said there had been cases of the same kind before but that he bad been compelled to dismiss the prisoners, as no one really annoyed had prosecuted. Benjamin Smith, 35, a labourer, was charged_ with inciting a mob to assault the police, throveie6 stones, and causing the rescue of a prisoner. Police-constable 52 L said that on Sunday 110011: e' he saw several lads tossing under the railway arch in Brad-street. They were throwing up cored money, and swearing dreadfully. One of the fau' was taken into custody by a constable, but 300 er, 400 ruffianly fellows surrounded him and rescued him. The witness went to the officer'e assistance' when he was attacked with stones and brickbats. One of the latter struck him on the head, cutting a large hole in his hat and injuring him severely. 11° saw the prisoner throw something at that tiract and, with the assistance of a railway constable, took him into custody. Stone, an officer employed by the Charing-cross. Railway Company, corroborated the constable's statement. Mr. Burcham fined the prisoner 200., with the alternative of 14 days' hard labour.