The Sun. — 1844-10-31 (London, England)

ATTEMPT AT MURDER IN IRISHTOWN.—On Sunday a man named Francis Beddy, who resides at Irishtown, whilst at dinner with his wife, attempted to murder her by stabbing her with a knife in the side. The alarm was given, and the culprit was at once secured. The woman was taken to Vincent's Hospital, Stephen's-green, where she remains under the care of Surgeon Ferran. The wound is of a very serious nature, but the doctors hope not of a vital character. The prisoner was brought before the magistrates of College-street office yesterday, and remanded for further examination until the result of the injury can be satisfactorily ascertained.  A SECOND CROP OF FRUlT.—About three weeks ago, some strawberry plants in the garden of Mr. J. Bancroft, a retired farmer, of Mayfield-cottage, .Wilton, near Northwich, were observed to be a second time in flower, and though there was but little expectation that the blossom would ripen and mature into perfect fruit, the gardener induced Mr. Bancroft to let the plants alone, even at the risk of losing their produce next summer, in order to see how far they would progress in the ripening of the fruit at this late period of the year. Accordingly the plants were let alone, and on Monday last we had brought to our office some very fine strawberry blossoms, and two large strawberries ; one, measuring upwards of three inches in circumference, was scarcely mature, but the other was quite ripe ; and we found it to be much better flavoured, and containing more saccharine matter than this fruit possessed on the average during the last season. We understand that upwards of a pint of strawberries were gathered in the garden on Sunday last. It is right to state that these plants were not protected or sheltered by walls, nor close to any source of artificial heat, but were in the open garden, on a slope near a fish-pond, having, however, the advantage of the sun's rays during the morning and the middle of the day. With the strawberries and blossom was also brought from the same garden a small twig of a blackcurrant bush, with fruit upon it, passing from the green into the darker colour which betokened ripening. The tree on which this fruit is now exhibiting a second crop this season is not near a wall, but only has the morning sun. There is not a forcing-glass about the premises, and the only manure applied during the year, and that only once, either to the strawberry-plants or the currantbushes, was some horse-dung. The bush was well covered with fruit but we understand that one or two frosts during the night last week have caused it to fall in considerable quantities, and what remains cannot of course be expected to become ripe.—Manchester Guardian.  A Court Leet of the Savoy precinct was hell yesterday, the proceedings of which were rendered worthy of public notice only by the very creditable conduct of the Chairman of the Court, Sir John Dean Paul, who refused to receive the presentation of the jury until they had reported the nuisance of several print and bookshops of an improper character which have recently sprung up in the Strand—in the very face of the greatest thoroughfare in London—and he adjourned the Court, in ,rder to give the jury an opportunity of performing what ne considered a part of their duty to the public.