The Sun. — 1853-09-28 (London, England)

GEORGE QUENNELL—who had been frequently punished for similar outrages—committed a violent and unprovoked assault on ELIZABETH QUENNELL, his wife. The attack was of the most brutal character, the ruffian having kicked her in the most furious manner, until the blood flowed rapidly from her wounds. The miserable sufferer was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where but little hope was entertained of her recovery for some days, and where she still lies unable to attend before the Magistrate. The man who had vowed at the altar to love and cherish her, and who thus discharged his solemn obligation, has been twice remanded to await her recovery, before the final decision of the Magistrate shall be pronounced. On the same day, Monday, the I9th instant, HUGH WHITE, a labourer, residing at Cottageplace, Commercial-road, Lambeth, made a most violent assault upon ANNE WHIT; his wife, to whom he had been many years married, and by whom he had several children. The attack in this, as in the other instances, had been made without the slightest provocation. The unfortunate woman had her skull seriously fractured, and received other injuries of so formidable a character that her life was despaired of, and in fact she still lies in a very precarious state. When assistance came, the wife was found lying on the floor insensible and weltering in her blood, while her assailant, who probably thought that he had murdered his victim, was endeavouring to anticipate the work of the public executioner by strangling himself with his own handkerchief. He still remains under remand, to abide the result of the injuries which he inflicted on his chosen partner for life.  On the same day, at Clerkenwell Police Court, many unfortunate women were to be seen lingering about its purlieus, with features cut and bruised, betokening the handiwork of some heartless scoundrels. It was described as " a sickening sight" to behold the state to which they had been reduced by the cowardly and unmanly wretches with whom their lots were cast. Two charges only were heard. In the first, JAMES MARKLIN was sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour, for assaulting his wife and her mother. lie had come home drunk, and, according to custom, commenced abusing his wife. She attempted to soothe him, and for a time succeeded ; but while she was feeding him with some dinner, and endeavouring to restore his good humour, he suddenly pushed her from him, struck her down with a blow over the right eye, causing the blood to flow, and afterwards, while she was prostrate on the ground, and altogether helpless, he beat her on various parts of her body, blackening it with almost every hit or kick. Her mother, who came to her assistance, was forthwith knocked down by a blow of a poker. The face of the unfortunate complainant was frightfully disfigured with cuts and bruises, and her dress besmeared with blood. The second case was that of a miscreant named MICHAEL KELLY, who was sent to the treadmill for two months, for a brutal assault on CATHERINE HOLMES, who had lived with him as his wife for a considerable time, and by whom he had been entirely supported ; the cause of the outrage was, that she had no money to give him to squander in drink. When these cases had been adjudicated on, the remaining cases were withdrawn by the sufferers, in the vain hope that their respective assailants would profit by the examples they had witnessed, and thenceforward abstain from such wanton violence.  On the same day, JAMES BARRETT was sentenced by Alderman CUBITT, at the Guildhall, to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for a violent assault on CATHERINE, his wife, committed during their Sunday dinner. Her eye was blackened, and she was otherwise severely injured. On a former occasion he had broken several of her ribs, and she was six weeks in the hospital in consequence.  On the same clay, TIMOTHY DOWNEY violently assaulted CATHERINE DUNN, with whom he had for some time cohabited, and also MARGARET LYONS, and Police-constable