The Sun. — 1866-09-18 (London, England)

MABYLEBONE. A CRUEL TIUSBAND.-o:iVer Tomlin, a powerful man, living at 3G, Upper Carlisle-street, Marylebone, was charged with committing a violent assault upon Elizabeth, his wife.  Prosecutrix, whose head and face was nearly covered with wounds, and who appeared to be in a very weak condition, said for a long time she had boon subjected to a course of ill-treatment from her husband. Last Saturday night he returned from his work, when, from some unexplained cause, he commenced abusing her, and continued doing so, almost without intermission, the whole of Saturday night and Sunday. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning he pulled her• out of bed, and for upwards of an hour he beat her about the head, face, and body, with his clenched fist, swearing all the time that he would murder her. Ho then knelt ou her body, and pulling her right hand to his mouth he knawed at it, and ultimately made his teeth meet through her hand. Her cries alarmed a police constable, who took the prisoner into custody. A number of witnesses were called, who proved that the prisoner was in the habit of brutally illtreating his wife. The prisoner said his wife was in the habit of remaining out all night drinking with strangers. Mr. Mansfield sent him to hard labour at the House of Correction for one month.  Naval and Military Intelligence. A Horse Guards' order was yesterday received at Chatham directing the 24th company of Royal En(P t, incers to be held in readiness to embark at Gravesend on board the chartered troopship Merchantman, which has been taken up for the conveyance of the company to the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve one of the companies of that corps whose period of colonial service has expired. The 24th company will be augmented to 100 men of all ranks from the depot companies at headquarters, Chatham. The order also directs a small detachment of 23d company of Royal Engineers, together with a draught of the Ist battalion of the 10th Regiment, consisting of 45 men of all ranks, to embark for the Cape of Good hope in the same vessel, to join the service companies of that corps. The officers placed under orders to embark with the above troops are Captain Richard Bullen, Lieut. Walter St. George Burke, and Lieut. W. F. Richardson, Royal Engineers; and Ensign James Woolcott Lang, Ist battalion 10th Regiment. The detachments are to be in readiness to embark at Gravesend on the 21st inst., should the vessel be ready to receive them on board by that date. The sloop-corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse power, fitting for commission at Chatham, is ordered to have an armament consisting of one ordnance wrought-iron 7-inch muzzle-loading pivot gun, two 64-pounder muzzle-loading pivot guns, and four ordinary slide guns and wrought-iron carriages. She will also carry one 9-pounder breech-loading Armstrong rifled gun and one 6-pounder smoothbore brass gun for boat and field service. Her proportion of shot and shell will consist of 120 common 7-inch, 480 64-pounder, and 90 9-pounder segment shell% empty ;70 7-inch common, 240 64-pounder, and 70 9-pounder Armstropg shells, filled; and 30 9-pounder and 96 6-pounder solid shot for her boat guns. • Mr. J. F. Barnaby, attached to the Draughtsman's Department at Chatham dockyard, has been selected by the Admiralty to superintend the manufacture of the iron beams for the Blanche, 4, 1,268 tons, 350 horse power, building at Chatham, at the Butterby works. The masts and gear for the Blanche are to be made at Chatham. A site near the redoubt on Mount Wise, 'Devon. port, has been selected on which to erect a statue o the late Lord Seaton—labourers are at work clear ing out the foundation.  The screw steam gunvessel Dapper (tender to the Britannia), from Dartmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Thursday, and returned to Dartmouth on Friday. The armour-plated screw steamship Ocean, 23, left Plymduth on Thursday to join the Channel Squadron at Portland.  About 200 artisans and labourers were entered in the Devonport dockyard on Thursday for service to the close of the financial year. • The armour-plated screw steamship Zealous, 20, at Devonport, was put in commission on Thursday for service probably in the Pacific. The armour-plated screw steamship Lord Warden, 20, was placed on Friday in No. 3 dock in Keyham steam-yard to have her bottom cleaned and valves overhauled.  The screw steam storeship Industry, Staff-Commander E. C. Youel, from Woolwich for Ascension and Rio, arrived on Friday at Plymouth to embark stores.