The Sun. — 1827-09-22 (London, England)

UNION-LTALL. son, warrant, residiug in the district, was brought up under the authority of a Icharged with having violently assaulted him. The circumstances attending the assault arose out of one of those unfortunate matrimonial speculations 83 prevalent, a young man joining in wedYesterday the wife of a Mr. Cooknamely, lock with a female treble leis age, in the hope of enjoying her fortune. This case completely verified the old saying of the " biter hit," and excited much laughter during the hearing of it, at the expellee of the party complaining. On the parties taking their stations before the Magisbgrriades appearing trates' table, they looked much more like grandmother and ndu aing nrPointtnoifterelvaetirogninshg on 70, while her hopefulip, than man and rife, the spouse was scarcely arrived at the years of manhood. Mr. Cookson commenced his complaint :.......c. Your Worship," said he, in an affected tone of voice, " it is an impossibility that I can live with such a wife as this any longer ; she is in the habit of threatening my life daily, and unless we are separated, slaughter Will ensuenay hourly, between us. The razor is scarcely ever out of her hand, with which she vows she will have my life." The Magistrate, observing the great disparity on the score of age between the couple, and having expressed considerable surprise at that circumstance, asked Mr. Cookson how old he was ? He replied that he was not et 20. ~ And what age is your wife, pray ?" ~Why, my wife,,, said he, pausing and looking hard in her face, " I should think is hard upon 70. You, see, gentlemen," added he, ,‘ she has scarcely a tooth in her head, and she ishalf blind besides from age." _ _ _  11AGIsinAii,welYli3t ould hare inducf4d you, the!), so  young a man, to marry a woman who, by your own account, is so advanced in life ?  Mrs. Cookson here bridled up, and casting an indignant look at. her spouse, said, " I am neither so old nor so cold as you would wish to make people believe." The complainant, in reply to the Magistrate's question, said that he candidly confessed he was completely deceived by the lady, for she wheedled him into the bonds of matrimony, by describing that she had 500/. in the Bank, and promising that he should have every sous of it when they were united. To show his forbearance, he added, that he had now been upwards of three years married to her ; and from that unfortunate event up to the present time, he never touched one farthing of her cash, but was burdened with her support. She was a dead weight upon him, from which, however, he hoped to be relieved now, in consequence of her threats to murder him. . .  The wife now claimed the indulgence of being heard. Her husband had said a great deal about ages ; he had grossly exaggerated hers, and she was anxicus to set that question to rights with regard to herself. The MaotsTRATE----We never wish to inquire of the ladies their ages. You had better answer for the alleged assault. Your husband says you threatened to murder him. Complainant—My husband would say any thing ; he is the aggressor; he keeps another woman, and he wants to get rid of me; but -I will disappoint him, for I will stick to him as long as he has a shirt to his back, please God. The story he has told about the razor, and my threat of cutting his throat, is all a fabrication, and trumped up in order to have me sent to gaol. The Magistrate was inclined to believe the lady's account of the transaction, and advised them to separate by mutual consent, if they could not agree. He should discharge the warrant. The complainant, therefore, failed in his speculation at this office, as well as with his matrimonal one.