Star. — 1826-10-12 (London, England)

UNION-HALL.  Oa Tuesday afternoon, as this Ake was about to close, a man named Josses Gray. residing in Little Surrey-street, Blackfriarsroad, was bAsught before the sitting Magistrate, K J.CUANSIII4 Esq. charged with having committed a desperate amok upon his wife. From the statement of Major Reynolds, an °Meer in the Army,. is appeared, that as he was passing through Surrey-street, in a hackney coach, on his way to Walworth, he beard screams of Murder ! proceed from one of the houses. He immediately directed the coachman to stop, and while in the act of alighting, he observed a female rush out of one of the houses, wboWperson was covered with blood, sersuning aloud for help, and followed by a man with a case ,  knife in his band. The female ran into a house next door to the one she had left, closely pursued by the man. The Major, apprehensive that murder would inevitably be committed, and having no stick or weapon of any kind, he supplicated some men who were present to enter the house and secure the fellow, who seemed to be bent on the destruction of the female; but they betrayed the most rank cowardice, absolutely refusing to interfere, in the dread of being attacked themselves. The woman's screams still continuing, at length two youths. accompanied by the Valor, rushed into the house, and, on their entrance; the man in a fury ran at the Major with the knife; the latter, however, being powerful man, seized the weapon from him, and, uring the contest, they both fell on she floor. At length, after considerable resistance on the part of the fellow from whom the knife was taken, he was secured, and given into the custody of a constable. During the struggle between the Major and his antagonist, the unfortunate woman, who turned out to be his wife, lay on the flock insensible, from the blows she had received. Major Reynolds, conceiving a man capable of using one of the other sex in so brutal a Manner, deserving of punishment, insisted upon his being in. stantly brought to a police-office, sad accordingly the whole of the parties attended before the Slating Magistrate. On the defendant being placed at the bar, he cut a most grotesque figure, bring completely covered from head to foot with Mud, in consequence of his attempts to escape from the constable on the way to the °eke ; both of them having had three or four rolls in the kennel. The above-mentioned circumstances having been stated by Major Reynold's, the defendant's wife, who appeared to be weak from iota of blood, stated that her husband had latterly been much addicted to drinking, since his return from the Continent, where he had been some time residing. Formerly she said he had held a most respectable situation in the Excise, but since his resignation he had conducted himself with the most perfect indifference towards his family, often quitting home for some days, leaving them destitute. —On the occasion in question, he departed from home is tonal, and on his return the moment he entered he struck her a blow in the face, and seizing up a knife made two or three lounges at her, which she avoided, only receiving a slight wound on the arm with the point- of the weapon. He used dreadful imprecations at the time, vowing that he would murder her; and she, fearing that he would put his threats into execution, called aloud for help, when Major Reynolds appeared, and, she was convinisA, saved her life. She added that this was not the first occasion on which she bad been assaulted by the defendant; some time ago he stabbed her in the hand, in consequence of which she lest the use of three of her fingers, and she was assured he would ultimately be her death. The defendant evinced no contrition for his conduct, merely say: ing that the facts.were exaggerated, and that he did not mean to do his wife any serious injury.  The Magistrate having remarked that the defendant's wife was much Indebted to Major Reynolds, for his •ery resolute conduct on the occasion, committed the defendant to gaol for want of bail:  Nothing is talked of in Lorraine at present but a sleeping Beauty, who, it seems, wakes occasionally, and fells asleep again for several months I