The Sun. — 1836-09-03 (London, England)

ETH-STREET. A. BacTE OF A 111.1SBAND.—Yesterday James Screen, a savage-looking fellow, in the garb of a sailor, was brought before Mr. ilitarywicx and two county Magistrates, on a charge of brutally ill-using his wife. The complainant, a very decent-looking middle-aged female, stated for the eleven years she had been married to the prisoner she had not, excepting when he went to sea, had an hour's peace of mind. Without the slightest provocation, with the exception of his declaring that she was too old for him, be was 'in the constant habit of striking her with his list, or anything that came within his reach. On Tuesday week he returned from sea, and since that time his treatment towards her bad been, if possible, worse than before ; but not wishing to expose him or herself she bore pa • tientiv with it until the night before last, when he gave her two tremendous blows on the face, and was proceeding to further violence, when she called out " Murder!" and a policeman having come to her assistance, she gave him into cusji\_°(tiiimber of respectable persons, who reside in the same neighbourhood with the complainant, were in attendance, anal spoke in the highest terms of her character for proprietayn d early late and industry, and said that while she laboured both anti supported him in idleness be treated her with the grossest inhumanity. The prisoner here insinuated that his wife was not quite so chaste as she should have been. The MAAnsTnATEs, atter commenting on the brutal con(met of the prisoner towards his wife, convicted him in the penalty of 3/. for the assault, and also ordered him to find bail fur his good behaviour towards her for twelve months.  " WIIO ARE You ?"—.Ever since the recapture o Williams, and the publication of the story of bis escape from Newgate, Who arc you ?" has become a cant-word among the lower order of the people, from one extremity of the metropolis to the other. The above question was answered on Wednesday evening last, in a manner as unpleasant as unex pected by the party who put it, by a gentleman named Wil. liamson, of the firm of Williamson, Graham and Company, silk-mercers, of Manchester, which firm has been lately plundered of property to a considerable amount by a clerk in their employment, named Mortimer. Information having been re. ceived by the firm in the course of the week that the thief had been seen in London, Mr. Williamson arrived in town on Wednesday lest in search of him, and was proceeding along the Strand about nine o'clock on the above evening, when he was met by a party, consisting of two males and two females, all of whom were evidently in a state of intoxication. Mr. W. perceiving the state in which they were, turned up a court, to avoid coming in contact with them, when one of them shouted: after Lim, " flollo !old cock, who are you ?" Mr. W feeling he found that his conjectures were right, for the person confident that he knew the voice, followed them. until he ohtained the assistance of an officer, when, going up to the party, who had addressed him was the identical party of whom he was in. quest. Ile was immediately given into custody. The Christians cannot at present complain of a tyrant of toleration on the part of the Turks, since /. mass of Christian monks reside in Pera quite undisturk,ed. In the long street, there are three Catholic churches, among which that of St. Maria is distinguished by its spi.endour. Even the bells ( which were not formerly allowed) sound loudly and shrill, leaning the faithful Christians t o prayer. The only restrictiod is, that the churches must ry..it be built facing the street. They arc all entered through a court-yard—and, Pera being as it were built in terraces, by descending flights of marble steps. The singing in these churches is not agreeable; it is as if the Catholic had taker. a pattern from the ear. rending nasal screeching—for it cannot lie called singing-91 the Greeks.— 2"eitz's Constantinople,  •