The Sun. — 1851-07-14 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.  George Smith, a sottish, surly-looking fellow, deocrihtd as a plasterer, wai placed at the bar btore Mr. Hawn:till, charged under very aggravated circurnstanc. with as.aulting and woundit g u !hilt) boy Latn.d Darnel Harro,gton, 11 years of age, and seriously endangering his hte.  From the evidence of the complainant, whose head was env« loped in bandages, sod that of several other witnesses, it appeared that about nine o'clock in the evening of Friday, the 27 h ult., the neighbourhood of the prisoner's house, in Prince's-street, Mile end, was involved in much cia:notion and alarm, in consequence of loud screams of " Murder " from the prisoner's wife, which attracted a large concourse of persons around the house, at the attic window of which, on the third sto'y. the poor woman was engaged in a desperate struggle with her brutal husband, who had thrown up the sash and was exerting his utmost cff.,rts to pitch her head, long into the street. The savage conduct of the prisoner excited a general feeling of horror and indignation among the crowd, who loudly expressed their sense of bis brutality, on hearing which the prisoner suddenly relinquished his hold of the woman, and after a momentary absence returned to the window with a brick in his band, and instantly hurled it down with all his force upon the heads of the persons beneath. The complainant, who was standing at the time in the centre of the road, quietly looking on, stepped hastily aside to avoid the heavy missile, but it unfortunately struck him to the ground in a state of insenst bility, inflicting a terrible wound in his head, from which it rebounded with such force as to knock down another child standing near him, and who was also severely injured. They were both immediately raiaed by the bystanders and conveyed to the London Hospital. where their wounds were dressed, but a considerable time elapsed before the complainant was restored to consciousness, and he was considered in imminent flange; for several days from the effects of the it jury, from which he had not yet recovered, and still continued an out-patient of that institution. Police-constable Donoway, of the H division, stated that, upon reaching the house on the night in question, he found that the front door had been just burst in by the infuriated mob, who were about to take summary vengeance upon the prisoner, but the witness managed with some difficulty to restrain them, and on entering the heuse the prisoner's wife, whose bead and face were shockingly contused and swollen, entreated him at once to secure her husband, or her life would be certainly sacrificed. On ascending to the attic, however, the prisoner was not to be found, but observing that a considerable portion of the ceiling had been recently broken away, he forced himself through the aperture, and found the prisoner endeavouring to conceal himself underneath the tiles. He immediately se sad him and got him down stairs, but had the greatest difficulty iu protecting him from the viulence of the examperwed crowd, who threatened to kill him, end it required the combined efforts of six constables to keep them at bay and convey him in safety to the station-house. Mr. Charles Dukes, house surgeon of the London Hospital, deposed that the complainant bad su-ts;ned a severe injury on the side of the hi ad, about an inch and a half in leogtb, which had placed his lie() in c lisiderable danger, and that, although he hnd now partially recovered, he had suffered greatly in health from the effects of the wound. .  ...„ Oa being asked if he wished to ray anything in answer to the etage, the prisoner sullenly rsplivri, that ai it appeared the magi% rate intended to send hun before is jury, he should not offer any defence upon that oce4sion; sod the depAsttions of the witnesses haring t ern formally token, the prisoner was fully outnreitttd to Newgate for trial.  THE LONDON GAZETTE, July 11.