The Sun. — 1830-01-02 (London, England)

THE WEATHER.—The severe frost which has prevailed in this neighbourhood during the last ten days is general throughout the country; hut the frtll.4 snow have been rather severer in the south than in Yorkshire. Almost all the canals in the sputh ale frozen up, and the mails cannot kelp, time. The delivery at Leeds post-office, last evening, was an hour later than usual,-.L. Leeds In telligen eer.  On Monday last was committed to our county gaol, by the Rev. T. R. Bromfield, Henry Collier, charged with having, on the preceding Ssturda►, ► robbed and violated the person of Amelia Mar.and attempted to murder her. Jas. Thatcher (Collier's master) was committed .the same day to the House of Correction, charged with thing an accessory before the fact. It appears that this victim of brutality, who is a young married woman, about 23 years of age, attended Banbury fair with her husband on the Thursday preceding, and that the latter having disposed of the whole of his stock, consisting of Sheffield goods, lrft Banbury for the purpose of returning to Sheffield, on Friday. 8,fore his departure he agreed that his 'Wife should • follow him to Warwick in the cart of Thatcher, another travelling hawker, on the following day. Accordingly, early the next morning Amelia Marshall, in company with Thatcher and his wife, and the prisoner Collier, set out on their way to Warwick. On getting within a short distance of Ladbrook, they met an elderly man on the road, whom Collier accosted as his uncle; and on the party proceeding a little farther on, he said to the uncle, "These women have robbed you," to which the old man replied, " that he knew they had." Notwlthstanding both of the women solemnly declared their innocence, they persisted in the charge of robbeTT till they got to Southam, where the two fetnalrs  were Riven into the custody of a constable, and taken before the Rev. Mr. Bromfield, who, on hearing the evidence of Collier and his uncle in suppoit of the charge, thgught it so extremely unsatisfactory, that he ordered both the women instantly to bc set at liberty. On returning to Southern, the woman Marshall separated from the rest of her companions, and proceeded on the road to IVarwich, but was closely followed by the prisoner Collier. When they had got about half a mile from the town, he with many imprecations demanded her money, and on her not instantly complying with his demand, drew a poker, which he had hitherto concealed under his trousers, and struck her with great violence on the head. He struck her several blows, and in the conflict the poker broke. A severe struggle ensued, and she had nearly obtained a mastery over her hintal assailant, when she sunk to the ground from loss of blood. After violating her person, he robbed her of some money and a penknife, and with the latter instrument proceeded to inflict upon her head, face, breast, and other parts of her person, a variety of wounds. At this moment, the trampling a horses on the road was heard at a distance, and the unnatural monster taking alarm, fled with the greatest precipitation towards Southam. The poor woman, as soon as she had recovered herself, although covered with blood, issuing from the wounds she 11. A received, instantly followed in the same direction, and on reaching the town proceeded to the surgery of Mr. H. L. Smith, where she received every assistance which skill and humanity could afford. Marshall related the circumstances of this atrocious affair to that gentleman, who instantly gave the necessary information to the constables of the place, and Collier and Thatcher were soon alms :oda apprehended in a public-house, where the blood-stained marks on the dress of the former had already given rise to the most ten ible suspicions. The poor woman still remains in a very precarious state, Ina from some favourable appearances in the woun Is, hopes are entertained of her recovery. Marsi:sfl, at the time of the robbery, had about her a 101. cln,que, and 3S sovereigns, which had escaped the search of the prisoner Collier. It appears that the piker with which the villain commenced his bru,al assault on his unoffending victim, was stolen from a publichouse in Southam, during the short time they stopped there. lhe post-boys (the trampling of whose horses had providentially prevented the ruffian from completing his diabolical object of depriving his victim of life) picked up her bonnet near the spot where the horrid event occurred, and brought it with them to Southam. \Ve understand they were on their return from 'Warwick Castle, to which place they had that afternoon conveyed the Earl and Countess of Warwick and suite.—Cottreby Observer.  The navigation of the Thames may be considered closed. The pilots refuse to take charge of any ships on account of the danger from the masses of floating ice.  On Saturday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, a female, apparently between and 20 years of age, was observed pacing along the margin of the river in the green at Glasgow in a rather thoughtful mood, when, all of a sudden, she threw her mantle into the hands of two little boys who were passing, sprung into the water, and sunk to the bottom. Information of the circumstance was immediately transmitted to Mr. Downie, keeper f the Humane Society-house, who hastened to the spot. and, with considerable exertion, succeeded in recovering the body in about half an hour. It has since been claimed. The deceased was servant with a family in Great Hamiltonstreet, but no cause kas yet been aesigied for the committal of the suicide.— Glasgow Chronicle.  On Wednesday, shortly after noon, as