The Sun. — 1870-06-07 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE BY  A MOTHER IN POPLAR.  Yesterday Ellen Wallis, aged 27 years, of 6, Blackwallharbour, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police-court, charged with attempting to drown herself and two illegitimate children named Jane Wallis and John Christian Wallis, in the River Thames. John Chapman had cohabited with the prisoner several years, and a few weeks ago separated from her, when he agreed to allow her 10s. per week for the maintenance of herself and their two surviving children. On Sunday at the Blackwall pier the prisoner took the two children in her arm, and jumped into the water with both. Chapman, who was standing by, called out " Murder ! Save them, save my children !" and they were got out alive. The youngest, a baby six months old, was insensible, and was eventually with difficulty recDvered. Chapman denied having goaded the prisoner to do such a desperate act as to drown herself and children. The Prisoner—You did, you did : ;you said several times "Do it, do it ; drown yourself and the children." He wants to get rid of me and the children. Mary Ann Webster, wife of an engi neer, was on the Blackwall Pier, and heard the prisoner a& 1 Chapman quarrelling. Chapman said, "Do it ; do it," several times, and goaded her to madness. The prisoner took up the children, and was running towards the water, when she fell down. She got up again, and then plunged into the water. Mr. Lushington committed the prisoner for trial at the July Sessions of the Central Criminal Court for the attempt to murder her children.  The Bishop of Winchester has instituted the Rev. S. L. Warren to the rectory of Esher, Surrey. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has instituted the Rev. G. G. Coventry to the vicarage of Oxenton, near Cheltenham. The Bishop of Norwich has instituted the Rev. W. J. Kitching to the rural deanery of Stow. The Bishop of Oxford has nominated the Rev. C. P Longland to the rectory of Headington. Pressure on the barometer was yesterday uniformly high. Temperature also has risen everywhere except in the South, where it fell several degrees in the morning. Winds are light and variable at the British stations, but easterly on the French coasts, blowing rather strongly in the Bay of Biscay. The sky has now cleared generally, and the weather is very fine in the United Kingdom. The sea is calm..  Chinese pirates attacked the Prussian ship George, which left Hong Kong on the 16th April, on the first night of her voyage. I:'he pirates approached the ship in two junks, almost without making a sound, surprised and bound the sleeping crew, and then searched the vessel undisturbed. After they had secured a rich booty, they bade farewell to the captain and the men, and shook hands with them most cordially.  On Sunday afternoon the Right Rev. Dr. Wilkinson, the newly-consecrated Bishop of Zululand, preached in Norwich Cathedral on behalf of his missionary diocese, which he states is sadly in want of the help of devoted men and women. As many as he can obtain he proposes to take out with him when he leaves England in the autumn.  It is rumoured that when Sir Richard Airey succeeds to the post of Adjutant-General at the Horse Guards, Lieutenant-General Sir Fenwick Williams, of Kars, will be appointed to the command of the fortress of Gibraltar ; and that Lord Templetown will succeed Lieutenant-General Sir George Buller in command of the garrison of Portsmouth,