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    MARLBOROUGH STREET , trS ^! f REC f f ' --TohllScott ' ^ tlera an , of Hertford street , Mayfair , was hrought before Mr . Hardwick , charged with ihontUM \ i ™ ? said ' ^™ Posing through Park-lane aboutlO o clock the previous eyenmg , when he met the defendant , who was an en ire stranger to him , and who in passing lifted a stick which he carried , and , without saying a word , dealt him a violent blow across the nose . The stick was produced . It was an agatebeaded walking cane , and appeared to have -been fractured by the ^ ° ^ t ™ ? thi <*> d

    ^^^ ** . George Raymond , of No . 14 , Chapel-street , was passing at the time , and saw the defendant strike the complainant a severe blow across the face with nisistick . Just before this the defendant had struck a boy with the stick as he passed . Mr . Scott ' s defence was , that he was a gentleman , that he had been dining out , and had taken too much wine Mr . Hardwick remarked , if taking too much wine had the effect of rendering the defendant incapable of mastering his actions , the proper course was to abstain from dining out altogether . Mr . Scott did not mean to commit any assault . He was sorry for what had accurred , and would take care it should not occur again . Mr . Murry had no wish to press th . e case with severity now that the defendant had

    expressed contrition . Mr . Hardwick would inflict the full fine of 5 Z ., or two months ' imprisonment , in order to teach the defendant to Be more guarded in his conduct for the future . The fine was paid .

    WORSHIP STREET . Murderous Attack . —Thomas "Watford , a harsh-featured elderly man , described as being a . journeyman plasterer , was charged with a murderous attack upon his wife , Eliza "Watford , and placing her life in imminent danger . —Mr . D'Etncourt ordered him to be committed until that day week for the completion of the evidence , and to afford time for ascertaining the result of the injuries the wife had sustained .

    CLERKENWELL , Robberry . —James White Hinde , a young man of respectable appearance , was charged by Mr . Jackson , watch-maker , of Red-Lionstreet , Clerkenwell , with having been concerned in stealing a gold watch , value £ 30 ., and other property , to a considerable amouut . He ^ ras remanded for a week .

    SOUTHWARK . Important Decision . —Mr . A'Beckett gave his judgement in the case of a cab-driver named Thomas Hill , who was charged with plying for hire within the enclosed space at the terminus of the London and Brighton Railway station , that being a place not authorised by the Commissioners of Police . As it had been understood that the real issue was the right of railway companies to withdraw the cabs at the stations from the provisions of the general ' statutes and the superintendence of the police commissioner , a considerable amount of interest attached to the trial . Mr . A'Beckett saia that he had well considered

    not only the case , but the opinion of counsel which had been placed before him by the company , and was unchanged in the opinion that in plying for hire in a place not sanctioned by the Police Commissioners —for that was the only question—the defendant had broken the law . In prohibiting the plying o f hackney carriages " elsewhere " than at places approved by the commissioners , the legislature meant without exception , otherwise such exception would have been particularised . It was not desirable that a number of public vehicles should be withdrawn from the supervision to which , by law , all were subjected . The railway authorities were irresponsible , and if at one time their regulations were made for the

    public , at another they were made for their own profit . Some of the regulations made by the company were most inconvenient , witness the placing o f other numbers on the sides of cabs than those of the license , thus leading the public astray , and in the cases of summonses causing confusion . The company had had time to consider their course , and comply with the law , but had not done so . It was his duty to put the law in force , which he would do , by imposing the nominal penalty of Is ., with costs .- —Another case was heard , and a cabman plying at the same station was fined 40 s ., for refusing , in obedience to the company ' s rules , to take the first fare that called him .- —It was announced in court that the company had resolved to comply with the act in future .

    LAMBETH . A Ruffianly Father . —William Bailey , a ruffianly-looking fellow , was finally examined on a charge of attempting to cut the throat of his daughter , and inflicting a wound on her ri ght arm , From the evidence of the daughter , a young woman 20 years of age , it appeared tb . at on Thursday night last she went to a public house , where she was told her . father , was getting drunk , to endeavour to get him home and after much persuasion he with much reluctance came home with her . They had scarcely reached home , however , when he began to abuse Her in the most disgusting language , and ultimately attempted

    to cut her throat . She threw up her right arm to save her throat , and the prisoner inflicted a deep flesh wound on it , but did not , fortunately , injure any of the principal blood-vessels . He was proceeding to inflict further injuries when the residents in the house , whom the screams of the complainant brought to -her aid , rescued his intended victim , and he was given into custody . In reply to the charge the prisoner said he was very drunk at the time , and that his daughter , who was not quite sober , was very abusive to him . The daughter having expressed much reluctance to prosecute , the prisoner was convicted in a penalty of 5 ? ., or two months' imprisonment , and was further ordered to find good bail for three months more .

    HAMMERS 3 fITH . A Protector of Law and Order . —James Barry , an athletic young volunteer in the Royal Middlesex Militia , was brought before Mr . Beadon , on the charge o f having violently assaulted Mrs . Robinson , a respectable married woman , residing in Simpson ' s-place , Hammersmith . On Monday evening the prosecutrix was standing in King-street , with her boy , waiting for her husband , when the

    prisoner , who was very much intoxicated , came up to her , and commenced using the most offensive and disgusting language , and called her by several opprobious epithets . She asked him what he wanted , and he replied with an oath that he wanted money , and money he would have , and he would let every woman know that he was a militiaman . He then , without any provocation , struck her a violent blow and knocked her into the mud . A constable of the T division

    fortunately came up at the time , and secured the prisoner , who repeated the disgusting language on the way to the station , and after he was locked up in the cell . The prisoner in answer to the charge pleaded drunkenness as an excuse for his violent conduct . He was never so drunk in his life as he was on Monday night , and he really was quite unconscious of what he did . He received 15 s . on being discharged from drilling , and he had none of it left . Mr . Beadon—The prisoner has received money for the protection of country , and the first thing he did was to get drunk and violently assault a respectable woman without any provocation whatever . He fined the prisoner 5 Z ., or two months' imprisonment . The prisoner was locked up in default .

    MAUYLEBONR Horrible Cruelty to a Cat . ' —William King , of Andover Lodge , Finchly-road , was summoned for roasting a living cat . The prosecution orig inated with the Society for . the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals . Harriett Dunn , on being sworn said , I am maid of all work in the service of the defendant , and have been so for five months . Last Friday fortnight I gave him notice to quit . Our cat , which was large with kitten , was in the habit of going to the next house , and

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    mistress told me she did not approve of it . I never heard my master say that he would d . o anything to her for going away . In the afternoon of last Monday three weeks mistress told me that she wanted the cat , and I therefore fetched it from the next house ; it returned thither , and I brought it back again . This was at four o ' clock . I put the animal in the kitchen , and at half-past seven my master came down , when he asked for " Tibbs , " which was the cat ' s name . I informed him that she was behind the door , upon which he took her up in his arms and put her upon the table . He asked me for a piece of string , and after hesitating for a little time I gave him a bit of cord

    which J . managed , to find . He desired me to make a slip-knot in it , but I told him I did not know how . He then made the knot , and put the card round the cat ' s neck . He asked me where he should hang it , and I said I did not know , My mistress , and a gentleman , a friend of my master ' s , were in the kitchen at the time . Being frightened , I went out and stood upon the stairs , In three or four minutes I heard the poor cat cry out in a dreadful manner , when I came down and saw the poor animal hanging in front of the kitchen fire—the same as if a joint was being roasted ; it smoked as it went round , and screamed and cried shockingly . —Mr . Broughton . — -Where were your mistress

    and the gentleman at the time that this affair was being transacted ? Witness—Close to the kitchen door . Mr . Broughton . —Tell me what occurred immediately upon your entering , after goiug up the stairs . Witness—The gentleman told my master it was too bad of him to serve a cat like that , when he remarked that he would teach it ingratitude , After the cat had struggled as long as it could , it ceased to cry , and appeared convulsed . My master said it was dead , and the gentleman said , " It ' s astonishing how long these cats retain life . " Master was going to cut it down , but mistress said , " Don ' t do that , for it may go mad , and run all over the place . " Master then said , " Oh , no , it ' s not dead , " and with a wooden roller which he took from

    behind 4 ihe door gave the cat two blows upon the head as it was hanging . The poor thing opened its mouth , and directly afterwards I was convinced that it was dead . It ' s struggles had been so strong as to bend the hook it was hanging on . My master took it down , and having put it into an apron , I , at his desire threw it away into the road . I have not seen it since . My master and the gentleman then went up stairs to take some brandy and water and cigars . I told the servant next door what had happened , and I afterwards mentioned the matter to my friends . Mr . Broughton—Is the gentleman or your mistress here ? Witness—Neither of them , sir . Jesse , the officer of the court , by whom the summons was served , said , the first witness

    pointed out to him the hook alluded to , which was much bent . Sfye also produced to him a piece of cord , which she believed to have been that by which the cat was suspended before the fire . Mr . Broughton -r ( to the young woman Dunn)—Was the fire such a one as you could have used for cooking ? Witness—I could have roasted a leg of mutton , by it , but slowly . The cat was hanging altogether about ten minutes . Mr . ' Broughton—What was defendant doing while the cat was hanging , and before he knocked it on the head with the roller ? Witness—He was standing by smoking a cigar . Defendant , in answer to the charge , said that he had lately kept some Cochin China fowls , and that the net-work , which he had been at much

    expense m putting up , was continually being damaged , and as his cat , by which a number of others were attracted to his premises , was a source of great annoyance , he determined upon getting rid of her ; he therefore tied her up in the kitchin , and despatched her as speedily as he could , as he had no intention of acting with any degree of cruelty and he thought he had adopted the best course he could , as he knew of no other place in the kitchen where he could have despatched the animal ; it was not near the fire , o f which there was very little at the time . He was quite incapable of a cruel action , and was quite surprised that such evidence should have been brought forward against

    him—he was not at all prepared for such statements being made . If the magistrate would allow him a little time he could bring the gentleman who was with him as a witness . Mr . Broughton , told him that he had had ample opportunity allowed him for doing so , and that he should not adjourn the case for that purpose . Mr . Thomas said that the defendant was told at the society ' s house that he had better produce the gentleman . He was the son of Mr . Phillips , the auctioneer , of Bond-street . Mr . Broughton said , that no one in court could , he was quite certain , from the manner in which the first witness

    gave her testimony , doubt the truth of what she had stated , and he ( the magistrate ) had no hesitation in saying that a more horrid act of cruelty lie had uever heard of , except in one instance , when a monkey was put down to roast ; the perpetrator of the act , however , subsequently turned out to be a lunatic . Defendant—I hope , sir , that if you cannot look favourable upon me , you will inflict a fine . Mr . Broughton , after some further observations , gave him to understand that to a man in his situation of life a fine would be no punishment at all , and he should therefore send him at once to the House of Correction . He was then locked up .

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    Narrow Escape . —In consequence of the fire which broke out on board the steam ship Severn , in August last , during her homeward voyage from the Brazils , the directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company , besides taking other precautions to guard against the awful calamity of fire at sea , ordered a supply of Phillip ' s patent fire annihilaters to be provided to each of their ships . Two were accordingly put on board the Severn and were kept ready for use .. On the outward , voyage , however , we are informed that one of these machines suddenly and spontaneously ignited , and the plug blew out , sending ferth such a volume of flame and vapour as was exceedingly

    difficult to subdue . Water was thrown upon the machine , but this only seemed to increase the offensive fumes without decreasing the flames . The deck of the vessel was much burnt , and some little damage was done before the fire could be got under . Taking all the circumstancs into account , the Severn had a second narrow escape from destruction by fire , inasmuch as if the annilators had been kept in the store room ( which might have been presumed to be a very natural and suitable part of the ship for their safe keeping ) , another and fearful edition to the loss of the Amazon woulddn all probability have resulted .

    Meeting of Ministerial Supporters . —A numerousmeeting of members of the House of Commons , supporters of the present Administration , was held on Monday , at the Eavl of Derby ' s official residence in Downing-street . Two hundred and eleven members were present . The Earl of Derby was accompaned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr . Secretary Walpole , the Eight J . TV . Henley , and Lord Naas . The conference lasted about an hour . security of PitoPEttTr in New York . —The chief of the New York v ie , in his last report to the Mayor , says that the daring manner in which robberies are committed almost exceeds ? belief : —i * Cattle are butchered and

    dressed on farms adjoining the city , and brought to this market for sale : while droves of sheep are carried away in the night from the immediate neighbourhood of the favm-house without alarming the owner j ships are boarded and robbed of cables , rigging , &c , while the officers are sitting in their cabins ; the cabins of vessels are entered at night , and the pockets of the sleepers rifled of their contents ' , and other like offences are of such frequent occurrence as not even to excite sunrise when related . " LotfG "Dosses . —In his "Fortnight in Ireland , " Sir P . B . Head confesses to apattv&Vu } for bare ankles and naked feet , " There can be no doubt , " he says , 'L '^ YvokMiere is a freshness in this costume of nature that cannot belong to a fash o ^^ e gown , which , from sweeping the ground , and , from being tightly bandaged toW&A the waist , forms a splendid unventilated palace , in which tb , e architect has for gotten to insert either chimney , staircase , door , or window' "

    Rectorship op Glasgow University . —On Monday , Lord Eglinton was elected Lord Rector by a , majority of three out of the four nations , over the Duk < Qf Argyll .

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    ^ fpndant has a double object nursing the child at thaf a ™ a m JSVh * - ST ? P ° l e She is WeU *™* ^ lustice room ^ 5 , the governor of winch did not know what to do with her asihZ ^ invariably as it were under the protection of her child , live well Ind set a pernicious example to tlie less daring bep-p-ars a 5 ' $£ - ! & the child be taken care of at the ^ nionf S weTXrv JU 21 days' confinement with very W diet will do for le She 7 fhe d efendant who lias heen a heggar from herinfancy , wasrlmnW from the bar but she swore that she would pummel J ^ Saffi t he police before she would give up her child ; wnoieDodyof Murder of a Wife by her HusBAXD . -Henry Horier a ^ ed looking man , in a state of intoxication , was brought before ^ lftSr ^^^ f * 4 cut t ^ taidant has a double object nursin g tin-iliflii ill

    s ^ , ^ ^ ° life ' s throat with a razor . The prisoner is a journeyman shoemaker ^ In consequence of the condition in which the prisoner wiTwhen p laced at the bar , the Alderman directed that the chief clerk should take no more evidence than was necessary to justify a remand-John Pixon , *> , city pohce > , said ,-At 1 Q o ' clockthis morning , in consequence of information which I received , I went to the house of No 76 Sun street , Bishopsgate , the attic in which house is occupied bv the otT soner . I saw Mrs . Rogers , who is the mother of the prisoner ' s wife and the prisoner m the passage leading to the street . She said to me that she had come for her daughter to take her home with her t

    o Bath , and she could get no information where her daughter was and that she had been up-stairs and called to her daughter " Ann ! ' several times , hut received no answer . I asked the prisoner why he did not tell the mother where the daughter was . He said " It is ah right , I slept with her last night . " I asked the prisoner ' if she was in the touse . He made no reply to the question . The mother then said , " You villain , you have murdered my daughter . " He made no reply , and I then took him to the stationhouse . He was drunk at that time . I searched the prisoner , and found upon him one shillinp and three farthings , a shoemaker ' s knife , and a key , but there were

    no particular marks upon his dress . I then left him in charge at the station house , and returned with Police-constable Balchin to the house , and we went up together into the attic , which was opened by the latch . Against the window was a bedstead , and I turned down the counterpane of the bed and . saw the dead body of a woman , with her throat deeply cut and the windpipe severed . I observed blood upon the bed and holster . They were both saturated with blood . I then sent f or the doctor and searched the place , and in a workbox on the top of the bedstead I found the razor produced . ( Here a razor , the blade of which was stained with blood , was produced . ) The razor was shut , the lid of the workbox was closed . It was a sort of bureau

    bedstead . —The prisoner here said something which was not quite intelligible about the interference o f his mother ' s wife between him and the deceased . —Aldermen Ynsisis and Copeland advised the . miserable wretch to make no observations , and remanded him for farther examination . The prisoner was remanded . On "Wednesday , Dixon , the police-sergeant who gave evidence on the former day , added the

    following statement : —I conveyed the prisoner , when he was remanded on Tuesday , to prison . In going along he said—After mother left the night before , I had talked with my wife respecting her leaving me in the morning to go home with her mother , which , I believe , she did not -want to do , and we then agreed to destroy each other . She took a knife ,. and I took one also . I then was on the bed with her , and said to her , " remember this will be the last time . " I was then on

    the point of cutting her throat with the knife I had in my hand . She then said , " Henry , stop , I will tell you where your razor is , by which you can do it quicker . I ( the officer ) said to the prisoner , was she undressed ? " No , ? ' said lie , " we were not undressed either of us . " He also , said it occurred before day , early in the morning . "When I fir ^ fc "discovered the body it was dressed . The prisoner upon being asked whether he wished to ask any questions of the witness , said , " Oh , not at all , not at all . " Witness , in continuation , said : On the evening before I was sent by the inspector to the prisoner ' s house , I

    saw the decease ^ and her mother sitting in the room . We came down stairs together , and there met the prisoner , and the mother said she had come for her daughter . The prisoner said he had worked very hard to keep her and make her happy and comfortable , and he should do so still , and they would be very happy together if the mother would not interfere "with them . The deceased said to him , " Henry , if you ill use me I certainly shall not stop with you . " I said it ' s a pity you cannot settle your affairs ; if your husband ill-uses you , you know where to apply . She said , " It ' s not the first or second time he has

    illused me . " He made no reply to that observation . The prisoner—It ' s an untruth to say I ill-used her ; hut she said so I laiow Am \ Rogers , mother of the deceased , said—Lam the wife of a mason who resides at Bath . The prisoner married my daughter , Ann , on the 30 th of June , 1851 , at St . James ' s Church , Bath , I came to London in consequence of a letter which I received from Ann . I went with my sister to her iodging , at 76 , Sun-street , Bishopsgate , and had not time to speak a dozen words to her before he came in . In answer to my inquiry after his health he said he was very poorly . I said I did not wonder at it from his treatment of poor Ann , and I

    told him that I was come to fetch her away . After a few words , expressive of the determination of the witness to take away her daughter , the prisoner went away and soon afterwards returned with a pohce sergeant , who told her she was breaking the peace in forcing a man ' s wife away from him . To that she replied by stating that it was the wish of her daughter to go , and the deceased confirmed the statement , at the same time acknowledging that she should have no objection to live with him if he would keep his hands off her . I said to my daughter ( continued the witness ) , are you ready to come with me , Bath at 9 clockShe said

    Ann ? I have a Teturn-ticket to o ' . , " Yes I shall , hut I hardly think I am going . " She then began to pack her things in the trunk . The prisoner then said she should not go that night , but she should go with me at 10 o ' clock in the morning . I told him that I did not consider her safe with him . He then took her by the hand and pulled her on his knee , saying to her "You are not afraid o f me Ann , are you dear ? " She replied " No , provided you keep your hands off me . " After some further conversation he said he would next morning get her clothes out of pawn , and she should be ready to go with me to the country . She then wanted me to sleep m the roomfbut the prisoner objected , and told me I should haye some

    coffee in the morning , and that my daughter would be ready to go with me I told him I did not consider her safe with him , and I asked him what I could think when he strove to strangle her last week , and her neck was hruised ? He said was your neck bruised , Ann ? "Yes . ' said she , " it was bruised ; I'll never run from my word . All this took place while she was sitting on his knee . I got a lodging m the neighbourhood , , and in about a quarter of an hour afterwards I returned and got a bed-gown from her , and I told her to be m readiness to come with me next day . They both replied that she would . I did not see either of them that night again . Next morning ,

    at a little past 10 , 1 went upstairs , and called " Ann at their door , about five minutes . I heard him say , as if speaking to somebody , " Oh ! that's Mrs . Itogers . " I said , « Wh y don ' t yon open the < ta tome , Henry ? -Wnert isAnnr He said , « She is all right . " The witness then proceeded to state her suspicion of the desperate nature of the prisoner ' s conduct , and the fact ofalaming the police , as had been represented in effect in tha other evidence . Other witnesses , from the evidence of some of whom it appeared that the prisoner had contrived to get into a beastly state of intoxication , were examined , and the Alderman stated that he woultf commit the prisoner for trial .

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  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 20, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1705/page/7/