The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, SATEIRDA.Y EVENING, MARCH 12, 1864.

ELECTION COMMITTEES—(This Day),

This morning the committees appointed to inquire into
the validity of the Berwick-upon-Tweed and Lisburn elec-
tions assembled for the second time. In each case evidence
was taken with a view to show that the agents of the
sitting member—Mr. Cargill in the case of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and Mr.AVernon, in Lisbure —were returned
by means of bribery. The only noticeable feature
connected with the proceedings this morning was the pre-
sence of a large number of women—some of them with
babies in their arms, who had been brought from Ireland
to give evidence. No result may be expected in either case
until Tuesday or Wednesday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)

His Honour disposed of a short list of causes; the only
case of the slightest interest being

BE LUSCOMBE.

This bankrupt had carried on business at the Thatched
House, Exchange-court, Strand, and the important feature
in the case was, that the debts were only £B3 6s. 3d., and
the assets realised amounted to £125. It appeared from the
statement of Mr. W. H. Griffith, the bankrupt's counsel,
that the bankrupt had been grossly imposed upon as to the
value of the place, and had brought an action for the false
representation, and recovered £l2O damages, which had
been paid into court. The bankrupt having taken proceed-
ings in bankruptcy, had lost £195, which he paid on going
in.

His Honour granted an immediate order of discharge
to bankrupt of the balance, and also on the payment of fees,
which amounted, after payment et court fees, to £ll 14s sd.

RE PAZEY.

In this case. which was adjourned a few days since, his
Honour intimated yesterday that judgment would not be
delivered until after Easter.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUEL ROBBERY.—William Thrift, a lad, was charged
as follows;

Mary Ann Emery, a widow, living in Hayes-court,
Newport-market, said that about 11 o'clock, while return-
ing from borrowing some money to pay her rent, she was
nearly knocked down by a cab in Coventry-street, and the
prisoner and another man helped her to a doorway. On
recovering herself she gave them some drink. The pri-
soner then walked home with her, she holding her purse in
her hand in her pocket till she got near Newport-market.
when she withdrew her hand from her pocket. The pri-
soner still accompanied and left her at her door. She sat
up ironing for some hours, and on going to her pocket to
get some money to buy bread for her children, she found
her purse, containing eight half-crowns, gone.
James Stephens, 24 0, said that on taking the prisoner
into custody that morning at the place where he lived, he
said that if the prosecutrix did not press the charge he
would give her the money back again.
Mr. It nox remanded the prisoner,

THAMES.

THE GOOD NATURED IRISHMAN.—John Yealey, a car.
man, in the service of Mr. Hickmott, builder, in the Mile.
end-road, was brought up on remand before Mr. Pagel
charged with committing a violent and dangerous assault
on Martin Reardon, an Irishman, of 133, Great Suffolk.
street, Southwark.

The complainant has received a very serious injury which
will affect him during the remainder of his life. His nose
was bound up with surgical plaisters. The certificate of
Mr. Robert Hunter, house surgeon of the London Hospital,
stated that Reardon was admitted there on Monday last
with a compound fracture of the nasal bones. On Monday
last the prosecutor was driving a horse and cart along High-
street, Whitechapel, towards London. The prisoner was
proceeding in the same direction in charge of a wag-
gon and two horses. He was riding sideways on
the leading horse of his team. The oft wheel of
Reardon's (prosecutor) curt got close to the prisoner's
toes, but did not touch them. The prisoner immediately
struck Reardon across the face with the butt end of the
handle of a heavy cart whip, and smashed his nose. The
poor fellow was knocked backwards and became insensible.
He bled from the nostrils all the remainder of the day and
all Monday night. The whip handle was ferruled and
very heavy.
Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, on the part of the defendant,
said Reardon's statement was substantially correct, and no
one could regret the unfortunate occurrence more than the
prisoner, who struck the complainant in the heat of passion.
The prisoner stopped his team, and assisted Reardon into a
doctor s shop. The blow was intended for the complain-
ant's back, not his face. The prisoner was riding a very
dangereus and vicious horse, and the complainant's cart
came so near to it that he was afraid the horse would be
injured. The prisoner was a steady, sober man, with an
excellent character, and his master would see that Reardon
was compensated. The horse was unmanageable, end would
not go without it was ridden.

Mr. Paget thought it was a most novel and extraordinary
proceeding for a man to ride an unmanageable horse side-
ways. The prisoner had been guilty of a most violent and
unjustifiable assault. He would allow the parties to come
to some arrangement.

The prisoner was unable or unwilling to make compensa-
tion, and was remanded. When brought up again he was
bailed. It was now announced that a compromise had been
effected.

Mr. Paget did not want to know the terms, and fined the
prisoner a shilling. Yealey was without one, and the Irish
man lent him one to pay the penalty, and said he forgave
the prisoner from the bottom of his heart, and had not the
least animosity against him. The doctor Baia he would not
be able to return to his work for three weeks, and be had
only asked the prisoner to pay £3, his three weeks' salary,
which he had consented to do.

WESTMINSTER.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY Or A HORSE CLOTit.---Matthew
Slaney, a boy about 12 years of age, was charged with
stealing a horse-cloth from a eab in Tothill•street, West

minster.

William Kennedy, a little boy, said that he was in
Tothill•street on Thursday, and saw the prisoner and an-
other boy watching a cab that a little girl was minding.
After walking about for some time the other boy covered
the prisoner by getting between him and the girl while he
took the cloth. He ran away with it. Witness told the
owner of the cloth, and the boy was chased but lost sight of,
Maria Lambert, a person living at 48, Tothill-street,
said her husband's cab was standing at the door on Thurs-
day, and she looked out of the window and saw prisoner take
the cloth off the horse and run away with it while another
covered him. She ran down stairs and pursued him, but
lost sight of him. On Friday morning she again saw him,
with the cloth under his arm going about from place to
place to try and sell it. She pursued him, and he again
escaped her, upon which she gave information to the police.
Sergeant Edmund Buckley, 17 B, proved apprehending
the prisoner, from information received that morning, in
Old Pye-street, Westminster. He was taken to the station,
and witness placed him with other boys, and he was iden-
tified by Kennedy and Mrs. Lambert. He said to witness,
" It is not my fault ; a bigger boy told me to take it.'!
Mr. Selfe asked him what he had to say ?
Prisoner said that he had taken the cloth, but had been
incited by a man and boy to do it. They had sold the cloth,
but had not given him any share of the money.
He was remanded till Thursday for the sergeant to make
inquiries,

CONSUMPTION OF COAL.—At the last sitting of
the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques,
M. Dalloz gave the following interesting particulars on the
consumption of coal :—ln 1789 France consumed 500,000
tons of coal, 220,000 of which were imported; in 1811 the
quantity was 773,000 tons; in 1830 it rose to 1,800,000 tons,
and in 1847 to 7,600,000 tons, 2,500,000 of which wore im-
ported. During the four following years—those of the
Republic—there was a considerable diminution, the
extraction in France being reduced to 4,000,000 tons,
and the importation to 2,100,000 tons. In 1853
the consumption rose to 9,400,000 tons, and in 1859
to 12,400,000 tons. In 1863, the third year after the
Conventions of 1860, the quantity consumed was
15,00,000 tons, 5,200,000 of which were imported, showing
the immense increase of manufactures during a period of
tranquillity and order, At the commencement of the pre-
sent century England produced 13,000,000 tons; in 1838
the quantity rose to 26,000,000 tons. England alone pro-
duces much more than half the coal extracted throughout
the world. The production of coal in the United States is
valued at 16,000,000 tons; that of Belgium at 9,000,000;
the Zollverein produced upwards of 14,000,000 tons
in 1862 ; so that, if England be omitted, France
is one of the richest coal-producing countries in the
world. The production of coal is intimately con-
nected with that of iron, in which article England
again holds the first rank. In 1789 France only produced
9,000 tons of cast iron. This quantity rose to 115,000
tons in 1812; in 1830, to 317,773 tons of cast iron and
237,379 of wrought iron; in 1847 the figures were respec-
tively 602,772 and 376,686; in 1850 the production bad
fallen to 406,000 tens of cast iron and 246,000 tons of
wrought iron. A new.rise occurred immediately after the
Republic; in 1859 France produced 856,000 tons of cast
iron and 520,000 of wrought iron; and in 1863 is vaguely
stated at the enormous figure of 1,180,000 tons of cast iron
and 705,500 tons of wrought iron. rhe production of Eng-
land is nearly 4,000,02,0 tons of cast iron; that of the
Zollverein, 591,593 tons; of Sweden, 143,000; of Austria,
270,000; and of Belgium, 161,000.—Galignani.
A HARDY VENTURE.—A few days back a fishing
smack named the John Bull, of 26 tons burden, left Yar-
mouth port for Constantinople with a general cargo. She
has been purchased for Mr. Norton, of the latter place, and
had on board four experienced fishermen of Yarmouth,
being intended for the trawling trade in the Black Sea. A
large number of the seafaring population collected on the
quay to witness her departure and wish her success on her
venturesome voyage.