The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 21.—rtie market has not been
very animated, but yesterday's prices have been
well maintained, and with even a slight improve-
ment, Threes, for the Account, being now at 67fr.
20c. Mobilier have been in fair demand, and are
last quoted at 1,250 fr. Little doing in Railway
Shares, bat with quotations generally unchanged.
The market closed as follows :

41 per Cents .. 94
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 50
Credit Mobilier 1252 50
Do, end month 1261 25
Bank Shares —
Credit Fonder l3OO
Roman

Italian Loan 69 20
Do. end month 69 15
New ditto —
Do. end month —
Russian
Austrian .. B'a
Spanish Threes 52
Florae Debt ..
Deferred

BILL

Orleant!
Northern
New ditto ..
Lyon::: and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern ..
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lowbard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

'mos.
Cash. Account.
890 .. 895
977 50 .. 982 60

955 - .. 960 -
900 - .. - -
670 - .. 676 -
500 - .. 602 50
482 60 .. 485 -

375 - - -
420 - 422 50
557 60 .. 660 -
492 50 .. 495 -
580 580 -

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A BOY CHARGED WITH CAUSING THE DEATH OF
ANOTHER BM—William Simpson, a laJy about 12 years
of age, living at No. 37, Princes-street, Leicester-square,
was charged before Mr Knox with causing the death of
another boy named John Henry Carter.
Alfred Orford, a lad living at No. 40n, Rupert-street,
Haymarket, said—On Tuesday, the 12th of this month, I
was in the stable at the back of Rupert-street, and the two
boys Carter and Simpson wet...) there. They were larking
and calling each other names. Simpson called Carter a
name he did not like, and then they quarrelled. They were
quiet for a Mile while, and then began quarrelling again.
Carter had a pitchfork in hie hand, going to put some fresh
straw in the stalls, and then threw the fork at Simpson, the
handle being towards Simpson. Simpson then took up the
fork and threw it at Carter, the handle towards Carter.
The fork fell short, with the prongs upwards, and Carter;
who had ducked to avoid it, rose up, and in doing so came
in contact with the fork, one of the prongs entering his
head behind the ear. Directly after Carter said, " Alf, I
are blind," at the same time putting his hand to his eyes.
I then put my hand to Carter's head, and found it was
covered with blood. I took Carter to Mr Harris's, a sur-
geon, and he dressed the wound. I then took Carter to „3y
father's, in Rupert-street, and afterwards home to his aunt's,
4, Dufour's-place. List Sunday I went to the Middlesex
Hospital and saw Carter again, and he shook hands with
me and wished me "Good bye."

Mary Aun Hughes, 4, Dufour's-place, aunt of the de-
ceased boy, said on going home on the night of the 12th
inst. my nephew said, " Aunt, I'm blind ; a boy has struck
me with a fork in the head." On asking him whether it was
done spitefully, he said it was. The next day he said he was
dying, and was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, where he
died on Wednesday last. The prisoner went to the hospital
to see my nephew, but I was not present.

Sergeant Stephens, 11 C—l went, from information I re-
ceived, to the Middlesex Hospital on Sunday night last,
but the deceased was then delirious. Last night, at the
request of the last witness, I took the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner said that he had called Carter a nickname,
and then Carter threw the fork at him, and he picked it up
and threw it back, that the hilt struck the ground and the
!lilt fell over, and on the deceased, who had stooped to avoid
it, raising himself, the prong stuck in. the back part of his
head.

Orford, recalled, said when Carter first threw the fork it
did not strike the prisoner.

Mr. Knox—l shall remand the boy for a week, but will
take one bail in .-SSO for his reappearance.

THAMES.

COWARDLY OUTRAGE,—Joseph Hodgson, a tall power-
ful man, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
violently assaulting two Irishmen, named William and
John Bowles, brothers.

The complainants are shoemakers, and were in a public-
house called the White Swan in Rateliff•highway last
night. John Bowles was offering a pair of boots for sale.
The prisoner offered to toss him fora pot of beer. John
Bowles lost the toss and paid for the beer. A quarrel took
place between William Bowled and the prisoner about the
beer, and some of it was thrown away by the Irishman. The
prisoner immediately struck him a blow on the right eye. The
complainant described the blow as dreadfully piercing, and
said the eye was bleeding all night. He believed the
wound was inflicted with a sharp instrument. The appear-
ance of the eye, which was red and inflamed, but not at all
swollen, confirmed this statement.
John Bowles said the prisoner struck him and knocked
him down, and when he struck his brother he had a piece
of brass in his hand.

The prisoner said he was first struck by John Bowles
with a pair of boots, and that the only thing he had in his
hand was the top of a chronometer given him by a French
captain.

Mr. Partridge WAS of opinion the prisoner had com-
mitted a very cowardly assault, and fined him 108., which
he paid.

FRCP ERTY AND INCOME TAX,—By a return to
Parliament it appears that in Great Britain the annual
average amount of property and income tax contributed per
head of population in the quinquennial period ending March
31, 1858, was 10s 41d, and in Ireland is 101 d. The annual
average in Great Britain in the quinquennial period ending
March 31, 1863, was 7s Iltd, and in Ireland 2s 41d.
IHE BALLOT SOCIETY.—At the weekly meeting
of the committee, held at the offices, 61, Cheap-
side, on Tuesday last, the following subscriptions were an-
nounced as received from their last report !—Nlrna. Har-
greaves, £2O; Sir R. P. Collier, £1 ls ; R. Harris, £1 Is,
and sundry smaller sums. The committee congratulates
the Liberal party upon the accession of a friend to their
cause by the election of Mr Fenwick at Lancaster in lieu of
Mr Garnett, being assured from local information that the
former gentleman is an earnest supporter of the ballot. The
general election which is early antUpated also engaged the
attention of the committee.