The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

Port Philip, I

Albion, 51
Alliance dim.), 811 1
Ditto, new, 541
Anglo Austrian. 7g
Anglo-Italian, Btu., 5}
Brazilian and Portuguese. lint. 121
Chartered Niel. of India, London, and China, 011 5
Consolidated Bank, lint., 11
Imperial Bank (lim.). 351
Imndon and Brazilian (lim.), 48
London and County, 74
London Joint Stock, 'lSt 91
London and South-Western, 221
Merchant Bank, Jim., 281
Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lira., 25 1
South Eastern, Bro., 10
Standard of British South Africa 231
Union of Australia, 521 3;
Union of London, 524 2

MISCELLANEOUS.
Commercial Union, Insurance, 81
Contract Corporation, lira., 3/1
Credit Mobil ik r, it
Egyptian Corn, and Trading, lira., 31
Fore-street Warehouse, lira.,
Gen:Credit and Finance of London, lira., ii
Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lira., SI
International Financial society,
International Land Credit. lira.. 5i
London Financial Association, Rm., 21/
London General Omnibus Company, 3
M dras Irr.gation and Canal, 41
National Discount Company, lira., 14
Rio'de Janeiro City Improvements. lira., 25
Societe Finasciere d'Egypte, Rm., 5

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SOUTLI KENSINGTON MUSEIMI.—Daring the
week ending August 20, 1861, the visitors have been as
follows:--On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days,
open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 10,309; on Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday, students' days (admission to the
public 64.), open from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m:, 1,196; total,
11,505. From the opening of the museum, 4,784,869.
A young nan named Gouy, a Waiter at a eaft,
has just been tried for manslaughter, in having caused the
death of another young man named Taffet, by stabbing him
with a knife during a quarrel which commenced at a house of
ill fame on the Boulevard des Trois-Couronnes, The jury
returned a verdict of guilty with extenuating circumstances,
and the accused was sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment,

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Apponyi left Chandos House yesterday for
Woburn Abbey, on a visit to the Earl and Countess
Russell.

The Duke of Somerset and the Junior Lords of
the Admiralty, Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Grey and Rear-
Admiral Hon. James R. Drummond, are expected to re
turn to the Admiralty on Thursday, from their late tour of
inspection.
The Earl of Strafford has arrived at Wrothana
Park, from a short visit to Paris.
The Earl and Countess Russell will entertain a
succession of visitors at 'Woburn Abbey, Beds, during the
week.

Viscount Palmerston will leave Cambridge House
this morning for Tiverton. Viscountess Palmerston will
remain in town. _

A marriage is arranged to take placs between
Edith, daughter of Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, and Mr
William P, Preston Consett, of Brawith Hall, Thirsk, son
of the Rey. John d'Arey Preston, of Askham Bryan Hall,
Yorkshire,
Sir George and Lady Shea have left town for
Scarborougb,

HERBACEOUS BORDERS.—Let any one imagine a
gravel walk, with a broad border of herbaceous
plants, diverse in kind, on each side of it, and surely he
will allow that there must be much of interest in such an
assemblage. Such assemblages have been, and we trust
are and ever will be. Four places of interest for this kind
of thing in time gone by may be mentioned—the Comte
de Vandes's garden at Bayswater ; Mr R. Barclay's gar-
den at Bury-hill; Lady Olivia Sparrow's garden at Bromp-
ton, near Huntingdon; and Mrs Marryatt's garden at
Wimbledon. Those cultivators who are enthusiastic about
their bedding -out plants and bedding-cut displays would
contend that they can at any time and all times surpass us in
the amount of floral display which they can produce. If by
floral display they mean blazes and masses, and clouds and
sheets of one colour, or of some assemblage of a few gay
colours, I suppose we must assent; but if we interpret the
term " floral display" as diversity of colour, diversity of
form, diversity in what is called inflorescence, or the mode
in which the flowers of a plant are disposed on it, diversity
of stature, diversity of foliage, diversity of odour, diversity
of times of day in which the different kinds open or close
their flowers, and other diversities, I cannot think we have
aught to fear in comparing our favourites with theirs. On
knowledge grounds, too, we beat them. We have more of
geography, more of geology, more considerations of climate
and tho o.twooplicaiu vonditiono of tho countries whonoo our
various kinds have come, and more to learn of what I shall
call the personal appetites of our many individual kinds,
and more of legend which in the native countries of the
plants appertains to them, and happily has been brought
over with them, than they have in their many plants of few
kinds.—Bipe? d' s Gardeners' Magasine,
111 E EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE IN THE HOUSE
OF DETENTION.—Dr Lankester held an inquesryesterday
in the House of Detention on the body of Henrietta Leb,
a Hungarian, who committed suicide in a very determined
manner. The deceased was brought up at the Clerkenwell
Police Court, on Tuesday, the 9th inst., charged with
stealing a piece of meat, and while in the cells she twice
attempted to commit suicide. The magistrate remanded
her, in order that she might be seen by the chaplain.
While in the prison she desired to be put to some out-door
work in preference to needlework. She was accordingly
put to cleaning on the top gallery, and while doing so she
suddenly left her work, and before she could be stopped
by the 'warders, squeezed herself through an aperture be-
tween the lift and the floor, and fell to the bottom, a dis-
tance of about 40 feet. She was immediately picked up
and examined by Dr. Smiles, the prison surgeon, who
found her skull fractured in a frightful manner. A warder
saw the deceased put her hand out, but thought she was
cleaning the bottom of the lift. The inquiry lasted a long
time, and the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while in
a state of unsound mind."

THE MURDER N EAR TAENTON.—A communica-
tion was received yesterday lit the Somerset
County Gaol. Taunton, from Sir George Grey, respiting
John Allen, who lay under sentence of death for the mur-
der of his wife at Hatch Beauchamp, on the 4th Maylar-t.
The respite appears to have been the spontaneous act of
the Government, probably with the concurrence of the
judge who tried the case, Mr T. Chambers, Q.C., who is
reported to have expressed his surprise at the verdict, though
ho concurred in it; inasmuch as, although a memorial
signed by upwards of five hundred of the clergy, gentry,
and principal inhabitants of Taunton and neighbourhood
had been forwarded to London on Saturday, it could not
have been presented when the respite was despatched. It
has been generally felt that the strong provocation which
the prisoner received rendered this a case in which (the
clemency of the Crown could be properly exercised. The
memorial was supported by the Bishop of Bath and Wells,
who also wrote to the Secretary of State, and by the High
Sheriff of the county, by whom the memorial was to have
been presented. The respite was communicated tp the
prisoner immediately that it was received,

Mr Commissioner Pane was the Commissioner of the day
and sat in Chambers, and disposed of a few applications of
no public interest.
Mr Registrar Hazlitt was the registrar of the day, and
the only point of interest was an adjudication in bankruptcy
against Mr Paul Bedford, the well-known comedian.
The petition was presented by the bankrupf,who surrendered
and obtained protection. The next meeting is appointed
for the 13th September, at 11. No accounts have yet been
filed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A Wtrn DANGEROUSLY ASSAULTED BY HER HUS-
BAND.—John Bain, of 39. Ratbbone Vace, plasterer, wes
charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting his
wife Harriet Bain.

On the former being placed in the cock, the following
certificate was handed to Mr Tyrwhitt:—

" Middlesex Hospital.
"I hereby certify that Harriet Bain was brought to this
hospital last evening, having received severe injuries, and
she is unable to attend the court.

" Signed—Wm. Curgewin, House Surgeon."
Thomas
an intelligent boy, son of the prisoner
and the om asr
injuredattia m'
woman, said— M father and my mother
quarrelled
yesterday at home, and about nine o'clock last
h
father struck and kicked my mother, and she was
nigt m y
Mr Tyrwbitt—Was your father sober?
but
taken to the Middlesex
Hornspyitaral
The boy—He was ;
' and is now very ill.
other was a little elevated.

Prisoner—l am very sorry I ata in such a position. Was
not your mother so tipsy that she could not stand against
the drawers I
The boy—She was.

stead ofSOPET
getting that she broke all the plates
and my tea she went out with
anotherhnewesrim—Salnnhe w
and came back abut nine o'clock, when
she abused ens in the most rascally manner.
Mr Tyrwhitt—l shall remand you till to-morrow.
Robert Pitt, 71 E—l believe tbe woman is in danger;
—she was kicked in the abdomen.
Mr Tyrwhitt—The prisoner will be remanded till to..
o'clock to-day in case it may be necessary to examine her
morrow, and the woman's state cat be reported to me at two
in the presence of the prisoner.
The prisoner was then remanded.

ANOTHER VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Alfred Maidrnent, a
baker, was charged with violently assaulting a man named
Domenic Murty, living at Peter-street, st. James's.
The complainant (who had received a frightful wound on
his head, presented a ghastly sight, the blood oozing through
the bandages in which his head was enveloped) said he was
in the Crown Tavern Court yesterday, when the prisoner
came in with two femalea and behaved in a very unruly
manner, pulling one of the young women about, He placed
himself between the prisoner and the young woman to stop
the prisoner's conduct, when the prisoner knocked him
dowi and kicked him on the side, and on getting np he
found his head was frightfully cut, He could not swear
the prisoner hu:t hishe
ground. There was, however,
no other man present at t.Le time he Was knocked down.
Prisoner denied ea/mulling t;:? complainant.a although he had felt it kicked
while he was lying i the

Mr Tyrwhitt remanded the prisooer, and the complainant,
who seemed in a very weak states was sent back to the
Charing-cross ilosp:tal in a cab.

THAMES.

AN IMPUDENT ROBBERY ON THE PIER HEAD.—Thos.
Clark, a lighten:eau, was brought before Mr Paget charged
with stealing a Coil of rope, the property of the London
Dock Company.
Yesterday afternoon a gatekeeper named James Roberts
saw the prisoner with a coil of rope on his shoulder walking
away from the pier-head, Ile took the prisoner into cus-
tody. The rope weighed 1211 b., and was worth ss. It had
been used as a check in navigating barges through the lock
between the river and the dock basin.

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The prisoner, in defence, said that he took up the rope off
the pier head to give his partner a turn in a barge going
through the lock,
The witness Roberts said the prisoner had left the pier-
head and was proceeding along Wapping High-street
towards the Tower when he stopped him.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial.

ROBBERY BY A. WORKMAN.—WaIter illiam Holditch,
a candle maker, was brought before Mr. Paget. charged
with stealing one candle and four pieces of candle value sd,
the property of Meesrs. Owen and Minton, candle manu-
facturers in the Isle of Dogs, Poplar. _ . .

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It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Thomas Mill, night
foreman, that in consequence of information he searched the
prisoner's jacket, which was hanging up in the factory, and
found in the pock, is a whole candle and four pieces of
candles. lie left the jacket undisturbed, and when the pri-
soner was leaving the factory he said to him, " I wish to
search you before you go out, I believe you have got some
property about you that don't:belong to you." The prisoner
said "I have got a few bits of candle." They were taken
from him, and the prisoner was given into custody. The
prisoner, who pleaded very hard to be forgiven, had been in
the employ of Owen and Minton for three weeks.
The prisoner said ho was guilty.
The fore.nan said the firm he represented had been re-
peatedly plundered, and he was instructed to press the
charge.
Mr Paget said that property of this description must be
protected. The prisoner had obtained good employment,
and began to plunder. He sentenced him to one month's
imprisonment and hard labour.

MARKETS—This pay•

HAY MARK2TS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 10s to £6 Os ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 10s; and straw, £1 7s to £1 12s per load.
Trade firm.
CUMBERLAND.—Mea,Iow hay, £3 10s to £6 Os ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 lOs ; and straw, £1 7s to £1 12s per load.
Trade steady. - -

WHITECIZArET, —Meadow hay, 43 108 to £6 Os; clover,
LI Os to £6 Os ; and straw, gi 61 to £1 12s per load.
A steady demand.

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COLONIAL.
TEA—Business has been rather dull, and the few dealings
entered into have been at about former prices.
SUGAR—The market has been more animated, and an
advance of is to 2s per cwt, may be quoted on `'West India.
In the refined market quotations also tend upwards.
COFFEE—The demand for colonial descriptions has been
steady, and superior qualities have fully sustained former
prices.
RICE—A moderate business has been transacted, with-
out, however, any material change to note in values.
WOOL—The public sales of colonial have proceeded with
considerable animation, and prices generally are well main-
tained.
TALLOW—The market has remained rather dull, without,
however, any change to
record with respect to value.
vs.c, on the spot is quotEd 418 9d, and last three ru,outhe'
delivery 43s 9d per cwt,