The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-29 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

TO THE BANKRUPT.

Mr Linklatez said he would communicate with the
assignees on the subject.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

A WOULD-BE SUICIDE,-Emily Yates, a married woman,
of, 15, Saville-street, Marylebone, was charged before Mr
Tyrwhitt with attempting to commit suicide by cutting her

hroat.

Rotert Pitt, 171 E, said that yesterday he was called to
8, Saville-street, and informed that the prisoner had
attempted to cut her throat. A Scripture reader, who had
gone for a constable, on his return gave him a razor which
he had taken from the prisoner. The prisoner had been
drinking, and there was a female, 85 years of age, with her
in the room.

Prisoner said she had been drinking with some other
women, and they pledged her shawl and then beat her, and
this caused her to attempt to destroy herself. She was sorry
for what she had done, but would not repeat the act. The
person in the room with her was her mother.

In answer to Mr Tyrwhitt, Inspector Garforth said the
Scripture reader was not present.

The prisoner said her husband worked at Chelsea, and
that if she were allowed to go she would not offend again.
Mr Tyr whitt observed that he could not let her go with-
out some kind of security that she would not do such a thing
again. if her husband came for her she would be given up
to him; if not, she would be remanded.

A DESERVING CASE.—lnspector Walker of the C Divi-
sion, introduced to Mr Tyrwhitt this morning a poor widow
named Ann Palpey, and stated that her husband had died
a few days ago after two hours' illness; that she was left with
five children, the eldest only 10 3 ears of age, and that she
was at present without means of gaining a livelihood for
them. Mr Walker further stated that Mrs Palpey had been
known to him for some years, and that she was a very
deserving person.

Mr Tyrwhitt afforded Mrs Palpey some assistance from
she poor-box, for which she seemed very grateful.

WESTMINSTER.

ATTEMPT TO STAB.—Catherine Cook, a middle•aged
woman, was charged before Mr Selfe with attempting to
stab Mary Neville, a married woman, in Manor-street,
Chelsea.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and the
prosecutrix lived in M:►nor-street, and that an ill feeling
existed between them. Between 8 and 9 o'clock list night
some words took place between them. In the course of rho
dispute, the prisoner, who had a knife in her hand, made a
plunge at prosecutrix with it, and it cut her slightly upon
the nose. The prosecutrix fell, and when she was on the
ground, she raised the knife, and was about to stab the
prosecutrix with it. She was prevented by her(prosecutrix's)
husband from doing her an injury, as he held her hand, but
in doing so his own hand was cut.

The husband of the prosecutrix said that had the knife
not have been blunt he had no doubt but that murder would
have been committed.

Mr Selfe—What is the cause of the quarrel ?
The husband replied that he did not know, and he stated
that his wife had been a good friend to her. During the
seuila the prisoner aimed a 'nlow at him with the knife. The
knife was taken away from her with a great deal of diffi-
culty. She had had three months' imprisonment for a
previous assault. The knife (a table knife) was produced.
Mr Selfe—Did the prisoner say anything when she used
the knife i

Husband—No, Sir, she was in such a rage.
The prisoner did not deny the assault, when
Mr Selfe observed that she was a most dangerous woman,
and that her temper must be controlled. In her passion
one of these days she would commit murder.
She was sent for two months to the House of Correction.

THAMES.
EXTENSIVE AND DARINGF RoBBEn.Y.--James Jones,
aged 40, and described as a labourer, of 92, Eastfield-street,
Limehouse, was brought before Mr Partridge charged with
stealing 480 yards of red cambric, valued £3G, from a barge
called The Sisters, on the Regent's Canal.;
Mr William Adams, an inspector of Thames police, said
he saw the prisoner on Haggerstone-bridge, in the parish
of Shoreditch, yesterday evening. The prisoner was look-
ing at a barge eallcd The Sisters, laden with valuable mer-
chandise, coming along the Regent's Canal towards the
bridge. He followed the barge and kept the prisoner in
view, for he.knew that a robbery was intended. At last he
went to Eastfield-street, Limehouse, the eastern end of
which looked on to the canal. There was a fence at the
end of the street. He saw the prisonor leave the barge and
come towards the fence. A man followed the prisoner
with a large sack on his back containing something bulky.
The prisoner climbed over the fence into Eastfield-street,
and the man behind him pitched the sack and its contents
over the fence. The prisoner immediately raised the sack
from the gruund, put it on his shoulder, and was proceed-
ing towards his own house when he seized the prisoner,
and assisted by a constable took the load to the station.
house. The sack cowained 20 pieces of red cambric, each
piece containing 24 yards. The value of it was is fid per
yard, and it was in charge of the Great Northern Railway
Company for exportation to India.
A Solicitor, who appeared for the prosecution, said he
would offer no more evidence to-day, and asked fn. a
remand.

Mr Partridge—Certainly. The prisoner is remanded for
a week.

LOSING AND FINDING A £5 NOTE.—Alexander Good-
body, who said he was a tailor, was brought before Mr.
Partridge charged with stealing a £5 note.
On the night of Thursday, the 15th of the present month,
Mr. Henry Masson, of 56, Smith-street, Stepney, lost a £5
note between the hours of 9 and 19 o'clock. He thought it
was ab aut half-past nine when he missed the note in Smith-
street, a few yards from his own door. It was wrapped up
in a tax paper and fell out of a book. Mr. Masson gave
information of his loss to the police, and a notice was sent
to the Bank of England, where the note was paid in on the
23d of June by Truman and Hanbury, the brewers, who
received it from Mr. Edwin Bartlett, the landlord of the
White Horse public house, Mile End-road, at the corner of
Stepney-green.

Mr Bartlett said he cashed the note for the prisoner on
the morning of Monday, the 20th of June, The prisoner
indorsed the note as follows :---Mr Goodbody, No. 3,Henry-
street,Stepney.

Mr Richard Adie Barley, clerk in the Bank of England,
produced a cancelled £5 note, No. 82,189, April 16, 1864,
which Mr. Masson identified as the one he had lost.
James Briden, a police sergeant, No. 4 K, said that he
took the prisoner into custody this mcrning, and he said
that he took the note on Hampton Racecourse on the after-
noon of the 16th of June, at 5 o'clock, in payment of a bet.
The prisoner—Yes, I took it at 6 o'clock—the day Caller
On won the Queen's Plate.

Mr Partridge—You took it on Hampton Racecourse
four hours and a half before it was lost, and did not part
with it till the following Monday ? I don't believe you
took it on Hampton race-course.

Briden—The prisoner gave a fictitious address.
Mr Partridge said the prisoner was a dishonest fellow,
who found the lost note, and instead of looking for the
owner, whose address was on the tax. paper, he converted it
to his own use. Fie fined the prisoner 20s for the unlawful
possession of the note, and in default one month's impri-
sonment,

ACHROMATIC TELESCOPE.—Messrs.Solomona and
Co. Of London) have produced a beautiful achro-
matic telescope, terrestrial and celestial, for the nominal sum
of Xi. The instrument, in all important respects, is well
adapted for all its purposes; in fact, is equal to one usually
costing £7O. It shows clearly the planets and their satellites,
the belts of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, &c., &c. The face
of a man four miles and a half away, the shot marks on a
target two miles distant, and the time on a clock dial ten
miles distant, are distinctly seen. The instrument has a

3-inch superior achromatic object glass, the body is metal,
covered with a polished brass tube, with the accompaniment
of terrestrial eye-piece, as also an astronomical eye-piece of
the best construction. A dark glass, for the Sun, is suit-
ably mounted on an appropriate portable metal tripod with
pillar and stand. Its cheapness is as marvellous as its
power is wonderful, and will prove a great boon to parents
and those who are anxious to impart to the young, or to
study themselve3, the sublime science of astronomy, and
Rot unimportant to our rifle volunteers during their rifle
contests and practices,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr Commissioner Goulburn.)
TH RE COL, WAUGH.-APPLICATION FOR AN ALLOWANCE

Mr Sargood applied in the case of Col. Waugh, for an
allowance to the bankrupt, on the ground that he was in a
state of utter destitution, having been wholly occupied in
assisting Messrs. Brown and Dubois, the accountants
appointed by the Court to prepare the accounts. He (Mr
Sargood) urged that there was a very large sum in hand
available for a dividend, a great portion of which had been
derived from Mr Waugh's private estate.
His Honour doubted whether he had any authority to
make any order after such a lapse of time since the surrender
(March, 1863), especially as the bankrupt had taken £5OO
when ho went away,

Mr Linklater, for the assignees, said he was willing to
leave the matter entirely in the hands of the Court, and the
assignees would be perfectly satisfied.

His Honour asked whether there was any instance where
en allowance had been made after such a lapse of time?
Mr. Sargood said ho was not prepared to show one, but
this was an exceptional case.
His Honour said that he did not feel at all inclined to
decide the point—the assignees had throughout acted with
the greatest fairness and candour, and had also done their
strictest duty to the creditors at large—he should leave
the matter entirely in their hands, but probably, if the
bankrupt was so wholly destitute as he said, they might
consider his application favourably.
Mr Munn appeared to oppose on behalf the Eastern
Banking Corporation, but, as they had not proved their
debt, his Honour said he could not hear him.
Mr Sargood suggested £1 a week from the time of sur-
render, and up to the time of last examination.