The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)
His Honour resumed his sittings after the vacation, bat
the cases were for release from custody, &c., unopposed.
Mr. Registrar Pepys presided over the meetings for the
choice of assignees, which were not of interest; the only
one of the slightest importance was that of Dando and
Chetwynd, of Leadenhall-street, shipbrokers and owners,
and timber merchants. The debts and liabilities are stated
at 431,837, and the assets are expected to realise a divi-
dend of 2s. 6d, in the pound. The failure is attributed to
failure of debtors and general losses in trade. Messrs.
Perrin, of Fenchurch-street, shipowners, were chosen
assignees; Mr Perrin, and Messrs. Terrell and Chamber-
lain were appointed solicitors, and Messrs. Carters and
Harper, accountants to the estate.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—EIIen Carmoody, a young
woman, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt, on a warrant,
with assaulting police constable George Bettsworth, 181 C.
Bettsworth said that on the night of Sunday, the 17th of
last month, he saw a crowd collected round a man and his
wife who were quart% lling. While dispersing the crowd
the prisoner rushed from some young men she was standing
with, and, making use of a vile expression, struck him a
severe blow in the eye with a door key. The crowd got
the prisoner away and she escaped, but two of the persons
were brought to the court and fined 20s each or 11 days.
He then applied for a warrant against the prisoner, and
seeing her in New street last night took her into custody,
when she said that she was sorry, and that it would not
have occurred had she not been in liquor at the time.
The prisoner said she had no key in her hand at the
time.

Mr Tyrwhitt said he recollected that the constable had
his eyes blackened.

The prisoner was fined 200 or 14 days.

THAMES.

DASTARDLY OUTRAGE,—George Griffiths, an umbrella
maker, aged 20, of Cable-street, Whitechapel, wa© brought
before Mr Paget, charged with being drunk, disorderly, and
violently assaulting Edward Dillon, a police sergeant, No.
19 K.

Yesterday evening at five o'clock Dillon was sent for to
the Hoop and Grapes public-house, in Ratcliffe-highway,
to suppress a disturbance. The prisoner was then very
drunk and disorderly. He demanded beer and Mr Shepherd
refused to serve him. Dillon removed him and he became
very violent and raved loudly. He lay on his back, got hold
of the police sergeant's leg and attempted to throw him, He
also made repeatc_A attempts to bite him, Assistance came and
the prisoner, after a most de.termined resistance, was removed
from the house. On the way to the station-house the
prisoner was again violent, threw Dillon with great force
on the ground, kicked him, and tore the skin off his
shin. He also " broke" his uniform troweers. It required
three constables to take the prisoner to the station-house
by force. Dillon was smuch injured, and his wrist sprained.
Mr Paget said, if the prisoner became inebriated and
conducted himself like a savage, he must take the conse-
quences. The prisoner was a brutal ruffian, a nuisance in
the public-house from which the police-sergeant removed
him, and then committed a dastardly assault. He sen-
tenced him to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 4s to £l. lOs per load,
Trade firm.

CUMBERLAND.—Meadow bay, £3 Os to £5 5s ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, 4s to £1 10s per load. A
steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 ss; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 per load.
Trade firm.

Extraordinary Find of English Silver Coins

at Eccles.

During the last few days there have been, under some-
what singular circumstances, a succession of finds, at the
same spot in Eccles, of a very large number of slicer pennies,
chiefly of the reign of Henry 111. The extent of the deposit
may be gathered from the fact that the total quantity
of these coins found numbers about 6,400 pieces, having an
aggregate weight of about 21 pounds avoirdupois. A new
junction road is being made from Wellington-road, Eccles,
past the boundary wall on the west side of the ancient resi-
dence known as Monk's Hall, where it is probable the
Monks of Whalley Abbey, who were formerly the lords of
the greater part of Eccles, Menton, and Swinton, had
a Grange or farm residence, with tithe barns, &c. and
where they coll .cted rents and tithes from their tenants and
other inhabitants of the neighbourhood. 01 Saturday
week a young man named James Britch [? Bridge], a card -
room band at the Moorside Mills of Messrs John Uibb and
Sons (who had two fingers taken off by incautiously putting
his hand too near the beat(r in the blowing-room), was
walking along this footpath, when his eye caught some-
thing on the ground. He picked it up and found
it to glbeaitteg
smallrin silver coin, and a little further search was
rewarded by finding about a score of similar coins. Still
he did not pick up all that he saw, and did not believe
the coins to be worth much ; for he gave several to his
companions and acquaintances. He showed some to Mr
J. Allan Gibb, one of his employers, who told him to take
them for inspection to a gentleman in the neighbourhood,
a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries,
who would be able
to tell him their nature and probable value. This gentle-
man gave Britch a few shillings for 15 coins, and learning
that he had left some lying on the spot, urged him to go
again and bring away all he could find. This was on the
morning of Wednesday in
last week ; but strange to say,
Britch did not go to the spot till Thursday evening, and
then his trouble was largely rewarded by finding that not
only were some coins scattered about the footpath, but
that in one spot there was a large collection,
which, on his beginning to remove it, he found to be
contained in a coarse earthenware pot or pipkin. This
be emptied, and took his treasure for safety to the
neighbouring residence of Mr Allan Gibb. About five
o'clock on Friday morning Briteh again visited the
place, and found 179 more coins; but he left the pot in the
earth, covering it up with soil. Ths same morning he again
called on the antiquary and told him what he had done, and
the gentleman at once accompanied him to the place, and
with the aid of a small garden tool, the pot (which was
mouth uppermost and close to the surface) was carefully ex-
humed ; but was so fragile and friable that it crumbled
even under tender handling, and broke, and only the lower
part could be got away. Even at their fourth visit 20 more
coins were found on the surface of the footpath. The pot
and coins were removed to the residence of the local Monk-
barns ; where the latter were washed, a thousand of them
counted, weighed in a kitchen balance, and found to be
about 3!lb avoirdupois. The rest were then weighed in
batches of 31 lb., and in this way it was found that there
were probably about 6,403 of these silver pennies, weighing
altogether about 211 b.
The 1;000 counted coins were then cursorily examined,
and it was found that 964 of them were of Henry 111. and
though of different types, yet all Struck before the 32d year
of his reign, 1247-48, when, in order to stop clipping, the
cross on the reverse, which till then had been confined
within the legend border, was carried through that border
to the edge of the coin, in the new mintage of that year. All
the coins examined have the short cross. The remaining
portions of the thousand coins included nineteen of the
reign of John, and seventeen of other and various types,
but all probably earlier than the reign of Henry 111. Of
the 961 coins of Henry, there were many varieties of type.
This King had mints in various parts of the kingdom, and
different •mint- masters, or, as they were called, moneyers,
and it was then the custom for the zeverse of a coin to bear
the names of the moneyer and of the city or town where it
was minted. Of the coins of Henry 111. in this find, most
seem to have been struck at London and Canterbury, but

there are some also of the mints at Winchester,
Taunton, Northampton, Chichester, Bury St. Ed-
munds, Lincoln, and Durham. Amongst the moneyers'
names are Abel, Adam, Ajmer, Alisandre, Andre, Arnaud,
Bartelme, Beneit, Elis, Fulke, Fulre, Henri, Hiun, Huater,
Ilger, Joan, Chichester, Johan, Jun, Meinir, Miles, Nicole,
Norman, Pierres, Rauf, Reinard, Ricard, Roberd, Rodbert
Roger, Saleman, Samuel, Simun, Walter, and Willelm.,
The obverse of most of these pennies of Henry 111, is the
same, the King represented full face, with crown and cross
of pearls, and the sceptre in the right hand, surmounted
by a similar cross. Legend, " Henricus Rt a," but with-
out the " Terc." or "III." of later coinage. Ruding
observes that the alteration of type introduced upon the
money of this reign forms a kind of era in the numismatic
history of England. The portraits of previous monarchs
were usually represented either in full or profile ; and the
crosses were exhibited under almost every possible
form. But the portrait of Henry 111. is invariably full
faced ; and the cross (always of double lines) on his earlier
coinage Is bounded by the inner circle and has four pellets
in each quarter; while the later coinage of 1247 had only
three pellets in each quarter. As no penny has been found
in the Ecoles hoard of the later type, and none of any later
reign, it affords a fair presumption that this treasure was
hidden in the ground between about A.D. 1220 and 1247.
As to the coins of Sing John, it may be mentioned that
although there are proofs of a coinage in his reign at mints
in England, no genuine coin of any of these has been
found ; and the only silver pennies of this king were

all coined in Ireland. The chief feature of these coins both

on Obv. and Rev. is a large triangle, enclosing (on Obv.)
the King's head, full face, with a sceptre in right hand,
. . .

and the legend in three pnrts on the sides of the triangle,
"Joha-nnes Rex." The reverse on all the Eccles coins of

John, has within the triangle a crescent, a blazing star,

and a small star in each angle, Legend, " Itoberd on Dive"
(Dublin).

The third class of coins appear to be of ruder typo
and earlier period. The obverse has the face in profile
usually to the left, the legend so rudely executed as to
be almost illegible. None of these is represented in any
of the numerous plates in Ruding's Annals of the
Coinage," and it is a mere guess to say they may prove to
be pennies of William Rufus.

The pot or vase is urn-shaped, of coarse reddish earthen-
ware, and slightly ribbed inside; the only external orna-
ment being a border of small square indents. It was very
tightly packed in the hard dry earth which surrounded it,
and to the dry soil is owing the excellent preservation of
the majority of the coins. They seem to be tolerably free
from alloy, as only two of the whole could be found show.-
leg any green oxydation or patina.
Our readers may remember that in consequence of a
very large find of gold ornaments in the south of England,
which were sold and melted to prevent detection, an act was
passed authorising the Crown officers to purchase, at the
or silver ornaments or coins, so as to reward the finder, and
to marketpreserve
l value of
articlesthe metalof weight, any treasure in gold
antiquarian
value from destruction.
The local antiquary near Eccles wrote on Friday to the
Crown authorities, describing the circumstances of the find,
and the character, weight, and number of the coins ; so that
in a few days we may be able to report the first case of any
extent under the new act, and its practical result.

CeTwo LIONS
,
.--Geeat excitement
pre-
vailed e
inr E
theo neighbourhood
of Above Bar-street
Southampton) on Saturday night, in consequence of two
lions having escaped from Worabevell's menagerie. The
E
exhibition is located in the Westmoreland Park, at the
back of the High-street, on a portion of the ground used for
the drill of the rifle corps, Being Saturday evening, a
larger number of spectators than usual attended the exhi-
bition, and a great crowd of persons had also assembled
outside. It appears from the statement of those who were
present, that, about 9 o'clock, the keeper announced his in-
tention to enter the dens, for the purpose of putting the
animals through their usual performances ; and for this
purpose, he first proceeded to the carriage occupied by
two lions, the visitors, as mutt' or. such occasions rushing
to that part of the exhibition. The
keeper, after ad-
dressing a few words to his audience, opened the iron-barred
door of the carriage, apparently with the usual catition ob-
served at exhibitions of the kind, when suddenly one of the
lions leaped upon the keeper's back, followed by the other,
and both animals sprung out of their den and amongst those
assembled round the carriage. One of the beasts continued
leaping about amongst the visitors' many of whom having
been knocked down were sprawling on the ground, and those
who were more fortunate were eying about in a state of
terror, and for a short time the greatest excitement pre-
vailed. The animal was soon secured by the keepers, who
then went in search of the other lion, Which,
instead o
amusing itself inside the exhibition, bounded up the steps
and sprang from the platform among the people assembled
outside, who immediately fled in all directions. The lion
ran across the park towards the savings bank, and one of
the houses in the terrace having its door open, walked
into the passage and thence into the parlour, where some
ladies were sitting, who fled through the folding doors into
the adjoining room and thence upstairs. The keepers arriv-
ing, the lion was soon secured and caged. Several persons
were knocked down, trampled upon, and their clothes torn,
but fortunately none sustained personal injury,
THE MISSION TO RicHmoND..--Mr. Horace
Greeley states in an article in the Independent that
Colonel Jaques and Mr Gilmore, the latter more widely
known as Edmund Kirke, author of "Among the Pines,,,
went to Richmond with the full knowledge of the Presi-
dent, intent on devising or discovering some ground of ac-
commodation
or adjustment between the belligerents now
devastating the Republic, and appear to have been treated
with signal courtesy, and even generous hospitality. Mr
Gilmore gives the net product of the unofficial mission in
this piquant passage:—" Jefferson Davis said to me last
Sunday, and, with all his faults, I believe him a man of
truth, ' This war must go on till the last of this generation
falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight
our battles, unless you acknowledge our right of self-go-
vernment. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fight-
ing for independence; and that, or extermination, we will
have,' "

The Distress in Lancashire.

The monthly meeting of the Central Executive
Committee was held at Manchester yesterday; the
Earl of Derby in the chair. There were present—
Lord Egerton of Tatton, Lord Edward Howard,
M.P., the Mayor of Manchester, Messrs. M. Ross,
R. Hutchison, S. Platt, G. L. Ashworth, R. Glade
stone, A. H. Heywood, H. B. Farnall, W. Roberts,
T. Ashton, J. Worrall, H. Mason, S. J. Stein, R.H.;
Hutchinson, J. Goodair, and S. W. Maclure (hon.
secretary). Mr R. Rawlinson, the Government en•
gineer, was also in attendance. Mr Maclure re.
ported that £314 183. 4d. had been received in the
last four weeks, and there:was a balance in the bank

[ of £129,430 12s. 10d.
Letters were read announcing that the relief corn•
mittees of Itoyten, Lees and district, Salford, and
Newton Heath had been enabled to close their ope-
rations. Each of thess committees also forwarded
copies of resolutions -vhich they had unanimously
passed, thanking the Central Executive Committee
for their liberal grants and the considerate atten-
tion given to all applications for aid from the seve-
ral districts referred to.
Mr. TvIAcLuRE presented his monthly report,
which stated that the reduction in the numbers re-
lieved had been 15,051, and since the end of
January in this year 99,821. The facts shown
in the table were most cheering, contrasting
the present with the past. With a maximum
of distress reached at Christmas, 1E62, when
there were 510,279 recipients of relief, from either
the guardians or local committees, the number
fell to nearly one half that amount by the following
June, viz., to 266,634. The Christmas of 1863 wit-
nessed a further decline of 72,500, the aggregate at
that season being 193,506. At Midsummer last
the total was further reduced by 71,000, leaving then
112,598 on the poor rate or upon private bounty adi
ministered by the relief committees. This was not
much more than onePfifth of the maximum at
Christmas, 1862. The number now relieved is
reduced to 96,295, and as the ordinary pauperism
of these unions rises in the winter to about 50,000
in-door and out-door (in summer the number being
a little, but not much, less), the present pressure
upon the district is not more than double that of
ordinarily prosperous times.
The HON. SECRETARY proposed, " That as the
average pressure of pauperism in the cotton dis-
tricts is now reduced to 3.9 per cent., the grants of
this committee will in future be confined to the
relief of persons not receiving parochial aid." He
theught it was quite time that something was done
to prepare the whole of the cotton districts for the
cessation of aid from this committee, and that this
would probably be best accomplished by some such
resolution as ho had read. The average pressure on
the rates was now only about double that of 1861,
which was admitted to be the most prosperous year
ever known in Lancashire.
Mr J. PLATT seconded the resolution.
Mr H. MASON strongly opposed the proposition.

He thought it was most - objectionable to say

that, because pauperism had been reduced to
so low an ebb throughout the greater part of
Lancashire, this separation ought everywhere to

Itake place between relief committees and the
guardians. A return made up to last Saturday
showed that there were 5,833 unemployed cotton
operatives in the borough of Ashton, which was
nearly as many as they had ever had at lny period
of the-distress. In Stalybridge there were 3,600 ;
at Moseley, 1,700; and at Dukinfie:d upwards of
3,000. He had been using every effort to get these
unfortunate people distributed in other districts,
where labour was obtainable, but the position of
tiffairs was still what be had stated. For the last
150 weeks they had made no change in the mode of
distributing relief in the Ashton, union, and they
would not like now, at the eleventh hour, to have
one enforced upon them. The existing system
worked remarkably well, and he trusted they
should be allowed to work out the distress in Ash-
ton in the way which experience had shown most
advantageous for that locality.

Tho CHAIRMAN said that Ashton had received
from public sources during the distress above
£250,000, or ten times as much as had been locally
contributed throughout the whole union, irrespec-
tive of the rates.

Mr MASON said these figures did not present by
any means a correct view of what had been done
locally, inasmuch as they did not; include the very
considerable amount contributed in private charity.
The CHAIRMAN said that against this explana
tion he might make the remark that the Hurst
committee and the Ashton manorial committee,
which were also in the union, had received upwards
of £45,000 from the Mansion-house committee, not
included in his previous statement.
Mr. MASON said if it should be implied that
Ashton had received more than its necessities de-
manded, he denied the justice of the inference, and
affirmed that the contrary had been the case. It
was true that the whole of the grants of this com-
mittee to Ashton had been made in aid of the rates,
but Ashton had rated itself to a far greater extent
than any other place in the county. They had at
present more than I,COO young women in the sewing
classes, and they were exceedingly anxious as to
what should become of them. He thought the
motion of Mr. Maciure might be applicable to
certain towns, but that it was quite inapplicable
to Ashton-under-Lyne.

The Hon. SECRETARY said the principle involved
in the motion, which he had always advocated, had
been sanctioned by the chairman and the Bridge-
water-house committee, and applied most benefi-
cially in Stockport, Blackburn, and elsewhere, and
in mercy to the unemployed people themselves he
thought it was necessary that it should be univer.

sally adopted.
Mr H, HUTCHINSON thought the exceptional
po3ition of Ashton and one or two other places
might be met by the following addition to the re.
solution :—" In all unions where the pauperism does

not exceed five per cent. upon the population."
Mr MACLURE said he was willing for the present
to adopt this addition, reserving, however, the
privilege of again bringing forward the subject in
its original form, should such a course appear

desirable.
The resolution thus amended was, after some
further discussion, unanimously agreed to.
The Hon. Secretary said that Mr. Rawlinson had
kindly favoured him with the following information
respecting the operation of the Public Works Act.
There were 77 places in which public works were
ill operation on August 15. The new act extended
the time to make loans to January 1, 1856, and ex-
tended the borrowing powers to two years' rateable
value. Preston, Ashton, and Glossop were the chief
places in which there were yet a considerable num-
ber of unemployed. In many places the 'public
works were being carried out with reduced numbers,
owing to the opening of many mills and the large
nucther of persons who were at present engaged in
agricultural operations. Mr. Madura added that
1,668 skilled operatives and 2,600 factory workers
were at present employed on public works. Calcu.
luting these on on average of four to a family,
which would be about the correct estimate, it ap.,
peered that nearly 20,000 persons were maintained
under the provisions of the act.
J 1r MAcLuitE laid on the table returns, prepared
by Mr Corbett, respecting the state of pauperism in
Ashton-under-Lyne union.
A grant of £ll4 6s. was made at Stalybridgo
from the employment and school fund, and one of
Xll to the same place on account of superinten-

deuce of labour.
The following grants were made from the General
Relief Fund:—Ashton, £1,000; Dukinfield, £500;
Mossley, £5O; Stalybridge, £800; Tintwisle, £150;
Heywood, £300; Chorlton, £lOO (final) ; Hulme,
£250; Glossop and Hadfield, £550; Whitworth
and Facit, £5O; Wigan, £5OO ; Little Hayfield

X5O.
i4Tr FARNALL read his report, which stated that
there was a decrease of 6,184 persons receiving
relief ih 27 unions on the 6th inst. as compared
with the 9th ult.

ATTENDANCE AT THE JUDGES' CHAMBERS,—This
day the Lord Chief Baron will conclude his sittings at the
Judges' Chambers, and will be succeeded by Mr Justice
Shee on his return from circuit. His lordship will sit on
Tuesdays and Fridays ditiduz. the log vac4tiQt,