The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Morning.
The Star of Tasmania, 632 tons, rapt. William Culbert,
belonging to Mr. S. Tullock, of Launceston, which passed
up Channel yesterday, for London, with a strong wind
from the westward, is only 69 days from New Zealand,
having left Otago, April 1,
She brings 32,527 ounces of golddnst, valued at £130,000 ;
1,664 bales of wool, t 26 bales of sheep skins, and 229 hides ;
also six cabin and 13 steerage passengers.
The Star of Tasmania experiencedstrong breezes and
thick foggy weather, from lat. 55 lo
lat. 58.40 S , and long. 113 W., durin whichand long. 147
ice W. , to
passed. She rounded Cape Horn April 18, had
was
calm on the Line, which way crossed May 14tha- 1 days'
on the 16th, long. 32.30 W., the barque Tiptree, exhibitinganoke,
Swedish colours, 16 days from Rio Janeiro for Falmouth •
and, on the 19th, lat. 3.30 N., long. 30.50 W., the ship
Granite City, of Aberdeen, which left Sydney March 13,
with 2,959 bales of wool, 200 hides, &c., and some passen-
gers for London. The ship Aboukir, of Glasgow, left Otago
for London April 1. The ships Chariot of Fame and John
Duncan were loading wool for London when the Star of
Tasmania left.

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Bremen, steamer, from Bremen ; Florestino.
"c'tn Din= ; La Jeune Benjamin; from St. Malo; Havre
Btearaer, from Havre.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
A.rrived June 9.—Christian from Barbadoes ; Grudelta,
from Catania; Mathilda Wattenbach, from Calcutta;
A.beona, from Leghorn; Visitor, from Mogador ; Water-
witch trom Sines • Eudora, from Matanzas; Hortensia,
from Calcutta ; Adelina, from Nevis ; Dane, from Binders;
_E.orut_e,efrom Onermershyl ; Hamsterly Hall, from Riga;
13t.endillurn, from Callao; Dibrich Portczeer, from Colombo;
Grenada.
g Hood, from Foo-chow -foo ; Tigranes, from

s
Passed—Patrician, from Poo-chow-foo; Star of Ta-
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
mania, from Otago ; Speedwell, from Demerara ;
Arbitra-
tor, from Cardenas ; Ottodina, from Ceylon ; Conflict, from
Portland Bay.

PLUCKING FLOWERS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE —Yesterday, at the Lambeth Police court, Lieut..• Col. G.
A. Brownley, of Wyatt-villas, Norwood, was fined 10s., in
addition to ss. damage, for Plucking some roses in the
gardens of the Jrystal Palace.

THE FORTHCOMING WIMBLEDON RIFLE
MEETING.—The London Scottish eight to compete for the
Queen's Prize will be Lieut.-Colonel Lord Elcho, M.P.,
who stood first on the list in the competition; Lieut. Scott,
Captain Cree, Captain Macgregor, Lieut. Sutherland,
Lieut. Puckle : and Privates E. G. Mackenzie and Starke.

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15 16
AO 250
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PREFEMENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 1064
London, Chatham, ac., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., lot
Ditto, 6 per cent., C, 81
LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS.
Hull and Selby, ill
London and Chatham 44 per Cent., 044
London and Greenwich, 65
Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1374

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 19; 20
Eastern of France 20
Recut, an,i San Francisco (Um.), gua. 7 per cent., 16
San Paulo ;him), gua. 7 per cent.,
Ditto (all), 22

FOREIGN MINES.

Alami►los, limited,
Dun Pedr, , Nor h Del Rey,l
Port Philip, 14

JOINT-STOCK RANKS.

Australasia, 741
Bank of Egypt, 244
British and American Exchange (lim.), 8
British North American, 5
Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 111 I
Imperial Bank (Urn.), 211
imperial Ottoman, 191
London and Brazilian Um.), 411
London and County, 44 1 /
London Joint Stock, fl7*
Standard of British South Africa (11m.), 171
Berlin Water Works,MISC ELLANEOUS. 81

THUNDER STORM AT MANCHESTER.—Maileheta-
ter was visited on Sunda
storm. The first flash of lighTninalgorning by a thunder
seen just as the ser-
vicend chapels, and the
had commenced iu the churchswsasa
heavy thunder and lightning which followed
of
created visible
Higher
eem
A
consternation amongst the female portion
gations. Over St. Paul's Chu,ch, lifemrsany
congre-
gations. .
Broughton, the clouds were very low, the force
thalf-past f ofai'
thior
being apparently in that neighbourhood. 11,
while the Rev. Canon 111‘tirath, the rector, was asproceeding
t
with the service, the roof was struck by lightning. Th
fluid ran down one of the columns, and a gentleman who
e
, was sitting near was stunned for the moment A little heap
of dust upon the floor showed the place at which the fluid
had passed to the earth. Happily, there was no further
damage. The ladies were seized with a panic, and, not-
withstanding the efforts and appeals of the rev. canon, the
congregation dispersed before the service was concluded.
A GOOD TRAVELLER.—
A well known wine mer-
chant of Montreal made lately a bet with the officers
of the Grenadier Guards that he would walk or run, at dis-
cretion, 80 miles in 24 hours. The match came off at Chem-
bly on Wednesday last, terminating on Thursday morning.
The civilian won easily, having an hour and a half to spare
.It is said that he was £1,500 richer after his exertions than
. ae was before.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings in Banco at Westminster, before Lord Chief
Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Crompton, Mr. Justice
Blackburn, and Mr. Justice Mellor.)
THE EARL OP CARDIGAN V. LIEUT.-COLONEL THE HON.
SOMERSET TALBOT CALTHORPE-THE LIGHT CAVALRY

CHARGE AT BALIKLAVA.
It will be recollected that a short time ago Mr. Bovill,
Q.C., on the part of the Earl of Cardigan, obtained a rule
calling upon the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset.
Talbot Calthorpe, who served in the Crimean war, and
who had written a book entitled " Letters from
Head-quarters, the Realities of the War in the
Crimea," by an officer on the Staff, to show cause why
a criminal action should not be filed against him for a
libel reflecting upon the military reputation of the noble and
gallant general. The libel complained of was contained in
the description of the attack by the light cavalry brigade,
under the command of the Earl of Cardigan, upon the
Russian batteries at Balaklava, in which the noble earl
center ded that his military character and honour had been
impeached, by its being said he did not take his brigade
through the battery, but that, "oncoming up to the battery
(as he afterwards himself described it), a gun was fired
close to him, and for a moment he thought his leg was gone.
Such was not the case, as he remained unhurt. However,
his horse took fright—swerved round—and galloped off with
him to the rear, passing, on the way, by the 4th Light Dra-
goons and Bth Hussars, before these regiments got up to
the battery." Earl Cardigan, after the first edition of
the work, called the author's attention to the above errone-
ous statement, and in the second edition, without altering
the original text, he published a notice, in. which he
simply stated that no doubt the statement that his horse
ran away with him was erroneous. In a third edition he
still retained the objectionable passage, with a similar note.
Mr. Kinglake's recent work on the Crimea had again called
attention to the events there, and the noble earl found that
the calumnies in reference to the charge at Balaklava we e
being freely spoken stout in public society. In February
he called upon the author to stop the publication of the
work, or expunge the objectionable passage, but he declined
to do so, and therefore the rule was applied for and granted.
Mr. Sergeant Shee this morning showed cause against
the rule, and was followed by Mr. Coleridge on the same
side. At the conclusion of the learned gentleman's argu-
ment, Mr. Bovill, on the part of his lordship, was heard
in reply, and was addressing the court when we went to
press.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day.

OLD COURT.

(Before the Recorder.)

Benjamin Everett was indicted for feloniously receiving
a quantity of leather and other articles used in the manu-
facture of boots and shoes, the property of George William
Shelton.

The case did not possess any general interest, and had
Lot concluded when «s went to press.

NEW COURT.

A persoh named Dowden surrendered to an indictment
for libel on Mr. Allnutt. He was discharged on his own

recognisamees.

The remainder of the morning was occupied in the dis-
posal of five cases of uttering counterfeit coin, in which the
persons charged were sentenced to short terms of imprison-
ment, with hard labour.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

Robert Jones, alias Joyce, pleaded guilty to a charge of
robbery, with violence, on several females, and stealing
monies from them.

J oseph Gardner also ple&ded guilty to a charge of steal-
ing a watch from Josiah White.
Sentence in both cases was deferred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING A BILL OF EXCHANGE, &I —A MAGIS-
TRATE'S GROOM CHARGED WITH RECEIVING STOLEN
PROPERTY.--Henry Franklin, formerly in the employ of
Mr. James Heavens, saddler, &c., of 28, South Molten-
street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a
bill of exchange on the Bank of Ireland for £lOO, two
horses' bits, and a number of sponges, the property of Mr.
Heavens; and Henry Armstrong, a respectable-looking
man, living at 77, Grosvenor-mews, and who for many
years has been in the service of Mr. Henry, the magistrate,
was charged with, receiving the bits and spcnges with a
guilty knowledge.
Ms. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prisoner Armstrong.
It appears that Franklin was discharged by Mr. Heavens
from his situation of errand boy on Saturday week, and
after he left the bill of exchange for £lOO on the Bank of
I eland was missed by Mr. Heavens from his cash-box,
which was deposited in the safe in his counting-house
Suspicion fell upon Franklin, and he was then sought for,
and admitted that he had taken the bill of exchange, and as
be could not pass it had destroyed it, and in confirmation of
his statement a young man named Silvester, a baker, em •
ployed at 36, South Molton-street, said that Franklin, with
whom he was acquainted, asked him to buy a book for 2d.,
and at the same time showed him the bill of exchange,
saying that he had found both it and the book, and he
afterwards told hum that he had torn up the bill of exchange.
Franklin made a further statement, in consequence of which
Mr, Heavens went to Armstrong and found that he had in
his possession two horses bits and some sponges, and Arm-
strong admitted that Franklin had brought them to his
place, and in answer to questions put to him by Wright,
90 C, as to whether he knew where Franklin brought them
from, he said he supposed from his master's place, as he
knew where he worked.
Mr. Lewis cross-examined Mr. Heavens, who said he
could only swear to one of the bits and one piece of sponge ;
that he knew the piece of sponge by its being damaged, and
therefore he would not have sold it. He, however, admitted
that in every case of sponges there were pieces like it.
Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate at some length on
Armstrong's behalf, stating that he had been in one gentle-
man's (Mr. Henry's) employ for 30 years, and always bore
a good character. There had been no attempt on the pri-
soner's part to get rid of the things. The prisoner had
acted incautiously and imprudently, but the question was,
had he feloniously received the things.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he could not understand, and there had
been no attempt made to show, how the prisoner Arm-
strong came to let Franklin leave the things with him. He
did not hold, neither did the other magistrates, with the
system of examining and cross-examining which had been
shown to have been pursued by the police towards the pri-
soner. It was a case for trial, and he should commit the
prisoners, but would take one bail in £lO for Armstrong.

THAMES.
A COUPLE or RUFFIANS.—WiIIiam Platt, aged 22,
furnace man, of Glengall-road, Poplar, and William Hard-
castle, boiler maker and rivetter, of No. 7, Bromley -street,
St. Leonard-road, Bromley, were charged with violently
assaulting Christopher Dalobe, of No. 226, Gray's-inn-
road, horse-keeper ; and William Pearce of No. 11, Cour-
land-grove, Clapham, joiner.
The two complainants, well• conducted and respectable
young men, were passing along the Commercial-road,
with two friends, the mother of one and the wife of the
other, when the two prisoners approached them, and with-
out the slightest provocation of any kind struck them and
knocked thew down. In the attuggle which took place
Pearce's coat was torn. In answer to questions by the
magistrate, it appeared that Platt first struck the com-
plainant, Dalobe, and knocked him down, and that on
Pearce missing his friend and relative, he turned round and
went to his assistance, and was struck by Hardcastle, who
also fell upon him and tore a coat. It was nearly a new
coat.

The two ruffians, in defence, said they knew nothing
about the affair. The policeman who took them into
custody was called and said they were both sober.
Mr. Woolrych said the prisoners had committed violent
asslults and without the semblance of provocation. They
were a couple of ill. conditioned brutal fellows. He fined
Hardcastle 10s. for the assault, and 10s. for the damage
done to the coat, and fined Platt 12s.
The penalties were paid.
THE HOPEFUL SON.--William Gray, a tall and etrong
lad, aged 17, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged
with robbing his father.

The prosecutor, William Gray, sen , of 7, Ball's-build-
ings, White Horse-street, Ratcliff, staid he was a lighter-
man. He put away a half sovereign in a box a few days
ago, and on Saturday afternoon when he went to tbe box
for the gold it was gone. He went in search of his son, but
did not find him till last night. He asked him if he had
taken the money. The prisoner said, "Yes I did, and have
spent it." Some time ago the prisoner took a silk hand-
kerchief away from him and pawned it for 2s. The prose-
cutor, in conclusion, "My son will not work. He is old
enough to get his own living. I have brought him up to
my own business. He is 17 years of age, and I am
near 60 years of age ? I want to get clear of bim. He comes
home late at night, after being with bad company, and has
of ten laid in bed unti► 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

The prisoner, on being called on for bis defence, said
that he could say nothing about the matter.
Mr. Woulrych—You are a lazy, idle fellow, a worthless
fellow; you will not work, you keep bad company and bsd
hours, and put the finishing stroke to your worthlessness b3'
robbing your father of his hard earnings, the half sovereign
which he wanted to buy provisions kr himself and your
mother. You are a base good-for-nothing fellow. I shall
remand you until next Tuesday.

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