The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL POLICE AND THE

BETTING HOUSES.

A few days ago the Liverpool police were engaged
in apprehending a number of betting men who were
in the habit of resorting to certain houses for the
prosecution of their calling, and who also circulated
betting lists, which it was alleged had a very bane-
ful influence on the young men of the town. A
number of the betting men were consequently
brought before the magistrates, and each fined
£lOO. Not content, however, with this success,
the police determined to indict the keepers of the
betting-houses, and placed men on special duty
to ascertain in which houses betting was know-
ingly and wilfully allowed to take place. The result
of the investigation induced them to lay informa-
tions against the following persons who have public-
houses in Liverpool where betting is carried on to
a considerable extent :—Owen Perry, Richmond-
street ; Thomas Davis, Haughton-street • David
Richardson, Market-street; and John Murdock,
Leigh-street. These men were yesterday (Friday)
brought before the Liverpool magistrates, charged
under the 16th and 17th sections of the "Act for
the Suppression of Betting Houses," with know-
ingly and willingly allowing betting to take place
in their establishments. The first case which was
heard was that of Owen Perry, Richmond-street.
A police officer stated that on the 7th initt„ he went
to the defendant's house, and saw a 'number of
betting men laying wagers against horses which
were to run in certain races, and supplying the
persons around them with betting lists. He
asked for a list, and having received one bet against
a horse which was to run at Newmarket. At this
time the landlord was in the room, saw that betting
was taking place, and made no attempt to suppress it.
Mr. Conway, barrister, who appeared for the de-
fendant, contended that the terms of the act only
had reference to houses which were wholly devoted
to betting purposes, and as his client was not one of
this class the information had not been sustained.
The magistrates thought differently, however,
and fined Perry £so.
The cases of the other men were similar, and they
were each fined £5O, with the exception of Murdock,
who was discharged, as the information under which
he was apprehended could not be sustained.

Mr. Charles Mathews, the foremost of English
light comedians, says Galignani, with Mrs. Mathews, is at
present in Paris enjoying a holiday trip. Miss Faucit,
whose distinguished merit in several tragic characters is
still remembered with pleasure, is also in Paris.
THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.—NEW YORK,
May 3,—There are many Northern ships at New Orleans,
if they have not been destroyed, which were confiscated
and sold by the Confederates. Among others the Aballino,
of Boston, Ariel, American Union, and Milan, of Bath.
ST. MATTHEW'S, SPRING-GARDENS.—The Rev.
Henry Drury, M.A., Prebendary of Salisbury, and Chaplain
of the House of Commons, has consented to preach to-
morrow at St. Matthew's, Spring-gardens, in aid of the
ordinary church expenses.
TRINITY SUNDAY ORDINATIONS.—A third
course of twelve lectures on the Reading of the Church
Service will commence on Wednesday, 21st inst., at 10
a.m., and will be continued four times a week—free to all
ennumares ror ~r‘l 'nation. Gentlemen desirous of attend-
ing are requested to call on Mr. D'Orsey, at his rooms, on
Saturday, 17th, at 6 30.
The channel between Cronstadt and St. Peters-
burg and Oranienbaum, and almost as far as Krasnaia Gorka,
was clear of ice on the Bth, and the communication by
steamboats was opened. The Neva, in the morning of the
same day, was completely clear of ice, but in the evening
was again filled up by the breaking up of that in Lake
Ladoga.
The students of the University of Copenhagen are
making grand preparations to receive their Swedish and
Norwegian colleagues, who are expected to arrive in the
Danish capital on the 12th June. The students of Upsal,
300 in number, have engaged for their private use the Swea
steamboat.
THE METROPOLIS ROADS.—Yesterday, at noon,
the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Turnpike Roads
north of the Thames, Mr. Lambert Jones in the chair, met
at their office, 22, Whitehall-place, to put up to auction
the several tolls within that district which were to be let for
one year from the lst of July next. The tolls of nine of the
roads were offered, but there was competition for only two
of them, viz., the Kilburn and Edgware, and the Maryle-
bone and Finchley. The former last year were let for
£3,510 ; yesterday, after much competition, they were
knocked down to Mr. Proom for £3,830. The latter last
realised £2,170 ; yesterday they were let to Mr. Bolton for
£2,290. One hundred pounds was required by the com-
missioners to be put down as a deposit before bidding; the
deposit used to be ao.
CRIEFF—TIIE EARN.—The salmon fishing on the
Earn since the season opened has been the most unproduc-
tive which has occurred the last twenty years. Owing to
the almost continuously flooded state of the river during
March the greater part of the spawned fish were taken
down seawards, and but few kelts were killed. The clean
salmon captured have not been numerous; but the river
has been in fine ply for trout fishing the last two weeks,
and anglers generally have been very successful in killing
large basketfuls. The bygone spawning season has been
the best which has occurred for a long series of years on the
Earn, for the river in all directions during the last two
weeks is literally swarming with young fry, which will leave I
for the sea with the flu st spate.—Scotsman.

STRIKE OF PITMEN.—The strike of pitmen in
Nottinghamshire has extended from the Cinder Hill Pits
to those of Kimberley and Newcastle in the same district,
belonging to Mr. T. North. A general open air meeting
of the men belonging to the three pits was held on Thurs-
day, at which it was unanimously agreed that they should
all demand the same advance as those of Cinder Hill had
done, and discontinue their work until it was granted. Be-
tween 600 and 700 hands are therefore entirely without
means of subsistence. At the meeting, it was stated that
the average amount earned by the hardest workers per day
was 2s. 3d. If the proprietors would let them name a
check-machine man, to be paid by themselves, and adopt
the ordinary standard of weights, they would return to
work.

NICE QUESTION OF INSURANCE—IMPORTANCE
OF HALF AN Houß.—On Wednesday, Sheriff Ogilvy,
Dundee, issued an interlocutor, finding the owners of the
ship Eliza—which was lost on Peffer Sands on the night
of the 26th January, 1860—entitled to recover the amount
of a policy of insurance effected on the hull and materials
of the said vessel. In a note appended to the interlocutor,
the sheriff-substitute says :—" The only question at issue
here is one of fact, and it is simply this, whether the
schooner Eliza struck the Peffer Sands before or after mid-
night on the 26th January, 1860. If the vessel struck be-
fore 12 o'clock at night, the defenders are liable; if after
12, they are not liable." Atter remarking on the evidence
at some length, the note concludes—" The sheriff-substi-
tute's opinion, after the most careful review of the evidence
is, that the vessel did really strike about half-past 11 p.m.
in the 26th January, and he has accordingly given effect
to that view.—.Scotsman.
LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT IN FRANCE.—
An application was made on Thursday to the President of
the Civil Tribunal by M. Marmuse, a cutler of the Bazaar
du Temple, for the purpose of obtaining an order to compel
his landlord to abate an alleged nuisance, interfering with
the peaceable occupation of his shop. The applicant's
u,cue exclusively
vrpne fortor, ecounsel stated that his client had taken a shop on lease in
the bazaar, which had been fitted
mercial purposes, out mat iliriper,
re-
cently let a part of it to the exhibitors of a learned fish, or
rather a seal. That change had not only partially masked
his client's shop, but several gaslights had been suppressed,
report
future,
demandedrmeasures
and r
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s
ease
and his client was so annoyed by incessant chumming dur-
ing the day, and thd flashing of electric lights by night, that
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unbearablenamed to
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the on
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his positionehrotabdvi shouldbaetec
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th an ex
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required to p
estimate the indemnity due for the injury already done.
The landlord's counsel opposed the application, and declared
that the exhibition did no injury whatever to M. Marmuse,
but must rather benefit him by making his shop better
known to the public. After hearing a brief reply from the
other side, the President decided that there were no grounds
for granting the order aolanided,

THE DARING CASE OF BOUSEBREAK-

LNG AT TRA:VIYER E.

The two scoundrels who broke into the house of
Mr. Arthur, Sea Bank Villas, Tranmere, on Wed-
nesday afternoon last, under circumstances already
detailed in the Liverpool Mercury, were brought up
yesterday at the County Hall, Abbey Street, Birk-
enhead, the magistrates on the bench being Sir E.
Cust, Messrs. J. W. Harden (county court judge) R.
Bryans, B. Derbyshire, J. Younghusband, and J. B.
Case. Mr. Superintendent Hammond, in briefly
stating the case, said that between three and four
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon the prisoners were
observed loitering about Mr. Arthur's house, and
ultimately they were seen to enter by the back door.
Information was immediately communicated to Mr.
Edward Collis, joiner and builder, who went to Mr.
Arthur's front floor and rang the bell. As no person
answered, he went round to the back door, which
was closed, but he forced it open, Upon entering
the premises he discovered the two prisoners, who,
without speaking, attacked him with two life pre-
servers, and beat him in an unmerciful manner—to
such an extent that he was confined to his bed, and
consequently was not able to attend to give evidence,
Notwithstanding the murderous treatment he had
received, Mr. Corris followed the prisoners until he
became exhausted from loss of blood and the pain he
was suffering. Fortunately, the housebreakers were
pursued by the police and apprehended—one in the
Chester-road and the other in Queen-street, in Lower
Tranmere. In the possession of one of the prisoners
was found a gold breast-pin, which was identified as
being stolen from Mr Arthur's house, and a quantity
of jewellery, consisting of brooches, pins, rings, ice.,
was picked up near where the other prisoner was
captured. The marks left on the boxes and drawers
in Mr. Arthur's house corresponded with the house-
breaking implements discovered in the possession of
the prisoners.—Mr. Hammond added that another
house had been broken into in Higher Tranmere,
and there was no doubt that the prisoners were the
men who had committed the act.

Miss Arthur was then called, and she stated that
the house was left in charge of the servant girl, who
was absent from the premises only a few minutes.
She identified the articles of jewellery produced.
The bench ordered the prisoners to be remanded
until Monday next.

The prisoners, who are not known in this neigh-
bourhood, gave the names of Robert James and
Peter Jenkins. They are each about 25 years old,
and respectably dressed. The third man, who was
watching outside whilst the prisoners were ;In Mr.
Arthur's house, has not yet been apprehended.
We are.. glad to state that Mr. Cortis, although
his injuries are of a very serious character, was
mush better yesterday, and hopes are entertained
that in a few days he will be able to leave his resi-
dence to give evidence against his murderous as-
sailants. When it became known that he had been
brutally attacked by housebreakers, a general feel-
ing of sympathy was evinced in the township,
towards Mr. Collis, who is an old and respected
tradesman of Tranmere.

2HE MIDDLE LEVEL, OR 211A.R811-
LAND, DELUGE.

LYNN, FRIDAY.
The deluge in Marshland, from the bursting of
the banks of the Middle Level Cut, has increased in
extent daily, and competent persons say this morn-
ing that there are 30,000 acres of land inundated.
Never was there such a panic felt in Marshland ; the
vast fens are one sea, and at high tide there is not
less than eight or ten feet of water on the land. It
was found on Wednesday needfal to abandon the
dam which the 50) men had been attempting to
construct for nine days, and the engineers deter-
mined to construct a dam in connexion with St.
Mary's Bridge, about a quarter or half a mile up
the cut from the ruin of the sluice. The bridge was
a wooden structure of some considerable strength,
and the floor was used as a platform upon which.
several pile-driving engines called "monkeys" were
fixed; and up to yesterday morning piles were driven.
into the bed of the river till about three-quarters of
the width was dammed. Several independent
gentlemen and engineers prophesied that the latidge
would in a few hours be washed away, and then it
would be next to impossible to construct a dam
ULU lThtS the ohm:mei. Ou Thurbday the tido lvao very
high; it overflowed the bridge, lifting it bodily.
The creaking of the strained timbers gave warning,
and all the men got off; the scene was frighAful,
and matters were brought to a crisis by a, barge
laden with gravel breaking from her moorings and.
dashing against the new piling ; the result was that
the bridge was shattered and with a terrific crash
went to pieces. Several other bridges are gone dur-
ing the, night, and now there is hardly any obstacle
to prevent a steamboat from going several miles up
the cut and through the breach to paddle abort
the fens. The greatest dissatisfaction is felt oi
the spot with the engineers and the Mame
Level Commissioners, who have to all
appear-
ance failed to realise fully the disaster of the
district. It is believed by practical men that
within a week of the destruction of the sluice
the water might have been effectually stopped
from running out of the Ouse into the Cut,
and this would have saved all the subsequent catas-
trophes. Rightly or wrongly, the public have ex-
pressed in no measured terms their opinion that the
authorities have not done all that could have been
done to avert the dread consequences which have
Leen realised. They seem to be paralysed, and it
really looks as if the sea were again about to regain
her ancient landmarks. They have now decided to
do nothing for the present, and nature is having its
way, not the slightest effort being made to check
its power and progress. It is now feared that to-
night's tide will flood all Bardolph Fen. Already a
portion of land on that side of the Cut is under
water. The 25,000 or 30,000 acres of land that are
now flooded with salt water were in the occupation
of about 200 tenants, a number of whom being;
small farmers will feel the disaster the greater.
One poor fellow had by a life of industry and perse-
verance saved enough money to purchase some 6e,
acrss of land a few months ago, and he had cot leis
andfi rsthcereipspuinndgeor the
nit, aimndprneosswioint itshaaltl uhne is ruined.
water,
So great is the excitement in the neighbourhood
that a steamboat has been put on to run every hour
to and fro. It is a fortunate circumstance that
after to-day the tide will get less, and it is to be
hoped that the best engineers in the country will.
be brought down and requested to devise some
means of constructing a dam during the low tides.
It is very likely that the water will remain on the
land all the summer, from the inadequacy of the
district for drainage, not that this is the principal
outlet. The engines which remain in the fens for
drainage purposes are clogged with the water and
cannot work. The expense already incurred in the
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has taken some steps with the Middle Level Commis-
sioners in the matter. The destruction of property is
estimated at a million of money, With the apparent
possibility of the whole fen district being drowned.
So vast is the ruin that the Middle Level drainage
will,have to be all done over again.

The Prussian Ministry of Marine has purchased.
three new men-of-war in. England---a, frigate and two
corvettes.
LIGHTHOUSES IN THE RED SEA.—" The works
for the execution of lighthouses in the Red Sea," says the
illoniteur de la Flotte, " are being executed with rapidity.
The Zafarana, situated in the Gulf of Suez, has been lighted
since the beginning of January, and the Ushruffcc, which
is placed in the Jubal Strait, and the Dedaley on the rock
of that name in the middle of the Red Sea, will be in use.
before the end of the present year. Those three light-
houses belong to Egypt, and are maintained at the expense
.f th. F.arntinn Gnvernment. The Peninsular and Orien-
tal Steamboat Company has undertaken to deliver by its
vessels in passing the oil for lighting, and the necessary
provisions for the keepers."

A private letter from Calais mentions that M.
Trubert, a member of the Cour des Comptes, and his wife,
who is the daughter of M. Piscatory and granddaughter of
Gen. Foy, were rigorously searched by the police on their•
passage thrargh that town on '1 hursday and Friday last.
Madame Trubert would not submit to be searched unless
f ,ree were employed, but this was not reset ted to. The
luggage was closely searched, as if treasonable letters or
papers were sought after. Nothing, however, was found,
and M. and Madame Trubert, who were going to London
to the Exhibition, were, after some delay, allowed to con-
tinue their journey,