The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

were said to amount to 30s. a week. His business of
" caller up" has brought him in frequent collision.
with the police, and he has preferred several charges of
assault against constables, and also of interfering with him
in his calling. All these charges were dismissed, and the
police warned not to interfere withhim in calling up people,
although it diminished the profits of the-pelice-menrin the
district. Latterly the lad Sun had competed with the prisoner,
who entertained a very bad feeling against him in conse-
quence. This morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock, the pri-
soner met the boy at the corner of King David-lane, Shad-
well, a few yards from the station-house of the K division,
and, uttering a fearful oath, knocked him down with a
very strong and heavy stick. He then fell upon the pros-
trate lad, seized him by the throat, and made a
savage and deliberate attempt to strangle him, in
which he would have certainly succeeded but for the
timely interposition of Police-sergeant Cox, 45 K, who saw
the whole transaction, M'Kay, 275 K, Greenfield, 495 K,
and John Welch, a watchman employed at the opening of
the low-level sewer at the Corner of King David-lane.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.)
HILL V. FINNEY.

The hearing of this case, which has occupied the atten-
tion of the jury for the last six days, was resumed to-day.
The suit was brought by the plaintiff, Captain Wil-
loughby Hill, an officer in the Bombay Cavalry, against
his solicitor for alleged misdirection in regard to a suit, by
his wife, for judicial separation, heard before the late Judge
Ordinary, in which the defendant was stated to have ad-
vised the plaintiff not to defend the action, in order to
avoid statements that would be damaging to his character,
assuring him, at the same time, that if he agreed to aban-
don his defence, no evidence of a derogatory character
would be given at the trial. However, at the trial it was
necessary to give evidence in support of Mrs. Hill's allega-
tion of cruelty, and this not being rebutted, the plaintiff's
character became so damaged that his fellow officers re-
fused to associate with him, and a communication was for-
warded to the Secretary of State for India. involving the
question as to whether he should not be dismissed from her
Majesty's service. The evidence was very lengthy and
most conflicting.
Mr. Coleridge, for the plaintiff, at the sitting of the court
this morning, said that he hoped the court would not call
on him to address the jury that day, as he was suffering
from a severe cold ; and his friend Mr. Karslake, who was
on the other aide, was in the same position.
The jury intimated that the postponement met their
special approval, and it was agreed that at the close of the
evidence the case should be adjourned until the 12th of

DEBTOR.

They all described the condition of. the boy as most-piti-
able. The prisoner was compressing the boy's throat,
which was bleeding, and blood was gushing from his nose,
mouth, and ears. There were marks on the boy's throat,
which be bared and exhibited to the magistrate. Ile was
in a very sad condition.

Mr. Joseph Smith set up a defence that the boy was
always prowling about under the fostering care of
the police and annoying the prisoner, who carried on the
same business which his father had done for 40 years.
The boy called him bad names this morning and he shoved
him down.

Cox was recalled, and said he had known the boy six or
seven years, and he was always well behaved. The pri-
soner was jealous of the boy, said to him "What do you
want here, you young -?" and then knocked him down
with the stick and seized him by the neck. The boy was
all but choked, and was black in the face.

January.
Some witnesses were called, who corroborated previous
evidence on behalf of the defendant, and the proceedings
in regard to this case terminated for the day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN BE JITSON -CABBY AND THE LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS

Mr. Partridge said there was no truth in the defence set
up. The boy was not prowling about in the sense in
which prowling ought to be used, but was on his legiti-
mate business, and had as much right to call people from
their beds as the prisoner. A more gross and savage out-
rage had not come under the notice of the court for some
time. He sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprison-
ment and hard labour.

COMPANY.

This bankrupt was described as a cab-driver of 17, Bris-
tol-mews, Paddington, and he applied to-day for his order
of discharge. The cause of the bankruptcy is as follows :
Having lost an action I brought against the London Ge-
neral Omnibus Company to recover damages for injuries
sustained by reason of the negligence of the company's
servants, and being unable to pay the costs. The debts are
only .£77, and include the Company (for costs), £57 ; bank-
rupt's attorney, £ll ; and his doctor, £9. Thero is a for-
mer bankruptcy, and no regular accounts being filed, the
case was adjourned.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

LONDON GAZET.CE—Last Evening.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 21.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-General
Sir Henry Knight Storks, G.C.8., G.C.M.G. (now Gover-
nor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Malta and

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

_ STEALING BOOKS THE PROPERTY OF THE SOCIETY FOR
PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.—Joseph Smith, a
porter, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a
Bible and other property belonging to the Society for Pro-
moting Christian Knowledge.
Mr. J. Russell Endean, manager of the Piccadilly depot
of the Society, said that the present being an unusually
busy time in consequence of parcels being sent into the
country they required an extra hand ; as the man generally
employed was unable to attend he sent the prisoner. On
the 13th inst. three parcels, containing a large Bible, some
glazed pictures, and books, were given to the prisoner to
take to the Charing-cross Railway station. The prisoner
some time afterwards returned with his empty bag, and
perceiving that he had been drinking, he told him that
he would not suit him, to leave the shop, and to send
the man who sent him. The prisoner then left, and
fearing there might be some mistake as to the
delivery of the parcels at the railway station, he sent a
messenger to make inquiries, and he found that no parcels
had been left there. He had also received a letter from a
gentleman in the country, stating that he had not received

its dependencies), to be Captain-General and Governor-in-
Chief of the Island of Jamaica and the territories depend-
ing thereon, during the prosecution of certain inquiries
about to be instituted respecting the late disturbances in
that island, and for such further time as to her Majesty
may seem fit.

WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC. 22.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant Henry Frederick
Chapman Lewin to be Second Captain, vice Richard
Decie, who resigns. The following Lieutenants to have
their temporary Commissions made permanent, viz.:—
Robinson Garner Scott, Richard Tudor Frere, Valentine
Francis Rowe, Frederick Hamley Fawkes, John Noble
Manwaring, Killingworth Richard Todd, William Sin-
clair Smith Bisset, William Henry Coaker, Fleet wood
Isham Edwards, and Herbert Hughes Whatley.
BREVET.

The promotion to Lieutenant-General of Major General
P. Faddy, on the Retired Full-pay List of the Royal Artil-
lery, which appeared in the Gazette of the 3d November,
1865, to bear date the 20th September, 1865.
Lieutenant-Colonel Albert O'Donnel Grattan, retired
full-pay, Royal Engineers, to have the honorary rank o'
Colonel.

ADMIRALTY, DEC. 20.
Royal Marine Light Infantry—Lieutenant-Colonel Wm.
Stratton Aslett to be Colonel Second Commandant vice
Farrant, retired ; Captain Arthur Butcher to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Aslett ; First Lieutenant Charles
Stark to be Captain; vice Butcher.
Second Lieut. Henry Edmond Mortimore to be First
Lieutenant, vice Stark,-
Mr. Frederic Moore has this day been promoted to the
rank of First Class Assistant Engineer in her Majesty's
Fteet.

the parcels.
The prisoner said he went to the depot the following
morning and told Mr. Endean that ho hed been drinking,
and did not know where he left the parcels. He also
offered to pay for the property if he could not find it.
Mr. Endean said the prisoner did come on the following
morning, and went with the messengers to several places
where he pretended he had been to.
Police-constable Charles Butcher, 137 C, said that,
seeing the prisoner in the Regent-circus yesterday after-
noon, he told him that he was going to apprehend him for
a robbery at 48, Piccadilly. The prisoner said he had got
"boozed" (drunk), and did not take the parcels to the rail-
way station, and did not know what he had done with
them, but that he hadbeen to the office and explained all
about them. He had since ascertained that the prisoner
had been employed by a gentleman in Oxford-street to
take a hamper to the Great Eastern Railway station, but
that he had never delivered the hamper, and the prisoner
had only just come out of prison, after six months' im-
prisonment, for a robbery at a railway station.
Mr. John Saunders Holloway, clerk at the Charing-
cross Railway station, said there was no entry in the
book of three parcels being received at the station.
Mr. Knox said he would remand the prisoner, who
appeared to be a regular thief, for a week.
Sergeant Monckton, a detective at the Charing-cross
Railway station, was in attendance to prove that the pri-
soner had been convicted for stealing 6s. from a person at
the station, he having taken the money under the pretence
of getting a railway ticket.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

`,a._

Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 18
Ditto 3 Months. 12 11 . 12 11
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50 25 55
Brussels
Hamburg - 13 9
Paris - Short 25 10 25 17
Ditto 3 Months. 25 371 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201 l2l
Vienna — 10 80 10 85
Trieste — 10 75 10 85
I'etersburgh - 30} 304
Berlin
_2B 6...281

Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina

461 47
47/- 481
25 60 25 - 65
25 60 25 65
25 60 25 65
25 60 25 65
25 60 25 65
25 60 25 65

FRE SUN, LoNuaN, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22,

BANK OF FRANCE

PARIS, DEC. 21.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :

Dec. 14.
fr. c.
182,500,000