The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-28 00:00:00

IN RE SOPHIA AGG.-A FEMME SOLE.

This bankrupt was a married woman, separated from
her husband, and she traded in the city of London as a
femme sole. Her debts amount to £1,532, including liabi-
lities on bills £742. The assets show—good debts, £l9O ;
doubtful, £103; and deficiency, £1,240. An application
was made to-day by the trade assignee for cash, goods, and
deficiency accounts.

Mr. Robertson Griffiths (instructed by Mr. Merryman)
opposed the application, but his Honour directed that the
accounts should be filed.
The case was then adjourned.

SHIIRIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr and a Jury.)
IMPORTANT QUESTION.-BLACKBROW V. NASH.

This was an action which has created considerable in-
terest amongst the fish salesmen at Billingsgate market,
and to-day the court was crowded with persons who
brought into it an " ancient and fish-like smell."
Mr. Buchanan appeared for the plaintiff, who is a fish
smoker and curer ; and Mr. Board represented defendant,
who is a salesman of the market.

Mr. Buchanan called his client, who deposed that in
November last he bought of defendant five baskets of had-
docks, at 245. per basket. He took them home, and began
to take the heads off for curing and smoking, when he
discovered that the fish formed but a small portion of the
contents of each basket. There were fish at the top, bot-
tom, and sides, but in the middle there was a pyramid of
straw, which reduced the value of each basket to 13s. De-
fendant refused to make any allowance.
Croas-examined--4 did not buy the fish "as straw." I
do not know that Scarboro' fish are always packed in
straw.

Mr. Gearing, the clerk of Billingsgate Market, said he
attended to-day without a subpoena, because ho wished to
put a stop to a system of fraud adopted by the consigners
of fish to the London markets. He had seen the haddocks
sold to the plaintiff, and when he saw the straw he came
to the conclusion that it was nothing but a fraud.

Cross-examined—Not a fraud by a salesman, but by the
sender of the fish.

His Honour remarked that ho had been trying for the
last six years to stop the system, but to no purpose, as the
salesmen would not assist him.

Evidence was then called to prove the quantity of straw
in the pads.
Mr. Beard then called the defendant, who said that Scar-
borough fish always had straw, and York none. The fish
sold to plaintiff wore sold as with straw.

Mr. Buchanan—What is the name of the vendor ?

Defendant—Mr. Procter.

Mr. Beard then called witnesses to show that tho fish
was described as being "fish and straw," and plaintiff
could have seen each basket before buying.

Plaintiffdeniod this.

His Honour said that the question for the jury was what
was the bargain between plaintiff and defendant ; and the jury
would say if there was more straw in the pads than should
reasonably have been_thore.

The jury found for tho plaintiff. Verdict for plaintiff,
with costs.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

The Market opens flat. Prices irregular, with a
downward tendency. Sales probably from 1,500
to 2,000 bales.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton... —April 18.

Ditto, via Marseilles April 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British pae:et April O.

Ditto, by British packet,
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 23.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Soulhampton—April 4.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 29.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 4
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. .29.
Ditto, via alarseilles Mar. 23.
Mauritius, via Southampton April 11.
Ditto, via 3larseil e 3 .April B.
Newfoundland April 12.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet Mar. 29
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton • ••

Ditto, via Cork

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Mar. 31.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe April 12.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,

. .
and Mexico - Mar. 31.
Bahamas, via New Y ork. April 6.
Bermuda, ditto April 12.

Cuba and Mexico Mar. 31.

THE AUTHOR OF " ADAM BEDE.';— The new
periodical, the Watch Tower, will commence with an ori-
ginal tale called " Through the Furnace," said to be by the
author of "Adam Bede."

Mr. WIGAN, who is playing in the provinces, will
appear as Evelyn in Money, and Mr. Oakley in the Jealous
Ifife, two roles rather out of his usual lino.

M. THEIRS at the Pourtales sale last week gave
£542 for a tankard attributed to the Italian artist Flamingo
—a beautiful ivory sculpture, decorated with a frieze of
nine figures.

'MADAME MEYERBEER AND FAMILY have just ar-
rived in Paris to participate in the production of the
Africaine.

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE AT A PARIS PRINTING-
OFFICE.—The Empress, two days back, visited the
printing establishment of M. Paul Dupont at Clichy,
where women are employed as compositors. Her Majesty
was accompanied by two of her Ladies of Honour—Made-
moiselle Bouvet, her reader, and the Marquis de Piennes,
one of her chamberlains. Baron Haussmann had also ar-
rived shortly before to await the Empress. M. Dupont
conducted his visitor and suite first to the women's com-
posing-rooms and the workshops whore other women were
employed in folding, stitching, &c. The Empress passed
through the rooms, occasionally approaching the women to
examine their occupation, and addressing them most
kindly. While in the machine-room her Majesty
was requested by M. Dupont to :take hold of
the lever of a small press, and immediately there
was taken from it an acrostic composed in her
honour, printed in gold letters on satin. The Em-
press also inserted in one of the presses a sheet
of white paper, which issued bearing in vari6gatee colours
the mention of her Majesty's visit, and also accompanied
by a reference to a visit to the printing-office of Robert
Estionne made by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Na-
varre, on the same das of the month of March, in 2566.
Her Majesty afterwards entered the residence of M.
Dupont and his family to repose fyr a short time. A num-
ber of Orpheonists among the workmen, with several of the
women employed, then assembled noislessly in a room ad-
joining, and executed a chorus, at which the Empress ex-
pressed her surprise and gratification. After a stay of
nearly two hours her Majesty left, accompanied to the gates
of the establishment by the acclamations of between 400
and 500 of the workpeople. During the eveding the Em-
press sent a sum of 5001. in aid of the benefit society of the
printing-sffice, which the workmen spontaneously resolved
should form a pormament fund, bearing the title of "Don
de l'lmperatrice,"

The Court of Assizes of the Haute-Loire has just
tried a farm labourer named Biscarrat on a charge
of having, on the 12th October last, murdered a man named
Redon, aged 75. On the 13th of October the body of the
unfortunate man was found lying in a wood, about 30
paces from the road leading from_ Loucheyre to Pinols.
The post mortem examination showed that he had boon
murdered by strangulation, and suspicion at once fell on
the prisoner, who was a man of very bad character, and
had often been heard to utter threats against the deceased,
who was his creditor, and had taken proceedings against
him to recover a sum of 30f. The cause was to be tried
at Pinols on the 12th October, and Redon left home alone
early in the morning of the 12th to attend the court,
but was murdered on his way thither. When interro-
gated, the prisoner stoutly denied his guilt, but his pre-
sence near the spot where the crime was committed was
fully established by several witnesses, while others deposed
that when the prisoner attended before the juge de pair at
Pinols he had several fresh scratches on his face, and had
every appearance of having been engaged in a struggle.
The jury having brought in a verdict of guilty of homicide
without premeditation, and allowed the prisoner the benefit
of extenuating circumstances, the court condemned him
to 15 years' labour.

FEDERAL DESERTERS.—Mr. Lincoln has pro-
mised a pardon to all deserters who will return to their
duty within sixty days. If they should not they will lose
the rights of citizenship—rights that Mr. Lincoln's Irish
and German subjects have tried very hard to lose. The
measure will not much increase the Federal army, since
most of the deserters are "bounty-jumpers," and who
merely desert at intervals to re-enlist and get another
bounty.—The

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EMBEZZLEMENT OF A FRIENDLY SOCIETY.—Joseph Jen-
nings, of 10, Edward-street, Pentonville, accountant, was
charged before Mr. Tymhitt with embezzling moneys to
the amount of £432, belonging to the trustees of the Loyal
King's Lodge Friendly Society, held at the Prince Albert
Tavern, Upper St. Martin's-lane.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prosecution, and said ho was instructed to
prosecute the prisoner, who was the secretary of the Loyal
King's Lodge Friendly Society, a society consisting of a
large number of members, for embezzling between £4OO
and £5OO, the moneys of the society. The prisoner ab-
sconded about 12 months ago, and was only apprehended
last night. He (Mr. Lewis) would go into one case, and
then ask for a remand, in order to complete the case.
Mr. William Lancelot Tallowfield, of Winchester-street,
Kentish-town, said he was a member of the Royal King's
Lodge Friendly Society. In January, 1863, he paid the
prisoner, who was then the secretary, a quarter's money,
4s. 6d., and the prisoner gave him a receipt for the same.

In answer to the prisoner the witness said that on the
night in question the prisoner was taking the money, a
person sitting by his side at the time. He was sure he paid
him (prisoner) the money, and took his receipt.
William Patrick Francis Callaghan, the present secretary
of the society, Said in January, 1863, the prisoner was sec-
retary of the society, and it was his duty to receive the
contributions from the membars. He (witness) found no
entry in the books on the 7th Jan., or subsequently of the
sum of 4s. 6d. from Mr. Tallowfield. There was no such
name in the books for that quarter. The books had been
examined by Messrs. Albison and Waddell, public ac-
countants, of Walbrook, and defalcations to the amount of
£432 were discovered by them, and also by the society's
auditors.

Mr. Tyrwhitt asked whether all the deficiencies were
during the time the prisoner was secretary, and the witness
said they were, and during one year and nine months.
Mr. Lewis said the prisoner absconded, and there was a
reward offered for his apprehension he believed.
Witness said that was the case. The prisoner absconded
on the 10th of February, 1864.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt the witness said the book
produced was called the quarterly register, and all pay-
ments were put down in it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the request of Mr. Lewis, then re-
manded the prisoner.
UNPROVOKED AND BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FEMALE BY A
FOREIGNER. Jules de Lerman, a well-dressed Frenchman,
described as a commission agent, of 7, St. Swithin's-lane,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and
assaulting Abigail Mould, a respectable married woman,
residing at 26, Gresse-street, Rathbone-place.
Mr. Holmes, prosecuting officer of the Society for the
Protection of Women and Children, Cecil-street, Strand,
attended to watch the case.

The complainant was passing through Tudor-street on
her way home last night, when the prisoner, who was in
company of another foreigner, caught hold of her in an
improper manner. She pushed the prisoner, who had been
drinking, away, when he repeated the act, and on her
pushing her away a second time he kicked her on the
breast.

n answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said the
prisoner was an entire stranger to her, and that she had
not given him the slightest provocation.
A witness having corroborated the complainant,
The prisoner said in French, through Mr. Albert, that
he had not assaulted the complainant.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had no doubt about the case what-
over. The prisoner was a brutal and cowardly hound.
He had first insulted the complainant, and then when he
found that he had made a mistake in the person, he as-
saulted her by kicking her in the breast. He should
commit the prisoner for two months with hard labour, and
his only doubt was whether or not to send him for six
months. Respectable women could not now walk the streets.
The prisoner when the decision was communicated to
him seemed rather surprised.