The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

THAMES.

EVADING PAYMENT OF A RAILWAY FARE.—" Mender te
Williams" called out one of the officers of the court directly
the night charges were disposed of, and immediately a
well-dressed lady, with a white veil before her face, tripped
lightly before the solicitors' table, and said she wished his
worship to postpone the case.
Mr. Paget—Are you the defendant, madam ?
The lady—No, sir, I am not.
Mr. Paget—l see the name is Thomas Williams, of No.
4, Inkermann-terrace, Liverpool-road, Old Ford, Bow.
The lady—He is a friend of mine, and cannot attend.
He travels generally by the Stepney line, and made a slight
mistake. Ile had a return ticket, and gave that by mistake
to the ticket collector a little mistake.
Mr. Paget—What is he ?
The Lady—A commercial traveller in the wine and
spirit trade.
Mr. Paget—That is to say, it is more profitable for the
defendant to sell wine and spirits than to attend here. No
excuse that. I cannot receive such an excuse, and the
case must proceed.

Service of the summons having been proved by Smith, a
police-constable attached to the court,
Henry Mender, a ticket collector on the North London
Railway, said that on the night of the 18th of the present
month, at 9 27, a train arrived at the Bow station from
Fenchurch-street, and the defendant alighted from a car-
riage. Ho asked Mr. Williams fcr his ticket, and ho
replied by a dreadful oath and epithet. Ho overlooked this
because defendant was a little the worse for liquor, and
again demanded the ticket or the fare. The defendant
then gave him a return ticket for the 12th of May. He
shouted out to the defendant that the ticket was for the
12th, and the day it was offered was the 18th. The de-
fendant repeated his vulgar language, and he then
demanded his name and address. The defendant refused,
but, on being pressed, gave it, and was allowed to depart.
The witness added that Mr. Williams had given much
trouble and frequently used foul language at the station.
The lady here interposed, and, in•an undertone,- said her
friend Mr. Williams was a gentleman, and must have been
excited or he would not have acted in that manner.

Mr. Paget—My duty is clear, and that is to issue a war-
rant for the apprehension of Mr. Thomas Williams, of No.
4, Inkermann-terrace, Old Ford. Ile is to be brought here
directly ho is arrested.

MARKETS---This Day.

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of English
wheat were very moderate, but the condition of the produce
was good, and a fair clearance of the supply was effected at
Monday's decline in the quotations.
With foreign wheat the market was but moderately
supplied. For nearly all qualities the market was in a
sluggish state, and the small amount of business done was
at the late fall in prices.

Floating cargoes of wheat were in slow request at late
rates. Spring corn afloat was firm in price.
Barley, of which there was but a moderate supply on the
stands, sold steadily at full prices.

Malt was in slow request at ab out previous rates.
The market was abundantly supplied with oats, the
trade for which ruled inactive on former terms. .
Beans and peas ruled firm at fully late rates.
For flour there was only a moderate inquiry on firmer
terms.

ARRIVALS THIS WEER.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch..2,oBo 210 270 1,470 1,220

Irish — _
Foreign
brls

Comparative Quantities and Prices of Grain.—For the
Week ending May 27, 1865.—Wheat, 80,244 quarters,
average, 41s. 9d. ; barley, 3,802, 295. ld.;; oats, 3,805 :
235. Id. For the corresponding week last year.—Wheat,
76,580, 395. Bd. ; barley, 6,316, 295. 6d. ; oats, 5,699, 208.0 d.
BOROUGH HOP.

The supply of English hops on sale is very moderate,
and the trade rules firm at full prices. For good and fine
foreign hops there is a fair demand at quite previous rates.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is but moderate, and the
trade rules firm as follows:—
Beef, from 3s Od to 45 6d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 8d ;
lamb, 6s 4d to 7s 6d; veal, 3s 101 to 4s 8d; and pork,
3s 6d to 4s 10d per 81bs, by the =case.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—The exhibition, in Baker-
street, we are glad to find, continues to be unprecedentedly
well-attended ; indeed, it would be impossible for it to be
otherwise, considering the many attractive objects which
everywhere meet the eye, and to which the spirited pro-
prietors arc daily adding, regardless of the great outlay in
purchasing them. The principal attractive models, life
size, are the late President Lincoln, and Mr. Jefferson
Davis (the late President of the Confederate States.) The
model-of John Wilkes Booth, tho dastardly assassin of
President Lincoln, is considered to bo an authentic
likeness.

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DEATH OF THE FATHER OF GRACE DARLING.—
Wm. Darling, father of the famous Grace Darling,
died at Bamburgh on Sunday morning, in his 80th year.
Deceased was for several years the keeper of the Long-
stone Lighthouse, Fame Islands, where some time ago he
was succeeded by his son, and retired to Bamburgh to end
his days in quiet and repose. It was while living at the
Longstone light that the event occurred which has given
to his family an historical celebrity that will be lasting. A
portion of the wreck of the John Humble steamer was
discovered on the Longstone Rocks at daybreak on Sept.
Gth, 1838. By the aid of a glass persons wore discovered
clinging to the fragment of wreck, but the North Sunder-
land boatmen, and every experienced boatman, including
Darling himself, declared that any effort to reach them
would be mere madness, and sure to add to the number of
lives sacrificed.- Grace Darling at length, by her entreaties
and tears, induced her father to get into a boat with her,
and father and daughter reached the wreck in safety,
where they had the satisfaction of saving the lives of nine
persons, including that of a woman who lay halt drowned
in a corner of the wreck with the stiffened corpses of her
two children in her arms. This noble deed brought honours
upon Grace and her frither from every quarter, as well as
substantial recognition. Grace died of consumption at
Bamburgh, in October. 1842, at 27 years of age. The father
was thus described a few years before his death by a visitor
to Bamburgh :—" As you sit waiting for the service to
begin, you will see an old man, still hale and strong,
but with a wrinkled brow, and hair of a silvery-white enter
the church. He is clad in the old blue coat with brass
buttons, which was fashionable 40 years ago, and his nether
limbs are driped in trousers of white nankeen. The old
man is worth a close inspection for his own sake, for it is
not often that you will see a face so singularly calm and
beautiful as his ; but that is not the reason why I call your
attention to Lim. Yon old man bears a name which still
has power to send a thrill through breasts not easily im-
pressed, and which once was famous in the farthest corners
of the earth."