The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENLNG, OCTOBER 31, 1865.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

A SUSPICIOUS CUSTOMER.—Thomas Lawson was placed
before Mr. Flowers, charged with being found on the pre-
mises of Mr. Fetter, the wino merchant and hotel keeper,
with intent, &c.

Ellen "Wiggins said she was in the service of Mr. Pettor
as chambermaid. This morning, as she was going up
stairs, she met the prisoner coming down the first floor
stairs, and as she knew he had no right on the promises,
and suspecting him called out, and the prisoner run out of
the house.

Arthur Martin said he was barman to Mr. Fetter. He
heard the previous witness call out, and be ran to the door
and saw the prisoner hastily quitting the premises. Ile
went after him, and found he had concealed himself in ono
of the doorways in Garrick-street.
Police-constable 76 F said he took the prisoner into
custody, and on searching him he found a pocket-book,
which contained ten receipt stamps. When the prisoner
was asked what was in the book he said "Eight receipt
stamps."
In his defence the prisoner said he was not ou the
first floor at all.

Mr. Flowers remanded the prisoner for further inquiry.

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A BEERSHOP KEEPER.— Charl 9
Childs, landlord of the White Swan boershop, Little St.
Andrew-street, Seven-dials, was placed at the bar charged
with having a large quantity of counterfeit coin in his pos-
session.

From the evidence it appeared that Inspector West, In-
spector Brennan, and Sergeant Ackrill, of tho F division,
and Sergeant Elliott, of the E division, in company with
Mr. Brennan, the officer attached to the Mint, entered the
prisoner's house, and told him the charge against him,
which he most strenuously denied. The officers proceeded
to search the place, and on a shelf in the bar they found a
packet from which four counterfeit shillings dropped. The
defendant's daughter produced some other broken eountor-
feit coin, and said the whole of that which had been found
by the police had been taken in the cettr-se-of business, and
had been placed on the shelf for safety. Inspector West,
however, in searching the out-house, found seven packets
wrapped up in paper, which, on being opened, were found
each to contain 10 counterfeit shillings, which corresponded
in date with those found in the bar. Tho defendant de-
clared ho know nothing of the matter, but ho was taken
into custody, and the law officers of the Crown wore com-
municated with.

Mr. Pater, who defended Childs, said it was a most
malicious prosecution on the part of the police, who had
acted throughout in a manner that deserved severe cen-
sure. He did not mean to impute unworthy motives to
the police, but ho should have thought it would have been
well if they had ascertained whether the defendant had
placed the counterfeit money whore it was found before
they took him into custody and charged him with the
offence. The place where the base coin was found was
open to every customer using the house, and nothing could
bo easier than for some vindictive person to have placed the
counterfeit coin where it was found by the police,
leading to the inference that it had been secreted there by
the defendant. He had also to complain of the conduct of
the police in refusing to receive bail for the defendant,
actually superseded the orders of the magistrates, and ob-
jected to take the surety of two persons who offered to
become bail for the prisoner in the sum of £lOO without
they inquired into their stability, although nothing had
been said on the inquiry when the amount was fixed beyond
the fact that if the bail obtained was only two persons in £5O
each, then an enquiry was to be made respecting them.
He thought that after a magistrate had decided to accept
bail without inquiry, it was not the province of the police
to object to such a proceeding.
Mr. Flowers said there might have been matters
connected with the case which raised a doubt whether
the defendant would surrender. Ho thought it was
the duty of the police to keep the magistrate well in-
formed. However, in the present case he should commit
the prisoner for trial, but he would accept two sureties for
his appearance at the sessions, provided 48 hours' notice
was given to allow inquiries into the position of the persons
offering themselves as bail for the prisoner.

Opening of the City Branch of the North

London Railway.

(THIS DAY).

This day the formal opening of the Broad-street (City)
Branch of the North Loudon Railway takes place with con-
siderable ceremony.
The Lord Mayor, Sheriff, directors of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, and a large number of
the leading bankers and merchants of the City, have been
invited. It is anticipated that the company will number
300.

A special train, with the engine decorated with flags,
leaves the new terminus in Broad-street, at one o'clock,
with the directors and a large party, on the opening trip,
along the new line. On reaching the junction at Kings-
land, the special train will diverge off to the Camden
Town section of the North London, and proceed to Chalk
Farm, where the London and North Western joins.
The special will then return to Broad-street, and the
visitors at 3 o'clock will partake- of a sumptuous dejewier,
which has been arranged in the station.
The new line, or branch, is opened for general passen er
traffic to-morrow (Wednesday), and will afford a much
nearer route to Camden-town from the City than at present
exists by the Fenchurch-street line. The new branch is
likely to produce quite a revolution in the omnibus traffic
between the City and Kingsland, as trains are to be run
every seven minutes, and at greatly reduced rates. Other
advantages in the shape of late trains are to be given to the
public.
The entrance hall on the North London side of the now
station has a very noble and handsome appearance.

Great Indian Peninsular Railway.

This day the 32d half-yearly general meeting of this
company was held at the London Tavern; Mr. W. J. Ha-
milton, the chairman, presiding.
The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report,
congratulated the shareholders on the satisfactory state of
their affairs, both in reference.to the increased receipts in
their goods and passenger traffic during the past half year
as compared with the corresponding periods of previous
years. The anticipations formed of the traffic to be ob-
tained by the opening of the railway across the Ghats were
fully justified. Tho increase in the goods traffic are in a
great measure from the carriage of the company's own ma-
terials against 10 per cent. in the corresponding half year.
With reference to the expenditure, it amounted to £320,
or 58.55 per cent. of the receipts, leaving a balance of
£230,912, to be carried to the credit account of the com-
pany's interest account with the Government, the balance
in the half year to the 30th June having been £91,50185. 3d.
The chief cause of the expenditure continuing so high
was the rate at which they were compelled to purchase,
and the compensations chargeable to other half-years
having had to be paid during the past half-year. They
were given to understand that 500,000 rupees would cover
the whole of the amount of compensation against the com-
pany.
The report was unanimously agreed to.

The Gales.

PORTSMOUTH, Monday.

We announced yesterday that four vessels were
reported to have gone ashore near the entrance to
Langston Harbour, which separates Hayling Island
from the island of Portsea. The report turns out
to be perfectly true with regard to three of them,
but the fourth went ashore on Bembridge Ledge, a
rocky shoal running out from the north-east shore
of the Isle of Wight. The weather was very tem-
pestuous during Saturday night, and until towards
evening on Sunday, and the three vessels referred to,
having encountered the full force of the gale in the
English Channel, were running close hauled for the
purpose of taking shelter in Langston Harbour,
Hayling Island being to leeward on the starboard
side, and singularly enough they all went to shore
about the same time and nearly at the same place,
a little to the eastward of the Woolsiners, a dange-
rous shoal on the east side of the Langston harbour
channel. The first was the Norwegian barque
Cirius, 400 tons burthen, Captain Kind, bound
from the Baltic to Cadiz, and laden with timber.
She went ashore about 2 o'clock, and, her danger
being observed from the island, the new lifeboat
was at once launched and put off to her assistance.
The captain and mate, however, refused to avail
themselves of the comparative security offered by a
passage to shore in the lifeboat, and risked the dan-
ger of a passage in their own boat to obtain assist-
ance from shore. The remainder of the crew were,
however, taken into the lifeboat and landed. The
Government steam tugs were sent out to her aid,
but we understand that they were unable to render
any assistance at the time, and therefore returned to
Portsmouth harbour. At high water the vessel was
floated, and this morning she was towed into Ports-
mouth harbour, with the lifeboat astern. The other
vessels were the brigantine Favourite, bound from
the northern ports to Poole, and the Atlas, brig,
from Shields to Genoa. They, however, were, not so
fortunate as the barque, having firmly taken the
ground and become total wrecks ; but the crews were
safely landed by the lifeboat, whose first efforts
have been instrumental in saving the lives of a num-
ber of men. The Dutch ship Dortrecht, having on
board a general cargo, hound from Rotterdam to
Batavia, has put into Spithead leaky. The weather
during to-day has been very unsettled, comparative
calms alternating with violent squalls of wind and
rain. The drum and cone have both been hoisted at
the dockyard semaphore, indicating probable gales
from opposite quarters and from the southward.
DOVER, Monday.

At 3 o'clock this morning the brig Iroquois, of
West Hartlepool, coal laden, for Honfleur, came
ashore in Dover Bay. She sprang a leak, became
waterlogged and unmanageable. She now lies a
total wreck, and is fast breaking up under the jetty.
The captain and crew took to their boat and came
safely into Dover harbour, where they immediately
found a refuge at the Sailors' Home. Owing to the
darkness of the night the wreck was not seen from
the shore till the men were landed and reported it.:

MARGATE, OCt. 28.

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ST. IVES, CORNWALL, Oct. 28.
At daylight this morning, the •
from N.N.E.
with a heavy ground sea on, a vessel
was observed on shore on the western •
spit of Hayle
Bar, from three to .four miles di fou• stant. The sea was
making a clean breach over
her,
and the crew were
supposed to be in the rigging. The St. Ives lifeboat
of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution was at
once launched. In crossing the bar, with the Drogue
out, a tremendous sea.
threw
the boat end over end ;
she soon righted, and all managed to get on board.
The crew lost two oars, grapnel, anchor, and rope,
and had two crutches broken. Rowing with
four oars she got under the
lee of the vessel,
which was the French ' •
orig Providence, of
Granville, 98 tons register, Captain Challet,
from Cardiff for Dieppe, with 138 tons of coals.
Having only four instead of six oars, with the heavy
sea and strong undercurrent, they found impos-
sible to get alongside. An hour passed in signal-
ling the Frenchmen to send a rope, by means of a
raft. When this was done the coxswain •
signalled to
haul on board the lifebuoy, intending to take the
men off through the water, but he could not make
himself understood. Two of the crew now endea-
voured to reach the lifeboat by means of the con-
necting rope ; one was got on board safely, and the
other was within four or five yards, when a fearful
sea broke on them and upset the boat a second
time. She righted instantly, but the poor fellow
was gone, and was never seen again. The one they
had on board held fast, and the crew once more re-
gained their seats without accident. The commu-
nication with the vessel had not been broken, and
the lifeboat again hauled up as near as possible to
her. The captain and two men then took to their
boat, when the second wave capsized them. Through
a fearful sea the lifeboat was hastily hauled ahead,
and the three men were most fortunately picked
up. Two of the crew were said to have been lost,
but from the lifeboat they never saw more than five
on board. The steam-tug Warrior, of Hayle, had
her steam up inside the bar, but could render no
assistance. The crew of the lifeboat landed at
Ilayle thoroughly exhausted, where the carriage was
despatched for the boat. A more meritorious ser-
vice has never been rendered by any boat. During
the whole of the time the lifeboat was on the bar,
the shores and hills were lined with spectators from
the neighbouring port of Hayle and the adjacent
country.
BANFF, N. 8., Oct. 27.
The brig Town of Liverpool, of Macduff, was

seen on the 25th inst., says Mr. Patison, making for
Macduff harbour in a gale of wind and tremendous
sea. As the vessel was in great danger, the life-
boat of the National Institution was at once taken
on her transporting carriage to Macduff, but before
reaching there the crew of the brig were all taken
safely on shore by Manby's apparatus. The ship
has since become a total wreck. As it was observed
that a smack was alici making for the harbour, and
it was anticipated that she would broach to in the
attempt, the lifeboat was launched to be in,readi-
ness to save the crew ; but fortunately the smack
got in quite Safe.
KIRKCUDBRIGHT, N. 8., Monday Night.

The schooner Franklin, of Belfast, 72 tons bur-
then, bound from Belfast to Maryport in ballast,
went ashore yesterday morning at Point of Sole, in
the river Dee, during a gale of wind from S.S.E.
As soon as the intelligence reached this place the
lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
was quickly launched and taken to the scene of the
wreck, and was happily the 'means of rescuing the
crew of four men. The weather has since moderated,
and the vessel has been got off without much injury.
HAILING ISLAND, PORTSMOUTH, Monday Night.

I have the pleasure (says the Rev. C. Hardy) _to'
report the first gallant service of the " Olive-leaf"
lifeboat recently placed on this Station by the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution. Yesterday after-
noon, during the heavy gale, not fewer than nine
vessels were discovered, on the weather temporarily
clearing, in imminent peril on a lee shore and be-
tween the two dangerous shoals, the Woolsiners
and the Eastpoles. In little more than half an hour
from this discovery the lifeboat had been launched
through the surf, and sped gallantly on her noble
mission of saving life, and happily she succeeded in
saving the entire crew, 13 in number, of the barque
Atlas, 530 tons, Celean master, of and from Shields,
bound for Genoa, with a cargo of coals. The life-
boat also offered her services to a brig, but they
were declined. She then proceeded to a Norwegian
barque, timber laden, which had been abandoned
by her crew, and, after lying by her for some
hours, succeeded in getting her out to sea, and
taking her into the harbour at Portsmouth.
Of the remaining eight vessels seen to be in danger, ,
five put to sea when the weather cleared. The
brig above alluded to rode out the gale, and got to
sea about four o'clock this morning. The schooner
Favourite, of and from Shields, with coals, for
Portsmouth, has become a total wreck, and the
Atlas has stranded and will probably break up.
The crews of the Favourite and the Norwegian
barque managed to reach the shore in their own boats.
POOLBEG, NEAR DUBLIN, OCt. 29.

At daylight this morning a schooner was observed
on shore on the South Bull Strand in;Dublin Bay
(reports Mr. John Luxon). The Poolbeg Lifeboat
of the National Lifeboat Institution was imme-
diately launched, and proceeded to the wreck and
rescued the crew of six men. The vessel proved to
be the schooner Emma, of Barrow, Sweet, master,
bound from Ardrossan to Newport, with a cargo of
pig iron.

WHITBURNE, NEAR SUNDERLAND, Oct. 28.

The brig Anne and Mary, of North Shields,
bound from the Tyne, with coals, was forced on
Thursday night last (says Captain Heard, RN.) to
return by stress of weather ; but when off this place,
it being very thick and hazy, she struck on the
Whitburne Steel rocks. Although it was very dark
at the time, the fishermen observing some light sea-
ward, launched their new boat (the Thomas Wilson)
belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, and
proceeded out in the stormy weather. In the
meantime the crew of the brig had been forced to
take their own boat, and were out in the offing, in
great danger on account of the heavy surf that was
breaking along the coast. The lifeboat's prow, find-
ing the vessel was abandoned, concluded the crew
were pulling to seaward, and accordingly went in
search of them. After rowing about for some time,
and shouting, they fortunately fell in with the brig's
boat, containing ber entire crew of nine men, who
gladly got into the lifeboat, and were salely landed.
Great credit is due to the fishermen for their assist-
ance and energy on this occasion. They speak
very highly of the behaviour of their lifeboat. The
vessel will probably become a wreck. A Prussian
barque also went ashore last night, a few miles
North of Whitburne, but the crew were happily
rescued by means of the rocket apparatus.

Opening of the Swedish Diet•

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

STOCKHOLM, Oct. 26.
The Swedish Diet has just been opened with a
speech from the throne. His Majesty said :
" Sweden and Norway have enjoyed the blessings
of peace in variable, and in part deplorable, circum-
stances. The relations of my Government to all
foreign States are of a friendly character. The 50th
anniversary of the union of Sweden and Norway
has been celebrated with acclamation in both coun-
tries, by which the ties uniting the kindred people
have been more closely knitted. The treaty of union
is to be supplemented by a committee specially ap-
pointed for the purpose. Your first labour will be to
examine my proposal for the reform of the represen-
tation. I trust that you will exercise that honour-
able task in free will and independent action, and,
by accepting my proposal, will bring about a de-
velopment of social conditions adequate to the ob-
ject. New bankrupt, criminal, and naval laws will
next be taken into consideration ; but the renewal
of other main questions of legislation must not be
hurried. Bills of less extensive scope only will
therefore be laid before you in the present session.
As a new composition of the Rigsdag is intended in
accordance with the still undecided bill, the esti-
mates for the budget include mainly the most neces-
sary extraordinary expenses for one year. Should
the estimatemade prove insufficient, the Government
will take an early opportunity of asking further sup-
plies. The customs duties have been reduced, but the
estimated revenue will nevertheless cover the anti-
cipated outlay. Projects for the reorganisation ,of
the army and fleet await completion, and the sums
required for these purposes will be asked for sub-
sequently. The liberation of trade has proved bene-
ficial, and the land allotment and credit banks have
been advantageous."
The speech concluded with a promise that educa-
tional arrangements should be improved, and dwelt
emphatically upon the importance to both countries
of the Swedish and Norwegian lines of railway com-
munication being speedily completed.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY.

SMITUITELD.—Meadow hay, £4 108 to £5 lOs; clover,
£4 10s to £6 12s Gd ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load.
Trade firm.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 103 to £5 10s; clover,
£5 Os to £6 158 ; and straw, £1 108 to £1 18s per load.
A steady demand.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 lOs to £5 10s; clover,
£4 lOs to £6 12s 6d ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16a per load.
Trade steady.