The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-20 00:00:00

TUE CASE OF DR. HUNTER.

Mr. Butler Rigby applied that the personal attendance
of Mrs. Merrick before the grand jury might be dispensed
with, and the depositions taken might be put instead, as
she was too ill to attend.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he wished not to throw
any impediment in the way of justice.
After some conversation it was arranged that the appli-
cation should be made again to-morrow morning.

NEW COURT.
(Beforo Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

The Court was 3ccupied the whole of the morning with
Mint cases. One prisoner, named Rose, was found guilty
of uttering base coin, and there being throe former convic-
tions proved against him, the learned Commissioner sen-
tenced him to 15 years' penal servitude.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MABLBOROUGH-STREET.

BURGLARY. —William Brown, a young man, describing
himself as a waiter, but refusing his address, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with burglariously breaking and en-
tering the dwelling-house of Mr. William Day, landlord of
the Horse and Dolphin, 11, Macclesfield-street, Soho, and
stealing a box containing money and a musical box.
Mr. Day said—About half-past 10 on Saturday night
my barmaid asked me if any one had gone upstairs. I said
I thought not. My barmaid then got a light, and, hearing
a noise and seeing footsteps on the stairs, I went upstairs,
accompanied by my wife. On getting to my bedroom I
found the door wide open, and the prisoner then rushed
past me down stairs. My wife seized him by the coat
tails, and he dragged her down two or three flights of
stairs. She was then obliged to release her hold,
and then the prisoner made his way down stairs. On
getting to the bottom he was secured by, my neighbour and
others, when he dropped a jemmy or crowbar on the floor,
the bedroom door and a box in the bedroom having been
broken open with it. At the same time the prisoner must
have dropped a piece of taper, as a piece was afterwards
found near where be had passed. A constable was then
called in and the prisoner given into custody, having a box,
my property, in his possession at the time. He had also
broken open a desk and moved a musical box.
Police-constable Thomas Davis, 227 C —I was called in
and took the prisoner into custody. I found in his pos-
session a brooch, and also a small box containing money.
He said he had the box out of Mr. Day's bedroom. I went
back to Mr. Day's house after taking the prisoner to the
station, and received from Mr. Day a jemmy" which had
been picked up.

Police-constable Dickins, 306 A—l examined the jemmy
with the marks on the bedroom door and tho desk or box,
and they correspond. I also found some wax from a taper
on the bedroom door, and a piece of taper of the same
colour was picked up in the house.
Inspector Harrison—l wish for a remand, as I believe I
shall be able to connect the prisoner with an affair of a
similar kind.
Mr. Tyrrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

FATAL QUARREL IN liiSON:GROVE.—A frightful
occurrence took place on Saturday evening, between
nine and ten o'clock, at No. 17, Nightingale-street, Lisson-
grove. It appears that a man named O'Flanagan occu-
pied the upper floor of the house, and a man named
Jones the first floor. They have for some time been
upon bad terms, but upon Saturday evening, as
O'Flanagan was proceeding to his room he was accosted by
Jones and his wife on the landing ; words ensued, and
Flanagan was stabbed in several places, hit on the head
with a hammer, and thrown over the staircase, by which
his back was broken, besides other injuries, from which
he died before reaching the hospital, where he was con-
veyed in a cab. Jones and his wife immediately absconded.
The woman has been taken by the police, and lodged in
John-street station, but the police have not succeeded in
taking Jones, although it is thought he will not be long at
large. The deceased leaves three children, and the man
Jones has five.

THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.—The weather for
the season has been remarkably fine upon the whole
on the north-east cost since November came in ; but on
Thursday night a remarkable number of casualties occurred
through vessels having been caught in a heavy squall
which burst upon them about 10 o'clock. The schooner
Industry, of Whitstable, went ashore upon the rocks be-
tween Shields and Sunderland, and she is likely to become
a wreck. About the same time the brig Reliance, belong-
ing to Sunderland, missed stays, and went ashore at Ryhope
Nook. Two vessels also drove ashore at Redcar. They
were the Leipsic, of Margate, and the lugger Perseverance,
of Scarborough, and they both appear likely to be wrecks.
No lives were lost, however. The crew of the Ellen, of
Stockton, reached Hartlepool from Aberdeen on Saturday.
The vessel foundered at sea about 15 miles from the Scotch
port.

THE EXODUS FROM IRELAND.—The Cork Herald
says :—" The best evidence of the extraordinary vitality of
the Irish exodus is the still increasing competition amongst
steamship owners for a share in the enormous passenger
traffic between this country and America. The six lines
of ocean steamers making Queenstown a port of call on
their passage to America have just been supplemented by
a seventh, which promises to afford advantages that will
place it on a par with those already engaged in the trade.
Messrs. Guion and Co., the extensive brokers of New York
and Liverpool, who have hitherto shared largely in the
business of the National Company's line, have severed, or
are about to sever, their connection with that undertaking,
and have started an independent line of first-class steam-
ships. For the present they have chartered four of the
Allan Company's Canadian steamers, pending the construc-
tion of a fleet of new vessels, of great size and superiority,
the first of which will commence to ply in the spring. The
departures will be weekly (every Thursday) from Liver-
pool, calling at Queenstown every Friday to embark pas-
sengers. Hopes are entertained that the owners' large
influence on the other side of the Atlantic will enable
them to secure the privilege of conveying the United
States' mails, as at present enjoyed by the Inman line.
The first of the chartered steamers, the Moravian, called
at Queenstown on Friday, bound out, having made the
run from Liverpool in 21 hours, although her engines
were slowed for some time. She had on board nearly her
full complement of passengers, and about fifty addi-
tional cleared and embarked from the wharf of the agents
at Queenstown, within half an hour of the steamer's
arrival."

Mr. T. C. WELSCIS, an American artist living at
Frankfort-on-the-Maine, has lately painted a beautiful
picture of Frankfort, which is very highly spoken of by
artists and connoisseurs. The view was taken from the
former favourite summer-house of the great Goethe. Mr.
Welsch not long since had an " Order of Ernestine" con-
forrod on him by the Duke of Saxe-Gotha for a beautiful
Swiss scene painted for the Duke.

COTTON-PICKING MACHINE.—The Cairo Times
has the following:— "A gentleman paid Cairo a visit a few
weeks since, on business connected with a machine for
picking cotton, and from its workings the instrument pro-
mises to be a perfect success. The gentleman alluded to
hopes to have the machine ready by the last cotton-pick-
ing this fall, and to have it in perfect order by th• time
the next crop invites picking. This has heretofore been
considered impossible, but the principle of this machine is
destined to surmount all opposition and meet the desired
end.

Punch hu obtained a valuable recruit to his
artistib ranks' in the person of the daughter of a dignitary
of the church in the diocese of Manchester. The sketches
of this contributor, known by the initials G. 8., have a
good deal of the spirit and power of the lamented John
'Leech.

A
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