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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

A FRENCIIMAN CHARGED WITH HAVING IN HIS Pos-
SESSION COUNTERFEIT FRENCH COlN.—Augustus Villemot,
commission agent, of No. 34, Theobald's-road, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt by Sergeant Druscovich, of
the detective department, Scotland-yard, with having in
his possession several counterfeit coins of the empire of
France, with intent to utter the same.

Mr. Charles Albort, tho interpreter, attended to interpret
tho evidence.

Sergeant Druscovich, of the detective departmCnt, Scot-
land-yard, said—About six or eight months ago I received
information of the prisoner and another being engaged in
passing counterfeit French coins. Yesterday, having
kept observation on his movements, I saw him at a money-
changer's window take something out of one pocket and
put it into another. I followed him about, and saw him go
to the Cafd de L'Etoile, in Great Windmill-street. Ho
there played cards for some time, and then went
to the back part of the hotel. With tho assis-
tance of Sergeant Shore, I followed and stopped him,
and, on searching him, I found in his possession several
packs of cards, tickets, and eight pieces of 5 francs each,
wrapped in a paper, all of which aro counterfeit. lie
asked me what I wanted to do with the money, and tried
to get it away from me. He wished his worship to remand
the case to a future day for the attendance of the French
Consul-General.

Mr. Tyrwhitt having referred to the Act, said that he
found that if a person had more than five pieces of coun-
terfeit foreign. coin in his possession he was liable to the
penalty under the act. He should, therefore, remand the
prisoner.
The prisoner has been known to the police for some
time as a notorious card-sharper.

ME SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1865.

is supposed, may surround Toungso Penlow, and the latter
would occupy Punakha. Circumstantial statements are
given by the Calcutta press of the terms embodied in the
treaty, which is to be dictated at Punakha. The principal
heads of the agreement are as follows:—The Deb and
Dhurm Rajahs are formally to acknowledge the cession of
the Bengal Dooars and the lower Hills, a British commis-
sioner to trace out the boundary line ; Mr. Eden's extorted
treaty to be surrendered, and a rajah is to .be deputed to
make formal apology at Calcutta for the indignities put
upon that British envoy in 1864 ; all natives of British ter-
ritory held in bondage in Bhootan are to be liberated, and
a treaty, pledging the Deb and Dhurm Rajahs to amity in
the future, is to bo signed by them. The Supreme Govern-
ment, on its part, agrees to pay an annuity of Rs. 20,000
for the surrendered territory, that sum to bo increased to
Rs. 50,000 if the Bhootanese refrain from aggression. Re-
ports of sickness amongst the native troops at Gowhatty
and Putla Kowa have ceased ; so it is probable that the
coolness following the rains has restored the health of the
soldiers, or else that the greater part:of them have, for the
present., been withdrawn.

We announce pith the deepest regret the death of the
lion. Mr. Justice Kinloch Forbes, one of the judges of her
Majesty"s High Court, which occurred at Poona on the 31st
ultimo, the result of an affection of the brain. The sad
news does not come upon us unexpectedly, for his illness
had been a subject of sincere regret in Bombay for the last
ten days, and everywhere the strongest feeling of sympathy
was expressed when his illness became a subject of con-
versation. About fourteen days ago he made his last ap-
pearance on the bench, when he attended to conclude the
hearing of a case which had on a previous occasion been
opened before him. On this occasion he looked so unwell
that his appearance was the subject of remark in the court,
and he left immediately after the case had been concluded.
He went to Poonafor change of air and relief from his daily
work ; but unhappily no relief came. His illness con-
tinued to increase ; it was soon seen to be of a nature
which held forth no hope of recovery ; and he gradually
sank till, as we have said, he quietly passed away on the
night of Thursday last.

A very important decision of Mr. Justice Anstey's, by
which it would appear that more than ono representation
of a time-bargain share is invalid, is likely to bring about
some united action on the part of thousands who were
unable to " take up "on July first. We observe that an
advertisement requests the time-bargainers to compare
dates together, so that when it is found more than one pre-
sentation of a share can be traced, all but ono presentee
will be cleared from legal obligation. This may be a re-
lief to the feelings of many, and it is not for us to dispute
the soundness of Mr. Justice Anstey's law ; but it is still
questionable whether the moral obligation to meet a bar-
gain is in any way weakened by the accidental circum-
stance of the commodity agreed for being offered to a
third party also.
We ,learn that the Taptee viaduct, on the G. I. P.
Railway, is already so far completed, that the contractors'
engines and trains have commenced to run over it from
Bhosawul to Berhampoor, and that it is hoped that before
the close of this year we shall see the trains of the
G. I. P. Railway running through the jungles of Asseer-
ghur to Kundwah ; thus bringing Bombay within easy
access of Indore and Agra.

Since the heaviest of the monsoon has passed cotton has
begun to arrive in Bombay, especially from the coast, and
shipments are being pressed forward. The shares in banks,
Back Bay, Elphinstone, and other undertakings, have made
a rapid, and, in case of the more substantial stockS, a con-
siderable advance. It has been feared that speculative ex-
citement was again rising in Bombay ; but, with some
special exceptions, the abortive schemes have been treated
with neglect. There has, however, been evidence pre-
sented in an incidental manner that a speculative spirit
still deranges the views of business men in Bombay. Pro-
posals hare been made for the consolidation of several of
the newer banking concerns, in order to form one strong
bank that shall remain under local management. The
banks named include the Bank of India, the Royal Bank,
the Bombay City Bank, the Indo-Egyptian, and the Bom-
bay Joint-Stock Corporation; but, besides these, some of
the proposals include companies of a much weaker de-
scription, many of which have never done any genuine
banking business.

In reference to the loss of her Majesty's ship
Hugh Lindsay, the same journal says :
_ _

We regret having to announce the total loss of this
vessel on the night of the 18th ultimo, as sho was coming
out of Bassidore Roads. Bassidore is a port on the island
of Kishm, in the Persian Gulf. The Hugh Lindsay's back
is broken, and her engines entirely destroyed ; by latest
advices she is stated to be fast breaking up. Fortunately,
no lives were lost, and the passengers' luggage has all been
saved. She had on board several telegraph officials who
had been relieved from duty in the Gulf, and were en route
to join the Guader and Kurrachee stations. The Amber-
witch left Kurrachee early yesterday to bring on the pas-
sengers. Tho Hugh Lindsay is mentioned in Alison's
history of Europe as being the first steamer that conveyed
an overland mail from Bombay to Suez. She is now 37
or 38 years old, and has done much good service in most
parts of India. She was also, we believe, the first steamer
that entered the Persian Gulf, and was of teak wood, built
in Bombay. The cause of the accident is not yet known,
and we think we shall have to await the return of the
Amberwitch to ascertain it and further particulars.
The Delhi Gazette remarks :

A correspondent travelling via Bareilly, Furruckabad, and
Cawnpore, informs us that he passed thousands of pilgrims
wending their weary way to the wonderful bridge lately
constructed in some mysterious way near Rampore. It
seemed to him as if all the old women, the blind, the halt,
and the leprous of the country were trudging along, bent
on being cured. Faqueers were distributing by pinches the
sacred earth of which the bridge is composed, each recipient
swallowing his or her share, in the full belief that relief to
their respective grievances must result. Hundreds of
maunds of the earth had been carried away—a great deal
more, in fact, than composed the bridge. is there no gentle
little section in the Penal Code under which the impostors
who started the bridge, which has yieldeda harvest so rich,
could be punished for inducing the poor deluded creatures
who flock to the place to spend their hardly earned money
for their special behoof ? Perhaps it would be considered
an infringement of neutrality !
The Friend of India says :

We believe that Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell, who
commanded during the disgraceful retreat from Dewangiri,
has been called on to send in his papers and resign.

CRUELTY ON BOARD SHlP.—Another case of vio-
lence to a boy on board ship came before the Green-
wich magistrates yesterday morning. The depositions of
the boy, who is lying in the Dreadnought hospital ship,
with his back broken, and without the slightest hope of
recovery, was taken by the magistrate, and was to the
following effect :--" I am seventeen years old, and was
brought up on board the Marine Society's ship Warspite.
From that ship I was apprenticed to Capt. John Brame, of
the Iludgill, collier, belonging to Newcastle. I had only
been on board three days, and on the night of the third
day, about twelve o'clock, I was standing on deck. One
of the men was passing a rope along the deck, and he
said something to me, speaking in a north-country lan-
guage that I did not understand. I did not say a word
to him, and because I did not do what I suppose he
wanted me to do, he struck me on the back of the neck
with his fist, and the blow knocked me down into the
middle hold. I was standing close to the hold, and the
rope the man was handling ran between mo and the
hold. I remember nothing after that until I found
myself here. The man had not spoken to me more
than once. It was dark, and I could not see which of
the crew it was who did it. All the crew 'were on the
deck at the time, and consisted of not more than six
persons besides the captain. The ship was lying off the
ballast wharf at Gravesend ; I am sure the blow was
struck intentionally." The man who struck the blow
is not in custody.

A BULLOCK AT THE ToP OF A HOUSE.—Yester-
day (Monday) morning as a bullock, the property
of Messrs. Snook and Son, butchers, of Salisbury, was
being driven along the Butcher-row it suddenly turned
round and darted into the house of Mr. E. Morris, grocer.
Being unable to turn in the narrow passage in which it
found itself the animal proceeded up an equally circum-
scribed staircase to the top of the house (three stories
high), and then ran into a small room, used for storing
cheese, facing the Market-place. By this time several
hundred persons had congregated in front of the house,
and considerable excitement was manifested, as the
bullock was rather a wild one, and it was believed that
it would be quite impossible for it even to get out of the
room, as the piles of cheese only allowed just sufficient
space for it to stand, much less to turn round. In
this dilemma it was proposed to shoot the animal, and a
ladder was placed across the house and a gun procured for
the purpose, but it was afterwards found that if the first
shot should not prove fatal a scene of an alarming nature
would ensue, to say nothing of the disagreeable inconveni-
ence of making a slaughter-house in a store filled with
cheese. It was determined, consequently, on second con-
sideration, to try other means before adopting this last re-
source. It was next therefore suggested that if the window
could be got open the poor brute would in all probability
jump out, notwithstanding the great height. No one,
however, seemed inclined to run the risk of mounting the
ladder and being tossed off again in order to raise the sash,
and consequently this had to be accomplished by means of
a grapnel let down from the roof. The bullock, however,
when this new mode of egress was opened to him, instead
of jumping right out of the window at once and breaking
its neck in the descent, as was expected, contented itself by
forcibly ejecting a large tray and box, by means of its
horns, into the street, and putting its head out of the win-
dow, quietly surveyed the spectators, to the intense amuse-
ment particularly of the juvenile portion of the assemblage.
Another proposition was ultimately made, which proved
more successful, and that was to knock a hole through the
wall of an adjoining room and to get at him by means of
j sticks in that way. This was done, and by a violent
effort the bullock, after knocking down and trampling on
the cheese, got round and forced his way down stairs again
into the street, where he w 8,5 secured and driven to the
slaughterhouse and killed.