The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-22 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE PULTENEY-STREET SUNDAY NvisANcE..—Mr.
William Duttrie, jeweller, of Pulteney-street, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting a little girl named
Louisa Wills.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the defendant.
The evidence went to show that on a Sunday or two ago,
a mob of boys were annoying the defendant, who is lame
from an injury to the foot, and in consequence walks with
a stick, and in attempting to strike one of the boys the
blow fed on the complainant's head.
A certificate was put in, signed by Mr. Brook, of Silver-
street, surgeon, stating that there was no danger likely to
arise to the girl from the injury she had received.
Mr. Lewis put several questions to the girl as to whether
she was not in the habit of playing in the street, but she
denied it, that she had ran against Mr. Duttrie, neither
did she play at cards on Sunday evenings in the street.
Mr. Lewis said he was instructed to state that the assault
arose out of the intolerable nuisance existing in the street of
a Sunday by boys and girls congregating, playing at cards,
and using the most obscene language. So bad was the
nuisance of late that the whole of the ietabitants of the
street had signed a memorial to the Commissioners of Police.
No one regretted the result of the blow the unfortunate girl
had received more than the defendant, and he (Mr. Lewis)
only regretted that a compromise had not been effected.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it seemed to him a fit case for a Qom.
promise. There evidently was no premeditation, on the
defendant's part; but if they, wished it he would send the
case to the sessions.
Some pornpensation having been made to the girl, the de-
fendant was discharged.
A NARROW ESCAPE.- -James Carney, a shoemalzer, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with wilfully breaking a
quantity of glass, and disorderly conduct, at the house of
Mr. Wm. Fisher, the King and Queen, Foley-street.
From the evidence of Mr. Fisher, it appeared that on
Saturday night the prisoner and four Companions entered
his house, having been turned out of another, and created
a great disturbance. Mr. Fisher requested the prisoner to
desist, when he flung a pint measure at his head, but Mr.
Fisher, fortunately stooping, avoided a blow which was
aimed at him with such violence that the measure was
nearly bent double. The result of the throwing was, that a
large quantity of glass was broken.
A constable having stated that the prisoner and his com-
panions had been turned out of another house for their vio-
lent conduct,
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for one month for
throwing the measure at Mr. Fisher, ordered him to pay
10s. or seven days for the damage, and to be bound over to
keep the peace for six months towards Mr. Fisher.

THAMES.
DASTARDLY CASE OF STABBING.—A German sailor,
who was called Charles Fox, was brought before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with stabbing Francisco Plaudo, an
Italian sailor, in Rateliff-highway, on the night of Satur-
day, the 13th inst.

Police-constable 'William Andrews, No. 38 H, said the
prisoner was sought after all last week, and was not appre-
hended until Saturday eNening, when he took him into
custody in a dancing-room of a public-house in Ship-alley,
Wellclose-square, and he was immediately identified by the
man who was wounded, and by another. Andrews then
pat in a medical certificate from the hon.. ..argoon of the
London Hospital, who had attended the case, and said
that the Italian was seriously wounded in the back and
lost a good deal of blood.

Platido, the prosecutor, who was called Plaucido, said
he was in Ratcliff-highway on the night of the 13th inst.
at a quarter past 12 o'clock, and a man came up to him and
said in English, "Have you any money ?" to which he
replied, "No, none at all." The man then struck him on
the nose, and a second man struck him a violent blow on
the cheek and knocked him down. A, he was getting up
and calling cut for the police, the prisoner came behind
him and stabbed him in the back with a knife. He fell
again and lost a good deal of blood and was taken to the
hospital.

The witness then produced the jacket and shirt he wns
wearing when the stab was inflicted. Both garments were
cut through, and stained with blood.
• Charles Rivieres, a foreign seaman, confirmed the state-
ment of Plaudo, and said the prisoner had been fighting
with an Austrian seaman at half-past 11 o'clook, and he
went home and procured a knife, and mistaking the prose-
cutor for the Austrian he had been fighting with, plunged
a knife into his back.

Mr. Woolrych—Did you see the other man strike him?
"Witness—Yes, I did, sir.

A long sheath knife with which the wound was inflicted
was produced.

Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial.

BELIEF OF DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.

Lord Elgin, the Viceroy of India has addressed
the subjoined letter to the Lord Mayor on a ques-
tion connected with the distress, the consideration of
which has of late been much urged on the Indian
Government by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce
and the community of Calcutta generally :

" Fort William, Nov. 17.
" My Lord,--In reply to a communication addressed to
the Lord Mayor of London in the year 1861 by the Govern-
ment of Bombay, on the subject of the appropriation of the
surplus then remaining in hand of the fund so generously
contributed by Grant Britain for the relief of the sufferers
by the Indian famine of 1860, his lordship observed
that it might be held in reserve for the relief of distress
of the same nature in any part of India ; for, his lordship
wrote, although not likely to recur to the extent to which
it has lately existed in the North-Western Provinces of the
Punjab, destitution must be expected to prevail from time
to time in particular localities, owing to the failure of crops,
inundations, and other causes.' Notwithstanding the in-
junctima,contained in these words, so deep and general is
the sympathy which the districts of England has awakened
in this country, that the Government of India has hem
strongly urged to remit their surplus at once to your lord-
ship, in order that it may be added to the funds which are
now being raised for the relief of the Lancashire operatives.
"We do not consider that, as trustees of this surplus, we
should be justified in diverting it on our own and sole re-
sponsibility from the destination originally imparted to it
by the subscribers, and subsequently confirmed by the de-
cision of the Lord Mayor which I have cited above; but we
think that under the circumstances we may invite your
lordship to review that decision, and inform you that if,
acting on behalf of the subscribers, you should be of opi-
nion that it may without impropriety be applied in the
manner which I have indicated, the Government of India
will heartily concur with your lordship in giving effect to
that opinion.
46 The precise amount of surplus available is not yet ascer-
tained, as certain claims arising out of the famine of 1860
are still unadjusted; but your lordship's draughts on the
Government of India for the sum of 20,000 will be at once
honoured, should your lordship see fit to add this contribu-
tion to the funds placed at your disposal for the relief of our
suffering fellow-subjects in Lancashire.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord, your lordship's very
faithful servant, "ELGIN and KINCARDINZ.
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London."

THE MONTROSE FAMILY.—The Atkencetim, no-
tieing
Ike T 7 icissztudes of Families, points out that fur seven
hundred yens, since the Grahams first branched off from
the family of Dalkeith and Abercorn, Montrose has de.
scended from father to son, with tut two exceptions, when
grandson succeeded grandfather. Even more noteworthy
than the absence of collaterial descent in the history of the
peerage, is the fact that, as far as can be ascertained, the
wives of Montrose have for four hundred years been the
daughters of actual peers. Lastly, the heads of the long
line have never married heiresses, except on one occasion,
when a Marquis of Montrose married the younger daughter
of the only Duke of Bothes ; but this lady, as she had no
share of her father's inheritance, did not bring the arms.
" Thus, in consequence of the long continuance of the nnalo
line in noble families of Scotland, and the paucity of heir-
esses, this Montrose family, one of the oldest of the Ore e
kingdoms, has no quarterings, while other families of much
shorter duration, in the male line, have quarterings by th
hundred,"