The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-12 00:00:00

THAMES.

BEAHTIFYING A BLACK MAN.-A tall, woolly-headed
negro, named Henry Williams, was brought before Mr.
Selfe, charged with creating a disturbance and breaking a
pane of glass in the window of Mr. Noah Sayer, a barber,
in Well-street, Wellclose-square.

William Butler, a journeyman barber, said the prisoner
came into his master's shop yesterday evening and said he
wanted beautifying. (Laughter.) He proceeded to shave
the prisoner, to polish him up—(more laughter)—and cut
his hair. He then shampooed the prisoner. (Great
laughter.)

Mr. Selfe—Shampooed him. How did you do that
Witness—l shampooed him in the American style ;
dressed his hair, and poured some odoriferous stuff over it,
and beautified him nicely. (Roars of laughter.) When I
had done all that he offered me a penny.
Mr. Selfe—A penny for beautifying a black man. (Ica-
creased laughter.)

Witness—l told him a penny would not do, the charge
was a shilling. lle said he was not half beautified, and
would not pay it, but after creating a great disturbance, he
paid the shilling, and took up a pot of cosmetic, which he
was about to put on his head. (Laughter.) I told him
that could not be included, on which he seized me and threw
me on the shop door and broke a large pane of glass.

Mr. Selfe—What cosmetic was it?
Witness—Pomade, sir.
Mr. Selfe—To make his hair straight ?
Witness—No, sir ; it is a sort of pomade to make the hair
curl.

Mr. Selfe—Pomade to curl a black man's hair—it will
curl without pomade. (Laughter.)
Mr. Sayer, the proprietor of the barber's shop, said this
no laughing matter, but as the prisoner had made it straight
ho would not press the charge.
Mr. Selfe—Make what straight—his hair ?
Mr. Sayer—No ; he will pay for the glass he has broken.
Mr. Selfe—Very well. Now, Mr. Williams, when you
want to be beautified again don't meddle with the barber's
cosmetics and break his windows. You may go.
The black man, who looked all the better for the "polish"
he had received from the barber, then withdrew,

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN ANDER-
STON.

The woman Mary M'Donald, so anxiously in-
quired after by the public as well as the authorities,
is still at large. In connection with the case, the
Falkirk Herald of yesterday has the following
statement :

" The murdered woman was well known to many
people in town, having lived from her infancy in
Falkirk. She appears to have been the illegiti-
mate daughter of a person named Richardson, who
at the time of her birth lived in St. Ninians.
She was adopted by a Mrs. M'Pherson, who
brought her up. At an early age she went to
service, and passed many years in the houses of
several most respectable parties in town. She
was no less than eight years with Mrs. Darnley,
who speaks of her as a good, kind, obliging per-
son. Her long service with Mrs. Darnley seems to
have begotten a mutual feeling of respect ; so much,
indeed, that a regular correspondence was kept up
between the parties. On Saturday last one of Mrs.
Darnley's family, employed in the Falkirk Iron
Works, went to Glasgow with the excursionists,
and when there called at the house at which the
deceased served. The door, the youth states, was
opened by an elderly man, who said that Miss
M'Pherson was not at home.' Desirous of seeing
her, the youth stayed in Glasgow over Sunday,
during which he again called at the house of Mr.
Fleming ; was again met by the same old man
(apparently Mr. Fleming, the eldest, and re-
ceived the same answer—namely, that she was
not at home. This time, however, bis name
was asked and given, on the understand-
ing that it would be handed, with compli-
ments, to Miss M'Pherson. No more was heard of
her till the Glasgow morning papers announced
her frightful and singularly mysterious death. One
of the Glasgow detectives was in town on Tuesday
morning, endeavouring to gain some clue to this
' mystery of Glasgow.' The murder is the all-
engrossing subject in Falkirk, where the deceased
was personally known to almost everybody in town.
She was a most superior-looking person, and had
the peculiar faculty of making friendships and re-
taining them. We learn that the deceased had
written during last week to a person in Falkirk,
that for about three weeks she had not been on good
terms with one of the Fleming family. We hear a
number of other rumours, some of them with a deal
of feasibility, but pointing in a direction which it
would not be prudent to refer to further in the
meantime."

MAILS FOR GUADELOUPE BY FRENCH PACKET
FROM ST. NAZAlRR.—lnformation has been received from
the Director-General of the French Post-office of the estab-
lishment of a branch packet between Martinique and Gua-
deloupe, in connexion with the line of French mail packets
leaving St. Nazaire on the 14th of each month for Mexico,
and calling at Martinique. The following table shows the
rates of postage chargeable upon letters, newspapers, and
other printed papers for Guadeloupe, intended for convey-
ance by the French packets. As regards letters, these rates
may be paid in advance, or may be left to be charged on
delivery, at the option of the sender :—Letters not exceed-
ing oz., 8d; above oz. and not exceeding oz., is 4d ;
above oz. and not exceeding oz 2s; above I; oz. and
not exceeding 1 oz., 2s 8d ; for each additional oz., Bd.
For a packet of British newspapers duly registered at the
General Post-office for transmission abroad, not exceeding
4 ozs., ld ; above 4 ozs., and not exceeding lb., 2d ; above
!h. lb. and not exceeding 1 lb., 4d ; above 1 lb. and not ex-
ceeding 11 lb., 6d.; for each additional # lb., 2d. For a 4
packet of any other printed papers, not exceeding ozs.,
3d ; above 4 ozs. and not exceeding lb., 6d; aboveeef lb.
and not exceeding 11b., is ; above 1 lb. and notrsexcfor ding
11 lb., is 6d ; for each additional lb., 6d. Letters
Gua-
deloupe may also be registered, f the sendeeer. Letterssttedesireit foro, n
payment of double the above rates of postage.
Guadeloupe will be forwarded by the proceed-
ing to that place, whether British first k
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Frepuaucb.e—t
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or com-
mand of the Postmaster General, ROWLAND HILL, Secre-
tary.—General —General Post-office, July 11, 1862.
DUMFRIES. —THE ACCOUNT FOR BURNS'S
COFFIN.—A gentleman in .T/umfries, in looking over some
old papers bought at an auction here lately, lighted on a
mournfully-interesting little scrap—the veritable bill sent
in to the trustees of the poet Burns for the expense of his
own coffin and the coffins of his two children. There can
be no doubt of the genuineness of the document, which is
in the following terms :—" The trustees of the lat a Mr.
Robert Burns to Thomas Boyd—July 1766, to a covered,
full-mounted coffin for Mr. Burns, £6 6s. ; April 25th,
1799, to a coffin for his child, is. ; July 11th, 1803, to
a coffin for Mr. Francis Burns, 55.—.£12 135." These
dates tally with those in the inscription on the original
tombstone, erected over the remains of Burns by his
widow,—Dum.fries Standard.