The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-08 00:00:00

ME SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1F65.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Winslow.)
IN RE CAPT. It. E. P. CRAUFORD.

This bankrupt was described as captain and brevet-major
in the Royal Artillery, a prisoner for debt, and to-day was
appointed for the order of release. The debts amount to
£4,400, and amongst the largest creditors are IL E. IL J.
Cranford, Esq., of Belgrave-road, £2,500, an Indian mer-
chant of Bombay, £416 ; Mrs. Hemmings, Ayrshire, £5lO ;
and a great many West-end tailors figuring on the list.
Mr. Reed, on behalf of the bankrupt, stated that there
was no opposition, and his honour granted the order of
discharge as prayed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. .

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A BOY.—AN EXTRAORDINARY FANCY FOR
ICES.—Richard M‘Gratb, about 12 years old, was charged
before Mr. Knox with stealing about £5 in gold and silver,
the moneys of Mr. Richard Hawkins, a clerk, residing at
No. 133, Great Portland-street.
Mr. Hawkins said—About a fortnight ago I missed from
a drawer about £5, and although I used every exertion to
find out the thief I was unable to do so till I questioned a
little girl (the prisoner's sister), who resides Arith me, as
to how she became possessed of a half-crown, when she
said that her brother had given it to her. I then sent for
her mother and the prisoner, and the latter confessed that
he first took two sovereigns and a ss. piece, and afterwards
the rest of the money, having opened the drawer with a
false key.
Mr. Knox—How came the prisoner to have access to,
the place ?
The prosecutor—His sister is employed as nurse girl
and the prisoner was in the habit of coming to the house to
take a little boy out in a perambulator.

A constable—After owning to taking the money, the
prisoner said he had secreted it in different places.

Mr. Knox (to tho boy's mother)—lt is a terrible story
about your child, Mrs. M'Grath.
The mother (a respectable looking female)—lt is, sir. I
never saw a halfpenny of the money. I asked him what
he had done with it, and he said ho had spent it in ices.
Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.
How CHILDREN ARE ENCOURAGED TO STEAL.—Ann
Kane, about 12 years old, was charged before Mr. Knox
with stealing a number of steel stamps, of the value of £5,
the property of Mr. Arthur Kancford, salesman, 7, New-
port-court.
The Prosecutor—Having lost several articles, amongst
others some irons, I taxed the prisoner who, with her
mother, lodges in my house. I told her that if she told the
truth I would not prosecute her, as I believed she had been
led into it by others. She then took me to a shop in
Dudley-street, where, instead of ending the irons I found
a number of stamps, some of them of the value of ss. each.
Those produced are of the value of £5, but they are only
about half of those I missed. The woman at the shop
said she believed they had been sold, but on my telling
her I should get a policeman she produced them.
She said she kept no books, and was not
bound to do so. I afterwards gave the prisoner in charge
for stealing the stamps, but I feel sorry for her, as her
mother is a dissipated woman.
Mary Ann Lewis, living in Dudley-street—We keep a
broker's shop. We sell cloths and things like those pro-
duced. I bought the stamps of her at 9d. a lot, as she said
her mother sent her. I did not know the value of the
articles. I gave 3s. for the whole of them.
Mr. Knox—And their value is £5. Do you keep books ?
Witness—No.

Mr. Knox—You aro liable to a fine of £2O. I shall re-
mand tho prisoner.

Ellen Kane, the prisoner's mother, was afterwards
charged with being found last night in a bedroom belong-
ing to the prosecutor, supposed for the purpose of com-
mitting a felony.
She was also remanded.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

The only intelligence from Valentia yesterday
was a simple repetition of the messages which of late
have caused so much despondency among all in-
terested in the success of this great enterprise. The
tests still show as completely as before that the rope
is parted at between 1,230 and 1,250 miles from
land. The earth currents coming back through it
now are regular and strong though still no mention
is made of battery currents. No news now of any
kind calculated to explain with certainty the cause
of the mishap is looked for till the Great Eastern
herself returns. She is expected off Valentia or
Cape Clear to-morrow night or Thursday morning
at latest. A rumour was very generally current
yesterday that the breakage had been caused by the
failure of one of the cable tanks. As a matter of
course, in the absence of any communication from
the Great Eastern, such a way of accounting for
the loss is one of the idlest of idle rumours. If the
tanks were ever likely to have given way, it was on
the voyage round to Valentia when they had their
greatest weights of cable and water in them, and
when their strength was fairly tried by rather rough
summer weather. When the Great Eastern rolled,
the ponderous shorings which supported the tanks
from the main deck to the bottom of the ship did
certainly creak and strain considerably, but when,
on the contrary, the vessel was pitching slightly
they were as noiseless as part of the tanks them-
selves. It is not likely, then, that any of the tanks
would yield when relieved of more than half their
weight of cable and more than half their weights of
water. Another theory put forward is that the
engines of the Great Eastern may have broken down
—a conjecture which is infinitely more probable
than that anything went wrong with the tanks.
Both, however, are mere conjectures, and the only
thing which can be taken as certain is that the cable
is broken. We belieiie, as we said from the first,
that when the Great Eastern returns it will be found
that the fault was paid out some 10 or 12 miles be-
fore it was discovered on board the ships, and that
in the effort to haul it back and repair it the cable
was broken and lost on Wednesday afternoon or
Thursday morning.

THE MEDITERRANEAN MAIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company steam-
ship Delta, Captein Babot, arrived at SouthaZaPton
yesterday. She brings 28 passengers, 20 packajes
specie, value £6,343 ; also a general cargo, includ-
ing 348 bales raw silk, value, £27,000 sterling.
The Delta exchanged colours on the 24th with
the steamer Poonah ; on the 28th, off Galita, passed
a screw steamer steering S.E., showing English and
Turkish colours; and on the sth, at 9 p.m., ex-
changed night signals with the steamer Nyanza
with the outward Calcutta mails of the 4th.

In consequence of the non-arrival of the Bombay
or Calcutta mails at Suez, the Delta brings no
Indian mails or passengers.
The Sardinian corvette Etna, French frigate Per-
drix, and a large number of merchant steamers and
sailing ships, were at Alexandria.
GIBRALTAR, Aug. 1.

The Peninsular Company's steamer Syria, with
the Bombay mails of the 27th, left for Alexandria
at 9.30 p.m. on the 31st.

The Devonport is to sail in the course of the
week with the left wing of her Majesty's 22d Regi-
ment, for the Mauritius.
The Spanish squadron, under the command of
Admiral Pinzon, consisting of the screw sloops
Santa Teresa, Candad, and Concordia, and screw
frigates Almansa and Concepcion, will cruise off
the Cantabrian coast during the sojourn of their
Majesties the Queen and King at The baths of
Zauraz.

The Austrian screw frigate Novara, from Havan-
nah, sailed on the 23d for the Adriatic.
Gibraltar is again in free communication with the
neighbouring ports of Spain. The quarantine upon
vessels from Gibraltar had been taken off all the
ports of the province of Cadiz, and Malaga has
adopted the same course.
Her Majesty's armour-clad ship Caledonia, 31
guns, left on the 17th ult. to join the squadron
under the command of Vice-Admiral Smart at Bar-
celona. The Spanish papers mention that immense
numbers of the Barcelonese had visited the vessels.

The following British ships have arrived here
since last dates :—Schooner Volunteer, 18 days
from Liverpool; brigantine Enterprise, 27 days
from Liverpool ; schooner Hawendale, 20 days from
Liverpool ; schooner Red. Rover, 18 days from Car-
diff ; steamer Charente, 11 days from London ;
steamer Cadiz, 7 days from London ; steamer
Senora, 11 days from Glasgow ; steamer Masilia, 5
days from Southampton ; steamer Danube, 5 days
from Liverpool ; steamer Peninsula, 8 days from
London ; brig Martha, 25 days from Liverpool ;
brigs Diana and Hardware, 19 days from Cardiff ;
schooner Anglesey. Lass, 13 days from Cardiff ; and
steamer Euxine, 5 days from Southampton.
Exchanges are quoted—London, 90 days' date,
49- to ; Paris, sf. 24c. ; Marseilles, 8 days' sight,
sf. 13c. to sf. 15c. ; Madrid, to 1 dis. ; Cadiz, 11
to dis. ; Seville, Ito j dis. ; Malaga, jto 1 dis. ;
premium on five-franc pieces, 1 per cent.

Fatal Aaidents at Monkwearmouth
Colliery.
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On Saturday two inquests were held on the bodies of
two men who were killed at Monkwearmouth Colliery on'
Thursday last. Mr. Matthias Dunn, the Government In-
spector of Mines, and Mr. Benjamin Wilson, the under-
viewer of the colliery, were present to watch the cases
The first witness called was Edward Wilson, a lad who
attended at the ropes at the bank head in the Maudlin
seam. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the day in
question he saw Latham come to the bank-head, following
the full set of tubs down, on the right-hand side, but while
doing so the empty tubs were coming up the left-hand side.
He was following about four yards behind the tubs and had
his light burning. Tho bank is 250 yards long, and it takes
a minute and a half in running it. About five minutes
afterwards he heard of deceased's death. William Hedrick
deposed to being near the bank-head, and, on seeing an
empty set of tubs coming up, he went down the line on
which the full set had previously gone, but had not pro-
ceeded to the empty waggons when he found deceased
lying on the opposite side. Ho said to deceased " What
are you lying there in the dark for, if yeu have lost
your light ?" Latham made no answer, but simply shook
his head. Witness saw a wound on the back of his head.
Two or three men, who wero coming down the line
at the time, took deceased to bank. It was witness's
opinion that deceased must have stepped upon the rope of
the full set, which had thrown him on the opposite line,
and the empty waggons went over him, because, if de-
ceased had kept beside the rope all the way, he would
have been perfectly safe. Mr. Benjamin Wilson, the
under-viewer, said the way was quite safe, and the men
were allowed to travel after the full set in going to shaft.
Ho agreed with the last witness that the deceased must
have been thrown to the ground by the rope, because if
he had been struck by the empty tubs there would have
been an obstruction ; very probably the waggons would
have been thrown off the line. The jury returned a ver-
dict that the deceased was found on the way, but how ho
came by his death there was no evidence to show.—The
other inquest was on the body of the lad Joseph Appleby,
18 years of age, who was also killed in the same colliery
only a few hours after the above occurrence. A boy
named Percival Dixon said deceased was a putter at the
colliery, and about 10 minutes past 11 o'clock on the night
in question he was called by a man named Owen Meagan,
and on going to the spot where the deceased had only a
few minutes previously been charging a tub in the Maud-
lin pit he found him jammed fast between the tub and the
prop, quite dead. His head was frightfully injured. The
putters generally rode on the limmers of the waggons,
where they are quite safe, but it was witness's opinion
that the pony attached to the waggon must have moved
whilst deceased was getting on, and so he got jammed be-
tween the tub and the prop. A verdict of accidental death
was returned.

Disgraceful Termination of a Balloon Ascent.

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Captain Adams made another successful ascent in his
Cremorne balloon " Garibaldi," from the Pomona Gardens,
on Saturday last, and got under weigh precisely at ten
minutes past seven, the plaudits of the thousands of people
who had assembled to witness it following him as he went
off in the direction of the city. The captain, in the course
of his journey, which only lasted 40 minutes, attained an
altitude of nearly two miles, and met with at least a dozen
different currents of air, and ho drifted about in a zigzag
fashion all over the city, until having expended all his
ballast, and went over Ashton-road, ho 'WaS obliged to de-
scend, the balloon describing almost a right angle in its
course over the river, owing to the strong wind. The cap-
tain came down on a sort of croft in Palmerston-street,
where an immense crowd of the lowest class of people had
hastened to meet him ; and he declares that never during
his experience of 118 ascents did ho meet with so much
disrespect and insult as awaited him. One fellow, as soon
as the balloon had descended, approached it, and with
something he had in hand made a slit in the balloon a yard
long, and somebody else made a second hole. Capiti!n
Adams vehemently remonstrated with the people, and a
gentleman who had' seen the rent made in the balloon
gave the man who had done it a severe blow on the back
of the head, but this did not Check him, for, aided by a
number of others, he laid hold of the balloon in the basket
and commenced dragging at it. The main portion of the
crowd, which kad become very excited, swayed backwards
and for wards as policemen belaboured them with their canes
to drive them off the car, and at last the captain succeeded
in folding his balloon ; but it was with great difficulty that
the police officers could prevent the ringleaders of the riot
from utterly destroying the balloon, and everything be-
longing to it. Tho people shouted and roared like mad-
men. Evidently a great proportion of them were Irishmen,
and the only reason that can be assigned for the wanton
mischief done to the balloon is that it happened to bear the
name of Garibaldi." Numbers were heard muttering
Garibaldi's name, coupling it with threats. Captain Adams,
with his dog "Jack," a poodle, got into a house, where he
concealed himself from the infuriated mob, and in about an
hour and a half afterwards he succeeded in evading them
by escaping through a number of passages behind rows of
houses, and into a cab. He estimates his damage at £l5
or £2O, and as the ringleaders of the riot are known, it is
hoped they will be brought to justice. Two of the police
officers, named Thompson and Tyler, who rendered most
efficient service, in driving the crowd from the cart con-
taining the balloon, and preventing further damage being
done by the miscreants, were somewhat roughly handled.
It was deemed advisable to shelter the balloon in the police
yard at Fairfield-street.—Manchester Examiner.

TIIE HEALTH OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.—The For-
tress Monroe correspondent of the New York Times, writ-
ing on July 29, says :—" I have the best authority for say-
ing that Jefferson Davis is in good health, even better
than when he arrived at this place. His eyesight is not
impaired, and his appetite is remarkably good. There are
many rumours afloat regarding Jeff, but no alteration has
taken place in his health or condition. No one is allowed
to see him except Surgeon Craven and the guard."
THE IRISH GOVERNMENT AND THE CATTLE
PLAGUE.—Professor Ferguson received instructions on Sa-
turday at a late hour from the Government to at once pro-
ceed to London and other parts of England to investigate
the nature of the cattle plague at present raging there, and
with as little delay as possible to report on the best means
of preventing its occurrence in Ireland, and, in case of its
appearing, of limiting as much as possible its extension.—
Freemcm's Journal.

The Cholera in Italy,

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

GENOA, Aug. 4.
The .Movimento says:—" Letters from Ancona
represent a gloomy state of things in this city. On
1,21 e Ist and 2d inst. the emigration of resident
furdlies, either to the country or the neighbouring
provizlCes, commenced upon a vast scale. The panic
was such that some of the frontier provinces were
obliged to fo,:m sanitary cordons, in order to repel
those who were e. ldeavouring to enter the province."

TURIN, Aug. 5.
The military camps t.j Gluardo and San Maurizio
have been broken up, the
,state of the public health
being such as no longer to ;allow of so many men
being assembled in one spot.
The Diritto says on this subject;;—" We are not
aware why the camp of Somma is n.cf, also broken
up. The malady might there develop itself and
would then be beyond remedy. It is to ).).3 feared
that the soldiers after all their hardships may still
have to undergo perilous and long marches befot
arriving at their destination. Seine of them have
to go even as far as Sicily."
According to the Italie, however, the camp at
Somma continues in an excellent condition. "It
is erroneous," says that paper, " to suppose that
the camp is to be broken up. The troops will con-
tinue their exercises there during the period ap-
pointed. If the camps of Ghiardo and San Maurizio
were recently discontinued, it was because the period
had terminated during which the troops were to be
under arms.