The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-07 00:00:00

AN ECCENTRIC LOVER.—At Desborough, a small
town in Northamptonshire, there is a gentleman en-
gaged in some manufacturing business, named Benjamin
Riley. Mr. Riley some time since determined to marry one
of the young women employed in the factory, named Mary
Ann Paine. But, having before his eyes the fear of Mrs.
Grundy, the worthy manufacturer has taken the novel
course of publishing a justification of his conduct in the
columns of a local newspaper. In his advertisement Mr.
Riley tells his workpeople and the townsfolk in general
that ho is anxious to do everything openly and above
board, and he feels they have some sort of right to ask
his reasons for so flagrant a breach of the conventionalities.
Accordingly they aro informed that the marriage is not
to take place till May next, and that in the meantime Mr.
Riley will have his "intended," as he calls her, educated to
a level with himself, for " of course, to unite myself to this
young woman now would be very foolish indeed, I having
been favoured with a good education and cultivation, she
an uncultured factory girl." Mr. Riley has therefore ad-
vertised in the British Standard and Patriot, and in a few
days his advertisement will be in two other papers, for "
lady, a member of a Christian Church, to instruct in, vari-
ous branches of useful knowledge a young lady whose
education has been neglected." Liberal terms being offered,
nine Christian ladies have already responded to this appeal,
and no doubt others will reply, so that there will be a good
field of choice, and Miss Paine will also, says Mr. Riley, if
nothing prevent; "have a very voluminous correspon-
dence from myself."
At the Clerkenwell Police-court yesterday a
charge of a somewhat singular character was preferred
against a man named Gurge, who possesses an alias. It
appeared from the evidence that this person was in the
habit of defrauding sergeants in the metropolitan police by
pretending to make discoveries of robberies which had
never taken place, and to give them information concern-
ing the appropriation of goods which further inquiry proved
had never been stolen. The evidence of the police ser-
geants who were examined revealed great ingenuity and
consummate impudence on the part of the prisoner. Ile
was committed for trial.

James Henry Wilson, the man who is charged
with being concerned in the recent great fraud
on the Post-oface, was brought up at Bow-street Police--
court yesterday. Further evidence was adduced which
sufficiently identified him as one of the men who had
carried out the swindle, and he was committed for
trial.

NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—Yesterday a
fine new lifeboat and transporting carriage were forwarded
by the institution to North Sunderland, in lieu of a smaller
boat and carriage previously stationed there. The self-
righting qualities of the new lifeboat were recently fully
and satisfactorily settled in the Regent's Canal Dock,
Limehouse. Tho cost of the boat and its equipment,
with its transporting carriage, amounting to £4OO, has
been munificently presented to - the institution by Mrs.
Anstice, of Tynemouth, Northumberland, and the boat
is named the Joseph .Anstice. .A free conveyance, as usual,
was readily given to the boat by the Great Northern and
North-Eastern. Railway Companies. The institution
has now nine lifeboats on the Northumberland coast, on
which the sum of nearly £5,000 has been exclusively ex-
pended by the institution. The 148 lifeboat stations under
the management of the socciety require an income of about
£7,400 to keep them In effective condition. Miss Florence
Nightingale has sent to the institution a liberal contribu-
tion of £2O, accompanied by a gratifying and encouraging
letter, in which she says that she herself bad been so happy
as to see with her own eyes the noble enduranca—" obe-
dience unto death"—of an army in which every man was a
hero, and expresses a hope " that God will continue to
bless, as He manifestly has blessed, the Lifeboat Institu-
tion."

To SitorKEErEns, &c.—Wanted, an agent, in every
town and village, for the sale of A. G.'s patent safety enve-
lopes (at is. per gross). Cheap stationery, lady's and gent's
patent collars and cuffs (at is. 6d., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. per
gross). Sample parcels sent on receipt of order and re-
ferences.—Arthur Granger, toy importer; 308, High Liol-
born, W.C.—[A.Dvr.]