The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

Meeting o

AP

BOW-STREET.

ROBBERY AT A JEWELLER'S. —John Burgess, lately a
man holding a responsible situation in the service of a
manufacturing jeweller, of Garrick-street, Covent-garden,
and residing at Devereux-court, Strand, was placed at the
bar, charged with stealing a great quantity of watches,
gold chains, and other articles, the property of his eni-
ploycr.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Brougham.)
IN RE HENRY GURNEY.-THE CATTLE DISEASE.
This bankrupt was described as a farmer of Harrow, and
to-day was appointed for proof of debts. The amount al-
ready on the file is £1,200, and the bankrupt ascribes his
failure to expenses in the Divorce Court, and losses through
the disease attacking his cattle. Debts were proved, and
a day named for the next meeting.
IN RE LAVERACK.-A COMPANY PROMOTER.
This bankrupt was described as late of Walthamstow,
secretary to the Stratford Music Hall Company, and to-day
was fixed for the first meeting. The debts are small, and
the bankruptcy is ascribed to Mr. Laverack's failure in
business as promoter of the Shipowners' Live Stock Com-
pany.

From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was
apprehended last night by Sergeant Hamblin, of the F
division, at Camberwell, and the event that led to his cap-
ture was the fact that one of the watches which formed
part of the stolen property was brought into M. Loewen-
lark's shop in Garrick-street for repair. The watch in
question was purchased from the prisoner by a young man
named John artin, a barman in the employ
of Mr. Fetter, the licensed victualler, whoso
house nearly adjoins that of the prosecutor's. The
watch was detained, and the prisoner was soon afterwards
in custody. When the constable took Burgess into custody
he at first denied the robbery altogether, but when he in-
formed him that one of the watches had been discovered in
the possession of Martin the prisoner said he knew that he
(Martin) had purchased a watch at his employers' shop,
and he supposed he (prisoner) had not entered the purchase
in the book left for that purpose.
The property stolen consisted of 16 gold and silver
watches, 17 gold chains, and a largo quantity of various
articles of jewellery, consisting of brooches, rings, pins, and
earrings.

IN RE LIEUTENANT LYNCH.
This bankrupt was described as late a lieutenant in the
2d"West India Regiment, and he ascribes his failure to in-
sufficiency of pay. The debts are about £1,450, and a day
was named for the next meeting.

IN RE J. E. MATIIEWS.
This bankrupt was a surgeon, of 1, Elvaston-place,
South Kensington, late of 54, Conduit-street, Regent-
street. The debts are about £4,300, and several proofs
were made, a day being named for the next meeting.
A trader debtor summons was heard, in which the
figures are large, but, as it is manifestly improper to give
the names, no notice was taken of it by our reporter.
Several first meetings were held besides those reported
above, but they were of no public interest, one bankrupt
stating that he had failed " because he had no money."

The prisoner was remanded for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN ITALIAN ACTOR CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.—Fran-
deco Filippi, an Italian actor, residing at No. 68, Dean-
street, Soho, was charged before Mr. Knox, with assaulting
Alexander Avery, a waiter, at Mr. E. T. Smith's Cremorne
Branch Restaurant, Coventry-street.
The complainant said—About 11 o'clock last night the
prisoner came to Mr. E. T. Smith's Restaurant, Coventry-
street, and observing that he was intoxicated I told him

that he could not be served. I got the prisoner as far as
the door, and he then tried to get his arm round my neck.
I told him to go away, and he then kicked me violently
on the leg, rushed back, and called out " I'm a Spaniard."
Some gentlemen then called out that he had got a knife in
his hand. I slammed the door to, and a constable came up
and took him into custody.'

Sergeant John Wheatley, 291 A, said—l was called by
two gentlemen, who told me that murder would be com-
mitted at the restaurant, a man having drawn a knife to
the waiter. I went to the door and found the prisoner
there—the complainant holding the door so as to prevent
the prisoner going in. At the station a knife-case was
found on the prisoner, but no knife. It was just possible
the prisoner might have jerked the knife away imme-
diately on my going up. A person is present who saw him
with a knife or dagger in his hand.

Thredgold, a baker, living in Drury-lane, said—
I saw the waiter putting the prisoner out. The prisoner
struck the waiter once or twice, and then kicked him on
the leg. He afterwards took something out of his pocket,
and took from it either a knife or dagger.
The prisoner—l had no knife.
Mr. Knox (to the witness)—Are you sure there was any-
thing besides the case ?

Witness—l am. A woman said the prisoner had a knife,
and I told her it was not a knife, but a dagger.

The Prisoner—l have been in this country two years. I
dined at a restaurant in Upper Stamford-street yesterday,
and drank a good deal. I afterwards met two soldiers and
got intoxicated. I remember going to the restaurant and
seeing the complainant, but I never drew any knife or
dagger.

Mr. Knox—lt is a serious thing for a man to go above
in a state of intoxication and to draw a stiletto. I shal
fine the prisoner £5 or a month's imprisonment for the as•
sault.

to _ Wroxoter,

Shrewsbury,

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The trade for malt was firm at full currencies.

ARRIVALS. THIS WEEK.

- 21,130

FEE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1 65.

ssociation.

BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 4.
The 35th annual meeting of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science commences here to-morrow,
and promises to be as successful as any of its preceding
yearly gatherings. The principal hotels are filled with
visitors, but of a different class from those who are ordi-
narily attracted here by the numerous trades and occupa-
tions of Birmingham. Already you see in the neighbourhood
of the Exchange, in New-street, and in the other leading
thoroughfares, groups of members of the association, whose
style and air of repose mark them out from the busy crowd
around. At this beautiful season of the year Birmingham
is by no means the first place to which a tourist, seeking
health or recreation, would direct his steps. Still, though
the town cannot boast of being picturesque, nor of having
often an unclouded sky, it occupies, in a sanitary point of
view, a much more favourable position than many other
places more attractive to the eye or possessing a more un-
adulterated atmosphere. Besides, much has been done of
late years to improve the external appearance of this great
centre of the hardware trade. A taste for architecture has
sprung up, and extends not only to the public buildings of
recent erection, but also to the new shops, many of which
may now almost bear favourable comparison with the best
in Regent-street or Oxford-street in the metropolis, and
what is scarcely less important, the atmosphere is much
less impregnated with smoke than it used to be. This
desirable result can hardly be attributed to diminution in
the number of mills and factories, as the town was never
more prosperous or busier ; still less is it probable
that the manufacturers have, out of regard for
the lungs and noses of the philosophers who are now in-
vading the borough, put out or toned down their furnaces.
The more likely solution of the matter is, that in London
the principle of the smoke-consuming apparatus is now
generally introduced in all the great factories and work-
shops in the town.
The association has taken possession of the assembly
room of the Exchange, and converted it into a reception
room, or rather made it the headquarters of the institution
for the forthcoming week. Here a post-office has been '
improvised, with every accommodation for conducting epis-
tolary correspondence, and here is to be found a numerous
staff of civil and polite officials prepared to give informa-
tion about lodgings, excursions, railway passes, the busi-
ness of the sections, and every conceivable subject relating
to the proceedings of the association or the comfort of the
members. The number of tickets issued up till to-day is
very large, and of these no less than 250 have been taken
by ladies.

The president at this meeting of the association is Pro-
fessor Phillips, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., and the Pro-
fessor of Geology in the University of Oxford.
The objects of the British Association, the prospectus
states, are to give a stronger impulse and more systematic
direction to scientific inquiry ; to promote the intercourse
of those who cultivate science in different parts of the
British empire with one another, and with foreign philo-
sophers; to obtain more general attention for the objects
of science, and the removal of any disadvantages of a pub-
lic kind which impede its progress.
To-morrow morning the general commttee will hold its
first meeting in the Lecture Theatre, Midland Institute,
for the election of sectional officers and the despatch of the
business usually brought before that body. It is expected
that this meeting will be enlivened by a discussion upon
the claims put forward by the Anthropological Society to
a special section. By the existing arrangements they are
confined to the geogaphical and ethnological section ; but
for sometime past they have been urgent for a section to
be entirely set apart for anthropology. In antici-
pation of the renewal of the claim for a separate
section, a cheap work by 'Mr. Hunt, the president
of the Anthropological Society of London, on the
meaning of the words "anthropology," "ethnography,"
and "ethnology," has been extensively advertised in the
town, and will doubtless prove a welcome aid to some of
the Birmingham folks in their effort to understand the
merits of the forthcoming discussion. The first general
meeting will be held in the Town-hall to-morrow evening,
when Sir C. Lyell, Bart., will formally resign the chair,
and Professor Phillips will assume the presidency and de-
liver the introductory address, which is looked forward to
with great interest. On the following day (Thursday),
and also on Friday, Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday, the
different sections will meet from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. On
Thursday there will be a soirée at the Town-hall, at which
scientific instruments, interesting articles of manufacture
and of mechanism and geological specimens, will be exhi-
bited ; and on Friday evening, Mr. J. Beete Jukes, local
director of the geological survey of Ireland, will deliver a
discourse on the probabilities as to the position and extent
of the coal measures beneath the red rocks of the Midland
counties. There will be another soirée on Monday, Sept.
11, at the rooms of the Society of Arts, which will accom-
modate 600 people ; and a third one at the Town-hall on
the following day, when microscopes and photographs will
Le exhibited. The mayor will also, on Monday next, en-
tertain a party of guests at luncheon in the Town-hall.

On the same day the general committee will decide upon
the place of meeting in 1866. The concluding general
meeting will take place on Wednesday, the 13th inst. An
elaborate plan for excursions to places of interedin this
and the adjoining counties has just been completed, and,
if the weather continues fine, members will very generally
avail themselves of it. On Saturday there aro to be
excursions to Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon, to
Coventry and Kenilworth, to Worcester and Malvern,

Wenlock, the Wrekin,

and Coalbrook-dale. On Thursday, the 14th, the
excursions will be to the Dudley Caverns, the South
Staffordshire Coalfield and Ironworks, and Cannock Chase,
and also to Lichfield and the Burton Breweries. In addition

to these attractions, all the public buildings, museums, and
institutions in Birmingham have been thrown open to the
members of the association ; whilst a list of about 60 of
the principal manufactures for which the town and neigh-
bourhood are celebrated, to which visitors, on presenting
their association ticket, will be admitted, has been issued
by the managing committee.

The supply of English wheat on sale at Mark-lane to-
day was moderate. It was mostly composed of new pro-
duce, which being for the most part in very middling con-
dition, sold heavily, at 36s to 48s per quarter. For old
wheats the trade was in a sluggish state, at Monday's'
decline.

There was a fair supply of foreign wheat on sale. The
demand for all descriptions ruled heavy, and the quota-
tioris w6roll to 2s per qtarter'benekla'thelate highest
point.

Floating cargoes of wheat sold slowly, at Monday's
rates. Spring corn afloat was firm in price.
The market was scantily supplied with barley, in which
sales progressed slowly, at late rates.

Oats were in fair supply and steady request at quite
previous rates.

Beans and peas, the supplies of which were limited.
moved off slowly at late prices.

There was a fair demand for flour at previous quota.
tions.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 990 50 860 90 150
Irish
Foreign 12,090 5,580

sks.
brls.

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COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending Sept. For the corresponding week
2, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 51,742--46 s 7d Wheat 38,574-42s bd
Barley 2,234-31s 2d Barley 1,657-29s 1d
Oats