The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-17 00:00:00

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

An application was made to the Chief Judge for an order
to pay to Mrs Eliza Maria Clarke the sum of £l2O interest,
being one fifth share of a house in Tottenham-Court-road,
bequeathed to her under the will of her father. Tho appli-
cant vas married in 1843, but no marriage settle-
ment was executed. In 1845 the husband became
insolvent, and deserted his wife. In the year 1850
her father died, and Mrs. Clarke heard nothing of
her husband fur nine years, when she heard from
him at Paris. He subsequently again deserted her,
and was now supposed to be living in Algiers; and
for fourteen years she has never Ivard any thing of
him. Sha is entirely dependent upon her own exertions.
The provincial trustees under the insolvency refused
to pay her share - amounting, with interest, to £234 - on the
ground that she was a married woman, and that her husband
We. insolvent. His lordship made an order for paying the
balance to the moth'.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(Tiers DAY).

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A ►SYSTDIATIC UTTERER OF COUNTERFEIT COlN.—Eliza
King, a young woman, who gave-a false address, was charged
before Mr. Knox wit► uttering and being in 'possession of
counterfeit coin.

Emily Wilcox, assistant to Mr. Williams, baker, of No. 7,
St. James's -street, said that shortly before seven o'clock last
night the prisoner came in and asked for a Bath bun, and in
payment tendered a shilling. Sho gave the prisoner change,
and shortlyaftor a constable came in and asked her what
the prisoner had tendered, and on her showing him the
shilling he feund it to b.: bad.

In answer to Mr. Kuox the witness said she could swear
to the coin being the Caine one she received from the
prisoner.

David Brown, 50 C A said that yesterday evening, while
in Bond-street, he was told by a gentleman that the prisoner
had been into his shop and tendered a counterfeit shilling.
The gentleman gave him the coin, but said he did not care
about charging the prisoner. He then foll9wed the prisoner,
saw her go into the shop No. 7, St. James's. street, and re-
ceive some change and leave. He went into the shop, and
having ascertained that the coin the prisoner had tendered
was counterfeit he went after her and took her into custody,
and ft uud in her left hand seven more counterfeit shillings.
The prisoner gave her address, Friar-street, Blackfriars-road,
but it was a false ono.

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for a week that the Min,
authorities might be communicated with.

THAMES.

TILE EAST END GIOVANNI. —A respectable-looking woman
named Hampton came before Mr. Lushington with her
daughter, a girl of 16 years of age, to complain of her
daughter's master, who had grosSly assaulted her. The man
of whom she complained was a paid official, holding a good
situation in one of the parishes of the district, and was
about LO years of age. Her daughter had been %silo' t time
only in his ;service. On Sunday last ho seized her,

indecently assaulted her, and conducted hin►,elf in such
a gross manner towards the girl that she hardly
likud to r.late the circumstances. On another
occasion the girl's master stood at the top of the stairs and
exposed himself improperly to the girl. S tie had related
what had occurred to the girl's • mistress, who treated the
matter lightly. Another girl in the service of the same man,
and whom her daughter succeeded, had been treated in a
worse manner by the same person, who had given her money
and paid her fare to Cornwall, where her friends were

living. Mrs. Hampton added that she would not accept any
compensation, but would seek for that justice for the outrage
offered her daughter, which she knew would not be refused
to the poorest individual. _ _ _

Mr. Lushington said it was to be regretted that the girl
had not made known the alleged misconluct of her master
to the inspector on duty at the station-house, or to her
mother on the SindaY when the transaction took place.
Delays in cases of this nature were always viewed with some
degree of suspicion.
Mr. Hampton —I will admit the girl did wrong not to
immediately leave the place and come to me. She is young
and inexperienced.
The girl confirmed the statement of her mother, and Mr.
Lushington granted a summons.
JACK AND THE LAND SHARES. Ryan, aged 29
years, Thomas White, 28, and Emma Woodford, 21, were
charged with stealing two coats, a pair of boots, and a
cap, value in all £5, from a sailor named John Jones, in a
house of bad repute, No. 2, Angel-court, Shadwell. The
sailor :was helplessly intoxicated, and decoyed into that
horrible place, Angel-court, and robbed of all the clothes
he bad on his person. The attempt was made to
sell his things in the neighbourhood, and Smith, a police-
sergeant, No. 67 IC, hearing of this, began to make inquiries.
The property was then taken back to the house whore the
robbery was committed and secreted. Smith, however, re-
covered the whole of the property. Tunes identified his
clothes, cap, and boots. Ile said he lost his senses altoge-
ther, and did not know how he got drunk, how he lost his
clothes, or how he got into the den in Angel-court.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.

The screw steamship Revenge, 73, Capt. Richard
Dawkins, from the Isthmus of Panama, which arrived
at Plymouth on Sunday, saluted the flag of the Port
Admiral on Monday, and, having discharged her
powder, was removed from the Sound into Hamoaze,
alongsidefaonrdtphleacpedurposeofpaying off her crew transferred the north jetty in the dockyard,
from the Zealous, 20, flagship in the Pacific.
We are informed that her Majesty's ship Repulse
arrived at St. Margaret's Hope on Tuesday, to re-
place the Duncan as guardahip in the Firth of
Forth.

DisoovEny or r VRITAN LITERATI:MR.—AIt
American paper says that recently, in pulling down an
old religious edifice at Willecott, Oxfordshire, the work-
men 4 came on an oratory bidden in the walls, which con-
tained a small library of the earliest Protestant theo-
logy of the Reformation era, including some of Knox's
writin944l a copy of Miles Ooverde's translation of
the Bible.

BI7RNZD AT SEA.-=-The Times c' India refers to
a Marine Court which was assembled in Bombay during
the- 'previous year to inquire into the circumstances con-
nected with the loss of the vessel L'Agonhanna which was
burned. The court spoke in the strongest terms of
the culpable neglect on the part of owners, and
agents of the most ordinary precautions for preventing
such disasters to coal-laden ships. During the
precedin,o- twelvemonths, five vessels had been on fire in
Bombay hp.rbour. The Ti*Ss does not think that one of
these vessels need have been lost had adequate measures
been adopted to prevent the catastrophe. If insurance
offices were to decline all risks unless fully satisfied that
the cargo has been properly ventilated, and means at band
for checking undue heat, fewer ships would be burnt and
blown up at sea.

ENTERTAINMENT ONBOARD TER GREAT EA.EITERN.
—On the 11th of February Captain Helpin, of the Great
Eastern, invited a considerable oompany to a beeuner ofi
board his ship, in order to wledge the enthusiasm
Mr. Campbell made an of Bombay. The hon.
speech on the subject
ofsh ownocbeyanthetemieearrcaapnhatil:intereotinicimblian:
ue Bit d that when they
remembered the numarovo vicissitudes of the
undertaking they could iiot be too thankful
to have on board the cable which was to connect the
greatest of the dependencies of the English Empire with Eng
land. Fourteen years ago, when the first ocean telegraph
of any importance was contemplated, it was little thought
that the Great Eastern would ever take part
in a work of the kind. Mr. Parkinson,
in proposing_ success to the Port of Bombay,
made an allusion to the reserve which had been manifested
by the people of Bombay. The impulsive peasants of
Valentia, the hardy fishermen of Newfoundland, the
busy people of Brest had, on previous occasions of a like
character, shewn their interest and enforced their wel-
come by clustering round the spot, and by loud-voiced
congratulations as the all-important coil was laid to
earth. But Bombay knew better. It preserved its calla
unbroken, and for the first time in the history of sub-
marine telegraphy the engineers and cable handl were
alone when the foundation stone was laid of the super-
structure which WM destined t 9 be 9f yitai importauctto
Bomb& •