The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This DAY.

DESPERATE ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE.—Henry Highfiell
a labourer, was charged on remand, at the Westminster
Police-court, with attempting to commit suicide by taking
laudanum at York-street, Westminster, and again by
cutting his throat at Westminster Hospital. Mr. May,
the house physician, proved that the prisoner was brought
to the hospital suffering from the effects of some narcotic
which by the ,odour turned out to be laudanum;
it had become thoroughly absorbed in the system,
and there wits a tendency to sleep ; by exercises
galvanism, and other restoratives the effects were
entirely worked off, and then the prisOner lapsed into
a state of temporary insanity of a violent kind, declared
he was the Saviour, and was in communication with the
angels ; this again passed off, and he then attempted to
cut his throat, severing the tissues, but not inflicting any
serious injury. Prisoner expressed his deep regret, and
the chaplain at the gaol gave him a good character, and
thought he would repent of the rash act. His son, who
was a teetotaller, offered to take him home, and let him
share the savings of his sobriety. Mr. Woolrych dis-
charged him with a suitable admonition.
DRUNKENNESS ON RAILWAYS.—Henry Lichfield, aged
46 years, of No. 3, Spencer-street, St. George-in-the-
East, was charged before Mr. Paget, at the Thames
Police-court,- with.. being drunk and disorderly and
tearing the uniform coat of a ticket collector named
Wainwright, at the Limehouse Station of the Great
Eastern Railway Company on their Blackwall line. The
case was fully made out. Mr. Paget said this was a very
proper proceeding on the part of the Great Eastern Railway
Company. Every one must have observed in travelling on
all railways in the kingdom, and particularly those in and
near London, the great proportion of drunkenness in rail-
way carriages, and the annoyance and trouble they gave
sober and'respectable people. No drunken man or woman
should he allowed to enter a railway carriage on any pre-
tence whatever. The prisoner was very properly pre-
vented travelling on the line and removed, and for the
assault on the officer in the proper execution of his duty
he fined him 10s. The penalty was paid

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THE MINERS' CONFERENCE AT HANLEY.

The Miners' Amalgamated Association resumed its con-
ference yesterday ; and the Mines' Regulation Bill was
under discussion. Resolutions were adopted suggesting and
authorising the Ekecutive to use its influence to obtain
several alterations in the measure. The first of these proposed
improvements was the appointment of numerous practical
sub-inspectors, who would, it was urged, have mere
thorough survellance, and prevent more surely the acts of
carelessness and false economy, which now so frequently
lead to accidents. For the same .end, it
was recommended that it should be com-
pulsory for the Chief Inspector to attend
every inquest on persons killed in mines, and that juries
should be composed half of miners. The " truck system "
was also discussed, and unanimously condemned ; the
adoption of weekly payments was proposed as the remedy
for it. The compromise of daily reports from the pits to
inspectors, instead of the appointment of sub-inspectors,
was unfavourably received.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF EDUCATION.-It iS
stated that Viscount Midleton, Sir Thomas Tilson, and
Mr. Charles Few will be brought forward as candidates
for the district of Lambeth ; Mr. James Bevington and
Mr. Alfred Lafone being proposed for Southwark.