The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-06 00:00:00

INDIA.

BOMBAY, April 5

Exchange on London, 6 n,onths, Bank bills,
1.11 13-16ths ; 4 per Cent. Government Securities,
95i ; 5 per Cent. do , 107 ; 5f per Cent. do., 1121.

A CHARGE OF FALSE IMPRISONMENT.—An action has
been brought at the Kingston assizes, by a porter, in the
employ of the London and North-Western Railway
Company, to recover damages for false imprisonment.
He was employed at the Camden station, from which a
bale of scarlet cloth was stolen, in October, 1867. No
information was received respecting the missing cloth
until last November, when two detectives went to the
plaintiff's house, and instituted a search. They found three
yards of scarlet cloth in a box which the plaintiff said he had
bought from a man in the street. He was charged with
having property he could not properly account for, and
was locked up, but was eventually discharged. There
were other circumstances which made the story still
more confused, and the jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff. Damages one farthing.

CHARGE OF MURDER.—William Naylor, bobbin turner,
Bradford, has been tried at the Leeds Assizes for the
murder of his grandchild, and found guilty, but being
held not accountable for his actions on the ground of
insanity, he was ordered to be detained during her Ma-
jesty's pleasure.
CHARGE AGAINST AMERICAN OFFICIALS.—EarIy in
March two brothers named Gale suddenly left Batley,
near Leeds, and sailed for Boston. Immediately after-
wards it was alleged that they had forged cheques in the
names of certain business acquaintances to the extent of
about £4,000, and a telegram was sent to the
police at Boston to apprehend the fugitives on
their arrival. , They were taken, and have now
been brought back to England. The prisoners say
that when they landed at Boston they had £530 in gold in
their possession, but the American detectives disclaim all
knowledge of the money, and it cannot be found. It
is said that the custom-house officers and the American
detectives were the only persons who had access to the
baggage.
•EVIDISCE OF II ECOGNITION.—At the Gloucestershire
Assizes a rough looking fellow named Gough has been in-
dicted for housebreaking and maliciously wounding,
at the house of Colonel Seaton, of Chelten-
ham. Fanny Stock, the housemaid, was entering
her room at night, when a man, whom she recognized as
the prisoner, stood before her, and said " Halloa I" and
then, knocking the candle out of her hand, hit her on the
head with some instrument, and sent her rolling under the
bed. She recovered consciousness, and ran out covered
with blood, when she met her master, and the prisoner
then disappeared. At Gough's lodgings was discovered
a hat, which Fanny Stock almost swore was the one
her assailant wore when he knocked her down, and she
readily picked him out from seven or eight policemen
dressed as labourers at the police station. The prisoner's
counsel argued, at great length, that the evidence of re-
cognition was not to be trusted, and called witnesses to
prove that the man was at his lodgings card-playing
lowing the whole of the evening in question. The
case lasted several hours, when the jury acquitted
the prisoner, and said they believed the witnesses for the
alibi.