The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-14 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

DISORDERLY GENTLEMEN.-Mr. John Hugh Ford,
gentleman, of No. 7, Wells Street, Jermyn Street, was
charged, at the Marlborough •Street Police-court, before
Mr. Knox, with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly
manner. From the evidence of Police-constable Crabb,
141 C, it appeared that he saw the defendant in Regent
Street talking to some French woman, and making a great
noise, and in requesting him to go away he called him
a " Prussian thief," and as he was in a state
of intoxication, and refused to go away, he was
taken into custody. The defendant said he went quietly
to the station, and all he had done was to call the con-
stable " a Prussian thief." Mr. Knox, after remarking
that he did not suppose the defendant would like to be
called such a name, fined him 10s. or seven days.
Mr. James Campbell, a gentleman, who refused his
address, was also charged with disorderly conduct, and
fined 40s. or a month.

A DEVOTED WIFE AND A SAVAGE HUSBAND.- - John
Bousley, a tobacco cutter, aged 23 years, and Ann
Bousley, his wife, 26, of No. 5, North Street, Stepney,
were brought up at the Thames Police-court, charged
with assaulting Abraham Dalton, in " Lady Lake's
Grove," the said " grove '" being a place of very bad re-
pute. There had been a window broken in the dwelling
of the complainant, and he went outside his house to
discover the author of the mischief, when he was assailed
by the prisoners, who were both drunk. The male pri-
soner bit his cheek very severely. The police were called,
and John Bousley was taken into custody. He made a
determined resistance, and his wife attempted to rescue
him. He was then arrested. Mr. Lushington said the
prisoner John Bousley had committed a very brutal and
savage assault, for which he sentenced him to two
months' imprisonment and hard labour. He discharged
the wife. He then asked the magistrate to be per-
mitted to serve two months' imprisonment instead
of her husband. Mr. Lushington : No, I cannot permit
him to suffer imprisonment by deputy. Go home, and
take care of your children if you. have any. Don't get
drunk again. The woman : It's a very hard case ; let me
go "to prison instead of him. Mr. Lushington : No, I
cannot, indeed.
THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER AND CRYSTAL
PALACE RAILWAYS. —A. case in which the above com-
panies are concerned was brought before Mr. Bloxam,
chief clerk, in the chambers of Vice-Chancello r Bacon
yesterday. It will be remembered that by the recent
award it was directed that the high level railway to the
Crystal Palace should be worked by the London,
Chatham, and Dover Company, who were to
keep separate accounts, and transfer the net
profits, after deducting working expenses, to the
Crystal Palace Railway Company. Against the latter
Mr. Dowie, a debenture holder, instituted a suit, for him-
self and on behalf of his brother shareholders, for the
purpose of enforcing their security, and to that end now
proposed that two gentlemen should be appointed
receivers. It transpired that from the opening of
the line to June 1867, the working expenses
exceeded the gross receipts, but since that period
the average nett profits had amounted to about
£2,000 per half year. The chief clerk sanctioned the
appointment of the receivers for the purpose indicated,
directing them to obtain security for £5,000, and render an
account of their proceedings at regular intervals of six
months.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BONDS.-At the Mansion
House, Alexander Lysander Hale, a young man of seven-
teen, was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a
number of bonds, value 25,000. It will be remembered
that the prisoner was a clerk in the employment of
Messrs. Baker and Sturdy, stockbrokers, Thogmorton-
street ; and that it was alleged he absconded with the
bonds instead of deliveringthem to clients. He cashed some
of the coupons attached to them, and went to Paris, but
afterwards came to London and gave himself into custody.
Some further evidence was now given, and on the applica-
tion of Mr. Mullins, the solicitor for the prosecution, the
prisoner was committed to the Central Criminal Court for
trial.

EXTENSIVE RAID UPON A BETTING HOUSE.-At Bow
Street, yesterday, Mr. Poland, instructed by Mr. Polard,
from the solicitor's office to the Treasury, attended to con-
duct the prosecution against twenty-three persons, con-
sisting of tradesmen, gentlemen's servants, &c., who were
arrested on Monday at an alleged extensive betting house
known as the " Knightsbridge Exchange," at 4,
Chapel-place, Brompton, the proprietor of which is
Frederick Harding, who, as yet is not in the custody of
the police. Some of the defendants were represented by
Mr. Abrams and Mr. Harper (for Mr. Froggatt). Mr.
Poland stated that the establishment was carried on just
the same as an ordinary betting house, with the excepting
that members were admitted by paying a fee for which
they received an admission ticket, no persons being
admitted without one. Inspector Clarke, of
Scotland Yard, had visited the house by first obtaining a
ticket and introduction, and there he found, in the
yard at the back a vast quantity of persons contracting
with persons advertising their "prices." A great por-
tion of the defendants were regular bookmakers. The
sworn information of the officers having been read over,
Mr. Poland asked for a remand. Mr. Vaughan complied
with the request, but ordered the bookmakers to find bail
for their appearance at the next session, and the others to
enter into their own recognisances.

A. complimentary dinner was given a day or two
ago by the West India Association of Glasgow to Sir
John Peter Grant, K,C.8., the Governor of Jamaica.
Mr. H. E. Crum-Ewing, M.P., presided. In responding
to the toast of his health, Sir John Grant
spoke of the advantage which Jamaica had de-
rived from the new constitution, under which he had been
enabled not only to reduce the expenditure, but to obtain
a surplus. He also spoke of various symptoms of im-
provement which had begun to manifest themselves in the
island, and urged the necessity of irrigation and improve-
ments in the modes of cultivation and the processes of
making sugar, to which he was disposed to give every
encouragement.

ORDER IN PARIS.—it is strange how well order is
preserved without the old executive force of the Empire,
whieh haunted the streets in and out of uniform. Count
de Keratry declares that he will tolerate no political
arrests, but conceives that a body of unarmed police is
perhaps necessary for the security of citizens against
ordinary criminals. On Sunday a bag of dirty linen fell
out of a top-story window opposite to the British Em-
bassy and alighted on the head of a citoyenne in a smart
mob cap and ribbons. Of course . there was a crowd,
which gazed intensely at the house from whiCh the linen
had descended. Had the old police force existed there
would have been a proces-verbal, the owner of the soiled
clothes would have been fined fifteen francs, and the
victim of the accident would probably have been obliged
to waste a whole day to give evidence. As it was the
bundle was handed into the wine shop on
the ground floor, and the citoyenne, after rub-
bing her neck and receiving the condolence of
the multitude, tripped off to look at a battalion of pro-
vincial moblots. Under the Empire the accidental slip-
ping of this clothes bag into the street below would have
been the cause of much waste of time and of fine to the luck-
less owner, who never appeared on the scene. The beggars,
however, will certainly soon become a nuisance unless the
equitable Republic finds some means to keep them out of
the thoroughfares where they boldly post themselves.
Pall Mall Gazette.

Although the oommencement of the fortnightly account
has checked business the tone of the stock markets has
been firm, and the quotations have again improved in
some instances. From the seat of war no news has come
to hand likely to prejudice the markees in any way what-
ever. and the continued improvement is to be
solely attributed to the growing confidence of
the public in the return of peace. Home securities have
been steady. Gongola have been firm at 92k, 921,
for delivery, and 92i to 924 for October. Reduced and
New Three per Cents., 91i to 92; Bank stock, 234 to 236;
Exchequer Bills, ls. to Os. prem.; Indian Five per Cents.,
109 to 110 ; and India Bonds 10s. to 15s. prem. Colonial
Government Securities, have been in moderate request,
and the quotations have ruled firm.
English Railway Stocks have risen, and there has been a
general tendency to higher rates. Caledonian, Great-
Eastern, Great-Northern A, Great-Western, Metropoli-
tan, North-Eastern, and South-Eastern shew an average
rise of Metropolitan, 64 to 64} ; Caledonian, 72, to
731; Brighton, 39 to 39} ; South-Eastern, 72t to 731;
Great-Northern A, 132} to 134 ; Great-Eastern, 36} to
37 ; Midland, 125 to 125} ; North-Western, 1261 to 127 ;
Great-Western, 69i to 70 ; North-Eastern, 139 to 139 i.
Indian railway stocks have been quiet. Bombay,
Baroda and Central. India, 105-i ; Great Indian
Peninsular, 1951 to 1061 ; Canadian shares have been
inactive. Great Western, 141. There has not been
much inquiry for foreign shares. Great Luxumburg,
12 to 12i ; Lemberg-Czernowitz, 101; Recife and San
Francisco, 16k; San Paulo, 201; Lombards, 15 to 151.
The Foreign Bond Market opened steadily, but subse-
quently there was a reaction, and at the close a quiet
feeling was prevalent. The only alterations have
been an advance of I in Italian (1861), and
a fall of in Turkish (1869.) American Securities
have been quiet. Atlantic and Great Western Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds have been one lower. Egyptian,
(1868), 75 to 751 ; Italian (1861), 502 to 51 ;lSpanish (1867),
261 to 27} ; ditto (1869), 26 to 261 ; Turkish 5 per Cents.,
43/ to 44 ; ditto (1869), 541 to 55i ; United States' 5-20
(1882) Bonds 891 to 901 ; ditto (1885), 89 to 891.
There has been only a moderate enquiry for Bank
Shares. Anglo-Egyptian, 22} ; Imperial Ottoman,
11-1, ; London Joint Stock, 322 ; London and West-
minster, 59, 60.

In Telegraph Shares very few transactions have taken
place. British Indian Submarine, 7i ; and French Cables
14i. Silver's India Rubber, 40 ; Telegraph Construc-
tion, 24i.
Miscellaneous Seematies have been dull. Loudon
General Omnibus, 3, t.

The bullion operations at the Bank to-day cemprised
urchase of £BO,OOO bars and £50,000 sovereigns.
As regards the exchanges, bills are more offered, and
the tendency is more favourable.
The City of Paris, from New York, has brought
£70,360.
At a meeting of the Sambre and Meuse Railway Com-
pany, a dividend at the rate of 2i per cent. was declared.
The following notice has been issued by the Secretary of
the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company:--
Application has been made by trustees' counselinOhio for
a decree of foreclusane of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway, and judgment will be given
during next month. It is imperative that counsel
should be advised not later than the first of
October of the, amount of support the official
scheme of reorganisation has reoeived in actual
deposits, and in formal assents. A schedule must be made
up to thelfith inst., until whiohdateMessrs. Bischoffsheim
and Goldschmidt will receive bonds said debentures for
conversion.

In the discount market there has been a continuance of
quietness. A moderate amount of activity may be ex-
pected in connexion with the settlement of the account,
but, as capital is very abundand, the rates will doubtless
continue low. Three months' paper has to-day been
negotiated at 23. per cent.
The Shannon, from the West Indies, has brought
£58,128 in specie.
The following are sothe of the official " making up
prices for to-day, being the first day of the account in
skares and foreign bonds :—Metropolitan, 64 ; North
Eastern, 139; Midland, 125 i ; London and North-Western,
1261 ; Great Western, 69} ; South Eastern, 74 ;
Brighton, 39; Lombards, 15k; Peruvian, 86 ; Egyp-
tian (1868), 75 ; Mexican, 14a ; Turkish Five per
Cents., 43 ; ditto (1869), 55 ; Spanish (1867), 27 ; ditto
(1869), 26 ; Italian, 50* ; Anglo-American Telegraph, 17f ;
Telegraph Constructions, 24i ; Don Pedro, 1i ; Tanquaril
15-16ths : Eberhardt, 12.

The report of the Cape Copper Mining Company; to
be presented on the 16th instant, states that the
realisation of the ores of 1868 has resulted in a
profit of £34,129. Of this sum £30,000 has been
appropriated to the dividends already paid, equal to
£2 per share ; £3,000 in equal proportions to landed
property sinking hind, new road account, and re-
duction works, old account ; and £576 to income-tax
account, leaving £553 to be carried forward. The costs
of 1869 show an excess over 1868, owing to the expendi-
ture in the development of Spectakel Mine, the chief
benefit of which is yet to be felt, as the reserves there,
although the mine has so recently been re-opened,
amounted at the close of 1869 to 6,000 tons, the extraction
for that year being 1,003 tons. At Ookiep the extraction
was 5,540 tons, and the reserves have been increased to
36,000 tons.
The return of. the South Eastern Railway for the week
ending September 10th skews a decrease of £l,OBl 16s.
as against the receipts of the corresponding period last
year.

Mr. Charteris has been appointed by the Court of
Chancery receiver and manager of the •state of Mr.
William Harbord, of 17, Gracechurch-street, trading in
co-partnership with George H. Wilkinson and John
Anderson, under the firm of Harbord, Wilkinson, and
Co., of London, and Harbord and Co., of Bombay. The
liabilities, secured and unsecured, are estimated at over
£400,000.