The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--Thrs DAY.

ROBBERY AT A 111tt8t0 PaiLiSßEß'B.—Richard Haynes,
a young man, clerk in the employ of Messrs. Hopwood
and Crew, music publishers, No. 42, New Bond Street,
was brought up before Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough
Street Police court, charged with stealing a half sovereign,
the money of his employers. Mr. George Crew said the
prisoner had been in his employ some months, and in conse-
quence of continually missing moneyhe communicated with
the police at Scotland-yard, and a detective (Moon) was
employed. Some money was marked, and it being missed
the prisoner was challenged with taking it, when he
admitted taking half a sovereign. Richard Moon of the
detective department, Scotland-yard, said that on being
called into Mr. Creiv's yesterday, and the prisoner being
charged with stealing a marked half-sovereign, he said
" Yes, here it is; I took it," at the same time producing it.
In reply to Mr. Knox the prosecutor said the firm had a
number of lads in their employ, and, although money had
been frequently missed, he could not tell till now how it
went. He had not missed money before the prisoner
entered his employment. The prisoner was committed
for six months with hard labour.

NEW MAGISTRATE.—Upon Mr. Edmund Humphrey
Woolrych taking his seat at Westminster Court this
morning for the first time, Mr. W. Doveton Smyth, of
Rochester-row, the leading attorney of the court, congra-
tulated him upon the pleasure he and others connected
with the court felt in finding his worship appointed to
occupy the seat so worthily held for many years by the
late lamented Mr. Selfe, and he trusted that Mr. Wool-
rych would live long to follow in the deceased gentleman's
footsteps. Mr. Woolrych was a member of the Society
of Middle Temple, and was called to the bar November
22, 1839; he was appointed first to the Thames Police-
court, then transferred to Lathbeth, where he was senior
magistrate for some years up to the present time.
A BRUTAL HUSBAND. A wretched-looking couple,
named Samuel and Julia Young, man and wife, pre-
sented themselves before Mr. Paget, the magistrate at
the Thames Police-court, the former as a prisoner, charged
with assaulting Mrs. Young, who carried a small infant
in her arms, and who was misery personified. She said
her husband was a gunmaker, a trade at the present time
flourishing, but he preferred the public-house, his pipe
and pot, to supporting himself and wife and little one.
In his mad drunken moments he was in the practice of
beating his wife in a brutal manner. Yesterday he was
drunk and beat his wife and kicked bar in a oruol manucr.
He wounded her head, and struck her on the chin. He
als inflicted upon her two severe black eyes. The
prisoner retorted on his wife that she neglected his home,
and made the first attack on him. Mr. Paget remanded
the prisoner for a week.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.)
CONSERVATIVE BANQUET AT WAKEFIELD.
Last night upwards of five hundred of the members and
friends of the Wakefield Working Men's Association,
which was established four years ago, were present at a
grand banquet in the Corn Exchange. The arrangements
were admirable, and the proceedings, which extended
over several hours, passed off most successfully. Mr. E.
Green, of Heath, near Wakefield, occupied the chair,
and he was supported by many of the leading Conserva-
tives in the county, including Mr. R. Winn, the member
for North Lincolnshire,Messrs. Fielden, C. W.Denison,the
Conservative representative for the Eastern Division of
the Riding, Mr• Wheelhouse, Conservative member for
Leeds, Messrs. Stanhope and Starkey, defeated Conser-
vative candidates at the last West Riding election, and
Mr. T. K. Sanderson, the defeated candidate at the last
borough election. The principal speakers were unani-
mously of opinion that.the Conservative party in York-
shire need only be united in their objects and efforts to
be able to return as many Conservative members as the
neighbouring county of Lancashire had done. Several
of them joined in denouncing the action of the Govern-
ment with regard to the great reduction in the defensive
forces of the country prior to the outbreak of war, and urged
the necessity of maintianing the army and navy in that state
of efficiency which would enable them to repel attacks of
any invaders. Mr. Fielden, in the course of some lengthy
remarks, called attention to the recent appointment of
Mr. Beales to a County Court judgeship, and to Mr.
Applegarth's election as a member of the Royal Commis-
sion of Inquiry on the working of the Contagious Diseases
Act, and dwelt upon the significance which these acts in
his opinion denoted. The proceedings were brought to a
close shortly after ten o'clock.

THE HOTSPUR TURRET GUNBOAT.
Great interest was manifested in naval circles at Devon-
port yesterday, which was especially stimulated by recent
events, in the preliminary trial of the Hotspur, a new
turret gunboat, constructed on a different principle to any
now existing. Admirals Codrington and Stewart and a
diitinguished party were on board. The main object of
the trial was to test the effect of the enormous 25-ton gun,
one of the heaviest afloat, mounted upon one of Captain
Scott's latest gun carriages. The turret, being a fixture,
is pierced with four port-holes, through either of
which the gun is pointed, thus having uninter-
rupted all round fire from abaft beam on one
side to abaft beam on the other. Beyond this
and crossing the fire of the big gun are two 64-pounders,
which sweep all round the stern. The experiments were
admirably conducted by the Hon. Captain Foley and part
of his crew from the Cambria, and were successful be -
yond all expectation. Shot of 264 pounds weight were
fired with 67-pound charges of powder, with Fo little
effect within the turret that two ladies were enabled to
remain in it the whole time. The main deck, which is
cased with three inches of iron, was not affected,
but the upper deck was much shaken, depressed, and cut
up, some bulk heads also being knocked down. These
damages will soon be repaired, and to prevent their re
currence it is proposed to plate the deck over from twelve
feet from the muzzle of the gun, and entirely to close up
all the apertures forward, adding stanchions to show
up the deck. The turret itself is cased with ten inches of
iron. Two dummy men were placed on a bridge above
the turret, but the shock and flash set fire to one of them,
and flew the other into the air, rendering it evident that
the bridge must ho made capable of removal during
action. The speed of the ram was excellent, but the chief
importance of the experiments was the testing of Captain
Scott's carriage, for the heaviest guns. The designer of
the turret was Mr. Reed, late chief constructor.