The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-24 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

A DANGEROUS FELLow.—Williara Oxbro, 29, a foot-
man, was brought up at the Westminster Police-court,
charged with endeavouring to obtain by means of a false
character, a situation with Mr. John FergUitOn,49, Eaton-
place. Captain Ferguson, of the 2d Life 'Guards, said
prisoner engaged himself this day week as a footman. He
said he had served for two years with Mrs. Weld, of
Gravesend, but at the present time was staying at the
Norfolk Hotel, Brighton. Witness wrote there and
received a written character two or three days after-
wards. The composition of the' Icltter attracted sus-
picion, and from the proprietor of the hotel, Mr.
Legge he ascertained that no such person lived or had
lived there, and Was not known to the writer. Witness
had taken this up on public grounds alone in order that
this system of fraud should be stopped, as so many
robberies had been committed* of late in gentlemen's
houses. Henry Giles, 287 B, warrant officer, proved
apprehending the prisoner : he said he had lived with
Mrs. Weld ; it was a bad job, he wished he had kept
away ; he had been out of a situation a long while, and
had no food, and did not know what to do, and thought
he might as well have three months as be out of a situa-
tion. Several letters were found on him, purporting to
be from gentlemen with whom he had lived; he had been
in the service of Mrs. Callender, Ebury-street, and dis
missed for drunkenness. Prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr.
Woolrych severely animadverted on the gross conduct of
the prisoner, and sentenced him to pay a fine of £2O, or
three months' imprisonment. He waslocked

TIIE TRAVELLING SHOWMEN AND .BEAR BAITING.—An
application was made to Mr. Knox, at the Marlborough-
street Police-court, by Mr. Albert, the interpreter on
behalf of Carl Hermann, a German., who, with two
others, was convicted at the Kingston Sessions for cruelty
to a bear, to know whether a bear came within the mean-
ing of. the Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Young, an officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, said the pristiners were appre-
hended on a warrant at the instance of Mr. Colam, the
secretary of the Society, under the 3rd section of the Act,
which says that any person who shall act in the manage-
ment or keep a place for the purpose of baiting bull, bear,
badger, or any wild or domestic animal, shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding £5. Mr. Knox, after looking at
the Act, said a bear certainly came within the meaning
of the 3rd section, which said any animal, wild or
domestic.

SERIOUS DAMAGE DY A DRUNKEN CABMAN.—John
Edwin Gard, badge 9,999, was brought up at the above
court, charged with being drunk and incapable, and
breaking a pane of glass of the value of £B, the property
of Messrs. Chappell and Co., music-publishers, 49, New
Bond-street. Police-constable Brown, 20 C R, said
that on the previous afternoon his attention was called
to the prisoner, who was drunk, and who had backed
his cab through a pane of glass in the shop window
of Messrs. Chappell and Co. Mr. Henry Gawler, in the
employ of Messrs. Chappell and Co., said the value of the
pane of glass was gs, and that the prisoner was appa-
rently drunk. Mr. Henry Ward, cab proprietor, of
Carlisle-mews, Edgware-road, said the prisoner was in his
employ, and it was a singular circumstance, and one for
which he could in no way account, but only three or four days
ago he met with is similar accident, and that had not
been settled for yet. He (Mr. Ward) considered it a
serious matter, as he was responsible for damage done by
a drunken driver. The previous damage was £5, and now
it- was £B. Mr. Knox, after recommending Mr. Ward
to discharge the prisoner from his employ, as he was
a very unsafe one to be entrusted with a cab, fined the
prisoner 10s. for being drunk, and ordered him to pay
£8 for the damage, or, in default, two months' imprison-
ment.

A. MAD lionsE.--A case of madness in a horse
is reported from Huddersfield. The animal was first
noticed to be unwell on Saturday week, and the following
morning was pronounced rabid. The horse with his teeth
tore out the manger, and shook it as a dog would shake a
rat. Upon the recommendation of a veterinary surgeon
the horse was shot.

In a suit heard in the Irish Probate Court, to esta-
blish a will in which the testator had devised numerous
sums to Roman Catholic clergymen and Roman Catholic
institutions, it appeared that a medical man, who was one
of the witnesses to the instrument, confessed that he had
vainly endeavoured to make the testatrix, who was in a
dying state, understand what she was required to do. He
wrote her name, and took her hand and Made a mark.
The will was condemned.

THE MANCHESTER LADIES AND THE RELIEF OF
THE SICK AND WOUNDED.—The Secretary of the Man-
chester Ladies' Committee for the Relief of the Sick and
Wounded in the Franco-German War has received a
letter, of which the following is a copy :—" Alice Cross
Hospital, Darmstadt, Ist November.—Dr. Mayo presents
his compliments to the Ladies' Committee of Manchester,
and is happy to be able to inform them that their most
useful and valuable present for this hospital has at
length arrived quite safely. The beds have been
arranged, and the Manchester wards will be filled with
beds to-day or to-morrow. Her Royal Highness the
Princess Alice was in the ward yesterday, and expressed
her appreciation of the kindness of the people of Man-
chester. Her Majesty the Queen of Prussia and her Royal
Highness the Crown Princess, when informed by Dr.
Mayo of the gift, also expressed themselves strongly in
the same sense."

THE WORKING MEN AND THE RUSSIAN NOTE.
—At a meeting of the officers of the Labour Representa-
tion League held on Tuesday evening at Cockspur-
street, Charing-cross—Mr. Robert M. Latham, the
president, in the.' chair —it was unanimously
agreed that thir following resolution should
be submitted for approval at a meeting of the
League, to be held on Friday. It will be
moved by the President, and seconded by Mr. Lloyd
Jones :—"That we protest indignantly against the in-
sidious conduct of Russia, in complicity, as we cannot
but believe, with Prussia, in attempting at the pre-
sent moment to further disturb the peace of
Europe, by repudiating her treaty engagements entered
into at the conclusion of the Crimean war ; and we call
upon the British Government to give a prompt, well-con-
sidered, and determined opposition to this most nefarious
attempt to.establish in Europe ii military mastership by
nations essentially despotic in the constitution and spirit
of their Governments. The working men of England,
though sincere friends of peace, are not so •at the expense
of European liberty, nor yet in the interest of conspiring
despotisms seeking to aggrandise themselves at the ex-
pense of their weaker neighbours."
A Boori FOE ADIEs. —Highly as sewing machines are
prized, there is obe great fault to which they are addicted—they
make a great nettle while doing the work ; a noise so great that
for a worker herself to talk at the same time is out of the ques-
tion. We need not say how trying this must be to a lady. To
be not only prevented from talking, but also from listening to
the gossip of those around her—the very thought of such a
thing is unendurable. Well, an inventor has come to their
rescue with a SILENT SEWING MACHINE; and as it comprises
all the appliances Ind devices for varied work with which all the
best sewing machines are provided, and several in addition, and
exercises them all so NOISELESSLY that the ladies may gossip
even in whispers, and time infant Or invalid sleep on In peace, we
expect that most of, the old machknes will ere long he heard, or
heard of, no inore,'and that "L SILENCIEUSE," the Silent
Sewing Machine (at Messrs. POLLACK, SCHMIDT, and Co.'s,
210 A, REGENT-TREET, LONDON, W), will quietly take their
Place, as the universal domestic helper. —"lnvestment Circular
and Financial Record," September 7:1670.