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

LAW AND POLICE.

VIOLENT STEEET OUTRAGE.—Bridget Christopher and
Elizabeth Daly, well-known to the police, were brought
up at the Westminster Police-court, charged with the
following outrage. :—Daniel Carter, a police-constable, at
the Victoria Station, said he was going through Chelsea
with his wife, and the prisoner, Christopher, threw-half
a pot a beer over his wife. He turned to remonstrate,
when'she apologised on her knees, but at this moment the
other one came up with another woman and began to
abuse the prosecutor, who thereupon said he would fetch
a policeman; upon this Daly picked up two stones,
harmed one to her companion, and with the other struck
the prosecutor in the back of the head, causing him to
bleed profusely and fall ; and while in the act of falling
her companion struck. him in the face with a stone.
Christopher also hit the prosecutor in the mouth, and had
it not Oeen for the timely arrival of a constable more
mischief mu-:t have been done. They both denied the
charge, but the Magistrate sentenced Daly to hard labour
for twomonths, the other he remanded for a week.
AN OFT-CONVICTED THIEF.—John Smith, a young man,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-
street Police-court, with the following robbery. Mr.
Thomas Chilton, eating-house keeper, of No. 43, Great
St: Andrew-street, Seven-dials, said that on the previous
day the prisoner and another man came into his house,
and the other man took a shoulder of mutton of the value
of tis. Gd. out of the window and gave it to the prisoner,
who.wrapped it up in his pocket-handkerchief. He secured
the prisoner but the other man ran away. Mr. Tyrwhitt
asked whether any one present could speak to the pri-
soner's character. Wm. Boden, an officer of the court,
said he had known the prisoner 14 or 15 years, and he was
one of the most successful " dragsmen" (that was persons
who robbed shops) in London. There were numerous
Convictions against him. Committed for trial.
THE Bow BANDITTI.—John Buck, aged 19 years, and
Alfred Rook, 18, were brought before Mr. Paget, at the
Thames Police-court, charged with stealing lead from the
roof of a house in Bow Common Lane. The prisoners
belong to a well-known gang of juvenile thieves, called
the Bow Banditti, and only left prison a few days ago.
Rook had been convicted in the name of Edward Dixon
on the 20th of December, 18G9,-at the Middlesex sessions,
and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, which
expired on the 19th of last month. Two other convictions
were then recorded against him. Buck was convicted on
the Gth of April, 1869, of three robberies in Bow and
et committed Poplar, andseii
the
tencedprtiosonner months'
trial.thld labour. Mr.
Paget

BANKRUPTCY OF THE EARL OF WINcHiLsEA.- -Adjudi-
cation of bankruptcy was made by Mr. Registrar Hazlitt,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, against the Right Hon.
George James Fitch Hatton, Earl of Winchilsea, of 91,
Victoria-street, Westminster, a peer of the realm. The
petitioning creditors were Messrs. Bowring, Arundel, and
Co., hosiers and outfitters, 11, Old Bond-street, whose debt
amounts to £ll9 155., for goods sold and delivered, and
for costs of suit. It appeared that on the sth of August
a debtor's sun-mons was served upon the noble earl re-
quiring payment of the said sum of 4.119 155., and that he,
not beh,.; a trader, had for the space of three weeks
neglected to pay or secure or compound for the same.
Mr. E. Reed
.appeared in support of the adjudication ;
Mr. Horn (of the firm of Horn and Murray) represented
the Earl of Winchilsea. It appears that another petition
is pending against the bankrupt at the suit of Mr. L. L.
Calisher, of Piccadilly, gentleman, whose claim amounts
to 1:700.

THE POLICE AND THE PEOPLE.-At Marlborough street,
Sir Claude de Crespigny, Tlong's Hotel, Bond-street, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with disorderly conduct and
resisting Police-sergeant Middleton, C 23, in the execu-
tion of his duty. Mr. Edward Lewis appeared for the
defendant. Police-sergeant Middleton said about nine
o'clock on Monday night he was at a fire in Wardour-
street. A large fire assembled, and the engineers com-
plained that they had not sufficient room to work the
engines. He requested the defendant, who stood in
front, to stand back several times. The defendant pushed
him against one of the engine,s, caught hold of his
whiskers, and incited the crowd to resist the police, saying
that he should like to fight the police one by one, and
make them fit for the hospital. On taking the defendant
to the station he was very quiet. In reply to Mr. E.
Lewis, the constable said the defendant's friend tried to get
him away quietly. Police-sergeant Leech, C 17, stated that
the defendant was very violent ; he was balled out by a
pugilist. There was no provocation on the part of the
sergeant who was assaulted. Mr. E. Lewis thought that
the Court would see that the police were not wholly free
from bias, the last witness having referred to the
defendant being bailed by a pugilist in order to pre-
judice the case. The facts were these. The defen-
dant was on his way to the theatre with a friend.
His progress was stopped by the crowd at the fire in
Wardour-street. The police told the crowd to stand
back, and the defendant was pushed against the
constable. Mr. Crewe, a naval officer, considered the
police greatly exceeded their duty. Mr. Tyrwhitt would
like to know if this witness would not have acted as the
constable had done had he been ordered to keep a crowd

back. He would never di:•eourage the police when per-
forming an arduous duty. . The defendant, who no doubt
had been dining, had brought the whole affair on himself.
He would have to pay a fine of 20s.

day.

A marriage is arranged to take place between Mr.
Henry Bradnell Bruce, Lieutenant- 9th Foot, third son of
the Right Hon. Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, and Miss
Georgiana Pinckney, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Pinckney, of Tavistock Court, Barnstaple.
The great strike of the cotton and woollen
spinners at Fall River, Massachusetts, has ended in the
complete. discomfiture of the " strikers," They were
starved into submission. No labour strikes in America
now succeed. The tendency of wt .es is downward.

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A court-martial has been ordered to be held at
Gibraltar for the loss of the gunboat Trinculo. The
captain of the Spanish steamer which ran her down is said
to admit having put the helm the wrong way at the
critical moment.

At Island-bridge Barracks, Dublin, a private of
the Scots Greys, named Matthew Law, committed
suicide on Sunday. The deceased placed the muzzle of
his loaded carbine under his ehin, and discharged the con-
tents into his face, half of which and the top of his head
were completely blown away.
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A Dublin correspondent repprts that at the great
Irish fair of Ballinasloe, which opened on Tuesday, there
was a very large show ofi sheep, but buyers were deterred
by the high prices demanded. Prices were about 7s. for
wethers and 4s. for ewes higher than last year's top
quotations. The sales were limited.
The Corberus turret-ship, which has been fitted
out at this dockyard for the defence of Melbourne, on
Tuesday "bent sails." She has now nearly completed
taking stores on board. It is expected she will leave for
Sheerness to-day or on Friday, where she will coal, and
afterwards leave for Australia.

In the Stock market to-day a fair amount of steadiness
has been observable. There has been, however, at th,•
same time a want of animation in the demand for ail
classes of securities, business being still confined within
very moderate limits. Nothing of importance has been
received from the seat of war. The general dearth of
information of any decisive movement engenders
extreme caution, which the increasing abundanc
of capital cannot remove. The Consol market
has been rather quieter, and - the .quotations
have exhibited signs of weakness. For
livery the quotation has been 92 to 923, 'and for Noveth-
ber 92j; Reduced and New Three per Cents., 902 to 91;
Exchequer-bills, 3s. to Bs. prem; India Five per Cents.
have been done at 110 to 1101, and India Bonds 15s. to
20s. prem. For Colonial Government Securities the
demand has-been limited, and prices have been without
change of importance.
Notwithstanding that the business doing in English
Railway Stocks has been only to a moderate extent, the
fluctuations, with but few exceptions, have been satisfac-
tory. North Eastern Consols, however, although the
traffic receipts spew an increase of £10,853, have been
weaker on realisations, and have fallen 'l, or to 1451 to
1452; Metropolitan stock, at 67 to 61k, chews an improve-
' ment of ; Great Northern- -A, of alati tO-1351T
Midland, 1, at 1261, ; North-Western, at 123 a to
1254. Caledonian is quoted at 76 to 761 ; Brighton, at
401 to 41; South Eastern, 72N to 73 ; Great Eastern, :373-
to 37.
In the market for Indian. railway stocks these has been
but little business doing. Bombay, 13aroda, and Central
India, 1042 ; Carnatic, 104 ; East Indian, 1094, 110 ;
Great Indian Peninsula, 106; ; Oude and Rohilcund,
1032 ; and Schick 102 k, 103. Canadian shares have been
quiet. Great Western, 15k. Foreign shares have been
dull. Great Luxemburg have fallen or to 111, 11.
Bahia and San Francisco have marked 18k, ft; San
Paulo, 24, and Lombards 14-k.
The foreign bond market has been steady, and some
further advances have taken place in values. Chilian
(1867 and 1870), have risen 1; Egyptian (1868), ; Peru-
vian (1865), ; Portuguese, ; Russian Anglo-Dutch, 1,
ditto Nicolas Railway, k ; Spanish (1869), ; Turkish
Five per Cents. 12; ditto. (1869), ; and Italian (1861),
per cent. American securities also have been firm. The
Five-Twenty 1882, 1885, and 1887 Bonds have risen 1, and
the Ten-Forty, 4 per cent.
In the market for Bank shares these has\ been no
portant feature. Anglo-Egyptian have marked 22-- ;
Chartered Mercantile, 26k, ; Imperial Ottoman, 111 ;
and Union of London 373.

For telegraph shares there has been but little inquiry.
British Indian Submarine have sold at 8k ; Fahnouths at
101, 10a ; and West Indian and Panama, 5,1 ; Telegraph
Construction, 261 ; Silver's Indiarubber, 39k,

Miscellaneous securities have sold slowly. Hudson's.
Bay, Si, 2; London Financial Association, 1141;
Peninsular and Oriental, Steam, 43.

The sum of £35,000 has been sent into the Bank to

At Mark-lune to-day wheat was quiet, but firm in
value.

Messrs. Blyth are prepared to receive applications for
forty thousand shares of the South Aurora Silver Mining
Company, Limited. The capital of the company is to be
three hundred thousand pounds, and the price of the
shares five pounds each, of which one pound must be pail
on application and one pound on allotment. The pros-
pectus states that 231 bars of silver, realising over
£73,058, have been received from the mine since the com-
mencement of the current year.
The dividend of the Almada and Pinto Consolidated
Silver Mining Company is announced at the rate of
per cent. per annum.

The Anglo-Italian Bank, Limited, have given notice
that the coupon due Ist October on the second issue of
bonds (1869) of the Italian Public Domain Lands Loan,
1867, is now payable at their offices, No. 16, Leadenhall-
stre et.

Biddings for £300,000 in bills on India have taken place
at the Bank. The amounts allotted were £219,400 to
Calcutta, £50,000 to, Bombay, and £6OO to Madras. The
minimum was fixed at is. 10d. Tenders at is. 10id. on
Calcutta and Madras will receive 29 per cent., and on
Bombay at that price 48 per cent. Tenders above that
price will receive in full.
In the discount market there has been a good supply of
capital. The business doing both at the Bank and in
other quarters has been very moderate, and the rate for
negotiating three months' paper has been 2, 21 per cent.
The following is from the Levant Herald, of the 14th of
October : It may be remembered that several months
back a Commission was appointed for coming to an ar-
rangement with the Bey of Tunis, on the subject of the
debts due to Europeans. That Commission has
just published a report, which states that the total debts
amount to, in French money, 160,175,800 f., and the
annual charges on them to 19,495,360 f. ; of that the
revenues of the regency are only from 12,500,000, half of
which are absolutely necessary for the public service.
Under these circumstances a compromise is reccmmeuded.
It is that the different sorts of debt are to be amalgamated,
and represented by obligations of 500 f., bearing 25f. in-
terest, payable half-yearly at Paris, London, Florence,
and Tunis, each obligation of the loans of
1863 and 1865 getting a new one ; five of the
first conversion getting six new ones, ten of • the
second receiving nine, five of the third, two, and 60 of
the fourth 51. As to the floating debt, a new obligation
is to be accorded for 500 f. capital in the first category, for
715 f. in the second, 1,250 f. in the third, and 2,500 f. in the
fourth. The sum required to pay the interest of the
amalgamated debt is estimated at about 6,500,000 f., and
the Government guarantees 5,000,000 f. of that sum in the
first year, 5,500,000 f. in the second, 6,000,000 f. in the
third, and the whole in 'following years : the deposit in
the first three years is to be made up from revenues a
I Commission is to receive.

LONDON STOCK EXOITANGE.-WEDNESDAY.

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