The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-06 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ALLEGED SCUTTLING OF A VESSEL.—At the Mansion
House, Hector Gillies, of Portree, Isle of Skye, and
John Fitzgerald, master mariner, a native of Ireland,
were brought up in custody of Spottle, a detective ser-
geant, for further examination before the Lord Mayor on
the charge of scuttling a vessel called the Admiral Napier,
of which Clinks was owner and Fitzgerald master, with
intent to defraud- the underwriters. It will be remem-
baretl that the vessel was lost on a voyage
from Liverpool to Aberdeen, and the •allega-
tion was • that Fitzgerald scuttled her at the
instigation of Gillies, the insurances amounting to about
£l,OOO, while the ship was only worth between £3OO and
£4OO. It appeared that Gillies had endeavoured to bribe
previous captains to cast her away, and evidence was now
called with the view of chewing that he waited at Bristol
and Glasgow, according to .previous arrangement, in the
expectation
of receiving information that the vessel was
lost. The prisoners were again remanded.
ROBBERIES BY A CLERK. —At the Mansion House,
William Moore, thirty years of age, was brought up in
custody of Edward Funnell, a detective sergeant, for
examination berfore the Lord Mayor on a charge of steal-
ing at various times moneys to the amount of about £3OO,
belonging to his employer, Mr. Julius Mauren-
bacher, merchant, carrying on business in Mark
Lane. The prisoner,_ w.ho tikd
.._been is the
service of the prosecutor for ten years, was
his chief clerk, and as such was entrusted with money to
pay into the bank to the credit of Mr. Maurenbacher. A
day or twa ago an intimation was made by the bankers
that the account was overdrawn, and Mr. Maurenbacher's
suspicions being excited, he asked the prisoner for the
pass-book. The prisoner stated that he had left it at the
bank, and the prosecutor then asked him to go to the
bank with him. At the door of the banking-house the
prisoner said it was not necessary to go any further, and
admitted that he had been appropria *ng the money
belonging to his master. The Lord May r remanded him
for a week.
A NOTABLE BANKRUPT.—In the Co rt of Bankruptcy
the case of Captain Arthur Brooks was heard. The
bankrupt was described as of St. Peter's-chambees, Corn-
hill ; of Woodcote Park, Epsom ; and of the Naval and
Military Club, Piccadilly, gentleman, late captain in
her Majesty's 13th Hussars. The debts are £1,900 ; no
assets. This was the sitting for public examination.—
Mr. Slater, the trustee, offered no opposition.—
Mr. R. Jones, solicitor, the petitioning creditor, op-
posed. The-bankrupt had sold his commission in the 13th
Hussars, and had since been out of the way. He had
had to be advertised for at every stage of the proceeding.
He (Mr. Jones) had discounted a bill of the bank-
rupt's for £212, on the representation by his solicitor
that he was the son of Mr. Robert Brooks, of
Woodcote Park, Epsom, that he was entitled to
property under his mother's marriage settlement, and
that his bill was as good as the Bank of England.
The bankrupt, examined, stated that he joined the
army in 1858, and sold out in October 1868. During the
time lie received an allowance from his father. He re-
ceived nothing from the sale of his commission. He had
mortgaged it two years before to his brother as security
for advances of larger amount. Mr. Reed, for the bank-
rupt, stated that the matter had already been inquired
into by the trustee, and the bankrupt had
given the fullest information. Bankrupt, further
examined said he had an interest in some
racehorses • one was named Zingari ; it was in
training aCMr. Reeves's at Epsom, and was sold to pay
expenses, He had had betting transactions on the turf,
but not to any amount since October, 1868. He had not
been in any business since, but had received occasionally
sums from his father, but no fixed income. The Registrar
said that this was not an application for order of dis-
charge, but merely an examination, and as the accounts
were not impeached the bankrupt must pass.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT AT THE ALHAMBRA PALACE.
Henry Aston, described as a " recruit, St. George's
Barracks," was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt at the
Marlborough-street Police-court, with violently assaulting
William Smith, a cellarman, at the Alhambra Palace.
Henry Simmons, an officer of the Alhambra, said that in
consequence of complaints from some of the visitors he
spoke to the prisoner and requested him a dozen times to
desist from making a disturbances when he took up a
glass and threatened to smash his head. He caught hold
of the prisoner to eject him, as also did another officer
named Smith, and the prisoner bit Smith's hand and head
and struck him (witness) several times. William Smith
said that on going to the previous witness's assistance the
prisoner made an attempt to bite his nose, but not sue-
rvitits-tace prisoner bit one of his fingers very severely.
Patrick Kelley, a porter in Covent Garden Market, de-
posed to having complained to the officer of the prisoner's
conduct, which was disgusting in the extreme. The pro-
secutor was very much annoyed by the conduct of the
prisoner and his companions, who got up and set to
dancing as soon as the band struck up, and such was the
grossness of their language that be was compelled to send
his wife away. Hearing the witness Smith cry out be
went to his assistance, and took his finger from the pri-
soner's mouth, the finger being severely bitten. The pri-
soner said all that had been stated was lies. Mr. Tyrwhitt
said the prisoner was evidently one of a brutal race of
roughs breeding up for the gallows. He had been guilty
of a cowardly, brutal action, and would be committed for
six weeks with hard labour for the assault on Smith, and
and have to pay 40s. or 14 days for the assault on
Simmons,

DEFACING THE QUEEN'S COlN.—Richard Wilcox, bar-
man, at the Sloane's Head, North-street, Chelsea, was
summoned to the Westminster Police-court, for defacing
a half-sovereign. The prosecution was conducted by Mr.
W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, who stated that the
prosecutor, Mr. Arthur Chester Ellis, sent for a bottle of
wine for a sick person, and the half-sovereign was ten-
dered in payment : the defendant took it, bent it in his
teeth, indented it, and then returned it, refusing to
take it or give another for it. The Consolidated
Statutes empowered the magistrate to try whether
it was 'good, and then upon tender to the defen-
dant and I his neglect to give the full value
of it he would be liable to indictment. The half-sovereign
was duly traced to the defendant's possession, and he
denied that he had said it was bad, but it appeared that
suspicion arose as to its being genuine, and hence it was
returned. It was 24 years old, and had been worn very
much. A jeweller proved it was worth 9s. Bd., and had
been diminished in value only by reasonable wear and
tear. Mr. Arnold decided that it was good, and the defen-
dant's master, Mr. Pallett, paid the money. Upon the
application of Mr. Smyth, Mr. Arnold said the defendant
clearly thought it was bad, and ordered ss. costs.
BRUTAL ASSAULTS.—David Briant, an Irish labourer,
of 31, Brunswick-street, commonly called Tiger Bay, St.
George-in-the-East, was brought up before Mr. Lushing-
ton, at the Thames Police-court, charged with assaulting
his wife Hannah, in Christian-street, Tiger Bay—and which
a magistrate of this court once described as the most un-
Christian street he had ever met with. There was a
drunken quarrel between the prisoner and his wife, and
she provoked him by calling him bad names. He retaliated
with his fists, and beat her in a most brutal manner. The
policeman came up and found the woman bleeding and
exhausted. Mr. Lushington sentenced the prisoner to
two months' imprisonment and hard labour.—Jaznes
Ryan, an Irishman, upwards of six feet high,
of remarkably giant like proportions, was charged
with violently assaulting his wife, Ellen, in
Rosemary-lane, commonly called Royal Mint-street,
Whitechapel. The parties quarrelled at half-past 12 last
night, and the prisoner, who was mad drunk, attacked his
wife, and struck and kicked her until she was rendered in-
sensible. Mr. Lushington said he might be justified in
sentencing the prisoner to six months' imprisonment and
hard labour for the atrocious assault he had committed,
but as it appeared the conduct of the prisoner towards his
wife was generally good he should sentence him only to
three months' imprisonment and hard labour, and after
that term had expired to find bail to keep the peace for
three months more, and to be of good behaviour towards
his wife and all her Majesty's subjects.

The appointment of Mr. Mellish as a Judge of the
Court of Appeal in Chancery has been gazetted.
The Civilian hears of extensive alterations in the
in-door branch of the Inland Revenue at Somerset House.
The offices which will probable be most affected by the
coming changes are those of the Secretary and Accountant.
General.

The Clonmel Chronicle states that, owing to the
opposition which has been given in the various towns
slong the line of railway between Waterford and Limerick
to the erection of poles through the streets and the exten-
sion of the wires to the different post-offices, the local
inspector has received instructions to have them removed,
and to allow matters to remain as they have been
hitherto.

TAX-GATHERING EXTRAORDINARY.—This novel
and somewhat important question came up at the Perth
Quarter Sessions on Tuesday, on an appeal at the instance
of the Crown against a decision of the local justice of the
Weem district who decided that Robert Menzies, a member
of the Weem Curling Club, was not liable to pay the licence
for armorial bearings by wearing the Menzies' crest in his
bonnet at a curling match at Logierait, on the 21st of
February last. After a long discussion'the vote was taken,
when the appeal was maintained by a majority of 5 to 4.
The jury recommended that the penalty, which is £2O, be
reduced to £1 Is. without costs.

.NAPOLEON 111. AS REPRESENTED IN "
Edmund Yates, in his letter to the Westcrn Mail this
week, says :—" I have often noticed that the portraits of
the Emperor Napoleon, as drawn by Mr. Tenniel in
Punch, form a tolerable accurate reflex of the current
English feeling towards that sovereign. The Times,
which is supposed to lead, really only follows every twist
and turn of popular opinion. Punch follows the
Times; and Mr. Tenniel is the pictorial exponent
of Punch, so that, when the entente cordiale is
at its height, we find the Emperor represented by the
comic draughtsman as a sufficiently good-looking man,
with aquiline profile and keen eye. But let him do any-
thing to displease us, the people of England," i.e., the
Times and Punch, and straightway the aquiline nose be-
comes an enormous proboscis, the eyes are small and
swine-like, a horrible wisp of hair adorns each side.of the
head, and :the whole aspect of the man is aged and vul-
garised. I think you will find this last-named model Used
by Mr, Tenniel for some time to come.

AUGUST 6, 1870.