The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-19 00:00:00

THE BOTTALLACK MINE.

The quarterly meeting of the Bottallack mine in St.
Just, Cornwall, was held yesterday at the mine. A divi-
dend of £lO per hundred shares was declared.

DEATH OF LADY AUCKLAND.

Lady Auckland, whose husband has just succeeded to
the title by the death of his father, at one time Bishop of
Bath and Wells, is dead.

SUPPOSED WRECK ON THE NORTH OF
SCOTLAND.

The Receiver of Wrecks at Stornoway has had sent him
part of a name-board of a vessel, which board (the sender
says) was cast ashore on the west side of the island of
Lewes. It is about five feet long ; and upon it, indented
into the board and painted yellow, are the letters x H x
MR IN G. The board being broken the name is incom-
plete. The wood has only been a short time in the water.
Considerable quantities of palm oil and batens on the
coast near Stornoway and of the various islands of the
Orkneys. There is very little doubt felt in the neighbour-
hood but that a vessel of considerable size has been re-
cently lost with her crew.

THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MR.

CHARLES BUXTON, M.P.

BOW-STREET—(Tins DAY.)

Alfred Shelley White, aged 27, was to-day placed before
Sir Thomas Henry, the chief magistrate, charged with at-
tempting to murder Mr. Charles Buxton on the 29th of
April last.

Mr. Charles Buxton said he lived at Grosvenor-crescent.
The prisoner had been his secretary for about seven years,
and had always given him satisfaction until a few months
ago, when he became strangely negligent, and he found he
could not continue to employ him. By his agreement with
him he was to give him a month's notice, but he had
given him three months; and as he did mere writing
very well he tried to get some employment for
him. On the Saturday before the occurrence he found
he bad neglected to work, and he wrote to him telling him
that, as he did not attend to his business, he should not
require his services atter that day month. The following
Wednesday he (prisoner) was doing some writing, and he
(witness) being called away, asked the prisoner to wait
until he returned, but when he got back he found he had
gone. On the Friday morning following he met the
prisoner at the door of his house, and they both
went in together. He told the prisoner that he
thought he might have waited for him on Wednesday, to
which he made no reply. He (witness) said, If you did
not wait for me you might have sent the papers by post."
He then told prisoner to get him the Army List, when he, in
a very insolent tone, said he did not know anything about
it. He told him it was in the dining-room, but, instead of
going for it, the prisoner said he was not going to be made a
fool of. He told him to leave the house, as he should not want
him any more, but he did not stir, but commenced reading a
letter from his sister, who, he said, wanted to know why he
was dismissed. He told him because he was the most lazy and
incompetent man of business he ever met wii h, and could do
nothing. Prisoner said, "You used not to complain ;" but he
answered "No, you used to do your work very well." Prisoner
then said, " Do you want the Army List," and went out of the
room to get it. On prisoner's return he (witness) turned
round and said to him in a friendly way, " Mr. White, what
a fool you are to be so insolent to me ; it makes it so difficult
to get you other employment, which I have been trying to
do." He then saw the 'prisoner scowling at him very angrily,
and he answered "I don't believe a word of it, and he leant
down towards him as he said so. He thought he was going
to assault him, but he remained seated and said, " Why you
know I asked certain friends of mina to give you their
writing to do." Prisoner muttered something, then turned
round, and sat down at his table in the middle of the room.
He (Mr. Buxton) was sitting at another table at the
other end of the apartment, with his back toward the
prisoner. The distance from the door to the wall is 23 feet
He told the risoner to leave the house, and he
afterwards heard him get up and walk to the
door. He (Mr. Buxton) was looking at owe
papers on the table, and the next moment he
heard the report of a pistol. He started up, and saw the
prisoner standing with his back to the door with a pistol in
his hand pointed toward him. He instantly flung himself
down behind the table in the middle of the room, and looked
round for any weapon to get hold of, but could not see one.
Prisoner said, "Are you wounded ?" and thea stood for
some little tine as if irresolute whether to fire
again or not. He saw him over the top of
the table. He (Mr. Buxton) resolved to spring at
him, when the prisoner opened the door and went out. He
(Mr. Buxton) rushed to the door, and not hearing the street
door bang, he thought the prisoner was still waiting for
him. He opened the study door with great caution, and not
seeing prisoner in the hall he opened the dining room door.
Not-finding him there he rung the bell, and looked out
of the window to see whether he was in the Crescent,
but he had gone. The witness Wilkes answered the
bell, and he told her White had shot at him, and
directed her to look for the bullet. There was a mark of a
bullet on the study wall in a direct line with his head as Le
sat at the table. Witness found the bullet three or four
yards away from the wall.
In answer to questions put, on behalf of the prisoner, by
Mr West, Mr. Buxton said no attempt was made to fire a
second time. He had noticed for some time a change.in
the mode of his doing certain small things for Lim.
Mary Wilkes said she was the daughter of the house-
keeper to Mr. Buxton,and that she recollected the occurrence
at Grosvenor-crescent. She heard the report of the pisto 1
about tee o'clock in the morning. She did not go up, as
she thought the firing was in the mews outside, but iu about
ten minutes she went up to Mr. Buxton's study, when Mr.
Buxton said, "Mr. White has shot me," and he then asked
her to look for the bullet. Silie fund it in front of the spot
at which Mr. Buxton had been sitting. The bullet produced
is the one. She gave it to the police.

Inspector Pay produced the bullet referred to, and said
it fitted the mark on the wall of Mr. Buxton's study.

Inspector Druscovitch said the prisoner was given into
his custody in Paris, and he brought him to London under
the warrant delivered to him.

The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—THis DAY.

.FALsz CHARACTER.—EmiIy Johnson was finally examined
at the Westminster Police Court, charged with obtaining a
situation by means of a false character. The prisoner
obtained a situation as cook iu the house of Mr. Compton'
in St. George's-road, on the representation that she was a
quiet and well-disposed person, but she turned out to be
known as the " fast cook," and that the character she gave
was false. The magistrate fined her £lO or two mouths'
hard labour. Steps are being taken to discover the writer
of the false character.
CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS'— William Flood was charged
before Mr Knox, at Marlborough-street, with stealing a sove-
reign, the property of Mrs Catherine Erdmann. The pri-
soner delivered some coals to tko prosecutrix, when she told
him she had not got change for a sovereign. The prisoner
said he would go and get change, and she handed him a
sovereign, with which he went away and never returned.
Mr Knox committed him for three months with hard
labour.

OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.—Fre'idilt Sales, aged 27 years
Sarah Seiss, 26, alias Ann Smith, and Johann Johnson, 30,
all natives of Holland, were brought up on remand before
Mr. Woolrych, at the Thames Police-court, two of them
charged with stealing 301bs of beef the property of Mr•
George Cresswell, and the man Freidut Seiss with at tempt-
ing to rescue the woman from lawful custody, and attempting
to stab George Batger, shopboy, in the service of the pro-
secutor. The prisoners entered the prosecutor's shop and
whilst the women were buying some meat, one of the pri-
soners stole the beef, and en its detection he snatched up a
keife lying on the counter, and threatened any ene who
stopped him. All three prisoners were fully committed for
trial,