The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-07 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY.—THE TEUTONIA.—THE WAR.
This was a suit by the owners of a cargo which was said to
consist of gunpowder, &c., to obtain its release. The
ship had been arrested at Dover, into which port it had
ran from Prussia, and the cargo had not been delivered, and
this action was for breach of contract, and the principal
object- of the present application was to alter the
pleadings to bring the action under the 6th
Section of the Admiralty Court Act. Mr.
Bayford and Mr. Lanyon were counsel in the case.
It was stated that the contract was for the delivery only
three days before the declaration of war, and that the
cargo had been much depreciated. It consisted partly
of gunpowder. The learned Registrar observed that no
doubt the gunpowder was depreciated, seeing that the
war was likely to be ended. After a discussion,
in which Mr. Lanyon remarked that the cargo could not
be delivered, or the master on his return would have been
liable to punishment, the court made an order to amend
the proceedings, and the action will proceed for damages.
The cargo was released.

THE BRECON ELECTION PETITION.—" OVERTON AND
OTHERS V. HOLFORD, M.P."—At Judges' Chambers yes-
terday, an application on the part of the petitioners for
permission to inspect and take copies of documents re-
lating to the late elections for the borough of
Brecon, in the possession of Mr. Garrold, the
election agent of Mr. Holford, M.P. An ob:
jection was made to the notice filed of the application
but as the trial of the petition was appointed for the
14th inst., the 'summons was heard. It was objected
that under the 20th Vic., c. 29, the Court had no power
to make the order. The return to the House of Com-
mons was the 21st July, and the agent had two months
to make up the return of the expenses. In support of
the application it was urged that the learned judge had
power to make the order, and the petitioners had a right
to know the expenses of the late election before the two
months had expired.—Mr. Justice Lush, after a discus-
sion, made an order for the inspection on or before
Friday, and left the question of costs with the presiding
judge.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE INA POLICE CELL. —Jane Alexander,
a young woman, described as a servant, was charged before
Na Knox, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with
disorderly conduct, and also with attempting to commit
suicide in a cell at the Vine-street Police-station. Police-
constable George Hamilton, 56 C, said that after the pri-
soner was taken into custody for causing a disturbance she
was placed in the cell at the Vine-street station. He
visited her twice and found her all right, but on going a
third time found her lying on her back with a
piece of ribbon tied tightly round and cutting into her
neck, and he had no doubt that had it not been removed
she would have been dead in about five minutes. She
afterwards stated that she thought she woud sooner die
than go before the magistrate. Mr. Knox remanded
tke prisoner for a week to the House of Detention.
THE COSTERMONGER AND HIS SWEETHEART.—EIizabeth
Farrow, aged 34 years, shoebinder, was charged at the
Thames Police-court with stealing a shilling and 12 pence
in copper from the person of Thomas Hoster, a coster-
monger. The prosecutor was selling baked potatoes from
his barrow last night, and the prisoner bought two penny-
worth of him, and then began making love to him
in the most endearing manner. On being asked how she
did that, he said she pulled him about and put her arms
round his neck. After which he found his money was
gone. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and being an old
offender was sent to prison for six months.

The death is announced of Sir George Philip Lee,
who was formerly a lieutenant of the Yeomen of the
Guard. He was knighted in 1844.

The rectory of Market Yarborough has become
vacant by the death of the Rev. Egerton Leigh Boughton
Ward Boughton Leigh, M.A.

The Recordership of Bristol, which the Attorney-
General was prevented from appropriating to himself by a
condemnatory vote of his constituents, it is now stated
will be conferred on Mr. H. T. Cole, Q.U.

As an illustration of the extraordinary interest felt
by all classes in the news from the seat of war, the Aran-
ch,ester Examiner announces that its joint circulation on
Saturday and Monday mornings amounted to 208,000
copies of the paper.

VIOLENT OUTRAGE BY A POLICEMAN.-A mem-
ber of the Liverpool police force, named Allen, has been
dismissed for having brought a false charge against three
persons. He was also ordered to pay two fines for
assaults, and being unable to pay, he was taken down to
the cells.

The Committee of Management of the West
London Hospital has received from Mrs. Baher, the wife
of the Rev. R. G. Baher, of Fulham Vicarage, a promise
of the sum of £1,400 for building and entirely fitting up a
female ward in the new hospital at Hammersmith, to be
called the Baher Ward.

THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON FOR NEXT YEAR.
—The election of Lord Mayor for the year 1870-71, in suc-
cession to Mr. Alderman Besley, will take place on the
29th instant at the Guildhall. Mr. Dakin is the senior
alderman below the chair, and Mr. Gibbons the second,
and unless any special circumstance should arise, the Livery
will select Messrs. Dakin and Gibbons, and the Court of
Aldermen will return Mr. Dakin.
FRENCH PEACE ADDRESS.—WO have received
a copy of an address which, immediately after the de-
claration of war, was issued to the two Sovereigns by the
French Peace Society. It is signed " Martin Paschaud,
pastor, President of the Presbytery of the Reformed
Church of Paris," and the burden of it is that war is
essentially opposed to the spirit of the Christian religion.
—.Daily News.
CONFESSION OF MURDER.—A lad named Clement
Brookfield was charged at Bow-street yesterday, on his
own confession, with the crime of murder. He states
that early on Saturday morning he was accosted on West-
minster Bridge by a girl, and that, thioking.she intended
to rob him, he struck her on the head with a piece of iron
and then threw her body into the river. The piece of
iron he had with him is a very formidable weapon,having
r'a knob at the end. He is remanded that inquiries may
be made.

The establishment of the Republic in France without
bloodshed is regarded as a favourable omen for the future
domestic peace of the country, and to this circumstance
is attributable the moderate amount of firmness preva-
lent-in the stock market to-day. The onward march of
the Prusiians towards Paris, and the apparent determina-
tion of the French to make another stand, have prevented
any important transactions being entered into, and business
consequently has been conducted on a very limited scale,
despite the belief that the further attempt about to be
made will prove as futile as its predecessors, inasmuch as
a considerable proportion of the troops now being
despatched.to the front is destitute of all military experi-
ence. The Consol Market has been firmer, at an advance
of 1 per cent. For delivery, the quotation is 911 to 92 ;
and for October 911 to 921; Reduced and New Three per
Cents., 901 to 901 ; Bank Stock, 234 to 236 ; Exchequer
Bills, ls. to 6s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1091 to noi ;
and India Bonds 12s. to 20s. prem, Colonial Government
Securities have been quiet and without change.
The marker for English Railway Stocks has been fiat,
and prices, in some instances, have been weaker. Cale-
donian are at 74 to 74} ; Brighton, 381 to 391, are / lower ;
Great Northern (A) has fallen 1 or to 1281 to 1291; South
Eastern closed at 691 to 70/ ; Great Eastern, 35} to 36 ;
Midland, 1241 to 125 ; North Western, 1251 to 126 ; dreat
Western, 681 to 69 ; and North Eastern, 1871 to 138.
k There has been very little demand for Indian railway
stocks. Bombay, Baroda and Central India, 1051; East
Indian, 110 ; and Scinde, 1031, 4i. Canadian shares have
commanded but little attention. Foreign shares have
been quiet. Bahia and San Francisco, 18 ; Great Luxem-
bourg,
121; Recife and San Francisco, 161; Lombardo,
151.

The market for foreign bonds has continued quiet, and
the fluctuations have been mostly unfavourable. Italian
Maremmana Railway has fallen 2, Mexican , Portuguese
A, Turkish Five per Cents. /, and Italian (1861) A ; but
Spanish (1867) shews a rise of /. American Government
Securities have been quiet, and without change. Atlantic
and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage Bonds have
risen A, and Erie Shares After official hours, Italian
(1861) improved to 49-i to 49k; Spanish (1867), 26A to 26-1 ;
ditto (1869), 25i to 26 ; Turkish (1865), 63 to 64 ; ditto
Five per Cents., 42 to 43 ; ditto (1869), 25/ to 25i ;
Egyptian (1868), 74A to 74g ; Mexican, 14A to 15 ; Bra-
zilian (1865), 89 to 90; Peruvian (1865), 85A to 86k;
United States Five-twenties, 88A to 89.
Bank Shares have been in limited request, Anglo-
Egyptian, 22/ ; Imperial Ottoman; 11/ to ; London and
Westminster, 59k.
Telegraph Shares have been dull. British Indian Sub-
marine, 7a to 7A ; Mediterranean Extension, 5 to sif ;
Telegraph Construction, 24 to 24k.
Miscellaneous Securities have been cautiously dealt in.
Hudson's Bay, 8a; General Credit and Discount, 7;
National Discount, 11/.
The sum of 1;63,000 has been sent into the Bank to-
day.

There has been a great demand for bills on Paris, at
lower rates ; otherwise the exchanges are unaltered.
The discount market has continued quiet. With good
supplies of capital and only a moderate inquiry for
accommodation, three months' paper hai been taken at

3 per cent.
The Samaria, from New York, has brought £91,430 in
specie.

At a meeting of the London General Omnibus Company
a dividend at.the rate of 8 per cent. per annum was de-
clared, and £6,014 was carried forward.

The traffic returns of the South-Eastern Railway for
the week ending September 3 were as follow :—Receipts
(passengers, &c.), £28,578 14s. 7d. ; decrease from receipts
in corresponding week of 1869, £641185. 6d. ; receipts for
goods and cattle, £7,275 45, 2d. ; increase over receipts of
corresponding week in 1869, £737 11s. Total increase
during last week over corresponding week in 1869,
£95 12s. 6d. London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way for the week ending September 3, 1870 :—Traffic
receipts for goods, &c., £30,337 ; for passengers, £441,579.
Decrease in total receipts over receipts of corresponding
week in 1869, £35,878.

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