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LAW AND POLICE.

SHOCKING CASE.—Stephen Casaya, a French jeweller,
living at No. 6, Carpenter-street, Grosvenor-square, was
charge d before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street
Police-court, with indecently assaulting a boy named
Thomas Mill Spence, about 11 years of age, residing in
the same house. From the evidence of the boy it appeared
that he had permission from his. widowed mother to
go and sit with the prisoner in his room, the prisoner
stating that he was lonely ; and after being
the room a short time, the prisoner gave him an
apple, and then placed a bottle to his mouth, and he
became insensible, and while in _that state the prisoner
abused him in a manner unfit for publication. A medical
gentieman residing in Mount-street, Grovenor-square,
gave evidence in support of the charge, adding that he
found the boy in a very excited state, threatening to cut
his throat, tossing about on the bed, and tearing his hair.
The boy's mother, a respectable-looking woman, said
that while in the lower part of the house she heard a
fall and a cry of distress, and on going upstairs found
her boy lying on the landing by the front door in a half-
delirious state, tearing his hair and scratching his face,
and totally unable to give her any explanation of what had
occurred. She sent for a doctor and found out what
had occurred, and when she heard it such was her in-
dignation that had she had a pistol she would have shot
the prisoner;' who had grossly deceived her and others,
as he had always assumed such quiet and courteous
manners, and led personsto believe ho was a most respect-
able man. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prisoner whether he
wished to say anything. The prisoner, who at first pre-
tended he could not speak English, but subsequently
spoke it very well, denied the charge. Mr. Tyrwhitt
committed the prisoner for trial.

MUSIC LICENCES IN POPLAR.— SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF
A BEER-SHOP KEEPER. Mr. Edward E. Malin, a printer,
of No. 328, High-street, Poplar, waited upon Mr. Paget,
at the Thames Police-court, to seek redress from the
persecution of a beerhouse keeper, named Fitch, of No, 330
in the same street opposite, who applied to the Middlesex
magistrates at the Sessions House last week for a music
licence. Mr. Malin said he successfully opposed the grant-
ing of a music license to his neighbour, and the consequence
was that he had been subjected to a most gross persecu-
tion. Mr. Fitch had caused a large board to be projected
over the foot way at right angles with his house, with the
words " Beware of the Informer," and an index printed
thereon. The index was pointed towards Mr. Moffiin's
house opposite, and it caused numerous persons to stop
and discuss the question of music licenses. He had
been subjected to repeated insults, both at home and
abroad, and called an informer and other opprobrious
epithets. Fitch had pointed him out to others, and
called out, " That is the man, that is the informer." He
had lived nine years in High-street, Poplar, and Fitch
only three. He had opposed the granting of a music
license on public grounds, and would so again. Mr. Paget
said the applicant ought not to have been persecuted and
insulted, and he directed Walton, an officer of the court,
to wait on Fitch and point to him the impolicy and ille-
gality of the course he was pursuing towards his neigh-
bour. If it was not immediately discontinued a summons
would be granted against the offen ler. Mr. Moffiin
thanked the magistrate, and retired with the officer.

SERIOUS CHARGE UNDER THE BANKRUPTCY ACT.-At
the Mansion House, London, Mr. Henry Victor Griessa-
lick, and Mr. William Henry Nebal, in partnership as
merchants in Basing,hall-street, appeared before the Lord
Mayor on a summons obtained at the instance of Mr.
Auguste G4nard, a merchant at Antwerp, to answer a
charge under the Bankruptcy Act, 1869, of having un-
lawfully, within four months next, before the presentation
of a petition by them,for the liquidation of their affairs, by
certain false representations and fraud obtained from the
complainant goods of the value of £349, odd on credit, and
for which they had not, it was alleged, since paid. It
appeared that the complainant had had dealings with the
defendants for about fifteen months, and had sold them
goods on credit, for which he drew bills on them payable
in thirty days. In July last they owed him upwards of
£5OO. On the 30th of Jane he received an order from
them for 1,500 boxes of candles, which were to be deli-
vered in three parcels, and for which they promised to pay
in cash in thrae clays. He sent the first instalment of
600 boxes, amounting to £349, on the 16th July, and
three days after he received a letter from them stating
that they were unable to meet their engagements, one of
their reasons being that they had especially relied on the
assistance of a Mr. Goldberg, which he had been obliged
suddenly to withdraw, but that they hoped. to be in a
position in a short time to make good certain losses they
hAd sustained. The complainant, however, had not been
paid the £349 they owed him. The defence was that the
defendants had been unable to keep their engagements
through the declaration of war, the effect of which had been
to damage the ordinary course of trade in many respects,
and especially to dry up the sources of profit, and produce
panic. The defendants' transactions had not been charac-
terised by that commercial exactness generally followed
out by the merchant princes of the City ; but, at the
same time, there was not a sufficient dereliction to bring
them within the criminal clauses of the Act. The Lord
Mayor said the summons must be dismissed. He did not
think there was sufficiently distinct misrepresentation to
justify him in sending the ease for trial.
ALLEGED EXTENSIVE FRAUDS ON A BROKER.-At the
Mansion House, London, James Woolf was brought up
on remand, charged with obtaining goods from Mr.
Bacon, city and colonial merchant, to the amount of
£l,OOO, under the following extraordinary circumstances :
—The prisoner is a rag-dealer residing in Spitalfields,
and had had some monetary transactions with
the prosecutor's clerk, a young man named Jeavons.
It appeared from letters produced that under pressure of
the prisoners's threats, Jeavons had been in the habit of
giving orders on Mr. 'Bacon's contractors for the delivery
of rags, sometimes to the value of £lOO at a time. By
this means the transaction did not appear in the books of
the former. The demands of the prisoner ultimately
became so great that Jeavons, fearing the result, commu-
nicated the supposed fraud to his master,
and then, so it is alleged, decamped. The
prisoner was apprehended, and it was found
that another ingenious method in his busi-
ness was to send the goods directly to the depot of the
Great Northern Railway, whence they were removed by
the party purchasing them, thus complicating the chance
of their discovery. One of the letters in question begged
Jeavons " for God's sake not to let the rags be traced, as
it would be utter ruin to both." He was committed for
trial.

THE CABINET.—The Premier is expected in town
the week after next. Lord Granville has come to town
from Walmer Castle. The Lord Chancellor comes to
town the week after next. The Secretary of State for
War, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the President
of the Poor-law Board are among the members of the
Cabinet already in town.

Mr. A. W. Bayley, aged 21, an articled clerk to a
solicitor, has been killed at a football match in the old deer
park at Richmond. While playing he kicked the ball,
and Mr. Strachan, on the opposite side, kicked it back
again, and, both running after it at a swift pace, they
came in violent collision, the dece'ssed falling through the
elbow of the other striking him in the stomach. The whole
of the deceased's lower intestines and bowels were rap•
tured, and he died the next night. He admitted that the
occurrence was perfectly accidental.
THE FATAL RIOTS IN 'CUMBERLAND.—The in-
quest on Cornelius Cox, who was killed in the "navvy"
riots on Saturday last at Armathwaite, was opened on
Tuesday. A policeman stated that he found the man
lying insensible behind a stone wall five feet high, over
which he must have been thrown. The inquiry was ad-
journed, but three important English witnesses have dis-
appeared. The English and Scotch navvies haveresumed
work, the Irish having left the neighbourhood.
THE IRISH Cnuncll.—The Duke of Abercorn
proposes to contribute towards the Sustentation Fund of
the Irish Church the sum of £6,000, of which £l,OOO is to
be devoted to the General Sustentation Fund, and £5,000
to the endowment of the parishes in which his grace's
estate is situated. The patent for the charter granted to
the Representative Body of the Irish Church passed the
Great Seal on Tuesday.

THE MARQUIS OF LORNE AND THE ARGYLL
TENANTRY.—On Monday evening- the Marquis of Lorne
entertained at dinner in the Town-hall, Cambelton, the
tenantry on the Argyll estate connected with
that district. About one hundred and thirty sat
down to dinner. The noble Marquis presided, and pro-
posed the first toast, " The Health of the Queen, and of
the Prince and Princess of Wales." Mr. Stewart,
Chamberlain to the Duke of Argyll, proposed " The
Health of the Princess Louise," which was pledged most
enthusiastically. Lord Lorne, in responding to the toast,
said :—My friends, the Princess Louise being. told I was
to meet you here to-day asked me to convey her thanks
to you in case you drank her health. For my own
part I need hardly tell you how dear those cheers you
have given for her are to me, giving me an earnest as
they do of the welcome she will receive from those among
whom I trust, God permitting, she may be allowed often
in future years to live." The Marquis subsequently pro-
posed "Prosperity to Kintyre," remarking that he had
the utmost pleasure in meeting with his father's tenants,
and becoming acquainted with their wants and interests.
Other toasts followed, and much enthusiasm prevailed.

BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.--GRATEFUL AND COBI-
FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has
rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re-
marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which
govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a
careful application of the line properties of well-selected cocoa,
Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a' delicately
flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors'
bills." Made simply with boiling. water or milk. Sold only in
tin-lined packets labelled—JAMES Ern tt Co., Homceopathi
Ckeixtists, London.—Advt.

TFI E WAR.

THE SIEGE OF PARIS.
(BY BALLOOS MAIL. )
PARIS, OCT. 14.

. Citizen Flonrens has been disposed of for the present.
This troublesome revolutionist, who commanded five bat-
talions of Belleville National Guards—Belleville is the
Reddest quarter of Paris—and who was constantly
assembling his legions to bully the Government and
stir up civil war, has at length been worsted. A
few days ago he resigned his post as major, and was after-
wards re-elected in a surreptitious sort of way ; but as
the Government did not acknowledge this reinstatement
in office, it was considered null and void. Nevertheless
it was good enough for Flourens. He tried his old trick
of summoning his five battalions to arms, " with the
view," as the Official Journal puts it, "of marching upon the
Hotel de Ville with rebellious intentions." The rebellious
intentions were not put in practice, nor even the marching,
but the repetition of a scandalous public outrage afforded
the Government abundant justification for stringent mea-
sures. Flourens had committed two offences. He had
re-assumed the command of the five battalions whilst he
had no proper power to do so ; and he had attempted to
lead them on an unlawful mission—unlawful whether he
justly commanded the battalions or not. The Government,
therefore, have resolved to take proceedings against him.
It is not likely that the proceedings will come to much—
certain that no very severe punishment will be inflicted
upon Flourens ; but the affair has at least had the good
effect of restoring order. It is said that Flourens has
agreed not to try any more experiments in civil war.
Rochefort has conciliated him. Certain it is that the Belle-
ville hordes are in a much better frame of mind
since the Government has shewu its determination to allow
no trifling. All this row has been about the election of
the Commune—that darling institution which Belleville so
much wants, and which the Ministry is determined not to
have. What the Commune would do if it were established,
except compete with the Ministry for power, its best
friends are unable to say. One gentleman of Belleville
sws the Commune is to confiscate the goods of those who
have abandoned Paris, to be the terror of cowards,
traitors, &c., and to dismiss and imprison all creatures
of the Bonaparte—all of which is significant enough.
The regular distribution of meat has commenced. Eacn
householder states the number of his family, and receives
in return a " Carte de Famille," with coupons attached,
authorising him to purchase so many rations at a
butcher's. The ration is deplorably small, and in
order to obtain it in anything like decent quality
it is necessary to Mount guard at the butcher's at about
five in the morning. To go at six is to run the risk of get-
ting an inferior portion. Of course no butcher can sell
more than the quantity allowed by the coupons. But a
good deal of trickery is practised, and is unavoid-
able. It is notorious that the butchers save
the best portions for their best customers, regardless
of the rule " first come, first served." It is posssible, too,
that a householder may send in an application for per-
mission to buy more meat than the number of his family
will justify. But this is a dangerous trick. If found out
the offender would get no meat at all. Sooner or later
the Government will doubtless take the distribution into
its own hands.

There was a sortie of some magnitude yesterday, and
glowing accounts of it are published this morning. It
may be well to give the story such as it is given to us.
" At nine in the morning," says the Hams Correspondence,
" the discharge of a cannon from Fort Montrouge gave to
our troops the signal which they had impatiently awaited.
From the Orleans gate to the redoubt of the Hautes-
Bruyeres, the last point which we occupied, our soldiers
were massed, covered by the inequalities of the ground.
At a quarter past nine all our positions commenced a
terrible fire. The enemy replied but feebly. After one
hour of a violent cannonade, our troops rushed forward
with great rapidity—the Mobiles of the Cote-d'Or leading
the way. The hostile positions were carried by the
bayonet. Nothing could resist that formidable
avalanche. In vain did one Prussian battalion,
taken by surprise, throw up its arms. This ruse has been
too often used by the enemy, and they were charged
pitilessly, and dispersed by the furious attack. On
previous occasions when this trick has been tried, our men
have been allowed to approach without show of resistance
—as if a surrender was contemplated—and then have
been shot down. With a furious rush the Mobiles
cleared the distance and entered Bagneux. As far as
the church they encountered no serious resistance, but at
that point a lively fusillade commenced. From cellars,
windows, roofs, the enemy fired upon our troops, Each
house became a fortress, which it was needful to capture
at any price. The advance at length became extremely
slow, but happily reinforcements arrived. Five more
regiments arrived in the village, and a furious struggle
from house to house and from street to street ensued.
At length, at half-past two, the last obstacles are removed,
though not without losses, Count Dampierre fell struck
with a ball. Covered with blood, he cried to the Mobiles
`Forward,' and shortly afterwards expired. Un-
fortunately, reinforcements for the enemy also
arrived from all sides—first Bavarians and then
Prussians. The struggle could not be prolonged
against these masses, increasingly strengthened as they
were; the retreat, therefore, commenced, and was car-
ried on in good order, in the midst of a terrible fire.
Fort Montrouge recommenced firing, and its
heavy pieces made deep gaps in the ene-
my's ranks ; but in spite of the terrible
fire the Prussians came on, until at length they
had arrived within 1,000 paces of our batteries. After
four o'clock it was all over." The navas Correspondence
says nothing of what happened to the Prussians
during their retreat from their dangerous proximity
to the batteries. The account would lead to the
conclusion that a great battle had been fought. Really
it seems to have been a fairly successful trial of the troops
under fire. General Trochu calls it a " solid offensive
reconnaissance, very well done ; excellent retreat."
Fifty prisoners were taken. The French losses were
small.