The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-23 00:00:00

InE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 187 L,

THE MONEY MARKET.

CITY, Two o'OLooK.

On the Stock Exchange to-day business was very quiet.
Consols are 012 to 911 for money and account ; New and
Reduced, 911 to 911; India Five per Cents., 110 to 1101 i
Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 15s. prem.
There is no change in Foreign Stocks. Italian of 1861
are 554 to 551; Spanish, 314 to 311 ; Turkish Five per
Cents., 444 to 441.; French Scrip, dis. to 1 prem; North
German, to I prem. ; and Egyptian, 771 to 78.
It is understood that the subscription list has been filled
for the £300,000 6 per Cent. Debentures of the Metropo-
litan District Railway Company, offered on the 17th inst.
at 102, or 101-1, reckoning allowances.
The Manchester Courier states :—" Consequent on the
failure of Messrs. Higson,-West, and Co., announced yes-
terday, the suspension is reported of Mr. John Higson.
merchant, of Hamburg, which will involve some further
liabilities to houses in Manchester, but not to any serious
extent either in number or amount."
The proposal for a railway to connect the. Euston ter-
minus with the Charing-cross line of the South-Eastern
Railway has been actively revived, with the view of bring_
ing the manufacturing districts and the north of England
generally into connection with the system of southern
railways at that point, an undertaking which was reported
to be of public utility by the joint Committee of Lords
and Commons on Metropolitan Railways in 1864.
At the Board meeting of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway, the dividend on the Arbitration Deben-
ture Stock was ordered to be paid on the 15th of '
January to all proprietors who shall have sent in their
securities for conversion on or before the 31st inst.
As private telegrams to and from Bordeaux are now
stopped, and letters by mail arrive very irregularly, and
are generally seven and eight days en route through
France, a correspondent suggests that the steamers which
trade regularly between London and Bordeaux, leaving
each city two or three times a week, should be employed
by the Post-office to take mails, the direct passages seldom
exceeding five days.
A second dividend of Bs. in the pound is announced to
the creditors of the Hop Planters' Joint-stock Company
(Limited.)
Sir Charles D. Crossley announces his retirement from
the Stock Exchange.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tffis DAY.

THE CONSTABLE AND THE COACHMAN.—Henry Chaplin,
coachman to Sir Sydney Dacres, of New-street, Spring-
Gardens, appeared before Mr. Knox to a summons charging
him with using offensive language to Police-constable
Robert French, 130 Reserve. The constable stated that
on the Ist instant the defendant pulled up at the Civil
Service Co-operative Stores in the Haymarket, and re-
ceived a box with a name on it. He then requested the
defendant to move, as he was causing an obstruction, but
he refused to do so, and on asldng him a second time,
there being several vehicles on the rank, he refused and
said, "Go away you swine, do you think I'll be
ordered by a like you." He found the defendant had
only called for the box, and on asking him his name, he
refused it, saying that he would find him at Scotland-yard.
He afterwards went to Scotland-yard and found the
defendant lived there, and having got his name a summons
was applied for. The defendant said the constable gave his
name and address, and he did not make use of the ex-
pression mentioned by the constable, but he did call
him a" fool." There were no other carriages on
the rank. A witness, a fellow servant of the defendants,
said the defendant gave the constable his name and
address, " Mr. Chaplin, Scotland-yard, servant to Sir
Sydney Dacres." The constable said the defendant never
did so. The defendant said, he should like some of the
persons from the stores to attend. Mr. Knox said they
should be sent for. On their attending, Daniel Harrison,
commissionaire on duty at the stores, and John Warren,
a porter at the stores were sworn. The former deposed.
to hearing the constable tell the defendant to leave as
he was causing an obstruction, and the defendant became
very abusive and stopped some time, there being car-
riages on the engaged rank ; while the • latter
deposed to taking out a box to the defendant, and hearing
that he had been abusing the constable. Mr. Knox said
the defendant's own witnesses had proved that he had
used very insulting language to the constable, and he had
no doubt that the offence charged had been made out. He
was sorry to see a person like the defendant in such a
position, after the character (handed to the magistrate)
he had received from Lady Sidney Dacres. He had no
doubt the defendant had allowed his temper to get the
better of him, and he had no doubt, if the defendant's,
master was sitting by his (Mr. Knox's) side, he would
very properly call the defendant to account for it. The
defendant would have to pay 205., or fourteen days.
ROBBERY OF LINEN.—Eliza Williams, a woman of the
town, was brought up at the Thames Police-court,
charged with stealing a quantity of wet linen, from a
yard in the occupation of Mr. Tutte,'of Cold Harbour,
Blackwall. A police-constable named John Currin, No.
230 K, met prisoner at half-past one o'clock this morning,
in the Burdett-road, Limehouse, with a bundle consisting
of shirts, drawers, handkerchiefs, and other things,
which she said a man she had never seen before
had given her to carry. Mrs. Davis Tutte, the
wife of the owner of the property, said the things
had been stolen from her yard between the hours of eight
and ten in the evening. The prisoner was committed for
trial.
A CONVICT NEGLECTING TO COMPLY WITH HER LICENSE.
—Catherine Galvan, a ticket-of-leave convict, and known
to the police as a thief for many years, was charged with
not reporting her change of residence to the police in the
terms of her license. The police, who exercise a very
rigid and proper surveillance over ticket-of-leave convicts
(called licence-holders), could prove that the prisoner had
changed her abode. She was discharged, with a caution
to be careful and to report herself monthly at the nearest
police station to which she resided.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST LONDON BETTING..
WATERLOO CUP.
20 to 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Clark's nomination (taken)
1000 to 50 agst Mr. Spinks's nomination (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Gibson's nomination (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Mr. Bland's nomination (taken)
500 to 15 agst Lord Stair's nomination (taken)

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.)

COMMITTAL OF TWO MEN FOR MURDER AT
WARRINGTON.

Yesterday the Warrington magistrates committed for
trial, at the Liverpool Assizes, James Halloran and
Patrick Macgrath for the murder of John Forrest, near
Warrington, in November. Halloran had been appre-
hended in Rochdale and asked if it was for the Warrington
murder. Macgrath was apprehended in Warrington.
The police swore to the foot marks of both at the coroner's
inquest, but an open verdict was returned notwithstand-
ing. The magistrates, after hearing the case four times,
in which a dozen witnesses swore to an alibi, committed
the prisoners for trial for murder.

PRUSSIAN TIREATS AGAINST ENGLAND.
Writing from Havre, December 20, the correspondent
of the Standard says :—A young Englishmai4 Mr. Julian
D. Scott, just returned to. Havre from a trip to Mantes,
vta Rouen—that is through French and Prussian lines—
has favoured me with some interesting particulars, which
lie noted in the way. He had no difficulty 1 whatever in
lassing the Prussian outposts, but his flaxen beard and
Jermanic appearance more than once brought him into
trouble with the French. The Germans he described as
remarkably overbearing, and even insulting in their
language toward England and the English, the- officers in
particular talking of the invasion of England by Prussia
as a dead certainty " as soon as they had polished off the
French." He had to discontinue wearing a Scotch cap
,vhile at Mantes, as it exposed him to the jeers of the
men, who pursued him with derisive shouts of " Englander
Englander." They did not, however, molest him in any
other way, and he was even able to march alongside one of
their columns between Vernon and Louviers without having
a word addressed to him. He describes their discipline
whilst on duty as perf'ct, and is especially loud in praise
of their cavalry and artillery. The marching of their ill,
fantry—every man keeping step and rank during a long
march—also impressed him more favourably than the
free-and-easy, not to say slovenly, way in which the
French disregard both these essential conditions of
military marching. At Rouen he saw nothing un-
usual, save that the French kepis were replaced
by the German pickel haube, but as he was
naturally anxious to get home he did not pursue
his inquiries there very diligently. Staying at an hotel
kept by an Englishman, he met several German officers,
and there heard the same tale as at Mantes as to the fate
in store for England—with some further embellishments.
Tne Prussian ogre, having digested France, is to
swallow Holland and Belgium, and Luxemburg
(of course), and then " invade England," in connection
with Russia and the United States. One of
the officers, who happened to be an Hanoverian,
and had served in our navy seven years, was good enough
'to shed a tear over the dismal prospect in store for us,
and intimated an intention of returning to our
service "as soon as this war was over." These
threats of a Prussian invasion of England must
be taken for what they are worth. Prussia
is so well acquainted with all branches of our
natural literature that she cannot be ignorant
of the fate which befel a certain aspiring bactracion, on
matrimonial thoughts intent ; and what happened to the
" frog that would a wooing go" ought to be a warning to
her attempts to venture herself on salt water. But, at the
, same time, these threats of war against England are too
general—they come from too many quarters to be wholly
disregarded.