The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-19 00:00:00

STRIKE AT LIMERICK.

The labourers of the city have struck for higher wages,
which the employers have refused to give. Work is
therefore at a complete standstill. The malcontents con-
gregate in large bodies throughout the streets, but no riot
is as yet apprehended. The constabulary are placed in
detachments throughout the city, so as to be ready in case
of emergency.

The presentation of the freedom of the City to
M. de Lesseps is to take place on Saturday, the 30th
inst. The ceremony will be performed in the Guildhall.

TELEGRAMS TO FRANCIS.-Au order has been
received at the postal telegraph offices that no messages
are to be received in cipher for transmission to France.

The testimonial to the Right lion. J. S. Taylor
(for nineteen years whip to the Conservative party), will
be presented to him on Saturday next, the 23d instant,
in the large library of the Carlton Club. The Right
Hon. John Warner Henley, M.P., will take the
chair-

A marriage has been arranged to take place in
September next between Miss Liebert daughter of the
late Mr. Alexander Liebert, of Swinton Hall, Manchester,
and niece of Mr. Bernhard Liebert, of Brook House, Man-
chester, and Mr. Roger Granville, son of the late Mr.
Bernard Granvile, of Wellesbourne Hall, Warwick.
We are informed that an order was received in
Birmingham on Saturday for 80,000 rifles, and that their
destination is presumed to be France, as they are to be
conveyed to the coast in waggons of the South-Eastern
Railway Company.—Morning Post.

DR. LIVINGSTONE.—Sir Roderick Murchison says
the story about Dr. Livingstone having written to Dr.
Kirk is a fabrication. Sir Roderick does net expect to
hear any definite news respecting Dr. Livingstone for at
least eight months, inasmuch as the supplies and canoes
to be sent to him and the answers to letters could not be
obtained for a long period.
THE EVANS BANKRUPTCY APPEAL.—The appeal in the
bankruptcy of Messrs. Evans, hop dealers, of Southwark,
which first came before the Court of Appeal on Saturday,
entered its second phase yesterday, before Lord Justice
James, the object being to set aside the recent decision of
Mr. Registrar Brougham, ordering the bankrupts to file
annually an account of profits over £l,OOO each, and pay
the surplus to the joint account of the official assignee,
until the creditors should receive 7s. 6d. in the pound upon
the debts proved. Mr. Serjeant Sargood, who represented
the appellants, deprecated the course which the court
below had followed, inasmuch as it would not be produc-
tive of substantial advantage to the creditors. Judgment
was reserved.

ROBBERY ON BOARD THE LOTHAIR.— Charles Smith, a
stevedore, aged fifty-one years, was brought before Mr.
Lushington at the Thames Police-court, charged with
stealing seven fathoms of new rope from the ship Lothair
in the West India Dock. The priscner was leaving the
dock with a coil of new rope under his arm, and he was
asked by Henry Young, a constable, for a written pass
authorising him to carry it out. He said he brought it
from the ship Lothair, and that he was about to carry it
on board another ship belonging to the same owners, and
that the chief officer of the ship, who was very busy, had
failed to make out a pass. He then proposed to leave the
rope in the possession of the constable until he could get a
Pass, and this was agreed to. He left and was absent
some time. On his return he said he could not get
a pass, and entreated the officer to let him take
the rope out of the dock. This was refused, and
Young made inquiries, and ascertained that the
rope was stolen, and that the prisoner had not
finished his work on board the Lothair. Mr. Charles.
Miller, the chief mate of the Lothair, identified the rope
which had been stolen from the ship. He never gave any
authority to the prisoner to remove it. The prisoner
assured the magistrate he had never any intention to steal
the rope. Mr. Lushington committed the prisoner for
trial. The prisoner's wife here called out to her husband,
" Plead guilty, and have it settled here." The prisoner
obeyed the directions of his better half, and Mr. Lushing-
ton accepted his plea of guilty, and sentenced him to
three months' imprisonment and hard labour.