The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-11 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.—Dennis O'Brien, a respectable-
looking middle-aged man, who refused his address, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street
Police-court, with assaulting Mr. E. Styles, dentist, of
No. 58, Albany-Street? Regent's Park. From the
evidence of the complainant it appeared that
on Saturday night he was walking along Regent-
street when the prisoner walked up to him,
stood opposite him, and struck him a blow in the eye
and knocked him down, and on his getting up knocked
him down a second time, and he then gave him into cus-
tody. The prisoner said he only ran against the com-
plainant accidentally. Abel Dickins, 17 IC R said the
prisoner was drunk and the complainant sober. Mr.
Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner £5, or 'two months' in de-
fault, stating that he supposed the prisoner being an
Irishman he cDuld not help it.

AN UNDUTIFUL SON.—William' Samuel Chesterton, a
boy aged 13 years, was charged at the Thames Police-
court with stealing three blankets and two sheets, the
property of his father, a carpenter of the same name, of
No. 13, Hereford-place, Commercial-road, Stepney.
Before Mr. Odell, the chief usher, had tendered the book
to the prosecutor, Mr. Paget said : This is your own son ?
Mr. Chesterton : It is, sir. Mr. Paget : But surely you
are not going to prosecute him? Mr. Chesterton said he
had no alternative. The boy had robbed him repeatedly,
and neglected all the advantages he had offered for his
future welfare. Mr. Paget : Now think of it. Don't
prosecute your own son if you can help it. Let the boy
stand down and see his father. A few minutes afterwards
the boy was again placed in the dock, and the father
having withdrawn from the prosecution, his son was
discharged.
THROWING VITRIOL ON A WIFE.—At the Bow•street
Police-court, Louis Gustave Droy, a silversmith, residing
in Long Acre, was charged with throwing a quantity of
nitric acid over Madame Di oy, his wife. The prosecutrix
stated that she had been separated from her husband for
twelve months, and that since that time he had been in
the habit of following her about, so that she had been
obliged to go to and from her house of business escorted by a
lady friend. A week since, on her way home from Church,
the prisoner passed her and threw a quantity of nitric
acid over her mantle, gown, and handkerchief. The
articles were produced, the mantle being burnt to shreds,
and the prisoner, who seemed to feel his position acutely,
was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.
A LADY CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.—Emma Ensell, a
tall, handsome woman, was charged, at Bow-street, with
bigamy. It appeared from the evidence that in 1849 she
was married to a gentleman named Henry Francis Skinner,
from whom she was separated. On the 4th February,
1869, she was married to Mr. Charles Ensell, an artist
residing in Kentish Town, but about eight weeks ago they
separated owing to incompatibility of temper. He knew
she had been married before, but thought she was a widow
until about a week since, when he discovered that her
former husband was still living. On making this dis-
covery, he instituted this prosecution. The prisoner was
remanded for further evidence as to her first marriage.
CONVEYANCE OF RIFLE CARTRIDGES OVER THE SOUTH-
EASTERN RAILWAY.—At the Mansion House, James
Windsor, clerk in the employ of Messrs. Snawdon and
Co., engineers of Jeffery-square, St. Mary Axe, was sum-
moned before the Lord Mayor, for having unlawfully
caused ten packages of rifle and revolver cartridges to be
conveyed over the South-Eastern Railway. It would seem
that shortly after nine o'clock on the evening of the sth
instant., the defendant arrived at the Cannon-street
station in a great hurry, and wished to have ten wooden
packages, which he represented contained copper ore, to
be conveyed as personal luggage to Folkestone by the next
train. As, however, the train was then on the point of
starting, the packages were not sent until the following
morning. They were subsequently taken on board a
steamer bound for Boulogne ; but as Captain Boxer,
the Harbour-master, at Folkestone, had his
suspicions aroused, in consequence of the
cases being marked " ingots," and having a French super-
scription, he caused them to be opened, when he found
them to contain no fewer than 32,000 cartridges and a
large number of revolvers. The defence set up was that
the defendant, independently of his employers, had been
induced by some friends in France to enter into a specula-
tion, without being aware of the consequences to which
he rendered himself liable. The Lord Mayor fined
him £65, being £2O for one case, and £5 each for the nine
others.

The death of Mr. James Collings, of Chilton
Polden, Somerset, at the age of 102 years and six months,
has been announced. The deceased was a twin brother,
and was born in the parish of Woolavington, on the 22nd
of March, 1768, his twin brother living over 70 years.

At an inquest held in Leeds, a verdict was re-
turned to the effect that a child had been poisoned with
hellebone. It seemed that its mother bought some worm
lozenges, which contained the ingredient named. The
vendor of the lozenges was cautioned.
THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. VOYSEY.—The
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council have appointed
Thursday, the 10th of November, to hear the appeal of
the Rev. Mr. Voysey from the judgment of the Chancery
Court of York.

The Pesther Lloyd professes to have good authority for
stating that a circular despatch of Prince Gortschakoff,
sent off within the last few clays, demands the removal of
the restrictions on the navigation of the Black Sea, on
the ground that Russia requires ships of war there for the
military command of the Caucasus.

The V Journal du Havre says that there exist two
principal centres of the Bonapartist conspiracy to rein-
state Napoleon 111. upon the throne of France—namely,
one at Jersey and the other at Geneva. The same journal
affirms that the King of Prussia is in the plot, and in-
stances, as proof, the permission given to Bourbaki to re-
enter Metz.
The Lyons correspondent of the Standard says :
" Myself rather leaning, for the sake of France, to a
restoration of the Napoleonic dynasty, I must tell you
honestly I have not spoken to. a.single Frenchman, urban
or rural, who shared my
.opinions, or who treated the
very idea of such a restoration as anything but a reproach
to the intelligence of the country. lam sorry for it, but
my business is to tell the truth."
NAPOLEON AND PRINCE PIERRE.—A somewhat
angry' correspondence between the redoubtable Prince
Pierre Bonaparte, who shot Victor Noir, and the ex-
Emperor has been published among the Inperial
papers. The Prince wishes to legitimatise his
children and to sell his estate in Corsica
The estate he thinks his imperial cousin might purchase.
He complains of the exceptional position of the members
of the Emperor's family, who are under a kind of inter-
dict with regard to their civil and political rights, If he
is nominated deputy the Emperor opposes it. He is
condemned to forced inaction in the public service,
and the fulfilment of the most sacred duties. The most
lawful wishes are forbidden to him without any sufficient
compensation. The braperor who refuses both his requests
says the property would be useless to him, and his budget
is too much overburdened for such a sacrifice.
He objects to the recognition of the Prince's
children, and declares that the restrictions im-
posed on those who have the honour to bear
his name are but trifling drawbacks to advantages
which he supvoses the Prince would be unwilling to re-
nounce. Prince Pierre is highly indignant, and says
plainly that he does not see what those advantages are.
As for titles, he cares nothing for them, and has already
voted their suppression. His name belongs to his
father (Lucien Bonaparte) who set him the example of
independence, and as for the allowance made him it is a
very small part of the property despoiled by the Bourbons.
Prince Pierre in conclusion, declares that he shall not fail
in his paternal duties even if he has to resume a life of
exile and seek for more equity among a free people.