The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-23 00:00:00

RELIEF FOR THE WOUNDED.

At a large and influential meeting, held in Leices-
ter on Monday night, it was decided to raise a fund
for the relief of the wounded in the war. About
£l7O were subscribed in the room, and a committee
was appointed to further the objects of the meeting. The
greater part of the money raised will be forwarded to the
Central Committee at once. It is expected that over
81,000 will be forthcoming.

At the Liverpool Assizes on Monday, Mr. May, the
Dutch consul at that port, brought an action against
Messrs. Laird, Brothers, for the recovery of 5,200 com-
mission upon the sale of thsee men-of-war for the Dutch
navy. Mr. May obtained a verdict for £1,500.

Mr. Lloyd, a Limerick magistrate, was proceeding from
Sligo to Dublin on Monday, when two rifles and some
ammunition which he had with him were seized by the
Pollee, who detected him in his hotel.

CHARGE OF MURDER AGAJN6I"rwu
BOYS.

At the Thames Police-court on Monday two wretched
shoeless boys, named William Everson, aged eleven years,
and Michael Farrell, ten, were brought before Mr. Lush- '
ington, charged with the wilful murder of Arthur Lane'
aged 5b years, in Cordelia-street, Bromley, by " striking,
kicking, and jumping upon him, and beating his head
against a stone."
It appeared from the evidence of a woman named Eliza-
beth Lane, wife of George Lane, a blacksmith, of No. 8'
Cordelia-street, that the prisoners lived at Nos. 6 and 7 in
the same street. On the 11th inst., in the evening, her
child came home very ill and complained that the prisoner
had been beating and kicking her. She put him to bed, and
called in Dr. Brownfield, a surgeon, who attended upon
the boy until that morning, when death put an end to the
poor little fellow's sufferings.
James Logan Chambers, a boy, sawthe prisoners kicking
and beating the deceased on the evening of the 11th instant.
Both punched him and trampled upon him. He saw Ever-
son strike the little fellow with his fist seven consecutive
times and Farrell six times. The boys then trampled on
the deceased and kicked him, and he was picked up and
taken home insensible.
Farrell : Did you hear me say he had cheated me?
Witness : No ; I heard you say nothing about being
cheated.
Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeon, East India-road,
Poplar, said he had attended the deceased, who was
suffering from intense pain in the abdomen, the
result of injuries he had met with. The boy
died that morning, and there had been no post
mortem examination. He would not positively say
that death was caLsed by inflammation of the abdomen,
but he had no doubt it would turn out to be so.
Mr. Lushington asked the prisoners if they had any
questions to ask the witnesses, or any defence to make.
Both answered in the negative, and the magistrate
remanded them until Friday next,

From Hong ICoiig a telegram states that the English
and French admirals are at Chefoo awaiting instructions.
The military force at Hong Kong is held in readinos
to leave immediately in the event of complications.

Prince Albert of Prussia, killed in one of the late en-
gagements, is the youngest brother of the King; of Prussia.
He was born on the 4th of October, 1809, and married in
1830 the Princess Marianne, daughter of William, King
of Holland. The late prince was divorced in 1849, but
the King withheld his sanction until 1853, eight daysafter
it was granted he married, morganatically, the Countess
Rosalie de Hohenau. then 38 years of age.

The Times says the symptoms that the demands of
Germany are likely to become heavier with each prolonga-
tion of the sacrifices of the war, and thus to increase the
difficulties of mediation, exercised an adverse influence
on the stock-markets yesterday morning. Consols,
which left off on Saturday at 911 to 92, were first quoted
91 to 92, and, after having touched 911, they closed at
911 to The incomprehensible delay in issuing the new
French Loan has caused the intended price to be
reduced every day as events hurried on. The price
which was fixed a few days back at 62, is now to be 60
6-10, with interest from the Ist July.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Admissions on Monday (one
shilling day), by season tickets, 1,378 ; on payment,
3,364 ; total visitors, 5,742.
FIRE AT lIERNE BAY.—Some little excitement
was caused at Herne Bay on Sunday night by the dis-
covery that the pier was on fire. The alarm was given at
about ten o'clock, when the flames were observed at the end
of the pier. A large number of the spectators very soon
gathered on the pier ; but there was some delay in the
adoption of measures to extinguish the flames. When
this was done, however, the fire was speedily suppressed.
How the fire originated has not yet been ascertained.
THE QUEEN AND THE EMPRESS.--The startling
announcements with which the Berlin correspondent of
the Times opened his telegraphic despatch yesterday were
of a natur to make the public anticipate an em-
phatic denial. The assertion that the British Ca
binet favours the formation of Alsace and Lor-
raine into a neutralised State is entirely devoid of
foundation. Again, the statement that the Queen has
written to the Empress Eugenie expressing regret at her
inability to mediate, because in this country mediation
must proceed from the Cabinet, and the Cabinet did not
' think the time for mediation had arrived, we can meet
with the most direct contradiction.—Telegraph.