The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-08 00:00:00

THE MEN IN PETTICOATS.

The Grand Jury have not yet returned a true bill in
this case. The defence to be set up is an entire denial of
everything beyond folly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(YESTERDAY.)

OUTRAGE AT A TAVERN.—Elizabeth Williams, a tall,
gaunt woman, was charged at the Westminster Police•
court, with violently assaulting Mrs. Spratling, of the
Queen and Prince Albert tavern, Knightsbridge. Mrs.
Spratling said that the defendant came into the house
last night and created a disturbance. Mr. Spratling
ordered her out, but she refused to go, and conducted her-
self very badly. Complainant went into the bar, when
defendant seized a half-pint pewter pot and hurled it at
her. It struck her on the top of the head and partially
stunned her. Had it not been for her hair she would have
sustained a most serious injury, but that saved her. She
was sent to prison for 14 days.
THE CHRISTY MINSTRELS AND THEIR ADMIRERS?—
SEEING THE PERFORMANCE FREE.—lsabella Parker, ser-
vant at No. 29, Piccadilly, was charged, before Mr. Tyr-
whitt, at the Marlborough-street Police Court, with being
drunk and 'disorderly in Piccadilly. Police-constable
James Kennedy, 12 C It, said that yesterday evening his
attention was called to the prisoner, who hal got out of
the back window of the house where he lived as a servant,
and climbed over the roof of some places, and had got to
the windows of St. James's Hall, where the Christy
Minstrels were performing, and through the noise she
made, she being very drunk, the performances were
stopped for some time. With some trouble he got the
prisoner, when she set to screaming, became quite in-
furiated, and said that she was a Feniau and would
shoot the lot. The prisoner said she was a ser-
vant at 29, Piccadilly, that she got out of the
window and looked into the hall, being an admirer of the
Christy Minstrels, and being caught looking at them she
was told to go away. She had done the same thing before.
Mr. Tyawhitt—Yes, particularly when drunk. You will
have to pay ss. or be imprisoned for four days.
AN 112/GRATEFUL FELLOW. —Henry Parson, who was
brought mae from Peazance to London, as a distressed
British seaman, was charged before Mr. Lushington, at
the Thames Police-court, with stealing a suit of clothes
and 10s., the property and money of Mr. David Shea, in
the West India Dock. The captain of the ship out of
kindness to the prisoner continued him on board at 12a.
per week, and intended to take him to sea on articles of
agreement. He had no clothes except a few rags he
stood upright in. On Thursday last, the captain on the
intercession of the mate, who was equally humane to the
prisoner, a lvanced 10s. to the prisoner. On the
Saturday m )rning the prisoner was absent from
the ship, and at the same time the mate
discovered that his chest had been opened, his clothes
overhauled, and a new suit of clothes, value £4, gone.
He also missed 10s. from the till of his chest. The mate's
cap was found by David Maxwell, previous to the dis-
covery of the robbery. The prisoner was sought after by
Porter William Dunaway, an intelligent detective officer.
He had then on new clothes. The prisoner accounted for
them by saying that he exchanged trousers with a soldier,
and bought the other things he had on, and exchanged
his other things for the coat he was then wearing.
Dunaway had no doubt the prisoner had exchanged the
mate's clothes for the new ones, for he had left his own
rags on board the Panama. It was also proved that the
Captain's things had bee rummaged, but none were taken,
and that the prisoner in the early part of last week pointed
out to one of the crew a way of getting into the cabin
through the window opening. The prisoner said he was
innocent, and refused to plead, whereupon Mr. Lushing-
tau committed him for trial.

The following oircular has been issued by Mr. Glyn
to the supporters of the Ministry in the Commons : " The
House will meet on Thursday, the9th June. The Customs
and Inland Revenue Bill committee will be the first order
of the day, and a division is expected. The Army Esti-
mates will be taken after the Customs Bill. Your atten-
dance is particularly requested."
THE IRISH WORKING MEN'S EXHIBITION.—The
Working Men's Exhibition at Belfast closed on Saturday
evening. The report stated that the enterprise had been
successful in a financial sense beyond even the most san-
guine anticipations of its promoters, and that the number
of visitors during the three weeks for which it had been
opened amounted to 70 000.

THE JEWS IN ROITMANIA.—A telegram received
in Paris, from Bucharest, declares that the affair of the
Israelites in Botochani was nothing more than a mere
riot of some collegians, who broke windows, &c., and had
no importance whatever. The Israelite committee
thanked the Government for their energetic action, and
for the measures which they had taken to crush the move-
ment against them at the very outset.
A PRAISEWORTHY EFFORT.—Between twenty
and thirty colliers, chiefly married men, living in the
vicinity of York-road, Leeds, whose education has been
neglected in their youth, have (says the Yorkshire Post)
for some months been spending a portion of their leisure
hours in learning the rudiments of education in a room
which is provided for the purpose at the house of Mr.
Mulldooney, shopkeeper, who renders them what assist-
ance they need in prosecuting their studies.