The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-11 00:00:00

THAMES.

In Mincing-lane a moderate business has been
transacted in the primary kinds of colonial pro-
duce at previous rates. In jute transactions have
been rather large, ',and rates very firm. Cotton
has been less active, but steady in price.
The directors of the South Devon Railway Com-
pany have agreed to recommend a dividend of 3j
per cent. The dividend last year was 2i.

The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, Feb. 9 :
Thursday £12,433,000
Friday
Eaturday.•
Manday.,
10,266,000
Tuesday
11,568,000
Wednesday 10,529,000

DRUNK FITXDII-.4W0 O'OLOSIL
UOTBRNMENT YUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account 921
B per Cent. Reduced 92- 3
New 3 per Cent
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. 5 per Con .0 5n.1873
Annuities, 30 yrs,
expire sth Jan., 1880.
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Telowaph), Aug., 1908 —
Fiche it= Bills, £l,OOO, 21 p. Ct. March
Do. '2l do. June
Do £lOO, £2OO & .C5OO
Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent , 240 2
Da. opening —
Canada 4 per Cont. Bonds —
Inter-Colonial Otnumm
INDIAN dDVERNMENT BECIIRITIES
in.ol. Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 —
De. Opening, for Account —
DJ. D per Cent. July, 1880
Do 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888
Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per 0.1. a..... —
Do. 5 por Cent., Jan. 1872 • —
Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 —
Do 5 pet Cent., Rup. Dab. 1872., —
De do 18"...7.,.,,,, —
Do. do. 1882 —
i.`o. Dab., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
)o Bonds. 4 per Cent., £l,OOO
'o.'lmlor £l.OOO

POARIGH 111104-TWO O'OLOCK.

Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent .
bo Account

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.—Thomas
L dor, alias Naylor, alias Lawler, a tall and power-
ful young man, was brought before Mr. Paget on
remand, charged with assaulting and wounding a
woman named Elizabeth Small. The parties
quarrelled in a public-house in Poplar. The woman,
a person of bad character, used bad language to-
wards the prisoner, and he struck her and knocked
her down, kicked her on the abdomen, inflicting
grievous injuries, from which she is not expected

to recover.
Mr. Matthew Brownfield, surgeon, of the East
India Dock-road, said the injured woman was suf-
fering under acute inflammation of the bowels,
caused by the kicks of the prisoner, and was in con•
siderable danger. There were no external marks of
violence. The symptoms he described might exist

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without any external marks.
The Magistrate asked where the woman lived,
and if she could give her evidence without
danger ?
Mr. Brownfield—At No. 13, Grove-street, Pop-
lar. It would add to the mischief if you was to
attempt to take her depositions, and I advise that
she shall be left undisturbed at present. I will let
you knob, sir, when ;her deposition can be safely
taken.
Mr. Paget said he would act entirely on the
directions of Mr. Brownfield, on whose discretion
he could rely. He wished Mr. Brownfield to con-
tinue his attendance on the unfortunate woman,
and remanded the prisoner for a week.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A SERVANT.—George Atkins,
aged 23 years, was brought before ,Mr. Paget,
charged with feloniously embezzling the sum of
£4los. 2d. he had received for and on account of
Mr. John Hickling, corn chandler and flour mer-
chant, of Osborn-street, Whitechapel, and Com-
mercial-road, St. George-in-the-East.
George Foster, a police-constable, No. 207 H,
said he had just taken the prisoner at the gate of
the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, where he
had been imprisoned four months for embezzling
monies belonging to his master, and he asked for a
remand to summon a witness who paid him money.
Since the prisoner had been in custody he said that
he had received money of Mr. Briant, jun., son of
a carman, and had spent it in Woolwich.
Mr. Hickling said the prisoner ought to have ac-
counted to him, or his foreman, for all money he
474,177,000
received.

Remanded for a week.

WESTMINSTER.

SCENE IN A WORKHOUSE.— William Coniston, an
out-door pauper, working in the labour yard at St.
Margaret's, Westminster, was charged with vio-
lent' assaulting William 11. Jones, another labourer,
by striking him on the head with a quart can.
Prosecutor said he was in the labour yard, and
accidentally touched the prisoner on the arm, when
he turned round, picked up a beer can, and dealt
him a fearful blow on the head, causing it to bleed
profusely.

Defendant said that prosecutor was always knock-
ing the men about, and hit him on the face with his
fist, whereon he swung the can round and dealt the
prosecutor a blow.
Mr. Thomas Waterman, labour master at the
workhouse, said that the prisoner was an inoffen-
sive, well-conducted man, and the prosecutor the
reverse; he had been often convicted.
A witness corroborated defendant's story.
Nr. Arnold said it was clearly not a case for
punishment ; Jones seemed to have aggravated the
iprisoner and struck the first blow. He discharged
the prisoner.