The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tnis DAY.

ROBBERIES 'BY A SERVANT GlRL—Elizabeth Stypeld,
a young woman rather smartly attired, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt at Marlborough-street Police-court with
stealing wearing apparel, the property of Miss Buck-
land, lodging-house keeper, of No. 22, Duke-street, St.
James's ; and also with stealing an umbrella, belong-
ing to Capt. Spence Ward, a lodger. The prisoner's
mistress said that on Monday last she gave the prisoner,
who was in her service, permission to go out for a holiday,
and she never returned. Some property belonging to her-
self and lodgers being missed she had the prisoner's box,
which she had left behind, opened, and in it some of the
property was found. Henry Davidson, a detective, said
that on taking the prisoner into custody in Isabella-row,
Westminster, and asking her what she had done with it, she
gave a very unsatisfactory account of the property. She
was remanded.

THE MONDAY CALENDAR.—There were 35 night charges
from the K division. 14 from the H division, and remands
on the books presented to Mr. Lushington to-day at the
Thames Police-court, by Inspector Holloway. There
were also 5 remanded cases to be heard. On Monday, the
30th of May, there was one case of murder, and the
alleged murderer has been since committed for trial. Last
Monday opened with a case of a woman attempting
to drown herself and her two children, and she
has since been convicted. There was also a charge
against an Irishman named Leedham, for shooting at three
police constables with intent to murder them. Leedham
has since been committed for trial. The calendar of to-
day contains the names of three men charged with bur-
glary, three with attempting suicide, eight for gambling
yesterday in the public streets, five of whom were fined,
others discharged, two with indulging in the dangerous
practice of throwing stones, ten with felonies of an ordi-
nary descriptions one case of deserting from the army, and
the rest with being drunk and incapable, and common
assaults. Those convicted of assaults were all sentenced
to imprisonment, the magistrates of this court seldom
inflicting pecuniary fines where assaults are committed.
In addition to the above calendar there are many sum-
monses to be heard, in addition to any day charges that
may arise.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A BARMAID.—Maria Harrington,
lately a barmaid at the "Adam and Eve," Bowling-street,
was placed before the magistrate at Westminster police
court, charged with attempting to commit suicide. The
defendant, it appeared, had been deceived by a man named
Holloway, falsely representing himself as a single man,
but she had since discovered that he was a
married man, and that had induced her to destroy
herself by poison. The magistrate gave the poor girl over
to the care of her father, but directed her to attend on
Friday. He also issued a summons for the attendance of
the man Holloway.

SIR JOHN GRAY AND THE LAND BILL.
Sir John Gray has addressed a letter to his constituents
in Kilkenny, in which he states that he considers it his
duty as well as his privilege, while the House of Lords is
engaged in discussing the Land Bill, to give an account of
his stewardship. His letter is a long one occupying no less
than three columns of the Freeman's Journal. Sir John gives
the following reasons why he opposed the bill in its earlier
stage :—" I opposed and voted against the second read-
ing of the bill, because in its then form it was merely
a compensation bill, and did not propose to
give by law either stability or fixity of tenure
to a single tenant in Ireland, or directly to prohihit
capricious increase of rent by empowering any tribunal
or other authority to adjust the future rent in
case of dispute between landlord and tenant. I
opposed it also because by direct enactment it provided
that those tenants who had a quasi security of tenure, by
sufferance, should henceforth be content with compensa-
tion after eviction in lieu of the continuous occupancy,
which the unprotected usage allow them to enjoy." The
hon. member did not oppose and did not vote against the
the third reading, because it was so metamorphised in its
details, and in it essential principles, that it guaranteed
to about two hundred thousand of the tenantry of Ireland
" perpetuity of tenure," protected by judicial autho-
rity from the encroachments of " capricious increase
of rent," by giving them " valuation rents." He did
however, that which alone he could do conscientiously.
He protested against some three hundred thousand of the
tenant-farmers of Ireland being left unprotected and liable
in law to " capricious eviction ' and " capricious increase
of rent " when fixity of tenure and valued rents were
made legal rights enforceable by law in favour
of about two hundred thousand of their fellow-tenants.
After minutely analysing the provisions of the bill in its
original form, Sir John Gray says that by the sweeping
alteration made in the principle of the earlier clauses in
the first part of the bill, fixity of tenure and valuation
rents have been affirmed in principle and secured by law
for about two hundred thousand tenants, most of
them resident in -Ulster, the remainder scattered
over the other three provinces of Ireland. They have
not succeeded in putting an end to the landlord's power
of " capricious eviction," or of " capricious increase of
of rent." The notice to quit is still to be sustained by law,
but it will not be the less odious, because the " image and
superscription" of the Queen is to be impressed upon it,
or because the Imperial Treasury is to derive a revenue
from every falling " snow flake," that will henceforth
torture the Irish tenant. Till that accursed notice to quit
shall be put an end to the tenant 'ill not be safe, and
cannot be content.

It is stated that the West India and Panama Tele-
graph Company, and the India Rubber and Gutta Percha
Works Company, intend offering £l,OOO reward to dis-
cover the originator of the hoax reporting the loss of the
Dacia. Reinsurances were taken on Friday at five guineas
per cent.

AN OPERATIC DlSCORD.—Referring to the letter
recently published from Herr Wachtel, announcing
his retirement from the Italian Opera Company at Covent-
Garden, in consequence of a misunderstanding between.
Madame Patti and himself, the musical editor of Le Gau-
lois gives the fellowing account of the difference between
these distinguished singers :—" In one scene of ' Don
Giovanni,' as is well known, the tenor sings an air of
some length, during which time Zerlina and Zannetta are
left on the stage taking no part in the music. By a con-
ventional arrangement, the artistes representing these
characters usually retire, and only return when the tenor
has finished his air. At the last representatic nof ' Don
Giovanni' at Covent Garden, Herr Wachtel, who had
requested Signor Tagliafico to arrange with Madame
Patti to observe the usual course, found, when about to
commence his famous piece, that, although Signor Tag-
liafico had retired from the stage, Madame Patti was still

there. Believing that she had misunderstood the arrange-
ment, he said, in a low voice, "Leave the stage," which
Madame Patti at once did in great indignation, and im-
mediately protested to Mr. Gye that she would never
again sing with a tenor who could speak to her with such
insolence. An explanation followed, which was simply
that Signor Tagliafico had omitted to inform Madame
Patti of the desire of Herr Wachtel, and the lady at once
admitted that the latter could not have intended to
affront her ; but Herr Wachtel, in his turn, was indig-
nant, refused to sing again, and demanded that his
engagement at £6OO per month should be cancelled,
which was done."