The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Turs Day.

CURIOUS CABE OF WIFE BEATING.—John Reardon,;
costermonger, of No. 29, Tower-street, Seven Dials, was
char„ed, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, before
Mr. Flowers, with violently assaulting his wife Julia.
Mr. Moore, of the Associate Institute for Enforcing the
Laws for the Protection of Women, watched the case.
The complainant, a tall;stout woman, whose head was
bandaged, said, on being sworn : I do not wish to punish
my husband, as he is a good husband when he is sober.
Mr. Flowers : Oh, you always say that. What has your
husband done to you this time? Complainant: Ho came
home drunk, and wanted to take out some birds to sell for
drink, and became I tried to keep him back he struck and
kicked me, and injured me as you see. Mr. Flowers :
I see, through coming to sit at this court, that you
are both in the habit of coming to two police-
courts —to Bow-street and this court. J think,
if Mrs. Reardon showed her strength, she would come
off best, and I do not know whether it would not be a
good thing if she did so. Complainant : All I want is to
bind him over t' keep the peace. I work hard to keep
the home. All he does is to get drunk and hrcik the
things, and when drunk he is mad ; but I don't cal ea to
punish him, and I hope you won't send him to prison. I
want your worship to do with him as you did at Bow-
street, sir ; bind him over. Mr. Flowers : Well, Rear-
don, if you are anything like a man, you will never do
anything of the kind again. It is a very brutal thing to
assault a woman. I cannot pass the matter over entirely.
I shall send you to prison for a month, and at the end of
that time you must find a surety to keep the peace for 12
months.

EMBEZZLEMENT AND ROBBERY BY A CARMAN.—Edward
Webber, a carman, was brought up on remand, at the
Thames Police-court, before Mr. Paget, charged with
embezzlement and robbery. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor,
defended the prisoner. who was in the service of Mr.
Richard Martin, a lucifer match and candle maker, at
-St. Paul's Works, Bow Common. The duty of the
prisoner was to deliver goods and receive the money
for them. In one case he had prevailed on the shop-
man of an oil and colour warehouse to purchase half
a gross of lucifer matches, in addition to three gross which
had been ordered, and he received the money for them,
and never accounted for it to his master. The half-gross
of lucifers had been stolen. In another case lie received
18s. of one of the prosecutor's customers, which ho had
not accounted for. Lamb, a detective ( f the K division,
said there were several other cases or -dust the prisoner,
but the parties did not appear. Mr. P• ;et committed the
prisoner for trial on the two charges.
THE RIGGER AND HIS " LADY-LOVES."—Elizabeth
Middlemay, Ann Martin, and Ellen Coverdale,. three
infamous women, well known to do police, and who ,
have been repeatedly convicted, were brought up before
Mr. Paget, at the above court, the first on remand, the
third for the first time, charged with stealing a gold
watch and gold chain, value 230, from the person of
an old rigger, named James Farman, from North
Shields. The woman Coverdale took the prosecutor in tow
and conveyed him to several harbours of refuge, called
grog shops, in Shadwell and St. George's-in-the-East, and
after he had been well plied with indifferent liquor and
rendered semi-conscious, Coverdale robbed him of two
sovereigns and some silver, and then left him in the
company of Martin and Middlemay,'at an infamous
den in Angel Gardens. Hero they robbed him of
his gold watch and gold chain attached, and a
gold ring. They attempted to pawn the watch
and chain in company, and Mr. Henry Wood, a pawn-
broker, not believing the prisoners were bond fade pawners,
and noticing that the chain was broken, stopped the
property. Mr. Paget committed the prisoners for trial.

QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE MAN
CHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

(CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.)

The quarterly meeting of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce was held to-day. The chairman (Mr. J. M.
Bennett), in reviewing the course of trade during the
quarter, deplored the continuance of the war, and
said there could now be little doubt of the near approach
of the end of it. Hunger and starvation would do for
Paris what hunger and starvatfon had done for Metz. He
hoped that M. Thiers's mission would bring about a ter-
mination of the war. As might have been expected there
had been an enormous increase of trade at home princi-
pally
dile to the war, there was a great influx of American,
who would otherwise have travelled on the continent.
The immigration of French gentry, and the detention
of the travelling English at home, had led to a
large increase of home business : but this was nothing
in comparison with the enormous 'progress which had
taken place in our shipping trade. The railway coin-
, panies in the Manchester centre had been so overwhelmed
with goods of all kinds during the months of August
September, and October, that it had been with
the greatest difficulty that they could get through
their business. They had had to "work night
and day in order to deal with the quantities of goods that
were poured in upon them. The Board of Trade returns
for September showed an increase of 52 per cent.
in quantity over the corresponding month in
last year, and a decrease of 34 per cent. in
value. There were complaints that the increased business
was being done at no profit ; but the country might be
congratulated on the rapid clearance of stocks and the
decreasing price of cotton. The chairman also referred to the
advantages gained to the commercial community by.the
adoption of the halfpenny postage for circulars, invoices, and
business cards, an d hoped that the benefits would be extended
by the issue of a halfpenny district postage. The
Chamber adopted a memorial to the First Lord of the
Treasury, against the bill of entry monopoly, and pray-
ing for the issue of direct and speedy statistics of trade
under a responsible government department.

ROYAL BAPTISM AT DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, OCT. 31,

The infant Prince was baptized to-day in the Roya
Chapel at Christiansborg, at 2 o'clock. Their Danish
and Swedish Majesties and all the members of the Royal
Family passed through the gaily decorated
and crowded streets from Amalienborg to the
church: There was a large number of 'the highest
functionaries; the Corps Diplomatique, the members of
Rigsdag, and others had assembled. The cereinony was
performed by the Bishop of Seeland Martensen.
Prince was named Christian Carl Frederick Albert Alex
ander Wilhelm. The godfathers and godmothers were
their Danish and Swedish Majesties, Danish and Swedish
Queen Dowagers, the Prince of Wales, the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Russia, King George of Greece, and
several others.

The

Lord Egremont has announced his intention to give
£2.0,000 to the Igish Church.
THE OPERA COMIQUE.—IIer Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales ,and suite honoured this theatre with
her presence last evening.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Ono Shilling Day, Monday,
Oct. 31, 1870. Number of visitors by season tickets, 1323 ;
ditto on payment, 1,157 ; total visitors, 2,480.