The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-23 00:00:00

THE CHILD AND THE TIGER.

In the far east, " on a stern and rock-bound coast,"
the encroaching waters of the ever-restless ocean have
formed an estuary, separating from the mainland a
hold and beautiful promontory, called from its singu-
lar appearance, " The Dolphin's Nose," on whose green
and richly-wooded summit man, with good taste, has
erected a castellated building, with turrets and towers
overlooking the sea. A covered way leads from the
house to a detached building, surrounded by a very
high wall, by way of protection from beasts of prey.
This formed the sleeping apartment of the widowed
master of the mansion, and in an inner room was the
little bed on which reposed his son and heir, a lovely
boy. A lamp was burning, and the light fell on a
mirror which stood opposite the door, the only article
of furniture to mark that woman once " had part and
portion there." It was midnight—the infant slept
" calm as a child's repose s" but the father could not
sleep—fast thronging memories of bygone days, the
thoughts of that dear partner separated from him by
the hand of death, anxieties regarding the welfare of
his child, and official duties, stole over him and com-
bined to keep him watchful. The weather was op-
pressive, though every door and window stood open
to woo each passing breeze. His child awakes and
cries, and the attention of the lonely watcher is at
once arrested; suddenly he observes a dim and
shadowy form creep by him, with stealthy
step, into the room that held his child. Is
it a dream or phantom conjured up by the me-
mories of the past ? The light of a solitary lamp
swung from above, and glanced upon the glossy coat
of a huge royal tiger, which, impelled by hunger,
and attracted by the cries of the child, had sprung
over the protecting wall. Oh! the intense, the breath-
less agony of that moment, which allows scarce time
for thought, none for action. The royal brute
sees his own image reflected in the mirror, to him
as the image of an enemy ; scowl reflects scowl, and
as he crouches for a spring, his silent enemy is pre-
pared also ; one wave of his snakelike tail, one indig-
nant growl, one bound, and the mirror falls clashing
around him in countless glittering fragments Scarce
two more bounds, the first through the suite of cham-
bers, the second over the wall, and he had sped far
away to his solitary lair, far away in the deep forest,
where the still night echoes the deep throbbing of his
panting heart; and the father kneels with clasped
hands over the bed of his child ; and when the anima-
tion had returned, when the mantling blood fled back
through his veins, his gratitude to the Almighty
hand which had willed that his child should be
spared, was not loud but deep. He soon followed
his beloved partner to the tomb, and they both lay
buried in a shady spot side by side, unheeding the
" summer sun's most piercing rays, and the vexed
ocean at the topmost swell." The infant, thus pre-
served, has since been amidst the roar of cannon and
the clang of war ; he bears a charmed life. The hand
of the Qod of mercy is upon him, and has not suffered
that one hair of his head should perish.—Colonial
Magazine.

MODEL PARENTS.—An interesting child of' ten
years was yesterday taken before the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police, on the charge of vagabondage. His father,
a man named Berg, presented himself. "Do you claim
your child ?" said the President. " No." " Why ?"
" Because his mother has left me, and I will have
nothing further to do with him." " Was she your
wife ?" " No." " Your conduct is shameful I" cried the
President. The mother, a little, hard-featured woman, then
stepped forward. "Do you claim your child ?" asked the
President " No." " Why ?" " Because he has beer. a bur-
den to me long enough already. His father may take him if
he will—l have had enough of him I" Indignant murmurs
arose from the auditory, and the Public Prosecutor, after de-
nouncing the scandalous conduct of the parents, demanded
that the case should be put off for the week, in the hope that
some charitable person would in the meantime undertake the
care of the child, in order to prevent him from falling into
misery and perhaps crime.— Galignani.
CAUTION TO PERSONS HANDLING DEAD BODIES.—
About a fortnight ago, a young man named Munton died in
Peterborough ; he had led a dissipated life, and consequently
was in a very emaciated state. Mr. English, car-
penter, on putting his arms round the dead body to place it
in the coffin (which he had been making), felt some matter
ooze from the corpse upon one of his hands : he did not take
particular notice of the circumstance at the time, but a few
days after he experienced an acute pain in the hand and
arm, and he perceived a swelling where there had been a
blister on his wrist. Being in London he went to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital and had the swelling cut; it, however,
gradually got worse, and he became quite delirious. Ou his
return home Dr. Walker and Mr. Southan were called in,
and they pronounced the disease to have arisen from the
matter which oozed out of t}e corpse. The flesh about the
affected part was cut away, and he is now recovering. Fears
were at one time entertained that it would end fatally.—
Lincoln Mercury.

In one short street in Sunderland there are seven
re-
dealers in intoxicating drinks, one of them wholesale; Mrs. Simmons, who has for many years past
there are also a. pawnbroker, a relieving-officer, a police- Sidney,
station, an undertaker, and, at the top, a churchyard,— Sun-
hill,placedthe bar before Alderman
was at
sided in that abode of iniquity, Field-lane, Holborn•
derland News. 1 charged with having unlawfully in her possession 5

large quantity of black silk, value about 301., sup-
posed to be stolen, and of which she did not render a
satisfactory account.
Mr. Norton appeared for the prisoner.
David Hewitt, 233, said—l received information
on Saturday afternoon which induced me to go to
Castle-street, Holborn, with another officer of the
name of Nicholls, whom I placed to watch the en-
trance to the Castle Tavern. I then went on to my
beat in Holborn-hill, when I saw prisoner's husband
go down Bartlett's-buildings. I returned to Castle-
street, and had not been there more than two or
three minutes before I saw the prisoner come out of
the Castle with three rolls of black silk wrapped in a
handkerchief on her arm. I followed her through
Norwich-court, Fetter-lane, into Bartlett's-buildings,
and there stopped her, and asked what she had in the
bundle she was carrying. She said, "It is only a
bit of silk." I asked her where she obtained it, and
she said, " My husband changed away some silk hand-
kerchiefs for it." I requested to know who the ex-
change was made with, and she said, " I do not
know, but believe it was with a foreigner." I told
her I did not consider it a satisfactory account, and
wished her to accompany me to the station. She
said, " Oh, yes ; I'll go with you." At the station I
asked her what quantity of silk she had in the bun-
dle, and if it was about 10, 2.0, 50, or 100 yards.
She said she did not know. It has been measured,
and found to be 234 yards.
Cross-examined by Mr. Norton—l had made up
my mind to take her into custody if she did not ac-
count for the silk satisfactorily. I ,have known her
husband and herself for the last ten years, but never
heard anything to their prejudice. I knew he was a
housekeeper. I have not yet found an owner for
the silk, but I have no doubt I shall if I am allowed
time.

John Nicholls, 240, said—Between three and four
o'clock on Saturday afternoon I saw an omnibus stop
at Holborn-hill, and the prisoner alight with a bundle
on her arm under her shawl. I watched her into the
Castle Tavern, and then waited outside. In a short
time she came out without the bundle. I inquired of
a man who had been in the house, who informed me
that prisoner had left the bundle to be given up to
her husband, who would call for it. I communicated
what I had seen to the last witness, who went into
Holborn and returned in about a quarter of an hour,
and we watched the Castle Tavern together.
I then saw Mr. Simmons in the public-
house,
but did not see him enter the house,
as the house is situated at the corner of a
court, and has two doors. I looked down the court
and saw prisoner coming up, and after wards enter the
tavern. We waited a short time, when prisoner came
out with the bundle on her arm, and we followed her
into Bartlett's-buildings. She said that her husband
changed the handkerchief with an Irish hawker who
was going abroad, and at the station-house she said it
was with a foreigner.
Mr. Norton addressed the magistrate upon the in-
sufficiency of evidence to detain the prisoner any
longer in custody.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY said that prisoner was
charged with having a large quantity of silk unlaw-
fully in her possession, and if the evidence was not
enough to prove that the property was stolen, there
was, he thought, sufficient to justify him to remand
the prisoner, as the onus now rested with herself to
prove that she had come honestly by it.
Mr. Norton then applied for the prisoner to be ad-
mitted to bail.

the prisoner said, "It is all right," and went with
witness to the station-house.

Charles Rilesly, of Wellington-street, Goswell
street, milkman, said that he was brother to the de-
fendant, and authorised him to put his (witness's)
name to the acceptance, but did not think he would
be called to pay the money. When the bill was
presented he was not in a position to pay the bill,
and stated the fact that the signature to it waa
not his.

Mr. HENIZY—As he (witness) postively swears
that he authorised him (defendant) to put his name
to the bill, that disposes of the criminal part, and the
complainant can sue the witness for the amount in
the county court. The defendant is discharged.

Alderman SIDNEY eaid he would accept her own
recognizances, on pain of imprisonment in default of
her appearing, and two substantial bail in 801. each.
Bail was immediately tendered, and the prisoner
discharged.
Ann Haman was charged with robbing a gentle-
man of a purse, containing five sovereigns, two half-
crowns, three shillings, and a fourpenny-piece, in
Fetter-lane, on Saturday night.
Police-constable 804 saw prisoner speaking to two
gentlemen on Saturday night; he passed them, and
on returning he received informatio❑ that all was not
right, and he followed prisoner accordingly. He saw
her walking behind the same two gentlemen, and
then cross the road and run up Fetter-lane. Wit-
ness watched her into the Parcels' Delivery Com-
pany's yard, in Rolls'-buildings, and took her into
custody. On the way to the station she dropped a
French purse, in which he found the money described
in the charge.
Joseph Brown, of 14, Fetter-lane, said—While be
was shutting up his shop he saw the prisoner talking
to the taller of the two gentlemen. She entered the
door of No. 12, while the gentlemen waited outside,
and when she came out they walked down towards
Fleet-street, followed by the prisoner, who was im-
mediately joined by a man, who whispered to her a
few words and then ran across the road, and pre-
tended to be looking in at the window of No. 31.
Witness gave information to the constable, and pointed
out the prisoner to him, and she was then taken into
custody.
The Officer said—At the station prisoner was asked
how much the purse contained, but she was unable to
say, and merely stated that it contained both gold
and silver.
Prisoner said the purse and money were hers, and
they had been given to her by a gentleman who was
keeping her.—Remanded to find an owner for the
money.
THE OMNIBUSES AND THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—

A number of omnibus proprietors were summoned
before Alderman Wilson for not having the table of
fares painted inside their carriages, in conformity
with the Act of Parliament. All that was visible
was, " To or from the Crystal Palace, 6d."
This, it was stated, was done to enable the driver
to stop his carriage at any part of London he pleased
—turn all his customers out, stating " he went no
further," and make each one pay the 6d. fare, while
he would return directly for another load, and serve
them the same. It was contended that every pas-
senger, when he got into an omnibus had a right to
know where he was to be taken to, and whether he
paid 3d., 4d., or 6d.
Some of the proprietors contended that they had
done all that the Act required of them by putting the
one fare they meant to charge.
Alderman WILSON said, he should not only protect
the public against such tricks, but he would support
the honest proprietor against the frauds of the dis-
honest ones; for he knew full well from the innu-
merable complaints, as well as from practical experi-
ence, that the fares were so set out inside for no other
purpose than to cheat the public. The omnibuses
which usually ran to the Bank—and some even much
further—would, at the close of the Exhibition, and
more particularly, if a shower of rain came on, stop at
Charing-cross, or Temple bar, or St. Paul's, and say-
ing, " We go no farther," turn the passengers out in
the rain, point to the fare of 6d. on the door, and im-
mediately return for another load of victims. The
proprietors had the privilege of charging what they
pleased, either 4d., 64., or as. ; but then they must at
the same time say precisely what this was for, and,
indeed, this was generally done, the disreputable por-
tion of the proprietors forming the exception. He
would fine the defendants 20s. and costs in each case,
and desired the police to continue their vigilance in
bringing up every proprietor so offending. They had
had a most profitable time of it, and as the fair was
nearly ever the public must have their turn.
A man in the garb of a farm labourer was brought
up before Mr. Alderman Sidney, charged with having
driven two cows into Smithfield• market, contrary to
the City regulations, he not being a licensed drover.
Police-constable No. 2 said that about half-past ten
o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner driving two
cows into Smithfield-market, he not being licensed so
to do. There was no driver with him. The system
bad been practised to a considerable extent to the pre-
judice of the regularly licensed drovers. The pri-
soner was in the habit of attending the market for
his master, and was aware that he was infringing the
market regulations.
The prisoner said that he brought the two cows to
Blackfriars, and his master gave him 6d. to get them
brought to Smithfield, but as he could not get any
drover to take them for 6d. he was obliged to bring
them himself.
Alderman SIDNEY inquired if the master himself
could have brought the cows to the market ?
The policeman said he might.
The ALDERMAN thought that tobe a very anomalous
state of things. He should have thought that if the
master could do so, his servant might do so also, but
he would not put his own opinion against the collec-
tive wisdom of the corporation. He thought, how-
ever, that a fine of Is. or 48 hours' imprisonment
would meet the justice of the case.
BO W-STREET.

George Wyatt, cab-driver, was brought before Mr.
incapable
while charged with being drunk and
while in charge of his cab in the Strand, on Saturday
evening.
His 'WORSHIP said that the public were not to be
run over by drunken cab-drivers, and fined the defen-
dant 203., or in default to be imprisoned 14 days.
James Rilesly, formerly landlord of the Rose and
Crown public-house, Drury-lane, was brought up in
custody of police-sergeant Thompson, of the F divi-
sion, and placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, charged
with uttering a forged bill of exchange.
Mr. John Rains, of Covent-garden-market, fruit
salesman, stated that on the 24th of May last the pri-
soner prevailed on him to render him an accommoda-
tion by negotiating an acceptance of his (prisoner's)
brother, at three months, for 101. 103. On the 27th
of August, the date upon which the bill became due,
it was duly presented for payment by a person named
Back, whom witness sent, and who was now at Mar-
gate, but the acceptor said the signature was not in
his handwriting, and refused to take up the bill.
Police-sergeant Thompson said that yesterday be
apprehended the prisoner in Great Russell street,
Covent-garden ; and on stating the nature of the
charge the prisoner inquired by whose authority he
took him into custody ? To which witness replied
that it was on the charge of Air. John Rains, when