The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-08 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE HABITUAL CRIMINALS ACT.-At the Surrey Ses-
sions, on Tuesday, a man named John Dunn was charged
with stealing a watch and chain at Croydon Races.
Fifteen previous convictions having been proved against
him, he was sentenced under the Habitual Criminals Act
1.:o eight years' penal servitude and seven years' police sur-
veillance.

THE Woor.wrar FRAUDS.—The three men charged
with plundering the Government stores at Woolwich,
were on Tuesday committed for trial. The prosecution
assert that the 258 cwt. of waste paper sold and unac-
counted for consisted, not of waste paper, but of uncut
reams which might be resold as new.
DANGEROUS READING.—At the Lambeth Police•conit,
two lads under 16 were charged with burglary, and sent
for trial at the Old Bailey. It seems they had been
studying the lives of highwaymen, and broke into the
rouse of a tradesman, carrying off £6O.
t: CASUAL POOR.—A poor woman was charged at
Guildhall with deserting her two children, aged 3 and 6
years. It appeared that she applied for admission to
the casual ward of the West London Union at eleven
o'clock at night, in heavy rain. She was told the ward
was full, and ran away, leaving the children at the gate.
She was sent to prison for seven days, but the magistrate
reminded the union authorities that they were bound to
'lnd room for all who applied for admittance.
THE PONTLOTTYN RIOTERS.—At the Merthyr Pollee-
court, the five prisoners charged with murder and riot at
Pontlottyn have been examined. The riot arose from
a quarrel between Welsh and Irish, and resulted in the
death of one man. The magistrate said it was a shocking
affair, but the charge of murder could not stand. The
prisoners were therefore discharged, to the great satisfac.
Lion of the Welsh population.

PLAIN PREACHING.—FemaIo preachers were the
feature at the Round Lake camp meeting. One of them:
mounted on a water hogshead, made a sensation. " Shame
on you young woman with that brazen healgear, and
that ungodly hump on your hack! Where's the modesty
your mother teched you to kerry through life with you."
[Here a very pretty girl vanished into the wood.]
"There's a full grown man chewing a nasty filthy weed
that the pigs would'nt tech. Next to godliness, young
man, is cleanliness. lif I didn't love the human race as I
do, bless God, I'd like to get down from this waggin and
sicken you tobacker chawers with your nasty mou'vhsful."
—Evening Wisconsin.

CURIOUS MARRIAGE.—A curious marriage oc-
curred last week in St. Louis. A stone-blind bridegroom
was led by his blushing bride to the altar of a Justice of
the Peace. That honest and benevolent functionary feat
it to be his duty to inform the poor blind man that the
chosen of his heart was really one of the ugliest women in
the world, and that she had already, to his certain know-
ledge, buried two husbands. To this the bridegroom
responded that he had seen the lady a great many years
ago, and that according to the best of his recollection,
she was then "a thing of beauty" and "a form of life
And light." As the unfortunate. man insisted upon
being married to this dream of his earlier and happier
days, the knot was tied ; Lilt the justice swore that he
could not in consciem, take
the fee for doing ; and so
the poor victim was' led away rejoidng.---Xeto York
Tribu»c, August 27.
THE PUBLIC llE.turtr.—Last week the rate a
mortality was 23 per 1,000 in Loudon' "-5 in thirteen other
U large towns of the 'nited Kingdom, and 2i .
In
the English towns there were 119 deaths from ri'lrsr.l"
shewiug but a alight further decrease up'en tl7e
four previous weeki. In the metropolis 2,136
births and 1,331 deaths were registered. The latter
exceeded by 3S the eatimatel number, but were less by ;,;
than those of the previous week. The deaths from zymotic
diseases were the corrected average number beim:
Five persons died from small-pox, 19 from measles,
170 from scarlatina, I from diptheria, 75 from
9 from typhus fever, 23 from enteric
whooping -cough,
fever, 12 from simple continued fever, and IGI frorr
diarrhtea. The mortality from scarlet fever continues to
increase, Six children died from simple cholera. The
mean temperature of the week was ,50.1, or 2.9 below the
average. Between the highest day and the lowest nigh!
temperature there was a range of more than 33 degrees.