The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-30 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 99.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows :-
41 per Cent.
End of month._ Ital'an Fives 56 60
3 per Cent
End of mouth 7l 67i Mexican Loan 25 25
Credit Mobilier
End of month... 255 -- Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1542 ri")0 Home Debt
End of month._ Deferred
RAILWAYS. Cash.
Orleans ... 915
Northern
Lyons and llie,literrauean
Southern..... 6l3i
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa.
Roman.

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POLICE IA TELL! GENCE.-7 kis Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSALIT.—Robert Nunn, an elderly man, was
charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk, and
tssaulting Police-constable William Alexander,
154 C.

'lhe constable said that, seeing the prisoner lying
against the railings in Park-lane last night in a
state of intoxication, he requested him to go away.
The prisoner declined to go, said he was a Fenian,
and did not care for all the police in London, and
struck him across the nose with his stick, making
his nose bleed.

The prisoner said the constable came up to him
and said, "Daddy, get up, and let us see if you can
walk," and then shoved him down. He told the
constable he was unwell, and asked him to see him
home, but he would not do so, and he thought it
very unkind of him.

Mr. Knox said the prisoner had no righc to strike
the constable, and lined bin' 20s. or 14 days.

TIIAMES.

UNREWARDED SERVICES.—WiIIiam Dewberry, a
poor man, of No. 34, North-street, Limehouse- fields,
came before Mr. Paget, and said that at half-past
one o'clock in the morning of Wednesday last he
was on his nay home, and in passing a fish shop in
Stepney, in the immediate vicinity of that court,
he discovered that the place was on fire, and flamfs
and smoke were issuing from the shop. He knocked
loudly at the door and shutters and alarmed the
inmates of the house, five is inumber, whom he
assisted in extinguishing the fire, which was con-
fined to the place where it broke out. He
asked the inmates for some compensation for
his trouble and the interest he bad taken in
saving their lives and property, but they
refused to give ban anything, and said
he had no right to interfere that they were in-
sured, and he had better go to the fire insurance
office. He thought this was very strange treat-
ment, but as the people knew the value of their
own lives and property best he went to the insur-
ance official and related what be had done. The
clerks in the office told him they could not enter-
tain the application.
Mr. Paget thought the inmates of the house
ought to have rewarded the applicant for the
trouble he had taken, and that he had done a very
meritorious act in saving life and property. He
could not interfere.

The Applicaut—Can't you compel the insurauce
office to reward me ?

Mr. Paget—No ; I have no power whatever to
compel a fire insurance to give you compensation.
I don't think you have any remedy.
The Applicant--Thank you, sir. He then
departed.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—John Turner,
aged 17, was brought up on remand before Mr.
Paget, charged with stealing a purse containing
£1 108. Gd. in money from Mrs. Jane John-
son Bourke, a lady residing at No. 5, College-
terrace, Tredegar-square, Alile-end. A few days
since the prosecutrix was passing along the Mile-
end-road with two small parcels and a purse con-
taining 30s. Gd. in her hands, when the prisoner
impudently demanded the purse, and on its being
refused he snatched it from the lady. She seized
bias an struggled with him as well as she was
able, but he managed to break away from her, and
ran along Longfellow-road, running parallel with
the Regent's Canal. There was no thoroughfare
at the bottom of the road, and the prisoner
was compelled to turn back, and was run down by
an officer of Volunteers on horseback, who captured
him and gave him over to the police. Tne purse
and money were not recovered. The robbery was
effected at half-past 5 o'clock in the day time, in a
public and much-frequented road.
Several witnesses, who saw the robbery and out-
rage committed, gave evidence, and said the lady
made a determined but ineffectual attempt to pre-
vent the prisoner going away with her purse and

MOD ey.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial.

WESTMINSTER.

SINGULAR ROBBERY.—A very young man, giving
the name of Alfred Lusty, was placed at the bar
charged with robbing a gentleman of his watch.
Mr. Samuel C. Hall, civil engineer, sail that at
one this morning he was in Winchester-s reet,
Pimlico, when the prisoner and two other men came
up and asked him to treat them to beer. lie toll
them he should not, and expostulated with them
upon the demand. Iu about a minute or so they
all three hurried away taking different directions.
Immediately after this prosecutor found hio watch
had been detached from his Albert guard. Pri-
soner had been close to him. A pursuit
was made and pri.i.oner was taken in Sussex-street,
and near the same spot the watch was subsequently
discovered in the portico of a house there.
Prisoner denied the robb2ry, and said he was re-
spectable. He and prosecutor and the other had
all been " larking" together.
Prisoner was remanded.