The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-18 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

CRUELTY TO STET-CNILDREN.—A woman, named Eliza
Phillips, has been charged at the Mansion House with
cruelly ill-treating her step-children. The children were
brought into the court, and_ presented a miserable ap-
pearance. A detective officer, who had examined them,
found they were covered with wounds and bruises. The
landlord of the house, in which the family had lived for
ten months, found the little boy crying and covered with
blood. - His mouth was full of chloride of limo. While he
was attending to the child, the father came in and said the
children should never go upstairs again. He took them.
away. The woman was a very sober woman. The magi-
strate commented severely on the prisoner's conduct, and
only regretted he could not inflict a severer punishment
than six months' bard labour. There was some applause
in the court, much excitement having been created by
the case.

THROWING A MAN INTO A COPPER.—A German sausage
maker, of Hatcham Park, has been apprehended on the
charge of throwing a man in his employ into a copper con-
taining 55 gallons of nearly boiling water, in consequence
of some quarrel between them. The man, whose name
was Swift, was so fearfully scalded that he died after hl4
removal to Guy's Hospital. His depositions were taken by
the magistrate before his death. The prisoner was much
affected on hearing that Swift was dead, and said he wished
he had seen him first.
A SAVAGE WomAN.—The wife of a baker, residing in the
village of Stoke, Bucks, has been charged with wounding
an old man in the neighbourhood. She attacked him
without, it is said, receiving any provocation, and inflicted
three serious wounds on his head with a large knife. The
old man has been in great danger, and is still in a precarious
state.

The whole question of the fees now paid for the
maintaining of guides to shew and protect the chapels and
tombs in Westminster Abbey is under the consideration of
the Dean and Chapter.

Photographic portraits can now b 3 printed
with printer's ink. They are necessarily permanent as a
printed text, and so easy of production that 12,000 may be
produced from a single plate in one day.
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SELLING UNWHOLESOME Fxstr.—At the Liver-
pool Police-court, on Saturday, a fishmonger, named James
Gardner, was sent to prison for a month with hard labour
for selling unwholesome fish, in Marybone, a quarter in-
habited only by the very poorest of the population.

FOOLISH JOKING.—An unpleasant practical joke
is becoming common in Lyons. It consists of destroying
persons' clothing with sulphuric acid. A lady, while in o
church of St. Nizier, a few days back, had her shawl, silk
dress, and underclothing completely burnt through; another
female was served in the same manner in the streets.—
Galiynani.
ASOTESTY DEMONSTRATlONS.—Demonstrations in
behalf of the Fenian prisoners were held on Sunday at
Charleville and Queenstown, in Cork county, and in Bruff,
county Limerick. Vast numbers attended each, including
persons of considerable local influence_ The Very Rev. Dr.
Croke, who presided at Charleville, counselled firm but
respectful language. They should pray the Government
to forget what the Fenians had done, in consideration of
their motives. Thus, though Mr. Moore has desisted, the
meetings are still going on.
A SERIOUS DIFFICULTY.—An inhabitant of Pro-
vence who was attacked with cholera, commended himself
to the protection of the Virgin, and after several doses of
laudanum recovered his health. His first thought,
when restored to convalescence, were to !thew his grati-
tude to the holy protectress to whom he attributed
his cure. Unfortunately, there were in the neigh-
bourhood in which he resides two Virgins, one
called " Notre Dame de Toutes-Aurores," and the
other "Notre Dame de Romigier," for each of whom her
admirers claim the exclusive power to cure cholera, and
conaequently the sole right to all gifts and offerings made
in respect of recovery from that disorder; and our good
provencal cannot make up his mind as to which of the two
Madonnas it was to whom he owed his cure. In this state
of duliiety it is believed that he made no offering to

either.
SAINTS-13E \'F AS A DUELIST.--The Passe
tolls the following story cf the Gnly duel in which the eele•
brated French critic just deceased was ever engaged. Whi-
e
Sainte-Beuve was a contributor to the Globe he had a quail
with aM. Dubois. Sharp words were exchanged between
the disputants, and ultimately a meeting was ar-
ranged. Sainte-Beuve arrived upon the ground wit -
an old flint-lock pistol, manufactured some time it
the sixteenth century, and an umbrella. It began
to rain sharply, and the future senator at once unfurleg
his "gingham." Ills adversary and the seconds on botl
sides vehemently protested against a proceeding so irregu
lar. Lut Sainte-Deuve would yield nothing to thei.
remonstrances. lie had, he observed, no objection to b
killed, but he did not intend to get wet There was n,
alternative but to let him have his own Way, and the due
went on, Sainte Bettye holding up his umbrella all the time
Four shots were exchanged, but neither of the combatant
sustained any injury. •