The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-13 00:00:00

L.4IV AND POLICE.

TILE LOAN SOCIETY.— At Guildhall, on Wednesday,
Reid and Jones, the secretary and collector of the. National
Crovincial Assurance and Loan Society, which, it will be
•ememhered, was mainly comiosed of gentlemen's ser-
;ants, were committed for trial, the magistrate refusing to
ake bail.

RAILwAY llosnEniEs..---A system of robbery on the
London and North-Western Railway has recently been
-,rought to light. Many valuable goods passing between
England and Ireland ri4 Chester have been missed at
Bangor. Fourteen days ago a parcel porter named
'Filson, and a tradesman named Hughes, both
A Bangor, were minnitted for trial for the
•obbery of a box of watches and jewelry valued at £5BO.
4ince then the same persons Were committed on a second
:barge of stealing eight
.gold watches, ca route from
7ovetAry for Dublin, and on Wednesday they were
vought froM Carnarvon Gaol, and charged with stealing
_ _ _

•,me valuable trinkets belonging to the daughter of Arch-
leacon Jones, of Anglesea. lt seems that Mr. Aronson the
;caner of the Missing box, bad been commissioned by Miss
/ones to make soine alterations in her trinkets. Knowing-
)y his former losses the insecurity of the route to Bir-
ltingbam, Aronson sent his son with them to that town.
When the alterations were completed, they were, however,
sent in the ordinary way, and they never reached Mr.
4.-ronson. Part of the property was found in the possession
A Wilson and Hughes, who were committed on the three
:barges to take their trial at the Carnarvonshire Assizes.
ComairrrAL or Two BOYS FOR ATTESIPTING TO UPSET
4. RAILWAY TRAlN.—Samuel Morton, aged 13, and James
13rien, aged 9, have been brought before the county magis.
;rates at the Shire Hall, Nottingham, charged with
;lacing two railway metal "chairs" on the Midland line,
at Sutton-Bonington. From the evidence adduced it
appeared that one of the metal "chairs" was placed on
;he line in the morning and another in the evening of
Friday last. They were, however, cleared off without
:ausing any damage, the driver of the morning train
'laving stopped the engine for that purpose. The boys
;old a witness who appeared against them that they put
the chairs on the line to see if they could " jag" the engine.
Ile bench committed both the lads to take their trial at
he next sessions.

SALE OF INDECENT PRINTS.—A woman, named Potter,
gas been convicted at the Middlesex Sessions of having
cold a number of indecent books and prints, and was sen-
tenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
eighteen months.

A FEMALE EXAMINING PHYSICIAN.—The New
York papers state that "Dr." Adelaide Grennan, of St.
Louis, has been appointed examining physician of the
Romceopathic Mutual .Life Insurance Company of New
York—the first appointment of the kind ever made.
STEAM ENO rNEs.—The value of the steam engines
'sported in the first three months of this year was
£204,478, as compared with £290,796 in the corresponding
luarter of 1868, and £.397,83J in the corresponding quarter
,f 1867. The demand for our steam engines in British
India has considerably fallen off, probably because fewer
locomotives are now required to be sent out for the great
Indian railway lines.

TONING DOWN.—When Napolen I. escaped from
Elba, the Moniteur, then edited by Louis XVIII., thus
•hronicled the progress of Napoleon :—" The anthropo-
hagist" has escaped—the " Corsican ogre" has landed—
le "tiger" is coming—the " monster " has slept at Gre•
ruble—the " tyrant"has arrived at Lyons—the "usurper"
'.as been seen in the environs of Paris—" Bonaparte"
advances towards, but will never enter, the capital—
`-Napoleon " will be under our ramparts to-morrow—
' the Emperor" has arrived at Pontainebleau—andi
"his Imperial IsTajesty entered the Tuileries on
the 21st of March, " in the midst of his faithful sub.
cots."

GREAT FLOODS AT AIoNTREAL.—Advices frein
Montreal give long accounts of the floods there. A de.
;patch, dated April 21, says :—" The river still continues
to rise, and the inundation is spreading, being
worse
now than in 186,5, and promising to equal that of Isyq.
Relief boats with provisions, &c., sent out to GrifEntOwn,
;.n some parts of which there are now fire or six feet of
water." Another of the same date is this worded
`The inundation is momentarily increasing, and much
distress prevails. In some coes whole families of women
and children have bee;rl Cvithout food for over 24 hours,
The police have found soma, who lived in back lanes and
yards, completely prostrated from hunger and cold. The
police are told off their beats as usual, and go about in
boats endeavouring to relieve distress." At the latest
advices the floods were subsiding.
AIIERICAN JOURNALI6AI.-1- An unquestionable
Pxcitement has sprung
~111) P.m.onk the reading classes of
New York by an cit,
tide *,attack, sustained apparently
by original
.4.l,7;derrits, which has been made in the Sun
newspapot, of New 'York. by Mr. Chalks A. Dana, its
editor, against Air. J..lm Rwsell Young, managing editor
of the New Yor.:. Tribz:ne. Mr. Young is charged with
having sold the editor'al columns of tile 2', itune to Simon
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, for a moneyed consideration,
and with having, in violation of plighted faith,
transmitted the despatches of the Associated Press
(corresponding to Renter's telegrams) to a daily paper in
Philadelphia, of which lie was. the clandestine proprietor.
Moreover, lie is denounc.A because he caused to he in-
sorted in various journals great, swelling_ Words of vanity
about himself; puffs, in connection v..ith M.. mules
Dickers, who visited Mr. Young, and thereby reflected
immense honour an-that peccant Journalist, when he (Mr.
Dickens) was last in New -York. To all which Mr.
Young replies by the arrest of Mr. Dana upon a libel
suit, wherein the damages an.; laiti at one linndred-thon-
m4 ciourv,