The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-07 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.,

PLEDGING WATcnts.—At Guildhall, on Wednesday, ft
watchmaker named Thiele was charged with pledging
watches entrusted to him to repair. The prisoner and his
son had formerly an extensive business, and received
many watches to repair, which they pledged, and finally
decamped, leaving more than 200 duplicates behind them.
The owners of fifty had been discovered, and had obtained
their watches, the owner and pawnbroker sharing the loss
between them, The prisoners had received about £5OO by
pledging. They were remanded.
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A PRISONER NOT SEARCRED.—At Marlborough-street,
on Wednesday, a Frenchman, named Samnade, was charged
with sending threatening letters to a tradesman in Picca-
dilly. When arrested the prisoner had a revolver in his
pocket, five chambers of which were loaded. It was alleged by
the wife of the prosecutor that the attention of the police ai
the station was drawn to this fact, but that no search
was made, and the prisoner appeared in court on his first
examination with the revolver in his possession, the con-
sequences of which might have been serious. The police
denied the woman's statement, but Mr. Tyrwhitt seemed to
believe it. Ho committed the prisoner for trial.
ILLEGAL STORAGE OF PEW:OLP:MI.—At the City Police-
court, Manchester, a day or two since, Mr. Brooks, a
chemist and druggist, was summoned for keeping petro-
leum amongst other inflammable goods contrary to his
license. The defendant said he was prepared to give up his
licence which was accordingly cancelled. Another chemist
named Kellet, of Huline, was fined £5 and costs, for keep-
ing 150 gallons of petroleum, when his licence was for 50
gallons. A broker, of Hulme, was fined five shillings for
having 18 gallons of paraffin without a licence, and the oil
was forfeited.
A PRACTISED BURGLAR.—A man named Palmer was
charged at the Middlesex Sessions with having in
his possession certain implements of housebreaking. The
remarkable feature in the case was that the pri-
soner had been for more than thirty years a burglar,
or companion of burglars. A list of his convictions
• d..r.ribed thp contents of e
stable of which he had possession, which had a false floor-
ing. Under this flooring were a quantity of skeleton keys,
two life-preservers, two jemmies, and several crowbars. The
prisoner was questioned about a ten years' sentence to tran-
sportation passed on him in 1855, when he said that it was se
long ago that lie did not recollect it. The Judge, having com-
mented on the prisoner's career, said he would pass the
highest sentence he could as an example to others, and
that was that he should be kept in penal servitude for ten
years. He ordered the inspector, the sergeant, and two
constables to receive £2 each for the services they had
rendered in bringing him to justice.

The decision of the conference of Lancashire
miners on the question of wages is to continue the agitation
for an advance "until the same be obtained." The consi-
deration of the proposal to restrict the hours of labour was
postponed.

The Lord Bishop of Durham has conferred the
canonry in Durham Cathedral, vacant by the death of the
Bishop of Exeter, upon the Rev. J. D. Eade, rural dean
and vicar of Aycliffe. Mr. Eade has been an honorary
canon of Durham Cathedral since 1847.

Mn. BUXTON ON THI LAND QuEsnoN.—Mr. C.
Buxton, M.P., spoke on the Irish land question on Wed-
nesday night at the annual meeting of the North Walsham
Agricultural Association. Mr. Buxton took the side of the
Irish tenantry in their demand for security, although not
for fixity of tenure.

The Garden Oracle for 1870 is announced for early
publication. The speciality of the forthcoming issue is a
new and select list of the choicest dessert fruits, so arranged
as to indicate the seasons when they severally attain per-
fection, the mode of culture, and their respective adapta-
tion to large and small gardens, to forcing and high fruit-
growing establishments, and the most humble and unpre-
tending amateur's garden.

During the past year, as a correspondent shows us,
the Evangelical party in the Church of England, "which
Ritualists and Romanists say is dead, and Free-kirkers
ignore," has contributed £157,330 for missions to the
heathen, through the Church Missionary Society ;
£51,845 for the spread of Christian truth at home amongst
the British poor, through the Pastoral Aid Society;
£24,445 for Irish Church missions to Roman Catholics ;
and £34,017 for propagating the Gospel amongst the Jews.
—Telegraph.

BAPTIST UNION CONGRESS AT LEICESTER.—
The active business of the session commenced on Wednes-
day, when the Congress met in the Bolvoir-street Chapel,
which was filled in every part. The Rev. Dr. W. Brock
read the inaugural address, after which the Rev. J. 111
Millard read the message of the committee. The Rev. C.
Williams read a paper on the policy of nonconformity in
view of ecclesiastical disestablishment. A long discussion
ensued regarding the question whether education should be
secular or unsectarian, and was postponed. In the evening
about GOO of the delegates dined together, under the presi-
dency of Mr. Baines, Mayor of Leicester.

STRANGE AND FATAL ACCIDENT IN A RAIL-
WAY TUNNEL.—On Wednesday, at Wadhurst, in the county
of Sussex, an inquest Was held by the county coroner
respecting the death of a young man, named James Monk-
ford, a coachman in the service of a family at Tun-
bridge Wells, and who came by his death under
the following strange and mysterious circumstances
On Saturday he and a brother-in law proceeded
to Wadhurst from Tunbridge Wells, with a couple of
donkeys, which they had to take to Lady Anstruther's, of
Coursley Wood. The deceased, who had been drinking.
falling off one of the donkeys, got covered with mud, and
swearing he would not go any further, left his companion to
go on with the donkeys, and, meeting with a policeman,
retraced his steps towards Wadhurst Station. He got there
at about eleven o'clock in the evening, and made inquiries
whether any train would be going to Tunbridge Wells.
lie was told there would not be any train until morning
that would call there, and he was directed the way to Tun
bridge Wells by road. It appears that he then went to the
Railway Inn, close by, and endeavoured to engage a bed for
the night, but was refused. All knowledge was afterwards
Ast of him, until ho was found by a man in the tunnel,
which is situate some quarter of a mile or so on the Hasty
in..; side of the Wadhurst Railway Station. When found, he
was about 100 yards in the tunnel, quite dead, with one
leg cut completely off, and the foot of the other cut
slantingly from the ankle to the toe. He was bruised con-
siderably about the chest, and it is supposed that the pass-
ing train caught him with the buffer on the chest, and
knocking him down, the wheels passed over his leg and
foot, which would be lying on the metals. A verdict in
accordance with the evidence that the deceased was found
dead was returned, Demos' halm a widow and two
little_ehildrez