The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-03 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE:

NEGLECT OF CHILDREN. —At the Surrey Sessions, on
Tuesday, James and Amelia Beard were indicted for
cruelly neglecting the children of the male prisoner and
his first wife. The case was the worse from the man
occupying a respectable position as clerk in a stationer's
establishment, while the woman possesses landed property.
'They were each sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment
with hard labour

OBSTRUCTING THE THOROUGHFARE.—SeveraI tradesmen
in the Whitechapel-road have been summoned by the
police for placing articles for sale outsid2 their shop-
windows. They admitted the offence, hut pleaded that
trade was so bad in the East-end that if they net
exhibit their wares they might as well " shut up shop."
They were each fined ss. and costs.
A CLERICAL QUARREL—At the Thames Police Court,
the Rev. Richard Lee, rector of Stepney parish, was
charged with threatening to stab the Rev. 'l'. Hall, curate,
in the vestry. The dispute arose respecting the relief tube
given to an applicant. The magistrate expressed Lis great
regret that two gentlemen occupying such a position
should appear as opposing parties in a police court, alai
strongly advised some arrangement. The hearing of the
summons was adjourned till Tuesday next, when a hope
was expressed that the matter might be adjusted.`
THE TINEIIPLOYED.—A deputation of unemployed
waited on Wednesday upon the Lambeth police mazistrate,
stating that although a large number of men out.,:- k
had obtained orders for the labour yard of Lambet“ 7: -
house, they had been refused admission. It turned out
that the labour yard contained accommodation for 120
only, and as it was quite full no more could be entered.
Mr. Woolrych hoped the attention of the authorities
would be called to the lack of proper accommodation.
A SCENE ON A RAMOURSE.—At the Windsor Petty
Sessions, a private in the 2nd Battalion of Coldstream
Guards was charged with assault and robbery. The pro-
secutor described himself as a commission agent at races,
and it seemed that the dispute arose from a disturbance at
the Windsor steeplechases. The soldier and some corn.
rades mobbed Mr. Shearn, accused him of being a
" welsher," and robbed him of nearly .£3O. The
Chief. Superintendent of the Windsor police said that Mr.
Shearn was well-known at Tattersall's, while the prisoner
and his witnesses bore-every bad character in the regiment
The prisoner was committed for trial.
A CURIOUS DISGUISE.—A singular case was heard at
the Tnnbridge Police-court a day or two since, when a
young woman, about 21, was committed for trial
for burglary. It seems that some years since
she ran away from her place as nursemaid,
and disguising herself as a young man, she obtained ern•
n
ployment first as hop-picker, and then as groom. She
was charged with breaking into a shop, and wileU
Taken into custo
CIY was found sitting at her parenti
house properly dressed. Her disguise was never susuecte4
s,ntil chance led to its discovery.

LICENSING SYSTENI—A conference is to De heia
on this subject at the Town-hall, Manchester, during
Easter week, under the auspices of the License Amend-
ment League. This association recommends, not only the
amendment of the beerhouse system, but a general measure
calculated to remove at least the worst abuses which now
prevail.

We understand that her Majesty the Queen has
been graciously pleased to forward the munificent donation
of £l5O to the British and Colonial Emigration Fund, of
which the Lord Mayor is president, for the relief by
emigration to British coloniesof the distress existing among
unemployed workmen and their families.

THE MARRIAGE OF VISCOUNT MAIION AND MISS
EVELYN PENNEFATHER.—The nuptials of Arthur Philip
Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (eldest son of the Earl and
Countess Stanhope) and Miss Evelyn Henrietta Penne-
father (daughter of the late General Pennefather) were
celebrated on Tuesday morning at St. George's, Hanover-
square.

The telegraph gro3sly exaggerated the account o 2
the disaster at Kohat on the North West frontier of India.
Government has received intelligence to the effect that a
police post at or near Kohat had been surprised by an in-
cursion of one of the border tribes, and that threo of our
men had been carried off and cne killed. A force had
been promptly ordered out for the putih hment of these
iibturbers. Our tel•'gram states that GOO had been killed.

SALE OF A WIFE. —A remarkable story)
whether true or false, is reported from Totnes,
in Devonshire. A bachelor becam3 enamoured of
the wife of a mau living at Dittisham, and negotiations
were concluded for her purchase for the sum of £59. The
money was duly paid and the husband left the place,
promising never to return to claim his wife. Soon after-
wards, however, the woman was missed from the house of
the purchaser, having proceeded to rejoin her husband at
Totnes, where, with the .e,50. they are ektioving a second
honeymoon.

THE FIRST SHIP IN THE LEITH NEW DOCK.--.
Through stress of weather the new dock has been opened
sooner than was e) petted. On Saturday morning, when
the gale was blowing fiercely, the brig Sarah Ann, of
North Shields, drifted from her moorings in the harbour,
and was carried int.) the new basin connected with the new
dock. In her cowrie she broke several piles, and threw
Town staging and a pile-driving machine. So high was the
wind that the Sarah Ann could not be taken back to the har-
bour. The only way the vessel could be placed in safety was
by bringing her into the new dock.--Edinburgh ReriAut