The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-20 00:00:00

LAIV AND POLICE.

TAR ALBERT Com-PANv.—An application has been made
at the Chancery Chambers for the appointment of a repre-
sentative of the numerous policy-holders, now that the
official liquidators have been appointed, in order that the
policy-holders might have due notice of all meetings.
ROBBERY IN A PUBLIC-lIOUSE.—Three young men have
been found guilty at the Middlesex Sessions, of stealing
five £5O Bank of England notes and other property. The
prosecutor was a butcher, who met them at a public-house
when he was nearly intoxicated. He became intoxicated
and unconscious, and when he came to his senses
found his pockets empty. The judge deferred passing sen-
tence until next sessions, to give the prisoners an oppor-
tunity of giving information as to what they had done with
the money.

AN INCORRIGIBLE Womi.N.—Hannah Vansuller, who
has been more than fifty times in prison for being drunk
and disorderly, was brought up, at the Middlesex Sessions,
for sentence. She had been committed for trial for
attempting self-destruction, it being her practice to do so
whenever she was locked up. On a previous occasion she
was brought for trial before Mr. Serjcant Cox, and he not
being aware of her previous character, discharged her upon
her own recognisances. Her history having been communi-
cated to the learned Recorder he regretted his decision.
Hannah Vansuller, however, soon gave him an opportunity
of amending it, having again been apprehended for
drunkenness. She was sentenced to six month's hard
labour.

A FFINIAN sN TROUBLE. A Fenian named Curtis, was
charged at the Middlesex Sessions with stealing a hand-
kerchief on Clerkenwell-green. The turbulent Sunday
meetings on the green for discussing the release of the
Fenians and other purposes have occasioned the inhabitants
much annoyance. A great number of thieves and
" roughs" were present on Sunday, and while the police
were taking two of them into custody the prisoner stole
the handkerchief. Ile was sentenced to eighteen months'
hard labour.

ALLEGED BRIBERY OF THE POLICE.—A fish salesman, of
Billingsgate, being summoned at Guildhall for obstructing
the footway with his barrels, said he had only been sum-
moned because he declined to continue bribing the police.
It had cost him 355. a week to bribe the police to let
him carry on his business. The inspector, when
questioned by the magistrate, admitted the fact,
and said that he and his brother inspectors
had endeavoured to stop the practice by removing or
dismissing the men bribed ; but such sums as were offered
by Mr. Lelen were too great a temptation for men receiving
only 21s. per week. Mr. Alderman Besley strongly cen-
sured the salesman, whom he fined 20s. and costs. Other
cases of a similar character were tried, and the Alderman
directed that the matter should be laid before the Com-
missioner of Police.

A Smut DwrucTivt..—A man named Kingwell was com-
mitted for trial at Lambeth for passing himself off as a
detective, and obtaining £2 from a person who was
endeavouring to trace a man who had robbed him.

Raw Beef, it is asserted, proves of the greatest
benefit as a diet for persons of frail constitutions. It is
reported that physicians are now administering to con-
sumptives a diet of finely-chopped raw beef, properly
seasoned with salt, and heated by placing the dish con-
taining it in boiling water. This food is given also in cases
where the stomach rejects almost every other form of food.
[t assimilates rapidly and affords the best nourishment,
while patients learn to long for it and to like it as much
Is Dr. Kane did his Arctic dinners of raw seal and walrus.

A GOOD STORY, IF TRUE.—A story is going the
round of the French papers which shews that detectives
sometimes know how to look after their own interests. A
legacy of 500,000 francs was recently left to a lady who had
long lived with her daughter in extreme poverty. Unfor-
tunately this suddenly enriched couple were nowhere to
be found, and the affair was put into the hands of a young
s,ncl active detective. He asked for fourteen days to pro-
isecute the search. At the end of that time he had been
unsuccessful, and he begged for fourteen days more.
Still he was apparently no nearer his object, and he
requested that the time might be extended to a month.
When this period had elapsed, and he presented himself,
unaccompanied by anyone, before his superior, the latter
upbraided him with his inefficiency. It was obvious, the
lndignant official remarked, that his subordinate did not
sufficiently know his business. " Very well, my dear sir,"
Was the calm reply, "but I have now to inform you that
I have been eight days married to the daughter of the lady
I have been searching for, and I shall thank you to hand
aver the 500,000 franca which are the property of my
mother-in-law."

Sin nENRY BULWEIL ON SAINTE-BEUVE.—Sir
Henry Buiwer has written to the Temps as follows :
"Sir, Not having been able to he present at the funeral
of M. Sainte-Beuve, I wish to avail myself of your
journal, in which the latest productions of this Mtn-
inous mn.n have appeared, to,give my poor testimony to
the character of a man who, during a period in which we
have seen the alternating triumphs of the most opposite
opinions, was able to preserve that remarkable impartiality
which reconciles the love of liberty with the horror of dis-
order. It is rare to find in the same person a knowledge so
extensive and of such depth, together with wit so moderated,
yet so brilliant. For myself I may say that from the
first moment of our acquaintance I was seized with the
peculiar charms of a conversation which, ever instract-
ing, never wearying, presented to view in a manner
unrivalled the union of the soundness and steadinesswhich
talent gives with the modesty induced by study. Happy
are they who knew him, unfortunate those who have lost
him ; and dear to us all will be a remembrance which the
French language will preserve for over.—Receive, my dear
sir, tho assurance pi toy deep. regaFd.
Dotobor'l7.!;

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