The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-12 00:00:00

MARRIAGES IN lIIGII LIFE.

Two marriages of interest in the fashionable
world have taken place to-day. The first was
at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and was between
Viscount Downe and Cecilia Maria Char-
lotte Molyneux, the daughter of the
Dowager Countess of Sefton. The marriage
of Viscount Cole, eldest son of the Earl of Ennis-
killen, with the neice of George Baird, Esq., 4,
Grosvenor-gardens, and Shill-hill House, Kelso,
.Roxbuitshire, was solemnized at St. Peter's Church,
Eaton-square. The newly-married pair left town
this afternoon for the Continent.

REFORMS IN FRANCE.

PARIS, July 12.

M. Rouher read to-day in the Legislative Body
a message from the Emperor announcing some
very extensive reforms. According to these re-
forms Ministers will be able to hold seats as mem-
bers in the Chamber of Deputies, the
,right
of interpellation will be extended, and the
power of the Corps Leg;slatiff in controlling
the Budgets and commercial treaties which may be
entered into by the Government will be enlarged.
These reforms constitute a real ministerial re-
sponsibility, and will be called into operation by a
senatus consulturn, and not by a plebiscite.

The Senate will meet shortly, but no change in
,he personnel of the Ministry will take place.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

The July sessions of this court commenced t )-day.
There are 95 male prisoners and 23 females for trial. Two
charges of wilful murder will be found in the calendar,
and several cases of manslaughter. One of the most ha-
portant trials as far as the public are concerned is that of
Mr. Samuel G. Finney, the late manager of the English
Joint-Stock Bank, for having published a false and frau-
dulent balance-shoot with intent to defraud the share-
holders.

After the Recorder's charge to the Grand Jury the
tourt proceeded to try the usual mint cases, none of which
possessed any public interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE CABMAN AND HIS FAIE. —Ernest Blake, a young
man of respectable appearance, who gave his address
Southwick-street, Shepherd's Bush, and described himself
as a clerk, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with being
drunk and wilfully breaking a pane of glass in Hansom
cab 3,161.

George Pink, cabdriver, badge 16,206, said that about
10 o'clock last night the defendant hired his cab in Bruton-
street, and told him to take him to any station of the Me-
tropolitan Railway, he did not care which, so long as the
fare was only a shilling. While going along Bruton-street
the defendant ordered him to let down the glasses, and
then calling on him through the trap door to " drive like
h.-- or --," and then pulled up the glasses in such a
way as to imprison himself, and it took two of them to

liberate him, one of the panes of glass being broken. The
defendant refused to pay for the damage, and said he was
the son of a clergyman; talked of his solicitor, and was
very bounceable ; and he then had him taken to the
station-house, where he was very impertinent to the in-
spector.

The defendant said it was all perfectly true.
A constable said the defendant was not sober and
rather violent.

The defendant was fined 55., and ordered to pay le. 6d.
he damage and se. costs.