The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-17 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

AN EAST-END NUISANCE.—At the Thames Police-court,
on Thursday, a complaint was made respecting an extraor-
dinary nuisance in the East of London. The sanitary in-
spector of Poplar summoned a Mr. William Parsons, who
has a contract for boiling down tainted meat from the New
Meat Market, and rabbits unfit for sale from Leadenhall,
for causing a nuisance by the effluvia from his works. The
magistrate inflicted a fine of 405., and hoped that means
would be found to suppress the nuisance.
COMPLAINT AGAINST A BEORTER.—Louis Alexander, a
broker and dealer, was charged at Marlborough-street, on
Thursday, with using insulting language to two persons.

'A lady, named Barsham, attended an auction at
which Mr. Hazle presided, and upon her bidding against
the defendant, he made use cf insulting language towards
her and Mr. llazle. The auctioneer and several other
persons complained of the system pursued by brokers, who
combined together to drive away private buyers. The
magistrate regretted 112 could not send the defendant to
prison, and fined him 40s. in each case, with costs.
A FALSE CHARACTER.-At Guildhall, on Thursday, a man
named Tray was charged with giving a false character to
'one of his sons, and the son with robbing his employers,
Messrs. Todd and Proctor, of St. Paul's Churchyard, of MO.
Another son was charged with obtaining money by false
pretences. A bundle of false characters Lad been found in
'the father's possession. The prisoners were remanded.
BREACH OF Puomisz.—An action for breach of promise
of marriage was tried in the Sheriff's Ccurt. Damages
had been laid at £l,OOO, and judgment allowed to go by
default, but the jury awarded only £lOO. The plaintiff
being in court, her counsel was challenged to call her al a
witness, under the provisions of the recent Act. This,
however, her counsel declined to do, and the case was
,decided without her evidence.

THE ORKNEY AND SHETLAND TELE-
GRAPH.

This important undertaking is now in a fair way to being
in actual operation. Last week the steamer Hay-le, of
Aberdeen, having on board the submarine cable, arrived
at Scrabster, and on Monday it was submerged in the sec-
tion, comprehending eight miles of sea, which runs from
Brough Dunnet, in this county, across the Pentland Firth to
Melsetter;in Oakney. The day was favourable, and the sea
smooth, and the operation was completed by one p.m., the
details only occupying two and a half hours. From Mel-
setter to the important harbour of refuge at Loughope, and
from thence to Graemsey the poles and wires have for some
time been up. At Graemsay the cable will be sub-
merged till opposite Stromness where it will Le
landed ; and from Stromness to Kirkwall, along the
public highway, the wires are in operation. From
Kirkwall, along the mainland till opposite Shapinshay, the
wires are also ready for work. There the cable will again
be submerged, landing in Shapinshay, across which ti.e
poles are placed till opposite May, whence the ( ede will
stretch across to Sanday, after landing in which the posts
run across the island for fourteen miles till reaching Start
Point, when the broad sea is met, and the cable will be
once more submerged there, leaving the 5h0r..14 of the
Orkney, and stretching to Fair Isle, whence it goes direct to
the famous Sumburgh Head, where it will be landed ; and
the remainder of the work will be ex.ecuted by posts and
wires direct to Lerwick. So far as the land work in Orkney
and Shetland is concerned, little remains to be done beyond
connecting the submarine cable with the land apparatus.
The Caithness land portion of the work is being vigorously
carried out by Mr. Thomson and an active staff. The poles
are up along the high road from Wick, by Barrock, to th. 3
southern borders of Dunnet, and probably in a few days tl
whole posts and wires will be up, leaving the sea work only
to be carried out.—Narthern Ensign.

What is acknowledged as one of the oldest
churches in Western Europe—the "Friar's Castle," on
Friar's Island," near Killarney—is about to undergo a
thorough repair. The work of restoration is to be carried
out at the expense of the Earl of Dunravey.
SIGHING TO BE WHITE.—Ono Of the Calcutta
papers says that a respectable Baboo has addressed the
following letter to a chemist in that city :—" Dear Sirs,—
I bog to know that there is any such medie:ne in Sour
shop that can make the whole body white, and is une-
qualled over the whole world, and also you will kindly let
.me know its price as soon as possible." This shews what a
mistake poor Madame Rachel made in remaining in Bond-
street. Now that the educated Indians are sighing hr
white skins she might have made a fortune in Calcutta.
There is far more to be extracted from a Bengalee than a
Borradaile.

COMPLETE SATisFACTioN.--Inekdon, the ballad
singer, was apt on some occasions to give offence by his
brusque and almost rude deportment. Being called on by
a person for " satisfaction " for an affront—probably unin-
tended by Incledon—he found him at breakfast. Having
beard his business, Incledon took a posture, and executed
" Black-eyed Susan " in his unequalled style. " There,"
he said to his auditor, who stood in breathless surprise
and admiration, " if that does not satisfy you, you are one
of the most unreasonable fellows I ever met with, for it
has given complete satisfaction to thousands."

The anti-Prussian newspapers of North Germany
aro again beginning to express hopes of the out-
break of a Franco-Prussian war. The Emperor
Napoleon, they say, is the only obstacle to such a
war, and whatever patty takes the direction of affairs in
France after him must make the first of jest of its policy
the humiliation of Prussia and the restoration of the dispos-
sessed sovereigns. A regency or an Orlcasist Administra-
tio❑ would find a war with Prussia the best means of conso
lidating its power at home, and a French Republic would
certainly never allow a "Prussian Comtism" to grow uy
on its frontier.

The Tasmanian correspondent of the English
Independent writes:—"On the first of this mouth (July) our
Colonial Treasurer handed over to the governing authori-
ties 'of the several religious 'denominations deben-
tures amounting to £lOO,OOO, in accordance with the
provisions of the State aid Commutation Act. Few
people are really satisfied with this step. It is regarded as
one of spoliation. Some regret that they did not offer
a more determined opposition to the pas:ing of the
Bill. The Presbyterians could nut hold a pro re 'atria
useetirg for the appointment of trustees to receive their
cuota without indulging in a quarrel, followed by some dis-
graceful correspondence in the daily press; and the Epi co-
paliars, who have received the lien's sLaru, will have f GIIIO

difficulty is providing the salaries cf the ekrgy in the

interior."

The inquest ur on tie body of Mr. James Edward
Robinson, the manager of the routeftact l ranch of the
Lc eds and County Bank, who cornmitt, d suicide on Tuesday
by shooting himself with a pistol, was resumed on Wednesday.
The inquest had been adjourned to obtain evidence of the
circumstances under which deceased obtained the pistol with
which ho shot himself, and this having been satisfactorily
rxplained by his brother, the jury returned a verdict to
lho effect that Mr. Robinson had destroyed himself when
aLffering from temporary insanity. The suicide of a gen-
*mean holding a post of such responsibility and trust will
moat probably give rise to rumours respecting his financial
position in relation to the bank of which ho was the rue-
'sager, and it will at once check the circulation of any
Tumours of this nature to state that a thorough investigation
Ithe bank books show that Mr. Robinson's accounts were
,trictly correct.