The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-14 00:00:00

THAMES.

A SIMPLE TALE or WOE.—A poor and destitute old
woman, almost bent double with age and infirmities, crawled
into the witness box, and in reply to a question from Mr.

Yardley, of what do you want my good woman, addressed
the magistrate as follows :—Please, sir, I be in a good deal
of trouble. About 12 months since I took a room and when
I had been there afew weeks three drunken husseys knocked
me down and broke my thigh. I was ten weeks in hospital.
when I came out, sir, all my things was gone, and now I
be summoned to County Court for 19s. 3d, for the rent
of that room, and be ordered to pay 4s. every week
till all be paid, and I has only got 2s. a week,
what I has from the parish, and I wants
you, to tell me, if you will be so kind, how I am to pay it.

Must Igo to prison, your worship, or what be Itodo ? I
be 80 years old, and can't do no work.
Mr. Yardley—l'll pay the money for you. Give her a
sovereign, Martin.
The second usher, to the great joy and astonishment of

the old woman, put a sovereign into her hand. She
attempted in vain to articulate her thanks. The tears

;Tickled down her furrowed cheeks,

and Martin,

the usher,

led her to the door and assisted hew out of the court. This
little scene affected many present even to tears ; while the
kindness of the magistrate, in so promptly relieving the
distress of the poor and aged creature, was the admiration
of every one.

AN IRISH FEUD —Ann Bottormore, aged 32, was
brought before Mr. Yardley charged with cutting and
wounding Mary Sweeney. The parties live in an Irish
colony, named Murphy's-court, Glasshouse-street, Rose-
mary-lane, where, according to the statement of police-

constable Martin, 135 H " the people were always fighting,
regular Irish rows going on every hour, and the prisoner
was the master fighting woman of the place." It appeared
that the child of another Irish woman, named Catherine
Phillips, was serioßsly wounded by the prisoner, who
threw some broken plates on its head. The child was pro-
dt.ced in court in its mother's arms with a surgical plaister
on its head. The prosecutrix, who is the child's aunt,
quarrelled with the prisoner about this outrage, and from
words they proceeded to blows. The prisoner knocked
down her adversary, caught her by the hair of the head,
and after dragging her about, fastened her teeth in her left
shoulder and bit her severely.
Mrs. Sweeney bared her shoulder and exhibited the
wound, a lacerated one, and said, as she was running into
her house to escape further violence, the prisoner stabbed
her behind the ear with a knife. The woman, whose neck,

face, and shoulder were besmeared with gore, giving her
rather a hideous appearance, exhibited a wound behind her
right ear. It was not a deep wound, and had the appear-
ance of a cut with a knife.
The prisoner said Mrs. Sweeney was the strongest
woman, struck her the first blow, threw her against a truck
and ill-used her.
Mr. Yardley—lf she did strike you the first blow, you

ought not to have used a knife. I shall remand you for a
week to ascertain the result of this wound.

STATE OF TRADE.—MANCHESTER, July 13.—
The market has been inactive, and prices continue de-
pressed for most kinds of yarns except counts below 14's
and some of the finer numbers from 60's upwards. Doubled
60's and 80 are steady. Warps and cops and mule yarns
for India are rather weaker than last week. The recent
failure here has caused less business in cloths for India,
and induced much caution among sellers as well as buyers.
For 36-inch shirtings there have been but few sales, and
prices are a shade lower. Long cloths and T cloths are
saleable, but at low rates, and the operations in them have
been unimportant. Buyers for the Levant are sending no-
thing to Beyrout, in consequence of the massacres there,
and the distracted state of Syria.
BANKING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.—An official
return illustrative of the position of the joint-stock banks of
New South Wales in the quarter efiding the 31st of March
last exhibits the folltwing results :—Notes in circulation,
£896,619; bills in circulation, £28,678; balances due to
other banks, £491,561; deposits, L 5,354,606 ; total liabili-
ties, £6,771,464 ; coin held, £1,409,106 ; bullion, £35,791;
landed property, £229,328 ; notes and bills of other banks,
£67,304 ; balances due from other banks, £1,309,434; notes
and bills discounted and other debts due, £6,253,345; total
assets, £9,304,307. The paid-up capital amounted to
£5,708,012, the last dividends absorbed £357,875,
and the
amount of reserved profits after the declaration of the divi-
dends was £l, 316,240, The rate of dividend varied from
7 to 20 per cent.
Colonel Langlois is finishing the immense pano-
ramic painting of the taking of Sebastop9l, whic ill h w
shortly be exhibited at the New Panorama in the Champs-
Elysees. The Duke of Malakoff has repeatedly gone to see
the colonel's work as it proceeds.
The _Revue Musicale announces the death, at
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Frankfort-on-the-Maine, of Madame Verdy, who, under
acquired
name of Mademoiselle
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of Marie Stuart in. Sehiller's celebrated play) at the first
performance of which (loathe Was present.