The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1860.

HINA— PEKIN.—GREAT GLOBE.—NEW
ki DIORAMA of the WAR in CHINA, the City of Pekin,
the Taking of the Taku Ports, Entrance of the Peiho River,
&c., Exhibiting Daily.—Great Globe, Leicester-square.
Admission to the whole Building, One Shilling.

NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, area sure remedy for affections of the
liver, indigestion, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appe-
tite, lowness of spirits, drc. They can be taken at any time,
without any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels,
without pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness
.and pimples, purify the blood, brace the nerves, and invigo-
-ate the whole system. Sold by most druggists, in boxes,
Is. lid. and 2s. 9d. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's
Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green
package, with " William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," en-
craved on the Government stamp.

TEE T H.-M R. ESKELL'S PATENT.-
-1- On the 17th July, 1860, Mr. ESKELL, Burgeon Dentist,
8, Grosvenor-street, W., obtained her MAJESTY'S ROYAL
LIi,TTENS PATENT for an improved method of fixing
ARTIFICIAL TEETH to the GUMS on MOVEABLE
BASES, without plates or any fastenings which may be thus
described:—

The Teeth are perfectly fitted from first to last in TWO
HOURS, without pain or extraction of stumps, by means of
Moveable Elastic and Indestructible Bases. Placing one
within a tube to which the Teeth are attached, and applying
it to the gums, it adheres with such tenacity by suction that
the Teeth are quite immoveable. except at the will, of the
wearer. A new Base is readily applied, without the aid of a
Dentist, when changes take place from loss of Teeth absorp-
tion, arc., rendering these Teeth always useful and durable
for life.

The exclusive right to this Patent is secured to Mr. Eskell
by her Majesty's Royal Seal, and can only be procured at his
residence, where specimens may be seen and every informa-
tion obtained. Decayed teeth stopped. Loose teeth fastened.
Cow sultation free.-8. Grosvenor-street, London; Old
Steyne, Brighton ; and Bennett's-hill, Birmingham.

LONDON LIFE ASS-OCIATION,
81, King William-street, E.C.
Instituted 1806.
President—CHAßLES FRANKS, Esq.
Vice-President—JOHN B. HEATH, Esq.
TRUSTEES.
Francis Henry Mitchell, Esq. Robert Millbury, Esq.
Alfred Head, Esq. I Bonamy Dobree, Esq.

The London Life Association was established more than
fifty years ago, on the principle of Mutual Assurance, the
whole of the benefits being shared by the members assured.
The surplus is ascertained each year, and appropriated solely
to a reduction of the premiums after seven yearly paymen. s
have been made.

If the present rate of reduction be maintained, persons now
effecting Assurances will be entitled, atter seven years, to a
reduction of 724 per cent., whereby each £lO of annual pre-
mium will be reduced to £2 15s.

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This Society has paid in claims more than £3,980,000
And has Policies now in force amounting to
For the payment of which it possesses a capital
exceeding
And a gross income, from premiums ancr interest,
of more than
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Assurances may be effected for any stlm not exceeding
£lO,OOO on the same life.

The Society has no agents and allows no commission.
EDWARD DOCKER, Secretary.

CONTRACT FOR ELM TIMBER.
Department of the Storekeeper-General
of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 22d Dec., 1860.
THE COMMISSIONERS for ENECUTING the
OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUESDAY, the
15th January next, at Two o'clock, they will,ht ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT or
supplying her Majesty's sargeral Dockyard] with
5,000 LOADS OF ENGLISH Emir TIMBER, and
64 ELM TREES FOR PUMPS,
felled between the middle of November last and the end of
February next, and to be delivered (at prices including all
carriage and other expenses) by the 30th November, 1861.
Tenders may be made for the supply of any one or more of
the Yards, or for the whole of them.

A distribution and a form of the Tender may be obtained
at the said office. No tender will be received after Two
o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the
party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for Elm Timber," and must also be delivered at
Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two re-
sponsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering, in the sum of £1 per load for the due performance
of the Contract.

the tympan is to be a design of the Saviour blessing the
world. The church is flanked by two wings, which are
to contain the priests' apartments and offices. The build-
ing is far from complete, but the gilding is proceeding
rapidly, and seems to be continued on the stonework be-
neath the cupolas.
Behind and around this church demolition and recon-
struction are going on at a great rate ; the new Boulevard
de Monceaux, which stretches from the Place de l'Europe
to the Barricre de PEtoile, passes close to the new church:
Place de l'Etoile has recently been supplied with a large
number of extremely light and elegant lamps, but the effect
is very much injured by the use of ground glass, which
takes away all the brilliancy, and causes the beautiful arch
to be in positive darkness as compared with the Luxor obe-
lisk, which rears its head amidst the Grecian and Renais-
sance structures of the Place de la Concorde. This curious
but ill-placed monolith is splendidly lighted, while the Arc
de Triomphe de l'Etoile is scarcely visible at night, unless
the moon takes pity on its hidden beauties. From every
part of the new boulevard run other boulevards and streets ;
the Hospice &Mollie has been pulled down, and the apace
where it stood is being covered with magnificent houses. In
fact, the Quarrier Beaujon is being so transformed that it is
scarcely to be recognised. It is not generally known, per-
haps, that this quarter is named after M. Beaujon, who
had a most luxurious villa therein, and who inhabited the
Hotel Evreux, which had been occupied by Madame de
Pompadour and the Marquis de Marigny (after whom a
street or avenue is named) and which became afterwards
the property of Louis XV., and was re-named the Elysee
Bourbon, now Elysee Napoleon.
The park of Monceaux is being traversed by a boulevard,
and the other day the sum of 41 millions of francs was
awarded for the ground taken for that purpose; half of it
belonged to the late Louis Philippe—that was confiscated
to the State, but the other portion of the money goes to the
ex•• Queen Amelie and her children. Many people will
remember a circular colonnade with a statue in the centre ;
the columns which formed it have been unfortunate ; they
were prepared for a grand mausoleum at St. Denis, to re-
ceive the remains of Henry IV., but which was never com-
pleted, and they have now stood in the deserted park sup-
porting nothing for years. A portion of the park has been
laid out in squares and building plots, but the remainder is
to be cultivated as a public pleasure garden.
In other parts of the town the masons are at work just as
actively ; the Palais de Justice has received considerable
improvements and decorations. Amongst the latter is the
placing of six marble busts in the small hall or chamber of
the Pas-Perdus. These busts represent three civil lieute-
nants of the Chatelet, Le Camus, d'Argonnes de Fleury
and Angran d' Alleray, and three presidents of the civil
tribunal of the Seine, MM. Berthereau, Try, and Moreau,
all men of high rank, but amongst whom M. d' Alleray is in
every way the most renowned. He fell on the scaffold dur-
ing the revolution rather than plead ignorance, for, when
asked whether he was aware that he had broken a law of
the Republic by sending aid to his children who had fled
from France, he answered, " I know it, but there is a law
more sacred than that of the Republic, viz,, that of nature,
which commands fathers to support their offspring."
The old wall which ran along the garden of the Luxem-
bourg has disappeared, and is now being replaced by an
elegant and massive railing throughout the whole length of
the garden. A new street is also being opened on the other
side of the gardens, which will thus be completely isolated
from the houses.

It is said that,the city has granted a pension to an exca-
vator who has discovered a very simple method of preserv-
ing gas and water pipes. He had observed that when laid
in argillaceous earth they never became rusty, but that in
a calcareous soil they were rapidly destroyed ; he therefore
proposed that all pipes should be surrounded with clay. If
the plan is effective, he certainly deserves his pension well.
—Building News.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 24. .

LAMBETH.—THE AWKWARD CASE OF MRS.
CRAGGS AND THE CABMAN.—On Monday, after the
night charges were disposed of, William Walker,
a cab driver, but who appeared to be a respectable
man, at least so far as appearance went, of his

class, and who stood remanded from that day week,
on a charge of robbing Mrs. Mary Anne Craggs,
the wife of a respectable man, of her gold watch
and chain, a gold pencil case, and other property,
in a common brothel, was again placed at the bar
before Mr. Elliott, for final examination.
Mr. Humphreys, jun., attended for the prosecu-
tion; and Mr. Lewis, An., for the defence ; and at
the, time the case was called on the court was much
crowded by persons anxious to hear the proceedings.
It will be recollected from the particulars given
on the last examination, that the prosecutrix on the
evening of Thursday week, left her home
in the Holland-road, Brixton, to attend a lecture at
the Assembly-rooms at the Horns Tavern, Ken-
nington-cross, and according to her own admission
was not sober at the time. After the lecture, and
while she was still labouring under the effects of
what she had previously taken, she proceeded to
the White Hart public-house, a short distance froze
the Horns Tavern, and there bad sixpenny worth
of brandy and cold water. The testimony of the
barman who served her there went to show that,
though she had evidently been drinking before,
she was not drunk, and had then her watch and
chain ; but her own testimony was that after tak-
ing this brandy she lost all consciousness, and had
no recollection of what passed until she found her-
self in a bedroom not her own in the company of a
man, but whether the prisoner was that person
she did not know, and could not say. The next that
was seen of her was seated in the prisoner's Han-
som cab, which was close to the White Hart, and
she gave the prisoner some money to get a pint of
old ale, which another cabman brought from the
White Hart. The prisoner then got into the cab
with her, and both were driven to a brothel in the
neighbourhood where they remained for two hours.
They were next driven to the resiience of the pro-
secutrix in Holland-road, where the prisoner re-
mained with her in the back parlour for two
hours more, and immediately after he was gone,
at four o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Craggs'
servant observed that her mistress was with-
out her watch, and a search was made, and
it was then discovered that the watch,
chain, pencil-case, and purse, which contained a
sovereign and 9s, 6d. in silver when the prosecutrix
left home, were all gone. Information of the cir-
cumstance was given to the police on the following
morning, and the prisoner, it appeared, had kept
out of the way until the following Sunday evening
he gave himself up to the police at the Brixton
station.

Inspector M'Coy, of the P division, who had
charge of the case, was in attendance, and, in reply
to a question from Mr. Elliott, said he had no fur-
ther evidence to offer.

Mr. Lewis said he had not been present at the
last examination, and requested that the evidence
might be read over, when he had some questions to
put to Mrs. Cragge, the prosecutrix, and other wit-
nesses.

Mr. Elliot said he could not allow such a viola-
tion of the usual practice as having the case re-
opened. On the last examination the prisoner was
provided with legal assistance, and every opportu-
nity had been given to his advocate to cross-exa-
mine the witnesses as he thought proper. The
case, in point of fact, had only been adjourned to
give time to trace the property, and the adjourn-
ment therefore, being for a particular purpose, he
(Mr. Elliott) could not permit a re-opening; but if
there were any question which Mr. Lewis wished
to put, he might do so through him (the magis-
trate).
The depositions were here read over in extenso,
after which Mr. Humphreys addressed the court,
and called for a committal of the prisoner for trial,
on a charge of stealing the watch and other pro-
perty belonging to the prosecutrix. He was
sorry to admit that appearances told much against
his client, yet he was enabled to say that her con-
duct, unfortunate as it was, was still capable of ex-
planation. Her family had been most respectable,
and she was the wife of a gentleman holding a most '
respectable position as a merchant, but had, unfor-
tunately, latterly lost a mother to whom she was
attached, and since that time gave way to habits of
intoxication, which Mr. Craggs, her husband, did
his utmost to check ; but as he travelled on his own
business, and was from home for several days
throughout the week, he had not the opportunity
he could wish, and her intemperance led her into
the situation of being taken advantage of by the
prisoner, and robbed in the manner that had been
described. With respect to the robbery there could
not be the slightest doubt; nor could there be the
slightest doubt also, that the prisoner was the per-
son by whom it had been committed, as he was the
only person who had been in the company h oitf
uMnrtsil.
Craggs from the time she was seen with
the time it had been missed ; and, no doubt—
Mr. Lewis—No doubt, sir, the case selore you is
one requiring explanation, as my friend Mr. Hum-
phreys says, and also perhaps investigation ; but
inasmuch as it is one that it is no credit to the
parties concerned in it, I should have thought they
would be but too happy to get rid of it.
Mr. Craggs (somewhat excited)—Certainly not.
Never, sir.
Mr. Lewis—Well, I really thought you would
have been but too willing to do so. It has been
stated by the prosecutrix that she was so drunk as