The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-11 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE•BUROLARIES IN WHITECHAPEL.—Thomas Ryan,
of no fixed residence, was charged before Mr. Selfe with
being on the roof of the premises of Mr. Home, Leman-
street, Whitechapel, supposed for the purpose of committing
a felony.
The prosecutor stated that about two o'clock that morn-
ing while in bed he heard some one trying his bedroom
door. He got up and put a chair against it, upon haying
done which the prisoner ran away. His wife called out
"Police," and upon her looking out of a window she saw
a policeman on the roof of the house. The prisoner was
afterwards taken into custody.

In answer to Mr. Selfe, prosecutor stated that the police
got into the house by a window adjoining the roof of the
water-closet, which he believed had been left open.
Mr. Mitchell, the vestry clerk, of Whitechalel, said that
in consequence of the complaints of burglaries in that
parish, he was directed to prosecute in all charges of bur-
glary. He should, therefore, in this case ask for his com-
mittal on the charge of burglary.

Mr. Selfe observed that in this case there did not appear
to be any breaking entry which constituted a burglary, as
he had entered by the window, which was open.
Two policemen H 136 and 159 proved having seen the
prisoner loitering about near the house of the prosecutor.
He was watched, and went down Nelson-street, a thorough-
fare close by, when they lost sight of him. In a few mi-
nutes after he was heard walking along the roof, and he
dropped from the roof close by where H 136 was standing.
He was taken into custody after a violent struggle.
The prisoners was sent for three months to the House of
Correction.

ALEXANDER DUMAS.—A witty writer who,
under the nom de guerre of Lucien Duval, furnishes'the
weekly Parisian chronicle to the new journal La Nouvelle,
thus bewails the dullness of the time :—" The dead season
is not yet near its end. All the world ii everywhere, ex-
cept at Paris ; chroniclers are in a state of despair, and find
not the smallest novelty wherewith to furnish forth their
feuilletons. Even the Neapolitan Revolution supplies only
incidents that have been foreseen ; a str ng desire not to
fight appears to be the chief characteristic of the situation.
M. Alexandre Dumas, pere, himself gives no signs of life.
Silence on the part of such a man always indicates a very
strained position. It is said that his son has gone to join
him. Of those two men the most paternal in his conduct
is not the one you would suppose. People do say that the
arrival of the younger has sufficed to put to flight a cer-
tain Galatea of whom the papers have taken much more
notice than was reasonable. The two Dumas are summoned,
it is said, to edit a Garibaldian journal, under a title which
was, a very long time ago, that of the Constitutionnel, the
Independant. A great deal will be said in it about M.
Dumas, pers; more than one ingenious allusion will be
made to his high birth, as well as to the immense influence
he possesses over the minds of nations."

FRENCH NATIONAL SHOOTING COMPETITION.—
The Moniteur, in its non-official section, announces that the
Emperor has authorised the establishment of a national tir,
or shooting competition, the project of which has been pre-
paring at the Ministry of War since the month of January
last. It will take place in the wood of Vincennes, and will
commence annually at the period of the fetes of the 15th of
August. This year, by exception, it will open on the 30th
of September. Numerous workmen are now getting the
ground ready. There will be 44 targets, to which French-
men and foreigners will alike be admitted with all sorts of
arms (armes de guerre, de chase, et de precision) ; six other
targets will be reserved for the National Guard and the
army, two others for pistol-shooting, and two for bow and
arrow. There will be a grand prize of 10,000 f. ; the list
of the other prizes will be immediately published, as well as
that of private individuals, intended to increase the number
of prizes and to encourage so eminently patriotic an iusti-
tution.

THE ORLEANS RAILWAY COMPANY.—This com-
pany is avtively engaged in executing another railway from
Paris to Tours, through Chateauclun, Vendome, and Cha-
teau Renault. On Saturday the chief engineer laid out the
ground at Chateau Renault for the terminus. The follow-
ing are some details relative to the magnificent iron bridge
thrown over the river Garonne at Bordeaux to unite the
Orleans with the Bordeaux and Cette Railway :—The dif-
ficulty consisted in giving a passage to a locomotive over a
river 500 metres wide, subject to the double influence of a
direct current of nearly three metres the second, and a re-
flux, which is perceptible as far as Laugon, 10 leagues above
Bordeaux. The depth of the river is from Bto 12 metres.
The works were begun in May, 1858, and completed towards
the end of August last, a period of two years and three
months. To judge of the merit of the work, it must be
recollected that the celebrated stone bridge at Bordeaux
cost 20,000,000 f., and took a period of 11 years for its con-
struction, while the new bridge cost but 3,000,000 f.
A GRATEFUL OFFERING.—A benevolent lady,
observing a few days ago the excellent style with which
the Lytham lifeboat on the Lancashire coast was launched
and proceeded off on her quarterly exercise, decided on pre-
senting to the National Lifeboat Institution £lOO in testi-
mony of her appreciation of the institution's philanthropic
objects. During last winter the Lytham lifeboat was in-
strumental in gales of wind in saving life from the follow-
ing wrecks :—Schooner E. D., of Salcombe, 5 men ' • brigan-
tine Robert and Henry, of Dundalk, 6 men; from the
brigantine Hannah Jane, of London, 7 men ; and from the
brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth, 8 men and a boy—
making a total of 27 shipwrecked persons rescued by this
valuable lifeboat from a watery grave. The lifeboat was
also put off and assisted in bringing safely into port two
disabled vessels, with their valuable cargoes, besides having
gone off once or twice in reply to signals of distress from
ships. The neighbouring lifeboat at Fleetwood has also
been, during the present year, the means of saving 11 per-
sons in very heavy storms from the wrecked vessels Jane
Roper, of Ulverstone, Ann Mitchell, of Montrose, and the
Catherine, of Newry.
THE THREE CURSES OF COMMON SCHOOLS.—
At the opening of St. Edmund Day and Sunday Schools,
Salisbury, last week, the Rev. Prebendary Fane took occa-
sion to observe, that the greatest impediment in the way of
popular education was the irregularity of the children's
attendance. On entering school the teacher had constantly
to ask, " Wnere is John Brown ?" " 0, he's gone with his
fa. her's dinner." " And where is Mary Smith ?" "0,
she's holding the baby." " And where is James Smith ?"
"0, he ain't got no boots." These were the three great
curses with which a teacher had to contend. This state-
ment was received with some laughter, but its truth ap-
peared to be admitted by all that had practical experience
of the matter. The schools in question, which are in the
decorative Gothic style, and will accommodate 500 children,
have cost £4,500. Their inauguration .by the Bishop of
the diocese was an occasion of great local festivity.
The Italie Nouvelle of Milan states that the two
campf of 60,000 men concentrated at Arezzo and Rimini are
to he under the direct orders of King Victor Emmanuel.
THE BAKERS' MOVEMENT.—The master bakers
of Cork have not only resolved against yielding to the demand
of the operatives on the subject of night work, but have de-
clined to enter into any communication with them on the sub •
ject or to listen to the reasons which they were ready to urge
in support of their demand. Such a resolution, to say the
least of it, appears ill-advised.