The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-11 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

INVERTROSSACIIS, Sept. 9. 1

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise
and Printers Beatrice, drove up the Pass of LenY
in the direction of Loch Lubnaig.
in the afternoon the royal party drove to Loeb
Katrine, whe the steamer Rob Roy was in waiting,
and her M,ij,!sty enjoyed another sail upon that
beautiful sheet of water.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Mis Day.

MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

SINGULAR CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Mary POitra4.
an elderly woman, described as having no home, WS
charged before Mr. Knox with attempting to commit
suicide by walking into the Serpentine.
Police-constable Worley, 101 A, said that ho was on
duty yesterday afternoon when his attention was called to
the prisoner, who was struggling in the water of the Ser-
pentine about three yards from the shore. He took the
prisoner out and to tho Royal Humane Society's receiving
hox,ae, and afterwards to the station. The prisoner told
him tlukt she did not intend to commit suicide, but that
the wind blew her into the water; the wind, however,
which was rather boisterous, was blowing from the opP(''
site bank.

The prisoner said she was very blind, and slipped int°
the water, and she then called out, and the constable VIA
kindly took her by the hand and led her out. She had
had losses, and was a clergyman's daughter.
The constable said he believed it was quite true that
she was the daughter of a clergyman, and that site WI
the widow of a surgeon, and from what he could learn °
her it appeared that dissipation had brought her to her
present condition.
Mr. Knox said that at five o'clock in the afternoon, with
if
a number of persons about the spot, for a person to s'ol'
a yard or two into the Serpentine, it was too great 5
stretch to call it an attempt to commit suicide. IloWolll
he w.ild remand the prisoner for further inquiries.

THAMES.
Two WICKED BOYS.—Alfred Arthur Meggs, aged 12
years, and son of Thomas Meggs, traveller, in the service
of Mr. Meredith, licensed victuallers' biscuit baker, vrBB
brought up on remand for the last time, before Mr.l3elv
son, charged with robbing his father of £lO. He bed also
borrowed, on various pretences, small sums of money
publicans, under false pretences, and one of his coefeA:
carte'
which had stolen £lO from ono of Mr. Meredith's cer"
which the prosecutor will have to pay by instalments.
Mr. Benson said there was room for the boy in the Fll
ham Industrial School, and ordered that ho should be ae-
tained there until ho was 10 years of age, and that bi°
father should pay ss. per week towards his maiutenattee'

The father said ho could not pay os. per week.
Mr. Benson said that Mr. Pelham, the solicitor for .;
Meredeth, admitted the father's earnings to be £1 159. Pa
week, and he surely could afford to pay ss. per week.
Tho Father—l really cannot pay it. I have to rePl
the money my son has borrowed of respectable license
victuallers and £lO stolen by a confederate.
and Mr. Benson—You could not keep that boy at home un
84d. per day, and educate him as well. That is all l(?ii
will have to pay for him at Peltham. The collector WI
call upon you for ss. per week, and no less.

WESTMIIsTSTEII.
STRANGE CHARGE OF UTTERING BASE COlN.—Williit
Elliott, a waiter at the Crystal Palace, was placed at ;
bar charged with uttering a counterfeit half-crown at
Osborne's, the Rose and Crown, White Lion-Stree'
Chelsea.
Mr. Osborne said that last night the prisoner came tao,
the bar and tendered a bad half-crown to the bartuil f
On her detecting it ho hurried away, leaving his gl'ss,lo°.
ale unfinished. Prosecutor followed him into Sitio
street, and made him come back, when 13 sbillit4s
found upon him in small money, and a spurious shill%
The half-crown was the only large money he had'

never stopped for his change.
The barmaid proved that she went to the detector 9-
tried the money, and on returning found the prisoner
ing. She believed him to be the man who had put off
bad florin some time ago. When she saw prisoner's 10°1
produced after he was brought back to the house ab°
a bad shilling and broke it.
A policeman proved that the prisoner last night
the name of James.
Mr. Smyth, solicitor, said that the accused 30u-iire
able on a future day to show that he was a higtili,;
spectable man, having been employed at the Crystal 111",-,,st
and at the Westminster Palace Hotel. lie had been "so
night imprudently playing at cards at a public-11°11)ft
when ho had had the bad incney given him, and he 4'
the house hastily to look for the man who had' givenit to
him.
He was remanded till Monday.