The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-13 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE LOAN SOCIETY.-At Guildhall, on Wednesday,
Eteid and Jones, the secretary and collector of the National
Provincial Assurance and Loan Society, which, it will be
•emembered, was mainly comgosed of gentlemen's ser-
vants, were committed for trial, the magistrate refusing to
ake bail.

RAILWAY ROBBERIES.—A system of robbery on the
London and North-Western Railway has recently been
nought to light. Many valuable goods passing between
England and Ireland rid Chester have been missed at
Bangor. Fourteen days ago a parcel porter named
Vilson, and a tradesman named Hughes, both
)f Bangor, were committed for trial - for the

.obbery of a box of watches and jewelry valued at £5BO,
since then the same persons were committed on a second
;barge of stealing eight gold watches, en route from
loventry for Dublin, and on Wednesday they were
,nought from Carnarvon Gaol, and charged with stealing
-nne valuable trinkets belonging to the daughter of Arch-
lc:aeon Jones, of A nglesea. 1 t seems that Mr. Aronson. the
)wner of the missing box, had been commissioned by Miss
Jones to make some alterations in her trinkets. - Knowing
his former kisses the insecurity of the route to Bir-
llingham, Aronson sent his son with them to that town.
When the alterations were completed, they were, however,
ient in the ordinary way,. And they never reached Mr.
iironson. Part rf the property was found in the possession
A Wilson and Hughes, who were committed on the three
:harps to take their trial at the Carnarvonshire Assizes. •
COMMITTAL OF Two BOYS FOR ATTEMPTING TO UPSET
& RAILWAY TRAlN.—Sarnuel Morton, aged 13, and jalues
Brien, aged 9, have been brought before the county magis-
;rates at the Shire Hall, Nottingham, charged With
;lacing two railway metal "chairs" on the Alidland line,"l
tt Sutton-Bonington. -From the evidence adduced it
appeared that one of the metal "chairs" was placed on
;he line in the morning and another in the evening of.
Friday last. They were, however, cleared off without
:ausing any damage, the driver of the morning train
Saving stopped the engine -for that purpose. The boys
;old a witness who appeared against them that they put
;he chairs on the line to see if they could " jag" the engine.
l'he bench committed both the lads to take their trial at
he next sessions.

SALE OF INDECENT PnrNTs.—A woman, named Potter,
las been convicted at the Middlesex Sessions of having
lolcl a number of indecent books and prints, and was sen-
',c,nced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
eighteen months.

A FEMALE EXAMINING PIIYSICIAN.—The New
York papers state that "Dr." Adelaide Grennan, of St.
Louis, has been appointed examining physician of the
Iloinceopatbic Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York—the first appointment of the kind ever made.
STEAM ENGINES.—The value of the steam engines
exported in the first three months of this year was
£294,478, as compared with 2290,796 in the corresponding
luarter of 1868, and £397,8.13 in the corresponding quarter
A 1867. The demand for our steam engines in British
India has considerably fallen off, probably because fewer
locomotives are now required to be sent out for the great
Indian railway lines.

TONING DOWN.—When Napolen I. escaped from
Elba, the Moniteur, then edited by Louis XVIII., thus
.hronicled the progress of Napoleon :—" The authroPo-
hagist " has escaped=the " Corsican ogre" has landed—
" tiger" is coming—the `monster" has slept at Gre-
roble—the " tyrant" has at4ived at Lyons—the "usurper"
'.as been seen in the environs of Paris—" Bonaparte"
advances towards, but wilt never enter, the capital—
' Napoleon " will be under our ramparts to•morrow—
'.the Emperor" has - arrived at Fontainebleau—and,
lastly, "his Imperial Majesty" entered the Tuileries on
the 21st of March, " in the midst of his faithful sub-
lectA."

GREAT FLOODS AT MONTREAL.—Ac vices from
Niontreal give long accounts of the floods there. A do-
spatch, dated April 21, says :—'"The river still continues
to rise, and the inundation is spreading, being worse
now than in 1865, and promising to equal that of 1861.
Relief boats with provisions, &C., sent out to Gritlintown,
in some parts of which there are now five or six feet of
water." Another of the same date is thug worded
The inundation is momentarily increasing, and much
distress prevails. In some cases whole families of women
and children have been without food for over 21 hours.
The police have found some, who lived in back lanes and
yards, completely prostrated from hunger and cold. The
police are told off their beats as usual, and go about in
boats endeavouring to relieve distress." At the latest
advices the floods were subsiding.

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ANIEItIcAN jOULNALER :U.-- AR MICIIWM..1011:114
excitement has sprnu..^ np among the reading classes of
New York by an elaborate attack, sustained apparently
by original documents which has been Made in the Sun
newspaper, of New York, 1;y Mr. Chai les A, Dana, its
editor, against Mr. .Tohn Pus-sell Young, managing editor
of the Nei, 1'0.4. Tpiiiirlie: Mr. Voting is charg,d with
having sold the editor:al cobenns of the Tr.ilivi/e to Simon-
Calneron, 0f Pell nßy!vanin, for
a a moneyed consideration,
nd with having, i:1 v.,le&on of p!i,„;htel faith,
transmitted the deApo.tches of the As:lcdated Press "
(corresponding to Renter's telegrams) to a daily paper in
Philadelphia, of which he was the clandestine proprietor.
Moreover, he is &pounced because he caused to be in-
serted in various journals great, swelling words of vanity
about himself; puffs, in connection with M.. Charles
Dickens, who visited Mr. Young,,, and thereby reflected
immense honour on that peccant journalist, when he (Mr,
Dickens) was last in New York. 'To all which Mr.
Young replies by the arrest of Mr. Dana upon a libel
suit, wherein the damages art !ail -at one hundred thou.
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