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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGII-STEEET.

SHAMEFUL CRUELTY.—Henry Rumble, a young
man, living at Langley, Essex, was charged before
Mr. Knox by the Royal Society for the Protection
of Cruelty to Animals with cruelty to a horse, by
working it while in an unfit state.

Hayward, one of the officers of the society, while
in the Tottenham-court-road, saw a horse attached
to a waggon laden with hay, the horse appearing
to be in great pain. Ile asked the defendant if he
was the driver, and he said he was, and that he had
driven the horse 30 miles. On examining the horse
he found it very lame, in a wretched condition,
worn out, and totally unfit for work. The defend-
ant, when he took him into custody, asked to be
allowed to go, stating that the horse belonged to his
father.

Mr. Knox said the best course would be to send
the horse to the Greenyard, and summon the owner.
The defendant said they did not work the horse
often, and the reason why ho used it was because
he had to bring some hay up to pay the rent.
The defendant was remanded on his own recog-
nisance that his father might attend.

STEALING GOLD LACE.— William King, a young
man, a tailor, in'the employ of Messrs. Hill, mili-
tary tailors, No. 3, Old Bond-street, was charged
before Mr. Knox with stealing 2} yards gold lace,
the property of his employers.
Mr. W. Foyle, foreman in the employ of Messrs.
Hill, said that on Saturday last he gave the pri-
soner a pair of uniform trousers to alter. Instead
of altering the trousers the prisoner ripped off the
gold lace and went away, leaving the trousers be-
hind. He was found at Barnet yesterday and
brought back to Bond-street, when he admitted
his guilt, and stated that he had sold the gold
lace.

In answer to Mr. Knox the witness stated that
the prisoner had only been employed by the firm
a fortnight, and since the robbery he had ascer-
tained that the prisoner had gone in a false name.
Wm. Masters, 80 C., said that, on receiving the
prisoner in custody, he said he had sold the lace,
telling him where he had sold it, and on his going
to the place he was informed that it had been sold
again to a Jew.

The prisoner choosing to be tried by the magis
trate, Mr. Knox asked him if he wished to say any.
thing.

The prisoner said he had a widowed mother to
support, and it was through. misfortune he had
acted as he had done.

Mr. Knox said the prisoner was in employ, and
had no kind of excuse for his conduct. He would
be committed for three months with hard labour.

THAMES.

UNMANLY ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—Patrick
Kennedy, an Irish labourer, was brought before
Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting a very
respectable young woman, named Jane Elizabeth
Cole, of No. 8, Old Andrew-street, Limebouse.
The complainant was passing alcng the Commer-
cial-road last night, at half-past eight o'clock, and
the prisoner came behind her, seized her, and tore
her clothes. She ran across the road to avoid him,
and he ran after her, and put his arms round her
neck, and was proceeding to further acts of violence
when her cries brought several persons to her aid,
and they released her from the prisoner's grasp.
Thomas Salmon, 421 K, saw the prisoner stand-
ing against a wall, and the female crying and in
great distress. The prisoner was intoxicated and
extremely violent.

Several witnesses corroborated the statement of
the complainant, and said she was very basely
treated.

The prisoner said he was drunk last night, and
had no recollection of the occurrence.
Mr. Partridge said that drunkenness was no ex-
cuse for crime. A gross outrage had been com-
mitted, and it was necessary to pass a severe
sentence to put an end to such assaults on females
in the public streets. He sentenced the prisoner
to be imprisoned for two months, and kept to hard
labour.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKS!—This Day

Market quiet. Sales probably 8,000 bales.

M. Benedict has kindly undertaken to conduct
the musical arrangements of the Newspaper Press Fund
Dinner on Saturday next. Among the artistes who have
in the most generous manner placed their services at the
disposal of the Committee are Mdlle. Enequist, Madame
Cosenza, Madame Weiss, Miss Poole, Mr. Cummings, Mr.
George Perren, and Mr. Weiss. The Committee are in-
debted to Messrs. Broad wood and Sons for the use of one
of their finest grand pianofortes.
Baron Ferdinand
,de Rothschild, whose young
wife died in childbirth a few months ago, has determined
to found an hospital to her memory. Direct action to this
end has already been taken ; and a site for the projected
building has been purchased on the east side of South-
wark Bridge-road. The establishment will be a lying-in
hospital. It is the baron's intention to spend £lO,OOO on
the building ; the site costs probably as much more.

THE TREATMENT OF FENIAN CoNvicrs.--Yester-
day morning was issued the report to Parliament
of Mr. A. Knox, the police magistrate, and Mr. G. D. Pol-
lock, who were appointed commissioners to inquire and re-
port upon the treatment of certain treason-felony convicts
in English con'rict prisons. Tho report extends over 25
pages. It is to the effect that the complaints are ground-
less, and in some instances pure inventions. They assert
that at their visits not only were the convicts properly fed
and lodged, but exceptional pains were taken to make their
position as tolerable as is consistent with true discipline.
At Pentonvillo a temporary Roman Catholic chapel was
fitted:up for their use, and the services of a priest wore ob-
tained. This gentleman's'evidence was to the effect that
the prisoners had no just ground of complaint. It seems,
however, that some of the men are in wretched health, and
that the ordinary prison discipline is in their case very
trying to bear.

A letter has been published from Mr. W. F.
I Taylor, Auditor of Public Accounts, Richmond, Virginia,
dated the 27th ult., giving a description of the present con-
dition of the finances of that State. According to an Act
passed by the General Assembly on the 2d of March, 1866,
a dividend of 2 per cent. is to be paid on the State Bonds
on the Ist of July next,.and 2 por cent. on the Ist of
January, 1868, and these semi-annual payments are to
be continued " until otherwise provided by law."
The reduced rate thus aiopted is that " which the
State feels obliged to pay until there is a settlement
of accounts between the State of Virginia and the
new State of West Virginia," the two having com-
prised one State until the civil war, when a portion broke
off, and has since been constituted with an independent
organisation. The arrears of dividends are to be funded
on the same principle. Mr. Taylor intimates that the tax
imposed by the Legislature of his State will bo amply
sufficient to meet all the demands on the Treasury, and
that there is nothina in the futui e he can foresee "to in-
duce the supposition that the interest on the public debt
will not be regularly and punctually paid." .At the same
time ho mentions that for the amount of interest held by
the State in abeyance pending the question with West
Virginia certificates will be furnished. The total of the
State Debt on the 17th of April, 1861, at the commence-
ment of the war, was $34,977,298, or in round numbers
£7,000,000 sterling, against which the State holds au
interest in various railroads and the James River Canal to
the amount of $27,963,300. Certain of the companies
possess the power of redeeming their stock by paying
State bonds for it at par. The portion over which this
option extends is $11,285,718, and if the option be
exercised as it is expected to be the State debt will be
proportionably reduced. The balance of the railway
stock, &c., then held by the Government will he
$16,677,582.