The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-12 00:00:00

THE UTILITY OF POLICE REPORTS. - Henry Timms, a
carman in the service of Joseph Baxendale and Co., com-
monly known as Pickford's, Haydon-square, Minories,
was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing
a lady's seal-skin coat, valued at £lB.
The prisoner's wife was detained by Mr. Folkard, pawn-
broker, and his assistants, on Friday last. She offered a
seal-skin coat in pawn, and her answers as to her posses-
sion of it not being satisfactory, Mr. Folkard, who has
done so much for the interests of public justice, detained
her. A notice of the case having appeared in the news-
papers, an owner for the coat now appeared. The pri-
soner received a deal box containing two seal-skin coats
at the Haydon-square railway station on Friday morning,
for delivery to Sutton and Co., Aldersgate-street. There
was only one coat piece in it when delivered. Another had
bee❑ taken out.

Mr. Bale, foreman to Baxendale and Co., said the priso-
ner had been hi the service of his employers 15 years.
Mr. Partridgo—How do you know it is worth .£lB ?
Mr. Gale said the coat piece was worth £l7. That. was
what the firm, who were agents of the North Western
Railway, would have had:to pay if the coat had not boon
recovered.

Mr. Partridge remanded the• prisoner till Friday, and
said the people who sent the coat piece from Birmingham
must then attend, or the case would fail.

MARKETS. —This day.

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 ss; clover,
£4 Os to 15 10s ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 6s per load.
Inquiry limited.
CUMBERLIND.—Meadow hay, £2 18s to £4 8s ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 6s per load.
A moderate demand.

WHITECHAPEL.—Iteadovr hay, £2 15s to £4 5s ; clove?,
£4 Os to £5 12s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 6a per.load.
Trade quiet.

COLONIAL.

TEL—The market has remained very quiet, and without
any material alteration to report in prices. About 3,393
packages of Indian will be offered for public competition
to-clay.

SUGAR.—Business has remained very inactive, and the
few dealings entered into have been of quite a retail cha-
racter, at about previous rates. Refined goods also are in
limited request, without any change in values.
COFFEE.-There has been a good demand for colonial
descriptions, and owing to the smallness of stocks on hand
compared with those of the corresponding period of last
year fully late rates aro maintained.
RICE.—A moderate amount of business has been entered
into in cleaned descriptions, which have generally supported
former rates.

SALTPETRE.-A steady tone has been apparent in tbo
market, but very little business has been entered into. The
export duty in India of 3 per cent. has been repealed,
which is equal to about 4i per cent. on the shipping price
at Calcutta.

TALLOW.—The market has been steady during the past
week, maintained chiefly by a demand for export, the
home trade being only moderate. From St. Petersburg
the latest advices bring the price 47 to 47} silver roubles
and the exchange 3lid. 15-16. To-day the market is a
shade firmer. 435. is paid for the month, 44'. for October
to December ; on the spot, the price is 438. ; South Ameri-
can, 448.; town tallow, 425. nett cash.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

(This Day.)

The Market opens with a rather steady tone
Sales probably 6,000 or 8,000 bales.

FOOT BRIDGES OVER CROWDED THOROUGHFARES.
—For years past the construction of bridges for foot pas-
sengers at such dangerous crossings as those at the St.
Paul's end of Cheapside, and where the six ways meet op-
posite the Bank, Mansion House, and Royal Exchange, has
been from time to time advocated, and we have frequently
urged the thorough practicability of the suggestion, and•the
small cost at which it could be carried out. Whilst .the
English have been talking, the Americans have been act-
ing; one of the most handsome and substantial structures
that could be desired having already been erected over
Broadway, New York, by Messrs. Rich and Griffiths, at a
cost of only £4,000. • The bridge has been proved capable
of sustaining 101 tons, and 100 men trampling over it at,
the same time produced no perceptible vibration. The
bridge is situated where Fulton-street crosses Broadway,
and the four corners ar3 conveniently connected. There
is 17 feet 8 inches clear under the bridge, which is ap-
proached by four flights of 34 steps each, each flight hav-
ing three landings. Surely the Corporation of London,
although they could not be induced to set the example,
will not longer delay the consideration of the matter, now
that they have the Broadway bridge as a precedent.—
Mining Journal.
BRISTOL CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 7.—There
was a good supply of horned stock ; but the demand
was steady, and prices were well supported. Best samples
brought from 70s. to 735. per cwt.; and middling from
635. to 68s. par cwt. Sheep sold readily at fully last
week's currencies. There was a very largo supply of pigs,
which had a good'sale at fully the late currencies. Owing
to our fair having just closed, there were very few horses
offering, and those on show were of inferior quality. In
store animals there was little passing.

The lighted end of a cigar thrown on the ground
in a dancing-saloon at Wes°ley, near Pardubitz, in
Bohemia, recently set ou fire the dresses of throo young
women, one of whom has since died of the injuries
received, and the others are lying in a dangerous state.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending March 9 was 3,265, of which 1,073 were new
cases.