The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENOE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF CUTTING AND WOUNDING.--
Mary Ann Pennington, a young woman, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with feloniously cut-
ting and wounding another young woman, named
Ann Harrington, residing in March-street, Long-
acre.

The Prosecutrix said—Last night I was stand-
ing in Congston-street, talking to some young
women, when the prisoner, another female,
and a man, came up, and the prisoner struck
one of the young women and knocked her
down, and while she was on the ground
the man kicked the young woman. I cried out
" Shame," when the prisoner made a rush at me
and tore my bonnet, and struck me in the face.
I called " Police," and the police came up and
sent the prisoner away. I walked over the way,
when the prisoner came up to me and struck me
again, the man being with her. The man, giving the
prisoner a knife, said, "Put this into her," and the
prisoner, having opened the knife, struck her in the
side. The prisoner and her companions then ran
away.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Should you know the man again ?
Prosecutrix—Yes. The police went after the
prisoner, and caught her, and I went to the hospital.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Do you know what became of
the knife ?

Prosecutrix—l believe she threw it away.
Mary Ann Dawson, another young woman, gave
similar evidence.

The house surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital said
that last night the prosecutrix was brought to the
hospital with a small punctured wound in her side.
She was attended to, and will have to attend as an
out-patient for some days.
The prisoner was remanded.
A female stepped forward and charged the pro-
secutrix with assault.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said she had better do that in the
usual manner.

WESTMINSTER.

TIIE VALUE OF POLICE TESTIMONT.—Richard
Stratton, a smart, clean-looking youth of about 16,
was charged under the following circumstances :
Jason Hawes, 188 B, said that at about one
o'clock yesterday afternoon he saw defendant with
a blacking-box standing near the Star and Garter,
Sloane-square. He requested him to go away, and
as he refused put his hand on his shoulder to move
him, when he " up with his box" and struck him on
the leg with it, and then I took him into custody.

Mr. Arnold—What offence had he committed.

Policeman—He was obstructing the footway.
He was causing an obstruction just as people were
coming from church.

Mr. Arnold—You say he assaulted you?
Policeman—l did not charge him with that.
Mr. Arnold—You have charged him with ob-
structing you in the execution of your duty.
Policeman—He would'nt go away.
Mr. Arnold—You appear to have charged him
with an offence he did not commit, and to have
omitted to charge him with one he had.

Defendant denied all obstruction, and said that
the policeman threw the blacking-box over his
shoulder and struck himself with it. He was doing
no harm when the policeman unjustly seized him
and knocked him about, and he told him to take him
to the station in preference to ill-using him.
Mr. Arnold (to the policeman)—Have you any
witness ?
Policeman—No.
Mr. Arnold—Defendant is discharged.

DEATH OF A CITY, BURGLAR.—The City burglar,
William Brown, who was better known as " Scotty," and
was one of the gang sentenced in 1865 to long terms of
penal servitude for daring robberies in the shops of Mr.
William Johnson, jeweller, of Threadneedle-street, and
Mr. John Walker, of Cornhill, died in Millbank a few days
ago. The deceased was not transported to Australia with
Casely, Hurley, and some of the other prisoners.
THE Mooßs. —The weather on the moors has
been all that man's heart could desire for the past
fortnight ; neither have the sportsmen who have boon in
pursuit of partridges and pheasants any just cause of com-
plaint. We may now fairly bid good-bye to the grouse
season, and in many instances, unfortunately, to the
grouse into the bargain, in far too many localities wherein
the disease has run its direful course. If we take a retro-
spective glance at the returns as to the number of grouse
shot this season, as compared with the returns made on
previous years, we shall perhaps be rather dismayed to find
that on various moors in Perthshire the grouse shot do not
reach numerically to more than a fourth part as many as are
usually killed, taking the general average of good seasons. In
the Crieff district, we are informed, the mortality from the
disease has been so great that only a few hundred head of
grouse have been bagged this year over the same acreage
of moorland that last year yielded 6,000 brace ; and, affairs
are even worse than this, bad as it is on the moors in
Yorkshire, Cumberland, and elsewhere in England, where
in many cases not a single grouse has been killed with a
gun, the disease having completely decimated the birds,
both old and young, and yet on one moor of about 40,000
acres in the vicinity of Kingussio we are credibly informed
that a party of six guns have killed 2,200 brace of grouse.
Lord Stamford, in the same district, has also first-rate sport.
'On each of these moors a large stock of healthy birds is
left. We learn with no little regret that the grouse disease
still holds on its way, as we have always predicted it would,
from the effects of contagion, and up to this date exhibits
but very trifling, if any, sigh of abatement, and, worse
than this, continues to attack the strongest and most
healthy birds, proving as rapidly fatal now as it did at its
commencement in the early spring. Wo have scarcely
anything worse to amicipate than has already been ex-
perienced, in so far as it concerns the terribly fatal results
of the epizootic, but everything to hope that when the
biting frost of winter sets iu its contagious properties may
be stayed or possibly destroyed.—Land and Water.