The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-08 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Mary Bennett, a girl about
14 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget charged
with stealing two frocks, two pairs of drawers, three
petticoats, one pinafore, an apron, and a pocket handker-
chief, the property of Caroline Griggs, her mistress.
The prosecutrix was very reluctant to give evidence,
and said she did not wish to hurt the poor girl, but only to
get her property back.
Mr. Paget said she must either give her evidence or
withdraw from the prosecution.
She then wont on, eta ing that she had no desire to give
any testimony at all, only to obtain her property ; on which
Mr. Paget said that unless she did give her evidence he
must discharge the prisoner. She then said the prisoner
had been in her service for three weeks, and that she had
recently missed the property above mentioned. The
articles were taken out of a box which was never locked.
She identified a handkerchief, taken.frora the prisoner's
neck by Mrs. Collins, a female searcher.
Mrs. Etty Gough, the wife of John Gough, and landlady
of the house No. 4, Alfred-street, Stepney, where the last
witness and her husband rent apartments, discovered the
prisoner taking away a piece of carpet yesterday, and asked
her what she was going to do with it, when she replied,
"To sell it." She afterwards missed a chemise and towel.

Martha Connor, a leaving-shop-keeper, produced Mrs.
Gough's chemise rand towel, which she bought of the pri-
soner yesterday morning.

The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Paget committed
her for trial.

CRIME AND REMORSE.—Mary COlO, a young woman, was
brought up on remand charged with stealing wearing ap-
parel and other property, valued at £5, from a room in a
house No. 14, Welk:lose-square.
The prisoner obtained admission to the house by means
of a false key, and opened the door of the room, which she
plundered with another false key. She was about to leave
the house with her booty, when another lodger discovered
her, raised an alarm, and gave her into custody. She had
several keys upon her, and could have entered every room
in the house. There had been two robberies in the same
dwelling before, and the prisoner was suspected to have
been concerned in them.

Childs, a police-constable of tho H division, recognised
the prisoner as an old offender. She was troubled with
remorse after her committal to the House of Detention on
remand, and made an attempt to commit suicide, in which
she very nearly succeeded. She appeared to be very ill,
and was again remanded for a week.

The "Sunday Evenings for the People."

Yesterday afterncon a case was brought before
the chief magistrate, Sir Thomas Henry, at the
Bow-street Police-court, upon four summonses
against the proprietors of St. Martin's Hall, Long-
acre, under the Act 21 Geo. 111., c. 49, entitled "An
Act for Preventing certain Abuses and Profanatious
on the Lord's Day, called Sunday," for keeping a
disorderly house ; the specific charge being that
upon four occasions " entertainments" were given
on Sunday, admission being by the payment of
money, or by tickets sold for money. Sir John
Bowring and Mr. Jas. Haywood, F.R.S., occupied
seats on the bench. The prosecution was conducted
by Mr. Poland, instructed by Messrs. Baxter, Rose,
and Norton ; Mr. Dangerfield, of the firm of Dan-
gerfield and Fraser, appeared for the nominal de-
fendant, the proprietor of St. Martin's Hall ; and
Mr. Besley, instructed by Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe,
of Bedford-row, for the parties conducting the
alleged " entertainment." Mr. Poland, in opening
the case proceeded to state that the provisions of
the act imposed a penalty of £.200, recoverable by
action at law, against any person keeping a house
or place in which entertainments or amusements
were provided on the Sunday, and also provided
that they might be proceeded against for keeping
a disorderly house. Now, the entertainment with
respect to which these proceedings were taken
was beyond question a musical entertainment, at
which also lectures were delivered. He was
bound to say that; at all these entertainments
there was no disorder in the usual sense.
The audience were well behaved. The pro-
ceedings were conducted with strict propriety, if
lawful on the Sabbath-day. The bills which were
distributed stated that the admission was free, and
no doubt free seats were provided. The hall held
about 2,000, and the free seats, which, of course,
were the worst scats, were soon filled, then
persons who had been unable to obtain admis-
sion to those free seats found that by paying their
money or buying tickets they could obtain admis-
sion to other parts of the hall. It could not be
at all pretended that these entertainments were
iu any way in the nature of religious services,
being clearly matters of amusement. There
was nothing in the nature of religious worship,
although the music, it must be admitted, was en-
tirely of that class known as sacred music. But if
these things were to be allowed they might, after
commencing with sacred music, proceed by easy
gradations to the secular and profane. The great
point to settle was whether these proceedings were
legal or illegal. After some discussion as to the
fitness of the tribunal before which the case was
brought, it was agreed that a case should be drawn
up for a superior court, and the proceedings were
closed for the present.

In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Mar'kets,
during the last few days, there has been a very limited
amount of business entered into. Sugars, however,
have remained at steady rates ; for coffee late prices
have been in most instances well supported; while
rice has been dull, and at rather lower rates. Tallow
has been in better demand, and quotations for pre-
sent and forward delivery tend upwards.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A RICHMOND TRAINER.—On Wed-
nesday, Mr. Charles Winteringliam, the well-known trainer,
died at Richmond, in consequence of injuries received ou
Sunday morning. lie was returning from the Rich-
mond training ground, riding his two-year-old filly,
Castaway, accompanied by one of his stable boys. About
a hundred yards from the Belleisle (Mr. Watson's
training stables), the filly stumbled and fell, rolling
over her rider. The lad immediately hurried towards Mr.
Watson's, and obtained some assistance. A medical gen-
tleman was fortunately in the vicinity, and under his
directions Mr. Winteringhare, who was bleeding freely
from the mouth, but still sensible, was removed in a cab
to his house in Richmond. The injuries received were
principally internal, and in spite of all that medical skill
could do for him ho gradually sunk, and died on Wednes-
day, Ur. Winteringliana was in his forty-ninth year.

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The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace,
yesterday afternoon.

The Grievances of the London Cab-drivers.

Last evening a meting attended by upwards of
200 cab-drivers took place at the Waterloo Tap,
under the large arch contiguous to the South-
W estern Railway Station, " to take into considera-
tion the present most disgraceful state of the
laws that govern the cab trade of London, and
to propose a series of resolutions with a view to
shake off some of the trammels, under which
cab proprietors and drivers now laboured, and
which seemed in a fair way of being increased."
The placard announcing the meeting contained
a notification—" To masters and men.—Now
is
your time or never. Let us make use of the words of
the great Iron Duke : Up boys, and at them.' "
Mr. IL WitiGHT, a coach-builder, was voted into
the chair, as an independent man—neither master
nor driver. In opening the proceedings he said
that the time had arrived when some steps should
be taken in behalf of industrious, sober, honest, but
much maligned down-trodden men—the masters and
cabmen of the city of London. If a proof of their
honesty be required, let them go to Scotland-yard
and see the amount of lost property that was left
there in the course of 12 months. 'What did cabby
get out of that ? (" Hear, hear," and loud derisive
cries.) He (the chairman) had been in the West
Indies, and had seen the state of things in that
country, both before and after the freedom, and be
never saw slaves work so many hours as the London
cabmen did, though they received better pay. (Hear,
hear.) There was no class of men who received
fewer halfpence and more kicks than the poor cab-
men. (Applause.) He contended that the laws
that governed the masters and drivers of cabs were
most disgraceful, most oppressive, and most unjust.
For each cab driven in the streets of London 3605•
a year was paid for duty, £1 a year for a plate, and
ss. a year for a badge. Was it not a disgrace that
a man should be compelled to get his living under
such circumstances? He exhorted all those who
were interested in this movement to remain firm, to
march on in battle array, to keep boldly on in the
front, and the day would be their own. (Cheers.)
Mr. BARNES, a cab-driver, who moved the first
resolution, said he had been given to understand
that there were people outside ready to molest them
with bags of flour, black-stuff, and yellow ochre.
He thought it advisable that they should be made
acquainted with this fact, in order that the
might be prepared to punish the offenders should
they present themselves. (Loud applause, and
expressions of indignation.) The resolution he
had to move was to the effect that the meeting pro-
tested against the statements made at the recent
meeting of the Society of Arts—to wit, that London
has the worst cabs of any town in the kingdom, and
that it is difficult to find an honest cabman ; the
statements being injurious to the future prospects
of both masters and men. There were 6,100 cabs
in the metropolis, and lie was prepared to assert,
after being connected with public vehicles in the
various cities of Europe, that he never found app
town better supplied with cabs than London was:
(Hear, hear.) He had been driving a cab for 1.0
or
12 years and had never seen a cab with two Cushlo_e:
of different colours, as described by Mr. Cole at tb_
meeting of the Society of Arts, or open to the vnn
rious other objections raised by that gentleina
For 13 years Sir Richard Mayne had had the con
trol of the London cabs, and if he asserted that they
were deserving of the reproaches cast upon them, 0
condemned hiu.self, and it was quite time that some
body else took his place. (Hear, hear, and cheer'')
the
The speaker continued to defend his craft Wei
many accusations that were continually levelled
against all who follow it, and asserted that country
cousins often cheated the cabmen.
Mr. BATES, a driver, seconded the resolution,
which was carried unanimously.
Mr. TURNER, a driver, moved the next resolu-
tion—" That the present law relating to cab-drivers
was harsh, cruel, and tyrannical, and requiredalte-
ration ; that they were Englishmen, loyal subjects,
and good citizens ; that they ought not to the
hounded about by the police, but should enJ°Y
same privileges which were extended to other nl.
tist'
bers of the community." He entered into sta:
to show the amount of money invested in the Ln_i
don cab trade, and contended that the owners a
of
drivers of cabs contributed one-seventieth part

the entire sum raised by taxation.
tideicd
Mr. TOWELL, a driver and proprietor, Seco- h
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the resolution, protesting against the taste ,
guided Sir Richard Mayne in presiding at the las"
meeting of the Society of Arts.

The motion was agreed to.
Mr. SMITH, a member of the South London Cabi
men's Club, complained that the large sum
£8,394 was paid in London for the inspection ()..'
cabs, and the duty was most inefficiently perforraca•
As an illustration of this fact, he urged that in 3
particular instance a cab had been inspected ?n
olc
o
Thursday, and on the following Saturday it br
down when empty. (Cheers and laughter.)
The proceedings closed with a vote of than
to
the chairman.

NiNEY MARKET

OMMERCIAt

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TWILVB O'CLOCK.
To-day the Money Market has been very quiet,
and the rates have continued easy.
The sum of £5,000 in bar gold was taken to the
Bank of England yesterday.
A small amount of specie, representing £5,100
had been brought by the Massilia, from Alexandria.
The Bank of England return completed to the
6th March exhibits few changes of importance.
There has been a small decrease in the amount of
bullion, viz., to the extent of £16,347, while the
reserve of notes has been diminished by £136,605,
and owing to the preparations made for the ply-
tnents due on the 4th, the other securities exhibit
an increase of £607,433. The public deposits also
h tve been augmented by £511,064. Annexed are
the particulars :

Public Deposits... ... £7,216,023 Increase ....£511,064
Other Deposits ... 17,583,972 Decrease... 263.049
"test 3,834,338 Increase... 288,417
On the other side of the account :
Government Securities £13,111,068 No alteration.
Other Securities... ... 18,653,252 increase ... 607,433
Notes unemployed ... 10,893,845 Decrease £136,605
The amount of notes in circulation is £22,497,230,
being an increase of £121,395 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £19,373,965, show-
ing a decrease of £16,347 when compared with the
former return.

The Bank of France return shows the following
alterations, when compared with the items of the
previous week ; the cash in hand had increased
£733,200 ; there has been a decrease of £2,960,000
in the commercial bills, £20,000 in the advances,
£2,128,000 in the notes, £5,000 in the Treasury
balances, and £120,000 in the current accounts.
At a quarterly general court of the Equitable
Assurance Society, Mr. William Smalley was elected
One of the auditors of that institution.