The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGEME.—This Day.

MARL BOROUG 11-S TREE T.
CARRIAGE ROBBERY.—Robert Anderson, a young rn an,
was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a cloak
from a carriage.
Mr. Peter Burrowes Hutchins, a gentleman, residing at
No. 28, Bernard-street, Russell-square, said that on Satur-
day afternoon, while sitting in the shop of Mr. Newman,
Soho-square, having ridden there in an open carriage with
his sister and brother-in-law, the coach nan being on the
box, he saw the prisoner lookingabout as if to see whether
any one was watching. Suspecting that he intended to
steal something from the carriage, he kept his eye
on him, and saw him go up to the carriage and
take hold of a cloak, and just as he had
drawn it about half out he seized him and charged
him with stealing it. He denied doing so, said he was
going home from his work, and that he (Mr. Hutchins)
had no right to stop him. The cloak was the property of
his sister, Mrs. Shore Smith.
Police-constable, 198 C, said that when the prisoner
was given into custody he bogged hard to be forgiven for
the sake of his wife and largo family. He had made in-
quiries, and found that the prisoner had neither wife nor
family.
The prisoner had no answer to the charge, but asked
the magistrate to settle it.
At the request of Inspector Harrison, the prisoner was
remanded.

THAMES.
Mr. Paget was on the bench soon after 9 o'clock this
morning, for the purpose of swearing in special constables.
None presented themselves up to 12 o'clock, and it was un-
derstood that the county magistrates were busily occupied
in the swearing in of specials at the Vestry Halls in the
district. The police of the K division, 600 in number,
and the H division, 208 in number, are under orders to
muster at half-past two o'clock, at their respective station-
howes, and will leave in omnibuses, vans, and carriages
for Hyde-park. The district is remarkably quiet this
morning, and it is believed will remain so all day. The
business of the court is heavy, and it is fortunate that it is
not likely to be interrupted by the swearing in of special
constables.

CHARGE OF STABBING.—James Smith, a labourer, was
charged with stabbing James Ricketts.

The complainant, whose head was bandaged, said that
he was seated on a chair and his head ou a table fast
asleep in his kitchen on Saturday night when his wife's
sister aroused him, and said they are hitting your wife
outside. He went out to protect her, and the prisoner hit
him on the chest and knocked him down, and while ho
was down stabbed him on the forehead with a knife. The
people then pulled the prisoner off him, and he said "I
have done for one, and I'll go and do for the other.'
While a surgeon was in attendance on him and dressing
his head the prisoner took up a flag-stone and threw it at
the door.
John Ricketts, no relation to the last witness, confirmed
his statement. There was a general row in Bloomfield-
street, Bromley, whore the parties are dwelling, on Satur-
day night. The witness saw the prisoner knock down
his namesake, James Ricketts, and then he knocked down
the prisoner. Several persons were injured.
All the witnesses ageed the prisoner was exceedingly
violent.
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day.

Market opens with a good demand, at about
Saturday's rates. Sales probably 12,000 bales.

The Earl and Countess of Derby will have dinner
and evening parties in St. James's-square on Saturdays, the
18th of May and Ist of June. The Countess of Derby will
have a party in Downing-street on Saturday, the 25th of
May, in honour of her Majesty's birthday.
The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough and the
Ladies Blanche, Constance, and Edith Noel have arrived
in Cavendish-square for the season.
Miss Bateman, the celebrated actress (who re-
cently married Dr. Crow), is about to return to Europe,
with the view of settling iu England.
Miss Clara Vandeleur having returned from the
Continent, will make her first appearance this season at
Mr. Howard Glover's concert, at St. James's Hall, on Mon-
day, May 13th.

MR. BRAND STILL THE LIBERAL WIIIP !—COn-
trary to expectation, Mr. Brand has been induced to con-
tinue, as long as health enable. him, in the office of Whip
to the Liberal party.—Little Times.
DUKE CHARLES OF BAVARIA is about to enter a
monastery in grief for the untimely death of his young
wife.
If any of the thousinds of English people who
will be crowding to Paris this year can spare a day or two
for' seeing anything more than the established sights of
the, city, it may bo suggested to them that they should
visit the two vast establishments for the insane and the
imbecile which are really famous all over Europe, but are
seldom seen. by the ordinary Englishman. Country gen-
tlemen especially, with whom, as county magistrates, rests
so much of the management of our county lunatic
asylums, would do well to Andy the working of
these celebrated institutions, partly to see whore
they aro inferior, and partly where they are superior
to our corresponding establishments. What especially
strikes an Englishman, both in the Bicetre and
the Salpetriere, is the vastness of their size. The
former is a species of combination of our union work-
house with the asylum, and contains, including officials
and servants, nearly 3,000 persons, of whom about 800 are
afflicted with insanity and idiocy in the terrible varieties.
The management is on the whole admirable, and shows
the gift of the French nation for organisation in every de-
tail of life. In the matter of the awakening of a certain
amount of intellectual life in the imbecile, the success of
the French system is said to bo inferior to that pursued at
the Earlswood Asylum, to the wonderful success of Which
the French physicians are in the habit of doing ample jus'-
tice. The Selpetriere is exclusively for women and girls,
as Bicetre is for the other sex. its size is enormous, the
buildings and grounds extending over more than
sixty-live acres, and the whole number of inmates,
including officials and servants, is about s,Guu, of
these nearly 2;000 are idiotic or insane. The prin-
cipal cause of mania among the inmates is stated
bo the eximusting effects of overmuch needlework, espe-
cially when carried on at night. The brain gives way
under the severe demands made upon it, and all the more
readily from the want of sufficient food and fresh air. It
is the same iu Paris as in London, or rather it is worse,
inasmuch as the passion for dress among French ladies is
more unsparing and exacting than among English women.
01 the semi-idiots a large proportion ctene from the class
of the " unfortunates ;" and it is said that since absinthe
has come to be drunk in such quantities by the lower
classes in Paris the increase in madness both among men
and women has been fearfully un the advance. There are
fete days and amusements in those asylums, as in England,
but scarcely to the same extent. French ladies, a recent
visitor was told, never go over the establishment, dreading
the sight too much. But German,Swedish, and American
ladies are by no means unknown as deeply interested visi-
tors, and there is no difficulty in obtaining permission to
visit WO; th Gazette.