The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-14 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

THROWING PEPPER INTO A CHILD'S EYES.—Williarn
Mosley, aged 21, was placed at the bar charged with
throwing popper into a child's oyes in order to facilitate
the commission of a felony.
William Gale said that on Saturday afternoon, at three
o'clock, he was in the Queen's-road, East Chelsea, where
he saw a little boy carrying a parcel containing meat iu
his hand. The prisoner and a companion at that
moment came out of a coffeeshop, and the prisoner then
throw some pepper which he held in the palm of his hand
into the child's eyes, and then made a snatch at his parcel,
but missed it. The child soon arrived at its father's house,
and, prisoner finding witness watching him, took to his
heels, and concealed himself in a lodging-house in Turk's-
row. _ .

Prisoner—lt was a bit of pepper I was flinging at my
companion. I told him I was sorry.
Witness—lt was a most deliberate act to get the parcel.
A little boy, 10 years old, who was the object of attack,
confirmed this account.
Prisoner's companion was called, and said he was merely
trying to throw wet popper off his fingers.
Witness for the complainant said there was nearly a tea
spoonful of dry pepper thrown intentionally.
The police said that prisoner had been convicted of
a robbery in August last, and had a month; and again con-
victed in October, when he had six weeks.
Mr. Seib.) committed prisoner to hard labour for the
assault for ono month.

THE PRICE OF BOOKS IN AMERICA.—This is the sea-
son of the year when the booksellers expect to reap
a harvest. The holiday sales are always large, and
the public spend their superfluous cash with an ad-
mirable freedom. But the price of American books
now has become so high as to seriously damage both
the publishers and the public. The heavy customs
duties on the material that enters into their manu-
facture, the heavy taxation, in various forms, levied
by the internal revenue law, together with the high
prices of labour here, have made the publishing of
books in this country an almost impossible branch
of industry. English books and books printed iu
England are now taking the places formerly occu-
pied in our booksellers' stores by works of Ameri-
can manufacture. The evidences of this at the
present time are enough to frighten our publishers,
as well as all who aro interested in domestic litera-
ture and native industry. English publishers find
no difficulty in paying even the heavy customs
on their importation of books to this country, and
then underselling us in our own market. Take, for
example, such a standard book as " Shakespeare," a
new edition of which, we observe, has just been pub-
lished in London, comprising the poems as well as
the plays, with a biography and 96 engravings,
making a volume of 1,100 pages, in good type,
which is sold at a retail price of one shilling (Eng-
lish). We need not say that this book could
not have been got up in this country and sold for
anything less than five dollars, or about fifteen times
the price of this English edition. Of course we
could hardly raise our tariff upon foreign books to
such a height as would cover this difference ; and
in fact, in the interest of American intelligence, we
should think it very bad policy to do so. And so
the book-publishing business suffers, and the intel-
lectual progress of the community is retarded. We
certainly think that Congress, in revising the tariff
and the internal revenue law, should make some ef-
fort to modify the duties and the taxation so as to
weigh less heavily than they do at present upon
literature and knowledge.—New York Times, De-
, comber 23.

ruNFERNN
Great Western, Chester gua.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lt

LIB 8 tiAttEs.
Itock. 76
)er cent. stock. 127
rwolu, 6 per cent., 118

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 162

Atraulataturacliha
BANKS.
A flglo Egyptian, Bin., 12i i
British North American. 451 i
ar
nt
Chartered, e Ctl,hl n 1
:' 18
City, 13
CE.niagrltiesrhe.d:itnal.oainldndiva, :s. at
Imperial Ottoman, Um., gi-•
lonian, 22i .
Loudon and County, 68
London Joint Stock, 431 .
3lerchant Bank, lim ,
Ditto, new, 91
Provincial of Ireland, Si 4 I

MISCELLANEOUB,
Anglo-American Telegraph, 151
A nglo- 3lexican Mint. 151
Atiantic Telegraph, :30
Ceylcn Company, 91
Credit Fonder of England, 2
Crystal Palace, -
Ditto, Pref., 92
East Indian Land Credit aud Finance, Um 2,
East India Irrigation and Canal. 10i "
Ebbw Vale, al
14lgyptian Coin. and Trading, Um., 5 i
Gen. Credit and Discount, tim..
Hudson's Bay, It* a
International Financial Society. - lint• ,"ri
N atonal Discount Company,' 14a
Peninsula and °rental itcam,
Ditto, new, 671
Royal Mail Steam, 105

Mr. G. W. Martin announces a performance of
Handel's oratorio "Judas Maccabmui" at Ester Hall on
Thursday next by the National Choral Society. The
celebrated choruses "Fallen is the foe," and " See the
conquering hero comes," will be given by a band and
chorus of 700 performers, Mr. Martin conducting as usual.
THE CAMBRIDGESIIIRE lIOUNDS.—•AII those con-
nected with the Cambridgeshire hounds will be sorry to
hear that Mr. Barnett, after having the pack 38 years, has
determined to resign the mastership at the end of the pre-
sent season. Every one will, we aro certain, hope that ho
may have health and strength for many years to partici-
pate in a sport which he loves so well. A meeting is fixed
for Saturday, the 26th instant, at the Lion Hotel, to take
into consideration the retirement of " the Squire."—
Cambridge Independent.
GOVERNMENT INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES.—The
following additional post-offices will bo open on and after
the 14th of January for the receipt of proposals for the in-
surance of lives or the purchase of Government annuities :
—Ardrishaig (Lochgilphead), N.B. ; Beith, N.B. ; Bothwell
(Hamilton), N.B. ; Brora. (Golspio), N.B. ; Newtownards,
Ireland ; l'aignton, South Devon.