The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY EVENING AUGUST 23, 1867.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

THE GENERAL AND THE CABMAN.—F. Jones,
cabman, was charged with taking more than his
fare.

General Frederick Johnston was driven from the
Euston-square railway station to the Albany, for
which distance the cabman was alleged to have
charged 6d. more than he was entitled to.
The magistrate decided that the cabman had
charged the proper fare.
The defendant said he had been put to much ex-
pense and trouble in having the ground measured,
and hoped he would get compensation.
The General said he had only the defendant's own
word about the expense and trouble, and withdrew.
The magistrate—to the great satisfaction of all in
court—kindly ordered the cabman to receive ss.
from the poor-box.

WESTMINSTER.

WHO STOLE THE SHOULDER OF MUTTON ?
Arthur Loftus, who was said to be respectably
connected, was charged, before Mr. Selfe, with
being in the unlawful possession of a shoulder of
mutton, valued at 55., the property of Mr.
Shackell, a master butcher, at Knightsbridge.
Police-constable Arthur Watkins, No. 253 B,
said that he met the prisoner last night with the
shank end of a shoulder of mutton protruding
from his pocket. He asked him where ho got it
from, and at first he said that he bought it at
Knightsbridge, and afterwards at Kensington. The
answers being unsatisfactory he took the prisoner
to the station-house.

Mr. Shackell, in answer to the magistrate, said
that the mutton was worth about 55., as it weighed
7 ilbs.
The prosecutor said that he did not wish to
press the charge against the prisoner, who was
highly respectable, and his friends were in great
trouble about him.
Mr. Selfe—l cannot allow this case .to be settled
in such a manner. In the case of a common assault
I have no objection sometimes for the affair to be
settled between each party. I shall not send the
prisoner for trial, but I shall fine him 50s. for the
unlawful possession, or a month's imprisonment
with hard labour.

The prisoner said the shop-boy gave him the
shoulder, and he was now sorry that he took it away.

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Jane Hugh, a deter-
mined-looking woman about 42 years of age, the
wife of a seaman, was charged with abandoning and
exposing her child, aged four months, whereby its
life became endangered, on June 22.
The prisoner's husband, by whom she has had a
large family, was away from England six years, and
by his industry and talents maintained a high posi-
tion in a distant part of the world, and allowed her
£6 per month during his absence. She became
faithless to him ; and when he came home about
Christmas last sho was seven months advanced in
pregnancy, in consequence of having carried on an
adulterous intercourse with another man. She imposed
upon her husband a tale that she was ill and labour-
ing under dropsy. In February last she gave birth
to a male child at the house of her daughter, Sarah
Burley, a married woman, of No. 18, Arbour-place,
Stepney, in the immediate vicinity of the Thames
Police Court, left her newly-born babe with her
daughter, and returned immediately to her home to
impose another fiction on her injured husband, that
she had undergone an operation and been relieved
of the dropsy. The illegitimate child, of whose
existence the prisoner's husband was quite uncon-
cious, remained with Mrs. Burley the night of
Saturday, the 22d of June, when she removed it in
the absence of her daughter, who never saw
it afterwards. On the same night, or rather
early on the morning of 23d of June, a lad
named Thomas Piper, of No. 87, Heath-street,
Stepney, was on his way home, and kicked
against a bundle on the ground. The squeaking
of a child indicated what the bundle contained. It
was the body of an infant, which had been placed
on the ground, against the railings of Albert-square,
Stepney, about 500 yards from Asborn-place. The
child was taken to the station-house, and afterwards
transferred to the Stepney Union Workhouse at
Bromley on the 11th of the present month. The
inquiries of Inspector Turner, of the K division, and
Police-sergeant Briden, No. 4 K, left no doubt that
the prisoner was the mother of the child, and that
she had cruelly abandoned it. Last evening Police-
sergeant Briden went to the dwelling of the prisoner
at No. 1, Asborn-place, Stepney, and told her he
had called to see herin consequence of a child to which
she had given birth a little while ago. The prisoner
said " Yes, sir, I have had a child." Briden
asked her where it was, to which she replied in the
Stepney Union-house at Bromley. Briden said
" How came it there ?" She answered, " I took it
there ; I left it on a door-step." Briden said,
" When was it ?" She answered " On the 22d of
June."

Mr. Paget—The child was found by the boy
Piper on the night of the 22d of Juno after 12
o'clock ?
Briden—Yes, sir.
Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she would ask
any questions of the witness.

l'he Prisoner—Not any, sir ; what h 3 says is
quite true. I did leave it in the square ; it did not
belong to my husband.

divi-
sion, said he received a child found in Albert-
square, in the Commercial-road, Ratcliff, on the
morning of the 23d of June last between the hours
of 12 and 1 o'clock. The child was very cold and
weakly.

Mr. Paget—When was the child born ?
Inspector Turner—On the 20th of February at
the house of the prisoner's daughter.
Mr. J. S. Hawkins, surgeon, of No. 7, Campbell-
road, Bow, was called to see the child on the 23d
of February. It was in a fearfully emaciated con-
dition, and the hand forced down the throat. It
was admitted as a foundling. The child died on
the 11th of the present month.

Mr. Paget asked the prisoner if she had any de-
fence to make, and delivered the usual caution.

The Prisoner—Nothing, sir, at all.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial at the
next Middlesex Sessions.

STATE OP TRADE.

BRADFORD, Aug. 22.—The better feeling which
has prevailed for the last fortnig: t is well main-
tained to-day. There continues a steady demand
for the finer classes of wool at late rates. There is
a general opinion that wools have now reached a
point at which spinners may safely operate for the
supply of their respective wants ; but, though this
is the opinion held, no one really appears to have
faith and courage sufficient to speculate. Spinners
generally seem to operate to supply only immediate
wants. Late rates are pretty firmly maintained,
and the slightest effort to make an advance has the
effect of depressing business. There has been a
public sale this afternoon of 1,000 sheets of English
grown wools, but they were generally of very infe-
rior quality. Such as they were, however, they
realised prices much in advance of current rates. In
worsted yarns there has been more inquiry on the
part of export buyers, but the prices offered are too
low to be accepted. The general demand for the
Continent continues below the average amount. In
some special sorts, including carded yarns, there is
rather more animation. In pieces there has of late
been rather more activity on American account for
quick delivery. The home merchants are far from
yet been done in
abneitnicgipaacttiiovne, oafndthaeotnhelxntg has as
Prices remain
without change.

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The prepara-
tions for this great musical gathering are progressing satis-
factorily. The applications to the strangers' committee for
tickets are already in excess of those received up to the same
period of the last Festival in 1564. The new sacred cantata,
by Professor W. Sterndale Bennett, is completed, and the
musical arrangements generally fully matured. A bril-
liant and successful meeting is confidently anticipated.
Earl Beauchamp, the president, presided over a meeting of
the committee yesterday, when the final arrangements Tret:f4
diopatcl Qt,