The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-23 00:00:00

THANLES.

A HUSBAND CHARGED WITH STEALING HIS
WIFE'S PROPERTY.—WiIIiam Coombes, aged 45
years, of No. 57, Rounton-road, Bromley, tea-
dealer, was brought before Mr. Benson, charged
with stealing from his wife Frances Emily Howard
Coombes, who had been granted a protection order
by the Sussex magistrates, the following articles
about the end of last July, namely, 12 dinner-plated
forks, 12 dessert forks, 9 dessert spoons, 1 gold
chain, 2 brooches, and 2 knife-rests, the whole being
of the value of 305., at Kove, near Brighton.
After some further evidence had been given the
charge was withdrawn.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

LONDON, Sept. 23.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breezo and find weather, but rather
cloudy.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 21.—Wind
from Rangoon for Hamburg; John Robinson, from Odessa
for Granton.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Belle,
from St. John's, Newfoundland. Sept. 22.—Sailed—
Scotia, steamer, for New York; City of Melbourne, for
Melbourne.

CLYDE., Sept. 21. Wind N. W.—Artived---Zotlatid, from
Liverpool f.r Quebec. .

OFF OROOKIIATENT, Sept. 23.--Wind N.W. —Arrived
Etna, scrow steamer, from Now York.

(By Telegraph.)
GRATESEND, Monday Morning

Arrived, Sept. 23.—Corcyra, and Palmyra, steamers,
from Patras ; Sabrina, ateamer, front Smyrna; Sir Lance:
lot, from Shanghai.

AMERICA.

(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 6 p.m.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Closing prices—Gold 143. Sterling Exchange
on London, 109 i. 5-20 United States Bonds,
1141-. Illinois, 1201. Erie, 6li. Cotton, Middling
Upland, 25. The stock market is weak in conse-
quence of money being tighter.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.
Petroleum (standard white), 34i.

The National Steamship Company's steamship
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 21.
Pennsylvania, from New York, arrived here at
11 a.m. to-day, with *40,000 in specie. She landed
her passengers and proceeded for Liverpool.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7—This Day

Market opens slow --
at Saturday's rates. Sales
probably 10,000 bales.

AMERICAN EXECUTION. Bridget Durgan, or
Doignan, a young woman, housemaid in the family of a
physician residing at Newmarket, in the State of New Jer-
sey, was executed at New Brunswick on the 30th ult. for
the murder of hor mistress. It was a cold-blooded murder
and no one seems to have had any sympathy with her; the
general expression was thatif
any ono should be hung she
should. The New York Times says—"Bridget was dressed
in a plain, brown suit, and wore a white collar and white
gloves. The priests, the sheriff, and any number of ex-
sheriffs accompanied her, but she neediri none of them;
she was as steady as a ship's mast, and quite as devoid of
emotion. The insulting expressions of the great, crush-
ing crowd before her, their eager desire to be near her, the
confusion of tae moment, and the great fate before her
would have unsettled the
mind of any person; but she
never moved a muscle, nor do we believe she cared the
value of a halfpenny. Don't let them Proostants know
what I say,' said Bridget. The cap was drawn, the signal
was given, the rope severed, and up she went with a jerk.
In 30 minutes she was lowered into the coffin, and the
cap was about to be removed, when the priest inter-
posed to prevent it, it having been Bridget's request
that her face should not be seen. The sheriff, how-
ever, insisted, and disclosed her pale, bloodless features
to the people who gathered to look. As we have said,
she made an exclusive grant of her last words to her
Church. Several 'confessions' had been publicly hawked
about and offered for sale. It will seem strange, but it is
nevertheless true, that the Recorder of the City, Mr. David
T. Jeffries, proposed to sell some time ago the confession
of Bridget Durgan, and his modest price was 61,000 in
gold. Another man named Randolph, who, we believe, is
a gaoler under Sheriff Clarkson, hail a confession, and we
understand his price was $250 —gold or currency, we
don't know which. One of the evening papers is re-
ported to have paid $5O for another confession not worth
the paper it is written on. Mr. .A.drain, Bridget's counsel,
furnished to the press still another confession, and the
singular part of it all is that each holds all bogus but his
own, and no two are alike. lfer indifference on the reef_
fold we attribute not so much to whisky as to natural
brutality."

COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE.—Mr. Knott, who
was recently convicted at the Guildhall Police-court, on
the charge of sending bad meat to market, was released
from prison on Thursday. A memorial from Portsmouth,
where Mr. Knott had formerly resided for a number of
years, signed by a large number of the influential inha-
bitants of that borough, was presented to the Home Secre-
tary, praying a remission of the punishment, and the result
was that the offending farmer was sot free on the comple-
tion of half the term to which ho Was first sentenced by
Mr. Alderman Lusk.

A LIVELY PLACE.—The people of Java have
rather a lively time of it. According to the latest official
statistics contained in the Vtjdschro vor
N erlandsch
Java, tho tiger has in ono single your consumed exactly
ecl
ono hundred and forty-eight human beings, and in another
year one hundred and thirty-one. Tho crocodiles cleared
anaverage while serpents accounted
fur
bo
twde onf fifty
twenty-two people
anda year,
foty-three. But the Dutch
seem to accept their fate with characteristic equanimity.
The Governor General a long while ago offered as a prize
for every tiger that was killed the munificent sum of
twenty-two guilders ($10). His subjects apparently prefer
being eaten by the tiger.

Cord and Lady Rendleshata have arrived at
Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, on a, visit to tho Earl and
Qotuatoos of Tglizaton.