The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-28 00:00:00

THAMES.

CONVICTION OF A POLICE-CONSTABLE FOR AN ASSAULT.—
James Furnoy, a police-constable, 11 K, appeared before
Mr. Benson on a summons, charged with assaulting Mrs.
Mary Ann Rogers, of No. 8, Totness-terrace, Limehouse,
on Saturday night last.
The complainant, who is the wife of a tradesman and
the mother of five children, said she Was passing along
Three Colt-street, Lime-house, and while standing on the
footpath opposite tho Victoria publichouse the defendant
came out and laid hold of her. He pushed her violently
and she fell on her face, and was insensible for some time
afterwards. She had just before purchased two breasts of
mutton, and lost both.
In answer to the defendant, the witness said she was
quite sober, and that she was not in the Victoria public-
house at all on Saturday night.

Mrs. Jane Skiderton of No. 8, Totness-terraco, said the
defendant shored her friend, and told her she was a nasty
drunken --• The complainant's face was covered
with blood, and she was one mass of blood. Mrs. Rogers
was not in the Victoria public-house at all. In answer to
a question by the defendant, the witness said, " I think my
friend was the worse for drink."

•Mary Alice Loe, a servant girl, saw the defendant take
hcld of the woman by the neck and push her. There was
a bruise on the forehead when she was raised from the
ground. Mrs. Rogers appeared to be quite sober.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said the com-
plainant was in the Victoria public-house with others at
half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night and making a dis-
turbance. He put her out of the house, and she slipped
and fell. She was very drunk.
Three witnesses were called for the defence, who con-
tradicted each other in several material particulars

Mr. Benson said he was of opinion the assault was
proved. Ho had given the case his most serious attention.
Ono of the defendant's witnesses said he did not push the
woman out of the putilidliouse ; the defendant himself
admitted ho did push her out. Another witness for the
defence said the woman was not in the publiehouso at all.
If a man brought witnesses to perjure themselves ho must
take the consequences. There was not a doubt in the
world that the defendant committed the assault upon the
woman. He saw no reason to disbelieve the witnesses for
the prosecution. The punishment he was about to inflict
would be a light one, but quite sufficient, without
aggravating it by a heavy pecuniary fine. lie sentenced
the defendant to pay a penalty of ss.
The money was paid.

MARKE TS. —This day.

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COVENT GARDEN.
FRUlT—Apples,
4s Od to 8s Od ; walnuts, 10s to 20s per
bushel; apricots, Os to Os; figs, is to 28; nectarines,. 2s
to ss;; pears, 2s to 3s per dozen ; grapes, is 6d to 3s ; pine
apples, Os 8d to Os per lb.; lemons, 10s to 14s; oranges,
14s to 20s; filberts, 9d to 1.6 per 100.
VEGETABLES—Artichokes, 2s Od to 4s • cabbages, is 3d
to 2s; cauliflowers, 3s to 53 r dozen; celery, is to 1s 6d ;
horseradish, 3s to Zs Od per bundle; carrots, 6d to 8d ;
herbs, 2d to 4d; parsley, to 4d; turnips, 4d to Gd per
pe
bunoh ; lettuces, is to is 6d; endive 2s Od to 3s per
score; onions, 4s to 5s spinach, 2s to 3s per bushel ;
parsnips, 9d to is per dozen; potatoes, 75s to 130 s per ton.

NEWPORT.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef Bs 0(1 to 4s 4d I Veal
Mutton ... Be 2d to 4s 4d Pork

Beef .. 3s 2d to
Mutton ... 3s 2d to 4s 4d 1 Pork
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HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 56 to 64115, 3d to 31d; 64 to 721bs, 3fd
to 3id ; 72 to 80 3jd to 30 ; 80 to 881bs., 3}d to 4id ; 88
to 961b5., 4id to 5d ; 9Glbs to 1041bs, 5d to sid. 'Horse-
hides, 9s 6d to 10s 6d ; calf &Kiss (light), 2s Od to 4s; full,
7s Od ; sheepskins (lambs), 3s Od to 4s 9d, (sheep), 3s 3d
to 4s 6d.

BREAD•
The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
91d to 101; of household ditto, 7d. to 9d. per 41bs loaf.

IIAY.
SMITHFIELD—Meadow hay, £2 15s Od to Li 5s ; clover,
£3 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load,
A good supply.
CUMBERLAND—Meadow hay, £2 15s Od to Xi lOs Od;
clover, £3 Os to .£5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 163 Od to .£2 2s
per load. A steady sale.
WnrrzenaPEL—Meadow hay, £2 15s Od to £4 is 6d.
clover, £3 Os to .£5 15s 01 and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per
load, A fair demand.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET —This Day

The Market opens with; better inquiry. Prices
without improvement. Sales probably 10,000 or
12,000 bales.

HERR JOHANN STRAUSS..—JuIIicn was only a
superb charlatan. Herr Strauss is no charlatan, but ho is a
groat character. Ile has created such a sensation at the
concerts now open in Covent Garden, and is the son of the
best writer of waltzes that almost ever lived. Ho is himself
a composer of some of the gayest dance music over written.
Ito is a fanatic in aspecial branch of the groat science, and he
excels in the branch about which he is fanatical. It is a
study for artist and painter to see him alternately lead
and.,conduct his own polkas. Personally, ho is excessively
like a little Jew dancing master, but his enthusiasm
redeems the oddity of his gestures, and his vivacity
and earnestness electrified even Londoners jaded by
the heats of August. Iu the midst of summoning up
w orchestra,
tr sounds
nook and corner of the
o
fiddlestick, he suddenly dashes
s wfromes of
hisevery
at his violin, chucks it under his chin, and rushes head-
longs by waves
into the tune. Above the throb of drums, the hiss of
bassoons, the chirp of flutes, and the shrillness of trumpets,
Herr Strauss's violin vindicates itself and skips on. Ile
rolls his head ; ho sways like a Pythoness in the agony of
inspiration ; he turns round, and plays specially to the big
drum ; his body dances, his feet seem longing to dance too.
The whole orchestra catch the infection, and seem bitten
by swarms of tarantulas. Every moment one ex-
pects the .whole orchestra to break into a dance, and,
headed by Herr Strauss, to launch out among the audi-
ence ; nay, the wonder is that the whole band does not
hurry forth like monads, and sweep, in one irresistible tor-
rent of polkas and harmony, past Exeter-hall, and down
the Strand to Charing-cross.—(From a brilliantly-written
new paper called The Reader, from the first number of
which the above is taken.)
CHINESE CUSTOMS DUTIES.—In the year 1866 the
customs duties and tonnage dues levied on the foreign
trade at tea treaty ports of China amountei to 7,306,126
taels, or, at Gs. Bd. per tael, £2,602,042. The amount levied
at Shanghai was 2,126,790 taels; Foo-chow-foe, 1,539,328
taels ; at llankow, 943,845 teals ; at Canton, 889,477 taels ;
at Amoy, 533,165 taels; at Kiukiang, 514,520 taels; at
Tientsin, 488,442 taels; at Swatow, 431,751 taels; at Cho-
foo, 822,974 taols ; at Chinkiang, 15,834 tadel This is
hotter than keepiug up "the great wall."

NORTHAMP7 ON SHIRE MEMBERS ON

PUBLIC AFFAIRS.

NOR TII A3IPTON, Friday.

The Northamptonshire Agricultural Society had
a dinner last evening, at the Talbot Hotel, at
Oundle. Mr. G. Ward Hunt, M.P., Secretary to
the Treasury, presided, supported by Dlr. S. G. Stop-
ford, M.P., Captain Eden, Captain Ricketts, &c.
After the usual loyal toasts, which were most
loyally received, and those of " The Army and Navy
and the Volunteers" and " The Clergy" had been
drunk,

The CIIAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening,
" Success to the Northamptonshire Agricultural
Society." The society, like all other societies of the
kind, had suffered much from the fact that in
consequence of the calamity of the cattle plague it
had been impossible to have an exhibition of stock,
which was generally the means of bringing together
a vast concourse of people. He was happy to clad,
however, from the last returns, that of 1 tte there h tel
not been a single case of cattle plague in the coun-
try. He hoped, therefore, that they would soon be
free from the restrictions under which they had so
long suffered. The prosperity of the society chiefly
depended on two things—first the number of sub-
scribers to the funds; and, secondly, the amount
of attraction which they were able to present
to induce visitors to come from a distance. He
was glad to say that the number of subscribers
showed that the society had the confidence of the
county; and as to the visitors, the attractions which
the society was able to holdout were of a good cha-
racter. The late meeting at Towcester was held under
a combination of unfavourable circumstances, but he
hoped that next year they would meet under a hap-
pier state of things. The society had reaped great
advantage from holding its meetings in different
parts of the county, and he hoped that the visit
which it had paid to Oundle would induce many
gentlemen who had not hitherto had the matter
brought prominently before them to join it. He
had himself learned a great deal from the proceed-.
ings of that day, and he was bound to confess that
he was both surprised and pleased at the admirable
work displayed in the draining field by the various
competitors. After what those present had seen
none of them, he was sure, would be satisfied with
the slovenly work they had hitherto put up with.
When they saw only the inferior work which mightbe
done at home they might be content with it ; but
after seeing work that was so very much better they
would endeavour to stimulate their own men to do
better. (Cheers.)
Captain ItlcKErrs proposed "The Health of the
Chairman." (Loud cheers). Northamptonshire
men were justly proud of Mr. Hunt, for if they
were to search England round they could not find
a nobler specimen of an Englishman for a chairman.
They saw Mr. Hunt's genial countenance occa-
sionally ; they read of him day by day ; they saw
what a very useful, energetic, and hard-working
member of the Government he was ; and they were
glad to see that a North Northamptonshire member
was not without his use.
The CHAIRMAN, in responding, said it often fell
to his lot in the course of his public duties to get on
his legs and make speeches in one place or another;
and, of course, in the wear and tear of life one re-
ceived many hard knocks. But he was always
kindly received by his old friends and neighbours.
Mr. W. SrsAW, in proposing " The Stewards and
Committee," said he remembered the time when it
was difficult to avoid " those confounded politics"—

(laughter)—but he would not touch upon them.
He was sorry to say that we had not had a very suc-
cessful harvest, but that was not the fault of the
farmer. The temperature during the last season
was so variable that the results of the harvest were
not at all the fault of the farmer. He could not
forbear touching upon one subject in which he
had always felt a deep interest. He thought
there was a screw loose in agriculture, as there
was not sufficient security given to the farmer
in the cultivation of his land. When he saw
such a Lumber of agricultural sales in the
newspapers, he wanted to know whether the farmer
might not, under fairer circutnstances, have so
managed his farm as to make it redound to the
credit of the landlord and the benefit of the country.
A better understanding was needed as to the system
of farming which it would be best to pursue ; he was
sorry to say it, but the landlords, although some of
the best men in the world, did not understand their
own interests. Now that a Chamber of Architec-
ture had been established in Northamptonshire, he
hoped that a better state of things would be in-
augurated. He was glad to see ➢Zr. Hunt in the
position which ho occupied, for, although he did not
support him politically, he had a high opinion of his
business capacity (cheers).
Other toasts followed.