The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-23 00:00:00

IN RE PETERS AND WARBURTON.

These bankrupts were ribbon manufacturers of
Coventry and London, and to‘day was appointed
for the first meeting. The total liabilities are stated
to be £115,353, and the assets only £lB,OOO. A
day was named for the next meeting.

POLICE i N PELLIGEN CE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREM%

" A HANDY. CHAP" IN I.llolsl3LE.—Charles W.
Maguire, a rough-looking fellow, was charged be-
fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with being found down the area
of No. 38, Conduit-street, Regent-street, supposed
for the purpose of committing a felony.
Police-constable Richard Caless, 118 C, said that
about three o'clock that morning, after watching
the prisoner try different area gates in Conduit-
street, he saw the prisoner go down the area of No.
38, and he then took him into custody, and upon
searching him he found in his pockets a knife, a
pair of pincers, a piece of candle, and some lucifer
matches.

in answer to the charge, the prisoner said he did
not remember anything about it. He was " a handy
chap," and could do anything.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said no doubt he could do any-
thing, and remanded him that he might be seen by
the police from the different divisions.

SINGULAR BEGGING CAREER.—A strange looking
man, who was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
and refused , his name, said—l have got no home,
and was charged by Mr. Horsford, officer of the
Mendicity Society, with begging.
Horsford said that on the previous evening he
saw the prisoner sitting on a doorstep in Oxford-
street with his cap in his hand. A gentleman gave
the prisoner something, and the prisoner then went
into a publichouse and had something to drink, and
after leaving the publichouse begged of a female,
and he then took him into custody, and with great
difficulty got him to the station.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the officer whether ho had
seen the prisoner begging before.
Horsford said he had. The prisoner had been in
custody 29 times, and 26 times convicted. The pri-
soner was known to him by the soubriquet of " Silly
Jack," and had been charged with begging at Bow-
street, Marlborough-street, Southwark, Clerken-
well, and Westminster, receiving three sentences of
three months' imprisonment,one of two months', 18
of one month, three of 14 days', and one of 8 days'.
The prisoner said he went into the publichouse to
get half a pint of ale, and because he was resting
the constable charged him with begging.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had the power to send the
prisoner for three months as a rogue and vagabond,
and for that term he should commit him.

WESTMINSTER.

A VERY UNEXPECTED AND FAVOURABLE CHANGE.

—Charles Strickland, a journeyman tailor, of very
dissipated appearance, was brought up on a warrant
charged with unlawfully pawning a great-coat be-
longing to Henry Gaten, of 3A, North-street,
Sloane-square, and three waistcoats from Mr. Wal-
ter Burrell, gentleman, of 11, Moore-street, Chelsea.
Mr. Gaten said that the prisoner in his absence
came to his house and obtained a great-coat from
his wife, which he pawned, and iu the course of the
next day sent him the ticket. He, however, had
not been to the pawnbroker's to see whether it was
his coat.

Mr. Walter Burrell said that a few days ago he
took three waistcoats to Mr. Gaten's shop, and
handed them to the prisoner for repairs. Ile had
subsequently learnt that the prisoner had taken
them to a pawnbroker's anti pawned one, which
could be produced.
Prisoner said he had sold other coats for Mr.
Gaten, and had authority to sell this one.

Mr. Arnold—But you had no authority to pawn

it or the waistcoats belonging to this gentleman.
Prisoner ascribed the whole circumstance to his
drunkenness.

Mr. Gaten said he did not wish to press the mat-
ter, as prisoner's wife had promised to get the coat
out of pawn.

Mr. Arnold—You had no right to come here, get
a warrant against this man, and have him taken
into custody, if you did not wish to proceed with
the charge. Have you any wish to punish this man,
Mr. Burrell.
Mr. Burrell—None whatever.

Mr. Arnold—lie is discharged.

THAMES.

DESERTION OF CHILDREN.—Robert Hill, with
great many aliases, a brickmaker and labourer, was
brought before Mr. Benson, charged with running
away and deserting his two children, aged 3 and 5
years respectively, and leaving them chargeable to
the Poplar Union.

Mr. James Speatley, relieving officer of Poplar
Union, said the prisoner's wife died in September,
1866, and he immediately afterwards sold off his
home for £3 and absconded, leaving the two children
chargeable to the jJuion. They had been supported
by the parish at au expense of £25, which he now
demanded of the prisoner, who was apprehended
last night in the country by Walton, an officer of
the court, who had been seeking after him at inter-
vals for 11 months.

The Prisoner-4 have not had any work all the
winter.

Mr. Speatley said the prisoner had eluded the
constable Walton by many disguises and aliases,
and was employed at the new dead-meat market in
the City for some time, and afterwards upon other
jobs, and he was earning sometimes £1 45., and at
other times £2 per week.

Mr. Benson—And he leaves his children to be
supported by the parish. Monstrous!
The Prisoner--I have not earned what the officer
says.

Mr. Benson had no doubt of the veracity of the
relieving officer. It was a bad case of deserting
children, and he sentenced the prisoner to one
month's imprisonment and hard labour. The pri-
soner was a strong, able-bodied man, and if he did
not maintain his children when his sentence expired
be would be sent to gaol for three months.

Wreck on the Cornish Coast.

MULLION, Tuesday, 3.30 a.m.

I have much gratification (says the Rev. E. G.
Harvey) in reporting the first and successful service
of the Daniel J. Draper lifeboat, of the National
Lifeboat Institution. At ten o'clock last night,
during foul weather, and in a thick fog, the alarm
was given that a vessel was in distress off Pollurrain
Cove, about a mile and a half from this place. The
lifeboat was thereupon launched, and was fortu-
nately the means of saving three of the men from
the stranded vessel. The coastguard men, who
were the first to observe her, had meanwhile been
able to save the remaining 15 men of the crew by
means of the rocket apparatus. The ship was the
Achilles, of Glasgow, Capt. David Kinnear, bound
from Miramichi to London, with a cargo of timber.
Other vessels are also reported to bo embayed, so it
is possible the services of the lifeboat may be again
called into requisition. This boat was only placed
on its station last month. The whole cost of the
lifeboat establishment was the gift to the Institution
of Wesleyans and other friends in the United King-
dom, through the medium of the Methodist Recorder,
in memory of the late Rev. D. J. Draper, who un-
happily perished in the steamship London, in the
Bay of Biscay, last year. Mr. Draper at the time
was on his way to Australia, in which colony he had
for many years been au active and zealous minister
of the Wesleyan Methodists.

NEW COMMON LAW RULES.—At Michaelmas
Term some new rules under a recent act for the despatch
of business at the Judges' Chambers will be promulgated.
The Masters of the common law courts may officiate in
matters specified in the new rules, but not in relation to
the liberty of the subjoct,