The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-16 00:00:00

-LA TEST INTELLIGENUE. 1 POLICE INT

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 6 P.M.

The Cunard steamer Java, the Inman steamer
City of London, and the Hamburg and American
Gompany's steamer Teutonia arrived out to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing Prices—Gold, 1401. Sterling Exchange
on London, 1094 ; 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1131 ; Illinois,
121; Erie, 701. Cotton—Middling upland, 29.
PHILADELPHIA, August 11.
Petroleum—Standard white, 28.

ARRIVAL OF am: PERSIA.
(Via Queenstown.)
The royal mail steamship Persia arrived at
Queenstown at 9.30 a.m. to-day (August 16), with
84 cabin passeugers, and $7,000 in specie. She
landed all the mails, consisting of 116 sacks, and
15 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.40
a.m. All well.

NEW YORK, Aug 7, Morning.

The Democrats carried the elections in Kentucky
by a majority of 60,000, electing Mr. Helm gover-
nor, nearly all the members of the Legislature, and
Mr. Galtoday, as member to Congress, to fill. the
vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Ilise.
General Sickles has ordered the postponement of
the reassembling of the North Carolina Legislature
until further notice, and has directed the suspension
of trial by jury until the jury lists are revised.
General Pope has ordered all civil suits against
officers for acts done in pursuance of military
orders to be abandoned.
General Sheridan has removed the city treasures
from New Orleans and appointed his successor.
The State military authorities of Tennessee have
assured the protection of all negrocs discharged by
Conservative employers for voting the Radical
ticket.

The Union meeting held at Covington, Ken-
tucky, on the evening of the 31 inst., was dis
persed by a mob.

Negro troop; armed and equipped, participated
in the Radical procession at Prattsville, Alabama,
on the 3d inst.

Admiral Palmer, of the United States navy, has
gone to the capital, it is reported to demand the
person of Santa Anna, who is still a prisoner at

Campeche.

The Attorney-General has received complaints

that the military commander at Wilmington ob•
structs the serving of civil processes issued by Chie:
Justice Chase in North Carolina.

General Michel has resigned the command of the
military forces in Canada.
Advices received here from Vera Cruz to the 24th
ult. state that the city was healthy. The Presi-
dential canvas was progressing quietly.
All the foreign Consuls at Vera Cruz, except the
American, had lowered their national flags.
It is reported that Marquez, the brother of Mira-
mon, and other Generals, are organising a large
force in the mountains.
Lozada still defies Juarez.
The Austrian frigate Elizabeth was about to
return to New Orleans, the Mexican authorities
refusing to surrender to the commander the body
of the late Emperor Maximilian.

FRANCE.
The annual public sitting of the Five Academies
of the Institute of France was held yesterday under
the presidency of AL. Lebrun, the director. M.
Villemain, perpetual secretary of the French Aca-
demy, and other distinguished members, were pre-
sent. The papers read after the president's address
and the proclamation of the grand biennial prize
were :-1, Report of the competition of 1867 for
the Volney prize for linguistic excellence ; 2, An
examination of some facts relating to Faustina,
wife of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, by M. Renan ;
3, The Academy of Sciences in 1789 and 1793, by
A
as heantd4, Mazarin, by M. Wolowski.
thel. B
presentrand w ;
fourth occasion on which the
,ert
institute has had to award the biennial prize founded
by the Emperor in favour of " the Work or the
Discovery most suited to do honour or service to
the country." The name of Felicien David, the
laureate proposed by the Academy of Fine Arts, was
and, in crowning the
musical
composer, the president
that
pro-
nounced on him a high eulogiun-i. AI. Vallers for his
receivedwit h
works acclamation,
of
" Persian-Latin Dictionary," M. Schleicher for his
"Compendium of thelndo-German tongues," divided
the Volney prize between them, and a favourable
mention was accorded to M. Schuchardt. AI. Re-
nan's paper, which is an attempt to clear the memory
of the Empress Faustina from the infamy that his-
tory has stamped.upou it, was received with much
favour. The sitting of the French Academy for the
distribution of the prizes for acts of devotedness
and those for literature will take place towards the
end of the month, as already stated. M. de Falloux
will deliver the address on the former.
The receipts at the Exhibition by the turnstiles
on Monday were 55,730 fr. The restaurant omni-
bus gave 4,858 repasts at an average of lfr. 45c.
each.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory of yester-
day morning gives the following as the atmospheric
situation :—" The wind all over Europe is gentle,
except in Norway, where it blows rather hard from
the south west. On many points of the western
coasts the sky is overcast. The sea is calm. The
glass everywhere remains high, and has changed
but little." In Paris yesterday the weather con-
tinued clear, still warmer than before, with a slight
breeze from the east. At three the thermometer
marked 33.5 10 Cent. (92 1-5 Fahr.)

GUILDIIALL.

I.—This Day,

GROSS CASE OF SELLING DISEASED MEAT.—
James Sampson, a butcher in a small way of busi-
ness near Weymouth, was this day charged before
Sir Robert Carden with selling diseased meat.

Mr. Bayliss, the solicitor to the Commissioners
of Sewers, conducted the prosecution. He said
that this was a case of a most aggravated character.
The prisoner had been in the habit of supplying a
butcher in Leadeuhall market with meat, and early
this month consigned him 2201bs of beef which was
in a state totally unfit for consumption. On in-
quiry it was discovered that he had purchased the
cow from a farmer by whom he was employed for
£5, the value of such an animal in a sound state
being £ 18. When it reached the party to whom it
was consigned it was in a stinking condition, and it
appeared that the prisoner had purchased the cow
so far back as the 30th of July, and that he must
have been perfectly aware of its state. The animal
suffered from inflammation, and the weather was
not at the time calculated to cause putrescence
immediately.
Evidence was given in support of the preceding
statement, and the prisoner did not deny the fact,
but merely said that he had bought it with tho
hide on.

Sir R. Carden said that he must have known the
state of the animal from the price which he paid
for it.

The prisoner received a good character from the
butcher to whom he had consigned the meat, and
with whom he had had dealings for some years.
Sir R. Carden said that this was so bad a case
that he would not let the prisoner off by inflicting
a fine ; and, except for the good character he had
received he would have sentenced him to two
months' imprisonment. lle sentenced him to one
month's imprisonment in the Ilouse Of Correction,
with hard labour.

The farmer who sold the prisoner the meat was
present, and the worthy magistrate said lie was quite
as bad as the prisoner, whom he assisted in selling
meat that might have poisoned the consumers of it.
If he had sent him to the Central Criminal Court
he (the farmer) should have accompanied him.

BOW-STREET.
SELLING SPIP.ITS WITHOUT LICENSE.—H. Roberts,
a barber, in Rodney-road, New Kent-road, was
charged with selling gin without a licence.
An excise officer said that on Monday, May 12,
he went to defendant's shop to get shaved and his
hair brushed. After being shaved, he went to wipe
his face on a round towel hanging behind the door,
and there noticed a small glass upon a shelf. Re-
turning to the chair where he had sat to be
shaved, he waited for defendant to cut his hair.
Having gone for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the defendant was selling gin, he was just
" hesitating about asking for some" when the
defendant " saved him the trouble " by saying—
" Could you do a drop of gin?" Witness said
" Yes," and he fetched a bottle from a cupboard
and poured out a glass of gin, which witness drank.
Witness then handed him 6d., and received 4d.
change. He bad previously paid 2d. for being
shaved and having his hair brushed. As be
handed witness the gin defendant said—" This is
a little on the quiet, you know."
Mr. Peake, supervisor of exeise, said the de-
fendant had no license to sell spirits. The traffic
was carried on every Sunday morning when the
public-houses were shut. In some cases there was
a pretence that the gin was given to the customers.
Sir Thomas Henry said there was an old rhyme
ending " I'll shave you and give you some drink ;"
but the meaning depended upon where the stop was
put.
Mr. Parke said attention had been drawn to the
defendant's shop by an anonymous letter addressed
to the Superintendent of Police, and by him handed

over to the Excise.
Defendant at first flatly denied the whole thing.
After a little hesitation he admitted that he some-
times got in a little gin overnight to accommodate
one or two very old customers, but he never took
any money for it. lie received it from them over-
night. _He had no recollection of seeing the officer.
Sir Thomas Henry said that if he made a practice
of supplying people with gin on the Sunday, even
though he bought it over-night, and even though he
obtained the money from the customer first, he
would find it a very dangerous trade.
The defendant said if h 3 had done wrong he
would not do it again, and he hoped the magistrate
would excuse it.

Sir Thomas Henry had no power to excuse it.
All he could do was to mitigate the penally, which
was £5O, to one-fourth (£l2 10s).
Mary Shole, a wardrobe dealer, in Harriet-street,
Lower Marsh, was summoned on a similar charge,
but did not appear.

Inspector Edmonds, of the L Division of
Police, said he visited the defendant's shop on
the 19th day of May, and found her there
with three women and two men. She was in the
act of pouring some gin from a glass into a bottle.
One of the women handed her 2d., and took the
bottle, saying, " Do you call this half a quartern ?"
He took the bottle from her, and now produced it,
still containing the gin. Defendant said, " Mr.
Edmonds, you have been here a great many times.
Look over ;t this once, and it shall not occur again."
He also found three bottles, one containing a quart
fbncl another one and a half pints of gin, and one a
pint and a half of rum, and a stone jar containing
six pints of rum. Defendant had long been suspected
of selling spirits on Sunday morning, and he had
several times visited the house, but had until this
occasion discovered nothing. Ile believed that the
person who usually kept watch and gave the alarm
was out of the way, and that was why he was ena-
bled to surprise defendant and her customers. One
of the men was lying drunk on the floor. Defend-
ant said to him, " You know I have lost my girl,"
which was true. He did not think she would
attend ; she was a very stubborn woman.
Sergeant Hart, L 1, who had accompanied the
inspector on the occasion, corroborated his evidence.
Sir Thomas Henry imposed the mitigated penalty
of £l2 10s.