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

THAMES.

A HUSBAND CHARGED WITH STEALING HIS
WIFE'S PRORERTY.—WiIIiani 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charge was withdrawn.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 breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 21.—Wind
from Rangoon for Hamburg; John Robinson, from Odessa
for Granton.

L ITERPOOL, Sept. 21. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—Belle,
from St. John's, Newfoundland. Sept. 22.—Sailed—
Scotia, steamer, for Now York; City of Melbourne, for
I,Llbourne.

- -
CLYDE, Sept. 21. - Wind N. W.—Arrived—Zatland, from
Liverpool for Quebec.
OFF CROOLHAVEN, Sept. 23.—`Vied N.W. -Arrived—
Etna, screw steamer, from New York.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAYEsEND, Monday Morning.

Arrived, Sept. 23.—Corcyra, and Palmyra, steamers,
from Patras; Sabrina, steamer, from Smyrna; Sir Lance-
lot, from Shanghai.

AMERICA.

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

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE•
Closing prices—Gold, 143. Sterling Exchange
on London, 1091. 6-20 United States Bonds,
1141. Illinois, 1201. Erie, 611. Cotton, Middling
Upland, 25. The stock market is weak in conse-
quence of money being tighter.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20.
Petroleum (standard white), 34i.

21.
The National Steamsh?uz Company'sESTO
steamship
Pennsylvania, from Newp York, arrived here at
11 a.m. to-day, with $40,000 in specie. She landed
her passengers and proceeded for Liverpool.
NT, Sept.

LIVERPOOL COTTON 1111RKE1—This Day

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

AMERICAN EXECUTION, __Bridget Dorgan, or
Deignan, a young woman, housemaid in the family of a
physician residing at Newmarket; in the State of Now Jer-
sey, was executed at New Brunswick on the 30th ult. for
the murder of her mistress. It was a cold-blooded murder
and no one seems to have had any
sympathy with her; the
general expression was that if any one should be hung she
should. The New York Times says--"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 naedeli none of them;
she was as steady as a ship's mast, and quite as devoid of
insultingemotion. The insulting
expressions of the great, crush-
ing crowd before her, their eager desire to be near her, the
confusion of rue 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 Probestants know
what I say,' said Bridget. The cap was drawn, tho signal
was given, the rope severed, and up she went with a jerk.
In 30 minutes she was lowered into the coffin, and tho
cap was about to bo 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 tho City, Mr. David
T. Jeffries, proposed to sell some time ago the confession
of Bridget Durgan, and his modest price was $l,OOO in
gold.
a gaoler under Sheriff Clarkson, Randolph, who, wo belie re, is
Another man named
hada
confession, and we
understand his price was $230 —gold or currency, wo
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. Adrain, 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 aro alike. Her indifference on the scaf-
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,
whore Mr. Knott had formerly resided for a number of
years, signed by a largo number of the influential inha-
bitants of that borough, was presented to the Homo Secre-
tary, praying a remission of the punishment, and the result
was that the offending farmer was set free on the comple-
tion of half the form to which he was first sentenced by
Mr. Alderman Lusk.

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A LIVELY PLACE.—The people of Java have
rather a lively time of it. According to tho latest official
statistics contained in the IVisehrin 1,01. Arederiandsch
Java, the tiger has in ono single year consumed exactly
ono hundred and forty-eight human beings, and in another
year ono hundred and thirty-one. Tho crocodiles cleared
an average of fifty people a year, while serpents accounted
for between twenty-two and forty-three. But the Dutch
seem to accept their fate with characteristic equanimity.
Tho 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.
Lord and Lady Rendleahani have arrived at
Egliuton Castle, Ayrshire, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Egliuton.