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London, England, 1858-07-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 1".

AIANSION-HOUSE.—Two gentlemen waited
upon the Lord Mayor to request his aid and advice
on behalf of a poor woman. She lived, they said,
at 4, Portland-street, Soho, and her name was
Sarah Hanmer. She was suffering from consump-
tion, and was an out-patient of the Consumptive
Hospital, Brompton. On the 20th of May she
went to the hospital, leaving her little boy, four
years old, in care of a neighbour ; but when she
returned home he was nowhere to be found ; and,
despite every exertion made for his recovery, had
never been seen or heard of since.
The Lord Mayor regretted that he could himself
do nothing in aid of the recovery of the child, but
expressed his opinion that the press would give
publicity to the application, lath might perhaps
have a good effect.

The child, when lost, was dressed in a drab stuff
frock, holland pinafore, and Scotch cap. He has
a scar on the left side of his chin, and answers to
the name of "Johnny." A reward of 201. will be
paid on his return to his mother, at 4, Portland-
street, Soho.

BOW-STREET.—Robert Johnson was charged
with stealing a portmanteau, containing wearing
apparel, th., the property of Mr. J. T. Norris,
M. P. for Abingdon.

It appeared that the prosecutor, on leaving the
house of a friend in Devonshire-place, at about
half-past eleven o'clock on Monday evening, en-
gaged a cab and proceeded towards Lincoln's-inn-
liavin,:c seen his portmanteau duly placed on
the outside of the Chi
it was discovered that the trunk had disappeared,
and the cabman being unable to account for it, Mr.
Norris desired him to drive to the Bow-street police-
station to give information of the circumstance, and
a description of the lost property. "On reaching
the station," said Mr. Norris, in his evidence, " we
found the portmanteau already in the charge of the
inspector, and a man in custody on suspicion of
stealing it."

Michael Bowen, an errand-boy, living at No.
5, Brownlow-street, Long-acre, deposed that
he was near his own home when he saw five
or six men hurrying along with a portmanteau,
and heard one of them exclaim, " Oh -, here's
a lot of us." The circumstance excited his
suspicion, and he followed them. Observing him,
problbly, the man who bad the trunk handed it
over to the prisoner, who parted from his companions
and went towards Orange-court. Witneps, still
following him, exclaimed, " Where are you going
to with that trunk ?" The prisoner replied that ho
had picked it up, and that he was going to take it
to the police station. Witness reminde him that
he' was going in an opposite direction, and, seeing
a policeman, called his attention to the prisoner,
who was then taken into custody.

The prisoner said he pleaded guilty to having
carried it for one of the other men. He was not
the man who took it.

Mr. Jardine said it would be desirable to ascer-
tain if the prisoner was known. He must bs com-
mitted for trial. The vigilance of the boy Bowen
was very commendable.
Three showily-dressed women of the town, named
Anne James, Elizabeth Williams, and Jane Wil-
liams, were brought before Mr. Jardine, on a charge
of fighting, in Catherine-street, opposite Jessop's
wine-rooms.

Policeman FBB said that at about half-past 4
o'clock that morning, he found the three prisoners
fighting together in Catherine-street, having, as he
heard, just come out of Jessop's wine rooms. They
were rolling over one another, scratching and tear-
ing one another like wild beasts, and screaming
fearfully, while a number of "gentlemen," who
formed a ring round thorn, were encouraging them
by their acclamations. He took them all three into
custody. They were all women of the town, and
nightly frequenters of Jessop's.
Inspector Mackenzie observed that this place was
really a very great nuisance.
Mr. Jardine—lf this was a house with an ordi-
nary license you could put it down directly, I sup-
pose. It has a Free Vintnet's license, I believe.
Inspector Mackenzie—Precisely so.
Mr. Jardine observed that the police had, bow-
ever, the same power of entering the house as if it
was an ordinary public house.

Inspector Maclienzie—But we can't bring them
before the licensing magistrates.
Mr. Jardine—One would hardly suppose it pos-
sible that in these days a number of men, whom the
constable calls gentlemen, should be standing by to
see women tear eachotherlike wild beasts. I should
have much more satisfaction in punishing them for
such brutality than in sending these poor women to
gaol. One can't help pitying them. They are
tempted into those abominable places, which are
kept open all night to encourage idle persons to get
drunk, and then they are set on to fight by these
brutal men. They are liable to be sent to gaol, but
I shall not punish them. They may go.

CLERKENWELL.—Johm Lovetrues, aged 18,
of no home, a labourer, and John Smith, aged 24,
a hawker, who refused his address, both well-known
thieves, were placed at the bar before Mr. Corrie,
charged with burglariously breaking and entering
the dwelling house of Mr. Jones, a gold and silver
refiner, 16, Wilderness-row, and stealing some arti-
cles of wearing apparel belonging to Francis Hudson.
It appeared from the evidence of several wit-
nesses, who resided in the house, that at about 4
o'clock in the morning they were disturbed by
hearing a loud crash. No notice was at first taken
of the matter, but the noise being repeated a few
seconds afterwards, the parties in the house armed
themselves, and upon proceeding downstairs found
the doors and windows of the first floor open. On
entering the back room they were much surprised to
find some of the flooring pulled up and a very large
hole made in the ceiling big enough to admit two
persons into the shop. It would seem that the
thieves gained admittance tothe house by the back
window, and then proceeding downstairs, tried to
door ; but having cut through
and then finding the iron plates, went
both
hak panels,o pen thean shop-door
upstairs, and got into the shop by breaking through
the ceiling. Police-constables Greathurst, 209 U,
and Spurin, 61 G, were then sent for, and upon en-
tering the shop found, under one of the benches in
the back, the prisoner Smith, and in one of the
upper rooms the other prisoner, with a coat and
silk handkerchief in his possession belonging to one
of the prosecutor's shopmen. If the thieves had
not been disturbed when they had, there can be
little doubt but that they would have got off with a
great deal of very valuable property which was in
the shop.
The prisAters, when asked if they had anything
to say in answer to the charge, replied in the nega-
tive.

Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoners for a week for
the completion of the case.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Francis Smith, 38, a
powerful man, was charged with assaulting Ellen
Perry on the 29th ult.
Oa the day in question complainant, in a feeble
state, attended to give evidence, and exhibited an
extensive wound on_the forehead,. .both eyes
blackened, and several other injuries of a mani-
festly violent character. She deposed that at four
o'clock that morning the defendant, with whom she
had cohabited for a period of rive years, went home
intoxicated, struck her on the head with a shovel,
several times tried to gouge her eyes out, and
otherwise ill-treated her until she was rescued from
his violence by the police.. The woman added that
he had frequently maltreated her during her inter-
course for tho last few years, but the whole of the
testimony was given with strong reluctance.
Inspector Webster, N division, deposed that at
the time in question he heard dreadful screams in
a woman's voice, and then the words, " Oh, Frank,
let me die fairly !" This was followed by threat s
in a man's voice, and the sound of blows often re-
peated. Witness knocked violently at the door of
the house, No. 11, Great Cambridge-street, and it
was opened by the complainant, in such a state as
to excite apprehensions for her life. To use the in-
spector's wore's, she appeared as " dipped in a pool
of blood," which was fast flowing from a wound in
her forehrad. Her clothes wercihalf torn from her,
and she was in such a state of exhaustion that she
fell into his arms. She w s take-n t, the hespital in
a cab, whi'e the defendant was apprehended up-
stairs in a perfectly nude condition, and h's
besmear::d with blood ; patches of gore were seen
oil Luau). pal is or tilo floar. and evidently there had
been a fearful struggle. Tue house vva, tLe
most notorious characters. _

Mary Palmer, the landlady, waz callad for the
defence, and swore there had been provocation, and
the complains w, apparently terrified therein, said
she threw a basin at the defendant.' The case was
remanded, but the injured woman did not now ap-
pear, and in her absence the magistrate said he
would fine the offender 101., or three months' im-
prisonment.

MARLBORO GGH-STREET. —Mr. Anthony
Patrick Mahon, of 65, Manchester-street, Man-
chester square, appeared before Mr. Beadon, upon
a summons which charged him with unlawfully as-

sault{ng Mr. George Horatio Brand, of 50, Upper
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, conducted the case
for the complainant, and Mr. Clark appeared on the
part of the defendant.
Mr. Brand said he was in Kensington Gardens
on the 29th ult., between five and six in the even-
ing, walking arm in arm with a friend, when
he observed the &fondant approaching him.
He had a friend wilch him likewise, to whom he
said, in allusion to the complainant, "This is the
person who has introduced himself as a member of
the Dacre family. lie is a low, blackguard fellow."
At the same tulle pushing against him, he called
a thief, and s'iid his father was a tradesman, and
that his mc,ther was a lodging-house keeper. He
then asked him (complainant) if he could not resent
that? arid added, he would kick him across the park.
Comr,iainant, in his evidence, said he would not
suffor himself to be provoked by the language used
towards him. He had only seen the defendant once
before, and that was at a pic-nic party, on which
occasion defendant committed a breach of the peace
and was bound over by the magistrate at the Mary-
lebone Police-court to keep the peace, where com-
plainant was a witness against him.
Cross examined—Complainant said his mother
keeps a house in Berners-street, and his father is
a retired tradesman. Was introduced to the defen-
dant in Cumberland-street on the day of the pic-
nic. Had never represented himself as a member
of the Dacre family, nor passed himself off to any
young ladiei as such. Had never said the defendant
was unfit for his couipany because f the position
ho (complainant) hold. Had let go his friend's arm
the second time df;fendant pushed against him. He
pushed him several times.
Mr. A. Pearson, of Westbourne-terrace, said he
was in. company with Mr. Brand on the evening
adverted to, and heard the defendant call him a
blackguard, and; say he was the son of a tradesman.
He knew noth=ing more of what took place, as he
then left.

Henry Matthew, Hyde-park constable No. 20,
said, while outside the gardens, the defendant fol-
lowed the coraplainant. Heard the defendant call
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dirty rogue. A considerable number of per,,unb
collected. Ho {witness) remonstrated with the de-
fendant, who said, " It was my intention to give
Idea a good sourld. thrashing." The complainant
did not press tho charge against him. He said he
wished to haw!. nothing whatever to say to him.
He would seek: redress by other means.
Mr. Boadmr. said the defendant must enter into
bail, himself in 500/., and two in 2501. each, to
keep the peace towards the complainant for 12
months.

The rea,uirod bail having been entered into the
parties left the court with their respective friends,
who, during the hearing of the case, had crowded
the cow•t and manifested a great deal of interest.

HAMIVLFZISMITH. —Joseph Harford, a licensed
cab-driver, badge No. 8,818, was summoned at the
instance of Mr. Septimus Goldsmith; a gentleman
residing at Campden-hill, Kensington, for unlaw-
fully refusing to drive two persons.
The complaindnt stated that about 6 o'clock on
the evening of the 28th ult. he came out of Camp-
den-house, 'where there had been a concert, accom-
panied by two ladies and a gentleman. He hailed
the defendant, who drove up with his cab, atml
even turned the horse and vehicle round before the
door was opened. The two ladies got into the cab and
sat down, but witness and his friend were not going
with them. He (witness) then told defendant where
to drive, 'upon which he immediately refused to ac-
cept the fz ire, and insisted upon the ladies alighting.
Mr. Dayman asked if it was a short distance the
cabman had to take the ladies ?
The complainant said it was to Mecklenburg-
square, a distance of four miles.
The defendant questioned the gentleman as to
whether he did not tell him his horse was tired,
and the complainant positively denied that any-
thing was said about the horse.
The answer to the summons was that the horse
had been out twelve hours, and it was past the
time for changing. He had put down his last fare
at East Acton, and be came through Campden-hill
on his way home to Westminster to ease the horse.
He was bailed by three persons, and he &lose the
one to the Haymarket as it was his road home.
Mr. Dayman said the defendant had committed
an offence under the act, for which he was liable to
a penalty of 40s. He was sorry to say that it was
a common practice amongst cabmen to choose their
fares, and that could not be allowed. He fined the
defendant 10s, and costs. •
The money was subsequently paid.

IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING,

WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday Evening.--The
quarterly meetings of the ironmasters of Stafford-
shire and Shropshire commenced in this town to-
day. The attendance was tolerably numerous, but
the business transacted was extremely limited ; in
fact, more langour and indisposition on the part of
consumers to enter into engagements has seldom
been witnessed. The lengthened term over which
the existing quietude has prevailed was the subject
of general remark to•day, this having been deci-
dedly the flattest meeting that has taken place since
the collapse which occurred last autumn ; neither is
there anything to warrant the assumption that any
improvement is at hand. At the present time there
are no great works in course of construction re-
quiring large quantities of finished iron ; expecta-
tions of orders from the East Indies have been
doomed to disappointment ; the orders from Ame-
rica are trifling, and the home trade continues so
dull that it is not surprising consumers should ab-
stain from buying beyond what they require for
immediate use. Several exporting houses of Lon-
don and Liverpool were represented at the market
tc-day, but they were lookers-on only, and so far
as could be ascertained it is many yeart since an
ironnaasters' meeting at Wolverhampton when so
few transactions took place. With reference to the
American trade, it is feared there will be no revival
in it at present, and until a movement takes place
in that direction there is not much chance of the
iron trade of South Staffordshire re-assuming a
healthy state.
The majority of the mills and forges are not in
operation wore than half time, and a good deal of
underselling is going on, the mischief in this direc-
tion being increased by the number of firms carry-
ing on for the purpose of liquidating instalments
upon compositions entered into last winter, these
arrangements being made in the anticipation that
the trade would ere this have recovered its activity.
The parties in this strait are forced to sell at the
best price they can obtain for their commodity, to
the serious injury of the more respectable members
of the trade, who are thus thrown into competition
with men who have been relieved of obligations
to the extent of 10s. or 12s. in the pound.
It was mentioned to-day that the little demand
that exists for manufactured iron is exclusively for
best brands ; and the last 12 months has afforded
abundant evidence that the production of an infe-
rior make of iron in South Staffordshire, which
was commenced some years ago, was a move in the
wrong direction ; it has damaged the reputation of
the district in that respect, and the result will most
likely be that the make of that description of iron •
will before long be pretty much confined to the
northern part of the county and to Wales.
The tone of the assembly to-day was more cheer-
ful than might have been expected, looking at the 1
small amount of business done, and at the circum-
stance
that the prospects of the Birmingham meet-
ing aro not more encouraging.
The price of pig iron is the turn lower.; and '
under some circumstances must be made at'a loss, 1
where sales are pressed in the present state of the
market. Stocks are rather accumulating, but it
was mentioned to-day that it is in contemplation
to blow in elle or two additional furnaces.

Th 6 coal trade is dull in consequence of the
limited consumption at the mills and forges ; for
house coal there is a more active demand.

POOR-RITES AND PAIIPERIS3I,—In the last week of
May last there were 855 531 paupers relieved in and out
of doors in England and:Wales, against 842,441 in 1857,
thus exhibiting an increase of 13,090. There was a de-
crease of 4.33 per cent. of pauperism in the metropolis,
and a very large increase in:the North-western and York
districts. The increase extends to every week in the
month.

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TELEGRAPH FROM RAGUU TO

ALEXANDRIA.

VIENNA, July 4.—The negotiations relative to
the projected telegraph from Ragusa to Alexan-
dria—by way of Corfu and Candia—have entered
into a new phase. The British Cabinet has informed
this Government that it does not object to an elec-
tric cable being laid down between Ragusa and
Corfu and Corfu and Zante, at the risk and ex-
pense of Austria. It is also willing to join Austria
in guaranteeing G per cent. to any company which
will undertake to carry the telegraph from Corfu
to Candia and Alexandria, but it requires that the
sums paid for its despatches to and from Alexan-
dria shall Is! considered part of its guarantee. This
last condition is declared to be unacceptable, and
this Government will doubtless decline to construct
the telegraph on such terms. The Austrians are
now less eager to establish a telegraphic communi-
cation between Ragusa and Alexandria than they
were a few months since, and the chances are that
they will not make any preparations for laying
down the cables to Corfu and Zante until a com-
pany has been formed for continuing the electric
chain from Corfu to Candia and Alexandria. A
person who cannot but be well acquainted with the
feeling of this Government on the subject in ques-
tion yesterday expressed himself to the following
effect :—" Austria is tired of higgling and haggling
about the matter, and will be well pleased if the
British Government will itself undertake to con-
struct the telegraph, or persuade an English com-
pany to do so. If the thing is but done, it
is perfectly indifferent to her who does it." It
is generally believed here that a submarine
telegraph from Ragusa to Alexandria would
pay full 6 per cent., but I have my doubts
on the subject. However, as England must
have two means of communication with India,
it is not clear to me why she does not either close
with Austria at once, or take the matter entirely
into her own hands. It has been discussed to
continue the telegraph from Malta to Alexandria,
but there are three weighty objections to the pri.-
ject. The first is, that the Mediterranean is much
clapper between Malta and Alexandria than it, is
;.."an C'serlis. and Alex-
andria; the second, that the lonian Islands would
not be brought into telegraphic communication with
Greece, European Turkey, and Austria; and the
third, that the only way of sending despatches to
and from England would be through France. As
things now stand is it not desirable that the
British Government and public should have the
option of sending their despatches through Sar-
dinia and France, or through Austria and Holland
or Belgium I The 6 per cent. guarantee for the
telegraph from Corfu to Alexandria is estimated at
30,0001,, one-half of which England is expected to
take on her own shoulders. It may be observed
that this Government has already concluded a
treaty with Greece for opening a telegraphic corn-
munnication between Zante and some part of the
Morea.