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London, England, 1867-10-14 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

" THE TERROR OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD."--RObt.
Smith, lately keeping a beershop in Newport-mar-
ket, was charged with selling beer before one o'clock
on Sept. 22, and also with permitting drunkenness
and disorderly conduct in the house.

Sergeant Harvey said—At a quarter before 12 on
the morning of Sunday, the 22d Sept., in company
of a constable, I visited the beershop kept by the
defendant. I knocked at the door, and some one
inside said, " Who's there ?" I said "Police," and
I then heard a bolt put on the door, and some one
say, " Keep them out and clear away." I knocked
several times, but received no answer. At last
the door was opened, and I walked into the
parlour. I saw some earthenware jugs, pewter pots
not being used at the house, one of them half full,
and the other having a quantity of malt liquor in it,
The defendant went behind the counter, placed a
jug there, and on my asking him what it was he
said it was only a little beer for himself. He asked
the defendant if he was the proprietor of the place,
and he said he was. In the parlour, a room 9 feet
square, there were 13 men and two women. He
told the defendant that some of the persons did not
appear to be sober, and that ho should have to turn
them out. One of the persons was so drunk that
he had to hold by the door to let himself out. One
of the women got up to leave, and on the floor I
found a jug which had contained beer, but had been
concealed by her dress while sitting down. The
defendant asked me to look over it, saying that he
would have his name painted out and give up the
beer trade, and open the place as a respectable shop.
The woman he had spoken of was also drunk. I
visited the house again with Sergeant Bunco, and
found one man and three women there, the same
whom he had seen before, and two others, one
of whom was also drunk. The defendant spoke
to one of the women, who told him to " shut up.
or she would round upon him."

Mr. Tyrwhitt—How long has the defendant kept
the place ?
Sergeant Harvey—About three years ago I served
two summonses on the defendant—one for opening
his house before the proper time, and the other for
permitting drunkenness—but ho never attended.
He said he was not the proprietor, but I advised
him to attend.

The Defendant—Why I did not appear was
because I was acting as the agent for another.
Sergeant Harvey—l have seen the defendant at
the place for the last year managing the business,
and representing himself as the proprietor.
Sergeant Bunce, 5 C—l know the defendant
well. I had occasion some months ago to go to the
defendant's house. It was full of thieves, and has
always been a terror in the neighbourhood, being
conducted in a very bad manner. The defendant
then told me that lie was going to give up the
house.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—l have not the slightest moral
doubt about the defendant being the proprietor of
the place.
Sergeant Tinnan—On the day the summonses
were fixed for hearing they were put off, owing to
the defendant requesting that he was very ill, but
I saw him the same day, and he was in better
health than now.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall fine the defendant 50s.
for each offence, and I consider the sooner the de-
fendant gives up the place the better.

THAMES.
AN UNFAITHFUL STEWARD.—DanieI du Siloa, a
man of colour, the steward of the ship Eliza Shaw,
lying in the West India Dock, was brought before
Mr. Benson, charged with stealing 2 bottles of
champagne, a bottle of brandy, a bottle of gin, a
bottle of sherry, 2 tins of sardines, a bottle of mus-
tard, a bottle of pepper, a knife, a pistol, 6lbs. of
candles, a tablecloth, 15 dessert spoons, 3 teaspoons,
and 4 table forks.

He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

SOAP.

Most people imagine that the best soap is that
which dissolves easily and makes a good deal of froth
in water ; but this is a mistake, for soap c..-anot
acquire those qualities without being overcharged
with alkalies. The only way of having soap deprived
of causticity is to keep it a long while ; because it
then loses some of the water it contains, whereby
the caustic soda incorporated with the mass is
brought to the surface by efflorescence ; it then com-
bines with the carbonic acid of the air, and becomes
a carbonate. The soap-wort (saponarici) of Egypt
contains a vegetable base called saponine, which
was obtained for the first time in 1832 by Professor
Bussy. This principle exists in various other plants.
Dioscorides tells us that the ancients used a plant
called struihion (Lanaria herba, Pliny) for washing
wool with. Forster states that the root of this
same plant, called chohen in Persian, is reduced
to powder by the people of Thibet, and used to
cleanse the goat's hair with which Cashmere shawls
are manufactured. In all Asiatic intertropical
countries, such as Java, the coast of Coromandel,
and Cochinchina, there is a tree called Sapo In-
dicus, corrupted into Sapindus, producing red vis-
cous berries much used in those countries for wash-
ing linen. In Chili there is a tree called quillay, first
described in 1716 by Frezier. Its leaves resemble
those of the oak ; its bark produces suds like soap,
and is an excellent detergent of wool, though not
for linen, to which it imparts a yellowish appear-
ance. The Indians wash their hair with it,
under the impression that it makes it blacker. The
wood of this tree is much used for building. In
Europe there are several plants enjoying similar
properties. Soap-wort commonly grows among
the hedges and on the banks of streams, and the
roots of clover are generally employed for washing
linen in many parts of France. M. Dump extracts
saponine from the above-named quillay, which is
now sold by grocers under the name of Panama
wood. With this saponine a soap is made of a pe-
culiar quality which mustsurprise those who consider
toilet-soap the best. It does not froth up in water,
and does not stick to the skin, but cleanses it per-
fectly, imparting to it a peculiar softness and elas-
ticity. Pure saponine, however, will produce
abundance of suds; a centigram in a litre of water
is quite sufficient for the purpose. It decomposes
lime and even sea-water, while these, on the other
hand, decompose soap made with soda, and trans-
form it into pellicles which do not possess the
slightest detergent quality.

UNWELCOME SIGNS.--The swallows crossed the
Rhine this summer before the end of September, a sure
sign of an early, if not of a severe winter. Firing will,
three weeks hence, be a necessary, and the crop has
disappointed expectation. It is believed to be a third
short, and the price of wheat in country depots like
Bury St. Edmunds leapt up last market day four
shillings a quarter. The accounts from Odessa aro
unfavourable, and it is stated that the American
crop was overrated. Meanwhile, the Bank can lend little
money at 2 per cent., and we aro told, on high City
authority, that trade which, despite the collapse of specu-
lation, remained "good," is becoming " bad." With an
early winter, trade declining, speculation ended, and bread
likely to cost 10d. a loaf, the winter in England will not
be a pleasant one.—London Review,