The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-19 00:00:00

WOOL.

The public sales of colonial wool continue to be well
attended by buyers. The demand on account of the York-
shire manufacturers is very active, and there has been an
improved export inquiry during the last few days. Hence
the tendency of prices is in an upward direction, and a
slight advance on the opening rates has been obtained.
The improvement ranges from id. to 3d. per lb. In the
English wool trade there has been more animation, and
prices are rather on the advance.
Current prices of English wool per lb.

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d i d
Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 8} 1 9i
Half-bred do 2 0 2 1
Kent fleeces
South Down ewes and wethers 1 71 1 8
Leicester do
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

THE SINGULAR CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE
PRETENCES.—CharIes Agreton, alias Thompsett, Clifton,
&c., the young man charged with •obtaining the sum of
10s. from Mr. Reginald Yorke, of N 0.45, St. James's-place,
St. James's-street, a gentleman engaged at the Admiralty,
was again brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt by Sergeant Shil-
lingford, 4 C.
The evidence taken on the last occasion having been
read over,

Sergeant Ackman, of the 12th Lancers, said the prisoner
was a deserter from that regiment, having deserted in 1863.
He then had the name of Felix Alderban Agreton.
Sergeant Shillingford said no such name as Agreton was
known at Messrs. Cox's, and the prisoner's mother was in
Millbank prison at the present time for an omnibus rob-
bery, and the prisoner had been three or four times there
to see her.

The prisoner entered into a lengthened statement de-
livered in a bombastic and affected manner, to the effect
that he was born a gentleman, and that his "dear father"
—an expression he made use of about a dozen times—was
through misfortune in Milbank, that he had been in the
12th Lancers, and that he had led a bad life. If the magis-
trate would only forgive him this time he would load a
better life and become a better man. He considered others
—whose names his delicacy and feeling prevented him
mentioning, were more to blame than ho was.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said the charge of attempting to obtain
money by false pretences was proved against the prisoner,
and he should commit him for three months, with hard
labour.

As tho prisoner was leaving the dock he exclaimed—
A thousand thanks. Eleaven bless you."

THAMES.

ST. PATRICK'S DAY.—There was not a single case aris-
ing out of the observance of St. Patrick's day, before the
magistrate, Mr. Paget, this morning, and there was a less
number of Irish prisoners than usual for a Monday. The
charges against them were of an ordinary description, and
attended with no circumstances of aggravation whatever.
Inspector Beare of the K division, an old and experienced
officer doing duty in Poplar, where there is a large Irish
population, said he never knew a quieter Saturday than St.
Patrick's-day, 1866. It was the same in Limehouse, Shad-
well, Stepney, and Wapping. The Irish people were
remarkably quiet and well-behaved on Saturday,
and wore in their homes earlier than usual. The
district assigned to this court contains a larger
Irish population than any other in the metropolis, and the
good order and sobriety which prevailed among them on
Sstnrday was most rnmnrkable, and deserves to be men-
tioned. Harris-court, Ratcliff, with its alleys and places,
which is solely inhabited by the Irish, and has become
proverbial for outrages and riots, was as quite as a church
on Saturday, and yesterday Inspector Honey, of the K
division, stated at a later period of the morning that he did
not observe a single drunken Irishman or Irishwoman on
Saturday, and that the quietude of the district was most
astonishing. The pastoral of the Roman Catholic Arch-
bishop Manning, lately issued, seems to have had the effect
he desired. Inspectors Dendy and Holloway, of the H
division, gave a good account of the good conduct of the
Irish in their district.

SHOCKING CASE.—Thomas Joseph Underwood, a coster-
mcnger, of No. 2, Angel-gardens, Shadwell, was brought
before Mr. Paget charged with assaulting his wife, a poor,
squalid, careworn woman, who carried a hall-starved child
in her arms. _ _

The prisoner was intoxicated at dinner time yesterday.
Ho abused his wife, and used foul language and threats
towards her. He threw a fork at her head, and it lodged
in it. He then kicked her and beat her, and on her Escap-
ing from the house she went into the dwelling of her neigh-
bour ; he followed her and ssized her by the hair of het
head and beat her until she was senseless. He returned to
his room, and threw a beautiful parrot with its cage and a
dog on the fire. The bird and dog were severely burnt,
and the remains of the parrot were produced. A constable
named Clarke, No. 491 K, entered the place. There was a
smell of burning feathers, the parrot was dead and par-
tially consumed. The dog could not be found. On the
policeman asking the prisoner why he threw the dog and
parrot on the fire, he said they were his own property, and
he had a right to do what he liked with them. His child
was also burnt on the neck, but by what means the mother
could not state, as she was insensible for some time after-
wards. She stated that she was the mother of nine children
by the prisoner, the eldest being 21 years of age,
and that her husband had very often beaten her. She could
endure it no longer, and required a separation.
Mr. Paget said he would not dispose of this serious case
at present, and remanded the prisoner for a week.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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TIIE 4 4 ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON ANDREW
JOIINSON.—We have on so many occasions declared
our faith and confidence in the extraordinary man
who occupies the Executive Office in the United States
that we shall be accused of no want of friendship for
him when we express our sincere regret that he so seri-
ously compromised himself in his speech to the mob
which surrounded his mansion on the 24th February
last. We have hitherto refrained from alluding to
that speech, because we were so shocked and pained
at the spectacle which the Chief Magistrate of the
American Republic had made of himself before the
world that we had no desire to add one drop to the
flood of censure and reproach which we felt sure
would overwhelm him. But to keep silence
longer would be to neglect a clear conviction of duty.
In the singular and unfortunate speech of Presi-
dent Johnson we find no warrant for impugning
his patriotism or doubting his devotion to the cause
of the Union.. We did not disapprove of his Veto
of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and we feel firmly
assured of his sterling honesty and his Republican
virtues. But these are not the only qualities which
we should like to see in the Chief Executive Officer
of the Great Republic. We should like to see
in him dignity of manners and decency of language.
We should like to find in him sobriety of conduct
and unerring courtesy to all ; for if we look in vain
for such traits in the head of a civilised and Chris-
tian nation, where else shall we look for them ?
It is a matter for . regret that Mr. Johnson
should so far allow his resentment to get the better
of his judgment as to forget that the difference be-
tween the President and certain leading Republi-
cans is a question of methods for obtaining the
same end, and not of different ends. It is no ex-
cuse for the President that those whom he singled
out by name for personal vituperation had already
offended against him in a similar manner. When
Mr. Sumner recently spoke in the Senate of the
President's policy as " whitewashing" he only
shocked the country's sense of propriety thereby,
and felt himself obliged, as qifickly as possible, to
explain and apologise for his rudeness ; when ill..
Stevens, in the House, used that foolish phrase
about a British king losing his head, which appears
to have so greatly and needlessly irritated Mr.
Johnson, the whole country exclaimed against it as
an indecency, and even Mr. Stevens must have felt
that he had greatly injured his own cause by such
words. But the same sentiment of propriety and re-
spect which was shocked by the intemperate words of
Messrs. Sumner and Stevens is still more outraged
by the uncalled-for and offensive retort of Mr.
Johnson. We are not of those who hold it impro-
per for the President to speak to the people ; we
were not offended at Mr. Dincoln's speeches, and
shall not find fault with Mr. Johnson if he is moved
to announce or defend his policy in a speech. But
the President of the United States ought not to
descend into the pit ; and instead of calling names,
and indulging in personalities, he would have done
well to imitate the noble patience with which
Abraham Lincoln bore far bitterer gibes, far
ruder attacks, from the same men. For the
shocking and unseemly imputation Mr. Johnson
Johnson chose to bring against Messrs. Stevens,
Sumner, and others opposed to his policy, that their
intention was to incite assassination, we trust that
he will make haste to apologise, not merely to them,
but to the country, which he has most. grievously
insulted. Such words as he uttered on that head
would not be tolerated in the hastiest stump speech.
They are too ill-judged and impulsive for us to
think or write patiently about them ; and we count
it no slight misfortune for the nation that its Chief
Magistrate should have spoken in this style.

Inspector Arm-
strong and wanedre a
arrested
party yesterday
of
Fenianism. Two, Warren and Nugent, a supposed
large
police,by on suspicion of
deserter, were found in a lodging_
house, house, 19, High-
street ; and Fix, at 142, Frateis-street ; and two
more at 149, in the same street. They gave
the following account of themselves :—J. Hayden,
is an ex-policeman from Waterford ; J. Leedom a
gunsmith from London; J. Heron from Listowel,
Kerry ; J. M'Enery, tailor, from Nenagh ; R. Lacy,
from Castle Dermott ; J. Gannon, fiom Roscom-
mon ; J. Joyce, a native of Dublin, who served
in the American army ; and O'Brien, a pikemaker.
They had all come to Dublin within a few months,
some within a fov weeks, and, though out of em-
ployment, they were living comfortably. It is sup-
posed they were waiting for the " rising." A young
gentleman was brought up yesterday charged with
having a double-barrelled pistol in his possession
without licence, but as the police did not think he
had any evil intentions he was admitted to bail.
Hugo and O'Curry, arrested on the Ist of March
for being in possession of ammunition and military
instruction books in Nelson-street, were yesterday
allowed. by Mr. Stronge to stand out on bail, but
their companion, Hunt, arrested at .the same time
and place, was committed under the Lord-Lieuten-
ant's warrant and bent to Mountjoy Prison,