The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-10 00:00:00

THE SUE, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAX 10, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
IN RE FRIEDLANDER .AND BERGER.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)

These bankrupts are described as clothierfi of Addle-
street, Aldermanbury, and to-day they applied for an
order of discharge.
Mr. Treherne, of the firm of Treherne and Wolferstan,
75, Aldermanbury, on the part of the assignees, applied
that there might be an adjournment. It was necessary
that the assignees should make inquiries as to the £2,000
worth of consignments to foreign countries. The bank-
rupts owed over £5,000, the debts being contracted within
a year, and the property in the hands of the assignee had
only realised some £2O. Under these circumstances he
(Mr. Treherne) applied that the case might be again
adjourned.
Mr. Reed, in support of the bankrupts, urged that his
clients had been before the Court now twelve months,
and ought to have their orders of discharge. The
assignee hadplenty of opportunity to make inquiries during
the past ten months. The bankrupts were young men,
who commenced with a capital of £5OO, and they had lost
every farthing of it.

His Honour considered that the application made by
the assignee was not unreasonable, and adjourned the case
as requested.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARL BOROUGH-S TRE ET.

A GANG OP SHOP-ROBBERS COMMITTED. —T homas
Thorpe, Nathaniel Loder, John Daniels, and Thomas
Burnley, lads, were charged with cutting the window of
Mr. John Belond, tobacconist, Old Compton-street, and
with stealing a quantity of cigars.
Only two of the prisoners were in custody when the
case was brought before the magistrates.
Cheney, 87 C, on the night of the Ist saw the prisoner
near Mr. Belond's window. Thorpe went up to the win-
dow and cut the putty from a pane of glass, and broke the
glass, and then Loder pulled the piece of glass out with
something and took out a quantity of cigars—Rumley and
Daniels stabding round keeping a look out. The prisoners
then all ran away, and he followed them and took hold of
all of them, but in consequence of one of them biting his
thumb, he was obliged to let them go, and they all got away
but Thorpe, whom ho took to the station. He subse-
quently took Loder, who, on his telling him the charge,
said it was all right, and that he was there.

Shrives, 82 0, said that on taking Bromley into custody
he admitted being with the others, but that he did not
know what they were going to do. He found on Burnley
£7 6s. 6d., and at his lodgings a life preserver (a novel
kind of one, it being only about half the usual size, but
evidently quito as formidable.)

Mr. Beloud proved that his window was broken, and a
quantity of cigars stolen.
George Madgott, 74 S, said that Daniels had been three
times convicted of felony, the last time at the Marylebone
Police-court.

The prisoners, who declined saying anything, were com-
mitted for trial.

THAMES.

MENDICANCY.—DanieI Twobig and Johanna Twobig
were brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with soliciting
alms. The male prisoner, about 50 years of age, an Irish-
man, is quite blind. His child, a delicate-looking little
creature by his side, is seven years of age.
William Bur, 106 K, saw the prisoners last night stand-
ing against the London Dock wall, in Old Gravel-lane,
Ratcliffe-highway. There was a large printed card on the
man's breast, with the following inscription on it :—" Kind
feeling for this poor man, who is blind through an acci-
dent." He saw a woman put something in the blind man's
hat, which he took out and gave to the child. He found
sd. upon her. The prisoners had been in custody in the
City, and were not allowed to beg there.
Mr. Partridge—Nor can it be permitted in the county
of Middlesex.

The elder prisoner, in te strong Munster brogue, said
that he had five children to maintain, besides the little one
by his side, and that his wife worked very hard for them
all. He went out occasionally with matches and other
things for sale. He could not help people giving him
money.

Mr. Partridge was reluctant to send a man who was
deprived of his sight to prison, but he could not allow him
to beg. The worst part of the case was the bringing up a
child to vagrancy. The girl ought to be at school. Ile
asked the male prisoner who his priest was, and whether
he attended his chapel.

The prisoner said that Father Kelly was his priest, and
he went to chapel sometimes.

Mr. Partridge said the prisoner should consult his priest
and send his child to school. If ever the prisoner was
brought before him again he would send him to prison
and to hard labour. A blind man was entitled to parochial
relief, and the prisoner must not take his children into the
streets and make vagrants of them. He discharged the
prisoners.

Bur—What am I to do with the money ?
Mr. Partridge—Give it to the blind man and destroy
that begglug card.

STATE OF TRADE.

LEICESTER, 9th.—The hosiery trade continues
active in most departments. Cotton goods are in
demand, as also are most sorts of regular goods.
Manufacturers are well engaged in the ware-
houses with orders on hand, and the operatives are
fully employed. In the rural districts business con-

tinues in a satisfactory state. Worsted yarns are
quiet, without material change in price. Cotton
yarns are lower. The wool market is flat.

NOTTINGHAM, 9th.—There is a shade of improve-
ment in the demand for lace goods. In the cotton
branch there is rather more doing. Still the busi-
ness transacting is not an average. The plain trade
continues quiet. In the silk department black laces
remain in limited demand, while the plain mechlin
trade remains active, future prospects being also
good. Narrow edgings are dull. The hosiery trade
is extremely brisk. The home demand keeps up to
a full average. There are plenty of orders on hand,
both for shipping and for the home market, and the
workpeople are fully employed. Yarns are dull, and
prices are receding
T

'RIAL FOR MURDER.---The Court of Assizes of the

Hante-Marne has just tried a farm-servant named
Pornot, aged 27, and a lad named Protoy, IG, charged with
having murdered the father of the last-named prisoner, a
woodman residing at Consigny. The murdered man's
wife had also been arrested as an accomplice in the crime,
but she committed suicide almost immediately after by
taking poison. It appears from the indictment that Protoy
and his wife had long lived very unhappily together,
owing to the misconduct of the latter. In May
last she formed an adulterous connection with
Pernot, and kept him for some days concealed in
the house unknown to her husband. The pre-
sence of her paramour was at last discovered,
and he was obliged to leave, but he frequently returned,
and at last the wife and he determined to murder the hus-
band and then got married. The son was also induced by
his mother to take part in the plot against his father's life,
which was carried into execution on the 10th October.
On that day Pernot went to the house and concealed him-
self in
was the
going llar.
ow Y had some suspicion of this,
andthe stops to see, when his wife
cedPno
dealt him a blow on the head which caused him to
. Protoy
fall to the bottom, and he was murdered there by
Pernot and the son. During the night the three re-
moved the body from the cellar and threw it into a
well. Pornot then left, intending to remain away
for some weeks, but previously sent a letter to his mother
in which he admitted having killed Protoy in a quarrel.
This fact having come to the knowledge of the police the
three were arrested, and, when pressed with questions,
confessed the particulars of the crime as above given, but
after the woman's death the other two pretended that she
alone had struck the fatal blows. In Court they repeated
this last story, but the collateral evidence proved the
truth of their first confession ; the jury consequently
brought in a verdict of guilty against both, but with ex-
tenuating circumstances in favour of the younger prisoner,
who was condemned to hard labour for life, while the other
was sentenced to death.
TIIE CATTLE PLAGUE.—The third and final re-
port of the Cattle Plague Commission has just been
issued. It considers scientifically the symptoms, nature,
origin, method of propagation, and treatment of the
disease. As was stated in their second report the commis-
sioners requested some of the most eminent physicians,
veterinary surgeons, and chemists of the day to investi-
gate the cattle plague from various scientific points of view.
The reports made by these gentlemen are printed in the
Appendix to the Report of the Commissioners. Some of
them represent that their investigations might with advan-
tage be carried still further, and the commissioners recom-
mend these suggestions to the consideration of the Govern-
ment. But enough has already been ascertained to supply
us with some valuable results. They renew the recom-
mendation for the slaughter or quarantine of cattle at the
ports of disembarkation, and urge that advantage should
be taken of the present opportunity to render permanent
those alterations in the supply of meat to large towns which
it has been proved could be effected with such little com-
parative inconvenience. From the opinions of the com-
missioners that the disease is purely contagious, and that
no method of treatment or disinfection can be relied on, the
conclusion is obvious that our measures must be almost
entirely directed towards preventing contagion, and that
such measures should bo both stringent and continuous.

A KIND CONTRIBUTION.—The scholars of Nichol-
street, Spitalfields, Ragged School have contributed, in
pence and half-pence, the handsome sum of £4, in aid of
the Lifeboat Fund now being raised in many of the Sun-
day Schools in London for the purchase of a lifeboat, to
be presented to tilt National Lifoboat lastittltion:

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

BRISTOL AND EXETER.

Yesterday a special meeting of this company was
held at Bristol—Mr. M. Castle in the chair.
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the meeting
agreed to a bill for transferring the Brean Down
Railway at Weston-super-Mare to the company ; to
convert a horse tramway at Bridgwater into a loco-
motive line, in order to connect the Bristol and Exe-
ter Railway with the Corporation wharf; and to lay
down the narrow gauge between Bridgwater and
Yeovil, and to make a junction with the narrow
gauge Central Somerset line at Highbridge; to raise
£125,000 on shares and to borrow £41,500.
Mr. ELLIS, on the part of the shareholders, ap-
proved the narrow gauge being laid down on one
section of the system, and he hoped before long they
would obtain powers to lay it down over the whole
system.

The meeting next approved a bill for the transfer
to the company of the Bridgwater and Taunton
Canal for £64,000 4 per cent. preference stock ; and
also approved the Bristol Harbour Railway Bill to
enable the city to contribute £50,000 towards the
construction of a wharf ; and the Great Western
and Bristol and Exeter Companies to expend
£115,000 in making a junction line between it and
the Bristol terminus.

The proceedings terminated with thanks to the
chairman. -

BRISTOL AND PORTISHEAD.

A special meeting of this company was held yes
terday at Bristol—Mr. J. Ford in the chair.
The meeting agreed to a bill for the alteration o.
their pier at Portishead.

The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a shareholder, said
that the railway would be finished and opened for
traffic before the pier was completed.

The Cholera at Liverpool.

We regret to state that notwithstanding the very
effective measures which had been taken to prevent
any further outbreak of cholera on board the hospi-
tal ships War Cloud and Jessie Munn, three more
deaths have taken place on board thelast-named ship.
As soon as it became known to the workhouse au-
thorities that there were three more deaths on board
the Jessie Munn, the bodies were at once removed to
shore, when they were placed in a hearse and con-
veyed to Walton Cemetery, where they were interred
with all possible -haste, On Tuesday evening three
more of the people on board the same vessel in which
the deaths occurred were attacked with cholera, and
Dr. Trench, the medical officer of health for the
.borough, believes that additional medical aid will be
required, and also states that the crew and officers on
board the Jessie Munn are almost paralysed with
fear. Several extra nurses and four men have been
sent on board the infected vessel, to assist those
already in attendance on the sick. The work of fumi-
gating the Helvetia is stillproceeded with, and every-
thing is being done to clear the ship of the slightest
taint of the disease. The healthy German passen-
gers which have been transferred to the Government
Emigration Depot at Birkenhead continue compara-
tively well ; the use of " sauer-kraut" Las been abo-
lished, and a better acquaintance with the wash-tub
and skin-brush has been insisted on. Last night a
body of about 200 emigrants, in charge of an in-
spector of lodging-houses, were taken to the work-
house, they having been removed from several Ger-
man lodging-houses, to prevent overcrowding.
They were accommodated for the night, and went
away early yesterday morning. About 10 o'clock
yesterday morning 20 additional beds were sent on
board the Jessie Munn, so that she has now accom-
modation for 32 patients.

Since the above was written we hear that another
death has occurred on board the Jessie Munn, and
that several other cases have broken out. Iu spite
of every precaution the cholera has broken out
amongst the Germans in the depot at Birkenead ;
and yesterday afternoon three of the emigrants
were attacked with cholera, and one of them, a
female, is not expected to survive. Medical assist-
ance and nurses have been sent, and precautions
taken to stop the spread of this dreadful disease.

FURTHER DEATHS AMONG GERMAN
EMIGRANTS.
(From the Liverpool Alfercury of yesterday.)

The news received from the Helvetia yesterday
is, we regret to say, not of reassuring character.
The frightful disease appears still to linger among
the German emigrants, and seems to baffie the skill
of the medical men to eradicate it. Late on Mon-
day night, Mr. Carr, the governor of the work-
house, received information that three more deaths
had occurred among the emigrants on board the
Jessie Munn, the ship lashed alongside the Helvetia
for the reception of cholera patients, and that the
bodies were required to be brought on shore. Mr.
Carr at once directed that the hearse should be in
readiness to meet the tender—and at two o'clock
the bodies were brought on shore and transferred
to Walton for interment. The three persons—a
man, woman, and child—who have succumbed to
the disease, are Germans. Yesterday afternoon
information was given to the parochial authorities
that another German emigrant had died on board
the Jessie Munn. There are now three Germans
on board the Jessie Munn suffering from cholera.
They are in charge of the nurses sent from the
workhouse ; but we understand that Dr. Trench has
intimated that there is great want of additional me-
dical aid. The crew and officers seemed to be panic-
struck, and in consequence considerable difficulty
is found in dealing with the cases under treat-
ment. In view of this state of affairs, Mr. Carr
offered the assistance of eight men from the work-
house, who at once volunteered to go un board the
Jessie Munn to render what assistance they could
in carrying the sick, &c., and in helping to disin-
fect the Helvetia. These volunteers went on board
last night.
Arrangements have been made for the reception
of those German emigrants who are well, and who
were on board the Helvetia at the emigration depot
at Birkenhead. The work of cleaning and fumi-
gating the Helvetia will be commenced to-day
(Wednesday).

A number of Germans still continue at the work-
house ; and we regret to say that, notwithstanding
the precautions which have been taken, cholera has
broken out amongst them. Several lodging-houses
in the town resorted to by Germans are still very
much crowded. The health officers are keeping a
strict supervision over them, and in many cases
where more than the proper number is located steps
are being taken to clear the houses.
Large numbers of German emigrants still con-
tinue to arrive in town. On Monday night 191
Germans arrived at Lime-street station from Ham-
burg, via Hull, and late same night about 200
arrived at Tithebarn-street station from the same
place.