The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Hazlitt.)
IN RE MINTERN.

This bankrupt was a sheep dealer, of Christ Church,
Hampstead, and to-day he came up for the first meeting.
The debts are about £2,000, and failure is attributed to
the stoppage of the English Joint Stock Bank, who had
discounted a bill for £450 for the bankrupt, tho official
liquidator now pressing him for the amount. Assignees
were chosen and a day named for the next hearing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A DANGEROUS CHARACTER.—DamioMahomet, a man of
colour, well known to the police as loitering about the
city, was charged before Alderman Sir J. Musgrove with
assaulting Alfred Manning, a young lad described as an
errand boy.

Tho prosecutor said that he was going down Tower-
street yesterday, and the prisoner, whom he had never
seen before, came up in the opposite direction, and, without
saying a word, struck him a violent blow on the lace,
which bled profusely. He did not see any boys following
the prisoner, who, on striking him, ran away. Ho pursued
him and gave him into custody at Fenchurch-street
station.

Mr. Partridge, the gaoler, said that the prisoner had
been brought before the magistrate on a previous occasion
for a similar offence, but was discharged. It appeared
that he was sometimes followed by boys, and when they
ran away he was in the habit of striking the next boy he
met.

City police-constable 719 said that about 11 o'clock
yesterday morning the prisoner was given into his charge
by the prosecutor. Another boy stated at the station that
the prisoner had been behaving in a most improper man-
ner, and that he saw him spit in the faces of two or three
ladies, but IA was not in attendance. The prisoner was too
drunk yesterday to be brought before the magistrate.
Sir John Musgrove said ho could not allow the prisoner
to go on in that way, and, as ho had been discharged before
without its producing any effect on him, he would send
him to'prison for seven days.

BEGGIXG.—Phebo Cole, a wretched-looking woman, with
a sickly infant in her arms, was charged with begging.

From the statement of one of the police- constables it
appeared that he was on duty on London-bridge yesterday
afternoon, about five o'clock, and saw the prisonor-sitting
in ono of the recesses. She had a box of matches in her
hand, but she did not offer them for sale. He sent her
away from the place, as he had done frequently before, and
he saw her accost a man, to whom she showed the
legs, and he gave her 2s. lie thought the man was drunk.
Sir J. Musgrove—His sympathy was therefore the more
strongly excited. (A laligh.) . _

The prisoner said that she came from tho Isle of Man,
and that she was destitute, having been deserted by her
husband.

Sir J. Musgrove said that she could not be allowed to
traverse the streets in the way she had been doing, but
that, as it appeared to be her first offence, he would dis-
charge her, and directed that 3s. O'd. which had been found
on her should be given to her. He stated that if she were
again brought before the magistrates for a repetition of her
offence she would be sent to gaol.