The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-13 00:00:00

NOVEMBEIt.

Liverpool

CADVERTISEMENT.I
L.S.D. was struck out of the Warwick Steeplechase im-
mediately on publication of the weights.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A SURGEON CHARGED WITH CRUELTY TO HIS WIFE.—
Mr. James tinley Mouncey, surgeon, of 166, Regent-street,
was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a warrant by Rose-
killy, one of the warrant officers, charged with assaulting
his wife Emily.

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trix carried on a governess agency in Regent-street, the
defendant leading a lazy and intemperate life. Ever since
the marriage the defendant had treated his wife in a most
cruel manner, and the assault now complained of was only
ono of a long series of assaults committed by the prisoner
on the prosecutrix. Hitherto the prosecutrix had been re-
luctant to come to the court to complain of the defendant,
and it was only when her life wee endangered by the de-
fendant's conduct, she having been some months in the
family way, that she had taken steps against him, the pro-
secutrix only having saved herself from being thrown
down a flight of stairs by seizing hold of the baluster. he
should call his witnesses, and then ask that a term of im-
prisonment might be inflicted on the prisoner under the
Aggravated Assaults Act.
Mrs. Mouncey said that she had been beaten with great
violence by the defendant. On Sunday last the defen-
dant threw her with great violence on the floor, and
dragged her out of the room by her arms, told her to go to
the kitchen, and tried to throw her down stairs, but she
caught hold by the balusters and prevented his doing so.
The defendant was alWays drinking. At a late hour at
night he abused her, and took hold of her hair and shook
her head violently. Yesterday he took away her clothes,
to prevent her coming to complain to the magistrate. Ile
had repeatedly assaulted her and blackened her arms, and
did nothing for his living.
In answer to defendant, the prosecutrix said she did not
pull his whiskers.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prosecutrix whether the de-
fendant was any business ?

The prosecutrix said he was a surgeon, but never had
but one patient.
A servant was called, and she stated that she had seen
the prosecutrix's arms black through the defendant's vio-
lence.

Mr. Robert Smith, surgeon, 457, Leinster-square, said
from appearances in the prosecutrix's arms she must have
been subjected to great violence.

The prisoner was ordered to find two bail in £lOO each
,o keep the peace towards his wife.

THAMES.

A SWINDLER CAUGIIT AT LAST.—Edward Hisley, by
trade a butcher, afterwards an attorney's clerk, and next a
prisoner in the House of Correction for six months for in-
decently assaulting a woman, was brought before Mr.
Paget, charged with being concerned with two others in
obtaining eight coats and seven pairs of trousers, from
Messrs. Ballet and Co., clothiers and outfitters of Broad-
street, Ratcliffe, by means of false andfraudulent pretences.
The prisoner and two other men obtained tho property
in question by fraud. They promised to pay for the goods
ou delivery, and having obtained them sent Messrs.
Hellett's porter back to their warehouse, and then ab•
sconded with the eight coats and seven pairs of trousers,
which were sold and pawned immediately. Two of the
swindlers were committed from this court and convicted
at the sessions. The prisoner, who was the principal in
the conspiracy, and who was heard of and seen in Roches-
ter, was arrested yesterday afternoon. Police-sergeant
Briden, 4 K, was on the top of an omnibus and saw the
prisoner cross the read from Houndsditch to the Minories.
He left the omnibus, pursued the prisoner, and overtook
him. On being told the charge against him the prisoner
said misfortunes never come single, my wife gave birth to
a child on Saturday, and now I am in for this job.
Briden said the grand jury returned a true bill against the
prisoner last July, and he wanted the prisoner remanded to
obtain the judge's certificate of the finding.
Mr. Paget-1 will remand the prisoner until to-tiDrrow.

THE SURREY STAGHOUNDS.—This well-known
Surrey pack of staghounds, which have hunted the county
for many years, under the mastership of the young Epsom
squire (Mr. A. Heathcote), but which wore threatened with
abandonment in consequence of the insufficient pecuniary
support received for their maintenance, aro now restored
to their former position, as amicable and satisfactory ar-
rangements have been made to sustain the pack and the
running deer, &c. Mr. Arthur Heathcoto has accepted the
office of the master of the hounds, and a stag which has
afforded many long runs will be uncarted to the hounds at
Bookham this day.
AN OCEAN YACHT RACE.—The arrangements
for the groat American ocean yacht race have been com-
pleted. The course is to be from New York to Cowes.
Three owners of yachts—Mr. J. Bennett, jun.,
of the Hen-
rietta; Mr. Osgood, of the Fleetwing ; and Mr. Lorillard,
of the Vesta—have agreed to stake each 30,000 dols.,
making up a purse of 90,000 doll. (or say .£18,000) ; the
first vessel in to tako the pool. The stakes are deposited
in the hands of a well known loader o
the three
f the sporting world,
Mr. L. W. Jerome. The tonnag e
wing 201 tons ; the Henrietta,
nearly alike, the Fleetwing
They will start on the 10th of
of yachts is
2noex3tmonth.
; andthe
'These y3'2aoclh.ts are the finest and swiftest ever
built in the United States, and the race is expected to be
most splendid sporting,event of the year.
the
POSTAGE STAMPS.— The manufacture of these
valuable little bits of paper is a Government mono-
poly in Franco as well as everywhere else, but is farmed
out to a private contractor, who has his workshops in a
back court of the Hotel des Monnaies or Mint, where a
million and a half o: postage stamps aro daily produced at
& cost to the Government of 90e. per 1,000, so that in the
case of the lowest sort of stamps, of the value of lc., the
Government profit is 910 c., or 9f. 10c. per 1,000. The same
workshops also produce the postage stamps for the French
colonies, the kingdom of Greece, the Republic of Guate-
mala, and any other foreign countries that choose to
apply. The sheets used in this manufacture are first sub-
jected to a preliminary process—viz., that of covering the
whole surface with a sort of white transparent ink,
an
rsope-
ration which is performed by means of cylinders. The
object of this process is to prevent forgery, for .
ono to attempt transferring the design towore any
a lithographic
stone, both the inks, the white and the
coloured one, would
stick to the stone, and nothing but a uniform coloured im-
pression could be obtained. The composition of the
white ink is a secret. In the
press-room 12 powerful
presses are constantly at work, the
of colours spread out before men having a number
them on marble slabs. But
there is a portion of the
operation which, after printing, is
entirely effected by the hand ; this consists in laying on
certain specks
of colour with the brush. The last
opera-
tion consists in
pricking holes all round each stamp ; this
is done by machinery in the following way : —The sheets
when printed are taken to another workshop, where they
are cut into half sheets, each, containing 150 stamps.
Five of these half-sheets are laid one upon the other, and
strongly pressed together in a frame, an operation per-
formed by two boys; the frame then passes under the
pricking aparatus, and is thence brought back to the work-
man's hands by a combination of pulleys. The bad stamps
are now picked out, and the remainder sent to the General
Post-office. The State having also the monopoly of playing
cards, the manufacture connected with it is also partly con-
ducted in the above workshops. Tho State causes a pecu-
liar paper, bearing a transparent figure of the eagle, s
to be
manufactured at a special mill ; at the postage stamp ma-
nufactory the types of the court cards and the aco of clubs
are engraved by electricity; at the Imperial printing-office
these types are used to print on the sheets marked with
the eagle ; the paper in which the packs are wrapped up
is stamped at the Hotel du Timbre. Card manufacturers,
therefore, aro obliged to buy of Government the court
cards, aces of clubs, wrappers, and paper on which to
paint the low cards, which they do themselves. It is they
who make up the packs, and send them to the retail
dealers.—Ga/ignani.