The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 29.

BO W-STRE ET.—Jona K i,y, a bricklayer's labourer
was charged with assaulting Mr. Fitz;erald, the land
lord of the Blue Boar's Head, in Long-acre.
It appeared that about half-pact 11 o'clock the prisoner
with another man, and a woman who sells ballads in the
streets, entered the tap-room of complainant's house in a
state of intoxication, and remained for some time without
having anything. He began to behave himself very inde-
cently, and prosecutor went into the room and ordered
him out. Prisoner refused to go, and placing his short
pipe in his hand so that the end of the stem projected
terough his fingers, endeavoured to strike him in the face.
By suddenly stepping bask complainant avoided the blow,
but the point of Lo pwe-stem came within about half an
inch of his eye. Complainant snatched up the pok-r and
guarded himself with it, warning the prisoner that he
would strike if he (the prisoner) attempted to close on
aim. The prisoner, however, sprang on him, and a des-
perate struggle followed, in which, althoiL4h he used the
poker, the prisoner, who had him by the throat, was
vaining the advantage, and he was almost exhausted,
when a policeman csine to his assistance. The prisoner
then released the prosecutorand turned on the policeman,
„yi„g, " We shall see whether a peeler shall take
me out." He then attacked the constable, who, however,
soon overcatos him, as he was somewhat reduced by loss
of blood from a wound in the head inflicted by Mr.
Fitz;erald with the poker. The policeman took Min to
Cbaring-ergs Hospital, where the house surgeon dressed
his wound, which was not of a serious character. When
the constable entered, complainant was bleeding from
the mouth and nose.
The prisoner alleged that he was attacked first, but ad-
mitted that he was too drunk to know much about it.
Fined 3/ , or one month's imprisonment.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Edward Jackson, a portly,
well-dressed man, described as an oil and colourman,
carrying on bu mess in Leonard-street, Finsbury, and
his wife, Anne Jackson, were charged on suspicion of
having feloniously received various articles of dress which
had been stolen, with a travelling trun,,, containing
jewelery and other property beloneing to the Countess
of Ellesmere, to the amount of 15,0001. The prisoners
were Aso charged, in conjunction with Chas. Steadman,
a ticket-of-leave convict, with haring been found in pos-
session of a further quantity of valuable property, the
supposed produce of other robberies.
Mr. Lewis, jun , of Ey-place, attended on behalf of
the prisoners Jackson, and Steadman was defended by a
solicitor bearing the same name as himself.
On Tuesday, the 22d of Jan. last, the bag, with its
contents, was abstracted from the roof of a carriage going
from Clevelind.square to the Great Western Railway,
from which the Countess of Ellesmere was about to pro.
card to Windsor Ca,tle, on a visit to her Majesty.
Police Constable Evans, G 175, stated that while o❑
duty in Old-street, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the after-
noon of Sunday, the 18th inst., he met the prisoner
Jackso❑ and another mao, who hastily parted company,
and moved off in different directions as soon as they
caught sight of him. Having recognised both of them
as suspected characters, witness followed Jackson, whom
he overtook in an adj iming street, and as he refused to dis-
close the contents of a bulky package which he had with
him, witness took him into custody. On searching the
bundle at the station-house he found it to contain up-
wards of 100 yards of ribbon, two dozen scarfs, and
sundry ther expensive articles of haberdashery, which
the prisoner alleged he had purchased at Bethnal-
green from a man named Woodward, with whose
xact address he was unacquainted. Witness pro
seeded with other officers to the prisoner's house in
Leonard-street, and having stealthily effected an en-
trance, he made his way to a small room behind
toe shop, where he found Jackson's wife in close con-
ference with the prisoner Steadman, who was sitting
opposite to her. The female prisoner was i❑ the act of
iospecting a plated goblet, which she had apparently
just received from Steadman, who had some money in
his hand. Witness questioned him with regard to the
goblet, and after a good deal of shuffling, the prisoner
said that he had picked it up in the street. Witness
proceeded up stairs with the female prisoner, searched
several of her drawers, and discovered therein various
ariicles of wearing apparel, a portion of which had been
since' identified as the property of the Countess of Elles-
mere, two of whose servants were now in attendance to
give evidence in support of the' charge.
Mary Anne Elding, Lady Ellesmere's maid, who had
assisted in packing up the trunk, identified several of the
articles, one of which was her lady's bridal veil of old
point lace, and which see could positively swear to, from
the rare quality of the fabric, which could not now be
purchased.
After some observations from Mr. Lewiq, to the effect
that, according to his instructions, his clients would be
fully prepared on a future occasion to furnish a satis-
factory explanation with regard to their possession of
the article',
Inspector Brecknold requested a remand, for the dis-
covery of the owners of the property which had not been
identified, and which he had reason to believe was the
part produce of a recent extensive burglary in the City.
The prisoners were accordingly remanded, but bail
was accepted for the appearance of Jackson.

CLERKENWELL.—EIIen Gladstone, aged 26, re-
siding at 37, Payne-street, Islington, a married woman,
was charged with being on th.. banks of the Regent's
Canid for the purpose of comn itting suicide.
Police-constable Crannis, 71, N, found the defendant
in the custody of two men on the banks of the Regent's
CAnal. She was raving out in a very excited mancer
that she was "mad, mad," and that she would follow
bar father and go to haven. When he took her into
custody she had neither shoes nor stockings on, and was
half-naked, and said that she was d•-terminA to commit
suicide; that she had jumped off BlAckfriard-bridge, and
would dos() again.

The husband of the defendant said that his wife had
been very depressed in spirits, in consequrnce of her
father, who died a few days since, telling her on his
deathbed that she would bring herself to ruin if she did
not leave off drink. She was a good wife when sober,
but a foolish and violent woman when drunk. He would
take her home and look after her if the worthy magis-
trate would discharge her.

Mr. Tyrwbitt said it W. 3 a great pity that a woman
like the defendant should give way to the devilish drink.
If she continued that course of conduct, she would bring
herself to ruin ; and had tt not been for the young man,
She would most assuredly have lost ber life. After a few
more remarks of a most feeling nature, Mr. Tyrwhitt
discharged the prisoner with a caution.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Eliza Turner and
Mary Ann Smith, two young women who were attired
in a fashionable style, were charged before Mr. Bingham
with al tempting to pick the pockets of several ladies in
Regent-street.
It appeared, from the evidence of Cole, an active officer
of the A. division, No. 317, that on the previous after-
noon, about two o'clock, he was standing at the corner of
when he saw' two ladies stop and look at
tAhregpy
Argyll
place, when
portraits exhibited at Mayell'e. They
had ne: been there long when his attention was attracted
to the two prisoners, whom he knew to be pickpockets,
who passed him and went and stood directly behind the
ladies before-mentioned. He watched them, and ob-
served Turner lift up the mantle of one of the ladies, and
t at her band in her pocket, apparently without success.
TLi prisoners then walked on, and he went upend asked
the lidy if she had been robbed. She replied in the
negative, and he then proceeded after the prisoners and
came up with them in Oxford-street, where be saw Tur-
ner manipulating the pockets of two ladies while Smith
covered her from view. The prisoners did not seem to
be successful in their avocations, and on turning round
to go away they caught sight of him, and immediately
jumped into an omnibus which happened to be passing.
lie ran after the vehicle till it stopped at the corner of
T
•road, when he informed the conductor
of of characters be had got in his 'bus. The
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conductor fetched them out and inquired if any of the
passengers bad lost anything. They said they had not,
and witness then conveyed them to the station-house,
where they were searched, and on Turner was found a
valuable gold watch and chain, and 51. in gold, wrapped
up in a piece of newspaper. On Smith three sovereigns,
also wrapped up in paper, were found. He had no fur
tber evidence to offer at present, and thought, if they
the prisoners as
having robbed
were remanded, he should be able to bring forward a
lady who would identify,
her of notes to a large atnount in an omnibus, on last
Wednesday week.
The prisoners were remanded for a week,

SOUTHWARK.—Philip Doyle, a young fellow about
20 years of age, was brought before Mr. Combs, charged
with defrauding Sergeant Anthony Choyne, of the 3d
Royal Surrey M,litia, out of is., and absconding after
enlisting in the 23,1 Foot.
The sergeant stated that he was instructed by the
War-office to enlist recruits for the line, and in the mid-
dle of last month the prisoner same to him and wished
to enlist in the 23d Foot. Witness asked him whethi r
be bad been in the army before, when he replied that he
had not. He also answered the usual questions about
being free, able, and willing to serve her Maje,ty, when
witness handed him the enlisting shilling. He then
took his address, and told him he would require to
he in attendance befire the doctor on the following day.
He, however, did not appear, and witness left a notice
at the address he had given, but he saw no more of him
until Saturday,. when he met him in the Borough and
gave him into custody.
The prison-r denied being the party alluded to, and
he had no recollection of ever seeing the sergeant before.
He never bad his shilling.
Sergeant Choyne informed .his worship thathewas
positive as to the prisoner's identity. Lately about
twenty young fellows had absconded after receiving the
enli-tick shilling, which was a fraud on him, and the
War-office authorities were determined to punish all
parties so offending, as a caution to others. Many
young fellowii had actually enlisted a dozen times over,
anr.:. he believed the prisoner bad twice.
Mr. Combe asked him whether he could positively
swear to the prisoner as being the party who received
the shilling from him.
The sergeant replied that he could. He pointed him
out immediately to the policeman when he met him.
Mr. Combs, after perusing the Act of Parliament,
said he was of opinion that the prisoner must be deemed
a deserter, therefore he should commit him t 3 the county
gaol, to bs dealt with by the authorities at the War-
office. His worship directed the usual deserter's
dace' iption to be made out and forwarded to the latter
place. •
The prisoner, who still persisted that he was not a
recruit, was then committed to prison.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' AsSOCIATION.—On Wednesday
Light Mr. Leigh was elected a director of the association.
MANCHESTER CITY SIIEVEYOR.--Yesterday Mr.
Lyn le was el cited to fill this office. The eatery is 7201,
per annum.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH
INDIA.

The Secretary of the Red Sea Telegraph Com-
pany has published an account of Vl° present posi-
tion of the endertakiug. He writes—
" The directors are, and have been for some time,
prepared to proceed at once with the important
work they have undertaken, and wait only a favour-
able reply to the proposals they have made to the
East India Company and her Majesty's Govern-
ment, upon whose decision the solution of this
great question now depends. All the preliminary
arrangements have been completed. Firmans from
the Ottoman and Egyptian Governments, granting
exclusive privileges during construction through
their respective dominion; have been secured to
the company. These firmans apply not only to
the line from Alexandria to India, but include
a connection with the European system of
telegraphs in the Mediterranean. Estimates
have been obtained for the manufacture and
laying of the cable, which will be undertaken
by responsible contractors at their own risk. The
Admiralty, at the solicitation of the company, have
ordered her Majesty's ship Cyclops to proceed
without delay to the Red Sea for the purpose of
t ski og the necessary soundings. Every objection
which has been raised as to the practicability of
laying a submarine cable in the Red Sea has been
thoroughly sifted, and the difficulties suggested
fr,,m the existence of coral rocks and the supposed
depth of the water have been completely set at rest
by the opinions of Sir Francis Beaufort, Captain
Beecher, R.N., Captain Harris, Mr. Knight, and
other unexceptionable naval and scientific autho-
mities.

" It may appear at first sight that in the terms
they propose—viz., an unconditional guarantee on
the whole capital as paid up—the directors are
calling upon the East India Company and the
government to a-sume an unwarrantable degree of
responsibility ; and, upon further consideration,
it will be found that the risk actually to be incurred
is infinitely small when compared with the vast
importance of the object to be achieved. No section
of the line will exceed 500 miles in length, and the
loss arising from any unforeseen accident will there-
fore be limited to that extent of cables. This risk
the contractors, as before stated, are proposed to
undertake ; and, as an additional security, there can
be no question that, after the first section (of :260
mi es) is fi❑ished, the remainder can be successively
insured by under writing in the usual way.
" There is no reason to doubt that the Govern-
ment is prepared to extend a cordial support to this
company, with whom its negotiations have been
hitherto conducted, by the concession of such
terms as may appear to the best commercial autho-
rities to be indispensable for raising the required
capital, and thus insure the establishment of tele-
graphic communication between this country and
India within the shortest possible period."

Country Markets.

MANCHESTER- O. 29.

There was a fair attendance this morning. English
wheat in limited request, and must be quoted 2s to 3s per
qr. cheaper ; inferior sorts offered at a still greater decline
without leading to business—ordinary runs of American
being at the same time ineffectually offered at 6d per 7 ulbs
below last week's prices. Flour 2. per sack lowe4. Oats
aced oatmeal a slow sale at barely previous rates. Beans
rather easier.

NEWARK—OCT. 28.
At this day's market there was • full attendance of
millers and dealers, and a moderate amount of business
done. Wheat met a heavy sale, and the prices for best
2s and inferior, 3s to 4s lower.

Wheat, white 60s to 625, red 545 to 565; barley, malting
42s to 445, grinding 36s to 38s; oats, 24st. 35s to 375, 22et,
32,5 to 34s ; beans, 48s to 49s ; malt, 735 to 804 ; peas, 446
to 46s ; tares, 56s to 60s per qr.