The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

THANIES.

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THE litisrusi AN AND ills CHAmPAGNE.--Timothy
Driscoll, an Irish labourer, was brought before Mr.
Benson on remand, charged with stealing two
pint bottles of champagne.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
Robert Mudd, ship's carpenter on board the
Merry Monarch in the London Dock, stated that,
on Saturday morning last, the prisoner came on
board with other stevedores' men to assist in un-
loading cargo. lie saw Driscoll standing by a
case of champagne, the end of which was out.
Directly afterwards the prisoner took two bottles
of champagne out of the case, and secreted them
among some dunnage wood. Ile seized the pri-
soner and said, " Halloa, you are caught in the
act." The prisoner said the champagne was not
for himself. Ile had not drank anything for seven
years.

William Abernethy, the mate of the Merry
Monarch, said that he saw two bottles of cham-
pagne lying on the dunnage wood. lie told the
prisoaer he would give him in charge, and he said
he found the bottles lying on the dunnage wool,
and he was about to mention it to his foreman. Au
hour before the case was perfect, and nothing had
been removed from it.

Mr. Stoddart said the prisoner was a steady,
sober man, and he had not been accustomed to
strong drinks for seven years. He was instructed
that the prisoner had really found the bottles of
champagne on the dunnage wood, and intended to
deliver them to his foreman stevedore.
The Prisoner--Shure I would not be aftherhaving
the least taste of the stuff. Shure I never put
champagne to my lips in all my life, your hanner's
wortchip.

something else with it. Does the prisoner intend
Mr. Benson—You
to plead guilty or not guilty ?
might have intended to do
Mr. Stoddart—Not guilty, sir.

Mr. Benson said be must exercise his own corn-
mon sense in this case as in any other. The case
was quite perfect an hour before the prisoner was
seen alongside of it, and he believed that he pressed
out the end of it and took away the two bottles of
hthat an industrious
ab aomupr earg n
hade. i
nott was
resisted'the temptation, and he
(Mr. Benson) was sorry that the prisoner had for-
feited a good character. lie should dispose of this
cl
a pity
case under the Police Act. lie should pass a light
sentence in consideration of the previous good
character of the prisoner, but he could not shut his
eyes to the fact that the plunder of wines and spirits
on board ship while loading and unloading cargoes
had been extensively prevalent. Ile sentenced the
prisoner to be imprisoned for one month and kept
to hard labour.

THE ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP MR. WIIALLEY, M.P.
—We must go from home to hear news. In the House of
Commons on Friday night Mr. Whalley stated that the
last time he attended a Murphyite meeting was at Birming-
ham, " and on that occasion he was nearly being Llown
up by a quantity of ammunition, which was fortunately
discovered by a policeman." This exti-aordinary statement
except, of course, the police-
mandiscoveredthe " ammunition." -
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is quite new to us, and, if we mistake not, is equally now
to
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HOME FOR DESTITUTE BOYS.--Yesterday her
Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aumale, the Marchioness of
Londonderry, the Cmintess of Denbigh, and other Roman
Catholic ladies presided at stalls at a grand fancy bazaar
which was hold in the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover-
square, in aid of the funds of the St. Vincent's Homo for
Destitute Boys. The stalls were well supplied with use-
ful and ornamental articles, and the rooms wore well filled
with visitors. The bazaar will bo continued this morning.

The newspapers are teeming with references to econo-
my in tea by co-operation. Hornivuzn and Co. have for 30
years co-operated through Agents to supply tea on more
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea
reaches the consumer in the scum 04.4 St ate a‘,s it leaves the
grower, ag it io MUM it EA**.