The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1868.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THLS DAY.

BOW-STREET.

A STRANGE PASSION FOR JE WELLE RY. —J °lt n
Webster, described as a labourer, a dirty, ragged,
and emaciated creature, overrun with vermin, was
brought up on remand charged with being found
in a vault under the Adelphi arches, supposed for
the purpose of committing a fe'ony.
Police-constable Jamieson, 30 F, stated that on
Friday morning last, about one o'clock, when on
duty in plain clothes, he found the prisoner sleeping
on a step inside the vault, and asked him what he
was doing there ? 11, could give no satisfactory
account of himself, and witness took him into cus-
tody. On searching him at the station-house witness
found on him 11 duplicates of pawnbrok ers' tickets for
various articles of jewellery pledged in different parts
of London, and also a bank note of a penny savings
bank at llackney, giving credit for deposits to the
amount of 305., acid three invoices for jewellery
(gold rings and car rings), purchased of jewellers at
Clerkenwell. Witness made inquiries, and found that
the prisoner was known to the police as a tramp, and
to the workhouse officials as a frequent sojourner
in the casual ward, but was not known to have
been convicted for any criminal offence. lie
seemed to have a strange passion for jewellery,
pnrchasing any articles that took his fancy, giving
a deposit, and afterwards paying the balance
by instalments. On completing the payments and
receiving the article he would immediately leave
the shop and pledge it for less than he had paid
for it.

Mr. Vaughan said that it seemed rather suspi-
cious for a person with no visible means of living
to have money to spend on such a hobby. It
looked as if he bad not come by it honestly ; still
as there was no proof of a dishonest act, he must
be discharged.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A DISORDERLY LICENSED VICTUALLER.---Mr.
W. Walker, licensed victualler, of No. 235, High-
street, Borough, was charged before Mr. Knox
with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly
manner in Piccadilly.

Charles Patch, 138 AR, said that about half-
past one that morning he was in Piccadilly, and
saw the defendant standing on the footboard of a
Hansom cab and pulling the reins, there being a fare
in the cab at the time. The defendant was calling
" Police," and said he wanted protection, at the same
time showing him a shilling. The defendant, who
was drunk, then backed the horse on to the pave-
ment and it fell, and he then took defendant into
custody.

John Page, a cabman in the employ of Mr.
Moss, a cab proprietor, said that shortly after onv
that morning the defendant got on to the footboard
of his cab, seized the reins, and set to pulling them.
He asked the females who were i❑ his cab whether
the defendant belonged to them, and they said he
did not, and they were anxious to get rid of him.
The defendant then said that he wanted the pro-
tection of the police, and he (witness) told the police
that he wanted protection. The defendant then
threw the horse down on the pavement, and hurt
its knees.

The defendant said that he had ridden in the
witness's cab to Leybourne's in Windmill-street,
and that on getting out he gave the witness half-a-
crown, and the witness then returned him a shil-
ling and drove off, taking more than his fare, and
he went after him and stopped him.

The witness said that he never saw the defendant
before he jumped on his footboard, and could not
make out what he wanted. The horse would have
to rest for two or three days.

Mr Knox said it was quite clear to him that the
defendant was drunk, and mistook one Hansom
cabman for another, and thus got into his present
scrape. The defendant would have to pay a fine
of 20s. or 14 days for being drunk and disorderly,
and pay 20s. or 14 days as compensation for the
injury to the horse.

S7A7E OF TRADE.

BRADFORD, April 23.—Though cotton is again
up, the wool market continues very quiet. During
the past few weeks an immense business has been
done in wool, and most spinners have supplied their
wants for some time to come. The transactions
to-day are consequently very restricted. The quo-
tations, especially of all good wools, are generally
extremely firm, though there are some holders who
are rather better to deal with. There continues to
be a good business done in worsted yarns. Twofold
yarns, for which there has of late been an extraor-
dinary demand, are actually dearer to-day, but the
quotations frequently are intended to be prohibi-
tors in consequence of spinners being fully em-
ployed for some time to conic. There is rather
more doing in small lots in single yarns, the ex-
treme quotations having slightly fallen. Lustre
yarns, 40's single for home, and carded yarns, con-
tinue in steady request.
MANCHESTER, April 23.—This market has been
very firm to-day, and buyers have shown rather
more d'sposition to do business. They are not yet
quite prepared to give the prices asked by pro-
ducers, but some transactions have occurred at last
week's full rates, ,and, altogether, a more confident
and cheerful tone has prevailed. Inquiries have been
numerous, and the margin between buyer and seller
is so trifling that there is a probability of a fair
business being done shortly.
LIVERPOOL CorroN MARKET, Thursday.—A
further improvement has taken place in our mar-
ket to-day, a large business being done at about
per lb. advance since yesterday. Arrival busi-
ness is also very animated and about 11. dearer.
Compared with last week, prices for American and
Egyptian are about F. and in Brazil nearly 1. ;
other descriptions being unchanged. To arrive,
late on 22d inst. : Fair new merchants, ship named,
Alangrole, 91d. ; Oomrawuttee, 91d., 911. This
day : American, basis of middling, ship named, from
S.►vannah, 121 d. ; New York, bales, 12/d. ; New
Orleans, and shipping, 13d. Brazil, Pernatn, firsts,
ship named, 121 d, ; Bahia, fair average, 12d;;
Dharwar, fair, February sailing, 141. Broach
sailed, fair new merchants, 1011 ; ship named,
ginned, 101 d. Dhollera, fair new merchants, ship
named, 91d. Oomrawuttee, ship named, fair new
merchants, 9;1, 9/d., 101 ; middling fair, 9d. ;
fair, February sailing, 1011; March, sailing, 1011.,
1011

BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—There was very little
business done here to-day between the ironmasters
and the agents, and the reports from the works did
not indicate the probability of a speedy improve-
ment. The inquiries for iron aro few, and the
competition is severe. The list of orders has not
lengthened to any appreciable extent in the past
fortnight, and finished iron may now be bought in.
South Staffordshire at lower rates than have been
known at any time in the past three years. To-
day one of the Great Wolverhampton establish-
ments, the Chillington Company, began in part,
and last night some few of Earl Dudley's men re-
sumed at the Round Oak Works. The men have
now resumed in whole or in part at the works of
the leading houses in the South Staffordshire trade,
and the strike is therefore regarded as virtually
over. Nevertheless sales are impeded as long as
the majority remain out. Hardwares, in some few
branches, are unfavourably affected by the strike,
and, generally, trade is quiet. Copper and brass
goods are firm, with an upward tendency.
LEICESTER, Thursday.—There is a marked falling
off in the demand for wool at present as compared
with two or three weeks since. There is a disincli-
nation on all sides to enter into arrangements
beyond what immediate necessities call for. Prices
have further declined, average lots of half-wethers
and half-hogs not being worth to-day more than 40s.
per ton. The hosiery trade has a satisfactory aspect.
Several large buyers have been in the market this
week, and have placed some fair orders for the
winter trade. Spring goods are also in request,
although the present prices somewhat check the
demand. The inquiries for elastic webbiugs have
not been numerous, but manufacturers report that
they are still able to run their machinery full time
without materially increasing their stocks. Gus-
setiugs for the home market are the chief articles
just now in request.

TIIE fiu.sir Is A .11 ERICA.

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It is now about 17 years since a little Irishman
from Roscommon, named James Cuffe, settled in
the Island (\Voolfe Island, in the St. Lawrence).
Low-sized, but broad-shouldered, well knit and
vigorous as a " four year old," Jimmy Cuffe, like
thousands of his race in America, possessed only
that species of capital which may be easily carried
across ocean and over mountain—which rust cannot
consume nor moth devour, but which, although the
wonder-worker of civilization, is often blindly
despised by those who will alone believe in bullion
or bank notes ; —it consisted of his strong pair of
arms and his brave heart. Literally, he had not a
penny in his pocket ; nor indeed—at that time at
least--could ho " take a shine" out of his reading
and writing. Bnt so resolutely did the little Con-
naught man—in whose composition, it may be re-
marked, there was not the faintest suspicion of the
Anglo-Saxon—labour at his calling, " morning and
night, early and late," that he rapidly became a
thriving man ; and Jimmy Cuffe is now the pro..
prietor iu fee-simple of 800 acres of rich land, which
it would be difficult to match in Roscommon; with
a fine house, a stable full of good horses, spacious
barns, cattle and stock of every kind—in a word,
everything that the heart of any rational Irishman
could desire. Ile drives his family to church in
a spring waggon, drawn by a pair of good
horses, " as grand as the Lord Mayor of London, or
as any real gentleman in the ould country." I hap-
pened to be in Kingston the day Jimmy Cuffe cane
in to take up the bill on which he had raised the
purchase-money for his latest acquisition of 200
acres. It was rather a large sum, but the produce
of his harvest enabled him to do so without embar-
rassinent. And Jimmy's sharp grey eye glistened
as he told how he had got along, and succeeded not
only in " making a man of himself, thank God,"
but—what pleased him quite as much—in buying
out the old settlers—a class rather inclined to think
little of what Jimmy Cuffes can do.
When describing how several of the wealthiest of
the modern emigrants succeeded in life, some one
who knew the city well would say, " Such a man
first worked as a labourer ; I remember this man in
a sawmill ; that man commenced as a lumberman ;
one was a gardener, another a porter, another a
pedlar ; and now such a man is worth £2,000; such
a man, £5,000 ; such a man, £lO,OOO ; such a man,
£20,000; such a man, £50,000; but, sir, all made
by honesty, energy, and good conduct." This is
literally the history—the noble history—of many a
man in St. John, who is a credit to the country of
his adoption, and an honour to the land of his
nativity.--J. F. Maguire, M. P.

The usual monthly meeting of the English Church
Union was held at the Freemasons' Hall on Tues-
day, the Rev. M. W. Mayow in the chair. After the usual
routine, which included the election of 113 now members
and the nomination of 89 new candidates, the chairman
read a brief valedictory address from the ex-president
Mr. Colin Lindsay, who has retired on account of ill-
health. The hon. gentleman, after dwelling with some
emphasis on the two great perils which he conceived
threatened the Church of England—namely, the toleration
of scepticism by her authorities, and the proposal to abo-
lish or seriously modify her ritual law; and after bequeath-
ing to the society as its motto that which had formed the
theme of his inaugural address, "Union and unity—union
as a compact body, and unity as united in principle and
action "—concluded by speaking in the most cordial terms
of his successor, the Hon. Charles Lindsay Wood, son of
Lord Halifax. He said he thought the council could not
have selected a bettor man, and ho hoped he would receive
the cordial support and co-operation of the members. A
note from Mr. Wood, who was accidentally prevented
from being present, was then road, accepting the office,
a.id Mr. 11. E. Pellew proceeded to move the following re-
solution :—" That the English Church Union hereby ex-
press their great regret at the cause which compels their
late president, the Hon. Colin Lindsay, to resign th.) post
so long and so efficiently filled by him; and in offering
this public testimony of their appreciation of his services,
they hope that his life may long bo preserved and his
valuable labours continued to the glory of God and the
defence of tho doctrine and liberties of the Church of Ellgr-
laud." (Cheers.) Mr. Pellew mentioned that eight years
ago, when Mr. Lindsay became president of the English
Church Union, it numbered but 200 members, whereas it
had now 9,500 members, 800 associates, and 1,500 women
associates, making a total of 6,800 unionists. The motion
was seconded by the Earl, of Limerick, and carried unani-
mously.