The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1868.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGII-STR EET.

A FOUND BRACELET.—Anne Pearce, a poor
but decent-looking woman, living in Seven-dials,
was charged before Mr. Knox with having in her
possession a bracelet, supposed to be stolen.
Mr. Joseph Josephs, pawnbroker, of Crown-
street, Soho, said that on the previous evening
the prisoner offered a bracelet in pledge, stating in
answer to his questions that she had found it. He
had known the prisoner for some years, and
asked her if she would tell the same story to a
constable, and sent for one. She was taken to the
station, and chargei with unlawful possession of
the bracelet.

Mr. Knox asked Mr. Josephs what was the value
of the bracelet, and he said that if broken up, it
would be worth about £2, but that if sold in any
shop to a lady, it might be charged £l2 for. He
knew nothing against her, and he believed that
she found it.

Police•constable Kennedy, 114 C, slid that he
was sent for by Mr. Josephs, and the prisoner said
she found the bracelet near her door.

The prisoner said that on Friday morning she
went out to get a pitcher of water and found the
bracelet near the door. She showed it to her hus-
band, who said he would see if it was of any value.
Her husband did so, and was told that it was not.
Her children played with it, and last night, having
no bread for her children to eat, she thought she
could get a little on it, and took it to Mr. Josephs.

Mr. Knox said he should discharge the prisoner,
and if at the end of a short time the bracelet was
not owned it would be given up to her.

Inspector Morgan said he had had the bracelet
tested by a chemist, and he said that it was not
gold.

Mr. Josephs asked the constable in the case
whether the braelet was not tried in the inside?
The constable said it was.

Mr. Josephs said that that sort of bracelet,
although supposed to be, was seldom made of gold.
He hoped his worship did not consider him to blame
in the matter.

Mr. Knox said he certainly did not. He consi-
dered ➢ir. Josephs had acted very properly, but
pawnbrokers were not to know whether such things
offered them by pers)us were not stolen, and that
if all pawnbrokers acted in a similar manner there
would be fewer robberies.

➢lr. Knox kindly ordered the poor woman a trifle
from the poor-box, to which Mr. Josephs added a
small amount.

WESTMINSTER.

DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT AT CREmonNE.--Agnes
Clinton alias Thompson, one of the usual frequent
frequenters of places of public entertainment, was
charged with the following disgraceful conduct at
Cremorne last night.

Mr. Corbyn, manager of Cremorne, said that at
12 o'clock last night, on passing round the platform,
he found four girls assembled and some confusion,
and was informed that defendant had pulled another
girl's hair down. Complainant said he would not
allow that sort of thing, when the defendant turned
round, and, in the vilest language, asked him what
he bad to do with it, declaring in the most insolent
terms that she would smash his faca in. She then
kicked at him in the most dangerous way, but he
was fortunately but little hurt.
Defendant—l don't remember having kicked him.
I might have done so. I can't say.

141 r. Selfe—Was she not drunk ?
Defendant—Three glasses of wine wouldn't make
me drunk. I was excited.

Defendant's servant was called, and said she went
out with her mistress last night because she was
dull. She did not pull the other lady's hair down,
and the manager took hold of her and pushed her
back. She could not say whether her mistress
kicked him.

Policeman 100 S said defendant was most violen
and bit him.

Dennis, the gaoler, said she had been charged
before.

Mr. Selfe—Your conduct is most disgraceful and
disgusting. I shall fine you 50s. for each assault ;
in default you will be committed for a month.

THAMES.

A SAVAGE.—Mary Condon, who is better known
in the district as the " Munster Tiger," was brought
before Mr. Paget, charged with being drunk, dis-
orderly, and assaulting several persons in a savage
manner.

The prisoner entered the White Swan public-
house, in St. George-street, better known as Rat-
cliffe-highway. Yesterday morning, at half-
past eleven o'clock, she was very drunk
and noisy and made use of very offensive language.
She called for a glass of ale, which Mrs. Thompson,
the bar woman, refused to supply her with, and
requested her to leave the house. The prisoner re-
fused to do so, and took up a quart pot which she
threw at Mrs. Thompson's head. The bar woman
put up her right hand and arm, and received the
blow on her wrist. The prisoner was about to re-
peat her violence, when Mr. William Jackson
seized her and detained her while the potman went
out in quest of a police-constable. In the absence
of the policeman she made a violent assault on Mr.
Jackson, and used very disgusting language and
epithets. A police-constable named Joseph Soper,
No. 45 KR, took the prisoner into custody, and she
swore at him, declared she would murder him, and
repeatedly struck him, and kicked him. While the
charge was being preferred at the station-
house she struck the constable twice, and tried to
bite him. Sergeant Smith, an old and experienced
officer 47 K, said the prisoner was too drunk and
too excited to be brought before Mr. Benson
yesterday (Wednesday), and he retained her till
this morning. She was the most savage and
disorderly woman in the district, and had been
repeatedly convicted for drunkenness, violence, and
disorderly conduct.
The prisoner, whose face was covered with old
sores and bruises, which gave her a repulsive
appearance, and whose voice was very husky from
the effects of long and continuous dissipation, said
the bar woman at the White Swan threw water
over her.

The bar woman solemnly denied that she had
ever thrown any water over the prisoner.
Sergeant Smith—This is the first time the pri-
soner has ever said anything about water being
thrown over her.

Mr. Paget said the bar woman had acted very
properly in refusing drink to a violent, offensive,
and drunken woman, but could not approve the con-
duct of the barman in detaining the prisoner, while
the potman went in search of a police-constable.
The barman was not a police officer. He sentenced
the prisoner to one month's imprisonment for the
assault on Mrs. Thompson, and another month for
the assault on the constable, the sentences to be
consecutive, and hard labour with both.

IiIARKE7 S-7 111 S DAY.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

There was a fair supply of stock to-day, and a more
healthy one in the trade.
Of beasts there were 1,020, all English fed. The de-
mand ruled better, and prices in many cases 2d per stone
higher.
Of sheep and lambs there were 13,650, and for both
there is a good, steady inquiry, prices tending against
buyers.
558 calves offered, and met a fair sale at full quotations.
Pork unsettled in value. Twenty pigs on sale.
Quotations—BA f, 3s 2d to 5s 4d ; mutton, 3s to 5s ; veal,
3s to be 4d ; pork, 3s to 4s 61; laTlib 5s to 5s Bd.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.

Sugar —The market is rather more active, at 31 to 61
under the rates of last week. For both floating and spot
parcels there is a fair inquiry to thy.

Coffee—The auction to-day comprises some fine Eas!
India coffee, and good q mlities of other description, foi
which there is a good demand at full prices.
Tea —There is rather more iuqui,y for common congou,
China growth, and the market is firmer.

Cocoa. —Several small sales of flue qualities of colonial
have been made at late rates.

Rice—For all kinds of rice on the spot, and also foi
floating parcels of soft grain, there is a fair demand.
Saltpetre is steady in value, but a slow sale.
Oils remain steady, at 31s for linseed, and 32s for Eng-
lish brown rape.
Turpentine steady, but quiet, at 275.
RAY AND STRAW.

Supplies continue light and prices firm. Old meadow
hay, La 108 to £6 6s ; new, .E 5 to ..£6 ; old clover, £6 10E
to £7 new Xti to £6 10N. straw, 3113 to Hs per load.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

WESTMINSTER.—A meeting of the supporters of
Captain Grosvenor and John Stuart Mill, Esq.,
residing in the parish of St. Martin's, was held last
evening at the Grapes Tavern, Bow-street, John
Blackman, Esq., in the chair. There was a numerous
attendance. The following resolution, moved by
Mr. James Bailey, of the Reform League, seconded
by Mr. James Biss, was unanimously agreed to :
" That this meeting pledges itself to use every con-
stitutional means in its power to return to the next
Parliament the lion. Capt. Grosvenor and John
Stuart Mill, Esq." It was also unanimously agreed
to that. whilst the meeting recorded its hearty sup-
port to the latter gentleman, it viewed with regret
his disinclination to support the ballot, The meet-
ing, which was characterised by the greatest una-
nimity, then separated.
FINSBURY.-Mr. N. Phillips, of the Coal Ex -
char.ge, has just issued an address to the electors of
the borough of Finsbury. Baying on a former oc-
casion contested the borough, he says he must d.-
cline being again a candidate for the suffrages of
the electors unless they think fit to convene apublic
meeting and resolve to support no candidate who
employs paid agents or canvassers. lie goes on to
say :—" When you remember the enormous sums
spent on former elections by Messrs. Pe to and Challis,
and that at the last election Mr. ',ask (who in
Parliament is such a severe economist) paid the ex-
travagant sum of £6,143 11s. 11d. for expenses,
certified by the returning officer (which means that
he spent about £10,000), most of you will, I think,
agree with me that, quite apart from all questions of
politics, it is high time this profligate and disgrace-
ful course was checked, and that your candidates,
whover they may be, should have a fair field and an
equal contest." Mr. Phillips says he shares in the
opinion of many shrewd men that the ensuing ge-
neral election will be the most costly ever known ;
and observing how little the newly enfranchised have
been consulted in the choice of candidates, he believes
the new Parliament will disappoint the expectations
of the people. lie concludes by stating that
if he should remain outside St. Stephen's a few years
longer he should content himself with the fact that
he was in very good company, and in any case
he should continue to support Mr. Gladstone most
heartily.

LAMBETH.—The district committees of Mr.
M'Arthur comprise in the aggregate upwards of
2,000 electors. They hold almost daily sittings,
and have
_organised a system of canvassing all
over the borough. The other candidates—Messrs.
Hughes, Doulton, Lawrence, and Hartwell—are,
to a great extent, resting upon their oars with re-
spect to canvassing. Mr. Alderman Lawrence wit
commence attending a series of meetings next week,
and in a fortnight Mr. M'Arthur will do likewise.
DEVON (NORTH).—The Right Hon. Sir Stafford
Northcote, Bart., Secretary of State for India, has
just issued his address to the electors of North
Devon. After alluding to the measures enacted dur-
ing the past session, he refers, in the following
terms, to the Irish Church and Irish affairs gene-
rally:—" A question of the highest importance is
likely to engage the attention of the now Parliament
on its first assembling. It will be called on to de-
cide whether we shall maintain, or shall begin to
subvert, the Established Church. Believing, as I
do, that the maintenance of an Established Church
is of inestimable value to the nation, I shall be
prepared to support it. An attempt has been made
to draw a distinction in this respect between the
case of Ireland and those of England and Scotland,
but I can see no reason for admitting it; and I am
further of opinion that it is peculiarly undesirable
to introduce into Ireland any measure tending to
stir up ill-will between the different sections of her
population, or to shake confidence in the security of
corporate or other property. Ireland has a peculiar
claim on England for justice and sympathy. The
people of England are anxious to accord her both ;
and the administration of the country has for many
years—and pre-eminently of late years—been car-
ried on in this spirit. Much has been done, but
much still remains to be done, not only to develope
her material resources and to remove the hindrances
to agricultural improvement, but to promote har-
mony and confidence in the country itself, and i❑
its relations with England and with the Govern-
ment of the United Kingdom. It would be much
to be regretted that this important work should be
interrupted by making Ireland the battle field of
English party strife ; or that practical measures
should be laid aside in favour of barren and irri-
tating religious controversy."

ESSEX (SOUTEI).--A requisition is being signed
inviting Mr. W. Strange-Mure to become a Con-
servative candidate for South Essex. It is under-
stood that Mr. Mure has consented to come forward
on the receipt of the requisition.
EXETER.—A meeting of about 2,000 electors took
place on Tuesday evening. Mr. Frank Milford,
banker, presided. Mr. Edgar Bowring, C. 8., the
Liberal candidate, addressed the meeting, and was
cordially received. A resolution was carried
pledging to give him the hearty support of the
Liberal party. The hon. gentleman expressed ad-
miration of Mr. Gladstone, of,whom he was a humble
follower. He was strongly in favour of the dis-
establishment of the Irish Church, and also advo-
cated the ballot.

NEWARK.-Mr Edward Denison, nephew of the
Speaker, has issued an address to the electors of this
borough as an independent candidate, still, how-
ever, agreeing with the Liberal leaders on the prin-
cipal topics of the day.
NORFOLK (NORTH).—The Conservative candi-
dates, the Hon. F. Walpole and Sir E. Lacon,
Bart., addressed the electors at Aylsham on Tues-
day. The chair was taken by Mr E. FeHowes,
M.P. for Huntingdonshire. To-morrow (Friday)
the candidates will attend a similar meeting at
Reepham.

_NOTTS (NORTll).—Nothing is with certainty
known as to who will be the Conservative candi-
date to oppos..l the Speaker and Lord Clifton for
this division. It is said, however, that one will be
forthcoming at the proper time.
Norrs (SOUTH).—The Liberals threaten an oppo-
sitiOn in this division if the Conservatives contest
the north of the county. It was thought at one
time that Mr. Barrow would retire through old age,
but it is now said, but not with certainty known,
that the hon gentleman will seek the suffrages of
the electors in conjunction with Mr. T. B. T. Hild-
yard, the present member. Opposition here would
be futile.

NOTTINGHAM.—No other Liberal besides Mr. Ber-
nal Osborne has signified his intention of contest-
ing this borough. Mr. Chas. Seely was mentioned
last week, but nothing further has been heard of
that gentleman. A meeting of the Liberal party is
to be held on the 30th instant, for the purpose of
selecting a candidate, or candidates, as Mr. Osborne
does not altogether suit his party in Nottingham.
it is now said that two Conservatives will be
brought forward. Mr. A. G. Marten is expected
in the town shortly, and were that gentleman in-
duced to join Sir R. Clifton, a tough fight would
be the consequence.

STROUD—Mr. J. E Dorington, jun., the Conserva-
tive candidate for the representation of the borough,
addressed a large meeting of the electors and non-
electors at the Subscription-rooms on Tuesday
evening. The meeting was a somewhat " stormy"
one, Mr. Dorington not being permitted to speak
t dozen words without interruption. Mr. R. Potter,
ate chairman of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, presided. Mr. Dorington first set herself to
correct a notion that was generally prevalent that
while we owed everything to Liberal Governments,
we owed nothing at all to the Conservatives ; and
le proceeded to show that many beneficial mea-
;tires had been carried by Conservatives when in
office. He then proceeded to state his views upon
come of the chief political questions of the day,
tnd among the rest that he was most decidedly op-
psed to the disestablishment of the Irish Church.
.vlr. Wadeson proposed, and Mr. George Holloway
ieconded—" That this meeting having heard Mr.
Dorington, begs to thank him for his address." The
notion was unanimously carried. The Rev. E.
Jacobs, an Independent minister, mounted the
platform and proposed another resolution--" That
al the opinion of this meeting the preeelit Govern- j

went and their supporters, having resisted" every
mode -ate men sure of Reform, and having gassed
the ir spilt sweeping one for the sake of office, az e
utterly unworthy of the support of the country. "
A number of hands were held up for this resolutio a
and a number against it, and the chairman declare d
that the resolution was lost.

TOWER HAMLETS.—Last night a crowded meei:;-
ng of electors and non-electors of the borough •of
the Tower Hamlets met at the Rose and Crown,
Devon's-road, Bromley, near Bow Church, to hear
from Mr. E. Beales an exposition of his political
principles. This was the third of a series of meetings
in the borough announced for the present. week.
Mr. Beales addressed the assemblage at considerable
length. Ile touched upon the leading political topics
of the day, dwelling especially on the suggested dis-
establishment of the Iri,h Church, which he said
was eszentill to the existence of a real unioa with
Ireland, and to the pre: Tvation of the peace and
safety of th) empire. lie spoke of the necessity
of amendment of the present system and adminis-
tration of the Poor-law, including an equalisation
of the burden of the poor-rate throughout the me-
tropolitan parishes. lie said that so much need was
there for inquiry into the manner in which the
rights and interests of the people in the common
and forest lands had been injuriously affected that
he should endeavour t) protect those rights and
interests. Having referred to the necessity of re-
moving the difficulties thrown by the New Reform
Act in the way of the fair and unfettered exercise
of the household and lodger franchise, Mr. Beales
concluded his speech amid loud cheers. A resolu-
tion pledging the meeting to support Mr. Beales
was passed, and the proceedings closed.