The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

PAVING CONTRIBUTIONS.—Mr. Barth, clerk to
the Board of Works of the Poplar District, came
before Mr. Benson with other officers of the board,
to support two summonses against Mr. Henry
Holloway
and Mr. Robert Wells, owners of house
property in Broomfred-street, Poplar, for refusing
and neglecting to pay the assessments made upon
them for paving the street.
Mr. Charles
Young, solicitor, said the Board of
Works were engaged in the great work of im-
proving the district, and laying down new paving,
to which the owners of house property were
bound to contribute. He was happy to say that
Mr. Holloway had agreed to pay £2O 84. 11d., and
one guinea costs,
and Mr. Robert Wells £7 Os. Bd.,
and one guinea costs, and that the Magistrate
would not be troubled with the hearing of the two
cases.

Mr. Benson—The sums named are the amounts
which the defendants have been called upon to
contribute towards the paving
of the street in
question ?

Mr. Charles Young—yes, sir.
Mr. Benson made the orders asked for, and the
parties retired.

ASSAULTS ON THE POLICE.—Mr. Benson sentenced
five persons to ten and fourteen days' imprison..
ment for assaulting policemen in the execution of
their duty, and in the last case tho magistrate was
very much pressed by the prisoner and his friends
to substitute a fine for imprisonment. Mr. Benson.
said when constables were wantonly assaulted by
drunken and violent persons he should always in-
flict imprisonment, and persons in good circumstances
who could afford to pay fines would not be re-
lieved from that punishment if the assaults
were without provocation. Ile should make no
distinction of persons at all. A man with a good
coat on his back and a well-filled purse would be
treated in every respect like the poorest individual.

RESISTING DEATH AND COURTING DEATH.—
Sarah t LlniJmienpgeli' aged twenty-six years, was
charged byii osDeath, a young police-constable,
with being drunk and disorderly. She made a
violent resistance :on Death taking her into
custody, and gave him a good deal of trouble.
After she was locked up she made a determined
attempt to commit suicide by fastening her apron
strings round her neck and suspending herself to
the bars of her cell. An alarm was raised by two
women in the same call, and Nehemiah Shearing, a
police-constable, opened the door and cut her down.
Life u
whoshe was black in the face,
andi t two was
attended her had some diffi
y
Mr. Benson asked how it was that the two
cin surgeonsea
restoringrlye xher.ti n
women in the same cell did not prevent the prisoner
hanging herself.

Sririndid all they could; they stopped
her from
hit for some time, and she gave them
eadgo—inTg cY
so much trouble that they left her to her fate.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoner to the Clerk-
enwell House of Detention for a week.

It hay been arranged that on the Ist of this month
the train services of the Mont Cenis Railway shall
be in direct correspondence with the French and
Italian railways. Through booking will also com-
mence at the same date. The entire time occupied
between Parisand Florence will be reduced to thirty-
six hours,_ and the letters will be delivered a day
earlier in Florence,