The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-06 00:00:00

PREFERENCE S.

Great Northern, 4 per cent. rd. at

itIIES.

,0 per cent. pm., 97a

L EVES LEASED AT FIXED EIs;NTAL 3.
Notting lam and Grantham R. and C, 941

TOIUGIGN KALI, WA re.
Buenos Ayres, Greet Southern, Urn., gua. 7 per cent, 151
San Paulo, liui., gua. 6 per cent., 171

FOttICIULI 11(6410.:
Anglo Brazil/ D. Gold,
ll)n Vcdru. Nr'rtli Del I:ey, 2
St. John del Rey, Hai , :0}
United Mexican, lirn.,

BANAL.

Agra, lirn., A, 114
Ditto, B, 9
Australasia, 531 4
Chartered Bank of India. Australia, and Minx, 19
Chartered ler. o' India, London, and China, 20 j
East London, lien., 3i
Engtish. Soo:ch. and Australian Chartered, isi
Imperial Ottoman, ti 10i
Laud Mortgage Bank of India, I im.,
London and River Plate, 43
London Chartered L:anit ot Australia, 231 1 •
London and County, 52}
London Joint Stock. 33
London and VI estiutnster, OEI 1
Ditto, Scrip, 4)
National Provincial of England. 33
Ditto, ,t,l and 3d issue, 391 9
Union of Australia, 4 I

MISCELLANEOUIN
Anglo American Telegraph, 2la
Atlantic Telegraph,
Ditto. 8 pJr cent , 781 E 0
Berlin Water Works, 15z
Commercial Union. Insuranae, 5 7-16
Credit Foncier of England, Urn., 2 12-15
Egyptian 9 per Cent.. Viceroy Loan, gun., 01 90}
Electric anti International Telegraph,
Ditto, new, 17
Fore-street Warehouse, 1im.,_12
Gen. Credit and Discount, 1, m., 5i
London Financial Association, lim., 7i
Peninsula and Oriental *team. 55
Renter's Telegram, 53, 1
Royal Mail Stearn, ID
teottish Australian Investment, lim., 110
Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, 151
Universal Marine (insurance), Um., Gi
Viceroy of Egypt (➢lortgage) Loan, 721

A Fnurrrur. TlME.—l'he second quarter of the
present year is the first time that 200,000 children have
been born alive in England r.nd Wales in a quarter of a
year. Thu exact numb.r: reached 202,892-2,230 a day,
1i a minute, if we might divide a child. The marriages
iu 1867 had been fewer than in either of the three pre-
ceding years, bill in 1864, 1865, and 1866 they had been
unusually numerous. The death-rate in the second
quarter of the year 1868 being lower than in the spring
quarter of any year since the national civil registration
began, the extraordinary result is presented of no less
than 14 of the 40 counties of England having twice as
many births as deaths—viz., Kent, Berkshire, Hertford-
shire, Buckinghamshiro, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire,
Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Somerset, Staf-
fordshire, Worcestershire, Lincolnshire, and Durham. The
came may In said, too, of South ?No, taken as a vellole.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STREET OUTRAGE.—George Patterson, a shoe-
maker, of No. 50, Cleveland-street, was charged
before Mr. Knox with assaulting Mrs. Emma Bed-
ford and Mrs. Emma Weakley, mother and daugh-
ter, residing at No. 5: St. Anu's-court, Soho.
Mrs. Bedford said that at a quarter to one that
morning she was walking along the Tottenham-
court-road, accompanied by her daughter, on the
way home from Camden-town, where they bad been
to see some friends, when the prisoner and two other
young men came up to them, and the prisoner
made a very insulting remark to her (laughter.
She told the prisoner that he had no right to speak
to them as they were respectble women, upon
which the prisoner pulled 1-1;.;r daughter about in a
most improper manner, tore her dress, and as she
(witness) was expostulating with him, he gave her
a blow in the temple and kicked her ou the side;
and had a constable not come up she did not know
what would have been done.

Mrs. Emma Weakly, daughter of th 9 previous
witness, gav'-:, similar evidence, and also stated that
the prisoner struck her.

Police constable Couk, 9G E, s Lid that. hearing
screams in the Tottenham-court-road lie went to
the spot, and saw the prisoner pushing the first
witness against the shutter, and she gave the pri-
soner in charge for assaulting her by striking her in
the eye. At that time the witness's dress was torn,
as it now appeared.

In his defence, the prisoner said he was walking
along the road when some remark was made to the
females, upon which they seized him by the hair of
his head, one on each side, mistaking him for
another person.

Mr. Knox- said he believed the story told by the
females and not that told by the prisoner. lie
thought it very unlikely that two respectable women
—a mother and daughter, would go up to a young
man and attack him without any cause. Ile con-
sidered the prisoner's conduct perfectly heinous.
Women were entitled to the protection of the law;
for such ruffianly conduct he should commit the
prisoner for two months' with hard labour.