The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

CHEAP MEAT FROM AUSTRALIA.

Notwithstanding the failure of previous attempts, the
Australians are determined to open up a market in Europe
for the sale of the beef and mutton of which they possess
such an enormous abundance, and the quality of which
has not become deteriorated by the presence of the rinder-
peSt. Already the import of foreign preserved meat into
England has become developed on a very large scale,
about 6,000 tons of salt beef, valued at £241,500
sterling, having been imported during the last yeas
into Liverpool from the United States and Canada alone.
This is exclusive of the heavy imports into London and
other places from the same countries. Our importation
of preserved meat from South America, Russia, and other
countries are also of no mean magnitude. The Australians
argue that it would not be diffiult for them to become com-
petitors with America in the supply of preserved meat to
England. The Australian beef and mutton is fully equal,
if not superior to, the American ; while its greater cheap-
ness would render the expenses of curing, packing, freight,
insurance, and agencies, pretty equal in both countries,
the balance, if any, being in favour of Australia.
Consequently, it is not at all surprising to find Queensland
boldly offering a tempting bonus, in the shape of 10,000
acres of land, to the parties who shall first succeed in
landing here 100 tons of Australian meat in fresh and
good condition. Not to be behindhand, a large number of
leading residents—stockowners, hankers, and merchants--
in New South Wales have formed themselves into an asso.
ciation for the purp)se of conducting experiments on a
large scale, with the view of testing the efficacy of the
freezing system lately introduced by Mr. Mort into that
colony. A ship has been purchased, fitted up with the
necessary apparatus, and is now on its way here
with a large cargo of Australian beef and mutton packed
in ice, or reduced by chemical means to a semi-frozen con-
dition. Stimulated by the example of her sister colonies,
Victoria has also entered the field, and with such ener,gy,
that several samples of Victoria beef and mutton have
already arrived in London, having been brought by the
Panama route for the express purpose of ascertaining
whether the condition of the meat thus sent would be it
any way affected by its transit through the tropics. The
experiment has been attended with complete success,
the samples, when opened in London, being found
in precisely the same condition as when packed in
Victoria.

SAD CAREER AND SAD END.—An inquest has
been held in Church-street, Mile-end New "own, on the
body of Anne Maria Bowley, aged 17 years. Deceased.
although respectably connected, had become "an unfor-
tunate," took to drinking, and died suddenly on Saturday,
in a house of ill-fame. Dr. Swyer stated that the deceased
was a remarkably fine young woman. A post-mortem
examination shewed that she had died from inflammation
of the brain, accelerated by drink, The jury returned A
verdict tp that effect,

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 26.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Chns-
tian, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, accompaniel by Princess Bea'
`rice and Prince Leopold, went out this morning.

The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday,
accompanied by the Crown Prince of Denmark.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

ROLLS' COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
HOARE V. WILSON-lIA3IPSTEAD-HEATII.

Sir R. Palmer replied this morning on the part
of the plaintiff, and contended that he had made
nit a strong case for a decree, calling upon the de'
fendant to abstain from further building operations,
tad also for the removal) of that which had already
taken place.

His Honour took time to consider the judgment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREE T.

!PERSEVERING Pic K POCKETS.—John Monteath
and Thomas O'Brien, the latter an artful looking
boy, were charged before Mr Newton with attempt-
ing to pick pockets.
Police constable 82 C said that about five o'clock
the previous afternoon he saw the two prisoners
following an elderly gentleman down Regent-street,
and after watching them some minutes, saw O'Brien
put his hand into the gentleman's pocket, but got
nothing. After going some distance O'Brien
made a second attempt, but was again unsuccess-
ful. The prisoners then crossed Regent-street, and
followed another elderly gentleman, and O'Brien
partly pulled his handkerchief out of his pocket.
['hey continued to follow the gentleman, alai had
renewed the attempt to pull the handkerchief out,
but the gentleman being informed that his hand-
kerchief was hanging out of his pocket, put it back,
and the prisoners then turned round to walk away.
['hen he took them into custody, and on
searching them at the station he found a large silk
handkerchief on O'Brien, with the initials E. Wl.'
upon it, which he said a boy in Short's-gardens
gave him.

O'Brien (blubbering) said that the hanikerehief
was given to him by a boy.
Shriva said tl.at Monteat!l gave an address at
lodging-house full of thieves.

Mr. Newton rem rnded the prisoners, remarking
,hat he thought he had seen O'Brien before.

WESTMINSTER.

CHARGE AGAINST A DEAF AND DUMB WOMAN
FOR INTENDING SUlClDE.—Elizabeth Eylesrnere, a
respectable-looking woman, 48 years of age, deaf
tnd dumb, was charged with intending to commit
;uicide.

George Smith, of 7, Dorset-street, Vincent-square,
said that he was coming over Westminster-bridge
It five minutes to two this morning, when his at-
tention was attracted to the defendant at about the
.niddle of the bridge. She had neither bonnet nor
shawl on, and her conduct was very strange. She
placed herself in the strangest attitudes, was
wringicg her hands, and gesticulating in a very odd
way. She looked steadily over the parapet into the
water, two or three times, and witness went over
Ind spoke to her, bat could get no answer. She
hen crossed to the other side of the bridge and red
peated her singular conduct, at the same time get-
ting half-way over the parapet. As witness believed
her intention was to commit suicide he gave her
into custody.

Mr. Selfe—llave the policy been able to hold anf
:.,ornmunication with her ?

A sergeant of the A division sail that he had

`ield communication with her, and she positively
levied that she had any intention of committing
iuicide. She was a married woman living at
11ralworth, and said that it was not likely she
•,vas going to drown herself, as that would con-
sign her to everlasting perdition. She wanted to go
to glory, and was only looking into the water.
Mr. Selfe thought there was very little connec-

Lion between going to glorj and looking into the
water. The latter was not exactly a step in that
direction.

The police were ordered to take her to her
'riends.

THAMES.

A STRONG AND POWERFUL ONION.--W
Onion, aged 35 years, described as a labourer hav-
ing no home, and who has been immortalised in
Mulch as strong and powerful, was brought before
Slr. Paget charged with violently assaulting Daniel
Sullivan, a mechanic, and Edward B.:bon, a con-
stable of the R division.

Last night, a few minutes past 10 o'clock, the
complainant, Sullivan, was passing Whitechapel
Church, when the prisoner, who was standing
against the railings, pointed towards the church-
yard, and said, "My father is buried there." Sul-
livan said, "I cannot help that," on which the pri-
soner seized him by the whiskers, shook him,
and threw him heavily on the ground, and
when he was on the ground kicked him
about the body in a most brutal manner.
The indignation of the by-standers was aroused,
and they secured the prisoner and gave him into
the custody of Belson, a policL-constable. Onion.
made a determined resistance, and said, " 11l show
you I am strong and powerful as Punch as described
me." He kicked and plunged violently, and it re-
quired the united efforts of seven or eight men to
force him to the station-house. When there he
struck Belson, and knocked his helmet off his
head.

Police-sergeant Prior, 12 K, said that the prisoner
was intoxicated last night, and his language and
demeanour were terrible. The prisoner had been
convicted and sentenced to nine months' imprison-
ment for an assault on a London Dock constable,
whom he attempted to throw into the dook basin,
and he had since been convicted for assaults
on police constables and others. The prisoner
bad also been convicted for vagrancy, and on
one occasion hurled a large stone at a relieving
officer in his office, and if the stone had not struck
an iron bar outside the window the officer would
have been seriously hurt or killed. The prisoner
had been taken at midnight from his father's
grave, over which he was singing, " Father cows
home." The prisoner, in defence, said he went to
Whitechapel Churchyard to pay respect to his
father's remains.

Mr. Paget said it was not a proper way of paying
respect to the memory of a father by getting drunk
tnd savagely assaulting a weak old man. He knew
r,he prisoner to bo a very troublesome fellow, and a
great ruffian. He sentenced the prisoner to be
imprisoned for two months for the assault on Sulli-
van, and another for the assault on the constable,
And with hard lsbour, making in all three months'
imprisonment.

SHEEP STEALING.—At the Edmonton petty ses-
iions, yesterday, Edward Winder, 'Thos. Daly, and
James Burns, wore charged with stealing eighteen shoe'',
the property of Mr. Joseph Conquest Hartwell, farmer, of
Chiugford. For some time past there have been frequent
thefts, the sheep being stolen from the fields, and so cis'
eerly have the depredations been effected th.tt no clue hsS
wen obtained until now as to who the robbers were. °I
the 17th instant the three prisoners were seen in associs-
ion, and certain suspicious circumstances led to their 1)0'
,ng watched. The eighteen sheep were taken from the
Geld and driven away. They were fAlowed, and the pt,"
soners were caught gutting the sheep into the stable be-
longing to Winder. All the prisoners were committed for
trial.

The cost of a telegram between London and Paris
will be reduced to four francs per twenty words on Wed-
aes,lay next, the Ist July.
,The prices of Iloritiman's Teas are greatly reduced; theft
Nell-known superiority has attracted a host of spuriogi
imitations; therefore notice all Genuine Packets are signed+
" Horniman cf C 0.," Loudon. 300 Confectioners aro Ascot°
iu London and 2,200 Chemists in the Country.