The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Feb. 22.—Three o'clock. --The market
closed as follows
per Cent.
End of month... Ital'an Loan
3 per Cent
End of month 6B 65 Mexican Loan ... 16 50
Credit Mobilier -
End of month... 190 Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1465 Rome Debt..
End of mbnth...1383 75 Deferred .
RAILWAYS.

Account
Orleans ... 894
N orthern

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..„. 545
Western
Eastern .
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 3831
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 47

SIIIPWRECKS.-LIFEBOAT SERVICES.

GREAT YARMOUTH', Sunday.

The ship Omega, of London, bound from Sunder-
land to Carthagena with coals (says Mr. M. H.
Butcher), struck on the Cockle Sands this morning.
She knocked her rudder away, came off, and drove
foul of the Cockle Light Ship, doing that vessel
damage, and having her own starboard broadside
stove in. She then drove clear, and went over the
north part of the Scroby Sand in a helpless and
sinking state. The wind was blowing strong from
the north at the time, and there was a high sea run-
ning. A signal of distress was made,and theYarmouth
large lifeboat the Mark Lane, and the Caister large
lifeboat the Birmingham No. 2, belonging to the
National Lifeboat Institution, were thereupon
promptly launched. When the Mark Lane reached
the vessel, which was then about eight miles off
the land, she was boarded, and found to have 11
feet of water in the hold. Only seven of the crew,
including the captain and the North Sea pilot, were
on board, and these men were rescued at great risk
by the twolifeboats, the master having to be dragged
through the water for some little distance, the ship
then being completely on her broadside, and shortly
afterwards sinking. The two men who were saved
by the Birmingham lifeboat having been trans-
ferred to the Mark Lane boat, the latter,
was towed back to her station by one of the three
steamers which had come out from Yarmouth, and
the crew were safely landed. The remainder of the
crew, with the exception of the mate, who is sup-
posed to be drowned, were saved by getting on
board the Cockle Light vessel, and have also been
landed here. When the vessel sank she was 14 or
15 miles S.E. of Lowestoff.
PORTHCAWL, SOUTII WALES, Feb. 29.

The smack Ann, of Rothesay, passed this port in
distress during a strong gale from W.N.W. yester-
day (states the Rev. C. D. Knight). The only man
left on board was seen in the rigging. The "Good
Deliv eran ce" lifeboat of th eNation al Lifeboat Institu-
tion was launched without loss of time and proceeded
to the rescue through a very heavy sea. She suc-
ceeded lin getting on the weather quarter of the
smack, and let go her anchor with the intention of
dropping down near enough to take the men off.
The vessel had drifted on the rocks to the east of

his port. A heavy sea, however, broke into the
ifeboat, and compelled her to slip anchor and make

for the beach. She then pulled through the breakers
and made a second attempt, but the vessel had by
this time drifted into very shallow water, and the
man left on her was bravely rescued by Thomas
David from the shore. He was much exhausted,
and did not come round for about two hours. It
appeared that the smack, with the master (who was
also the owner) and one hand on board, had drifted
from the Mumbles, and the master being washed
overboard in the Channel the vessel was quite un-
manageable by one man, went on the rocks, and
has become a total wreck.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WORRYING THE MEMBERS OF WEST-END CLUBS.
—Elizabether Lancaster was charged, before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, by Mr. Henry Burrell, barrister-at-law,
residing at No. 36, Duke-street, St. James's, with
begging in Pall-Mall.
Mr. Burrell said that on the previous night about
11 o'clock the prisoner followed him more than
three parts along Pall-Mall, importuning him all
the while for alms, and seeing a constable he gave
her into custody. He wished to state that the
system of begging carried on in St. James's was
something horrible, and it was almost impossible
for a person to walk a yard without being molested
by a beggar.
Police Constable Bessay, 178 C, proved taking
the prisoner into custody at the request of Mr.
Burrell.

Mr. Tyrwbitt said there were constantly com-
plaints of a similar kind to that of Mr. Burrell's,
gentlemen going home from their clubs being cer-
tain to be mobbed by beggars. An example must
he made of some of them, and he should commit the
prisoner for 14 days.
Catherine Murphy and Margaret Murphy, mo-
ther and daughter, were charged with begging in
Jermyn-street.
Police-constable William Cane, 35 C, said that
on the previous night, about half-past eight, he saw
the prisoners following gentlemen along Jermyn-
street and asking them for money, and after seeing
them accost several gentlemen he took them into
custody.
The prisoner Catherine denied asking for money.
Mr. Tyrwbitt committed the prisoners for seven
days each, promising them a month each if they
came before him again, and remarking that the
neighbourhood was perfectly haunted by beggars.