The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-09 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

INFRINGEMENT OP THE FACTORY ACT.—Three manu-
facturers of Birmingham have been summoned at the
police-court in that town to answer charges of infringe-
ment of the Factory Act. In the case of Mr. Charles
Clifford, of Fazeley-street, an excuse was put in that the
machinery had broken down during the day, and that
they were working overtime to complete an order.
The magistrate inflicted the penalty in four cases,
amounting to £l3 10s. 6d. Messrs. Reader and Dingle,
stampers and pressers, were charged on eight different
summonses for detaining girls at work after six. The
penalties in this case amounted to £lO 7s. Gd. Mr. John
Higgins, tube-maker, of Floodgate-street, had a penalty of
£3 17s. Gd. inflicted.

THE RAID UPON THE BETTING MEN AT LIVERPOOL.—
At the Liverpool Police-court, Samuel Davidson, F. J.
Parry, Andrew King, and James Dalzell, all well-know'
members of the sporting fraternity, who were appre-
hended by warrant on Tuesday, have been brought
up before Mr. Raffles, stipendiary magistrate. The
apprehension took place at a yard in Hood-street, off
Whitechapel, much frequented by the betting men of the
town. The prisoners were charged under the 16 and 17
Vic., chap. 119, secs. 3 and 4, with two offences. The
first was that of assisting to conduct the business at the
place in Hood-street, open for the purpose of persons
betting therein upon certain events or contingencies
relating to horseracing, by which they had rendered
themselves liable to a penalty of £lOO, or six months'
imprisonment in default. The second offence was
that of receiving money as bets on condition of paying
certain sums of money to persons upon certain events
relating to horseracing. The penalty incurred in this
case was £5O and costs, or in default three months'
imprisonment. Mr. Walter, prosecuting solicitor, con-
ducted the prosecution. The prisoners were defended by
Mr. Cobb and Mr. Charles Pemberton. The case of
Davidson was taken first, and it being proved that beta
were made upon the premises spoken of, he was convicted
and ordered to pay £5O penalty for receiving betting
money, and the nominal penalty of Is, for conducting the
business. The other defendants pleaded guilty, and were
ordered to pay the same penalties. All the fines were
paid.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes a de-
spatch from Bombay, stating that the Governor-General
of India supports the request of the Shah of Persia rela-
tive to the establishment of a British naval station in the
Persian Gulf.

THE " CARPET-BAGGER 7. AND THE " SCALAWAG."
—A Mississippi newspaper thus describes the difference
between the " scalawag" and a " carpet-bagger," two
classes now frequently heard of in American politics :
",The carpet-bagger is a Northern thief who comes South
to plunder every white man who is a gentleman of any
property or respectability, and get all the offices he can.
The scalawag is a Southern-born scoundrel, who will do
all the carpet-bagger will, and, besides, murder the carpet-
bagger for the gutta-pexcha, ring his sister gave him when
he left home."

"THE WICKEDEST MAN IN NEW YonK."—The
performances which a number of religious people are
carrying on in the den in this city occupied by John
Allen, " the wickedest man," &c., have reached a
point at which the interference of those who have any
reverence for sacred things becomes absolutely neces-
sary. The final touch of horror and repulsiveness has
been given to the whole affair by the appearance of the
poor wretch Allen himself in the country districts
as a preacher of righteousness, with a small charge for
admission. lie is said to have presented himself to the
very small audience which his agents were able to collect
at Stamford in a state of stupid intoxication. We do not
deny that men like Allen may be suddenly reformed, but
we can hardly think of a graver outrage, both on religion
and morality, than the sanction, by clergymen or members
of churches, of the Qieory that a life-long ruffian, reeking
from a stew kept by himself, can be qualified by a:week's
repentance—even supposing it to have been sincere—to
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