The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-05 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EV &MING, AU G UST 5, 1868

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-

-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGII-STREE

TIIE BETTING MAN AND THE COOK—A BREACH
OF PROMISE CASE.—A remarkably good-looking
young woman, with a profusion of ringlets, applied
to Mr. Tyrwhitt for his advice under the following
circumstances :

The applicant said that she was a cook, and that
she had beco►ne acquainted with a person who
had promised to marry her, but some words having
taken place between them he now refused to fulfil
his promise.

Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the applicant what the man
was, at the same time telling the young woman that
he had no power to interfere in such a case.
The applicant said that he was a betting man.
Tyrwhitt asked the applicant whether that
being the case she considered it much of a loss.
The applicant sAid he was also a teacher of gym-
nastics, and was a black man—(laughter)—and he
was also a married man. All she wished was to
punish him, so as to have revenge on him. She did
not care what it cost her, so that he was punished.
Mr. Tyrwhitt advised the applicant not to throw
her money away for such a purpose.
The Applicant 'thanked the Magistrate for his
advice, and left the court smiling, but evidently not
quite satisfied in letting her gay Lothario csc ►pe.
SERIOUS Loss BY A FOREIGNER.—John Behrens,
a merchant staying at the Frankenstein Hotel, Wil-
son-street, Finsbury, was charged before- Mr. Tyr-
whitt with being drunk and incapable yesterday.
The defendant was found by Police-constable
Todd, 37 C, in Moor-street, Soho, in a helpless
state and taken to the police station, and charged
with being drunk, and on being brought before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, was discharged.
Our reporter was informed by a' friend of the
defendant's that he had ascertained for the defen-
dant that he had, after spending the evening at the
Alhambra, gone to different houses, and that he
had every reason to believe that something more
than drink was given to him, as he suddenly be-
came stupified, and on recovering his senses found
himself in the station and nearly £5OO in foreign
notes, mostly Belgian, had been taken from him.

THAMES.
CURIOUS ASSAULT CASE.—Jeremiali Daly, an
Irish tailor, aged 23 years, was brought before Mr.
Benson, charged with assaulting John IVhatmore,
a police-constable, No. 198 11.
The policeman was on his beat last night, when
the prisoner crossed the road and struck him a
severe blow on the jaw. He was immediately
taken into custody, and on being asked the reason
for striking a policeman he said he had been cut
with his wife on an excursion and they quarrelled,
and that she so loudly " bully-ragged" him that he
was tired of his life and liberty, and struck the con-
stable for the purpose of being locked up and sent
to prison.
Mr. Benson said the prisoner was a fool as well
as a coward to strike a policeman because he quar-
relled with his wife. He sentenced the prisoner to
seven days' imprisonment and lard labour.
The prisoner—l wish it were a month. Send me
away to prison for a month.

Mr. Benson—No,
Sevens ay
I will not comply with your
request.
imprisonment on short diet
on—Ndo,
and strict discipline will teach you not to strike
policemen again with impunity.
DESERTING A WIFE AND FAMILY.—James Denny,
an English tailor, aged 30, of No. G, Napier-street,
Southwark, was brought before Mr. Benson charged
with deserting his wife and four children, and Icar-

g them chargeable to the parish of St. George-in

the-East.
Mr. William Rolston, relieving officer of S
George, said that the prisoner's wife and four chh-
dren became chargeable to the parish on the ,29th
of November last, and had since been maintained
at the expence of the ratepayers. One of the chil-
dren died a few weeks since.
Mr. Benson—And was buried at the expense of
the parish ?
Mr. Rolston—Yes, sir. He has been employed
by Messrs. Samuel, tailors and outfitters, in Lud-
gate-hill, and his earnings for the last 16 weeks
have averaged 2,0 e. per week.
The Prisoner—Sometimes I have only earned
10s. per week.
Mr. Benson said tile prisoner's e:nployers had
given the average. Sometimes the. prisoner had
earned 304. in one 'week, and he ought to
have made an effort to maintain his wife
and children in the best way he could.
Instead of doing so he had left them to their fate,
and abandoned them. There were many labourers
supporting large families in all parts of the country
on less than 20s. per
Area. It was a bad case, and
the prisoner must be imprisoned for
kept to hard labour. six weeks and

WESTMINSTER.
THE MARQUIS TOWNSUEND AND THE BEGGARS.—
Mary Anne M'Farlane, wretchedly clad, and who
presented the appearance of having seen better
times, with Mary
Anne Rogers and Arthur Rogers,
her children, and Mary Rogers, with Jane and Alice
Rogers, her children, evidently professional mendi-
cants, were charged by the Marquis Townshend
with begging.
His lordship said yesterday at 7
o'clock he saw
the prisoner M'Farlane and her children sitting on
a doorstep in ICi
—ng's-road Chelsea. Ho watched
them a considerable time, and saw them receive
some money and food from a house opposite. His
lordship was waiting for a constable when the other
woman begged at the door of a house hard by. He
gave them all in charge.
M'Farlane, who
was evidently far advanced in
pregnancy, said in reply to the magistrate, that the
children were hers by a former husband; she knew
nothing of the other prisoners, although they bore
the same name. She was not begging
but sat down
to rest herself, as she had a bad leg,
when some
kind person sent her tea and fool.
Rogers said she did ask for alms, and had no one
to look to for her living.
Dennis, the gaoler, thought that Rogers was
known, and
Mr. Arnold remanded the women for a week, and
sent the children to the workhouse.

TIIE HAVELOCK TURF AGENCY.—On Saturday
Thomas Walters was charged before Mr. Woolrych, at the
Lambeth Police-court, with stealing bank notes and gold
to the value of £401105., the property of Mr. Joseph Wood,
of the " Havelock Turf Agency," Walworth-road.—Mr.
Chipperfield appeared for the prosocution.—George West-
ripp, general manager to the Turf Agency, said prisoner's
duty was to receive money for commissions relative to
horse-races, pay the amount to Mr. Wood's brmkers, and to
forward to the respective winners the amount of cash they
might win. It was usual for prisoner to give vouchers similar
to that produced, which was in the name of " Lee" for 425,
and was in prisoner's handwriting. On Monday, May 4,
Mr. Wood left with witness an open cheque, to be filled in
so as to cover all claims on account of the Chester Cup
race, and on priseuer saying on Thursday, May 7, after
the Cup had been won by Paul Jones, ti We have to pay
£650 to the winners," witness filled in the cheque for
that amount. Prisoner got it cashed at the Newington
branch of the London and County Bank, whore prosecutor
kept his account, and put various sums into five letters for
the purpose of transmitting them to the respective win-
ners ; but although he undertook to post and register such
money letters he did not do so as far as regarded £lOl 10s.
On the following Tuesday he absented himself, and did
not again return to the office. Mr. C. Waters, clerk to the
London and County Bank, proved cashing the cheque ;
and Police-sergeant Ham stated that ho apprehended the
prisoner on Friday night last near the Elephant and Castle,
and took him into custody. On searching him ho found a
purse containing Us. and the two 410 notes produced.
Remanded.

THE SCIIOOL FRIGATE CONWAY. —.The annual
meeting of the School Committee of the Mercantile Marine
Service Association of Liverpool was held yesterday; Mr.
James Beazely in the chair. The proceedings were of a
formal
he report, which stated
cir'eaproacterWThese that
cretary' Mr. Clarke AsPinall,
au u. abating interest
in the institution was taken by the Lords of theAdtuiralty.
They commenced the half-year with 123 pupils, the high-
est inunb.T, save for one short period, they ever had.
The financial statement showed that though there La
been a small loss on the past year, there was still a sum of
£795 to the credit of the institution. Letters from several
parents acknowledging the excellent training. their sons
had received on board the Conway wore also read.
The newspapers have been lately teeming with refer-
ences to economy in tea by co-operation. Horniman and
Co. have for 30 years co-operated through Agents to
supply tea on more adcantayeous terms than by the ordinary
channel; their tea reaches the consumer in the same pure
state as it knees the grower ; as it is secured in packets.

1111DDLE-CLASS EDUCATION IN
MELAND.

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(From the Month.)
There are probably not many, even among the
loudest opponents of the proposed measure for the
disc stablishment of the (so-called) Irish Protestant
Church, who believe in their heart of hearts that
the passing of that measure can be long delayed.
They may be determine 1 to do all that they can to
avert what they consider so great a calamity, and
they arc not to be blamed if they fight hard, even
without much hope of ultimate success. On the
other hand, the very certainty of what must, sooner
or later, be the issue of the conflict now raging
around us, may perhaps he disadvantageous in its
effects on many who wish well to what seems to be
the winning side. There are many, perhaps, who
have no taste for agitation, and who dislike the
uproar and excitement of sueh a conflict, mind they
may be inclined to fold their hands an 1 forlhar to
exert their full energies on the present occasion,
just because the result is hardy uncertain—for-
getful that such indifference works, in reality,
against the cause which they have at heart, al-
though it is not likely to defeat it altogether.
The wis.r course would, perhaps, be to 113 C every
possible exertion to bring about the speedy termi-
nation of the contest. Whatever may be the
feelings and the motives of the friends of the Irish
Establishment in England, there can be no doubt
that the Orangemen of Ireland, and a large num-
ber of other Protestants who would repudiate the
title of Orangemen, accustomed as they are to the
privileges and nurtured in all the traditions—in the
pride and swagger, and bluster and pomp —of
ascendancy, will certainly die as hard as they can.
The last thing that can be expected of them is,
that they should listen to reason and let themselves
be gently persuaded to resign their pretentious
position without a struggle. We shall have, there
fore, to witness the process of the more or less forc-
ible reduction to their proper position as a mi-
nority of a large class of persons of vigorous
character, determined, self-reliant, and by no
means cowardly or scrupulous, who have hitherto
lived, in supreme and confident contempt of the
mass of their fellow-countrymen, in the undisturbed
belief in their own innate and Heaven-ordained
superiority—dreaming, moreover, rather that they
themselves were conferring a benefit and earning
the gratitude of England by keeping up her domi-
nation over Ireland than that they were a small
colony of which very short work would have been
made long ere this but for the power of England
behind them, and that that country owes them
thanks for nothing except for having made her
Government the object of intense hatred in Ireland
and in America, and of the scornful criticism of
the whole civilized world besides. Now, this pro-
cess is of a kind that bad better be got through as
soon as possible. There can be no real peace or
security for Ireland till the system of Peo'estent
ascendancy, in all its manifold ramificatiois, be
utterly demolshed, trampled under foot, bulled
and f rgotten, and a new system of perfect equality
of race and creed established iu its stead in full life
and vigour. If some representative embodiment
of " ascendancy " could be preserved in spirits of
wine, by the side of the Danish swords and gold
collars in the Royal Irish Academy, it might per-
haps be well that antiquarians should have the
opportunity of refreshing their memory as to is
surpassing and inconceivable unloveliness ; but the
sooner all record of it vanishes from the mind of
the people of Ireland the better it will be for all
the highest interests of the nation. A new edifice
of harmony and happiness has to be raiied iu Ire-
land, and the first step must be to get rid of the
hideous portent which now occupies the ground.
Everything must wait till the work of demolition
has cleared the way.
Although it may be possible to exaggerate the
immediate consequences of the destruction of Pro-
testant ascendancy in Ireland, and although it may
be very difficult at the present moment to forecast
the future co accurately as to discern for certain
what those consequences may be, it is at least a
matter of practical importance to reflect that the
change cannot poseibly be insignificant, and that
it is sure to tax to the utmost the energies of all
true lovers of the Church and of their country, in
order that the great opportunities for good which
will present themselves may not be allowed to pais
unheeded, and, perhaps, even that some possible
dangers may not be unprovided. for. We hear
many speculations as to the result of the dis-
establishment of Protestantism in the country, and
we are not inclined to add our own contribution to
the number. Surely, the results will in the long
run very much depend upon the Catholics of Ire-
land themselves. It is quite possible to conceive a
state of things ensuing after the demolition of the
Establishment, many features of which would be
discouraging and disastrous. Some people tell us
that there will be greater bitterness between classes
which are already separated by creed as well as by
position. Others are so good as to predict that
there will ensue a separation between the Catho-
lic clergy and the Catholic laity, and that a golden
reign of " Liberal " Catholicism will set in. "I
believe," writes a sharp Protestant clergyman to
one of the ablest of our London papers, " that the
spread of true Protestantism and liberal teaching
will be much served, and that more progress will
be made in enlightenment and civilization, such as
are incompatible with the so-called Ultramontane
views, during the next ten years than has been
made during the last hundred." Others take a
brighter view—brighter, that is, in a Catholic
sense —and predict that all the evils which now
afflict Ireland will suddenly disappear. We con-
fine our own prognostications to two prosaic state-
ments, both of which are founded on reason, and
therefore, we suppose, tolerably certain. The first
is, that as no one who knows Ireland ventures to
call Protestant ascendancy a merely sentimental
grievance—as it is, iu reality, a grievance on which
rests a whole system of social injustice, biting
deeply into the heart of a noble and, therefore,
sensitive people—the destruction of such a griev-
ance, tardy though it be, cannot but tend to change
most happily the whole tone of feeling of that
people towards those who have hitherto maintained
the obnoxious system, and now have removed it.
The race which has borne it patiently, though
indignantly, will reward the justice that is done it
with a gratitude almost as great as might have
been called forth by an undeserved benefit. Our
second prediction has already been anticipated.
Results very good or very disappointing may
follow from the disestablishment on which we are
now engaged. Which of the two will follow
must depend very much upon the intelligence, the
activity, the loyalty to the Church, the amount of
cultivation, the wideness and justice of view,
which are brought to bear upon the opportunities
and difficulties of the new position of the Catholics.
The title prefixed to this paper will sufficiently
indicate to which of the many urgent needs of the
Catholic population we are now directing attention.
The very marrow, and muscle, and sinew of the
nation is its middle class, and the peculiar condi-
tion of Catholic Ireland, as also the strong tendency
of the age in which we live to throw power into
the hands of the people, make us look with special
eagerness to this class among ourselves. The
destinies of Ireland are in a great measure in their
hands. Much as we hope for the future, much as we
may reasonably expect from an era of peace, har-
mony, and justice, shining for the first time on a
nation which has so long been denied ordinary
opportunities for the development of its abundant
energies and unrivalled natural gifts, it can
scarcely be denied that the dawn of this happier
period in the existence of Ireland finds her most
important classes, at the best, imperfectly educated.
We believe it to be true th•it in whatever way the
youth of this class have had an opportunity of
testing themselves by public competition the re-
sult has been remark•lbly in their favour, even
without making full allowance for the great dis-
advantages under which they have laboured in re-
gard to preparation for those examinations. What
we must insist upon is that no disadvantage at all
shall in future exist. This must be urged not only
on the Government an•l on all those whose posi-
tion gives them the power to remedy the wrong,
but on the class itself on which the wrong has

Foreign whoat, of which but a very moderato quantity
came to hand, was also quito as high.
On the coast a cargo has been sold at a full price. The
quantity now on tho way is about the same as last year.
Barley is unaltered. New foreign malting quoted 48s.
to ols.

Beans and peas unaltered.
Oats rather a slow sale.

TALLOW.
The market is quiet, but stowly, at 44.3 Gd, spat ; 45s Gd
last three months.

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. s.—Sales probably 8,000 bales,
Market quiet and prices drooping.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 4—Mary Jane, from Memel ; Thomas
Elizabeth, from Guernsey ; Dido, from Uleaborg ; Nora,
fromyroderiekstad ; Miranda, from Hudikswall ; Eleanora,
from Cronstadt ; Adelaide, from Sisal ; Norman, steamer,
from Stettin; Era, steamer, from St. Petersburg.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 18 ... 11 181
Do
Antwerp — 11 191 ... 12 0
~. 25 35 25 40
HBrussels
Pamburgb
aris Short ... 25 1U ... 25. 17
Ditto
Mraseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 ... 1201
Vienna
... 11 571 .
Trieste.,..... .. 11 621
Petersburg
Copenhagen ..... ............... ”
31/ ... 32
...... ... 9 17 9 20
MBerlin
Cadrid..
adiz - Leghorn
Mi1an......., ... 27 75 27 80
Genoa
Palurine ................. 27 75 ... 27 80
LMessina
isbon
Oporto ................ 511 51/

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A train left the Victoria
Station yesterday morning at 7.30 for Croydon, but had not
proceeded far when tho engine and tender and one car-
riage got off tho lino. Several of the passengers were
much shaken, and were detained half-au-hour, being finally
forwarded by an o therkrain.
THE MASTODON "IN SOUTII CAROLINA.—Captain
C. 0. Boutelle, of the United States Coast Survey, whilst
making explorations in the neighbourhood of St. Helena
Islands, South Carolinas ree,utly unearthed a huge mas-
todon, lying in a bed of marl. The skeleton was perfect,
but a portion of the bones very soft, while other parts aro
petrified. The bones are of enortnous size. Professor
C. U. Shepard, of the South CarolinL Medical
College, and his son, the professor, who recently returned
from Europe, will exhume the monster aid bring it to
Charleston. It is the first mastodon yot discovered oa the
Atlantic coast, though it has heretofore been met with in
the West. The Philadelphia Academy of Natural
Sciences has received from Kansas the bones of an enor-
mous reptile embedded in crystalised gypsum, and is now
engaged iu chiselling them out and putting them together.
The vertebral column is over 30 feet long, and the mon•
ster is believed to have been more than 50 foot in length.
Professor Cope pronounces it a hitherto unknown species
of saurian.