The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

PAVING CONTRIBUTIONS.--Mr. Barth, clerk to
the Board of Works of the Poplar District, came
before Mr. Benson with other officers of the board,
to support two summonses against Mr. Henry
Holloway and Mr. Robert Wells, owners of house
property in Broomfred-street, Poplar, for refusing
and neglecting to pay the assessments made upon
them for paving the street.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, said the Board of
Works were engaged in the great work of im-
proving the district, and laying down new paving,
to which the owners of house property were
bound to contribute. He was happy to say that
Mr. Holloway had agreed to pay
£2O 84. 11d., and
one guinea costs, and Mr. Robert Wells £7 Os. Bd.,
and one guinea costs, and that the Magistrate
would not be troubled with the hearing of the two
cases.

Mr. Benson—The sums named aro the amounts
which the defendants have been called upon to
contribute towards the paving of the street in
question ?

Mr. Charles Young—yes, sir.
Mr. Benson made the orders asked for, and the
parties retired.

ASSAULTS ON TIIE POLICE.—Mr. Benson sentenced
five persons to ten and fourteen days' imprison..
ment for assaulting policemen in the execution of
their duty, and in the last case tho magistrate was
very much pressed by the prisoner and his friends
to substitute a fine for imprisonment. Mr. Benson
said when constables were wantonly assaulted by
drunken and violent persons he should always in-
flict imprisonment, and persons in good circumstances
who could afford to pay fines would not be re-
lieved from that punishment if the assaults
were without provocation.
He should make no
distinction of persons at all. A man with a good
coat on his back and a well-filled purse would be
treated in every respect like the poorest individual.

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alarm as
police-constable, opened the door and cut her down.
Life was nearly extinct, she was black in the face,
and two surgeons who attended her had some diffi
culty in restoring her.

Air. Benson asked how it was that the two
women in the same cell did not prevent the prisoner
hanging herself.

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so much trouble that they left her to her fate.
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoner to the Clerk-
enwell louse of Detention for a week.

It has been arranged that on the Ist of this month
the train services of the Mont Cenis Railway shall
be in direct correspondence with the French and
Italian railways. Through booking will also com-
mence at the same date. The entire time occupied
between Paris and Florence will be reduced to thirty-
six hours, and the letters will be delivered a day
earlier in Florence,