The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, JUNE 11, 1868.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7-7:II1S DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN ITALIAN CHARGED WITH STABBING.—
Pietro Stigniani, an Italian, was charged before
Mr. Knox with stabbing Joseph Pepins, a waiter,
living in Castle-street, Leicester-square, and he was
also charged with two others named Emile Came
Chiptiani and Albert Gardon with fighting to-
gether, Chipniani also being charged with assault-
ing Police-constable Bond, 228 C.
The minor charge was first gone into, when
Bond said—This morning at a quarter to one I was
going up Princes-street, Leicester-square, when I
saw prisoners and a number of others quarrelling.
I told them to go away, acid they went a short
distance and then began fighting, and on my again
interfering Chipriani broke a stick over my head
and caused the mark I have over my eye. I took
him into custody and handed him over to a sergeant
and went back and took the others who had been
fighting. Stigniani, who had been fighting, was
covered with blood.

Mr. Frogett addressed the magistrate on the
part of Gardon, and said that he (Gardou) was an
injured person, having first been assaulted by
Stigniani and Chipriani, and then assaulted by
Chipriani.

Mr. Knox said that he was disposed to send all
cases of assaults on the constables to the Sessions.

He agreed with Mr. Frogett that Gardon was an
injured person, and should discharge him, but asked
him to stay, as his evidence might be required.
Mr. Sayer then opened the charge of stabbing
against Stigniani.

After some evidence had been given the prisoner
was remanded.

WESTMINSTER•

SINGULAR APPLICATION BY A BLIND MAN.—A
blind man, about the middle age, requested the
magistrate to give him advice under the following
circumstances. _ _ _

He said that about eight years ago he and 30
other men, bereft of vision, formed themselves
into a society for their mutual advantage.
Their subscription was three pence per week,
from which they were enabled to afford
assistance of six shillings per week in sick-
ness, and a sum of £5 on the death of a member.
The object of applicant's visit to the. court was to
inquire how an end would be put to the society, as
it was useless to attempt to carry it on any longer
owing to the great falling off of members, only nine
at the present moment remaining in the society.
Mr. Arnold suggested that it might be dissolved
by mutual consent.
Applicant said that there were seven who were
of opinion that the best course would be to divide
the capital and so break up the society, but there
were three of a contrary opinion, two who were mem-
bers, and the third, Mr: E. Potter, a city missionary,
iNnllrueeshtalaivnesrtseer,to breaking the society
who was the hon. sec-
retary. r
up, and of course with only nine members it was
er ewe ta, s
in vain to attempt to cArry it on any longer.
Mr. Arnold said he could not help him, and re-
I commended him to apply to Mr. Tidd Pratt.

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conspiring with others to steal two sovereigns from
brought who
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Anthony-street, SB
Charles Wilkinson, a seaman, of 23, Buckle-street,
Whitechapel.
The prisoner, who looked as much unlike a farmer
as can possibly be conceived, belongs to a gang of
notorious magstnen who frequent the vicinity of
Tower-hill and other places to plunder seamen and
simpletons of their cash. The prosecutor was beset
by one of these, and induced to enter a publichouse,
when the prisoner soon presented himself, and said
he had a piece of laud on his farm which a railway
company required for a new line. His lawyer told
him to be very careful, and not to settle with the
railway company hastily. He took his lawyer's
advice, and had just received £l,BOO for his land
through his lawyer, and he was determined to be
very careful among strangers. He then inquired
the time of day, and the prosecutor sail he had no
watch. The prisoner said his watch was stopped,
talked about the vastness of the great " toon "
called " Lunnon,,, and exhibited a pocket-book,
in which there appeared to be a great
number of Bank of England notes, and s tid he
believed that money made the gentleman, and
he had become a gentleman now. The sailor
objected to the proposition, and said other qualities
were requisite to form a gentleman, and that a
pauper might be a gentleman and the richest man
in the kingdom a blackguard. The prisoner in-
sisted that money alone made a gentleman, and
asked the sailor to show him what money he had,
to which the sailor objected. Another man came
in, and the prisoner asked him for the loan of
three sovereigns. The man took three sovereigns
from his pocket and gave them to the pri-
soner, who then said, " You see how con-
fiding this gentleman is." The prisoner then
related a story that, in spite of the admonitions of
his lawyer, and the warning to be careful, he had
suffered himself to be defrauded of £5. He then
took the sailor " round the corner," leaving the
others at the publichouse, at which the sailor was
very much surprised, and said, " Why, you might
ran away with the £3 the gentleman has lent
you," to which the prisoner said, " He knows I am
a gentleman, a genuine - one, and has trusted
me." The parties then returned to the public-
house, and the prisoner returned three sovereigns
to the "confiding" man, and gave him another
sovereign as a reward for the confidence he had
placed in him. The prisoner then asked the sailor
to lend him two sovereigns, to which he replied,
" No, I cannot, I am not so rich as you." The
prisoner then asked the sailor to show him his
money, to which he objected for some time.
At last, wearied out with the prisoner's impor-
tunities, he took two sovereigns from his pocket
and the prisoner looked at them, and said, "Let me
handle them ; don't be afraid." The sailor, taken
off his guard, put them into the prisoner's hand,
another man spoke to him, the prisoner and his
two confederates were out of the house in an
instant, but the sailor was not so easily to be
done. He clung to the ;risoner while his two
confederates were running away. One of them
returned, and took a pocket-book from the
prisoner. It contained all his notes and gold (no
doubt sham). The prisoner said,to the sailor " Take
back your money," and took some cash out of his
pocket. The prosecutor continued to hold the
rascal by the collar until a police-constable arrived,
to whom the prisoner was consi-
gned.
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week.

" General Prim," says the Presse, "has arrived
at Vichy, where he intends to pass some time, with
the permission of the French Government."
General Trochu is just now at Nancy, and was
last week present in the Chapel of the Visitation at
the ceremony of taking the veil by Mdlle. Adele
Trochu, his niece.
The remains of the late Marshal O'Donnell were
transferred on Monday to their final resting-place
is
nu
theser i mausoleum
subscription. The which has been raised by public
were tOurv3 in a perfect state of preservation, save
that there was some slight discoloration of the right
ticoffin was opened that the re-
mains of the deceased might be identified ; they
b
eye, caused by the effervescence of the salts used in
embalming the body. B3fore the coffin was sol-
dered down again the late Marshal's relations en-
closed therein four copies of the Gaceta, recording
his four great victories.
1 The Rev. Orby Shipley, the editor of the won-

known volume " The Church and the World," and
one of the leaders of the Ritualist party in London,
was married on Tuesday, at St. Alban's, Holborn,
by the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie, to a daughter of
the late Right lion. James Wilson, M.P., of the
Economist.

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NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE.

The experimental iron-built `unarmoured twin
screw gunvessel Staunch, 200 tons, 25-horse power,
carrying one 12-ton 9-inch rifl3d muzzle-loading
gun, was put through her official trial of speed over
the measured mile in Stokes-bay, near Portsmouth,
on Tuesday. Under the most favourable circum-
stances of weather, and at a draught of water of sft.
10in. forward, and 61t. 6in. aft, a speed of 7.653
knots were realised as the mean of six runs over the
mile, the load on the safety valve being 251 b., and
the mean revolutions of the engines 139. The tem-
perature on deck was 70, in the engine-room 76, in
the stokehole-starboard side 103, port side 94 deg.
The most efficient and interesting part of the trial
of the Staunch, as a miniature fighting machine,
was her performance in circling, thus exhibiting
most satisfactorily the extreme facility with which
twin screws working independently of each other
can be made to manoeuvre the vessel as to the carriage
of the gun, and train the latter rapidly upon any
desired point. This gun-training power, however,
as possessed by the Staunch, will be best understood
by a reference to the subjoined figures of the time
occupied in making the circles, and the conditions
under which each circle was made :-No. 1 circle,
both engines going ahead, and the rudder in use-
To starboard, half circle, imin. 15sec. ; full circle,
2min. 35sec. To port, half circle, lmin. 16sec. ;
full circle, 2min. 22sec. No. 2 circle, one engine
going ahead and the other astern, the rudder in use
-To starboard, half circle, lmin.; full circle, Imin.
47sec. To port, half circle, 56sec. ; full circle, Imin.
25sec. Nos. 1 and 2 circles were timed at starting
with the vessel going at full speed. No. 3 circle,
vessel started on the circle with both hull and
engines previously motionless, port engine going
ahead, starboard engine stopped, rudder in use-
To starboard, half circle, lmiu. 36sec. ; full circle,
2min. 57sec. To port, half circle, lmin. 37sec. ;
full circle, 2min. 53sec. No. 4 circle, vessel started
on the circle as before, with both hull and engines
previously motionless ; rudder fixed amidships ;
starboard engine going ahead; port engine stopped.
-Half circle, 2min. 9sec. ; full circle, 3min. 56sec.
Port engine going ahead, starboard engine stopped
Half circle, 2min. 9sec. ; full circle, 3min. 57sec.
At the conclusion of the day's trials the Staunch
returned to Portsmouth harbour, where, it is un-
derstood, she will be attached to the Excellent gun-
nery ship as an experimental tender.
The Rapid, 5, screw (unarmoured wooden) sloop,
.672 tons, 160-horse power, Commander Hon. F. L.
Wood, sailed from Portsmouth on Tuesday evening
for the Mediterranean.
The Gladiator, 6, paddle, Capt. D'Alpin, will be
paid out of commission at Portsmouth on the 16th
inst. A very gallant act was performed by an officer
serving on board this ship yesterday morning. At
3 a.m. one of the Marine Artillerymen belonging
to the ship accidentally fell overboard from the
vessel's bows, the tide running very strong at the
time. Sub-Lieutenant Anson Schomberg, who
was on deck on duty, saw the accident, and, imme-
diately jumping overboard aft.3r the man, had the
satisfaction of reaching him and assisting him to
float until both were got on board the ship again in
safety.
The new (composite-built) gunboat Elk, 2, 465
tons, 120-horse power, steamed out of Portsmouth
harbour yesterd ty and made a satisfactory trial of
her machinery preparatory to being reported reaJy
for commission.
The officers of the 49th (Princess Charlotte of
Wales's) R3giment dined together last evening at
the St. James's Hotel, Piccadilly.

THE VOLUNIEER REVIEW AT WINDSOR

THE FOLLOWING IS THE OFFICIAL DETAIL OF CORPS
PROCEEDING FROM KENSINGTON STATION.
By Great Western line, local arrangement-18th
Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, 150. At 12.45 p.m.,
4th Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, 60 ; Ist Mid-
dlesex Engineers, 400. At 1 p.m., 2d Middlesex
Rifle Volunteers, 601.