The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-20 00:00:00

COTTON.

Livz'lron, Jan. 20.—The market opens firmly. Hol-
ders have an advance. Sales probably 12,000 or 15,000
bales.

DARING BURGLARIES IN HULL. —On Friday, a house
in Salthouse-lane, occupied by Mr. George Burrell,keel
master, was entered, and valuables to a considerable
amount were stolen. The house was completely ran-
sacked, and a watch and guard were taken from under
Mr. Burrell's pillow while he was asleep. One night last
week, a woman, named. Lynch, residing in Edgar-
street, had a desperate struggle with a burglar, who
was in the act of ransacking her room, when she
awoke. The thief first beat a retreat, but she fol-
lowed him, and a struggle ensued at the door. The
woman, though she was very roughly handled, detained
the fellow until some neighbours arrived ; he got off,
but not until he had been identified as an Irisman
named Cain. He is now in custody.
A CHILD BLEEDING TO DEATH.—On Saturday an
inquest was held at Trefonnen, near Oswestry, on the
body of Walter Sides, a child of nine, who had
wounded himself with the blade of a knife, and had
bled to death. On market day the mother went to
Oswestry, leaving the deceased in charge of three other
children younger than himself. When she returned
later in the day she found the deceased's dead body lying
in a pool of blood against the door. His brother said
that he (the deceased) was hammering a knife blade
against the wall, when the blade slipped and entered
his body. An artery was severed, and death must
have (ensued in a few minutes. A verdict of A cci-
dental death was returned.

THE POWDER MAGAZINE AT WHITErrAvEN. —A
summons has been issued against Mr. John Collins,
secretary to the Whitehaven Town and Harbour
Trustees, for having a quantity of powder stored in a
powder magazine, contrary to law. An application
has been made to the magistrates that the case should
stand adjourned, in order to give the trustees time to
look into it. If the trustees found it inexpedient to
keep powder there they would, as a mattsr of ex-
pediency, order its removal, but still they did not
wish to be compelled by law to do so. In the event
of a conviction the penalty would amount to some
thousands of pounds, and the powder would be for-
feited. The magistrates decided to adjourn the case
for a fortnight. They hoped that the trustees would
take every precaution to guard the powder. The
quantity of powder at present stored in the magazine
is somewhere about 11 tons 13 cwt.

STREET OUTRAGE. --/A. gentleman residing in
Bloomsbury reports an audacious case of highway
robbery. He says :—" I was walking down Endell-
street yesterday afternoon, about half-past three
o'clock, with my son, who is blind, and when
passing Short's-gardens a man pounced upon
my son, and tore his watch (a gold re-
peater) and albert chain from his pocket and
doubled round us and ran down Short's-gardens. I
followed, calling out 'Police !' and 'Stop thief !' and
although there were several rough fellows standing
about who might have caught the scoundrel with the
greatest ease, as he ran close past them, not one raised
his voice or put out his hand to stop him, and he got
clear off with his booty ; and when I looked for a
policeman there was not one to be found. I was con
soled, however, by my friends saying it was fortunate
I did not attempt to follow the thief through the maze
of the gardens, as had I done so I should most proba-
bly have been knocked on the head, in addition to
losing the watch and chain."
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A CLERGYMAN.--
No further trace has yet been discovered of the Rev.
B. Speke, of Dowlish, brother of the late Captain
Speke, the African explorer. He left Ihninster sta-
tion for London, on *Wednesday week for the purpose
of officiating at the wedding of a friend. As he never
put in an appearance there the telegraph was called
into requisition, and eventually the metropolitan de-
tectives were set to work. They discovered that about
5.30, on the Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Speke pur-
chased a hat in Warwick-street, but with his exit from
the hatter's shop all trace of the missing gentleman is
lost. Advertisements in the London papers, offerinr,
£lOO reward, have elicited no response. Mr. Speke
is about thirty-five years of age, of athletic build, and
well acquainted with London. He had some £2O in
his possession. Mr. W. Speke, the missing clergy-
man's brother, and the eldest son of the 'respected
Squire of Jordans, is in London assisting in the search,
which it is yet hoped may be successful. It is re-
ported that the police in the course of their investiga.
tions have unearthed another person who had been
non est for some time.—Eater Gaette.