The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-15 00:00:00

➢OLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH.—Susan Robinson and Ann May, middle-
aged females of gipsy-like appearance, were placed at the
bar before the lion. G. C. Norton on the following
charge.
Ann Aldis, servant to a gentleman named Preston,
residing in Grove-road, Brixton, deposed that about five
months ago, the prisoner Robinson called at her master's
Louse with some lace for sale, and having represented
that she was in very great distress, she (witness)
gave her a small quantity of tea (about an ounce),
and some cold mutton and bread. On Monday last
she called again, and said that she had been taken
up for the tea witness had given her, and sent to
prison for two months for having it in her posses-
sion. She also said that she had concealed the name
of the person from whom she got it, but unless the
(witness) made up the 5/. she had to pay to her, she
should not suffer for her any longer, but would give
up her name, and she should be then bad up
for the tea, and then the whole thing must come to her
master's knowledge. Witness told her that the tea was
her own, and she bad a right to give it away if she
thought proper ; upon Which the prisoner observed
"but the mutton and bread was not." Witness feeling
alarmed lest her mistress, who was a very nervous lady,
should hear the prisoner, went up stairs and brought the
prisoner down two half crowns, and on handing them to
her the prisoner exclaimed " Oh ! my God, is this all you
are going to give me ?" .and began to cry, and make a
great noise. Witness fearing her master would hear her,
went up stairs again, and brought down another half-
crown, which she gave her. She then went away, say;
ing she would call on the Tuesday evening, when she
must have some more money, as she must have the 51.
ready by eight o'clock on that evening. She did not
call on the Tueclay, but on Wednesday evening a man.
wit. represented himself to be her husband, called at her
iaa,tcr't4 house, and asking for her, s _his wife would
call shortly after. At about seven o'clock the prisoner
called, and witness having no more money to give her,
handed her a shawl, a pair of stays, and a gownpiece,

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and though she expressed dissatisfaction at not receiving
money, she went off.

Mr. Norton—What did the second prisoner do ?
Witness—She 'nerdy stood nearly opposite my mas-
ter's house with the child Robinson now has in her arms,
and on leaving the house Robinson joined her.
Mr. Norton—l suppose the prisoner's threat amounted
to this, that unless you gave her 5/. she would bare you
appreherded for stealing the tea and other things you
gave her from your master?
Witness—Yes, sir, that wal it ; and she said that
if I was taken up my master would know it.

Mr. Norton—And in consequence of these threats you
gave ber the 7A. 6d. and the articles you mentioned ?

Witnesq—Yes, sir. I was so alarmed that I sea-
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knew what I did. - -

ifr. Norton—Hag the prisoner Robinson ever offered
;o tell yuu your fortune ?

Witness—No, sir, never.
Police-constable 61 P said that while on duty in the
Grove-road, Brixton, on the preceding evening he say,.
the prisoner Robinson come from the house cf Mr. Brie•

w and join her companion, who held her child

ed her what she did at the h,use, arid she replied that

e merely went there. to beg.
_Observing something,

bulky under her artli lie approached to take her into
custody, end sl;e instantly dropped the pair of stays and
gown piece subsequently owned by the List witness.
The prisoner Robinson, in reply to the cbar;ze, said
the articles and the money had been given to her volun-
tarily by the young woman Aldis ; and May said she
happened to pass the house at the time, and, at the re-
quest of Robinson, she merely held her child while she
went in.

The constable contradicted the statement of May, and
said he had frequently seen her in the company of Ro-
binson.

Mr. Norton .said that the offence was not only of a
most serious but scandalous character, and much feared
that it was one that had been carried on to a cons' ler.
able extent. He then remanded the prisoners.

WORSHIP-STREET. —Anne Williams was brought
up on remand. before Mr. D'Eyncqurt, upon a charge of
hocussing and robbing Mr. Isaac Brown, a fringe manu-
facturer, in Bethnal-green.
The prosecutor stated that between seven and eight
o'clock on the morning of Wednesday se'nnight, ho en-
tered a public-house in Holywell-lane, Shoreditch, and
called for a glass of pale ale, at which time he observed
a number of low characters of both sexes standing on
either side of him in front of the bar. As soon as the

liquor was placed before him, he was induced to turn his
head on hearing a sudden exclamation, which was evi-
dently intended to divert his attention, but he drank the
ale immediately afterwards, and the instant he had
swallowed it he became perfectly stupified, and he had
not the slightest recollection of anything that subse-
quently occurred until the lapse of several hours, when
he found himself in bed at his own house in a state of
extreme stupor and exhaustion, and discovered that he
had been robbed of about 4/. in geld and silver, together
with his gold signet ring, pencil case, and watch and
guard, the latter of which articles was now produced by
the police.
The prisoner was again remanded.

ANAPA, TAGANROG, AND MARIOUPOL.

Anapa the last is also in every sense the most
important of the towns aud fortresses on the litto-
ral of the Black Sea, abandoned by Russia since
the commencement of this war. The town, situ-
ate on the north-east coast of the Euxine, at the
northern termination of the Caucasian range, 47
miles south-east of Yenikale, is inhabited by a
miscellaneous population of Circassians, Tartars,
Greeks, Jews, Armenians, Russians, and others, to

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the number of about five thousand. The adverse
relations of its masters with the tribes inhabit-

ing the mountain country in its rear have al-
most neutralised the great advantages offered
by its situation, and prevented its growth.
Its exports ara at present grain, tallow,
butter, hides, peltries, wax, &c. It is, however, as
a military post that it has been. most prized by
Russia, most deplored by Turkey. The fort, built
by the Turks in 1784, was taken by the Russians
in 1791 and in 1807, and only given up with the,
greatest reluctance. In May, 1828, a detached
Russian corps, assisted by the fleet, and commanded
by the redoubtable Menschikoff, laid siege to
Anapa, and with great difficulty surrounded the
place with a long line of circumvallation, inter-
secting the neck of land on which Anapa is situ-
ated, and extending on each side to the sea. Iu a
few days the works were advanced to the glacis,
and three breaches having been made, the govarnor,
was summoned to surrender. The garrison had
consisted of three thousand men ; they had de-
fended the fort for forty days ; Navarino bad de•
stroyed the fleet which might have brought them
relief, aid nothing remained. but to surrenth r.

Upon the conclusion of this war Anapa was not
restored ; at the peace of Adrianople it was ceded
to Russia, with all the coast towns and forts, from
the Kouban to Fort St. Nicholas. The name of
this last fort will be remembered (although its
Turkish denomination of Shaf-katil is, psrhaps,
better known) as having been taken by the Turks
at the opening of last year's Asiatic campaign.
Anapa, at the other extremity of the coast line,
closes the list. At any other time the transfer of
this military position from the Russians to the Cir-
cassians—the most vio•orous and constant of their
enemies—might have been deemed an event of con-
siderable importance, but its evacuation at the pre-
sent moment is peculiarly interesting as a sign of
the severe pressure under which the power ofßus-
sia is visibly collapsing.
The fluide Maritime dans la Ater d'Azoff gives
the following details of Taganrog, against which
the successful expedition has just taken place
" The greatest depth of the basin of Taganrog, si-
tuate very nearly at the bottom of the gulf of the Don,
is 10, 11, and 16 feet from the channel of the Pereve-

Loki, in a south-west direction to the extremity of the
Petrouchina bank. The soundings given here are, all

those of the Don, almost fictitious, as the land-w.inds
reduce them considerably, and in some places down
t > zero. Every sort of vessel lies during that period
e:nbedded in the mud, and occasionally for a ong
time. The port owes its foundation to Peter the
Great. Even in his time the diminution of the waters
of the Sea of Azoff was remarked, and the pre-,
sent site of Taganrog was chosen on the declivity
of a promontory, or cape, in the hope that a sufficient
anchorage should always be found. The new port ac-
quired at its commencement some commercial import-
ance, but its disadvantages soon became apparent. The
Don, which empties itself with impetuosity at the bot-
tom of the gulf, drags down with it the sands which
the south winds heap up on the coast, and it is
owing to this that the water is so shallow near
Taganrog and in all its basin. It has been before
observed that the sea water is so freshened by that of the
Don at this spot as to be drinkable. In the commencement
of the present century the port of Taganrog was fre-
quented by such a number of foreign vessels as to induce
the Government to second the movement. Taganrog
had then a lazaretto belonging to it, which dispensed 1
vessels bound from that port from seven days' observa-
tion, which they performed in front of the Strait of
Kertch. But the navigation becoming more extended,
and the maritime establishment of Taganrog promising
to be insufficient for the ever•increasing wants of an
eetreptit, Custom-house and quarantine were formed at
Kertch. Commercial transactions were thus divided be-
tween the two, and Taganrog saw each day a smaller
number of vessels in its waters, The quarantine of
Kertch allowed no vessels to pass on to Taganrog
bu- those that were recognised as without suspicion.
But what gave the last blow to Taganrog was the
measure adopted in 1833 by the Russian Govern-
ment, which declared Kertch the only quarantine
port in tne Sea of Azoff, which from that time was
closed to all merchant vessels excepting those in the
coasting trade. Kertoh, being at once on the Sea of
Azoff to the north, and on the Black Sea to the East,
became by that act the entrepot and the port of discharge
of those two seas. The colonial products of the north-
ern coast and even those of the Don arrived by cara-
vans, following the tongue of Arabat, up to the only
privileged port. What only sustains now the commerce
of Taganrog are the transports of munitions of war and
of provisions from the Caucasian provinces. A consid-
erable number of vessels for that special service con-
stantly traverse the waters of that sea, the waters of
which are each day becoming more shallow, and which
threaten to disappear altogether."
Of Marioupol it says, that
"It is a place of much commercial activity. In it
is gathered the grain brought from the interior, and
taken by Genoese merchantmen, who have not forgosten
this route, which was so well known to their ancestors,
and where the Genoese flag was at one time so powerful.
Beyond Marioßpol the coast, bordered with cliffs, run
94 miles to thehouth-west and terminates at Cape Bic.•
losarai, at the foot of' which is formed a tongue of, mild,
seven miles in extent, to the south-west, curving towards
the west. There are 14 feet of water at about a mile
from the shore, from Marioupol to Cape Bielosarai. The
same bottom is found the whole; length of the tongue at
half a mile from its eastern shore. It changes to the
south-west of the lighthouse and successively throughout
the whole western part, when only 14 feet are found at
two miles from land. From the north-west of the light-
house along the coast which runs towards the west sea
gets deeper, and at a mile' it is 1G feet."

Ma. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE ON THE ARMY BEFORE'
SEBASTOPOL.—The committee assembled yesterday, for
the 49th time, for the purpose of still further consider-
ing their report. All the members were present at 12
o'clock with the exception of Col. Lindsay, who did not
arrive until some time afterwards. They sat until 4
o'clock, not then having agreed to their report. In con-
sequence of Mr. Layard having to prepare for his mo-
tion in the House of Commons to-night, the committee
again adjourned until Monday next,