The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-03 00:00:00

6 - P 8
7 - 99

134 - 136

104 - 106

124 - 13
23 - 24
10i - 111

2i - 2i

90 - 1.32

57 - 69

130 - 133

2i - 2 e

31. - 32
89 - 91

an ounce.

ounce.

HAY MARKETS.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(T.HIS DAY.)

(Before Mr. Serjeant Adams, Assistant-Judge.)
POCKET-PICKING.

IGeorge Tones, a youth, was indicted for stealing a
gold watch from the person of Mr. T. W. Rutherford,
a young gentleman residing in Stepney-green, on the
23d March last.
The prosecutor stated that, in the afternoon of the
day in question, which was a Friday, he was coming out
of Whitechapel church, where he had been attending
divine service ; whilst passing through the churchyard
amongst some other members of the congregation,
the prisoner pushed up against him. He pushed the
prisoner away from him, and was proceeding onwards

when Jones again pressed close upon him, and immed

ately he felt a jerk at his left-band waistcoat pocket. He
at once collared the prisoner, and then perceived his
catch, which had been detached from his guard-chain
by some sharp instrument, lying on the ground*at the
feet of the prisoner. The latter did not attempt to
escape, and went quietly away in custody.
Mr. Horry
,then addressed the jury on behalf of the
prisoner, but be wag found guilty.
It appeared that he was known to have been previously
in prison, and
Ha was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
COAL STEALING FEOII THE INDIA DOCKS.

Joseph Brooks, a liglaterman, was indicted fir stealing,
on the 24th March last, a quantity of coal from a lighter
lying in the East and West India Rickr.
Mr. Caarteen prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton defended

the prisoner.
John Galbraith, a night-watchman, employed on the
docks, deposed that about six o'clock on the evening of
the day above mentioned, whilst on his rounds, he
observed the prisoner step from his own barge on to
another, named The Nut, laden with c )al, and pick up
three or four large pieces, with which he stepped back

;o his own boat. He then returned a second time to

the same vessel, and toek away three or four more
pieces is a similar manner. He (tininess) then went
up to him anti toak.him nto cuit nly on the charg4;:of
stealing the c0a1..-Ile afterwards weighed the coal tbe
prisoner had stolen, and found it to be about 104 lbs. '•

Mark Antony Liddle, a constable in the employ of,
the Dock Company, stated that he received the plisoi!e;
into his charge from the last witness. The prisoner, iii,
reply to the charge, said, did take the coal."
The prisoner resifted very violently whilst being coo,
veyed to the station. ' -

Mr. Ribton, on behalf of the prisoner, said he i;a''

instructed that the man had borne hitherto an excellent
character, and called witnesses to that effect.

The As:istaLt-du lge, in summing up the evidence;
made some very strong comments upon the very care-
less and.unsatisfactory manner in .which the deposititns
from the police-court were very f..equently taken, and
mentioned the depositions in the present case as an
instance.

The prisoner was found guilty. The jury strongly
recommended him to mercy; and he wai sentenced t)
10 days' imprisonment.

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE UPON LETTERS
ADDRESSED TO THE BALTIC FLEET.

General Post Office, April, 1855,

Mails fur the British fleet in the Baltic will be made
up on the departure of ships of war or other vessels in
the service of her Majesty.

Letters will also be sent by the route of Kiel or
Dantzlg in the Prussian mails dispatched daily via
Ostend.

The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury
have been pleased, by warrant, to direct that the cor-
respondence of the Baltic fleet shall be placed upon the
Fame general footing as the correspondence of her
Majesty's forces in the Black Sea.

The letters, therefore, of commissioned, non-commis-
sioned, or warrant officers, as well as those of soldiers
and seamen, forwarded vice Kiel or Dantzig, will be
liable to a combined British and foreign rate of postage
of

31 when not exceeding a quarter of an ounce.
61 when exceeding a quarter and not exceeding half

and so on, increasing threepence for every quarter of an

The same rate of threepence per quarter of an ounce
will be chargeable upon the letters of commissioned or
warrant officer 4, conveyed by Queen's ships or trans-
ports, but the letters of soldiers and seamen may be sent
by those vessels at the reduced rate of one penny, when
not exceeding half an ounce in weight.
In all cases, the postage must be paid in advance, or
the letters will not be forwarded.

Newspapers cannot be sent by the route of Kiel or
Dantzig, because the arrangeteenti of the Prussian and
Danish post•ofsces do not allow of the foreign postage
to which those newspapers would be liable, being col-
lected in the United Kingdom. They would, therefore,
be detained at -Kiel or Dantzig until that postage was
paid.

By vessels of war, however, or transports, newspapers
will be forwarded to the Baltic fleet without any charge.

M IBKET NEWS-all-LS DAY.)

Surrfirrsr.D.—Meaiow ha;,25175;i0 41 15s 0(1 ; cloves
ditto, 31 Os to 5/ 151; and straw, 11 3s to 11 9s per load.
Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at about stationary
prices.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, 31 Os to 41 133; clove;
ditto, 3/ Os to 51 123; and straw, 1/ 4s to 11103 per load.
Trade dull.
WRIrEORAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ 15s; clover
ditto, 3/ 03 to Si Vs; and straw, 1/ 3s to 119 s per load.
A sluggish trade.