The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-TIOUSE. —Samuel Franklin, was brought
before Alderman Salomons, charged with having stolen
bank-notes to the amount of 451.

Mr. E. Ward, of Claremont-square, Pentonville, corn-
factor, said—l carry on business at the Corn Exchange,
Mark-lane. According to my custom I went yesterday
to the subscription room over the old Corn Exchange,
after market hours, for the purpose of making up my
cash and cheque account for my banker. The prisoner
was sitting by my side. Some persons, one of whom I
knew to be a gentleman of respectability, were ii the
room when I entered, but they went away soon after-
wards. The prisoner was the only man sitting there. I
proceeded to make up my cash for my banker, and
amongst other moneys were a 101. and seven 51. Bank
of England notes. My pocket-book (exhibiting a very
large one) was on the table, and I deposited some
cheques, with the roll of notes in it. The prisoner was
then reading a newspaper. My attention was called off
from what I was engaged in by a person who, I have no
doubt, was an accomplice of the prisoner, and who asked
me at what time the room closed. I replied that there
was no regularly appointed time, and I again turned my
attention to my immediate business, and when I looked
back at my pocket-book, the prisoner said, "You have
dropped one of your cheques." My nephew, who is my
clerk, was writing at some little distance, saw the eheque
lying on the ground, and picked it up and gave it to me.
I then looked into my pocket-book and saw in it several
cheques, but the bank-notes were gone. There was no in-
dividual at the table exceptthe prisoner, and I said to him
instantly, " You have got my notes." He said, " You
have got them in your pocket." I then, although I knew
it was useless, put my hands into my pockets, and of
course I did not find the notes. He then rushed by me
to make his escape, and I called to my nephew to stop
him. There was a great crowd on the stairs. The pri-
soner was pursued into the street, and was ultimately
taken. I looked under the table, and all about the
place. I have never seen any of the notes since, and I
do not know the numbers.

Alderman Salomons—Are you sure that you wrapped
up the cheques and the bank notes together ?
Witness—l am.

Policeman 574 said—l was on duty at a quarter pa-t
four o'clock yesterday afternoon. A crowd of persons
were there, as is customary on market days. The pti-
sorer came out as fast as he could, and was rushing past
me. I suspected that something was wrong, and pre-
sently Mr. Ward's nephew came up, and said, pointing
to the prisoner, "I want this man ; he has robbed a
friend of mine." I the apprehended the prisoner, and
took him up to the subscription-room, where Mr. Ward
gave him into custody upon the charge of robbing him
of a 101. and seven 51. notes. I told Mr. Ward to make
sure that the prisoner had committed the robbery
before he preferred the charge. Upon searching the
prisoner I found 1/. 2s. 20. upon him, but there was
nothing to which Mr. Ward laid claim.

Alderman Salornons—What address did the prisoner
give you ?
Witness—lle gave a false address, directed to Kentish-
town. I found a watch chain, to which a small sub-
stance, intended to pass for a watch, was attached, in
his pocket.

Mr. W. Smith, nephew to the prosecutor, said—l was
sittinc, opposite to my uncle, looking over a newspaper,
and I banded a cheque from the ground to him. My
uncle then said, "This person (meaning the prisoner)
has robbed me of my notes," and the prisoner rushed
out of the house, and I followed and gave him in charge.
I had heard the stranger in the subscription-room ask
my uncle at what time the room closed. The prisoner
sat close to my uncle at the table.

Alderman Salomons--Could the prisoner have passed
anything without difficulty to an accomplice ?
Witness—Certainly be could. The pocket-book was
close to the prisoner, and could have been easily taken
up by him ; as easily as it could bare been taken up by
my uncle himself.

The prisoner, upon being asked whether ho had any
questions to put to any of the witnesses, said " No."
One of the turnkeys said the prisoner had been in pri-
son before upon a charge of committing a robbery in an
omnibus,and he had been five or six years ago at the
Mansion house upon a charge of assault.
The prisoner—Yes ; I was here foian assault six years
ago, but the other charge is false. I was never here for
robbery.

Alderman Salomons—ln order that strict inquiry may
be made, I shall remand the prisoner for a week.
A respectable lad va4 charged under the following cir-
cumstances :

into an altercation with Drawbridge, and struck him a
violent blow on the head. The constable came up imme-
diately after, and the prisoner on being remonstrated
with turned upon the officer and struck him several very
severe blows in the chest, and afterwards kicked him.
Ho was, however, eventually secured, and, with the as-
sistanoe of another policeman, safely lodged in the station.
The prisoner, who is a strong stalwart fellow, and has
been before the magistrates on several occasions for simi-
lar offences, admitted he was too drunk to know what
he was doing, and was therefore fined 10a., or, in de-
fault, 14 days' imprisonment.

BOW-STREET.—Penelope Fletcher, a young ser-
vant girl, was brought before Mr. Jardine charged with
stealing a quantity of bed-linen, wearing apparel, &c.,
the property of Mr. John Keck, landlord of the White
Lion, Bloomsbury.
From the statement of the landlady, it appeared that
she bad taken the prisoner into her service without the
usual precaution of inquiring into her character, the girl
having represented that she lived at a neighbour's.
For the first week she conducted herself in a
most satisfactory manner ; but by the end of the
second week suspicion was directed against her, in con-
sequence of the gradual disappearance of sundry coun-
terpanes, blankets, petticoats, towels, &c., from the bed-
rooms upstairs. She was not detected, however, in
removing any of the things, and the first intimation of
her guilt was given by a woman in whose house the pri-
soner had taken a room, evidently for the purpose of
stowing away her master's property. This woman
received a bundle from the prisoner one evening, which
she had the curiosity to open. She then saw in a minute
that the contents belonged to Mr. Keck, whose name
was marked upon the sheets and other articles in the
bundle. During the night the woman communicated
what she had discovered to her husband, who jumped
out of bed, dressed himself, proceeded direct to the pro-
secutors, and gave him the information, upon which the
girl was given into custody. It was then found that
she had almost stripped the bed-rooms, her apartment
being half full of the stolen property.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to
three months' imprisonment.

Mr. J. E. Joe, of No. 14, Aldgate, grocer, said—Last
evening, at half-past six o'clock, the prisoner brought to
me an envelope, enclosing a note and a cheque, purport-
ing to come from Mr. Fisher, of 98, Leandenhall•streat.
The note was addressed to me, and 'requested that I
would cash the cheque, which was for 9/. 55., for him,
as he wanted the money for immediate use. (Here the
cheque, which purported to be drawn by Mr. Jackson
upon the London Joint-Stock Bank, was produced.) I
asked him if he belonged to Mr. Fisher's house. He
replied that he did not, and thatthenote had been handed
to him by a person on the other side, whom he did not
know, and that I had better be particular about it. I
opened the note, and gave the amount to my porter,
with directions to go to Mr. Fisher's with the boy, and
it was soon ascertained that nothing at all was known
about the matter by Mr. Fisher, or any person of the
establishment.

THE GREAT FIRE IN LAIIIBETII.

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ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

The premises which covered several acres of ground,
comprised saw mills, iron planing mills, joiners' shops,
and carpenters' shops ; and at the extremity on the
south side there were immense piles of mahogany and
other timber worth several thousand pound. Flanking
the property on the same side were upwards of a dozen
lofty.houses in Paris-street, and, as will be seen below,
eight of these were set on fire, and narrowly escaped
being destroyed. It appears that Police-constable New-
man, No. 79, of the L division, in passing along his
beat, had his attention directed to the premises by seeing
a large body of flames mounting over the works, appa-
rently from the workshops adjoining the drying-house.
He immediately gave the alarm in the usual way, and
sent off for the engines. With as little delay as
possible several engines belonging to Messrs. Hodges,
the distillers, the West ief England Insurance office,
and the London Brigade, reached the spot, and a
plentiful supply of the Lambeth Company's water
hay eg been procured, the engines were sot to work, but
the flames by that period had extended to sundry piles
of mahogany and other timber, as well as to a great
many workshops, planing.heames, and other buildings.
By three o'clock the scene that presented itself was
grand in the extreme. The.flames, which bad even corn-
municated themselves to the trees in the grounds of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, not only brought out in fine
relief the Houses of Parliament on the other side of the
river, but imparted a lurid glare to the clouds over a
great portion of the metropolis. The firemen finding that
it was entirely impracticable to subdue so great a body of
flame by the aid of the land engines, sent off for the
powerful steam-floating engine at Southwark-bridge.
This ponderous machine was immediately brought up
the river by Mr. George Gerrard, and was set to work
with upwards of 500 feet of hose ; but in spite of the
ramoet exertions of the firemen, who were admirably
directed by Messr4. Braidwood, Henderson, Hambleton,
and Connorton, the work of devastation continued, and
it was late yesterday before the conflagration was
extinguished. The alarm and consternation which the
fire occasioned while at its height have happily been very,
seldom exceeded. The occupants of many of the sur-
rounding houses rushed hastily to the street in the liehtest
possible clothing, carrying with them any articles of
furniture they could lay their hands upon. To protect the
property thus hastily removed required the services of a
large body of police, who were under the command of
Mr. Superintendent Evans and Inspectors Harmsworth,
C )wlen, White, and Rogers. The Royal Society's escapes
from the Female Orphan Asylum and Kennington,
promptly attended, but fortunately their services were
not required.
To give anything like an approximation to the exact
amount of damage would be at present impossible, but
it rnu,t at a moderate calculation reach to nearly, if not
exceed 50,0001. We regret to add that the workmen
employed on the premises have lost upwards of 2,0001.
worth of tools ; and it is understood that none of the
men were insured.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE..

DONCASTER MEETING.

SUBSCRIPTION Room, MONDAY NIGIIT.

Subscribers dropped in in quick succession, and, after
the arrival of the express train from London, the room
was densely crowded. Business, however, was not con-
dueted with marked activity. Several books were opened
on the Cesarewitch, and, as will be seen from the ap-
pended list of quotations, many horses were brought
into prominent notice. The movement with respect to
the St. Leger showed Rifleman to be in increased force.
Early in the evening 6 to 4 was taken about him, but
towards the close these odds were currently offered.
Oulston retrograded to 4to 1 offered. The latest prices
were as under :

GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
3to 1 agst Mdsummer (taken)
sto 1 agst Veteran (taken)
10 to 1 agst Vandal (offered)
12 to 1 agst Little Harry (taken)
12 to 1 agst Fanny Gray (taken)
100 to 7 agst Radcliffe Hero (taken)
25 to 1 agst Rstaplan (taken)

fiIAMMGNSI STAKES.
6to 5 agst Mary Copp (offered)

£T. LEGER.

6to 4 agst Rileman (taken and offered)
4to 1 agst Oulston (offered)
8 to 1 agst Canucine (taken and offered)
12 to 1 agst Rotherham (taken)
12 to 1 agst Marchioness (taken)
12 to 1 agst Graculus Esuriens (taken)
12 to 1 agst Clenentina, colt (taken)
50 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles (offered)

CEStREWITCH.
15 to 1 agst Scythian (taken)
20 to 1 agst Meanee filly (taken)
25 to 1 agq Alice (taken)
25 to 1 agst Sultan (taken)
25 to 1 agst RAOII (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mortimer, 4 yrs (taken)
40 to 1 agst Dian& (taken)
40 to 1 agst Brother to Grey Tommy (taken)
40 to 1 agst Sauceiox (taken)
50 to 1 agst Rotherham (taken)
50 to 1 agst Kaffir(taken)
50 to 1 agst B.oneyvickle (taken)
50 to 1 agst Siding (akar))
50 to 1 agst Early Bird
1000 to 15 agst Calamus (taken)
100 to 1 each .agst Brinklow, King Tom, Cardigan,
Black Swan, The Earl, and Orinoco.

TUESDAY.

The Fitzwilliam Handicap Sties of 5 sovs each, with
50 added ; the second to save his stake. One mile.
9 subs.

Lord Derby's The Professor, 3 yn, 6st 41b.. (T. Cliff) 1
Lord Zetland's Hospodar, 4 yrs, Est (.J. Marson) 2
Mr. Osbaldeston's Lascelles, 5 yrs, 7st 41b (Wells) 3
The following also ran :—Thirty to Five, Newbold,
and Errant.

Bating—Even on Hospodar, 7 to 2 agst The Profes-
sor. Won easily by a length ; a length and a half be-
tween the second and third. Bad fourth.

The Glasgow Stakes of 30 sous each, 20 ft, for 2-yr-old
colts , • Bst 71b each. Red House in, 8 subs.

Mr. J. AI. Stanley's Porto Rico.... (Bartholomew) 1
Mr. Jennings' cby Gabbier, dam by Heron (J. Mann) 2
Lord Glasgow's San Francisc ).
Betting-3 to lon Porto Rico, who won in a canter
by three lengths. San Franci,co beaten off.

The Stand Plate (handicap) of 70 90VS. Winners extra.

0;:e mile.
Mr. Morris's Eulogist, 5 yrs, tilt 711) (Mundy) 1
Mr. Smith's Sir Rowlat,d'rrenclaard, a, 7st (Charlton) 2
Lord Wilton's Orson, 4 yrs, 6st 71b (Bates) 3
Victory and RovingEetsy also ran.
Betting-4 to 4 agst Eulogist, 7to 4 agst Sir Row-
land Trenchard, 3to 1 agst Orson. Won by 5 lengths,
half a length between the second and third ; the other
two were beaten s long way.
The Champagne Stakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for two-
yr-olda ; colts, Bst ; fillies, B,t 51b. The second

(Copy.)

to save his stake. Red-house in. 33 subs.
Admiral Harcourt's Ellington, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) I
Mr. Bryan's Bird in Hand, Bst 71b (J. Marson) 2
Mr. B. R. Clark's Vandermulin Bst 71b...(Charlton) 3
The following al.() ran :--Overreach, Artillery, Mary
Copp, and The Danube.

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Betting--5 to 4 agst Mary Copp, 7to 4 azst Artillery,
6to 1 agst Dannbe, 8 to 1 agst Bird in Hand. Van-
dermulin, Mary Copp, and Artillery ran together to the
distance, where the two favourites appeared in difficul-
ties, 'and Ellington aad Bird in Hand went on second
and third to the Stand, where Ellington came out, and
won very cleverly by three•quarters of a length ; half a
length separated the second and third, and three quar-
ters of a length the third and fourth ; Artillery was
about a length and a half i,i the wake of Overreach, and
Mary Copp about the same distance behind him.

No less than 120 workmen have been temporarily
thrown out of work by this calamity, they for the most
part being emplo:: -I on works for the new reading-room
at the British Museum.

The Great Yorkshire Handicap of 25 save each, 15 ft,
and 5 only if declared, &c., with 100 added. The

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN LNG, SEPTEMBER 12 I85b„

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGH7'.

BUCaINGIIAM PA_LA.CE, SEPT. 1.

This day had audience of her Majesty—
The Chew&liar de Macedo, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Brazil, to
deliver his letter of recall ;
And the Commandeur de Carvalho Moreira, to deliver
his credentials in the same character.

To which they wero respectively iutroducel by the Earl
of Clarendon, .IK.G., her Majesty's Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs.
FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 4.

,
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Heinrich
Martini as Vice-Consul at Dublin, for the Grand Duke of
Mecklenburgh Sc:lwerin.
FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 8.

The Queou has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Mountain Bowen as Vice-Consul at Manchester, fur the
Republic of Guatemala.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 8.

The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto
Captain Charles Hinde, of the Bengal Army, Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Ottoman Army, her ''Majesty's royal licence
and permission that he may accept and wear the Imperial
Order of the Mecljidie of the Fourth Class, which the Sul-
tan hath been pleased to confer upon him, as a mark of
his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his services with the
Turkish army in the defence of Silistria, and during the
campaign on the Danube, rnd that he may enjoy all the
rights and privileges thereunto belonging.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 7.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Consul at Manilla, reporting
that the Captain-General at that place has issued a decree,
prohibiting the export of rice from Manilla, after the 31st
May, and from the provinces after the 15th June.

BOARD
.OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 11.

The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Coun,il for Trade and Plantations have received two notices
to mariness, issued by the United States Lighthouse Board,
c )pies of which are subjoined :
(Copy.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

BUOYS ON STELLWAGEN'S BANK, ENTRANCE TO MASSA.

CHUSETTS BAY.

The following buoys have been placed on Stellwagen's
Bank, at the entrance to Massachusetts Bay, to mark the
approaches to Boston Harbour, viz.:—
A first-class can buoy, painted red, in about 11 fathoms
water, N.W. by N. N. (true), six miles from Race Point
Lighthouse, and E.S.E. (true), 28j miles from Boston
Lighthouse.
A second-class nun buoy, painted with white and black
perpendicular stripes, in about 15 fathoms water, E. 4 S.
(true), 26?; miles from Boston Lighthouse.
A first-class can buoy, painted black, in about fifteen
fathoms water, E. by N. (true), 211 miles from Boston
Lighthouse.
By order of the Lighthouse Board.
(Signed) C. H. B. CALDWELL,
L. H. Inspector, 2d Dist.
Boston, Mass,, July 10, 1855.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
BUOYS. -NEWBURYPORT HARBOUS, MASS.
A Nun Boo* of the third clas,, painted with black and
white perpendilular stripes, has been placed in five fathoms
water, at low tide, off Newburyport Bar, the west light
bearing W. by S., dista.qt 2.267 yards. Vessels bound in
over the bar should bring this buoy in range with the west
light, and run for it. This course will carry them over in
seven feet at low water.

The eastern light has been extinguished, and in its stead
a small bug light has been lighted. In running in at night
the bug light and the western light must be brought in
range.

When over the bar, and half way to the shore, there
will be found a spar baoy,'painted black, to be left on
the port hand. Then the course is N.W. 4 W., up past a
buoy in mid-channel, painted black and white perpendicu-
lar stripes, to the red buoy on Black Rocks, when it is W.
S., passing a buoy off Joppa Flats, painted black (to be
left on the port hand), and a red buoy on Jco Noyes' Point
(to be left on the starboard hand), to the upper mid-chan-
nel buoy, painted black and white perpendicular stripes,
thence between the two piers up to the anchorage. These
piers are near the city.
By order of the Lighthouse Board.
C. H. B. CALDWELL,
L. H. Inspector, 2d Dist.

Boston, August 14, 1555.
BOARD OF TRADE, SEPT. 11.
TO MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, AND TRADERS.
Reduction of the_Outward Wharfage, Rates payable to

the Dock Company of Kingston-upon-linll.
Notice is hereby given, that the Board of Trade have,
in exorcise of the power given to them by the Hull Dock
Act of 844 (7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 103), reduced the
rates above-mentioned, as follows :

"The outward wharfage rates now collected by the
Hull Dock Company, under the powers given to them by
the Act of the eighth year of her preseneMajesty, chapter
ono hundred and three, shall be reduced by one-third of
their present amount, in such manner that two-thirds
only of the rate which is now collected in respect of each
article shall be collected in respect thereof ; and that no
outward wharfage rates whatever, except two-thirds as
aforesaid, shall be collected by the said company.
" The said reduction to take effect on and after the lat
October next.

" The said reduction to be effected by an abatement of
one-third upon the amount of every separate charge."

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 11.

87th Foot—Goneral James Simpson to be Colonel, vice
General Viscount Gough, G.C.8., recently removed to the
Royal Horse Guards.
91st Foot—Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Gore,
C. 8., to bo Colonel, vice General Gabriel Gordon, de-
ceased.

P urCES OF SHARES

IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-

PANIES' STOCK.

From the Official List.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING

LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1855.

GAS-LIGHT A.ND COKE COMPANIES.

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-- —
X s. d. £ s. d.
British • • •• •• • . •• •• •• —.—
Ditto Provincial •• .. 71. 20 0 0 20 0 0 20
Brighton ••••..•• • • ~ 5/. 20 0 0 23 0 0 15
City of London .. •..• 41. Os. 100 0 0 150 0 0
Continental (4th Cap.) . i6O 0 0 20 0 0 --.
Equitable ~ .......... 21. 108. 50 0 0 all
Great Central ....... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 all 113
Imperial .. • • ........ 101.& oonus. 50 0 0 all b 9
Independent ......... 51. 1 40 0 0 ••
London• • .... ——••— 1 50 0 0 ••
Do., Pall. Preference 61. per cent. ; 25 0 0
PLoonix ............. 41. per cent. ,60 0 0 52 I; 0 3035
Ratcliff —... ....... 51.
,100 0 0 16 0 0 16
United General ...... 2/. 10s. 50 0 0 all 9.0 ~i
Westminster Chartered 41 per cent. 50 0 0 49
Ditto, New .....• •. '5O 0 0 10 ii 0
WATER-WORKS.
1 Dividend .A.Mount
Name of Company. 1 per of Paid. Price.
1 Annum. Share.
X s. d. X a., d.
East London
Grand Junction .....• 4. per cnt. 50 0 0 all 70
Kent.... —..— ..
Lambeth ...... ••• . . 100 0 0
New River Company , 21.105. - -
Southwark &Vauxhall 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 8934
West Middlesex • 5l. per cent. 61 0 0 , 91
BRIDGES.
- .
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. X 0. d.
Hungerford .... • •
Southwark ...... • • . --110 0 0
Ditto New of 7% p.c. 1/. per cent. Si 0 0
Waterloo ..... .... •• • • 100 0 0 —3%
Ditto Old Ann. of 8l 11. 14s. Bd. 60 0 0 323
Ditto Nw ditto of 7L 11. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0 28
Vauxhall ...... .... • • 965. 70 10 3 214