The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-05 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

DARING WATCH ROBBERY, BY A FEMALE, IN A
PUBLIC-HOUSE.—EIIen Kelly, a dissipated-looking young
woman, was placed at the bar, before Mr. A'Beckett,
charged with stealing a silver watch and chain, from the
person of John Coifing, under the following circuna-

stances :

The prosecutor, a middle-aged man, stated that he
was a plasterer, and he resided in Upper Ground-street,
Blackfriars-road. Last evening he had been to the
Surrey Theatre, and when he was returning home he
called at the Halfway House Tavern, in Webber-street,
to part•tke of some refreshment. While standing there
the prisoner came in and .spoke rather familiar to
him. At that time his watch was safe in his waistcoat
pocket, and perceiving that the prisoner pushed against
him rather heavily, he went to another part of the bar.
Immediately after that a man told him that the prisoner
had a watch in her hand, which he believed she had
stolen, and on putting his hand to his waistcoat pocket
witness missed his watch and chain. The prisoner was
then seized, and the watch was found in her possession.
He then called in a constable, and gave her into custody.

James Robinson, a labourer, stated that about twelve
o'clock last night he was in the Halfway House, drink-
ing a glass of ale, when be saw the prisoner pushing
against the prosecutor. The latter partially fell back-
wards, and as the prisoner was leaving him, witness saw
the watch produced in her hands with the chain hanging
down. He immediately laid hold of her, and after con-
siderable difficulty succeeded in wrenching the watch
from her hand. Having called the prosecutor's atten-
tion to the circumstances a constable was fetched, and
she was given into custody. Prior to his arrival, how-
ever, she bit his hands and kicked him severely.
Mr. A'Beckett asked what state the prosecutor was in

;o allow his watch to be taken from him so easily ?

Witness replied that he was a little under the influ
ence of liquor, but he perfectly knew what he was

about.

The prisoner said she picked it up, and did not intend
to steal it.

She was remanded for the attendance of another

witness.

soldier 10s. from the peor-box fund to defray the costs
of his maintenance to Scotland.
The soldier expressed his gratitude to the magistrate,

and retired.

VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A POLIOE CONSTABLE.—
James Marston, a carpenter, and Catherine Heelin, a
woman of the town, were brought before Mr. Yardley,
charged with being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting
Phillip Bradley, a police constable, No. 137 H, who
said he was on duty this morning about one o'clock, in
Back Church-lane, Whitechapel, when his attention was
called to the male prisoner, who was quarrelling with
another man and several prostitutes. They made a good
deal of noise. Ho begged of them to be quiet, and go
away, but they refused to do so, and he led the male
prisoner to the end of the street, when be turned round
upon him, and struck him a violent blow under the ear,
which caused him to stagger, and he fell against the
shutters of a house. When he recovered himself he
laid hold of Thurston by the collar, and the woman
Keelin then came up to him, and struck him a violent
blow on the mouth, which caused it to bleed, and cut
his lips. He then procured assistance and gave the pri-
soners into custody. Both were very violent and dis-
orderly on the way to the station-house.
Thurston, who is a respectable-looking man, said he
had unfortunately been drinking more than usual last
night, which carried him into excesses he would have
spurned if sober. Ho was not what the constable took
him to be, but a working man. While he was in liquor
he fell in with a fellow who was living with a girl of the
town, and who invariably annoyed him when he met
him. He got into a quarrel, the police constable came
up, and he did not know whether he struck him or not.
The woman pleaded that she was " insensibly drunk"
this morning.

Mr. Yardley said it was no excuse for beating a police-
man that the parties who assaulted him were drunk.
The male prisoner was not suspected to be a dishonest
man, or conducting himself otherwise than orderly in
general, but he was a very powerful man, and a blow
from him must have done the constable much injury. He
fined Thurston 405., or in default of payment 14 days'
imprisonment, and the female prisoner 10., or the alter-
native of 7 days' imprisonment.

THE SCREW-STEAMER AZOFF.

• This vessel, which is now loading in the Thames for
the Crimea, is well wcrthy cf the inspection of persons
interested in steam navigation, as she combines many
points of excellence which, so far as we are aware, haver
never before been attained in so complete and efficient a
manner. The Azoff is of 800 tons, builders' measure-
ment ; she
.is built under Lloyd's new rules for iron
ships ; is classed A 1 for 12 years, the longest period for
which iron ships are classed, and is believed to be the
strongest steam-vessel yet constructed. Not only are
the scantlings very heavy, but the distribution of the
materials is so managed as to secure the maximum of
strength when the vessel is subjected to a longitudinal
strain—the only species of strain from which iron ves-
sels are found to suffer. The model of the vessel is a
very fine one, being sharp at the ends, and with a con-
siderable rise of floor, which prevents the vessel from
rolling in the way usual in screw vessels. Notwith-
standing the fineness of the model, however, the vessel
has large carrying capacity, aswill be obvious from the fact
that she will carry out to the Crimea nearly 400 navvies
and about 600 tons of cargo, besides nearly 300 tons of
coals and 8,000 gallons of water. This large carrying
power is the result chiefly of 6he smallness of the space
occupied by the engine, which, although capable of pro-
pelling the vessel at the rate of 13 or 14 miles an hour,
does not, exclusively of the boilers, fill a space of
more than about 20 measurement tons in the vessel.
The vessel and her machinery have been designed and
constructed by Mr. Bourne, civil engineer of Glasgow
and Greenock, and the whole combination seems to
realise the desire so general among shipowners, of
uniting a high rate of speed and a fine form of vessel
with large carrying capacity's The fine model of the
vessel enables her to be propelled easily through the
water, and the steam is supplied to the engine dur-
rug only a small portion of the stroke, leaving the
residue of the stroke to be completed by the expand-
ing steam, by which arrangement steam and therefore
fuel are saved to a very important extent. This expe-
dient of economy is well known and largely practised
fix Cornwall, in the case of the pumping engines for the
mines ; but has been hitherto availed of in steam navi-
gation only to a very small extent, and the main secret
of the superior economy of fuel attained in the Aaoff lies
in the more perfect and extensive application of this
principle than has heretofore been usual in steam-vessels,
combined with the small dimensions of the machinery,
which prevents any important loss of heat by radiation,
or Of steam by leakage through the piston. The com-
pactness and simplicity of the machinery in the Azoff
exceed that of any other vessel ; there are few parts to
be looked after or to go wrong ; and when to these im-
portant qualities are added the smallness of her consump-
tion of fuel we think there is fair reason to conclude that
she is yet without a rival. Such results cannot but be
interesting to the public generally, and especially to that
part of it interested in steam navigation, and we should
recommend a visit to the vessel herself to all admirers of
marine architecture.

THE SUN, LOWDON, FRIDAY EVPiqrl NG,OCTOBER 5, 1%55.

TB B BLACK SEA.

( From the Monitctr.
Harbour of Kaniiesh. near Sebastopol,
Sept. 22,
The' embarkation Of the troops for Eu
pleted 'to-day. Besides the cavalry and
buted over the frigates, corvettes, and
infantry embarked on board other men-
Bart aid the Ulm being among the nu

3atoria was corn-
artillery distri-
ramporte, some
)f-war, the Jean-
nber. The latter

then put to sea.
Admiral Bruat left for Eupatoria w'
of the expedition. Everywhere, since
capture of Sebastopol, the greatest

[;th the last ships
previous to the
activity reicps.

throughout the ailed! army.
The steam corvette, the Plil6Q;eton, Int to the Darda-
nelles by Admiral Bruat to assist the wind-bound ships
to pass up the straits, arrived at the roadstead of Sebas-
topol on the 18th of September, coming from Constan-
tinople, and last from Odessa. '
After assisting the Syrene frigate, which had been
stranded, undamaged, at the old Seraglio cape, to get
afloat, the Phlegdton went to Tenedos, where she fell in
with two vessels becalmed, coming from Toulon, laden
with troops ; she.took in tow the three-decker Valmy,
Captain De Barre, brought her in 25 hours to Constan-
tinople, and thence to the Black Sea, where the latter
was enabled to continue her passage.
Having returned to the Bosphorus, and having taken
on board, for Odessa, 100 Russian prisoners, wounded
or amputated, and captured at the battle of Traktir, the
corvette took in tow the Turenne, Captain Fleuriot de
Langle, and sailed for the Black Sea. The Valmy and
the Turenne arrived at Kamiesh some few days ago.
The corvette, on her way to Odessa, met off the Isle
of Serpents a great many Greek vessels on their way to
Danube, to load with corn, in-right of, the leave re-
cently given to neutral vessels.
The We of Serpents or Fidonisi, the only island in the
Black Sea, is a barren and naked rock, lying about 20
miles off the sleuths of the Danube, almost east by west
with the Sulina, the principal mouth of the river. There
is on this island a lighthouse, 200 English feet above the
level of the sea. The light is not kept up at present.
The delta of the Danube is quite fiat, the landing
places have little depth of water; and the shores are not
seen until, as it were, you touch them. Nature seems
to have placed the Isle of Serpents in this spot to claim
the mariner's gratitude. It is very desirable that the
lighthouse should be illuminated before winter.
In execution of the treaty of exchange, 113 French
prisoners coming from the interior of Russia were deli-
vered up to Captain Russel, of the Phlegeton, on his ar-
rival iwthe Odessa roads under a flag of truce. The
enemy :has now only a few of our wounded and a small
number of prisoners ; on our side we have still in our
depots and ambulances above 3,000 prisoners.
The Crimean news and the taking of Sebastopol were
known at Odessa, and had caused much consternation.
The commander of the Phlegeton, on touching at Ten-
dra for the purpose of taking the despatches of his col-
league of the English cruiser, gladly took on board ten
English officers, prisoners of war, who were impatiently
waiting: for an opportunity of coming to the Crimea.
He consigned them, On arriving off Sebastopol, into the
hands of Admiral Lyons, on board the Royal Albert.
The following are tht names of these prisoners
Easton, surgeon, and O'Sullivan, master, coming both
of them from the boats of the English man-of-war the
Cossack, who were so ill-treated in the Baltic near
Hango Hardwick, ' captain of the 17th Lancers;
Clarke, ;lieutenant in the.soth Regiment of Foot ; Max-
ted, Pope, Tickers, Thonsan, Mac Karthy, officers of
the Commissariat ; .Carrow, captain in the merchant ,
service.!

The greatest cordiality reigned during the whole of
the passage between these officers and the staff of the
Phl Teflon.
The Turkish prisoners will be in future exchanged,
by virtue of a supplementary convention, like the other
allied prisoners, and will be received by our cruisers off
Odessa on the signature of the superior officer charged
with the exchanges.
Tendra, where the cruising ground usually lies, is a
very sandy peninsula, very little elevated, and situated
to the south of Otchakoff. It appears to be formed, like
all this part of the coast stretching from Cape Kinburn
to Perekop, of the alluvial deposits of the Bug and the
Dnieper, leaving here snd there apertures, which the sea
has reserved capriciously for itself. Tendia, in rounding
off from: the noith to the south and the west forms a vast
and secure bay, the soundings of which, both inside and
outside, have been frequently taken by the allied cruisers.
The two` squadrons might, in case of need, find safe shel-
ter there.

The peninsula is evacuated by the Russians. A light-
house is.to be seen on it in a good state of repair, but
the light is not kept up. The waters in this spot abound
in fish. They are frozen over for one or two months'
during the winter. When ships are at the Tendra
anchorage Otchakoff and the citadel of Kinburn can be
seen from the mast-head.

On the Bth, the day on which Sebastopol was taken, a
violent gale from the north-east assailed the allied
squadron, and prevented it taking up a position. As the
wind blew towards shore the ships would have run the
greatest danger, and the risk of being lost, without hav-
ing it in their power, owing to the state of the sea, to
do any serious harm to the enemy.
Since the Bth a north-easter has often prevailed, and
with tolerable violence. This circumstance, which is at-
tributable to the equinox, haA occasioned no accident,
nor has it.paralysed the operations, on account of the
very prudent measures taken by the Admiral command-
ing•in-chief and by the officers under his orders. At
present the gale has subsided, and the sea is ca!rn.
In the course of yesterday, the 21st, the screw-ship tbe
Navarin, and the floating battery the Lave, Capt. Cor-
nulier, anchored in the roadstead. The Lave has en-
tered Streletzka Bay, where there is already the Ton-
, nante, towed in by the Phlegeton. Fort Constantine
has been firing shells and bombs at the two ships, but
without touching them.