The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-22 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY. EVENING, N 0 VEM BE It 22 1855.

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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The
Directors hereby Give Notice that they will receive Money
on Loan, to pay of Debentures falling due.and are prepared to accept
Tenders for the same for a period of 3,5, or 7 years. at 5 per cent.
per annum. Application may be made to the undersigned.
By order of the Directors.
Cu kS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
Paddington Station, 2d November* 1855.

ROYAL SWEDISEt RAILWAY COMPANY.
ROPING TO HULT,

Notice is hereby given that, all Shares in this Company, upon
which the Final Call of 2/. per Share became due and payable on. the
Ist October, 1855, will, according to the Stattites of the c ompany, be
liable to Forfeiture if the Call be not paid on or before the lef day of
December next.

JOHN SADLEIR, Chairman.
London, IR, Cannon-street, Nov. 12. 1853.

QT. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY.
NOTICE Id HEREBY GIVE NT, that the Twenty-seventh
Half-year. y Dividend, being Two Pounds per Share, free of Income
Tax. on the shares of this Company, will be payable at this Office
on Saturday. the 15th day of December. end every succeeding day,
Saturdays excepted, between the hours of 10 and 4.

Forms for c'aiming the dividend may be obtained, on or after the
3d December, at the Company's office. and must be left, with the
Coupons, three clear days, for examination previous to payment.
JOHN HOCKIN, Secretary.
8, Tokenhonae•yard, 21st Nov., 1855.

A RGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO
rit NOW OPEN for the winter season. The followine
%In* will be performed by his celebrated Band during
'he week : March aux Flambeaux. Waltzes —The Lily
of the Valley (D'Albert), Zephir Lufte (Mittel), Fenella (Tinney),
Ethel Newcomo (Laurent), La Sultane (Rosisio). Quadrilles—Le
Rot du Pastel Lamotte), Les Hugenots (Laurent), Palermo (D'Al-
"ert), Bride of Lammermoor (Tinner), TI Trovatore (Tutton).
Polkas—Des Hulands (Lamotte), Italie ((laytolo), The Lillian (D'Al-
hert), Des Coucous (Bousquet), The Zouaves (Laurent). Galops—
The TnTherial Guards (Laurent), The Heels. (Streather). Schottische
—La Guirlande de Elmira (I3oaquet), La var4oviatta (Laurent). Prin-
cipal Cornet A Piston, M. Boulcours.—Doors open at 8. Admission
One Shilling.

TO LOVERS OF FISH.-100 GENUINE
YARMOUTH BLqATER: for 65., oackago Inciuded.
THESE HIGHLY ESTEEMED DELICACIES AND CHEAP

•
ARTICLE OF FOOD
forwarded to all parts, on receipt of penny postage stamps or P. 0.0.
(preferred). Send full and plain direction, county, and nearest sta-
tlon.—Addre%s TFIOB. LETT'S, Jun.. Fish Curer, flt. Yarmouth.

"This is the third season Mr. Lettis has supplied us with Yar-
mouth bloaters, and we find the quality excellent.—J. Brashowe,
house stewird. Blenheim Palace.—Oct. 20, 1854."
" Mr. Lettis,—As soon as you send out your genuine bloaters,
shall be glad to have a supnly as usual ; those I had last year gave
great satistietion.—A . F. Courroux, Ambassador's Court, St. James's
Palace.—Oct. 1, 1855."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

, We are glad to find,that there is no foundation for the
report of the loss of the steamer Pacific. An official no-
' tice, dated Admiralty, Nov. 21, on behalf of the direc-
tors of transport service, states that the. Pacific was at
Constantinople on the 20th inst.
Her Majesty's steetn-transport Urgent, Commander
Phillips, arrived at Skithead yesterday from the Medi-
terranean, with the passengers and invalids enumerated
yesterday. r -
The steam-transpOrt OrinoCo went into Portsmouth
harbour yesterday to prepare for further service.
The Thalia, old 42-gun sailing-frigate, has been re-
moved from the ordinary to Portsmouth dockyard, to be
fitted, it is reported,'as a floating church for the Catho-
lics of the fleet at Portsmouth.
Her Majesty's screiv'block-ship, Edinburgh, 58, Capt.
Hewlett, is ordered io leave Spithead for Queenstown.
The Caesar, 91, Csi)t. Robb, will not go into Ports-
mouth harbour until next week to refit.
The steam-transport Arabia, with the 2d Regiment of
the Royal Cheshire-Militia, under command of Colonel
Davenport, left Plyinbuth at nine o'clock on Tuesday
evening for Dublin. -Including officers, rank and file,
women and children,' there are 1,014 persons on board
connected with the iegiraent. Colonel Pester, R.A., in
the absence of General -Eden, issued a complimentary
order on the departure of the Royal Cheshires.
The crew of the ssrewsteam-ship La Hogue, 60, Capt.
W. Ramsay-,.are to.bepaid wages to-day at Plymouth ;
six weeks' leave of absence will be granted to them.
• The gun-boats Larkand Magpie, having had defects
made good, were ordaied to• be taken out of dock at
,Devonport, y.e.wattagtves,,4o2,l2ge..; t.l:;.t,liton-boata

The frigate Mseander, 44; Capt. Thos. Dalllia, which
arrived in Plymouth on Sunday, was appointed to go up
Hamoaze on Tuesday:, to have defects made good.
The bark John Mitcheq, Captain Brown, from Moul-
mein with timber for the dockyard, arrived at Plymouth
on Tuesday.

The Phoenix, 6, screw steam-sloop, Commander Arthur
Tower, has been placed under the shears, and dismasted
by her crew. The order has arrived at Sheerness for her
being pail off, on MorPay next, into ordinary.
The chief engineer of the Phoenix, Mr. Charles K.
Renwick, is appointed chief engineer of the Chesapeake
screw steam-frigate, fitting at Chatham.

The Horario, 8, screw st,am-frigate, Captain the Hon.
Arthur A. Cochrane, C.D., is ordered to be fitted at
Sheerness with two 95 cwt. 10-inch guns in midebips.
The machinery repairs, including the boilers, will occupy
nearly three months. Very considerable alterations in
her gunroom accommodation are to take place.
The Cressy, 80, screw steam-ship, Captain Richard L.
Warren, has sent down topgallant masts, and made all
snug aloft, ready for being taken into No. 1 dry dock,
Sheerness.

—Tl:icliowing circular has been issued from the War-
office, signed by Mr. B. Hawes, upon the unnecessary
detention of soldiers committed to gaol upon charges of
desertion. The 'circular is addressed to officers command-
ing line and militia regiments, inspecting field officers,
&c.:—" Complaints having been addressed to the
Secretary at War of the unnecessary detention in gaol
of soldiers committed to the custody of the governors
thereof on charges of desertion, and it being found that
the descriptive returns received from the committg ma-
gistrates under the provisions of the 46th clause of the
Mutiny Act, which are referred to officers commanding
with a view to the prompt and satisfactory identification
of the individuals charged with the offence of desertion,
are frequently detained, instead of being forwarded to
the War-office with the least possible delay, as in every
instance the several commanding officers are particulary
requested to do; I have now the honour, by direction of
the Secretary at War, to acquaint you that such des-
criptive returns, when referred to you, should be sent
back to the War.office, with the information required,
by return of post, if possible ; and if that be not practic-
able, I am then directed to desire that the Secretary at
War may as immediately be informed of the cause of
delay."

The mortar raft stated in The Sun a few days since as
being in the course of construction in Woolwich Dock-
yard was on Tuesday morning hauled out of the ba3in to
the Royal Arsenal wharf, where a 13-inch mortar was
placed on board. She is to be thence conveyed to Shoe-
buryness to go through some experimental trials, in order
to verify her fitness for the service intended. The pre-
valent opinion among marine artillery officers and other
practical persons is, that the pontoons will not be able
to resist the force of the concussion produced by the dis-
charge of the mortar. They consider that the substance
of the copper is of too thin a nature to resist the force of
the recoil, and that it will consequently double in. If,
however, after the tests have been submitted to, the
rafts should prove successful, there is no doubt that a
great number of them will be constructed forthwith, as
the expense and time are trifling in comparison with that
required for btuldingtershorA.gurc•borste.
The Russian east-iron g Arr6ught from Bomarrund,
which has been bored for the discharge of the Lancaster
shells, has undergone a second experiment of two rounds
with the same kind of shot, weighing 2cwt. Bib. each.
The powder charge, however, was increased from 71b. to
121 b. The "searcher" was then applied, and the gun
was found free from the slightest damage. The result
has served to strengthen the impression that this metal
will resist a much greater amount of charge, and yet
the depth of material from the back of the chamber to
the breech, with the exception of the tastable, is only
four inches. There were many persons highly interested
in the trial, among whom were Mr. Fairbairn, of Man-
chester, and Mr. B. Howell, of the firm of Shortridge,
Rowell, and Jessop, of Sheffield, who expressed their
opinion that we have every facility at home of rendering
our own metal for guns equally durable. A number of
brass guns for the King of Hanover, manufactured at
the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, likewise passed satisfac-
tory proof.
A new species of shell, somewhat similar to the Lan-
caster, but of smaller dimensions, has been receivel at
the Arsenal at Woolwich for experimental proofs. These
shells are armed with four ribs of iron for their surer
guidance when discharged.. Numbers of the monster 42-
inch shells are constantly arriving at the arsenal, like-
wise from the Lowmoor works. They are forwarded
the various small craft employed in the Ordnance ser-
vice, and arrive in numbers of from four to ten. They
are landed on the wharfs and rolled thence to the labo-
ratory to be prepared for service. Their average weight
is 26 cwt. and S quarters, Plates of wrought iron for
casting Lancaster shells have recently arrived at the
st Ro alArsenal in great abundance.
By reason of some abuse of the privilege granted to
strangers visiting the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, the
permission to admit visitors, except on particular busi-
ness, is now withdrawn.
Brevet-Major Kelly, 84th Regiment, is ordered to
Madras in charge of part of the soldiers of the depot of
the East India Company who have been instructed in
the practice of the Enfield rifle at Hythe.
It is stated that the troops will remain at the en-
campment on the Curragh during the winter, and mea-
sures are being taken to provide for their comforts.
Lord Seaton is unremitting in his inspections, and the
noble veteran is often seen riding at dusk across the
Curragh, after spending the day in the camp.
On Monday the draught of the depot of the 69th Re-
giment, under orders to join the service companies at
Barbadoes, left Kilkenny for Cork, via Waterfor I.
They consisted of four officers, two sergeants, and 82
rank and file. Lieut. Hill commanded, and the other
officers were Ensigns Bereford, Costner, and Clarke.
Lieut.-Colonel Gaisford, 72d Highlanders, is at pre-
sent at Kilkenny, having returned from the Crimea with
the intention, it is said, of retiring from the army.
A monument to the memory. of the late Colonel Yea,
of the Royal Fusiliers, son of Sir Wm. Yea, of Somer-
set, is about to be erected near Taunton. The gallant
Colonel was present throughott the campaign of 1854,
including the battles of the Alma, Balaklava, and Inker-
man.

THE MANCHESTBR TURN-OUT."

The operatives out of employ and on strike at Man-
chester continue to conduct themselves peaceably ; but
at an open air meeting on Tuesday it was propbsed to go
about with begging-boxes—a, plan which,. whenever
alopted in past strikes, has called forth interference by
the police, because, practically, it has always been found
that begging by a multitude is equivalent to intimida-
tion. The proposition, however, was not adopted, but
adjourned for further consideration. Messrs. Fothergill
and Harvey's workpeople are reported to have compro-
mised the question with their employers, and to have
resumed work at ld. per 1,000 banks' reduction, instead-
of 2d., as first offered. The operatives out of work are.
gradually increasing, and the following is a near esti-
mate, furnished by one of the employers, who has a
good knowledge of how his neighbours stand.

Operatives
• Out of Employ.
Messrs. Kennedy and Co.'s mill, about 200
Messrs. Birley and Co.
Hanover-mills 5OO to 600

Messrs. Jos. Clarke and Co.'s, about •
Messrs. Jno. Clarke and Co.'s, about
Messrs. Kelly and Gilmour's, about
New Islington mills, about
Messrs. J. Simpson and Co.'s, about

400
300
700
20
150

3,370
It would appear, therefore, that the utmost number of
hands out of employ does not exceed 3,400, of whom at
lea-t 1,700 are not on strike, but have been-compelled to
stop in consequence of being dependent for work on the
spinners and piecers, who have struck. Should the strike
at Messrs. Simpson and Co.'s mill, Cruiepsall, go on,
about 300 additional operatives will be. thrown out of
work in consequence of the 150 spinners and piecers hav-
ing struck., At Messrs. Kennedy, and Cols targe mil
smallness of the number out of work propiiirtion t
number employed is-explained by 'the fact that they are
mainly, firm spinners, who are-not-affected by the pro-
posed reduction. The strike is one of coarse spinners, or
the makers of low counts of yarn. Some other mills
were expected to cease working, however, last night. It
is obvious, however, that there iano prospect of the pre-
sent turn-nut assuming anything like the proportions of
that of 1847, when, out of a total of 41,000 operatives
usually employed, 10,000 were at one time out of work,
and 12,000 were on short time ; arid when the average
number out of work and on short time together, through-
out the year, exceeded 16,500 persons. The workpeople
out of employ have so far conducted themselves peace-
ably. A firmer from Timperley, Cheshire, named Les-
lie, after leaving the Manchester market on Saturday
night -with part of his mark et produce which had not been
sold, was attacked near Stretford by five or six men,
who endeavoured to take some of his goods, and threw
him iu the road and kicked and beat him, and these men
were at firkt reported to be factory operatives, but there
is no proof that they were, and it is probable that the
surmise rests on the prejudice which at all times, exists
against turn-outs, and assumes that they are the most
likely persona to be connected with the outrages.
The case of the employers and operatives is put in
something like the following shape by either party :
The employers say that they are paying an average of
nearly 25 per cent. more than the country employer is
paying for the same work, and propose to take off 10 or
12 per cent. The operatives do not deny the fact of
prices', but allege that the cost of living is greater in a
large town like Manchester. The masters, while ad-
mitting the extra cost of living, reply that the question
is not gie of goodwill towards their workpeople in time
of lad trade and minimum profits, but a question of
sheer existence for both 'Masters and men. They can
only compete with other manufacturers in the mar-
ket by paying something like the same wages ; and
to show that this is no idle talk they point to the gra-
dual decay of coarse spinning in Manchester for some
years past. It is said that in ten years past, while num-
here of mills have been springing up in Ashton, Staly-
bridge, Burnley-, Bacup, and other towns, only one sin-
gle mill has been built in Manchester, the owner of
which has become recently bankrupt. Of those that
existed ten years ago one is now used as a sugar mill,
one as a bonded warehouse, and some that have been
burnt down, or partially burnt, have been abandoned
and lie waste. They further point to the numbers of
large capitalists during the time who have sunk under
the difficulties now crushing themselves, including a
Guest, a Poollev, a Marsland, a Thompson, 'a Mord.,
the Putters, a Yates, a Burton, Sibson and Rigg. and
others. Some of these were the largest spinners in Mau-
chester ten years ago. Of those now carrying on busi-
ness the allegation thatthey are working at a loss, though
laughed at by the operatives in a late meeting, is sup-
ported by the fact that three of these large firms are
working under inspection. Should the workpeople suc-
ceed,by a combination, in enforcing masters to pay higher
wages than is paid in other towns coarse spinning will
be driven out of Manchester into the country, it is said,
and one large and highly successful firm carrying on
business in the country might be mentioned as having
been compelled to abandon a mill in Manchester some
years ago. Their successors in this mill have since been
bankrupt, while they have papered in the country.
Several arguments which did and did not bear upon
the question were put forth by the operatives in their
address to the masters last week, to which the, latter
have put forward an able and temperate reply :
" As a great amount of misconception prevails among
the public generally with reference to the proceedings
of the masters whose hands are now on strike, it has-
been deemed needful by them to publish a plain state-
ment of the facts of the case, in order that a more cor-
rect judgment may be formed of the circumstances which
no FS' exist.

" Until very recently there was no union among the
masters in this city ; but for many years past there have
existed strong unions among the factory operatives.
From time to time these unions have successfully pro-
moted constantly recurring efforts on the part of t'e3 ope-
ratives to obtain advances of wages, until the prices paid
here for fictory labour have been so much in advance
of all other adjoining towns as to make the prosecution
of the business in Manchester disastrous to many of
those who are engaged in it. In proof of this statement
we refer to the many instances in this city in which mas-
ters have been unable to meet the strong competition
which always exists in the cotton trade, and have been
compelled to yield to a power they could not overcome.
One main explanation of this result, we believe, will be
found in the fact that the rates paid here for labour ren-
dered it impossible for them to compete with the mas-
ters of other districts on equal terms. At length, in
pure self-defence, the masters in Manchester formed
themselves into a union, with a hope that by so doing
they should be enabled to prevent excessive irregularities
from existing in these respects. In 1853 the sef-ac,ing
minders and piecers who are now on strike demanded an
advance of from 10 to 25 per cent. from the masters.
The prices paid in Manchester at the time these ad-
vances were demanded were greatly in excess of the
surrounding towns ; but these hands refused to be go-
verned by any such consideration. Other Owns had
demanded and obtained advances, and, whatever price
was paid here, the advances must be conceded or they
would strike. The times were favourable for their de-
mand, and the associated masters were not quite satis-
fied that all their members could sustain a long and
expensive struggle, and consequently they gave way
and conceded an increase. The advances thus conceded
made the prices paid here at least 20 per cent, higher,
for similar work than the towns of Stockport, Ashton,
Bacup, and Bury paid, after adding their advances.
Soon efter the termination of the Preston strike
the towns surrounding Manchester withdrew the
advances they had conceded in 1852 and 3853, and some
attempts to adopt the same course were made hero, but
without success. The masters in Manchester have con-
sequently continued to pay the prices which were con-
ceded in 1853 until the present time. The prices of self-
acting minding and piecing which will be payable in
Manchester, even after the reduction which is now in
issue, will still continue to be from 10 to 20 per cent.
higher than the same class of work in the neighbouring
towns, the produce of which meets that of Manchester
in the market of the Exchange.
"In the very temperate address which the operatives
who are on strike have issued they call the attention of
the masters i‘to the advance which has recently taken
place in the price of cotton in Liverpool, and they ask
the masters to pay them the high wages they have lately
done, because these wages will not affect the cost of pro-
duction to the same extent as the late rise in cotton.
There is this important difference between the two cases
—the advance in cotton has to be paid by all masters
alike ; whereas the payment of extreme rates of wages
here, while the masters in neighbouring towns are ob-
taining the same labour at a less price, inflicts on the
masters of Manchester all the evils of a system of dif-
ferential duties, and destroys the possibility of their
meeting competition on equal terms. It must be borne
in mind that the operatives here demanded in 1853 the
sameladvances which were obtained in other towns, re-
gardless of the equality, or otherwise, of the tariffs which
these demands imposed,and when the times are favourable
again for such a course they will doubtless repeat that
demand, even if no ange belmade in their wages now.
This feature of the case has convinced the masters of this
city that it will be hopeless for them to prosecute their
operations on the same footing as their fellow-tradesmen
of other neighbouring towns, unless they endeavour,
when opportunity occurs, to rectify the irregularities of
their position by withdrawing advances which place the
rates of wages here higher than are paid ill towns
around them. They are convinced that the advance de-
manded and obtained from them in 1853 was an impro-
per one ; and, as all other towns have long since with-
drawn these advances, the masters in Manchester must
follow their example. Another proposition to which the
operatives draw the attention of the masters is thenot
pro-
priety of working short time. Short
rectify the inequality of the wages pa
which is the ground upon which the
done. Some of
the masters concerned in thismasters have con-
eluded to adopt the course they have
movement have consider-
idtiin me
Manchester,
would
ester,
last 12 months,
the
consider-
ably reduced their production during git is considered that
by working short time ; but when
in Manchester,
not one-tenth, nay, hardly one-tweltb, of all the cotton
consumed in the country is consumed
unless a much more general
wil will at
movementonceo
fbethseeen
trade that,
to short time takes place, the
mere reduction of the hours of working in Manchester
would be powerless for good, either as it affected this

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market or Liverpool ; and the fact of cotton spinning
being so comparatively limited --4—i •-
we believe, mainly to be attributed to
vantages attending its prosecution in this city to which
we have drawn public attention. In nearly every other
town in which cotton spinning is established there has
been a large increase of mills during the last ten years,
but in Manchester there has been very little extension,
clearly showing that other districts were more favour-
ably situated for the prosecution of the trade ; and we
mu,t, in justice to ourselves, say that we think the past
dictatorial conduct of this class of self-acting minders

and piecers has largely contributed to this result. Why,
at this very time they refuse to work in several of the
mills (upon the same principle as is common in nearly
overy other town in Lancashire and Cheshire, and which
we are convinced is the principle best adapted to pro-
duce the most favourable result, both for masters
and men, in many, if not in all our establishments.
They will only work the mules in the manner
which they deem to be proper, and they reject all pro-
positions to adopt these plans here (excepting at one
or two mills), although at one of their recent public
meetings some of the minders from Pooley's mill, where
the new principle was recently established, bore full
testimony to its advantages to them. In order to give
some idea of the effect of these irregularities i❑ price we
may mention a fact which has recently occurred. The
machinery of an old-established and highly respected
firm in this city was soki by auction. While it was
working here the hands were paid for minding and
piecing at ls. 92. d. per 1,000 hanks on some small mules.
These mules were purchased by a firm within eight miles
of the place where they stood here, and the price paid
for working the same mules on the same description of
work where they now stand is ls. 2d. only. To put this
question in a hypothetical shape : If two parties spent
50,0001. each in a mill and machinery, one at Stockport,
or Ashton, or Bacup, or Bury, and
,the .other at Man-
chester, and fitted them up precisely alike: iri every re-
spect, it would follow as a result, from tie: differences of
the rates of wages alone, that the mill at Manchester
would pay at least 1,500/. per annum more wages than
the other for producing the same work at the prices now
current, which in 20 years of business (the, ordinary time
which it is calculated machinery will last) would amount
to 30,0001. in favour of the mill working just outside
the boundaries of the suburbs of this city. Surely this
fact needs no comment.

" The times through which we are now passing will
not admit of these irregularities being continued, and,
although it is a most unpleasant task to us, we have
concluded to adopt the course we have taken, after very
serious consideration. Either the prices paid by our
neichbouring fellow-masters must be raised to the level
of the list by which wo have long paid, or ours must
fail. We regret the necessity of this proceeding as much
as the operatives themselves, and we cannot but deplore
the existence of the high prices of provisions to which
they draw our attention. The question at issue be-
tween us, however, is not one of benevolence, but one of
a purely commercial character. They have their labour
to sell—we are willing to purchase it. Like every other
commodity, it has its market price. We have offered
to give even more for it than they can obtain in other
towns near us, and we are not justified in going further.
We have no inducement, in the state of our business
now, to continua making sacrifices which only a pro-
fitable trade enabled us to meet ; and we deeply regret
being obliged to occasion any increase of the suffering
which high prices of provisions always entail on the
working population. We .feel assured, however, that a
careful reflection on the statements we have made, and
an inquiry into the facts we have detailed, will justify
our proceedings not only to the operatives themselves,
but to the public at large.

" RICHARD BILLET AND CO.
" THE HANOVER MILL COMPANY.
" JAMES KENNEDY AND CO.
"J. CLARKE AND BROTHER.
"J. H. CLARKE AND CO.
" SIMPSON, THOMPSON, AND CO,
" KELLY AND GILMOUR."

311ID`DLESEX, SESSIONS

The court sat yesterday at the Sessions House, Clerk-
enwell-green, to bear bail cases. There wers only five
prisoners for trial, three for assaults, and two for felony.
(Before Mr. Sergeant Adams.)
ROBBERY OF CORN, &o.
James Tcxylor, ostler, and iVilliant Microns labourer,
pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging them with
stealing a large quantity of horse provender, the pro-
perty of the Richmond Conveyance Company.
It appeared from the evidence of the police engaged
in the case, that having received information that the
corn was in the habit of being taken from the conwany's
premises at Twickenham by their ostler (Taylor), and
sold to the prisoner Hierons, a watch was kept, and on
the evening of the sth police-constable Roberts saw the
latter leave the stables, which are at the back of the
Red Lion Tavern, with a bag on his shoulder. He fo'-
lowed and took him into custody, and found the bag to
c)ntain bruised oats, bruised beans, and chaff. On ask-
ing him where he got it, he said from Shepperton, a
place 10 miles distant, and In n contrary direction,
when he took him into custody, and on his way to the
lockup the prisoner attempted to shoot the contents
into the road. The prisoner Taylor, who received a
most excellent character for honesty up t ) the present
occasion., from Mr. J. Corboliow, the Richmond Convey
twee Company's manager (the prosecutor), said, whets he
was taken into custody, that he knew nothing about the
robbery, and that he had not seen the other prisoner at
all that night.

Mr. P4ne, jun., prosecuted, and Mr. Repton and
Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoners.
Tie jury found both prisoners guilty.
Ttio Assistant-Judge sentenced Taylor to six, and
Hier.ms to nine calendar months' 'imprisonment, with
hard labour, in the House of Correction.

This closed the business of the session, and the court
adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIG.ENCE—Nov. 21.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Robert llopkins was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having feloniously
stolen 20 postage stamps, each denoting the payment of
one shilling duty, 230 penny postage stamps, and 37
printed books of the value of Si., the property of his em-
ployers, Messrs. King and Co.
Mr. King sail—l am partner with George Smith,
trader;; under the name of Smith, E'der, and Co., at
No. 65, Cornhill, as booksellers. The prisoner has been
in our service about a year as copying.clerk. It is Le-
cessary t i keep in our foreign department large numbers
of postage stamps. In consequence of a communication
which I received from our cashier some weeks since I
directed him to mark some postage stamps. On Mon-
day last our cashier brought to me 3/. 10.: worth of
postage stamps, and on the following evening I spoke to
the prisoner about them. I asked him whero he got
them from ? He said " I got them from a young man
in the City." He did not know the name. I replied
that I knew that was false. I said "I am in possession
of evidence to prove that a portion of these stamps are
our property." He first stated the same as he had done
before, and I then said, " Is that all you have to way ?"
and told him I had sent for an officer, who would he
with us shortly. Ile then said, "If you'll forgive nie
I'll tell all about it." My partner told him that we c ul(1
make no terms whatever; he must use his own discretion
as to what he said. lie then said, "I took them out
of Johnson's desk." I said, " And that applies to the
other stamps you have sold to the cashier ?" and be said,
" Yes." Storey, the officer, arrived, and he searched
the prisoner in my presence, and found on him soma
other postage stamps to the amount of 3s. 41. Storey
asked me if the portemonnaie was ours ? I said, "We
make no claim to it." The prisoner said " The stamps
are yours," and he was taken away in custody. John.
son is a clerk in our newspaper department, and has the
charge of the stamps required there. I have no doubt
that the 37 books produced belong to our firm, and
some of them are our own publications.
Mr. J. Fowler, cashier to the prosecutors, said—lt is
my duty to give out the postage stamps to the different
departments. The prisoner has on several occasions
asked me to buy postage stamps of him. Once theo
me that they were sent to him from his brother in
country. By the direction of Mr. King
stamps, which I afterwards handed to Mr. Johnson marked
d y Just the
used in the business of the firm. On
gl"entanaips to the
rkn
to be
prisoner brought to me some
amount of 3/. 10s. He told me
het;:nty-one
next day for the money.Pn'ta-uald come to me
Thed
are a portion of the
stamps bear my private m
stamps which I had previously handed to Mr. Johnson.
ed from Mr. Fowler post-
Mr. Johnson said—
horised the prisoner to take
age stamps for the uselofretchele' business, which I keep in
my desk. I have never aut
from my desk, or to go to it.
away postage stamps
Storey deposed to finding the postage stamps wpou
the prisoner, and fin
ding the books in the prisoner's
lodgings.
The prisoner said—Some of the books are my own.
I am guilty of the rest.
Committed for trial.

GUILDIIALL.—.Tohn Mennie, a lad about 12 years
of age, w' As charged, under the Juvenile Offenders' Act,
before Aldermen Cubitt and NArire, with stealing a port-
manteau under the following circumstances : 'Tti,e Rev. Frederick Massy Evelyn, of Reading, said,
on the 3d of November he hired the prisoner to carry his
portmanteau from Farriugdon-street to the London-
bridge station, and when he got as far as St. Paul's
Church-yard he turned round to speak to the pri-
soner, who he expected was following him, but found
he was nowhere to be seen, lie went on to the
station, expecting he bad passed him, and he waited
there for some hours, but nobody came. There was
in the portmanteau a porte-mounaie containing two
5/. notes, either of the Bank of England or Siin
ru-
onds' Bank, Reading; also wearing apparel to the value
of several pounds. The dress boots and two shirt-s
n.
pro-
duced were his property, and also one of the port ewn
naies produced.
Mrs. Orgar, of the Anchor and hope
i camee"h° 3 tec;
Sheerness, said the prisoner and anotherem November, her house and slept on the 6th of and when
they were going to bed the prisonerNt, gaveoery
theta
whaelirow.i% P
gold,°r t e
monnaies to take care of. In one h

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and in the other V. 14s. in silver. Ili the/ ‘`""Y
asked. her for the porte-rnbnnaies, but phie :.64;- • 4
them up, saying she did not believe dieteifeaike§ iiV
them. He protested he did, and apps
man that was with him td Verify his a liie.:t.:3,lls7‘o'
left the house, and the prisoner sent a note requestihr—
the money, but the witness had in the naeairtime-seaat
for a constable, who apprehended him and brought him
to the Anchor and Hope, when witness gave to him the
porte-monnaies and their contents.
William Pratten, avonstable at Sheerness, took the
prisoner into custody, when he tried to make his escape.
William Hurst, an' assistant to a pawnbroker in
Bloomsbury, produced two shirts and apair-of bobta
• the 6th of Noveniber, by a female, in the
itt.
s'Mapleston Green, superintending constable -of
the Faversham division, said he received the prisoner
into his custody on the 7th of November, at Sitting-
bourne. The prisoner then said he had the money and
porte-monnaies given to him by a cattle salestnanvi
Woolwich of the name of Walsh. He subsequently Oa
witness several ways in which he had become possessed
of the money. When he took him out of jail, on the
15th of November, he told him that his name was Jobn
Mennie, and not Johnson, the name be gave at Sheer-
ness. The prisoner then said that all he had previously
stated was false, that he had been employed by a gentle-
man to take a portmanteau from Farringdon-street to a
railway station, but that before be got to St. Paul's
Churchyard he ran away with it. lie met a boy he
knew by the name of Harry, and a woman. They
broke open the portmanteau, and the woman pawned
the clothes. He took the portemonnaie, which con-
tained two Si. notes, one of which the woman changed,
and the other he changed himself. He said he did not
know the woman, nor could he tell where to find Harry.
Alderman Cubitt sentenced him to three months' im-
prisonment and hard labour, and to be once privately
whipped.

CLERKENWELL. —William Math, aged 34, of
No. 3, Fazely-street, Birmingham, and Thomas Pope,
aged 33, having "no home," boatmen, were charged
with being concerned in causing the death of a woman,
name unknown.

It appeared from the evidence of police constable
Charles Ratcliffe, that about two o'clock yesterday
morning, cries as of a woman drowning were heard to
proceed from under the Regent's Canal Tunnel, near
Thornhill-bridge, Islington. Witness ran down to the
towing path, near the moath of the tunnel, and saw the
itirt of a tviifican'e 'gownlyilig on the path. He ebon
after saw some object apparently sinking in the water.
He was about to go into The water '.o her rescue, when
a boat, containing two men (the prisoners) Was seen ap•
proaching the tunnel from the direction of Camden-town.
Witness called to the prisoners to look out for the wo-
man, and when they got under the tunnel they called
out that they had "got her," and that she was "dead."
The police having fetched a stretcher went to the City-
road end of the tunnel, where they found the prisoners
and their boat, To tie surprise of the officers the wo-
man was floating in the water, a rope with a slip noose
being round her body ; and it appears that the priso-
ners when they found the drowning woman in the tun-
nel, instead of taking her into the boat, bad towed her
to the City-road end of the tunnel. They were imme-
diately apprehended. It appeared that when the pri-
soners called out that they had got the woman, they
added, " We can't bring her back ; you must go to the
other end of the tunnel." The deceased's fingers were
clenching the rope, which showed that she was alive
when the rope was put upon her.
Mr. J,..v,elyn Bradford said—l reside at No. 4, York-
place, Islington. I am a physician and surgeon. Between
2 and 3 o'clock this morning I was called upon to the
deceased woman. I examined the body. It was warm,
but dead from drowning. If any proper or ordinary
humanity had been observed towards the poor woman
by placing her on board the boat, and putting some
warm covering over her, her life might have been saved.
The deceased was a fine, strong, well formed woman,
and certainly not of the lowest order. There was no
signs of her having been drinking.
Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the prisoners)—Pray what do you
want to say to this ?
.iieath,,,Why, the police told us a woman was in the
water. I put in the boat hook and picked her out. We
put a rope round her body. She was 200 or 300 yards
in the tunnel.

Rateliffe,—She was only 15 or 16 yards from thu
rucuth of the tunnel.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that the prisoners had been guilty
of the most culpable and gross neglect. The woman was
alive and crying just before they picked her up. Two
strong fellows like themselves might have pulled her into
the boat, covered her over and rendered her assistance,
and her life no doubt have been saved ; but they had
acted with a culpable indifference, and they mmt answer
for such conduct. The woman was alive when they picked
her up, and they killed her, no doubt, through dragging
and towing her through the water with cruel indifference,
and they must answer fur it before a jury on a charge of
manslaughter.
The prisoners were then remanded.

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