The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-13 00:00:00

THAMES.

DARING SHOP ROBBERY.—George Long, aged 59, who
described himself as a weaver, with no fixed residence, was
brought before Mr. Partridge, chsrged with stealing a coat,
valued at 175., the property of Amelia Pryer, of No. 1,
Sharp's-buildings, Minories.
It appeared from the evidence of Alfred Valentine, a Jew
in the employment of the prosecutrix, that many things
had been stolen out of her shop, and that on Thursday
evening at 6 o'clock, he determined on a plot to discover
one thief at least, and went to the opposite side of the way,
where he could keep a good look out and not be seen. The
shop was an open one. Soon after he retired to his hiding
place he saw the prisoner enter the shop, look about him,
and then help himself to a new coat, which he put under
his own, and was about to leave the shop, when he darted
across the road and seized him. The prisoner said he
only wanted to know the price of a coat. The shopman
said, "Yes, you have one," on which the prisoner smiled,
took the coat he had stolen from under his arm, and said,
" I only wanted to show how easy it is to rob you." The
shopman said, "Yes, you have committed that robbery very
easily, indeed, and I intend to detain you." He forthwith
handed him over to a City police-constable, named John
Thomas, No. 601, who searched him and found no money
on him. The case was fully heard yesterday, but the wit-
ness Valentine did not then state the dwelling-place of his
mistress. He only mentioned his own residence, Gravel-
lane, Houndsditch. The prisoner was remanded after the
witnesses lett the court, and they were summoned to attend
again this day.

The prisoner said he only wanted to show it was very
easy to steal a coat.

Mr. Partridge committed the prisoner for trial.

WESTMINSTER.

RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES—A WELL-MERITED rI7NISII-
MENT.—John Caton, a smartly dressed young man, was
charged with a brutal assault upon his mother.

Complainant said that she maintained herself and family
of young children by her industry. The defendant
lived with her, or rather upon her, for he was very often
without employment, and not content with that he knocked
her sbout and ill-used her very much. Yesterday (Friday)
he had some fish cooking for his dinner, and struck her
with a fork he was using, upon which she threw the fork
out of doors, in order to prevent his doing it again. He
then became more violent, and after breaking open her box,
assaulted her violently in the mouth and split her lips open.
Mr. Selfe—What does your son do for a living?
Complainant—He is a waiter, employed at taverns, but
he is constantly hanging upon me, and I have to keep him.
He is 25 years of age, and he is too big to be living at home
and sleeping in the same room with me and the other chil-
dren. I don't like it, and I don't like his knocking me about.
Mr. Selfe—You say he has often done this.
Complainant —Very often.

Defendant—All this disturbance has occurred because I
had some eggs on Wednesday. My mother is a Catholic,
and she says that the priest does not like either eggs or
meat to be eaten on Ash-Wednesday or on Ft iday, and so
we quarrelled about it, although I had fish yesterday to
accommodate her.

Complainant—Well, he can't get it every day, and there-
fore he might have meat or eggs on the days when he
may eat them, as well as having them on days when he
may not.

Pulice•constable 264 B proved that complainant's month
was so much cut that ho was obliged to take her to the
hospital to have it dressed.

Defendant said his mother gave him great provocation,
and always did.

Mr. Selfe—lf she does you must not knock her about like
a brute, and you must be punished if you do, You are com-
mitted for two months to hard labour in the House of Cor-
rection,

Bacon's Map of Denmark, Scleswig, and Hol-
stein, just published, is another addition to the war maps
issued by this firm. The map in question, whilst being
very cheap, is, at the same time, both clearly and excellently
executed.

MR. Tom TAYLOR is reported to be himself about
to enter into theatrical management, having become, ac-
cording to the rumour, one of the lessees of the Olympic
Theatre, Messrs. Robson and Emden retiring.
SUFFERINGS AT SEA.—A letter has been received
in Sunderland from Mr. N. Coghlan, second mate
of the Royal Victoria, the abandonment of which vessel we
noticed in The Sun of Tuesday. Mr. Coghlan, who dates
from Melby, Sandners, Shetland Isles, Jan. 24, says that
when Captain Leslie decided upon abandoning the ship he
put all the provisions into the lifeboat, in which he intended
going himself. Coghlan, the chief mate, and 15 hands went
into the other boat, and it was intended that a portion of the
provisions in the captain's boat should be transferred to the
mate's. Night had come on, however, and in half an hour
after leaving the ship's side the boats parted company. The
captain had given the mate hi■ course,•but Coghlan (who
was formerly a shipmaster) suggested an alteration, and
they accordingly steered ESE, to make the Orkney Islands
or else the coast of Norway. They had not a morsel of food
on board, and not even a glassful of fresh water. Out of a
pair of blankets on board they made two lugsails, and these
having been set Coghlan addressed the men, stating that
by carrying on with these two sails he had every hope that
their lives would be saved, but there was one thing he
desired particularly to impress upon them, they must on
no account taste salt water. In five minutes after setting
the two lug sails, they were "flying over the sea at the rate
of six or seven knots an hour." Coghlan mentions that
two of the men disregarded his injunctions respecting
drinking the salt water, and leaves it to be inferred that
they were the same as the two whose deaths have been
already reported. For four days and nights they perse-
vered in keeping sail on the boat, and in addition to their
sufferings from want of food and water, they were
thoroughly drenched from head to foot. On the morning
of the fifth day they made the islands of Fouls, in Shetland,
but they were all so ill that they had to be carried by the
islanders from the boat to the shore. Coghlan states that
his feet are swollen to three times their natural size. He
speaks in high terms of the kindness of the people. All
hands were recovering, but at the date of his letter few of
them were able to walk, and ho is convinced that if they
had remained another day in the boat they would all have
perished. The captain's boat was more unfortunate. Out
of 15 on board, only two were alive when they made the
Shetland Islands, Captain Leslie being among those who
perished.
HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY,—A large
muster of this regiment took place on Thursday evening,
for the purpose of hearing the Royal Warrant read, and to
appoint his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales Captain-
General and Colonel. Lieut,Colonel Lord Colville an-
nounced that his Royal Highness would shortly inspect the
regiment, and that he would &so present the company with
a prize for shooting in the course of the year. Lord Colville
then distributed the prizes which had been won last year,

THE MALT FOR CATTLE BILL.

The following is a copy of the bill, brought in by
the Chancellor the Exchequer, tc allow the mak-
ing of malt duty free to be used in feeding cattle:—

Whereas it is expedient to allow malt to be made duty free
to be used in the feeding of cattle ; be it enacted by the
Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of th• Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons,
in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority
of the same, as follows :

1. It shall be lawful for any person who shall give such
security as hereinafter required in that behalf, and upon
taking out a proper license as a maltster, to make malt un-
der the provisions of this act in a malthouse approved by
the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for the sole purpose
of being consumed in the feeding of cattle, and all malt
which shall be FO made and which shall be mixed with
linseed cake or linseed meal as hereinafter directed in such
malthouse shall be free from the duties of excise charge-
able on malt; and it shall also be lawful for any maltster
(not being a distiller) who shall be entitled to make
malt for the purpose of being consumed in the distil
ling of spirits under the provisions of the act passed in
the 18th and 19th years of her Majesty's reign, chap. 94.
to mix malt with the materials aforesaid for the sole pur-
pose of being consumed in the feeding of cattle, upon his
complying with the provisions and regulations of this act.
2. Every person who shall intend to make malt duty-free
under the provisions of this act shall enter into a bond to
her Majesty, with two or more sufficient sureties, to the sa-
tisfaction of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, and in
such sum as the said Commissioners shall think proper,
conditioned to the purport or effect following, that is to say
—that such maltster shall duly make into malt all corn and
grain which shall be received into any such maltheuse as
aforesaid, and shall not take, send out, remove, or deliver
from any such malthouse as aforesaid any malt, except malt
duly mixed with some material prescribed by this act in that
behalf, and removed in conformity with the provisions of
this act, and shall not convey away, hide, or conceal any
malt, or corn, or grain, contrary to any of the provisions of
this act, or of any act in force in relation to maltsters or the
making of malt ; and the condition of such bond shall also
contain all such further terms and stipulations as the Com-
missioners of Inland Revenue shall deem to be necessary or
proper for enforcing compliance on the part of such malt-
ster with the terms and provisions of this act and the regu-
lations which the said commissioners may make in pursu-
ance thereof, or for preventing frauds in relation to the malt
to be made by such maltster; and such maltster shall give a
fresh bond with such sureties as aforesaid, when and as
often as he shall be required so to do by the said commis-
sioners, and in default thereof he shall not be entitled to
make malt duty free under the provisions of this act.
3. Every person who shall make malt under the provi•
visions of this act shall paint or place and fix in lettere dis-
tinctly legible, three inches at the least in height, and of
a pa oper and proportionate breadth, conspicuously upon
the principal gate, door, or entrance of his malthouse, his
Christian and surname, together with the words "Entered
to make malt to be used in feeding cattle," and shall pre-
serve
and keep the same so painted or placed and fixed,
and shall repaint and renew the same as often as occasion
shall require. . .

4. All malt made under the provisions of this act shall
be deposited in a storeroom provided by the maltster and
entered with the excise for that purpose, and shall be con-
veyed to and from the room in which the same is intended
to be ground as hereinafter mentioned upon such notice to
the officer of excise, and under such regulations as the Com-
missioners of Inland Revenue shall direct and appoint in
that behalf.

5. The maltster shall provide at his own expense a safe
and secure room or rooms in his malthouse, to be approved
in writing by the proper collector and supervisor of the dis-
trict, for the purpose of grinding the malt made by him in
such malthouse, and mixing and storing the same when
mixed ; and all such rooms to be provided as aforesaid
shall be properly secured to the satisfaction of the said col-
lector and supervisor, and shall be at all times kept locked
by the proper officer of excise, and neither the maltster nor
his servants or workmen shall be admitted therein, except
upon such a notice in writing to be given by the maltster to
the officer as the said commissioners shall direct.
6. All malt made under the provisions of this act shall,
before the removal thereof from the malthouse in which
the same shall have been made, be ground and thoroughly
mixed with one-tenth part at the least of its weight of
ground linseed cake or linseed meal; and all such malt,
and the said material to be mixed therewith, shall be
ground to such a degree of fineness and in such manner as
the said commissioners shall direct or approve, and shall be
mixed together in a quantity not less than 40 bushels at a
time in the presence of an officer of excise by such means
and in such manner as shall be directed or approved by the
said commissioners ; and for any refusal or neglect on the
part of the maltster to comply with the requirements of
this clause, or any of them, the malt and also the material
mixed or intended to be mixed therewith shall be forfeited.
7. The maltster shall keep an account, in such form as the
commissioners shall supply to him for that purpose, of the
quantity, by weight cr measure as the commissioners shall
require, of all malt mixed as aforesaid which he shall from
time to time send out or deliver from his malthouse, with the
respective dates of such sending out or delivery, and the
name and place of abode of the person to or for whom such
mixed malt shall be so sent or delivered, together with such
other particulars respecting the same as the said commis-
sioners shall require in that behalf.

8. All malt which shall be found mixed with linseed cake
or linseed meal shall be deemed to have been mixed under
the provisions of this act, and if any person shall separate
or attempt to separate any malt from any material with
which the same shall have been mixed as aforesaid, or shall
use any malt which shall have been so mixed as aforesaid in
or for the brewing of beer or distilling of spirits, he shall
forfeit the sum of £2OO, and all such malt and material shall
be forfeited.

9. If any person shall be found taking or removing malt,
or any corn or grain making into malt, from any malthonse
or premixes on the principal or outer gate whereof the words
"Entered to make malt to be used in feeding cattle" shall
be painted, placed, or fixed, and not being malt mixed with
such material as aforesaid, and removing under and accord-
ing to the provisions of this act, he shall be dealt with in
like manner and be liable to the like penalty and punish-
ment as are prescribed in the 32d section of the said act
passed in the 18th and 19th years of her Majesty in the case
of a person offending as therein mentioned.
10. All the provisions, regulations, penalties, and for•
feiturea contained in the several acts of Parliament now in
force in relation to maltsters or the making malt, and also
the provisions contained in the sections hereinafter enume-
rated of the said act of the 18th and 19th years of her Ma-
jesty's reign, chapter 94, that is say, sections 6, 11, 13, 14,
15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 31, so far as they relate to
maltsters not being distillers, and so far as the same shall be
consistent with the express provisions of this act, shall be
applied and put in execution with respect to maltsters and
the making of malt under this act as fully and effectually to
all intents and purposes as if the same had been repeated
and specially enacted, mutatis mutandis, with reference to
maltsters and the making of malt under this act.
11. This act shall continue and be in force for five years
from the passing thereof, and until the epd of the then next
session of Parliament, and shall then expire, except as to
any act done or offence committed, or any penalty or for-
feiture previously incurred.