The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-23 00:00:00

THAMES.

SINGULAR MARINE BURGLARY.—Hugh Horn, a well-
known thief, was brought before Mr Partridge charged
with feloniously breaking into the ship Annie, in the river,
off Union Stairs, Wapping, and stealing thereform a silver
watch and chain, an overcoat, two pairs of trousers, and
two large hams each weighing Nibs.
It appeared from the evidence of James Masson, a sailor
on board the Annie, that the vessel was entered and the
cabin ransacked on Friday night last. Everything of value,
including the captain's watch and chain and two hams,
were stolen. lie saw the prisoner in a boat at the stern of
the vessel two hours before the robbery was discovered.

Robert Cook, a cork manufacturer, of High-street, Wap-
ping, said he met the prisoner on Saturday last, and he said
he had two hams for sale, and asked him to buy them. He
saw the hams, and asked the prisoner the price, to which
he replied. " lOs each." He said to the prisoner, " I hope
you have done nothing dishonest," The prisoner declared
he had not, and he gave him 103 for one of the hams.
Mr Partridge—Where did the prisoner say he obtained
the hams fi

Witness—Hs said he bought them cheap, and I should
have one at the price he gave for it.
Mason said the ham weighed 301 b, and the master gave
9d per lb for it.
Mr Partridge—Then the ham cost the captain 225. 6d ?
Henry Dyer, a Thames police-constable, produced the
remains of a ham which he found in the house of the wit-
ness Cook, and which Mason was able to identify. He
had traced the captain's watch to a pawnbroker's shop. It
was pledged by a woman for the prisoner, who had been 18
months in prison for another robbery on the river, and was
a most notorious and audacious thief. He asked for a re-
mand. At the next examination the captain's watch would
be produced.

Mr Partridge remanded the prisoner for a week.

STATE OF TRADE,

BRAD?ORD, Deo. 22. —There has been more business
done in wool during the present week. The chief demand is
for deep-grown wool, but there has been some slight busi-
ness done in all seats. The tendency of prices was in the
ascendant, and holders were not anxious to press sales.
Every class of wool partook of the improvement, although
this result was most marked in deep-grown wools, which are
fully id per lb dearer than a fortnight ago. Lincolnshire
hogs' may be quoted at 2s 7id per lb, and wethers 2s 2d per
lb. This improvement was prompted by anticipation of
greater activity in the worsted trade at the opening of the
new year. The business done in worsted yarns was exceed-
ingly small. The hardening tendency of the raw material
induced spinners to seek higher rates, but this tended to
cheek business. Stocks in merchants' warehouses, however,
are very low. There was a visible improvement in the piece
department. Both the home and foreign merchants did a
trifla more business. Prices were very firm.

Mrs Anne Smyth, widow of Major H. C. Smyth,
of the Bengal Engineers, and mother of Wm. Makepcace
Thackeray, died on the 18th inst., at 8, Onslow_gardens,
just a year after her illustrious son.

DYEING A. MAN BLUE.—A Vienna journal
relates a droll story. A young man, who was
paying assiduous court to the wife of a dyer, had the mis-
fortune to be caught by the enraged husband, who called
his workmen about him, and without any ceremony the
gallant so gay was plungei into a cauldron prepared for
imparting a true blue colour to various fabrics. In a
second the unfortunate youth had acquired such a tint that
he dares not appear in public. His friends implored the
dyer to restore the poor fellow to his natural hue; but the
pitiless answer was, "It is impossible, Ile is of a beauti-
ful colour, and all I can do for him is to change him to a
green or violet."

The Flores revolution, vhich still continues in the ad-
joining republic, is causing the most serious complications
in the River Plate. The Brazilian squadron has at last left
Buenos Ayres for the Rifer Uruguay for the purpose of
blockading some of the river ports. The Brazilian invasion
has caused great excitement in many parts of the Argentine
Republic, and if permitted to continue will it is feared lead
to a fearful revolution in some of our provinces. President
Mitre's non-intervention policy is regarded by all impartial
persons with the greatest dititrust, and the national securi-
ties of the Argentine Republic aro selling at a discount of
60 per cent., which can only be accounted for by the gene-
i'al want of confidence in the actual Administration.

The following are the latest reports of the Buenos
Ayres markets :--
Nov. 10—Paper price of ounces, 466 k doll—ditto sove-
reigns, 14.1 dols—first price of patacons, 29 35—last
ditto, 39 15—cash sales, 8,270-2,000 National Bonds,
44t, with coupons-8,200 ditto, 411, deliver January
10, 1865. The decline in the price of specie to-day was attri•
bated to the burning of nine millions of paper money which
will take place on Monday. Paper money is in great deman 1,
and, notwithstanding the alarming news brought by the
packet, merchants and brokers consider that the withdrawal
of so large a sum from the market must have a very serious
effect on the value of our circulating medium. The wool
markets were rather dull to-day. The highest price obtained
in the place that we could hear of was BGdol. Owing to the
unfavourable news received from Europe, the buyers have
nearly all left the market awaiting the arrival of the Mersey,
which will bring the merchants their regular letters. The
best wool at present may be quoted at from 8.5 to 95, and the
market is very weak. In exchange we remark that rates
have receded, and tc-day several bills for large amounts were
passed at 494- and 49k. Takers are beginning to be very
particular, owing to the gloomy prospects respecting River
Plate produce. The total amount drawn for the packet is
under the usual average, and it ie said on 'Change that some
specie would be shipped in the Saintonge. The Oriental
loan wt's not known on 'Change, although we havo been in-
formed that some of the bonds are at present in this city.
The National Government amortised 21 bonds of 1,000,101
each on the Ist inst. These securities have improved a
little to-day ; the Finance Minister deserves every praise
for the great regularity with which he pays the interest and
principal instalments of the national debt. It the coupons
could only be paid inEugland we doubt not that these bonds
-woe d find a ready sale abroad. There were no charters, and
as importers dread that the Prices at home are giving way,
it is thought that both hides and wool will go into deposit.
At Montevideo business was dull, but money was
very cheap. Second-class bills were discounted at 9
per cent. The Montevidian Government had ne-
gotiated a loan with the merchants in Montevideo
through the brokers Lavalle and Co. for the sum
of 400,000 national dollars. The Government had
issued bonds at 87f per cent., bearing 12 per cent.
interest, secured by the eastern-house building. The
fortifications were being carried on with the greatest
vigour, particularly dowh at the bay side and
•hevaux de frise at each of the barricades. The
National Guard were on duty every night. At the
Paso Molino there was stationed a regiment of
soldiers, and two piems of cannon commanded the
bridge.

St. Paul's School.

Winter speech-day, yesterday, at St. Paul's School, though
second in the fasti to that day on which prizes are de-
livered, is yet an occasion of some interest, as, indeed, was
manifested by the very numerous attendance of the rela-
tives and friends of the scholars. The chair was taken, a
little before two o'clock, by Mr Shuttleworth, surveyor-
accountant Company ; and there were pre-
sent Mr Fitzgerald, and Mr Watson,
_Canon o f
Bi theak
Blake
iey, Mercers'
members of the court,

Dr Kynaston, the head-master of the school, commenced
the proceedings of the day by calling up the three boys who
had successfully competed for the Thrushton memorial
prize for Latin lyrics—a special mark of distinction con,
ferred at this period of the year. Three:candidates are adA
mitted to participation in this award ; and the names of
those who yesterday responded to the summons of the
head-master, and stepped upon the platform to receive
the marks of their meritorious endeavours, were C.
M. Cowie, E. A. Knox and E. W. South. Dr Kynas-
ton, in distributing the prizes, spoke in the highest
terms of the three young men who had so deservedly wun
them, and said that none of greater promise had ever come
before him.

After the brief ceremony of delivering the prize books into
the hands of the successful competitors, the recitation of
speeches, or rather dialogues and scenes, began. It may be
stated, by the bye, that the lyrics which had won distinc-
tion, and which were Latin versions of Wordsworth's "To
the Daisy," were not spoken, but were " taken as read."
The following is the programme, which was carried out with
great ability add spirit by all concerned in it : Aristophanes
"Knights," 85-284—Nicias, B. A. Knox; Demosthenes:
E. W. South ; Sausage-seller, ; Cleon, C. M. Cowie ;
Chorus, Mills. Shakapere, "King Richard II1.," act. i.,
scene 4—Clarence, Mackenzie ; Brackenbury, H. C.
M'Carthy; First Murderer, Pocock; Second Murderer,
Seaman. Terence, " Andria," act iv., scenes 3,4, 5 —Mysis,
J. R. Illingworth ; Davus, Seaman; Chremee, Hinson.
Shakspere, "Taming of the Shrew," act iv.. scenes 1, 3
Petruchio, J. A. Kempo; Katharina, Mills ; Grumio,
M'Gill ; Hortensio, C. Cowie; Tailor, E. A. Knox;
Haberdasher, Seaman. Moliere, "Le I‘l4clecin Malgre Lui,"
act I.—Sgernarelle, J. A. Kemp ; Martine, Mills ; M.
Robert, Mackenzie; Lucas, Hinson; Valero, H. C
M'Carthy,

The Hon. Mrs Fitzroy, widow of the late Right
Hon. Henry Fitzroy, and daughter of Baron Nathan M.
Rothschild, has loft in her will a legacy of £lOO to the
National Lifeboat Institution, to be applied in the purchase
of a lifeboat, to bo callpd the Arthur Frederick, after her
late son.

SIC TRANSIT.—To see the sights of London
thoroughly we bhould put ourselves implicitly under the
charge of a country cousin ; if we should desire at the pre-
sent time to find some prticular and once well-known street,
we should ask a navvyl " Where 't was ? ' What a change,
indeed, have twelve months effected in the metropolis, and
what will Ludgate-hill be in mother year with its concen-
tration of traffic throughout the four quarters of the globe ?
The iron vertebra of a railway bridge already throws its
shadow actors this remarkable thoroughfare, and Osborne
House, for the first time for years, ceases to wrest the at-
tention of the pedestrian by its,well remembered annual, to
which our children, and, indeed, many of ourselves, have
gazed with delight, as the precursor and epitome of tha good
things around it—fit mental associations of plum-pudding
and pantomimes I Tilr Osborne, however, deserves every
thanks for thus depriving himself of what must have proved
a very pleasing mode of attracting customers to his far-
famed provision stores, and it is to ba hoped that the ab-
sence of the gazing crowd without will not affect the custo-
mary buying throng within.