The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-16 00:00:00

THAMES.

A TOWER-HILL ROBBERY.—Thomas Sinclair, a well-
known thief, about 17 years of age, was brought before Mr
Paget, charged with stealing a silk handkerchief from the
person of Captain Burley, of Boston, in Lincolnshire.
The prosecutor, who is the master of the ship Caroni,
was passing over the " thieves' paradise," which has for
the last three centuries been infested with crimps, swindlers,
magamen, and pickpockets day and night, when he felt a
tug at his coat-pocket, and on turning round saw the pri-
soner putting a silk handkerchief, the property of the
captain into his pocket. Captain Burley seized the fellow
and said "That is my handkerchief:" "Indeed, sir," replied
the thief, very coolly, and taking the handkerchief from
his pocket, " then it is at your service," and gave it to the
prosecutor. The prisoner then ran away. The captain
pursued him and soon overtook him near the Trinity Rouse,
on the top of the hill.
John Curtis, of the City police, No. 543, said he knew
the prisoner well, and that he had been for a long time
hanging about Tower-hill and Billingsgate doing no work.
The prisoner, who was fat and plump, said ho was very
hungry, and that made him take the gentleman's 'kerchief.
Mr Paget sentenced the prisoner to one month's impri-
sonment and hard labour.

A SHARP ERRAND BOY.—James Jackson, a boy aged
14, was brought before Mr Paget charged with stealing 15s
4d, the moneys of Mr John Leftwich, wholesale and retail
cheesemonger, Nos. 11 and 12, Bedford place, Commercial-
road, Stepney.
The prisoner had been recommended to the prosecutor as
a sharp errand boy, and entered his service on Monday
last. Nothing particular occurred on that day. On Tues-
day morning the prisoner was dispatched to the house of
Mr Edward Smith, in Broad-street, Wapping, with some
butter, cheese, and bacon, and a bill for the same. He
delivered the goods to Mr Smith, and received 15s 4d, the
money for the same, with which he absconded. A detec-
tive officer, named James Briden, No. 4 K, was engaged to
detect the sharp errand boy, and met with him this morning
at half. past one o'clock, and in very questionable company.
The prisoner admitted hie guilt, and said "I see my folly
now."

Mr Iseftwpah aimed the magistrate to dispose of the case
summarily.
Mr Paget said he could not comply with the request, and
committed the prisoner for trial.

MARKETS--This Days

COVENT GARDEN.

Our market continuo to be well supplied with produce.
Fruit commands a steady sale, and vegetables are in mode-
rate request. The currency is as follows;

FRUIT.

s. d. S. d.
Pine apples 5 0 to 7 0
Colonial do., each 1 6 to 6 0
Grapes,per lb 2 0 to 5 0
Foreign do 0 0 to 0 0
Melons .
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0
Apples, per hf-sv. 1 3 to 2 0
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100..3 0 to 12 0
Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 8 0
Gooseberries hi sve2 6 to 3 6
Strawberries pr pt 0 3 to 0 6

B. d. Et d
Mulberries, pr pt..o oto 0 0
Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 1 0
Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0
Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz, .... 0 oto 0 0
Peaches ..... 0 oto 0 0
Currants, perilsv 3 6to 4 0
Plums, per d 0... 0 oto 0 0
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0

VEGETABLES.
Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 3 Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0
Cabbages, pr doz 0 6to 1 0 Horseradish, pdn 1 oto 2 0
Red ditto 0 OSo 0 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 0 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 1)
Cauliflowers, pdz 0 oto 2 0 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0
Brocoll sprouts 0 oto 0 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
Potatoes, per ton 70 0 t 0123 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0
New ditto, pr cwt 0 oto 0 0 Mushrooms, p pt. 0 oto 0 0
Turnips, dz bunch 2 6to 3 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0
Carrots, pr do s6to 7 Cos lett, score .. 0 6too 10
Cucumbers 0 3to 1 0 Mint and savory.. 0 oto 0 0
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0
Green peas, h.-sv. 1 oto 1 6 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0
French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillibs, per ditto 0 oto 0 o
Onions, doz. ,bn 1 oto 2 0 , Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0
New Do., dz bun 0 otoo. 0 ' Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0
Spinach o 4to 0 6 Asparagus, pr do. 2 ito 4 0
Brussels sprouts 0 OSo 0 0 I Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(TIIis Day.)

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.)
HOPLEY V. HOPLEY.

The hearing of this case was resumed this morning.
By the direction of the learned Judge the petitioner was
recalled, and, in reply to his lordship, said that tho rent of
the cot age at Uckfield was paid out of the proceeds of the
sale of the furniture of her husband. He came to live with
her in July, 1860, about a month before the trial. A pro-
position had been made to her by her family that she should
cease to live with her husband, which she refused to accede
to.

Mr Kerslake then addressed the jury for the petitioner,
and contended that ho had fully made out the allegations in
the petition. It was, he felt, too much for them to rely
upon the case es presented to them by the respondent, as
he could not believe they would come to the opinion that
gymnastics were merely going on when the fall spoken to
in the evidence was heard upstairs. The fact was that Mr
Hopley, instead of pursuing a course of such exercise, was
punishing his wife for her not having her lessons. It reight.lJe
proper according to Mr Hopley's notiun that neither
medical man or nurse were necessary at a confinement. It
might be right that Mr Hopley should take charge of the
child, and dress it in his peculiar style with six pairs of
flannel socks on, but ho felt certain the jury will not be
of that opinion. He had no doubt that Mr Hopley lied some
peculiar and absurd theory, and he in the course of incul-
cating it had recourse to flogging children at a very tender
age, and, that being the case, he put it to the jury whether
it was safe that such a person should bectrusted with a
young wife and children. When the respondent was in
prison for causing the death of young Canceller, it was clear
the letters written by the petitioner were penned under fear
of the anger of her husband. They were written under the
fascination that Mr Hopley had acquired over his wife, and
therefore it would be well to give them their most serious'
consideration, because the petitioner knew that before they
reached the hands of Mr. Hopley they would have to un-
dergo the supervision of his mother, to whom, previous to
his trial he had made over the greater part of his property.
The sum and substance of the long speech they had heard
from the respondent was, " believe me and disbelieve all
that has been placed before you by petitioner." He said,
in effect that the whole of these proceedings had been
instituted by the brother and friends of his wife out of malice
and dislike to him personally, but the jury would give their
opinion of the matter. In his speech Mr Hopley had
availed himself, to the fullest, of the licence accorded to
persons pleading their own cause, because no advocate will
be allowed to make such damaging and sweeping accusa-
tions as he had done. The respondent said this case had
been brought about by his wife's relatives by base
flattery, cejolery, and deep subtlety, and that to accuse
him of unkindness was the falsest and foulest untruth ever
uttered in a court of justice. He did not even stop there,
because he said the whole of this case was a lie of the most
fearful character, hatched and developed by the brother of
the petitioner, a clergyman of the Church of England. The
sum and substance of the defence was that the respondent
wished the jury to believe him and disbelieve all the
evidence, as the witnesses had been suborned
by Mr. Cobb, and that the trial was a piece of
the most wicked machination ever brought against
any individual. The respondent, not content with
the cruelty he had inflicted on his wife previous to his in-
carceration, when he returned to her from gaol commenced I
a series of illtreatment of the most flagrant description.
He reviled her for accepting the assistance of her friends,
and told her she ought to have laboured with her own
hands to preserve a home for him rather than that he
should be beholden to her friends for anything. He
did not scruple to tell her that she might live in the
house, but that never again should she be his wife, and
it was then in her deep distress the petitioner began to
think whether she was acting right to herself and children
by submitting to treatment of the most cruel description.
The plea of condonation was a most miserable one, and he
felt sure the jury could not condemn a young and helpless
woman to pass the rest of her days with one who had shown
himself wanting in every feeling becoming a husband. He
(Mr Kerslake) had no objection to the respondent being
the high priest, as he likes to be styled, of his family, but
he fervently hoped that his client would not be compelled,
by the verdict of the jury, to again cohabit with one who
had shown himself so unmanly and unfeeling.
The case had not concluded when we went to press.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)

THE WET TAINT AND THE LARGE cniNoLisz.—Lzvr v.

I3ARTLETT.

Thig was an action to recover £2, the value of a dress
alleged to have been damaged by some paint in defendant's
shop.

Mr Buchanan, for plaintiff; said—My client had occasion
to go into the defendant's shop in Bishopsgate-street a short
time ago, and as sho went in some wet paint seriously al-
tered the oondition of her dress behind (laughter) ; defen-
dant's shopman called out " Mind the paint l" and she
made a move, in doing which she plastered her dress in
front, thus being painted both before and behind (renewed
laughter). For this sho seeks to recover £2, her dress,
which was a new one, being entirely spoilt.
Mrs Levy said that defendant kept a cheesemonger's
shop. She went in to make a purchase. Saw no notice of
the wet paint.
Cross-examined by Mr Vining for defendant—The crinoline
was not very large—that is, it was not unusually large.
There were no boards up to guard against the paint whore
I stood.

Mr Vining submitted that defendant was not liable.
His Honour (Mr Kerr) thought that a customer was en.
titled to expect a clean shop in the city of London.

Mr Vining would urge that it was the duty of the plain-
tiff to exeroise proper care. She went into the shop to make
a purchase to suit her own purpose.
His Honour—She went in for a lawful purpose, and it
was the duty of defendant to have given sufficient warning.
Mr Vining—There were boards up to guard against the
paint• . _

Mr Buchanan—There could not have been boards at the
place where she rubbed. Directly a tradesman opens hie
shop he invites the public to come in and purchase, and he
is bound to conduct his business in such a manner that no
damage shall ensue to the customer under ordinary cir-
cumstances.

His Honour—There is a case for the Court, for de-
fendant must remember that in the City of London it is
what is called open market.

Mr Vining then called defendant's shopman, who said
that he called out to Mrs Levy " Beware of paint, fOr it is
wet." She had a vet y large crinoline, and admitted that it
was of more extensive proportions than those usually worn.
Cross-examined—No other accident happened, and there
was no written notice up.
His Honour thought there was no defence.
Mr Vining—Plaintiff had on a large crinoline.

His Honour—l cannot punish a-woman for wearing
crinoline. Plaintiff can reply that she is entitled to follow
the prevailing ti:shion. If a tradesman wishes to protect
himself particularly, he ought to put no a notice, "No
ladies with large ciit;olines served in this shop." (Laugh.
ter.) I must hind for plaintiff.
Verdict for plaintiff with costs.

INowEsT AT HonsEMUNGER-LANE GAOL.—On
Thursday an inquest was held fa Horsemonger-lane Goal,
relative to the death of Alice Hughes, aged 45, a prisoner,
who expired suddenly on Tuesday morning. For throe
months before her incatceration on Sunday evening last
she had been constantly in a state of intoxication, having
pledged or sold all the clothes of her children, and then com-
mitted theft to procure the means of further gratifying her
passion. She died from delirium tremens. Verdict—Died
from exhaustion, the result of intemperance.
AN INVITATION TO DINNEIL—Lord Brougham
has invited the House of Lords to dinner—at the
Cooking Depot in the New-cut. He has been there him-
self, and vouches for the quality of beef, peas, and pota-
toes, for fourpence, and "a basin of soup, better than which
their lordships never had at their own tables," for a penny-.
Add a penny for beer, and we have an excellent dinner for
sixpence. Here is the result of the good example set us by
Glasgow. In this one depot, ;1,560 working men, some
with their wives and daughters, dine daily, and, in a man-
ner, sumptuously. One may ask, why what cookery can
do for the working man it should not do for other men ?
Beef, after all, is only beef, and peas, potatoes, and soup,
fit for a nobleman, if Lord Brougham is right, cannot be
very bad for men who are neither noblemen nor working
men. Why should a merchant's clerk have to pay eight-
pence or tenpence for a basin of soup when it can be sold so
good for a penny f Why should he have to pay threepence
for a ration of peas, when peas, potatoes, and beef, over
which Lord Brougham can luxuriate, may be had for four-
pence ? Really this is a matter of consequence to thousands.
It is a poor dinner which a merchant's clerk can get for a
shilling—cow-beef, probably, and certainly no peas. To
be sure, it is not necessary for him to eat peas. But why
should he be perennially cut off from so innocent a luxury
because his eating-house-keeper will not give him three
table-spoonfuls for less than threepence ? We want a
radical change in this matter of feeding. To give a work-
ing man, with his eighteen shillings per week, a good dinner
fur sixpence, and charge a clerk, with his thirty shillings
t
per week, a shilling or eighteen-pence for an indieffwefcuten
one, is monstrous. The Cooking Depot in the N
returns a profit of 20 per cent. What fortun.eisr
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keepers of eating-houses make out of the ha/ li
half
tables :
and youths who dine and lunch daily at their
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i:' a BEQUEL3TS. 1"--.

The will of Admi..rai Sir Edward Tucker, G.C.8.,
of Dover-street, Pic cm lilly, was proved in the Lon.
don Court, on the 29th tilt., by the executors,
Martin Tucker Smifil 1, his nephew, and George
Robert Marten,Esqr The personalty was sworn
under £30,000. Th e gallant Admiral, who attained
the age of 87, bad s al an much actual service on the
Mediterranean, Ind ian, and other stations, and ob-
tained a good-servi' :e pension in 1858. He was the
son of Colonel Tye! :er, sth Dragoon Guards. His
will bears date 18 62, and a codicil, 23th August,
1863, being the in onth following the demise of his
wife, Lady Tuckel !. His estates in Ireland, toge-
ther with his pers anal property, he has left to his
nephew,.Franeis 'l ?kicker, of the East Indian Civil
Service, he paying £l,lOO to the testator's nephew,
Cecil Turner.

The will of Sara 28 Kershaw, Evq., M.P., late of
Oaklands, Manche! ,zer, and Streatham, Surrey, was
proved in the LOT idon Court, and the personalty
sworn under £3OO, 000. The executors and trustees
therein nominated are Mrs. Kershaw, the relict
Frederick T. rorthy and Samuel Armitage,
Esqs., the sons- in -law ; Sir Frank Crossley, Bart.,
WEhoscl.a're minors. A
who are also
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darrenne,
guardians
dofThvotarae
legacy of £lOO to each of them, in the character of
executors. 11 to testator has made a liberal provi-
sion for his rel ict, and to the two sons of his late son.
James he leav( a a legacy of £5,000 each ; to each of
his seven daughters a legacy of £3,000, appointing
them also resi inary legatees. The will bears date
1862. The testator died on the 27th of April last,
aged sixty-nine. Mr. Kershaw was partner in th.e
firm of Kershaw, Leese, and Sidebottom, manufe.c.
turers, of Manchester—was a magistrate—was
elected Mayor of Manchester in 1843, and had
been M.P. for Stockfort since 1847.

The will of Colonel Richard William Astell, of
Everton House, Bedfordshire, formerly commasid-.
lug the 3d Battalion of the Grenadier Guards,was
proved in the London Court on the Ist instant by
the testator's brothers and executors, John H. Astell,
Esq,, M.P., and Charles Edward Astell, Esq. The
personalty was sworn under £BO,OOO. The Will
bears date 1857, and a codicil, September, 1862, and
are in the testator's own hand-writing. The gal-
lant Colonel died at the age of sixty. He had
retired from active service. He was a magistrate and
Deputy-Lieut. for Bedfordshire. His will contains
many liberal legacies. To his sister Lady Fairfax he
loaves an annuity of £5OO and a legacy of £soo—
his sisters Louisa St. Quinton and Harriet Par-
doe, each 1:10,000—and to his brothers Henry and
Charles, each a like legacy of £lO,OOO (one-half of:
these legacies on their decease to go to their chil
dren), and liberal bequests to others of his family.
The residue, real and personal, is left to his brother
John Harvey 'Well, Esq. To his nurse he leaves
an annuity of £3o—to his man-servant (a private
in the Grenadier Guards) an annuity of £25, and
to each of them a legacy of £5O, and legacies to
other servants. To the poor of Everton and Tat-
worth XlOO, and to the Middlesex and Westminster
Hospitals, the Bedford Infirmary and the Royal
Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, each £lOO. All
legacies are to be paid free of duty.—lllustrated
London News.

LONDON GAZETTES—Last Evening,

CROWN-OFFICE, JULY 13.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR.

LIAMENT.

COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER.—Eastern Division—Sir
Michael Edward Hicks Beach, Bart., in the room of Sir
Christopher William Codrington, Bart., deceased.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JULY 15.
89th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Charles Gascoyne
to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General C. G. J. Arbuth-
not, transferred to the 91st Foot.
91st Foot—Lieutenant-General C. G. J. Arbuthnot, from
89th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Chas.
Murray Hay, deceased.

ADMIRALTY, JULY 12.
Royal Marine Light Intantry—First Lieutenant Robert
Abernethie Brutton to be Captain, vice Bent, placed on
half-pay—Second Lieutenant Henry John Lawrence Nor-
cock to be First Lieutenant, vice Brutton.
NEW ZEALAND.
The" Gazette" contains a number of despatches relative
to the war in New Zealand, the substance of which we
have already given.

In consideration of the services mentioned in these de-
spatches, the following promotions have taken place :
TO BE COMMANDERS.
Lic utenavt George Graham Duff, date of commission 29th
April, 18(34. _ _

Lieutenant Charles Frederick Hotham (so soon as he
shall have completed the sea time required to qualify_him
for that rank).

TO BE LIEUTENANTS.
Sub-Lieutenant Philip Reginald Hastings Parker.
Acting Lieutenant Archer John William Musgrave (on
his passing the required examinations at the Royal Naval
College) ; Commissions to date 29th April, 1864.
The names of Lieutenant Robert Sydney Hunt, R.N.,
Robert Frederick Hammick, [t.N., and of First Lieutenant
Robert Ballard Gardner, of the Royal Marine Artillery, as
well as of the seamen mentioned in the despatches, have
been ordered to be favourably noted.

In consideration also of special services in New Zealand,
the follow ing further promotions have taken place, dated
July 14, 1864:

TO BE CAPTAIN.
Commander Henry Bouchier Phillimore.
TO BE COMMANDER.
Lieutenant Johm Tomlinson Swann.
TO BE LIEUTENANTS.

Sub. Lieutenant Paul Starr.
Sub-Lieutenant John Hope.
DOWNING.STREET, JULY 15.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edward John
Eyre, Esq. (now Lieutenant-Governor) to be Captain-
General and Governor-in-Chief in and over the island of
Jamaica and the territories depending thereon.
BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im
portance in the Gazette:—
Wm. Wisenden, painter, Rochester
Wtn. Jones, engineer, Bethnal-green-road
Nathaniel W. Westwood, ham dealer, Lnpas-street,
Pimlico
George Fox, gasfitter, Liverpool
Aaron Hobson, builder, Birkenhead
John Hoare, shoemaker, Bideford
William Lobley, commercial traveller, Leeds
William Hadley, farmer, Handsworth, Staffordshire
Thomas R. Hyde, tailor, Nottingham
John Stokes, grocer, Nottingham
Joseph H, Venables, ironmonger, Whitchurch, Salop
Edward Harley, baker, Whitecroas-street
Francis Masters, linendraper, Knightsbridge
Alexander Rove, grocer, Clerkeuwell
Daniel J. English, ship chandler, Chatham
Wm. S. Ilanny, watch maker, Shrewsbury
Thomas Sage, jun., mason, Chawloigh
John BouQteau, timber merchant, Cardewlees
Thomas Dean. grocer, Padiham, Lancashire
James Booth, painter, Little Bolton, Lancashire
Joseph Wilkinson, cabinetmaker, Allerton, Bradford
George Tomkins, builder, Hertford
William Thomas, dealer, Falmouth
Charles E. Farley, wheelwright, Steyning, Sussex
Edward J. Kerridge, candle maker, Battersea
George Pratt, general dealer, Lamb's Conduit-passage,
Holborn
John Harlow, grease manufacturer, Clayton
John Jarman, commercial traveller, Birmingham
James King Norton, brewer, Salisbury
Richard tickers, ironmonger, Wolverhampton
John M. T. Kingdom, law clerk, Oxford-terrace, Old
Kent-road
Thomas Baynton, nurseryman, Perge
SCOTCH VANKRUPTS.
A3exander Aiorton, engineer, Arbroatl).
J. and T. Newton, grain merchants, Greenock hire
Thomas Inglis, farmer, Carrickstone, Dumbart"fi