The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

BOOKS RECEIVED,

Dr. Jacob. By the Author of John and I.' 3 vols.
Hurst and Blackett.
. Lost Lenore. Edited by Captain Mayne Reid. 3 vols.
C. J. Skeet.
Sir Victor's Choice. By Annie Thomas. 3 vols. J.
Maxwell and Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Falconbridge. By Hamilton Aide. 2 vols.
Smith, Elder, and Co.
Beppo the Conscript. By T. Adolphus Trollope. 2 vols.
uhaiman and Hall.
History of Frederick the Great. By Thomas Carlyle.
Vol. IV. Chapman and Hall.
Incidents in My Life. By D. D. Home. Second Edition.
F. Pitman.
Curiosities of Savage Life, First and Second Series.
S. 0. Beeton.
Legends of Iceland. Collected by JO nArnason. R. Bentley.
A Basket of Fragments. By a Quondam Author. R.
Bentley.
Miss Corner's Histories for Children. 9 vols. Dean and
Son.
C. Butler's Guides to Geography and Useful Knowledge,
2 vole. Dean and Son.
Western Wnods and Waters. By J. H. Abraball. Long-
man and Co.
The Battle of the Standards. By John Taylor, Longman
and Co.

THE NATIONAL SHAKSPERE COMMITTEE.--The
Duke of Manchester, the Right Hon. William Cowp:r,
M.P., Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P., Wm. Tite, 'Esq., M.P.,
Prof. Donaldson, President of the Royal Institute of Bri-
tish Architects, A. J. B. Berestord Hope, Esq., and Daniel
Maclise, Esq., R.A.—the seven gentlemen who were elected
a Shakspero Executive—kavo all accepted the function en-
trusted to them by the committee.

THE PRINCE OF WALES has consented to pre-
side at the anniversary dinner of the Royal Literary Fund,
to be held this year in St. James's Hall.
THE WOLLASTON •MEDAL has been awarded by
the Geological Society to Sir R. I. Murchison, for his emi-
nent services to the science.

THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SO-
CIETY.—Prof. Ramsay has retired from the presidency of
the Geological Society, in which he has been succeeded by
Mr. J. W . Hamilton.

TIIE KING AND QUEEN OF PORTUGAL are shortly
expected to arrive in Paris.

Mr. J. E. B. MAYon has been elected Librarian
to the University of Cambridge.
TAE WIFE OF GENERAL TOM THUMB was de-
livered of a son and heir on the 22d of last month.
ANOTHER STEAMER FOR THE CONFEDERATE
STATES.—The fast paddle wheel steamer Dundalk,
the property of the North of Scotland Steam Shipping
Company, has been bought by a Liverpool firm, and it is
understood that the purchase has been made for the Con-
federate Government.

The Berlin journals state that M. de Sydow, the
9th inst. for Norway, where hie Majesty will open the ses-
sion of the Storthing in person,
The King of Sweden is to leave Stockholm on the
late Prussian Minister at the Frankfort Diet, is to go to
Madrid to replace count de Galen, who has tendered his
resiguation•

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MAR LB OROU GH- STRE ET .
CHATIGE OF ROBBERY AT A PAIVNBROKER'S,--Faßßy
Nicholls and Margaret Levy, the former a married woman,
were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a moire
antique and several other dresses and other property, of
between £3O and £4O vain., belonging to Mr. Philip Fry,
of 2, Crown-street, Seven-dials.

Mr. E dward Lewis, of Great Marlborough. street, appeared
for the prosecution.

Mr. Fry said the prisoner Nicholls lodged in his house,
and the other prisoner was her servant. On going into his
bedroom on Saturday night about a quarter past twelve he
missed a number of dresses and other property of the value
of between £3O and £4O, all of which he saw safe in the
room about 8 o'clock. Amongst other articles taken away
was a light check coat.
Wm, Oostik, 81 C, said 'hat at half-past 11 on Saturday
night he was passing Mr. Fry's house when he saw Nichol-
son in the passage with a large bundle done up in a light
wrapper. He turned on his light, and icholls, who ap-
peared to be drunk, shut the door, About one o'clock on
Sunday morning he was called to the house by Mr. Fry,
who charged the prisoners, who were in bed together, on
suspicion of robbing him. Nicholls got up and asked for
her old pair of boots, but Levy could not find them.
Nicholls said she had been in bed since nine o'clock.
Mr. Fry said he found an old pair of boots in his bed-
room, when he discovered that he had been robbed.
The boots were produced by Mr. Fry, and were com-
pletely worn out, and some merriment was caused in court
by Mr. Lewis asking Mr. Fry whether he was sure they
were not an unredeemed pledge.
Nicholls entered into a long statement denying that she
had been down stairs at the time the constable spoke.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would take one bail in £l3 for
Nicholls, and Levy's own recognisance to appear on
Wednesday.

THAMES.
AUDACIOUS ROBBERY COMMITTED DY A GANG OF POT-
STEALERS.—John Allen, 28, Sarah Smith, 39, and Anne
Smith, 19, were brought up on remand before Mr. Par-
tridge charged with stealing four pewter pint pots valued
at 65., the property of Mr. W. B. Brier, the landlord of the
Blacksmith's Arms public house, Baokchurch-lane, St.
George's-in-the-East.

Several licensed victuallers and beersellers, who have lost
a large number of pots and measures, were in attendance
last Saturday and this morning, and they all recognised
the prisoners as having visited their houses.
It appeared that on Friday evening last the male prisoner
and Anne Smith went into the Blacksmith's Arms and called
fora pint of half-and-half. They were immediately followed
afterwards by Sarah Smith, who also called for a pint of
malt liquor. Mr. Brier recognised her directly as having
been in his house several times. He missed quart or pint
pots after each visit. He went into the bar parlour, put
the gas out in that room, and reversed the blinds. Ho then
placed a potman in the bar parlour to watch the actions
of the prisoners, and sent for a police constabl . Robert
Payne, No. 198 H, concealed himself in a doorway opposite
the Blacksmith's Arms, where he remained half an hour.
The prisoners remained in the house fur an hour and a half,
and called several times for beer scud bread and cheese.
While they were there Mr. Brier missed three out of four
pots he had filled with beer for them. The potman was then
directed to leave the bar parlour, where he could
not distinguish much, and went outside. He did so
and watched carefully until the prisoners left the house.
Mr. Brier jumped over the counter and went after the pt
Boners directly they quitted his house. He seized the two
females. A pint pot immediately fell from tha younger pri-
soner on his toe. The elder female dropped two pots on the
pavement, and the man dropped a spouted ale pot. Payne
emerged from his hiding place, and, notwithstanding the
prisoners made a desperate resistance, and fought, kicked,
and plunged violently, they were all secured by the
landlord, his potman, a man named James Rigan, and the
police-constable. The prisoners refused to state where they
lived, and denied all knowledge of each other. Payne, how-
ever, soon discovered that the prisoners had all occupied
one apartment at No. 52, Cable-street, Whitechapei. He
found a frying-pan in the room. It was covered with pot
metal and had been used in melting down pots. There were
other materials in the room for converting publican's mea-
sures into ingots of pewter. They had been in the habit
of selling pewter to a marine store dealer, and the last
piece they sold was exactly the weight of a pint pot.
Payne stated that on the way to the station-house the
elder woman said to the younger one, " Oh, you fool, I
wish I had never seen him, you have brought us to this,
it is all through him we have got into this trouble." He
had no doubt the prisoners were regular professional pot
stealers, and had been engaged in the illegal trade for some
time.

The elder prisoner said she was in possession of one pot,
The man had nothing to do with it.

The younger prisoner—I had three po!s in my apron
The police-constable took me and I let them fall down—
one of them was a spouted pot.

The male prisoner--I can certify I had nothing to do
with stealing the pots, Tbo women had four pots between
them. That is all I have to say. Four witnesses swore
positively that the spouted ale•pot fell from the prisoner
Allen, and that it was the ono in which Mr, Brier served
him with a pins of fourpenny ale,

Mr. Partridge said the depcsitions were now complete,
and ho should commit all the prisoners, not to the present,
but to the next Middlesex Sessions, to take their trial.
The magistrate postponed this case from Saturday even-
ing until this morning in consequence of the large amount
of business. The court sat until seven on Friday evening
and seven on Saturday evening. All the summonses set
down for heazing on Saturday were postponed until to-mor-
row. The magistrate is not likely to get through all the
business of the court until seven this evening. He com-
menced at ten precisely.