The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-25 00:00:00

Particulars,

189.

1861

1862.

Stock this day....
Price of Y.C.
Delivery last week
Ditto from June 1
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 1
Price of Town

35,519 62.957 49.572 52,218
59s0a to'63s 01 toJ7s3l to '44s 91 to
—s Od —s Od Od —s d
1,831 1,393 1,735 2, 407
55,089 60,' 34 89,897 56,3:12
84 4,1.0 247 , 805
85,527 105,877 82,708 70,291
61s Od 61s 9d 18s 6d 46s tid

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING A LADY AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—
Alfred Hill, a young man, was charged befere Mr. Tyr-
whitt with robbing a lady at the Princess's Theatre of a
purse containing half a sovereign and some silver.

- Edwin Coathugoe, of the Detective Department, Scot-
land-yard, said that on Saturday afternoon about four
o'clock, while standing at the foot of the stairs leading to
the dress circle of the Princess's Theatre, the audience at
that time leaving after the day performance of the panto-
mime, he observed the prisoner busily engaged in attempt-
ing to pick ladies' pockets by walking on the right-hand
side of them, and fumbling the folds of their dresses. On
watching more closely he afterwards saw the prisoner with-
draw his hand from a lady's pocket, and put something into
his own pocket, and then leave the theatre. On following
the prisoner into Oxford-street, and asking him what ho
had in his pocks, he replied, " Nothin; ;" but on taking
him into custody, and while taking him back to the theatre,
he threw away the purse produced, containing half a sove-
reign and some silver. He afterwards said the purse and
contents were his own.

A gentleman from the Princess's Theatre said that on
Saturday afternoon a lady complained of losing her purse
and contents, and as the amount of money nearly tallied,
he thought if a remand were granted the lady perhaps would
come forward.
The priisoaaer was remandQd for a week.

DARINOII HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.—
Thomas Amos, of 9 Hampshire Hog-yard, St. Giles, was
charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing with violence
from the person of Mr. W. Foster, watchmaker, 3 Little
Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, a watch of the value of £7, and
£2 10s. in gold.

Prosecutor eaid that on Saturday evening, about seven
o'clock, while walking along Upper Rathbone-place he re-
ceived a violent blow from behind, which knocked him
down, and while on the ground the prisoner took from his
pocket £2 10s. in gold, and his watch of the value of £7
On getting up he pursued the prisoner, at the same time
cried " Stop thief," and at last in Percy- street, Tottenham •
court-road, prisoner was stopped.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said he was
positive the prisoner was the man who robbed him. The
watch produced was his property.

Joseph Wells, of 30, Gresse-street, Rathbone-placo, said
that having joined in the pursuit cf the prisoner on hearing
the cry of " Stop thief," he saw the prisoner while running
fast throw the watch down the area of a house in Percy-
street with a terrible smash.

Robert Keys, 44 E, proved supping the prisoner and
taking him into custody. The p-osecutor was the worse
for drink, and the prisoner was quite sober.
A person stepped forward and said he occasionally
employed the prisoner, and he wah surprised at the charge
when he heard it, never having heard anything against the
prisoner before. The prisoner was at his house up till half-
past six on Saturday evening.
The prisoner asked that the mousy found upon him might
be ordered to be given up to him.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should certainly make no such
order, the prosecutor having been robbed of some mone3
Sergeant Head, 2 E, said the watch was brought to the
station by the gentleman residing at 29, Percy-street, in
whose area it was picked up.
The prisoner was remanded.

NEWS OF THE COMING AC 6DEMY EXHIBITION.
—Mr. Leighton will, probabl3, send not less than
four works; Mr. Stanfield the same number, if not a greater

one; Mr. Marks has two, and Mr. Calderon three pictures.

Mr. E. M. Ward has been engaged for a considerable part

of the past summer and autumn on his waterglass picture
. .

for the Houses of Parliament, but he will,doubtless, not be
absent from the annual gathering.
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CAMBERWELL-HOUSE LUNATIC ASYLUM.—The
first of a series of annual entertainments to the inmates of

this asylum, where mote than 300 patients are kept under
the care of Dr. Paul, was given on a recent evening. It
was denominated " The Patients' Ball." A. large number

of ladies and gentlemen were invited to be present on the
occasion ; and it was most gratifying Ito see how heartily
many of the patients joined in the dance, and listened with
wrapt attention to the strains of vocal and instrumental
music with which the proceedings were enlivened.
FIRE LAST NIGHT—Two CHILDREN BURNT TO
DEATH.—Last night shortly after 8 o'clock, Con-
ductor Stephen Tapsell, of the London Fire Brigade, who is
stationed at the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, received
information that a fire had broken out at No. 17, Hemlock-
court, near Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. He imme-
diately prooceded to the spot with the fire-escape, and was
met by Stockman, a fireman, in charge of the parish engine,
when it was found that a fire was raging is a third-floor
front room, which was occupied by a widow named Coch-
rane and her two children. A supply of water having been
obtained, the room was entered by Tapsell and Stockman,
who, by means of buckets, drenched the bed and bedstead,
which were smouldering, and ultimately succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the fire, which had communicated with various
articles of furniture, and partially burnt the wainscoat and
ceiling. On the room being cleared of the dense smoke
which prevailed, the firemen for the first time became aware
that two children were in the tenement, the dead bodies of
both being found in the bed, locked in each other's arms.
The names of the deceased are Richard Cochrane, aged
six, and Mary Cochrane, aged four. It appears that the
mother of the children was in the house when the accident
occurred, but on the room being entered a good fire was
found to be burning in the grate. It is somewhat singular
that a week since Conductor Tapsell was called upon to ex-
tinguish a fire at a house in Hemlock-court, two doors re-
moved from the scene of the present accident, and on that
occasion a widow who occupied the room where the fire
broke out was consumed almost to a cinder.
THE LUDGATE•HILL VIADUCT.—After all the
opposition that has been shown to the Ludgate-hill
viaduct—theankers o
t the City,
a nngdotalill pin three days without paid
the London clergy, with their
canvassers, signed by 1,600 of the leading merchants and
b
bishop at their head— after the London press, without a
single exception, has spoken strongly against the project—
ap
project that is now condemned by the Corporation, the
Metropolitan Board of Works, and. the majority of the mem-
bers of the Houses of Parliament, the London and Chatham
managers have the temerity to ask for the renewal of the bill
of 1560. which has caused all the mischief. That bill-was
granted when Parliament had no means of judging how far
the metropolis would be disfigured by viaducts and cuttings,
but it will hardly be renewed in the face of the fullest and most
painful information upon this point, The activity shown
in destroying the houses on Ludgate-hill, though intended
by the company and its supporters to force Parliament into
granting these new money powers, will probably have the
contrary effect. The disfigurement of Ludgate-hill—the
chief thoroughfare of the City—could only be realised last
year by the aid of models and pictures ; this year it can be
seen in part of its solid reality. The old powers of the com-
pany, in the present temper of the House of Lords, and in
face of a firm and timely opposition, will surely not be ex-
tended or renewed, in spite of the threat implied
in hastily pulling down a few City acres of bricks
and mortar. Perhaps when the prospect of assent de-
feat becomes more apparent that it is at pr,
they will reconsider a scheme which, we believe, originated
in their own beard-room. They may build on the site of
the Fleet Prison their proposed gigantic hotel, and turn the
gap on the other side of Ludgate-hill into a grand entrance
to a Bridge-street terminus. This is perhaps the most sen-
sible way of utilising the Ludgate-hill wreck, and the whole
railway interest would be benefited by such a plan. While
the threat of this universally condemned Ludgate-hill Via-
duct hangs over London, no railway proposition, however
good, can be calmly con,idered, and the London and Chat-
ham Company is certainly not in that strong financial posi-
tion that it can afford to fly in the face of its follows and the
public,—City Press.
SICILY.—It appears that travelling in Sicily at
present is not unattended;with dangtr from brigands.
A letter received recently in Malta mentions that an English
gentleman, travelling in the mail coach, and with an escort,
was fired on by brigands, on the road between Catania and
Caltanisetta. One of the armed escort was severely wounded.
The same gentleman was attacked, in October last, near
Licata, robbed of everything he had about him, and much
DlAltreated. The heavy rains have done much damage to
the roads, and destroyed many bridges, rendering commu-
nication between the different towns and villages very diffi-
cult. From this cause no sulphur has arrived at Licata
from the interior, for nearly two months,