The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-19 00:00:00

THAMES.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR —Charles
Emmett, an omnibus conductor, aged 22, badge No. 2,640,
and dwelling at the time of his apprehension at No. 9,
Manchester-road, Millwall, Poplar, was brought before
Mr. Woolrych charged with fraudulently appropriating to
his own use various sums of money he had received for and
on account of the Millwall and Cubitt-town Omnibus

Company.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, stated the case for the prosecu-
tion. The Millwall and Cubitt-town Omnibus Company
were the owners of two vehicles constantly running in the
day time between Limehouse (near the parish church), and
Cubitt-town, in the Isle of Dogs, Poplar, passing in their
journeys several important factories. The prisoner
had been in the employ of the company three months,
and it was his duty to receive the fares and
to make correct returns of the money he received of pas-
sengers on each and every journey. For some time
past the prisoner had returned £3 per week loss on the
average than the conductor of the other omnibus. The
prisoner delivered a ticket every night for each journey
he had made during the day, and showing the amount of
money received and the number of passengers carried. The
prisoner had falsified his accounts and made a return of a
less number of passengers than he had actually carried,
and a less amount of money than he had received. Two
persons were employed by the company to watch the pri-
soner on many journeys. The fares were 3d. and 4d.
On one journey, on Wednesday last, there was a
deficiency of 6d., and upon another, the same
day, ls. On Friday, on three journeys, the pri-
sner
was defrauded e
h the company
onthe e
of is sd. On Saturday
there
journeys of 2s sd.
i
number of journeys per day ?
i r
woao ideficiencyryinquired
fiva
Mr. Stoddart replied 14 or seven each way.
John Clark, a watchman in the employ of the St. Ka-
therine Dock Company, who had been employed by the
losta
prosecutors to watch the prisoner's operations, proved the
d ftai
had travelled in the omni-
busnT pho :of aytpiri
theirn which
ss
oen n
et
rh seh
fares. a epi jn
d hera nrTheeter allyw journeys
the passengers ho took up did
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conductor,
awing
bridges over the West India
Dock entrances were often open for the admission of ships
when his omnibus arrived at the lock entrances, and pee*
would not wait until they were closed again, and alighted
and went away without paying their fares.
Mr.
alledbeClark, who said that no disputes
his passengers on the journeys named by him. On one
journey a West India Dock bridge was opened, and a delay
o r disturbances Woolrych
occurred rerecalled
took place, but no one got out of the omnibus then.
Mr. Woolrych—And there was a defalcation on that
journey ?
Mr. Stoddart—Yes, sir, of le,
After some further evidence Mr. Stoddart asked for a
remand.
Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner until Tuesday next.

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LIFEBOAT SERVICES.— STINDeERa
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debarlasnadv,inbgeund from that port to the river
witaosbinnsotyrutm
ofesnutanl
Tyne. There were four of the crew of the steamer, and
three men belonging to a schooner which they wore going
to tow round to Sunderland. At 3 a.m. a light was seen
at sea from Whitburn, and shoutuags were heard from the
men in the tug, The alarm was given, when the lifeboat
was instantly manned and launched, and went off to their
relief. It was half flood, and there was a heavy sea on, and
the morning was very dark and foggy. The
sea had
washed
the tug's boat away, and had the men not been so speedily
rescued they would all have perished. as it was a rising tide,
and there was a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which not
very long afterwards becam Sid
elot,a,l wreck. It was fburnound
that she Lad struck on the Rocks off Whit.
THE FLORIDA.--According to a letter from Brest
of the 16th the Confederate corvette Florida has
made her trial trips, which were perfectly successful, and
her new Captain, Maurice Richard, had waitul on the vice-
admiral and other authorities of the port to announce his
approaching departure and to
.take leave, The letter adds
that Captain Richards has teform.ed. the captain of the
Federal Kearsage, which is still waiting off the port, that
he is ready, on leaving, to accept a combat with him any-
where out of the limit of the etcFreh waters. Perhaps this
is mere bravado, but the people Brost expect a fil,-,ht be-
tween the two frigates.
FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE GREAT
EXHIBITION.—NapoIeou Chair and Co. have just
brought out the second edition. of " Rappotts Officiels des
Membres de la Section Yraecaise du Jury International
sur l'Expesition Universelle a Londres," published under
the direction of M. Michel Chevalier. This new edition
contains the report of Prince Napoleon, the speech of the
Emperor, and the list of the prizes awarded to the French
exhibitors,