The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-26 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

A DARING FEAALE PICKPOCKET.—EIizabeth Scott, a
woman about 30 years of age, attired in a handsome velvet
mantle and bonnet, was placed at the bar charged with
attempting to pick a pocket, and also with other gross mis-
conduct.

Mrs. Emma Crossby, the wife of a grocer, living at 9,
Child-street, Earl's-court, Brompton, said that at a little
atter four yester]ay afternoon, she was in the Cromwell-
road with her sister, a girl 11 or 12 years of age, when the
prisoner, accompanied by a gentleman, came up and accosted
her. They asked her if she would be good enough to direct
them to the Paddington railway station. As it was a long
distance off and she was not well acquainted *ith the neigh-
bourhood, she told the prisoner and her companion that
she could not well direct them, but they must go to Hyde-
park-corner. At the moment she said this she felt a
pressure against her person. Sho then found that the pri-
soner was close by her side with her hand in her (prosecu-
trix's) pocket, and she immediately endeavoured to secure
her, She seized the prisoner by the wrist, and after pnl:-
ing the hand out of her pocket so held her. The prisoner
endeavoured to free herself, and failing at the moment,
struck her a violent blow on the cheek with the other
hand, and extricating herself ran away.
Mr. Arnold—What became of the person you have de-
scribed as a gentleman ?

Prosecutrix—He ran off just when he found I had caught
her hand in my pocket, and she ran after him. I followed
into Thurloe-street, and when she came into another street
and found I was close upon her, she stooped to a heap of
gravel, and taking a hanaful, turned round to throw it into
my face. When she had struck me on the former occa-
sion, it had been with such violence that it had
knocked me from the pavement into the road, and when she
took up the gravel I ran to the other side of the way to pre•
vent her doing me any further 'olence. I had sent for a
constable at the South Kensington Museum, and I had
scarcely crossed when he came up and took the prisoner
into custody.
Mr. Arnold—Did she get anything out of your pocket?
Prosecutrix—She did not, I had something very heavy
in my pocket which pressed it down, and therefore she
could not get to the bottom of it.
Prosecutrix's sister was called, and corroborated her ac-
count. Prisoner gave her a heavy blow when she found
herself detected.
Thomas Symes, 181 B, said that he was sent for, and
took the prisoner, She pretended the most perfect iguorance
of the prosecutrix and the whole transaction.
Prisoner was remanded till Thursday.

THAMES.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTAELE.—
Thomas Gillham, a tall and powerful young man, a ooster•
monger, was brought before Mr. Knox, charged with as•
saulting and wounding Thomas Cox, a police-constable, N'o
18 K.

Last night the landlady of the Salisbury Arms, public
house in Eastfield-street, Limehouse• fields, called upon Cox
and Police-sergeant Briden, No. 4 K, to remove the pri-
soner, who was intoxicated and making a disturbance. The
officers had some trouble in getting him out, and when he
was removed into the street he made use of very foul lan-
guage and threats. He was allowed to go at large, and the
officers were walking away when the prisoner returned with
a brick in his hand, and flung it fall into the constable's
face. Cox reeled from the effeect of the blow, and fell. He
was severely wounded, and lost a good deal of blood, It
was shown that the prisoner had been convicted by Mr,
Selfe, at this court, for throwing stones at a police-constable
named Venables, No. 141 K.
Mr. James Horton, surgeon, of High-street, Stepney,
said the constable's face was much swollen. There was
a contusion on his lip, and his nose was much injured.
Mr. Knox said he should adopt the course he generally
followed at his own court in cases of this description. He
could not summarily punish the prisoner in an adequate
manner for the serious offence he had committed. He
should send the case before a jury for trial.
ROBBERIES BY BASKET-WOMEN.—CAUTION TO CAP-
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AND
EAMEN.—Honora Lynch, an Irish-
woman, who carried an infant in her arms, was
brought before Mr. Partridge charged with stealing a purs
Containing £l7 in gold from the person of Captain George
Love, master of a smack called the Rifleman, lying in the
West India Dock.
Mr. Stoddart defended the prisoner, a well-dressed young
woman.
The protecutor stated that on Saturday last he was pass-
ing over Tower-hill and was invited by the prisoner, who
was selling oranges, to buy some of her. He selected a few
from her basket and paid for them. She then asked him
if he would treat her with something to drink. He consented
to do so, and they went to a public-house and were joined
by another woman. After they had partaken of some drink
prisoner put her arms round his neck, and asked him to go
upstairs. There was no chance to do so in that house, and
they proceeded to another public-house, the White Hart,
in Pennington-street, Rateliff-highway, where they had
more drink. He could not nay how much he had. He
drank some rum and several bottles of lemonade. Ho changed
a note in the hone°. He went upstairs with the pri-
soner. He remembered being with her some time. He went
to bed, and put his puree tinder his pillow. He fell asleep,
but how long ho slept he Could not tell. He was aroused
by the landlady of the house, who said that a man had ran
through the lower part of the house after he went upstairs.
His purse and money were gone. Ile did not see the pri-
soner when the landlady woke him. There was at least
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In cross-examination by Mr. Stoddart, the prosecutor
and parting him end a soldier
said there were two soldiers in the publichouse. He knew
one to be a Freemason by the signs he made and shaking
hands. He had no fight with soldiers. He did not recol-
lect the police coming up
while fighting. He received the money in his
Weston and Co., St. Andrew's Wharf, Blackfriars. He
company with that
slsiaomnoaf
did not recollect one of the soldiers remarkinPg°,ss,e,
Francis Kelly, a police. constable, 130 H, said he knew
bwroomthaenr.,mason, and you shall not keep
the prisoner well. She was a basketwoman, and her hus-
band was a labourer. Ile met the prisoner yesterday in
• Rosemary-lane, aliss Royal Mint-street, and took her into
custody. She belonged to a gang of basketwomen, who,
• under pretence of selling oranges and fruit, on Tower-hill,
• Ratcliff-highWay, and houses of public entertainment, in-
• veigled sailors into placati 50d robbed them. The basket-
women in the district were a great pest, They had robbed
a great that* Oaptains, mates, and seamen, and were much
• worse than the ordinary Women of the town.
Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, who appeared for the pro-
newton, asked for a remand,
Mr. Partridge acceded to the request, He remanded the
prisoner fora week.

THREATENING TO MußDEß.—Yestettlay a young
man named Charles Trayleo, aged 24, the on of a
respectable farmer, was charged before the Cambridge ma-
gistrates with threatening the lift) of Harriet Leeds, his
cousin. The case was one of " unrequited love," and it
appeared that Traylen had been following the young lady
about, threatening to shoot her if she did not receive his
addresses. The prisoner seemed to be a very foolish, but
at the same time rather a dangerous young man, and the
magistrate ordered him to find two peace sureties in £2OO
each, and himself iu £4OO. Several of defendant's friends
present were well able to furnish the required sureties,
but declined doing so At the time, in consequence of the
mental state of Traylen, I4e Nvs therefore remoyed to the
County pd.

The CHESTER Cur, was all but a dead letter, notwith-
standing many of the best judges naming several animals
as being wonderfully well in ; but siill there appears a great
disinclination upon the part of the layers and backers to
meddle with the handicaps until something more tangible
than exhibits itself at present is made manifest Our re-
turn will therefore be accepted merely as the" waifs and
strays" of individual fancies than the effect of any demon-
stration made in favour of any particular stable.
THE DERBY.—The transactions hereon wore noticeable
solely for the anxiety to get on Coast Guard, as litttlo as 16
to 1 being repeatedly taken in hundreds, but towards the
close the furore somewhat cooled, and at the close of the
room 100 to 6 was repeatedly offered, Historian also was
backed at 22 to Ito win some hundreds. Of the others
whose names will be found given in our return of the
closing prices the majority were only supported for small
amounts.

TWO THOUSAND.
sto 1 agst Fille de l'Air (taken)
sto 1 agst Paris (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Cambuscan (offered)
10 to 1 agst any other (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
25 to 1 agst Blackdown
25 to 1 agst Anfield
30 to 1 agat Carisbook
33 to 1 agst Tippler
33 to 1 agst Mail Train
4U to 1 agst Canary
40 to 1 agst Lord Zetland
40 to 1 agst Marigold
50 to 1 agst Tattoo
50 to 1 agst Greenland
50 to 1 agst Gardner
THE DERBY.
11 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered)
13 to 1 agst Paris (offered)
100 to 6 agst Coast Guard (taken freely)
18 to 1 agst Forager (taken)
1000 to 45 agst Historian (taken)
33 to 1 agst Idler (taken)
49 to 1 agst Appenine (taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Horse Marine (taken)
1000 to 10 agst The Count (taken),
1000 to 10 agst Baldernock (taken)
1000 to 10 agat War Dance (taken)

HORSE RACING IN EGYPT.—The Cairo races es-
tablished by the present Viceroy were run for the
first time on the fifth on the desert near the Abbassiels, dis-
tant about three miles from the city. The course was an
oval of two miles in length by half a mile in width; the

ground was hard and mixed with pebbles, and vas broken
by transverse ruts formed by the rain—on the whole, toler-
able ground, and not too deep. The first race was for Arab
horses, three miles, for £5OO and £lOO to the second; it was
won by Hamdany, belonging to Mr. Smart, after a close
contest with Dukhy, owned by Halim Pasha. The
second race, for horses of all nations catch weights,
was five miles for £3OO, and £lOO to the second.
Four English horses ran, but were beaten without
a struggle by an Arab horse of the Obeyan breed,
who, however, lost the race by his rider dismounting at
the third mile, which permitted a chesnut mare of Ali
Pasha's to come in first, the Obeyan recovering the second
place. The English horses greatly discredited themselves,
and it is a pity that Companion, who has hitherto won all
his races, did not run, as he would almost certainly have
maintained our precedence. The third race was for £lOO,
two miles, and was gained by Ali Pasha after a close race
with a grey mare belonging to M. Guichard, but not well
ridden. Altogether it was a great success. A kiosk was
erected for the Viceroy, and a grand stand for the
Europeans; a buffet was provided of 26 tables, each of
six covers,-besides the private table for his Highness and
his guests, all at the Viceroy's expense. The course was
properly staked and corded, and kept by cavalry pickets
and mounted police, and the whole passed off without a
single quarrel or accident of ann kind, The first race was
run in about seven minutes, the second in fifteen, and the
third in six. At the conclusion of the day a purse of £lOO
was run for by the Bashi-bazouk cavalry, who dashed off
in a dense clump, forming a very pretty and animating
spectacle. Among the Viceroy's guests were Count De-
genfeld, Austrian Minister at war; Sir Charles Macarthy,
governor of Ceylon; Count Bariatinaki, Count Nobili, and
several of the Consuls General. It is to be hoped that the
English will endeavour to retrieve their name at the next
meeting to be held in May, at Alexandria, for it cannot be
doubted that a good English horse will have no difficulty
in beating Arabs at any distance. The horses which ran
on the sth were Blazeaway, Young Syntax, Tadcaster,
and Engraver's Daughter. None passed the post.—. Letter
front Alexandria.

TRADE OF SWANSEA, LLANELLY, &c.—During
the year 1863 the total number of vessels engaged
in the trade of Swansea reached 5,513, with an aggregate
registered tonnage of 648,966 tons, and the shipping rates
received amounted to £16,14918s 101 d. As compared with
the year 1862 the returns show a slight decrease in the
number of ships trading with the port, and also in the ton-
nage; but there has been an increase of nearly £409 in the
shipping rates received, which is accounted for from the
fact that a larger class of vessels has visited the port of late.
Three thousand one hundred and ten vessels, with an ag-
gregate registered tonnage of 253,183 tons, were engaged in
the trade of Llanelly, Carmarthen, Ferryside, Pembrey,
and Penclawdd during the year, against 3,486 vessels, with
a registered tonnage of 262,122 tons in 1862. The depressed
state of trade during the first six months of 1863 was to a
great extent the cause of the falling off in the number of
shtps and the tonnage.
A bottle has been picked up on the coast of Nor-
way since the December gales, containing the following
message :—" Scbooner Jessie, of Shields, seven days from
Stockholm, and within sight of Scotland, April 1, 1863.
The master washed overboard this morning ; two men and
a boy remaining. Any one finding this is requested to
communicate with the editor of any newspaper. 11 a.m.
the boat getting ready. 11f a.m. the water gaining
rapidly."

A great number of large salmon are now spawn-
ing in all parts of the River Avon in Hampshire, even high
up the river towards Salisbury, which is very unusual.

BEE SWARMING EXTRAORDINAAY.—It is not
always either agreeable or safe to have a swarm of
bees almost inside your house; in such cases efforts to re.
move or even get tid of them may be deemed excusable
On Friday last a swarm which for years past has taken
possession of the space between the drawing-room floor and
the dining-room ceiling of the residence of Mr. Buchanan,
at Poulton-cum-Seaeorebe, Wallasey, came out in vast
numbers from their winter quarters, and disported them-
selves in front of his house as if it had been mid-
summer. The annual movements of this swarm have
long been a source of interest and curiosity in the neigh-
bourhood. On one occasion the entrance to their cells
was closed up during the winter; but in the following
spring the bees made their way out into the light through
the same aperture which had been barred against them ;
and on another occasion, when it was thought they had
been effectually destroyed by the action of burnt brimstone,
great numbers of them were nevertheless untouched, and
forced their way into the air in the following spring, and the
swarm has never since been disturbed.— Liverpool Albion.
FATHER MATHEW'S " CROSS CORNET."—The
greatest of all Father Mathew's difficulties was,
perhaps, his servant John. He was a wizened, unwhole-
some little "familiar," who hated children, hated poor
people, and loved whisky. His love for Father Mathew
was his one redeeming characteristic. "If you will go on
in this way, John, I must really leave the house," generally
recalled the tyrant to his sensed. Requesting the servant
to leave the house evidently never occarred to the master
as an available alternative. Then, again, the prophet did
not meet entirely with the " honour among his own people"
that he hoped for. It must have been a sore moment when,
after praising Brother John's healthy appearance as a living
testimonial to temperance, an accidental visit to the dining-
room after he had retired to rest disclosed John busy with
the "materials," and sadly disconcerted at the apparition.
CLERICAL VACANCIES.—The rectory of Ham, in
the county of Wilts, and diocese of Salisbury, worth
between £4OO and £5OO per annum, and in the gift of the
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester, population 249,
ie vacant by the death of the Rev. David Morgan, who has
held it for the last 20 years. The rectory of Biddestoiao-
with- Sian ghterford, in the some count), and in the patron-
age of Winchester College, is likewise vacant by tho decease
of its incumbent, the Rev. A. Quicke, who had held it for
a period of upwards of 30 years.
It appears that the authorities at Frankfort have
declined to grant a concession to draw the Great Eastern
lottery in that city; and the ship will be offered for sale at
Liverpool on the 17th of February, " withcut any reserve."
At Drury Lane, " Henry IV." is to bo produced
with great splendour at Easter, Mr. Phelps is to play the
part of Falstaff and Mr. Waiter Montgomery that of
Hotspur.
M. MAZZINI AND THE FRENCH PLOT.-4t appears
from inquiries made by the Swiss authorities that M.
Mazzini left Lugano in the beginning of October last, and
that the men who have been arrested on the charge of a
conspiracy against the life of the Emperor Napoleon clitj not
Wive at that place till the mouth of November.

The Birmingham Gazette of yesterday has an
account of an extraordinary scene which was wit-
nessed at the Adelphi Theatre in that town on
Saturday night. It seems that, during the panto-
mime, the " supernumeraries" struck work, and the
clown explained to the audience that none of them
had been paid their wages. At last it came to a
scene in which the clown has to jump from a spring.
ing board through a trap-door. The clown went
to the side wings, and appealing to some one there,
with outstretched hands, said, " I cannot break my
neck. There's no one on the other side." As may
be supposed, the hisses, groans, whistling, and
noises that ensued were almost deafening. After a
time, Mr. Grattan, the manager, came forward in
front of the footlights, and entered into a statement
to the effect that the great expenses of the panto-
mime did not allow him to pay all his debts. The
clown denied many of Mr. Grattan's statements, and
made various charges against that gentleman. At
last the performance went on, the clown, pantaloon,
and sprites doing their tricks as far as possible
without the aid of supernumeraries. The only per-
sons belonging to that fraternity who appeared on
the stage was a solitary man dressed up as police.
man, and one young girl, and they, in the orthodox
style, were beaten and kissed by the clown. Still
the greatest confusion and noise reigned amongst
the " gods," and the respectable people in the stalls
and pit had nearly all left the house. Sandry fights
took place in the gallery, and pieces of the seats
were thrown into the stalls. The columbine, clown,
pantaloon, and sprites still appeared on the stage,
and the band played music, not a note of which
could be heard. The fights were ultimately quelled
by the two policemen stationed in the gallery, and
the "gods" having tired themselves a little order
was restored. One of the sprites then came for-
ward, and saying, " This is for the rest of the com-
pany," went through a clever gymnastic perfor-
mance, which called forth hearty applause. Some
one then shouted from the gallery to the sprites,
" Got any money, Fred ?''
Sprite—No.
A Voice—Got any money, clown ?
Clown—No.
Pantaloon—l have 10s., that's all.
The sprite then held one a shilling, saying, "That's
all

One of the gentlemen, who had remained in the
stalls, then threw a shilling upon the stage, which
the sprite picked up. The shilling was followed by
several others and by a shower of coppers, amongst
which were sundry farthings from the "gods," some
of which fell upon the stage, others in the orchestra,
striking the musicians, who had remained at their
posts during the whole disturbance. Several of the
supernumeraries then rushed on the stage, and a
regular scramble, to the great delight of the "gods,"
took place for the money. However the " gods" in-
sisted upon its being handed over to the sprite, who,
amidst overwhelming applause, bowed his acknow-
ledgments. The curtaia then rose upon "The Fairy
Realms." Such a scene—a piece of scenery in one
place, another in another, and a regular mass of
confusion. A few "fairies" stood in the background ;
some were in their places, others stood laughing.
Frameworks of iron where fairies should have stood
were empty, and amidst a flickering ray or two of
blue and red coloured fire the curtain fell upon a
scene of confusion such as we have never before wit-
nessed upon a stage. The lights were then lowered
and the noises and groans in the gallery amongst the
" gods " were greater than ever. The writer was
glad to beat a hasty retreat, and to find himself safe
in the street, where there was a crowd of persons—
men, women, and boys—surrounding the entrance
to the stage-door, some of them swearing that they
would not go until they had got their money. Their
language was loud as to what they would do if they
did not have their money. The " performance" was
not concluded until a little before Sunday morning,
and when the writer left the spot the noisy "amuse-
ment" seemed to be at its height.

A Saxon leaden coffin has been found at Bishop-
stoke, Hants. It contained the skeleton of 'a young
woman. A glass bottle and two drinking cups were found
in the coffin.