The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

THAMES.

A WATER-SIDE RODDERY.—Robert Dundrow, an am-
phibious thief, who has been convicted of robberies on land
and on the river, was brought up on remand before Mr.
Partridge, charged with stealing lead from premises,
275, High-street, Wapping.
Thomas Brews, police•constable, 24C It, said that he was
passing by some empty houses near the Newcastle Steam
Wharf, High-street, Wapping, and upon looking through
the keyhole of one of them he saw the prisoners and another
man inside. He obtained admission to the back of the
house from the river. The prisoner and his companion
were on the top of the house removing the sheet load.
Directly they saw him they both came down, and fled in
opposite directions. The prisoner got through a hole in a
wall into the building adjoining, and then jumped from the
back of the premises on to the mud of the river, 20 feet
below him. Witness made a leap after him and seized the
prisoner as be was wading through the mud. The prisoner
throw him down and they rolled over each other and were
plastered all over with the river mud and half suffocated.
He would not release his hold of the prisoner, and brought
him out of the mud on to the shore. It was neatly low
water at the time they had the mud bath. He found 12Ibs
of lead in the lower part of the house. It had been tomoved
from the roof. The proprietor of the house was a Mr.
Frederick Swan, but he could not obtain the assistance of
anyone to prosecute. _ _

The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Partridgo son
tenced him as a rogue) and vagabond to two months' inx
prisonment and hard labour to the House of Correction.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Feb. 20.—Wind this day at noon—Ninth-
East; strong breeze, and fine weather.
PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 19.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Michael,
for Ihreelona.

On' PORTSMOUTH, Feb, 19. Arrived—Golden Sunset,
from London for Canterbury.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GLIAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived—Napoleon, trout Gravelines.
Sailed—Panupe, iot Marseilles; Lady of the Lake, for
Natal; Arabistan, for 13athutst ; Matchless, for tho Falk-
laud 151,42d5; Himalaya, and Cilminar, for Calcutta.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed—Britannia, screw steamer, from Cadiz for, L'on.
don (not the London, screw steamer, as reported last night
by intermation received).
Sailed—Traveller, for London (iu tow). •

NINETEEN CENTENARIANS DIED IN FRANCE
IN 1863, of whom eighteen were in the departments
and ono in Paris; the latter, the Count do Emu; who
lived to the age of 104. Some centenarians, however, still
remain. Chalons possesses Colonel Marechal, born at
Lyons in 1763; there is one at St. Martin de Mauvelu
(Maino•ot-Loire), and another, a farmer, at Puiteviniere
(same department). At Paris there is a soldier named
Uallot, aged 106, who still goes with his wife, aged 104, to
receive his pension at thu Ministry of War. A woman,
aged 106, also appeared recently as a witness at the Sixth
Chamber of Correctional Police, and another, a cantinere,
aged 117 years, living in tho Ruo Ifautovillo, broke her leg
recently, and the surgeons express the hope of curing her,
in consequence of her strong constitution. Of the cente-
narians who died abroad, ono in Canada and another at
Oran had reached the ago of LO years,—•Galigstan's
Jirsscver,