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

TALLOW.

The tallow trade is dull to-day, on rather easir terms.
P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s 9d per cwt. on the spo. Town
tallow, 41s 3d net cash. Rough fat, 2s lid per 81i.

Particulars.

1863.1
35,519 62.957 49,572 52.21 E
59sOa 60s01 to 47531 to '44s 91 v
—s Od —s Od —s Oct —s d
1,831 1,393 1,735 2,407
55,089 e(,, 34 89,897 56,332
84 4,4, 0 247 805
85,527 105,877 82,708 70,291
61s Od 618 9d 48s 6d , 46s Gd

1850.

1862.

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

66.221
'4 s 9d to
00s Od
2,368
49,42 t

990
77,895
43s 91

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This pay.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING A LADY AT THE PRINCESS'S TIIIATRE.-
Alfred Hill, a young man, was charged befere Ar. Tyr-
whitt with robbing a lady at the Princess's Thattre 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 he
had in his pockets, he replied, " Nothing ;" 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 prisoner was remanded for a week.
DARING 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 said that on Saturday evening, about seven
o'clock, while walking along Upper Rathbone-place lin 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-place, said
that having joined in the pursuit of 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 stopping the prisoner and
taking him into custody. The prosecutor was the worse
for drink, and the prisoner was quite ewer.
A person stepped forward and said he occasionally
employed the prisoner, and he was surprised at the charge
when he heard it, never having heard anything against the
prisoner before. The prisoner was at h. s house up till half-
past six on Saturday evening.
The prisoner asked that the money foand 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 mono} .
Sergeant Head, 2 E, said the watch was brought to the
station by the gentleman residing at :9, Percy-street, in
whose area it was picked up.
The prisoner was remanded.

NEWS OF THE COMING ACADEMY EXHIBITION.
—Mr. Leighton will, probably, send not less than'
four works; Mr. Stanfield thesame number, if 2ot 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.
CAMBERWELL-HOUSE LUNATIC ASYLUM.—The
first of a series of annual entertainments to theinmates of
this asylum, where more than 300 patients arekept 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 ,to see how heartily
many of the patients joined in the dance, and listened with
wrapt attention to the strains of vocal and in3trumental
music with which the proceedings were enlivenel.
FIRE LAST NIGHT—TWO CHILDREN ',TIENT TO
DEATH.—Last night shortly after 8 o'cl)ck, Con-
ductor Stephen Tapsell, of the London Fire Brigrde, who is
stationed at the churchyard of St. Clement Dane', received
information that a fire had broken out at No. 17,11emlock-
court, near Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. lle imme-
diately proceeded 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 in 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 )edstead,
which were smouldering, and ultimately succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the fire, which had communicated wits various
articles of furniture, and partially burnt the wainseoat and
ceiling. On the room being cleared of the dense smoke
which prevailed, the firemen for the first time becalm aware
that two children were in the tenement, the dead lodies 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 occident
occurred, but on the room being entered a good ire was
found to be burning in the grate. it is somewhat singular
a fire at a house in Hemlock-court, two doors re-
moved a
vt
edwfreoekm stihneceseCeonnedoufcttho r 'Tapsell was called upoa to ex-
tinguishe
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—the petition, got up in three days withott paid
canvassers, signed by 1,600 of the leading merchants and
bankers of the City, and all the London clergy, with their
bishop at their head— after the
London press, without a
single exception, has spoken strongly against the project—
a 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 thebill
of ISO, which has caused all the mischief. That bill Teas
granted when Parliament had no 'peens 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
ia
respect of a de-
feat becomes more apparent that it is at present,
y stores of bricks
and
hmasotirltyar.pulplinerghapdsowwnhaenfewtheCitp
they will reconsider a scheme which, we believe, originated
in their own board-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 fellows and the
public,—.Cray press.
SICILY.—It appears that travelling in Sicily at
present is not uneattended:with danger 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
DI iltreated, 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. Prom this cause no sulphur has arrived at Licata
from the interior, for nearly two months.

LITERATURE.

A Terrible Woman; or, Strong and 7rue. By
Austyn Graham, author of " The Parson and
the Poor." Two vols. John Maxwell and Com-

pany, Fleet-street.
This is a very peculiar sort of story, which may
at least lay claim to some sort of originality, since
its heroine can rarely find a counterpart among
the many fictitious characters that figure in the
pages of romance. Eardley Smith is a remarkable
woman, and one that possesses too many good
qualities and kind feelings not to make us regret
her errors. The lamentable course which Eardley
adopted was the more to be deprecated, since she
could have assisted her lost friend and soothed her
dying moments without in any way compromising
her own honour, or sacrificing her prospects in life.
A more false position than that in which she placed
herself, her friends, and the unfortunate child of
Mildred cannot well be imagined. There is some-
thing painful in this passage of the story,eomething
which shocks the feelings and jars on the taste of
the reader. The idea of Eardley trying to shield
her friend's honour at the expense of her
own is quite preposterous, and nothing
could excuse the attempt. In the first
place, it was practising a gross deceit on society,
and it was also violating the strict injunction to
avoid even the appearance of evil, which more or
less should be that shegives way to such
mistaken notions, and marks out herself such
a strange mode of procedure. It occurs to
the mind on perusing the details of Eard-
ley's extraordinary arrangements after her dis-
covery of Mildred, that she made a great mis-
take in arrozating,to herself the task of settling the
right and wrong in social questions,instead of calmly
following the acknowledged and recognised rules
the guiding p►inciple of all virtuous lives,
and actuate the undertakings of the conscien-
tious and well-meaning. Taere is a false morality
in all this which cannot be approved of, and which
cannot be approved of, and which, indeeed, may be
productive of the worst results to those who are
influenced by its precepts. We must not do evil
that good may come of it, and Eardley did not
do her part to adjust the difficulties of the case by
running into such a false position. Mildred was
weak in the extreme, but she was more sinned
against than sinning; however, Eardley's strength
seemed nearly as fatal to her progress in life as her
protegee's weakness. If both the one and the other
had put their strength in a higher help than man
can afford, and followed the precepts of that religion
which makes the weak strong, and forbids the lofty
to rely on themselves, how different would their
fate have been ; as it was one wealthy succumbed
to ruin, the other dared the world to do its worst,
and seemed more inclined to do wrong to show her
1 indifference to opinion, than to do right, and appear
to yield to other's views or conform to their notions.
So far as this moral is deduced from the fitful pages
before us a useful lesson may be learned, but if the
author's intention is to vindicate the line of conduct
pursued by Eardley, he cannot expect the sympathy
of his readers or fulfil the object of his exertions.
Apart from this, the chief subject of discussion,
there are some noticeable incidents introduced, and
some well-drawn, characters sketched, that impart
a vivacity to the work, and increase the interest.

The Musical Monthly. No. 1. Office, 40, Great

Marlborough-street.

The musical public has-long been in want of a
serial to represent their tastes and interests, and
they have at last offered for their acceptnnce a
magazine of very great and varied attractions. It
has many of the usual characteristics of its monthly
contemporaries—tales, sketches, poems, criticisms,
&c. It has, besides, literary, artistic, and musical
notes and notices, and a summary of the events of
the month,-and articles on the drama. A corner is
set, aside, too, for original songs for music, a fact
which we hope may tend to raise in some degree
the poetical merits of our popular ballads. The
most distinctive and fascinating feature of the
" Musical Monthly," however, is the publication of
an original musical composition with each number
—not a thin sheet or insignificant page, but a piece
of music got up in the style of the best musicsellers.
The contribution in the number before us is styled
" The Happy Christmas Quadrille," and is arranged
from the popular muse of olden time. It consists
of eight full-sized pages in a psettily illustrated
wrapper, and when taken out of the magazine forms
a graceful addition to the music stand. For the
February part we are promised " The Frost Fairy
Galop," and though we may hope that the title will
no longer be appropriate, we have no doubt its at-
tractions, external and internal, will rival those of
the " Christmas Quadrille," and like it, enliven
many festive gatherings.