The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBERY IN A SUGAR HOUSE.—Stephen Gavans, a
carman, aged 33, of No. 27, Plummer's-row, Whitechapel,
was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing
two brass bottles, valued at 45., the property of Thomas and
Francis Hicks, proprietors of a large sugar refinery in Alie-
stree t, Whitechapel.

It appeared that the prisoner was in the practice of taking
blood used in the process of refining sugar to the prosecu-
tors' establishment, and that on several occasions after he
had delivered blood pieces of machinery were missed.
These robberies were of a serious description to the prase-
enters, but the metal, though costly in its manufactured
state, would not have produced much if sold as
old metal. Yesterday when the prisoner came to
the factory with a cart load of blood, his actions were strictly
watched, and he was seen by a man named Christian
Schroeder, a German, who was engaged at the blow-up cis-
tern, to take up two brass bottles and put them in his pockets.
Schroeder saw this from a room above, and he went below,
secured the prisoner, and gave him over to the care of a
boiler. On being asked for an explanation of this the wit-
ness said a boiler was a man who attended to the boiling of
sugar in the pan.
Carl Addix, a German, identified the brags bottles taken
from the prisoner. They were the property of Messrs.
Hicks.

William Hunt, a police-constable, No. 184 H, said that
when he took the prisoner into custody he said he was very
sorry for what he had done, and he supposed as other pro-
perty had been taken that he should be blamed for the
whole. It would have cost 7s. to replace the two bottles
which were made to screw on to machinery, if they had
been lost.

The prisoner admitted that ho was guilty of stealing the
brass bottles, and pleaded for mercy on account of his hay-
ing a wife and three children.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

THE FLOWERY LAND PlRACY.—William Taffir,
the second mate of the Flowery Land, who rendered
such essential service in bringing the seven pirates now
under sentence of death to justice, is said to be broken down
in health and suffering acutely from the severe treatment
ho experienced during the time—nearly a month—which
elat sed between the murders of the captain, his brother, and
the first mate, and the landing of the crew at the entrance
of the River Plate.

The two survivors of the crew of the collier brig
Thomas Barker have arrived in Shields, the vessel.
having been run down, and the master and seven
of the crew drowned. The Thomas Barker, under
the command of Mr. Thomas Pyle, and with a crew
of nine hands, left the Tyne on Friday afternoon,
coal laden, for London. On Saturday, during the
height of the gale, and when about four miles from
Filey Bay, she was struck on the bow by the
Edith and Mary, of Sunderland, in ballast from
Southampton. The Thomas Barker went down
within a few minutes after she was struck, taking
with her the master and seven of the crew. The
persons saved were William Walker, seaman, and
James Dickenson, apprentice. Walker at the time
of the collision was in the rigging,
and he fortu-
nately succeeded in jumping on board the light
brig. Dickenson saved himself by tanning along
the jibboom of the Thomas Barker, and jump-
ing into the forechains of the Edith and
Mary, whence he was taken aboard that ves-
sel. The following is a list of the lost:—
Robert Pyle, master; Richard Embleton, mate;
Thomas Dennale, cook ; the carpenter, whose name
was not known yesterday ; Thomas Sunnex and
John Bannerman ; another seaman, who was at the
helm when the vessel went down, and whose name
is not known, and James APDonald, apprentice.
The vessel belonged to Messrs. Thomas Barker and
Sons, South Shields, and was uninsured. The
schooner Triumph, of Brixham, arrived in the Tyne
on Tuesday. The master reported that while off
the Leman and Omer lightship on Sunday, and
while the crew were below atdinner Neil Campbell,
an ordinary seaman, who had been left at the wheel,
disappeared, but whether he had thrown himself
overboard, as he was in a desponding state of mind,
or was accidentally drowned, the master could not
tell. The vessel that the steamboats have in tow in
a capsized condition off the Tyne is the Victoria,
from Hull, a Danish bark. She had been coming
from Null on Friday in tow of the Robert Scott
tug, when she struck upon Whitlee Rocks, and,
having slid off the reef, she capsized and
floated out to sea. The master, his wife,
and crew were rescued by the steamtug
and brought to the Tyne. The steamboats
could not get the derelict into Shields har-
bour on Tuesday night, it is thought, on account
of the masts touching the bottom. They will have
to be broken off in some manner before the vessel
can be got into the harbour. On Saturday a number
of light and laden vessels wero blown to the north
of the Tyne, and found shelter behind the Coquet
and Fern Islands. On Tuesday night, as the wind
got well from the northward, they would be enabled
to make their passage south again. A good deal of
anxiety had been occasioned in Shields since Satur-
day through the reprehensible practice of taking
vessels to sea without their full complement of
hands en board, the vessel lying in the offing until
the master or mate gathers together the remainder
of the crow in the public-houses in the town. A
laden bark was taken out thus on Friday evening,
short of hands, and the master returned to Shields
in a steamboat, leaving an owner of a steamboat
and the pilot on board the vessel with the mates
and such of the crew as had gone off with her. The
ship was blown off the land during the night, and
had not cast up on Tuesday.
The Wreck of the Royal Victoria,

Yesterday the Board of Trade received from the
receiver of wrecks at Lerwick the deposition of Mr.
John Pearson, chief officer of the iron ship Royal
Victoria, 1,444 tons burden, which was lost off the
Shetland Islands a few days since, within a short
time after her sailing on her first voyage to Calcutta.
The crew abandoned the ship in the boats, and
several of them died from exposure and starva-
tion. Mr. Pearson states that the Royal Vic-
toria belonged to Messrs. Furnie Brothers, of
Liverpool, and held the class of A 1 on Lloyd's
register for 22 years. The officer is of opinion
that her crew, 36 !lands, was insufficient in num-
ber for the management of the vessel, especially
as she was overmasted and rigged. On the 15th of
January, on sighting Cape Wrath and St. Kildare,
the wind blew fresh, from the westward, and in-
creased ; and on the, 18th it blew a gale. The ship
was laid to, under a lower main topsail, and heading
about W.N.W. till four p.m., when a heavy Equal'
struck her, and threw the ship on her beam-ends.
An endeavour was made to get the vessel off before
the wind by hoisting the foretopmast staysail, but
it would not recover. At six p.m., Captain Leslie
caused the mizenmast to be cut away, and shortly
afterwards the mainmast, which in falling also car-
ried away the foretopmast, leaving the ship in a
more unmanageable position. The officers and crew
stuck to the vessel until four o'clock the next day,
when, finding that there was no likelihood of her
righting, they took to the boats and abandoned
her. He (Mr. Pearson) had command of the pin-
nace, with seventeen hands, and Captain
Leslie took charge of the lifeboats with fourteen
hoaantdss . was
I parted a fearful sea running. Soon after dark the two
b
c blowingompany a heavy gale, with hail and
company, and did not again see each
other. The pinnace reached Shetland at noon on
the 23d, her crew having suffered the most fright-
ful privations, and two of the men died in the boat.
The captain's boat was driven ashore two days
afterwards, in another part of the island, with only
two of her hands out of fourteen living. Among
those who perished were Captain Thomas Leslie,
the master; John Brown, the boatswain; Scott;
Ellis, Mears, and Kelly, seamen. The names of the
survivors are—John Spargo, Henry Scaswell, Mike
Kennell, Henry Nemis, Jeremiah Driscoll, Henry
Birch, John Dove, Peter Lawless, John Hayes,
William Davey, Charles Tooley, Jos. Taylor, Thos.
Warren, and James Jenkins. At the time the boats
abandoned the ship she was
lying in about Ist. 59
N., and long. 12/ W. The loss of the ship is esti-
mated at £35,000, and the cargo at £1,600.

MARKETS7-This Day.

AIARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AvIZRAGES.—Wheat, 40s 8d ;
barley, 31s Ild ; oats, 19s ld ; rye, 29s Id ; beans, 33s 7d ;
and peas, 33s 7d.
THE SIX WEEKS' AVERkazs. _
Wheat, 40s 8d;
barley, 32s OCI ; oats, 18s 10d ;
peas, 33s 3d. rye, 293 2d ; beans, 33s 8d ;
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST "sirj3EK.
Wheat, 103,806;
barley, 84,464; oats, 19,908; rye, 69
; beans, 6,458; peas;
1,501 quarters.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.
The supply of beasts on sale in to-a
--aY's market was very
limited, and the demand for all breeds ruled steady at fully
Monday's currency. The best Scots sold at ss, in some
instances at 58 2d per 81bs. Sheep,
-- th,
"°l-Igh in very mode-
rate supply, moved off slowly on foriner terms. The hest
Downs, in the wool, realised 68 per alba, The few lambs
on
per 81bs. Calves were
in
of atot:se per 81b8. The supply
was limited. In pigs and milch cows vermoderateoffer
requestreadily a disposed
i s fromp o° ed 4
s
y little was doing
at drooping currencies.
Per 81bs.to s
s. d. s. d.
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 8 4 0
Secondquality do. 4 2 4 4
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 5 0
Crse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 6
Second quality do. 4 8 5 2

ink the offal.

d•
Primeers-wool dos. 4 ss. d. a. 8
Pme. S' thdown d 0.5 10 6 0
PLiarimpeoartisaeu. calves 44 08 45
006
Large h0g5,..... 3 6 4
Small porkers ... . 4 2 4 4
and quarter-old store pigs,

Suckling calves, 183 to 26s
20s to 253 each.
TOTAL SUPPLY.
Beasts 720
Cows llO
Sheep
Calves l2O
3121

FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts . ....... 230
Sheep and lambs 9OO
Calves . ....... 75
Pigs

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MEAT MARKETS.

NEWOATE AND LEADENRALL.—A seasonably good sup •
ply of meat is on sale to-day, and the trade rules steady
at the annexed currency :—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d ;
mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; veal, 33 8d to 48 8d ; and pork, 3s
4d to 4s 4d per Sibs by the carcase.
SOUTHALL, Feb. 17.—The supplies of stock wore only
moderate ; nevertheless the trade was inactive, at the fol-
lowing prices :—Beet, from 3s 6d to 4s l'Jd • mutton, 4s Od to
6s Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; and pork,
3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal.
ItOMFORD, Feb. 17.—A1l kinds of stock moved off
very slowly, at barely stationary Prices, as follows :
Beat', from 3s 8d to 5s Od ; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s Od ; veal,
4s 2d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs ; suckling
calves, 16s to 245; quarter-old store Pigs, 20s to 265; and
milch cows, £l4 to £lB 103 each.