The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

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PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1, 1015}
Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock,
Di,to, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 98
North Eastern,
Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., 32
Ditto, B and C 6 per cent., 21i
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Caledonian £lO gua. stock, 88
Great Eastern 5 per contud., 9'
Ditto, new 5 per cent. pi, 11
London, Brighton, &c., 44 per cent., 1858, 96
LINES LEASED AT:FIXED RENTALS.
Buckinghamshire; 90i 14
Nottngham and Grantham R. & C, 91 901
South Staffordshire, 18

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.!
Belgian Eastern Junction, 1* if
Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gna. 7 per cent., 151
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 21

FOREIGN sumo*
Yudanamutana of S. Australia, lim., 2
BANKS,

Alliance (tim.). 45 6
Ditto, new, 431 2j
Anc.flo Austrian,
Bank of British Columbia, 161
Bank of Egypt, 261 7}
City, Lc
Consolidated Bank, Um., 91 10
European Bank, lira., 10
Hindustan, China, and Japan (UM),
Ditto, new, 61
Imperial Bank (11111.), 823!
Land Mortgage Bank of India, Lim., 4}
London and County, 71j
London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, lira., 121
o ndon Joint Stock, 44 3*
Merchant Bank, tim., 23i
Mercantile and Exchange. lira., !2
Metropolitan and l'rovincial Bank, lira., 10
Oriental Banx Corporation. 583/4 8
MISCELLANEOUS.

Crystal Palace, 33
Discount Corporation, 14
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Imperil Mercantile Credit Asso., Urn.,
International Financial society, lira., 7} 7 k
Joint Stock Discount,
London Financial Association, Jim., 2:i
Ditto, new, 151
Madras Irrigation and Canal,:—
Ditto, new, 19
National Discount Company, lim., 12311
National Financial,
National Provincial Marine 2
North British and Mercantile insurtnce, lira., 16i
Ocean Al arine (Insurance). 211
Ottoman Financial Association, Um., Si
Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), 11111.,
Trust and Luau Company cif' Upper Canada,
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Universal Marine. Insurance. nin.,
Warrant Finance, lim., 91 sf

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day.

BOW-STREET.

POST OFFICt ROBBERY.—William Edward Ducrow, a
letter-3arrier attached to the West Central District Office,
126, High Holborn, was charged with stealing a letter, the
property of her Majesty's Postmaster General.
Mr Gardiner, one of the senior clerks in the Post-office,
said—The prisoner was one of the letter carriers employed
at the Branch Post-office, 126, High Holborn, In
consequence of the numerous losses of letters from
that station, be was directed to test the honesty
of persons engaged there. He according'y enclosed 57
penny postage stamps in an envelope, directed it, " Mr.
Burns, 10, Great Russell• sweet, Bloomsbury," and handed
it to Mr Clare to post. Witness went to the West Central
District Post-office about 4 o'clock the same afternoon,
and the prisoner was brought into a private room and
informed that a letter containing postage stamps was
missing, addressed as above. Ho denied all knowledge
of the letter, but on being searched by the officer a
leather purse was taken from one of his pockets, in which
was found 57 postage stamps. On the prisoner being
questioned as to how he came into possession of the
stamp's, ho said he had purchased them on Saturday
afternoon of a friend in the street. The stamps were
those he (witness) enclosed in the test letter yesterday.
Mr Willis Clare, inspector of letter carriers, said he
posted the letter in question yesterday in the early part
of the day at the West Central Office in High Holborn,
calling the attention of Mr Cook to the circumstance.

Mr Thomas Cook, inspector of letter—carriers, at the West
Central District, said in consequence of what he heard
from Mr Clare, he went to the letter-box at the office and
took a letter addressed to Mr Burns, 10, Great Russell-
street, Bloomsbury, from the box. He afterwards placed it
amongst those to be delivered by the prisoner, although the
letter was not properly in his own delivery. He ought to
have placed it aside in order that it might be delivered
to the letter-carrier in whose delivery Great Russell-street
was included. He did not do so. The prisoner had been
in the service of the Post-office four or five years, and re-
ceived a salary of 24s per week.
Crocker, the constable attached to the West Central
Post-office, said he searched the prisoner and found the
property produced in a purse in one of his pockets.
The prisoner, who made no defence, was fully committed
for trial.

The solicitor to the post-office, in answer to the magis-
trate, said the prisoner was about 24 years of age. There
was a silver watch, and about 18s. found on his person, and
as they had no reason to suspect that they formed any por-
tion of a robbery, he hoped they might be delivered to the
prisoner's wife, the poor woman being very near her con-
finement.

Mr Flower said thore would be no objection to such a
course.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SISTEMATIC ROBBING OF CHILDREN —COMMITTAL; --
Elizabeth Smith, about 18 years of ago, was charged before
Mr Tyrwhitt with robbing several children, between the
ages of six and nine years, of their clothing, &c.

A number of children who had been robbed were in
attendance.

In the first case the prisoner stopped a child named Eliza
Smith, who with her parents reside at No. 8, Berwick-street,
St. James's, and asked her to hold a purse for her while
she fastened her dress. The child did as requested, and
then the prisoner asked her what she had in her hand.
The child showed the prisoner 16s 3d, which she was on
the way home with to her father, and the prisoner, under
the pretence of wrapping the money up in paper for the
child, took the money from her and then handed the
parcel back to the child, who, after the prisoner had left,
opened it and found it to con ain only three penny pieces.
The child subsequently seeing the prisoner in the streets
spoke to a person, who detained the prisoner till she was
taken into custody.

In the second ease the prisoner accosted a little girl named
Elizabeth Ives, residing with her parents at No. 3, Caven-
dish-mews, telling her that she would drop a bundle con•
taining some sheets and other articles if she was not
careful. The prisoner then offered to carry the bundle
for the child, which offer was accepted, and the prisoner
under some pretence got away with the bundle.
In the third case a little girl, named Elizabeth Goldby,
residing in Peter-street, St. James's, was stopped by the
prisoner on her leaving a grocer's with some tea and sugar.
The prisoner took the tea and sugar, and some change from
the child, and then told her that if she would let her take
off her boots and jacket sho would go and buy her a new
pair of white boots: The prisoner then took the child into
a pawnbroker's and there left her, promising to return,
which, of course, she did not.

Police constable Castle, 69 C, said there were several
other charges against the prisoner.

Mr Tyrwhitt said he considerAd the three charges already
preferred sufficient, and, after cautioning the prisoner,
asked her whether she wished to say anything in answer
to the charges ?

The prisoner said she had robbed one of the children, but
not the others.

Mr. Tyzwhitt committed the prisoner for trial.

WESTMINSTER.

A SHAMEFUL CHARGE OF FELONY: Patrick Marler,
James Quinland, and John Dowd, three young men who
get their living by hard work, were placed in the felon's
dock charged with stealing a watch and chain, value £9,
the property of James M'Donald.
Prosecutor said that on Sunday afternoon he went to
visit his mother-in-law, at 7, Fulham-bridge-yard, Knights-
bridge, and remained there till between 11 and 12 at night.
Towards the latter part of that time a quarrel arose between
himself and brother-in-law, and they had a fight or scuff's.
When it was over, and prosecutor (who had gone away)
sent for his coat, waistcoat, and watch, which he had before
the fight thrown upon the bed, he missed his watch and
chain. The three prisoners had come into the room to
separate the parties in the fight, and they were given into
custody for the robbery.

In cross-examination by Mr Smyth, solicitor for the pri-
soners, prosecutor admitted that he had been drinking
freely, and gave so confused and unsatisfactory account of
the whole transaction that no dependence could be placed
upon his testimony, and he was ordered to stand out of the
witness-box.

Prosecutor's mother-in.-law and wife were called, but
did not carry the case a bit further against the accused.
Their evidence, on the contrary, went to show that there
were other pereons in the room after the fight, and that
prosecutor gave his brother-in-law into custody for the
robbery on Sunday night, and afterwards charged the three
prisoners, although ho had himself, in cross-examination,
expressed great doubt as to whether Dowd was even in the
room from which the watch had been stolen.

Prosecutor's brother-in-law was examined, but his evi-
dence did not in the slightest degree affect the prisoners,
whom ho said came in to separate them while fighting.

Mr. Arnold—ls the watch and chain found?
Police—No, your Worship, it is not.
Mr. Arnold—ls there any further evidence against these
men ?

Police—No, there is not.
Mr. Arnold—There is not the slightest* case against
them. They are discharged.

THAMES.

My NElGnßc)uu's Sox.—Bartholomew M'Cabe, a
strange looking man, about 25 years of age, who has given
an immense deal of trouble to his own father and family, to
the police, to his neighbours, and to the magistrates of this
court in the course of the last seven years, was brought
before Mr Paget charged with being on the premises of
Joseph Porter, coal merchant, of No 2, Devonport-street,
Ratcliff, for an unlawful purpose.
The prosecutor said the prisoner was a neighbour's son.
This morning between one and two o'clock he was knocked
up by a police-constable, and he saw that the gate leading
to his stables was open, and the prisoner in custody. He
had repeatedly warned tho prisoner off the premises. lie
had lost fowls, rope, harness, brass off his van, and other
property after the prisoner's visits, but, as he was a neigh-
bour's son, ho did not take any legal proceedings aping,
him.

William Bean, a police-constable, 106 K, said that at
half-past one o'clock that morning he saw the prosecutor's
gate open and the chain undone. He turned on his light,
and saw the prisoner coming from the stable. The pri-
soner, who had been drinking a little, threw himself on the
ground, and said he had only just come into the place. The
prisoner had been in custody repeatedly for robbing his
father, a tradesman in Devonport-street, and was last con-
victed for a burglary and robbery in his father's premises,
and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and hard la-
bour.

Mr Paget—How long has he been out of prison I'
Witness— About six months.

The prisoner said he only came out of the workhouse
yesterday (Monday) morning, and he _went to Mr
Porter's premises to have a lay down• Mr Porter Was a
relation.

Mr Paget—What relation ?
Prisoner—His witJ's husband's brother married his
daughter. (Laughter.)
A sad history was given of the prisoner's career in his
parents' home, and Mr Paget, believing that he went to
Mr Porter's premises for a felonious purpose, sentenced
him to three months' imprisonment and hard labour.

The following is the number of persons which the
largest churches in Europe will contain:—St. Peter's,
Rome, 51,000 ; cathedral at Milan, 37,000 ; St, Paul's
at London, 25,000 ; Ste. Sophia at Constantinople, 23,000 ;
Notre Dame de Paris, 21,000; cathedral of Pisa, 13,000;
St. Mark, of Venice, 7,000.

. ,
DR. LIVINGSTONE.—Dr. Livingstone has been
compelled to decline the invitations to visit Southampton
which have been sent to him by the mayor and the Hartley
Council, on the ground that he is most anxious to return to
India—where he has left his steamer, the Lady Nyassa, and
her crew—'A ith as little delay as possible, and has therefore
resolved to decline invitations of all kinds. He hopes. how-
ever to return to England in about a year, when he will be
prepared to accept the hospitalities of this and other places
—Hampshire Adeerttser.