The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day.

BOW-STREET.

A STRANGE STORY,—. Mary Clarke, a fashionably-dressed
woman, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing three
half-crowns from Mr A. F. Belt.
The prosecutor said he resided at 1, St John's• street,
Westminster, and on the evening of the 6th he was return-
ing from a party when he met the prisoner in Waterloo-
place. She gave him a sort of friendly blow, and
said, "I know you somewhere," He denied all know-
ledge of her, and she walked by his side from the
place where she first spoke to him until ho arrived at the
Athena.= Club, where he found he had been robbed of
three halt-crowns. He accused the woman of having stolen
the money, but she denied it, and said she was a respectable
married woman. While she was walking with him, a man
and woman passed close to them, and he suspected she
passed the money to them, as it had not been re-
covered, and ho was certain she did not drop

it while she was being taken to the station house. Wien
he first gave the woman into custody, he said he had been
robbed of three half-sovereigns, but that was a mistake.
Mr I,wis, who appeared for the prisoner, said the pri-
soner was a respectable married woman, and that there
must be some mistake in the matter. Her husband he
believed was a very respectable person, and he was quite
unacquainted with the matter until he learned that his wife
was in custody on the charge. He should like to ask the
prosecutor a few questions. _ _

_
The prosecutor, in reply, said he was quite certain he
had the money in his pocket when the prisoner first spoke
to him. He was perfectly sober. The prisoner walked on
his right hand side, and the money was abstracted from his
waistcoat pocket. The reason ho made the mistake in saying
three half sous, instead of three half-crowns was because
he was very much flurried. He was certain he had the
money when the prisoner first spoke to him, and
immediately she walked away he found he had been robbed.
Police-constable 308 A. said he took the prisoner into cus-
tody. She was searched at the station, but the money was
not found.

In reply to Mr Vaughan,
Mr Lewis said the prisoner would reserve her defence,
He hoped she would be admitted to bail.

Mr Vaughan said ho did not justified in taking bail.
The prisoner then began to cry, and asked the magistrate
to deal summarily with the case.
Mr Vaughan said he could not do that, because she
denied the charge.
Prisoner—Then I pleat guilty.

Mr Vaughan—What do you say to that, Mr Lewis.
Mr Lewis—l was instructed sho was a respectable mar-
ried woman, and after what she has stated I think I had
better say nothing,

Mr Vaughan—You said something about her husband
being a respectable man. I should like to ask him a few
questions.

Clarke, the haaband, then stepped into the witness-box

Mr Vaughan—Aro you married to this woman ?—Yes.
Where do you live ?—No. 1, Anchor- street, Church.
street, Shoreditch, and have done so for the last 12 months.
I only occupy lodgings in the house.
What are you ?—A commission agent.

For whom P—M. Delapierre, No. 1, Rue St. Vonore,
Paris, bullion dealer. I conduct his business for him at the
London and Wes minster Bank.

Has he offices in London?—No, he communicates by
otter.

Do you mean to say that a bullion dealer residing in
Paris communicates to you by letter at the address you
have given in Shoreditch ?--Yes.

Mr Vaughan—lt is a very strange case, however. I
shall commit the prisoner to the House of Correction for
three months.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SEVERAL CHARGES AGAINST AN AUCTIONEER AND
HOUSE AGENT OF OBTAINING GOODS BY FALSE PRE-
TENCES.—Thomas Godfrey, auctioneer and house agent,
of 13, Maddox-street, Regent-street, and 3 A, Hyde-park-
place, was eharged before Mr Ty! whitt with obtaining
goods by false pretences from Mr Henry mins, silversmith
and jeweller, of 171, Oxford-street.
Mr Longstaff, of the firm of Docl and Longstaff, Berners-
street, solicitors for the Association for the Protection of
Trade, prosecuted, and Mr Lewis, jun., of Ely-place,
defended.

mr wra. Mills, assistant to his father, Mr Henry Mills,
silversmith and jeweller, of 171, Oxford-street, said that
on the 3d September the prisoner called at the shop—being
an entire stranger to him, and purchased 12 silver tea
spoons of the value of £6, and paid for them with the
cheque produced, and took the goods away. The prisoner
wrote the cheque in the shop, it being for £6 on the Union
Bank of London, Argyle-place branch, and was signed
" Godfrey and Ca." The cheque was subsequently pre-
sented at the bank, and marked " N. S." (not sufficient).
The cheque had not been paid since.
In answer to Mr Lungstaff, witness said he would not
have parted with the goods but for the cheque, which he
believed would have been paid, and from the fact that the
prisoner, at the same time he gave him the ont quo, also
gave him a card with his name and address upon it.

Mr Lewis, jun., said he had only been just instructed,
and as he understood it was the wish of the other side that
there should be a remand, he had no objection.

Sergeant White, 16 D, who has charge of the case, said
here were several other charges of a similar kind against
the prisoner.

Mr George Boyce, assistant to Mr Picket, silversmith
and jeweller, of 265, OxL)rd-street, said the prisoner called
at his employers' shop and purchased some silver forks, and
in payment handed him a check, which he wrote at the
time. The check, which was for 10s on the Union
Bank, Argyle-place branch, was afterwards returned
marked " N.E." At the time prisoner gave him the eh( quo
he also gave him a card on which was "Messrs. Godtrey
and Co., Auctioneers, &c., 13, Maddox-street, Regent-
street, and 3A., Hyde Park-place."
Mr Lewis said he had a person present to show that he
had the money left with him for the last witness if he had
called for it. _ .

The prisoner was remanded for a week, Mr Tyrwhitt
stating that as other oharges were mentioned he must have
two sureties in the sum of £lOO each for the prisoner's
future appearance. .. . .

It was r;tated that the goods as soon as obtained by the
prisoner were taken to the pawnbroker's, and there were
several pawnbrokers' assistants in attendance, and while
the sergeant was watching the prisoner's residence to take
him into custody, he saw a van load of furniture driven up
to the houso and delivered, not having been paid for.

THAMES.
ASSAULTING A POLICE CONSTABLE.—Edward Cham-
berlain, an officer in the service of the St Catherine Deck
Company, was charged before Mr Paget with assaulting C.
Low, a policeman of the H Division.
It appeared that on the previous evening the prisoner
was given in custody at the Leman-street Police Station,
but that the charge was not pressed. On the prisoner get-
ting outside he commenced abusing the complainant, and
remarked that he should see him some day on the Quay,
in the Docks, and he struck the constable, who took him
into custody. In the station he was very violent, and
abused the complainant,

The inspector confirmed the evidence as far as took place
in the station.
The Prisoner denied the charge, and said that he was
sober. lie made use of no bad language nor did he strike
the official.
Several witnesses were examined on the part of the offi
cer, but the evidence did not materially affect the statement
of complainant.
Mr. Paget said that it was his duty to protect police con-
stables, and when he found any great violence used towards
them he would send the accused to prison without a fine.
Ile would now impose the highest fine allowed by law.
The prisoner was fined 40s. or seven days.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARS-LANE.

Taflrieteiehs the trade was in a
up to our market
to-dayh The
werearrvale of
ra Etegl
.
i odsluggish state, at Monday's
decline in the quotations.
With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. In all
men
descriptions sales progressed slowly, and
the quotations
i;l:r wheat
ell qualities
had, in some instances, a downward tendency.
Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at about
previous rates.
•
The market was fairly supplied with barley, and the
trace for all qualities ruled very inactive, at barely late
currencies.
The malt trade was dull at about previous quotations.
The supply of oats on sale was tolerably large. The trade
was quiet for all qualities, and prices ruled the turn easier.
Beans and peas continued firm at fully late rates.
There was a moderate demand for flour at previous quo-
tations.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt, Oats. Flour.
English 790 270 410 ;.:0 370
Irish - 2,460
Foreign
17,330 1,420 12,530 600 setts.
____ 23,350 brie.

Desperate Affray with Poachers at Newton.

At the Town Hall, Newton, on Monday, before C. H.
Monro, EQq., W. J. Watts, Esq,, and C. J. Wade, Esq ,

William Brown, George Fowler, and John Griffin, alias

Staddon, were charged with being on lands in the occupation
of Mrs Mary Rendell, the property of Sir Walter Carew.
Bart , in the parish of Coombeinteignhead, on Saturday
night, for the purpose of taking game. The prisoners have
recently been working on the Dartmouth and Mortonhamp-
stead Railways, and as they were brought into court they
bore evident marks of their having been roughly handled,
their faces being disfigured and their clothes saturated with
blood. The case excited much interest, the court being
densely crowded.
Mr Baker appeared to prosecute; and Mr H. Miehelmore
defended the prisioners.

Felix Harris, head keeper to Sir W. Carew, said—On
Saturday night, between nine and ten o'clock, he, in com-
pany with others, was watching the preserves at Pennin.
He was watching in the field on the left of the brake,
where there is much game, when he heard footsteps ap-
proaching in the lane fiej iining the brake, which was some
distauce from the turnpike-road. Oa hearing the footsteps
he and a keeper named Taylor went further on to a field
gate, and whilst there heard some one call for assistance.
He immediately went back, and found three of the keepers
and the prisoners struggling in the road. He first
took hold of the prisoner Brown, and afterwards of
Griffin, who struck him a severe blow on the head with
his fist. The prisoner also kicked Worth, another keeper,
and in attempting to do so a second time kicked the prisoner
Fowler in the face. The struggle continued for some time,
and after much difficulty the prisoners were handcuffed.
John 'Worth, gamekeeper to R. Vicary, Esq., deposed
to his having seen the prisoners come over to the gate in
Buckland-lane, when he made a rush at them and caught
the prisoner Fowler, and asked him what right he had
there. He made no reply, and a struggle ensued, and he
succeeded in throwing Fowler to the ground. His legs
were much bruised by the prisoner's violence. He saw
the other two prisoners at the time, and Felix Harris
caught hold of Griffin, and Warren caught hold of Brown.
Harris in the struggle called for assistance, he being on the
ground, and the prisoner Griffin on the top of him. Whilst
he was endeavouring to handcuff Griffin he kicked witness
most violently in the throat.

Cross-a-tamined by Mr Michelmore—lle did not strike
Brown with a stick, but with his fist, as he appeared to be
choking Harris. The prisoner Brown said that the Witness
struck him with a life preserver.

By the Benoh—Buckland-lane was a private road,
the gate where the pritoners were caught was about 60
yards from the turnpike road.
Felix John Harris gave evidence as to 1113 natura of the
struggle. On searching Brown ho found a large gate net
in his right coatpocket.

Ellis Warren and William Taylor, two of the watchers,
gave similar evidence,
Mr Michelmore, for the defence, contended that there
was no proof that the prisoners were in the road for an
unlawful purpose except from the net, which did not appear
to have ever been used for the taking of game or any
els-, it being quite new. He argued that suppos-
ing for instance the net had been put into the prisoner's
pocket for the purpose of taking
,rabbits, the bench would
have no power to convict. In the present case there had
been nothing shown to the contrary. The truth was that
the prisoners, as he was instructed to say, were merely
waling up the road on their way to Teignmouth, when they
were stopped and collared by the keepers, which was the
sole offence against them. He maintained that as Mr
Baker had said in his opening remarks the prisoners were
there apparently for the purpose of taking game, that the
bench had no legal power in the case.
Mr Baker observed that it was a question of fact the
bench had to decide.

The Chairman remarked that the bench had paid great
attention to the case, and found from the nature of the evi-
dence that there was nothing to show that the sentence
should in any way be mitigated. The prisoners would be
imprisoned fur three months, with hard labour, and were
ordered at the expiration of that term to find sureties to be
of good behaviour for six months.— Western Morning News

How TO DESTROY INSECTS.—The following
remedy for the plague of insects was invented by
the late Rev. W. Kirby :—A hand glass, commonly used
by gardeners (a square one is the best) is the instrument to
be used. This has to be tightly covered at the bottom
with thick white paper, varnished to resist the wet. A
circular hole, 61 inches in diameter, is then cut in the centre
of the paper, and the glass is placed on three bricks over
a plate filled with beer, sugar, and a little rum, a moderate
distance from the infested spot. The effect is magical; in
a few hours the glass is crammed with wasps, hornets,
and flies (bees will seldom enter), which, having tasted
the sweets, fly upwards to the light. A common sulphur
match, made by dipping brown paper into melted brimstone,
will destroy thousands. The constant hum of insect life
inside will attract all the marauders from the fruit trees to
the glass ; and the ecent of the rum is sure to induce the
most fastidious wasp to enter as no insect can resist its
powerful attractions.

THE TALLAHASSEE.—The Beaufort correspondent
of the New York Herald, writing on the 27th, re-
ports the running of the blockade of Wilmington by the
Tallahassee Confederate cruiser. The Tallahassee, after
much devastation, concluded to spend a short time at Wil-
mington. Oa the night of the 15th of August, at 10 o'clock
in the evening, Captain Philin, commanding the gunboat
Montecello, while cruising off New Inlet, discovered a
steamer standing for the shore under a fall head of steam.
lie at once ordered all men to quarters, and when about
503 yards distant challenged her, but elicited no reply. A
second challenge was mot by silence, and ho directed that
a package of 9-inch grape should be presented to the mys-
terious stranger. The arrival of grape at its destination
was ascertained by a peculiar sound, caused by a contact
with resistance. The stranger then replied by returning a
shell, which passed between the foremast and mainmast of
the Montecello, exploding on the other side without inflict-
ing any damage. Captain Philin now became more earnest
and sent a 3 -pounder shell, to which reply was made in
grape, striking almost under the stern of the Montecello.
The Montecello then opened with 9-inch and 30-pounder
shell short fuse, but was disappointed at receiving no shots
in return, and then fur the first time discovered that the
stranger had suddenly disappeared. During the engage-
ment a Confederate battery of Whitworth guns, stationed
on shore at a point a mile or more distant, kept up a con-
staht fire against the Montecello; but fortunately doing no
damage, though frequently coming vary close. When day
had dawned so as to make distant objects perceptible, much
to the surprise of the assembled vessels, there could be dis-
cerned, lying serenely and securely under the guns of Fort
Fisher, the long sought object of their search, the Confede-
rate steamer Tallahassee, and there she still lies, and pro-
bably will continuo to stay. Admiral Lee designs taking
all possible precaution, and will to-morrow leave this post
to visit the blockade off Wilmington. It would seem as if
still another was to be added to the fleet of Confederate
cruisers. A few nights ago a large fast steamer, carrying
at her stern the English ensign, and on her foremast the
Confederate colours, entered the port of Wilmington. She
is supposed to be a new cruiser, or to have had on board
some distinguished passenger. She likewise still remains
there. Tho Tallahassee had but one mast standing when
engaged by the Montecello.

THE HOP TRADE,—Subjoined is Messrs. Wool-
loton and Son's report of the Hop Market :—The
warm dry weather of the past summer has caused the sup-
ply of new hops to arrive at market earlier than usual, and
although much of the growth remains unpicked, enough is
secured to justify an opinion as to the quantity and quality
of the crop of 1864. Notwithstanding many samples indi •
cats the effects of mould, red rust, and black blight (and
such hops are always the first to be picked and pressed for
sale), we consider that generally this season's crop will be
remarkable for ripeness, rich flavour, and condition. The
palest samples will probably be scarce, but a bright healthy
yellow will be the prevailing colour of the growth.
The quantity grown being now no longer a matter of sta-
tistical accuracy, much difference of opinion will always
exist on the subject. Our judgment is that the produce of
this year will, at least, equal an old duty of £200,000. A
gradual but important increase has taken place in the home
plantations during the past three years, and there are now
more than 50,000 acres under cultivation. The European
Hop Plantations have doubled in extent since 1854, and this
year produce three-fourths of a full orop. This leaves in
excess of local requirements a most important surplus, that
must find its way to this country. The crop in Bohemia,
Bavaria, Belgium, and the Lorraine district of France, is
quite one-third more than last year, and of very superior
quality. Baden, Brunswick, Poland, &e, are not se. fortunate,
but their hops are seldom of good quality, and are chiefly
purchased for the adulterations of Bavarians and Bohemians.
Last year, American letters stated that very few hope from
that country would be exported to Europe, but the Cus-
toms return proves the inaccuracy of this opinion. We now
are told, most confidently, that the Federal States, so far
from being able to export, will require hops horn England
for their own consumption. Wu seriously doubt the wig.
dein of speculation based upon these reports. The stock in
the hands of consumers is probably very small, and on this
market scarcely any 1862's or 1863's remain. For the few
left, extreme rates are obtained ; but with so abundant an
English crop, and the certainty of largo imports from abroad,
mindful also of the gloomy prospects of the money maker,
we apprehend brewers will see the policy of regulating their
first purchases with extreme caution. Large parcels of
1855'5, 1856'5, and 1857's remain unconsumed, and where
well kept will probably find a ready sale at their present
very moderato rates.
TROTTING MATCH FOR £6o.—Yesterday a match,
in which Mr Arthur undertook to trot his roan mars
Peggy eight miles in half an hour, came off over two level
miles of the old Brighton road, near Honey. The mare,
harnessed to a light cart, commenced her task by going
away at a good pace, her driver holding her in. She per-
formed the first two utiles in 7 min. 10 see., and came back
to the starting point in admirable style, getting over four
miles in. 14 mill, 30 sec She did the next two miles in 7
min. 14 see. ; and, on making her way fur the winning
goal, her driver gave her head, and she pet formed the last
mile in 3 min, 20 sec,, and came in a winner with I min. 21
sec. to spare, accomplishing the eight toil„ in 23 in. 39