The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE'—Dec. 26.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Robert Leach, a gentle-
man of independent property, residing at No. 17, Hamil-
ton-place, New Cross, appeared before the Lord Mayor
under the folio wing circumstances :

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Wm. Whetness, conductor of one of the omnibuses
belonging to the Bayswater Conveyance Association,
said—On Monday afternoon the defendant entered the
omnibus of which lam the conductor, at Mile-end, for
the purpose of proceeding to Gracechurch-street. He
gave me a shilling, which I immediately returned to
him, telling him it was a bad one, upon which he said it
was not the one he gave me—that I had changed it—
that I was a swindler, and that there was a swindling
practice being carried on amongst the conductors, and
that he would not have it. I assured him it was the
shilling he had given me. On arriving at Whitechapel
Church I told the time-keeper what had occurred, and he
spoke to the defendant, who said be had given me a good
shilling, and that I had given him a bad one in ex-
change. The time-keeper then said to him, "Do you
think this conductor, the years he has been on the road,
would do such a thing as this ?" The defendant replied,
" Yes, he's a swindler ; there's a swindling practice
being carried on amongt the conductors, and I won't
have it." On arriving at the corner of Grarechurch-
street, the defendant called out " police !" and I said to
a policeman who did not hear him" Here is a gentleman
wants you, inside the omnibus." The defendant then
got out of the omnibus, and told the policeman that I
had changed a shilling, and he thought if I were taken
to the station•house some more bad money would be
found upon me. I said I would not trouble the police-
man to take me to the station-house, but would walk
there, and that if he (the policeman) did his duty he
would search me. I then charged the defendant with
passing a counterfeit shilling.
Defendant—l admit calling the complainant a swind-
ler ; and I said I had a very strong suspicion that ho
had changed my good shilling for a bad one.
The Lord Mayor—Are you satisfied that the whole
thing is a mistake ?

Defendant—l cannot say lam perfectly satisfied ; I
have a strong suspicion that the shilling was changed.
The Lord Mayor- The complainant is on his oath ;
you can cross-examine him if you think proper. Ile ap-
pears to be a very respectable man, judging from his de-
meanour. (To the complainant)—How long have you
been in the service of this company 1
Complainant—Between 9 and 10 years.
The Lord Mayor—Have you got a clean bill of
health
Complainant—Yes, my lord (producing his licence,
which was not indorsed).
Defendant—l could not undertake to say positively
that the bad coin produced is not the one I gave him,
but I firmly believe that I gave him a good shilling. I
suspected that he had "rung the changes," as they call it.
The Lord Mayor—As the offence, if any, was com-
mitted out of my jurisdiction there is nothing for me to
decide upon. Do you not think you have made a mill-
take
Defendant—l think it possible.
The Lord Mayor—Do you not think it more than
possible ?

Defendant—No, I cannot Bay that. I think it posy
ble. I cannot say more than that.

The Lord Mayor—Conductors of omnibuses, if they
behave well, are as much deserving the protection of
magistrates as persons engaged in any industrial occu-
pation. My impression, from what I have beard, is that
the defendant made a mistake.
Defendant—l think it rather hard that I should have
been given in charge.
The Lord Mayor—lf you have any case for damages,
that is a matter to be determined by the civil courts. It
strikes me that a mistake has been committed on both
sides. Allowing that the complainant was wrong in
charging you with passing a counterfeit shilling, he in
his turn might proceed against you for defamation of
character. However, I have no jurisdiction in the mat-
ter, and the charge is dismissed.
The Lord Mayor said it afforded him sincere pleasure
to be able to state that not a single charge of drunkenness
had been brought before him that day as having oc-
curred in the district of the City over which his juris-
diction extended.

GUILDHALL.—TVnt, Macs, described as a publi-
can, of 12, Pump-street, Manchester ; Thomas Smith,
blacksmith, of 12, Marsh-lane, Leeds ; Samuel Wilson,
smith, of Coley, Derbyshire ; and John Brantley, la-
bourer, of liintwell, Shrewsbury, were placed at the
bar, before Alderman Copeland, charged with conspir-
ing to defraud Edward Finn, of Southend, Essex, of the
sum of ss.

Mr. Wontner defended the prisoners.
Michael Haydon, a detective officer, said—About, one
o'clock on Monday afternoon I was with Brett, a
brother officer, in Fleet-street. I saw the prisoners
there, sometimes together, and sometimes separate, hut
all acting in concert. When one stopped they all
stopped, and Huves, upon several occasions, spoke to
persons who, from their appearance, seemed country-
men. I watched them for about an hour, when Huves
spoke to a young man on Ludgate-hill, and went with
him to the Goose and Gridiron, St. Paul's-churchyard.
The others followed. They entered a room on the first
floor. In about ten minutes the young man and Hives
Caine down stairs, and went out. The other three fol-
lowed, and were stopped by Brett and myself. The
young man, who is not here, said, in the presence of the
prisoners, that they endeavoured to induce him to bet
upon the meaning of the word, " resolve," and had tried
to get him to show them his money. I afterwards found
Huves in St. Paurs•churchyard, when I took him into
custody. I found on him 21. 13s. qd., a gilt counter, a
tnemoranduin-book, and Johnson's Dictionary. Smith
is alleged to have stated that the way to test ale was to
put a piece of sugar in it, and it would resolve. " No,"
sail the others, " dissolve ;" and the young man said,
" You mean dissolve." but he did not like to make a
bet about it. On Smith I found a pack of cards, long
arid narrow ; longways they cut black and sideways red.
On Wilson was found 19s. 111 d. ; and Bramley,
1/. 3s. Hid. and a pocket-book. There was found
in the room where they were some counterfeit pieces
and a pocket-book containing some flash notes.

Cross-examined by Mr. Nfontner---I told the young
mart to attend to-day. He is not here. He lost nothing,
and made no wager at all.

Mr. Wontner said that there was no proof of any
gaming whatever. No offence bad been committed,
and, consequently, there was no charge to answer.
The dictionary found on loves was then handed up
to the alderman, who, on turning to the word "resolve,"
found the following meanings given To solve, to
melt, to analyse, to determine, to confirm." His wor-
ship said ho was of opinion that the prisoners were
prowling about the City for a common purpose, and the
Jaw would treat thorn as rogues and vagabonds.
Furman, a detective officer, stated that about six
weeks ago he saw Smith and Wilson in Monument-yard,
when, on entertaining some suspicions about them, he
told them to get out of the City, and they directly went
away.

Alderman Copeland said that strengthened him in his
intention to remand the prisoners for the appearance of
Mr. Finn. He held in his hand the pocket-book found
on 13rarnley, from which it appeared that they began at
Fakenham, where they obtained a pound. They then
went to Lynn, and there got 81. 155,, St.. Ives, 31., Rom_
ford, 161., and various other places, and the sum total
of their gains was 1081. He should therefore remand
them, and should order a summons to be issued for Mr.
Finn to attend.
Remanded accordingly.

WORSHIP-STREET. Three determined-looking
men named James Turner, James Terry, and Henry 'Wil-
liams, alias Cambridge Harry, who was stated to be a
returned transport, was placed at the bar before Mr.
D'Eyncourt, charged with having broken into and
plundered the prenw,es of Mr. Wm. Gascoigne, a mas-
ter butcher, carrying on business in Curtain-road, Shore-
ditch.

The prosecutor stated that between two and three
three o'clock the previous afternoon he left home with
his family for the purpose of dining with his brother-in-
law, in Great Tower-street, but in consequence of a com-
munication which was conveyed to him in the course of
the evening, he returned in a cab, and discovered on his
arrival that his house had been thoroughly ransacked
by thieves, who had forced open all the drawers, boxes,
and cupboards in the upper rooms, from which they had
abstracted a large quantity of property, consisting of
plate, jewellery-, and wearing apparel, the whole of
which was now produced by the police.
Joseph Goss, an errand-boy in the service of a cabinet-
maker in the neighbourhood, stated that he was stand-
ing at the corner of a court in the Curtain-road, shortly
after five o'clock on the previous evening, when he ob-
served the prisoners and two other men loitering about
in a suspicious mariner in front of the prosecutor's pre-
mises. After watching them a few minutes, he saw one
of the men stealthily advance to the street door, which
he speedily opened by applying some instrument to the
lock, and then beckoned to Lis companions, two of
whom entered the house with him, leaving the others
out,ide.

Serjeant Nicholls, G 11, stated that in consequence of
the information he received from the last witness, he
placed several constables to keep watch round the pro-
secutor's house, and made his way on to the slaughter-
house at the rear of the premises, from which he ma-
naged to effect an entrance to the bed-room on the
second floor. He then proceeded into an adjoining
room, where he found the prisoner Terry crouching down
in a corner of the apartment, and immediately took him
into custody. After lodging him in the station-house,
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roof of an outhouse about 15 feet in height, from which
they dropped into the street, where they were instantly
secured by two officers who had been placed there to
prevent their escape.
Serjeant Jackson, of the II division, identified the
prisoner Tem, as a notorious thief, and stated that Wil-
liams, since his return from transportation, had been
twice convicted of felony, and sentenced to 'the respec-
tive terms of six and 12 months' imprisonment.
The prisoners, who declined offering any defence,
were remanded for the formal completion of the depo-
sitions.

BNREVOLENCE.—The magictrate announced the receipt
of a Poet-office order for 2/, from T, T., and A cheque

for 21. from J. IL, per Messrs. Gosling and Sharpe, in
aid of the poor-box.

LAMBETH. Yesterday, Mr. Solomon, Lovelace, the
owner of the Star beer-house, in Chapel-street, Stock-
well, appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer to a sum-
mons charging him with having unlawfully refused to
provide quarters for Patrick Cassidy and Peter Prior,
private soldiers belonging to the 101st, or Cavan
Militia, on the night of the 14th inst., they being pro-
vided with proper billets for the same.
Inspector Harmsworth, belonging to the L division of
police, informed the magistrate that on the night of the
14th inst. the complainants in the present case, while on
their way from Dublin to the camp at Aldershot, reached
town so late that they could not proceed further, as
there was no train proceeding in the directio❑ of Alder-
shot that night, and they in consequence attended at
the Tower-street station, and he gave them a billet on
the defendant. For reasons which they would mention,
the defendant refused to receive them, and they came
back to the station. For that refusal a summons was
applied for and granted, and their officers bad sent them
up from Aldershot that day to support the charge by
their evidence.

One of the soldiers, Peter Prior, was here sworn, and
said that it was ten o'clock before they got the billet,
and had then to walk nearly three miles to the house of
the defendant. On arriving at the latter, at about eleven
o'clock, they found the door closed, and after knocking
at it for some time it was opened by a female, who, on
seeing them, told them to be off, and closed the door
again. They then spoke to a policeman, and told him
how they bad been treated, and he knocked loudly at
the door, The defendant then oame down himself, and
was very angry at being taken from his bed, but ulti-
mately offered them ls. each to get a bed elsewhere.
They told him that if they could procure a bed for is.
a-piece they should not have troubled him, as they were
not without a shilling, but what they wanted was a bed,
as they were quite knocked up with travelling and
fatigue. The defendant said he could do no more than
give them is , and they were obliged to leave the house
and return to the police-station.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that, being
rather unwell on the night in question, he closed up hie
house at a quarter to eleven o'clock and went to bed,
and some time after heard a violent knocking at the door.
His wife partially dressed herself and went down stairs,
and believing that the two men outside only wanted to
get in to have something to drink she said something to
them that perhaps she should not and returned to bed.
Soon after a more violent knocking was kept up at the
door, which caused him to get out of bed and come
down, and when he saw the soldiers he would admit that
he felt somewhat annoyed ; but at the same time offered
them ls. a-piece, which was in reality all the money ke
had in the house. This sum they refused, and said they
must have 38. each, or at the very least ls. 6,1. He
assured them that all the money he had was 25., and
that to accommodate them with a bed he must knock up
the members of his family and compel them to sit up.
He offered to make a good fire, and sit up with them
himself, but this they refused to consent to, and one of
the soldiers insisted upon his providing him with a "din-
ner," as the law required ; but he assured him that he
had nothing in the house from which he could provide
him a dinner, and that he could not think of troubling
his neighbours to get anything at such an hour of the
night, then past 12 o'clock. The soldiers, after threaten-
ing him with the vengeance of the law, then left his house.
Mr. Elliott inquired why it was that the soldiers were
not billeted on some pace in the neighbourhood of the
elation, and not sent to such a distance as Stockwell at
such an hour of the night !—lnspector Harms worth re-
plied that from Tower-street station soldiers were bil-
leted on all parts of the parish of Lambeth, and Stockwell
being at that time in rotation he had sent them there.
Mr. Elliott observed that soldiers when billeted should
be sent to the places where they were billeted on at a
proper and seasonable hour, and the present was not a
case in which he would interfere, and the summons 'Lust,
therefore, he dismissed.
DISTRESSING CASE.—An open-countenanced sailor, of
19 years of age, who only arrived from the Crimea on
Saturday last, entered the court with his two sisters and
little brother, the three latter being most scantily dressed,
and two of them without shoes or stockings—and ad-
dressing the magistrate, said that 18 months ago he got
appointed as ordinary seaman on board a transport, and
sailed for the Crimea. After discharging her cargo, his
ship was sold to the Turkish Government, and he (appli-
cant) on leaving her got a situation as servant to an offi-
cer, and lived with him until his leaving. Having heard
that his mother was in a very delicate state of health,
he was very uneasy about her, and felt a great anxiety to
get home to see her, and his master kindly procured for
him a passage home. On Saturday, at mid-day, he
reached hone from Portsmouth, and found his mother
dead and in her coffin, and the three children who
accompanied him in a state of great destitution. On
Sunday his mother was buried at the expense of a
gentleman, for whom his father, now six years dead,
used to work, and on Monday a broker was put in
by the landlord, and swept everything in the place
away. The children were obliged to be removed to the
house of an aunt, and she being a poor woman herself,
and totally unable to support them, took the children to
the workhouse of Newington parish, but the relieving
officer, Bowman, refused to either relieve or receive them,
alleging as his reason that they slept out of the parish of
Newington and in that of Lambeth, and they must
therefore be passed in the regular way.—ln reply to the
questions of the magistrate, the applicant said that his
father and mother had for upwards of 20 years rented a
house at 30/. a year, and paid taxes all that time to the
parish of Newington, and on hearing this Mr. Elliott
directed the chief clerk to write a note to Mr. Burgess,
the clerk to the board of guardians, to know why the
poor children had not been taken into the house or at-
tended tn. The note was given to Lockyear, one of the
summoning officers, and he in a short time returned and
informed the magistrate that Mr. Burgess was out, but
his son read the note and said it should be laid before
the board that night, but the children could not be taken
into the workhouse as they were residing out of the
parish, and things must be done in a legal way.—Mr.
Elliott observed that it was quite absurd to raise such
frivolous objections as those of the children living in
another parish, when they must be aware that they had
a legal settlement with them. He then desired the chief
clerk to assist the poor children with 108. out of the
poor-box for their immediate necessities. He also de-
sired Lockyear to know what the result of the case was
as lie was determined not to let it drop.

SECESSION OF THE REV. MR. IVIIEELER.

It is perhaps rather singular that just as Dr. Arm-
strong came on this circuit to lecture "On the Arrest of
Popery," the Rev. Mr. Wheeler, rector of New Shore-
ham, made his recantation of what he, we suppose, con-
sidered his former errors, and joined the Roman Catholic
church. How far he was induced to take this step by the
late decision of Dr. Lushington we cannot tell, but from
what we hear, we shall not be surprised if Mr. Wheeler's
secession be followed by others in the western division
of this county.
The Brighton herald says that "The secession of the
Rev. Mr. Wheeler, vicar of New Shoreham, from the
Church of England, and his reception by Dr. Manning
into the Roman Catholic communion took place on
Saturday last. Mr. Wheeler will, of course, leave Shore-
ham, where he rebuilt the vicarage at great expense,
being a man of considerable wealth. His furniture is
advertised for sale. The living of New Shoreham is in
the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford, and is returned in
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' report as worth 1271.,
net income. The secession of so important a member of
the Puseyite party has excited no little sensation in the
diocese, and it was referred to by Dr. Cumming in his
lecture at the Town Hall on Thursday."
This opens a wide field for speculation. Who will
Magdalen College, Oxford, appoint to Shoreham rectory
in the place of Mr. Wheeler ? Will his successor be an
Evangelical or a Puseyist If the latter, it will be re-
garded as an indication that Magdalen College, Oxford,
sympathises with Mr. Wheeler, and sends another cler-
gyman to Shoreham to follow his footsteps. Thus the
whole question is opened, and it becomes one of vital
importance to the Established Church. There are other
clergymen in and about Shoreham as addicted to what
is popularly called Puseyism as Mr. Wheeler was, such
as the head master of Shoreham school ; the provost,
and those under him at Hurst College ; and the founders
and subscribers to the College of the " Blessed Virgin
Mary," at Lancing. Are these gentlemen, with their
pupils, when ripe, preparing to "go over to Rome" in a
body There are Puseyites in Brighton also—what
course are they going to pursue? These nre knotty
questions. The bishops and clergy of the Established
Church are her ecclesiastical pillars—her support ; but
if they give way, what is to become of their church ?
Three-fourths of the new churches are constructed, at
the east end, as if to give room for a high altar. There
might not have been any design in this, but ever since
the formation of the Camden Society of Architecture,
said to be Puseyistic, we have observed that the new
churches have nearly all been built just as the Catholic
Church would wish them. It is to be inferred from this
that there is a gradual leaning to, and perhaps a half-
yearning desire to return to, the old —the Roman Ca-
tholic Church
Since the retirement of Archdeacon Manning from the
Establishment, there has been nothing in this part of
the country which has created half the sensation as the
secession of Mr. Wheeler, and every one must see that
it affects all those large establishments which have been
formed at Shoreham, Hurst, and Lancing, and which
now involves, to a considerable extent, Magdalen' Col-
lege, Oxford—Oxford University being considered the
headquarters of Puseyism or Tractarianistu. In the Gor-
ham case, the State decided a doctrinal point. In the ,
St. Barnabas case, Pimlico, it decided in a matter, we
suppose, of discipline. Some will say that "the sooner
all the Tractarians leave the Established Church the
better. Let them leave and go to Rome, or, if they like,
establish a free church of their own." But it is not clear
that if a whole flock of Tractarians were to take flight
another would not immediately spring up in the Esta-
blished Church in their place ; our is it clear as to how
wide, or how deep, their doctrines have taken root
among the people. We are evidently on the eve of great
changes, for there must have been thousands of young
persons indoctrinated' of late years in principles, the ten-
dency of which is towards the Catholic Church.
There is the bishop of the diocese, moreover, how is
he situated He has been present at the ceremonious
performances of the Tractarians in this county on many
occasions. The inference is that he approved of them,
and that the sentiments, opinions, and convictions of his
own clergy were not unknown to him. The power of the
bishops, however, of the Anglican Church seems ill de-
fined, and they may not possess the power to interfere
in these matters if so inclined.--BrigMot Exciinfitor,

Country Markets.

EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—DR e. 25.

There were in the market to-day 16 sacks oatmeal, seen
weighing 280 lbs imperial, which sold at 465. Od.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET-
DEC. 25.

Supplies of all kinds these last six days again large.
Oat straw, from 10s Od to 13s Od per kemple of 16 stones
trop; wheat do., 78 Od to 8s 6d; barley do., 6s Od to 7d•
6d. Hay from 10d to lid.

DALKEITH MEAL /
Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs
imperial
Barleymeal, per ditto
Peasemeal, per ditto
Flour, per ditto
Pot-barley, per ditto

ARKET—Dra. 24
First. Second. Third.
44s 6d 43s 6d 42s 6,1
34s Od —8 Od --s 0
—s Od s Od --9 0,1
—s Od —s Od —s Od
—s Od s Od —s Od

IPSWICH— DEo. 26.
A small attendance, owing to the holidays. The supplY
of wheat was small, prices pretty well the same as lasi
wook, possibly a shade in farour of the buyer. Barley in
fair quantity, the trade had no animation, and with the
exception of the most select and choice qualities, is per qr
abatement took place. Beans and peas a shade cheaper.
PRA QUARTER.I FIR eTJARVIS.
Wheat, red (old) 76s to 79t Barley, grinding ... 36s to 37s
Ditto (new)
Ditto, white B4s to 86slPeas
Ditto (old)
Barley, malting ... 40s to 42E.1 Flour, per sack
ATRRAORII FOR TUX WEE[ INDING DHo. 22, 1855.
Wheat
Oats
Peas
Barley
Beane