The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-23 00:00:00

THAMES.

FINGULAR. MARINE BURGLARY.-Hugh Born, a well-
known thief, was brought before Mr Partridge charged
with feloniously breaking into the ship Annie, in the river,
t,ff Union Stairs, Wapping, and stealing thereform a silver
watch and chain, an onrcoat, two pairs of trousers, and
two loge hams each weighing 301bs.
It appeared from the evidence of James Masson, a sailor
on board the Annie, that the vessel was entered and the
cabin ransacked on Friday night last. Everything of value,
including the captain's watch and chain and two hams,
were stolen. He saw the prisoner in a boat at the stern of
the vessel two hours before the robbery was discovered.
Robert Cook, a cork manufacturer, of High-street, Wap-
ping, said he met the prisoner on Saturday last, and he said
he had two hams for sale, and asked him to buy them. He
saw the hams, and asked the prisoner the price, to which
he replied, "108 each." Ho said to the prisoner, " I hopo
you have done nothing dishonest." The prisoner declared
he bad not, and he gave him 108 for one of the hams.
Mr Partridge—Where did the prisoner say he obtained
the hams ?

Witness—He said he bought them cheap, and I should
have one at the price he gave for it.
Mason said the ham weighed 3Jlb, and the master gave
91 per lb for it.
Mr Partridge—Then the ham cost the captain 225. Gd ?
Henry Dyer, a Thames police-constable, produced the
remains of a ham which he found in the house of the wit-
ness Cook, and which Mason was able to identify. He
had traced the captain's watch to a pawnbroker's shop. It
was pledged by a woman for the prisoner, who had been 18
months in prison for another robbery on the river, and was
a most notorious and audacious thief. He asked for a re-
mand. At the next examination the captain's watch would
be produced.

Mr Partridge remanded the prisoner for a week.

STATE OF TRADE,

BRADFORD, Deo. 22. —There has been more business
done in wool during the present week. The chief demand is
for deep-grown wool, but there has been some slight busi-
ness done in all scats. The tendency of prices was in the
ascendant, and holders were not anxious to press sales,
Every class of wool partook of the improvement, although
this result was most marked in deep-grown wools, which ate
fully id per lb dearer tha❑ a fortnight ago. Lincolnshire
hogs' may be quoted at 2s 7id per lb, and vrethere 2s 2d per
lb. This improvement was prompted by anticipation of
greater activity in the worsted trade at the opening of the
new year. The business done in worsted yarns was exceed-
ingly small. The hardening tendency of the taw material
induced spinners to seek higher rates, but this tended to
cheek business. Stocks in merchants' warehouses, however,
are very low. There was a visible improvement in the piece
department. Both the home and foreign merchants did a
tr,fla more business. Prices were very firm.

Mrs Anne Smyth, widow of Major H. C. Smyth,
of the Bengal Engineers, and mother of Win. Makepeace
Thackeray, died on the 18th Met., at 8, Onslow-gardens,
just a year after her illustrious son.

DYEING A ALAN BLUE.—A Vienna journal
relates a droll story. A young man, who was
paying assiduous court to the wife of a dyer, had the mis-
fortune to be caught by the enraged husband, who called
his workmen about him, and without any ceremony the
gallant so gay was plunged into a cauldron prepared for
imparting a true blue colour to various fabrics. In a
second the unfortunate youth had acquired such a tint that
he dares not appear in public. His friends implored the
dyer to restore the poor fellow to his natural hue; but the
pitiless answer was, "It is impossible. He is of a beauti-
ful colour, and all I can do for him is to change him to a
peen or violet."