The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-27 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Crystal Palace, 321 1
Discount Corporation, limited, 11
Gen. Credit and Finance of Lennon, lim., 61
Hudson's Bay, 17/
International Financial Society, 12 111
Joint•stock Discount, lim., 61
London Financial Association, lira., 251 6
National Discount Company, lim., 10/
Ocean Marine (Insurance), 20/
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 78

Tho Sacred Harmonic Society perform Men-
delssohn's " Lobgesang " and Rossini's " Stabat Mater" at
their next concert at Exeier Hall on Friday—Madame
Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame Laura Baxter, Mr. Sims
Reeves, Mr, Sidney Smith, Mr. Montem Smith, and Mr.
Santley being the principal vocalists.
MENDELSSOHN'S BIRTHDAY.—The 54th Anni-
versary of Mendelssohn's Birth will be celebrated on Wed-
neslay, Feb. 3, by the National Choral Society, at Exeter
Hall, under the direction of Mr. G, W. Martin. The
Oratorio " Elijah" will be performed, on this occasion, by
the National Choral Society's band and &erns of 700 per-
formers. Principal singers, Madame Rudersdorff, Miss
Emma Heywood, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Santley, Miss
Annie Cox, Mr. G. A. Carter, J. Matthews, 4c.
Organist Mr. John (5I Boardman.

Escape of a Burglar from Bow-street Police
Cells.—This Day.

A circumstance of not very frequent occurrence,
and therefore creating much excitement in the
neighbourhood of the Bow-street Police•court,
occurred this morning—namely, the escape of a
desperate burglar from one of the police cells
attached to the Court.

The particulars are as follows:—This morning,
between four and five o'clock, one of the constables
of the F division on duty in Great Wild-street,
Drury-lane, met a man (whose name is Sullivan)
under very suspicious circumstances, he at
the time having in his possession some pictures
and a quantity of small miscellaneous articles, such
us smelling-bottles, tools, &c. ; and suspecting they
were the produce of a robb-.ry, he stopped the fellow
and questioned him as to how he became possessed
of t 1 .e property. He gave a very rambling account
of himself, and this circumstance strengthening
the police-constable's suspicions, he at once con-
veyed him to the station-house in Bow-street.
Some time after, another police-constable of
the same division observed two or three of
the shutters of a shop in Great Queen-street
occupied by a miscellaneous dealer had been forced,
and it then became known that a burglary had
been committed. In due course the man Sullivan
was placed before Mr. Henry, the sitting magis-
trate, at Bow-street, and the goods having been
identified by the shopkeeper as having been stolen
from his premises,the prisoner was put back into one
of the cells, situated at the back of the court while the
depositions were being completed previous to a
committal for trial. Ttiis having been done, the
prisoner was required again to attend in court, but
when the constable went for him it was found he
had escaped by climbing over the wall of the police-
court and crawling along the ledges and walls
of the adjoining houses, until he reached the
back yard of Mr. White, a grocer, in
Great Russell-street, into which he must
have dropped, and then proceeding along the pas-
sage, let himself out of the private door. The
police authorities instantly made every effort to
regain possession of the prisoner, but in vain. In the
early:part of the day another prisoner was confined in
the same cell as Sullivan, but his liberation rested
upon the payment of a fine, and as his friends raised
the money for his release it is supposed that the
door by an accident was not properly secured when
he quitted the place, and thus Sullivan had an op-
portunity presented to him of which he was not
slow in availing himself of.
Sullivan is known to the police, so it is expected
that he will not long remain at large.