The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-18 00:00:00

VIE VI CISSITUDES OF TEN YEARS.

-We are astonished when we contemplate the
changes whi oh have been effected in the course of ten
years ! Ho w rapidly the sweeping tide of time rolls
on!
companions of
The morning of life passes off like a dream,
and we Took round 111
ain for the
Where are the gah the our gout hful days.
with whomwe once sported in the
of
beau-
tiful, the happy,
sprightlin esa of youth and buoyancy
enjoyment ?
knewd them
They wei .e ; we loved them ;
with them
bown time's sunny stream
here ; we
we rejoic !d
with plea sure's fragile ark ; but
where are they
gone before us the whirl-
emw ? Alas, they have
wind of death drove them rapidly onward, and they
are static g on eternity's wide, shoreless sea. The
scenes of our childhood, too, fade away, and soon not
a vestige of them is left as a token that they have
existed. Time's stupendous wheel is ever rolling on.
Ten year a more, and where will we be ? Our present
-friends, c Qr present companions, will they still be here ?
No; they may be scattered far away, strangers, and
in a stra•aig e land. Ten years, and the aspect of things
to ma ny, v ery many, will be changed. The pale, ema-
ciated, mss er, that now bends over his useless gold
(the w neck of ruined familiee, and the last remains of
forlorn wre' clledness), where will he be ? He and
the bfl !gar whom he drives from his door, will have
gone to , their long homes ; his wealth will have passed
into oth s: , hands. Ten years, and the student who is now
1 poring , ti ter volumes, and seeking with such avidity
for knoll e edge, will have acquired, and perhaps for-
gotten it. The lovely maiden, whose mind and per-
son are jut it matured—she is beautiful—she is happy
—pleasure beams in her countenance, and joy sparkles
in her eye ; with a light foot and lighter heart, she
Ste,,ri
upon life's stage; but alas! ten years and this
lovely bat ,g will be indeed changed; the bright,
fascinating smile no lorger plays upon her cheek ; her
once lreighi ng eye speaks deeper of misery now than
ever it Aid , If pleasure. Ten years, and what is now
beautiful' w 1 11 have faded like the morning flower.
Ten years, a, ad many that sport in the sunshine of
prosperity. „,,,1 11 be wrapped in misfortune's gloomiest
shade. T en ye ars, and the man of business will have
settled hie " final accounts," the fool will have grown
wise, and the wise will have discovered his ignorance.
The atheist will have found out his mistake, and the
Christiar , will have realised bis hopes.—. Home Journal.

POLICE lA' TELLIGENCE.

MARYLEBONE.—tien; Heasman, a respectable-
looking man, ab.•ut 35 years of age, was placed at the
bar before Mr. .I.,)n!z, charged with having embezzled
money belonging to his employer. Mr. Joseph Frederick
Capps, a rit:e merchant and Italian warehousemqn, car-
rying on business in Grove-terrace, Bayswater; and
from what transpired in the course of the inquiry there
can be but little doubt with regard to the prosecutor
having been plundered to the extent of nearly GOO/.
Mr. Lewis, solicitor, of Ely-place, Holborn, appeared
for the prosecution; Mr. Superintendent Poarse, of the
F division, was also present, but not sworn as a witness
in the case. He had ascertained, ❑pon inquiries made
by him, that the prisoner hod purchased valuable arti-
cles at the shop of Mr. Jones, jeweller, &c., in the
Strand, whose house was very recently broken into, and
entered, and pro.perty to a large amount stolen there-

from.
Mr. Lewis opened the case at some length, in detail-
ing the leading and material particulars; and his state-
ment was borne out by the following witnesses, whom
he called:—
Prosecutor—Peisoner has been my shopman about
two years. I had two other shopmen, whom I dis-
charged, principally upon the faith of certain re•presen•
tatious made to me respecting them by the prisoner, and
which I believed to be true. On 'Thursday last, in con-
sequence of some suspicion entertained by me with re-
gard to the prisoner, and having a knowledge of the fact
that a person answering his description bad purchased
jewellery, &c., at Jones's, I marked a sovereign, a half-
sovereign, and two half crowns, which coins were given
into the hands of a man named Boughen, who was to
expend the money at my shop the next morning, an un-
derstanding having been made that an officer was to be
in attendance to act if called upon. At 20 minutes to 9
the next morning I saw Boughen enter the shop, but
did not observe him leave. In the course of 10 minutes
(Boughen having then gone) I went into the shop my-
self, and while the prisoner was gone down stairs to his
breakfast, examined the till, in which I found cue of
the marked half-crowns, but the other one, and the
sovereign and the half-sovereign, were gone. I
went to the door, and, being much agitated at the
time, did not see the officer. I returned indoors with-
out mentioning then to the prisoner the discovery
which I had made, and shortly afterwards ho (prisoner)
wont nut as usual for orders from the customers. During
his absence I went to Bow-street police station to obtain
assistance, and returned with constable Bingham F.
At a few minutes before 12 prisoner came in from his
walk, and was called i❑ by Bingham. I was also pre-
sent. The officer said to him, " You are charged with
robbing your master of a sovereign, a halt sovereign,
and a half•crown," when he hung down his head, and
at length said, " I admit it." He was asked by Bing-
ham fur the key of his box, and ho gave it up.
Mr. Lewis—During the last 15 months have you
taken stock?
Prosecutor—l have, Sir, twice since April, 1851, and
I have found a considerable deficiency when making up
my accounts. I cannot account for at least 5001.
Bingham, the officer above alluded to, said—l
searched the prisoner, and found in his coat pocket
notes to the amount of 301., and a check for 281. 18s.
5d,, together with numerous letters and other
papers. I and prosecutor went into his bedroom, and
in his box, the key of which be gave us, were a
roll of notes, amounting to 515/., as also two dia-
mond rings, three diamond studs, a gold watch, and two
purses, in one of which was a receipt for 3501., signed
Joian Thomas Stubbs, and which showed that he
(prisoner) had paid the sum for a business—which was
being carried on in the joint names of Day and Ileasmau,
in the Edgeware• road. The notes, &c., were produced,
and prosecutor, after looking at some of the notes, said
that upsen the back of many of them were the names of
his customers. It was quite impossible for him to say at
present as to the full extent of his loss. 13ingham added
that the prisoner had admitted to him that he was a
" sporting ' character, and had been so for some time.
Hubert Boughen—l live at 55, Vine-street, West-
minster, and am employed by the police to detect crime.
On the evening of the 14th the coins were marked in my
presence, and the next morning I made purchases of
grocery to the amount of 11. 14s. I paid for it with the
marked money, and received a shilling in change.
A second charge was gone into with regard to the
check before referred to, amounting to 281. 18s. sd.
Mrs. Perryman, housekeeper to Mr. J. Bruce, 3,
Gloucester- gardens, Hyde-park, deposed to her having,
ou the 13th inst., given to the prisoner the check in
question, in payment of 21. 10s. ld. owing by her master.
Ile gave her the change and signed the book.
Prosecutor proved that the money had not been ac•
counted for by the prisoner.
Other evidence implicating the prisoner was gone
into, and he (prisoner), who had no defence to make,
was remanded for further examination.
It is expected that, upon the next inqaily, important
evidence with regard to the extensive system of plunder
pursued by the prisoner will be forthcoming.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. A'Beckett was occupied several
hours in hearing the argument in a case of vast impor-
tance to the public who are compelled to resortgs t torail
rail-
way stations, and which is likely to cause a re
agita-
tion among the proprietors of hackney carriages and the
railway companies until some Act of Parliament has
been introduced on the subject. The present case was
that of a cab•driver named Thomas Hall, a privileged
cabman at the London, Brighton, and South-coast Rail-
way Terminus, who was summoned by another cabman,
named Williams, who is not privileged, for plying for
hire inside the railway terminus, that not being a place
appointed by the Commissioners of Police, accoradaidngmtro.
the 13th and 14th Victoria.
proprietors,
Mr. Wakeling appeared for the complainant,pro
present to
Lewis for the defendant.
The court was crowded to excess by cabbs
and Mr. Hawkins, the superintend. nt of traffic of the
Railway, with Mr. Acton, was Brighton
watch the proceedings.
for hire, wbluteht
After some considerable argument, Mr. Le .3
submitted that the Commissioners of Police ha
mitted that the defendant was
o andur courts, t h eTs eht The the
places
ju-
risdiction over the railway terminus. They
had no
ap-
pointingwere
printed of p a:ant
and
c fixedst standings
ii
nn gall for
police
rail-
way stations were not mentioned, and the Act never con-
templated that they should have any a
places. He quoted the Ist and 2d Williamuority in those
andand7th contended
that the defendant could not be amenable to the mean-
ing of those acts, the railway termini being private pro-
perty, and the company had power to admit what cabs
they thought proper, and regulate them accordingly.
After a discussion which lasted nearly two hours,
driver of a hackney carriage, for ply-
Mr.
defendant,A'B secsktehtet is a summons against the
within the
ing for hire at the London and Brighton Railway sta-
tion,metropolitan police district,
not being a standing or
ph os seek. n e Heavingy carriage
for hire, unless hedecided that the driver of a
standingis at a railway terminus is ply-
ingno standings for already hired, and there being
Commissioners of hackney carriages appointed by the
Police at the terminus of the London
and Brighton Railway-_the Commissioners having ex-
clusively the power o appointing standings for hackney
carriages within the
ct
smteet metropolitan l il taawb reference
n wit police
e
t—l can
have no hesitationthe
case before me, It has been argued that I should not
to the letter of the law, but I think I am
bound
there follow the words of the Act of Parliament
when they are clear and definite. It is inconvenient
enough
to be compelled to fix a meaning when
i 8 any vagueness of the expression, but when
the words
are clear I am to presume that the
Legislature has meant precisely what it has said.
The words are thus :—" Every driver of a hack-
ney carriage who shall ply for hire elsewhere than
at som© standing or place appointed for that purpose
shall for every such offence forfeit 20s. It has been ad-
mitted
that defendant was plying for hire at the terminus,
which is, certainly, not a place appointed by the Com-
missioners of Police as a standing for hackney carriages,
and, consequently, the provisions of the Act of Parlia-
ment have been infringed. The object of the com-
plainant is the abolition of what he calls un unjust mo-
nopoly on the part of the railway company in giving
to a certain number of privileged cdbs the exclusive
right of profiting by what ho called the railway cab
traffic of the metropolis. Now, there is some reason
for feeling there is a grievance, inasmuch as every cab
proprietor is called upon to pay a large sum, amount-
ing to 301. a-year, on each hackney carriage he
owns, and the consideration for which he pays this sum
is, that ho shall be entitled to such a share as fair cum-
petition would give him of the whole of the cab traffic
of the metropolis. It certainly does seem very un-
fair that a most important, and perhaps the mostprofit-
able, portion of this traffic should be given
ov
which,
i t he
y
railway companies to privileged hands—
a practice
though it has for some time existed, I know of no law to
justity. I must, however, say, that some consideration
may be due to the railway
company in the present case,
as far as I know, such a com-
plaint
eieasthat now brought before me.
thecomplain
ep l positionain oe ff the
the complainantw
as it i
ts
has the firstbeen in m
Thosedelayedin mto have so long
reason for any haste, which mightg that there is no
leadto very
serious
r on
consequences in applying the remedy. It
tweuldbe
unreasonable to expect of therailway
company that it
should suddenly alter or put an end to a system of
arrangements which have long been suffered to continue,
and which has
no doubt been made with a view to the
accommodation of the public. Taking into consideration
these circumstances, as well as the extreme inconvenience
to which the public would be put by the sudden termination
of the existing regulations as to hackney carriages at the
London-bridge terminus, I have determined on follow-
ing the course not unfrequently adopted in other cases,
and giving time for the law ton be complied with. I shall
not at present inflict any pealty on defendant, but I
shall call upon him to appear on the 15th of November
text. During the interval thus afforded the opportunity
will be given of making such regulations respecting
hackney carriages plying for hire at a railw
thay e
law
authorize and the public convenience may require.
The summons was then adjourned.
William Leman was brought before Mr A'Beckett for
final eaareination, charged with violating the person of
Sarah Ray, a child under 10 years of age.
Mr. A'Beckett said it was a very disgusting case.
Under all the circumstances he felt bound to commit the
prisoner for trial.—Committed accordingly,

The Evening Post states on the authority of a
private communication from Rome that the Rev. Dr. Dixon,
Protessor of Sacred Scripture and Ilebrew in Maynooth Col-
lege, has been appointed successor to Archbishop Cullen in
Armagh. It is Dr. Dixon who was at the head of the list
before, when all the names sent to Rome by the local clergy
were rejected by the Pope in favour of Dr. Cullen ; and if the
statement in the Post be correct the appointment will Aye
satisfaction as some amide for the former slight..