The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-02 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from returns made in the week ending September 28,
1852, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon
on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British possessions in Amenta 225. lid. per cwt
From the Mauritius 235. 4id.
From the East Indies ... 235. 111 d. „
Average price of the three foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 225. 100. ~
By authority of Parliament,
HENRY BICKITELI„ Clerk of the Grocers' Company
Grocers'-hall, October 1.

POLICE IN TELLIGENC
BOW-STREE7I

Arthur Kendall, aged 26, the cashier of Messrs.
Gray and Woodcock, solicitors, of 20, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, was charged before Mr. Jardine with embez-
zling 101/. 165., and other large sums of money, re-
ceived on account of his employers.
Mr. Grey, barrister, conducted the prosecution.
lie regretted to state that the present was only one
of numerous charges which would be preferred
against the prisoner hereafter, and for the proper in-
vestigatio❑ of which a remand would be necessary.
Mr. David Gray, the senior partner of the firm,
who gave his evidence with painful emotion, stated
that the prisoner bad been their confidential clerk and
cashier for about ten years. It was his duty to receive
payments on their behalf, and when they amounted to
1001. and upwards, to place the money in the bank.
On Wednesday last some irregularities having been
discovered in his accounts, be was requested to ex-
plain them to witness. The day-book contained
entries of several sums, amounting in the aggregate
to 101/. 165., which he had received on behalf of the
firm ; but there was no corresponding entry in the
bank-book showing the payment of that amount to the
bankers. Instead of attempting a❑ explanation of the
circumstance, the prisoner exclaimed " I am a great
scoundrel, sir, and have been robbing you for some
time past. I am an ungrateful fellow." He then
pointed out another discrepancy in the accounts,
exhibiting defalcations to the amount of 3021. 7s. 10d.
Witness said, " Why, you must have robbed us of
1,500/., or more." He replied, "I do not think it is
more than 1,0001." He then told witness that he had
become involved to a serious extent in horseracing
and gambling transactions, which had ruined him.
The prisoner, who merely said " lam guilty, and
throw my self on the mercy of Mr. Gray," was re-
manded for a week.
LAMBETH.

Elizabeth Heath, alias Randall, a notorious begging
letter impostor, was placed at the bar on a charge of
stealing eight valuable diamond and other rings, a
bracelet, and other property, belonging to a lady
named Oiseau, 95 3 ears of age.
Miss Lucy Shaw deposed that she had been the
companion of Mrs. Oiseau for fifteen years, and lived
with her at her residence, 8, Terrace, Walwortb.
Some weeks ago the prisoner called on her mistress
with a petition, when she represented herself as the
widow of Captain Allen, who had been lost at
.sea,
and Mrs. Oiseau, believing her representations, gave
her a sovereign. O❑ Tuesday evening last the pri-
soner called again, and upon being told by the ser-
vant that her mistress was at dinner she said she
would wait to see her, and went into the drawing-
room. The servant informed her mistress that the
pr goner was up stairs ; she came out of the dining-
room for the purpose of going to and telling the
prisoner that there was no use in her stopping, but on
going into the hall she saw the prisoner in the act of
leaving the house by the front door. On seeing her the
prisoner said she should call again, but witness told her
that it was of no use, and she went away. Soon after
eight rings, a bracelet, and other articles, which her
mistress had placed in a basket on the drawing-room
table just before dinner, were missed, and suspicion
immediately fell on the prisoner. The two rings
and bracelet produced were a portion of the property
stolen.

Elizabeth Field, the servant of the prosecutrix, de-
posed to having admitted the prisoner into the house,
and showing her to the drawing room, where the
rings were. This witness swore positively that no
person but the prisoner had entered the drawing room
from the time the rings were placed there until they
were lost.

The searcher at Greenwich station-house said, that
while searching the prisoner at the station the bracelet
produced fell from her bosom to the ground, and she
subsequently picked it up stealthily and was about to
put it into one of the pockets she had searched, when
the witness took it from her. On her person she
found a number of duplicates relating to various pro-
perty, and in her gloves, which she was very anxious
to retain, she also found a duplicate for two rings.
A shopman from Mr. Martin's, a pawnbroker in
Tooley• street, produced two rings (sworn to by Miss
Shaw), which he said had been pledged by the pri-
soner on Wednesday last.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said the wit-
nesses were quite mistaken in her person, and that she
had never been to the house of the prosecutrix at all.
She could not, she said, deny having pledged the
rings, but they had been given to her by another
person.
Horaford, the Mendicity-officer, was here sworn,
and said that he
had known the prisoner for many
years as a notorious begging impostor. Her real
name was Randall, and both she and her husband had
been frequently convicted for frauds on the benevolent.
The prisoner was remanded until Thursday next,
and the constable who has the case was desired to look
closely to the property to which the other duplicates
found on the prisoner related, as it was strongly sus-
pected that it had been stolenin the same way as the
rings.

DESTRucTIVE FIRE AT LEITH.
On Tuesday nar)rning about three o'clock it was dis-
covered that a house in the fifth story of a large tene-
ment, known by the name of the Barracks, and situated
in Lawrie's Close, principally occupied by Irish labourers,
was on fire. The flames spread rapidly from room to
room, and the whole roof soon became ono sheet of
flame, which for nearly two hrurs illuminated the town.
The house in which the fire originated was tenanted by
e a family who were about to emigrate to Australia, and
the father and mother had, it appears, been attending a
wedding in a neighbour's house on the preceding evening,
and had left their children in the house alone. About
three o'clock the watchman observed large quantities of
smoke issuing from one'of the windows, and he of course
immediately gave the alarm. On obtaining an entrance
into the house the smoke and flame burst forth with
great fury, and it was with the greatest difficulty that
the ehildren were saved from the flames. The fire
spread rapidly, and in a short time most of the inmates
of the other houses were rushing from the building in a
partial state of nudity, while others were throwing their
furniture and clothing out of the windows; but most of
them had, however, to ecape for their lives without
saving much of their effects. Two of the fire-engines,
under the direction of Treasurer Millar, and Mr. Grant,
superintendent of police, were soon on the spot, and
while a body of fireman, with one of them, was stationed
to prevent the fire from communicating with the ad-
joining buildings, the other was pouring a constant
supply of water on the devouring element. The fire-
engine from Leith Fort was also in attendance soon after
the outbreak of the fire, but it was found unnecessary
to use it. For a considerable time it was feared that the
whole building would tie burned to the ground, but,
through the well-directed efforts of the firemen, the fire
was confined to the two upper stories; and about six
o'clock it was completely subdued. The inmates of the
hens° in which the fire originated have lost the whole of
their furnishings for Australia, and also a bank cheque
for 201., which was in the house at the time. We
believe that about twenty families have been left house-
less, and have boon compelled to seek a temporary
shelter in the poor-house, while others have had more or
less of their effects destroyed. The cause of the fire
has not been properly ascertained, but it is supposed to
have been the result of a lighted candle falling among
some clothes. We understand that none of the property
is insured, and the loos will therefore fall very heavy on
the parties who have suffered, many of whom have lost
their all.—Scotsman.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colo-
nial office from the Governors of Van Diemen's Land,
Natal, and the Gambia.
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