The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

STEALING TEA IN TIIE LONDON D o ex.—William Potter,
aged 44, a carman, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged
with stealing 31bs of tea.
Yesterday afternoon the prisoner was in the London
Dock with his master's van and horses, and assisting in
loading his van with chests of tea from one of the ware-
houses. While the loading of the van was going on, the
prisoner was away from it several minutes in the warehouse.
The prisoner was leaving the dock with his team and load
of tea when he was stopped by Edward Ellis, a dock con-
stable, who discovered a horse's nose bag in the van which
contained another bag filled with 31bs of tea. The pri-
soner, on being asked where he obtained the tea, replied,
" it's only sweepings." The tea was of the best quality,
and quite clean. A chest of tea was discovered to have
been broken open in the warehouse on the west quays, from
which the prisoner had been loading teas. The tea in the
nose bag and the tea in the broken chest were of the same
quality and colr,ur.

Mr. Paget sentenced the prieoner to be imprisoned for
two mont',a and kept to hard labour.

SAV 'LOB ASSAULT ON THE MASTER OF A WORKHOUSE.
—Plenry Silva, an able-bodied pauper, chargeable to the
..-oplar Union, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged
with committing a violent assault on Mr. J. Speed, the
master of the union workhouse, in High-street, Poplar.
The prisoner is a very disorderly fellow. He has been
chargeable to the Poplar Union for seven years, and he has
been in tho practice of neglecting his work, and acting in a
turbulent manner. Yesterday he was making a noise, and
on being desired by the master to desist and attend to his
work, he put the master at defiance and said he would do
no work. The master• expostulated with him, and was
about to remove him from the ward he was in when the pri-
soner made a furious attack on Mr. Speed, struck him sevo-
r.l times, and marked his face.

Mr. Paget said this was a very bad case of insubordina-
tion and violence, for which he sentenced the prisoner to be
imprisoned for two months, and hard labour.

CHILD BURNT TO DEATII.—An inquest was
yesterday held in Ponton-street, Newington, on the
body of James Taylor, six years of age. It appears that the
child was in a room by itself, when its clothes by some
means caught fire. Although immediate help was rendered,
and the flames extinguished at once, the poor little fellow
was so severely burnt that his life could not be preserved.
The persons who entered the room, attracted by the cries of
the child, found a number of lucifer-matches strewn about
the floor. There was also another child, three years of age,
in the room. It appears that the mother was uut washing,
she being obliged to maintain herself and three children
while her husband was in prison for having committed an
assault upon her. She had applied for relief to the parish,
but was "offered the house," which she refused.
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