The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—SamueI Smith, the proprietor of
one of the pleasure-boats which ply every Sunday on
the Grand Junction Canal Paddington, was charged with
selling beer and spirits without a licence.
Two officers of excise proved being served with beer
and gin in the defendant's boat.

M. Henry said it was a great hardship upon licensed
victuallers to be compelled to close their houses all Sun-
day morning, while men like the defendant were doing
an extensive trade in beer and spirits.
Fine 101. and costs.

The charge against William Avis, for falsely register-
ing the death of Diana Tees, whom he had represented
as his wife, was appointed for further hearing at eleven
o'clock, having been remanded from Saturday last. His
worship was informed, however, that owing to the sug-
gestions made by the Court at the last examination, and
the conduct of Tees (the husband) throughout the mat-
ter, the Attorney-General had advised the withdrawal
of the prosecution.
The summons was accordingly dismissed.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Tames Saville, a person in the
employment of Moses, Levy, and Co., of Aldgate, out-
fitters, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the cus-
tody of Monger, the officer, charged with having robbed
the firm.

Brewer, the foreman to the prosecutors, said—The
prisoner has been employed as cutter since April last, at
6s. a day for five days in the week. In consequence of
gross irregularities in his accounts, I suspected his in-
tegrity, and mentioned my suspicions to Mr. Levy, who
called him as he was leaving the shop yesterday, and
questioned him. The prisoner declared that he had never
carried an inch of stuff off the premises, and that he had
no objection to be searched at that moment. He then
turned out of his pockets some things that belonged to
him, but Mr. Levy asked him whether he had not some-
thing else about him, and pulled out of one of his coat
pockets some pieces of linen which belonged to the firm.
He immediately said that the pieces of linen must have
been put in his pocket out of a lark. The police officer
arrived, and taking off the prisoner's hat, found concealed
in the lining as much black cloth as would make two
waistcoats.

The prisoner—I assure your lordship that the witness
has spoken nothing but the truth. (Laughter.)
Monger—Before I took the cloth out of his hat, I
asked him what was in it. He replied that he did not
know ; it must be some villany on the part of the men,
who did it to get him out of his situation. He also said
that, as he was in the habit of carrying a. bottle of ale in
his pocket, he did not perceive any change in the weight.
The 'Lord Mayor—Do you wish to say anything now ?
The Prisoner—lt is all true 7 • and I wish to make no
observation, further than that lam a tailor, and that I
work at home on Saturdays.

The Lord Mayor—l shall, in every cast of this kind,
send the accused to the Central Criminal Court ; and I
shall do everything in my power to stop the robberies
committed by servants.
Committed for trial.

James Lacey, also a servant in the house of Messrs.
Moses, Levy, and Co., was charged with having robbed
the firm. He had been watched by an officer, who saw
him come out of the house, and a piece of cloth, belong-
ing to his employers, was found in his coat pocket.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. W. Wainwright, a tobacconist,
of 58, Fore-street, Cripplegate, appeared on bail before
Mr. Aldernian Copeland, to answer a charge of receiving
about 60 bundles of cigars, value 801., knowing them to
have been stolen.

Richard Edwards sworn : I am 14 years of age, and
was in the employ of Mr. Matthews, a merchant, of 23,
Crutched-friars, up to about four or five months ago. In
March last, while carrying out some cigars, I met the
prisoner's boy, who asked me if I could get any cigars,
and, if so, to bring them to Mr. Wainwright, and his
master would buy them of me. I afterwards took a
bundle to the shop of the prisoner, who bought them,
and directed his boy to give me is. 6d., the price he
was to pay for the cigars. The prisoner then asked me
to bring him a lot more. There were nearly 11b. in each
bundle, and they were worth 28s. per lb. Between the
month of March and the following June I took between
fifty and sixty bundles of cigars to the prisoner's shop,
some of which were purchased and paid for by the
prisoner, some by his wife, and others by the boy. Some
were bought in the shop, but those purchased by the
prisoner's wife were generally taken up stairs to the
kitchen. I generally received from is. to is. 6d. per
bundle. On last Friday week I received a bundle from
my master, with instructions to dispose of them in the
same manner that I had done with the sixty bundles
which I have spoken of. I took it to the shop belonging
to the prisoner, but not finding him in I went up stairs,
and found his wife in the kitchen. I delivered the cigars
to her, and she gave me 2s. When I came down I met
my father and Mr. Matthews outside the shop, and gave
the latter the money I had just received. We all re-
turned to the shop, and proceeded up stairs, where we
found the cigars ; and Mr. Matthews having marked the
paper they were in, they were folded up and sealed, and
we marked the paper again with our signatures. Mr.
Matthews then marked the 2s. I had received of the
prisoner's wife. At the station-house, on Friday night,
the prisoner denied having received the sixty bundles of
cigars, but admitted he had had the bundle now pro-
duced. There are about one hundred cigars in every
bundle. My master, on discovering the cigars were
gone, accused me, and said he would not prosecute me if
I would tell him how I had disposed of the cigars, and
to whom I had sold them.

Mr. Emmanual Matthews, a foreigner, carrying on
business as a merchant at Crutched-friars, said : I did
not miss the cigars till a few days ago, and suspecting
the last witness, I sent for him ; but he denied it until
I promised to forgive him if he would tell the truth. He
then told me he had taken them to Mr. Wainwright's
shop and (in order to test the accuracy of the lad's state-
ment) I marked a parcel of cigars, and directed him to
take them, in the same manner he had done the others,
to the prisoner's shop. He did so, and I afterwards saw
them in the kitchen of the prisoner's house.
Mr. Sydney (for the prisoner) contended that the case
of alleged stealing had broken down, as it was satisfac-
torily shown that the cigars produced had been given to
the boy by the prosecutor.
Mr. Alderman Copeland reminded Mr. Sydney that
it was the missing sixty bundles that the prisoner Was
charged with receiving, and there was no evidence of
their having been given to the boy. He said he felt it
his duty to remand this case. The fact of the prisoner
having given 2s for a bundle of cigars. worth twelve
times that sum, was sufficient to induce him to put the
case in a course of further investigation. He looked
upon the case in a very serious light, and he could not
part with the prisoner without receiving bail of a most
substantial character. If the prisoner had lived 25 years
in the same neighbourhood, he could have no difficulty
in procuring two sureties of 501. each, which, with his
own recognizance of 1001., would be sufficient.
In default of procuring bail, the prisoner was com-
mitted to Newgate.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—C7tarles Wilson and
Catherine Pickford were brought before Mr. Hardwick,
charged with stealing a quantity of wine and spirits, the
property of Mr. Rowland Moule, proprietor of Morland's
Hotel, 23, Dean-street, Soho. Mr. Moule said the
female prisoner had been in his service about four months,
and the male prisoner only a week. At seven o'clock
last evening witness went into a vault adjoining the
kitchen, which led to his wine-cellar. There was a box
in the vault, which witness happened to look into, and
finding a bottle of brandy stowed away among the things
in it, he made a further search, and found a quantity of
cheroots and tobacco hidden in the same place. He
called the two prisoners, and on being questioned, both
of them denied all knowledge of the property. Witness
told them he should wish to search their boxes. They
did not object, and witness went with them into
their rooms, and looked first into the male pri-
soner's box and found nothing. While examining
Wilson's box, the female prisoner passed into her
room, and he distinctly saw her take a bottle from
her box and place it beneath her bed. Witness took the
bottle from its hidingrplace, and found it contaided port
wine. Witness also found a bottle of sherry, and then
sent for a police-constable. At the station-house the
female prisoner said she ought not to be blamed for
other people's faults, for the male prisoner had a false
key, and could get into the bar whenever he pleased,
Witness then caused the male prisoner to be taken into
custody, At first the prisoner said he knew nothing
about the false key ; afterwards he admitted having
had such a key, but that he had thrown it away. The
prisoner also admitted having taken the things found in
the vault out of the bar ; he said it was his first offence,
and hoped he should be forgiven. A search for the key
was made in Wardour-street, and it was found ; when
tried, it opened the lock of the bar.
Police-constable Shipman corroborated the above evi-
dence.
Both were fully committed.

WORSHIP-STREET.- Thomas Elliott, described as
a hawker, living in Old Nicholl-street, Bethnal-green,
was brought up on remand, before Mr. Hammill, charged
with a murderous assault upon his wife, whereby she had
sustained such serious injuries that she had been ever
since an inmate of the London Hospital.
The prisoner was given into custody by one of his
lodgers, a man named Mason, who stated that at a late
hour on Friday se'nnight he was roused from sleep by a
violent uproar in the prisoner's room, accompanied by
loud screams of " Murder," from his wife, which were
succeeded by the sound of heavy blows, and the most
savage threats and imprecations on the part of the pri-
soner. Witness instantly hastened down stairs, and, on
entering their room, observed the prisoner in the act of
dragging his wife across the floor, and beating her in an
unmerciful manner about the head and face. The poor
woman, who appeared completely exhausted, presented
a shocking appearance, being covered with blood, which
was streaming copiously from her nose, mouth and ears,
and before witness had time to interfere, the prisoner
finally struck her a terrible blow on the face, which
stretched her senseless on the floor. With the assistance
of several of the neighbours, who had been attracted by
the disturbance, witness succeeded, after a violent resis-
tance, in securing the prisoner until they obtained the
assistance of a policeman, when he was given into cus-
tody. _ _

A married woman named Fossett, residing next door
to the prisoner, and who had also been alarmed by the
agonised exclamations of his wife, fully corroborated the
foregoing evidence, and added that but for the timely
interposition of the last witness, she felt satisfied that
he would have carried out his threats and murdered her
on the spot.

On being closely piessed by the magistrate, the poor
woman admitted that the sole reason for his attack upon
her was in consequence of her inability to supply him
with money which he demanded from her, and added,
in a deprecatory manner, that although he was in the
frequent habit of ill-using her, when he happened to be
intoxicated, he was a good husband in his sober moments,
and she did not wish him to be punished.
Mr. Hammill said that this was one of those cases in
which he felt the utter inadequacy of the powers with
which he was invested for the punishment of such brutal
offenders as the prisoner, as it was perfectly clear, in the
event of his sending him for trial, that his injured wife
would abstain from appearing against him, and he would
thereby be allowed to escape with absolute impunity.
Under these circumstances he should order the prisoner
to pay a fine of 51., or be committed in default for two
months to the House of Correction.

The prisoner was unable to pay the penalty, and was
carried off in the van.

SILK-WORMS. —The breeding of silk-worms' is becom-
ing an important branch of industry in Germany ; and it
is so in northern as well as in the southern parts, though the
general impression is that silk-worms cannot thrive in a
northern temperature. The first attempts to establish this
branch of industry in the north were made by French
Protestant refugees in the district of Wurtzburg in 1594,
and they were encouraged by the Prussian sovereigns. In
the middle of the seventh century, the ramparts of Peiz and
the environs of Frankfort on the Oder were planted with
mulberry trees, and in the following century Frederic
the Great caused plantations to be made at Ccepnik,
Postdam, and in the immediate vicinity of Berlin.
Since 1821 the production of silk has become con-
siderable, not only in Prussia, but in the other
States of the Zollverein ; the annual production is
at present several thousand pounds. In quality
it is remarkably white, and finer than that in the
southern countries ; and Berlin manufacturers say that if
enough of it could be obtained, they would not apply to
the producers of Lombardy. From Berlin and Potsdam
the cultivation of mulberry trees gradually extended to
Silesia and Hanover. It is schoolmasters who chiefly
occupy themselves with it—one of their body having in
the eighteenth century commenced it as a means of ad-
ding to his income : and some of these persons now gain
from 20 to 80 thalers (75fr. to to 300 fr.) annually. Seve-
ral of the German Governments encourage the produc-
tion of silk by granting premiums, and causing societies
of patronage to be formed. A short time ago, the Minis-
ter of Commerce recommended that the sides of all
the railway should be planted with mulberry trees :—the
King of Wurtemburg has caused the French translation
of the Chinese treatise on the breeding of silk-worms to
be translated into German, and to be extensively circulated
at Dresden, M. D. Carlowitz one of the Ministers, has pub-
lished a work on the subject ; and at Munich the Queen,
the Royal Princesses, and the principal ladies of the aris-
tocracy patronise societies for encouraging it. In the
Grand Duchy of Baden, the roads and sides of the rail.
ways have been planted with mulberry trees, and in the
village of Saint Ilgen, near Heidelberg, the breeding of
worms has been carried on, during the last twelve years,
on an extensive scale. Austria, on its part is sparing
no pains to increase its production which already
amounts to about 100,000,000 fr. annually—one half
coming from Lombardy alone. On the military frontier
of Turkey, a garden of mulberry trees has been esta-
blished in every village, and the military colonists are
encouraged to extend the cultivation. At Prague, the
fosses of the fortifications have been planted with mul-
berry trees, and orders have been given that such trees
shall also, be planted by the side Of 411 the milwayfi in the
monarchy,—Gralignont.