The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPFEMBER 2G, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A REGULAR TRAINED FEMALE PICKPOCKET.—EIiza
Mills, a young woman, who gave an address at Hackney,
was charged before Mr. Knox with attempting to pick the
pockets of several ladies in Oxford-street.
Edwin Coathuyse, detective officer from Scotland-yard,
deposed to seeing the prisoner in New Oxford-street, and
suspecting her he followed her and saw her place herself on
the right hand side of a lady looking in a shop window and
then put her left hand in the lady's pocket. The prisoner
then moved away and again placed herself by the side of
another lady, and after following her about for one hour
and a half and seeing her make at least 14 attempts to pick
ladies pockets, he took her into custody.
Mr. Knox asked the officer whether he knew anything
of the prisoner, and he said that on the 4th September,
while in company of Sergeant ThomaE, he saw the prisoner
in Oxford-street, and then cautioned her,
Sergeant Shore, 11F, said he had known the prisoner for
three years, and had frequently seen her attempt to pick
pockets, awl had cautioned her. The prisoner—who when
he first knew her was very small in stature—used to be
brought out by an elderly woman, who regularly trained
her to pick pockets.
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months with
hard labour.

Heavy Storm on the Goodwin Sands.

Captain Cannon, R.N., the honorary secretary to
the Walmer branch of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, writing on Thursday night, reports :
We hal a tremendous storm last night of wind and hail,
accompanied by thunder and lightning, such as we have not
had for some time past. I send the report of the coxswain
of the Walmer lifeboat relative to the launching of the
boat on the occasion :

Sept. 23, 1863.
At abote. 11.30 p.m. we observed the light-vessel at the
South Sand Head fire four guns and throw up five or six
rockets in a E.N.E. direction, indicating that a vessel was
on the Goodwin Sands in that direction. It was blowing
fry sh from the S, W. at the time. The lifeboat's crew was
immediately assembled, and the Walmer lifeboat launched
about midnight, and proceeded under sail in the direction
indicated by the rockets. On reaching the Sands, at 1.15 a.m.,
we could see no vessel upon the Goodwin. We tacked and
went to the light-vessel. They informed us that they had
seen two flare-ups or signals of distress in an E.N.E.
direction, but they had seen no vessel. After this we re-
turned to the Sands, and ran along the inside edge towards
the beacon. At this time, about 3 a.m., it came on to blow
heavily, the wind shifting about, accompanied with rain
and hail, thunder and lightning. We took in sail, and
anchored the lifeboat near the edge of the Sands, and there
waited for daylight. At 5,30 a m., being good daylight,
we could see that no vessel was on the Goodwin, or other-
wise requiring our assistance. We weighed anchor and
returned to the shore about 6.30, and housed the lifeboat,
which had behaved remarkably well,—(Signed) TROMAS
BUSHELL, coxswain of the Weimer lifeboat, of the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution.

The expense to the institution cf the launching of the
lifeboat on this occasion was £l5 ICs. The cost of the boat
was presented to the society by the Royal Thames Yacht
Club.

Loss of a Hull Steamer and Seven Lives.

LITERATURE.

Aurora Floyd. By M. E. Braddon. Sixth Edition.
One vol., pp. 487. Tinsley Brothers.