The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE GERMAN MERCHANT AND THE GERMAN CTP.
RlANS.—Three women of the town, natives of Germany,
were brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing
£7 in gold, the moneys of Julius Castor, described as a
merchant, of No. 54, Rupert-street, Haymarket.
Mr. Thomas Beard, solicitor, defended Ihe prisons,
whose names wore on the police sheet, as follows :—Eleanor
Bosselman, aged 29, Christiana Greeurvell, 29, and Louisa
S toolmaker, 20. _ _

It appeared from the evidenca of Wm. Chandler, 117
H, that on Saturday night the prosecutor came to the
station-house in Leman-street, Whitechapel, and said
he had been robbed of £7 in gold in a most
infamous house, No. 1, White Horse-court, Rosemary-
lane, to which place he had been taken by a woman. From
the description given he apprehended Bosselman in the
Minories, and Castor said she was the woman who took
him to the house. He apprehended the other prisoners the
same night, at 12, Lambeth-street, and Castor identified
them as having entered the room to which he was taken by
Bosselman, and that they took away his clothes and robbed
him of his gold. _ _ _

Mr. Beard—l am instructed they robbed him of nothing.

Chandler—l have no doubt the prisoners plundered
Castor of his gold. They rob every one they can decoy
into their haunts.

Mr. Beard—The prosecutor is not here. He is ashamed
to come after his adventure of Saturday night.
Chandler—l have seen the prosecutor since the prisoners
have been in custody. He said that being locked up two
nights and a day was punishment enough for being robbed
of £7. The inspector wishes me to call your attention to
the infamous character of the house No. 1, White Horse-
court, Rosemary-lane. Many robberies and outrages have
been committed there.
Mr. Woolrych said that was a matter for the interference
of the parochial authorities. As there is no prosecutor,
the prisoner must be discharged.

STORMS.—The Courrier du Bas..Rhin states that
within the last few days violent storms have pre-
vailed in the valley of the Rhine, by which considerable
damage has been caused. They broke over Coblentz on
the 10th, Bruchsal on the 14th, and Strasburg on the 16th
and 17th. In the neighbourhood of the latter place the
hail was exceedingly violent, and in several communes the
tobacco plantations suffered severely. Rain had been
greatly desired by the agriculturists, and, where it has not
been accompanied by hail, the storms have been of great
benefit to the vines, hops, and vegetablee. In the pala-
tinate, the hailstones were in some places of the size of
pigeons' eggs, and vegetation was entirely destroyed. At
Bochingen two men were killed, buried beneath a cottage
which was blown down. At Bruchsal large pieces of ice
fell, and the windows and tiles of the houses were
broken near Cobletttz the fields were strewed with birds
killed by the hail, and a similar fact is mentioned as hav-
ing occurred in the neighbourhood of Strasburg. A vio-
lent hurricane, accompanied by lightning and torrents
of rain, broke over the town of Macon
(Saone-ot-Loire),
three days ago, and caused great damage. The church
steeple was thrown down, several houses stripped of their
roofs, and the produce of the gardens in many places de.
stroyed. The storm, impelled by a north wind, proceeded
in the direction of the Beaujolais, but it by degrees left
its violent character, and subsided into a fall of rain, which
greatly benfited the -vineyards. Aix-les-Bains (Savoy)
was also visited three days ago by a tremendous thunder-
storm, which lasted four hours, during which the rain
came down in torrents. The electric fluid crossed the lake
of Bourget to the great alarm of a number of excursionists
who were on board a steamer. The lightning afterwards
was sot fire to, and the adjoining barns also caught. They
fell on a thatched house in the village of Treserve, which
and their contents were destroyed, so that before the fire
was extinguished 14 buildings were destroyed."
TIIE title of the New Comic Drama in which
Mrs. Stirling is to appear at the :AdelpM to-night is
"The Hen and Chiekeik:"