The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

Ise ICO. ROBBERY FROM THE POOLE
MAIL.

I LATEST

The Pandora packet, Lieutenant Jones, arrived at
Falmouth, on Sunday, from Mexico, having sailed from
Belize on the :30,11 of Svtember, Vera Cruz the 25th
of Octeber, Tampico, the 4th, and Havannah the 12th
ult. The news by this vessel relates only to the con-
tinued tranquillity of the country. She brings 150,000
dollars on freight, and during the 43 hours preceding
her making the land, she ran 500 miles with south-
west gales.

On the 15th of November, in lat. 27. 4, long, 79.
11, W., on the Western edge of the Thhama Bank,
N.W. extreme of Matanilla Bank, N. half W. Me-
mory Rock. S.E. half S., 11 miles, boarded the bark
Duncan, of Liverpool, mahogany laden, and wrecked.
The lower masts ;one and all the masts, yards, &c.,
alongside ; sails, boats, provisions, and cabin stores taken
away, and vessel ahanc!oned.—Times.

NEWS 11'A '1 THE MEDITERRA•

NEAN.

By letters from our squadron, of the 23d instant, we
learn that it was the intention of Sir Robert Stopford
to sail with part of the squadron for Athens and
Malta, but he suddenly changed his mind, and was at
Vourla at the above date. The French squadron was
also there, with the exception of three liners, which
were at Smyrna ; the Powerful and Gorgon at the
same place, refitting, The Dido and Hazard returned
from a cruise ; the Castor to sail for Constantinople to
relieve the Carysfort ; the Hydra or Gorgon would
probably be despatched to Alexandria ; the Pembroke
left the squadron for Malta on the 17th instant.
Her Majesty's steamer Rhadamanthus is arrived from
Vourla. We had to notice, a short time ago, the ex-
traordinary swiftness of her Majesty's steam-frigate
Hydra, and wo have now to remark that the passage
made by the Acheron steamer, Lieutenant Kennedy
commanding, on her last voyage from Gibraltar, was
probably more extraordinary than that made by the
Hydra, she having ran from the Rock to Malta in four
days and eight hours, thus going at the rate of upwards
of 200 miles per day.
Arrivals of Ships of War and Packets.—Nov. 25,
her Majesty's steam-packet Acheron, Licut. Kennedy,
from Gibraltar ; 26, Royal Wnstern Yacht Company's
schooner Julia, Mr. J. Bevan, from Palermo ; French
steamer Leonidas, Licut. Delacrose, from the Levant ;
her Majesty's steam-frigate Rhadamanthus, A. Wake-
ti.t!d, Esq., from Vourla ; 28, her Majesty's steamer
Megmra, Lieut. Goldsmith, from the lonian Islands.

Departures of Ships of War and Packets.—Nov. 21,
her Majesty's transport (No. 12) Horatio, J. Humble
(Lieut. Chapman, R.N., agent), for England ; 27,
French steamer Tancrede, Lieut. J. Paul, for Italy and
Marseilles.

In fort.—Ceylon, 6 (bearing the flag of Rear-Admi-
ral Sir J. Louis, Bart.) ; Minden, 74 ; Scorpion, 10 ,
steam-frigate Rhadamantbus, 4 ; steamers Confiance,
2 ; Biazcr, 2 ; Volcano, 2 ; Acheron, 2 ; Mem:a, 2 ;
and the French steamers Scsostris and Leonidas.

THE NEWPORT RIOTS.

(From the Times.)

NEWPORT, SUNDAY.
Yesterday was market day in this town, and, conse-
quently, vast numbers of persons were congregated,
from whom we learned that the firing at Mr. Morgan's,
at Ruperra, had been heard at a great distance, and
the general impression was that Newport had been
again attacked. The consequences have been very se-
rious. Great indignation is felt at the answer re-
turned by Mr. Morgan to the Mayor : he stated that
several of the officers were with him, enjoying the mis-
take into which it would throw the nervous people of
Newport. The military arc under orders to be ready
to march to Merthyr at a moment's notice.
IMPORTANT LETTER FROM A MAGISTRATE NEAR

On Monday, before the Mayor and Borough
Magistrates, Thomas and his wife, George Welch,
and the girl Stubbs, the parties implicated in this
affair, wete again brought
.up. The following ad-
ditional evidence was adduced :—Thomas Davis, a
policeman on the railroad, deposed that in March
last he was a porter at Mr. Matcham's coach-
office. He recollected a parcel being missed from
the Poole mail in that month. On the parcel being
missed, witness searched the road, and also the
coach. After he had done so, he went into the
office. Welch then went out to search. The par-
cel was not found. The small parcels are usually
sent down in a bag, which is tied- with a cord, and
i
marked" London and Southampton." The.prac-
Oct! n unloading the mail was for a person to
get on the top of the coach and hand the
parcels down to another. The parcel was not
marked as a money parcel on the way-bill. The
prisoners were again remanded. On Friday, the
prisoners were again brought up, when the following
evidence was taken. Mr. Williams, cashier at
Messrs. Glynn and Co.'s banking establishment,
London, deposed that on the 29th of March last
he delivered to Mr. Reynolds, for the purpose of
being made into a parcel, and sent to Mrs. Hyde,
of Southampton, six 101. Bank of England notes,
numbered 30,882-3.4-5 and 6, and dated the 11th
of January 1839, and one 51. Bank of England
note, numbered 30,741, and dated 12th January
1839 ; and 4/. 6s. 6d. in gold and silver ; the notes
now produced by Terry are the whole of those.
Mr. Riches, clerk to Mr. Dibbin, coach-proprietor,
Gerard's Hall, deposed that he received a 10/. Bank
of England note of Thomas Summerhays, in the
month of November last, to change ; he gave him a
5/. Odiharn and Basingstoke Bank note and five
sovereigns ; he wrote Summerhays' name at the
back of the note, and the day he received it ; the
note produced by 'Ferry is that which he so
changed ; the memorandum on the note is in his
handwriting. Henry Fisher Whitrow, ironmonger,
Winchester, deposed that, in the month of Octo-
ber, a man, whom, he believed to be the prisoner
at the bar, came into his shop and purchased some
goods, for which he tendered in payment a 10/.
Bank of England note ; being a stranger, witness
asked his name, which he gave as Welch ; witness
wrote that name on the back of the note ; the note
now produced by Terry is the same ; the number of
it is 30,886. By Mr. Moody—He never saw the
man before or since. T. Herdsfield, the Mansion-
house officer, further deposed that when he ap-
prehended the prisoner Thomas, on his telling
him why he did so, Thomas replied that he
knew nothing of any bank parcel, or notes
either. John Brewer, Governor of Southamp-
ton Bridewell, deposed that on the 11th of De-
cember last, he was in the bed-room where Welch
and Thomas slept, having gone there in his usual
round to see that all was safe ; it was about six
o'clock. On enteting, the room, Thomas asked
him how his (Thomas's) wife was. Witness in-
formed him, and Welch then said, " How's Emma,"
meaning Emma Stubbs. He then said that Emma
was innocent—that he found the parcel—that he
gave two notes to Mr. Thomas—that he had but
one ten pound left when he first knew Stubbs—that
he had known her but a very short time—and that
note was changed in Portsmouth, but not by her.
He stated further, that he found the parcel on Good
Friday last, by the side of the pavement, in the
water, and every rote would prove what he said,
for they were all stained with the dirty water :
that the parcel contained six • 10/. Bank of
England notes, one 51. Bank of England note, four
sovereigns, and two Bank post-bills for 14/. each.
He had looked at the notes, and seen a stain on
every one ; as far as he could judge, the stain was
such as would be produced by dirty water. The
Mayor then said, that as there was no evidence to
connect Emma Stubbs with the ofFence, she was
discharged. Mr. Moody having been called on, he
stated that if the Bench would admit Thomas and
his wife to bail, he would decline saying anything
till their trial. The Mayor said Mrs. Thomas
might be admitted to bail, and, under those circum-
stances, Mr. Moody deferred making his remarks
in defence. Welch was then committed on the
charge of stealing the parcel, and Thomas and his
wife for feloniously. receiving part. of the contents.
—Hampshire Independent.

The Hon. George Rice Trevor left town on
Friday to pass the holydays at Brighton.
IN THE MATTER OF CHAMBERS, A BANK-
iturr.—A vesting order, under the compulsory clause
of the Act relating to insolvent debtors, was obtained
on Thursday last against Mr. Chambers the banker,
who is confined in the Fleet Prison, and has been
called upon by a rule from the Insolvent Debtor's
Court to file his schedule, pursuant to the Act, and
appear for hearing. It is expected that some further
litigation will result, as the vesting order will clash with
the bankruptcy, which has been so many years in agita-
tion, and the opinion is strengthened by the fact that
Mr. Wilton, a solicitor, at whose instance the vesting
order was obtained, has issued a notice that the several
parties are to pay " rents" to Mr. Sturges, the provi-
sional assignee of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, in
whom the estate of Mr. Chambers is by the order
vested. Mr. Wilton filed a petition setting forth
the circumstances of the case, and the order
was accordingly made. Mr. Chambers will be
required to file his schedule within fourteen days,
and will be in contempt provided he does not obey the
rule or obtain further time. But the Court has de-
cided that it has no power to compel a party to obey
the order, and that they cannot commit him for con-
tempt, as he must be in custody when the application
is made. The next proceeding will be to appoint an as-
signee under the vesting order, but should no schedule
be filed in this case, the Court will not listen to any af-
fidavit from Mr. Chambers, as he will be in contempt.
The creditors can, however, oppose an application for
the assigneeship, and, according to a decision made by
the Court on Saturday, adopt an affidavit from the
party in contempt against an appointment of any person
who may apply to be named assignee. The vesting order
has been granted under the 36th sec. of the Ist and 2d
Victoria, cap. 110, by which it is enacted that any creditor
who has a person in execution 21 days or upwards " may
apply by petition in a summary way to the said Court for
the Relief of Insolvent Debtors for an order vesting
the real and personal estate and effects of such prisoner
in the provisional assignee, according to the provisions
of this Act, and such petition, signed by the party or
parties so applying, shall state the time and place of the
commitment or charge in execution of such prisoner at
the suit of the party or parties so applying, and the
amount of the debt or sum of money for which such
prisoner shall have been so committed or charged, and
such petition shall be supported by such evidence by
affidavit, or otherwise, of the truth of the matters
therein stated, as the said Court shall require ; and the
party or parties presenting such petition shall thereby
state that he or they is or are desirous that such pri-
soner should be ordered to file a schedule of his pro-
perty, and should be brought up before the said Court,
to be dealt with according to the provisions of this Act ;
and such petition and evidence shall forthwith be filed
in the said Court ; and the said Court shall and may re-
quire such prisoner to file his schedule, and shall and
may cause such prisoner to be brought up, and all
things to be done thereupon, or preparatory thereto, as
in other cases according to this Act."—Morning Herald.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF
TRADE.—Yesterday (Friday) Mr. Labouchere, the
President of the Board of Trade, paid a visit to Liver-
pool, as the invited guest of our worthy Chief Magis-
trate. The Right Hon. Gentleman received, during
the day, a number of deputations from the several
commercial associations of the town, at the Town-hall,
at intervals (on each introduction) of half an hour.
Mr. Labouchere afterwards, accompanied by the Mayor,
appeared on 'Change, where he was warmly received.
He then visited the News-room, where, as well as on
'Change, the concourse of merchants and others was
unusually dense. The Right Hon. Gentleman, on
reaching the centre of the room, was received with loud
and repeated cheers. Before these had subsided, a few
foolish and fashionably-dressed young men, near the
door, set up a sort of hiss. Three cheers were then
proposed for the Mayor, and the call was heartily re-
sponded to. Three cheers were next proposed for " Sir
Robert," and the response was most vehement and C 5-,
thusiastic. Some one rather faintly, and not generally
heard in the room, then proposed " Three cheers for the
Queen. ;" but the respectable parties present, consider-
ing the place and the occasion altogether unsuitable for
a demonstration of political feeling (which it was sought
to exhibit in a sort of " pot-house " fashion, that might
not htve concluded till midnight), very properly re-
frained from a response. After having received several
deputations, he dined with the Mayor in the Town-
hall.—Abridged front the Liverpool Journal.

We have received a communication from Cap-
tain C. L. Irby, R.N., disclaiming the merit recently
ascribed to him of being the chief promoter of a Society
for the Relief of the Poor in Bath, and explaining that
he is only a member of the committee of that Society, of
which the present Rector of Bath is the active and be-
nevolent head. The disclaimer of Captain Irby, in
refusing to arrogate to himself alone a merit in which
othor. parCdpate, is as horw!rable to him as are the
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h;o, •
to uctoi.g
to the Society.