The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-02 00:00:00

THAMES.

A YOUNG AND DISHONEST ADVENTURER.—WiIIiam
Moore, a boy of 16, who did not look so old, was brought
before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing a purse con-
taining 5s 3!d, the moneys of his sister, Elizabeth Moore.
The young woman who prosecuted her brother is a dress-
maker, dwelling at 16, Raven-row, Whitechapel. On Tues-
day night last, when she went to bed, she deposited her
purse containing her money, which she had very hardly
earned, in the pocket of her dress, which was lying on the
bed, Next morning it was gone, and she missed her
brother, who slept in the same house. He was taken into
custody yesterday by William Reid, 68 H, who asked him
what he had done with his sister's money, to which he re-
plied that he had stolen it, and been to Greenwich and spent
it in donkey riding, and that he would do so again when
he liked. The mother and sister of the boy were
very reluctant to prosecute him, but he was such an in-
corrigible thief they had no alternative.

Mr. Partridge—Has this boy no father?
Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, a widow, said the boy's father
was dead, and her son had given her much trouble ever
since. When she questioned him about his sister's purse
and money on Wednesday he denied having taken it. The
boy was an apprentice to a respectable tradesman, and had
absconded "over and over again ;" in fact, he had con-
tinually absented himself, mixed with gipsies and tramps,
and travelled the country, He was restless, and would not
stop long in one place. He absented himself from his work
on Wednesday, and spent the day at Greenwich donkey-
riding. He had been taken to the Worship-street Police-
court by his master, and promised to behave better ;
but he became much worse, and when he wandered over the
country, and came back shoeless and pennyless, he refused
to say where he had been. She was made acquainted with
one of his journeyings. He went to Liverpool, begged his
way there, and begged his way back, and was absent three
months. She obtained admission for her son in an asylum
for wayward boys in Whitechapel. He behaved very well
while he was there, and she thought he was a reformed
boy, but when he came out of the asylum he relapsed into
dishonest habits, stole some money from her, and absconded
again. The boy said he did not care about being locked up.
The poor widow, with tears in her eyes, declared that she
would submit to any privations to save her boy.

Mr. Partridge said it was a hard case for the widow, and
for her family. He committed the prisoner under the
Criminal Justice Act, and sentenced him to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour. He hoped the prisoner
would come out of gaol a wiser and a better boy.

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Mexico

The application of machinery to coal-mining has
been for some time accomplished in the West
Ardley Coliiery. The steam-engine works an 18-inch air-
pump at a pressure of about 50Ibs. to the square inch. The
air is conducted down the shaft in 4-inch iron pipes, and
thence about 800 yards to the workings in gas-piping, and
connected by I-inch india-rubber piping to the machine,
which travels on rails. It is propelled a little by a hand-
wheel after every blow given by its pick, and generally it
passes three times over the face of the coal-seam, on each
occasion armed with a longer pick; the first cut being
about 18 to 20 inches, the second 9 to 11 inches, and the
third 6 to 8 inches; the depth aimed at being about a yard.
Tho actual quantity of work done in six consecutive days
of eight hours each by one man and two boys with the
machine was 6181 yards or about 800 tons of coal. A man
will average 71 yards per day, so that if the machine were
worked by shifts of eight hours, three men and six boys
would do the work of 40 men. The machine also effects a
saving of good coal from destruction equal to an average of
ninepence per ton. A second machine on the direct-action
principle is toting constructed.