The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Da.

The handbill, which is headed " Area Thieves—Caution
to Householders "—is issued from the Central Depot of the
Rag Collecting Brigade of the London Ragged Schools,
and says :—" As numerous robbpries takelplace in conse-
quence of encouragement given to a class of persons
who, under the pretence of selling or buying
various articles, find their way into the areas
and kitchens early and late in the day, employers
are earnestly requested to secure their premises against
the intrusion of such as hawkers, jar collectors, &c. The
rag collecting brigade of the London Ragged School is
commended to the notice of heads of households as a legi-
timate medium for tho utilisation and disposal of these
commodities, which are either wantonly wasted or made
the moans of unauthorised profit. By patronising the rag
brigade, morooyer, a most important and benevolent object
would be assisted, viz., the employment of a large number
of poor, deserving boys in honest industry."

THAMES.
STEALING BRANDY PROM A SHIP.---Johnson Robinson, a
black man, was brought before Mr. Knox charged with
stealing a bottle of brandy.
Yesterday morning, at half-past 11 o'clock, a London
Dock gate-keeper, named Francis Andois, stopped the pri-
soner as he was leaving the dock, and found upon him a
bottle of brandy. The prisoner said he belonged to the
barque Trinidad in the dock, and the brandy was given to
him by his boarding-houv
keeper. He was confronted
with the man he mentioned, and his statement was denied.
The cargo of the Trinidad was overhauled, and a case of
brandy in the afterhold was found to be tampered with.
Two bottles of brandy were missing from the case. The
one found on the prisoner bore a label similar to the bottles
in the case.
Captain James Lodge, the master of the Trinidad, said the
prisoner was with him last voyage, and he had so much
faith in his honesty that he made him ship-keeper, and
intended to take him to sea next voyage.
The prisoner, with great effrontery, said that his board-
ing-house keeper puchased the bottle of brandy and made
him a present of it.
Mr. Knox said ho did not believe a word the prisoner
said. The case was one of felOny, and clearly made out,
but in con sideration of the good character which the pri-
soner had received he should treat the case as one of unlawful
possession. He sentenced the prisoner to two months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.

The Late Marylebone Election.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,--4 regret that the letter that was sent to you
concerning the Marylebone election had not my
name attached. I also regret that the party I en-
trusted to copy the original should have made so
many errors ; a pressure of business compelled me
to give the original to another person. Sir, I trust
that a spirit of fairplay will induce you to insert
this letter, as well as the original copy, and for its
accuracy I should refer you to the editor of the
Times, who has got the only copy that was in my
own handwriting.

I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
J. IL Fox.
319, Oxford-street, 17th July, 1865.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
I trust you will allow me a short space in your
columns in order that I may put myself right before the
electors of Marylebone and the public at large in regard
to the late election. The reason I did not go to the poll
was, that a few petty_tradesmon electors in the borough
volunteered to perform a duty which from their timid-
ness or want of abilities, they failed to perform when
the proper time had arrived, namely, to propose and second
me at the nomination ; leaving me at the last moment no
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seeing that so many of those who now enjoy it show such
indifference in its duo exercise. Ono word as to the ex-
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MARLBOROUGH-8 TREE T.
" A SAD STORY."—Under the above head a case was
reported a few days ago, in the course of which it appeared
that a little girl named Baker was living with her mother,
who was leading a profligate life. Mr. Knox told her
mother that is she attended on the following day he would
endeavour to get her daughter into some school, with the
view of removing her from the scenes she was likely to
witness, and thus saving her from destruction. On Satur-
day the mother, accompanied by the little girl, attended,
and the latter was taken by Mr. Welsh, the office-keeper,
to, and readily received at, tho Training Refuge for Girls,
Lisson-street, Marylebone ; an excellent institution, sup-
ported by voluntary contributions, where a number of
girls, whose ages vary from 11 to 16, are being fitted to
become domestic servants.
A USEFUL CAUTION.—Mr. Tyrvrhitt this morning re-
ceived a letter (enclosing a handbill), in which the writer
says, " Good service would be done by the press noticing
the enclosed handbill, and that if the plan were more gene-
rally adopted the community would gain in n sanitary and
moral way, besides the saving that would be tho result ; it
would, for instance, relieve the dusthole, which is a fever
nest, and causes much sickness, especially at this season of
the year."