The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

TH AMES.

A DISHONEST WA.TcnitAx.—David Field, aged 30, of
No. 14, Adelaide-place, Winchester-street, Southwark, was
brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing four
do7en bottles of stout from a barge called the Mary, in the
London Dock. _ _

It appeared that the prisoner was in charge of a barge
called the James, taking in cases of bacon from an Ameri-
can ship in the London Dock. Another barge called the
Mary, containing several hundred barrels of bottled stout
for shipment, was lying near the James. William Long,
the watchman in charge of the Mary, left her at 1 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The cargo was then covered over with
a tarpaulin, and properly secured. At 7 o'clock in
the evening another man, named William Stanley,
m cut on board the Mary and discovered that the
tarpaulin had been disturbed, and one of the barrels of
stout broken into. The straw had been removed from it
and scattered about the barge, and several empty bottles
were found both fore and aft. There were only 13 bottles
of stout in the barrel. It originally contained four dozen.
Soon afterwards the prisoner came on board his own barge,
and hastily descended into the cabin. Stanley followed
him, and saw bottle 9 of stout strewed about the cabin of the
James, and the prisoner, hoping that Stanley would be as
dishonest as himself, proposed that they should drink what
they could, break up the remainder of the bottles, and
throw them into the dock. Stanley indignantly rejected
this infamous proposal, refused to participate in the plun-
der, and " sung out" for an officer. A London dock con-
stable, named William Edward Spencer, went on board
the James and took the prisoner into custody. On
searching the cabin of the James 14 fu.l bottles of stout
were found concealed in the lockers ; four empty bottles
were also found in the stern locker. The prisoner had
managed to consume in all 21 bottles of stout. He war
stated to be in the service of Mr. Gingell, a master lighter-
man, and had been specially appointed to watch the James
and prevent any plunder. He took advantage of the

situation he was in to plunder the Mary.
• The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, said
—I am very sorry, sir. lam willing to pay for all the
stout I drank.
Mr. Woolrych—That won't do. I shall not allow a
felony to be compromised in that manner. It is a most
impudent proposition.
The prisoner—l found the stout rolling about the hold
of the barge Mary.
Mr. Woolqch—l don't believe you. This is a most
serious offence. I sentence you to six we' ks' imprison•
went and hard labour, for the unlawful possession of 14
bottles of stout, found in the cabin of your barge.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862.
NE.
Hampton
Carlisle

Ascot .. 17
Beverley
Newcastle

Odiham
Bibury Club
Newton • ... 2
Stockbridge 3
Winchester
Newmarket
Worcestir
Liverp00l

Abingdon
Pontefract
Hungerford
Nottingham
Southampton •
Stamford..
Marlborough
Goodwood
.UST.
- -

Radcliffe 4
Brighton 5
Brighton Club
Lewes 8
Wolverhampton
Reading
Wenlock

• ---
York
Stockton 2
Egham
Lichfield
Bridgwater
Ludlow

SEPT:

Devon and Exeter 2
Derby .
Great Yarmouth
Plymouth .. 4
Oxford .. 4
Wal wick 9
_ _

Doncaster
Richmond
Walsall 25
Monmouth 5
Manchester ...... 26
Newmarket F 0 ...... CO

Leicester

OCTOBER.
Bedford
I
Newmarket S 0 .. 13 Newmarket H ........ 27

NOVEMBER.
Worcester
Hereford
.... 10 Shrewsbury ... ....... 18

IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1832.
JULY.
Bellewstown ..........17 I Down Royal Corporation 23

SINGULAR BIGAMY CASE.—In the High Court
of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on Monday, Abraham_ Langley,
a fisherman, at Plymouth, was charged with blgan,Y, " in
respect tract a marriage ceremony having been performed
between him and Elizabeth Purves, on the 10th Ay r'l,
1859, by Andrew Lyons, designed in the indictment as a
residing at Berwick-upon-Tweed, he allowedauother
trvaial
rorri ame ceremony to be performed between him and At-,n
Dougal, by thg said Andrew Lyons, on the 2Sth July,
1861." Thdse were what are termed " Border marriages."
After the first ceremony, the parties returned to Eyernoath,
the man goi, gto his own house, and the woman to her
place of service. It was shown that, soon after, Langley
went to Yarmouth in pursuit of his occupation as a fisher-
, man, and it was upwards of three months from the date of
the ceremony before the parties took up residence as man
and wife. The relation, when established, does not seem
to have been a happy one, nor of long continuance. He at
length met with Ann Dougal, and this young woman stated
in the witness-box, on Monday, that she entered into the
second marriage ceremony in thefull knowledge of the first,
but believed neither of them to be binding as a marriage
without a formal ceremony in the church. This, in fact,
moms to have been the whole defence offered; but the jury
found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to three
years' Pend eerYitude,