The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-25 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBERY IN THE EAST INDIA DOCK.—Charles Moore,
a carman, in the employ of Mr. Farrclough, a respectable
and well-known carrier, in St. George-in-the-East, was
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a coil of
ship's rope, valued at 55., the property of the East and
West India Dock Company.

Yesterday afternoon, a day watchman named Simmons
saw the prisoner in the East India Dock with a van laden
with square boxes of sugar. The horses and van pulled
up, and the prisoner went to another part of tho dock and
returned with a coil of rope, which he secreted about the
boxes of sugar. He was about to drive away when Sim-
mons detained him, and took possession of the coil of
rope.
Mr. Paget asked the prisoner what he had to say to this
charge ?
The Prisoner—l will leave it all to you.
Mr. Paget—Have you no explanation to make about this.
The Prisoner—l picked up the rope by the side of a pile
of wood in the dock. .

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Mr. Paget—You are sentenced to two months' imprison-
ment and hard labour. _ _ _

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—James Murphy, a seaman, was
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a coat, the
property of Henry Vukbrandt, the owner of a refreshment
house in Ship-alley, Wellclose-square.
On Monday night the prisoner and two other sailors
partook of supper at the prosecutor's establishment. There
was a coat on a table in the room, which the prosecutor
had just thrown off on a table in the room when the sailor s
entered. It was missing after they left. Last night the
prosecutor saw the prisoner in a public house called the
Red Lion, in Whitechapel, and wearing the stolen coat.
He gave the prisoner into custody, and the police soon de-
prived him of the coat.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
Mr. Paget—What are you ?
The prisoner—A Scotchman gave me the coat and told
me to wear it. (A laugh.)

Mr. Paget—l asked you what you were. How do you
get your living ?
The prisoner—l am a sailor.
Mr. Paget— Where do you belong to ?
The prisoner—l belong to Dublin.
Mr. Paget—You are sentenced to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for three months for stealing the coat.

Destructive Fire at Stepney and Loss of
Life.—Distressing Scene.—This Day.

This morning, between the hours of three and four
o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out on the extensive
premises of Mr. W. 0. Bryan, clothier and boarding-house
keeper, No. 23, Stepney-causeway, Commercial-road East.
The premises in question contains 12 rooms, and at the
time of the outbreak were fully occupied, the inmates
being sound asleep, and the policeman who discovered
it had great difficulty in arousing them, and sent off for tho
Royal Society's escape, which promptly arrived,
with Conductor Hardway, who placed his escape
against the burning building, and ascended his escape
and endeavoured to enter the burning house, when the
flames rushed out of the windows and set fire to his escape.
He again and again tried to enter the building, but was
beaten back. The steam fire-engines of Messrs. Shand,
Mason, and Co. were shortly on tho spot, and got to work
with a good supply of water, but the house was entirely
gutted.

_ Engineer Perdue, as soon as the ruins were sufficiently
cooled, went in search of the missing female, Mary Smith,
aged 17 years, servant of Mr. Bryson, and found her burnt
to death. A shell was procured, and she was conveyed
to the dead-house to await an inquest. The cause of the
calamity is unknown.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The supply of English wheat on sale at Mark-lane to-
day was very moderate. The trade, both as regards red and
white samples, was firm, and Monday's currency waswell
supported. A fair clearance of tho stands was effected a
the close of business.

With foreign wheat the market was tolerably well sup-
plied. The amount of business was moderate, at fully late
rates.

Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, at very
full prices.
Good and fine malting barley ruled firm, at extreme
rates ; but inferior barley moved off slowly, at Monday's

currency.
The malt trade was steady and ruled firm.

Oats were in good supply. Most qualities were in steady
request at fully the late advance in the quotations.
Beans were very firm, and prices were rather on the ad-
vance. Tho market was scantily supplied with English
qualities.
Peas fully supported late rates. The supply on offer was
very moderate.
Tho flour trade ruled firm at full currencies.

SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 560 115 U 350 140 720
Irish
Foreign 660 850

45,730 1010 sky,

COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending Oct. I For the corresponding week
21, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 78,404-42$ 1d Wheat 75,364-38s ld
Barley ..... ....46,447-305 lld Barley 52,471-29 s 11d
Oats

BOROUGH HOP.
Good and fine hops are firm in price, but the trade for
inferior qualities is dull, with a downward tendency in

value.

WHITECHAPEL.
Moderate supplies of meat are on sale. The trade is
firm at the annexed quotations
Beef, from Be Od to 48 8d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 8d ;
veal, 3s 10d to 5s 2d ; and pork, 4s 4d to 58 10d per Sibs,
by the carcase.

" THE WORLD OF MAGIC."—The boys of the
Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, by the kind permission
of Colonel Adams, acting commander, will be present at
the performances at the Great St. James's Hall, on Satur-
day afternoon. Professor Anderson has arranged a special
representation for the occasion. The boys will be accom-
panied by their band, who will perform several pieces
arranged expressly for them by Mr. J. L. Wilson, band-
master.

CHOLERA.—In a very able article on the present
epidemic, published in the Avenir de l' lodure de Ter,
a medical journal, Dr. Belouino gives some excellent advice
regarding the frigid period of cholera. Starting from the
fact that, when that stage begins, the digestive organs
suddenly cease to absorb, and, on the contrary, begin
to attract, as if by suction, all the serum of
the blood, the writer proceeds to examine how this may
be counteracted, and concludes that it must be by an irri-
tation produced generally on the whole surface of the skin.
If tho patient be put into a bath of water only, however
hot it may be, it will fail to produce the desired effect ;
but if a pound of mustard flour be added to the bath the
effect will be instantaneous ; the irritation will bo such
that, although the patient will complain of it, it will save
his life by producing a profuse perspiration, which will
effectually draw all the serum from the digestive organs.
A better effect will be produced if, instead of mustard, a
pound of sub-carbonate of soda and 25 gms (one-twentieth
of a pound) of essence of turpentine bo triturated to-
gether and then put into the bath. When the process
of irritation is going on, the patient should take inter-
nally a teaspoonful of the following potions :—Pep-
permint water, 100 gms ; syrup of gum, 30 gms ;
sulphuric ether, 2 gins. ; chloroform, 2 gms. To be shaken
well every time it is to be administered. Dr. Belouino, in
adverting to the apparent connection there sometimes
appears to exist between cholera and typhus fever, also
states that he has obtained great benefit in certain cases
from phonic acid, the antiseptic qualities of which are well
known. His formula in typhus fever is—one part of
phenic acid in 100 parts of distilled water, a teaspoonful
to be administered three times a day, while the body is to
be rapidly sponged over morning and evening with a lotion
composed
_of four parts of phonic acid in 1,000 parts of
water.