The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

SMUGGLING FROM FOREIGN STEAMERS. George
Coppard and John Greenway, firemen on board the
Dolphin, Hamburg steamer, were brought before Mr.
Combe, charged with secreting a quantity of tobacco on
board that vessel with intent to defraud the revenue.
One of the tidewaiters of her Majesty's. Customs, said
that the Dolphin came from Hamburg yesterday, and he
went on board to rummage her. He found secreted over
the boiler three packages containing two pounds of foreign
manufactured tobacco. Coppard was in the engine-room,
and he gave him into custody, but afterwards the other
prisoner came on board and acknowledged that the tobacco
was his, and he alone was at fault.
Greenway said that was true. He bought the tobacco
at Hamburg, and secreted it over the boiler unknown to
anybody on board. He, however, had no intention to cheat
the Queen, as he meant it only for his own consumption.
The Custom-house officer informed his worship that a
wholesale system of smuggling was being carried on by the
crews and firemen of the foreign steamers, and it was
difficult to detect them.
Mr. Combe discharged Coppard, and ordered the other
prisoner to pay 215,, or go to prison for a month.

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THAMES.
A REFRACTORY PAUPER—DonaId Thompson, an in- I
mate of the City of London Union-house, in the Bow-road. 1
was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with refusing to do
the work assigned to him.
The unhappy man, who has received a good education,
and was once in affluent circumstances, has been repeatedly
committed to prison for being refractory. There is no
doubt that some time ago, and owing to his own obstinacy
and his determination on all occasions to have the last word,
that he was treated with considerable harshness, but for a
long time passed he has given comiderable trouble to Poo?
Law Commissioners, Boards of Guardians, Lord Mayors,
Aldermen, Magistrates, and workhouse officials, by his re-
peated complaints, verbal and written, of real or imaginary
grievances. On this occasion he took an objection to the
magistrate's jurisdiction, and referred to the I''.oth article of
the consolidated orders of the Poor-law Board.
Mr. Selfe said he had no authority to interfere with the
internal regulations of the City Union-house, but he had
jurisdiction over offences committed there.
John Angell, porter of the City Union, said the prisoner
received 21b. of oakum to pick yesterday morning, and at
night it was untoucbed. The prisoner on being spoken to
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The prisoner, in a very excited manner, said he would
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in a variety of shapes. He had been persecuted and
pauperised by the guardians. Wben he left the union and
had obtained situations the guardians hunted him out of
them, He wished to be sent to prison. He had been in
the City House of Correction frequently, and he was treated
with more humanity there than he was in the union house.
The prison had no terrors for him. What he considered
due to himself he should adopt.
Mi. Selfe—What I consider due to you is 21 days' im-
prisonment and hard labour in the city prison at Holloway.

TIIEYELVERTGN MARRIAOE CASE.—In the Court
of Session, Edinburgh, Mr. Young, to Wednesday, com-
menced to address the Court for Major 1/Overton, and had
not concluded when the Court rose. He maintained there
was no proof of a marriage in Scotland between the parties,
either by interchange of mutual consent, or by promise and
subsequent copula. He maintained that the correspon-
dence showed that the pursuer was all along endeavouring
to get the defender to marry her; that, failing in this, she
changed her tactics to this extent—that she was willing to
be his mistress, with the view of ultimately converting that
connexion into the marriage relation.
From the continued rains in the South of France,
inundations have taken place on several points. The rise
in the Var has caused considerable damage to the surround
ing property; and information was received at Marseilles
two evenings back that the communication by railway with
Toulon was interrupted. Advices from Nismes state the
rivers in that neighbourhood have also risen, but that no
disasters had occurred, precautions having been taken. In
the department of the Pyrenees- Orientales much rain has
fallen of late, and the water courses had all risen, but with-
out doing damage•

A fatal duel took place two days ago, at Niames,
between two sub-officers of the 41st Regiment of the Line,
named Sizalon and Jude. A corporal had complained of
the harsh treatment he had received from Sizalon, when
Jude interfered and recommended his brother officer to use
more moderation towards a man whose conduct had been
always irreproachtble. This interference exasperated
Sizalon, who made use of some insulting language, and the
result was that a duel was decided on. An application was
on the following day made to the colonel for authorisation
to fight with pistols, which was refused, as was also a re-
quest at the Gendarmery barracks for the loan of a brace
of pistols. Foils ware then decided on, and a meeting took
place close to the btrracke, and, at the second pass, Sizalon
was run through Ile heart and fell dead on the spot. The
deceased was Only ;0, and had obtained the military xaecw