The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-11 00:00:00

safe in his pocket only two minutes before.—On THE CRUISE OF THE ALABAMA.
going to the station Doughty said, "I have not got
your watch, but I know who has." The following is an extt act from a letter written
cross-examination' he said if the plaintiff and by one of the petty officers of the Confederate
Doughty had been searched at the hotel and the cruiser Alabama. It is dated " October 30, 1862,
watch had not been found upon them, he would not
latitude 41 deg. 30 min., longitude 45 der?
have given them into custody. • '
young No crew could be more comfortable than ours is, though,
Miss Stone, the defendant's daughter, a
lady, who also suffered and r the infirmity of deaf- from the always watchful nature of the duties which ded-
ness, said she saw her father take the plaiutifVe volve upon us, more discipline and active duty are enforce
hand out of his pocket. than we will, perhaps, get credit for. Plenty to eat, plentY
The Lord Chief Baron, in summing up, said the to drink, and plenty of work to do, is the order of the day,
jury would have to consider whether the defendant and of every day. It would be an endless task for Me t°
had good and sufficient reason for believing, and attempt to give you even an outline of the fearful havoc
did believe, and honestly made the charge that we have committed amongst the Yankee vessels, sin
e°
Doughty picked his pocket, and that the female we left the shores of the Nersey, or of the destruction
assisted in the operation. He said that if they of the many splendid ships, of which not one plallk
found for the plaintiff, it did not necessarily follow was left fastened to another. Among,t the finest was a
that the defendant and his daughter had committed vessel bound to Bremen, but not very heavy cargo laden;
perjury, as it was just one of those cases in which the Wave Crest, bound from New York to Cardiff,
mistakes on one side or the other might naturally Captain Hammond ; the Manchester, from New Yerk
be made as to what exactly took place. to Liverpool; the Three Stars, whale ship ; and
,a
The jury, after a few minutes' deliberation, gave new barque, the Dunkirk, Capt. Johnston, from New Yerh.
a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £25. to London. We have already taken about 20 vessels, laden
The foreman said the jury wished to express their with every article which it is possible almost for the cony'
opinion that the practice at the Lambeth police- tries of the world to produce, and they have all been de"
court as to taking hail was excessively inconvenient. stroyed with the,exception of one or two, whose comma"
The Lord Chief Baron said he had already made ders have given bonds for various amounts of ransom t°
some strong remarks on the subject. It was very Capt. Semmes, payable to the President of the Confederate,
much tobe lamented that a person like the plaintiff, States when peace is proclaimed. The last one which we
le"
charged with an offence of this kind, should be re- off was the Tonawanda, which lay beside us several days'
mended a whole week without having an opportu- and had a good deal of British property, with some doubt-
nity of being released on bail. ful, aboard—the captain and crew being aboard our vessel.
DOUGHTY V. STONE. They were all glad to get away; but the only reason why
In this action, which arose out of the same affair, such a course was pursued was that they had a larg°
the parties, without going to trial, consented to a number of females on board 'as passengers, which, the
verdict for the plaintiff—damages, Ll 5. skipper said, could not be stowed in our "fixins" nohoic..
The historical chivalry of the South would not permit et
our disturbing or molesting the females, so we took hie
bond, put the prisoners we had on board,and dent her away'
Semmes declaring that it was enough to break a man's heel,
to see that he was compelled to part in such a way with sue-
a splendid ship. It is next to a play to hear the fellows
themselves tell how they were taken,and what they thotiglhd
of us when first sighted. The mate of the Manchester state
that all on board his ship was in order, going with a B,C,
v
breeze from S.S.W. when the look-out reported a sail in ti'
beam. The red cross of St. George was flying, and the day
being clear, our guns were out quite visible. The man at
the wheel remarked to the captain, "There's a British nlaao
of war bearing down on us : we had better show our colours.
The captain shortly after ordered them to be hoisted. Away
went the stars and stripes,and,almost at the same moment.
down went the British ensign,and in its place appeared th;
full flag of the Confederates. A 10-pound shot right sere,
their bows astonished the captain,who, after a rapid surveteJ
through his glass, exclaimed, " It's that damned Pirait
Semmes—the ship is lost." I may only add that a few
hours more and they were all prisoners on board the 14),
barna, and the last we saw of the Manchester the sueeee,,
ing night was a bright sheet of fire in the horizon line as te:
darkness fell. The prisoners are treated as well as Pe6ts
sible, though our having so many hands on board preYea
them all from receiving what might be considered Prlgt
accommodation. Some are made comfortable enough; not
there are impudent and insulting Yankees who are
thankful even for their lives being spared, and they ta
take the consequences. Since we have come into tn;
waters, we have got splendid guns additional, all moor'
and, what with our own crew and the brave volunteers; 0
have since joined us, we are now able to fight as Wei,oB
run, and both at the same time, if need be so. We 'OO
also plenty of news about ourselves on board, in the ;ie.
York. limes and Iferald,,Shipping Gazette, Liverpool orlc
cury, and Gore's Advertiser, 4.0. Some of the New 'or
papers, illustrated, give frightful pictures of the engire.
ments their vessels have had with us, making them all We
rounded with smoke, and firing into us, all of whiellidl
heartily enjoy. One thing is certain—they lie° 0•
take the Alabama, nor a man of us alive. CaPtaill,' of
cers, and men know their duty, and are quite alr'-ors
the doom which would befal them, if taken, for there
uia
no croakers or skulkers here ; but, if so unlikely a
should take place, and the hair of one of our heads
etit
injured, our commander assures us that the gavel;iii
of Richmond will hang a regiment of Yankee ofacerilita
retaliation. Capt. Semmes (or the admiral, as we eall, ale
among ourselves, both fore and aft), is of opinion tha'a fa
war will be settled in the beginning of the year; a°nre
sea
that case, we shall all be provided for for life. N°l3::iii our
for me after that. Previous to the 20th of this neon
prize- money alone was worth from £4OO to £5OO a mail

JEWELLERY ROBBERIES.

At the Public-office, Birmingham, yesterday, be
fore Mr. Kynnersley, stipendiary, several charges
were heard, in which four foreigners, believed to
be Polish Jews, were implicated, they having been
engaged in robberies of jewellery in Birmingham
and in London,
In the first case, two men, named Tobias Kynnler
and Herman Levey, were charged with having com-
mitted a robbery on the premises of Messrs. Pa) ton,
manufacturing jewellers, in Northampton-street, on
Friday last.
The facts, as detailed by Mr. Motteram, of the
Oxford circuit, who appeared for the prosecution,
were as follows :—ln the course of Thursday lust the
prisoners called at Messrs. Payton's place of busi-
ness, and having represented themselves as foreign
merchants, intimated their wish to purchase goods.
They were informed it was not convenient to show
the goods at that time, and an arrangement was
made that the men should call on the following
morning, which they did. They were waited upon
by Mr. Henry Payton and a clerkin attendance. Mr.
Payton had a suspicion that the men were prigs; he
was not only especially watchful and cautious of
every movement of his customers, but by a memo-
randum in writing upon a card he enjoined watch-
fulness on the part of his clerk. No movement was
seen by either. A selection of articles was made by
each of the prisoners; these were put aside on a
couple of trays, the men saying they would call
again at 2 o'clock, when the things were packed,
pay for them, and take them away. At the first
interview the men said they would pay for whatever
was purchased. Mr. Payton suggested that the
goods might be packed in a quarter of an hour and
taken at once, if the prisoners were prepared to pay
for them. owever, they left the place in a cab,
promising to return at the hour named ; a minute
afterwards Mr. Payton noticed that one of the
brooches selected by the prisoners was missing from
the tray ; his suspicions became stronger, and he
despatched his father in search of them. The pri-
soners were overtaken and brought back, much
against their will, almost by force. On entering
the warehouse one of them asked to be shown the
trays on which were the goods they had selected,
and suddenly, with a dexterity which eluded all
vigilance, the brooch Mr. Payton had missed re-ap-
peared upon the tray. Upon that a policeman was
called in ; he proceeded to search Kynnler, but no-
thing was found on him ; the other prisoner in the
meantime in some mysterious manner had deposited
on the counter eight brooches and no less than 13
pairs of earrings, which he reproduced almost as
cleverly as he had secreted them, one of the earrings
only falling on the floor near him. These facts
were fully proved, and the jewellery identified by
Mr. Payton.
The prisoners were both committed for trial at the
sessions.

MilliALl'S.

•WEDNESDAY.
Barley, grinding.. 30s to Sol
Oats, old, ...... 279 W 0,!
New do .......... 2s 0444
8ean5............ 409 t°,o4
Beans, new ...... 363 tp
38s to 465.

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There was also a charge against them, in conjunc-
tion with a young man and a woman said to be the
wife of Kynnler, of having stolen valuable rings
from the shop of Mr. Wilkinson, of Skinner-street,
Clerkenwell, London. The woman when taken into
custody had many rings on her fingers ; one of
these, which she attempted to throw away, was
identified by the prosecutor, and under circum-
stances to cause the committal of the woman for
trial for felony.

SIB JOSHUA JEBB'S PEN OF PRIZE

LAMBS.

(At the Metropolitan Fat-Cattle Show, Dec. 1862.)

What Ellman of Clynde was as an improver of our
short-woolled Southdowns, Bakewell of Ditohley as an im-
prover of the long-woolled Leicesters, and Outlay of Fenton,
or Jonas 'Webb, of Brabaham, as crossers of the long and
short-woolled strains, Sir Joshua Jebb may claim to be in
the case of his favourites, known as the Dartmoor or Port-
land variety of the old black-legged, coarse-featured, bull-
headed, thick-necked, Newgate breed.
A pen of Sir Joshua's lambs just now on exhibition in
the Metropolis (and delineated on the opposite page by our
artist), are considered by all the judges as the most perfect
examples yet seen of what may be done to develope the ani-
mal by careful selection of the stock in the first instance,
and then by cultivating the natural qualities to the utmost by
high feeding, the greatest attention to warm and well-aired
housing, cleanliness, and every other condition of health
and comfort. In order to be able perfectly to estimate what
Sir Joshua Jebb has done for his favourite Portland Dart-
moor breed, we have only to contrast his pen, either with
one of the old Newgate breeds, scantily fed, miserably
housed, and harshly used in every way, or with one of the
native stock of the district about Portland and Dartmoor
unkempt, unwashed, faring hard, ill-lodged, and generally
uncared for. Sir Joshua's lambs are the very perfection of
development : the somewhat coarse and heavy face and
bull-neck run in the blood, but the fine clear skins and short
wool, the fat well laid on to the ribs, loins, and quarters,
but not in excess of what is required for perfect health and
symmetry, the sleek, round legs and forearms, and the
general air of content and well-being, are entirely due to
Joshua's admirable system of diet and housing. Sir Joshua's
lambs are very free feeders, and fatten very quickly, in spite
of their heavy bone : they carry a short fleece, but the pre-
sent pen being shearlings, must be judged rather by their
symmetry than their wool.
They are, however, a very costly breed, 'and this, with
their confirmed tendency to break bounds and run wild, at
present militates much against their popularity. Sir Joshua
has completely dissipated the notion formerly prevalent
that lambs of this class ought to be kept hard, and would
improve most rapidly on coarse and scanty fare, rough
lodging, and generally severe treatment. On this system
we rarely saw the qualities of the animal developed to any-
thing like the perfection to which Sir Joshua has succeeded
in bringing them. The Portland or Dartmoor lamb re-
mained a stunted, poor, meagre specimen of his race, ragged
in coat, low in flesh, dull and spiritless in eye, carriage and
demeanour. The best proof how highly Sir Joshua's im-
proved breed is appreciated is the number he is annually
enabled to let (loose), the figure they cut in the (police) re-
ports, and before the most eminent judges, and the num-
ber that are annually sent abroad, which would be much
greater if our colonies had not somehow contracted a preju-
dice against the breed, which has thrown a great deal too
many on the home market of late. Sir G. W. Bramwell
has lately borne striking testimony to the merits of a sample
pen of Sir Joshua's lambs, which came under that excellent
judge's eye, and stood A 1 at the last show in Newgate
market.

In a word, it may be said'of Sir Joshua's lambs, that
wherever they enter the field they floor everything that
comes in their way, Nothing can stand against them. Sir
Joshua's great secret after all is feeding and lodging. In-
stead of the coarse and carelessly prepared " skilly" which
with bread and water constituted the food of the old
Dartmoor and Portland breeds, Sir Joshua's improved
lambs have a diet table varying daily, which includes a
groat variety of carefully prepared mashes, and all the roots
in season, to say nothing of other and more substantial ail-
ments. Then for the dark, damp, cold, and gloomy guar.
ters, once thought good enough for these animals, Sir
Joshua has substituted clean, dry, spacious, airy and warm
houses, in which his lambs are, as a rule, far better lodged
than the labourer who are employed about them. It is no
wonder, if tinder this costly and careful system Sir Joshua's
lambs lay on meat freely, and exhibit the very perfection of
highly developed animal cendition.
At how many pounds every one of these lambs stands we
should not like to guess, but it is certain they must come
very heavy. The only danger is, that such Very high feed-
ing may develope inflammatory tendencies. Sir Joshua
declares, however, that this high feeding is necessary for
i 0, r
the health of the animal when kept under cove
fat-
tened in the house. He would not advocate t f r and
animals
left to run at large, In short, if asked to point to the most
Show we should turn to Sir
consummate animals at this
Joshua's pen of prize lambs, with the emphatic words—
,6 That's the ticket "—punch.

A letter from Munich of the 4th says that the
ex- Queen of Greece is seen every day at noon on horseback,
the suburbs with a lady of honey and some personages
of tla Court,