The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER,

A JUVENILE THIEF AT TILE SCHOOL OF DISCIPLINE IN
THE QUEEN'S-ROAD, WESTMINSTER.—EIiza Donovan, aged
14, attached to the above institution, was charged before
Mr. Selfe with stealing, in the company of two others not
yet apprehended, a quantity of female wearing apparel, the
property of the institution.
Jane Captian, an assistant at the school, said that the
prisoner had been in the institution about two years, and
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made inquiries and then discovered that the basket,
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from her bed-side. She also missed a quantity
of her weariag apparel, including two bonnets, a sun shade,
and several other articles.
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Mr. Selfe—Whathasbecome of the other children ?
Witneis replied that they had not been found.
Mr. Selfe—Were the other children admitted under a
Magistrate's order ?

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Witness—No, sir; they have been .ont by their friends.
Smith, sergeant of police, B division, said that he appre-
hended the prisoner at her mother's lodgings in Limehouse.
When he saw the prisoner ho asked her who took the
things away ? She replied that the other girls took the
things.
The prisoner was remanded.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day,

. LONDON, July 21.—Wind at noon, E.; light breeze and
cloudy.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.

Arrired, July 20—Point, from Barbadoes ; Valetta, from
Moreton Bay ; E. E., from Sundswall ; Ocean, from Guern-
sey ; Jessie, from Trinidad,

Arrived, July 21—Concordia, from Boulog,ne ; Lord
John Russell, steamer, from Dunkirk ; Waterloo, steamer,
from Rotterdam.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Newbiggen, from Sunderland, for Smyrna
Illustrious, from north for west.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The eighth Opera Concert
and Promenade takes place to-morrow afternoon. In addi-
tion to M dile: Adelina Patti and Signor Mario, Signori
Ronconi, Ciampi, and other artistes of the Royal Italian
Opera will appear. One Shilling Day, Thursday, .lily 20.
—Admissions on payment, 4,935 ; ditto by season tickets
971 ; total:visitors, 5,906.
The Melbourne Cricket Club has fallen into diffi-
culties. It is nearly £6OO in debt ; has lost its best pro-
fessionaPmen and has got into general disrepute.—Aus-
tralasian.
LONGEVITY.—The mortality returns for England
in the year 1863, which have just been completed,
record the death of 213 men and 430 women registered as
95 years old or upwards when they died. Twenty-one of
these men had reached 100 or upwards, and one at Chelsea
was 109 ; 62 of the women had also completed a century
of life or more, and one in the district of West Derby
(Liverpool) was 112 years old. Five men and. women
died in the year 1863 who—if the register may be relied
on—were born before George 111. was King. Of the 83
persons who had reached 100, 8 died in London, all of
them on the Middlesex side. The south-western division,
with its 2,900,000 people, had 7 of these centenarians in its
bill of mortality ; the west-midland division, with its
Yorkshire, with its 2,000,000, only 4 ;
2,400,000, had 11;
the south-eastern division, with its 1,847,000, had 5, but
the south-western, with its 1,835,000, had 11; the Welsh,
with its 1,300;000, had no less than 20; the south-midland,
with nearly as large a population, 9 ; the north-midland,
with 1,288,000, only 2 ; the northern, with 1,150,000, ale
2 ; and the eastern counties, with 1,140,000, 4.