The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-13 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

ROBBING EMPLOYERS.—John Landsdowne, a respectable
looking man, in the garb of a gas engineer, was charged
with being concerned with a man named Williams, in
custody, with stealing a valuable water gauge, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, contractors, from the
Exhibition-grounds, Brompton.
John Morgan, seargeant, 3 B, said—From information
received, I went to No. 11, Elizabeth-street, Chelsea, last
night, at half-past six, and asked for the prisoner. He was
denied, but as I left the place I saw him look out at a
window, when I went and apprehended him for being
concerned with another man, in custody, for stealing this
gauge and other valuable property, consisting of stop-
cocks, hose, pipe, ex. He said nothing to the charge.
James Donovan, watchman- to Mr. Douglas, builder,
Queensbury-place, South Kensington, said—On last Fri-
day night a man, whom he believed to be the prisoner,
came to him with the gauge and told him that the fore-
man had ordered him to put it in one of the buildings of
which he had care... The man left at past 11; on the same
night the dog barked, and witness said that four men were
standing on the steps of one of the houses. The police
were fetched, and three of the men escaped; one of them
named Williams was captured, having two hose-pipes on
him, corresponding with part of the property stolen from
the Exhibition.

Mr. Edward Hintley, foreman to Messrs. Belk and Lucas,
proved that the gauge and other property was safe locked
in a box in the Exhibition grounds on the 10th of March.
He identified the property. The prisoner was in their
service.

The watchman said he heard one of the four men men-
tion the name Butcher, and Moyard proved that the pri-
soner went by that name ; also, that in the area where the
watchman saw the four men, 7 stopcocks and 2 hose-pipes
were found concealed ready to be carried off. Access to
the place where they had been kept had been obtained by
a duplicate key, and then a box had been broken open.

the Russian Squadron in the Baltic.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
ST. PETERSBURG, April Bth.
The Message,. de Cronstadt gives the enumeration of the
vessels of the War Marine destined this year to undertake
excursions for practical navigation in the Baltic sea. There
will be a squadron of ironclads, consisting of the frigate
Sebastopol, 18 guns, two rams, the two-turretted gunboat
Smertsch, and 11 single-turretted Monitors. By the end
of the summer the above will probably be joined by the
ironclad frigate Petropavlowsk, 26 guns, and the armour-
plated battery Kremil, of 18 guns. The squadron will also
comprise several paddlewheel frigates and sailing vessels
as an escort to the monitors and turretted gunboats. Irre-
spective of the smaller vessels, the screw frigate Grand
Admiral, of 78 guns, will also cruise in the interior, having
on board, it is said, their Imperial Highnesses the Grand
Dukes Alexis Alexandrovitch and Nicholas Constan-
tinovitch.

Besides the vessels already absent the following will leave
this year to cruise abroad. The screw frigate Pereswett
42 guns, for the Mediterranean; the screw corvette Askold,
17guns, the steam clipper Izouroud, and the screw gunboat
Sobol for the Pacific Ocean. The vessels that will return
to Cronstadt are the following : from the Mediterranean,
the squadron of Rear-Admiral Lesowski, consisting of the
screw frigates Alexander, Nevski and Oleg, the screw cor-
vette Witiaze, and the steam clipper Almaze ; and from the
Pacific Ocean the screw corvette Kalevala, the steam clipper
Abrek, and the sailing transport Guiliak.
• The Riga Gazette says—Upon the proposition of the
Committee of the Courland Nobility, Count Schovalow, the
Governor-General, confirmed on Feb. 19 last the abroga-
tion of the right of corporal punishment granted by the
Courland regulations, in the case of the peasants, to the
rural police, landlords and public functionaries, restricting
such right of correction to schools and the lower order of
domestics.

The Nouvelliste de Kertsch announces, under the date of
Feb. 28, that the whole extent of the Sea of Azof as far as
the eye could reach from the top of the Yenikale lighthouse
is free of ice, so that the lighting up of that building was
resumed on the 19th of that month. On the 18th naviga-
tion was opened in the port of Berdiansk.