The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-17 00:00:00

THAMES.

A VERY TROUBLESOME OFFENDER.— ,Tames Bash, a hay
dealer, of Hornchurch, in Essex, was brought before Mr.
Partridge charged with two offences,—the first for being
at a distance from his horse and cart and not having proper
control over the horse in a public road ; the other with not
having his Christian and surnapemainted on hiqsart.
A police-constable named Beer, No. 189 K, said that on
the 2d of September last he saw the prisoner's horse and
cart proceeding along the Bow-road, and no one attending
to the animal. He met the prisoner 400 or 500 yards from
the cart and spoke to him. He accompanied the prisoner
to the cart. Thera was no name or address upon it.
Inspector Kerresey, of the K division, said the prisoner
had given much trouble and expense to the police. A
summons was served upon him, to which he did not ap-
pear. Another summons met *with no better success. Two
warrants were granted, and the prisoner was apprehended
yesterday at Hornehurehly two police constables. The
expenses had been at least 10a, and the time of the sum-
moning officer of the court was sacrificed for two days, and
two other policemen for two days more.
The prisoner made a long defence. He could not deny
substantially the offences alleged against him.
Mr. Partridge said the prisoner was a foolish and obsti-
nate man to give so much trouole. Ho fined him 108., and
10s. in addition for costs.

TEAR Ups.—. Two batches of "tear ups" were brought
before Mr. Partridge. The first batch consisted of Wm.
Coal, aged 28, George Smith, 14, Thomas Jones, 14, and
John Williams, 12, who were admitted to the Poplar
Workhouse last night as "casuals," and tore up all their
clothes. The second batch consisted of Thomas Roberts,
50, James Roberts, 45, and James Simpson, 37, who sought
a night's refuge in Ratcliff Workhouse last night, and also
tore up their clothes. Each el the prisoners put the
parishes to the expense of new clothing.
Mr. Partridge sentenced the adult prisoners to 21 days'
imprisonment and hard labour, and said the boys Smith,
Jones, and Williams, were friendless and fatherless, and
must be passed to their respective parishes.
Merrick, the superintendent of labour at Poplar, said a
great number of boys were admitted as casuals last night.
Mr. Paget had said that the boys-- •
Mr. Partridge interrupted, and said he did not care what
other people said. He was responsible for his own actions.
He would not send boys like those before him to prison.
If they were not taken to the workhouses to which they
belonged, he would send them there under the Industrial
Schools Act.

Police-sergeant Gamble, of the K division, said there was
another batch of tear-ups at the station-house, who had
destroyed their clothes in a casual ward of one of the work-
houses and been supplied with others. They had again
torn up their clothes in the police cell, and could not be
brought before the magistrate, until more clothes be sup-
plied to them.

Mr. Partridge said the parishes were not bound to supply
casual paupers with clothes as fast as they tore them up.
The casual paupers must be taught they. could not set the
laws at defiance with impunity. The police had no occa-
sion to hurry the case. If the casual paupers had torn up
their clothes, they ought to be detained without any as long
as possible. They could be brought up at four o'clock in
the afternoon. They would be cool by that time. (Laughter.)

ENCOUNTER WITH 1. BURGLAR.—About one o'clock
on Wednesday morning, Mr. Atkinson Pickering,
druggist, Hull, was disturbed by hearing a noise. He
called to Mr. Raymond, his assistant, and asked him if
anything had fallen. Mr. Raymond answered in the nega-
tive, and they both proceeded to search the dwelling-
house, but nothing was found to create alarm or suspicion.
They they ascended the steps leading to the warehouse,
and after reaching a room on the third flight, Mr. Raymond
was knocked down by a man who had been concealed in a
room. The burglar then got through a window which
overlooks the roofs of sone houses, and as ho wr.s escaping,
Mr. Raymond, who had recovered himself, throw a poker
at him, but missed his nark. The police were called in,
but an ineffectual search was, made for the man.

A LADY CHARGED WITH THEFT.—The wife of a
gentleman who possesse3 considerable property in Lam-
beth was yesterday, at 63 Southwark Police-court, com-
mitted for trial on a charge of attempting to steal a velvet
mantle, the property of a Draper in Newington-causeway.
The shopman affirmed tint he saw her secrete the mantle
beneath her dress, and tlat when he impeached her with
the theft the stolen property. fell on the floor. The de-
fence was that the mantle was hanging on the back of a
chair, and that it foil as Vie lady roso. She was admitted
to bail.

AN EXPRESS TRAIN' IN PERIL.—On Tuesday
night, the passengers 15. the evening express train from
Newcastle to Sunderland, on the North Eastern branch
line, had a narr=ow escape. As the train neared Cleador.-
lane station, and when running at the rate of forty miles
an hour it ran into a hone and cart left standing upon the
line. The vehicle belonEed to Mr. Robert Hairnet, potato
merchant, who in going from Tyne Dock to Cleadon, had
to cross the railway on a level. While he was opening a
gate to pass through be la the horse and cert standing
right across the rails, -without taking the precaution to
look along the line. At that moment the train came up,
and, it being quite dark, the engineman was unable to see
the obstruction until right upon it. The horse was killed
and the cart smashed to pieces, while the train itself with
difficulty kept the line, and the passcpgers experienced a
sever jolting.—Leeds Aircurg.

The screw frigate Bristol, 3,027 tons, 600-horse
power, Capt. Leveson E. H. Somerset, flagship of
Commodore G. T. P. Hornby, recently fitted at
Sheerness for service on the west coast of Africa,
made her official final trial of speed yesterday at the
measured mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, under
the usual measured mile conditions. The wind did
not exceed a force of 4, the furnaces in the ship's
stoke-hole were delivered over to the charge of the
trial stokers from the steam factory of Portsmouth
Yard, and the fires were fed with hand-picked
Welsh coal. The frigate was under way by 8 a.m.
yesterday morning, and was at once taken on the
trial ground. Commander Brett, of her Majesty's
ship Asia, had charge of the ship as the officer com-
manding the Steam Reserve, and the performances
of the engines and boilers were under the super-
vision of Messrs. Ward and Murdoch, of the steam
factory and reserve. The ship's draught of water,
after having stowed her anchor and made all ready
for running the mile, was 20ft. llin. forward and
23ft. 11in. aft, the wind being at a force of from 3
to 4. It was from S.S.E., and there was a slight
movement of water over the vessel's course, but
not enough to affect her speed in the slightest
degree. Under these conditions 10 runs were made,
six with full and four with half boiler power, with
the following results :—Full boiler power, six runs;
12.371, 10.286, 12.587, 9.524,13.043, 9.549 knots;
the mean of the six runs giving the ship a true mea-
sured mile speed of 11.272 knots. The mean va-
cuum was 261 in., with the safety valve loaded at
201 b., and the revolutions of her engines were,
maximum 60, minimum 58. The four runs with
half boiler power gave 11.726, 7.214, 11.077, and
8.163 knots ; the ship's mean speed being 9.346
knots. In testing the ship in making circles, she
exhibited no properties differing from the greater
number of ships of her class or calling for particular
remark. In comparing the results of yesterday's
trial with the recent Maplin Sand trial, it will be
found that yesterday the ship gained an additional
speed of 0.676 knot with full boiler power, and
1.292 knot with half boiler power, a mean excess
of 2 being also gained in the revolutions of the
engines. The ship's machinery is from the manu-
factory of Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow. The boilers
primed somewhat freely during the trial, but other-
wise both boilers and engines worked most satisfac-
torily. The Bristol was expected to have sailed
from Spithead for her station to-morrow, but cer-
tain defects in the shipwright department have been
discovered, which may possibly delay her departnre
until Monday next. The Bristol is a fine, roomy,
and well ventilated frigate—considerations of no
mean importance in a ship serving on the coast of
Africa.

The screw steam sloop Amazon, 4, has been placed
in No. 3 dock, Keyham steamyard.
The ironcased ship Lord Clyde, 24, has been re-
moved from Hamoaze into Keyham basin, to com-
plete for the first division of the Steam Reserve.
The sailing frigate Flora, 40, Staff Commander
John Rees, which will in a few days proceed to
Ascension as a storeship, is now alongside the De-
vonport dockyard, receiving her bolts ; she will
shortly be removed into the Sound.

By the mail steamship Briton, which arrived at
Plymouth on Wednesday, we learn that the French
ship of war Lynox, from Bourbon, which arrived at
the Cape Sept. 26, left on the 30th for Rochfort.
Her Majesty's screw steam gun-vessel Serpent, from
Plymouth, which arrived Sept. 8, left on the 27th
for China. The screw steam sloop Rapid, 11, Com-
mander Charles T. Jago, left Simon's Bay Oct. 11,
for Table Bay. The transport Mauritius, from
Algoa Bay, put into East London Oct. 5, and left
again on the following Sunday for Natal and
Mauritius, taking for the former port 37 men, two
women, and two children of her Majesty's 99th
Regiment ; Ensigns Kennedy, Cooch, and Brak-
s:one, eight men, one woman and child of the Royal
Engineers; Depty-Assist.-Com.-Gen. Desbarres
and three Army Hospital Corps men, two women
and nine children, ono man of the Cape Mounted
Rifles, and Mr. Romilly.

The paddlewheel steamer Adder, Mr. Blakey,
master commanding, left Chatlrm harbovr at day-
light yesterday morning, having on board the staff
and a large number of officers from the headquar-
ters of the Royal Engineer Department for convey-
ance to Shoeburyness, for the purpose of witnessing
the artillery experiments undertaken to test the
powers of various descriptions of ordnance against
defensive works.

Capt. Thomas Wilson, R.N., has been appointed
Captain-Superintendent of Greenwich Hospital,
under the 28th and 29th of Victoria, cap. 89. The
appointment is to date from the 12th Oct. last.
First Lieut. A. Fonblanque, R.M., is appointed
Adjutant of the Woolwich division of the Royal
Marines, vice Shairp ; First Lieut. J. W. Scott,
R.M., to be Acting Adjutant of the Royal Marines,
vice Fonblanque.

Orders have been received at Chatham garrison
directing Deputy-Assist.-Superintendent of Stores
E. Nicoll to embark to-day at Southampton on
board the mail steamer for Jamaica. Ensign A.D.
A. Furse, 2d West India Regiment, is also to em-
bark at Southampton to-day for Barbadoes.
Staff Assist.-Surg. Tate and Ensign Lynch, 2d
battalion (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, have re-
ceived orders to proceed from Chatham and embark
at Gravesend to-day, on board the Mutlah, for the
Mauritius.

Yesterday the chartered troopship Isabella, which
has been taken up by the Government for the con-
veyance of troops to Ceylon and the East Indies,
embarked at Government-quay, Gravesend, the fol-
lowing detachments for Colombo—viz., 102 non-
commissioned officers and men, five women, and six
children of the 2d battalion 25th (King's Own Bor-
derers) Regiment, from the 9th Depot Battalion,
Preston, one non-commissioned officer of the Army
Hospital Corps, and one staff-sergeant's -wife and
three children, for Colombo, with one staff-sergeant
of the 105th Madras Light Infantry, for Madras.
The following officers embarked with the detach-
ments—viz., Lieut. C. F. Barnardiston, and Lieut.
C. D. Swete and wife, 2d battalion 25th Regi-
ment ; Lieutenant H. K. Fenwick, and Lieutenant
J. B. Pilkington and wife, Ceylon Rifles ; total—
four officers, 103 non-commissioned officers and men,
two officers' wives, six women, and nine children,
the whole in medical charge of Staff Assist.-Surg.
O'Farrell. The Isabella was inspected in the East
India Docks on the part of the Government by Bri-
gade Major W. Congreve, who, with the other offi-
cers of the Staff at Chatham garrison, superintended
the einbarcation of the troops yesterday. The Isa-
bella will leave the Thames in the course of to-day.
By direction of the authorities the diving opera-
tions which have been so successfully carried out by
means of Heinke's improved diving apparatus, now
exclusively used at the Royal Engineer establish-

ment, Chatham, during the season just terminated,
are ordered to be suspended, the official report
of the number of officers and men who have
gone through a course of diving, and the nature
of the submarine work undertaken, being
forwarded to the authorities. A report of some
highly important diving operations, effected
by means of Heinke's apparatus, was received at
Brompton barracks yesterday. The divers were
sent down the Gurneypit, Pembrokeshire, to a depth
of 105 fathoms, for the purpose of removing some
of the pumping gear. which had become detached,
and caused the flooding of the pit. The undertak-
ing, from its novelty, was attended with unusual
difficulties, but was successfully completed by
Messrs. Wilton and Bolton, the divers employed,
the occasion being, it is understcod, the first in
which divers have been engaged in such a work.