The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

POLICE INI ELLIGENCE.-April 14.

MANSION-HOUSE. James Cooper, 35, a
mason, living in King-street, Lambeth, who had
been liberated on bail, was brought before the Lord
Mayor on the following charge:—
The complainant was George Barry, a ticket-
collector at the Fenchurch-street station of the
Blackwall Railway. On Saturday afternoon, on
the arrival there of the North London train, the
prisoner, who had come by-it, passed him where he
was taking tickets. He was asked for his ticket,
but walked on, refusing to show it. The com-
plainant was obliged to leave his post to go after
him, and in the interim several of the passengers
by the train left without giving up their tickets.
He took him by the arm, and asked for his ticket,
or the money for his fare, upon which the prisoner,
who was drunk, turned round, used very abusive
language, and struck at him. He aggravated the
matter by flourishing the ticket over his head during
the struggle in a tantalising way, and still refusing
to part with it. It required several constables to
disarm him and take him to the police-station. He
remained there overnight, and was then bailed. On
Sunday he went to the railway station, and ex-
pressed the greatest regret for his 'conduct, in con-
sideration of which the station-master desired the
Bench to deal leniently with him.
The Lord Mayor, taking that into account, and
that he had been locked up all night, discharged
the defendant with an admonition.
Margaret M'Nelly, a woman of 40, described as
a laundress, was accused of theft.
On Saturday afternoon she was seen by Alfred
Green, a detective officer, dogging a young woman
in the Poultry in a suspicious manner. He watched
for a few moments and saw the prisoner place her
hand near the dress of the complainant and then
walk away in an opposite direction. He seized
her hand and found in it a hankerchief and a purse
containing ss. 6d, in silver, a half-franc piece, and
some postage-stamps. Giving her into the custody
of a police-constable, Green went after the young
woman, one Emma Thurston, living in Bird-in-
hand-court, Cheapside, who at once identified the
purse and its contents.
A detective officer who happened to be in court
recognised the prisoner as one of a gang of thieves
in the Borough, and as having been previously con-
victed at Southwark Police-court.
The prisoner, who 'did not venture to gainsay
that evidence to character, pleaded guilty, and threw
herself on the mercy of the Court.
the was committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE.—Constance Wilson' "rwho re-
fused her address, and described herself as of no
occupation, was placed at the bar on remand,
charged with administering oil of vitriol to Sarah
Cornell, with intent to murder.
Mr. Vaughan, solicitor, attended to prosecute ;
and Mr, Webber attended on behalf of Mr.
Beacham, a chemist.
Sergcant Boden said he was not prepared with
any further evidence. There was a gentleman
present about another case in which a woman is
supposed to have been poisoned, and with whose
death the prisoner is supposed to be in some way
mixed up. The body had been after death taken
to Westmoreland. A coroner's warrant had been
issued for its exhumation, and there was likely to be
an inquest upon it. The death took place in Ken-
nington.
Mr. Yardley said that as the evidence in the
case already gone into had been taken here, and
the death of the person now mentioned took place
in. London, he supposed he could take that case here
also.
Mr. Vaughan said he had also further evidence
and some papers to show the motive of the prisoner
in getting the prosecutrix out of the way.
The prisoner was again remanded.

THAMES.—EmiIy Sarah Beecher, aged 28, and
Clara Jane Knight, 20, sisters, and both married,
were charged on remand with stealing woollen
cloth to the value of £5O.
The elder prisoner is the wife of James William
Beecher, formerly a tailor at 186, Brick-lane, Spital-
fields, who was declared a bankrupt on his own pe-
tition on the 24th of January last, and who has
since absconded. The principal creditor and trade
assignee of the bankrupt is Mr. Henry Howes,
woollendraper, of 123, High-street, Whitechapel,
who sold to him a great portion of the goods which
the prisoners were charged with stealing. In the
early part of December last Mr. Howes noticed a
decrease in the stock in trade of the bankrupt not
accounted for by the business he was doing. After
the bankruptcy only £5 worth of goods were de-
livered to the creditors, although Beecher's liabili-
ties amounted to £6OO. On Friday, the 21st of
March, the prisoners called upon Mrs. Louisa Cum-
ming, housekeeper of 29, New-street, Stepney, who
had a room to let. Mrs. Beecher introduced her
sister as a young lady from the country who wanted
an apartment. They took the room. Mrs. Beecher
said the " young lady" had to go to the railway
station and fetch some goods which had come up
from Ipswich. The prisoners returned about, nine
o'clock the same night, and Mrs. Cumming saw a
cart at the door. It contained 30 or 40 parcels, all
carefully packed in canvass. Mrs. Cumming was
much surprised, and said, " Surely you are not go-
ing to put all those goods into the room ?" The
prisoner said nothing, and ordered the cart to be
unladen, and the whole of the parcels were
deposited in the room. Knight said that
she was very much fatigued with her journey,
and the trouble she had taken in removing the
goods from a railway station, and that she in-
tended to sleep with her sister that night. On the
following Monday the prisoners again visited the
room in which the goods were deposited, remained
there a short time, locked the door and left, taking
the key with them. On Friday, the 28th March,
the prisoners once more visited Mrs. Cumming, paid
her 35., the rent of the apartment, and went away.
On the same day Mrs. Cumming gave information
to the police. The next day the prisoners came
to the house for the last time, and were followed
into the room they had engaged by police-sergeant
Pullen, 10 K, who at once charged them with de-
frauding the creditors of a bankrupt, and took
them into custody. Knight exclaimed, " Oh ! good
God, I expected this." Mrs. Beecher said that her
father, Mr. Sykes, had lent money on the goods.
The whole of the property was identified by Mr.
Howes as part of the stock of the bankrupt, which
had been in his possession on the eve of the adjudi-
cation of bankruptcy. No attempt was made to
show that Sykes, the father of the prisoners, had
any lien upon the goods, but it was urgedon behalf
of of the sisters that they had acted under the
tfhoreitrridt a
of the bankrupt.
fe
nTche,e
apnrdisomnre.rws seaeildrytelhie
ties to the
He accepted bail for them, e
y committedoauelhd rine s themseurrvee
amount of £2OO.

SOUTHWARK.—Catharine Collins, an impu-
dent-looking girl, was charged with stealing a
florin and three shillings.
The prosecutor, John Miller, said that about 10
o'clock on Friday night he came up by the North
Kent Railway with his wife, and while looking for
an omnibus to put her into to proceed to her situa-
tion at Sloane-street, a number of orange girls sur-
rounded him. One of them struck him a violent
blow on the right eye. At the same time he caught
the prisoner in the act of robbing him of some
money ho had in his coat pocket, which consisted of
a florin and three shillings, He instantly seized
hold of her, and, although roughly handled, con-
trived to
.keep her until a constable came up.
The prisoner, who denied the charge, was com-
mitted for trial.

HAMMERSMITIL—WiIIiam Smith, a respect-
able-looking young man, described as a barman,
oyes
finally
examined on a charge of robbery.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
on the 7th or Bth of August last visited a bootmaker
named Clark, living at N 0.13 Cirencester road, Har-
row-road, of whom he had borrowed money. He
said he was on his way to the Treasury to see a
nobleman, who had settled £B,OOO upon a child he
had had by his (the prisoner's) wife. As be was

to receive that day the interest the £B,OOO, by
said that when he returned he vould repay what
he had borrowed, He gave Clark 6d. to go to a
publielaouse and have something to drink, and to
wait for him until he returned from h his visit to
the nobleman. Clark went to the puOlichouse and
had some refreshment. He afterwards' went to the
prisoner's lodgings, No. 41, Hampden-street, in the
neighbourhood, to ascertain whether a leg of
mutton which the prisoner state he had provided
for dinner, and to which Clark had been invited,
was being cooked. He found that it was not, and
went home. He soon discovered that he had been
robbed of a silver watch and gold chain, clothes,
and other articles to the value of £.6. On the morn-
ing in question the prisoner said to Mrs. Godwin,
his landlady, that he was going to thc Treasury--
He did not return to his lodgings. Oa examining
the room she missed a sheet and found thot half of
the feathers had been taken out of the bed. A
search was made for the prisoner, but he was not
seen again until he was apprehended by D oole, of
the D division, on the 25th of March, at the
Clerkenwell Sessions. It vas found that the
feathers had been made up into pillows and
pledged. The prisoner told the oificer that he had
pledged some of the articles belonging to Clark, and
worn out the rest.
He was committed for trial.

THE UIU✓J BSITY BOAT B.ACE.
The London correspondent of Saunders's News
Letter concludes an animated descriptiov of the
University boat race with the following just re-
marks :—" The steamers, as usual, did their best to
mar the beauty as well as the enjoyment of the
affair. Ten or a dozen black-looking hulls, over-
crowded with almost the male sex, don't add mach
to the picturesque aspect of the scene, and they in-
terfere most seriously with the efforts of the com-
peting crews, as well as completely shut out the
view cf the contest from all on the south side of the
river, including the towing path, which is, of course,
the only available space for strangers. This year,
I believe, there was some sort of promise exacted
and accorded that they would not move from their
positions until the rival boats had passed them.
None of them kept the proiuise ; they commenced
going ahead the moment the gun was fired, causing
a swell in front of the crews, just prejudicial to
the occupation they were engaged 1'
n ,as it would be
t,
to make the Derby horses run the firs
mile of their
course in a ploughed field. They allow:NI the boats
to come up to them, but then kept alongoit:e them
as far as Hammersmith, so as completely to 01:.'SCUM
a view of them from any one on the Surrey ohore.
I believe this repeated objectionable behaviour is to
be taken into serious consideration by the two Uni-
versity Boat Clubs iu London. The remedy, o r
rather remedies—for there are two—would be found
very easy. It would be merely necessary to start
the rival crews in front of the steamboats in-
stead of at the aqueduct, and to let it be distinctly
understood that there should be no start at all
until the steamers were at a reasonable distance
behind. If they atrempted to come up alongside
or pass the boats then, for the next year, and
ever after, let the race be rowed at Henley,
where there are no steamers, and where tons of
thousands could witness the contest through all
its phases. It is true there would scarcely be such
a multitude of spectators on the shore, but then
there would net be the same extent of disappoint-
ments. There would be quite a sufficient num-
ber of the true lovers of the art to animate the
crews, and citizens Y and Z would not have the
opportunity of endangering the lives of her Ma-
jesty's subjects as they did this morning, when,
from the over-crowded state of the boats, several
persons were pushed actually into the water from
the determination of their fellow-passengers to get
a peep at the race."

COUNTRY MARKL 2S.

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COLCHESTER-APRIL 12.

A very small supply of wheat to-day, and prices the
turn in sellers' favour. Barley for malting again scarce,
and rather dearer. Beans and peas were scarce, at former
rates.
Wheat, white 54s 66s Beans,Mazagan..3ss 365
red 46s 62s middle & small.37s 405
Barley
Oats • —s —s gray 38s 425

CHELMSFORD—API 11.
To-day the demaiid was dull, with a very slow sale for
any kind of grain. Wheat, best conditioned parcels, barely
maintained late prices; inferior descriptions can scarcely
be quoted. Spring corn was at late rates, with an equally
slow trade.
Wheat, old white 26s 58s
new 45s 65s
old red 25s 50s
new 50s 61s
Barley 30s 39s
Chevalier ..30s 42s
Grinding 24s 32s
Malt.... 6ls 67s
Chevalier . 64s 69s
Oats 23s 30s

Peas, Fartridge-,,,,376 413
White 39s 423
Boiling 4ls 44a
Dun 368 403
Ditto new .-8
Beans, Tick, oN ..33s 38s
nev..33s 388
Harrow Ticks ~37s 4093 s
new. , 35s
Mazagan ....... 403

GLOUCESTER—APRIL 12.
A small supply of English wheat from the farmers,
which met a free sale at prices is per qr advance. Fore
1
(except for American) rather dearer, Malting barley soh'
at is more money. Oats and beansivery slow.

KIRKCALDY GRAIN—APRIL 12.
We had very small supplies to ,day of all deseript.iong
of grain. Barley and oats advanced is over previous prices.
Wheat is to 2s higher.

*heat. Barley. Oats.
First....44s Od I 26s Od 20s Od
Second .. 50s Od 29s Od 24s Od
Third...,s6s 6d 32s Od 27s Od

COAL N
trrioes of Coal per Ton al
s. d..

.ARK ET.
the close of the market
Walls:End.

Byass's Bebside West
Hartley ..16 3
Holywell 15 6
Hastings Hartley l6 3
Tanfield Moor Butes 12 9
Walker Primrose 12 6
Wylam ..15 6
Bell's Primrose .....12 6
Bate's West Hartley..ls 0
Carway and Dutlryn
Malting 24 0
Do. Anthracite 21 6
Middle's West Harticy 16 3
Craighead Steam 14 6

s. d.
Cassop
Hartlepool.. l7 0
Caradoc .... ...1G 6
South Hart1ep001......16
South Kelloe l6 a
Heu,gh Hall 16 O•
Trimdon Hartlepool l7 0
Trimdon Thornley 14 6
K elloe ...
17 0
Stewart's....
16 0
Framwellgate ...
Tunstallf . 15 6
Sheriff Hill 14 6
Hedley ... l5 0
Thorpe l6 0
Eden Main. ..15 9
1, 79 ; sold, 58.

Walls End.

Hetton
Ships at mark,

FOR.EION MAIL .P.ACK.ET LIST:

MAILS DUE.
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..April 18'
via Marseilles Aprg
Airazil and Cap- e
Verds, by British packet. May 4-•
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 3-,
-China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 10:
-- via Marseilles April 14'
Falkland Islands May 4.
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April I°.
-- via Marseilles April ---•
India (Bombay), via Southampton April 2'
via Marseilles Apr/I;9'
Lisbon April 21.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 18.
via Marseilles April -----.
Newfoundland .. April 16.
Oporto and Vigo
... April. 16.
April 21.
U. S. and British N. America, ty i;;;;..p.a .
cir
by "U.S. packet.. . .
by Canadian packet. April. ---.—
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe May 10.
Bahamas, via New York' May 8.
Mexico .... April 23.
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British
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