The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

LIGHT INFANTRY.

This bankrupt was described as a captain on half-pay,
of 67,.W00d-street, and to-day was appointed for the proof
of debts. The amounts already filed are about £350, and
the bankruptcy is ascribed to illness and insufficiency of
income.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

"A SAD STORY."--Under the above head a case was
reported a few days ago, in the course of which it appeared
that a little girl named Baker was living with her mother,
who was leading a profligate life. Mr. Knox told her
mother that is she attended on the following day he would
endeavour to get her daughter into some school, with the
view of removing her from the scenes she was likely to
witness, and thus saving her from destruction. On Satur-
day the mother, accompanied by the little girl, attended,
and the latter was taken by Mr. Welsh, tho office-keeper,
to, and readily received at, the Training Refuge for Girls,
Lisson-street, 'Marylebone ; an excellent institution, sup-
ported by voluntary contributions, where a number of
girls, whose ages vary from 11 to 16, are being fitted to
become domestic servants.

A USEFUL CAUTION.-Mr. Tyrvrhitt this morning re-
ceived a letter (enclosing a handbill), fn which the writer
says, " Good service would be done
.by tho press noticing
the enclosed handbill, and that if the plan were more gene-
rally adopted the community would gain in a sanitary and
moral way, besides the saving that would bo the result ; it
would, for instance, relieve the dustholo, which is a fever
nest, and causes much siokness, especially at this season of
the year."
Tho handbill, which is headed "Area Thieves—Caution
to Householders"—is issued from the Central Depot of the
Rag Collecting Brigade of the London Ragged Schools,
and says :—" As numerous robberies takelplaco in conse-
quence of encouragement given to a class of persons
who, under the pretence of selling or buying
various articles, find their way into the areas
and kitchens
_early and late in the day, employers
are earnestly requested to secure their promises against
the intrusion of such as hawkers, jar collectors, &c. Tho
rag collecting brigade of the London Ragged School is
commended to the notice of heads of households as a legi-
timate medium for the utilisation and disposal of these
commodities, which are either wantonly wasted or made
the moans of unauthorised profit. By patronising the rag
brigade, moreover, a most important and benevolent object
would bo assisted, viz., the employment of a largo number
of poor, deserving boys in honest industry."

THAMES.
STEALING BRANDY FROM A SHlP.—Johnson Robinson, a
black man, was brought before Mr. Knox charged with
stealing a bottle of brandy.
Yesterday morning, at half-past 11 o'clock, a London
Dock gate-keeper, named Francis Andois, stopped the pri-
soner as he was leaving the dock, and found upon him a
bottle of brandy. The prisoner said he belonged to the
barque Trinidad in the doek, and the brandy was given to
him by his boarding-house keeper. He was confronted
with the man he mentioned, and his statement was denied.
The cargo of the Trinidad was overhauled, and a case of
brandy in the aftorhold was found to be tampered with.
Two bottles of brandy were missing from the case. The
one found on the prisoner bore a label similar to the bottles
in the case.

Captain James Lodge, the master of the Trinidad, said the
prisoner was with him last voyage, and ho had so much
faith in his honesty that he made him ship-keeper, and
intended to take him to sea next voyage.
The prisoner, with groat effrontery, said that his board-
ing-house keeper puchased the bottle of brandy and made
him a present of it.
Mr. Knox said ho did not believe a word the prisoner
said. The case was one of felony, and clearly made out,
but in con sideration of the good character which the pri-
soner had received ho should treat the case as one of unlawful
possession. He sentenced the prisoner to two months' im-
prisonment and hard labour.