The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-27 00:00:00

POLICE IN

I,—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A "BETTING MAN" IN TILOUBLE.—Joseph Blanche, de-
scribing himself as a " betting man," of 66, Dudley-street,
was charged before Mr. Knox with loitering in Tichborne-
street for the purpose of committing a felony.
Philip Shrives, 82 0, said that about a quarter past one
that morning, while in Tichborne-street, he saw the
prisoner, who was followed by some companiona.pushing
up against different gentlemen. Ho watched the prisoner
and saw him make a grab at a gentleman's watch, the gen-
tleman immediately giving him a blow in the eye. After
watching the prisoner a little longer, and seeing him inter-
fere with other gentlemen, he took him into custody.
In answer to Mr. Knox the constable said he knew the
prisOner as the associate of thieves.

The prisoner said he had just come from Epsom, and got
into an altercation with the gentleman who struck him in
the eye. The constable first charged him with felony-and
then with loitering. In his opinion the evidence was not
sufficiently conclusive for him to have been locked up.
Gordon, 33, C, corroborated Shrives, and said the pri-
soner was convicted about 18 months' ago for stealing a
sovereign.

The prisoner said he suffered the penalty for stealing
the sovereign, but he was not a thief. He got a few
shillings by betting, but did not thieve.
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months with
hard labour.

THE PROSTITUTE NUISANCE IN REGENT-STREET.—EIiza
Smith, a stylishly attired and impudent prostitute, was
charged before Mr. Knox with loitering in Regent-street,
to the annoyance of the inhabitants.

The case was proved by Mr. Henry Dolby, engraver of
Regent's-quadrant, who proved seeing the prisoner be-
tween half-past nine and eleven last night accost several
gentlemen in front of and near his house. She was in the
habit of standing with other women about his house,
causing an obstruction and great annoyance.
Dutton, 337 A, deposed to seeing tho prisoner accost
several gentlemen last night before he was spoken to by
Mr. Dolby.

Mr. Knox fined the prisoner 40s. or a month.
As she was leaving the court the prisoner made use o
very insulting language towards Mr. Dolby.

MARYLEBONE.

OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT IN A THEATRE.— Robert Smith,
a labourer, was charged with the following outrageous
conduct in the Marylebone Theatre.
_ _ _

Mr. Wilding, solicitor, atttended to prosecute on behal;
of Mr. Cave, the lessee.

Henry Ireland, attendant at the Marylebono Theatre,
said—Last night the prisoner, with another young man,
was in the gallery, and during the performance his com-
panion kept up an incessant annoyance by shouting and
whistling. Three or four times he was requested to desist,
and as he refused to do so, witness took hold of him to
eject him. The prisoner jumped up and struck him, and
knocked him down. .The prisoner then struck him again,
and put his (witness's) thumb out of joint. He was very
violent and kicked about.

The prisoner was sentenced to one month's hard labour.

THAMES.

SINGULAR ROBBERY.—CHASE AND °APT-MM.—Th=3llS
Olive, a well-dressed lad, aged 15, and who was described
as a gunsmith, was brought up on remand, charged with
stealing a gold watch and chain and a silver watch,
value £l3.

Mrs. Eliza Pincher, greengrocer and coal dealer, of No.
14, Canal-road, Stepney, stated that the prisoner was for-
merly in her employ, and carried out coals. He robbed
her most "awfully," and she discharged him. On Wed-
nesday in last week she went into her bed-room to ascer-
tain the time, and missed two watches, a gold and a silver
one, which were hanging to a nail over a sideboard an
hour previous. At the same time she saw that some one
was secreted under her bed, and noticed the prsoner's feet.
Slle was very much frightened, and thought if she raised
alarm she should be injured. She ran down stairs to the
street door and called for assistance ; while she was doing
so the prisoner jumped out of the window of her bedroom
into the street and ran away.

James White, a police-sergeant, 63 K, stated that he saw
the prisoner running along the Mile-end-road, and people
were calling out "Stop thief." The prisoner jumped over
the parapet of the bridge of the Regent's-canal, and fell
upon the towing path below. He jumped after the pri-
soner and fell a depth of about twenty feet. The prisoner
ran along the towing path, and he gave chase to him, and
after a smart run of 300 or 400 yards overtook him and
secured him. The missing watches were not found on the
prisoner, but he had plenty of time and opportunity to
throw them into the canal. He asked the prisoner what
he had been doing, to which ho replied, " Nothing." He
said to the prisoner, "You must have been doing some-
thing or you would not have been running." The prisoner
then said, " You can't do anything to me, for I Shave
nothing upon me.
The prisoner—l did not say anything of the kind about
finding nothing on me.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

EXPOSING GOODS FOR SALE AT SHOP DOORS.—William
Donavan, an Irish boy, was charged with stealing one
dozen of cotton handkerchiefs from the shop door of Mr.
Cossington, draper, in Pennyfields, Poplar.
The handkerchiefs were exposed for sale at the shop
door of the prosecutor. The prisoner unfastened them and
took them away. Ile was caught in flagrante delicto by a
young man who gave him into the custody of a police-con-
stable named Dowle, 470 A, who produced the property.
Mr. Partridge said goods ought not to be exposed for
sale at shop doors. It was a premium on crime. He corn-
mitted
the prisoner for trial.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day.
LON-Dox, April 27.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderato breeze and fine weather.
OFF THE LIZA:up, April 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—
Flying Fish, from Barbadoes.
FALMOUTH, April 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Scottish
Chief, from Melbourne.
FOWEY, April 25.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Bessie, for
Trinidad.
PORTSMOUTH, April 26.—Wind
N.E.—Arrived ;Rox-
burgh Castle, from Sydney.
CARDIFF, April 25.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Tangier, for
Romberg; Ida Jardine, for Callao; Lucie and Harriet, for
Bombay ; Annie Monroe, for Mauritius ; Psyche, for Rio
Janeiro.

NEWPORT, April 26.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Orion, for
Vera Cruz.
MUMBLES, April 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Polar Star,
from Caldeira.
SwANsEA, April 25.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—William
Jackson, for Valparaiso.

(EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, April 26.—Wilhelmina, from Poito Rico.
Arrived, April 27.—Carl Frederick, steamer, from Deme-
rara ; Earl of Auckland, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Pan-
ther, steamer, from Boulogne.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Henry, for Quebec; John Gilspick, for Boston;
Palawan, for Sydney—all from London.

"NOT AT HomE.,,_—sappose, then, instead of these
three words expressing all they do and just what
you desire they should express—out of the house, engaged,
indisposed to receive visitors generally, or indisposed to
receive that special visitor in particular—at any rate a six
foot bar put up between you and the street door which not
the most pushing can very well force open, you were obliged
to tell the exact truth, and tell it too by Mary Maid's lips.
"Oh, sir, missis is having her new wig tried on, and please
she can't see you." " Please, ma'am, missis is at home, but
she says as how you are so unpleasant to her she can't abear to
see you, and you do so run on about yourself, and you have
such a bonnet as gave her the jaundice to look at." " Yes,
sir, master and missis is both at home, but master's in the
dining-room a-blowing up missis awful,
and missis's eyes
they are as red as red, and she'd rather you did not see her
look such a fright !" "Yes, sir, they're all at home, but
there's young Mr. Sparrowhawk in the drawing-room
aloag with Miss Em'ly he is, and they are looking out for
him to say something like a gentleman to-day, for they've
all slinked down stairs and left them alone !" These are
only a few of the possible features of a perfectly unveiled
and honest truth ; and pretty possibilities they are ;
lovely features, certainly, to have handed round to all the
gossips of your set ! Duns ; it may be bailiffs (I have
known such things happen before now) ; poor relations
whom you love and value,and of whose sensitive pride you
are tenderly careful, bat whose gowns and bonnets are
unmistakably shabby, and your visitors a purse-proud
couple, who will weigh them only according to the. money
worth of their appearance ; washing day and everything
pervaded by a smell of soap and steam and soda ; your
tceth at the dentist's—no ono suspecting they are " den-
tists' triumphs" at all; the off-day of the hair dyeing,
when you are a mixture of purple and grey ; Christmas
bills and papa in a state of fury and effervescence ; a case of
mild scarlet fever in the nursery, and you anxious to con-
ceal the fact yet not subject any one to danger; we can
imagine hundreds of instances in which no one would like
to tell the naked truth, and where the naked truth would
be quite unnecessary, and indeed do more harm than good.
Yet my friends and combatants used to gravely assert that
"not at home" was an untruth utterly inadmissible, and
that " engaged" was the nearest approach to a subterfuge
possible to be allowed. Engaged ! I wonder how many
people would take that for an answer ?—Dickens's " All
the Year Round."

THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE LIFEBOAT.—The
people of Derby on the 22d inst. witnessed a most
interesting sight in the launch of their lifeboat in the river
Derwent. The lifeboat was christened by Miss Wilmot
" The Florence Nightingale," after the distinguished lady
of that name, who is a native of Derbyshire. The banks
of the river were thronged by thousands of spectators who
heartily cheered as the boat glided into the water. The
cost of the lifeboat has been collected by the people of
Derby and presented to the National Lifeboat Institution.
The boat is to be stationed at Sunderland where she
(trrivo4 on the 25th instant,