The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, IECS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Registrar Winslow.)
IN RE CAPT. R. E. F. CRAUPORD.

This bankrupt was described as captain and brevet-major
in the Royal Artillery, a prisoner for debt, and to-day was
appointed for the order of release. The debts amount to
£4,400, and amongst the largest creditors are IL E. IL J.
Cranford, Esq., of Belgrave-road, £2,500, an Indian mer-
chant of- Bombay, £416 ; Mrs. Hemmings, Ayrshire, £5lO ;
and a great many West-end tailors figuring on the list.
Mr. Reed, on behalf of the bankrupt, stated that there
was no opposition, and his honour granted the order of
discharge as prayed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A ROY.—AN EXTRAORDINARY FANCY FOR
IcEs.—Richard M'Grath, about 12 years old, was charged
before Mr. Knox with stealing about £5 in gold and silver,
the moneys of Mr. Richard Hawkins, a clerk, residing at
No. 133, Great Portland-street.
Mr. Hawkins said—About a fortnight ago I missed from
a drawer about £5, and although I used every exe:tion to
find out tho thief I was unablo to do so till I questioned a
little girl (the prisoner's sister), who resides with me, as
to how she became possessed of a half-crown, when she
said that her brother had given it to her. I then sent for
her mother and the prisoner, and the latter confessed that
he first took two sovereigns and a ss. piece, and afterwards
the rest of the money, having opened the drawer with a
false key.

Mr. Knox—How came the prisoner to have access to,
he place ?
The prosecutor—His sister is employed as nurse girl
and the prisoner was in the habit of coming to the house to
take a little boy out in a perambulator.
A constable—After owning to taking the money, the
prisoner said he had secreted it in different places.
Mr. Knox (to the boy's mother)—lt is a terrible story
about your child, Mrs. M'Grath.
The mother (a respectable looking female)—It is, sir. I
never saw a halfpenny of the money. I asked him what
he had done with it, and he said ho had spent it in ices.

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.
How CHILDREN ARE ENCOURAGED TO STEAL.—Ann
Kane, about 12 years old, was charged before Mr. Knox
with stealing a number of steel stamps, of the value of £5,
the property of Mr. Arthur }Lansford, salesman, 7, New-
port-court.
The Prosecutor—Having lost several articles, amongst
others some irons, I taxed the prisoner who, with her
mother, lodges in my house. I told her that if she told the
truth I would not prosecute her, as I believed she had been
led into it by others. She then took me to a shop in
Dudley-street, where, instead of finding the irons I found
a number of stamps, some of them of the value of ss. each.
Those produced are of the value of £5, but they are only
about half of those I missed. The woman at the shop
said she believed they had been sold, but on my telling
her I should get a policeman she produced them.
She said she kept no books, and was not
bound to do so. I afterwards gave the prisoner in charge
for stealing the stamps, but I feel sorry for her, as her
mother is a dissipated woman. _

Mary Ann Lewis, living in Dudley-street--We keep a
broker's shop. We sell cloths and things like those pro•.
duced. I bought the stamps of her at 9d. a lot, as she said
her mother sent her. I did not know the value of the
articles. I gave 3s. for the whole of them.
Mr. Knox—And their value is .£5. Do you keep books ?
Witness—No.

Mr. Knox—You are liable to a fine of £2O. I shall re.
mand the prisoner.

Ellen Kane, the prisoner's mother, was afterwards
charged with being found last night in a bedroom belong-
ing to the prosecutor, supposed for the purpose of com-
mitting a felony.
She was also remanded.

THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

The only intelligence from Valentia yesterday
was a simple repetition of the messages which of late
have caused so much despondency among all in-
terested in the success of this great enterprise. The
tests still show as completely as before that the rope
is parted at between 1,230 and 1,250 miles from
land. The earth currents coming back through it
now are regular and strong though still no mention
is made of battery currents. No news now of any
kind calculated to explain with certainty the cause
of the mishap is looked for till the Great Eastern

herself returns. She is expected off Valentia or
Cape Clear to-morrow night or Thursday morning
at latest. A rumour was very generally current
yesterday that the breakage had been caused by the
failure of one of the cable tanks. As a matter of
course, in the absence of any communication from
the Great Eastern, such a way of accounting for

the loss is one of the idlest of idle rumours. If the
tanks were ever likely to have given way, it was on
the voyage round to Valentia when they had their
greatest weights of cable and water in them, and
when their strength was fairly tried by rather rough
summer weather. When the Great Eastern rolled,
the ponderous shorings which supported the tanks
from the main deck to the bottom of the ship did
certainly creak and strain considerably, but when,
on the contrary, the vessel was pitching slightly
they were as noiseless as part of the tanks them-
selves. It is not likely, then, that any of the tanks
would yield when relieved of more than half their
weight of cable and more than half their weights of
water. Another theory put forward is that the
engines of the Great Eastern may have broken down
—a conjecture which is infinitely more probable
than that anything went wrong with the tanks.
Both, however, are mere conjectures, and the only
thing which can be taken as certain is that the cable
is broken. We believe, as we said from the first,
that when the Great Eastern returns it will be found
that the fault was pakrout some 10 or 12 miles be-
fore it was discovered on board the ships, and that
in the effort to haul it back and repair it the cable
was broken and lost on Wednesday afternoon or
Thursday morning.

THE MEDITERRANEAN MAIL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Delta, Captein Babot, arrived at Southampton
yesterday. She brings 28 passengers, 20 packages
specie, value £6,343 ; also a general cargo, includ-
ing 348 bales raw silk, value, £27,000 sterling.
The Delta exchanged colours on the 24th with
the steamer Poonah ; on the 28th, off Galita, passed
a screw steamer steering S.E., showing English and
Turkish colours ; and on the sth, at 9 p.m., ex-
changed night signals with the steamer Nyanza
with the outward Calcutta mails of the 4th. •

In consequence of the non-arrival of the Bombay
or Calcutta mails at Suez, the Delta brings no
Indian mails or passengers.
The Sardinian corvette Etna, French frigate Per-
drix, and a large number of merchant steamers and
sailing ships, were at Alexandria.
GIBRALTAR, Aug. 1.

The Peninsular Company's steamer Syria, -with
the Bombay mails of the 27th, left for Alexandria
at 9.30 p.m. on the 31st. _ _

The Devonport is to sail in the course of the
week with the left wing of her Majesty's 22d Regi-
ment, for theEMauritius.

The Spanish squadron, under the command of
Admiral Pinzon, consisting of the screw sloops
Santa Teresa, Candad, and Concordia, and screw
frigates Almansa and Concepcion, will cruise off
the Cantabrian coast during the sojourn of their
Majesties the Queen and King at the baths of
Zauraz.

The Austrian screw frigate Novara, from llavan-
nah, sailed on the 23d for the Adriatic.
Gibraltar is again in free communication with the
neighbouring ports of Spain. The quarantine upon
vessels from Gibraltar had been taken off all the
ports of the province of Cadiz, and Malaga has
adopted the same course.

Her Majesty's armour-clad ship Caledonia, 81
guns, left on the 17th ult. to join the squadron
under the command of Vice-Admiral Smart at Bar-
celona. The Spanish papers mention that immense
numbers of the Barcelonese had visited the vessels.

The following British ships have arrived here
since last dates :—Schooner Volunteer, 18 days
from Liverpool; brigantine Enterprise, 27 days
from Liverpool ; schooner Hawendale, 20 days from
Liverpool ; schooner Red Rover, 18 days from Car-
diff; steamer Charente, 11 flays from London;
steamer Cadiz, 7 days from London ; steamer
Senora, 11 days from Glasgow ; steamer Masilia, 5
days from Southampton ; steamer Danube, 5 days
from Liverpool ; steamer Peninsula, 8 days from
London ; brig Martha, 25 days from Liverpool ;
brigs Diana and Hardware, 19 days from Cardiff ;
schooner Anglesea Lass, 13 days from Cardiff ; and
steamer Euxine, 5 days from Southampton.
Exchanges are quoted—London, 90 days' date,
491 to II ; Paris, sf. 24c. ; Marseilles, 8 days' sight,
sf. 13c. to sf. 15c. ; Madrid, to 1 dis. ; Cadiz, 1/
to dis. ; Seville, to j dis. ; Malaga, fto / dis. ;
premium on five-franc pieces, 1 per cent.

Fatal Accidents at Monkwearmouth

Colliery.

On Saturday two inquests were held on the bodies of
two men who were killed at Monkwearmouth Colliery on
Thursday last. Mr. Matthias Dunn, the Government In-
spector of Mines, and Mr. Benjamin Wilson, the under-
viewer of the colliery, were present to watch the cases
The first witness called was Edward Wilson, a lad who
attended at the ropes at the bank head in the Maudlin
seam. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the day in
question he saw Latham come to the bank-head, following
the full set of tubs down, on the right-hand side, but while
doing so the empty tubs were coming up the left-hand side.
He was following about•four yards behind the tubs and had
his light burning. The bank is 250 yards long, and it takes
a minute and a half in running it. About five minutes
afterwards he heard of deceased's death. William Hadrick
deposed to being near the bank-head, and, on seeing an
empty set of tubs coming ula, he went down the line on
which the full set had previously gone, but had not pro-
ceeded to the empty waggons when he found deceased
lying on the opposite side. He said to deceased " What
aro you lying there in the dark for, if you have lost
your light ?" Litham made no answer, but simply shook
his head. Witness saw a wound on the back of his head.
Two or three men, who were coming down the line
at the time, took deceased to bank. It was witness's
opinion that deceased must have stepped upon the rope of
the set, which had thrown him on the opposite line,
and the empty waggons went over him, because, if de-
ceased had kept beside the rope all the way, he would
have been perfectly safe. Mr. Benjamin Wilson, the
under-viewer, said the way was quite safe, and the men
were allowed to travel after the full set in going to shaft.
He agreed with the last witness that the deceased must
have been thrown to the ground by the rope, because if
he had been struck by the empty tubs there would have
been an obstruction ; very probably the waggons would
have been thrown off the line. The jury returned a ver-
dict that the deceased was found on the way, but how he
came by his death there was no evidence to show.—The
other inquest was on the body of the lad Joseph Appleby,
18 years of age, who was also killed in the same colliery
only a few hours after the above occurrence. A boy
named Percival Dixon said deceased was a putter at the
colliery, and about 10 minutes past 11 o'clock on the night
in question he was called by a man named Owen Meagan,
and on going to the spot where the deceased had only a
few minutes previously been charging a tub in the Maud-
lin pit ho found him jammed fast between the tub and the
prop, quite dead. His head was frightfully injured. The
putters generally rode on the limmers of the waggons,
where they are quite safe, but it was witness's opinion
that the pony attached to, the waggon must have moved
whilst deceased was getting on, and so ho got jammed be-
tween the tub and the prop. A verdict of accidental death
was returned.