The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-18 00:00:00

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This Home was opened in April, 1864. It was designed to
take ill the little ones whose charact• r and circumstances
disqualify the for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tendar
age precludes their admission to the Rtfuges. Such are those
who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are
those who have been deserted by their natural protectors and
left to beecome Idle wanderers. Such are those whose
parents may have at one time or other received parish relief,
and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose
parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who
train their children in the same path. Such are those whose
evil associations have already had their painful effect, and
must lead them to a life of crime and misery.
I IThe necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi-
dent from the police statheics which show that in London
alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of
age, have been apprehended for various offences. 79 of whom
were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis-
charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too
young to punish. though not too young to learn the beginnings
of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but.
for the timely hell. afforded by such an Institution, must
otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli-
ance and self-help be permanent burdens to the State.
fhe Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established
to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the
one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour
to make them useful members of society.
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th it suitable clothing, their hour* of play and amusement,
and their singing class. They are treated as scholars; every
morning is devoted to echo ,1 work—reading, and writing.
and cipherimf, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional
lessons in objects and other subjects. But they are also
trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early
period in life, earn their living" by the sweat of their brow,
they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after-
noons are occupied with various industrial occupations—
making brown paper bags for bankers, and white taper bags
for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any
who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending
the c othes, &c. Some assist the master in the garden,
digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By
degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing
and sweeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots,
knives, Ate. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active
working life.
There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of
age to 10. There is room for nearly 10 ', and the Committee
would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait
for the necessary subscriptions.
The Committee feel constrained to p'ead for those who
cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir-
cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they
ask—is it right to make a widow and her family paupers for
life because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs
wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to
tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not
hip her to put one of them into a Home, but that thee must
ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the bat we can for the
little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it
doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when
these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into
the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "Inn away,"
none of us slum d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe them ?
Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the
other side, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's
keeper ?"
The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. Be election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till
they are 11 years of age.
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Forms of application for the admission of children may be
had at the Home, and of the lionoraty Secretary,

THE ROLL OF THE LORDS.—The roll for the Session
has been issued. Beginning with three peers of the
Blood Royal—the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cumber-
land (King of Hanover), and the Duke of Cambridge, it
passes on to the Primate of all England, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Archbishop of York, the Irish Archbishop (Dub-
lin) on the rota this year, the Lord President of the Coun-
cil, the Lord Privy Seal ; and then follow, according to
their rank, the dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, bishops,
and barons who have seats in the House of Peers. The
roll differs little from that of 1864. No new temporal peer
has been created; the list still ends with Lord Houghton.
The name of Lord Wentworth (by courtesy Viscount
Ockham) now appears; and that of Lord Dunsany as a re-
presentative peer of Ireland is also new. The list of spiri-
tual lords is changed, first by the death of Bishop Davys,
of Petersborough, bringing the new Bishop of Ely into
Parliament, and also by the customary change in the rota
of Irish bishops attending Parliament this Session, the
Bishops of Meath, of Killaloe, and of Kilmore being the
prelates now in attendance. By the addition of the two
new names above mentioned, the number of temporal peers
was raised to 424 at the commencement of this Session; the
spiritual lords are always 80 in number. This is counting
Lord Auckland as a spiritual lord only, and not twice over.

Yesterday Mr. John Geo. Barry and Mr. Alfred Barry,
brothers, wharfingers, carrying on business at Meriton's-
wharf, Dockhead, Bermondsey, and three-of their servants
named Thorne, Arnett, and Sedgwick, were brought be-
fore Mr. Alderman Stone (sitting for the Lord Mayor), at
the Justice-room of the Mansion-house, charged on remand
with conspiring together to defraud the Royal Exchange
and other of the principal insurance offices in London of
large sums of money.
From the position of the Messrs. Barry, who are well
known as a firm of wharfingers on the Thames in a large
way of business, the examination excited great interest,
and the court was crowded. The Lord Mayoi-,, who is un-
derstood to be a member of one of the insurance offices
alleged to have been defrauded, was precluded from hear-
ing the case in his capacity of a magistrate, but he was
present during the inquiry, as were other of the members of
the Court of Aldermen. Many of the directors, managers,
and secretaries of the insurance offices concerned were also
in attendance. The brothers Barry are both members of
the Baltic Coffeehouse, and Mr. John Geo. Barry was until
the last few days a director of the East London Bank.
Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Poland were counsel for the
prosecution, instructed by Messrs. Humphreys and Morgan,
solicitors of Neavgate-street ; Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and
Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Me§srs. Tilleard and Co., solici-
tors, Old Jewry, defended the Messrs. Barry ; Mr. Sergeant
Tindal Atkinson, instrnita by: Mr. Moss, the prisoner
Thorne ; and Mr. "Lewis, Jun., the prisoners Arnett and
Sedgwick.
It may be recollected that in June last a fire took place on
the premises of Messrs. Barry, destroying several warehouses
and much valuable merchandise, and that another still more
disastrous occurred on Nov. 25. The merchants who had
commodities warehoused there had insured them against fire
according to custom, and the wharfingers had insured their
premises. The prisoner Thorne was the principal clerk of
the brothers Barry, and acted for them in their occasional
absence. Arnett and Sedgwick were wharf foremen in
their employ. All three had been in their service for some
years ; one of them for as many as 25, it is said, and they
are persons who have borne good characters up to the
transaction in question. Early in January last, while Mr.
Roberts, an assessor of fire losses for some of the principal
insurance companies, was officially concerned in making in-
quiries at Meriton's-wharf as to the exact quantities of com-
modities destroyed by the November fire he had his suspicions
strongly excited that portions of the commodities, and prin-
cipally jute, which had been warehoused there, and afterwards
returned by Messrs. Barry to the insurance offices as having
been burnt was still in existence and secreted on the premises.
He made instant inquiry on the spot with others, and proceeded
to take an account of the stock, the result of which was to
confirm his suspicions. At first suspicion hardly attached
to the principals of the firm, and the three men, Thorne,
Arnett, and Sedgwick, to whom it was supposed particularly
to point, were given into custody. A man named Josiah
Fage, who had been employed as a labourer at Meriton's
wharf until shortly before Christmas, and had then been dis-
charged by reason, as he alleged, of the work there becoming
slack, was the principal witness against them, and according
to his evidence' the three men in• question had been in
various ways concerned in destroying the identity of a
quantity of jute saved from the fire, but which had been •
represented to the fire-offices as having been destroyed. He
alleged, in effect, that the jute in question, which had come
there by the ship Onward, was moved about from place to '
place on the premises after the fire ; that the tallies were
taken off the bales and burnt, and that others, indicating
that it had arrived by a vessel called the City of Dublin,
were substituted, all for the purpose, as he believed, of
destroying the traces of it. He hinted, too, that a quantity
of jute alleged to have been destroyed in the Juno fire was
put into a barge called the Cat, and after being kept knock-
ing about the dock for a couple of months was relandod at
Meriton's-wharf. In the course of his examination he more
than once stated that in his opinion the prisoners Thorne,
Arnett, and Sedgwick wore not to blame, acting, as he be-
lieved they had done, under the orders of their principals, and
that Messrs. Barry " knew all about it." •On cross-exami-
nation he admitted that just before he was discharged from
Meriton's-whart one of the Messrs. Barry had told a man
in their service to shove him down stairs for some insolence,
and that a few years ago, while acting as treasurer for a
gang of working men in St. Katharine's Docks, he was
charged at a police-court for embezzling £lO belonging to
them, his defence being that he had lost it. Eventually,
from information tending, as the prosecution believed, to
rearm parts of tha stateamonterwf 11.4.,..71t3ie5a rake, tiro
Messrs. Barry themselves were 'arrested on Tuesday last,
on warrants charging them with complicity in the alleged
conspiracy to defraud, and they underwent on that day a
preliminary examination.
Yesterday the examination as effecting the whole five
prisoners was again resumed, the principal witness being a
clerk named Still, in the service of Messrs. Barry. He had
been summoned at the instance of the prosecution, and gave
his evidence with some apparent bias towards the prisoners,
and especially his masters, in whose employ he had been for
eight years. He described minutely the way in which cer-
tain lists of saved goods and of injured and destroyed goods
had been prepared in the office of his employers, after the
fire in November, from the cargo-ledgers principally, •for
circulation among the merchants who had had commodities
stored in the various warehouses at Meriton's-wharf. The
manner of their preparation, he said in effect, appeared to
him simple and regular, and not calculated to excite sus-
picion on his part. He also proved the signatures of Mr.
John George Barry to all, and of Mr. Alfred Barry to some
of the warrants or returns made to the fire-offices of the
quantities of merchandise destroyed in the fire, on which
the insurance money was claimed by the various merchants
to whom they belonged. In cross-examination he stated,
in substance, that the stock was taken roughly and hastily
after the fire, and lists of it made, under pressure both of
the merchants on the one hand, and of the insurance com-
panies on the other, all of whom were anxious to know
the extent of their various losses, and that the wharf was
in a state of confusion consequent upon the fire. It also
appeared that though the stock had been taken under that
pressure, in a day or two, certainly not more than a week,
a firm of professional assessors and valuers had been en-
gaged
for a month or five weeks in a more deliberate
examination, which they had not yet finished.
At first the charge against the prisoners turned upon the
alleged attempts after the fire, to destroy the identity of a
large part of a cargo of _jute which came by the ship On-
ward ; but on Tuesday last, and again
was given, though as yet incomplete, yesterday, evidence
as to a similar treat-
ment of a cargo of jute by the ship City of Sydney, and of
cargoes, or part of cargoes, other commodities which had
arrived by the vessels Avoca, and the Mary Stenhouse.
At the close of the examination Mr. Sergeant Ballantine
made a pressing appeal to the Bench to admit the brothers
Barry to bail, and took occasion to complain that the
prosecution was being conducted with a degree of vindic-
tiveness scarcely consistent with a
regard for public jus-
tice. There were, he said, eminent merchants present
ready to give bail for the appearance of his clients on any
future day to the amount of £50,000, if it should be
re-
quired, and he asked the presiding Alderman to act on his
own sense of justice in the matter, regardless of any further
opposition on the part of those conducting the prosecution,
and whose aim in urging the refusal of bail appeared to be
to subject the Messrs. Barry to a kind of slow torture.
A similar appeal was made by Sergeant Tindal Atkinson
and by Mr. Lewis, jun., on behalf of the prisoners Thorne,
Arnett, and Sedgwick.
Mr. Alderman Stone, after hearing Mr. Giffard in reply,
declined to admit any of the prisoners to bail, but in the in-
terest of the prisoners, ho urged the counsel and solicitors
engaged in the prosecution to conduct it to a conclusion
with the least possible delay.
I The prisoners were thereupon remanded until Monday at
1 o'clock.

Five Missing Ships—Great Loss of Life and

Property.

Yesterday no fewer than five ships were posted at
tilheoyydh'savase beeniniss losting which leaves but little doubt that
with every soul belonging to
them. One of the ill-fated vessels was the Castle
Howard, Captain Lamp, a fine almost new ship
of nearly 1,000 tons burden, which left Shanghae,
with a valuable cargo of tea and other merchandise,
for- London, as far back as the 25th of July, and
has not since been heard of. Her officers and crew
must have numbered between 20 and 30 persons.
She was built at Sunderland in 1858, but belonged
to London. Another large vessel called the Oriental
Queen, Captain Walshaw, sailed from Sunderland
for Shanghae in the early part of the summer last
year. She passed Anjer on Sept. 3, and nothing
has been heard of her since. No doubt she was
overwhelmed in a typhoon in the China seas and
foundered. Another vessel, named the Beaufront,
Captain Cozen, sailed from Sunderland for Hong-
Kongwas reported to have been spoken with in the China
and Shanghae in the spring of last year, and
Seas on Sept. 6. Since then no tidings have been
received, and it is feared that she also perished in
some fearful storm which swept that part of the
ocean. The fourth missing vessel is the Andrea
Mignany, which left Sulina in the Black Sea for the
United Kingdom, and cleared Gibraltar on Nov. 16,
and that is the last that has been heard of her. The
fifth ship is the Victoria, from Calcutta to Shanghae.
She was off Amoy on Sept. 10, but had not reached
Shanghae up to Dec. 23.

MANCHESTER, Feb. 17.—The news brought by
the steamship Canada on Wednesday morning of
the intended meeting of the peace commissioners at
City Point, near Richmond, produced a sudden and
powerful impression on the Liverpool cotton mar-
ket, its depressing influence on prices naturally ex-
tending to this market. The news by the succeed-
ing steamer partly dissipated the alarm first created,
but our yarn market has by no means recovered.
There was a little more firmness yesterday, but to-
day we have had a very flat market for shipping
yarns, with but little business. Sales have been
made at id. to 2d. per lb. decline on Tuesday's
prices, but even at this sacrifice few ship-
pers seem disposed to operate to any extent,
and business closes quiet, with a declining ten-
dency. For home trade yarns there has been
next to nothing doing. There is such an absence
of business that it is difficult to say what the actual
decline of prices has been during the week, but
quotations to-day are as low as on Wednesday, and
fully ld. to lid. per lb. below what would have been
taken on Tuesday. In cloth prices have somewhat
recovered from the effects of the news brought by the
American steamer,- and-although there -has-not been
much business done, save in one or two exceptional
cases, pietty large offers have been made. At low
prices some considerable sales would probably have
been made, but manufacturers have generally been
pretty firm in resisting the decline implied by such
tenders. Holders are mostly demanding the rates
of Tuesday, and those prices have been pretty nearly
attainable to-day. The business to-day has not been
either large or general ; one or two houses have
made some fair sales of India goods, but the trade
generally report a rather quiet market. Many of
the principal buyers appear still disposed to hold
back ; one or two have been bidding rather boldly,
but the prices offered have been low, though forlarge
quantities, and have not led to transactions. Ma-
nufacturers are pretty well engaged to order, and
this is probably the cause of more steadiness in
prices than might have been expected.
NOTTINGHAM, 17th.—There was a limited attend-
ance at this Exchange-hall to-day. The demand for
lace yarns was very limited, and only a retail trade
was done at the rates of last week. The demand
for hosiery yarns was also limited, and prices under-
went no material change. Silks were higher. For
brown nets the demand was again very quiet, and
prices remained much the same as heretofore.