The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-30 00:00:00

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'E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1865.

MARKETS—This Day.

in price, with a steady denia
on former terms.

J.I. Linseed cakes are quiet

rurntp,White,p.bns.2ta to 22s
Swede —8 —8
mustard, Brown —a

Carraway 33s 33s
Coriander its 24s
flempseed, per qr 4os 43s
Linseed,Enfor.sowing 70s 7. a
Crushing 6os 61s
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WESTMINSTER,

White, - _ —8 —s
Tares, Spring.— s —a
New winter, bush Os 10a
Canary, per ,quarter 44s 50s
Rye grass
Clover, Red Eng., ot. 56s 1)8s
White
Foreign 4Ss 67s

Baltic — —9 --ei

• Odessa —o —s
Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s
English ......£lO Os £ll Os
Foreign £9los Ili Os
Rape Cakes,p ton .£5 Os £slos
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 743 78s

WOOL,

THAMES.

Exhibition.

different gates, and the mob took advantage of this circum-
stance.

A DISGRACEFUL WlFE.—Mary Smith was charged with
violently assaulting and wounding her husband by striking
him on the temple with a dinner plate.
Richard. Smith, a pensioner from the army, who is em-
ployed as gate-keeper in Eaton-square, said that on Satur-
day afternoon his wife came home, and after abusing him
in the vilest terms, threw everything she could lay her
hand upon at him. Sho swore she would split his skull
open, and inflicted a wound with a plate on his temple.
Mr. Selfe inquired whether the woman was of a violent

disposition ?
The husband replied so violent that he was much afraid
of her, although he had spent a long period of his life in the
army. She would think nothing of taking his life, and had
for years embittered his existence. There was no keeping
her quiet.

Mr. Selfe—Has she ever been in prison ?
The husband—Repeatedly. This is the ninth time I
have been obliged to bring her here for her violent conduct
towards me.

Dennis, the gaoler—Last time he brought her here she
was committed for three months, and shortly afterwards,
before she had served her time, he bailed her, and she was
here again in less than a fortnight for again ill-treating him.
The husband—lt's true I bailed her out, but it was
through the clergyman at the prison, who wrote in her be-
half, and she promised to be quiet if I'd forgive her, but
she was not.

The wife said she wasn't bad in some respects, if she
as in others.-
Mr. Selfe ordered her to find good bail.

A FIVE TIMES CONVICTED THrEF.—Andrew Howell, a
powerful young man, and the terror of dock constables
and river police constables, to whom he has given much
trouble, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with steal-
ing 41bs. of pepper, the property of the London Dock
Company.
The prisoner was seen in the dock where he had no
business. He was watched to the gate at the Wapping
entrance, and instead of passing out at the wicket he got
over the crapt passing through the lock. He was pur-
sued and captured in a lug boat, and on being brought
on shore and searched 4lbs. of good clean pepper was
found upon him.
Mr. Paget asked why the prisoner should have gone over
the craft when he could, have passed out at the gateway,
and the reply was that it was done to evade the gate-
keeper, who would have stopped the prisoner.
A Thames police constable said the prisoner had been a
thief from his infancy, and had been summarily convicted
five times for stealing, on one occasion 41b. of tallow, the
second time for stealing 101 b. of coffee, a third time for
stealing 391 b. of cocoa, on the fourth for stealing 1 cwt. of
rice, and on the last occasion he was convicted by Mr.
Woolrych, at the Southwark Police-court, for being on the
river at 2 o'clock in the morning with intent to commit a
felony.
Mr. Paget asked if the pepper taken from the prisoner
could not be identified. _ _ •

The officer who arrested the prisoner said there was a
good deal of pepper in the London-dock, and that 41b.
could not be missed. He did' not know where the coffee
was taken from in the dock.

The prisoner said, in defence, that a man gave him the
pepper.
Mr. Paget said that was likely to be true, but it did not
absolve the prisoner; no one in the dock had any right to
take anything or give any of the property away. It was,
however, more likely that the prisoner himself had stolen
the pepper. The prisoner was an incorrigible thief, who
got his living by thieving. There were five convictions
against the prisoner, who was dangerous to society. He
would most assuredly commit the prisoner for trial if he
could, but there were some difficulties in the way. He
sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months,
and kept to hard labour, for the unlawful possession of the
pepper. He was sorry that the law did not authorise him
to inflict a heavier sentence. He had little doubt that be-
fore many weeks elapsed the prisoner would be brought to
that court for some other offence, and that his sentence in
the end would be penal servitude for life.

The Operative Coachmakers' ludustrial

But few persons outside the pale of the livery of the city
of London are aware of the fact that there exists a guild and

mystery of " Coach, or Coach-Harness Makers," and that

like other civic companies, it, too, has its City Hall, its
wardens and masters, with the usual compliments of
dinners and feastings. Of course the company is not so
old as those which date back their existence to charters

granted by the early Plantagenet kings, for the simple

reason that coaches and coach harness were not known in

those early days. About two hundred years since, how-
ever, King Charles granted a charter for the company, which
after a slumber of nearly two centuries has awakened up
to the necessity of doing something consistent with its

name, and the purpose for which it was established. Last

year the Company of Painters got up a very instructive
exhibition, illustrative of the improvements which had

taken place in their trade ; the Coachmakers have now
followed the example thus set ; and on Wednesday a dis-

play of the works of the operative coachmakers will be
open for the public inspection. The exhibition will be
held in the hall of the Coachmakers' Company, in Noble-
street, St. Martin's-le-Grand. The articles to be exhi-
bited are drawings, plans, designs, models, and superior
work of the operatives; also loans by noblemen, gentlemen,
collectors, coachmakers, and others, of works illustrative of
the art of coach building and harness making. Mr. G. W.

Hooper, the coach-builder, of the Haymarket, is the gentle-
man who has taken the most active part iu the manage-
ment and arrangement of the exhibition, and by his exer-
tions, in connection with the Society of Arts, he has suc-
ceeded in bringing together a very interesting collection.
The Operative Coachmakers' Benevolent Society at one
of their annual meetings were the first to suggest that a
special opportunity should be given to that particular
branch of trade, of illustrating in theory and practice its
own ideas of design and construction; and that for this
purpose periodical exhibitions should be organised, devoted
exclusively to the productions of that particular depart-
ment of trade under the superintendence of a committee
composed of both employers and operatives. The wor-
shipful Company of Coach and Harness Makers readily
gave, as a matter of course, its support and assistance, and
lent its hall for the purpose of the exhibition. It is under
the special patronage of the Marquis of Lansdowne,who had
undertaken to preside at its inauguration. The old hall in
which the exhibition is to be held will of itself, as a relic
of fernier times, be an object of interest. The
nature and scope of the exhibition will be best judged
of by the objects for which prizes will be given. The
Society of Arts give prizes to the amount of £2O for work-
ing drawings for a private carriage, showing the construc-
tion of its various parts; heraldic or ornamental chasing
in silver, brass, or copper, suitable for carriage or harness ;
and heraldic or other metal ornaments produced by electro
deposit, suitable for carriage or harness ornamentation.
Prizes are !given by the Worshipful Company of Coach
and Coach-Harness Makers and others for open and close
carriage combined ; town barouche, or under and C springs;
model of a light hospital carriage, to convey the sick poor ;
stuffed and quilted carriage cushion in blue morocco
leather ; drawing in pencil upon paper (half the full size)
of an under fore-carriage for elliptic springs, of usual or
original design ; landau pillar hinge ; specimen of panel of
carriage painting, either plain or ornamental ; finished pad
and bridle, for pair-horse harness ; the best covered car-
riage dash iron, sewed by hand ; working drawing of orna-
mental state lamp, suitable for a coach or chariot; model
of brougham or barouche lamp ; full-size working models
of furniture for pair-horse harness ; working drawings of
bridle fronts ; working drawings of bridle rosettes, of new
design ; working drawings of carriage door-handles, of new
design; hard and soft solder plating. Minor prizes are to
be given for working drawings for improved street cabs ;
heraldic painting ; decorative coach carving ; drawings
for an improved under fore-carriage for a brougham, com-
bining lightness and strength; ornamental carriage paint-
ing, imitation pedestal painting, sham caining; also for har-
monious combination of colours and perfection of surface ;
for the best method of detaching fallen horses quickly,
either in front or rear ; cushion, stuffed and quilted in any
material ; new mode of trimming a carriage door ; design
for a hammercloth, combining good effect and economy in
cost, and others.
The judges appointed are the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Viscount Torrington, R. C. Mansell Esq., S.E. Railway ;
Mr. Hall, of Long-acre ; Mr, Holloway, of Mount-street ;
and Mr. Rock, of Hastings. .
Among the articles exhibited are models and drawings of
early state carriages, royal and civic, of the old mail coach,
now added to the curious relies of a past day ; omnibuses
in which we look in vain for any great improvement since
the days of the first Shillibeers ; railway carriages, as
constructed on the Brighton Railway ; very curious speci-
mens of old heraldic painting ; old and new patterns of
coach embroidery ; tasteful arrangements of hammercloths;
and drawings and designs for carriages of every description.
There are three very apparently practical inventions for
releasing horses, when fallen, from carriages and harness;
a mode of covering the step of a carriage when not required
to be used, so as to keep it free from dirt and mud ; a mode
of raising and lowering landau heads. In the matter of
lamps an immense amount of ingenuity has been expended.
The wood carvings and the drawings are very numerous,
and form interesting portions of the exhibition.—Observer
,d,

FlRES.—During last night and thiS morning
a number of fires occurred in the metropolis. The premises
of Mr. Marsden, a looking-glass maker, of Plough-street,
Whitechal were destroyed ; the workshop of Mr. Burr,
pe ,
likewise a—looking-glass maker, of Mintern-street, New
North-road, and the house adjoining, were also destroyed;
Mr. Phillips, a tailor, of High-street, Poplar, had his house
destroyed in a similar manner; and there were two other
fires at Bethnal-green and Shoreditch, each attended with
considerable damage.