The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1854,

on the day before, when it was arranged that he should
surrender to his bail, and, in fact, he (Mr. Bussell) was
there to appear for him, and was at a loss to conceive
why he did not attend.
Mr. Norton observed that one of the persons who had
bailed the accused was the relieving officer of the parish
of Newington, and the other bail was represented to be
equally respectable, and therefore he did not hesitate to
take their recognisances for the accused.
Mr. Emmerson, the inspector who, with Tapping, an
active constable, has the case in hand, said that Mr.
Bennet, the relieving officer of Newington, was the pri-
soner's brother-in-law, and Mr. Evans, of the Blackfriars-
road, the other bail, was also a relation of the accused.
Mr. Norton was somewhat surprised that Francis did
not appear, for at present the case was merely one of in-
quiry, and no charge had been substantiated as far as he
(Mr. Norton) could see.
Mr. Bussell said that in his opinion there was no legal
offence, whatever might be said of the moral imputation,
and his advice to his client was that of meeting it. He
then requested that it might be allowed to stand over
to give him an opportunity of seeing his client.
This was conceded, and so the matter stands.
Mr. Francis New, the managing director to the Age
Insurance Office, in Chancery-lane, attended, and ad-
dressing Mr. Norton, observed, that in the report of the
charge against Joseph Francis which appeared in the
different journals on Saturday last, his name was men-
tioned in such a way as might mislead the public, and
create a belief that he had been in correspondence with
the persnn whose conduct was at present under investi-
gation. The fact, however, was, that he, Mr. New,
knew nothing whatever about Joseph Francis, nor had
he ever corresponded with him in any way.

THAMES.—Thomas Jackson, 19 years of age, who
refused to give his address, was charged with robbery
and assault.

On the previous evening, Mr. J. D. Ward, a grocer
and oilman, of No. 3, St. Anne's-place, Limehouse, was
in a room at the back of his shop, when he saw the pri-
soner near the door, and, suspecting his intentions,
watched him. Soon afterwards the prisoner was seen
leaning over the counter with his hand in the till, which
was partly drawn out. Mr. Ward immediately rushed
out of his room into the shop, and asked the prisoner
what he was doing, to which he replied, "Nothing
at all," and attempted to leave the shop. Mr. Ward
stood before him to prevent his doing so, and the
prisoner struck him a violent blow on the mouth,
which caused him to stagger, and he lost a good deal of
blood. The prisoner was about to rush out of the shop
when Mr. Ward seized him by the collar, a scuffle
ensued, and Mrs. Ward came to the assistance of her
husband, and received a violent blow from the prisoner.
A lad then came to the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Ward, and
the prisoner knocked him down and threw himself upon
him. A desperate struggle ensued, in the midst of which
Hunnisett, a police-constable, entered the shop and pulled
the prisoner off the lad. Jackson struck at the constable,
but the blow did not take effect, and Hunnisett tripped
him up and secured him. The constable afterwards
picked up four shillings and a fourpenny piece on the
floor of the shop. The prosecutor missed money from
the till, and he could swear to the fourpenny piece, which
he had taken a short time before the prisoner entered
the shop. It was bent, and had a slight erack on the
edge. Mr. Ward doubted the genuineness of the coin
when he took it, and, after he had examined it, put it
into the till.—Mr. Ingram committed him for trial.

HAMMERSMITH.--James Lawrence, aged 12 years,
living with his parents, at No. 2, Church-court, Ken-
sington, was brought up on remand, charged with steal-
ing several pieces of meat from the shop of Mr. Thomas
Worley, a butcher, of Church-street, Kensington.
The robbery was committed in a very impudent
manner. On 'Wednesday morning week last one of the
prosecutor's men, missed from the shop a large piece of
beef, weighing about 'Gibs., and thinking that the thief
would pay them another visit of a similar kind, he kept
a sharp look-out for him on the next morning. About
half-past seven o'clock the prisoner, not seeing any per-
son in the shop, went in and walked towards the block.
He stood against it for a minute or two, and he then
opened a white cloth which he had brought with him,
and wrapped in it a fore quarter of mutton. He then
made his way off, but was stopped before he had gone
far. He was given into custody of Roseblade, a con-
stable of the T division, who afterwards went to his
parents' lodgings in Church-court. He found the mother
in bed, having recently been confined, and in the cup-
board he discovered about 81bs. of the beef, which the
prisoner confessed to have stolen on the Wednesday
morning. He also found some of the beef in a saucepan,
and the mother said in answer to his questions that her
boy brought the beef home, but she did not know where
be got it. The father was a carpenter, and was in the
habit of leaving home early in the morning, but he
always returned in the evening.

Roseblade now stated that a loin of mutton was stolen
from the shop a few days before, and the prisoner ad-
mitted to him that he also stole that.

The father of the prisoner was then called, and in
answer to questions put'to him said that he had four
children, and the boy in the dock was the eldest. The
prisoner was absent during the day, and led them to
suppose that he was at work at the butcher's.
Mr. Paynter told the father that he ought to have
made inquiries as to whether his son's story was true,
and not to have allowed himself to he taken in by a pre-
tence of that sort. He could not help believing that the
occupiers of the room in which the beef was found must
have known where it had come from.

A young woman, named Elizabeth Benson, who is
employed as nurse to the prisoner's mother, said the boy
pretended to be at work 'at a butcher's, and his mother
told him he ought to bring home a piece of meat.
Mr. Paynter strongly animadverted upon the conduct
of the parents, and said he considered the prisoner had
been most grossly neglected, and the-father seemed to
be quite an unfit person to take care of him. He had
intended to take the father's recognisance for the good
behaviour of the prisoner, as he had done in many other
cases, but after what he had heard, it would be quite
idle of him to take his security for the good conduct of
his child, when he was more to blame than the prisoner.
He should send the boy to prison for one month, with
hard labour, but, under the circumstances, he should
not order him to be flogged. He should order the wit-
nesses to receive the costs in the case, and he was only
sorry he could not make the parents pay them.
The prisoner was then locked up.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20.

A rumour has got into circulation to-day, that Rear-
Admiral Martin, the recently appointed Superintendent
of this dockyard, is about to be appointed to command
a squadron afloat, and that Rear-Admiral Chads (just
promoted) is likely to be his successor. We give these
reports for just what they are worth.
The Apollo troop and store ship, Master-Commander
Johnson, has filled up to her deck beams with stores,
and her crew has been paid wages to-day at the dock-
yard. She takes out supernumeraries, also, to the fleets
in the Black Sea, and sails to-morrow.

The Princess Royal, 91, screw, Captain Lord Clarence
Paget, is now about 200 only short of her full comple-
ment of 850. What she has are very good hands, many
being volunteers from other ships. She is now rattling
and blacking down preparatory to painting.
The Caesar, 91, is having rigging prepared for her in
the rigging house in the dockyard, and her masts are
also being got ready with all despatch.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 20.

Her Majesty's frigate Thetis, 38, Captain Augustus
L. Kuper, which arrived yesterday from the Pacific,
left at Rio Janeiro or the 26th of November, the sloop
Star, 8, Commander Frederick P. Warren ; the paddle-
wheel steam-sloop Stromboli, Commander Robert Hall ;
the Brazilian frigate Constitution, and the United States
frigate, Savannah, 50. bearing the broad pennant of
Commodore Salter. The brigantine Bonetta, 3, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Charles Wake, was passed on the
26th, entering the harbour. On the 12th of December,
in lat. 14 S., long. 28 NV., she spoke the schooner Young
Marquis, of and from Glocester, outward bound.
The Thetis has brou4ht home Lieutenant Campbell, of
the Star, Mr. Mitchell, clerk of the Dido, and 16 mer-
chant seamen from various ships at Valparaiso and
Callao, prisoners for mutiny and insubordination. No
changes among her officers have taken place during her
absence—three years and seven months. Her first lieu-
tenant, Mr. Arthur Sansum, died suddenly on the 12th
of April, at Whymos, on the coast of Mexico, and Mr.
W. R. Plummer, clerk, was drowned at Vancover's
Island, on the 22d of August, 1852. Two distressed
British seamen died on the passage home—one on the
10th, the other on the 17th inst.
Letters dated December 24, on board the Arethusa,
50, Captain Thomas M. C. Symonds, state that the
frigate was shortly to leave for England. A great
number of the crew had volunteered to go with their
captain, on the Ist inst., on board the screw steam-ship
Agamemnon, 91.
Upwards of 20 shipwrights have obtained their dis-
charge from the Devonport Dockyard, in order, it is
said, to enter the service of private builders on the banks
of the Thames.

WOOLWICH, JAN. 20.
APPOINTMENTS.

Captain George Elliot (1840), to command the James
Watt, 90, screw steam-sloop of 600 horse power, com-
missioned this day at Devonport.
Captain Robert Harris (1849), to command the Illus-
trious, 72, commissioned this day at Portsmouth.
Midshipman— A. H. Gilmour, to the Princess Royal,
90, at Portsmouth.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

WHITEHALL, JAN. 18.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Ho-
nourable Spencer Horatio Walpole ; the Right Honourable
Joseph Napier ; Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn,
Knt., Her Majesty's Attorney-General; Sir Richard
Bethell, Knt., Her Majesty's Solicitor-General ; Thomas
Emerson Headlam, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel ;
Vincent Scully, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel ; Robert
Lowe, Esq., Barrister-at-Law ; William David Lewis,
Esq., Barrister-at-Law; Henry Drummond, Esq. ; John
Evelyn Denison, Esq. ; Robert Wilson, Esq. ; and Wil-
liam Strickland Cookson, Esq., to be her Majesty's Com-
missioners for considering the subject of the registration of
title with reference to the sale and transfer of land.