The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-14 00:00:00

FRIGATES.

Guns. Men. Stations.
Leander 5O 500 Portsmouth.
Arethusa, 5O 500 Mediterranean,
Portland 5O 450 Pacific.
Winchester 5O 450 East Indies.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. —William Henry, William,
Mitchell, and Isaac Lowe, well-dressed thieves, who in-
fest the principal thoroughfares of the City, were brought
up in custody of Haydon and Brett, detective officers,
charged with having robbed a lady of her purse, contain.
ing 1/. 16s.
Haydon described the conduct of the prisoner, whom
ho well knew, as they passed along and attempted to
pick the pockets of several ladies. He observed them
surround a lady in Leadenhall-street in such a manner
as placed her completely at their mercy, so that the
only chance she had of escape was want of property. As
soon as they had felt her pockets, and found that she
had no money, they cleared the way for her, and looked
out for another, whom they treated in the same style,
without at all exciting her suspicion. After more
experiments, equally clever and unproductive, they
closed round a lady of the name of Hallam, and
suddenly Henry disengaged himself from his com-
panions and darted across the road quickly followed by
Mrs. Hallam, who called out " Stop thief." The alarm
was unnecessary, for Hayden collared Henry, who imme-
diately flung a purse of money, which he held in his
hand, upon the footboard of a cab, probably in the hope
that " Cabby" would serve him and himself by suddenly
driving away. Haydon, however, was not to be baulked
either as to the property or the thief, for he ran to the
cab, dragging Henry after him, and having secured
the purse, could not help tumbling into the mud, together
with the prisoner, who made the most desperate efforts
to escape. Brett, the moment Haydon started after
Henry, collared Mitchell and Lowe. Mitchell said to
him, " What are you taking us for, Brett ?" Brett said,
" For picking pockets." " Oh," said Mitchell, "we
have not be en in it. I have just been at the West End
betting 61, upon Jack Grant. Let us go, and you shall
see us no mare in the City to-day." Lowe had in his
pocket a key, which would open an ordinary pair of
handcuffs, which the officers believed he kept for the pur-
pose of putting it to that use, on the first occasion, for
himself or a friend.
Lowe—Lord ! he calls my innocent latchkey a hand-
cuffkeY• (Laughter.)
Mitchell—l know nothing of either of these gentle-
men, and of course I know nothing of the robbery. (A
laugh.)

Henry—There is a mistake in all this ; I neither saw
nor felt a purse, nor anything like it.
Mrs. Hallam said she distinctly felt Henry's hand in
her pocket, and saw her purse in his hand, and that mo-
ment the officer pounced upon him.
The Lord Mayor committed the prisoners for trial,
directing that their former convictions as thieves should
be produced at the trial, and expressed his belief that
they would not be allowed to trouble England any
more.

George Stevens„ a very tall beggar, who has the knack
of rolling himself up in a corner, so as to appear a lump
of deformity about three feet high, was charged with
being an inveterate mendicant.
It was clearly proved that he had in his diminutive con-
dition received alms of several persons, and that when the
officers appeared and accused him, he started up into his
usual proportions, and ran off with great velocity. The
cry of "stop thief," however, checked his progress, and
he was received into the arms of a policeman, who
tumbled along with him in the street, but held him
fast.

The policeman who charged the prisoner said the
moment he set off to run he begun to throw away the
pence and halfpence he had collected, and several little
boys tumbled in the mud in attempting to pick them up.
The Lord Mayor—Can this tall man reduce himself
to the size you mention?
Policeman—Certainly, my lord. He looks in the
street as if had not a bit of bone in his back at all, and
he can run under horses' bellies in the most surprising
manner. He is one of the worst beggars we have in
the City.
The Lord Mayor—l shall send him to hard labour in
prison for 21 days, where his diet will be attended to,
and he will get some work to do.
Committed.

STATE OF MADE.

Front the Manchester Guardian of Saturday. )

MANCHESTER, FEB. 11.—The American advices, re-
ported in our last, have rather strengthened that cautious
feeling which so promptly checked the upward movement
attempted in the early part of last week. The buyers
are more disposed than before to hold back from operating
in yarns and goods ; for they feel an increased distrust
of the present prices of cotton. There is, however, a
general steadiness amongst sellers, at the rates that were
obtainable a fortnight ago, although in some yarns the
buyer may here and there meet with a trifling advantage.
The amount of business is very limited ; but the contracts
in hand for the medium and lower counts of twist and
weft, as well as for most descriptions of cloth, prevent
the exhibition of any anxiety to sell on the part of spin-
ners and manufacturers. For 7-8 and 9-8 printers there
is a good demand; and the better qualities of the finer
yarns for home consumption differ from the lower num-
bers in being dearer than they were. Moderate sales
continue to be effected in domestics on the previous
terms. The Liverpool market is heavy. Prices are not
quoted lower, but the bias is slightly against buyers.
GI.I4GOW, FEB. 11. —The cotton market has been
quiet, but steady in price. Demand limited.
BRADFORD, FEB. 10.—Wool—The transactions in the
wool market, throughout the week, have been spiritless,
with no disposition to sell at a depressed price, all
parties being satisfied that the present consumption,
profitless of otherwise, will maintain the price, as the
supplies coming to market are scanty, and the choice
here daily getting worse. Yarns—The spinners are in
a bad plight ; wool is, and likely to be, dear, while
higher prices on yarns limit the consumption. Every
day the complaints increase of the bad return of empty
bobbins, and the consequent stoppage of the spinning
frames ; and as there is no inclination to reel yarns, bad
as it may be to let the frames stand, it would be worse
to reel it, and sell at the prices now current. Pieces—
The sales to-day are not marked by any great activity,
nor is there any relief presented to the manufacturers by
cheaper cotton or worsted, and from present appearances
nothing but lessening the production can bring about
a change in prices consequent on the cost to produce
goods.
NOTTINGHAM, FEB. 10.—There has been a considerably
increased demand for lace goods lately, consequently
stocks are very much diminished, and there is every
reason to suppose that this business will shortly be as
good as the hosiery, which_ continues uninterruptedly
prosperous. The price of yarn for each trade remains
without change, but there is every probability of lace
yarn being higher.
LEICESTER, FEB. 10.—The home demand has fallen off
considerably, the shopkeepers not being willing to give
advanced prices until their stocks are moved off. The
orders for Australia, Canada, and the United States still
keep the fancy hosiery, shirts, and drawers branches
well employed, and a good trade is doing both in
socks and gloves. Worsted yarns are very firm, and
spinners complain of not being able to realise the pre-
sent value of wools. The woolstaplers keep requiring a
little more and obtain a trifling advance according to de-
mand. Skin wools and short sorts are in much request.

CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGT-ADDRESS

TO THE QUEEIV.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, accompanied by the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, and several
other prelates connected with the province, together
with the Very Rev. Dr. Peacock, Dean of Ely (the
prolocutor) ; the Dean of Norwich, the Dean of St.
Asaph, the Dean of Salisbury, Archdeacon Harrison,
Archdeacon Hare, Dr. Spry, Dr. Wordsworth, and
other members of the Lower House of Convocation, will
wait upon her Majesty the Queen, by appointment, on
Wednesday next, when the following address will be
presented
" Madam,—We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, the
archbishop, bishops, and clergy of the province of Can-
terbury, assembled in Convocation, most humbly ap-
proach your Majesty with respectful assurance of loyal
affection to your Majesty's throne and person. And we
desire to add our sincere congratulations, that since the
last occasion when we enjoyed a similar privilege, it has
pleased Almighty God to bless both your Majesty's
Royal family and the country at large with a measure of
prosperity which demands our warmest thankfulness.
" Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to state
to your assembled Parliament, that your Majesty has
received assurances of a disposition on the part of foreign
powers to maintain those friendly relations with this
country which have already been prolonged beyond all
former example. And never, perhaps, was there a time
when the inhabitants of this land were more generally

prosperous, more willingly obedient to the laws, or more
loyally affected towards the throne. It is our earnest
prayer to Almighty God, that he will continue to our-
selves and extend to all nations the blessings of peace
and unity.

"Here we earnestly desire to assure your Majesty of
our deep sympathy with the sorrow which your Majesty
has so graciously expressed, a sorrow which is even
shared by foreign nations, for the loss which the empire
is now mourning in the death of that great warrior and
statesman, to whom, above all, it has been owing under
God's overruling Providence that we have enjoyed this
long and unprecedented peace and prosperity. We as-
sure your Majesty that we prize above the splendour of his
greatest exploits that high sense of duty which led him
to devote all his faculties to the service of his Sovereign
and his country, and to value his most glorious victories
chiefly as they secured a lasting peace.
"The subject, however, on which your Majesty will
expect us to feel the deepest interest is the state of re-
ligion in this land. And here there is much to encourage
whilst there is also much to lament, and much that we
hope gradually to amend. Great exertions have been
made during the last 30 years, with the desire of pro-
viding the means of spiritual instruction of a population
increasing beyond all former experience. Much has
been done by the awakened liberality of individuals, as-
sisted by recent legislative measures, towards enabling
the Church to fulfil the ends of her Divine mission.
Much, however, still remains to be done, and we assure
your Majesty that our heartiest endeavours shall be used
to relieve, wherever they exist, the spiritual wants of
the population. We feel a confident persuasion that
these our endeavours will be seconded by the pious and
ready co-operation of our lay brethren in the Church. In
connection with this subject we cannot but observe, that
although the population of England and Wales has been
doubled in the last half century, the number of English
and Welsh bishops remains nearly the same as it was
three centuries ago, a state of things to which we beg
respectfully to invite your Majesty's consideration.
" We trust, however, that if the Church has been un-
able to accomplish all that might be desired, it has yet
given no slight proof of activity and power. Fewer
churches were built during the whole of the last century
than are now consecrated to the service of God in every
successive year. Inadequate as are still the means of
providing Christian education for the increasing numbers
who require it, we thankfully acknowledge that great
efforts have been made for its extension and improve-
ment.

" And great and painful as are the privations of many
of your Majesty's poorer subjects in our crowded cities,
it must be a peculiar source of satisfaction to your Ma-
jesty that under the continuous and active encourage-
ment of your Majesty's illustrious Consort, institutions
have been formed, and are daily forming, to increase the
comforts of the labouring classes, and to improve their
moral and social condition ; and as all true charity has
its origin in religious principle, we trust that in this in-
stance also proof has been given of the influence of that
faith which it is the duty of the clergy to inculcate and
maintain amongst the people committed to their charge.
For whatever has been done or intended of good we de-
sire to give God the glory, through our Lord Jesus
Christ, being deeply conscious of the imperfections of
all our endeavours.

" In thus referring to the subjects which appear to us
especially to concern the well-being of the Church, we
cannot omit to speak of those deliberative functions of
this Convocation which many members of our Church
desire to see again called into active exercise.
" We do not, indeed, deem it advisable at the present
moment to petition your Majesty for your Royal licence
to transact such business as we may not enter upon
without it, but we think it our duty respectfully to ex-
press our conviction both that its legislative assemblies
are an essential and most important part of the constitu-
tion of the Reformed Church, and that the circumstances
of the present day make it alike more imperative to pre-
serve, and as far as possible to improve them, and more
particularly that the resumption of their active func-
tions in such manner as your Majesty, by your Royal
licence may permit, may at no distant date be productive
of much advantage. We know, indeed, that apprehen-
sions have been entertained that in such a case Convo-
cation might address itself to the discussion of contro-
verted questions of doctrine, and a spirit of stille and
bitterness be thereby engendered, fatal to Christian
charity, and dangerous alike to existing institutions and
to our visible unity ; and we, therefore, feel it to be
our duty humbly to pray your Majesty to receive this
our most solemn declaration of our hearty acceptance of
the doctrinal formularies and liturgical offices of the Re-
formed Church, and our assurance that we regard them
as inestimable blessings, and are resolved, by the help of
God, to transmit them uffimpared to posterity. And
further, that we not only recognise, but highly prize,
your Majesty's undoubted supremacy in all causes,
ecclesiastical and civil, over all persons and in every part
of your Majesty's dominions, as it was maintained in
ancient times against the usurpation of the See of Rome,
and was recovered and reasserted at our Reformation.
In connection with this grave subject we feel that your
Majesty may expect from us the expression of our solemn
protest against that fresh aggression of the Bishop of
Rome by which he has arrogated to himself the spiritual
charge of this nation, thereby denying the existence of
that branch of the Church Catholic which was planted in
Britain in the primitive ages of Christianity, and has
been preserved by a merciful Providence to this day, as
well as against many which have preceeded it ; and we
desire on
this, our first occasion of addressing your
Majesty since its occurrence, solemnly to protest in the
face of Christendom, and to lay this our protest before
your Most Gracious Majesty."

" DOING WELL AT THE DIGGINGS."—AIthe weekly
meeting of the Marylebone Board of Guardians on Fri-
day, Mr. Messer read a letter from Catherine Enright,
one of twenty-five workhouse girls sent to Australia in
1849 by the parish, which, after praising their happy
change, and thanking the guardians for it, thus con-
cluded :—" I need only add, that all the girls who came
out with me are married—(a lsaigh)—and most of them
got children. (Continued laughter.) I have got a little
boy, (Increased laughter.) We are all doing well,"