The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-26 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY.)

John Taylor, aged 8, and Thomas Styant, aged 9, Wen{
placed at the bar charged with stealing several pieces
ornamental brass from shop-fronts in Regent-street,
Piccadilly.

It appeared from the evidence of Mitchell and 31
two active officers of the A and C divisions, that on tv
previous afternoon they were on duty in Regent-street'
when their attention was attracted to the two prisonert:
who were standing close to the shop front 264, 'Wells,/
street, and after watching them for some time they °,./
Taylor unscrew three pieces of brass from the wind°o
plate ; Styant at the same time covering him. As .090
as he had got it off they ran away, followed by tb
officers, who caught them in Oxford-street, and on seare,o
ing them the brass produced was found under Taylor t
cape. iother piece of brass, stolen from the shop-fr°„
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of Mr. Jones, 43, Piccadilly, was also found upon 1111
The prisoners when taken into custody, admitted tilo
they had previously stolen some pieces of brass fr°
other shop fronts, which they had sold to a marine.stors
dealer named Nimrod Soffe, of 22, Robert-street, Ore
venor-square.
Mr. Hardwick in strong terms condemned the condo
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of certain marine-store dealers, whom he considered butt
out temptations to such lads as the prisoner to coral°
robberies, in order that they might fatten up on the pr
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duce of their thefts. The boys were then handed over "-
their parents, and the constables directed to go at one'„ and search the man Soffe's premises.
After a short time the officers returned with the man
in custody, and Mitchell informed the magistrate Kati
he had searched the prisoner's premises, but found 043
brass. He then went into a back parlour, and fount
about 301bs of wax and mould candles, and among 9.
them six altar candles, about six feet high; about three
hundredweight of horse hair, and a great number °(
parliamentary blue books, quite new. Witness ask° t
him where he got the property from, but as he could 0°
give any satisfactory account as to how the articles ealii9
into his possession, witness took him into custody. t
Mr. Thomas Cross, who appeared for the defendan
addressed the Court at some length, contending Ott
there was not the slightest evidence to warrant him In
detaining his client.
Mr. Hardwick thought different, and remanded the
prisoner for a week, but agreed to accept bail, himee,',
in 1001., and two sureties in 801. each. Bail not being
forthcoming, prisoner was locked up.

THE WONDERS OF OMNIBUS TRAFFIC. —There
daily plying through the streets of London 3,00 onn''
buses, each carrying 300 passengers daily, or 2,0001;
week, which makes for the entire omnibuses 6,000,0 u,
a-week, or the enormous number of 300,000,000 passe°,
gers a-year. Supposing each passenger paid a tliref!,
penny fare, the amount expended annually upon 0011110
buses would be 3,000,0391. An omnibus coachin%
driving an omnibus 60 miles a-day—which is below t",
average—although he may not drive a greater distance
than five miles each journey, yet passing the Wild
ground over and over again, he would in the course
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seven years perform the extraordinary distance rs,
173,880 miles, or 521,640 miles in twenty-one Ytif
which several coachmen have done without varying der
route—say from Chelsea to the Bank. And yet, 791
all this labour, and all this travelling, although each
they carry in their hands, from eight a.m. to ten poibe
hundred and a half weight (the supposed weight of rot
strain upon the horses,) they have not, but in very s,
instances, saved sufficient to pay their funeral expense :
The manual labour employed comprises the follow
—Coachmen and conductors, 6,000 ; horse-keefoepl,
3,000 ; occasional drivers and hangers-on, 2,000 ; tO-
- The value of the metropolitan] omnibus esorth
lishments is .estimated at 962,0001., viz., horses Iv od
sOO,OOO/. ; omnibuses, 300,000/. ; harness, 6,000/. for
sundries, 2,000/. The expenditure figures 787,0001.001,
corn, 225,0001. for straw 750,0001. for hay, and 1,
Ivor
for horse-shoeing ; to which are added 156,000/. for `ling
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and tear, and 180,000/. for harness, exclusive of stab
and its accidentals. The Government duty, at .." pe
mile, amounts to 393,7561.