The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-110IISE.—Elizabeth,M‘MilIan, domestic
servant to Mr. Tyler, butcher, of Bishopsgate-street
Without, was brought before the Lord Mayor, for final
examination, on the charge of having stolen 161. in gold
and silver, a shawl, and other goods, the property of her
master.

Finnis (the detective officer), upon being informed of
the robbery, went to the lodgings of the prisoner, and
found there the stolen shawl. She acknowledged that
she had stolen the whole of the property described.
Mr. Tyler identified the shawl. The cash-box had (he
said) been broken open, and the prisoner left her place
immediately after the robbery, without having given no-
tice, leaving some of her clothes behind her.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

BOW-STREET. —An elderly respectable-looking
man, who gave the name of Edward Langley, and de-
scribed himself as private secretary to a gentleman, but
afterwards admitted that his name was Fores, and that
he was secretary and treasurer of the Camden-town
Auxiliary Association in connection with the City of
London Mission, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Henry, charged with stealing two newspapers from a
coffee-shop.

The prosecutor' Henry Wheeler, stated that he kept
the Commercial Coffee-house, in Chandos-street. At
about half-past 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening witness
saw the prisoner in the coffee-room, and, having had oc-
casion to suspect him previously, watched his move-
ments. Shortly afterwards he saw him fold up two
newspapers and place them in his pocket ; and when he
left, witness followed him into the street and taxed him
with the robbery. The prisoner then took the papers
out of his pocket, and said, " Oh, Mr. Wheeler, here
are your newspapers," at the same time throwing them
down. Accordingly witness gave him into custody.
The officer produced a number of prints, tracts,
papers, &c., which he found upon the prisoner. The
latter included a list of subscriptions to the Pratt-street
Auxiliary Association.

The Prisoner—Believe me, your worship, I cannot
think what possessed me to take up these papers. I
deny that I ever took any before. I had plenty of money
to purchase them if I wished to do so. I had been
drinking with a friend, and my mind must have been
affected.

Mr. Henry—Can you refer me to any person who
knows you, to speak to your character ?
The Prisoner—l could do so, but it would be my rain.
If this goes forth I am a lost man.
Mr. Henry—But it must go forth. All I know of you
is that you have committed a robbery, and I shall com-
mit you for trial at once if you decline to state where
you live. I see by this subscription list that there are
several contributors of a guinea each to some religious
association. Can you refer to any one of them ?
The Prisoner—That list was the result of a meeting at
the chapel of the Rev. Mr. Rogers, in behalf of our mis-
sion. They do not know me except as a servant in the
cause.

Mr. Henry—Then you decline to give any reference ?
The Prisoner (after a pause)— Then I must confess that
my name is not Langley, and it would be idle to say that
I was drunk. I was not intoxicated. My name is
Fores. lam very well known—even in this neighbour-
hood—as a respectable man. I cannot account for this
folly.

The Prosecutor—Last Monday week I saw him sepa-
rate four pages of the Weekly Dispatch from the other
portion of the paper ; and after he was gone the pages
were missing.
The Prisoner No, no ; I never read the Weekly Dis-
patch. Never, believe me.

- Mr. HenryL-I shall remand you for a week, in order
that the officer may make some inquiries about you.
The prisoner begged his worship not to detain him,
but he was committed.

HAMMERSMITH.—Ambrose Milian, an Italian
organ-grinder, was charged with having unlawfully
played an organ, after having been required to depart on
account of illness.

Mr. David Pearce, of No. 24, Kensington-crescent,
deposed that his wife was lying at home dangerously ill,
and her physician had directed that she should be kept
very quiet and free from any disturbance. For some
time past the prisoner and seven or eight other organ-
grinders had incessantly annoyed them by playing their
organs almost the one after the other every day, in front
of a gentleman's house two doors from his residence ;
and, in fact, they were never free from them. He be-
lieved the gentleman's family were out of town, and the
organ-men were encouraged by the servants. He had
repeatedly requested them to go away on account of his
wife's illness, but they took no notice of his request, and
very often played the more. He sent his servant to the

prisoner o* the previous day when he was playing, but
he refused to go, and said he was not in front of wit-
ness's house.

Mr. Beadon inquired of Mr. Pearce if he requested the
prisoner to go away that morning when he was playing ?
The prisoner replied in the negative ; he merely passed
him, and on seeing a constable he at once gave him into
custody.
Mr. Beadon could not convict the prisoner, as no re-
quest had been made to the prisoner to cease from play-
ing his organ on account of illness, which was necessary
for the witness to have done, under the Act of Parlia-
ment, before he could punish the man.

The Witness said he had requested the prisoner on a
former occasion.

Mr. Beadon said that was no use. He ought to have
requested the prisoner to leave off playing on that morn-
ing, before he gave him into custody. If he had done
soy and the prisoner had only played for half a minute
afterwards, he would have inflicted the full penalty of
40s. This was a case where a fine ought to have been
imposed, but he was prohibited from punishing the pri-
soner in consequence of the complainant not having
requested him to go away on account of illness.
The prisoner addressed his worship in Italian, to the
effect that the complainant did not request him to leave
off playing* and he was not to know there was illness in
his house unless he (the prisoner) was told.
Mr. Beadon said it was quite clear from the observa-
tions of the prisoner that he was perfectly well ac-
quainted with the law upon the subject, and that he
could speak English.

MUNIFICENT BEQUEST TO THE CITY OF
LONDON CBABITIES.

A munificent bequest has just been distributed amongst
City charities by the trustees of the will of Miss Hard-
wick, late of Chesterfield, in Derbyshire. This lady's
father was in early life a surgeon in the mercantile navy,
slid for some years before his decease carried on business
in Bishopsgate-street as a wholesale chemist. Miss
Hardwick, his only daughter at his death, withdrew her-
self entirely from the world and lived an eccentric life
in a small cottage, where her property was permitted to
accumulate, as she did not expend upon her establish-
ment a hundred a year. She died about a year ago, in
the mayoralty of Alderman Hunter, leaving the bulk of
her property to the Lord Mayor of London, and the
chamberlain for the time being to act with her executor,
Joseph Shipton, Esq., an eminent solicitor at Chester-
field, as trustees, to be distributed amongst such of the
charities of the City of London as they might in their
discretion select for the purpose. It was thought that
it would be necessary to invoke the aid of the Court of
Chancery by a friendly suit to have trusts of the will
recognised and expounded, but two of the trustees being
solicitors, they were not unacquainted with the con-
sumption of time and money that too often has at-
tended the progress of that mysterious proceeding
" a friendly suit," in its way through the sinuosities
of that celebrated court. The executor, therefore,
opened a communication with the next of kin of the
deceaSed, furnishing them with the names of the respect-
able medical man who had attended the lady for some
years before her death, to satisfy them of her medical
capacity at the period the will was made, and up to the
time of her decease. The relations were as unwilling as
the trustees that any portion of her intended munificence
should be diverted from the channel in which she had de-
sired that it should flow ; it was, therefore, determined
to administer the fund in conformity with the construc-
tion to be put upon the will by Mr. Bethell and Mr.
Baggelley, the counsel retained by the City Solicitor to
advise for the interest of all parties as to the limits which
would properly bound the discretion of the trustees in
the selection of the charities, leaving it to them to de-
termine the proportions in which it should be distributed.
The executor immediately placed at the disposal of the
trustees the sum of 18,0001., the apparent amount of
the residue, after the satisfaction of trifling debts and le-
gacies left by the testators, and the following is a list of
the charities elected as recipients, with the amounts
awarded to each. In consequence of advertisements,
several times repeated in the daily and other papers,
numerous applications were received from several most
meritorious charities, with which the trustees would
have been glad to comply. It was, however, the opi-
nion of counsel that it was the intention of the testator
to restrict her benefactions to charities within the city.
The trustees have been occupied several days in making
the requisite investigations previously to the execu-
tion of their award, when, fortunately for the chari-
ties, a letter, addressed to the deceased lady, was re-
ceived by the executor, to the effect that if she
would send a guinea to the writer of the letter, she
" should hear of something to her advantage." Upon
application to the writer of the letter, whose conditions
of beneficial intelligence were immediately complied
with, he gave information which led to the discovery
that there was a sum of 2,2501. four per cent. stock in
Miss Hardwick's name, with 27 years dividend, trans-
ferred to the Commissioners for the Redemption of the
National Debt. The authorities of the Bank of England
gave every facility in their power for the recovery of the
amount, which (about 4,0001.), as soon as the usual
facilities can be complied with, will be transferred to the
trustees. The execution of the award, in consequence of
the receipt of this piece of good news, was delayed, and
under the advice of counsel, the sum in hand has been distri-
buted amongst the various charities, and the form of the
award has been obtained so as to include the appro-
priation of the 4,0001. as soon as it shall be received
amongst the various charities in the same proportions as
the sums they have already received. It is one of the
peculiarities of the case that if either of the three trus-
tees had died before the execution of the award, or if
they had disagreed in the mode of distributing the money,
the whole amount would, in the opinion of the lawyers,
have lapsed in the next of kin, as the power to select
the charities and to apportion the money having been
vested in the discretion of the three trustees, it was
necessary that it should be the discretion of the three
conjointly, and the want of unanimity could not be sup-
plied by any other authority :
EDUCATIONAL CHARITIES.-Marine Society, 550/. ;
Christ's Hospital, 1,100/. ; City Sunday School, 1101. ;
Royal British School (boys), 110/. ; London British
School, 110/. ; Christ's Church School, 110/. ; Trinity
Church Infant School (Gough-square), 1101. ;
Fiald-
lane Ragged School, 2201. ; Juan-street Wesleyan Sun-
day School, 1101. ; National School (City of London),
5501. ; City of London Ragged School, 2201. ; Fetter-
lane Infant School, 110/. ; Angel-alley Sunday and In-
fant School, 110/. ; London Protestant Charity School,
110/. ; Sunday and Day Schools, Poultney Chapel, 2201.;
St. Ann's Society Royal Asylum, 1101. ; Cripplegate li
Infant School, 1101. ; Barbican Chapel Day School,
110/. ; Salter's-hall Chapel Sunday School, 1101. The,
following were apportioned 100 guineas each :-London
Society Protestants' School, Silver-street Sunday School,
Plumtree-court Ragged School, New Broad-street Day
and Infant School, St. Swithin's Sunday School, New-
court, Old Bailey Sunday School, Bishopsgate Chapel
Girls' Day and Sunday School. 200 guineas each were
granted to the Weigh-house Chapel Schools and the Fox-
and-Knot-court Day and Sunday Schools.
MEDICAL CHARITIES.-Hospital for Diseases of the
Chest, 5501. ; St. Bartholmew's Hospital, 1,1001. ; ditto
Samaritan Fund, 3001. ; ditto ditto Maternity Charity,
2201. ; Royal Maternity Charity, 330/. ; City Truss So-
ciety, 3301. ; Royal General Dispensary, 330/. ; Western
City Dispensary, 2201. ; City Dispensary, Queen-street,
3301. ; Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, 5501. ; Far-
ringdon General Dispensary, 330/. ; Metropolitan Free
Hospital, 550/. ; Metropolitan Dispensary, 330/. ; Lon-
don Opthalmic Hospital, 5501. ; Seamen's Hospital
Society, 5501. ; Relief of City Kitchen, 2201. ; Sheriff
Fund, 2201.
WARD SCHOOLS.-Bishopgate-without, 3301. ; Cripple-
gate-without, 2201. ; Farringdon-within, 2201. ; Tower,
2201. ; Bridge, Candlewick, and Dowgate, 2201. ; Cole-
man-street, 2201. ; Coleman-street Infant School, 110/. ;
Bishopsgate-street Within, St. Ethelburga Society
Society School, 2201. ; Aldersgate-street, 2201. ; Broad-
street, 2201. ; Cornhill and Lime-street, 2201. ; Vintry,
2201. ; Aldgate, 2201. ; Castle Baynard, 2201. ; Cord-
wainers' and Bread-street, 2201. ; Langbourn, 2201. ;
Billingsgate, 2201. ; Queenhithe, 2201. ; Farringdon
Without, ; St. Sepulcre's Parochial Girl's School,
2201. ; St. Bride's and Bridewell Precinct Parochial
School, 2201. ; St. Sepulchres Boys' School, 2201. ; St.
Sepulchres Infant School, 110/. ; St. Bride's and Bride-
well precinct Infant School, 110/. ; St. Dunstan-in-the-
West Parochial and Infant School, 2201.

NARRATIVE OF ♦ JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD. By
F. Gerstdecker. 3 vols.—Starting from Bremen for Ca-
lifornia, the author of this narrative proceeded to Rio,
and thence to Buenos Ayres, where he exchanged the
wild seas for the yet wilder Pampas, and made his way
on horseback to Valparaiso across the Cordilleras--a
winter passage full of difficulty and danger. From Val-
paraiso he sailed to California, and visited San Francisco,
Sacramento, and the mining districts generally. Thence
he steered his course to the South Sea Islands, resting at
Honolulu, Tahiti, and other gems of the sea in that
quarter, and from thence to Sydney, marching through
the Murray Valley, and inspecting the Adelaide district.
From Australia he dashed onward toJava, riding through
the interior, anti taking a general survey of Batavia, with
a glance a Japan and the Japanese. An active, intelli-
gent, observant man, the notes he made of his adventures
are full of variety and interest. His descriptions of
places and persons are lively, and his remarks on natural
productions, and the phenomena of earth, sea, and sky,
are always sensible, and made with a view to practical
results. Those portions of the narrative which refer to
California and Australia are replete with vivid sketches ;
and indeed the whole work abounds with living and
picturesque descriptions of men, manners, and locali-
ties.—Globe.

MOB BY STRONG-MINDED WOMEN.--The Cleveland
Herald (U.S.) says that on the Ist inst. some 30 women,
well backed by gentlemen, proceeded to the grocery of
Anthony Jacobs, in Ashland, and asked him to discon-
tinue the sale of liquor and the use of a bagatelle-board,
which had enticed many of the youth and some of the
married men from their homes. He refused, and the
ladies chopped his bagatelle-table into kindling wood
and emptied his liquors into the street. They then
visited another grocery and a tavern, both of which
capitulated.

POOR LAW RELIEF IN IRELAND.--According to a re-
turn to Parliament (yesterday published) there has been
a decrease of pauperism in Ireland on the quarter ended
the 31st December last, compared with the corresponding
quarter of the preceding year. There has been a de-
crease in the numbers for the last five years ending at
the same quarters. In the four provinces of Ireland the
ordinary expenses as poor relief in the quarter ended the
31st December last were 187,0901., while in the same
period of 1851 they were 200,4281. In the last quarter
of 1848 there were as many as 585,106 in the relief lists ;
in the like period of 1849 the number was reduced to
290,015; in 1850, to 200,533; in 1851, to 166,225; and
in 1852, to 141,822. The weekly mortality per 1,000
inmates of workhouses in the December quarter last was
2.4 ; in the like period of 1848 it was 6.6

STATE OF TRADE.

(Front the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)

MANCHESTER, March 29. —The American advices of
the 15th inst. report the total receipts at the ports to be
2,536,000 against 2,015,000, showing an excess of
521,000, or 1,000 more than by the last packet. The
week's receipts are 103,000 against 106,000. Next
week the comparison will be with 120,000 last year,
which will occasion a falling off. The stock, deducting
the 20,000 destroyed by fire at New Orleans, is 775,000
bales. During the week the New York market had
been inanimate, and pieces rather in favour of buyers ;
but the southern market has continued steady, and the
business at New Orleans large. From Mobile, on the
11th, the market was, however, telegraphed as quiet,
and the freight to Liverpool had declined to Qd. per lb.
No telegraph so late had been received from New
Orleans. Accounts to the 26th ult. reporting a dull
state of things in Liverpool and Manchester, with a de-
cline of id. in the former and rather more in the latter,
were received at New York on the 14th instant, the
day before this packet left that port. Monetary appear.
ances in the States were somewhat more favourable.
Yesterday; without these accounts, the Liverpool mar-
ket exhibited some increase of the steadiness which cot.
tons from " good midiling" upwards had previously
shown ; and to-day the market is telegraphed as rather
dearer, with a good business. In our market, the some-
what increasing firmness of last week has been rather
strengthened by the transatlantic advices, and by the
hardening tendency manifested in Liverpool. The buyers
of yarns have not been able to supply themselves
on quite as favourable terms, in most counts and descrip-
tions, as they could have done last week. Spinners are
firmer than they were, and slightly dearer in some kinds.
In the department of goods, there has been a greater
inquiry for India and China shirtings and madapollams,
and some fair purchases have been made in 40-inch
shirtings weighing from 61b to 71b. Yarns suitable
for the East are also more inquired after. In printing
cloths there is no change. It is, we understand,
considered certain that the makers of domestics will
agree, at the meeting to be held on Thursday, to con-
tinue the working of only four days a week for an-
other month ' • and is one reason why so extremely
little yarn has been bought to-day for their class of goods.
The India and China mails are telegraphed to-day from
Trieste, and trade is stated to be "brisk " at Bombay
and Calcutta. The same statement was made on the
last occasion, but the fact turned out the reverse.
ROCHDALE, March 28.—The market to-day has been
rather quieter, and less amount of business transacted,
which arises principally from the unwillingness of the
manufacturer to take the low prices offered by the mer-
chants. There is little change in the wool market ; the
demand continues steady, and prices rather on th ad-
vance.

MACCLESFIELD, March 20.—We have but little al-
teration to note since our last. The demand for silk
manufactured goods keeps full pace with production, and
no accumulation of stocks is perceptible. The prices ob-
tained are also more satisfactory. Thrown Silks—The
market is extremely bare of all descriptions, so that
manufacturers now find difficulty in supplying their
wants with the finer qualities. Raw Silks—The mar-
ket remains very firm. The deliveries to the trade con-
tinue on a very extensive scale.

HALIFAX, March 26.—Very few merchants or buyers
of any description have visited our piece hall to-day, and
almost the only kind of goods asked for was grandrell
crapes ; but the prices offered were so low as not to
cover the cost of production. Yarns are purchased
more freely, under the conviction that the rates cannot
be lower ; but the current prices are far from being re-
munerative to the spinner. Fair quantities of wool are
changing hands, and the quotations have still an upward
tendency.
HUDDERSFIELD, March 29.—The demand for woollens
of all kinds still continues good—the middle and lower
qualities are in greatest request, for which a little advance
in price is readily given, scarcely as remunerative to the
manufacturer as he would wish, taking into considera-
tion the serious advances in the price of wool, oil, and all
the raw material. To-day's market has been quiet, which
may be attributed to the scarcity of goods, manufacturers
having none on hand ; also to the day being a holiday,
as at such times we never have an average business done
either in slack or busy seasons. There has been a rumour
of a strike amongst the woollen hands, but as yet in
this district there has been no move of this kind, though
handloom weavers have obtained an advance ; we believe
that all other kinds of hands are still working at former
rates.

BIRMINGHAM, March 28.—The metal market during
the past week has been languid ; copper, however, sold
at less than 1401. per ton, but except for immediate use
the manufacturers are not purchasing. Tin remains
stationary at the last high quotations of 1235. per cwt.
There is, however, no scarcity of the article in the mar-
ket, and consequently no impediment to the execution
of orders. All Britannia metal and common tin articles
have greatly risen in price. For the Australian market
consignments are becoming limited to bond fide orders.
The enormous quantity of every description of goods
sent to Sydney, Melbourne, Port Philip, and Adelaide,
Auring the last twelve months, is said to be overstock-
ing the markets, and competition in the auction marts
has reduced prices.—Aris's Birmingham Gazette.