The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. ALLEGED ROBBERY BY A
BANNER'S CLERK.—Henry Russell Chalmers, who was,
up to Friday last, a clerk in the employment of Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., of Lombard-street, bankers,
was charged with having stolen, on the 15th inst., 11.,
and, on the morning of Friday, 2/. 10s., in the banking-
house. It appeared that recently various small sums of
money had been missed by the clerks in the banking-
house, upon the side where the prisoner sat. On Thurs-
day, the 16th inst., he went up to one of the clerks,
Mr. Edward Dixon, to speak to him, and his arm was
close against Mr. Dixon's money-till ; Mr. Dixon gently
moved himself away, as he did not like any one to be so
close to his money after the late occurrences. That after-
noon his money was U. deficient, which he could not
account for.

Mr. Edmund Gooding, another clerk, said that on the
15th inst. he met the prisoner standing by Mr. Dixon,
and saw his hand in the till. This circumstance made
him suspicious, and when, on Friday, the prisoner came
up to his side, and when he saw his arm near his till,
he asked him what he had got in his closed hand. The
prisoner refused to open his hand, upon which Mr.
Goodwin seized his arm, and a scuffle ensued. The pri-
soner went as far Mr. Mitchell's desk, where he opened
his hand, and there was nothing in it ; but in the mean-
time he had seen him lift his hand to his waistcoat
pocket. These circumstances he immediately communi-
cated to his employers. At night his account was 2/.
10s. deficient.

Mr. Bevan, one of the partners in the bank, said he
had closely questioned the prisoner, who at first said he
had nothing in his hand ; then he said he had a piece of
paper in it ; and afterwards, upon being told of the
contradictory statements he had made, he said the paper
was in his other hand. Upon this he was given into
custody, and 51. 10s. in gold and 9s. in silver were
found upon him. The prisoner had been 18 years a
clerk in the firm.

Mr. Hobler, for the prisoner, submitted that there
was no evidence against him. It was not an uncommon
thing for clerks to over-pay a check, and it was most
improbable that a person who had been a clerk in the
bank for 18 years should ruin his character by such con-
duct.

Alderman Hunter said, he considered that Messrs.
Barclay and Co. were perfectly justified in the course
they had pursued, as the case was one of great suspicion.
Taking into consideration, however, the prisoner's pre-
vious good character, his opinion was that the charge
must be dismissed.

GUILDHALL.—FRAIID UPON A FRENCHMAN.—
Francis. Bogard and Mary Clard were charged with ob-
taining goods to the amount of 51. of Mr. Julian Jan-
kowski, an embroiderer, of Paris, but at present residing
at the Commercial Hotel, St. Martin's-le-Grand.
About a fortnight since the prisoners came to the pro-
secutor at the hotel, and, after drawing from him the
purpose of his journey to London, they by representing
that they did a large amount of business in the sam e
line, and that they did business with Mr. Nicoll, of Re-
gent-street, to the amount of 10,000 f. per month, he was
induced to let them have cambric and embroidered shirt
fronts. He went to the prisoners' lodgings, in Oxenden-
street, for the money, and they showed him a letter pur-
porting to be from Mr. Nicoll, saying he was in Dublin,
but would return that day (Saturday), and pay for the
goods in question. The prisoners were packing up, as
if going to move, and they said they were going to live
in Berner's-street, but, having suspicions, they were
watched, and a cabriolet drew up, and, their luggage
having been deposited in it, they drove to the North-
Western Railway, where they were taken into custody.
On inquiry at Mr. Nicell's all that was known of the
prisoners was, that the male prisoner had been there
with some embroidered fronts for sale, but the price he
asked was so low. that they thought the goods had been
improperly obtained, and they declined to buy them. On
searching the prisoners' lodging, theletter purporting to
come from Mr. Nicoll was found, and 120 duplicates.
The prisoners were remanded, to make further inqui-
ries as to the duplicates, and to examine the property
they had with them at the railway station.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STEALING JEWEL-
LERY.—Thomas Joshua Williams, a clerk, of Melton-
street, Euston-square, was charged with stealing some
valuable jewellery, the property of Sir Robert Pigott,
15e, Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
Sir Robert Pigott stated, that on Friday, the 19th of
August, Lady Pigott, on her return from a walk, missed
from a table in her dressing-room two diamond rings of
great value, which she had worn at dinner the previous
day. A pearl necklace, with an emerald ornament at-
tached to it, was also on the same table; the neck-
lace remained, but the emerald ornament had been
taken away. The rings were worth 701., the emerald
ornament 1501. The robbery was immediately commu-
nicated to the police, and soon afterwards a detective,
named Ryland, succeeded in tracing the property into
the possession of the prisoner, who was taken into cus-
tody for the robbery. The prisoner was an entire stranger
to him.

William Henry Maidan, gilder, 419, Oxford-street,
said, in August last the prisoner came into his shop, and,
after making a trifling purchase, asked him if he pur-
chased enamels. He replied in the affirmative, and the
prisoner then said he knew a lady, who, being engaged
in an expensive law suit, had commissioned him to dis-
pose of several hundred pounds' worth of jewellery. The
prisoner mentioned that part of the jewellery consisted
of a valuable pearl necklace, which witness told the pri-
soner to bring, and he would see if he could buy it. The
prisoner then produced two rings, which he said cost the
lady 1301., and offered them for sale. Witness declined
to do so until he had taken the opinion of a person who
understood the value of the property. The prisoner pro-
posed to him to go together to some pawnbroker, and
ascertain how much would be lent upon them. Witness
agreed to this, and went with the prisoner to a pawn-
broker's shop in Drury-lane, where they were told that
not so much as 201. would be lent upon the rings. Wit-
ness came away with the prisoner, and ultimately offered
to give him 221. for the rings.
Police-sergeant Lockerby, S 22, said he heard of the
robbery on the 24th of August, and on making inquiry,
ascertained that two rings, part of the stolen property,
had been sold to Mr. Maidan. Having obtained a
clue to the prisoner's residence, witness went to 10,
Melton-street, last night, and waited until the prisoner
came home. Witness told the prisoner he was going to
take him into custody for stealing two rings from the
residence of Sir Robert Pigott. The prisoner said, "I
know nothing about the rings." The prisoner on being
further questioned, denied having sold any rings to
Mr. Maidan, or that he knew Mr. Maidan at all. Wit-
ness sent for Mr. Maidan, who, on seeing the prisoner,
said that was the man from whom he had bought the
diamond rings. On the way to the station-house the
prisoner asked Mr. Maidan if he meant to persist in
saying he had bought the rings of him ? Mr. Maidan
replied, he did. Witness said to the prisoner that an
emerald ornament was lost at the same time. The pri-
soner made no reply.
The prisoner merely said he should make no state-
ment, and was remanded for a week.

CLERKENWELL.—ASSAULT BY " A GENTLEMAN."
Mr. Frederick Lloyd, a gentleman residing at 27, Ton-
bridge-place, New-road, was charged with assaulting
Mrs. Charlotte Powell, wife of Mr. Powell, glass and
earthenware dealer, of 32, Judd-place, St. Pancras.
Mr. Thomas Wakeling conducted the defence.

Mrs. Powell, a lady-like and delicate-looking woman,
stated that her husband and the defendant were on
terms of intimacy. A few days ago, during her hus-
band's absence, Mr. Lloyd came through her shop into
the back parlour, and, asking permission to sit down,
seated himself on the sofa. Having made a few observa-
tions on business, he invited her to take a seat by his
side, and, on her expressing surprise and declining, he
jumped up and placed himself rudely in front of her as
she was about to make her escape, and he likewise
thrust his hand into her bosom. On indignantly rebuk-
ing him for such cowardly insolence, and asking him
how he dared to act so basely, he muttered out a sort
of apology, saying he knew she would not allow it, and
seizing her by the hand, shook it and went away.
Mr. Wakeling closely cross-examined Mrs. Powell, who,
however, was unshaken, and entered into the disgrace-
ful facts more minutely. She said she did not make an
outcry in consequence of being so confused, and, in con-
sequence of that confusion, he shook her by the hands
when leaving her. She was fully confident that his
conduct was, from the first, a wilful design, or why com-
mencehusband by soliciting her to place herself by his side upon
the sofa? On seeing her husband, she mentioned the
insult towards her to him, and he wrote to the defendant
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Mr. Powell then prayed a summary- e'nvirtion.
Mr. Currie said, he was satisfied the lady had spoken
the truth, and fined the defendant 205., or three weeks'
imprisonment. He would have gone higher if required.

MANIFESTO OF LORD LONDONDERRY TO HIS
TENANTS IN IRELAND.

Lord Londonderry has recently issued to his tenants
a lithographed circular, dated "Mount Stewart, Aug.
23," and signed " Vane Londonderry," of which, the
Northern Whig says, the subjoined is a faithful copy :
" Lord Londonderry sincerely regrets to find on his
return to Ireland that, notwithstanding liberal reductions,
very little progress has been made in the aggregate amount
of the large sum of rent and arrears due by the tenant-
farmers. Last year the rent and arrears due to Lord Lon-
donderry were 16,663/., and there has only in this year been
an amelioration of 2,229/., to which, let it be observed, the
half-year's gale should be added, if they were as English
tenants. It may be said that some stringent measures
have been resorted to, but the question is if, in justice,
much more ought not to have been done ? A long mis-
taken system of leniency and indulgence from the office,
with lands lower set, and greater pains taken by farming
societies, premiums, &c., have unhappily placed Lord
Londonderry m a far worse position than neighbour.
ing landlords. The public and the agricultural world
can form their judgments of the advantages that
have been afforded, and which the tenants possess
now on the Down estate ; and the question to be
solved is, why should this estate tlin be so much more
in arrear, in proportion, than any other ? Famine and
potato disease have long been the note of excuse ; but
this applies equally to all. The case of these enormous
arrears is now more peculiar than ever. The Govern-
ment of the day have decreed that Irish landlords
are to have their incomes taxed according to their
rental, not according to their receipts. If the occu-
piers of the soil will not pay the proprietor, the
landlord's position is pitiable ; and all the comfort
and instruction he gets from the Minister of the
Liberal Coalition Cabinet of the day is, forsooth,
that the Irish landlords are fools if they don't make
their farmers to pay them. Such is the lesson of the
Liberal rulers in England. It cannot, then, surprise
the tenantry that Lord Londonderry informs them that
this state of their affairs with him can no longer go on.
It is doubly necessary for their own sakes, as well as
his, that stringent and most energetic efforts should be
made, without a moment's loss of time, to clear off the
incubus that lies upon them. At Lord Londonderry's
advanced time of life he cannot hope for many
years, and at his decease ruthless executors would
rush in to collect the dues to the retiring proprie-
tor, before the heir conies in for his rents. It must be
evident to all that no indulgence would or could be
granted, and the property would be infallibly laid
waste and destroyed. These are reflections that
should come home to every tenant-farmer, for the
sake of his offspring, as well as himself. The fatal
mischief done by soft, foolish, and impolitic indul-
gence in the past years—fatal, because it comes in the
end to be as destructive to the tenant as it has long been
to the proprietor—must now, by every possible effort
be repaired, and Lord Londonderry has issued at ast
the most peremptory and positive orders that the
laws must forthwith take effect throughout his
estate, if a very large and sufficient portion of the
arrears are not brought to the office. It is to be un-
derstood, this order most particularly applies to the
arrears more than the running gale, as many tenants
think if they are forward with the latter it suffices
But this will not do now; times are changed, and justice
must at last be done to the landlord. Lord Londonderry
is ready and most happy to admit that a large portion ofhis
tenant farmers are excellent, honourable, right-seeing,
and active men ; but, on looking to thegeneral position of
his property, can it be admitted that, by any callse or
management, it should be 30,0001. in arrears to him ?
Lord Londonderry is too straightforward to care or wish
for any concealment. A list and roster are kept, and
can be shown at the office to every one demanding them
—the debtor and delinquent, and the honest and loyal
tenants.

STATE OF TRADE.

(Front the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.)

MANCHESTER, Sept. 16.—The progress of depression
in our market is very decided in the present week. The
rates for discounting bills in London have continued to
advance, and the difficulty of effecting discounts has be-
come greater. No doubt the Emperor of Russia's de-
cided rejection of the modified note of the great Powers
has contributed to this growing monetary stringency,
which, however, is mainly due to the continued efflux of
the precious metals, and to the state and prospects of
the European food market. The effect we experience is
a very much more marked abstinence from any attempts
at business on the part of all classes of buyers, than was
previously observable. It is, however, to be particularly
noted that there is nothing like alarm, or any pressure to
sell. Prices are undoubtedly lower, and a good deal of
irregularity is occasioned by contracts terminating in
many quarters, whilst considerable orders are yet unfi-
nished in the hands of other producers. A general per-
suasion, however, exists that the commercial interests of
the country are sound at the core, though there may be
a tendency to extension which needs to be restrained,
and which meets with its natural restraint in a diminu-
tion of the facility of borrowing capital.
BRADFORD, Sept. 15.—W00l is exceedingly bad to
buy from the grower, and equally difficult to sell to the
spinner, whose avocation is ruinously bad, and the con-
sumption is daily diminishing. Noils and brokes are
without change. Yarns—The business doing is steady,
but the prices are ruinously low, and the cost of pro-
ducing yarns is so great, both in material and labour,
that the spinners are inclined to stoppage of frames
where orders run out. Pieces—The month of Septem-
ber has not been active for the purchase of gray goods
of plain fabric. Those so engaged are unwilling to make
to stock, and as orders run out, looms are ceasing to be
employed ; the cost of worsted and cotton yarns is so
great, it is impossible to realise prime cost, and the
shortening of the supply is daily getting more general.
NOTTINGHAM, Sept. 15.—Since our last report there
has been a considerable number of lace goods from
various p'aces, which has caused a little extra stir in
the warehouses, but the benefit has not reached the
producer. All machine holders are complaining of
the want of business, and the extravagant prices now
required for both silk and cotton are such that it would
be madness for makers of brown goods to hold stocks.
Hence we hear of some who are contemplating stopping
their frames as the warps come off. The hosiery trade
is still in a healthy condition. Stocks are light in all
departments, with the exception perhaps of articles
made from round frames, of which description of goods
there appears to be an over production for the time, but
orders are continually arriving from Australia, and
buyers from the United States are making their appear-
ance amongst us. We are consequently looking for an
increased business. The price of the raw material is
much against us.
LEICESTER, Sept. 15.—The general demand continues
as good as we have reported for some time past, and
many kinds of goods cannot be finished fast enough to
complete orders on hand. Worsted yarns retain their
price, and are looking upwards. The wool market is
active, and prices are well maintained by the growers.

STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE.

(Flom the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)

LEEDS, Sept. 15.—We have no change of material
importance to report in the state of the cloth markets
this week. There was a good business done in the co-
loured cloth hall in most description of goods. Beavers
and Meltons, in blue and white, and brown and white
mixtures, were sold very freely at rather lower prices.
In the White Cloth-hall there was only a limited demand
for goods. On the whole, there has been a fair season-
able trade done this week in balk cloths. Stocks con-
tinue very low, and prices, on the whole, without any
material change. The very critical state of affairs in
the East, along with our monetary matters, has caused
buyers to be very careful in their purchases, so that the
trade in the warehouses has only been of a limited cha-
acter this week.

HUDDERSFIELD.—Our market has been much quieter
to-day, the pressure on the money market and other
causes having contributed to this rather sudden result.
There is no doubt that a great deal of the trade latterly
has been speculative, and now that there is something
to check anything speculative, the re-action will proba-
bly be very considerable.
ROCHDALE.—We have had a brisk demand for goods
at improving prices, more especially for kerseys and low
priced pieces. The wool market is steady, and prices
very firm.
BRADFORD.—Messrs. Harris and Co., bankers, have
issued letters to those who transact business with them,
warning them as there is a great drain of gold to go
abroad, that money will become scarcer, and advising
them to be cautious in their operations. The wool trade
is very dull ; looms and spinning frames are beginning
to stand, nevertheless there is a strong impression that
neither wool nor yara will be lower. A considerable
quantity of pieces have been sold, but it is generally
thought at unsatisfactory and even lower prices. During
the last-week or two cotton warps have advanced, espe.
cially those of doubled cotton.

IrALIFAx.----Ijiiei;;;;;;P;ienced another dull market
here to-day, both as to the manufactures and the raw
material. Stocks of combing wool, however, are only
light, and prices continue to be quoted without any
material variation. The demand is chiefly for the low
and middle qualities.