The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

MARLBRCY-STREET-(THIS DAY.)

EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.—Thomas Eagles, a
welt-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Hart wick,
charged with embezzling upwards of 581. belonging to
his employer, Mr. John Rogers, tobacconist, 392, Ox-
ford-street.
The prosecutor stated that the risoaer was employed
by him as clerk aid collector. It was also his duty to
take orders and collect in all moneys due to the estab-
lishment; and the utmost confidence was reposed in him
up to the 6th instant, when he absented himself from his
employment. Not making his appearance the following
day, witness suspected all was not as it should be, and,
upo❑ subsequent inquiry, ho discovered defalcations in
the prisoner's accounts to the amount of 581. Witness
saw nothing more of the prisoner until the 10th inst.,
when he met him in King's-read, Chelsea, and imme-
diately taxed him with robbing him. The prisoner
expressed his sorrow that things had taken such a turn,
and begged to have a private interview with prosecutor,
when, no doubt, all would be made right. Witness
accordingly made an appointment with the prisoner to
meet him between eight and nine the next night at
his (witness's) house. The prisoner came at that time,
and, in the course of conversation, he asked witness to
convert the money in question into a debt, and
pressed him much to do so, promising to pay
him 11. per week, till the whole amount was paid. Wit-
ness declined to accede to these terms, but told the
prisoner if he could find good and substantial security
for the payment, he (witness) would consider about
employing him again. The prisoner then left the house,
and, in consequence of further defalcations having been
discovered, prosecutor gave information to the police,
who succeeded in apprehending the prisoner at his lodg-
ings on Saul day night. The prosecutor could, if the
prisoner WAS remanded, bring several other charges
against him.
Mr. Ilaapwrcx remanded the prisoner until Thurs-
day re xt.
BENEVOLENCE.—The Magistrate requested our re-
porter to acknowledge the receipt of 11. 145., being the
proceeds of a sixpenny subscription for the relief of the
casual poor, collected by Master Charles Cook, of No.
8, Clifford-street, Bond-street ; from the • Goldsmiths'
Company, 201. (annual) ; and from E. C., the whole of
a Bank note for 51., to be applied to the same benevolent
purpose.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We have received Cape of. Good Hope papers
to the 3d of November inclusive, but the intelligence
they contain differs very little from that supplied by
many of the late arrivals from that colony. The
people at large maintained most firmly the " pledge;
but the Government had always obtained what they
required for convicts, troops, and every one else who
needed assistance. The Admiralty House is converted
into a cattle kraal, and the Court House into a
slaughter house. The Government makes its own
bread and biscuit, kills its own cattle, and procures
its own vegetables, without the aid of contractors.
Some fifteen or twenty individuals have incurred
grave censure by supplying Government, either
directly or indirectly, with different kinds of food.
Among the number are the names of Messrs. J. B.
Ebden and Co., Hendrick Morkel, sen„ Henry
Boast:, and Samuel Drake. The strictures upon
the conduct of Mr. Ebden have been exceedingly
severe, for, Mr. E. occupied the chair of the Anti-
Convict Association for a considerable time. He was
one of the first who advocated and insisted upon ap-
plying the " pledge" to the naval department at Si-
mon's Bay, and so impressed was he with the neces-
sity of resistance, that he even promised to die in the
cause of the people. This gentleman is now charged
with selling some 2,000 muids of wheat to the Go-
vernment. Ebden has written the following
letter in justification of himself:—
"Cape Town, Oct. 31, 1849.
" Sir—ln reply to your letter of yesterday, received
at a late hour last evening, stating that you had been
directed by the Anti-Convict Association to ascertain
from me the correctness, or otherwise, of a report
that I, or my firm, have either directly or indirectly
been supplying government department,, I hasten to
say, without recognising for a moment the right of
the association to c4techise me, or in any way to inter-
fere with any transaction of mine, in the ordinary
course of business, that neither I nor my firm, have
een supplying g )verrment departments;' but while
I make this statement without any mental reserva-
tion, I have no wish to disguise or to conceal from
the public the fact of my having sold a quantity of
wheat to Mr. Edmund Leahy, for cash, which wheat,
as I have been informed by Mr. Leahy, has sinee been
resold by him to the Government at a considerable
profit.
" From the 18th of June last, the day on which,
as one of a deputation from the Anti Convict Asso-
ciation, I presented an address to his Excellency
,the Governor, up to the present hour, I have had no
communication, either directly or indirectly, with the
Government, or any department of the Government,
regarding supplies or any other transactions of
business i and it is matter of notoriety that, since the