The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-16 00:00:00

ROBBING WINDSOR CHURCH

On Wednesday afternoon George Keith, a shabbily
attired young man, 19 years of age, who described
himself as a commercial clerk out of a situation, was
finally examined before the Mayor of Windsor and
two other magistrates, on the following charge of
robbery at Windsor Church.
The following are the circumstances under which
the apprehension of the prisoner was effected :—On
Saturday afternoon, on the arrival of the train that
leaves Datchet at 4 30, at Vauxhall Station, the pri-
soner, who was seen to alight from a first-class car-
riage, attempted to pass ,Mr. M'Carthy, the ticket
collector, at a speed that created suspicion, when he
was forcibly stopped, and asked for his ticket. He
said he had none, and was then told he must pay the
first-class care from the most distant station, which was
Datchet. He said he had no money, and admitted he
had got in at Datchet. The prisoner was then referred
to Mr. Rose, the station agent, when he said he was a
junior clerk in a mercantile house, but at present out
of employ, the last situation he had held being at a
house in Lower Thames-street. The prisoner was then
taken by the railway officers to the police station of
the V division, at Clapham, and given in charge to
Inspector Coleman for riding in a first-class carriage
from Datchet to Vauxhall, not having paid his fare,
and with intent to defraud the London and South-
Western Railway Company. The inspector observed
that the prisoner's pockets looked bulky, asked him
what he had got in them; and he answered " some
books." Mr. Coleman then took from his coat pocket
two prayer books, one with the name of Gould writ-
ten in it, which he had since ascertained to be the
property of the Rev. Mr. Gould, the Rector of Wind-
sor Church ; the other was the property of Mr. Jud-
kins, one of the congregation. The inspector, on
making a further search, found a large door key,
and on asking him where be got it, he said from
Windsor Church, and he took it out of the church
door on Friday afternoon. The inspector then took
off his hat, and found in it a hymn book, embossed
with a Bishop's mitre, and in it the words " Windsor
Church Communion Table." The prisoner was de-
tained on the two charges, and on Monday last taken
berore Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth Police-court, when the
officer from the railway station attended, and stated
that it was the intention of the Company to forego
their charge, leaving the prisoner to be dealt with on
the charge of robbery. The prisoner was remanded
.till Wednesday, and on that day given up to Inspec-
tor Coleman, who had previously been to Windsor,
and who, on arriving at the church, found the sexton
in the act of taking the lock off the church door, not
being able to find the key, which Mr. Coleman pro-
duced much to the astonishment of the aged sexton,
and it fitted the lock. The sexton said it had been
missed since Friday, when a soldier's funeral took
place. He (the inspector) also ascertained that two
of the books found on the prisoner had been taken
from the pulpit and reading-desk, and the third from
a pew. The prisoner, on his return to Windsor,
said he had been in custody before for stealing books,
and he had been charged by his own father. He had
been twenty-one days in Hatfield gaol for another
offence, and had been in custody for attempting to
take a lady's purse. The whole of the foregoing
facts were proved in evidence, and the prisoner, who
had declined saying anything, was committed for
trial at the Quarter Sessions for the Borough of New
Windsor.

AN AMERICAN GIANT.—From the Law Courts I
adjourned with Mr. Holl to a different scene—the Pu-
gilistic Rooms of Mr. Hudson, where I saw the young
giant, Freeman, exercismg with the gloves. I conversed
with him, and found him good-tempered and communi-
cative: ho stated that his age was twenty-one, and his
height seven feet, that he weighed 3201b5. and was fifty.
eight inches round the chest, and could lift 1,500 lbs.
Freeman used to be employed at the Circus, in carrying
a boy round the ring, and riding on two horses, and
th nigh he was so bulky, he could, throw a somersault.—
&r John Alexander's " Acadie,

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
UPPINGHAM, Nov. 14.—Wheat 36s to 41s; barley 25$
t 283; oats 18s to 245; beans 303 to 363 per qr. Butts
1 Id to 12d per lb; eggs 15 for Is.
LOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wheat 36s to 41s; barley 23s to
2G ; oats 135 to 17s; beans 30s to 35s per qr.
LoNG SUTTON—Return of sales for the week ending
Nov. 3—Wheat, 56 qrs, 4 bush, 1091 Ils 3d (average
38s 9d); barley, 000 qrs, 0 bush, 0001 Os Od (aver. 00s
0 I); brans, 0 qrs, 0 bush, 0010 s Od (aver. 00s Od); peas,
0 qrs, Cl 03 Od (aver. 00s Od.)

LYNN, Nov. 13.—Wheat, 36s 383 to 40s, fine 425;
barley. 24s to 265, fine 283 to 30s per qr.
ALFORD.—Aversges for the week ending Nov. 12:—
W heat 36s 94-d; barley Os Od; Oats, 14s Od per qr.
SLEAFoRD, Nov. 12.—Wheat, white 39s to 43s ;
red 37s Od to 403 Od; new Os to Os; barley 243 to 28s;
cylts, 14:: to IS.; beans, 28s to 36s per qr.
NEWARK, Nov. 14.—Wheat, fine white 44s to 473,
old 495, fine red 41s to 435, second 36s to 395; barley,
malting 28s 29s to 303, extra 31s to 003, grinding
2 t 8 to 275, foreign 23s to 245; oats, new 16s to 17s, old
22s to 245; beans, new 26s to 28s, old 363 to 375,
peas, white 38s to 40s, blue 40s to 425; rye 25s to 265;
tares 32s to 40s; malt 543 to 56s per qr.
ROTHERHAM, Nov. 12.—Beef, 5s 9d to Cs fd per
stone; mutton, 44d to sid per lb; stock sheep, OOs to OOs
per head.

DErare, Nov. 13.—The number of fat beasts to day
was small, and we may say the worst we have had this
year. There were but few sheep offered for sale, and
these generally of the middling quality. The supply of
fat pigs about an average. Beet made from 4id to sid;
mutton, 4id to sd; veal, 5a to 6d per lb; pigs, 7s 6d
to 8s per score. Rough tat, 3s 6d y,er stone of 141bs.
Hides, lid per lb. Calf-skins 2d to 3id per lb.
EDINBURGH, Nov. 14.—The quantity of wheat brought
fora ard this day was 1,023 qrs, being 181 qrs less than
List week. Top price 4s up, and 4d down on the average
—2lO qrs unsold. The quantity of barley brought for-
ward was 1,931 qrs, being 243 qrs more than last week.
Price on the top Is, and the average Is 31 down-
-375 qrs unsold. Ot oats we had 1,054 qrs brought forward,
or 532 qrs less than last week. Top price 2d up, and
the average is down— 54 qrs unsold. The quantity of
beans was 80 qrs, or 17 qrs more than last week. Price
on the top Is, and the average Is 8d down-26 qrs unsold.
Top of wheat ... ... 66 lbs 54s Od
••• Barley ... 56 lbs 27s 6d
... Oats 42ilbs 228 8d
... Beans ... 6341bs 33s Od
EDINBURGH SHEEP MARKET, Nov. 14.—The supply
of sheep this morning was 9,617, being 391 less than
last week. Sales dull, but good aged sheep sold at
better prices, while ewes and inferior kinds were sold
at late rates. At the close of the market a good clearance
was effected. Top price of the best mutton 5d per lb;
current, 4d to 4id; inferior, 3d to 3p.
DuNDEE, Nov. 12.—Wheat, 46s Od to 49s Od; foreign
ditto, 47s Od to 50s Od; barley, 22s Od to 233 Od; oats,
18s 6tl to 19s Od ; as and beans, 233 Od to 25s 6d.
Corr, Nov 14. Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s 6d; extra 14s 6d;
seconds, Ils Od to 12s 6d ' • households 9s to I ls; thirds, 7s to,
8. per cwt. Oatmeal 9s 6d to 10s; Indian meal 639 d to 7s; wheat—
meal, 9s 6d to lOsper cwt. Indian corn 125 s Od to 130 s Od perton.
Bran 31 lOs to 3/ 15s per ton. Hay—Farmers 25s Od to 31s; average
30s ; dealers 323 to 363 Od; average 34s per ton. Straw—Farmers
15s Od to 25s Od; average 20s ; dealers 25s Od to 27s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 60 ;
household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
93 per lb. Eggs-5s 6d to 5s 8d per hundred. Coals—
Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14s ; Best Neath
Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 4d to bid; veal 4d to
Od; pork 4id to sd; bacon 7d to 8d; sausages 5d per
lb. Hops 91 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ 5s ; Valonia 141 to 04 French
715 a; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per stone.
Hemp 341 to 35/ per ton. Fish— Swatch herrings 215 to 00s 9 • red
ditto 25s to '26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 00/ 00s to 001 per
ten. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s;
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 12s to 18s;
salted 133 to 18s per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2iel per lb.
Potatoes, white bid to 8d; Minions lld to 00d; Guano—
Peruvian, 11l 103; Ichaboe 9/ per ton; Tar—Archangel
19s par barrel.

RAILWAY SHA.KE MARKETS.-
YORK, Nov. 14.

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STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as
follow:—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase),
3 -Great Northern, Preference, 7 1/4 —➢lidland, .18 q4—North
British, 5/. Os. 6d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Prefer-
ence, 10.