The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

John Williams, an apprentice on board the Earl of
Durham, was brought up on remand, charged with
stealing, in conjunction with several apprentices of
other vesseli, eight case bottles of Hollands, from the
Thomas King, now lying at the jetty in the London
Docks. _ _

It appeared from the evidence, which was taken at
some length, that one of the apprentices of the Thomas
King, a boy apparently not more than eleven years of
age, had been in the habit of inviting several other
lath on board and treating them to a Sunday jollifi-
cation. Amongst others was the prisoner, who was
caught in the fact of leaving the deck with a bottle of
Hollands on his person.
Mr. YARDLEY having beard some further evidence,
which went to show that no person was supposed to
be on board the ship at the time, expressed his sur-
prise that property to an unknown amount should be
left in so unguarded a state. It was an astonishing
fact that four or five lads should be getting drunk on
board a ship in the docks, and no one be cognizant
of it.

Inspector White, of the Thames division, said that
ship-keepers were generally employed to watch these
vessels, but they were sometimes left without any
keepers under the general superintendence.
Mr. YARDLEY—The general superintendence !
Don't tell me such stuff. Why here is a system
calculated above all others to make thieves and
drunkards of this class of boys. There is an utter
recklessness of property on the one hand, and of
morals on the other. Let this lad's captain be
instantly brought here.
Captain Grayson shortly after appeared, and,
giving the lad a good character, said the Earl of
Durham was a teetotal ship, but he could not account
for the lad's conduct when out of the vessel.
Mr. YARDLEY considered that captains having
apprentices ought to pay the same attention to them
whether on shore or on board. The prisoner does
not seem to be the most criminal in this matter, and
I will fine him 205., which I hope the captain will
pay, or he must be imprisoned for eight days.
Captain Grayson—l consider imprisonment the
best punishment which can be inflicted on him.
Mr. YARDLEY—I am astonished to bear you say
so. You have children of your own, and taking this
lad as an apprentice, you enter into the place of a
father over him, and it is your duty to feel and act
as one towards him, and to rescue him from the
contaminating contact of prison associates.
The captain, with considerable reluctance, ultimately
consented to pay the fine.
LAMBETH.

MariaAldred was brought up in custody of Sergeant
Gooff, 8 L, and charged before Mr. Elliott with steal-
ing two Si. Bank of England notes, the property of
Lieutenant Alfred Cooper, of the Honourable East
India Company's service. From the evidence of Mr.
Cooper, it appeared that he was stopping at the house
of his brother, in Oxford-terrace, Clapham, and that
on the night of the 13th of last month he missed two
Si. notes, which he received on that day, and inquiro
from the prisoner, who was then his brother's servant,
if she knew anything about them. She replied in the
negative, and he sent her to the person from whom he
had taken them, to get their date and number. On
her return she said she could get neither, and
added that he must have lost them out of doors. On
subsequently searching for the notes, Mr. Cooper
found a number of pawnbroker's duplicates sewn
up in a silk band, but did not disturb them, and
in a few days after he also saw some more
duplicates in the prisoner's workbox, one of
which related to a watch pledged fur 12s , and ano-
ther for a ring pledged at Mr. Barnett's, near the
Surrey Theatre. He spoke again to the prisoner
about the notes, when she replied that there was no
use looking for them, as she felt certain he must have
dropped them out of doors. He, Mr. Cooper, subse-
quently called at Mr. Barnett's, where the ring was
pledged, and then discovered that the prisoner had
passed a Si. note at that shop. The prisoner was
discharged from her situation on the 3d of the pre-
sent month, and on the 7th witness called at the
pawnbroker's.
Henry
Winch, shopman to Mr. Barnett, a pawn-
broker, in St. George's Circus, produced a Si. note
which he had received from the prisoner, and which
had all the appearance 'of being new when he took it.
The prisoner, when she passed the note, gave the name
of " Dyer," and her-address, 10, Kent-road.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that on
the evening the notes were lost, she went out on an
errand, and on her return she found them lying on the
kerb-stone outside the door.
She was fully committed for trial.
The Count De Taxa Dembecke, the Polish im-
postor, who stood remanded from Saturday on a
charge of vagrancy, was finally examined.
The prisoner, who is a stout person of about sixty
years of age, is one of the boldest of his class, for
after knocking with the utmost authority at the street
door and asking for the lady or gentleman of the
house, he without ceremony walks into the drawing-
room or parlour, as the case may be, and causes con-
siderable alarm to the female inmates. On the pre-
sent occasion he described himself as an old French
officer lately returned from America. Horseford, the
mendicity officer, said the prisoner was known to the
society since 1832, and had been repeatedly com-
mitted to prison as a common beggar.
Mr. ELLIOTT committed him for three months to
Guildford House of Correction.

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TUE NOVEMBER. A STERIODS.—These remarkable
meteors, which some years ego excited so much atten-
tion, appear to have become -matters of history." The
general.y clear state of the atmosphere would have been
very favourable for observing them fur some hours dur-
ing the early part of the last few evenings, but very few
have been seen. Two or three on the 1 lth inst., a few
more on the 12.. h, and a few on the lath, were, however,
noticed; their Limbers, however, being wholly insuffi-
cent to have attracted attention had not their former
periolical cecurrence on the corresponding nights of this
mmith led to an expectation Of their possible re-appear-
ance. One only of any brilliancy was noticed on the
13th. The general direction of the courses of those
seen cn that and the preceding nights was from S.E. to
N. or N.W.—Purham Advertiser.