The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Sir John Cope's bds., Wed., Bull Marsh Court; Fri.,
Crookham Street-10}.
Craven hds., Wed., Stipe; Fri., Hare and Hounds;
Sat., Langley Gate-10t.
ork and Ainsty hds., Thurs., Pill Moor, Brafferton;
Sat., Crockey Hill.
Sinnington hds., Fri., Woolah-9.
Cleveland hds., Thurs., Dunsdale Bridge-10i.
Betide hds., Wed., Thorpe Perrow; Fri., Hornby
Castle.

Durham County hds., Vied., Old Acres Lane End;
Fri., Elton-10i.
Bement harrs., Wed., Appleby; Sat., Inglewood. Inn,
Old Carlisle Road.
Wigton harrs., Wed., Bethel.
Lord Elcho's hds., Wed., Kilham; Fri., Budle; Sat.,
Newbiggin.

Mr.-Watson's hds., Wed., Warkworth ; Fri., Nun-
riding-10i.
F. B. hds., Thurs., Stonemasons Arms-101.

ESTIMATE OF THE NUMBER OF CHARGEABLE LETTERS
DELIVERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN EACH
YEAR, FROM 1839 TO 1848 :*-

Annual Increase.
Year. Number of Per centage
Letters. Number of reckoned on
Letters. the Number
for 1839.
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1839 76t millions.
1840 169 ditto 93 millions. 123 per cent.
1841 196 k ditto 27i ditto 36 ditto
1842 208 i ditto 12 ditto 16 ditto
16 ditto
1843 220} ditto 12 ditto 28 ditto
1844 242 ditto 21 39 ditto
ditto
1845 271 i ditto 29 ditto
1846 299 fr ditto 28 ditto 37 ditto
1847 322 ditto 22} ditto 30 ditto
1848 329 ditto 7 ditto 9 ditto

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* The Estimate for 1839 is founded on the ascer-
tained ss
pfoera.koninegw, week in
is
fo
far the
ymonthear
end-
ingom ,
pence was made the
• um rate. The estimate for each tallied numberber
December 5, at which. time four
maxim °f
strictlylet
subsequent year
is founded on the ascertained number of Letters for one
week in each calendar month.—(Vide Return to the
House of Commons, No. 539. 1848.)
t This is exclusive of about six and a half millions
of franks.

DEITII OF THE EARL OF BUCSINGHAMSHIRE.—•
We have to announce the death of the Earl of Bucking-
hamshire, which took place on the Ist instant. The
deceased Earl as born in 1789, and was consequently
in his 60th year at the time of his death. He has lett,
no issue. The title descends to the lion. and Rev. Ay,.
gustus Edward Hobart, Prebendary of Wolverhaiiptl
brother of the late peer, who was born in 1793, and 'alls
a large family. The Rev. Gentleman is the second
member of the Church to whom a peerage has 1. stely
descended; the other being the present Baron A' Luck-
land, Bishop of Sodor and Man.
GOLD IN CALIFORNIA.—It is said by the hr it so-
counts from California, that 500 miles lie open to the
avarice of gold hunters, and that some adventurer:a have
collected from 1,200 to 1,800 dolls. a day, the vobahle
average of each man's earnings being from 8 to 1 0 dolls.
a day, or let us say 21. sterling. The same au' thority
avers there is room and verge enough for the profitable
working to that extent of 100,000 persons. Two pounds
a day for each man would amount to 200,0001., which
multiplied by 300 working days would give 60,000,000/.
a year.
TRADE OF DOUGLAS.—The amount of tonnage of
shipping that arrived at the port of Douglas between the
Ist of January, 1847, and the 31st of December, 1848,
exclusive of trawl smacks and the Herring fleet, was
119,943.—151 e of Man rises.
•

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
v (Before the RECORDER.)
HIGIIWAY ROBBERY.—A young man named Thomas
Ivory, described as a cab driver, was indicted for rob-
bing Thomas Peters, who represented himself to be a
seafaring man, of a silver watch.
The prisoner and prosecutor were drinking on
boxing night with a number of women, at the Three
Colts public-house, Commercial-road, and the priso-
;ler, who had -previously been an utter stranger to
the prosecutor, volunteered to see the prosecutor
Jiome, „as he was a little far gone in drink.
The prosecutor accepted the good offices of his new
sequamtance, and they loft the public-house together, ac-
companied by one of the women, and walked arm and arm
towards Bethnal-green. Before they reached the green,
However, the woman left them, and the prisoner having
suddenly turned up a secluded lane, said, Namesake, I
-want your watch, to which the prosecutor replied that
Jae was quite sure his kind convivial friend did not in-
tend to rob him. The prisoner remarked that it
-would be a misnomer to call it robbery, but
'be must have the walch, as he bad set his
mind upon it, and the prosecutor had better go home and
fancy he had lent it to some one. The prosecutor was
not so drunk as to blind him to the design of the pti-
soner, who had all through the night made himself as
agreeable as possible, by singing songs and relating
anecdotes, and he made an effort to shuffle. away from
the prisoner, whereupon the prisoner snatched the watch
from the prosecutor's pocket, and then knocked him
down; but not before the prosecutor had had time to say
411 shall know you again, Thomas, take care what you are
about." The blow and fall rendered the prosecutor insen-
sible for some time, but when he recovered he hastened to
a neighbouring police-station, and gave the alarm. The
prisoner was arrested on the following day, but when
taken into custody, and np to the present moment, he
denied all knowledge of either the prosecutor or his watch.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who defended the prisoner, cross-
examined the prosecutor at some length, and elicited
from him a confession that he had seduced the wife of
one of his friends, who had once charged him with
stealing 501, and that at one period of his life he went
by the name of Norton. He admitted further that he
had only been at sea once, while on the night of the rob-
bery he was so drunk that he could not remember all
that occurred, or that at the station house he repre-
sented himself to be the landlord of the Star and Garter
public-house, Commercial-road, and stated that, besides
the watch, which he said was a good one, he had been
robbed of 15 or 16 sovereigns.
The Learned GENTLEMAN then addressed the jury,
insisting that the prosecutor was unworthy of belief,
and calling upon the Court not to convict the accused of
so serious a charge as highway robbery upon such
slender evidence.

Witnesses were called to prove an alibi.
Mr. PARRY, who prosecuted, having replied,
The RECORDER summed up, and the jury returned a
verdict of Guilty.
4 previous conviction of having obtained money under
false pretences was exhibited against the prisoner, and
The RECORDER sentenced hill to 1S months imprison-
ment with hard labour.
The case occupied the attention of the Court nearly
the whole day, and terminated the proceedings of the
present session.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
W. Stratford was brought before the Lord Mayor,
upon suspicion of having broken into the dwelling-house
of Mr. Blackburn, of No. Die, Savage-gardens, wine-mer-
chant.
Mr. Blackburn was surprised at finding that, between
six and.ten o'clock on Saturday night, his gold watch
and chain were stolen from his bed-room. Upon making
a search, he found that the flap on the roof had been
forced open, and that an entrance had been effected into
his house. Flory, the policemab, snort ascertained that
there were foot-marks on the leads from Mr. Black-
burn's house to the house of the prisoner, and that there
was no trace of anything of the kind in connexion with
any of tke other houses. He also found five chisels on
the premises of the prisoner, one of which exactly cor-
responded with the marks of violence on the forced flap.
In a conversation with the prisoner, that person said he
had no ladder by which a man could have got upon the
leads, and that he had not the key of his cellar; but, in
a very short time, the officer found a key, which opened
the cellar, and found in the cellar a step-ladder, on
which appeared some footmarks, and with which the ro,f
could be easily reached.
The prisoner said he knew nothing of any robbery.
He had been away from his premises but a very short
time on the night in question, when he went to get a
little tobacco.

a—.
He was remanded till Friday.
Charles Williams was charged with having broken
into the premises of Mr. Sutcliffe, the proprietor of the
Cooper's Arms public-house, in Lower Thames•street.
9. On Tuesday morning, at seven o'clock, the prosecu-
tor's son, on coming down stairs, missed the money from
the till and the key of the cellar door, but he could not
learn by what means they had disappeared. On Thurs-
day morning, at a quarter past seven o'clock, he also
missed he money trom the till, and he found the cellar
door 0,t,. . He also observed that a flap leading into the
cellar the yard was not in its proper place, and he
spoke to the police upon the subject. An officer was ac-
cordingly directed to watch the premises from an ad-
joining place, and on Sunday morning a person was
observed to climb over the wall of Mr. Sutcliffe's
house, at a little after three o'clock, and descend into the
cellar. from which it was easy to communicate with the
re“ of the hui'ding. That person was, on his return
from'the cellar, apprehended in the water-closet, into
which he had gem when he perceived that his move-
ments
had been watched. The prosecutor's son, upon
being roused by the police, found that the housebreaker
was the prisoner, who had lodged in the house some
weeks before, but who had been refusechany further ac-
commodation on account of a report that he had robbed
the Nag's Head public-house, on Tower-hill.
The prisoner said he had got over the wall to make
his bed in the seater•closet, as he had no place in which
to hide his head and no money to pay for a lodging.
The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday.
His LORDSHIP said he would be obliged by the public
acknowledgment that he had la ceived 101. los. from the
Cutlers' Company tor the poor-box.
His LORDSHIP said he was happy to be able to state
that after the present week the whole of the important
business of the Justice-room, which had been for so
long a time transferred to the Guildhall, in conse-
quence of the
great alterations effected by the City ex.
chitect in the building, would be resumed in a comma
dious apartment, well adapted to the public accoma
daion.

GUILDHALL.

An Irishwoman, named Ann Barnes, was charged
with stealing upwards of 60!bs. of coals.
John Williams, 4 of the Thames police, said that about
half-past seven o'clock that morning be was standing at
the City Gas works, when he observed the prisoner take
out the coals produced, from a barge called the Henry,
lying at 111 r. Hoppe's wharf, Pigs Quay, near Black-
friars-bridge. The tide was out, and she walked along
the shore, but perceiving him, ran into the mud, and he
was compelled to follow her before he succeeded in
Baking her into custody. Shy said, on being questioned,
that she" took them to sell again, and that she lived at
Westminster.
Mr. Henry Vokes, a clerk in the employment of Mr.
Hoppe, said the coals were of the value of ls. At low
water, in spite of every precaution, the daily depreda-
tions had become most serious, his employer alone, on
an average, losing from 355. to 21. per week. They can-
gregatedin numbers, and on unloading a barge contain-
ing 14 tons, it was a common occurrence to find the
cargo half anon short, in consequence of these thefts.
44derman HtniTEa asked if she was known?
Williams replied that she had been several times in
cusktody. It had now become a regular trade with them,
and the coal merchants all along the river were loudly
complaining :of the robberies they were subjected to.
As soon as the tide was low enough the shores were
~,,./h-wing with people, mare particularly Irish, who came
from Westminster, Whin-zehapel, St. Giles, and other
low haunts, and a regular system of plunder was carried
on in spite of the vigilance of the police and the owners.
Their plan generally was to go between the barges, and
if they observed no one looking at them, to gently raise
their hand, take a large piece of coal out and drop it in
the mud. This proceeding was carried on until they
thought they had got sufficient, when. they would go
ers,
towards the water and commence washing it. th
into theirdrop
'sore bold, would Not go so far as even to the
lumps in the crud, but at once put them
In fact the banks of the river on both sides were infested
with this description of persons.
Alderman HUNTER =aid it was a melancholy thing
1 h that the merchants of London should bo subjected to
such depredations, and therefore, as an examp, e, e
should commit her to prison for two months.
A porter, named William James Lodge, of 11, Chapel-
street, Milton-street, was finally brought up on a charge
of obtaining 11/. from a fervant girl. The circumstances
of the case were detailed in our impression of yesterday.
Alderman lInNTEn said he was exceedingly sorry that
be could not punish the prisoner as he deserved; but he
was advised that * was a case rather for a civil than a
criminal prosecution,
Police constable John Reeve, 479, said that when he
took the prisoner into custody, ho had a large bag of
clothes, of all descriptions, with brushes, &c., on his
back, amongst which was a waistcoat piece, which his
former master could identify. In addition, he found out
that the prisoner, on the day he took him into custody,
which was the same day the prisoner had to produce the
will and letters, he left his home and children, and was
about to proceed to Australia, but having missed his
passage, was on his way home again when apprehended.
!fir. Jackson said, since the list remand he bad ascer-
tained the waistcoat piece had been raffled, and after-
wards sold by the buyer back again to the prisoner.
Another pece, of a different sort, had since been brought
to his warehouse, which the prisoner had sold. He had
no doubt they had been stolen from him, as on look-
ing over the books of last year, he found the exact de.
ficiency.
The prisoner declared they were:his property, which
be bet ight.
Aid ?man HUNTER committed him for one month for
nnlawl II I possessiorino
14,-
STREET
John hialvey, a young man, from Bishop's Stortford, in
Hertfordshire, who said he was a coachmaker, was
1111411Alitiaharged with stealing 45/., under somewhat extraordi-
- ~.. ry circumstances.
Oj:01/4‘,?„..\ nspector Black said that the prisoner had been given
-asa.e,
..4..„„ i 10 custody by a widow, named Sarah Fuller, who had
and preferred the charge again
tt7 v.Q. _, teved him to London,
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;1:‘ . "VII;
...'44 ' om the statement of the woman it appeared that she
(--',..:' . , the prisoner had lived opposite to. each. other at
11'.44' ! shop *Word, and the latter was paying his addresses
1,..-1 ri "o her. A short time since her brother-in-law, Thomas
Cliff, being in difficqiti9R, oiccd the amount in question