The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-03 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY
EVENING) MARC II

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VilS known to be the captain of a band of young thieves
who prowled about the streets of London for the purpose
of committing depredations.
The COMMON-SERGEANT said there could be no doubt
that the prisoner was a regular London thief, and that
he was in the habit of training young boys to thieve, and
such being the case there could be no difficulty in know-
ing how to deal with him. The sentence was that he be
transported for fifteen years.
The prisoner appeared to stagger on receiving the
sentence, but speedily recovering he impudently turned
round to the Comm on-Sergeant, and, by way of defi-
ance, opened wide his mouth and gave a smart slap on
his cheek.

ROBIIERY.—Henry Collins, who was convicted on the
charge of stealing from his employer, John James, Esq.,
of Cornwall-terrace. Regent's Park, two fire-pound notes,
WAS brought up for sentence.
A Member of the Common Council, in whose employ
he had been for two years, gave him a good character.
The COMMON SERGEANT, addressing the prisoner, ob-
served that he had no inducement to commit the rob-
bery; that he was in a good situation where he wanted
nothing; had probably good wages, and was fed most
likely as well, if not better, thau his master and mis-
tress; and he certainly would have transported him
but for the character that he had received, and the
probability that he had not taken anything else. He
then sentenced him to six months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction, with hard labour.
William Burt (35), a porter, and Elizabeth, his wife,
and Henry Albert, also a porter, were indicted, the latter
with stealing forty yards of carpet, and the two former
with receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Mr. Payne appeared
for the Burt:.
Mr. BALLANTINE stated that the prosecutors in this
case were Messrs. Wood, of Watling-street, who carried
o❑ a very extensive business as warehousemen. There
were a great number of rooms in the establishment, in
which were deposited large quantities of carpets, blan-
kets, and a variety of other goods, and the men in the
employ of Messrs. Wood had at all times access to them,
and it appeared, from a somewhat injudicious arrange•
ment of the premises, which had, however, been since cor-
rected, that any one could step out without being seen.
Albert was employed as porter in the carpet warehouse,
from which goods were supposed to have been abstracted,
and Burt was a porter in the employ of Messrs. Caldecot,
likewise extensive warehousemen in Cheapside, and
from constantly being in the habit of going to Messrs.
Wood, was acquainted with Albert and another porter
named Young. As far back as November, in conse-
quence of some suspicions which were entertained,
Young was given into custody, and subsequently
tried and convicted of robbing Messrs. Wood,
and was now in Newgate under sentence of transporta-
tion. Young had made communications to the prose-
cutors which had implicated a number of their servants.
It appeared that on the 13th of March last the carpets in
question were sent to a Mr. Beagle at the West-end of
the town, and having afterwards intimated that he did
not wish to keep them, Young and Albert were
sent to fetch them away. Instead, however, of doing that
they took them to Burt's house, at Elm-court, Mount
Pleasant, and then retired to a public-house, where they
talked over the plunder, and the female prisoner gave
Young and Albert 2/. Bs., which was to be divided be-
tween them. It was the duty of Albert
to account for the property when he got home,
and in order .to hide the robbery, he repre-
sented other carpets to be those which he had received
from Beagle, thus closing the door to any future inquiry.
Young and other witnesses were called, who fully
bore out the above facts.

The jury found tke—t.wo male prisoners Guilty, and
Acquitted the female.
John Lee, another porter, who had been in the em-
ploy of the prosecutors for twelve or thirteen years, to-
gether with Albert and Burt, was found Guilty upon
another indictment.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette of this day.)
INTELLIGENCE TO THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—We
stated last week that the Admiralty bad ordered a num-
ber of tin cylinders to be made at Woolwich Dockyard,
for the purpose of enclosing information to be loft at
various places in the tracks of the whalers, with the
view, or rather the hope, of its reaching those now en-
gaged in the Arctic Expedition. Orders have been is-
;tied during the past week for the workmen to hasten
the completion of these cylinders, and the Admiralty
were enabled yesterday to dispatch some of these cylin-
ders to Hull and other fitting ports for the whalers pro-
ceeding to the Arctic Seas.
IMPORTANT TO SEAMEN OF THE ROYAL 'SUIT, OF
ABILITY AND GOOD CONDUCT.—We fear that the fol-
lowing Admiralty order is not generally understood by
the seamen of the Royal Nary, or we should not have
so many good seamen knocking about the ports in want
of employment; we therefore reprint it, for their special
advantage:—
" MEMORANDUM—In:aII future cases„when any of her
Majesty's ships are about to be paid off, their Lord.
ships desire it may be distinctly explained to the men
that, if they choose to continue in the service, they
may have a :month or six weeks' leave of absence.
during which time their time and pay will go on, and
that: they will: be at :liberty to join any of her Ma-
jesty's ships fitting out at any of the ports upon their
return from such leave."
It is due to the Admiralty to add, that their Lordships,
on the arrival of the Rodney. specially urged upon the
captain of that ship the duty of causing the above order
to be generally understood. It should also be impressed
upon the seamen that they are perfectly at liberty to re-
turn or not to the ft-ship at the expiration of six
week. If they do return, they get their ray for the
six weeks ; if they do not, they will be considered as
having deserted; their names will merely be struck off
the books of the flag-ship as not entitled to any pay.
REDUCTION IN THE ARMY.—WO can state from
authority that no truth exists in the report which has
been going the round of the daily press to the effect that
an order has been issued to suspend the further dis-
charge of men from the several regiments mentioned in
the late Circular of the Adjutant-General.
THE CHAPLAIN GENERAL TO THE FORCES.—The
Rev. Robert Gleig, M.A., has received a medal with
three clasps for his services at St. Sebastian, the Neville,
and the Nivo. The Rev. Gentleman attended her Ma-
jesty's first levee in his canonicals, With his decorations.
DEATH OF VICE ADMIRAL ROSS,
C.B.—lt will be
seen by our, Naval Service Obituary that this gallant and
highly distinguised flag-officer expired yesterday at De-
vonport, There was not a man on the flag-list more
universally esteemed.
FLAG PROMOTIONS. —By the death of Vice-
Admiral RO3B the following promotions take place:—
Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Honourable George
Elliot, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, to be
Vice-Admiral of the White; Rear Admiral Archibald
Duff, to bo Vice-Admiral of the Blue; Sir William
A. Montagu, K.C.11., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red;
C. J, Austen, to be Rear-Admiral of the White ; and
Captain Sir Andrew Pellet Green, K.C.H. (1814), to be
Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Captain William Bowen
Mends (1814), becomes senior on the List; An appoint-
ment of Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen also becomes
vacant.

A VETERAN SERGEANT.--Anthony Bennett, lately
discharged in the reduction of the London Recruiting,
District, has reckoned 51 years and 6 months' service in
the army, 40 of which as a Sergeant. He served inithe
..60th and filst .Regiiipenta at Gibraltar Cape-- of Good
Elope, Egypt, Malta, Italy,
a_natire LiACOlllahire.4k-73 and•Portutall he is'
-lean ef-Dgei and has been'
*warded a pensioaatPf 3s. ld:- pertay;;,,-, -
,BARIZADOES.-The yellow fever is still raging arnotigSt
the troops stationed at St., Ann's.- 92 deaths 'had-oc-
curred within the last five :months, including women and
children.
SIR C. NAPIER'S SQUADRON.—By a private letter
from Gibraltar, we understand that the gallant Admiral•
had received his orders curtailing his cruise, and directing
him immediately to return to Spithead with the ships under
his command, sending the Powerful, 84, to Naples. On
arriving at Spithead, the St. Vincent and Sidon will go
into harbour, and be immediately paid off. It is re-
ported that Sir C. Napier will 'still continue in commis-
sion, and will shift his flag to the Superb.
GovERNOR OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL.—We state from
authority that General the Hon. Sir Edward Paget,
G.C.8., has not been again attacked with serious ill-
ness, but is in his usual state of health, and has been
so for a long time past.
GREENWICII HOSPITAL.—There are two out pensions
of Greenwich Hospital to be given away. One a cap-
tain's pension, vacant by the appointment of Captain
Laugharne to the Greenwich Hospital establishment ;
and the other a lieutenant's out-pension, which fell in
hand on the death of retired Commander J. B. Connolly

AUSTRIA.
A Vienna letter of the 24th ult. says that the
Austrian Ministers have come to a decision respecting
the organization of Hungary. Croatia, Sclavonia,
Servia, and Transylvania are to be entirely separated
from Hungary, and united to Austria, as independent
provinces; the rest of Hungary, notwithstanding the
different nationalities it contains, is to form an indis-
soluble and united kingdom, having a special admi-
mistration and legislation, and only being connected
with the empire by the military administration,
finances, and customs.
The fortress of Peterawardien, in Hungary, has
yielded to the Imperial troops.
The Voss Gazette publishes a letter from Vienna,
of the 24th ult., stating that a person of that city who
had concealed a sword after the general order for
disarming, and had threatened to use it against his
landlord, who had called for his rent, had been for
this act condemned to be hanged, and could obtain no
other modification of his sentence than the substitut-
ing of shooting for hanging.
A letter from Frankfort of the 27th ult. states, on
what is represented to be a good authority, that the
Russians, when at Cronstadt and .Hermanstadt, did
not, as previously announced, confine themselves to a
mere passive role. "It was on the Ist of
February," says the letter, " that tho Russian
troops entered Cronstadt. Three
.days after it
was announced to the general in command
that a body of from 5,000 to 6,000 Szeklers
was advancing on the town. The General imme-
diately sent a detachment of about 1,200 men and
four guns to meet them. A part of the National Guard
of Cronstadt accompanied the Russians. The com-
bat commenced at a short distance from the town,
and almost immediately after the National Guards
fled, but the Russians maintained the con-
flict, and after several hours' fighting succeeded
in driving the Szeklers to the other side of the river
Olto. The Szeklers left about 150 men on the field
of battle; the Russians had one officer and some
soldiers killed, and about 40 wounded. :ewe days