The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.)

A ragged urchin named John M‘ Cue, aged eleven years,
was brought by constable Westmoreland, charged with
stealing the greater part of a rump of beef from a butcher':
shop, under the following circumstances :
Wm. Neil, who attends as a helper on the coach-stand,
Agar-street, Strand, saw the prisoner in company with a
young girl, go up to the shop window of Mr. Farr, and
while the youth in the shop was asleep in a chair the pri-
soner pulled the meat produced and ran away with it, but
before he got to the end of the street he was overtaken,
and brought back with the property in his possession.
The prosecutor, having identified the meat as his pro-
perty, said that the prisoner's two brothers had been trans-
ported for similar offences, and if he was ordered to be im
prisoned only for a short time he would come out a more
hardened character than ever.

Mr. Twr FORD said that such had been the opinion of the
Judges at the Central Criminal Court for a considerable
time, and there was every probability, if he was committed
and convicted for the offence, he would be better provided
for by the sentence that might be passe:] upon him, that
if he was suffered to run about the streets committing other
robberies when he was discharged from prison.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

Marcus Lucius Stanly, about 23 years of age, of gen-
tlemanly eppearance and manners, and very fashionably
dressed„and who is stated to be the brother of Mr. Stanly.
the Member of Congress for North Carolina, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Long, the presiding Magistrate,
charged with stealing two sovereigns and two shillings.
Mr. George ICatlin, of No. 11, Old Bond.street,
stated that he is the proprietor of en exhibition at the
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and had been for the last eight
months acquainted with the prisoner, whom he had believed
to be a young gentleman of the strictest honour. Having
lately missed money several times from the pcckets of his
pantaloons, which he was in the habit of leaving in a
dressing-room at the Hall, while he assumed an Indian
dress to take part in the exhibition, he ap-
plied to the police to detect the thief; and last
evening marked two sovereigns and two shillings, and
placed them in the pocket of his pantaloons, which were
left as usual lying on a bear-skin on the floor of his
dressing room. In about an hour and a half afterwards
on putting them on again he missed the marked money,
and in a minute or two afterwards he saw it in the pos.
session of the police constable. The prisoner had fre-
quently visited him at his lodgings, and with several other
of his countrymen frequented the exhibition.
Police constable, No. 96 C, stated that he watched the
prisoner in plain clothes, saw him take the money from
the pantaloons, and on charging him with the theft, the
prisoner gave him out of his waistcoat-pocket the two
marked sovereigns, a half-sovereign, and the two marked
shillings.
The prisoner stated that as he was crossing the dressing-
room from one door to the other, his foot kicked against
the prosecutor's pantaloons, and that he then saw the two
sovereigns and the silver lying on the ground, and con-
cluding that they had fallen out of one of the pcckets he
took them up and put them into his own, intending to re-
turn them to the prosecutor and reprove him for his ex-
treme carelessness in leaving such temptations in the way
of others.
He was fully committed to take his trial at the Wes!.
minster Sessions next week.

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DISASTROUS SIIIPWRECK.—The Madrid jour-
nals contain the following particulars of one of the Inca
melancholy shipwrecks upon record :—" The Cadiz packet
boat El Castellano was shipwrecked on Oct. 23d on the
high seas. Not seeing any assistance coming during an in-
terval of four days, the crew constructed a raft, on which
none but the strongest men found a place. They fought to
get upon it. and the result of this was that the sailors only,
and two of the passengers who were stronger than the rest,
were enabled to save themselves by it means. More than
60 passengers perished, and amongst these the daughter of
General Narvez. For eight days the men who quitted the
wreck in the boat were exposed to a continued tempest on
the high seas. At length they succeded in reaching La
Guanaja, A negro who had taken his master's daughter
upon his shoulders, and had thrown himself with this
burden on the raft, was flung back by the crew into the
sea with the child which he attempted to save. When be
stt6 mpted to regain it (it being already very much crowded)
they slew him I The. child was immediately drowned. This
mehnicholy shipwreck was accompanied with other frightful
circus. stances. It appears that the man who was on the
watch, and some others, who perceived the approaching
clanger, And were convinced that the vessel was going to
sink, left her in the long boat. It was the captain of the
frigate Vizt.arrondo, who happened to be on board, that
suggested thto construction of the raft. The women and
children were to have been placed on a second raft, which
was 'co be attacLed to the other by ropes, but were left be-
hind, and perished miserably. Seven of those who fleet on
board the raft died. raving mad, and those who reached La
Guanaia were all in A state ef mental alienation."