The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-27 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company's ship
Trent, Sturdie commander, bringing the West India
Mails, has arrived at Southampton. Her dates
are :—St. Jago de Cuba, Nov. 17; Jamaica, 23;
Puerto Rico, 27; Demerara, 17; Tobago, 18; Tri-
nidad, 18 ; Barbadoes, Dec. 1; St. Vincent, Nov.
24; St. Lucia, Dec. 2 ; St. Thomas, 4 ; Fayal, 18.
The mails came in charge of Lieutenant Strover,
R.N., Admiralty agent.
By this arrival we learn that the West India
Islands generally were healthy, and the weather
genial.

The steamer encountered stormy weather on her
passage home.

The commercial advices by this arrival are not of
much interest.

Passengers, 30.

Amongst other goods she brings on freight bars of
silver, value sterling 1,8701. ; dollars, on merchants'
account, 17,000 ; casks of coffee, 35 ; bales of sarsa-
parilla, 177; and 52 packages of sundries.
The mails will be forwarded to London by the
eleven o'clock train.

The Trent left St. Thomas four days later than
was appointed.—Times.

MARLBRO'-STREET--(THIS DAY.)
Edwin James Mitchell, a well-dressed young man,
was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with steal-
ing nineteen yards of sattinette, value 3/ 103., the
property of his employer, Mr. William Owen, silk
mercer, 78, Qxford-street.
Mr. William Merchant, pawnbroker, 413, Oxford-
street, said, on Friday evening last the prisoner came
into his shop and offered the piece of sattinette in
pledge. Witness asked him whose property it was.
The prisoner said it belonged to his father, who 3e-
sired him to pledge it, and that the reason he (his
father) could not come himself was, that he was very
ill. Witness told him to bring a note from his father
to that effect, and he would take the property in
pledge. The prisoner left the shop for that purpose,
and witness took the precaution to send a lad to fol-
low him. The prisoner subsequently returned, and
presented a note, purporting to be written by his
father. While witness was reading the note, his lad
came in and informed him that he had seen the pri-
soner go into a stationer's shop and write the note.
Under these circumstance witness sent for a constable
and gave him in charge.
Mr. William Owen, of the firm of Rumball and
Owen, 78, Oxferd-street, said the prisoner had been
in his employ for 10 months up to Friday last. To
the best of his belief the sattinette produced was his
property, and had not been sold in the regular way
of business.
The prisoner, in defence, said the sattinette was his
own property. He bought it some months since at
Luton, Beds., of a commercial traveller, who unfor-
tunately had lately destroyed hunseit:
Police-constable E 7 produced several duplicates
relating to pieces of satin and other articles, which,
no doubt, would be found to have been stolen.
Mr. BINGHAM remanded the prisoner till Thursday
next.
The remainder of the morning was occupied by
the Court in disposing of no less than 40 drunken
charges, the result of the Christmas festivities.
Nearly all the parties concerned were discharged with
a caution.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Henry Smith, alias Jones, was charged with break-
ing into the dwelling house of Mr. Charles Little,
of 43, Compton-street, Hackney.
Mr. Little stated that he left home on Christmas-
eve, at about five o'clock. Previous to his depar-
ture he double-locked the street door. Witness
returned at about half-past six o'clock, and found the
prisoner inside the passage of the house, endeavouring
to pull out from the lock of the street door the key
(a skeleton one) now produced. Witness asked him
what he wanted, and the prisoner replied by asking
him "if Mrs. Gregory was at home?" No such
person, however, resided there. Witness was some-
whlt taken by surprise, but quickly recovered him-
self, and, seizing the prisoner by the collar, cried out
" Help, police."
Police-constable Zinzau, 62 N, took the prisoner
into custody.
Prisoner said he had found the street door open,
when he went in to make the inquiry alluded to.
Mr. HAMMILL committed the prisoner to gaol for
three months, as a rogue and vagabond.

The Lord Chancellor (Lord Cottenham) is at
present residing at Torquay, by the advice of his phy-
sician, who recommended this queen of watering places
as likely to prove beneficial to his Lordship's health.—
Western Times.

DICK TURPIN OUTDONZ.—On Saturday evening,
the 10th instant, a horse took fright and ran away with
a cart on the Basingstoke road, about half a mile from
this town. On coming to the Whitley toll-gate, which
was closed, the animal took a brilliant leap, and actually
cleared the gate, without injury to either; from thence
he ran down the hill, and met with no wcrse mischance
than breaking his trace on his way to Grazeley Lodge,
the place of his destination. In leaping the gate the
animal had the advantage of starting from a descent,
but that with a cart by no means light he should have
been able to clear it without the least damage is really
extraordinary.—Berkshire Chronicle.