The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

for eighteen months from 111'3 date of the fiat, without
prott•uuiul, unless the bankrupt h•.d been imprisoned for
It least three months.

SURREY SESSItJNS-(THIS DAY.)
John Rogers, for stealing a looking-glass, 'the pro-
vet ty of Sarah Re.ynolds, was sentenced to three months
at Brixton.
James Willis, an old offender, was tried upon two in-
dictments—the first charging him with stealing a pair
of boors, the property of lsa,c Hunt, and the second with
sti-aling a pair or boots, the property of Samuel Reddick.
The jury found him Guity, and it being proved that
he had been several times summarily convicted, the
Court senterced him to seven years' transportation.
7'homas Braden, 17, and Charles Banes, 18, were in-
dicted for stealing, at Bermondsey, a tarpaulin and a
number of ropes, the property of John Elmore.
The prosecutor is a lig,hterman at Bermondsey, and
the property in question was left on board a barge for a
short time by one of his men. On his return it was
missed, and on the same evening the prisoners were
stopped in Gravel-lane, Southwark, while attempting to
dtspi s of the property.
The jury found them Guilty, and
The COURT sentenced each to six months' imprison-
ment at Brixton.
Robert Carter, who bad been twenty times in custody,
was convicted of picking pockets, and sentenced to ten'
years' transportation.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Robert Boyll and Augustus Schinzdt were brought up
for final examination before Mr. Henry, on the charge of
stealing a great quantity of schedules from the Insolvent
Debtors' Court.
It appeared from the evidence that on the Bth of De-
cember last, between three and four o'clock in the after-
noon, the prisoners were observed upon a staircase
leading to the room in which the records of
the court were kept, and to which the public had no
right of access. The prisoners upon being observed
ran away, and the housekeeper, suspecting ;there was
something wrong, went up to the room and found that
a great many schedules and other documents had been
abstracted from one of the presses. Upon searching
the room he discovered a blue bag, containing no less
than thirty-nine schedules. As other schedules had
been, on former occasions, stolen from the room,
he gave information to the police ; and Schmidt
was taken into custody on Wednesday week
last. It appeared that on that same night Boyll went
to Schmidt's lodgings and burnt a great many papers
there. Boyll was afterwards apprehended and brought
up for examination, when he was remanded to this day.
Mr. HENRY inquired in whom the property was vested
and what was the value.
Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, who prosecuted by direction
of the Commissioners of the Insolvent Debtors'. Court,
said that the documents were not the property of any
person, and by the; Act of Parliament it was not
necessary to state to whom the schedules belonged, or
what the value was—it was enough that they were
public documents.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
As they were being taken out of court, Schmidt
leaned over the partition which separated the passage
from thetbody of the court, and struck a woman named
Robinson (whose husband was mentioned in the course
of the evidence as being suspected of having given
information) a violent blow on the head.

MA RLBRO'-ST REET—(THIS DAY).
Albert Williams, a well-known associate of thieves, was
brought before Mr. llardwick, charged with having
stolen four live fowls, the property of Mr. George Blake,
wire worker, No. 88, John-street, Tottenhain-
court-road.

The prosecutor Stated that on Wednesday morning
last, on opening his shop, he found that the lower part
of the shop front had been broken open, and four live
fowls stolen from a case inside. From information he
subsequently received, be went yesterday to Mr. Green's,
in Pancas• street, and found the three fowls in his pos-
session. In answer to his inquiries, Mr. Green informed
him that he bought them of the prisoner for 2s. 3,1. The
fowls produced were the same as those stolen from

his shop.
Mr. William Green, cowlieeper, 4, Pancras-street,
Tottenham-court-road, said he knew the prisoner by
sight. On Wednesday morning last the prisoner came
into the shop and asked him to buy a 'owl. Witness
asked him what he wanted for it ? The prisoner re-
plied he would sell it for one shilling, but, as he had
two more at home, he would sell the lot cheaper if wit-
ness would purchase them. Knowing ,the prisoner's
family bred fowls he consented to purchase them, and
gave the prisoner 2s. 3d. for the three.
Sergeant Fryer, 15 E, said he took the prisoner into
custody about six o'clock this morning. On being told
the nature of the charge against him, the prisoner said,
he purchased them of a boy in Tottenham-court-road.
He then took him to the station.

Constable E 44, having proved seeing the prisoner
close by prosecutor's house on the morning of the rub-
bery, he (the prisoner) was committed for trial.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

One of the most destructive conflagrations that has
occurred in Edinburgh for a considerable period took
place early on Wednesday morning, at the station of
the Caledonian Railway, in Lothian• road. The 'sta-
tion consists of a range of three buildings, the one to
the north being the temporary passenger shed, and
the one to the south being the passenger shed of the
new station, which has been for some time in the
course of construction. The fire originated in one of
the trucks attached to the goods train from Carlisle,
which reached the Edinburgh station shortly after
two o'clock in the morning. The work of destruction
was so rapid that it could not, we believe, be properly
ascertained whether the ignition of the truck arose
from friction or from a spark from the engine ; but it
it, is conjectured that the latter was the more probable
cause. The goods in the truck were of a light des-
cription and easily consumed, and as the truck was
situated in the midst of others similarly loaded, ,the
fire extended with such alarming rapidity that it
speedily communicated to the goods ehed. As this
erection was composed almost entirely of wood, and
as it was filled with a large quantity of goods of an
inflammable nature, it was soon in a complete blaze,
lighting the horizon for miles around.
Information having been sent to the head police.
office immediately after the fire was discovered, Mr.
Wood, superintendent of the fire brigade, accompanied
by a large number of the men under his charge, was
present in a short time, with four engines, all of
which were set to work without a moment's delay.
The fire, however, had got such a control over, the
goods' shed that the efforts of the fire brigade were,
for a considerable period, of very little avail; and,
eventually, the flames came in contact with the pas-
senger shed to the northward, between which and the
goods shed there was only a slight partition. The
fire next extended to the passenger shed to the south-
ward, and the air entering below the sheds acted just
like so many pairs of bellows in fanning the flames
that the station appeared as if one entire sheet of fire.
The burning was ultimately got under between six
and seven o'clock, but not until almost the whole of
the goods shed was destroyed, a great portion of the
southern passenger one, and about 100 feet of the north-
ern one. As the last of these sheds was composed
almost entirely of iron, the injury done to it con-
sisted only of the destruction of the boarding along
the roof; and the displacement of a number of the
iron rods and beams by which the roof was suspended.
A detachment of the 21st regiment from Edinburgh
Castle were present, and aided materially the fire
brigade in working the engines, as well as in pre-
serving order.
The damage done must be enormous, owing to the
large quantity of goods destroyed, consisting among,
other thing of a great number of boxes of tea, several
packages of Manchester manufactured goods, bales
of provisions, &c.. Nine third-class passenger car.
riages have also been burned, and six trucks. 'We
also understand that 'the splendid travelling carriage
lately built for the company in Greenock, has suffered
to some extent, the sides of it being blistered by the
heat of the fire, and otherwise injured. The officials
of the company estimate the damage done at between
6,0001. and 7,0001.; but it is said that this will not
nearly cover it.

COLLIGE or PRECEPTORS.—At the third annaul
.meeting, of this body, held, yesterday, at their rooms, in
Bloomsbury-square, Mr. Turrell, president in the chair,
the report stated that on the 28th December, an official
communication had been received from the Attorney-
General's office; stating that the charter of the College
of Preceptors, a draft of which bad been submitted to
the Board of Trade, had been referred to the attorney
and solicitor-general by the Council office, and request-
ing that the usual fees of twelve and eleven guineas
should be forwarded to ,them. Such was the actual po-
sition of the charter question. The efforts of the college
were already known end acknowledged, not only in
Scotland and Ireland, but in New Brunswick, Prince Ed-
ward's Island, and on the Rhine and Ganges, Eastand
West Indies, as well as in the new world of Australia, The
expenses of obtaining the charter would be 5001., and
towards this sum the council had only to acknowledge
1501. 13s. 6d. .They had to regret that this.fundwas
as'y et so inadequate, as without the charter they could
give little of a national character to the institution, but
with which they could imprint upon a well organised
body of men that mark of genuine professional dignity
which was long, both publicly and privately, due to
those who, as well informed and conscientious teachers
of youth, undertake the charge of rearing and training
them for active life here and fur eternity hereafter.—The
remainder of the . proceedings consisted of the election
of officers and other routine business, and the Rev.: Dr.
Wilson having been called to the chair, a special vote
of thanks was passed to Mr. Turrel, who retires from
the presidency of the council, which, he. held for, three
years. A subscription for the Charter Fuud .was then
entered into by the gentlemen present, and amounted
to nearly 1001. , ,
IMPORTANT' DEClSlON.—Yesterday, at the West-
minster County Court; D. Cc Moylan, Esq.,;. the Jtidge,
decided that plaintiffs had no right to examine defen-
dants as witnesses against themselves.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, JAN. 3.--We
have nothing to report with regard to business'in-this
market. Nothing doing. We are requested to correct
the statement made in our last by inserting the follow-
ing, an error having taken place in casting up the books:
—The number of pockets of hops weighed' from De-
etsil:6ourabQr 25, 1847, to December 25, 1848.—New, 13:799;
coied42,2; sold by auction, 277. Total, 16,238,--;Wor-
.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TAT TERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Business was confined to the following bets:—
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
500 to 15 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar
CHESTER CUP.
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont
DERBY
1,000 to 30 agst Lord Stanley s trongbow
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Exeter's Silistria colt
2,000 to 25 agst Lord Exeter's Velveteen colt
ABERYSTWITH STEEPLECHASE.
Acceptances—The Doctor, Bold Davy, Vengeance,
The Painter, and Baptist.
CHESTER CUP.
The following official list of the entries shows a large
increase over 1848, and 33 more than mentioned in our
last:—

'Cawroush (11 b)

Tuscan
Snowdrop
Ribaldry
Clermont
Loupgarou
The Great Western
Egret
Vesta
Eagle's Plume
Reality
The Premier • -
Voyager .
Lugar.... •
Solon
Rothersthorpe b)....i
Auricula •
Keleshea (h b)
Primrose
Sunnyside
Rodney •
Burghley
Bedlam
Sir Peter Laurie
The Swallow
Bon-mot
. .
Emily
Ellen Loraine • t.
New Forest-Deer •
Avenger (h 6)
Ch c by Harkaway, out

of Diana
General Sale
Ada Mary
ti c by Auckland, out of

Yrs
Executor
Good Boy
Wensleydale
Bingham
Lord Saltoun
Conquest
Parable 3
Windermere 3
The Baronet (h b)
Swaledale
Self-defence
The Stinger
Cigarette
Shy lock
Laundrymaid - 6
Athelstane
Planet
Surplice
Cotton L0rd...... 3
C by Colsvick, out of
Concertina
Lammermoor
Abbot of Meaux 3
Imperatrix
Wyke (h b)
Hector .••
Limestone' 5
Cast-off
The Cur
Joe o'Sot
Bacchanalian • 4
The Tartar
The Hero 6
King of Kildare
Pillage
Dulcet
Amazement a
Resolution 5
Sauter la Coupe ... 3
Thornhill
Cossack 5
Cockermouth
,Foreclosure
-Backbiter .
Corsican
Radulphus
b c by Sir Hercules, out
of Empress
Sister to Satirist
Idre Boy
c by Vulcan .
a
Chanticleer - • 6
Geraldine ..
•Sagacity 5
Tiresome
Honeycomb
Sylvan - 4
Garrick
Pelham .
Swiss Boy 4
A comb
Va in pyre
,Halo
Do-the-Boys 3
Mrs. Tuft
Lady Wildair
Distuffina 4
c by Don John, out

Delusion
Impostor (late Lanesbo-`

Blucher . •
Dough •
Whizgig • v.
Ellerslie • • •
Melford •
Clifford
Hagley
Fugleeian
Chat
Pantomime
Melody
Lamb's-wool •
The Swift •
Montague
Pavilion
Rathmines
Escape • •
Jovial
John, Cosser (late Het-
man Platoff colt)
Peep o'Day Boy
Lavender
Fireaway
Inheritress
Rowland
1-aby . . .
Ell;erdaie -
Prince Charley-
Ferryhill
Tom-tit-

Portrait
Mail of Lyme ...
War Eagle
Teresa

Chevreuil
Da'heotah Chief
Flatcatcher •• •• •

Meal
Slashing Alice 3
The Admiral ••• 6
Sesostris
Lola Mentes !
!Dacia 4
llotline
Taffrail •• ••• • • • • 4
Miss Nipper •• • 4
Ballinafad .• •
'Gvralior • • • • a
Sponge
Fernhill •4
IFeruvaragh
;Gratis
•
C heapside 5
Attraction 4
'Farewell
Woodcraft 4
Do it- again •• • •• 4
IClumsy •••• • • a
Troica
Cymba • • • -4
'Deerstalker- - • ••• • • 4
!Projectile • • 5
'The Widow •a
Wanota 5
Comet • 4
Jest .
Maid of my Soul • 4
The. Conjuror
Westow - 3
;The Arab • • • •
\Telex • • • .• ••

Blaze

.• Marlow ' "
Mallon • " ".
Didsbury •"
Henry of Exeter
B h by Jereed, dam'by

Pantaloon
Tom Tough
Garendon •
Gaffer Green
Pius the Ninth
Rhesus '
Andalusian • '
The Clothworket "
Maynooth • "
Orphan Boy
Sheraton

Caurire
Giselle
Mugador.
Crazy Lad
Glendower
Cashier ►
The Dart
lir f by Sir • Hercules;
out of Peeress ..
Pyrland
John Orridge
Essedarius

Fourteen hones are named for the Palatine Stakes; 15
for the Mostyn Stakes, 21 for the Chesterfield, 7 for the
Stand Cup, 13 for Lord Westminster's Plate, 25 for the
Cheshire, 6 for the Wirral, and 5 for the Eaton.
*Cawroush, who had been backed for a considerable
amount fur the Chester Cup, died at Newmarket on
Wednesday.