The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

NAVAL IN TELLIGEN CE.

MALTA, JAN. 4.—The Herefordshire transport, with
the 54th Regiment on board, arrived here on the 2d

instant. The 54th will relieve the 88th, and has been
disembarked at Fort Ricasoli. The 88th will embark on
the 7th instant for the West Indies.

The little cutter Research, employed on the surveying
service, has arrived in Malta. She was on her passage
down taken in tow by the Jackal steamer, but cast off
in a heavy gale of wind, which she weathered in beau-
tiful style, having only sought shelter in Syracuse for
six hours to procure water. There lay the Royal Yacht
Club's Sapphire,Mr. Blaydes,who gave a dinner to Lieut.
Spratt and two officers of the Research. The Research
is only 35 tons, but is a staunch boat.
At Zinte and Navarino upwards of 400 vessels of all
nations had sought shelter.
Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Commander-in-Chief in
the Mediterranean, has, by the last advices from Eng-
land, been appointed her Majesty's First and Principal
Naval Aide-de-Camp, vice Admiral Lord A. Beauclerk,
deceased.

A private letter from Corfu, dated Dec. 22, says—
" On the 20th we had a letter from the Trident (she
was to have relieved the Ardent, Mr. Waghorn's ex-
press boat), by one of her own boats, stating that she
had unfortunately broken down in her machinery off
Cape St. Mario de Lenca, on her way to Trieste, and
had with difficulty reached Tignoso lighthouse, in the
North Channel, where she anchored and requested as-
sistance. The Meteor was sent down, and on the 21st
towed her down to Corfu. The damage is in one of the
rods connected with the air-pump. Patterns for new
machinery have been sent to Malta, and here the Trident
must remain till new ones have been sent."
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Oriental, with the London mail of the 19th ult., due on
the 30th ult., had not yet arrived.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer,
Erin reached Constantinople on the 13th day from
England and Malta, including stoppages—an extraordi-
narily quick passage.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.—Those of their Lordships
who honoured this port with a visit yesterday, after
visiting the Dauntless, and the new basin, dined with the
Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart.,
at the Admiralty-house. This morning Captain M. F.
F. Berkeley left by train, at half-past eight, leaving
Lord John Hay and Captain Eden to finish the sort of
demi-inspection which it was their object to effect. These
gentlemen left at half-past two.
The Hyacinth, 18, Captain F. Scott, which sailed yes-
terday at noon to be paid off at Sheerness, returned to
Spithead this afternoon in a disabled state, having, ap-
parently, run on board some vessel in the night. She
came in under a fore-sail, maintop-sail,
and maintop-
gallant-sail, and on her anchoring it was apparent that
she had lost the end of her bowsprit, the foremast being
secured by runners and tackles to the knightheads. Her
fore and wizen topgallant masts were down, and
her
crossjack and mizentop-sail yards either down or carried
away. It is most probable under these circumstances
that her orders for Sheerness will be cancelled, and that
she will be paid off here, as it will cost too much, both in
time and money, to refit and send her to the eastward.
The Thetis, 36, Captain H. J. Codrington, C. 8.,
sailed this afternoon, with supernumeraries and stores,
to join the sqap.dron of Vice-Admiral Sir William
Parker, Bart., at Lisbon.
The dockyard riggers are making great progress with
the new steamer, the Dauntless, and she will be ready in
a few days to proceed to the river for her engines.

PRICE or GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 10 per mill,, which, at the English Mint price of
31. 17s. WO per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of !; 5 40 ; and the exchange at Paris on
London at short being 25 55, it follows that gold
is 0.39 per cent., dearer in London than in: Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4311
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid.
per ounce for standard gald, gives an exchange of 13 8i;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being. 13 6, it follows that gold is 1.05 per cent. dearer
in Hamburgh than in Lotion.

POLICE ENT f-'I:I,TGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.
BURGLARY, AND FORTUNATE RECOVERY OF PRO •
PERTY.—A young man named Samuel Proctor was
bsought before Mr. Rewlinson, on the following charge :
Sergeant Walker, 5 D, deposed that yeterday morn-
ing, about two o'clock, as he was on duty in the Harrow-
road, he met the prisoner, carrying under his arm a
handsome rosewood box, and on asking him whose pro-
perty it was, he replied that it was his own, and that he
manufactured such articles for sale. His replies to
other interrogatories were ♦ery evasive and unsatisfac-
tory, and in consequence witness conveyed him to the
station-house, on suspicion of having committed a rob-
bery. The box was opened by order of the inspector,
and from some papers which it contained, it was sup-
posed to belong either to Thomas Wekley, Esq., M.P.,
or to one of his relatives.

The pr:soncr stated that he saw three Irish boys
together, and that one of them concealed something
behind a lot of timber. They then went away, and as
soon as they were out of sight he repaired to the spot,
and found the box, which he took possession of.
The Magistrate ordered the box to be sealed up, and
remanded the prisoner till Tuesday next.
In the course of two hours after the case had been
thus di,posed of, Sergeant Walker came into court with
Mrs. Wakley, sister-in-law to the Coroner, who identi-
fied the box in question. She resided at No. 7, Queen's-
terrace, Bayswater, and her opinion was, that the rob-
bery was committed shortly before the discovery was
made, by one who had secreted himself in the house.

The box was here unsealed and opened by Mrs. I\i'ak-
Icy, who found in it, amongst other things, a 54 Bank
note and several sovereigns. She had no reason to think
that anything had been abstracted.
SOUTHWARK

CONFESSION OF ROBBERIES.—John Gordon, a tall
military-looking man, was charged on his own confes-
sion with having stolen various articles of clothing from
persons lodging in the same houses with himself.

PolicemaiiGdden stated that, while on duty in Tooley-
street on the preceding night, he was accosted by the
prisoner, who asked him if he had received information
of the robbery of a quantity of wearing apparel from
the house of a Mr. Waggener in that neighbourhood.
The reply being in the affirmative, the prisoner said, that
he was the man who had committed the plunder, and, he
added, that he had only been a week out of prison.
When he was taken to the station-house, he delivered up
a silver pencil-case, and at the same time mentioned that
it belonged to a person whose clothes he took away from
a house in which he had lodged one night.
A witness was then called, who stated that, about a
fortnight ago, the prisoner came to lodge in the same
house with himself, and that one morning the prisoner
got up at an early hour, and while witness was asleep
possessed himself of his coat, trousers, waistcoat, and
shirt, and also a sum of nine shillings, with which he
escaped.
Another witness, named Reeve, stated that he lived
in Morris's-court, Tooley-street, and that while there the
prisoner came and took up his abode there. One night,
on a recent occasion, witness went to bed early, leaving
his clothes on a chair by the bedside. When he awoke
in the morning he found that they had been stolen, and
that the prisoner had absconded. Some of the articles
were found in the prisoner's possession.
Mr. SECKER said he should commit the prisoner on
the two charges, and that the other parties who had
been plundered by him could attend before the grand
jury, and prefer other bills against him, if they consi-
dered it requisite.
DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT IN AN 03INIBUS.—James
Morris, a mathematical instrument maker, was charged
with very disgusting behaviour in one of Drew's Cam-
berwell omnibuses.

Dr. Mullinder, secretary to the Provident Clerics'
Society, stated that he got into one of Drew's omnibuses
on the preceding afternoon, to go to Peckham. They
had not proceeded far from Gracechurch-street when the
defendant also entered the vehicle, in which were several
persons, and amongst them some ladies. The defendant
at first rendered himself very disagreeable by the lan-
guage he used in the presence of females, and when he
was requested to desist he became still more offensive,
and actually became sick, or pretended to be so, and
vomited in the omnibus. Witness and the rest of the
passengers called to the conductor and requested he
would insist on the defendant getting out. The moment,
however, the request was made, the defendant began
to swear, and made use of such abominable language,
threatening witness and others, that he was given into
custody.
The defendant said he had been dining with the cap-
tain of an Indianian, and had drank too much wine,
which disordered his stomach, and that the joltinc, of
the omnibus produced sickness, which he could not help.

Mr. SEcKia said such conduct could not be tolerated,
and he should therefore inflict a penalty of 403. and costs
on the defendant.

LAITIBETH.

IgPRISoNMENT For: ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—Mr.
William Head, a butcher, carrying on an extensive busi-
ness in Last-street, in the Walworth-road, and George
Cockman, a zinc manufacturer, in the same neighbour-
hood, were charged with having violently assaulted
three police-constables.
It appeared that at a late hour on the preceding night
the prisoner Head had quarrelled with his brother-in-
law at the Horse and Groom public-house, in the
Walworth-road, and having commenced a fight, the
parties were turned into the street. Head, who was
drunk, struck his brother-in-law in the presence of the
police, and was given into custody for the assault. The
police were about to remove him to the station-house,
when he became outrageously violent, and not only
assaulted a sergeant and two constables with his fists,
but kicked the two latter in a most savage manner.
Head was rescued from the custody of the police by the
persons who had come out of the public-house with them,
and was taken to his own house. Cockman, who took
an active part in the rescue, and who also assaulted one
of the constables, was taken into custody and locked up
on the charge.
The prisoners seemed to treat the matter very
lightly, and said that if the police had not unneces-
sarily. interfered, the family dispute might have been
settled.

Mr. ELLIOTT observed, that imprisonment being the
only punishment to deter persons in their station from
committing such violence, the sentence of the Court was,
that Head stand committed for twenty-one, and Cock-
man for fourteen days, to the County Prison.
The prisoners implored his Worship not to send them
to prison, for as tradesmen it would be a serious injury
to them in their business, besides casting a stigma on
their characters through life.
Mr. ELLIOTT, however, remained inexorable, and at
the usual hour the prisoners were removed by the van
to Horsemonger-lane Gaol, to be there imprisoned
during the periods above mentioned.