The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-29 00:00:00

THAMES.

A young man named James West, described as a
labourer, was charged with feloniously receiving a
gold watch and gold chain, the property of Mr. Wm.
Hoare, wine cooper, of No. 16, York-street, Philpot-
street, Commercial-road East.
The prisoner's sister, Ann West, was before the
same magistrate on Monday charged with stealing
the watch and chain,and was remanded. At an early hour
on Monday morning, the prosecutor, who fills a respon-
sible situation in the St. Katharine's Dock, was on his
way home, when he was accosted by the woman, who
persuaded him to accompany her to her lodgings, at
No. 44, Baker-street Stepney. He was in her com-
pany about ten minutes, when she took the watch
out of his pocket, and put out the light. He strug-
gled with her for some time, and called for as-
sistance, but no person in the house came to his
assistance, and the woman succeeded in getting
the chain off his neck, knocked him down, and,
to prevent his following her, capsized the table
and placed it in the doorway. She then ran
down stairs and succeeded in making her es •
cape with the watch and chain. Mr. Hoare called
for the police, and two constables came to his assist-
ance, and liberated him from the house. On the same
morning Kelly, an active officer, of the II division,
No. 119, went to No. 21, John s-place, the residence
of the woman, and wasinformed that she was not at
home. He waited until her return ; and, upon making
her acquainted with the nature of the charge, she
admitted that she had stolen a watch and chain and
givenithem to her brother to pawn for her. After
the woman was remanded on Monday, Kelly went in
search of her brother, and, on the same night, found
him at a house of public entertainment in Gray's Inn-
lane, where upwards of 100 Irish men and women
were dancing to the music of the bagpipes. Kelly
succeeded, by a ruse, in causing James West
to leave the room, and took him into custody.
This
was no sooner made known to the Irish
than a rescue was attempted ; but Kelly had
concerted his measures so well that he frustrated
theirintentions and secured his prisoner, who gave
up to him a pawnbroker's duplicate relating to a gold
watch and guard, pawned on the same day by the
prisoner, with Mr. Sowerby, a pawnbroker, for 31.
The property was produced and identified by the
prosecutor. Kelly asked the prisoner what he had
done with the money he raised on the watch, and he
said he had spent the lot. Kelly found ss. only upon
him ; but 21. 15s. more was afterwards delivered to
the officer by the prisoner's mother, which made in
all 31., the sum raised on the watch and chain.
Mr. YARDLEY remanded the prisoner until this
day, when his sister will be brought up with him,
and they will then be committed for trial.
LAMBETH.

Mr. ELLIOTT requested our reporter to acknow-
ledge the receipt of • 101. note, No. 22,876, from

" P.," and also et, through the Com:linkmen
Police, from the Earl of C-.
WESTMINSTER.

Thomas Letford, formerly under-butler in the
establishment of the Duke of Gloucester, and late pro-
prietor of the Lownde's Arms, near Belgrave-square,
was finally examined, charged with forging two bills
of exchange.
Mr. Abel Birch, of No. 5, Middle-row, Knights-
bridge, furnishing undertaker, stated that the pri-
soner, who was known to his sons as the former pro-
prietor of the Lowndes' Arms, came to his house
about the 4th of September, and requested to be
favoured with cash for a bill for 191. 153. 6d., bearing
that date, drawn by Thomas Letford, and purporting
to be accepted by Mr. Anthony A. Harrison, at three
months. As he bad known Mr. Harrison as a highly
respectable man for upwards of thirty years, he did
not for a moment hesitate to cash the bill, which was
made payable at the Lord Nelson, King's-road, and
gate the prisoner 191. 103. for it. Prisoner paid him
another visit about the with of October, with a second
bill for 101. 9s. 6d., drawn by Thomas Letford, and
purporting to bear the acceptance of Joseph Salo-
mons, Red Lion, Tottenham-court-road, payable at
the Union Bank, street. Prosecutor, observing
that it was accepted by a licensed victualler, and
considering most of them to be " safe " people, also
discounted this, but shortly afterwards discovered that
he had been defrauded.

Mr. Anthony Allenson Harrison, of No. 4, James's-
cottages, Hammersmith-road, a retired publican, who
formerly kept the Lord Nelson named in the first bill,
proved that the acceptance to it was a forgery, nor
was his name even spelt correctly. He had known the
accused for several years, but never had a bill trans-
action with him.

A clerk to the Union Bank said that no person
named Joseph Salomons ever had an account there.
James W. Jones, 59 B, proved taking the prisoner
into custody, and added that there was no such sign
as the Red Lion in Tottenham•court•road.

The prisoner, who made no defence, was fully
committed for trial.

STARTLING FACTS.

The Lincoln Mercury says :—The practice of taking
opium, laudanum, ether, and morphia, has increased,
and is increasing, amongst the population of the fens
of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, to a frightful
extent. It obtains amongst the aged, the infirm, and
the young, and it is confined to neither sex—old
men, old women, and young women, are equally
its victims. It may be safely averred, that every
second customer who visits the druggist's pur-
chases opium, laudatum, or some opiate or narcotic,
whilst every second customer of the grocer is s
purchaser of tobacco. It is common to see the roan
or woman of twenty, thirty, or forty years
with cadaverous countenance, tottering frame, and
palsied step, daily going for his or her sixpenny-
worth of poison, and we have heard of yearly bills
of 201. in one family for opium and laudanum !
In the town of Wisbeach alone there are 400 gallons
of laudanum sold and swallowed every year; eight
gallons of laudanum per week, one small shop ac-
tually vending two gallons of this quantity ! The
apothecary's practice is thus a lucrative one in the
fens. Take away the laudanum and retail trade, and
the druggist's occupation is gone—it is the staple of
the trade. Added to this frightful consumption of
laudanum, there are 1,128,780 gallons of beer, and
20,500 gallons of ardent spirits, consumed annually 111
Wisbeach. To manufacture the one and to vend the
other there are no fewer than two malaters, twelYe
brewers, nine wholesale dealers in ardent spirt%
forty-eight innkeepers, and forty-five tom-and-jerries•
As if this were not enough to vitiate the appetite, of
rather to satisfy the cravings of a vitiated appetite,
there is to be added to the catalogue the fact of there
being a hundred and seventy persons retailing to-
bacco. To counteract all this laudanum, beer, and
spirit swallowing, and tobacco inhaling, there ate
seventy dealers in coffee and tea, with two coffee'
houses, nicknamed temperance hotels.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, Dac. 28.
STOCK Exciuxon.—The sales are—Ambergate and i't"
ern Junction, 2i dis.—East Lancashire, New, 5/4 c.
London and North-Western, New Quarters, 5% p.—Me:
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, 14 u
—Midland, 109% c.—Ditto, Halves, 1% dia.—North Stx:
fordshire, IA dia.—North Union (A), 208% c.—Sellu-
Eastern and Dover, 303 Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 1:% c. die.-'
—York, Newcastle, and Berwick(G,N. E. Purchase), I!ii p.

MANCHESTER, Dsc. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are-1301011, B110E1)011,
Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire, Preferential. (B),
—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 1.74 e'
dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 27ti
dis.—Ditto(Preston and Wyre), Halves (B), 5-16 p.—Laical:
ter and Bedford, 4s. 6d. dis. —London. Manchester, and
Birmingham, b 9— Ditto,Quarters (A), 31.4 p.— Ditto, dittos
(B), 3,ip.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, PrS'
ference, 1 .16 p.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lincolnshire), 4 13-16
North Staffordshire. 14 p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
dis.—Wharfdale, 2 1-16 dia.
BIRMINGHAM, Dac. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGIS.—The sale. are—London and North.
Western. 149—North Staffordshire, 6s. 3d. dia.—Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 15% die.—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham (A), 31/a di..—Shropshire Union, 2% dis.
LEEDS, Die. 27.

STOCK EXCHANGE-The share market continues very flat.
The only sales announced to-day has been at the following
prices :-East Lancashire. New, 3/. 16s. 3d. dis.-Lancashire
and Yorkshire (Wert Riding Union), 61s. dis.-Leeds and
Thirsk, 1614 dis.-North British, Thirds, 4s. dis.-Ditto,
Quartere, 10s. dis.-North Staffordshire, Bs. 9d.--South
Yorkilaire, Doncaster,, &c. 40s. dis.-York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, No. 2 (New Berwick), 375. p.-York and Nom
Midland, Preference, 51,‘ p..
YORK, Ditc. 27.
41 7L
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The aalesare- Great Northern,
-North hritish, Quarters, 4/. Bs.-York, Newcastle, 1111"
Berwick, No. 2 (New Berwicks), 12.
EDINBURGH, DEc 27.
STOCK EXCHAKOE.-The sales are-Caledonian, we
21s. 6d.-Dundee and Perth, New, 12/. 7s. 6d.-Edinburgh:t
and Northern, 15/. 15s.- Ditto. New, SOL-Edinburgh *15,,
Perth, Halves, 43.-Great Northern, 41. 55.-North Briti"
251. M.-Ditto, Quarters, 645. 6d.-Ditto, New Quartso
10s.-Ditto, Thirds, 355. 6d.---Scottish Centrals, 2k!.
GLASGOW, Dac. 27.
STocK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Glasgow, Kilpin,l.r.
nock, and Ayr, 98/.-North British, 24/. 51.-Scottisil
tral, 271. 125. Cd.

THE WAY IN WHICH FRENCH WINE Is MAO' f
M. Lalande, secretary of the Free-trade Association i.d°
Bordeaux, communicates in last Saturday's Ec01914 d
the fo!lowing:—Wine is made in a very aim sbn
cheap manner. I shall mention the simp eh
lest, wkiell i.e
many persona is also considered the best. When r
grapes are ripe they are gathered, and placed, either
with or without the stalks, in large vats, where they %her;
ment during a few days—from eight to fifteen. Atr
end of that period, and when a great fermentation u.,
"
taken place and ceased, the wine is entirely in the loe'!.
,
part of the vat, the other parts of the grape are et t'd
top of it. The wine is drawn from the vats and place
in casks. There it must be allowed to remain for some
time without being disturbed. After three or f°llr
months have elapsed, even before very often, irnmellie
.
quantities begin to be consumed by the working chose'
in our country, and by far the greater proportion ef
year's growth is thus consumed during the twelve fot
lowing months. But wines, to be consumed by the
middle and rich classes, must be kept in cellars tot
several years (from three to six years) in casks, and re-
quire no other care than to be drawn onee or twice a-yeat
from the casks, in order to separate the wine from th•
dregs. When by such simple process, and after a certaia
time, wine has become sufficiently old, it is drawn (corn
the casks and put in bottles. The longer even French
wine remains in the bottle, contrary to a common opinion
entertained in England, the better it is. Its quality ie
thereby improved to an extraordinary degree.
MONEY-MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 13 per mine, which, at the English Mint price Of
31. 17s. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex*
change of 25.47 ; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.65, it follows that gold is 0.70 per
cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advicee front
Hamburgh the price of gold is 435 per mark, which, al
the English Mint price of 3L 17s. 100. per ounce for
standard gol(a, gives an exchange of 13.10 ; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short beinf
13.111, 'it follows that gold is 0.80 per cent. dearer ill
London then in Hamburgh. • •

81R7113. „ ,
On the 25th inst., At Stockwell, Surrey, Mrs. Themes Lain'
bert, of a son.
On the 25th inst., at Corstun Cottage, near Bath, the led/
of Henry Eden Jones, Esq., of a son,
On the 26th inst., ;at Champion-hill, the wife of Thorne.
Hilton Bothamley, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., Mrs. John E. Cooper, of Great Coral"
street, of a son.
On the 26th inst., at Sydenham, the rad/. of $. z°l-0
of a son. •!. -
On the 26th inst., at Blackheath-park, Kent, the wife of
Joseph Underwood, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., in Chester• square, the lady of Haul
Ley, Esq., of a eon.
On the 27th inst., in Grosvenor-square, Mrs. Puller, et
•
daughter.
On the 27th inst., in Mil-street, Berkeley-square, the Iscif
of William Strahan, Esq., of a daughter.

MARAIED.
On the 21st inst., at St. Margaret's, Ring's Lynn, the Rot;
John Fleming, M.A., to Grac• Townshend, eldest dangbts
of the Rey. J. Bowen, Rector of West Lynn, Norfolk.

DIE).
On the 22d inst., at Glazenwood House. Essex, Clarissl'
second daughter of the Rev. Sir John Page Wood, Bart. ,
On the 23d inst., 11rs. Charlotte Hall, of Hadiow-road,
Tunbridge, Kent, widow, aged 73.
Oa the 24th inst., in Ship-street, Brighton, George Denir
eter, E.g., aged 37.
On the 24th inst., at Berry, near Totness, Devon, Mr'
Louisa, Ogler, aged 95.
On the 24th inst., at Granton House, near Edinburgh, G•
Speirs, Esq., advocate, Sheriff of Edinburgbshire, fe,
On the 24th inst., at St. James's Parsonage, Victoria-par
Charles James, son of the Rev. Henry P. Haughton.
On the 25th inst., at Leamington, William Gosling' Esq'
Oa the 25th inst., Frederick 11. Parker, Esq., surge°lll -
Portugal-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 48.
On the 25th inst., at Woodside, near Lymingtorl. 114133
Abraham Creighton, Esq., late Major in her Majesty's 0'
Regiment of Infantry, aged 67.
On the 25th inst., at Hertford-street, Mayfair, the Do"
alter Lady Beauchamp Proctor, relict of Sir Thomas Bean'
champ Proctor, Bart., aged 89.

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