The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-20 00:00:00

OUR THIEVES.

CHWEPP'S

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.
The 19th Year.
The Society's rate of interest for investors rests at five per
oent. per• annum on • shares, and four per cent. per annum for
the Deposit Department, the privilege Of withdrawal being ex-
tended within limited periods.
Prospectuses sent free of charge,
CHARLES LEW IS G RUN EISEN, Secretary.
Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London.

'T'HIRD ISSUE OF SHARE.; OF THE
UNITED LAND COMPANY .(LIMITED).—Of the third
issue of 5,000 Shares there now remain 2,621 to be allotted.
Forms of application will be duly forwarded. The sum of £3
per share has been paid on the previous issues of 22,379
shares already taken up.
By order of the Board,
CHARLES LEWIS GRUNBISEN, Secretary.
Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C.,
October 19th, 1870.
The'New Prospectutes, containing the List of Valuable Free-
hold Land and Houses on Sale, in 28 counties, will be forwarded
free of charge..

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and. Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chief Office-17,'Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income, £300,000.
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
£BOO,OOO.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, ICH., F.R.S.
Tlkp Rev. A. Alston, D:D. I It. M. Carter, Esq., M.P.
R. itainilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Reeky, Esq.
A. It. Bristow,, F 3 i... .Reginald Read, Esq.,M.D.
This Society are now IS b- COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES:-
The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited I* the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years.
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured

HENRY B. PARMINTER, Manager.

911-1 E ELECTRIC TELEG HAPII SCHOOLS
of INSTRUCTION,I64 and 166, City-road, London, E.C.—
Established 1868.—Evening .Classes. The usual WINTER,
EVENING CLASSES have now COMMENCED, whereby gen-
tlemen who are engaged during.the day will have the advantage
of being instructed in every practical part of telegraphy.
T. EVAN'S LUNDY, Secretary.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

GLOUCESTER RACES.-YESTERDAY.

CITY HANDICAP.

Referee
Clarionette...
Cowboy

• - ,• Four ran.
NURSERY HANDICAP.

H0ught0n..........
Moula f .
Azalea ..

Scintilla
Fantine
Metaphor

Seven ran.
WELTER PLATE.

Eight ran.
CLAIMING STAKES.

Gruelthorpe...
Splitvote f
Antwerp

Six ran.
HANDICAP HURDLE,

Molly Bawn
Frederick Charles
Equerry

1
2
3

!Four ran.

SELLING HURDLE,
Void.

2
3

KELSO RICES-YTSTILRDAY.
NURSERY HANDICAP.

Triton
Mount Blair
Last Word

Nine ran.
BORDER HANDICAP.

The Bobby
Pagaliini
Maid of Mickley.
Six ran.
AMATEUR STAKES.

Fairy Land
Harmony

STEWARDS' CUP.

Paganini
Sensation
Ge:Lnt des Batailles...

Four ran.
WELTER (UP.

The Bobby
Whimseial
Kelvin Grove

Four ran.
TWEEDSIDE PLATE.

La Favorita
Lackland
Torn Cringle
Eight ran

1

1
2

1

1
112
3

CITY BETTING.—YESTELIDAY.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
7 to 1 agst Not Out (taken to £500)
15 to 2 agst Adonis (offered-8 to 1 taken freely)
Bto 1 agst Podesta (offered-100 to 12 token and
wanted)
12 to 1 agst Barford (taken and offered)
100 to 8 agst Albany (offered-14 to 1 taken)
100 to 6 agst Frivolity (taken and wanted)
20 to 1 agst Vandenhoff (offered—take 25 tol ; 200
to 7 and 300 to 10 laid previously)
20 to 1 agst Queen of Hearts (offered-25 to 1 taken
and wanted)
25 to 1 agst Rafale (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Vintner (offered)
30 to 1 agst Green Riband (offered—take 100 to 3)
1000 to 30 agst Fichu (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Dark Cloud (taken and offered)
1000 to 20 agst Cymbal (offered)
1000 to 20 agst Stanley (offered)
66 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (taken)
100 to 1 agst Thunderstorm (taken)
1000 to 8 aget.Ryshworth (taken and offered)
500 to 4 agst Exciseman (taken)
2000 to 60 agst Stanley and Exciseman coupled

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
The Irish Protestants are beginning to believe more in
the mixed systems of education. At a meeting just
held at Omagh, the Dean of Clonfert said that
although for many years 'the clergy and laity
of the Establishment were hdstile to the existing system,
time and experience had produced a great change of
opinion and now. " theeat majority o d
f the clergy
and the bulk of the peo grple " were oppose to denomi-
nationalism. The meeting passed a resolution protesting
against separate schools in Ireland for particular religious
denominations—the ground taken being " that such
a course would lead to injurious rivalry in the estab-
lishment of schools and a baneful separation of the
youth of Ireland, and tend to deteriorate the education
of the country."

THE REPRESENTATION OF COLCH EST ER.
A deputation from Colchester waited on Tuesday on
Major-General Sir H. Storks, G.C. 8., and presented
him with a requisition signed by all the different sections
of the Liberal party, inviting him to appear as a candi-
date for the seat vacant by the death of Mr. Rebow. The
gallant General accepted the invitation, and promised to
address the constituency las; evening. Sir Henry has
been selected by successive Governments to fill important
posts in Jamaica, the lonian Islands, and Smyrna.
Mr. Sangster, of Sherborne-lane, London, on Tuesday
night issued his address as a candidate, in connection with
the Association of Revivers of British, Industry. He is
opposed to. one-sided free trade, advocates protection to
British labour, peace between nations and employer and
employed. Mr. Sangster is in favour of the Ballot, but is
opposed to the colonial policy of the present Government.
He advocates the abolition of the Malt Tax. The ad-
dress of Colonel Learmouth has not yet been published. •

THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A SHIPPING AGENT.—
An important judgment has been given by Mr. Anderson,
Q.C., in the City of London Court, iii the case of " Duff
v. Charles Andrew," which was an action brought
for the recovery of a large sum of money
from defendants, who are sliipbrokers of \Val-
brook., and who, , it was alleged, contracted
with the plaintiff, a yarn merchant, of Barking, Essex, to
ship a quantity of goods to Valentia, in Spain. They
neglected to do so, alleging that they had a more valu-
able freight for the ship, and this action was instituted to
recover compensation for loss sustained in consequence. The
judge held that the defendant's objection as to non-
liability was good in law, as they merely acted as the
agents for a Dundee house, who alone were responsible.
• A London agent, acting for a country or foreign house,
and failing to carry out a contract of this kind, the breach
of contract being, as in the present instance, traceable to
the firm they represented, could not be held liable, and
the proper parties to sue were the Dundee firm.

At the annual book trade sale at New York, Mrs.
Stowe's book on the Byron scandal was sold, amid shouts
of derision, for waste paper.
Mr. and Mrs. Motley have been on a visit to Earl
Russell, at Woburn Abbey. Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the
late President, has been on a visit to Mr. Smith, the
United States Consul at Dundee.

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has ap-
pended to his Report on the year 1869 extracts from re-
ports made to him by district and divisional superintenden ts -
on the conduct and work of the police in the year. This
is the first time that they have been called upon for a
statement of the results of their experiences, and they
had therefore kept no registers; but the reports are very
interesting. We present, as an example, the substance of
the report on the Camberwell Division, so far as it is pub-
lished. The Superintendent says :—" I consider the
capture of William Simpson (alias Miles Ambler, alias
Black Miles) and William Green the most important
apprehension made by the Metropolitan Police for many
years. Black Miles is a Yorkshire man, well known in
his neighbourhood for thirty years as a receiver of stolen
property, but long fortunate in escaping conviction. In
the spring of 1864 he was connected with a gang of thieves
who committed a series of very extensive robberies.
One was the robbery of over .21,000 worth of
stamps from the Stamp-office at Huddersfield.
Then followed a robbery of several hundred
pounds worth of silks, satins, &c., from a house
at Bradford, the whole of which property was found
concealed in the pulpit of a chapel about two miles from
the premises broken into. The chapel had a boarded
io,
about two feet from the'ground, with three grates
Or dust-holes up the centre ;one of the grates was about a
yard from the pulpit, and the thieves, by direction of
Miles, got down the grate, and stowed the stolen goods
underneath the pulpit. Shortly after the same gang
broke into a cloth warehouse at Kirkheaton, and stole
cloth of the value of £4OO, which was conveyed away in
two carts. One of these broke down, and was abandoned ;
the remainder of the cloth was concealed inside box tomb-
stones at Wood churchyard, 17 miles from the scene of
the robbery. All the gang were apprehended and con-
victed, except Black Miles. From that time (the spring
of 1864) he evailed detection, until apprehended a few
months since by Ham and Ranger, two of the metro-
politan detectives, who found him out through making
inquiries respecting portico and other thieves, and ascer-
tained that he had been at the head of an organised band
of thieves, and connected with another notorious re-
ceiver residing at Brixton. Ranger and Ham
kept both of them under close observation day and
night. When Miles and Green were apprehended the
proceeds of several burglaries were found in Black
Miles's house. Both men were sentenced to 12 years'
penal servitude. While Miles and Green were in custody
and awaiting their exnmination before a magistrate,
Police-sergeant Ham received a letter, in consequence of
which he was instructed to proceed to a certain rendezvous
indicated in the letter, and there he found one Richards,
who, after a little conversation, made an offer of 20 sove-
reigns to Ranger and Ham, on condition of their getting
Miles and Green discharged. Ranger and Ham, under
directions, took the,money, which was placed in Richards's
hands by the Brixton receiver, and both those men,
Richards and the receiver, were for this offence sentenced

to two years' hard labour. The man who thus found the
money had been known as a wealthy receiver for
years. He lived in good style at Brixton, and
was the owner of a large number of houses ; he was
the companion of and very intimate with Black
Miles, and both had baffled the police for years. This
Brixton man was convicted at Liverpool in 1854, and sen-
tenced with his wife to seven years' penal servitude for a
banknote robbery. The wife died in prison. At that time
he was worth £l,OOO, but when apprehended by Ham
and Ranger he was found to have money and house
property to the amount of 212,000. Therefore, in his
capacity of receiver, he had accumulated no less than
£ll,OOO since he came to London. He is connected
with first-class thieves all over the word, and
advanced money to them to go to foreign coun-
tries to commit robberies. Numerous papers re-

lating to transactions with thieves in France, Spain, Ger-
many, and America, and to stolen property sent to and re-
ceived from those countries were found upon him. One
document and two portmanteaus belonging to a thief,
named Husk or Hirst, now doing five years hi
France, were found„which also chewed that this receiver
held £l5O, the procikeds of larceny in Paris, for this thief
until he was released. This Brixton receiver bought the
whole of the property stolen from Mrs. Cohen in Park-lane
for £175, from two notorious portico thieves, now in penal
servitude." The superintendent goes on to state that in
the course of these inquiries respecting Miles and the
Brixton receiver, and while their houses were watched, a
whole school of climbers or portico thieves were found out,
and several are in prison for long terms. Portico larcenies
very much decreased after the gang had been broken up.
The thieves who commit these larcenies in the suburbs are
nearly always well dressed men, keeping their own horses
and traps, mostly at livery stables. Some of the carts are
made with a box under the seat, the upper part of the box
contains cigars, Sze., as if the owner was a traveller, but
house-breaking instruments are concealed under a false
bottom. Men of this class drive about the suburbs without
suspicion, sometimes with a very dressy lady. The
superintendent, regarding houses with a professional eye,
complains that fields or gardens about a suburban dwell-
ing give great facilities to thieves to get away with their
booty without being seen, allowing little chance of de-
tection. He puts in a word for the police, not without
reason, when he says, in conclusion, that while the claim
to pension accrued at 15 years' service many very intelli-
gent men joined the force, but that the extension of the
minimum to 30 years has an unfavourable effect, as very
few indeed can perform the duties of a policeman for so
long a period.

It is stated that Mr. Disraeli contemplates writing
another novel.'

NEW GLOVE PURSE.—A Nottingham firm have
brought out a new glove mitha pocket on the inside of the
palm, to suit the habit indulged in by the fair sex of carry-
ing. money in that position.
Mr. George Potter, who is a candidate for the
London School Board, says :—" I am for universal and
unsectarian education ; and, though I would never ex-
clude religion, I.would not admit it into State-supported
schools in any other form than as it comes before us in the
open Bible."
The Prince of Wales has given a cheque for a
hundred guineas to the Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh,
the foundation stone of which he laid last week. In the
letter announcing the .gift his Royal Highness expresses
his satisfaction at the reception afforded to him and the
Princess of Wales on the occasion referred to.

The well-known supporter of Mr. Gladstone, the
Itev. M. M'Coll, was offered the living of St. Mark's,
Hamilton-terrace, but he declined it. It is reported that
Mr. Gladstone has strongly recommended Dean Ramsay
to get him elected Bishop of Edinburgh, but he prefers
"to remain South."—Church Herald.
The Pope is said to have accepted the first instal-
ment of his income from Italy. On the last day of the
month those who receive regular pensions from the Papal
Court were rather puzzled as to where they should ho for
their money. To their utter astonishment, an employe of
the Italian Government presented himself at the Vatican,
and disbursed the sums due to each of them. The sums
paid amounted to 50,000 scudi.--Guardian.
Mr. William Ferdinand Fodor. who was hilled by
a carriage accident on Saturday, was not the steward
but the personal friend of Mr. Strode, of Camden
House, and undertook the temporary charge of the
Empress's household affairs as a purely honorary function
and as a mark of sympathy for her misfortunes. He was
a Russian by birth, and leaves a widow and three children
to mourn his loss. Mr. Fodor will be buried in Chislehurst
churchyard on Friday.
The split in the Armenian Catholic community
still continues. The dissidents—as firm as ever in their
resolve not to recognise even the spiritual authority of
Monsi,,,rnor Hassoun—have not yet, says the Levant
Herald, succeeded in inducing A'ab. Pasha to order the
election of a new patriarch, to • hand over
to them the large mass of house, Church,
' and other property which belongs to the commu-
nity generally, but which the repudiated prelate still
holds. Two monster deputations have lately waited on
the Grand Vizier at Bebek, to urge action on his High-
ness but he declines doing anything till he . has
heardi from Cardinal Barnabo, to whom he has written on
the subject. In the meantime, on Sunday last a sen-
tence of excommunication was read out in the Hassounite
churches agginst the four bishops who have joined the
secedepf.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—The rate of inottalitv in
London and 16 other large towns of the United Kingdom
last week was in the ratio of 24 deaths annually to every
1,000 of the present estimated population. The rate varied
from 18 in Sunderland to 37 in Bristol. In the
metropolis 2,116 births and 1,416 deaths were re-
gistered, the former having been 33 below and
the latter 47 above the estimated average, Zy-
motic disease caused 409 deaths including 1.3
from smallpox, 19 from measles, 198 from scarlet fever,
11 from diphtheria, 14 frem croup, 20 from whooping-
cough, 17 from typhus, 22 from enteric (or typhoid)
fever, 8 from simple continued fever, 9 from erysipelas,
and 38 from diarrhoea. From " simple cholera, 'or
choleraic diarrheas,' 2 deaths were registered. Smallpox
caused 2 deaths. The mortality from scarlet fever shows
a slight increase on the previous week's return.Fifty-
one deaths resulted from violence.