The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-29 00:00:00

MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man, named James Senior, was charged by
Barnet Isaacs with having stolen three half sovereigns
and a sixpence. From the complainant's statement it
appeared that, having been fatigued by excessive indul-
gence in the amusements of a masquerade, held at the
sign of Old Harry's Head, in Red Lion-street, White-
chapel, he retired to the Turk's Head, in Aldgate, to take
coffee, and there sunk into a gentle sleep. He was, how-
ever, soon disturbed by a disagreeable sensation about
his pocket in which his gold and silver were deposited ;
and opening his eyes, and his feelings at the same time,
detected the prisoner's hand in the immediate vicinity,
and said to him, "Jim, d—n your eyes be quiet, good
luck to you !"
Alderman GIBBS—Had he his hand in your pocket?
Complainant—He had, but I had the money in my hand.
Well, I thought he'd be satisfied with trying it on once,
and so off I did go to sleep again, and no mistake ; and
so I soon began to feel more disagreeable than ever
about the money.
Alderman Ginus—What ! while you were asleep?
Complainant—Yes, please you, my Lord. At last I
thought I felt it go away right bang out of my hand, and
so I woke up ; and sure enough it was gone, and my
pocket cut right through and through.
Alderman GIBBS—Pray, in what state were you at
this time? Complainant—l had been tipsy when I came
from the masquerade, but not so bad as not to miss my
money.—(A laugh.)
Alderman GIBBS—Pray, what character did you ap-
pear in there? Complainant—l just went in as lam now.
Alderman GIBBS (to the complainant, who had a filthy
Petticoat-lane countenance and figure)—What ! like a
man of business? Complainant—No; like a man arter
he's done his business. I just walked in like the gentle-
man at the bar and other gentlemen what was there.
Alderman GIBBS—Oh, then, the prisoner was one of
your companions at the masquerade ? Complainant—
To be sure he was. There was him, and Mike Samuels,
and me, all went together, and I paid three sixpences for
the admission of all of us. Mike knows I stood the
blunt, so that it was a shame to rob me of the three half
sovereigns, and the remaining sixpence, warn't it, Mike ?
Mike Samuels stepped to the table and said, " Do you
call me to give my evidence, Barney ?
Complainant—Yes, that I do, Mike. Now, this is a
gentleman, please your Lordship, as, s'elp me God, knows
all about it.
Alderman GIBBS—Very well. Now, Mr. Samuels,
what did you see of this affair ? Mike Samuels—Why
you see, my Lord, Barney sits down in the tap-room, and
he goes asleep, but up he starts all of a suddent, and says
he to me, Mike, says he, you've robbed me of all my
money.—(Great laughter.)
Prisoner—And that was just none at all, my Lord ;
for I had to pay for his admission to the masquerade, as
he had not a farthing.
Mike Samuels—Well, my Lord, I says to him, what
do you mean by that ere nonsense ? What do I know
of your money? I a'int gut no money of yourn. So
then he throws down his hat with a wery great swinge
and violence, and then he takes hold of this here hinno-
cent young body, and he says, if you don't get me my
money, some on you shall sweat for it, I'm blowed ; and
then he calls the officer and locks him up in the louse-
house.—(Great laughter.) That's all.
Alderman Gxnas—W hy, complainant, your witness,.
Mr. Samuels, has stated the case in the clearest manner
against you: It seems that you first suspected one, and
then another, and I suppose you thought that Mr. Samuels
would be glad to get out of the disgrace of the accusation,
and throw it upon the prisoner. But you Nvere mistaken.
The complainant then turned upon Mike Samuels, and
said, Why, Mike, s'elp me God, you ai'nt told a word of
truth. I was only joking yen I said you tuck my money.
I knuw'd all the time it was Jim's hand that tuck it, for
I felt it fast enough in my pocket.
The policeman said that he had heard the complainant
distinctly charge the two persons with having robbed him.
Alderman GIBBS supposed, that if th complainant
lost any money at all, he lost it at the masquerade,
where somebody might have adopted the character of a
thief for the night, and performed it much better than
Mr. Isaacs performed his own natural character of a Jew.
The prisoner was then discharged.
George Rivers was charged with having stolen two odd
boots from the shop of Mr. Castle, bootmaker, at No. 28i
in the Poultry.
The prosecutor stated, that between six and seven
o'clock in the evening of the 22d of December, the pri-
soner walked into the shop, and, seizing two odd boots,
ran out with them. The prosecutor followed, and
secured the fellow.

Barker, a City policeman, into whose custody the pri-
soner was given, stated, that in their way to the Compter
the prisoner, upon being asked how much he had ex-
pected to get for the odd boots, replied that he expected
about six shillings for them, but, if they had been a
pair, he should have got seven shillings for them ; and
he added, that the reason odd boots fetched a price so
high was, that at the shop at which he sold them there
were plenty of boots to match whatever could be got
hold of. He, however, refused to state where that shop
was.—The prisoner was committed for trial.
An engineer, named John Dijon, was charged with
havin; committed desperate assaults upon policemen and
other persons.

The- defendant, who is a powerfnl young man, had
been holiday-keeping, and, as he passed along in the
neighbourhood of London-bridge, where he tumbled
several times, was inspired with the fancy of bringing
others to his own level. He accordingly let fly his fists
at persons whom he met, and down they went in the
mud with as dead a certainty as he fell himself. At last
he was thrown down at the door of a shop by a gentle-
man whom he had struck violently in the face, and taken
hold of by the police. When in the hands of the police-
men, he went to work, as if by steam, with his hands
and feet, and one of the unfortunate officers, who hap-
pened to be within reach of his power, was soon after-
wards transferred to the hands of the surgeon, who
charged ss. for advice and leeches.

Alderman Ginns asked the defendant whether he could
say anything at all in answer to such an accusation ?
The defendant said he must have had too much liquor,
for he knew nothing at all about the matter.
Alderman Ginns--:-You might have killed this police-
man.- The defendant—Aye, lam told I had too much
beer. Idare say. I-had, too, for Ido assure you I know
nothing of it .at all.

Aldermanßna—l am sorry to see that you don't
seem even to regret it. The defendant—Oh, yes, lam
sorry fur it. lam pretty sure I sat too long in the
public-house ; but it was Christmas time, you know,
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_,Lord.

Alderman GIBBS—But you must not murder people
beCaukie it is Christmas. The defendant—No ; but I had
t°"- lunch beer—that's the fact.
The Alderman then fined the defendant 31., which was
soon afterwards paid.

METEon,
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enb°orimlrlielannt meteor was observed over the
was seen by various parties
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had very much the appearancet
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was of a dark red colour, the
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cumference of the eye,
great number of
colour, rather darker on the edges, and ter
point; the edges being quite distinctly defined.
On 1111 a
proaching pretty near to the horizon, it exploded at
the
nucleus, with a dull, but very loud report, accompanied
by a whizzing noise, and discharged a
brilliant sparks, something like those from a sky-rocket,
:Lnd before these were lost sight of the whole meteor had
vanished.— Glasgow A 'vim.
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petition.

•AN 01110 SINGER.—TaIk of their bass singer
at Kentucky, we've a man here who went sOIoW that
he's never been able to get up again since. We have
gentlemana here, too, who is so cold in his manner that
th moment he enters the room the thermometer falls to
ti eezing point.

HE STEAM NAVIGATION OF
GREAT BRITAIN.
(From the Journal des Debats.)
England is increasing in an extraordinary manner her
means of communication with every part of the world.
On March 20, 1840, a contract was entered into be-
tween the Government and the Royal Mail Steam Navi-
gation Company, by which the latter engaged to orga-
nise a line of steam-packets between England and the
Gulf of Mexico. In less than 20 months from the
signing of the contract the running of these vessels has
commenced.
Theconditions imposed on the company, were that they
should build 14 large steamers, each of 400-horse power,
and capable of carrying the heavy artillery now in use.
All these vessels were to be completely found
in every respect. From the time the Company should
be prepared to commence the running of these vessels
they were to despatch, at equal intervals, twice in a
month, a steamer, which should first carry the mail
to the island of Bin-Woes, and from thence into
the Gulf of Mexico; and the Company were bound to
take measures for the lauding and receiving mails at all
the different points at which they were to touch, in an
interval of not exceeding 22 days (except in case of
accident) from their arrival at Barbadoes to their de-
parture from Samana, in the island of Hayti, on their
return to Europe.
The Government, on its part, engaged to pay to the
Company an annual sum of 240,0001., payable, in equal
proportions, every quarter.
Not twenty months have elapsed since this contract
was signed, and already eight of those stupendous ves-
sels, ready for sea, have assembled at Southampton,
which is to be their point of departure. These vessels
are said to be magnificent ; and in the trial trips to
which they have been submitted have shown their
amazing powers, none of them performing less than
twelve knots an hour, and one of them, the Clyde,
fifteen. The remaining six vessels will be at Southamp-
ton by the 15th of next month. One of these fine
vessels started last week for her voyage, and will be the
first vessel that has made the run between Europe and
the Gulph of Mexico by, steam power alone. Others
will follow in regular succession.
This activity does honour to the Directors of the
Company; but it is not only to the continent of Ame-
rica that the English direct their attention. In the
other hemisphere they evince no less efforts to unite their
Indian possessions with England by means of rapid and
regular communications. The port of Bonibav has be-
come one of the most important points of the globe for
steam navigation. Her steamers regularly ply to the
mouths of the Indus, the Persian Gulph, the Red Sea,
and Suez, where they every month transport the corres-
pondence from India, China, and the Indian Archipe-
lago, carrying back in exchange the correspondence of
Europe with Asia. The last courier which came by
that route was the bearer of no less than 50,000 le.-
ters for Europe. This is net all. The presidencies of
Calcutta and Madras would also have their direct corn-
munication with the mother country, without being
compelled to make use of the Bombay line ; and hay-,
therefore, established a separate line of steamers, which,
from next month, will run to Suez, touching at Ceylon,
Madras, and Calcutta, to take and carry passengers
from and to those different ports. Four steamers, of
500 horse-power each, are already ready for this ser-
vice. In the meantime every exertion is making at
Bengal for the extension of steam navigation of the
magnificent river Ganges ; in a short time the voyage
from Calcutta to Benares, which cost the unfortunate
Jacquemont so much labour and time, will be performed
as easily as the voyage from Paris to Havre.
Steam navigation will shortly establish regular com-
munications between the different points of the mag-
nificent empire which the genius of England has founded
in the South Sea. A steamer has already commenced
running between Sydney, Port Philip, and Van Die-
men's Land. It is announced that other vessels will
soon arrive to form a rapid communication with all
those points by which England has attached the great
Continents of New Holland, Van Diemen's Land,
Norfolk Island, and the island of New Zlaland. It is
talked of, and it is an idea which will be eventually
realised, of establishing a regular line of steam-packets
between Sydney and Ceylon, or Calcutta—that is to
say, to place New Holland at a distance of from seventy
or eighty days' run from Europe, whilst hitherto the
voyage from the coast of Europe to that antipodean
Continent has seldom been less than from five to six
months.
When we witness such marvellous results as these of
the genius of England, we cannot avoid making painful
reflections as to our own country. Where are our
Transatlantic steam-vessels? When will they be ready
to commence their voyages? Arc the great sacrifices
offered by the Government in promotion of this affair to
be for ever without result ? It is scarcely credible, that
the gratuitous gift of steamers, and the formal promise
of an allowance of more than a million of francs annu-
ally, has not yet induced thh people of Havre, out first
port, and within fifty leagues of the capital, to form a
Company for the service of the line to New York.
EX

ON T

TRA OADINARY FUNERAL.
At length Gundling's literary labours by the nightly
amp', incessant mortifications, and still more his dm-
ion to the bottle, put an end to his life in good earnest.
He died April 11,1731, in his apartment at the palace
of Potsdam. The surgeons who opened his body, by
command of the King, "found," says Forster, " that
the stomach was ruptured with excessive drinking." As
Gundling, during his lifetime, had been the butt for
every kind of fun, so, after his death, be was destined
to afford the members of the smoking party one jovial
day. Ten years before, the King had caused a coffin
to be made for him in the form of a wine-hogshead, and
placed in his room like a piece of furniture and so
familiar did its future tenant become with this narrow
dwelling, that, like another Diogenes, he passed many
an hour in it, but with the bottle in his hand. It was
painted black, with a white cross, upon which were in-
scriptions in verse, referring to his predominant vice.
By command of the King, the body of the grand mas-
ter of the ceremonies was attired in his best gala dress
of red velvet, turned up with blue, his large wig, red
silk stockings and shoes, and then put into the hogs-
head. Here he stood—for there was no room to lie—
in state for a day, and on the next was conveyed to
the church of Bornstadt, near Berlin. The King had
invited a large company to the funeral, which attracted
a great concourse of spectators, and was attended by
the generals, colonels, and above fifty other officers of
the garrisons of Berlin and Potsdam, and by the Ca.
binet Councillors, the King's valets, the persons be-
longing to his Majesty's kitchen and cellars, and the
school-children. The clergy declined the invitation, on
the ground of objection to the form of the coffin. His
Majesty thereupon directed Fassmann, who had severely
annoyed the deceased when living, to deliver a discourse
over his remains, which were then carried to Born.
stadt in a waggon. Over his grave in the church his
Majesty caused a stone to be placed, with a Latin in.
scription, which, after enumerating his titles, says that
" by all who knew him he was admired for his learning,
praised for his honesty, loved for his society, and la-
mented for his deatb,"—Campbelfs Frederick the Great
and his Times.

HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Dec. 94
Bills. Money
•
Austrian 5 per Cents. ........ 1073 i 107%
Bans Shares v.... 1628
Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 108%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 10:44
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series ... 9114
Ditto in Certificates
97N 97%
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 87.4 WA,
Dutch Actual Debt, 2.4 per Cent 5014 50
Ditto • b per Cent —
Polish Bonds
151
New ticket
163
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent . 78.4 78
N.nwegian Lean, 1834, 4 per Cunt...
Spsnish, New 5 per Cents.... ..... ....... lb
EXCHANGES 01.7 LONDON.
Ilasimmo, DEC. 9.4.-13 6%.—Two months, 19 5
PETERRIWEGII, Dec 14.—Two months, 3e% pence.
Ririe, DEC. It. —Three Months, 38%.
ALM IltlAN FUND3.....VISNNA, Dec. IS.
five per Cents. Metalliques -
••••••••••• 106
Four per Cents. ••••••01•••••••••••••••••• ....... ••••• 00000000000 99%
Three per Cents.
7534
Bank Shares .. .......... .................... ........ ..
...Allgerneine &liftoff.. Dec.2l.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-11Eaux, Dec. 21.
Biils. ney.
Mo
St. Schutd. 3ch., C.,, per cent 104
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent.... 1024 101%
kieCliange on London, three months 6 111%
—Prussian State Gazette. Dec. 22.

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Pease, Mecklenburg
Beans 2.58 to 288
Buck Wheat 231 to 255
Rapeseed, Hanover .., 609 to 643
Malt
Tares « 2lO to 3CO
'ON.
Marrnham 6 to 736
Madras s3g 5%
Swats
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Ia Gilayra 4 tiX
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