The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

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once, and Edward Barlow, a clerk at Messrs. Wreford and
Co.'s, 2, Aldernianbury, were re-examined, charged with
stealing a writing-case and other articles from the Commer-
cial Hotel (the Barley-mow), Salisbury-square.
Mr. Clarkson, with Mr. Philp, the solicitor, attended for
the prosecutor, and Mr. Ballantine with Mr. Hudson, soli-
citor, for the accueed. The room was crowded with the
friends of the parties.
Mr. Clarkson said there had been a short examination on
a former day, but it would now be necessary to go into the
matter minutely. He called—
Mr. Pare, the landlord of the hotel, who deposed that the
female prisoner, Richards, came to lodge at his house on the
15th of December, representing that she had come from
South Petherton, near Bristol. Her luggage was brought in
a cab. Having a sitting-room for gentlemen staying at his
house, but no such accommodation for ladies, she was -in-
vited to sit in the bar parlour, and while she was lodging in
the house property to the extent of 30/. was lost. She left
on the evening of the 20th of January, williout any inti-
mation that she had taken a lodging elsewhere. She
went away pretending she was going to the Great Western
Railway to meet her sister, who would arrive at half-past
nine; but, in fact, she went directly to Hoxton, where
she had taken a lodging a week before. There was a raffle
at presecutor's house fur some silver watches, which were
kept in the bar parlour. The raffle was to have taken place
about New Year's-day, but on looking for them they
could not be found. They had been last seen in the bar
parlour on the 23d of December. The chamber-maid miss-
ing something on the 19th, the servants had notice to quit.
Barlow was a frequent visitor to Miss Richards, and was ter
acknowledged suitor. As she did not return on Tuesday
night with her sister from Bristol. although she had ordered
an extra bed, and that the fire should be kept up, he went
to Barlow on Wednesday morning. Barlow said he had tot
done anything with the young lady, and he asked if she
owed anything ? Witness said she owed 1/. 4s. Barlow
said he would call and pay it in the evening. Witness re-
quested him to bring Miss Richards with him, as she
had, no doubt, by mistake, taken away seine ar-
ticles which belonged to Mrs. Pare, or to Mrs.
Clarkson, a lady on a visit to her. Barlow pro-
mised he would do so ; but, in consequence of some infor-
mation, both the pritemers were taken into custody in
Aldermanbury about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. On Wed-
nesday morning a note was received by post, bearing a
Cripplegate post mark, setting forth that she did not return
last night because her sister arrived so late, and that they
slept together in Aldermanbury. He went with the officers
to search the lodging at Eliza-terrace, Hoxton, and saw cer-
tain articles found there. None of the missing property was
found on Barlow, or amongst his effects at his employers.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS asked how the female prisoner
accounted for removing her luggage, if she gave no intima-
tion that she was going to leave? Mr. Pare said he was not
aware that she had removed her luggage, but he returned
from the country in the course of that day.
Mr. Willoughby, a lodger at the hotel, stated that he
missed his writing-case from the commerciaProom on the
first floor. It was safe about five o'clock in the afternoon on
the 20th, and he missed it next morning. The outside was
of russia leather, but there was a black leather portfolio in-
side. He identified the clasp of the portfolio by a scratch.
The case contained bills and papers of importance to him.
The policeman produced the clasp which he found at the
lodging at Hoxton. There were ashes of paper under the
grate, and he also found in the ashes some small nails, screws,
and a hinge, which he supposed to be the remains of the
writing case.
.7, Mrs. Bircham, of 1, Eliza-terrace, Hoxton, said the female
prisoner slept there on the night of the 20th, and she heard
her busy with the fire till a late hour. Witness had two
furnished parlours to let. Barlow first looked at them, and
said he would send " his good lady." She took them to be
man and wife, and the lady came afterwards and approved
of the place. She did not take possession till the morning of
the 20th, when she brought her luggage in a cab, but went
away immediately. She returned with Barlow about eight
in the evening, but he went away about half-past ten the
same night. On the following day witness entered the room
while Miss Richards was absent, and saw under the sofa-pil-
low a strip of Russia leather with a torn edge. She also
saw a gold chain with long burnished links, and short inter-
vening links.
The officer said both these had been removed when he
searched the place at night, but he found another chain.
Such a chain as was described had been stolen from Mr.
Pare, but the chain produced was identified from the work-
box of the bar-maid. She saw it safe in her bed-room two
days before Miss Richards left. The bar-maid also iden-
tified two pocket handkerchiefs found at the lodging at
Hoxton. One belonged to herself, and the other to her
mistress.

Mrs. Clarkson, of the Walworth-road, who was staying at
the hotel on a visit to Mrs. Pare, identified a brooch which
she had broken, and which was found at the prisoner's
lodging.
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.I,:lizlibeth Fisher, the chambermaid, identified Barlow as
having been in the commercial-room on the afternoon of
the day on which Mr. Willoughby's writing-case was stolen
from it.

Mr. Clarkson then proposed an adjournment of the hear-
ing till Saturday, and he was willing that the young man,
Barlow, should continue to remain at large on his recog-
nizances.

Mr. Ballantine said ho was willing to assent to this, for
the fuller the inquiry was he was sure the clearer would the
innocence of Barlow appear. He had been paying his ad
dresses to the young woman, intending to marry her. He
had hitherto appeared as counsel for both the prisoners; but
from this time he should represent only Barlow, who be-
lieved the young woman to be innocent till proofs of her
guilt not to be resisted were produced, but now he could
no longer endeavour to rrotect her.
The female prisoner, who seems indifferent to the result,
was then remanded till Saturday, and Barlaw was bailed to
appear at the same time.
WORSHIP-STREET.

A middle-aged man of respectable appearance, named
George Samuel Abrahams, described as an auctioneer and
house-agent, was placed at timber, before Mr. Broughton, for
final examination, on numerous charges of embezzlement and
felony, end obtaining money under false pretences.
Two charges of fraud, after an elaborate investigation, the
Magistrate considered it unlikely would be followed by a
conviction, and they were therefore abandoned, but the pri-
soner was committed upon one charge of felony ; and
A lady named Lane now stated, that wishing in the latter
part of December last to dispose of some property at her
villa, at Ealing, the prisoner, who was recommended to her
by a friend as an auctioneer, waited upon her to draw up the
particulars of sale. Amongst other articles in the list were
an agate snuff-box, gold-mounted. and with a beautifully
executed representation of the Coliseum at Rome upon the
lid ; and a silver cruet-stand, both of which having sustained
trifling fractures likely to depreciate their value, the prisoner
took them away with him on the excuse of getting then"
repaired. She had repeatedly applied for their restoration,
but unsuccessfully, and now found, upon their production by
the officer, that they had been pledged by the prisoner, and
of course without her sanction. She bad also seen a set of
mounted cruet, found by the officer at the house of the pri-
soner, which were likewise her property, and must have been
abstracted by the accused from her house on the occasion of
his visit, and without her authorisation, as they were entire
and needed no repairs.
The snuff-box and cruet-stand were produced in 'court,
the latter by Mr. Russell, a pawnbroker in Shoreditch,
at whose shop it had been pledged by the prisoner, at the
latter end of December. for 41.
The prisoner offered no defence to this charge, and Hol-
land, the warrant officer, next produced a cigar- case, which
he had discovered upon searching the prisoner's house, and
which was identified as his property by a Mr. Rubens, a
vanilla merchant, who had left it in an apartment to which
the prisoner had access, serving as the temporary bar of a
publican named Collins, residing in Wellclose-square,
Whitechapel, whose house se suddenly fell down that his
family had scarcely time to escape with their lives, and for
whose benefit a subscription was set on foot and collected
by the prisoner, to the amount of more than SOL, and applied
by him to his own purposes, with the exception of about 61.
only, which had been obtained from him by stratagem.
In this case the prisoner, who betrayed the coolest self-
possession throughout the proceedings, expressed his inten-
tion to reserve his defence for another occasion, and he was
then fully committed for trial upon all the charges.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

YORK, JA N. 26.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Darlington Ex-
tensions, 11!,4—York and North Midland Extension, 39—Ditto, New
(East and West Riding), 10%—Newcastle and Berwick, 20%—
North British, New, Carlisle Branch, 3—London and York, 4%—
Grand Union, V. 188.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 21 19s.
Leicester and Bedford, 2—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land, 4;i —Welsh Midland, N.
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HULL, JAN. 26.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-1191 sales are—North British, Carlisle,
3—Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, &C., 3—Axliolme, 2,7,', —Derby
and Cainsborough, 21s.—Grand Union, 358.—Great North and South
Wales and Worcester, ss. 6d. —Hull and Barnsley Junction. 38s. Gd.
—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 21. 19..—London and York, 4%
—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 4 —North Western, 3—North
Staffordshire, 5/. 7s.—South Midland, 41. 17s.—Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham, 33e .

SHEFFIELD, Jew. 26.

A —lfflWsales are—Grimsby and Sheffield Exten-
sion, EICU "E.
Quarter shares, 21i —Leeds, Wakefield, and M id-
;lonand' 21. 18s.—Ditto,
, 2/. 19s.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire. 4—Ditto, Extension, 31. Is.
_south Yorkshire Coal Railway, 3
LEEDS,JAN.
25.
STOCK EXCHASGE.—The sales are—London and Croydon, 221,6 c.
—Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 11% p.—Shefilehl and
Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 6 —East Lancashire, No. 2 (lato
Accrington), 4N, p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 10—Ditto, Exten-
sions, 15s. p.—lluddersfleld and Sheffield, 22—Leeds and Bradford,
50 c.—Leeds and Dewsbury, New Shares, 3% p.—North British.
New Carlisle Branch, 31. Is.—Wakefleld, Pontefract, and Goole,
New, 7% I..—London and York, 4% —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres-
ton, 4N—West hiding Union, 6%—Ambergate, Nottingham, and
Boston, Bs. p.—Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland, 10s. die —Clithe-
roe Junction, 2?,—Grand Union, 10s. p.—Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, l7s. p.—Leeds and York, 7s. Gd.dis.—Leeds, Wakefield,
and Midland, 10s. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland,
ii. 17s. p.—Midland and Thirsk Junction, 18s. dis.—Northumberland
and Lancashire Junction, 15s. dis.—North Western, 2%—Shropshire
Union, 3s. p.—South Midland, 2% P.

THE IRON TRADE.—AII branches of the iron manu-
factures of South Staffordshire continue in undimished acti-
vity, and it is expected that a further impetus will be given
to the trade before the expiration of the present quarter.
During the past week contracts for 120,000 tons of iron rails
for the Great Western Company have been taken, a large
proportion of which has been contracted for in our own dis-
trict. This immense order—which, it must be borne in mind,
is only a small portion of those that may be looked for from
the railways which are all but certain to pass in the present
session—is required for the Great Western main trunk and
its numerous branches, including the Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton line, the operations of which have
already commenced at various points. Of these 120,000
tons, 45,000 are taken by the Colebrook Dale Company;
40,000 by the Plymouth works, Glamorgaushire ; 20,000 by
Messrs. Malins and Rawlins, of West Bromwich; and 15,000
tons by the Chillington Iron Company. We understand that
these contracts have been regulated vbject to the fluctuations
of trade, but at the present prices they will realise more than
131. per ton. Taking, therefore, into account the large sup-
plies which will be required to meet the demand for British
railways, and the orders which may be looked for from the
Continent, to complete the great lines under contract, we
may, without indulging in any very sanguine
safely conclude that the present price of iron will, under
net now, we
circumstances, be hilly maintained. There *1 fon in South
speculations,
safely
are informed, a single ironwork of any description Or if not fully
Staffordshire which is not in constantoope a_
nd ironstone.—Bir-
employed, the circumstance is
the raw materials of manufactare,
attl-ulable to the want of

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ExuANGE._on Saturday last,
COLCHESTER CORN
notwithstanding nerid depression
of the trade, there
opposition,„the gneiicsted by the farmers to the policy
was less
Sir Robert Peet, 11:flan we had been led to imagine by the
Protec
Essex
of
e Society" would be the case. Indeed
d themselves favourable to repeal, and none
InaTe'dexiiiiCf::(l to favour a gradual abolition. The general
feelingseel seemed to be, if the corn-laws are to be repealed, let
t
be
done Lit once. It is evident that the farmers in Essex,
uninfluencednizifiuenced by their landlords, are not as a body in favour
of the "Protection " system.—lpswich Express.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset are entertaining
a select circle at Wimbledon Park. Lord Glenelg ,Lord Sey-
mour, Sir Edward Colebrooke, Lady Shaw Stewart and ]Visa
Stewart, Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P., and the Hon. W. Grant,
are among the guests of the Noble Duke and Duchess.