The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-31 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE CAPTAIN AND THE SIRENS.—Mary Gayton,
a widow, aged 34 years, of No. 11, Dunstan-place,
Rateliff, was charged with stealing a gold watch,
value 15 guineas, from the person of Captain John
Hartley, Master mariner, of No. 55, Bolton-street,
Euston-road. Another woman, named Mary Ann
Morris, had been remanded until Wednesday next
for being concerned in the robbery, which is alleged
took place in the King's Arms public-house, in
Brook street, Ratcliff, on Tuesday night last. The
captain was out on the spree in the classic purlieus
of Ratcliff, and visited several grog-shops, in com-
pany with Morris. They went into the King's
Arms and had more drink, and were soon after-
wards joined by Gayton, who was invited to drink
with the captain and Morris_ Soon afterwards the
captain missed his watch. The chain of it was cut.
At the same time he missed his two companions.
lie had looked at his watch for the last time
at ten minutes past 11. He gave information to
the police, and on the same night Morris was taken
into custody. A police-constable, who took her
into custody, said that he began to " chaff" her
about the watch, but could not elicit any informa-
tion. John Oxley, the landlord of the house, No.
11, Dunstan-place, said that Morris came in on
Tuesday night and said Polly Gayton was coming
there with a gentleman, and that she had got his
jerry (watch) all right, and afterwards said she
had not got it. The prisoner Gayton was arrested
yesterday. She made a great row about the cap-
tain's watch in Oxley's house, and said that Morris
had the - watch, and was going to do her
out of it.

Captain Hartley said the watch belonged to his
wife, and that his own was under repair.
The magistrate said the prosecutor had not
taken much care of his wife's watch, and remanded
the prisoner until Wednesday, when Morris will be
arraigned with her.

We learn with some surprise from a correspon-
dent in Switzerland that a paper had been handed to all
visitors demanding three francs from each for permission
to remain in the country, with a notice that if the permis-
sion was not renewed at the end of the month a fine of
six francs would be incurred. The visitors are informed
-thtit they cannot move from ono place in Switzerland to
another without the sanction of the police and on the
payment of 40 centimes; and they are moreover directed
to deposit iu the bands of the police their "papers," pass-
ports, we presume, being meant. Our correspondent justly
remarks on the absurdity of the idea of visitors having to
solicit permission to reside in a country which derives
almost its only sustenance front their patronage, the visi-
tors being the life and bread of the people. We cannot sup-
pose that the Swiss Government is so inseam as to hamper
tourists with the old absurd and obsolete regulations. If
it do, s, why should not Colorado look up? as something
new, even mire imposing in scenery-and more healthful
in climate. Let us have tho Switzerland of America opened
lip with plenty of visitors, good hotels, and cheap railroad
travel, and Switzerland may discover that there are other
high elevations in a good latitude.
RAILWAY NEWS.—The Hon. Eevertly Johnson
has given an opinion that the Act of the Maryland Legis-
lature, which requires the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to pay hito the Treasury of that State cne-fifth of the
gross proceeds from passenger travel of the Washington
branch of the road, is unconstitutional.—On the Bth inst.
Messrs. Fisk and Gould were brought before the Oyer and
Terminer Court in Pas,'aic County, New Jersey, on a
charge of conspiring to defraud by taking excessive rates
of freight front the Rogers Locomotive Company of Pater-
son for transporting locomotives. About 400 suits are to
be commenced against the Erie Company for alleged over-
charges for carrying freight.