The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-15 00:00:00

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant-commander James H. Hunter (1825) to
the Merlin packet at Portsmouth, to be re-commissioned
for general service.
Lieutenant W. J. Pullen (1846) to the Plover disco-
very ship in the Pacific.
Engineer—Charles Moxley, Ist class assistant to the
Llewellyn steam-packet, at Holyhead.
Coast Guard—Lieutenant Frederick Coppin, from
Tankerton to Herne Bay station, in exchange with
Lieutenant W. H. Hewlet ; Mr. C. S. Van Zulicombe,
late of the Hon. East India Company's civil service, to
command a station; Mr. C. J. Pegus (late of the Royal
Marites) from Swanage to Flag Head station, vice
Aldrich, superseded; Mr. W. T. Kitching, from Fleet to
Swanage station, vice Pegus; Lieutenant Sicklemore,
R.N., to Newtown station, Isle of Wright.
WooLincst, MAY 13.—The Plumper, steam-vessel,
recently launched at Portsmouth, arrived at Woolwich
on Thursday evening, and will be taken up to Deptford
to be fitted with Leer engines and a screw propeller.
The Trident steam-vessel, Lieutenant Risk, is taking
in her stores from Deptford Victualling-yard, and will
be ready for sea in a few days.

The Monkey steam-vessel, Master Commander Bryant,
arrived at Woolwich on Thursday evening, having ac-
companied the Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clarke
Ross, and the Investigator, Captain Bird, beyond the
Swin. The Fearless and African proceeded with the
vessels of the Arctic expedition, to assist them for several
days in their progress northward, should their services
be required.
Mr. Wigram, shipbuilder, and several scientific par-
ties, visited the saw-mills in Woolwich dockyard to-day,
to witness Mr. Cochran's inventions for cutting ship
timbers in a bevelled form, and crooked logs of wood in
a line with the grain; and the inventions from their
simplicity, and the perfect work they produced, gave
great setisfaction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAR YLEBOIVE.
EXTENSIVE RAILWAY PLUNDER.-011 Saturday,
Charles Abbott and Axis Williams, the former of
whom, it appears, was for some time butler to Colonel
Hope, of Norfolk-street, Park-lane, and from whom
he derived a comfortable annuity, were placed at the
bar charged with having committed numerous rob-
beries at various railway stations.
This being the third time the parties were before
the Bench, and the case being one of considerable
public interest, the court was densely crowded, and a
great number of pawnbrokers and their clerks, the
recipients of the stolen property, thronged every pas-

sage.
On a previous examination it had been proved
that the prisoner Abbott had stolen a portmanteau
belonging to the Rev. Mr. Marsh, of Cambridge,
from the station-house of the Paddington terminus,
which portmanteau had been traced to the house of
a woman, Cattell, residing at 23, Carlisle-place, Lisson-
grove, a place whic, it appears, Abbott had made a
depot for the illh-gotten treasure. On Collard
examining the premises, boxes, trunks, portmanteaus,
writing-desks, &c., were there arranged, and be, there-
fore, selected as a sample what filled three cabs, which
he had brought to the police-court for the purpose of
identification by the owners. It, moreover,appeared
that a number of pawnbrokers' tickets had been also
found, all
pledged in the name of the female pri-
soner, Ann Williams. On the case being called on,
Mr. Justins, from the office of Maples, Stevens, and
Co., Old Jewry, attended for the prosecution, on the
part of the Great Western Railway Company.
The first witness called was Thomas Batson, Esq.,
residinghaet
wasKy Kynaston House, near Ross, in Here-
fordshire, who deposed that on the 23d of last De-
cembera passenger on the Great Western
line from Gloucester to London. He had with him
seven parcels, or packages. On his arrival at the
Paddington terminus he missed one package, con-
taining a vast deal of property—he should say to the
value of between 401. and 501.
A great number of articles of wearing apparel, &c.,
were here produced, all of which were identified by
Mr. Batson as his property.
The articles in question were found at the house,
No. 23, Carlisle-place, Lison-grove, kept by a woman
named Anne Cattell, who, upon being examined, said
that the articles were left at her house from time
to time by the male :prisoner, whom she had known
for some seven or eight years.
Several assistants to Messrs. Boyce, Trail, Richard-
son, Fish, &c., pawnbrokers, gave evidence as to their
having received the articles in question from the pri-
soner Williams, for the purpose of obtaining the loan
of money thereon.
25th of last March
Mr. George Gilbert Scott, an architect, living at
No. 12, Avenue-road, Regent's-park, said that on the
articles of wearing
he was a passenger on the Great
Western Railway, and had lost a portmanteau, the
one he now saw in court. It had contained many
.apparel, the majority of which he
identified as belonging
Mr. Thomas Valey, a solicitor from Chelmsford,
stated that on the 24th of last December he came to
to him.
London from Chelmsford by the Eastern Counties
Railroad. He had a portmanteau, containing a great
quantity of wearing apparel, to the value of at least
101., which he found was missing on
his arrival at the
terminus. The articles now produced were part of
the property he had lost upon that occasion.
The three foregoing cases being of such a strong
nature against the prisoners, in addition to the three
produced against them on the last day's examination,
the magistrate fully committed them to take their
trial upon the six several and distinct charges.

A FREAK Or FORTUNS.—A tailor of the name of
Sanderson, living at Stainton, in Cleveland, a few miles
from Stockton, has lately cone into possession of
100,0001., left him by an old uncle in India, upwards of
eighteen years since, but of whose death he was not
cognizant till lately. He was lately informed of it by
his uncle's late steward, who has recently returned home
from that distant part of our empire. Sanderson is a
widower with a small family, and up to the period of re,
ceiving the news of his immense fortune was only in in-
different circumstances. He is now, however, nearly
bewildered with the friendly calls of the opulent and
wealthy, and with the proffers of friendship he is daily
receiving,—Leeds Paper.
From 12,000/. to 13,0001. in gold are now trans-
mitted weekly to Holland, in payment for cattle, butter,
and other provisions.