The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-02 00:00:00

HAI%IBURGH MAIL.

ST. PETERSBITRGH,Nov. 19.—The Niva has been full
of drift ice since the 15th, and the brid,,es have therefore
h. ihe public safety of this capital has lately been con-
siderably interrupted by several murders, the first of
these crimes was committed by a person who has
hitherto contrived to elude the pursuit of justice. The
victim was a young man cf the middle class. Imme-
diately after two victims of the lower orders were
sacrificed by murderers, who were taken in the fact, to
which they appear to have been induced by the desire of
plunder.
A report has been spread that the natives of the pro-
vince of Livonia, who had lately been converted to the
Russian Greek Church from other Christian confessions
might, if they repented this conversion, return to their
former communion. The Governor, General Golonin,
contradicting this report, has published a proclamation,
in which he warns the individuals in question. against
such a step, and threatens the seceders with all the
severe punishments which the new penal code decrees
against apostates and their seducers.
STOCKHOVM, Nov. 20. Baron Von Manderstoom,
Cabinet Secretary and Chamberlain, embarked on beard
the Gauthoid steamer for Lubeck, on a special mission
from his Majesty the King to the Russian Court, where
he will r_.•2t our Crown Prince at Berlin. It is conjec-
tured, of course, that the mission is the betrothing of
his Royal Highness to Princess Louisa of Prussia.
VIDIMA, Nov. 19.—The assassin Reinell, who for
his attempt to murder the Emperor, was sentenced to
' imprisonment in the celebrated fortress of
mwu Hungary, died there a month ago.
GennlktuyacsylAs
DT, Nov. 22.—The Committee of Mer-
chants has summoned a meeting for Tuesday next, to
deliberate on the establiAiment of a communication, by
steam-boats, between this town and Hull. The commit-
tee, it is said, intend to effect this project by means of
a joint stock company, but which, for the present, will
not have a steamer of its own, but only raise a capital to
hire a steam-boat, and in case the experiment should not
succeed sufficient to make up the loss.

THE TICKET SYSTEM.
EXTENSIVE FORGERY.
At the Lewes petty session, on Saturday last, two
labourers, named Howell and Johnstone, were charged
with having obtained a quantity of goods from Mr.
Payne, an outfitter at Lewes, by means of forged railway
tickets. The tickets were forgeries of those issued by
Mr. Ayres, the deputy contractor of the Keymer branch
of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.
They were printed on little bits of paper, and were as
follows:—" Deliver to bearer the sum of one shilling
in goods.—Signed F. Ayres. Payable to Benjamin
Flint only."
It appeared from the evidence for the prosecution that
the prisoners a few days ago went to the shop of the
prosecutor and purchased a variety of articles, consisting
chiefly of wearing apparel, for which they paid in rail.
way tickets. On the following day another attempt was
made to obtain more goods, but the forgeries in the
meantime having been discovered, the prisoners were
apprehended. On being charged by the officer who ap-
prehended them, the prisoners admitted having the
articles, and asserted that they " cashed" the tickets for
a person whom they did not know.
Mr. Ayres, the contractor, stated that the tickets
were forgeries, and that he never employed either of the
prisoners. He said, in reply to the magistrates, that the
name of Benjamin Flint on the ticket was the person
from whom he received the money.
Mr. Woollgar, one of the magistrates, said the bench
were decidedly opposed to the ticket system; they
thought it was bad from beginning to end, and the
sooner it was put a stop to the better.
Howell, one of the prisoners, said in his defence, that
he had met several men, one f whom said he had been
at work for Ayres, and as he wanted a pair of boots at
Bridge's, where Ayres's tickets would not pasi, he wished
to ( xchange them, and that he (Howell) gave him 20s.
of Wymark's for 225. of Ayres's, and that he also gave
another man II for 33 more is. tickets.
It also appeared in evidence that some hundreds of
pounds of these tickets bad been forged, and that several
other persons would be apprehended shortly.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial.
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MYSTERIOUSFriday
eOREIGN BRICIES.—A parcel of 30,000 bricks has
arrived by a vessel from Hamburgh, and another of
40,000, by the Catalina, from Antwerp, both cargoes
being destined for re-exportation.
Mr. Carter resumed, an 'concluded an adjourned inquiry
from DEATH OF A LADY.--0n Monday
Cold Harbour-lane, Camberwell, respecting the death of
Mrs. Mary Summers, aged forty-eight years, lately last, at the Plough and harrow Tavern,
re-
siding at No. 10, Holland-place, Denmark-street, Cam-
berwell. The deceased, who was highly connected, had
been in the enjoyment of excellent health for several
years. On Wednesday last she retired to her dressing-
room, and having remained for a considerable time some
alarm was manifested by the other members of the fa-
mily, and after a few minutes search, one of the servants
discovered the deceased lying on the floor by the bedside,
in an insensible state. A surgeon was called in, who
pronounced life to be extinct. In consequence of the
sudden nature of the death, the coroner ordered Mr.
Burridge, a surgeon, to make a post modern examination.
The inquiry was adjourned until yesterday, to allow time
for the surgeon to make an analysis of the contents of
the stomach. On the re-assembling of the jury, Mr.
Burridge and a chemical lecturer said, they were unable
to detect anything of a deleterious nature, but death
had clearly resulted from the rupture of a blood vessel
on the brain. The coroner remarked on the case, after
which the jury unanimously returned a verdict of
" Death from natural causes."