The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-23 00:00:00

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John 'fumy. toe ter ~t a v--set ca led the Fier, ef
Live, pool, was breught befole Alderman Gibbs, epon
an iiiieemerein ctiatgieg Jen, h having neglected to
r, r case to be deitveted, to the Cehector of
(111-tetes, at. ate-cement eeten d nee with the crew, specie
fyieg the wages of the seamen, the quantity of provisions
to be received by them, the capacity in which the vessel
was to be employed, &c., according to the "Act-for the
Consolidation of the Laws relating to Merchant Seamen'
and for keeping a Register for Seamen." The permit/
to which decedent, upon being convicted, was subjected,
was 101. The solicitor to the Admiralty attended to
prosecute.
Mr. Brown (solicitor) of Walbrook. appeared for the
defendant, who appeared to b., vei y much
excited
by grog.
Mr. W. H loss. clerk in the effice of the Registrar of
Shteping in the Custom-house, erotiuced the book cell-
fairing the shipping register, from which book it ar
petered that the Iliipe, cf Liverpool was registered es e
British ship, belongieg to :he subjects of her MejestY,
and that the defendant was master from the 9ih of Dee
cember, 1844, to the 15th of July, 1846, when another
master was appointed.
Mr. E. Shepherd, of the It•port-office, Loneerootot
Custom house, stared that when a ship arrived the Per'
ticulars should be reported at tee office within tvientV
fuer hours after having passed Gravesend. On the 27th
of June the Hope was reported as arrived, and the re.
port purported to be signed by John Harvey as the -
master in the usual way, but the master had not de"
livered any aereement ur h,t of the ship's crew, pd
London was the place of the ship's final destination.
Mr. Brown made several ingenious objections to the •
informatien, but
The defendant, primed with his favourite bever4e'-
tivew contempt upon the professional efforts to real
him, and told his solicitor that he did not care for leg*
obj, ctions. but would stand upon his own merits.
Mr. Brown persevered, notwithstanding the
rough prohibition of his mient, in his appeal to the
bench, and repres. noel that the fault of omission lay
with the broker, who rec.-ivied instructions to do all 046
was necessary in the case, and hail tailed in his tatty.
The defendant sti I asserted his obse'eperetis lode.
pendence, and interfered in such a manner as to fills,
rrate corns letely the obj- et of Mr. Brevve, who, it was
believed, would have q.iashed the information if his
client had not been rendered quite iwpraeticablv by b'e
intemperatice.
Alderman Gums convicted the defendant, and SI:
teticed him to pay a penalty of 101 He, however, sub' •
sentiently, tiptt the representation of the defendant°
solicitor, reduced the fine to 51., which the defendatit'
having recovered from hit grog. fit, paid gratefully. f
Tau defendant, it was ;stated, had been a disciple°
Father Mathew, hut after several months
m acquiescerl
in the total forbearance principle, relaed into hisi
former indulge. nces, arid betrayed symptoms of fat
obstinacy in matters connected with his own interest.
Two lade natae•i John and 'Ramis Slater, vvel
charged with having received money and goods which
had b,en stolen by their brother William Slater, fr
his employers, Messrs Tebbutt and Griffin. of So- l'b
Wood-street, warehousemen. The case showed Me,,
°
depravity upon the part of the two prisoners, ws,„
it was manifest, had prevailed upon their younger 131*Yof
ther, a boy only fifteen years old, in the employment •
Messrs. Tebbutt and Co., to plunder the prosecutor t?i,e
very considerable extent, and hand over to thou'
stolen property.
A few days ago William Slater, the boy in the Wile
house of Messrs. Tebbutt, was brought up before t,
Lord Mayor, upon the charge of having entbeolnie
money which he had received on account of his ho
ployers. Upon that occasion he said to the officer "
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apprehemled him that his brother had the money. or
was subsequently ascertained that the plunder e°
witted upon the firm was considerable; and Wardel„ •
"o•
vigilant City officer of the City detective police, !b•
employed to look for the brothers. The officer took ;10
two priioners into custody in the Minories, and the/ the
not for a moment deny the part they had taken in jog
robbery. They had, it appeared, succeeded in indeee
their brother William not only to give to them a lire,er
stun in cash which he had collected for his employ
but te steal fer them a vast number of silk handtof
chiefs which had be. n deposited on the premises. lulfe
rigged themselves out in fashionable style, gave twe to
guineas for two silver watches, and dashed doWnete
Rochester with between 50/. and 601. in their P"°t, e oil
Arrived at Rochester, they set up at an inn, miter
the servants in the house drunk, drito-sed out the cob
barmaid and another female servant like Wive' no,
silk gloves and silk stockings, veils upon their boll oet
and parasols in their hands, and actually turf-10400
only the house, but the town, upside down- tbeit
two girls, having taken • a distaste to eye•
situations, which suddenly became in their
too laborious and degrading, at cepted the ,10,0
vitation of the prisoners to be their bed-fel of
and abandoned their duties without the ceremel, to
taking leave, to go on a spree with their paramen dir
Maidstone. In a few days the a hole of the mono
fee
walked back to Rechester;
eepi_areds the watches, which cost 12/., were paier ;'O4,
51; thus new clothes were exehat ged for old; the 'oleo
• to London, peneyless and repentant, and were usvol.
a devil-m.ly-,
that the lad was wholwliltic:
~are sort of condition sick and sorro
et
One of them, and ;he pri,oners
upon being informed that his Y°l-leP-4
uiltless. deols"
brother in confinerne was very much cut up,
Alderman Moos, the prisoners were
brought up, asked them rthewl"
v were desirous to maK:
any observations? They
word to say, and they were ordered to be rewand'i
Slturday.
flat It was said that Rochester has not had such 'l%O
f r several years, and that there was actually nceeeers'
amongst the innholders for the custom of the Ps'iiivats
replie'd th at they bad "V
It is unnecessary to state that the two giddy, tute"r ore,
creatures who accompanied them to Maidstone
refused admission into the house from which they
departed on so imprudent a speculation.

STATE OF TRADE. tor
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, JULY 21.—The aspefe bon
day's market has . been exceedingly gloomy. 111.,dile'
goods and yarn the business doing is exceedingly 11-~,,ph
and price: are barely supported; in some descriV pe.
where sale have been pressed, a reduction has beelloo,
cessary. The dullness in the yarn market is partiforgh
ing to the non-arrival in due course of the homed
mail. Considerable uneasiness has been occasfrn re'
the news of a large failure in that city. Alaroul)Tooso
ports were in circulation as to the liabilities of the ossli,
in this town; but we have reason to believe thew gc
exaggerated. If any serious mischief result here, 9 its
be from the eff_ct of this failure on the other h°lJ,,setbitlg
Germany. But in the absence of the usual letters not
definite was known on the subject.
ROCHDALE, JULY 20.—There is very little ehillrfor
the flannel market to report to-day. The deacon 113.,
pieces has been much the same as lest MondaPoivia
wool market continues dull, and prices are rather
006
way.
HUDDERSFIELD, JULY 21.—There has been Llor
attendance of both buyers and sellers in our tiorP-0164
day ; nevertheless there have not been ntsolric9l/
effected, and there is not much improvement in rt ler
Greater confidence, however, prevails, which Intis
to beneficial results. tpferi:
LEEDS, JULY 21.—There is no alteration wha7.ool'
the tine of our market to-day, and prices keeps
—Manchester Guardian

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' "EXCHANGE.
N.--( Y ESTER $0
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tle to-day being somewhat aWirro-014?
dealers, and the weather veil' re e*g
el7TuahAletßosutpt7pelywEoariTi
tlsvcokie.oatNreoilzr:' s k
for the crops, the trade with all kinds of NVlleat of home Prodo 001/4
heavy, at barely Monday's reduced currencies. In For"; Ivao
so title was doing that the quotatbals were almost nominal'o Fiff
a further reduction In value or is per quarter must l'4ait Iti
submitted to. Grinding Barley, and the best pale 3' pi Air
quite as dear, but other kinds were much neglected• a filvi,
only a limited business was doing, at ill some ii,stancvs, si
decline in value of Gd per quarter. Beans, Peas, and Foilr '
advised.

English ......
Irish

Wheat.
1,30 U qrs.

flc°,o.
Oats 1,06 u„,
150 qrs.
5,270
1,650

Foreign ......