The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

SACRILEGE.

CLEVER DISCOVERY OF THE OFFENDERS.
Llantillo Church, in Wales, was lately despoiled of a
large portion of black cloth, with which the pulpit had
been hung in consequence of the death of Mrs. Taddy.
Mr. Blissett, the superintendent of the Ross police, was
applied to to discover the offenders, and having engaged
a person of the name of Lawrence to assist him, an in-
genious stratagem was put in execution.
We quote the result from the Monmouthshire Adver-
tiser. Suspicion having attached, in the first instance, to
a blacksmith, named Probert, Lawrence went to Llan-
tillo, dressed as a bell-hanger, with his basket of tools
on his shoulder, to where he worked. He went into the
smith's shop, and asked Probert to make him a punch ;
whilst this was being done, Lawrence offered to sell the
smith a brown coat. Probert declined, and after some
time, upon being pressed, he said he did not want any
clothes, as he was having a suit of black made at Mr.
Jones's, at Ragland. This was the precise clue Law-
rence wanted, and he soon afterwards proceeded to Mr.
Jones's, the tailor, of that village. Of this person we
think it right to say, that he has always borne an irre-
proachable character for honesty and industry. Upon
arriving at Jones's, Lawrence asked the wife, and after-
wards Jones himself, who entered the shop, if he could
have a brown or a dark waistcoat made there. Jones
said he had not any brown cloth, but he could make him
a black waistcoat, for which he should charge 103. To
this Lawrence assented, and proffered sixpence to bind
the bargain, saying he would call on another day for the
vest, and pay the remaining 93. 6d. He then asked for
a pattern, which he took with him, and thus successfully
accomplished trap the second. Lawrence, with other
parties, then compared the pattern with the black cloth
remaining in the church, and it was found exactly to cor-
respond. Upon the following day he returned to Rag-
land, in company with Blissett, and producing a search
warrant, they to( k possession of the black cloth, still
lying on the counter, and afterwards apprehended both
Jones and Probert.
Upon the policeman stating the nature of the charge,
Jones stated that the cloth belonged to Probert, who in
his absence had brought it and left it with his wife, for
a suit of clothes to be made from, stating that he had
bought it of a hawker for Bs. 6d. per yard.
The other prisoners, John Jones, labourer, and Thos.
Stead, were apprehended upon the confession of Jones
himself, who stated to the Rev. Dr. Davis that Probert
had devised the scheme of robbing the cloth, and had
gone to the church on the Sunday (the 13th of Sep-
tember) for the purpose of contriving the best means of
effecting their object. During the night, whilst Probert
remained at home, Jones and Stead entered the church
and took off their spoil, which the three worthies divided
among them. After this confession, Jones accompanied
Mr. Davis and others to a hayrick in an adjoining
parish, on the top of which, covered with loose straw, a
bundle of the cloth was lying.
The stolen cloth of Probert's was upon the counter.
The examination lasted several hours, and at its close
all the prisoners were committed, but bail was immedi-
ately tendered for Mr. Jones, the tailor.

CANADA AND EMIGRATION.—It is not generally
known, we believe, that Sir Richard Bonnycastle, the
author of the very important and interesting work, just
published, under the title of "Canada and the Cana-
dians," is the son of the Woolwich Professor of Mathe-
matics, whose admirable school-books rendered his name
familiar to the juvenile world. He has drawn (says the
Chronicle) an amusing and interesting picture of the
present condition of an important colony. There is ex-
cellent advice, as well as information, of a practical
kind, which ought to be treasured up by theintending
emigrant, to whom we recommend a perusal of Sir
Richard's book, as giving graphic views of the present
toil for future independence, which all must encounter.
CONDENSATION OF SEWAGE INTO SOLID MANURE.
—An explanatory lecture was delivered in our hearing
at the Westminster Literary and Scientific Institution,
on Friday last, by the patentee, Mr. William Higgs, who
proved, clearly enough, the possibility of condensing, in
a solid form, all that is valuable as manure in the sewage
of towns, by collecting it in tanks, wherein all that is
solid and insoluble, or merely suspended in the fluid,
would of course subside, while by aid of calcareous or
other reagents, the soluble phosphates, or phosphoric
acid, &c., might be converted into soluble salts, and pre-
cipitated amongst the general sediment, or apart from it,
and the ammoniacal and hydro sulphuric vapours, uniting
in hydro-sulphuret of ammonia, be also condensed by
aid of chlorine, in covered air-tight areas above the
tanks, and added, in form of sal ammoniac and sulphur,
to the other valuable materials ; the residual water of
the sewage thus, in effect, being rendered perfectly pure
before it issues into the river that may flow in the
vicinity of the town. Into the question of the profitable
and practicable adoption, or the relative merits of such
an economical and save-all system it is not our province
to enter, but we may remark, that certainly the health
of towns could not but be vastly benefited by the ab-
sorption and solidification of the volatile and unwhole-
some vapours hitherto permitted to emanate from sewers,
and even by the purification of the rivers, on the banks
of which the habitations of man are so frequently con-
structed.—The Builder.
A SIIIPWRECKFID BEAR.—The Royal Botanic Gar-
den of Glasgow has lately had presented to it, by Dr.
Pritchard, of the Royal Lunatic Asylum, a fine young
Russian bear. The history of its voyage home from
Russia is rather interesting, the vessel having gone on
shore in a storm, and her crew and passengers were
saved with difficulty. Amidst the confusion and danger
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attendant .on getting from the vessel to the life-boat,
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boat, and, even at the risk of their own lives, they saved
their poor four-footed fellow-passenger from'
a watery
grape.--Scottish Guardian.
Sir John and Lady Shelley have left Parrance's Hotel
on a visit to the Duke of Grafton, at Euston Hall, Thet-
ford.