The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY).

Ann Benfield, a middle-aged woman, was placed be-
fore Mr. Bingham, charged with having stolen from the
shop of Mr. Litchfield, china and curiosity dealer, 21,
Hanway-yard, a silver casket, value W.
The prosecutor stated that on Thursday morning last
the prisoner came into his shop and asked the price of
some china cups and saucers. Witness showed her seve-
ral, which she said were too dear, and wished to see
some cheaper. He then showed her a great many dif-
ferent patterns, but the whole of them she said were too
high-priced, and would not suit her. She then left the
shop, and shortly after her departure he missed a silver
casket from out of a glass case, close to where the priso-
ner was standing, and which he had seen safe in the case
just before the prisoner came in. Witness then gave in-
formation to the police, who succeeded in apprehending
Vie prisoner on Sunday morning.
Octavius Falkland, assistant to Mr. William Whistler,
silversmith, Strand, said, on Thursday afternoon last the
prisoner came into his shop and offered a silver casket
for sale. It was a filagree casket, inlaid with enamel,
and had a torquoise stone at either corner, and one on
the top. Witness told the prisoner that he would pur-
chase it of her if she would bring him a memorandum
from the person to whom it belonged. She then took
up the casket and ran out of the shop.
West, 7 F, proved taking the prisoner into custody
on
.Sunday morning, at her lodgings in Long's-court,
Leicester-square. He told her that she was charged
with stealing a silver casket from prosecutor's shop.
She denied all knowledge cf the robbery, and said she
never was in the shop in her life. He then took her to
the station. The casket had not been found. _ _

The prosecutor said ho could swear to the casket from
the description given of it by Mr. Folkland.:
The prisoner, in defence, said she never saw the pro -
seoutor before in her life. She had a witness who,if
present, would prove that she never left her house du-
ring the whole of Thursday last.
Mr. 13nrosust remanded her till Thursday next.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
PERTH RACES.—TnunsDAY.
The Member's Plate of 50 sm., three yrs old, 7st Sib;
four, 9st 91b; five, lOst 21b; six and aged, lOst 51b.
Twice round.
Mr. Carter's The Premier, 4 yrs... ...(W. Oates) 1
Mr. Ryan ns Tom-tit, 4 yrs ... ... 2
Mr. Knoll's Baronet, 5 yrs ... ... 3
Mr. Merry's Pilot, 6 yrs ... ... 4
Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, with 25 added, for hunters;
four yrs old, 7st 21b; five, I Ist 11lb; six and aged,
12st 31b; half-bred horses allowed 71b, &c Heats,
once round and a distance.
Mr. Merry's Inglewood, 5 yrs 2 1 1
Mr. Campbell's Waverley, aged ... 1 3 3
Mr. Knoll's The Baronet (h b). 5 yrs ... 3 2 2
A Plate of 501. for three yrs olds, 7st :41b; four, Bst 51b;
five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st 21b; mares and geldings
allowed 31b, winners extra. Heats, once round and a
distance.
Mr. Carter's Premier. 4 yrs ... (W. Oates) 1 1
Me. Ramplin's Headsman, 5 yrs 2 3
Mr. Ryan's ns Tom Tit, 4 yrs 0 2
Mr. Knoll's Tenby, 4 yrs ... 0 0
Mr. Merry's Glitter, 3 yrs. ... 3dr
Lottery Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 added; throe yrs
olds, Bst; four, 9st 71b; five, lOst; six and aged, 10st
51b. Twice round and a distance.
Mr. Hendesson's Louisa Newell, 4 yrs (W. Oates) 1
Mr. Mc Kenzie's John Harris, 6 yrs ... 2
Mr. Robertson, ns Shakspeare, 4 yrs ... 3
FRIDAY.
Plate of' 501, three yrs old, 7st 7lb ; four, Bst 71b; five,
9st 1lb; six and aged, 9st 61b, mares and geldings
allowed 31b. Twice round.
Mr. Ramplin's Headsman, 5 yrs ..(11. Robertson) 1
Mr. Remsay's Hornpipe, 3 yrs ... ••• ••• 2
Mr. Binnes Titus Oates, 5 yrs 0
Mr. Merry's Glitter, 3 yrs ... ... 0
Mr. Knoll's Tenby, 4 yrs ... 0
A Challenge Cup of 75 sovs. added to a sweepstakes of
5 sots. each for hunters. 12st 71b each. Once round
and a distance.
Mr. Merry's Pilot, 6 yrs ...(Col. Richardson) 1 1
Mr. Knoll's Baronet, 5 yrs ... 2 2
Mr. H. Johnstone's Tom Tit, 4 yrs ... odr
A Handicap Stake of 5 soya. each, with 25 added.
Heats. Once round and a distance, was won, in three
heats, by Mr. N. Johnstone's Tom Tit, 4 yrs, Bst Ilb,
beating Louisa Newell, 4 yrs, Sat 101 b; Tho Premier, 4
yrs, Bst 71b; Headsman, 5 yrs, Sit ; John Harris, 6 yrs,
7st 121 b; and Inglewood, 5 yrs, Bst 71b.
The Hurdle Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added.
Once round and a distance, was won by Sir Charles, I
aged, beating Magpie, 5 yrs, and The Don, aged.

On Saturday forenoon the British and North Ame-
rican Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, took
her departure from Liverpool for New York, vhf
Halifax, having on board the usual weekly mails, and
a fair complement of passengers.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—About ten o'clock on Satur-
day morning last an intelligent little girl, aged about
four years, whose name was Alice Baugh, the child of
poor but honest and respectable parents, who reside in a
cottage at the back of Bye-street, was missed by her
mother ; and, throughout the day, the most diligent
search was made for the missing one, which proved of no
avail till about five o'clock in the evening, when the af-
flicted mother's worst anticipations were realised. Hay-
ing made the most diligent search, in every direction,
for her lost one, and having been to the crier to proclaim
her loss, a thought struck her that perchance she might
have fallen into the privy, which was be a most dangerous
state of dilapidation, and which belongs to three other
cottages, in common with that of Thomas Baugh, the
deceased child's father. She accordingly went thither
with a hoe, and on searching thought she could feel
something heavy. Eliza Fuller, a woman who
caccom-
panied her, took the hoe and commenced searching, and
shortly afterwards saw the poor child's hand appear
was
imme-
diately above the surface of the soil. The body
got out by a baker, but life was extinct.
Monday morning last Peter Warburton,Esqeand
lre-
spectable jury, of which Mr. Thomase
Coach and Horses,
Frederick
Wes foreman, held an inquest at the
in Bye-street, on the body of the unfortunate
recorded.—
Liverpool When a verdict of •• Accidental death , ~a
Liverpool Times.
SIIIPWRECK.—A. correspondent at St. Margaret's
• Hope sends us the following:—On Sunday night, the Ist
of October, the ship Penang, of Liverpool, from Cron-
stadt, with a cargo of 500 casks of tallow, 100 bales of
hemp, and 270 quarters of wheat, struck upon Strose
Read, in the island of South Ronsldshay. She had been
endeavouring to make the passage of the Pentland Firth,
but owing to a dense fog she lost the Skerry Lights, and
struck at ten o'clock. In half an hour she was on her
beam ends. The crew, consisting of twenty, including
the captain and mate, were all saved. Three of them
got into the long boat when the ship went over, and
• were tossed about in her until morning; another swam
ashore, and the rest were clinging to the side of the
ship, expecting every minute to be dashed to pieces,
until eight o'clock next morning, when they were
brought oil by boats with much difficulte. Whether it
was owing to the heedlessness said to belaatu al to ea
men, or to joy at having escaped a watery grarve, it was
striking to observe the cheerful aspect of the poor fel-
lows when they came into the village of St. Margaret's
Hope, although barefooted and half naked, after having
lost their all. The ship was a splendid vessel of 370
tons burthen. She is breaking ep fast, and little, if any,
of her valable cargo will be saved.—lnverness Courier.
ATNENAUM SolßE2.—This annual festival is fixed
for Thursday the 16th of November next, in the Free-
trade Ball. The president for the evening, Lord Vis-
count Mahon, eldest son of the Earl of Stanhope, has
already attained a high position in English literature, by
his " History of Europe, from the peace of Utrecht to
the peace of Paris," and other works of eminence ; and
it is gratifying in the highest degree, to see a nobleman,
a descendant of one of the greatest families in England,
and a distinguished writer, thus coming forward and
supporting an institution thoroughly popular in its cha-
racter, and destined, we trust, to produce a most bene-
ficial influence upon, the characters and fortunes of the
large class of young men who mainly support it. No
less gratifying is it to see so distinguished a list of Vice-
Presidents; for, in addition to his Worship the Mayor,
the Members for Manchester and North and South Lan-
cashire, we see a long list of the names of parties who
have always been amongst the foremost to promote
everything having for its object the good of our city.
Amongst the guests, including his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, the ardent and tried friend of educa-
tion, we notice some of the greatest of our English
writers—Archibald Alison, the distinguished author of
the History of Europe during the first French Revolu-
tion; Lord Nugent, author of the Life of Hampden ;
George L. Craik, one of the authors of the Pictorial
History of England ; and many others of deserved
celebrity.—Manchester Guardian.
METALLIC LAVA FOR STONE, BRICK, TILE, CB-
BIENT, &c.—A patent has been taken out by Mr. J. Orsi
for a composition of gravel, or stone broken into small
pieces, 3 parts; pounded chalk, 2 parts; tar, 1 part; wax,
1-10th. The tar is first melted in a cauldron, and the
wax, gravel, or broken stone, chalk, and mineral colour
are successively added. The artificial atone, or motalic
lava, thus formed, is cast in moulds, either into solid
block of any required form, or into hollow vessels, as
troughs and tanks. It is also made into pipes, by roll-
ing on a circular core of wood, enveloped in paper, three
or more iron ribs being attached lengthways above the
first coating, by winding wire round them, when a second
coating is added, by rolling as before. Also for orna-
mental tiles, bricks, and quarries, a combination of
round flint, 2 parts ; marble broken into small pieces,
Parts; resin 1 part; wax, 1-10th part; and some mine-
cornbinati
ral colour. 2-10th parts.—Also for cement from either
wartne--- on in a comminuted state, and used while
DEPRECIBuifderATION or NEWSPAPER PROPERTY AT
SkIEPPIELD.—On Saturday was published the last num-
ber of the On
Mercury, a newspaper which has for
the last; forty-throe years been the able advocate of
Conservative principles in Sheffield. A few weeks ago,
first
the Sheffield Iris, a Liberal paper, expired in the sixty-
year of its age.
FEEsn iItRUINGS.—The herring harvest in the
Solway continues. No exertions are spared to make the
Mont of opportunity, so rarely vouchsafed, so long as the
y nations are pleased to patronise by peopling our
wweatbeerg h 6
s. The barn yards, as the bard of Annan says--
pardon, sings—are literally rinning o'er; and
now teat the sea is rivalling the earth in fertility, we are
ill pleased with the tubers for not growing better, seeing
mealy potatoes and thumping herrings are viands that
not only gratify all palates, but appear to have been
formed by nature to mense one another. Apart from the
large quantities salted, and lesser that find their way to
different markets, four cartloads of fish brought every
day to Dumfries are sold readily at the marvellously
ow price of eighteen for a penny. More herrings have
been caught at 13owness in the last two or three days than
et the last twenty-five yearn.—Dunifries Courier.