The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-27 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

James Lipsham, a respectable-looking young man,
was charged with stealing several sweepstakes tickets,
and being concerned with others in conspiring to de-
fraud Mr. Harris, the landlord of the Equestrian Tavern,
out of various sums of money by unlawfully possess-
ing himself of sweepstakes tickets belonging to other
persons.
In June last the prisoner, with two others named
Worster and Miles, were examined at this court for the
offence cited. The magistrate admitted them to bail to
answer any indictment that might be preferred against
them at the Old Bailey sessions. In the course of the
August sessions Mr. Barris preferred an indictment,
when the grand jury found a true bill ag,inst Worster
and Lipsham, and bench warrants were instantly issued
for their apprehension. They both abscond, d, however,
but Worster was taken in October last, and the prisoner
Lipshatn endeavoured to keep out of the way, but, after
considerable difficulty, he was apprehened on the::pre-
vious night.
In answer to:the Magistrate. Mr. Harris said that in
June last the prisoner was his clerk, and had the charge
of all the tickets connected with the Derby sweeps then
held in his house. lle took some letters to the post on
Friday evening, and did not return until Monday,
during which time 61. 13s. had been obtained by Worster
on a sweepstakes ticket, which Lipsham had improperly
taken away. Another ticket for 51. 14s. was presented,
but witness knowing it had been stolen, detained it, and
sent the party who brought it about his business. About
the same time one of the waiters belonging to the Coal
Hole Tavern, close by, came into his house and produced
the ticket for the 1001. prize, asserting that the gentle-
man to whom it belonged was in his master's house and
wanted the money. He (Mr. Harris) knowing that it
had been taken away in the same way as the others, di-
rected the waiter to send in the gentleman, and then
Miles made his appearance as the owner. Witness
gave the latter into custody, and a few days afterwards
he received information that the ticket belonged to a
gentleman at Winchester, who had sent it up for the
cash.

The prisoner said he could prove his innocence ; but
the Magistrate told him that, as the case now stood, he
was bound to commit him to Newgate for trial.—Com-
mitted accordingly.

ST. PAUL'S, COTENT-GARDEN.--011 Saturday, the
25th inst., at ten o'clock in the morning, the Rev. -Henry
Hutton, M.A., son of the late General Hutton, of the
Royal Artillery, grandson of the eminent mathematician,
and late incumbent of Woburn, was inducted to the
rectory of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, by the Rev. P. C.
Nicholson, 8.D., who had charge of the parish during
the interregnum. After the usual forms of induction,
Mr. Hutton was warmly congratulated by the church-
wardens, Messrs. Salter, Spice, and Ashcroft. Tho ap-
pointment of Mr. Hutton to this important parish reflects
great credit upon the Duke of Bedford. Mr. Hutton
has come to his new parish with the highest testimonials
for fidelity and usefulness at his late cure, where he has
diligently laboured for the space of 14 years.
THE EDINBURGH CHARTISTS.-011 Saturday, in
the High Court of Justiciary, judgment was given on the
objection raised against the validity of the verdict in the
case of the Chartists—Henry Ranken and Robert Ha
milton. The Lord Justice Clerk, Lords Mackenzie,
Moncreiff, Medwyn, and Wood decided against the ob-
jection; Lord Cockburn alone being in favour of it. The
verdict was, therefi.re, held to be good, and the priso-
ners were sentenced to be imprisoned for a period of four
months.

CAUSAN THE GARDEN OP CIIINA.—" The length
of the island is twenty-three miles, breadth.from eight
to eleven; the circumference 150. Its physical aspect
presents numerous ranges of bills, from 500 to 700 feet in
height, with broad intervening valleys, some of which
are eight to nine miles long, and present one continuous
scene of rich cultivation: there are 33,750 English acres
on the island, producing two crops of rice annually. The
population 26,150. With respect to climate, it is truly
called the ' Montpelier of China.' If Chusan were still
in our possession (we had only to ask it) we would be
within two days' sail of Japan, with its 30,000,000 of
highly civilized inhabitants; and more easily regain our
lost position in that rich empire. Our occupation of
Chusan would sooner or later open to us an entire new
commercial world. We would also have as cur neigh-
b.)ur the wealthy and extensive kingdom of Corea; like.
wise Mautchaurea, Loo Choo, the nineteen Kurile
islands, and other regions around."—China, Political,
Commercial, and Social.

EAMEGATE, Nov. 26.—The St. Anne, from St. Va'cry
to London, which put in here 23d inst., in a sinking state,
hue commenced discharging.