The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-15 00:00:00

THAMES.

A PRO*ISING DAUGIITAR. —Ann Regan, a servant girl,
aged 16 years, was brought More Mr. Lushiugton, charged
with robbing her father, a poor and indutrious labourer,
dwelling at 24, Woolmore-street, Poplar. The girl, though
young in years, is old in crime. The father, Patrick Regan,
obtained for her a situation, from which she was dismissed
for dishonesty, and when she came home she commenced
robbing her father of the little property he had worked hard
to obtain. Among other things she plundered him of a pair
of trousers, three shirts, a piece of satin, a handkerchief,
and a pawnbroker's duplicate relative to another article.
Two pawnbrokers' assistants produc3cl the property of
which the prosecutor had, been robbed, and the duplicates
which had been found in the prisoner's possession.
The girl pleaded guilty.
Mr. Lushiugton lectured her on her wickedness and bad
conduct towards her parent, and sentenced her to six
months' imprisonment and hard labour in the Westminster
House of Correction.

ROBBERY OF TEA AND SUGAR IN TRANSIT. —Edward Hall
and George Williams,
tea and sugar thieves, were brought
up, on remand from Tuesday last, before Mr. Lushington,
charged with being in the unlawful possession of 801bs. of
raw sugar and 341bs. of tea.
They were stopped on the Bth inst. by Foster and Stevens,
detectives of the II division, in the Commercial-road. One
was carrying a sack containing 81bs. of sugar, the other a
black bag containing 611bs. of tea and instruments for boring
holes in hogsheads of sugar and raking out the contents and
also opening chests of tea in carts. The detectives said the
prisoners were very insolent when stopped, and refused to
give any account of the way they became possessed of the
tea and sugar. Foster bad made inquiries since the first
examination at the places to which he was directed, and
where they said they were lodging, but the officers could not
discover owners for the property.
Mr. Lushington had no doubt the prisoners had stolen
the tea and sugar from a cart in transit from the docks to
the premises of a tea dealer or merchant, or to a railway
station. Robberies of this kind were very frequent. He
had lately committed three man for trial for stealing 31 cwt.
of sugar from folir hogsheads under a peliceman's window,
and the thieves were brought to justice by the vigilance of
the policeman's wife. He sentence d the prisoners to be im-
prisoned and kept to bard labour far two calendar months for
the unlawful possession of the property taken from them.

THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—CAMBRIDGE, MOD-
day.—The Light Blue representatives took their daily row
this afternoon from the old railway bridge to Clayhithe and
back, under.the care of their coach, Mr. George Morrison,
and were seemingly none the worse for their long row to
Ely on Saturday.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA.—Two men were
drowned off Great 1 armouth on Saturday by the upsetting of
boat belonging to a smack, the property of Mr. Gorleston.
At the time of accident the boat was returning to the smack
after leaving a steamer which was to take a quantity of fish
to London..

The consecration of Dr. Fraser as a Bishop is fixed
for Lady Day, when it is expected that the Archbishop of
York will officiate, and be assisted by the Bishops of
Chester and Ripon.
Susannah Hyde, the convict at Oxford, under
sentence of death for the murder of her child, has yet re-
ceived no intimation of a reprieve. It is believed, how-
ever, that the sentence will be commuted.
There has been a terrible outbreak of cholera at
Zanzibar. Thirty thousand natives have been swept off
in six weeks. Caravans of merchandise have been aban-
doned on the plains, the survivors fleeing for their lives ;
and ruin prevails throughout the country.
The Scotsman states that in the case of James
Thomas Hardie, merchant, Leith, who has been com-
mitted from Leith Police Court, on a charge of forging
and uttering in the Bank of Scotland a bill of exchange
for 21285, other forgeries on the Bank of Scotland are
nowalleged against the accused, bring up the amount of
defalcations to £25,000.

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The inquest on the bodies of the nine men who
lost their lives by a colliery explosion is concluded, and
the jury find a verdict of accidental death, at the same
time stating that Swaim, the general manager, is not com-
petent to have the sole management of a mine of such
magnitude 0.8 the Aitley.Deep Pit.
A. Pennsylvania farmer states that he cured ills
daughter of the Grecian bend by pouring water on her
and holding her out in the sun until she warped back
again.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—Mr. Charles Whitworth,
1, farmer, Joseph Ebbs, a shepherd in his employ, aml
three boys, were convicted at the Bedford Petty Sessions,
on Saturday, of having tortured forty sheep at Turney,
Bedfordshire, on the 12th ult. The sheep had
togaben
washed in a pond, and thence driven, for half a mile,
small field, where they. remained unsheltered for three
clays, the wet fleeces being frozen in the meantime, and
presenting a coating of ice. Mr. Whitworth was fined 2s.
6d. and ids. costs, being exonerated from all imputations
of wilful cruelty, and the other defendants were directed
to pay costs only,
" THE LATEST*SENSATION."—The Daily Nero
!laving published a series of statements concerning the per-
formances at the Royal Amphitheatre, and having drawn
attention to what it considered the " deadly gamut of
hazards " run by Fraidein Laura, in her lofty wire achieve-
ments, the proprietors of the Amphitheatre write to cor-
rect statements untrue and incorrect. The Daily News had
asserted that it was in this place that thetrst female Leo,
tard made her appearance, and where she became crippled
for life. Azella only slightly injured her arm, and is now,
say the proprietors, on her way to take up an engagement
in America. As for Fraiilein Laura's danger, there is far
more danger in a jockey riding a steeplechase. Both
work for a livelihood, and both are comparatively sappii
they Ilan Is49wledgo of their professim.