The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-21 00:00:00

TilE SUN, LONDON, ,-M01111:1AY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1848.

tat,es Bill had been introduce into the House of Lords,
and stood for a second reading this week. It would,
no doubt, be introduced into the Commons on au early
day.
THE JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.
The NOBLE LORD said he was prepared to go into
Committee on this Bill on Friday next.
If the Hon. Member for Middlesex (Mr. Osborne)
had not given notice of his motion, the House would
not have heard anything of the Select Committee.
The appointment of the Committee had thrown an
air of mystery over the whole transaction.
Mr. HUME said that he had not had the slightest
communication with any Hon. Member on the
subject of his motion, and he hoped that the House
would not consider that he was acting with any
other party in the matter.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

The House then went into Committee of Supply,
when
Mr. HUME, in answer to a question from an Hon.
Member, said that he intended only to ask for a suf-
cient sum, namely 245,4101. 19s. 7d., to enable the
Government to carry on their establishment until
the Comrnitte had made its report. The Hon.
Member then proposed that a sum of 245,4101.95. 7d.
be voted to defray the excess of expenditure over
last year's estimate.
Mr. HERRIES thought that it was the duty of
the Government to state to the House the rea-
sons for bringing forward their vote. The
House would be forgetting its duty if it
did not inquire most minutely into every
vote which was brought before the Committee.
If the object of the Goverpment was to withdraw from
public discussion the principle on which the estimates
were made up, they were taking the worst plan that
could possibly be adopted by the appointment of a
" Select and Secret" Committee.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was
entirely of opinion that it would not be right to take
any whole vote, the Government proposed to take a
vote on account. If the whole of the votes were proposed
to be taken a full explanation would be given. The
first vote before the Committee was one of an excess
of expenditure, and ought, therefore, to be acceded to
at once.

Mr. BANKES wished to know whether this
excess of expenditure had not arisen from a squab-
ble between the Board of Admiralty and the Treasury?
If such were the case it was advisable that the
country should be in possession of the whole of the
facts as soon as possible.—(Hear.) With respect to
the appointment of this select and secret Committee,
he wished to know whether the returns from this
Committee would be laid before the House in such a
manner as to enable Hon. Members to know which
way the members of that Committee voted.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that by an act passed few years since, none of the
Public Boards were allowed to hold over any unap-
propriated balances, and any excers of expenditure
came immediately before the House.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTHWARK.

A respectable looking couple, named Richard and
Charlotte Stubbs, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Beadon, charged with working an illicit still.
Frederick Pargiter, an officer of the Excise, said
that on the preceding afternoon he took a man in cus-
tody on London”bridge, with a horse and cart, having
in his possession fourteen gallons of illicit spirit.
He took him before the Lord Mayor, who inflicted
the usual fine, which was not paid ; and after
he was locked up he (witness) took the horse
and cart towards London-bridge, thinking by means
of the animal that he might discover from whence
the spirits came. When he arrived in High-street,
Southwark, he allowed the horse to have its own
way, and, on coming to Great Suffolk-street, he
turned round and entered Chapel-place, at the rear of
the police court, when he suddenly stopped at a
gateway and refused to proceed further. Witness
had a key, which he took from the man at the Man-
sion-house, and which he found unfastened the
gate. On his entrance he found a strong effluvia
from molasses wash, clearly indicating that a still
was at work near the place. While he was looking
about, the prisoners ran out of the house and endea-
voured to escape; but the officers who attended him
took them into custody. They then acknowledged
working a still, and said that they did so to keep
them from the workhouse. Witness then entered the
room at the rear of the stables, and found a large still
in full working order, running off spirits. It was
fully charged with molasses wash, and capable of
working off a hundred gallons.
In answer to the charge, the prisoners said they
had only been concerned in the still about three weeks,
and that they were not aware whose horse and cart it
was the officer had in his possession.
Mr. BEADON told them that it would be unwise
for them to make such a statement, as it was quite
positive that the horse would not have stopped at
their place unless he had been in the habit of going
there. He should inflict the penalty of 301. on each
of them, and the only way to get it reduced would be
by telling the whole truth to the Board of Excise.

In default of paying the fines, the prisoners were
ca mmitted to the House of Correction for three months
each.

WOOLWICH.

William Mayhew, described as a gentleman living
at Brighton, U'. Johnson, alias Montroe, alias Jim the
Greek, a well known cracksman, and J. Flowers, the
keeper of a beer shop called the Folly, Barnsley-
street, Mile-end, were placed at the bar, before Mr.
Trail!, the sitting magistrate, for final examination,
charged with having committed a burglary at the
Powerful Inn, Warwick-street, Woolwich, and J.
Burnton, a greengrocer in Albion-street, Woolwich,
was charged with aiding them in the commission of
the felony.
The evidence, which was very voluminous, went
to prove that on the 22d of last month, Burnton went
to a beer shop, kept by a man named Duffill, and,
after drinking a pint of beer, asked the landlord to
step out with him, as he wanted to speak with him.
Duffill did so, and when they got as far as Warwick-
street, Burnton said, " Would a thick one or two be
convenient this cold weather ?" Duffill said " I do not
understand ;" when Burnton rejoined, " Can't you
tumble" (meaning understand) ? Duffill said no, and
Burn ton added, "Do you know any one that has any
dust? Duffill said, "I know what you mean."
Burnton then went on to state that he had been con-
cerned in stealing 1701. from an innkeeper in the town
of the name of Covill, and offered to let Duffill go
shares in any job he could put the gang up to, and
pointed out a grocer's, named Oliver, whose house
they had fixed upon for a crack. They then parted,
but met on several subsequent occasions, at each of
which Burnton bound Duffill to secrecy. On the
Sunday following, Duffill called upon Mr. Covill,
who had been robbed, and also the grocer whom it
was proposed to rob, and they all went to the police,
who advised that Duffill should seem to give his con-
sent, and fix upon the Powerful Inn as the scene
of their depredations. On the next day Burnton
again called upon Dulill, who told him what he
had been instructed, adding that it must bedone before
Friday. Burnton then asked him about several
others in the town, and if they were worth robbing.
They ultimately came to London, and went to
Flowers' beer-shop, where he was introduced to
Flowers and Montroe,who fixed upon the next day to
do the job, and said they should allow Duffil and
Burnton 101. a piece if 1001. was got, and arranged
to meet the next day at the Trafalgar, Woolwich,
which they did. The police were previously sta-
tioned at the Powerful, in such a position as to have
a view of the bed-room. Some were also at the
Trafalgar to identify the parties when they came.
At the hour appointed, Duffil went and met Flower,
Montroe, and the prisoner Mayhew, who was
to be one of the party. They then ar-
ranged that Duffil should go and get Mr.
Mould, the landlord of the Powerful, out for a
walk, and bring him past there, which was to bt
the signal for them to go and commit the robbery.
This was done, but Duffill and Mould went back to
the Powerful, and having entered by the back way,
and found that Montroe was upstairs, a preconcerted
signal was given, and the police down stairs rushed
from their hiding place, and captured Mayhew and
Flowers, whilst the officers upstairs took Montroe,
just as he was entering the bed room with a skeleton
key. Upon the officers entering the coieeroom,
where they took Flowers, they found he had thrown
a handkerchief containing a quantity of skeleton keys
into the fire. After some resistance the whole party
were locked up, and in Flowers' house, in London,
skeleton keys and various burglarious instruments,
most ingeniously concealed, were found.
The evidence being of a most conclusive nature,
the depositions were taken, and the prisoners fully
committed to take their trial at the next session of
the Central Criminal Court.

PORTERS, &c., CUSTOMS.—A return has just been
printed of the number of porters and persons holding
subordinate situations in the department of the Customs,
in the receipt of not more than three shillings a•day,
and showing how many of them are pensioners in the
army or navy. In England, the number is, 1,890; of
whom 737 are in the Coast Guard, 20 connected with
the Quarantine Department, and 72 pensioners in the
army or navy. In Scotland, there aro 415; of whom
121 are in the Coast Guard, and 17 are pensioners; and
in Ireland, 803; 369 of whom are in the Coast Guard, 16
are pensioners. Total, 3,108.
An Eagle was shot near Ramsgate last week.
The entish Observer says—" t• belongs to the fishing
specie It measures seven • •Ittetahe wings, and is
a rema bly fine and powerf s' being shot,
Mr. Peak forced from its throat, whiplMis very much
distended; ',nearly two pounds of largo •ebls; and it is
supposed that it had gorged itself so much`thitt it was
careless of its safety, having been killed with a common
charge of No. 4 shot,