The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

mix SUN, LONDON, FRIDA Y ITTENING OCTOBER 3; 1A156.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(Z"his Day.)

known and expert thief, infesting the metropolitan rail-
way stations, was brought before Mr. Combs, charged
with stealing a valuable watch and chain from the per-
son of Luke Woodward, at the Croydon Railway Ter-
i
minus, London-bridge.
The prosecutor, a powerful-looking gentleman, stated
that on Thursday afternoon, about three o'clock, he was
in the booking-office of the Croydon Railway Station,
waiting for his ticket to proceed to Croydon fair. There
were several hundred persons there at the time, and
while he was stooping over to the booking clerk the
prisoner pushed against him very roughly, and snatched
his watch from his waistcoat pocket, breaking the chain.
Witness immediately caught hold of him, and struck
him on the head, completely stunning him, so that he
was easily captured and handed over to the custody of
the police.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)

IN RE FIELD.
This bankrupt was described as of Prince's-street,
Storey's-gate, printer, and to-day came up to pass his
last examination, on accounts prepared by Mr. May-
nard, Bread-street.
The balance-sheet, commencing Dec., 1854, and ending
Aug., 1856, shows :—Debtor to creditors, 1,2161. 15s. ;
liabilities, 1421. ; creditors, secured, 1201. ; Mutual Loan
Association, 1551. (secured by policy and bill of sale) ;
profits, 5721. ; surplus, Dec., 1854, 375/. ; do. holding
security, 1201. Creditor by good debts, 1081. 4s. 10d. ;
property given up, 276/. ; furniture sold under bill o
sale) 3641. ; property in the hands of creditors, 1351.
trade expenses, 3161, ; house do., 8671. ; losses, 7551,
lls. Under the head of the latter is the following :
On the 23d of February, 1855, bankrupt borrowed
of the Mutual Loan Association 2501. on my protnis-
gory note, to be paid by monthly instalments of
121. 18a. 4d., and further secured by a bill of sale on
my household furniture, plate, linen, &c., then at Dor-
set-terrace, Clapham, but now of Prince's-street, West-
minster, of which there is an inventory. The instal-
ments were paid up to, and including that due on the
21st July, 1856, on the days they became due, amount.
ing to 1551. The bill of sale was never on the premises
until the 20th of August, 1856 ; and o❑ the 22d of
August they took possession of the whole of the furni-
ture, which was sold by auction, and realised 3641. The
association also held a policy of assurance on the life of
the bankrupt, effected in 1842 or 1843, for 1,0001., and
on which the premium has been paid up to July, 1857.
There were no bad debts, and the doubtful debts were
only 241. The whole of the losses, therefore, arose on
the realisation of the stock and under the bill of sale.
Mr. Reed appeared for the assignees, and the bank.
rupt passed without opposition.

The prisoner, who exhibited a bruise near the right
eye, here said that be thought the gentleman had suffi-
ciently punished him. He hoped his worship would take
that into consideration in awarding him his imprison-
ment.

Mr. °Abe asked what was know❑ of him
Thomas Richards, a detective constable in the employ
of the Brighton and South Coast Railway Company,
said he knew the prisoner to be a reputed thief, and
that ho belonged to a desperate gang infesting the rail-
way station. Ou Thursday afternoon witness was on
duty about the terminus, and just before the Croydon
train started he saw the prisoner pushing among the
crowd. At the same time a Brighton train was about
to start, so that nearly 300 persons were collected
together. Witness saw the prisoner snatch the gen-
tleman's watch, but before he could make his way to
the spot the prosecutor knocked him down, and while
the prisoner was scrambling up with the watch and
chain in his hand he took him into custody.
Mr. Combo asked whether he had seen him at the
railway terminus before

Witness replied that he had, and warned him away.
Several robberies were committed at the station, and
it was a difficult job to keep the thieves away.
The prisoner said he did not want any more jaw
about the affair. He did snatch the gentleman's watch ,
and his intention was to prig it.
Mr. Combe—Then you plead guilty ?
Prisoner—Yes, sir; I am guilty.
Mr. Combe—This is a very impudent robbery, and
I shall commit you to the House of Correction for six
months.

POLICE INIT.T.T.TGENCE.— (This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Prisoner—Well, that's a clincher. (Laughter.)

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
There has been only a moderate arrival of English wheat
up to our market this week, coastwise and by land car •
riage. To-day the show of samples was small. Selected
qualities changed hands steadily, at very full prices, and
the value of other kinds was well supported.
Nearly 18,009 quarters of foreign wheat have come fresh
to hand. The demand for that grain was by no means
active, yet the quotations were well maintained.
Both barley and malt were in good request, at very fall
prices.

We were scantily supplied with oats, for which the de-
mand ruled steady, and good sound corn was rather
dearer.

Brans, peas, and four were firm, at very full prices.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley.
310 I Malt. I °its. I Four.
1,530 330 f 140 I 630
1 / 3,740 i —350
---
1 6,780
brls.

English ..
Irish ....
Foreign 1I 17,760

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
Nearly the whole of the supply of beasts in to•day's
market were the refuse of Monday, and in ►ery middling
condition. The beef trade ruled heavy, and prices were
barely supported. We were but scantily supplied with
sheep; nevertheless, all breeds moved off slowly, at Mon-
day's currency. There was a fair number of calves in the
market, and the ►eal trade was depressed, at a farther
decline in ►alue of 2d per 8 lbs. Pigs moved off steadily,
at full prices. Milch cow■ were dull, at from 14/ to 19/
each, including their small calf.

Per albs to sink the offals.
s. d. s. d.'
Interior Beasts.... 2 Bto 3 0
Second quality 3 2 3 6
Prime largo oxen 3 8 4 4i
Prime Scots, dic. 4 6 4 8i
Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3
Second quality ...3 8 4 0,
Prime erse.-wlled.4 2 4 4,
TOTAL SUPPLY.

s. d.
meSonthdown 4 8 5
LPrigo crse. calves 3 4 810

Prime small do_ 4 0 4 6
Largo hogs

13mal1 porkers 4 6 5 0
,Suckling ca1v05..23 0 29
Quarter old pigs.2l 0 28 0

Beasts .................. 1014
Sheep
304
Calves .................. 3114
Pigs ..”....•••••••••••• 810

POILEIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts... .......... . 112
Sheep .. ..
Calves... •• •••••••••• •• •• 213
Pigs.... ...... .... .. •• ..

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The trade generally ruled heavy, and prices wore barely
supported.

I - - Per 81be by the carcase.
Q
d. e. d. e. d. e. d
Beat, interior 2 ii 210 Mutton, Inforior 3 0 3 4
Do., middling 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 4 0
Do. prime large.. 3 6 3 8 I Do., prime 4 2 4 6
Do., do. ema11....3 10 4 4 I Veal 3 2 4 2
Pork, large 3 8 4 4 I Pork, small 4 3 5 4

BOROUGH HOP.
There is :a 'fair demand for nearly all new hops, and
prices rule steady. The supply offering is large, and the
duty is called 250,000/.
Mid and East Kent pockets, 32 10s to 5/ 5s per cwt.;
Weald of Kent, 36 5s to 46 4s ; Sussex, 313 s to 41 Os.

should like to refer to him. Would ha oblige
them, one at a time, with an interview for a few
hours I or would he allow them just to state their
views ton paper, and then be so good as to write
down his objections, if any, to their very valuable
schemes ? One of them, a double-class man from
Oxford, who cannot speak any tongue but his own,
and can scarcely be said to speak that, has a pro-
ject for a universal language, which the English
have only to agree upon and hey must force it on
the rest of the world. Another has a plan for per-
petual motion ; the power is to be always working
and never exhausting itself, and the more you work
it the more work there is still in it. He has also a
bank on the same principle, that you may draw
Upon for ever without any danger of stoppage, and
0 capital all the time. This gentleman is a
Scotchinan. An Irish friend entertains a sober
conviction that England owes somewhere about
five hundred millions to Ireland ; he can give the
exact figures. Another has devoted all his life to
discover the author of Junius, and has discovered
beyond a doubt that,—we forget just now which of
them, is the man. Then there is our very excel-
lent friend who's so strong on the currency
the other who's so much to say about the National
Debt. When could Lord Stanley give them a
hearing ? They are all of them very clever, very
good tempered, and will bear almost anything
being said to them or about them. It is just pos-
sible—we will not say more—that Lord Stanley
might disabuse some of these gentlemen of their
opinions, in which case he would confer a great
benefit on society. At all events, this appears to
be the sort of game that he likes, and we should
have no objection to lend him a shooting.
The gentleman who has already founbd in Lord
Stanley so patient a reader and so obliging a COT.
respondent is Mr. Samuel Pope, Honorary Secre-
tary of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Sup.
pression of the Liquor Traffic. For our part, we
believe the Maine Liquor Law, as it is called, to
be as purely American and as impossible to be
transplanted to this soil as slavery, or tar-and-
feathering, or the general use of cowhides, bowie
knives, and revolvers. It simply won't do here.
As it is an utter impossibility there is no use
wasting words upon it. In the discussion of im-
possibilities there cannot be fair play between a
man of common sense and a man destitute of it, for
when a thing's clean impossible it may be defended
for ever, there being only one answer—viz., that
it is impossible. So Lord Stanley's first step was
a false one for, believing the Maine Liquor Law to
be impossible in this country, he began to argue
against it on the supposition of its being not only
possible, but actually adopted. The Greek proverb
asked, " What if the sky should fall ?" and an-
swered, "We should catch plenty of larks." What
kind of bird or beast we should catch if Parliament
ever passed a law forbidding the sale of beer, spirits,
wine, and every form of intoxicating drink, we do
not know ; nor is there any occasion to go even so
far as the Greek proverb does in our speculation on
the subject. We all of us drink—those, at least,
who can—something or other, either fermented
liquor, or tea and coffee, which are as bad, if not
worse. The drinkers, especially the drinkers of strong
drinks, will always so outnumber, and outwit, and
outface, and outdo those who do not drink, and the
beer-drinkers will always so dominate over the tea-
drinkers that such a law will never pass. That
is a fact anterior to all argument. The other day
Mr. Berkeley received from his constituents at
Bristol a box of church oak, set with brilliants and
worth a thousand guineas, for the zeal and ability
he had displayed against a bill for the further clos-
ing of public-houses on Sunday. That's a fair
specimen of a British constituency. Drinking lies
at the basis of the British constitution, which, like
some of our cathedrals and several capital cities of
Europe, may be said to float. The elector drinks
at the expense of the candidate, and the recruit at
her Majesty's expense, as the preliminary of the
solemn engagement that follows. It's the common
talk of Teetotallers that we make every occasion of
life a pretence for drinking. Lord Stanley says
that we spend from fifty to seventy millions a-year
in strong drink. With these unbounded means, this
uncontrollable appetite, and this immense capacity,
we shall continue to drink, and no measure to pre-
vent us will ever get further than the very thres-
hold of the Legislature. No doubt, many of us drink
too much, and still more of us, who can afford it,
eat too much, though Mr. Pope says nothing about
it. The doctors say that more constitutions are
injured by much eating than. by much drinking,
and we believe it. Tea and coffee, too, play their
part, though a very insidious one, in undermining
constitutions. These . are questions of more or
less, and everybody must settle them for himself.
But at our present rate of progress, of deteriora-
tion, it will be at least ten thousand years before
we are ripe for a compulsory enactment on the sub-
ject. We must first have been voluntary Teeto-
tallers for as many ages as have intervened since
we painted our skins and drank the blood of our
enemies.
Lord Stanley goes into the question with all the
simplicity of a dupe on the Ist April. He con-
siders, successively, the prudence of the proposed
measure, its look to the country at large, the open.
ing it would give to smuggling, the dearth of
amusement it would create, its effect on the re-
venue, its interference with a habit of self-com-
mand, the difficulty of drawing up the interpreta-
tion clause so as to include all intoxicating sub-
stances and those only, the evasions that would
follow, and, meanwhile, the odium brought on
societies for voluntary temperance. On all these
points Mr. Pope is delighted to join issue, and
we are bound to say that, though his argu.
ments occasionally remind one of the third cup
of tea, he has, in one or two instances,
the best of the noble Lord. The noble Lord, however, returns to the charge, and Mr. Pope
replies ; and there is no reason why they should not go on till they have got to the bottom of the
teacaddy. Indeed there is a maudlin tone about
Mr. Pope's concluding remarks which seems to
show that he, at least, had exhausted his stimulant.
But only think of a correspondence extending to
four of our columns between a nobleman and a
gentleman gravely discussing the pros and cons of
a measure rendering it criminal to sell a glass of
ale 1 Supposing that either of the correspondents
really has his wits about him, and has also his
heart in the question, there is an obvious way of
dealing with it. We suggest it with the utmost
diffidence, because it is practicable, and we know
how disgusting such suggestions always are. When
our neighbour in the country invites us to join him
in indicting half the roads in the county, we ask
him why he allows ruts axle-deep in the road before
his own lodge gates. The temperance people are
quite welcome to drink as little as they please them-
selves, and as unintoxicating; but they e,aa only
convert the world and convince Parliaments by the
force of example. When they can exhibit a large COM.
munity in health and strength of body and mind,
"wealthy, witty, and wise," they will be sure to
have admirers and followers. This is but a dreary
world, and the greater part of mankind are still in
quest of better cheer than it has yet afforded them.
They look about in vain for warm hearts, strong
hands, kind looks, sympathy, sincerity, and all
that constitutes friendship. Anybody can under-
stand how it was that the first Christians found
such favour with that blighted, desolate, heathen
world, when people could say, "How these Chris.
tians love one another 1" The temperance people
have only to set an example of the virtues which
they say are the result of their principle, and they
will gain ground every day. To be candid with
them, we don't think they over will get even a
moiety of the population on their side. In great
towns, at least, fighting for our lives against bad
air, and noise, and worries of all sorts ; compelled
to work at unreasonable hours, enjoying but
in-
different sleep, and having to get up our spit';
for great occasions, we doubt if any but 1.
strongest constitutions can go through it all 71that
fresh
out the use of stimulants; and very sure are y'f.
some
autilLes
strong tea and coffee, though they mcoareyso
people, are not the most harmless of them. But,
aet
besides example, let the temperance
their wits to work and employ their resources
of
provide means of recreation, oppo for in
air, regular and frequent occasions
ct
our 66 eventlially to
gathering, and all that they (NEP
ande
supply the place of the gin palace • •
a jovial,
customs." It won't do to come....;"'„,w_re
drinking community like •9011.r17" a new cora.
n otaet understood
mandment, " Thou shalt. Lux Wine;' This
man better. He was aHe
is no age for
teetotaller, but his was no
'no. provided plenty of
mere negative doctrine.
tione
denial. s
prohibitions
compensation for theauson,
ha_wise, ambition,
a their gratifications.
even reason,
attractions of the temperance
fancy, and
They have yet to be shown.
What are'the positive
cause ?

---Yesterdaybills were issued in
offering a reward for the apprehension of
so‘wler, who had absconded, having
defrauded an @dd Fellows' lodge of between 6001. and
: it,
ne. uID,
7001. He had been secretary for five years, and, besides
embezzling nearly 2001, of the money paid by members,
in3ill3.3EnaynnEgaNbinsari'me;
he had defrauded the lodge of COO/. in a rather ingenious
wanner. The lodge having some money to invest, he pro-
posed that they bhould lend him 500/. on the mortgage r
7 houses he possessed; and, having shown the truste
and their surveyor the property, the mortgage was 4
cuted and the money handed over. Upon his abscort, the trustees proceeded to take possession under thetas
gage deed. They found, however, that the propeyated,
already in the possession of a person who had if deed
a mortgage prior to theirs; and on reference to 'rented,
they discovered that their mortgage had beer by their
not in respect to the houses pointed out to Odle o-
secretary, secretary, but of a piece of leasehold land d brick had
site side of the street, on which not a gi7ameut iia the
1 ManrhAsttnr Unity.
been laid. The affair has caused Much e7l