The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-04 00:00:00

TRAMIES.

James Thompson, an old and apparently feeble man,
described as a porter, and George Saunders, a stout able-
bodied fellow, were brought before Mr. Ingham, charged
with being in an unoccupied house with a quantity of
house-breaking implements in their possession, with in-
tent to commit a burglary.
Yesterday morning, at two o'clock, an active officer
named William Gifford, No. 155 H, observed the door
of an unoccupied house open on his beat in the New-
road, St. Georges's-in-the-East. The house adjoined
the premises of Mr. Thomas, watchmaker and jeweller,
where there was a very large and valuable stock depo-
sited. Gifford, knowing the door was closed when he
passed an hour before, and immediately suspecting some-
thing was wrong, entered the house, and upon turning
on his bull's-eye lantern confronted Saunders, who had
his shoes off, and who, upon seeing the policeman, made
an attempt to run up stairs. Gifford was preparing to
follow, when the prisoner struck at him with a life pre-
server, and called out to some one above. Gifford then
turned baek, sprang his rattle, and obtained the assist-
ance of Aish, another policeman, No. 453 A, with whom
he cautiously ascended the stairs to the top of the house
without meeting with any one, but on getting out on the
roof they saw both prisoners clambering over the roof of
the adjoining house, arid called upon them to
surrender, which they refused to do, and
threatened that if the officers dared to follow them
they would hurl them into the street and break
every bone in their bodies. The officers, nothing
daunted, pursued the two thieves, who displayed
much activity. Gifford soon overtook Saunders, on
the roof of a third house, and was about to seize him,
when the prisoner turned round, grappled with the
constable, and threw him upon the tiles on his back.
A fearful conflict took place. Gifford grasped the
prisoner firmly by the neck, and they rolled over and
over the roof, at the imminent peril of their lives, until
Gifford was compelled to let go, and rolled into the
gutter close to the parapet, narrowly escaping going
over into the street. Saunders then followed the foot-
steps of his companion over the roofs of other premises,
and the constables began pelting them with tiles, and
dealt them so many severe blows that they stopped on
the roof of the sixth, house from the one they entered,
and said they would go no further; but just as Gifford
and Aish came up with them both jumped on to the root
of the next house, several feet below the other. The
officers told them to come up again, and not put their
necks in jeopardy any longer, on which the old man said
he would nut be captured, and that he would jump
into the street, if he broke his legs, if the constables
did not retrace their steps; and added, "I know you
have got me this time—death is preferable to a prison."
Gifford was not to be deterred by this threat, and ho
jumped down upon Thompson and secured him. Aish
followed his example, and seized the other prisoner.
On taking the prisoners back to the shop of the un-
occupied house the officers found several housebreak-
ing implements upon them, and in the shop Thompson's
hat, a skeleton key, a piece of candle, a screwdriver,
lucifer-matches, and other things. Oa both prisoners
were found bottles containing a preparation of oil of
anniseed and some other stuff, which the officers had no
doubt was intended to be used to poison the dog at the
jeweller's shop.
Mr. INcaram asked if there was any communication
between the unoccupied house and the premises occupied
by the jeweller and watchmaker? Gifford said there
was. The yard at the back of the untenanted house
adjoined the one at the back of the jeweller's shop, and
the thieves could have easily passed from and to the
other, and got into the jeweller's shop at the back
window.

Mr. INGHAM—It there a dog kept in the jeweller's
shop? Gifford—There is, Sir.

Police-sergeant Eves, 14 H, said that after the pri-
soners were brought to the station-house, he went back
to the house where the prisoners were first seen, and
found in the cellar a bottle of gin, a preparation for poi-
soning the dog, and a crowbar which appeared to have
been used in making a hole in the wall dividing the tene-
ment from the jeweller's house. He afterwards went over
the roofs of the houses, and discovered on the top of that
occupied by a Mr. Barnstable a stout piece of cord fas-
tened through the hole of the gutter, and thrown over
the coping into a stable-yard, about thirty or forty feet
below the roof. This was no doubt intended as a dallier
ressort by the thieves if they had been intercepted in the
unoccupied house, after committing the burglary. Both
prisoners were unknown to the police, and refused to
give their addresses.

Mr. INGRAM sentenced them to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for three calendar months.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.

WAKEFIELD, JAN. 3,—The arrival Of is
pretty good, but the quality and condition generally in-
ferior; the finest descriptions make full prices, and
others go slowly at irregular prices. No change in the
value of barley. Oats and shelling rather cheaper.
Beans as before.

Old. New.
WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel : s. a. S. O.
Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red ... to 40 to 43
Ditto, white 47 50
Norfolk and Hunts., red ... 38 —4l
Ditto, white ... 46 48
Lincolnshire and Cambridge, red ... 34 -- 40
Ditto, white ... 40 45
Yorkshire, red ... 34 40
Ditto, white 40 45
Dantzic and Konigsburg, white .. 42 —45
Lower Baltic and Hamburgh, red... —— 38 —4l
Mediterranean, red ..• —— 34 —4O
BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:
Norfolk and Suffolk— ... 25 —2B
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire 24 28
Scotch
Grinding per 30 stone 21 23
Foreign _ _ 22 —26
BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631 b
28 31 27 29
Ticks ••• ••• ... 28 —3O 26 —29
Foreign 25 —2B 25 —27
OATS, per stone :
Mealing Od to Od 91 to 101
Feeding 04 to Od 8d to 9d
Foreign ... Od to 04 94 to 10d
NEWRURY, JAN. 2.—The quantity of wheat on offer
to-day is only moderate, but tne larger portion is in very
indifferent condition. Old and best descriptions of new
sell slowly, at about late rates; but other descriptions
are unsaleable, although offering at reduced rates. Bar-
ley, moderate supply, little of which is fit for malting;
such commands a ready sale; but distilling and grind-
ing qualities are very unsaleable, at is per quarter,decline
in value. Beans, oats, and peas, moderate supply, with
but little passing at late rates.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—At this day's market there
was the usual attendance of the town trade, but very
few buyers from the country were present. Wheat and
flour met with rather a better demand, at Tuesday's
prices, though the business done was not extensive.
Oats and oatmeal were in moderate request at late rates.
Barley, beans, and peas without alteration. In Indian
Corn no change in prices can be quoted.
EXETER, JAN. 3.—Cattle•market—The (supply was
small, with an ordinary demand. Best beef sold at 8s
to 83 3d per score; more ordinary quality 7s to 7s 9d;
cows and calves not numerous, and no first-rate animals
among them—prices ranged from 71 to, 111. Barreners
sold on an average at 5s per score. Pannier—Turkeys,
4s 6d to 12s each; geese, 4„ to 6s ditto; ducks, 4s to 5s
per couple; fowls, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; pheasants, 7s; galenas,
8s; teal, 3s; widgeon, 33 6d; wild ducks, 55 per braces
bares, 3s each; rabbits, Is; butter, Is Id per lb.; eggs,
12 for Is. Corn Exchange—The market has been dull
again today, nor is there any chance of its improve-
ment whilst the present damp, murky, foggy weather,
continues. The best new wheat is barely worth 5s per
bushel, good samples may be quoted at 4s Gd to the
latter figure. In foreign wheat nothing whatever doing,
the price being higher than that of English—nominally
the quotation is 403 per quarter for French red; barley,
3s per bushel (average); oats, is 10d to 2s ditto ; fine
flour, 27s to 29s per sack; the general quotation
being 28s.
BRISTOL SUGAR 31A.RLET, JAN. 3.—The produce
markets have been closed the whole of the week, and
there has not been any disposition shown to operate by
private contract. Refiners produce continues dull of
sal e.—Bristol Mercury.
LLANGEFNI, JAN. 2.—Wheat, 40s to 41s per quarter;
barley, 245; oats, 14s 6d to 15s. Butchers' stalls—Beef,
3d to 4d per lb; mutton, sid to 6d; veal, 3d to 4d; fresh
butter, lld to 12d per lb; geese, 2s 3d to 2s 4d; fowls,
13d to led per couple; eggs, 6 for sixpence. Store
pigs
much the same in demand, and price, fat pigs, 2-id
to 2i(l. The markets are now thinly attended by farmers.
KNAILISBOROUGH, JAN. I.—Wheat 5s 3d to 68 Od; beans
3s 64 to as ()d per bushel; barley 24s to 28s; oats, 15s to 18s
per qr.
RIPON, Jaw. 2.—White wheat 5s Od to 5s 94, red ditto 4s 6d
to 5s 6d; beans, 3s 6d to 4s Od per bushel ; barley 23s to 265;
oats 16s Od to 20s per qr.
SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 2.—New wheat 36s Od 'to 40s Oci ;
old ditto 44s to 468 per qr. of 40 stones; black oats 8d to 80,
white ditto BScl to 9d per stone; malting barley 22s to 245,
grinding ditto 21s to 2zs per qr. of 32 stones; superfine flour
35s to 365, seconds ditto, 27s to 30s per sack of 20 stones.
Ixvianess, Dec. 31.—Wheat, per qr, weighing 621 b
per bushel, 38s to 40s Od ; ditto, old, weighing 621 b per
bushel, 00s Od to 00s Od; barley, per quarter, weighing
541 b per bushel, 22s to OGs Od; oats, per quarter, weighing
421 h per bushel, 17s Od to 18s Od. Oatmeal, per imperial
boll, 15s Od to Os Od; ditto second, 14s 04 to Os Od; barley-
meal, Its 84 to Os Od ; peasemeal, 12s 04 to Os Od; bran, per
stone, Os 6d to Os Od ; first flour, per 2801 b., 33s Od to 35s od ;
second ditto, 26s Od to 28s Od ; oatmeal, best, per stone of 141 b
imperial, Is 6d to Os Od; ditto second, is 4d to Os Od; barley-
meal, is 2d to Os Od • peasemeal, Is 4d to Os Od ; first flour,
2s 4d cash, 2s 8d credit ; second ditto, 2s Od cash. 2s 3d cre-
dit. Potatoes, per stone, 3d to Od ; beef, per pound, 4d
to 6d; veal, 4d to sd; mutton, 4d to 6d; pork, 3d to 4d;
fowls, each, 124 to Isd; chickens, per pair, 12d to 16d; ducks,
each, Od to Od ; eggs, per dozen, 9d to 10d ; butter, fresh,
per lb, 9d to Cd ; ditto, salt, 8d to 10d ; croudie (curds), 2d to
24c1; four-pound loaf, cash, 5d to 6d ; ditto, credit, sid to 6id;
coals, per cwt, 9d ; hay, per stone, 7d to Bd.