The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-02 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY SPANISH

DANCERS.

( From (ulignami's Messenger.)

The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Saturday
tried four members of the company of the Spanish
dancers, who for some time past have been giving
performances at the Theatre de La Porte St. Mar-
tin, for robbery. The accused were M. P. Mariono,
30 years of age, formerly a notary in Spain, but
now director of the company in question ; Perres,
one of the dancers, who is now in flight, and who
was tried by default; Mlle. Pilar Ferrer, alias Pe-
regrina Morales, 22 years of age, danseuse ; and
Mlle. R. Ferrer, 20 years age, also a danseuse, her
sister. The elder female prisoner is remarkably
pretty; the younger is somewhat less so. When
the prisoners were placed at the bar, the president
addressing Moxo said, " You are accused of nu-
merous robberies in jewellers' shops in complicity
with Pilar Ferrer." Moxo answered, " I have
certainly been to various shops with that lady, but
I never stole anything from them. I went to a shop
in the Rue Rambuteau to purchase a watch chain,
but not finding one of the sort 1 wanted 1 ordered
one of the price of 400 f. to be made, but I did not
take anything. I after wards wanted another for
Regina, to whom I am to be married, but as I did
not want to give the same price for it I went to an-
other shop.'' "In all the shops to which you went
chains were missed afteryou left. In one on the Boule-
vard Poissonniere two chains were missed ; in an-
other, in the Rue Rambuteau, one chain ; in a
third, in the Rue Michel le Comte, nine ; and
some of these chains were afterwards found in
your possession. How do you explain that ?" " I
can give no explanation. If any robberies have
been committed I did not take part in them. INly
position and that of my family are such as to free
me from all suspicion ! " "How is that, though
engaged to be married to Regina, you went to all
the shops with Pilar !" " I wanted to surprise
Regina, and besides she is enciente six months,
and cannot walk much." " You lived with Re-
gina as her husband, and Pilar, though married,
lived with Perres ?" " I thuught that Pilar was
married to Perres." " What ! you did not know
that she is the wife of a Spanish officer ?" " No.
As to Regina, my connection with her commenced
at the Italian Opera at Madrid, and we came to
France together because her parents wished to
take her from me ! " " You deny that you had
anything to do with the robberies ? " " Yes,
I deny it. I took nothing, and did not know
that anything had been taken." The president
then interrogated Pilar Ferrer : " You are
aware that you are accused of "raving stolen ar-
ticles of jewellery from shops ? " " 1 went into
shops to look at jewellery, but never took any-
thing ;-1 ant incapable of that." " How do you
explain that some of the articles said to have been
stolen were found in your possession ? " " I
touched nothing--I affirm it "Answer my
question. Some of the stolen articles were de-
posited by your sister in the hands of a third person,
and as she did not go to the jeweller's shops she
could not have taken them ?" "My sister could not
have deposited the objects in a house in which we
had no friends." "As to yuu, Regina," said the
president, addressing the third prisoner, "it is
alleged that on the 21st Oct. you begged Mlle.
Balotta, a clanseuse, to take care of two parcels for
you. She consented, and on her return from the
theatre she had the curiosity to examine them ;
she found about fifteen watch chains, two watches,
three mantelets, some ornamental fringes, and
other articles. Where did you get all these
things'?" " I knew Mlle. Balotta at Brussels, and
we quarrelled, so that if the parcels had been made,
I should not have taken them to her." " You deny
having been to her residence ?" "Yes sir !" "Moxo
and your sisters were arrested, and it was after
that that you took the parcels to Balotta ?" "When
my sister was arrested I was not at home, and
knew nothing of her arrest." " You borrowed sf.
from Mlle. Balotta to pay for your cab?" "I did
not go to her house, and consequently could not
have borrowed 5 fr. from her." " You even re-
turned at midnight for the parcels ?" " I left our
residence at. 11 o'clock with Parres to inquire of
the commissary of police after my sister, but went
nowhere else." "Mlle. Balotta says that you left
three chains, and told her that they were for her
and her sister." " I could not dispose of things
which I had not." M. Audouin, Boulevard Pots-
sonniero, M. Reux, Rue Rambuteau, M. Bubuis-
son, R'ae Michel le Comte, and T. Renard, of the
same street, all jewellers, then severally deposed
that Maxo and Pilar had gone to their shops on
pretext of making purchases, and that after their
departs tre they had missed various chains and other
articles,. Dubuisson, who was robbed of some
chains, said that, on perceiving the robbery, he had
followed the couple and had given them into cus-
tody. " Yes," added Pilar, "and you caused us
to be searched, but found nothing on us !" Mlle.
Balotta being absent, her mother was called, and
she swore positively to the deposit by Regina in
her daughter's hands of three parcels containing
watch chains and other objects, also that Regina
had with Perres called for the parcels late at night,
and that she had given her two daughters watcl
chains and left a third lying on the floor. Madame
Balotta added that her daughter and herself hav-
ing fears, from something that Perres had said,
that the chains we're not honestly come by, had
deposited them with the commissary of police. The
concierge of the house in which the prisoners had
liyed, said that Perres, after the arrest of Pilar and
Moxo had gone away, saying that he would drown
himself in the canal, and had not since returned.
The !war being now late, the tribunal adjourned
the further hearing of the case for a week.

MAWSET NEWS.—(This r ay.)

THE POST•OFFICE DIRECTORY.

FOR 185'r. KELLY AND CO.

It has nearly attained its grand climacteric,
this wonderful Post.Ogice London Directory—for
the present (1857) is actually the 58th year of its
publication ! During more than half a century,
therefore, it has been steadily "growing with the
growth" of the enormous capital, of which it may
be regarded as a not inappropriate type or repre-
sentative. That it comprises from 2,000 to 3,000
densely-printed pages octavo—that it weighs so
many pounds avoirdupois in paper and printing ink
—that it embraces within its ample scope twelve
separate departments—that it is (marvellous to
relate) entirely worked through the press within
the space of five weeks—that each distinct atom
in this vast world of information has had to un-
dergo a scrupulous and independent revision—
that all has had to be carefully, and at the latest
moment, sifted, collated, arranged, and accurately
tabulated—that all this, and a great deal more,
has positively and literally been accomplished dur-
ing the annual process involved in the compilation
of this huge mammoth of a Directory is an old, old
story enough, one as familiar and as much a mere
matter of fact to the Londoner as Fleet-street or
Piccadilly. Beycnd all the accustomed merits of
the work, however, each year brings to it, from
some one quarter or another, a variety of remark-
able and appreciable improvements. The now rapidly
approaching year of grace 1857 has, in this respect,
very considerably surpassed many of its most
notable predecessors. It brings—of course—the
old twelve divisions of the Book : the Law, Court,
Streets, Trades, City, Postal, Banking, Official,
Assurance, Conveyance) Commercial, and Parlia-
mentary. But scattered up and down through
these—by no means as a matter of course—a
diversity of very admirable and acceptable inno-
vations. Conspicuous among these are the changes
suggested by the newarrangements now in progress
for the ultimate division of Londcn and its suburbs
into 10 grand postal districts—Northern, Southeon,
Eastern, Western, East Central, West Central,
North Eastern, South Eastern, North Wester;
South Western. Arrangements set on foot by Mr.
Rowland Hill, the Guiding Genius of St. Martin's-
le-Grand, under the encouraging supervision of
his Grace the Duke of Argyll, as Postmaster-
General. Immediately these new arrangements
are completed, the facilitation of the different
postal deliveries in the metropolis will become
apparent to the vast aggregate of its two millions
and a half of population. For the better carrying
out of which scheme, it has been jtri!iciously sug-
gested by the Post-office authorities that the ini-
tial letter of the particular district in which any
locality lies shall be legibly inscribed upon
any letter despatched to any part of London or
its vicinity as one of the most important items in
the Direction. Hence we find, between pages
161 and 860, the appropriate initial letter or
letters in every instance appended to each place
throughout the whole of the ample range of the
Street Directory. Ex. gr. : Halkiu Terrace, Bel-
grave Square (S.W.)—Caledoniau Road (N.)—
Newington Butts (S.)—and so on, throughout.
Again, a really remarkable improvement is ob-
servable in the mere circumstance that the
map, the beautiful and comprehensive map
illustrating the Post o.olce London, Directory
of late years, is no longer bound up with the
volume as a sort of folding frontispiece—liable,
each time it is consulted, to be torn or crumpled
wofully—but instead of thus making, clumsily,
part and parcel of the volume, is coloured,
mounted, and glazed, so as to become, at once,
more useful in every way and much handsomer.
Its range, too, is extended—the map, besides dis-
tinctly displaying to view the ten new postal
districtsrecently proposed, enlarging its area north-
wards to Leighton-marsh and Golder's-green—
southwards to Dulwich and Lewisham—eastwards
to Upton and Charlton—westwards to Chiswick and
Old Oak Common. The Corrections, as usual with
the great model Directory, are some of them
astonishingly recent—quite astonishingly, several
of them, by reason of the necessary complication of
some of the very latest of these prompt and exact
emendations. The creation of Lord Talbot de
Mala,hide, an English Peer, gazetted only as re-
cently as the 18th ultimo, will be found, for in-
stance, duly entered at pp. 2229, 2237, and
2259 in the Parliamentary Directory. W. J.
Robson, again, the convict, has been carefully
erased from divers parts of the volume, in which
the name appeared last year as that of a
respectable person having a recognisable
habitation. Sir Alexander Cockburn, be-
cause of his very recent elevation to the bench
as the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, in place of the late Sir John Jervis deceased,
has necessitated alterations in no less than eight
separate and distinct divisions of the East (Vice
London Directory. It scarcely requires to be
added after all this, that the magnum opus of the
Messrs. Kelly and Company is entitled in 1857,
more fully than ever to the popularity it has now
enjoyed so long and so very deservedly, a popu-
larity- which, by destroying rival, after rival it has
now fairly monopolised, and one which has ex-
panded' and ripened with the " Londoners Pro-
per " into a really genuine Pride, and an unaf-
fected Admiration.

THE SUNDAY TIMES ALMANACS.

FOPS 1857. E. T. SMITH.

The enterprising lessee of Drury Lane Theatre
is also, as everybody knows by this time, the inde-
fatigable proprietor of the Sunday Times news-
paper. We don't know what he may be besides—
but at any rate, there is no doubt at all about it,
that lie stands conspicuously before the metropo-
litan public in both those characters. Here, in
the latter capacity especially, namely, as a news-
paper proprietor, and yet at the same time in some
sort also as a theatrical manager and sole lessee of
a Theatre Royal, and that Theatre Royal one 'no
—isless imEp. oTrt.anst
mthiathia,sthestTohweaaltire
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An almanack as entirely of the StagelvAa
as ever Tip, in " Little porrit," was
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the y
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Streets Streety. Look at it—look at the grand
—inaeidln
tabulated calendar
generalthe memorabilia
wont
the rbeicrotrhd
btahttisles proof of this. What are
deathit ?
poets,according
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fel) heroes, kings, and fso forth—not the anniver-
orteoosa,nt
coup-d'etats, or of sangui-
nary revolutions :but
dian, such o'
, in lieu of all this, the notifi-
cation
; particular day there was born
into the world, or there died out of it, such a trap-
aa comedian, such a singer, such a
dancer, such dramatist, such a composer, such a
Theatrethat upon such a day such a
was opened, that upon such an-
other day such another Theatre was burnt ;
that So-an •So the Clown appeared for the
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first time upon the London Boards at such a time,
andat such another time So-and-So the Harlequin
leaped his last leap in spangles through the old
swing flap,
in the old conventional style familiar to
all the frequenters of the grand old glorious Christ-
mas Pantomimes. Apart from the histrionic tinge
or flavour thus pleasantly imparted to E. T.
Smith's Sunday Times Almanack the said
Almanack is replete with an extraordinary
diversity of both agreeable and thoroughly-
useful attractions. It is, for one thing,
a capital Directory. And fol another a first-rate
Parliamentary Intelligencer. Its Time Tables are
as complete as could well be desired. It has a,
"
record of the Turf—a record of the Year—and a
neesPraele, especially noted, it comprises anrting, and Theatrical. The,
w
record of the Progress of Agriculture.an invaluable Add e d t o
w hOl bl re
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bo" chue—Gitr
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(price sixpence) constituting a really
delightful milange of miscellaneous d
information.

The accounts from. New York this week describe as
decided improvement in the stock market. Erie Railway
has advanced from 601 to 62, Panama from 91 to 95
Reading from 77 to 82, and New York Central from.
851 to 88. Illinois Central remained at 1152 to 116..
The rate of exchange having fallen to a point at which.
shipments of specie are unprofitable the banks were ex-
tending their loans, and the rate of discount had declined
1 per cent. It was not expected, however, that the
depression in the rate of interest would be prolonged.
According to statements from Washington, President
Pierce has proposed to New Granada that she should
cede to the United States municipal control over the
Panama Railroad route, the cities of Aspinwall and
Panama, and strip of territory on cash side of the route.
It is contemplated that the Government of New Granada
should be asked nominally to give up the sovereignty oC
the route, although the practical result would be the
same. "In short," it is said,
I, we 'tfe to have the sub
stance of the thing without the name.