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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) EXTENSIVE BOSBECE RY .
BY SPANISH
_ _ DANRS

SOUTHWARK.

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Mr. Bureham, charged with stealing a watch and chain,
value five guineas, the property of Sarah Dennis, under
the following circumstances :
The prosecutrix stated that she lived with her husband
in Foxall•street, Bermondsey, and she knew the pri-
soner as coming to see his grandmother, who also resided
in the same house. On Tuesday last, the 25th ultimo,
about six o'clock in the evening, he came and asked for
his grandmother. Witness told him she was out, when
he said he had got some shirts to make, and would bring
them to her in the course of the evening. He came and
sat near the fire, and witness had occasion to go back•
wards and fetch some coals. While there she heard the
prisoner call out that he would go and fetch the shirts,
and that he would soon return, at the same time he left
the house. On her return to her room she missed
her watch and chain, which she had left a minute or two
previously on the mantelpiece. She immediately went
in pursuit of him, and could not find him. She then
gave information to the police, but nothing could be
seen or heard of him until last night, when a constable
took him jute custody in the Borough.
The prisoner here said that there was another female
in the room when he left, and she must have seen if he
stoic the watch and chain.

Mr Burcham asked the prosecutrix if such was the
act ?

She replied that there was a young woman in the
room, but she was not near the fire.
Mr. Burcham said it appeared to him to be a very
impudent robbery, and he should remand the prisoner
until Friday; for the other young woman's attendance,
and to enable the police to make further inquiries about
him,

(From Calignani's Messenger. )
The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Saturdp y
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. Marione,
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-
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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 I ordered
one of the price of 400 f. to be made, but I did not
take anything. I afterwards 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 after you 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. Aly
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 thought 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 net know
that anything had been taken." The president
then interrogated Pilar Ferrer : " You are
aware that you are accused of having stolen ar-
ticles of jewellery from shops ? " " I went into
shops to look at jewellery, but never took any-
thing ;—I am 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—l 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 you,
.Regina," said the
president, addressing the third prisoner, "it is
alleged that on the 21st Oct. you begged Mlle.
Balotta, a danseuse, 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 shouldelot 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 Perres 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 Pois-
sonniere, M. Reux, Rue Rambuteau, M. Bubuis-
son, Rue Michel le Comte, and T. Renard, of the
same street, all jewellers, then severally deposed
that Moxo and Pilar had gone to their shops on
pretext of making purchases, and that after their
departure 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 watch
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 were not honestly come by, had
deposited them with the commissary of police. The
concierge of the house in which the prisoners had
lived 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 hour being now late, the tribunal adjourned
the further hearing of the case for a week.

MARKET NEWS.—(This Oay.)

HAY MARKETS.

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SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 4/ 8s ; clover do.,
3/ lOs to fl Ss; and straw, 1/ 4s to 11 9a per load.
Trade steady.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to 4/ lOs; clover
do., 3/ los to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 11 sto 11 10s per load.
A moderate supply and a fair demand.
WILITEOHAFEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 4l 8s ; clover
do., 31 lOs to 5/ 10s; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lOs per load.
A moderate demand.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The market has been very quiet, with no material
alteration in prices to notice.
SUGAR.—There are several large parcels announced for
public competition during the week, and it is expected that
the market will be rather better supplied. The private
transactions reported have not been extensive, but firm
prices have been current.
COFFEE .—A good demand has been experienced for both
plantation and native Ceylon, and fully previous quotations
have in all instances been maintained.
RICE.—For low qualities there has been a brisk demand,
and rather higher prices have been realised ; but other de-
scriptions have ruled steady at previous rates.
Rum.—The market has been steady, and little or no
alteration in values can be reported.
TALLow.—There has been an increased demand, and the
market has exhibhed considerable buoyancy. P.Y.C. in
all positions is now quoted 59s per cwt.

LLOYD'S SHIPONG.--Celis Day.)
LONDON, Dec. 2.—Wind this St noon, W. ;
weather.
light breeze and fine clear sharp frosty t. N.E.—Ar-
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. I.—Wind N.N.W. with loss of
rived—Mandy, from London, for Shanghai,
Alma,
jib-boom, &c., having been in collision on th'4 28th ult.,
off Dungeness, with the brig Lily Dale, Exeter:
from London, for Mauritius, with bow stove and..lolo of
head and cutwater, having been in collision with a cessel
during the night, about 20 miles west of Beachy
Had.
e
PLYMOUTH, Dec. I.—Wind W.—Arrived—Selina, from'
Hull, for Cadiz, leaky.
FALMOUTH, Dec. I.—Wind N.—Arrived—Alma, from
Alexandria.
DARTMOUTH, Dec. I.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Pau-
lina from Yarmouth, for Civita Vecchia.
GLOUCESTER Dec. I.—Arrived.—Wallace, Renfrew-
shire, from Quebec.
NEWPORT, Nov. 29.—Wind W.—Arrived.—William
Broaham, from Gloucester, for Sierra Leone.
SWANSEA, Dec. I.—Wind N.lV.—Arrived—Pargo,
from Coquimbo.
I COPENHAGEN, Nov. 25.—The Frecfau Minna, from St.
Petersburg to England, put in here on the 13th inst., with
considerable damage by ice, and is leaky.
RANGOON, Oct. 3.—The wreck of the Tanjore, from
London, wrecked at the mouth of the river on the 6th
September, has been sold.

(PER XLICOTRIO TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind S.E.
Arrived—Timora, screw steamer, from Hamburg.
Sailed—Caravan, for New York ; Catherine, Gibraltar
and St. Domingo ; Greyhound, St. Aliehael's Bellona,
Santander.
Wind N.N.W.
Arrived—Cardiff Lass, from Galatz ; E. A. Soullara
Callao.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 30.

DUBLIN, Dec. 1.
Wind N.N.W.
Arrived—Joseph and Mary, from Stranraer.
KINGSTOWN, Dec. 1.

THE POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY.

Fox 1857. KELLY A.ND CO.

It has nearly attained its grand climacteric,
this wonderful Post-Office London Directory—for
the present (18in 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. ,Beyond all the accustomed merits of
the work, however, each year brings to it, from
sonic 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, Conveyancr; Commercial, and Parlia-
mentary. Rut 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 those are the changes
suggested by the new arrangements now in progress
for the ultimate division of London and its suburbs
in to 10 grand postal districts—Northern, Southern,
Eastern, Western, East Central, West Central,
North Eastern, South Eastern, North Western,
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 judiciously 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. : Halkin Terrace, Bel-
grave Square (S.W.)—Caledonian 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 Office 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
Malahide, 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 Post Office
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.