The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

UN,

LONDON,

listen to me, unless you take me direct to the shirt, and
be there within ten minutes from this time, I will give
you such a beating with this stick as I think you will not
much relish." Under this threat the rascal confessed he
was not going towards the shirt, but he would now do so.
They then turned back, returned up the hill across Mount
Wise, out at the Southern Barrier Guardhouse, down
Stonehouse-hill, over the Bridge, up Union-street, Stone-
house, Union-road, Plymouth, and then through Flora-
street, into Stonehouse-lane; into the very midst of the
locality inhabited by cadgers, lurkers, thieves, and
sharpers of all sorts, and into which few men, knowing
the character of the neighbourhood so well as Mr. Ta-
gert, would have had the courage to have ventured at
midnight, especially in such company. Determined not
to be beaten, Mr. Tagert boldly went forward, and,
on his companion knocking at the door of a public-
house, he refused to give him the chance of
then escaping him, by acceding to his request
to wait outside the door "while he went in after
the shirt;" but," said the young man, " the room is a
very small one." "No doubt," said Mr. Tagert, "if
you can get in, I can also do so; at all events I will try."
They went in, and in a room, not a small one, they
found the shirt tied up in paper, apparently just
as the fellow had received it from Mr. Tagert's ser-
vant. Mr. Tagert secured the shirt, and then gave
his countryman some advice, enforcing one por-
tion by repeating it again and again—and that was that
he should at once leave the town, lest in the morning
he should find himself in the custody of the police.
Whatever use he made of some portion of the Rev. Gen-
tleman's advice, it is evident he was disposed to risk the
chance of being taken into custody, for on the following
evening, after eleven o'clock, he found his way
to the residence of the Reverend AL B. Hutchinson,
the incumbent of St. James, Devonport, whom he
saw, and after apologising for calling so late, said
he had come to him as the clergyman of the parish
to ask his advice; the fact was, he said, he was the son
of a gentleman, and had been sent to Paris by his father's
wish to make himself acquainted with the pictures in
the Louvre as the means of improvement as an artist,
but was sorry to say that he had lived " too fast," and
as a consequence bad been obliged to leave France.
During part of the six months he bad been in England
he had been engaged as a scene painter at Tiver-
ton. All went on well enough until a few
weeks since the manager put his name (Mr. Arthur)
in the play bill ; this reached his father, and the conse-
quence was a letter informing that unless he gave up his
eonnoxion with the theatre, his father would give him up
and never again acknowledge or assist him; under this
pressure he had left Tiverton and come into this neigh-
bourhood, and hoped to get employment here. He bad
written to his father who had promised him money, as
the letter which he handed to Mr. Hutchinson would
show. This letter had all the appearance of a genuine
document, and promised him a remittance on Thursday.
Now what he wanted advice upon was how he was to
subsist until the money arrived from his father
on Thursday. Mr. Hutchinson saw no reason for
disbelieving the story, and the time not admit-
ting either of inquiry, beyond the applicant himself,
or of arrangements for his relief, thought the best prac-
tical aid he could render was to let the young man have
ss. whereon to subsist, until other steps could be taken.
He thanked Mr. Hutchinson for his great kindness, and
promising to see him again, bade him good night. We
need not say that he has not yet returned, and that we
believe Mr. Hutchinson does not entertain an idea of the
amount being returned to him through a post-office order.

THE COUNT]
The following is the official
corn, &c., received in the pc
Essex, from the 10th March,
both inclusive :

Y MARKETS.

statement of the quantities cf
.t of London from the ports in
1851, to the 15th March, 1851,