The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-08 00:00:00

toNtorOM,r-WED'NESDA AtTENiNG OCTOBER 8, 18 6.

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ing-house in Narrow-street, Limehouse, breaking up a
cistern, and stealing 30 lbs. of lead therefrom.
Edward Norton, in the employ of Harper, Burns, and
Co., bottle-merchants, left a dwelling-house in which he
had lodged on Friday, when everything was safe. On
the following evening he discovered that the house had
been entered, a cistern broken up, and part of it carried
away. The thieves got over a high wall into a yard,
and then broke into the house.

Charles Abbott, a police-constable, No. 322 K, said
he found the stolen lead in the shop of a marine store-
dealer, named Ann Scofield, in Fore-iti7eet, LinTehouse.

Mrs. Scofield said she sold tobacco, and only bought
a few little things. The boys brought in the lead to
her shop on Saturday night, and said they got it honestly,
and it was quite right ; and also said, "Don't be afraid
to buy it, Mrs. Scofield." She would not have bought
the lead if she did not think it was honestly come by.

Mr. Yardley—You are thinking of your own defence
more than giving evidence properly.
The prisoners, in defence, said they saw a boy con-
cealirg the copper behind a brick wall, and they took it
and sold it to Mrs. Scofield, who said, "Put it behind
the counter ; make haste, or the policeman will be here.
They have taken one boy out of my shop." They threw
the lead behind the counter by her direction, and left the
shop, and went again for the money. She told them to
bring all the lead they could.

Mr. Yardley—Do you mean to say you robbed the
;bief ?

Burns —Yes, sir ; another boy took the lead out
of the house, and we sold it, and because we did not
give him his regulars (equal share of the proceeds) he
peached upon us, and told the policeman to look after us.
An Irishman, named Daniel Donovan, said he was
the uncle of the boy Driscott, who had never been in
trouble before, and that the old woman Scofield, of 68,
Fore-street, was the ruin of half the boys in Limehouse,
for she gave them tobacco, ginger-beer, cigars, and
sweetmeats for anything they could bring her.
Mr. Yardley was sorry the marine store-dealer had
been put into the witness-box. She ought to have been
charged as a receiver. He directed the policeman if he
found any more stolen property in Mrs. Scofield's shop,
to take her into custody and charge her as a receive r.
He then sentenced Driscott to one month's imprison-
ment and hard labour, and Burns alias Smith to six
weeks' imprisonment and hard labour.

LITERATIJRE.

Out on the World. By Henry Owgan, LL.D.
3 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

The title Of this work suggests a being isolated
and peculiar, set apart from social ties and home
retirement, and such is exactly the case with the
subject of these memoirs. He had no fixed place
or settled employment ; he possessed few friends,
and his intercourse with them was not of that con-
stant kind which insures a resource, ready and
available, in difficulty and distress. He was also
tried by the fluctuation of his fortunes—alternating
poverty and wealth—and again he was left desti-
tute. It may not be an ordinary instance that is
here traced, as far as regards circumstances,. but the
character of Richard Neville is a natural one. The
isolation of his position rendered him careless and
indifferent concerning many points which, under
happier auspices, would have engrossed his atten-
tion. When the fortune so unexpectedly bequeathed
him placed him in an independent state he did not
seek to better his prospects, or even to guard
against their not being injured by any chance
casualties. The same carelessness characterised his
intercourse with the two accomplished foreigners
whom he met with in the society of Clifton. The
unfortunate Marguerite was not to be classed in
the same category with the base Da La Roche; but
they were the cause of great mischief to his reputa-
tion. The
after life of the supposed Count is a
striking episode in the story. The way in which
be contrived to escape in a coffin from prison is
very ingenious, and the horror of the unsuspecting
Neville, when he meets in a gaming-house with the
man whom he supposes to have seen interred, may
be imagined. The tragic end of the Countess,
Neville's first wife, is a painful incident, though the
event that gave rise to it was not an uncommon
one at the period of the Revolution. Ormsby and
Emily Hautonrale were the truest friends of the
wanderer. He could always meet with sympathy
from them, but, unhappily, he did not always
meet them when in most need of help, and he was
averse to looking out for assistance of any sort.
This feeling, which was false pride rather than
praiseworthy independence, made him a great suf-
ferer at one time, when, after a shipwreck, in
which he had lost everything, he found himself
nearly destitute of the means of living. Ormsby,
who would gladly have befriended him, did not
even know that he was not then beyond the seas,
as he had purposed being. It was then that
Neville encountered a new trouble in the persecu-
tion of an old enemy ; and the evil deeds wrought
by intolerance and pretended piety are ably exposed
in the delineation of the Rev. Josiah Fitzglosa. One
of the greatest troubles of the life of N eville was
his estrangement from his father. He had left the
paternal roof when a boy, in consequence of a
quarrel with his father, and bad never since been
able to find out what had become of him. He was
fortunate enough to render a service to a melan-
choly recluse, and on subsequent acquaintance he
discovered him to be his long-lost father. But his
pleasure was not of long duration, for the next
morning the relative, too late found, was no more.
Surprise and excitement had hastened his end.
After trying an immense variety of occupations, in
several different phases of society, the hero takes
leave of his readers with the determination of going
abroad on a foreign appointment of considerable
importance. He has previously been a member of
Parliament, having become this on his return to
affluence. The story includes many exciting scenes,
amusing anecdotes, and well-sketched personages
among its pages. There is almost every shade of
gradation from the romantic to the prosaic, the
last scion of an ancient line, the wealthy plebeian,
the crafty adventurer, the ruined artisan, all com-
bine to form a contrast, besides the difference ex-
hibited by the selfish nature and the generous
mind, which constitutes the most distinctive and
insurmountable barrier of any. Although the
career of Neville was not a smooth or sunny one
there is much life and vivacity in the detail, and
energy of spirit evinced in the description of his
experiences. Those who wish for a straightforward
style in composition and expression, neither
meagre nor over-ornamented, will be satisfied with
this work.

Stars and Stripes; Or, American Impressions. By
Ivan Golovia, W. Freeman.
With a verbal alteration or two, and the omis-
sion of all charge, the item in his lawyer's bill
which excited the author's indignation on his re-
turn to England, may be applied by us to his book.
" Receiving letter from you, and not having under-
stood same ; answering accordingly." For " let-
ter" read book, and for "answering" wondering,
and the thing is done. The strangest spelling, the
motliest idioms, everywhere apparent, are infinitely
less puzzling than to discover what this free and
easy citizen of the world—this half Russian and
half Frenchman—would be at. The only conclu-
sion we can arrive at with any sort of satisfaction
is that, mortally offended with the ascendancy of
the Know-nothings, who would exclude foreigners
from the rights and privileges of American citizen-
ship, he has kept his resolution "to take it out of
them" in abuse of their country. To be sure, he
now and then vindicates the claims of the old
country, which might entitle him to our gratitude,
were it not evident this is not from regard for
us, but the better to ventilate his spleen.
Now we are not going to pretend the citizens of
the United States are not fairly chargeable with a
good deal of what he attributes to them—but
deeply grieved and mortified as we are at the in-
jury they have inflicted and are inflicting on the
cause of liberty, we cannot so far outrage
common sense as to assent to the author's
summary description of them—" Swindlers in
the North, Slaveholders in the South, and bor-
der ruffians in the West, constitute the white po-
pulation of the glorious and great country' which
boasts to be the leader of mankind." It may be, as
he tells us, that the Union will not last eight years,
but if the United States wore thus constituted
common sense will tell the reader they could not
have held together eight months 1 Swindling,
slaveholding, and ruffianism there is in startling
abundance, but to no such extent as this. The
Anglo-Saxon and Norman blood never could so
frightfully degenerate, and the present internal
commotion is proof of it. Slavery and the eager
pursuit of the "almighty dollar," have, doubt-
less, been productive of a low level of commer-
cial and political morality, of much tyranny and
fraudulent dealing, but by no means of a state
of society to which the author's description can
with propriety be applied. Still, we trust and
believe, there are left many millions who have not
bowed the knee unto Baal. Notwithstanding this
monstrous exaggeration, the work is by no means
unentertaining. The author's naivete, though
now and then provocative of indignation, is gene-
rally amusing, and some of his impressions bear
the stamp of originality. Much as we respect the
character of Washington, we are disposed to
agree with him in thinking this hero of
American independence an over-rated man,
just as we believe with him the victories our cousins
vaunt over us were no such great matters for
boasting. It does not, it must be confessed, take
much to make a military demigod in the States,
and provided an enemy be licked, it is of little mo-
ment to Uncle Sam how. We find him here and
there rebuking our Transatlantic friends forabusing
us, by reminding them of their common origin.
"As to the competition between America and
England," he remarks, " I cannot help laughing
at it, for at every step you meet records of the
mother country." We are somewhat grieved to
learn the Yankees have acquired the bad habit
acquired by our army in Flanders, to wit, of
f
"swearing awfully," and this despite their puri-
tanic observance of " the Sabbath," which natu-
rally enough surprises him. He complains of "a
general mistrust," everybody suspecting everybody
of a design on his purse or entertaining such design.
The American ladies do not please him, while the
American cookery and sherry cobler to some ex-
tent do. What he has to say in connection with
the fair sex is pretty much what might be expected
from a citizen of the world. One hardly knows whether
to laugh or be " riled" at his illustrative anecdotes,
which, without being exactly prurient, are indi-
cative of an easy morality and a coxcombical con-
ceit. The following is curious. Penn, we are told,
though the founder of the State bearing his name,
a State in which imprisonment for debt is un-
known, was imprisoned this country for debt
contracted by or for his friends. Life he describes
as of little account in the States—but living as
being expensive, " because nearly everything comes
from Europe." America, "itis a fact, is ruled by
quite young men.
is philosophically
less respected here than
in Europe." This philosophically accounted for.
It is not from want of feeling, but because Ame-
ricais a young country, and only young men are
capable of the sustained energy its development
domands. A comparison instituted between Ame-
rican slavery and Russian serfdom is said to be in
favour of the former, because of the distinction of
race. The Union, be believes, will owe its dis-
solution to slavery. Eight years, however,
as affairs nie at present, seems a long lease.
" Heads,- be tells us, " are as much wanted in
America as hands, and an exclusion of incapacities,
Irish know-nothings, from voting, rather than the
exclusion of intelligent foreigners from the rights
of citizenship." We do not find much admiration
eaprossed for American laws,
nor cornmend a,tions
of the administration of them. Hatred to 6reat
Britain is said to be the main reason of American
the
sympathy for the Russians, and "to those who
object to their good feeling towards the Czar
_esy.
answer that Napoleon 111. is still as g
rea
pot." Otherwise their sympathies are of a harm-
t a d