The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-21 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBERY IN THE Doci BY A WATCHMAN.—Jtintes
Mitcham, a watchman in the service of the London and
St. Katherine Dock Company, was charged with stealing
a bottle of brandy.

The prisoner was leaving his duty after a night's watch-
ing in the London Dock and he was stopped by Hamilton,
a constable, and a bottle of brandy taken out of hie coat
pocket. lie could give no account how he became pos-
sessed of it.

Mr. Benson said the prisoner was specially employed to
protect property in the dock, and had taken advantage of
the trust reposed in him to rob the dock company, who
would not employ him again. He sentenced him to two
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
AN lliconaminLE.—Hannah Van Souter, who has been
in custody 300 times, and convicted 100 times of various
offences, was charged with being drunk and disorderly.
She was tried three weeks ago at Middlesex Sessions and
found guilty for attempting to committ suicide, and was
discharged by Mr. Sergeanteox, the assistant deputy judge,
on a report of the chaplain of the Clerkenwell Prison
that she was very penitent, and that an asylum would be
provided for her. Last night she was drunk and making
a disturbance. She offered to fight anybody and every-
body. Assistance was procured, and she was carried to
the station-house. It was stated that the prisoner was a
native of Ireland, and married to a Dutchman, who had
long since abandoned her on account of her profligacy.
Mr. Benson said the prisoner was incorrigible. He was
glad there was no criminal charge against her. He sen-
tenced her to pay a fine of 40s. or be committed to prison
for a month.

The Prisoner-:-.What am I sent to prison for ? Sure
the next time I am sent to prison it shall be for some-
thing, or my name is not Hannah Van Souter.

WESTMINS TER.
OUT OP ONE'S LATITUDE.—William Paxton, a quiet
looking man, was charged wick being drunk and dis-
orderly.

Police-constable Richard Freeman said he was walking
along Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, yesterday afternoon, when
he passed the defendant, who was drunk. Defendant
called after him, but he paid no attention, and turned on
one side. Defendant rushed ater him, and seizing him
asked why he did not answer him, telling him that as a
policeman it was his duty to do so. He told defendant
he was intoxicated and recommended him to go home,
but he refused, questioning his right to advise such a
course. He refused to go away, and then complainant
took him into custody.

Defendant, in answer to the charge, admitted his
drunkenness, but declared the policeman had said more
than he ought. He (defendant) finding himself "out of
his latitude," asked tho policeman the way to where he
lived, when he refused to give him the required informa-
tion, and pushed him away, telling him to go home as he
was drunk, and then took him in charge. He hoped the
magistrate would overlook the circumstance, as he lived
at Camberwell, and was "out of his latitude."

Mr. Self() told him he always fined people for getting
drunk in the middle of the day.
Fined be. or five days.

It is reported that Mr. Rose, Finance Minister
of Canada, is to take a position at the head of an American
banking house, to be opened in London, in account with
Jay Cooke and Co. It is also said that a seat is to be ob-
tained for Mr. Rose in the British House of Commons.
Another report is that Mr. Rose has become a member
of the long-established firm of Morton, Burns, and Co., of
London, represented in New York by Morton, Bliss, and
Co. The Wall Street Journal makes the announcement,
and we understand with truth, that the London branch
of the American Firm of Morton, Bliss, and Co. That
paper adds, " The partnership of Clapp and Grinnell,
bankers and brokers, has expired by limitation, and
Mr. Clapp has retired. The business will be continuedby
George B. Grinnell and Joseph C. Williams, under the
name of George B. Grinnell and Co. Horace F. Clark
who has contributed $lOO,OOO, continues a special partner."
There is also a report in Now York on the strength of a
private letter received in Montreal that Jefferson Davis
intends to take up his residence permanently in the United
Kingdom, and it is added that the accounts of his ill health
have been greatly exaggerated.

" Now I shall die !" was the exclamation at Bos-
ton of a young lady admirer of tho Ilarvards, on hearing
the news of their defeat.—Mark Twain, at the Parker
House, Boston, rang for "a copy of the laws of Massa-
chusetts," "to see if there was anything to prevent him
from drinking ice-water."—The first chapter in a Western
novel has the following:—" All of a sudden the fair gill
continued to sit on the sand, gazing upon the briny deep,
on whose heaving bosom the tall ships went merrily by,
freighted—ah! who can tell with how much of joy and
sorrow, and pine lumber and emigrants, and hopes and
salt fish."

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60
days' sight was 1081 per cent. on the 13th inst. At this rate there
would be a loss on the tranqpiission of gold front the United
States.