The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

RETIREMENT OF MR. BENSON. —The connection
of Mr. Benson with this court will cease after this
day, and whom the people of the Tower Hamlets
will los,, and the inhabitants of Southwark gain
an able, impartial, and intelligent magistrate, who
has always tempered justice with mercy, and whose
humanity and kindness has been often exercised
on behalf of the poor and needy. The state of his
health and his wish for lighter duties, induced Mr.
Benson to appeal to the Home Secretary to trans-
fer him to the Southwark Police-court, where he
will officiate in future. He leaves the Thames
Police-court with the ris, ect and esteem of all
who have been in the practice of transacting busi-
ness there, and who fully appreciated his legal
knowledge and his high and chivalrous feeling as
a gentleman and scholar, and his consummate tact,
readiness and zeal, as a rnagistratate. We under-
stand that it has been arranged that the new
magistrate, Mr. Lushington, will in future
s t on the first three days, and Mr. Paget
on the last three days of the week, but this
arrangement will, of course, be occasionally set
aside when the magistrates have business elsewhere
or require a holiday.

THE SAILOR AND HIS GOLD.--Charlotte Hewlett,
aged 23 years, of Palmer's-folly, Ratcliff-highway,
where so many sailors have been " taken in and
done for," was brought before Mr. Benson charged
with stealing four sovereigns from the person of
Robert Abaramson, or Abrahamson, or Abaramam-
soner. The prosecutor would give up the task of
spelling his name and relate how he was served by
that 'ere lady, pointing to the prisoner, last night.
He was fetching a walk and she fell in with him.
"The compliments of the seam, sir," she said.
Well, he thought, that was very polite, and asked
grog, to which she con-
her to take a glass of
sented. They had a couple, because as how
one glass each would make them topside'.
She invited him to conduct her home, and
he became her convoy, and went into her room.
She asked him to sit down, and he did. Soon after-
wards he put his hand in his pocket and missed four
sovt reigns from his purse. lie had four sovereigns
and a half sovereign in it when he entered the
house, and only half a sovereign was there. how
she took out the four sovereigns without his know-
ing it puzzled him to know. lie accused her of
taking his money, which she denied. He was
about to call in the police, when she exclaimed,
" Hold on, I know where your money is," and
pretended to search the bed, where he had not been,
and the bed clothes, and produced a sovereign,
which she said he had lost. The other three were
produced, and so he called a " bobby," and gave
her into custody.

Miss Hewlett denied the soft impeachment. She
had never robbed her sailor of a farthing. Ile had
been robbed by other women.

" Hold hard," exclaimed the prosecutor, " I have
not spoken to a single lady, but you, since I have

been on shore. You have got my gold."
Mr. Benson committed the prisoner for trial, and
said that Palmer's-folly was a file p lace, where
many sailors had been robbed.

MOSES'S DIARY FOR 1870.—One of the most
useful, and decidedly the cheapest diary published, is that
issued by the Messrs. Moses and Son's, of the Minories.
From its size it is admirably adapted for the pocket, and
with respect to the information contained within the little
volume it is so extensive and complete that it is as handy
as a book of reference as it is for the entry of daily memo-
randa. The issue of this book, at the astonishingly low
price of one penny, is a perfect wonder, and that the first
edition, which amounted to over 100,000 copies, should
have Leen already exhausted is not a matter of surprise.
The book is to be had on application at either of the estab-
lishments of Messrs. Moses and Son's and at the railway
s'ations ; and, as the second edition is now ready for dis-
tribution, no time should be lost in securing a copy of one
of the curiosities of the trade of the metropolis.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. —At
a meeting of the Court of Examiners, held at 10, Red
Lion-square, London, on Dec. 21 and 22, the following.
students from the Royal Veterinary College, having un-
dergone the necessary examination for the diploma, wore
admitted members of the body corporate, namely, Messrs.
Walter Henry Kemp, Canterbury ; Richard Alwen Thrale,
Croydon, Surrey ; Edwin Ware, Martock, Somerset ; John
Rostock, Altrinchatn, Cheshire ; and Jas. Macer, Wistow,
Huntingdonshire.

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE t Co., who have gained
a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be
called "The Royal Irish Distillery."