The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-27 00:00:00

and ever and anon threatened to ingulf the crew.l
Still she pursued her cautious way to the land, and
after a brief period of extreme danger, in which
wave after wave struck the boat with threatening
violence, land was reached, numbers of men rushed
into the water, and amid hearty and heartfelt
cheers the gallant captain and his brave crew, and
the grateful rescued mariners, received the warm
congratulations of the delighted crowd, whose ap-
preciation of their exertions, and of the energy,
caution, and skill of Capt. Tudor, gave expression
in loud acclamations.—Northern Ensign.

are saluted with serenades. There is poor chance for any
public perfoiiner like thysgf to do great business, the theatre
of the hustings being the one at which the most aitractiot
is offered. Yet I have no reason to complain. Opera has
been tried, but to no effect ; and tragedy has but few vota-
ries; yet for the past five weeks I have had a house crowded
nightly to my entertainment in Concert Hall, and in this
my sixth week am still doing a good business.
I close in Philadelphia next Saturday, and go on to Bal-
timore, in Maryland. By Christmas I expect to be in Wash•
ington—just when Congress is sitting. I shall then, in all
probability, see much that is amusing, and have occasion to
make a few notes which will be of interest to your readers,
although I am very well aware that American politics are
not the most absorbing topic to a reader on the other side of
the Atlantic, and that partly because he knows so little of
America generally he feels but slight interest in things
American. The visit of the Prince of Wales, however,
will go far to make a knowledge of this country more re-
quired by Englishmen, and I hope induce many of Queen
Victoria's subjects to come over and see for themselves that
which Brother Jonathan has to show them.—For the pre-
sent, allow me to remain, yours very truly,
JOHN HENRY ANDERSON,
Wizard of the North.

rnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1860.

Shedden might have felt a conscientious scruple
on the point, or he might have desired to
render his marriage more easy of proof. By
the will Mr. Shedden did not dispose of his
estates in Scotland, and it was therefore most pro-
bable that he thought they would descend to his
eldest son as his heir, and that he had no notion
that his legitimacy would be disputed. He!left his
widow some slaves and plate and furniture, besides
the 400 dollars a-year, and treated her in every re-
spect as his wife. The learned counsel then referred
to the letters of John Patrick, of New York, and
submitted that they led to the inferencethat during
the last illness of William Shedden John Patrick
conceived the idea of putting his own family into
possession of the Scotch estates. With regard to
the letter of the 12th of Nov., 1798, he pointed out
the improbability of such a letter having been
written by a person in extremis the very day before
he died, and of the two copies called a duplicate
and triplicate having been sent to Scotland by the
same vessel. The correspondence between William
Patrick and Hugh Crawfurd proved that the suit
and the appeal of 1802 were fraudulently and col-
lusively instituted and prosecuted for the purpose
of depriving the heir of his property, and prevent-
ing him from claiming it at any future time.
The Court adjourned before the learned counsel
had concluded his reply.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, Nov. 26.

Josepb Locke, a young man, surrendered to take
his trial for misdemeanour, in having committed an
indecent assault upon a young girl named Eliza-
beth Webb.

Mr. Sleigh conducted the prosecution, under the
instruction of the City Solicitor ; Mr. Metcalfe and
Mr. F. H. Lewis were counsel for the defence.
This case occupied the Court for several hours.
The Recorder having summed up, the jury re-
tired at 4 o'clock to consider their verdict. They
returned into Court at a quarter past 5 o'clock, and
found the defendant not guilty.
There was some applause among the audience
when the verdict was returned, out it was promptly
repressed, and the Recorder threatened to commit
any person who was guilty of such indecent con-
duct in a court of justice.
The defendant was ordered to be immediately
discharged.

Robert Ernest Graham, 35, a gentlemanly-looking
young man, described as a clerk, was placed at the
bar to plead to a great number of indictments charg-
ing him with stealing watches and other articles
of jewelry, the property of Samuel Lewis Nathan,
his master. The prisoner was also charged upon
other indictments, with obtaining various articles
of jewelry from different persons by fa:se pretences.
The circumstances connected with these charges
have appeared very fully within the lest few days
in the Guildhall police report, and it will be re-
membered that the total value of the property al-
leged to have been stolen by the prisoner was esti-
mated at nearly £2,000.
The prisoner, when called upon, pleaded "Guilty"
to the whole of the indictments which charged
him with stealing the property of his master, and
" Not Guilty" to the other charges.
Mr. F. H. Lewis, who was instructed for the
prosecution, applied to the Court to defer passing
sentence for the present. He said that a great
many pawnbrokers who had possession of large
quantities of valuable property were not then in
attendance, and it was necessary that they should
be so, that an order might be made upon them to
deliver up the property that was in their hands.
He said that he also wished for an opportunity of
considering whether it was advisable to proceed
upon any of the other charges to which the prisoner
had pleaded " Not Guilty."
The Recorder acceded to the application.
Edward Collins, 24, a private in the Royal Ar-
tillery, pleaded " Guilty" to a charge of wilfully
and maliciously setting fire to a stack of hay, the
property of Samuel Russell.

The Recorder, in passing sentence, said that the
prisoner, after having committed the offence, went
and gave himself up immediately, and said that his
object was to be sent out of the country, in order
to get out of the service in which he was employed.
He would, however, be very much mistaken, for
the practice of the Court in such cases was not to
send the offender out of the country, but to pass
upon him a long and severe sentence of imprison-
ment, and he would find the condition in which he
would be placed much worse than that of any
honest service in which he would be employed.
He then sentenced the prisoner to be kept in penal
servitude for 10 years.
William Johnson, 49, and George Burdett, 27,
pleaded guilty to the charge of burglary in the
dwellinghouse of Robert Linford, with intent to
steal.

Sergeant Lockyer informed the Court that John-
son had been known as a thief for 20 years, and he
had been repeatedly eonvicted of burglary. He
was tried for that offence at the last session, bet
acquitted, and the moment he obtained his liberty
he committed the burglary to which he had now
pleaded guilty. The other prisoner, Burdett, was
not known.

The Recorder sentenced Johnson to six years'
penal servitude, and Burdett to nine months' hard
labour.

POLICB INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 26.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mary Webb, about 25
years of age, a domestic servant, was charged before
the Lord Mayor with robbing her master, Mr. Thos.
Jones, a partner in a firm of hosiers, at 171, Fen-
church-street.
The complainant said he lived in the house over
the shop of the firm of which he was a member, and
the prisoner had been in his service eight months.
He had lately missed articles from the stock in the
shop, and money from the till. The prisoner had
access to the shop, but it was no part of her duty
to be there. On Sunday, on his return home about
one o'clock in the day, his wife made a communica-
tion to him, which induced him to go upstairs to
the prisoner's bedroom. The prisoner had been sent
to church, and had not then returned. He saw a
cambric handkerchief nearly new lying on her dress-
ing table, and the circumstance exciting suspicion,
he wai:ed until she returned, when he asked her to
follow him upstairs to her room, which she did.
Then he informed her that his suspicions had been
raised by the fact of missing articles from the stock,
and he should like to see the contents of her box.
At first she objected on the ground that it was
Sunday, but at length opened the box in the pre-
sence of him and his wife. The result of a search
was the discovery of six pairs of best kid gloves, ten
cambric handkerchiefs, a quantity of flannel made up
into petticoats, another pair of gloves, and a great
quantity of new linen, all which he had reason to
believe were taken from the stock of the firm. He
called a policeman and gave her into, custody. The
prisoner, in answer to questions put by him, said,
with respect to the six pairs of gloves, first that
she had bought them, and then, declaring she
would tell the truth, that she took them from the
stock in the shop that day fortnight. The hand-
kerchiefs she said she had bought at a sale in
Whitechapel of a draper's stock, but on being
shown a trade-mark of complainant's firm on one
of them she made no reply, and did not attempt to
account for her possession of the flannel or linen.
The complainant added that she had been very
kindly treated while in his service, and having
reason to suspect that she had robbed him to a
greater extent, he asked that she should be re-
manded, to enable him to make some necessary in-
quiries.

The Court at once complied with the request.
Thomas Saker, a dissipated-looking man, living
at 15, Skinner-street, Bishopsgate, having the ap-
pearance of an artisan, was charged with a serious
assault upon his wife.

The complainant is 70 years of age, and the pri-
soner 44, and they had been married about three
years. She was a tidily-dressed and respectable
person, though poor, and was described by several
of her neighbours, who accompanied her to the
court, as a hard-working woman, notwithstanding
her advanced age. According to her own state-
ment the prisoner, who was a man of dissipated
character, had been drinking on Sunday week and
on the three following days. On Thursday he went
to work, and on Saturday returned home drunk,
when, provoking a quarrel with her, he seized a
j poker, broke almost everything in the house, threw
her down, and then struck her a very violent blow
on the arm with it. He had, she said, so ferocious
a look that she fled the place, believing her life
was in danger, remembering also that on the pre-
vious Monday he had threatened "to do for her."
Often before had she been obliged to leave the house
in the dead of night to seek in the neighbours'
houses protection from his violence, or to walk the
streets. She added that by her own industry she
had kept him and herself since their marriage,
until at length he had brought her to a state of
beggary. Her story was borne out by some of her
neighbours.

The prisoner did not deny the charge, but ex-
pressed his regret, and sought to extenuate his
conduct by saying he was very tipsy at the time
and did not know what he was doing.
The Lord Mayor characterised the assault as a
very brutal one, for which a mere expression df
sorrow was not sufficient to atone, and sentenced
him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
three calendar months.

GUILDHALL —Lowis Robert Poole, of the
bankrupt firm of Poole and Bryan, boot and shoe
manufacturers, of Northampton and New Ox ford-
street ; Mr. James Cooke, a tanner and currier, of