The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-27 00:00:00

THAMES.

PLUNDERING ♦ SAILOR.—Jane Macdonald, a woman.
about 30 years of age, and well known to the police, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, chg.rged with stealing a silver
watch and 178. in silver, the property and monies of a
Scotch seaman named David Galbraith.
The prosecutor, who has lately been paid off, fell in with
the prisoner on Wednesday evening, and, after treat-
ing her with " lots of grog," of which he, partook
of a very large share, he accompanied her to a house in
Frederick-street, Back Church lane, St. George's-in-the
East, which has earned the unenviable appellation of
" Tiger Bay," from the desperate character of its inhabi-
tants. He soon fell asleep, and when he awoke yesterday
(Thursday) morning he missed his watch and his money,
and immediately communicated his loss to the police. The
prisoner was apprehended last night by police-constable H.
The watch was valued at £3 10s.

Mr. Poole, assistant to Mr. Somerville Telfer, a pawn-
broker, produced a watch, and said the prisoner pawned it
for 4 10s. on quarter day afternoon.
Mr. Yardley—Do you know the prisoner ?
Witness—l have known her 16 years.
Mr. Yardley—You knew she was a prostitute ?
Witness—Yes, I believed she was. She has often pawned
things at our house.

Mr. Yardley—l don't think you ought to take in silver
watches of such characters.

Galbraith identified the watch as his property.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner was con-
victed of a street robbery five years ago.
Mr. Yardley—That is a long while ago.
Roche—l don't think I have seen her since.
The prisoner said it was a lie to say that she pawned the
watch—a girl called " Little Carrots" pawned the watch.
Mr. Poole—l received the watch from your hands.
The prisoner after many insinuations and denials said she
was guilty of stealing the watch.
Mr. Yardley—You are charged with stealing.
The prisoner—l am guilty.
Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for three months, and said the
prosecutor, who had no business in such a place as Frede-
rick- street, must bear all the loss with the pawnbroker, and
upon paying ss. the watch would be delivered to him.

PRICES OF CIGARS IN FRANCE.---An imperial de-
crees fixes the selling price of cigars, whether made in Ha-
vannah, Manilla, or France The prices vary from 5c (id.),
to 50e. each. The same d9ercee authorises the administra-
tion to sell to consumers, In whole boxes or packets, every
description of tobacco or snuff made in the imperial mann-
faefortes. The small Havannah cigars called "Damns,"
will continue to be sold at the old price of 10c. till the stock
in hand is exhausted.

A whisper passed round the table about hands
having been seen or felt. Unable to answer for
what happened to others, I will speak only of what
I observed myself. The table cover was drawn
over my knees, as it was with the others. I felt
distinctly a twitch, several times repeated, at my
knee. It was the sensation of a boy's hand,
partly scratching, partly striking and pulling
me in play. It went away. Others described
the same sensation ; and the celerity with which
it frolicked, like Puck, under the table, now
at one side and now at another, was sur-
prising. Soon after, what seemed to be a large
hand came under the table cover, and with the
fingers clustered to a point, raised it between me
and the table. Somewhat too eager to satisfy my
curiosity, I seized it, felt it very sensibly, but it
went out like air in my grasp. I knew of no
analogy in connection with the sense of touch by
which I could make the nature of that feeling intel-
ligible. It was as palpable as any soft substance,
velvet, or pulp ; and at the touch it seemed as
solid; but pressure reduced it to air. It wns now
suggested that one of the party should hold the
hand-bell under the table ; which was no sooner
done than it was taken away, and after being rung
at different points was finally returned, still grader
the ta!,le, into the band of another peTgon. While
this was going forward the Nytita sheets were seen
moving, and gradtially disappeared over the edge
of the table, Long afterwards we heard them creas-
ing and crumpling on the floor, and saw them re-
turned again to the table ; but there was I-4a writing
upon them. In the same way the towers which
lay near the edge were removed. The semblance
of what upped a hand, with white, long, and deli-
cate fingers, rase up slowly in the darkness, and
bending over a flower, suddenly vanished with it.
This occurred two or three times; and although
each appearance was not equally palpable to every
person, there was no person who did not see some
of them. The flowers were distributed in the man-
ner in which they had been removed ; a hand, of
which the lambent gleam was visible, slowly as-
cending from beneath the cover, and placing the
flower in the hand for which it was intended. In
the flower-stands in the adjoining window we could
hear geranium blossoms snapped off, which were
afterwards thrown to different persons. Still more
extraordinary was that which followed, or rather
which took plane while we were watching this trans-
fer of the flowers. Those who had keen eyes, and
who were in the best position for catching the light
upon the instrument, declared that they saw the
accordion in motion. I could not. It was as black
as pitch to me. But concentrating my attention on
the spot where I supposed it to be, I soon perceived a
dark mass rise awkwardly above the edge of the
table, and then go down, the instrument emitting a
single sound produced by its being struck against
the table as it went over. It descended to the floor
in silence ; and a quarter of an hour afterwards
when we were engaged in obatrving some fresh
phenomena, we heard the accordion beginning to
play where it lay on the ground. Apart from the
wonderful consideration of its being played without
hands—no less wonderful was the fact of its being
played in a nastily space which would not admit-
of its being drawn out with the requisite freedom
to its full extent. We listened with suspended
breath. The air was wild, and full of strange tran-
sitions ; with a wail of most pathetic sweetness
running through it_ The execution was no less
remarkable for its delicacy than its power. When
the notes swelled in some of the bold passages, the
sound rolled through the room with an astounding
reverberation ; then, gently subsiding, sank into
a strain of divine tendernesa. But it was the close
that touched the hearts, and drew the tears of the
listeners.—Cornhill _Magazine for August.

M. Revoltella, the banker at Trieste, who was
implicated in the military frauds committed on the Austrian
Government, has been set at liberty, as the bankers Mon-
dolfo and Brambilla had been before him. The only per-
sons now undergoing preventive imprisonment for this
affair are MM. Richter, Perugia, Liehman, and Prusser.
AT DRILL—When the command has been re-
ceived upon the tympanum, act upon it at once, without
pausing to reflect. You will see many intelligent men
bring upon themselves the wrath of their sergeant, simply
because, in analysing and pondering on his instructions,
they have missed the right time for action, and are half a
minute or so behind the rest of their company. For in-
stance, the command is given—" At the word ' Fours' the
rear-rank will step smartly off with the left foot, taking a
pace to the rear—Fours !" Or, in the sergeant's language,
" Squad 'shun? at th' wud Foe the rer-rank will steps-
ma't lyoff-wi' th' leffut tekkinapesstoth'rare—Fo-o-o-res 1"
the last word being uttered in a prolonged and discordant
bellow. A reflective gentleman in the rear rank first trans-
lates this dialect into the ordinary language of civilised
life, and then proceeds to ponder on its meaning ; and when
he has discovered it, he probably finds himself deserted by
his comrades, who have taken up a position a pace behind
him, and an object of disgust to the sergeant, who, looking
at him more in pity than in anger, says, in a horse-whisper,
" Now, Number Three—what, wrong agin !"—All the
Year Round.

MR. AND MRS. GERMAN REED AND TUE LATE
Ma. ROBERT B. Buoucar.—The public will be pleased to
learn that Mr. and Mrs. German Reed have kindly agreed
to devote the whole of the proceeds of their performance to-
morrow evening to the fund for the benefit of the wife and
family of the late Me. R. B. Brough. We cannot doubt
that the house will be filled to overflowing.
LOUD CLYDE AND THE CITY FREEDOM.—The
sword and freedom of tho oity, owing to the numerous en-
gagements of the gallant General, cannot be presented to
him before the autumn.

MOVEMENTS OF GARIBALDI.—We have no news,
says a letter from Paris, to depend upcn as to the where-
abouts of Garibaldi. It is surmised that he has already
landed on the mainland, and no one would be surprised to
learn from one moment to another that he had reached
Naples without striking a blow, and that oven the Royalist
army had fraternised with his volunteers.
THE FRENCH EXPEDITION TO SYRIA.—At
Toulon the quays are overcrowded with cannon and war
materiel of every description. Two large transports have
been despatched to Algiers for troops, to form part of the
French expedition to Syria. The squadron of reserve which
is now being prepared for sea is composed of five ships'of
the line and two frigates, commanded by Admiral Fourri-
chow. The screw ship of the line Alexandre, of 90 guns
and 900 men, is in the roads of Toulon, ready to get up her
steam. The Ville de Paris, three decker, is in dock at
Toulon, taking in her guns and stores.
THE ISTHMUS CANAL.—We have seen letters by
the English steamer Valetta, arrived on Sunday last from
Alexandria, stating that the Viceroy is fiirious at some re-
monstrances made to him by the British Consul-General
regarding the Isthmus canal. The remonstrances are still
going on. Rumours were prevalent that the Pacha was
again showing a desire for independence, and that the
French were encouraging him in this course. It was re-
ported that a high Turkish official was on his way to Egypt
from Constantinople to insist on the works of the canal
being discontinued.—Malta Tinzes.
CRICKET.—M.C.C. AND GROUND Y. SUBURBAN
Cmats.—This match was played 3, asterdayat Lord's. 4 The
following is the scare :—M.C.C., Ist innings, 71; 2d in-
nings, 69; Suburban Club, Ist innings; 29; 2d innings,
106. _ _ _

Mr. J. Gurdon Rebow, who recently provided the
Colchester corps with the free use of a rifle Tango in Wiven-
hoe-park, has offered a silver cup, which is to be shot for
in the first week in September.
STRAND THEATRE.—Last evening a smart draw-
ing-room comedietta, in one act, entitled " Observation and
Flirtation," fr m the pen of Mr. Horace Wigan, was pro-
duced at this theatre with complete success.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gitid at Paris
is about per mills pm., and the short exchaVW on London
is 25.121 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the
English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is rather more than 2-10ths per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short
exchange on London is 13.41 per sterling. Standard gold
at the English Mint price is therefore nearly 1-10th per
cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 00 days' sight
is 109 k to 110 per cent., which, when compared with the
Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex-
change is in favour of England ; but, after making allow-
ance for charges of transport and difference of interest,
the resent rate leaves a small profit on the importation of
gold from the United States.

Betting.-2 to 1 agst Horror-5 to 2 agst Starke-7 to 2
agst Butterfly_. to 1 agst Sweetsauce.
Butterfly was first off, but on passing the Stand Zouave
took up the running, with Gustave, Optimist, and High-
wayman next, Sweetsauce and Starke being the last two.
On approaching the turn out of the straight, Starke went
through his horses and forced the pace, because his stable
ecll2lVanion, Optimist, was incapable of accomplishing the
task, and the second and third were Gustave and Sweet-
sauce. They had scarcely travelled 100 yards, however,
when Zowive bore hay colours in the van, and soon put an
interval of a doe,en lengths between himself and his pun.
sutra, Gustave going on second, Starke, Highwayman,
Horror, and Optimist lying up at his heels, and Butterfly
dropping into the extreme rear. As they neared the clump
Gustave separated himself from the ruck by an interval of
about a coup:toe/lengths, and Zouave's lead began to dimi-
nis,l4, Horror was however at the side of Gustave on round-
ing the turn, but did sot keep that position long, dropping
behind Starke, who soon passed Gustave, headed Zouave,
and in a few strides took up the running, attended by
Zouave and Gustave, the others, with the exception of
lintterily and Optimist, who were in the rear, going on side
by side. Horror was in difficulties on descending the hill,
and Sweetsauce went up to Starke, who was beaten at the
distance, Gustave becoming second. The race from that
point was over, for Sweetsauce cantered away from his op-
ponents without an effort, and won by ten lengths. Gus..
taVe finished two lengths in advance of Zouave, at whose
girths finished Starke. Butterfly was fifth, and Highway-
man, Horror, and Optimist did not pass the post.
The. Ninth Bentinck Memorial Stakes of 10 soya each, for
foals of 18.57 ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b. Gratwicke

Stake Course. 31 subs.
Mr. Merry's Northern Light, Bst 71b (Custance) 1
Lord Derby's Emily, Bst 31b.. ..... (A. Edwards) 2
Betting--5 to lon Norttisrn Light, who made all the
running, and won by thaw lengths.
The Findon Stake. of 10 rio-vs each, for 2-yr-olds ; colts,
Bst 71b ; fillies, Sst 41b ; extra weight for winners. T.Y.C.

57 subs.
Mr. Merry's Dundee, Bst 12Ib (in. slb ex.) (Custance) 1
Mr. Fleming's Nemesis, Bst 41b .. (G. Fordham) 2
Baron Rothschild's Giraffe filly, Bst 41b .... (Charlton) 3
The following also ran : —Dilbar colt, Parasite, Knight
of St, Patrick, Damascus, Brown Duchess, Neighbour, and
Heliopolis.
Won by four lengths; a neck between the second and third.
The Eighth Bentinck Memorial Stakes for foals of 1856;
colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b. Queen's Plate Course. 32

subs.
Lord Strathmore's Mouravieff, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 1
Mrs. Osbaldestone's St. Clarence, Bst 71b „ (Charlton) 2
Lord Strathmore's May Morning, Bst 211) (J. Covey) 0

Betting-100 to 15 on Mouravieff, who won in a canter.
May Morning was beaten off, and did not pass the post.
Sweepstakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for three.yr-old colts,
Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b. One mile and a half. 4 subs.
Lord Stamford's Provision Walked over.

THE COWDRAY STAKES, WEDNESDAY.—Bayard did not
go to the post for this race. He was saddled and mounted,
but on his way to the post he threw his rider, and got loose.

RACING FIXTU
AUG

Brighton
Brighton Club . 3
Wolverhampton
Reading
Radcliffe l3
Egham l4

SEP TB

JRES FOR 1860.
R,TST.

Oxford l6
Plymouth 21
York 22
ILichfield 27
Stockton
Darby 29
IMBER.

Warwick
Doncaster 11
Chesterfield l7
Leisester l9

OCTi

Monmouth 2O
Manchester Autumn 21
Newmarket F.O. 25

IBER.

Bedford 3
Newmarket S 0.... 8
NOVE
Hereford
Liverpool Autumn 7
IRELAND.
AUGUST.

Newmarket H 22
Worcester Autumn 30

:MBER.
I Shrewsbury Autumn .. .. 13

Heath of Maryboro' .... 7 I Roscommon 2
Galway 14