The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-15 00:00:00

WESMINST ER.

CITY AILAIIS.—Threo boys named Warren, Hickman,
and Scott, aged 11, 10, and 11, were charged with stealing
a bottle of spice.
George Fenham, traveller to Mr. Richard Twaite, said
that he was delivering goods for his master at the Guards'
Institute, near Francis-street, Westminster, last evening,
when he suddenly missed a bottle of spice from his cart.
Prisoners were described as the persons who had stolen it,
and were subsequently captured.
Another witness proved seeing the prisoners near the
cart, and subsequently captured Warren.
Walter Barrell, a detective, proved that the prisoners
were chased to some arches in a street about to be formed
at Pimlico. They were then seated round a fire which
they had kindled, and near which was found a bushel of
coke. On the approach of the police they scampered off,
but Warren was overtaken. He denied the charge and
accused Hickman, who in his turn said it was Scott, and
they were taken. There were marks of spice about the
clothes of one of them.
Mr. Arnold—lt's a pity these arches are not closed.
Constablo—There is a high hoarding up, but those boys
get in and out of a small hole they have made. They set
us at defiance, for the hole is so small we cannot got
through it. They keep this fire going, and they have
seats round it.
Mr. Arnold—Whore do they got the fuel from?
Constable—Steal it, I suppose.

Mr. Arnold told the mothers of the boys that they
wore on the read to ruin, and said he should require their
fathers' sureties for their good behaviour.

THAMES.

SMUGGLING.—Joseph Ransom, aged 45 years, shipwright,
of No. 5, Adelaide-road, was brought before Mr. Benson,
charged with smuggling 115 lbs. of manufactured tobacco,
by which ho had incurred a penalty of £lOO.
Mr. Graham, from the Customs Solicitor's office, pro •
secuted on the part of the Crown ; Mr. Gomm defended
the prisoner.

On the night of Sunday, 17th of last month, a police-
constable, named Robert Newstead, saw a horse and cab
pull up in a lane leading to the river in the Manchester-
road, Isle of Dogs, Poplar, and suspecting something
wrong he concealed himself, and soon afterwards throe
men, of whom the prisoner was one, came from the direc-
tion of the river. They each carried a bag containing
something bulky, which were put into the cab, and it was
driven away. The police-constable stopped the cab, and
the prisoner threw ono of the bags and its contents into a
garden, and it was recovered by Newstead. Another bag
was found in the cab. It contained 751bs. of tobacco ; the
other held 581bs. of tobacco. Two of the men escaped
One of them was captured, and on the following day, and
in default of paying £lOO, was sentenced to four months
imprisonment in the House of Correction. The police-
constable arrested the prisoner last night, and said he was
one of the men engaged in the smuggling transaction.
Henry Nunnery, a cab driver, said he was engaged by
a man on the night in question, who said ho was to take
up three men in the Manchester-road with their bags of
clothes, and convey them from Manchester-road to North-
street, Poplar, and there leave them. The prisoner was
one of the three men, and he threw one of the bags
over a garden-wall when the policeman stopped the cab.
Mr. Graham asked for a remand, and said he intended
to apply for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the body
of Jameson, now in the House of Correction, to give evi-
dence against the prisoner.
Remanded until Saturday.

Colonel A. A'Court Fisher, C. 8., R.E., Instruc-
tor in Surveying at the School of Military Engi-
neering at Chatham, has been presented with a
handsome silver centrepiece by the officers of the
garrison, in recognition of his services in obtaining
for the military at Chatham the great boon of a
recreation-ground.