The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-15 00:00:00

STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPING AT ET. PETERSBURG
Tallow despathed from Cronstadt 1860. 1859. 1858.
to Sept. 19, 0. S. (estimated at 25 Casks. Casks. Casks
poods to the cask) 9BAB 57,400 5'1,245
In ships loading and lighters 12,782 4,413 15,943

Total loaded off from St. Petersburg,
Sept. 21, O. S
Do. after this date

Total at the close of the navigation

61,873 68,738
26,149 43,274

88,022 112,012

London
Liverpool 4,06.5 313 1,833
Bristol
Other English ports
Ireland B7l 1,227 590
Scotland
Germany 5,017 2,227 4,867
France

Total "1 98,038 67,460 63,245

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(7711S DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
TILE MITRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.

It will be remembered that in July last an order was
made for winding up the affairs of this company. Mr.
Bagley now moved the Court for a fresh order, in conse-
quence of the absence of the directors previously appointed
to represent the company, but from some cause they had
not appeared; the object was now to appoint other directors
as representatives. There was a great number of affidavits
and arzuments entered into, but the case was ultimately
adjourned till to-morrow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS' DAL)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY AND FORGING A BOOKING-OFFICE-
KEEPER'S SIGNATURE.—David Chandler and Henry Sum-
mers, two labouring men, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel of the value of
£l5, the property of a fellow-lodger, named Richard How-
land; and there was a further charge stated against the
prisoner Summers, that of appopriating a parcel entrusted
to him to book at a booking-office, and forging the booking-
office keeper's signature for the receipt of the money.
It appears that the prosecutor, a coachman, lodged with
the prisoners, and left his lodgings, 7, Hunt's-court, on the
morning of the 29th August, early, and leaving the two
prisoners in the room, and on his return in the evening
found four of his boxes broken open, one of them being
completely smashed, and a quantity of wearing apparel of
the value of £l5 stolen.

Mrs. Williams, the landlady of the house, proved that
the prisoners left about 12 the same day, owing her a
week's rent, and never returned, and that Chandler left the
key with her as usual ; also that no one but the prisoners
had gone up to the room till the prosecutor came home.
On Sergeant Appleton examining the boxes he said they
had been broken open with shoemaker's tools, and in the
room were found some belonging to Chandler, and which
he would own.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he did not think that was likely.
Mrs. Williams said she had a charge to prefer against
Summers. She had entrusted him with a parcel to take to
a booking-ofice, giving him 2d. to pay for the booking of
it, and he brought it back with a signature written on an
envelope, which he said was the booking-clerk's signa-
ture, but which she had ascertained at the office was a
forgery. She had a letter from the person whom the parcel
was sent to, stating that the parcel had never been re-
ceived. The parcel contained valuable wearing apparel.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Mrs. Williams said she had
seen the book in the possession of Chandler. She also
wished to state that when Summers brought the receipt it
was blotted a little, which he said had been done by accident.
Summers said the signature was that of the man wko took
the parcel anyhow.

Sergeant Appleton asked for a remand, which was
granted.

PIKE'S PEAK-A TERRIBLE STATE OF

SOCIETY.

The correspondent of the New York. Trbune, at
Pike's Peak, gives a terrible account of the state of
society in that so•calkd El Dorado. He writes on
September 11 :
,‘ The series of wanton murders and mysterious escapes
of the criminals which a few weeks ago excited the com-
munity, have been succeeded by still more startling and
alarming developments. It is discovered that a gigantic
secret organisation of horse thieves, acting under a written
constitution and by-laws, bound together by the most
solemn oaths, employing a complete system of signs, grips,
and pass-words, and extending in its ramifications to the
Missouri River, has been in operation for several months
past. It has succeeded in running off hundreds of
cattle, horses, and mules, committing murder when ne-
cessary to carry out its designs, and shielding its mem-
bers from punishment whenever they have teen
detected. The public have been astounded to learn
that it embraced several prominent citizens of
Denver who bore an unsullied reputation in the commu-
nity. But while these facts have been made known, the
people are still in ignorance of the names of its members,
the details of its operations, and of the means through
which which they were discovered. On the other hand,
a secret Vigilance Committee has been formed to ferret out
the affair, and while the names of its members, the times
and places of its meeting, and the exact evidence upon
which it is acting, are all unknown to the public, it has
brought two of the leading horse thieves to a most sum-
mary and violent death, captured and examined three
more, and sent parties in pursuit of others still, who have
fled from the country. Between these two secret organi-
sations the people at large aro completely bewildered ; the
confidence of man in man seems to be utterly destroyed,
except in cases of long and intimate acquaintance, and the
public, having reached that point at which men are inca-
pable of being surprised, is anxiously awaiting further
developments. The leading events of the past two weeks
have been, briefly, these :—An immense amount of stock
had been previously stolen during the summer, including
103 animals taken from this vicinity in a single night.
At last upwards of 50 valuable horses and mules were
taken at once from a ranche on the Platte, simultaneously
with the wanton murder of two men engaged in making
hay. An attempt was made to conceal the crime by burn-
ing the cabin which contained the bodies of the murdered
men; and several arrow-heads found among the bones
left the impression that the crime had been committed by
the Indians. But the owners of the stock, who followed

the thieves for eighty miles across the desert towards the
Arkansas, and were finally compelled to return unsuccessful
because their horses gave up, ascertained that the fugi-
tives were white men. About the same time, two or I hree

intercepted letters from Gordon, the escaped murderer,
gave a clue to the horse-stealing organisation, and two or
three of its members were immediately secured by the Vigi-
lance Committee. One of them, a heavy property-holder
near town, was kept a prisoner five or six days, while the
public were altogether in ignorance of his whereabouts. At
the end of that time he again made his appearance, assert-

ing that he had been absent on a business trip to the moun-
tain ; but he was peculiarly haggard and worn, and seemed
to have grown five years older in the terrible ordeal to
which he had been subjected. It was generally understood
that he had made a detailed confession in writing, which
was :corroborated in every particular by two of his confede-
rates, who were examined separately from him ; and that
the committee have refrained from giving these confes-
sions to the public until he has had sufficient time to
settle up his business and escape from the country.
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River had just left Denver with five passengers. About
three miles out, and almost in sight of Denver, it was
stopped, at 10 o'clock in the morning, by eight men armed
with double barrelled guns. They did not say a single
word, except to order Mr. Ford to get out and accom-
pany them, and then to direct the driver to go on, both of
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alleged confederates, taken as a prisoner in irons. But as
no man has ever yet been convicted of murder upon a legal
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