The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

THE SMOKE NI,IiANCE ACT.—Mr. John Guyat, the
secretary of the Gas Products Utilising Company, Bow
Common-lane, appeared before Mr. Partridge, for the
second time, to answer, two informations exhibited by
Inspector Konuesy, of the -K -11Msion, by melt,- of lir_
Walpole, late Home Secretary. To the first, which charged
the defendant with being convicted and fined £5 under the
Smoke Insurance Act, in 1865, the defendant pleaded
guilty. The second information charged the secretary of
the company with having a furnace so constructed as not
burn or consume its own smoke.

Mr.Sandison, the engineer employed by the Government
to carry out the provisions of the act, said there was one
furnace on the company's premises very much of repair,
and 13 other furnaces without any apparatus being applied
to them for the consumption of smoke. There would be
no difficulty whatever in constructing and applying a
smoke-consuming apparatus to each furnace.

John Rosengran, police-constable No. 683 A, said he had
watched the defendant's chimney shaft almost daily for
a long time past, and he had frequently seen dense volumes
of black smoke issuing from it, and darkening and blacken-
ing the neighbourhood. the smoke had continued ascend-
ing in large quantities, sometimes for five minutes, and
at other times for 15, 30, 60, and 78 minutes. The in-
hab;tants generally complained of the nuisance.
The Secretary, in defence, said that the company he
represented had been prevented by various causes from
applying smoke-consumers to the furnaces. The com-
pany were anxious to comply with the law, and now all
the materials wore ready, and the necessary work would
be proceeded with at once.

Mr. Partridge said the Gas Products Utilising Company
had been tolerated with great indulgonce, and that for
more than two years the nuisance had been in existence.
The law could not be played with—nothing had been
done. It was no use to have the materials for the proper
apparatusos in the factory if they were not made avail-
able. Tho defendant had been already fined .£5, and he
should now inflict a penalty of £l.O and costs.
The money was paid.
_ _

Joseph Burke, cork manufacturer, of Wapping, was
charged with a similar °Mince. .Fined £5, which ho paid.

MARKETS.—This day.

COVENT GARDEN.
Thero is nu increased supply of fruit and vegetables at
this market, yet the demand is steady at our quotations.
TRUTT—Pine apples, Os to Os; grapes, 5s Od to 108 Od
per lb; apples, 4s Od to 88 Od per bushel; oranges, 4s Od
to 98 ; lemons, 7s to Os per 100; strawberries, 6d to is Od
per ounce.

VEGETABLES—Cabbages, is 3d to 2s; cauliflowers, 3s to
Gs per dozen heads; beet, is Od to 2s; celery, 2s 01 to 2a
Gd per dozen heads; horseradish, 4s to Gs per bundle;
turnips, Gd to Od ; carrots, Gd to 8d per bunch ; cucum-
bers, Os tO Os each ; small salad, Od to Od; mushrooms,
Os Od to Os Od per pottle; onions, 4s to 5s Od per bushel;
endive 2s to 3s; lettuces, 2s to 3s per score; parsley, 6d to
Bd, mint 4d to is per bunch ; potatoes, 75s to 180 s per ton.

POULTRY.
_ .
Goslings, Gs 6d to 8s Od; ducklings, 5s to Gs; tame rab-
bits, is Gd to 2s Od; wild do, 11 to is 2d; pigeons, id to
10d each ; Surrey fowls (couple), 11s to 12s ; do. chickens,
p6esrtoloo ; French do., 5s 9d;
8s Od; Guinea fowls, is
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NEWPORT.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
_ _ _

Beefy 3s Gd to 4s lOdo 11,,oarmkt)
............ Gs
2d
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467 s
441
Veal
Mutton
4s Gd to 5s 8d I

WHITECHAPEL.
Per 81b: by the carcase.

.....Beef4s 6d to 5s 8d
Mutton ..... s 2d to 4s 2d
Lamb
6d 4d
tto ° 4s
10°,1

lIIDES AN!) SKINS.

30 to 31d ;80 to 881 3}d to 4d; 88
Market hides, 56 to 641bs, 2FI to 3C '
hs., I• 64 to 721hs, 3d
Horschides, 9s to IN Oct. calf skins
(light), 2s to 48; full, 7s Od ; sheep, —s Od to
ttoo
,361-ilb;s.7‘ 24dto to 804111,
half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; downs, 7s Od to 8s Gd ; lamb,
35 2d to 4s 2d ; shearliugs, is 4d to Os Od.

BREAD.
The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
91-d to 10d. ; of household ditto, 7d. to 9d. per 41bs loaf.

HAY.

SmrritriELD—Meadow hay, £3 Os to .£1 ss; clover,
£1 OA to 10S Oli ; and straw, £2 to £2 Gs per load.
A moderate demand. ,

•
CUMBERLAND— Meadow hay £3 Os to £4 7s 6d; clover,
£4 Os to .£5 106 Od ; and straw, £2 to .£2 66 per load.
A fair supply.
WRNS:CHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 to £4 Sa Od ; clover,
.£1 Os to £5 106 Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 Gs per load.
A slow trade.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET—This Day.

The market opens with a steady tone. Sales
probably 12,000 bales.

The Gladiator, paddle sloop, Capt. Aplin, sailed
from Portsmouth yesterday morning for Portland,
with the Actaeon hospital hulk in tow. It was un-
derstood that the Action, on arrival at Portland,
would receive on board part of the boys on board
the training ship Boscawen, sickness having again
broken out among them. -

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, Guildhall, before Mr. Justice
Mellor and a Common Jury.
WELTZLEIN V. ZACCARIAH.

Mr. H. James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
Kearns, Q.C., and another learned gentleman for
the defendant.

Mr. H. James, in opening the case, said that
this was an action by his client for false imprison-
ment, and he claimed damages. The plaintiff was
a young man, a native of Germany, but who had
Leen in business for some years in this country as a
jeweller. The defendant was in partnership with
his brother in the Edgware-road, and was also a
dealer in jewellery. The plaintiff had different busi-
ness trans ctions with him,and had lent him money,
and it appeared that they were on. intimate and
friendly terms for about two years. In the course
of his business, the plaintiff occasionally met a per-
son named Langton, who stated to him that he was
a commercial traveller, and that he was employed
by a person who dealt in jewellery. Last October
the defendant Informed the plaintiff that Langton
had applied to him for some jewellery, and he asked
his advice as to whether he should let him have it.
The plaintiff stated that his knowledge of Langton
was limited, and advised him to make some inquiries
respecting him before he parted with his goods.
This the defendant did not do, and gave Langton
articles to the amount of between £l5 and £2O, re-
ceiving a cheque purporting to be drawn by the
party by whom he stated he was employed,. but it
proved to be a forgery. The defendant wanted the
plaintiff to pay him Langton's debt, and on his re-
fusing to do so gave him into custody on the 18th
October on a charge of conspiring with Langton to
defraud him. He was taken before the magistrate.
at Marlborough Police-court, and, after being re-
manded three times and detained in custody, he
was diScharged, there being no evidence against
him. • The magistrate would have- taken bail,
but, being a foreigner he could not procure it with-
out applying to his wife's friends, a course which he
did not like to adopt.
The plaintiff was examined at length, and swore
positively that he never recommended the defen-
dant to let Langton have the goods, which the
defendant alleged was the case.

The evidence was not concluded when we went
to press.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The screw steamship Una arrived at Spithead yes-
terday afternoon from Malta, having sailed thence
on the 2d inst., with 40 invalided and eight time •
expired soldiers on board, from regiments serving in
the garrison, accompanied by 10 women and 18
children, the whole under the command of Lieut.
Bouchier, Ist battalion GOth Regiment, and in
medical charge of Dr. Ross, 2d battalion Bth Regi-
ment. Six seamen and marines also came home
from Malta in the ship. Immediately after the
Una's arrival the troops and seamen were disem-
barked from her, and forwarded to the Royal Mili-
tary Hospital at Netley, the regimental depots, and
her Majesty's ship Victory, the Una afterwards re-
suming her voyage for London.
The armoured iron-frigate Warrior, which was to
have been commissioned at Portsmouth yesterday,
has commenced coaling, and, with the assistance of
the Steam Reserve stokers and seamen, it is hoped
she may be completed by Tuesday morning, so that
a preliminary trial of her machinery may be made
off Spithead on the, following day. The ship's decks
are covered with her guns, carriages, and slides,
which are being hurried on board by the aid of the
masting sheers and their steam crabs. The Re-
serve men and labourers are coaling her, and a
crowd of skilled workmen swarm her decks, giving
those " finishing touches," to her fittings which
ought to have been given a month ago. Everything
is in confusion on board.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :--Dr.Whitaker,at3sist.-surg.,
to the Implacable ; Richard 11. Tregenna, acting
second-class assist.-engineer, to the Dryad.

The Great- -City Robberies.

Yesterday, at the Guildhall, Frederick Howe, a
carpet cutter, employed at Messrs. Fasten and
Co.'s, 2, Fell-street, Wood-street, City, was
charged with robbing his employers of a large
quantity of cork carpeting.
Mr. E tsten informed the worthy alderman that he
believed he should be able to prove that the prisoner
was in collusion with the prisoners who were now
under remand for committing very extensive rob-
beries upon his and other large City firms.
_ _

Potts, 135, said front information he received
he went that morning, about 11 o'clock, with Mr.
Easten, to the Dispatch Coffeehouse, Lif tie Knight-
rider-street, Doctors'-commons, and on the first
floor he found a room covered with a cork carpet-
ing. He asked the landlord who put that down, and
he handed him a receipt signed by theprisoner, dated
March 2, for £5 Bs. 4d. Mr. Easten identified the
carpet as his,. and they then went to the warehouse
in Fell-street, where he saw the prisoner. He showed
him the receipt, and asked him if he knew anything
about it, and he said he did. Witness asked him if
it was accounted for, and he said it was accounted
for in the book on the desk. He asked the prisoner
what name it was entered to, and he said to Rogers.
The prisoner looked through the book, but could not
find the name of Rogers. Mr. Easten examined the
book, but could not find the name. Mr Easton then
gave him into custody. The prisoner gave his ad-
dress at No. 1, Queen-square, Eldon street, and in
a room occupied by a man named Pigeon he found
a piece of 12 yards of cork carpet of a different pat-
tern. He also found a small piece of the same sort of
goods of another pattern. At the station house the
prisoner said that portion which covered the room
in Little Knightrider-street was a portion of 36
yards he received from Mr. Driver, and that he
would find a piece more in his room. It was not in
his room, but in Pigeon's room at the top of the
house.

Prisoner said that all he had to say was that he
had bought the stuff and paid for it.
Mr. John Easten, 2, Fell-street, 'Wood-street,
carpet manufacturer, said the prisoner had been in
his employment since the close of last year as a floor-
cloth cutter. Ile worked on the premises. He went
with Potts to the coffeehouse in Little Knightrider-
street, and identified the carpet referred to by the
last witness, and also a border round the fire-place
like the piece produced. They were his property,
and had not been sold to the prisoner. Potts after-
wards showed the prisoner the receipt, and he said
the goods were entered, but the name he could not
recollect. At first he said in the name of Rogers,
and then Driver. He was looking at the book all the
time he was giving those answers. Witness brought
the cash sales from the counting-house, but could not
find the name of Rogers. He found an entry in the
name of Howe, and he said, "That willbe it." Wit-
ness referred to the day-book, and found it was a
Brussels carpet to a Mr. Howe, in the Curtain-road.
He then found an entry in the cash sales to the name
of Driver for 38 yards of Cork carpet. Ile went to
Mr. Driver's and found that his place was covered
with 64 yards of that carpet, and an invoice given
by Howe similar to that given in the other case.
The prisoner said that was the entry; and that it had
been entered by Buckley, one of their warehousemen
now in custody. His firm did nothing except with
the trade. There is no entry of borders to the house
in Knightrider-street. The price of the carpet was
3s. 3d. per yard, and Mr. Driver gave a fair price
for them. He said the prisoner and Wm. Buckley
went together and solicited his custom. Altogether
104 yards had been taken, and 38 paid for.
Arthur Pigeon, tailor, said he lived in the same
house with the prisoner, who lived in a room on the
ground floor. On March 2 the prisoner brought the
roll of cloth to his room. He had made clothes for
the prisoner and received 30s. on account. He had
promised him some pieces to go round the fireplace,
and witness expected a few small pieces ; but on 2d
March he brought the carpet and asked him to let it
go off his bill. He had not named the price it was to
be. It had not been put down in his room.
Potts here applied for a remand, and the prisoner
was accordingly remanded to come up with the other
persons now in custody.