The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market dearer, with very little offering. Sales
probably about 20,000 bales.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY, &C., BY A VALET.—Hermann
Abbott, a valet, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
stealing some jewellery and wearing apparel, of the value
of about £6O, the property of Mr. Prowse, a gentleman, re-
siding at No. 14, Arlington-street.
The evidence showed that the prisoner entered the ser-
vice of Mr. Prowse,in August, at that time residing at N 0.44,
Duke-street, St. James's. The prisonerhad not been in Mr.
Prowse's service more than a few days when he asked Mr.
Prowse if he had seen a valuable pin, as he had missed it
from a jewel-case. Mr. Prowse said he had not, and the
prisoner then said that the previous valet must have
taken it. Nothing was heard of the pin, and the
prisoner then told Mr. Prowse that ho had been
to Messrs. Attenborough's, the pawnbrokers, in Picca-
dilly, and gave notice of the loss of the pin, and that if
Mr. Attenborough heard anything of the pin he would let
him know. Subsequently the prisoner left Mr. Prowse's
service in consequence of there being disturbances in the
house between him and the other servants in consequence
of other property being missed. Mr. Prowse afterwards
went to Attenborough's with Police-constable Butcher,
137 C, and found some of his property had been pledged
there, and from inquiries Butcher made ho found that the
prisoner had got a person to pledge some of the property
for him. Butcher then proceeded to Tiverton Junction
and took the prisoner into custody, when he found some
duplicates upon the prisoner relating io the articles
belonging to Mr. Prowse. A witness stated that the
prisoner had given him some of the property to pledge,
telling him that ho pledged the property because his master
had not paid him his wages.
Mr. Prowse said the assertion of the prisoner was an
entire falsehood, as he could prove by a book showing
that the prisoner had received his wages.
Butcher said, that through a false accusation made by the
prisoner a servant had been discharged from the house.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a very bad case, the prisoner
having commenced robbing his master as soon as ho
entered his service.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr. Tyrwhitt corn
mitted him for six months, with hard labour.

THAMES.
A NOTORIOUS THIEF CLEVERLY DETECTED.—TIIOIIIIIB
Parker, alias Parkins, a young man, who was described as
a labourer, of N 0.3, Westover-street, Stepney, was brought
before Mr. Partridge charged with being concerned, with
two others not in custody, in stealing a table cover and
three books, value 155., the property of George Stephen
Bond, and also with stealing two plush sheets, value 18s.,
the property of Mrs. Susan Upson, of No. 6, Catherine-
street, Limehouse-fields.
On Sunday evening last the house of Mr. Bond, No. 85,
tGrafton-street, Globe-fields, Stepney, was entered, and a
able cover, three books, a glass, and other articles stolen
frg trom the front parlour. An entrance was effected by open-
he parlour window. One of the inmates of the
house went into the parlour to close the shutters. The win-
dow was then open, and the property was missed.
Immediate information was given to the police. About
the time the robbery was discovered a police-constable,
No.
treet
70
-s IC, saw the prisoner in Carlton-square, near
Grafton, in company with two boys--one of the
Mac
boys was carrying something bulky under his arm.
kay suspected they had been been committing a rob-
bery and pursued them, when a boy dropped from under
his arm a table cover and three books, which were now
identified by Eleanor Bond, a single woman, dwelling at
No. 85, Grafton-street. The house of Mrs. Upson was
entered by the front parlour window on Monday night, and
two plush shirts taken away. Last night police-sergeant
Briden went to No. 10, Edward-street, Limehouse, for the
purpose of suppressing a disturbance there, and the door
was opened by a woman, who was immediately recognised
by Briden. He knew that she had cohabited with the pri-
soner for some time. Briden also knew that the prisoner
was " wanting" for the robbery in Grafton-street. Briden
immediately said, " What, are you here ? Where's Tom ?'
The woman at once said, " Tom is not here." Briden said,
"I am sure he is here," and went to the door of a back
room, which was locked. Briden forced open the door,
and saw the prisoner in the room. Briden collared him
and said, "I want you, Tom, for two or three robberies. I
must see what you have here." Briden then
searched the room, in which he found one of the
plush shirts stolen from Mrs. Upson's dwelling,
and a quantity of other property, including a black and
white plaid shawl, a black frock coat nearly new, a little
boy's grey suit, a child's black silk jacket, a light mohair
dress, a flannel petticoat, a pair of lady's drawers, a child's
pinafore, two ladies bodices, and four pawnbrokers' dupli-
cates relating to wearing apparel. Sergeant Briden begged
of the magistrate to remand the prisoner, and said he ex-
pected to find owners for all the property. The prisoner
was a most notorious thief and burglar, and had boon in
custody several times.
Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner until Saturday
next.

STREET SINGING AT NIGHT. The Paris Court of
Caseation has just decided on an appeal that singing in the
streets by night does not constitute the offence of nocturnal
disturbance punished by Art. 479 of the Penal Code, unless
aggravated by circumstances which change the character of
the act and causes it to become a nuisance to the inhabi-
tants. The proceedings which gave rise to that decision
were a charge brought against four young men marching
n company and singing a piece from the " Dame Blanche"
at a quarter to ten at night.
HEAVY SNOWSTORM.—During the night and thi
morning one of the heaviest snowstorms occurred in the
metropolis which has been known since 1855. The
snow
the
began to fall about one o'clock, and when morning
daned
from six to eight inches had fallen. At nine o'clock itwhad
become so deep that carriage traffic was almost Wholly
suspended, and it was with the utmost difficulty that foot
passengers could wend their way to their respectivete placeswind,
of business. In consequence of the severityof the
which drove vast snow drifts into the railway cuttings,
almost all the lines were blocked up.

11tHIPEUENCE 511 A RIM
Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock. 81
Great Western, Orig. 46 per cent., 8.6
Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock,
Ditto, Bristol and Birtn., 6 per cent.,
Ditto, 45 per cent. st. rd., 91_
LINI4IB LtASEU ILT FIXED RENTALS.
Chester and Holyhead, - -
Ditto, 5 per cent.. 112

FOREJON RAILWAY/5.
Great Luxembourg. 12i
San Paulo, litre., gua. 6 per cent., 13}

10SIGN MIDI US.
Panulcillo Copper. Ilin., 21
St. John del trey, Um., 51

BANK:L.
Bank of Victoria, Australia, 38} 1
East London, Him, Si 3
Imperial ottoman, lina_. Si
Oriental Banx Corporation, 42

DOCKS.
London and St. Katharine, CS 71

MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 16,
Anglo-Mexican Mint, 15k
'Atlantic Telegraph,
Dit o, 8 per cent., 75
City Discount, lim, 2k
City of Moscow Gas, lira., 17,
Credit Voneler 01 Engiauti. lim . I}
Crystal Palace, 101
E..glish and Australian Copper f
Gen. Credit and Finance ox Louu 3n, lim., 4*
Hudson's Bay, It f
Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, lim., 21
International Financial :_-ociety,
Land Securities, I:m., 2f
London iientraiOmnious Company, lim, 3/ 3
Nntional Discount t.ompany,
reniusula and Orenial Stearn, 05

THE LATE SIR W. ARKER.—It is remarkable
that Sir William Parker, thi last of Nelson's captains,
should have commanded the last fleet of sailing line-of-
battle ships that England will ever possess. In 1848 Sir
William Parker might have seen the Blenheim, a ship but
a very little better specimen of a man-of-war than that
Orion in which he first wont to sea, steaming about Spit-
head at the then astounding rate of five miles per hour !
The world was moving, my masters! for by 1854, when
the admiral's flag was flying at Plymouth, vessels like the
Agamemnon and the Prince Albert, twice the size and
four times the armament of Nelson's Victory, were dash-
ing about the high seas at ten knots per hour without wind
or sail. Sir "William, doubtless, must have felt astonish-
ment at the revolution that was taking place in his much-
loved profession ; but he was in no wise an obstructionist,
and was not the man to be guilty of the act of an old
Scotch contemporary of his, who in the Baltic was so
astonished at the first screw gunboat's proceedings as to
request her commander to take his " wriggling thing out of
his sight as quick as possible, Sir."—Blathwood's divazino.