The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

" TOILET RIQUISITES FOR SI% STAMPS.

"Mixture to whiten the hands; ditto, to rarnove
freckles ; ditto, to remove smallpox marks ; ditto, to im-
prove the nails ; ditto, to whiten the teeth ; ditto, to im-
prove the complexion ; ditto, to sweeten the breath ; ditto
for eruptions on the face ; ditto, to dye the hair black or
brown; ditto, to remove superfluous hair; ditto, to pro-
mote the growth of ditto ; ditto, to prevent baldness ;
ditto, for cure of chapped hands ; ditto, to use as a fixture
for the hair ; ditto, to stop decayed teeth.
"Also, for 12 stamps, invaluable remedies for indiges-
tion, heartburn, gout, nervous headache, corns, bunions,
weak ankles, strains, coughs, colds, Sze."

Here is a pile of letters from young ladies who
wish to have the benefit of your advice, and it ap-
pears that for 12 stamps you can remedy nearly all
the ills with which human nature is afflicted. His
lordship read, among several others, the following
advertisement, which caused much laughter :

" COURTSHIP MADE EASY, OR THE WAY TO WIN A

LOVER.

"Madame Andre will send, on receipt of 24 stamps, to
any address, plain directions to enable ladies or gentlemen
to win the affections of as many of the opposite sex as their
hearts may desire. The proposal is simple, but so capti-
vating and enthralling that all may be married irrespective
of appearance, age, or position—young and old, peer and
peeress, as well as the peasant—and it can belimaginecl
with such delicacy that detection is impossible. How to
make love ; the kind of person to render home happy ;
hints on love, or private advice to married ladies and gen-
tlemen. This is decidedly the most fascinating, interest-
ing, and really useful practical work on courtship, matri-
mony, and the duties and bliss of married life, ever issued
from the English press. Every one who contemplates msr-
riage, and wishes for an infallible guide in the selection of
a partner for life, should at once get this great textbook of
connubial felicity.
" Address, Madam Andre, 23, Arthur-street, Blooms-
bury, London, enclosing 21 penny stamps, and full parti-
culars will be sent in course of post.
" Madam Andre continues to advise on love matters, and
effect reconciliations between parties, also on the law of
marriage, divorce, &c. Enclose 24 stamps."
The Lord Mayor observed that another of the
advertisements related to the second-hand watches,
clock 4, guns, pistols, &c., which were wanted by
Banks and Co., export and general agents, 6, Welles-
ley-street, Euston-square, London. His lordship
added, that he should remand the prisoner in order
that he might ascertain whether the carbines had
been obtained from Messrs. Keat and Co. in the
ordinary course of business or not.

WORSHIP-STREET.--John Carter, a well-
dressed young man, was charged before Mr. Ham-
mill with the following frauds upon his employers.
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphreys and
Morgan, attended for the prosecution, and Mr.

Bullard for the defence.
About five months ago the prisoner was engaged
by Messrs. Venables, linendrapers in the White-
chapel-road, as one of their shopmen at a salary of
601. per year, and so continued up to about Thurs-
day week, when a circumstance occurred which
excited a suspicion in the mind of one of the
partners as to the prisoner's honesty, and he deter-
mined to watch him. The course of business was
this : When a customer purchased goods the
shopman made out two bills for the goods and
the value, which the cashier compared together,
and, having stamped one for delivery to the cus-
tomer by the shopman, retained the other himself
as a check or voucher. The day after the first dis-
covery was made a married woman named
Routledge purchased some trifling articles which
came to 2s. 9d., and the prisoner was seen to
be so awkward before handing her her bill that
Mr. Venables stopped her and asked her for it,
and on comparing it with the cashier's voucher,
both written at the same time, it was found that
the voucher was for 9d. only, while the bill was
for the full amount, showing the prisoner must
have added the 2s. in the bill's passage to the
customer, and retained that amount of money.
He accused the prisoner of robbing him, and the
prisoner begged for forgiveness, saying it was his
first offence ; but the witness reminded hint of what
he had seen the previous day, and gave him into
custody. The prosecutor then accompanied the
officer to the prisoner's lodgings, in Jubilee-street,
Mile-end, and there, in a front parlour, they dis-
covered 94i yards of silk, two pairs of curtains, 24
yards of flounces, 9 yards of linen, 47 pairs of
gloves, 21 yards of calico, 101 yards of plaid, a
flannel dress, 3i yards of print, four damask tab!e-
cloths, together with so large a quantity of counter-
panes, d'oyleys, toilet-covers, and almost innumer-
able other articles, some with the prosecutor's
trade-marks and some without, that the whole to-
gether was worth about 1401., and a large quantity
of which, in addition to what he and one cf his
shopmen could positively swear to, Mr. Venables
felt certain was their property also.
As exemplifications of the before explained
system of fraud the following cases, in addition to
that of Mrs. Routledge, were taken :—A gentleman
named Wilson, of Bromley-park, proved being
served with goods by the prisoner to the amount of
8/. Is. 6d., on the 18th of February, paying him iu
a 5i.-note and gold and silver, and the amount
entered on the voucher was only 61. 19s. 7 d. ; a
Mrs. Lucretia Drew bought goods on the 16th of
January to the amount of 1/. 6s. 51d., and the
amount on the voucher was only 19s. 6d. ; a Mrs.
Cummings bought goods in February to the value
' of 9s. 9d., and the amount on the cashier's voucher

was only ls. 9d. ; a Mrs. Ascham in December
bought goods to the amount of 14s. 9d., and the
sum on the voucher was only 4s. 9d ; and a Mr.
Augustus Teal in February bought goods to the
value of 4s. ld., while the amount entered on the
duplicate voucher was only Is. ld. The cashier
deposed to the entries in all these bills, including
the fraudulent alterations, being in the prisoner's
handwriting, and Mr. Morgan stated that he con-
sidered these cases amply sufficient for the ends of
justice, though he had a variety of others of a
similar kind against the prisoner, if it were ex-
pedient to produce them.
Mr. Barnard reserved the defence, merely asking
for the restoration of a watch and other property
not identified by the prosecutor, as his client was
entirely without the means of defence, and, this
being acceded to, the prisoner was committed for
trial.
SOUTHWARK.—WiIIiam Wright, a hawker of
tinwares, was summoned by the South-Eastern
Company, under their bye-laws, for unlawfully
getting out of a train while in motion at the Lon-
don-bridge terminus.
The defendant, a very poor man, who had broken
one of his ribs by the call, pleaded not guilty.
MatthowDickenson, the head porterat the North
Kent Railway terminus, London-bridge, said that
on the arrival of the t rain from Vloo wieli on the
evening of the 19th January, at 29 minutes past 5,
he saw the defendant jump off a third cla s carriage
while the train was in motion. He had a box under
one arm, and owing to the velocity of the train he
fell on the plat:tee.: and el?!,:d out that he was hurt.
Witness' ::,cnt: one of the railway sfir-
van.ts, and had him convcsel to St. Thomas's Hos
p'tal, when it was ascertained that he had broken
one of his ribs, and otherwise injured himself.
Mr. Be:eh:ern asked whether the doors h cl b en
opened by any of the company's se:vants prior to
the defendant getting out of the carriee,e. Witness
replied that th'737 hod not ; in fact, tae train had
not properly arrived at the terminus.
Mr. Robinson, the law clerk of the company,
here said that the present proceedings were nut
taken with a view of punishing the d fondant.
Unfortunately, by his own tf,merity, he had severely
injured himself, and he might feel the consequence
all his life. The railsv. ccaepany only wished it,
to be publicly known, s) ae to act as a caution to
other travellers by rail.
Mr. Burcham fined him 55., but at the request
of Mr. Robinson it was eof, enforced.
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