The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

T HAINIES.

ROBBERY AT SEA.—William Lynch, a seaman, was
brought before Mr. Benson, charged with stealing a watch
valued at £5, the property of James Passmore, on board
the ship Tynedale, on the high seas.
The prosecutcr stated that he b..dongod to Windsor,
is Berkshire, and iViiS at present lodging at the Wind-
mill public-house, in Shadwoll. Ile joined the T ynedalo
at New York, on the 221 of last month, and when he
came on board ho throw off his shore clothes, including his
waistcoat, in the pocket of which was a heavy silver hunt-
ing watch with t gold face to-it. Ile put his shorn clothes
into his bunk iu the forecastle, and nine hours afterwards
missed his watch. The prisoner was a shipmate and slept
in the same forecastle. A man, who had since gone to sea,
saw the prisoner take the watch, and another man now
present saw it in the prisoner's possession in London.
Last night, in consequence of information, ho spoke to the
prisoner about the watch, and ho said ho knew nothing
at all about it. The prisoner afterwards said ho found the
watch in the forecastle, and ho had sold it, but to whom he
did not know. The watch was a family relic, and ho would
not have parted with it for £2O.

William Penderd, ordinary seaman, said he also came
home in the Tynedale. Re saw the prisoner with the
prosecutor's watch in the boarding house in Shadwoll.
Robert Davis, police constable, No. 193 K, took the pri-
soner into custody last night, and he said to the prosecutor
tt if you won't lock me up I will tell where tho watch is and
get it for you." The prisoner afterwards said he had sold
the watch to a Jew for Bs. and did not know where he
lived. . _

as'The prisoner said he found a watch in the forecastle 01
the Tynodale soon after leaving New York, and he did nol
know it belonged to the prosecutor, who never said any-
thing on board about losing a watch.
Mr. Benson committed the prisoner for trial.

An Alpine Escape.

Mr. A. G. Girdlestone, of Magdalen College,
Oxford, in a letter to a contemporary, says :
I send you for publication the following account
of a very remarkable accident which befel Mr. C.
J. Trueman, of Oakwell, and myself yesterday,
because our very singular escape, and, already, the
most absurd reports of it, extending even to our
deaths, are in circulation.

We left the Stein Alp yesterday at 1.30 a.m.,
meaning to come to this place by the Steinlimnir
and the Trift Glacier Jocb —two glacier passes—
without guides.

On reaching the base of the Thalistock Rocks,
which have to be mounted in order to avoid the
upper ice-fall of the Trift Glacier, we found that
our best route was to cross a long bridge of frozen
snow and ice connecting the glacier with the rocks.
We had to cut steps. along it, and while I was
cutting the last, close to the rocks, the whole bridge
suddenly gave way. I was instantaneously thrown
backwards
of the extremity of the
brdger, a
down d t
more than 20ft. through
b
between the rocks and
h
fell
against falling masses
tt eei
air,
and
glacier, by
bumping
ri
into
the
n theadlong,tetastilting
chasml gti
of ice. When all was still I found myself un-
able to move, under blocks of debris, lying
head downwards, while Mr. Truernan lay a little
higher up*in a similar position. After resting a little
I was able to get my knife and free myself from
my havresack, the strap of which was cutting my
chest. I next slipped off the rope which was coiled
y down under
a round
immense
me, but b
block
coatof ie ewbays
thehel de
elbow and the right
pocket. Had the block fallen an inch nearer my
right elbow must have been crushed, and we must
have lain there and died.

Slowly,
out of my coat
and got
sippedthat we were under
the glacier, and but a narrow band of sky was
to and
m by
y f feet. degrees,
I
found
visible. Mr. Trueman was lying in pain, his right
knee and calf under a very heavy 'inn:lovable block.
Recovering my axe, I cut away sufficient ice to free
his leg and allow him to slide down into my former
position ; but here his knapsack jimmed him
against the block of ice, and it was not until I had
unfastened it that he could slide out and get on to
his legs, when we found that, beyond bruises and
abrasions, wo had sustained no serious injury, and
had not lost anything, except a knife, guide-book,
and a portion of my coat, which I had to cut off
and leave in order to carry off the rest. Our first
thoughts and words after ascertaining that we were
both alive were to thank God for so narrow an
escape.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKE7—This Day.

Market opens very quiet ; not quotably lower.
Sales probably 6,000 or ;ON bales.