The Sun.
London, England, 1858-04-10 00:00:00

FOLIC'S INTELLIGENCE.-April 9.

MANSION-HOUSE. —Abraham Carvalho, a
Portuguese, was brought before the Lord Mayor
charged with stealing a packet rf portnnonnaits,
of the value of 256., from the premises of Mr. Jules
A. Halle, general dealer, 10, Cooper's-row, Tower-
hill.

Mr. Hopwood appeared for the prosecution.
The prosecutor said—On Wednesday evening
last I saw the prisoner, who called at the ware-
house and said he wanted to buy goods, for which
the Portuguese Society for the Protection of Jews
would pay. He said that the society had given
him my address, and told him to apply to me for
goods. Ido not think there is such a society in
existence as the one he alluded to. He made a
selection of articles consisting chiefly of portemon-
naies, and was told to call the next day. I n-xt
saw him this morning, when he handed me a letter,
and said, " This is from the Portuguese Society."
The very first words of the letter convinced me it
was a forgery. I told him at once that I did not
believe the letter came from the society, upon which
he snatched it out of my hands, thrust it into his
mouth, and in two bites swallowed it. (A. laugh.)
The purport of the letter was that it was not con-
venient for the bearer to pay that day for the goods
he had selected, but that he would do so next
week. I then gave him into custody.
Thomas Offord, a youth in the employment of
the prosecutor, said—l was at the warehouse yes-
terday when the prisonercalled and asked for the
invoice. I told him that none of the gentlemen
had come yet. He asked me for a glass of water,
which I fetched him, and he drank it. He asked
for a second glass, which I also fetched. After
drinking this he said he was going to get another
breakfast, and would return at 10 o'clock. He then
went away. Previous to his calling I saw lying on
the counter the sample portemonneie produced,
with a parcel containing 11 others.
James Anderson—l am in the employment of
the prosecutor. I first saw the prisoner on Wed-
nesday evening, when he selected a number of goods
amounting to 271. lls. 7d., a list of which I pro-
duce. The portemoanaies stolen are worth 255.
When I went to the premises at nine o'clock yester-
day morring I missed the packet of portemonnaies
which had been shown to the prisoner, and which
I ha'd seen safo when I left. He called again to-
day. I saw him speaking to my master, whe was
reading a letter. He suddenly snatched the letter
out of my master's hands, and chewed it up.
(Laugheer.)
The evidence was interpreted to the prisoner,
who pretended he did not understand the English
language, although it was well known to the wit-
nesses, as well as to many others in court, that he
was perfectly acquainted with it.
The prisoner was remanded.

I3OW-STREET.—No less than five cab-drivers
ware severally charged with being drunk while in
charge of their respective vehicles on Thursday
night.
In con.ideration of the. very trying weather,
'Mr Henry let them off with the nfitiga.ol find of
10s. each.

William Clark, the landlord of the Alma
coffee-shop, in Castle-street, Leicester-squire, ap-
peared to an adjourned summons charging him
with having sold beer, wine, and spirits wi,hout a
license.

The charge rested on the evidence of two excise
expectants, named Frank Sissons and Alexander
Geo. Smith, who stated 'that on the 2tith day of
January they went to the defendant's house, and,
after partaking of some kidneys and coffee, or-
dered a bottle of pale ale, which was supplied
from a cupboard behind the bar counLr. On the
30th January they went again, and hid kidneys
and coffee as before.. Sissous then had a glass of
gin and water, and Sinith a glass of sherry and
water, which the waiter served from the same cup-
board, and after that they hid another glass each,
with which defendant served thorn. Smith paid
for all the refreshments.
The witnesses were cross-examined at some
lengeh by defendant's counsel, Mr. Pearce, who
elicited from Sissous a reluctant admission that he
had been at the Alma twice since he had hid the
information, and that on one occasion he accepted
an invitation to dinner.
Mr. Henry—Did you think that consistent with
your duty ?
Witness—l did not think it was any harm. I
never meant to keep the appointment, and I did
not dine with him though I said I wont].
A number of witnesses were then called for the
defence. Edward Kuill, the waiter, said on the
25th he went to the neighbouring public house, the
Round Table, to fetch the bottle of ale ordered by
the witnesses, who paid him ls. beforehand ; and
that on the 30th he also fetched from the Punch-
bowl the first grog. and negus. Another waiter
named Shepherd said that on the litter occasion he
fetched from the Punchbowl the second grog and
nexus order,d. of Mr. Clark. Mr. Jones, an en-
graver, at Kennington, deposed that on the 2541
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the 3ith ; and Mr. Auguntus Lindsay, an ivory
turner, deposed that he was at the Punchle >wl
when Shepherd purchased the second grog and
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lowed Shepherd, and sewthe refreshments handed
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negus, and as he was going to the Alma he
to Sissons and Smith.
Upon this evidence the case had been adjourned
in order that inquiry might be made as to the cha-
racter of the several witnesses for the defence, and
a'so that Mr. Henry might himself visit the pre-
mises, so as to be able to form an opinion whether
persons sitting in the position described by the
CI own witnesses could see the cupboard from which
they alleged that the liquors were taktn.
Mr. Pearce now said that he had seen Mr.
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evidence to offer touching the character of the
witnesses.

Mr. Henry—Then I am bound to assume that
they ars respectable. The witness Pavey, for in-
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and that of Jones be true, the charge is an=wered.
I am pl teed in the position of a jury, and if I have
any doubt I cannot convict. The evidence of the
expectant is open to very considerable comment.
He was highly censurable in going to see defendant
and agreeing to dine For what object
did he do that ? I can draw but one conclusi.
that he was laying a sort of trap for some offer to
he made to him. I should have considerable diffi-
culty in convicting on the testimony of such a
wines). Then with regard t.) the evidence as to
the gin and sherry being brought from the cup-
board, Y haveheen to view the' place, and am satis-
fied that they could not see either cupboard if they
were siting at the second table. If they sat at the
table nearest the do Jr thoy miAit. sea .he one cup-
board, but whoever went there would have his back
t ) them so that they could not see whit he took
from the cupboard. The witnesses for the defence
say that the waiters went out to buy the articLs at
the pub'ichouse, and on the whole I am disposed
to think that is the truth. At all events [ have
too much doubt to convict, and I shall therefore
dismiss the summons. At the same time I must
roi eat the opinion I have already intimated, of the
extreme impropriety of the expectant visiting the
defendant in the manner lie states.
The summons was thsn dismissed.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Mary Arm Ryan, a
oomtly young Irishwoman in an advanced
of pregnancy and with a sickly-looking infant
in her• area, app'ied for relief from the poor-box.
Tao applicant stated that she was the widow

of a soldier who had formerly served for nine years
in the 4th Light Dragoons, with which he had
bean engaged through the whole of the Crimean
campaign, and had taken part in the ineraorab'e
charge of Balaclava, from which he escaped without
a wound. Having been subsequently seized with.
a severe pulmonary complaint, resulting from his
arduous duties and trying privations, he was dis-
charged from the service and invalided home with-
out the slightest provision, as he had not been
sufficiently long in the army to entitle him to a
pension. Soon after his return to England he
partially recovered his health, although ho still
suffered from the insiduous disease he had con-
tracted during the war, and having no means of sub-
sistence for himself and family, heagaiu offered him-
self for military duty, and (wording to the sta' ement
of the applicant) the usual medical inspection was
so carelessly performed that he was passed as a
sound man, and was ordered to join the 3.1 Buffs,
which was stationed at Shorncliffe. Tne applicant
was not allowed to accompany him to his quarters,
but he had only been a short time there when she
accidentally ascertained that he was lying danger-
ously ill in the hospital. She instantly hastened
down to Stiorncliffe, when she found her husband
in a dying state, and she was allowed to remain with
him until a few days after her arrival, when he died
in her arms. Her forlorn condition excited much
commiseration amongst the officers of the regiment,
who afforded her some temporary assistance, and
having been advised to apply for some permanent
relief from the Patriotic Fund, she had since done
so, but her application was rejected in the absence
of the necessary conclusive proof that the disease
which proved fatal to her husband had re:ulted
from his service in the Crimea, although such was
undoubtedly the fact. She was now without the
slightest means of support for her sick and starving
family.
Mr. Hammill expressed his commiseration for
the distressed condition of the poor woman, and
ordered her to be presented with a small sum from
the poor-box fund, which he was sorry to say was
at such a low ebb at present that he was only
enabled to relieve her immediate exigencies.

LAMBETH.—AIice Ann Lambert, a tawdrily-
dressed girl of nineteen years of age, and who has
been twice before in custody and twice committed
to prison for a similar offence, was placed at the
bar before the Hon. G. C. Nor:on, on a charge of
robbing her father, a poor hard-working man, of
seven pounds and a pair of trousers.
The father said he had with much difficulty got
the money together for the purpose of paying the
prisoner's passage to Scotland, and also providing
her with some necessaries, a lady having promised
to take her to that country, and get her out of her
vicious course of life. On Monday morning she
got up at an early hour and carried away his best
trousers, in the poAret of which were the seven
pounds he before mentioned, and he did not see
her again until the evening before, when he found
her in custody at the station house. The constable
then informed him that he had taken her from the
description he had received, and she had then
but a few shillings on her.
Mr. Norton (to the prisoner)—ls it true that you
robbed your father in this cruel manner ?
Prisoner, carelessly—Yes, it's true enough.
Mr. Norton—Then what have you done with the
money ?
Prisoner—l spent it.
Mr. Norton—Where did you spend it ?
Prisoner—l went to Greenwich on Monday
morning and spent five pounds there.
Mr. Norton—How did you spend it ?
Prisoner—ln the clothes I have on.
Cook (tile gaoler)—The clothes she has on are
not wain five shillings.
Mr. Norton—Well, a more cruel robbery than
this has not come under my not'ce for some time,
and I shall remand the prisoner for a week, for the
attend ince of the pawnbroker with whom she has
pawned the trousers of her father.
The prisoner, who treated the matter with the
utmost indifference, was remanded accordingly.

From the London Gazette of Last

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 8.

His Royal Highness the Prince of 'Wales was confirmed
upon Thursday, the Ist inst., at Windsor Castle, in th 3
private chapel, by his Grace the Archbishop of. Canterbury,
and in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort, and the rest of the Royal
family.
At the Court at Windsor. the 6th day of April, 1858,
present, the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council.
This day the Right Hon. Richard John, Earl of Donough-
more, and the Right Hon. John Robert Mowbray, were,
by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's most
Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places
at the Board accordingly.

Her Majesty having-I;een pleased to appoint the Right
Hen. William Philip, Earl of Sefton, to be Lord Lieu-
tenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Lancastnr,
and the Right Hon. Thomas Charles, Lord Sudolay, to be
Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of
Montgomery, they this day took the oaths appointed to be
taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and
supremacy.

Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint
the Lora President of the Council, the Lord Keeper of the
Pgivy Seal, the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, First Lord
Commissioner of her Majesty's Treasury, the Rigt,t Hon.
Henry Edward Stanley (commonly called Lord Stanley),
and the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, two of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ; the Right Hon.
Sir John Somerset Pakington, Bart., First Lord Commis-
sioner of the Admiralty ; the Right Hon. Benjamin
rash,
•Chancellor and Under Treasurer of her Majesty's
Exchequer ; the Right Hon. Joseph Warner Henley, Pre-
sident of the Committee of Council for Trade; the Right
Hon. Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Eatcourt, President
of the Poor-law Board ; anti the Right Hon. Charles
Bowyer A dderley (Vice-President), to be a Committee of
Council to super intend the application of any sums Voted by
Parliament for the purpose of Promoting Public Eiuca-
tion.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint
the Right Hon. Richard John, Earl of Donoughmore, to be
President of the Committee of Council appointed for the
consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign
Plantations, in the absence of the President of the said
Committee for the time being.
WINDSOR CASTLE, APIIIL 7.

This day had audience of her Majesty;
The Count de Persigny, Ambassador from his Majesty
the Emperor of the French, to deliver his letter of recall :
To which audience ha was introduced by the Earl of
Malmesbury, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 8.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Achille
Bitshoff as Consul at Melbourne for the Swiss Con-
federation.