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

THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 2.
The African Company's steamer Calabar, the first
of the bi-monthly line of steamers arrived here this
morning. Her dates are Fernando Po, Nov. 29th ;
Cameroons, 29th ; Old Calabar, 27th ; Brass
River, December 2d ; New Calabar, 2d ; Bonny,
2d ; Benin, 3d; Lagos, sth; Jellah Coffee, Gth ;
Accra, 7th; Cape Coast Castle, Bth; Cape Palmas,
10th ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Bathurst, 19th ; Tene-
riffee, 24th ; and Madeira, 26th. Old Calabar,
Cameroons, Fernando Po, and Bonny were healthy.
Trade was very brisk at all the above ports.
In consequence of a misunderstanding King
Agary at Cape Coast Castle had been arrested and
sent to Sierra Leone. r.[rade was very dull, but the
public health was good. Sickness has entirely dis-
appeared from Bathurst.

The Calabar brings eleven passengers and a fair
cargo.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

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

POLICE INTELLIGESCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY, &C., BY A VALET.—Efermann
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. Prows° 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 he had been
to Messrs. Attenborough's, the pawnbrekers, in Picca-
dilly, and gave notice of tho loss of the pin, and that if
Mr. Attenborough heard anything of the pin he would lot
him know. Subsequently the prisoner left Mr. Prowas
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. Prows°. A witness stated that the
prisoner had given him some of the property to pledge,
telling him that he pledged the property because his master
had not paid him his wages.
Mr. Proviso 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 he
entered his service.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr. Tyrwhitt coin mated him for six months, with hard labour.

THAMES.
A NOTORIOUS THIRY CLEVERLY DETECTED.—Thomas
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 emcerned, 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,
Grafton-street, Globe-fields, Stepney, was entered, and a
table ,
from cover, three books a glass, and other articles stolen
ing the the front parlour. An entrance was effected by open-
parlour window. One of the inmates of the
house went into the parlour to close thb 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. 70 K, saw the prisoner in
Grafton-street, in Company with two boys—one of the
rrying something bulky under his arm.
Mackay 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 book; 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, Litnehouse, for the
purpose of suppressing a disturbance there, and the door
was opened by a woman, who wasimmediately 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 . dg,
and a quantity of other property, including a blackwellin 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' bodice; 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 been in
custody several times.
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Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner until Saturday
next.

STREET Sll`musGxh,-;-----um The of
caseation has just decided on an appeal tha erns Court t
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
and singing a piece from the " Dame Blanche"
ant caocTupaartneyr to ten at night.
HEAVY SNOWSTORM.—During the night and this
morning one of the heaviest snowstorms ocourred in the
metropolis which has been known since 1855. The snow
began to fall about one o'clock, and when morning dawned
from six to eight inches had fallen. At nine o'clock it had
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 respective places
of business. In consequence of the severity of the wind,
which drove vast snow drifts into the railway cuttings,
allnQgt all the lines were blocked up.

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• rutartatisNUlli
Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent .stock, 84
Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock,
Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent.,
Ditto, 4i per cent. st. rd., 91
LINES LEASED kr FIXED RENTALS.
Chester and Holyhead, - -
Ditto, 5 per cent.. 112

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourg•, 12k
San Paulo, lien., gua. 6 per cent., l3}

FattisUGN,, MIMICS.
Panulellio Copper. Urn., 21
St. John del Itcy, 11m.,51

HAMM
Bank of Victoria, Australia, 38} a
East London, lino., 31 3
Imperial Ottoman, lira., Si
Oriental Ban& Corporation, 42

DOCKS.
ondon and St. Katharine, 66 74

MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 16
Anglo-slexican Mint, 15}
Atlantic Telegraph, -
DR o, 8 per cent., 75
Credit Fonder of England, lira .
English and Australian Copper
Geu. Credit and Finance ot Lonain, lim.. 41
Hudson's Bay, h}
International Financial Society, lira.,
Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 65

THE LATE SIR W. PARKER.—It is remarkable
that Sir William Parker, the 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
ZV illiam 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 went 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..
meat 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 tho first screw gunboat's proceedings as to
request her commander to take his " wriggling thing out oi
his sight as quick as possible, Sir."—Blackwood's Magazine.
A very successful show of canary and song birdi
has been held at Sunderland. There were 45 competitors
from all parts of the kingdom, and the entries were nearly
400 in number. One of the most successful exhibitors
was Captain Ashton, of Polefield Hall, Prestwich, near
Manchester, who carried off uhle of ti first 4114 several 1
of the second prizes.