The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-17 00:00:00

THAMES.

DARING ROBBERY IN THE SAILORS' HOME —Thomas
Cunningham, a seaman, was brought before Mr. Partridge
charged with stealing three coats, a Guernsey frock, two
caps, and a blue flannel shirt, represented as the property
of William Newman, a steward of the Sailors' Home, in
Well-street.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, said he was instructed to
prosecute in this case. There were a great number of
sailors boarding and lodging in the Sailors' Home, and if
anything was lost it tended to shake the security of pro-
perty there, and to cast suspicion on the officers, in whose
appointment great care was exercised. The prisoner came
home in a ship called the Blue• Jacket, and lodged in the
Sailors' Home three days. He then cleared out to go to a
boarding-house ; but he had since loitered about the Home,
and his intentions being suspected he was turned out yester-
day morning. Newman, a steward, missed two coats. In
the course of the day the prisoner made his appearance in
the home twice, and was turned out. In the evening the
steward saw the prisoner go up stairs into a cabin, where
the clothes of a sailor named Williams were deposited.
Newman procured assistance, and, upon entering the cabin,
saw the prisoner there with a coat, a Guernsey frock, a blue
flannel shirt, and two caps on his own person over his own
dress and hat. The prisoner was asked what business he
had in the cabin, to which he replied that he came to look
after Yankee Jim. The prisoner was taken into custody,
and he made a violent resistance, and bit and kicked
another steward named Joseph Partridge. Those facts
would be proved, and he should ask that the prisoner
should be committed for trial. The prisoner told the
officers that he could go six months for the robbery, and
that he had done seven years in Tasmania.
The case having been proved, the prisoner said he would
plead guilty. He had made two voyages in the Blue
Jacket. He belonged to Drogheda.
Mr. Partridge said he should not dispose of this case in
a summary manner, but commit the prisoner for trial.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.
Market opens quiet. Sales probably 5,000 or
6,000 bales.

A STRONG WAY OF PUTTING IT !—Mr. Newde-
gate, on occasion of the discussion about the Tran-
substantiation declaration in the House of Commons on
Tuesday night, turned fiercely upon Mr. Whalley—
questioned his Protestantism, and suggested that he, too,
is a concealed Jesuit. Theargument, suggeststhe Spectator
facetiously—is only too plausible ! Mr. Whalley disgusts
everybody with the anti-Roman Catholic cry. Is it not
highly probable therefore that he is retained by the Jesuits
expressly for that purpose ? That is good reasoning, but
what may we not infer from it ? Mr. Newdegate disgusts
us with the samo cry. Mr. Newdegate is a Jesuit, The
Orangemen of Ireland, and Lord Shaftesbury, and the
Recordites, and the Record itself, sicken us with the same
cry. They are all Jesuits. The universal Jesuit is at
the back of all the anti-Romanist speakers and thinkers.
Only those who oppose Protestantism in a spirit adapted
to disgust us with Romanism aro to be believed true Pro-
testants. Mr. Newdegate generalises rashly. But, after
all, it Is a lesson worth learning, that all who are foolishly
intolerant to any other form of faith are, whatever they
may think themselves, really its friends in disguise.
FUNNY !—The Liberte publishes an article advo-
cating war, under the title of " Go, head," which it prints
in large type, evidently quite proud of its knowledge of
English.