The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-07 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

NEITHER PARENTS NOR HOME.— Jamas Ebbroy, 13,
was charged before Mr. Knox with being found destitute
(he being an orphan) in Oxford-street.
Police-constable John Carman, 330 A, said that about
two o'clock that morning he saw the boy walking up and
down Oxford-street, and on asking him what he was doing
out at that hour he said that his father and mother were
both dead, and that ha had no home.

In answer to Mr.,lCnox, the constable said that the boy
had been seen about Oxfcrd-street two or three nights by
the constable.

Mr. Knox asked the boy whether what the constablehad
stated was true.

The boy said it was. He had neitherparents nor friends.
Mr. Knox said the best thing he could do would be to
send him to Feltham for three years.
Henry Martin, another boy, was charged with begging.
Sergeant Bunco, 5 0, saw the boy standing at the door
of a confectioner's shop in Coventry-street yesterday
evening, having two or three boxes of fusees in his hand,
and begging of every person who went in or came out of
the shop. He took the boy into custody, and from in-
quiries he made respecting the boy, ascertained that his
mother had been dead some years, and that his father was
about 72 years of age and very infirm. The boy had been
in the workhouse two or three times with his father, but
had escaped from them by means of the windows ; he had
also behaved in rather a bad manner towards some of the
workhouse officials, and was in the habit of sleeping on
the door-steps when
he could not get enough to pay for a
lc dging.

Mr. Knox said he would ,send the boy to Feltham as it
would be the saving of him.

The boy thanked the magistrate for sending him to
school. The boy was sent to Path= for three years.

THAMES.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF /Wm—Frederick Bick-
nell, aged 28 years, was brought 'before Mr. Partridge,
charged with unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to his
shop and premises; and, secondly, with the same offence,
with the intent to defraud the London and Liverpool and
Globo Insurance Offices.

Mr. Charles Young conducted the prosecution ; Mr.
Stoddart defended the prisoner.
This was a most extraordinary case. The prisoner is a
foreman cooper in the St. Katherine's Dock, where ho has
been employed 15 years, having entered the service of the
company as an apprentice. He has also for some time kept
a shop for the sale of crinolines, stays, vests, and other
article; in Queen's-terrace, Commercial-road, near to the
Stepney railway station. He effected an insurance for
£4OO with the London and Liverpool and Globe Insurance
offices on the 23rd of October, and it is exactly a month
since he received the policy. A fire broke out on the pre-
mises while all the inmates were from home on the Wed-
nesday night, and there can be no doubt the place was
wilfully set on fire. The stock on the premises was not
worth £2O.

Mr. James Griffin, inspector of the K division of the
Metropolitan police, said—On Wonesday night at 12
o'clock I was called to a fire at No. 3. Queen's-terrace,
Commercial-road. I found a police-constable keep-
ing the door. I entered the house with the
fireman, and saw taken from the shop window
board and floor those things. ,which I now produce, and
all saturated with naphtha or paraffin. The inspector then
spread before him three crinoline petticoats, a waistband,
some glazed calico and two hoops, all saturated as he had
described. He went on to state that a fire was at that
time burning under the end of the counter the farthest
from the street door. There were a lot of old rags, and
umbrellas and papers under the counter which was formed
of deal wood with light mahogany top. The counter was
on fire, and it was trampled out by the firemen, and
also kicked out. There was also a fire burning in the
ceiling where the gas pendant was fixed, and two bed-
steads, bedding, and mattress stuffed with shavings were
hpilenht of paraffin oil. He also saw
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There was a large patch of oil or grease on the ceiling
underneath. The inspector then produced some of the
ceiling, and, by order of the magistrate, ignited it. The
plaster burnt well, and in every position in which he
placed it,
In answer to questions by Mr. Partridge, the Inspector
said if the fine had not been discovered at an early period
and quickly subdued, the house would have been con-
sumed. He apprehended
the prisoner in the St. Icathe-
rine'rsDock, and asked him if he intended to as]; the insur-
alnniceneot
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ice for compensation, and he replied, 4, Of course
was proceeding when our parcel was despatched. Mr. C.
Young said he should ask for a remand to complete the
case against the prisoner.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 1551 per:cent.. and the price of gold
1421 per cent. At these rates there is no profit on the iin
portation of gold from the United States.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 25.171 per .C 1 sterling. On
tonxparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
12 a. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that goll is
about the same price in Loud= aud.rario.