The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBERIES BY A BOY.—John Grinstead was brought be-
fore Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing 11d. from Messrs.
Owen and Merton, soapmakers, Millwall, Pc,plar.
Mr. Chas. Young, solicitor, said the amount the prisoner
was charged with stealing was small, but there was au im-
portant principle involved in the case. The boy was 15
years of age, and had been employed in the prosecutor's
factory at ss. per week. There was no moral doubt he had
committed several robberies, and unfortunately suspicion
was directed against honest and trustwofity persons in-
stead of the real culprit- ' The prosecutors did not move
in this affair because of the small sum traced to the
boy, but to deter other lads iu their employ, and to
check Grinstead in his course of dishonesty while young.
Evidence was given that the two senior clerks in the esta-
blishment had lost £2 and £1 respectively, and that the
prisoner was a bad boy at home, and gave much trouble.
He was an inveterate smoker, and on Saturday, Nov. 24,
ho gaN e is. 6d. for a new pipe. He indulged in other ex-
travagances. One night he told another youth named
Thomas Morgan, in the service of the prosecutors, who
saw him with 16s. in his possession, that it was given to
him by one of the clerks for safe custody. This turned
out to be a falsehood. On the evening of the 28th ult.,
Mr. Bennett, a clerk, put a cash-box containing post-
age-stamps and some halfpence into the safe, which he
locked up with the usual fastenings and tested it to ascer-
tain if it was secure, as did also a fellow-clerk named
Lancaster. Mr. Bennett directed the prisoner to take the
key to the house of Mr. Berry, the foreman. Before leav-
ing Mr. Lancaster asked the prisoner if he had deposited
the key with Mr. Berry, to which he replied in the affirma-
tive. Mr. Reynolds, the night foreman, was induced to
watch Grinstead, who had been left in the office to sweep
it, and he was surprised .to find the safe door open. Ile
communicated the.fact to a Mr. Rogers, who took the cash
box out of the safe, recounted the halfpence and disco-
vered a deficiency of three halfpence.
Thomas Morgan, a lad, said he was engaged
with tho prisoner in sweeping out the office,
and saw him go to the safe and open it. He heard
the jingling of money. The prisoner offered him 3d. not
to say he had been at the safe. The prisoner deposited
the money he had taken out of the cash-box in his boot.

Mr. Partridge said the boy was 15 years of age, and he
should dispose of the case under the juvenile offenders'
act. The prisoner was a very wicked and dangerous boy,
and he sentenced him to three months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

AMERICA..

ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA.

LIVERPOOL, Friday.

The royal mail steam-ship Java, from Halifax
and Boston, arrived here to-day with 135 passen-
gers. She did not go to Queenstown owing to a
heavy gale. She passed the Africa, hence to Bos-
ton, on the 22d November.

NEW YORK, Nov. 20, Evening.

The New York Herald's Washington correspon-
dent says that General Sherman will not actively
participate in, but merely watch, the progress of
Mexican affairs.

A Washington despatch says that nothing will be
done by the Government in the cases of the con-
victed Fenians until the action of the British Go-
vernment is known.

A Toronto despatch of the 19th says :—" A large
number of Fenian prisoners, discharged this morn-
ing, have been taken in a special train of the
Great Western Railway to the Suspension-bridge
by a guard of 20 men. Before leaving the gaol
they took a hearty leave of the gaol officials, thank-
ing them for the kindness which had been shown
them during their stay. On their arrival at the
bridge they received $5 each in American money
from the Deputy-Sheriff to carry them home. On
their arrival on the American side they gave three
rousing cheers for the American Government and
the Fenian Brotherhood in America. A company
of hussars left this morning for Fort Erie to patrol
the river in that vicinity.. They will be immedi-
ately reinforced by a regiment of infantry. The
Queen's Own refuses to do duty if the Fenian pri-
soners are not hanged. Great excitement exists
among them. Their officers, at a meeting on
Saturday, were hissed while explaining the position
of the Government. It is feared that they will at-
tempt to lynch the prisoners."
A Washington telegram says that the United
States Government has not received a direct reply
from the British Cabinet to the last communication
of the Secretary of State demanding the immediate
settlement of the Alabama claims.

A Boston journal states that Mr. Slidell recently
applied for pardon, and that the American Govern-
ment replied that no intercourse whatever could be
held with him.

Victoria advices, via San Francisco, published in
the New York papers, assert that the question of
annexation to the United States was under discus-
sion. The Victoria Telegraph contained the follow-
ing :—" England gives us no assistance, and saddles
us with a cumbrous form of government against our
wishes. The Federal authorities spend a hundred
thousand of dollars every year on their territories
and ask the inhabitants to make but little outlay.
In consequence of its infancy every British colony
is devoted to chronic discontent. In the United
States territories scarcely a remonstrance is heard.
Our country is killed
,by extravagant men at the
head of affairs, while other countries steadily pro-
gress under the management of the.people."
MOBILE, Nov. 21.

The receipts of cotton at all United States ports
since September are 330.000 bales against 450,000
during the same period last year. The week's
exports from Mubile and New Orleans amount to
13,000 bales, chiefly for England.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day

Market opens rather steady. Sales probably
about 10,000 bales.

Mr. Henry Vincent gave a
_lecture to a large
audience at the Cooper Institute, New York, on the even-
ing of the 16th. The New York Tribune speaks in warm
praise of the lecturer, and states that the audience was
very enthusiastic. Mr. Vincent was engaged to lecture at
Buffalo and Philadelphia.