The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-07 00:00:00

THAMES.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. —John Wilson, a well-
known and very desperate thief, 18 years of ago, was
brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting and
robbing Carl Freeting, a German tailor.

The prosecutor was on his way from the City with 19
pairs of men's trousers over his shoulder, when the prisoner
and another man advanced towards him from the corner
of Dock-street, Whitechapel. The prisoner butted the
prosecutor with his head, knocked him down, and then
made a snatch at his watch chain. The chain was screwed
from the watch, and the prisoner handed it to his
companion and ran away. The prosecutor immediately
pursued him, and called out " Stop thief." Police-con-
stable Panther, No. 196 H, stopped the prisoner, and the
prosecutor came up and accused him with having
knocked him down, and robbed him of his chain. The
prisoner said " It's not me, sir; I have just come out of a
publichonse." He then made a determined resistance and
said he would not be taken alive. Panther soon over-
powered him and conveyed him to the station-house. It
was stated by Panther that the prisoner was one of three
men under recognizances to appear at this court to-morrow
on a charge of stealing a watch. The case wad one of
conflicting evidence.

Foster, 207 H., an intelligent detective officer, said the
prieoner was in custody three Lights in succession for
stealing watches, and was a bold and notorious thief.
Mr. Partridge—The prisoner is committed for trial.
Prove a former conviction, if any, at the sessions.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY OP A TILL.--John Male, aged 18,
was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with attempting
to steal money out of a till in the shop of Mr. William
Davis, a cheesemonger in the Globe-road, Mile-end.
Mr. Davis detected the prisoner leaning over the counter
in his shop and in the act of taking out the till from its
place. Mr. Davis asked him what he wanted, to which
he replied, how much is a truss of straw ? The prosecutor
said we don't sell straw in a butter 'shop, and forthwith
gave him into custody.

Mr. Partridge asked the prisoner if he would be tried by
him or at the sessions.
The prisoner—I will be tried here.

Mr. Partridge —There is no doubt of your guilt. You
are sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard
labour.

DISRAELI RoAn!—A new street at Putney is
being formed by a Mr. Wylson, and he has named it, with
the sanction of the Metropolitan Board of Works,
"Disraeli-road," in honour of Mr. Disraeli.
A PERTINENT QUESTION. —Some £50,000 are
being converted into a monument to Prince Albert in Ken-
sington-park. Would not this amount of money spent in
establishing a bath-house, a soup-house, and a school-
house for the poor, have been quite as acceptable an offer-
ing in the eyes of God, or of "Albert the Good ?" The
"children cry for bread, and you give them a stone."—
Cosmopolitan.

VOTING FOR THEMSELVES.—.Eighteen members
who hold Government offices voted for the second
reading of the Franchise Bill. The gentlemen who voted
that they had confidence iu themselves are Messrs. Baring,
Bruce, Cardwell, Cowper, Forster, Fortescue, Gladstone,
Goschen, Lawson, Villiers, Headlam, Layard, Adams,
Brand, Collier, Sir R. Palmer, Sir George Grey, and the
Marquis of Hartington. If the members of the Govern-
ment (says the Cosmopolitan of Saturday) could not have
voted' confidence in themselves, instead of a majority of 5
for, there would have been a majority of 13 against the
Government. Considering this, no one, we think, can deny
that the Government was absolutely defeated.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY.—At the meeting of the
Royal Society, on Thursday last, the list of selected can-
didates, recommended by the Council for election into the
Society; was read. The names are as follows :—J. C.
A. H. Faye,
erkin, the Ven. Archdeacon Pratt
Mailer, Ph. D., C. Mur-
chison, Bucknill, M.D., Rev. F. W. Farrar, W. A. Guy, M. 8., J.
Hector, V
J. W.
Capt. G. H. Richards, R.N., T. Richardson, W. H. L.
Russell, Rev. Dr. Selwyn, Rev. R. Townsend, and H.
Watts, B.A. Three of the fifteen are mathematicians, four
are of the medical profession, and three are chemists. Dr.
Hector is director of the Gealogical Survey in New Zea-
land, and Archdeacon Pratt resides at Calcutta. The
election is fixed for the 7th of June.— The Athenseum.
SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY-Six.--A correspondent
of the Reader asks Professor De Morgan why the
Romans based their notation under a thousand upon six
letters as under—combinations of these making all their
figures up to 999. The connexion, he adds, will then be
inquired by the writer between the number GU and the
text of Isaiah lxv. 11, where a number is the subject of a
drink offering !

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