The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

MANSION-ROUSE.

A DESERVING CASE FOR BENEVOLENCE.--John Cock, a
labourer, was charged before Mr. Alderman Gabriel with
stealing a barrow worth £2, and a quantity of fish to the
value of £3 7s. 6d.

John Richardson, a porter in Billingsgate-market, said
that ho had been employed by Mr. Bryant, a fish dealer
in Clare-market to purchase some herrings for him on the
25th ult., which he did, and sent them in his barrow to
Mr. Bryant. They had not been delivered, and he saw
nothing of him or his burrow since. Ho met the prisoner
in Billingsgate-market yesterday, and on his refushig to
give him any account of the property he gave him into
charge. He had employed the prisoner occasionally.
The policeman who took the prisoner in charge said
that on the way to the station he admitted that he had
stolen the fish, but with respect to the barrow he said,
"he would say nothing to nobody, and take his punish-
ment." There was not the slightest chance of the barrow
being recovered.
George Bryant, the party for whom the fish had been
purchased, said he had seen nothing of the, prisoner, and
had not received the fish. He said that he was a poor man
with a wife and nine children, and had to borrow the
money to purchase the fish, on the sale of which himself
and his family depended for the following week, it being
Saturday.
Mr. Alderman Gabriel remarked that it was a case of
great hardship on the witness. It was one of those cases
which he considered deserving of relief, and he directed
the witness to be paid £2 out of the poor-box.

The prisoner was remanded.
A TRUMPERY CHARGE.—Two mon, named Gunlin and
Chapman, described as labourers, were charged with steal-
ing a quantity of tarpauliug, the property of Benjamin
Stone, a carrier, in Aldgate.
Mary Ann Stone, wife of the prosecutor, deposed that
yesterday, about 1 o'clock, she perceived the prisoner, with
another man, loitering about the yard where he had no
business, although he was a few weeks in her husband's
employment. Her suspicions having been aroused, she
wont down to the yard and saw the prisoner Chapman
taking away the tarpaulin. He said to her that he was no
thief, and was a dealer in such articles. She desired him
to bring the property back, which he did immediately.
The value of the article was very trifling, and the pri-
soner was prosecuted in consequence of the frequent losses
her husband had lately sustained by robbery on his pre-
mises. She gave both prisoners into custody.
The policeman who took the prisoners in charge said
that, about half an hour before he was called in, ho saw
Chapman outside the yard, and in the most open manner
shaking the tarpaulin and rolling it up. Ho asked him
what he was going to do with it, and he said he was going
to take it to Lloyd's paper-mills, where ho would get a
trifle for it. He conMdered the article, which was quite
rotten, as perfectly worthless.
Gunter said that he had been desired by Mr. Stone to
remove the rubbish from the yard, and he considered he
was doing his duty in taking away the tarpaulin, which
he gave to Chapman with a view to his making a trifle
out of it.

Chapman said that he had boon given the tarpaulin by
Gunter.

Alderman Gabriel said the charge was of a trumpery
character, and dismissed it.

BOIV-STREET.

THE TRAVELLING POST-OFFICE.--Edward• Barrow,
travelling clerk in the General Post-office, was charged
with stealing a letter containing half a sovereign and 12
penny postage stamps, in the sorting carriage, on the jour-
ney from London to Ipswich.
Mr. Mulock, travelling inspector, G.P.0., stated that in
consequence of the loss of several letters from the Ipswich
sorting carriage, ho was directed to make up a test letter,
which he did on the Ist inst., enclosing in it a half-sove-
reign and 12 postage stamps, all marked—the half-sove-
reign gummed to a printed card. It was addressed to Mrs.
A. Wallerly, Scole Inn, Scole. He gave it to Mr. Munro
to dispatch by the Ipswich carriage. At half-past 10
o'clock the same night witness was at the Ipswich post-
office the Scole bag was brought in. He searched it and
could not find the letter, which in due course ought to
have been there. The prisoner was one of the second-
class travelling clerks .employed on the London and
Ipswich line, and it would have been his duty to sort the
letters in question. Witness afterwards interrogated him,
when he said that ho sorted the letters for the Scolo and
Stowmarket bags, and that Mr. Love (senior clerk)
and Gurr (sorter), who were the only other persons
in tho carriage, did not interfere with the sorting of the
bags, but Mr. Scole tied up one sorter's pockets. He said
that he went to the Railway Inn at Ipswich, with Mr.
Scole and Gurr, and that he changed a sovereign there.
He was searched by the officer, Crocker, who found on him
X 1 10s. in gold and 9s. in silver. Witness informed him
that the barmaid at the Railway Inn said he had changed
a half sovereign there.
Mrs. Fisk, the landlady of tho Railway Inn, produced
the marked half sovereign,which she had found in the till
Eliza Bird, the barmaid, said she placed in the till the
money received from customers, including the prisoner,
Mr. Scole, Gurr, and a gentleman who came by the train.
Could not say whether the prisoner paid her with a sove-
reign or a half sovereign. A strange gentleman paid her
with a half sovereign.
Mr. Monroe, clerk in the comptrollers' office, General
Post-office, Mr. Scole, Gurr, the sorter, and Carter, police-
constable attached to the Post-office, gave evidence on
points of detail. In cross-examination, Mr. Lewis, for the
defence, extracted from Gurr the admission that letters
were some times found on the floor of the carriage after

sorting.
Ve prisoner, who protested his innocence, was corn.
mitted for trial.

THAMES.

DRITNIC IN TUB Dom. —Cornelius Donovan, an Irish
labourer, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself in. the
West India Dock.

Charles Finlong, a constable, found the prisoner help-
lessly drunk near a cask of real Jamaica rum, which
had been spilled.
Mr. Partridge—The prisoner must be discharged. I
have no power to punish him. You can turn out any
person you find to be drunk and disorderly, or drunk
only, in the dock, but the law gives me no power what-
ever to punish any person for being intoxicated in any
of the docks. All the docks are private property.
There was a clause in the original act for constructing
the St. Katherine Dock imposing a fine of 40s. on every
person found drunk in the dock under any circumstances,
and this salutary provision was often enforced by the ma-
gistrates of this court. On the amalgamation of the St.
Katherine, London, and Victoria Deck Companies the
clause was omitted in the new companies' act, which re-
peals the old one. As brandies, rums, wines, and other
liquors are necessarily exposed in the warehouses, sheds„
and quays of the docks, and as drunkenness is very preva-
lent in the docks, an enactment for the same punishment
of offenders against the laws of sobriety is absolutely ne-
cessary for the preservation of property. The magistrates
have dismissed many other offenders under precisely simi-
lar circumstance s.

MARKETS.—This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

There is a good supply of both fruit and vegetables.
Most kinds move off freely, at our quotations.
FRUIT—Pine apples, 5s to 7s; grapes, 2s 6d to 5s ;
filberts, 6d to is per lb ; apples, is 3d to 2s 6d ; pears,
is 3d to 3s Od ; gooseberries, Os Od to Os Od ; currents, Os
Od to Os Od ; plums, 3s Od to 4s Od ; damsons, 3s 6d to
4s 6d per half sieve; oranges, 8s to 14s; lemons, 3s 6d to.
8s per 100 ; foreign pines, is to 2s 6d each ; Mulberries,
5d to 7d per punnet.
VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, is 6d to 2s 6d; white do.,
8d to is 3d ; cauliflowers, is to 2s Od ; horseradish, 9d to
is 6d per doz heads; greens, 2s 6d to 3s Od; turnips, 2s Od
to 2s 6d ; carrots, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; onions, is 6d to 2s per
dozezi bunches; cucumbers, 4d to is Od each ; celery, is 3d
to is 9d per doz ; French beans, is to is 3d 'per hall sieve ;
cos lettuces, 8d to 10d per score.