The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-27 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTENSIVE AND INGENIOUS ROBBERY BY A BoY.—T homas
Griffin, errand boy, in the employ of Messrs. Roby and
Ilumby, bootmakers, of No. 20, Pall-mall, was charged
before Mr. Tytwhitt with stealing sbine leather, the pro-
perty of his employers.

John Silcox, foreman in the employ of the prosecutors,
said that on Saturday afternoon the prisoner, who was
errand boy in the prosecutor's employ, came in and went
down into the kitchen, where the leather was kept. As
the prisoner stayed down some time he looked to see what
he was doing, and saw him put some pieces of leather into
his pocket. He (prisoner) shortly afterwards came up-
stairs, and wanted to go to his tea. He told the prisoner
that as they were going to close at 5 o'clock he had no oc-
casion to go, and having procured the attendance of a con-
stable he asked the prisoner whether he had any loather
about him. He denied having any, but on the constable
searching him he found thirteen pieces of leather round his
waist under his trousers. He then gave the prisoner into
custody. He wished to state that the prisoner entered the
prosecutors' employ on the 7th May, and since then pro-
perty had been missed of the value of more than £lOO, in-
cluding 51 pairs of boots and different kinds of leather, but
owing to the prisoner having adopted such an ingenious
plan of taking the things away, by secreting them round
his waist, be was never suspected.
Patrick Winters, 321 A, proved finding some leather on
the prisouer.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—lle Would sell the leather to somo cobbler,
I suppose ?

Winters said that was the case, and that on going to
where the prisoner lodged he found au odd boot belonging
to the prosecutors.

In answer to the charge, the prisoner said ho had never
done such a thing before.
Mr. ilyrwhitt hoped that was the case, but he did not
believe the prisoner, and he had no doubt he had been a
long time at it. lie should therefore remand the prisoner
to give the police an opportunity of inquiring into the case.

THAMES.
Antocrous OUTRAGX.—WiIIiam White, a labouring
man, justly called the wild pirate of the east, who has been
custody,ochftaerngedinwithviolently
was brought before Mr. Partridge,
assaulting several persons in the
London Dock in a very savage manner.
The prisoner was discovered in the London Dock in a
state of intoxication. Re was turned out of tho dock, and
retuned in five minutes and made a disturbance. He was
taken into custady by Thomas Ward, a dock constable, and
he then became exceedingly violent, and made use of very
bad language. The prisoner declared he would got a
knife and stick it into the heart of the con-
stable. A severe struggle took place, and the
prisoner got the constable down and kicked him.
Another constable, named Robert Ward, came to the aid
of his namesake, and the prisoner said he would ruin him
attempted to kick him on a vital part of his person, but
fortunately did not succeed. The constable, however, re-
ceived a severe kick on the leg. John Selby, a cooper, who
assisted the constables, was kicked on the body, and the
prisoner seized him by the trousers and tore them. James
Tledcalf, a London Dock constable, was also struck, and
the prisoner made an attempt to bite him. A terrible scene
ensued. The prisoner, who was like a madman, kicked
plunged, and reared for some time, and it required the
united efforts of six men to convey him to the station-
house. The two wards were very much injured.
The prisoner said he was very much intoxicated, and
did not recollect anything that took place.
Mr. Partridge—You used frightful language, and have
kicked two of the officers in a vicious and deliberate
manner. You also threatened to stab a man with a knife,
and there is no doubt you aro a very bad man, a ruffian
of the worst kind. You are sentenced to four months'
imprisonment and hard labour ; two months for the assault
on Thomas Ward, and two months for the assault on
Robert Ward ; the sentences to be consecutive.

TIIE SALE OF THE NATIONAL PROPERTY AT
MADRID during the last fortnight realised a sum of
£200,000, being an augmentation of nearly 50 per cent.
over the estimated value.

THE DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES amounted on
Ist August, 1866, to £554,083,000, being twenty-five millions
less than it was on the same date in the year before,—
perhaps the most astounding fact in the whole history of
finance. This American ponpie, which, according to the
Times and the Club-men, was about to be insolvent, has in
the year, after a tremendous war, and with half its terri-
tory disorgarised, raised a revenue greater than that of
Greaty paid
evte,g expenditure, and paid off twenty-
fi
reducing the total nearly one-
twentieth. At this rate the war debt will disappear in
twenty years, or allowing for the usual rate of American
increase, in twelve, a fact we recommend to those who be-
lieve
hisp
democracyo always repudiates. Mr. Gladstone
rememberingor little half-million, must feel terribly
tenvious; but then anything in the way of taxation can be
done with a nation which will allow individual incomes to
be published in the newspapers—a practice which strikes
Englishmen, whose habit is to exaggerate their incomes
to their friends, and depreciate them to the tax-collectors,
as absolutely revolutionary.—Spectator.