The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-25 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DARING BOOT ROBBERY BY A WELL-KNOWN THIEF.
—John Laing, carpenter, residing at. the Model Lodging-
house, Spread Eagle-court, Gray's-inn-lane, was charged
with stealing 38 pairs of boots and shoes, of the value of
Zl5, the property of Mr. Benjamin Lovelace, shoemaker,
3, Old Compton-street, Soho.

The prosecutor said that at eight that morning, on going
to open his shop, he found the side door open, and on en-
tering he saw the prisoner busily employed putting boots
and shoes from the window into a sack, which was then
three parts full. He immediately called for assistance,
and held the door so as to prevent the prisoner's escape.
Assistance coming he gave the prisoner into custody, and
on examining the sack found 38 pairs of boots and shoes,
worth at least £l5, a coat, and other articles. The sack be-
longed to the prisoner.
M'Mahon, 16.5 C, proved taking the prisoner into custody,
and on asking him how he got into the house, he said he
found the door open.
The prisoner, who is well known to the police as a thief,
was asked whether he had anything to say, and he §17,:1a
hi would reserve his defence.

The prisoner, who conducted himself in a very Cr.,01 man-
ner, was then remanded that previous convict lons may be
proved against him.

THAMES.

CONVICTION OF A PRIVATE STILL-REEPER..--Mr. Mar-
shall, from the office of the Solicitor of Inland Revenue,
attended bofore Mr. Selfe to prosecute an information
against Eliza Green, a well-known vendor of illicit spirits,
for working and maintaining a private still in the parish
of St. George-in-the-East. There were two counts in the
indictment, and the penalty of £2OO was sued for upon
each.

Tho defendant was called, and not appearing, the caw
was heard ex parte in her absence.

Mr. Vanstone, an officer of Inland Revenue, said he left
the copy of a summons at No. 4, Sun-court, Ring David •
lane, St. George -in-the-East, where he and other officers
had previously seized a private still.
Mr. Selfe—Give me the particulars of that seizure.

Mr. Vanstone—On the 10th of March I went, in com-
pany with Mr. Parfiter, to No. 4, Sun-court, and in aback
room we found a large private still in brickwork. It had
been recently at work, and a smell of strong spirits per-
vaded the place. I also found in two bags 601bs. of mo-
lasses, 40 gallons of wash in a state of fermentation, and all
the necessary articles for carrying on illicit distillation on a
large scale, the whole of which we seized and conveyed to
the excise-office on Tower-hill.

John Hawthorn said he had the letting of the houses in
Sun-court to a woman who gave the name of John Wil-

Hams. (A laugh.) At eight o'clock on the night of the
seizure he saw a woman go into the house, 4, Sun-court;
and, in consequence of a preconcerted scheme, he went into
the house after her. The woman was Eliza Green, who
previously said she took the house for John Williams. She
was in the house daily. He never saw any one else there.
Mr. Selfe asked if it was usual for women to work private
stills ?

Mr. Vanstone replied in the affirmative, and said he had
seldom or ever made a seizure of a private still without
finding a woman concerned in it.

Mr. Selfe was of opinion the case was made out against
the defendant. It would be sufficient if he convicted on
one count. He sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of
£2OO to the Queen, and in default to be imprisoned until it
was paid.

A warrant for the apprehension of the defendant was
applied for and pleated.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, April 25.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.;
fresh, with continuous rain.
PORTSMOUTH, April 24.—Wind S. to S.E.—Arrived—
Her Majesty's ship Mersey, from a cruise.
PLYMOUTH, April 24. —Wind E .S.E .—Arrived
Calcutta, steamer, from Calcutta.
SOUTHAMPTON, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Tas-
man, for Kurrachee. •
FALMOUTH, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Black-
ness, from Savannah for Hull. Sailed—Little Lucy,
steamer, for Bahia.
NEWPORT, April 24.—Wind S E.—Arrived—Ternandia,
from London for Hong Kong; Olivia, from London for
Sydney. Sailed—Zodaic, for Mauritius ; Statesman, for
Rio Janeiro.

WATERFORD, April 23.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Erin, for
Quebec.

CARDIFF, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Lord Stanley,
for Melbourne.

OFF DOVER April 24.—Arrived--John G. Coster, from
SWideritoid far Maur Ynrlr_

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-)
LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning.
Wind E., rain.
Arrived, April 24.—Ganzes, from Pensacola; I. A. U.,
from Bilboa; Owen Jones, from Rouen.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind southerly ; tide, three hours' ebb ; weather cloudy.
Arrived, April 24.—Decision, from Antwerp; Perlan,
from Friedrickshall ; Johanna, from Dantsic.
Arrived, April M.—Sarah, from Dunkirk; Ida Berun-
dina, from Groningen ; Caledonia, from Rotterdam ; Cactus,
from Dantsic ; Countess of Lonsdale, from Hamburg.
Sailed,!April 25.—Farentheit, for Konigsberg ; Stork, for
Lisbon., _ _ _ _ _

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Wind S., moderate, with rain.

LOVE, JEALOUSY, AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—
The Court of Assize§ of the Ardennes three days ago tried
a peasant named Haguette, of Flize, for an attempt at Mur-
der. Twelve years back, when he was only 17 years of age,
he paid remarkable attention to a little girl named Lebas,
then only 12 years of age, daughter of a farmer of the village,
and as they both grew older he began to regard her as his
future wife. For some time the girls's parents made no
objection to his visiting her, but when some months back he
began to talk of marriage they resolved to break off with
him because he was idle, and because also, the girl being
destined to come into possession of some property, they
thought that she might aspire to a person in a better
station of society. The girl herself, though she had readily
received the young man's addresses, consented without
difficulty to reject him. Being much attached to the girl,
ho was plunged into despair at this decision, and con-
stantly waylaid her for the purpose of supplicating her to
accept him as her lover, but she always refused. He made
repeated threats of vengeance against her and her family,
but they were not regarded. At length, on the 6th March
last, a gendarme of the neighbouring village, whom the
parents had selected as the girl's husband, paid her a visit;
and whilst he was in the house, Haguette, in a state of great
agitation, flung open the window, and cried out, " You
shall regret this 1" The next day the girl ascended to a
hayloft to take some hay for the oxen; the prisoner followed
her unobserved into the loft, carrying with him a double-
barrelled gun, and suddenly clasping her round the waist,
he implored her to fly with him. She refused ;he repeated
his prayer, and intimated that if she did not comply with
it, he would kill her. The girl, however, broke from him,
and he fired the gun at her twice, without, however, hitting
her. The girl's mother, however, who at that moment
happened to enter the hayloft, was slightly wounded in the
hand by some slugs from the second discharge. The man
took to flight, but was afterwards captured. In his defence
all that he could say was, that he was maddened by love
and jealousy. The jury declared him guilty, with extenu-
ating circumstances, and the Court sentenced him to seven
years' hard labour.—French Paper.
COST OF CEILING PAINTING.—Sir Peter Paul
Rubens received for his painting of the Plafond, at the
Banqueting House, Whitehall, the sum of £4,000. The
space covered by this painting is about 400 yards, so that
he was paid nearly £lO a yard. Sir James Thornhill, the
first Englishman who received knighthood for his ability in
art, was paid only £3 a yard for the laborious work on the
ceiling of Greenwich Hospital, and only £1 a yard for paint-
ing the ornaments on the walls. " The Duke of Montague,"
says Sir James Thornhill, in his memorial to the commis-
sioners for building the hospital, " paid Monsieur Rosso,
for his saloon, £2,000 and kept an extraordinary table for
him, his friends, and servants, for two years, while the
work was doing, at an expense estimated at £5OO per
annum." Signor Verrio was paid for the whole palaces of
Windsor and Hampton Court ceilings, sides, and back stairs
at Bs. a foot, which is £3 12s. a yard, exclusive of gilding,
had wine daily allowed to him, lodgings in the palace, and
when his eye-sight failed him, a pension of £2OO per annum,
and an allowance of wine for life. Signor Rizi had of the
Duke of Bedford, £l,OOO for painting three rooms ; for the
little chapel at Bulstrode, £6OO ; from Lord Burlington, for
his staircase, E 700; Signor Pellegrini, of the Duke of Port-
land, for work in his house, £BOO, and for a small picture
over a chimney-piece, £5O ; of the Earl of Burlington, for
the sides of his hall, £2OO. Other instances might be given
to show the large amount of employment this now compara-
tively unused description of house-decoration afforded to
artists of ability.—The Builder.
RECIPROCITY DUES.—In the year 1858 there was
paid by Government, under the reciprocity treaties, £11,747
to the Hull Trinity-house for harbour dues and pilotage,
£3,355 to the Hull corporation for the same service, and
£6,337 to the Hull Dock Company, as composition in lieu
of dues. In Newcastle, £B,BlB was paid to the Trinity-
house for pilotage, £5,222 to the corporation for town dues,
and smaller sums below £l,OOO to the Trinity-house and free
hostmen for lights, local dues, and anchorage ; £8,510 was
paid to the pilots at Liverpool, and about £2,650 to the bal-
last corporation of Dublin for tonnage dues and various
other claims. The sums received by the other ports on the
list, about 20 in number, in no case exceeds £1,000; and the
aggregate of the sums paid is £49,393. The total amount
paid under the reciprocity treaties up to the end of 1858 has
been £1,125,097.

MANSLAUGHTER.—An act of Parliament was
passed in the late session, which received the Royal assent
on Tuesday, to enable coroners in England to admit to bail
persons charged with manslaughter. The act provides that
in every case in which a coroner's jury finds a verdict of
manslaughter against any person, the coroner or deputy be-
fore whom the inquest was taken may accept bail with good
and sufficient sureties for his appearance to take his trial,
and thereupon the person, if in custody of any officer, or in
gaol under a warrant of commitment by such coroner, is to
be discharged. A recognisance, is to be taken in the form set
forth in the act. Further, the act provides that any time
after all the depositions of witnesses have been taken, every
person against whom any coroner's jury may have found a
verdict of manslaughter is to be entitled to have from the
persons having custody thereof copies of the depositions on
which the verdict has been found on payment of a reason-
able sum for the same, not exceeding the rate of 1 id. for every
folio of 90 words. The act is tho 22 of Yictivriai cap.