The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-21 00:00:00

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K. VENING, r 114.,4 PA 41
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as follows :—York Regents, 80s to 100 s ; Fent and Eisex,
' 70s to 100 s; Scotch, 70s to 90s; and middlings, 60s to 703
per ton. last weeks imports were 8 bampeis and 22 bags
from Rotterdam.

BOROUGH HOP.
There is a large supply of new hops i❑ the market, an I
sales have been made at prices varying from./. 8s to Si. Ss
per cwt. Fine parcels are held at higher rates ; but the
demand is very inactive. The duty is called 203,000'.
Yearling and old hops are very dull, and nominal in
price. Last weeks imports were 19 bales from narabro'.

WOOL.
There is very little business doing either i❑ foreign or
colonial wool ; yet prices are firmly supported . English
wool commands more attention, and we hare very few
sellers except on higher terms Last weeks imports wero
3,398 bales from Sydney ; 1,355 from Algoo Bay ; 100
from Bombay ; 31 from Shanghai ; 91 from Ilambro', and
87 from Riga.
Current prices of English Wool :—Down togs, is 61 to
is ; half-bred hoggets, is 51 to is ; Down ewes
and hogs, is 44 to is ; Kent fleeces, is 44 to is 4(1;
Leicester ewes and hogs, is to is 4d ; flannel wool, is lit to
is 3d; and blanket wool, 101 to is 4Ad per lb.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

BURGLARY IN THE ClTY.—George Sinclair, 17 years of
age, and Alfred Smith, 23, were charged before Alder-
man Sir R. W. Carden, M.P., with breaking into the
warehouse of Mr. R. Penning, wholesale boot and shoe
manufacturer, 11, Queen-street, and stealing therefrom
a quantity of boots and shoes.
It appeared from the evidence of Williem Kempe,a
young man in the employ of Mr. Croker, printer, occu-
pying the third floor of the same premises, that Sinclair
was an apprentice of Mr. Croker's, and Smith occasion-
ally worked for him. On Air. Ceoker'a premises dogs
are kept for security, but from their being k .own
to the prisoners is probably the cause of their giving
no alarm on the prisoners entering the premises.
On Saturday night witness double locked the front pas-
sage door; and on Sunday morning, when he went to
feed the dogs, he found the door was only single locked.
That excited his suspicions, and he requested his friend
who was with bitn to remains at the door, whilst he
went up stairs to see if anything was wrong ; in the
passage, near the stairs adjoining Mr. Fenning's ground
floor warehouse and over lila cellar, he noticed that
two boards had been taken up, leaving a space sufficient
for a man to enter. He then went beck, locked the
door, and asked his friend to go up stairs with him. Ile
did so, and as they went up stairs witness pushed the
water-closet door open, but no one was there ; he then
wentto Mr. Croker's door, which be found had been broken
open, and on looking into the cutting machine, he saw
a quantity of boots and shoes ; his friend heard a noise
in the loft over, and witness called out "George, who's
there?" having a suspicion that it was the prisoner
Sinclair. No answer was returned, and they went down
stairs, witness watching the premises whilst his friend
went for policeman. Police-constables 452, 454, and
others cane, and they all went up stairs. Witness's
friend on going up pushed the water-cleset door, and
finding it would not open, he called their attention to it,
when one of the policemen burst the door open, and
there found the prisoners with a carpet-bag belonging
to Smith containing 10 pairs of women's boots, 4 pairs
of children's boots, and 3 pairs of children's shoes.
Police-constable 464 deposed that after the prisoners
were taken into custody, they were searched, and on
Sinclair, besides other things, were found, a key that
fitted the carpet-bag, and a number of lucifer matches ;
at Smith's residence, at Kennington, were found, under
the bed, 10 pairs of women's boots and also come men's
boots and shoes.
Police constable 452 deposed that in Mr. Croker's
room were found, packed up, 30 pairs of women's boots,
4 of men's ditto, 4 pairs of children's shoe', 5 pairs of
children's boots, and 5 pairs of women's slippers. There
were also found a bundle of shirts. On searcbinw Smith,
ameng,t other things he found a key of a carpet•bagand a
front-door key, which opened and locked easily the pas-
sege-door of the premises in question. The robbery was
effected by entering the cellar from the passage. On a
bench near the boots in Mr Croker's room, he found a
hammer, pair of pinchers, and a screwdriver.
A young man in the employ of Mr. Penning deposed
that they had been continually losing goods for the last
two years. Ile identified most of the at icles pro-
duced, and valued them et 101. His employers stock
was so large, that it was impossible to detect the loss of
so small a quantity.
The prisoners, who declined saying anything, were
, committed for trial.

HORRIBLE MURDER BY AN ITALIAN

SEAMAN.

This morning the street in front of the Thames Police-
court, and tl:e avenues leading to it, were crowded with
an exciteable multitude who were anxious to catch e
glimpse of an Italian seaman named Jose de Romeo, aged
22 years, who it was known would be brought up fey
examination on a charge of murdering a Greek sailor
named George de Metres, last night, in Neptune-street,
Rateliff-highway. The most intense excitement prevailed
in that neighbourhood and near the Leman-street
station-house last night and this morning. Upward
of 4,000 persons were assembled in Wellcloseesquare,
near the scene of the murder, and as many mcr'
were assembled in Le:Ban-street. Inspector Gernor
of the H division, and 30 police-constables were
patroling the streets all night to preserve erder. At
ten o'clock there was a dense mob assembled near the
station-house, and among them were several Greeks,
who gave utterance to loud vociferations, and called out
"bring out the murderer, we want his life, blood fer
blond." A cab was brought to the back of the station-
house, into which the prisoner was hastily pushed,
and Inspector Gernon and two police-constables got in
after him. As the cab drove away the yells aed
execrations of the mob were perfectly frightful, and
several Greeks attempted to. stop the horse and cab,
and demanded vengeance. The police drove them
away, and the horse and cab proceeded at a
furious pace along Leman-street, Alie-etreet, Church-
lane, Commercial-road, to this court in Arbour-street,
East S:epw y, and was followed a considerable distance
by the indignant Greeks. Inspector Gernon ordered the
driver to proceed at once into the court-yard, between
the court and the station-house, and the gates were im-
mediately closed upon the enubitude, who saluted the
murderer with loud execrations. After the disposal of
the other night charges, the prisoner was arraigned i.
the felon's doe's, before Mr. Yardley, and charged with
the wilful murder of George de Matras.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and
two prostitutes were quarrelling in Neptune-street
last night, and the prisoner struck one of them. The
deceased, who was standing by, remonstrated with him,
on his cowardice and said, " am% strike the girl.'
The prisoner said to the deceased " I'll fight you Englir by
Italian, or Greet fashion." The deceased replied in
broken English, "Me no fight," on which the prisoner
took allarge *sheath knife from his pocket and pluuged
it into his abdomen. The deceased staggered anti the
prisoner followed him up, inflicting blow after blow en
the defenceless man who fell to the ground mortally
wounded. The bystanders called out " Murder, seize
the fellow," and the
_prisoner was pursued by a police-
constable named Charles Gascoyne, 93, 11,‘ who
took him and soon had him secured in the station-
house. The wounded man was immediately
taken to big lodging-house, No. 200, Ratcliff-
highway, where he was immediately attended by Mr.
Starkey, a surgeon, of Wellclose-square, and Mr.
Graves, an army surgeon, of No. 201, Ratcliff-highway.
The deceased in reply to a question of Mr. Gernoe, said
he knew the murderer, and described him; and said he
lived in the same house. Mr. Gernon sent a policeman
to the station-house with directions to bring the prisoner
immediately to the house where the deceased was bleed-
ing to death, in order that he might be enaLled to iden-
tify the murderer. Before the policeman could return
the wounded man expired. Upon an examination it
was ascertained that the deceased had received three
wounds iu the abdomen, one on the left breast, one or,

the left armpit, and another on the back of the shouller.
Inspec:or Gc.ro.on produced a large sheath knife of
the ordinary description used by sailor?. It was found

in the street after the Greek was murdered. The blade
of the knife was stained with blood.

Mr. Yardley inquiied whether there had been any
post mortein, examination of the body.
Inspector Geruon replied in the negative.
Mr. Yardley said he should remand-the prisoner until
Monday next.
The body of the deceased is now lying at the lodging
house, 200, Rateliff-highway. It was laid out accord-
ing to the Greek custom this morning, and was visited
by a great number of Greek sailors.
The prisoner is a person of youthful appearance and
fresh complexion, and his appearance is rather prepos-
sessiniz.