The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-17 00:00:00

THAMES.

This morning, on Mr. Yardley taking his' seat on the
bench, he announced that he had just received £2O from
the Goldsmiths' Company for the poor-box fund. ,Directly
afterwards the court was filled with poor and des,fitnte
women, thinly-clad, applying for relief. Among "n
were many widows, with families dependent upon them fp:*
support. They all put in letters of recommendation from
the clergy of the respective places of worship they attend,
or from respectable tradesmen known to the officers of the
court. Mr. Yardley relieved several of the most pressing
with ss. each, for which they expressed their gratitude.
There is a large amount of poverty in the district, which
has been much increased by the severity of the weather.
AN ODD CASE Or PICKING POCKETS.—A large headed,
rough-looking Irish boy, with an immense quantity of rod
carroty hair, who gave the name of James Bary, and sot
up a dismal howl, was charged with stealing a cotton
handkerchief. _

Alex. Mannith, a foreigner, said he kept a shop in the
West India-road. He was passing along Ratcliff-highway
last night when the prisoner took his handkerchief out of
his pocket. He said to the prisoner, " Why, that is only a
cotton ono ; give it me back, it is of no use, and I don't
like to be without a handkerchief this cold weather." (A
laugh.) The prisoner dropped the handkerchief, and wit-
ness put it into his pocket and walked on. A few seconds
afterwards the prisoner again " priggod" his handkerchief,
and he said to him again, "Why steal cotton handker-
chiefs ?" and toak it away from him, on which several boys
pushed against him, and one of them struck him a violent
blow and nearly stunned him.
Mr. Yardley--Then your recommendation to steal a silk
handkerchief, for your words amounted to that, did not
succeed P

The prisoner, who whined dreadfully, said, " please your
wortohip, I was scratchiug my leg and that ugly foreigner
knocked me down and bate me and kicked me."

Childs, a constable, No. 193 11, said the prisoner was a
notorious young blackguard, the associate of thieves.
Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner until Thursday next.

THIS DAY'S sHIPPING.

LONDON, Dec. 17.—Wind this day at noon, North
moderate breeze, sharp frost, and fine.
PORTSMOUTH Dee. 16.—Wind, N. E.—Sailed —Ex
periment, for. Gibraltar. Off port—Triton, from Sunder.
land for Hong Kong.

PLYMOUTM, Dec. 16. Wind, N. E. Arrived—
11.M.5. Hiintlaya, from Portsmouth for Halifax.
CARDIFF, Dec. 16.—Wind, N.W.—Sailed—Mariner, for
Cape of Good Hope ; Rhine, for Gibraltar.
CLYDE, Dec. 16.—Sailed—Spectator, for Domerara ;
Greenock, for Trinidad, W est Indies ; Bangalore, for Ma-
tanzas.

SWANSEA, Dec. 16.—Wind, N.—Sailed—Pizarro, for
Caldera.

QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 16.—Arrived—Angelina, from Ca,"
lao; Glasgow (s.s.), from the Clyde for New York.
JERSEY, Dec. 15.—Wind, N.E.—Arrived—Exact from
Buenos Ayres to Plymouth. Sailed—Susan, for Barba-
does.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.

Wind 8., very severe frost.
Arrived—Cheshire Witch, from Swansea; Constantia,
from Shields ; Delight, from Seaham ; Wonder, steamer,
from Weymouth ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Courier,
steamer, from Jersey; Thomas, from Swansea; Eling,
Robert and Mary, Griffin, and Mentor, from Sunderland.
Sailed—Wonder, steamer, for Jersey; Argyll, steamer,
for Carentan ; Alliance, steamer, for Havre.
LITRPOOL, Saturday Morning.

Wind S.S.E.
No arrivals or sailings.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind northerly ; tide, three hours' ebb ; weather thick
and frosfy.
Arrived, Dec. 17—Rhine, steamer, from Antwerp; Bel-
gium, steamer, from Ostend.

DEAL, Friday Morning.

Wind S.S.V. ; moderate.
Passed—Seine and Tamese, screw steamers, for Paris.
Sailed--Her 111ajosty'S skip Melpomene,

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN THE CIVIL Sitavics.—War-office—Mr. George Alfred
Jolly has been appointed a temporary clerk in the Military
Stare Department, and received his certificate of successful
examination ; Mr. D. F. F. Richardson has been appointed
a temporary clerk, and passed his examination. Admiralty
—Mr. Francis Lambert Percival Todd has been appointed
to a temporary clerkship, and passed his examination.
General Register Office.—Mr. Frederick Ecstein has been
appointed a clerk in London, and passed his examination.
Customs.---Mr. Albert Walker, clerk in the Examiner's
Office, has been appointed a supernumerary clerk in the Con-
troller General's Office, London; Mr. John Chalmers has
been appointed a landing-water at Grangemouth ; Mr. John
J. Mackenzie has been appointed a clerk at Hartlepool ; Mr.
Henry S. Worsfold has been promoted from second to first•
class clerk in the Legal Quays Department, London ; Mr.
Wm. Scott from third to second class clerk in ditto ;
.Mr.
John N. Fennings from fourth to third class clerk in ditto;
Mr. George Still from fifth to fourth class clerk in ditto;
and Mr. George E. Skinner from sixth to fifth class clerk in
ditto.—Civil Set-vice Gazette.
APOTHECARIEW•HALL.—At the Court of Exa-
miners held on Thursday the following gentlemen were
admitted licentiates of the Society of Apothecaries, viz.:—
Messrs. A. L. Andrew, of Manchester; H. F. Bate, of
Soinersetshire ; F. Dunn, of Wolverhampton; T. H.
Hawkins, of Reading; R. Hughes, of Trefriw North
Wales ; T. Mitchell, of Redruth ; W. Murray, of Chester-
le-Street; W. G. Tacy, of Louth; and J. Thompson, of
Snaith.

IRON FRIGATES FOR HOME DEFENCE.—The
Admiralty have decided upon building two new iron frigates
in addition to those now in course of construction by the
Thames Iron shipbuilding Company and Messrs. Napier,
of Glasgow. The new frigates are to be of a similar con-
struction to these already in progress, but of smaller dimen-
sions. Contracts for them have just been taken, one by
Messrs. Palmer, of Jarrow, and the other by Messrs. West-
wood and Baillie, of Millwall. It may be as well to state
that the two new frigates are designed exclusively for home
defence,—.Mechanics' Magazine.