The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00

THAMES.

SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.—Mr. Samuel Gluck-
stein, of the firm of Gluckstein and Co., extensive cigar im-
porters and manufacturers, applied to Mr. Selfe for a war-
rant to apprehend a man named Phillip Moses, late of No.
17 Little Alie-street, Goodman's-fields, Whitechapel, and
supposed to be now in Ireland, who had defrauded the firm
to the amount of £75 under the following remarkable cir-
cumstances :

Mr. Gluckstein said that in the early part of last month,
Moses, who gave his address in Alic 'street as above, and
who was related to the head of a very wealthy firm in the
City, waited upon him and his partner (now present), and
represented himself as an export merchant and wholesale
optician, and said that he was about to proceed to
Glasgow on very important business, and that he
had a customer who would buy any quantity of
cigars. Moses also said that he wished a very particular
article to be manufactured fur him, and gave an order for
£75 worth of goods, which he directed to be forwarded to
the railway station at Glasgow, and promised to forward
the money to London on receipt of the goods. He
despatched a portion of the cigars ordered to Glasgow
on the 12th instant, and the remainder a week after-
wards, but instead of the money he had since received
the following letter bearing theßelfast postmark, but with-
out either date or address :

" Gentlemen,—l deeply regret that, owing to an ex-
tremely unfortunate speculation, I am unable to meet m'
liabilities. Ere you receive this I shall be on my way to a
foreign country. Believe me, you shall not lose a single
penny by me. Sorry indeed I am that I cannot pay you, but
believe me, that it I cannot soon send you all the account
I will a portion.—Yours obediently,
PHILLIP MOSES."
Addressed—" Messrs. Gluckstein and Co., Cigar Manu-
facturers, 37, High-street, Whitechapel, London."
Mr. Selfe—You have been defrauded by a man with
whose whereabouts you are not acquainted.
. Mr. Gluckstein—Yes, sir, that is so. We believe he is
travelling in Ireland or Scotland. He is about five feet
ten inches in height, of persuasive and gentlemanly man-
ner, high forehead, florid complexion, and bushy whiskers
of a sandy colour.
Mr. Selfe said it was a very gross swindle, but not a case
in which he could interfere. He could not grant a warrant,
and the only course open to Messrs. Gluckstein and Co.
was to sue Mr. Moses in one of the civil courts whenever
and wherever he could be found.

TIIIS DAY'S SHIPPING, •

LONDON, Jan. B.—Wind this day sit noon—East ;
moderate breeze, and tine weather, with very severe
frost.

DEAL, Jan. 7.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Shaftesbury,
from Calcutta; Carroca, from the River, and sailed for
New Orleans.

BRISTOL, Jan. 7.—Wind 8.E., foggy.—Arrived—
Carmen, from Havannah.
DovEu' Jan. 6.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—F•nelon,
from Rio Janeiro for Antwerp.
PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 6.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's steamer Triton, from the West Coast of Africa;
her Majesty's steamer Megrera, from Guernsey.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 7.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Epsom,
from: Hong. Sailed—Dane, screw steamer, for the Cape
of Good Mope.

FALMOUTH, Jan. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Shannon
steamer, from the West Indies for Southampton.

(DY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PLYMOUTH, Tuesday, 11.20 a.m.
A paddle-wheel steamer, under canvas only, supposed to
be the Shannon, now coming in.
SOTTXIMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Jan. 7.—Sarah Anne, from Cowes ; Courier,
steamer, from Jersey ; Argyll, steamer, from Carentan ;
Havre, steamer, from Havre.
Sailed—Tagus, steamer, for Lisbon; Teutonia, steamer,
for New York ; Alliance, steamer, for Havre ; Southamp-
ton, steamer, for Jersey.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Passed—Peninsular, screw steamer, from Cadiz, -for
London; Kahlamba, barque, from Mauritius, for London
Sailed—The homeward bound, for the river and northern
ports.

FROZEN RATS.—As two gentlemen were skating
on the river Wharfe, near Otley, on Saturday, they disco-
vered six dead rats partly imbedded in the ice. The heads of
the animals were all pointed in one direction, and seemed to
have been stopped in their course by the intense frost.
They appear at the time of their stoppage to have been
crossing from the Fernley to the Otley side of the river,
and one of them, like a brave general, had taken the lead
in the fatal Enterprise, and the second was a little in advance
of the rest, which were following closely up in couples.
TAXES UPON EVERYTHING.—In some official cor-
respondence respecting our colony of Natal, just published
by the Colonial-office, a tax of 7s. a wife is alluded to as
in operation in that colony, "so that a Caffre having six
wives has 425. per annum to pay to Government." The
tax was originally imposed by order of the Lieutenant-
Governor " as paramount chief over tho natives," or father
of his country, bitt was afterwards fixed by a law of the
Legislature,