The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-31 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY IL' V ENING, AUGUST 31,
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POLICE 121TTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

BOW-STREET.

John Mason, an elderly man, was placed at the bar
charged with stealing a piece of cloth, value 65., the pro-
perty of Mr. Burnet, draper, Piazza, Covent-garden.
. .

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock.

NAPLES.

- Alad said he was sent yesterday by his mistress to Mr.
Burnet's shop to purchase a skein of silk, and as he was
leaving it he saw the prisoner pull down the piece of cloth,
which was hanging at the door, and walk away with it.
He immediately went up to Ihe man and charged him with
the robbery. He took the cloth (produced) from the pri-
Boner's person.

Mr. Bate said he was in the employ of Mr. Burnet. The
property produced had been stoler from the door, where it
was hanging for sale. The last witness brought the pri-
soner into the shop and charged h.m with being the thief.
The losses by robbery from their premises had of late been
very large.

Mr. Henry—The mode in which your goods are exposed,
no doubt, have something to do with that.
Witness—The goods are secured as well as they can be.
Mr. Henry—That may be, but as a great quantity of
goods are hung outside your shop, your losses to some de-
gree may be accounted for.

Witness—The system had been pursued for the last 30
years, and as much care as possible is taken to protect the
property. The losses of late had been exceedingly numer-
ous,but we must, I suppose, submit to it as a tax upon shop-
keepers. _

Mr. Henry—No, not so. It is in consequence of the
manner the goods are hung outside the shop. The sys-
tem you adopt is not followed in the Strand. •
Witness—Our establishment is not so conspicuously
situated as others, and we are ccmpelled to exhibit our
goods, or we should never sell them at all. The stealing is
not eonfined to the outside of the shop. Only a few days
ago five ladies' dresses, of the value of £3O, were taken from
the counter. and a little time previous to that a roll of black
silk of 100 yards was also carried cff.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, AUG. 29.

Mr. Henry—Then I should thick that the shog is not
very well attended to.
Witness—lt is a very large Owe of business. Every
body is frequently engaged with ctstomers, and it is during
this time that the robberies are effected.

Mr. Henry—ls anything known of the prisoner ?
Atkins, one of the constables of the market, said the pri-
soner had, he thought, been before in the court for stealing
a coat from off a " dummy" at a tailor's shop door.

On being asked what he had to say in answer to the
charge, the prisoner said I did not steal the cloth; I picked
it up. lam quite destitute.

Mr. Henry ordered the prisoner to be remanded, in order
to ascertain whether he had been before convicted, as in
that event he should commit him for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DISGRACEFUL' APP LICATION,—A decently-dressed
woman, with a little boy, attended before Mr. Yardley, and
said she sent her little boy to a place a few nights ago and
a sovereign was missed after he left, and since then she had
sent him to the same place and some more money was
missed after he left. She wished to know what she was to
do with her boy.

Mr. Yardley—What do you want me to do with that
child? All I can say is, that when children turn out bad
it is the parents' fault. Take home your child, treat him
and teach him properly. Teach him to pray, and take him
to church, and try all you can to reform him. Who can
teach a child like a good mother ? You are evidently one
of those mothers who leave your children to roam the streets
and look after themselves, instead of taking care of them.
It is the most scandalous application I ever heard. Go
away.

There is little doubt the woman's object was to try to get
the boy into a reformatory, make other persons pay for his
krp, and thus get rid of the burthen.

CLERKENWELL.

CRUELTY BY A FATHER.—Thomas Howell was placed
at the bar this morning, charged with assaulting his un-
fortunate child.

The evidence was to the effect that the prisoner was seen
to strike the child very heavily on the head and also in-
flicting other injuries. On an examination of the child's
body being made, other marks of violence, evidently in-
flicted some days, were discovered.
Mr. D'Eyncourt reproved the father for acting in such a
manner to his own child, and ordered him to find two sure-
ties in £lO each for the next three months.

Two lads were charged with tossing and gambling in the
public streets to the annoyance of the passengers and in-
habitants.

Mr. D' Eyncourt asked if there were any of the complain-
ing parties present.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

On being answered in the negative, he ordered the lads
to be discharged, as it was the duty of those who complained
to come forward substantiate the charge.

COVENT GARDEN.

We understand that Viscount Monck is likely to
succeed Sir E. Walker Head as Governor-General of

Canada. Although this appointment is somewhat excep-
tional in its character, from the fact of Lord Monck not
having been previously in the Colonial service, it is one
which we feel certain will be approved by the public gene-

rally and the community with whose interests it is more
peculiarly connected. As a professional man, a member of
Parliament for some years, and a member of the Govern-
ment, Lord Monck evinced great business capacity and
acquired general popularity. We have every reason to an-
ticipate that his Canadian career will be attended with bene-
ficial results to the public interest.
THE MESSENGER BIRD.—CAPE OF GOOD HOPE,
July 16.—The master of the Bessie Seabright, arrived on
the 14th inst., • from Mauritius, &c., shot a pigeon at sea
just before arriving in port, which bad a phial tied to its
neck, containing a piece of paper with the following :
" The ship Lord Raglan, from Bombay, towards Liverpool,

Greens, dz bunch 3 oto 3 61
Cabbages, pr doz. 0 9to 1 3
Savoy do., pr bh. 0 2to 0 4
Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 4 0
Brocoli, per bush. 1 2to 1 4
Potatoes, per ton 70 to 100 0
New ditto, pr ewt. 0 oto 0 0
Peas, per sieve 1 3to 2 9
Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 0
Carrots, pr do 7 Oto 8 0
Cucumbers 0 4to 1 0
Garlic, per lb
Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0
Spinach, 0 6to 1 0
Brus. sprouts, h.s. 1 6to 1 9
Onions, hf. 5v..... 0 oto 0 0
New Do dz bun 1 3to 2 0
French beans, h.s. 1 oto 1 6
Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0

out 37 days ; lat 37 S., leng 2.4 E. All well."
THE POLICE SABBATH.—On Thursday evening a
numerously attended meeting of the city constables was
held at the school rooms, Milton-street, Chiswell-street,
under the Presidency of Mr. Joseph Payne, judge of the
Middlesex Sessions, at which a petition was unanimously
approved of, claiming for the police of the city a relaxation
of duty on Sunday. The petition, addressed to the Com-
missioners of Police, urges that on that day, and more
especially during the hollrs of Divine service, the streets of
London are very quiet, so that the presence of a large force
in them is unnecessary. It further calls attention to the
fact that by the work they have to perform on the Sabbath-
day the city constables are prevented from fully attending
to their moral and religious duties.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

TREASURE TROVE.—It should be generally known
that treasure trove isnot claimed peremptorily by the Crown,
nor is there any occasion for the finder to sell it to the
nearest silversmith under the apprehension that it would
have to be given up without compensation. A Treasury
minute of the 16th July directs that the superintendents
and inspectors of police shall be authorised to receive trea-
sure trove from the finders, and shall transmit it to the
Solicitor of the Treasury, who will ascertain at the Mint
the real intrinsic or metallic value of the treasure, and the
amount will then be remitted to the finder. Cases will no
doubt occur in which rare and valuable coins will be dis-

posed of at a higher price than their bullion value, but they
will then find their way into some collection, either public
or private, and will not be melted down.
GLASGOW MORALlTY.—Complaints have been
made of treatment to which passengers are liable in the
steamers between Oban and Glasgow. On Saturday last, it
is stated, the steamer Mountaineer started from Oban wiih a
good number of saloon passengers, who had paid full fares
for the best accommodation, and the boat was subsequently
filled with hundreds of Glasgow excursionists, of whom a
large proportion were in a state ofintoxication and who were
allowed to occupy without control all parts of the vessel,
Several fights occurred, whisky was passed round in teacups,
and oaths and indecencies prevailed on all sides. A caution,
therefore, is necessary to prevent families from being ex-
posed to such scenes, especially as it is said to be difficult to
obtain publicity in Scotland for any remonstrances on the
subject.---limes.
BARE POLES.—A letter from Warsaw of the
18th says :—" M. Potapow, director of the Moscow police,
arrived here yesterday from St. Petersburg. At midnght
an order from Colonel Rozdowski, the Prefect of Police,
directed. all the principal officials of his administration to
assemble next morning at eleven o'clock, at M. Potapow's
residence, without moustaches, They were all in attend-
ance, and not one rebellious hair on the upper lip offended
the eye of the high functionary who had sent for them. M.
Potapow announced to them the Emperor's intention of
establishing at Warsaw, and throughout the kingdom, a
police composed exclusively of Poles. He added that he
felt confident of their fidelity and devotedness."
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—Another great ele-
ment of our present civilisation is beginning to make signs
of its existence in the South Kensington Museum. We
allude to the electric telegraph. Bakewell's copying ma-
chine is one of the most interesting of this class, as it brings
before the public eye the means that can be employed to
write with a pen thousands of miles in length. If the At •
lantic cable were in working order, for instance, a man
through its instrumentality could sit down to write a letter
in London, and feel certain that a fac-simile of his hand-
writing was at the same moment coming out of the tele-
graph office at NeW York. The manner in which this
astounding machine works is as follows :—T he message is
originally written on a conducting material, such as tinfoil,
with resin or some non-conducting ink. Over the face of
this letter, which is placed on a cylinder, a point of metal
revolves—this point is in connexion with the conducting
wire ; at New York, say, a piece of chemie-ally-prepared
paper is placed on a like cylinder to receive the message;
both cylinders are made to move round by clockwork. As
the point at this end of the wire passes over the non-con-
ducting resin writing no current passes ; hence the point
which moves synonymously with it at New York does not
change the colour of the paper, but all the other surface of
the writing tablet being a conductor, the currents pass and
deepen its colour by a chemical action on the far distant
recording tablet. The receiver thus obtains a perfect fac-
simile of his correspondent's handwriting done in white
upon a blue ground. Specimens of this electrical hand-
writing are placed beside the telegraphic machine in the
museum at Kensington, and afford an adnivirable example of
the oligraphy of the lightning pen,—Once a Wok.

THIRD EDITION.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa gives an ac-
count of a recent attempt made by the 260 Neapoli-
tan prisoners confined at Fenestrelle to make them-
selves masters of that fortress, situated at 8 leagues
from Turin. Their plan was to organise them-
selves into four bands, one of which was to sur-
prise the commandant and principal officers ;
another was to close the gates of the fortress ;
the third, to get possession of the armoury and
store-houses, and the fourth to occupy the most
important points. The defence of the fortress
was then to be regularly organised, and every
morning early a detachment was to march out and
lay the surrounding country under contribution,
It so happened that the garrison itself was mostly
composed of Neapolitans incorporated with the
regular army ; so that the conspirators found many
willing accomplices, and the plan was in a fair way
of succeeding, when on the 22d it was revealed to
the commandant just a few hours before the time
fixed for the execution. With the greatest prompt-
ness the men under suspicion were disarmed, and
the ringleaders an es! ed.

GREAT STRIKE IN THE IRON TRADE.

The puddlers and rollers employed in the iron
trade of Tyne, Wear, Tees, and Derwent are out on
strike; 7,000 men being unemployed in the Consett
and Derwent Iron-works alone. At the Consett
Iron-works the masters asked of the men a reduc-

tion of 6d. per ton upon the puddlere, and 10 per
cent. upon the roller's earnings, which the men re-
fused to concede; although the Scotch workmen have
done so, and wages are lower in Wales than in the
North. The Bishopwearinouth Iron-works will be
closed to-morrow, on account of the depression in
the iron trade, and as there is a misunderstanding
between the creditors of the Northumberland and
Durham District Bank and the managers of the
Consett Ironworks with regard to the payment
of a large sum of money due from them for
that property, and as the managers, on account
of the depression, are unable to meet it, it is
threatened that these immense works may be closed
before many months elapse. With regard to the
strike of the puddlers and rollers at Consett, a
local paper, far from unfavourable to the men,
writes :
" The baneful effects of the strike are being
already felt in the district, not only by the work-
men but by the tradesmen and provision dealers.
The system of trading is by fortnightly credits,
and if the strike continue only for a few weeks, a
considerable portion of the traders will be brought
to the verge of bankruptcy. We saw several shop-
keepers whose average fortnightly receipts amount
to from £l2O to £l5O, and although the strike be
scarcely a fortnight old, their receipts have been
reduced by more than one half. They are, how-
ever, in a manner compelled to give goods,
although the receipts should be nothing ; for, if
they permit their customers to go away they have
no means of recovering their money. How the
strike has operated on the wholesale trade may be
seen from the following fact. We have already
stated that on an average 12 trucks of provisions
came weekly to the place, and last week there was
only one. The wholesale dealers refuse to credit the
retailers for their orders, knowing the difficulty of
securing the sums credited in the present circum-
stances of the district. We trust the difference
between the workmen and employers will be
speedily arranged. In the interests of the men, we
recommend them to accede to the terms of the mas-
ters, as their brethren in Staffordshire and Scot-
land have done. Of two evils, we ought always, as
reasonable men, to choose the lesser, and it seems to
us that the men, in the present condition of the
iron trade, have no alternative but to work at the
reduced rate of wages, or starve."

The show of fruit continues moderate, but with moat kinds
of vegetables the market is seasonably supplied. Generally
speaking, a steady business is doing, as follows :
FRUIT.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d
Pine apples, perlb 3 oto 5 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 1 0
Colonial do., each 1 6to 3 0 Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 3
Grapes,per lb 20to 5 0 Cobnuts, per lb 1 6to 2 0
Foreign do 2 oto 3 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Melons, each
Peaches, perdoz. • 8 0w 15 0 j Figs, per doz 2 oto 4
Nectarines, per dz 6 oto 12 0 Strawberries pun. 0 6 to 1 6
Apples, per 4 sievet 6to 3 0 Gooseberries hf sv 5 oto 6 0
Pears, per do .... 1 9to 4 0 Currants, per do. 5 oto 8 0
Oranges, per 100 60to 12 OiPlums, per do.
Lemons, per 120.. 4 oto S 0 , Greengages, pr do. 6 oto 7 0
Apricots. per doz 1 oto 3 0 'Raspberries, pr ptlo 6to 1 0
VEGETABLES.

Shallots, per lb .. 1 6to 0 6
Horseradish, pbn 1 oto 2 0
Parsley, per ditto 0 2to 0 0
Celery, per ditto 0 Bto 1 0
Beet, per doz. .. 1 6to 2 0
Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0
Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 3
Mushrooms.p pun 2 oto 3 0
Artichokes, pr dz 3 oto 5 0
Cabbage lett,score 0 Bto 1 3
Endive, per score 2 oto 3 C
Radishes, dz hnds 0 Bto 0 10
Tomatoes, doz... 6 oto 0 0
Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0
Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0
Rhubarb, per bun 0 4to 0 ii
Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 0
Seakale, par pun. 1 0 to 1 6

Turkeys, 4s Od to 6s Od ; poults, 5s Od to 6s Od each ;
geese, 4s Od to 6s 6d ; goslings, 4s Od to 6s 6d ; ducklings,
is 9d to 3s Od ; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each ; wild do., 6d
to is ld ; pigeons, Os 6d to 9d each; large Surrey fowls,
6s Od to 10s Od ; chickens, 4s Od to 6s Od; barn-door fowls,
3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, 4s Od ; hares, 2s Od to 3s Od ;
grouse, is 6d to 36 6d each; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ;
ptarmigan, Os Od to Os ; woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s Od; snipes, is
6d to 2s Od; teal, Os Od to is 6d ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ;
widgeons, is 6d to Os Od ; plovers, is Od to is 6d each ;
guinea fowls, Os.Od to Os Od; roasting pigs, 5s Od to 8s Od
each; Ostend fresh butter, lid to is ld ; English, is Od
to is 4d per lb ; English eggs, 8s Od to lOs Od ; French do.,
7s 6d to 9s Od per 120 ; leverets, is 6d to 3s Od each.