The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-17 00:00:00

LAW" INTBLLIGENCE—iThis Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
His Honour is the "sitting Commissioner" for the next
fortnight, the other Commissioners being what is officially
termed "out of the bog" on any case to be balloted to
them.

The Senior Commissioner (Evans) will return on the Ist
October next, Mr. Commissioner Fane on the 4th.
The cases on the list to-day were chiefly for audit's choice
of assignees.

IN RE COOK AND GREENWOOD.

These bankrupts were described as of Mark-lane, wine
merchants, and this was an audit meeting.
The case has been before the Court on previous occasions,
and the certificate meeting stands adjourned until the 11th
of November next. The total debts and liabilities are about
£25,000. The assets in hand available for a dividend will
be declared in a few days.

Mr. Lawrence and Mr. C. E. Lewis support, and Mr.
Linklater and Mr. J. Sorrell oppose the certificate.

IN RE L. KISS.

An audit meeting was held in the matter of Ladislaus
Kiss, who, it will be remembered, absconded, and was ap-
prehended by one of the City detectives, but remains in
custody abroad. The business of to-day was pro forma,
but there appeared to be a prevailing opinion that he will
ultimately arrive in England under surveillance, by reason
of his having passed with a false passport.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—( This Day.)

BOW-STREET.

William Channer was charged with highway robbery.
The complainant, a boy named Dawson, said—Last
night he was passing through one of the streets near
Bloomsbury-square, about 7 o'clock, when he had occasion
to look at the money he had in his purse. Just as he was
closing it the prisoner came up and snatched it out of
his hand and ran off. He followed and called out " Stop
thief," when the man was stopped by the police.

Police .constable 123 E said last evening ho was on duty
in Montague-street, when he heard the cry of " Stop thief,"
and saw the prisoner running. He followed him, and saw
him throw the purse down an area in Market-street. The
purse produced was identified by the boy as his property.
Police-constable 127 E said he stopped the prisoner
when the boy came up and charged him with stealing his
purse.

- Prisoner—He could not say that—l did not do it. The
fact is I was going to show a friend of mine a black and tan
dog—

Mr. Corrie—You had better hear what I've got to say
before you make any statement.
Prisener—Well, I didn't do anything, but I'll hear what
you have to say.

Mr. Corrie—You have heard the evidence against you,
and whatever you say will be written down, and used
against 3 ou.

Prisoner—You're going to send such a case as this to
the Old Bailey ?

Mr. Corrie—Yes, I am. I think it a very serious one.
Robbing a person on the highway cannot be treated in a
lenient manner. Do you wish to make any statement?
Prisoner—No, Sir ; don't. I mean I never did what the
police say.

Mr. Corrie—Do you wish that written down ?

Prisoner—No, Sir ; I don't care about anything being
written down.

Mr. Corrie—l shall commit you for trial.

James Barratt was charged with stealing a valuable coat,
the property of a gentleman named Lawrence, residing at
3, Leicester-place, Leicester-square.

The prosecutor said he was playing billiards at the Opera
Hotel, in Bow-street, last night, at about a quarter to 10,
when the prisoner entered the room. Some gentlemen said
the prisoner had been shifting the coats about that were
hanging up, and in a short time after he was seen to leave
the place. On looking at the coats that were on the pegs
in the hall it was found that he had taken away a good one
and left a very bad one. He was followed and taken into
custody with the stolen coat in his possession.
Mr. Cowie—Did he say anything ?
Prosecutor—Yes, he said he'd made a mistake, if it was
the wrong coat he had got. He could not have taken my
coat away in place of his own without knowing the dif-
ference.

Prisoner—You don't mean to say mine's a bad coat ?
You're showing the magistrate the worst side of it. It's
not a first-rate one inside, but it's not a bad one on the
whole.

Prosecutor—But it is not at all like mine.
Inspector West said some other property had been found
upon the prisoner which he should like to have some in-
quiry made about.

Prisoner—Oh ! those things I found. I don't know any-
thing about them further than picking them up.
Remanded for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STEALING BREAD.—Henry A.ll;;;;:ajo—urneyman baker,
in the employ of Mr. John Thomas Earl, of Fobert's-place,
Regent-street, baker, was charged as follows :
It appeared that on the previous morning the prisoner
had a quantity of bread delivered to him to serve the cus-
tomers at their houses. He, however, having delivered 32
loaves out of 40, sold the remainder for ls. 33., and ab •
sconded. On being brought back to his employers by the
police he admitted stealing the bread and said he had sold it.
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Mr. Beadon (to the prosecutor)—Did he say who he sold
the bread to ?

Mr. Allen —No, he refused to tell, and said he had spent
the money. The prisoner has been in my employ six
weeks.

Mr. Beadon committed the prisoner, who pleaded guilt y
For two months with hard labour.

ROBBERY AT MESSRS. PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—Wm.
Peacock, a lad, was charged with stealing two breast pins,
atl2s, Oxford-street, the property of Mr. George Parkins.
Mr. Parkins, stationer, said he sent the pins to be re-
paired, and they were sent back from the house in the City.
George Gillier, 31, Nutford-place, Edgware-road, hall
porter at Messrs. Parkins and Gotto's, Oxford-street, said
he received two pins on the 25th of July from a jeweller in
Cannon-street, and placed them on his desk, and about
three hours after missed them. The prisoner had during
that time brought in some goods.
Robert Harris, of 22, Holywell-lane, Shoreditch, pawn-
broker, produced the two pins, which he stopped. He
identified the prisoner as the person bringing them. Pri-
soner said he had found them, and he told him he had
better take them to Worship-street.

Prisoner pleaded guilty, and nothing being known
against his character,
Mr. Parkins said he did not wish to press the case
harshly.
Mr. Beadon having made some most appropriate re-
marks on the fact of the prisoner having lost his character,
committed him for six weeks.

LOCALITIES OF FISH.—The fact that fish herd to-
gether in great flocks or nations seems now to be well esta-
blished. All the inhabitants of the great deep, from the
mighty whale down to the tiny minnow, live in what may
be termed colonies. Thus we have the term " a school of
whales; we have also the young salmon in shoals, each
year's growth in separate companies, and every fish as local
in its dwelling-place as men are; we know too that the
herrings live also in nations, which arrive at maturity in vast
groups at different periods of the season. The same laws
govern the crustaceai. Persons who deal in shell fish can
easily tall the different localities whence they derive their
different supplies. A Scotch lobster can be readily distin-
guished from a Norway one, and a "native" oyster differs
considerably from a scuttle-mouth." These are all points
which ought long ago to have led to a better understanding
of the natural and economic history of fish. This igno-
rance has well nigh ruined our most valuable fisheries. We
have been trading for years in the belief that the supply
was inexhaustible, and are but beginning to find out that
it is even possible to exhaust the sea. The German Ocean
has been so long 'the fishing pond of Europe that we can
scarcely wonder. considering the wealth that has been drawn
from its depths, that its supplies are beginning to fail us.
There can be no doubt, however, that other sources of sup-
ply will be discovered ; if so, we can only hopo that some
method will be observed in harrying the nest, in order that
the supply may be made to go as far as /possible.—
London Review.