The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-26 00:00:00

A GREAT TURKEY CARPET CASE.

Plaintiff is the manager of the Metropolitan Steam
Bleaching Company and sought. to recover 16s. 4d., for
cleaning a Turkey carpet belonging to defendant. Plaintiff
stated defendant applied to the company, and gave instruc-
tions for the removal of a carpet to the works for the pur-
pose of being cleaned. Accordingly a man was sent, but
upon his arrival neither defendant nor her servant were at
home, but another person gave plaintiff's carman a roll of
carpet which he took away. This carpet was a large Tur-
key carpet, which was properly cleaned and returned.
Plaintiff did not know that the woman who gave the carpet
was not defendant's servant until to-day.
His Honour—How do you clean the carpets ?
Plaintiff—Oh, we wash them with soap and water, and
dry them.

Defendant said she never authorised the plaintiff to take
away the carpet, which was nearly spoiled by the cleaning
process. So far from being benefited, she had been a great
loser by it. The facts were that she wrote to the plaintiff
about some pieces of Brussels carpet, and he, by his man,
took the Turkey in mistake. As soon as she discovered
this, defendant wrote to the plaintiff desiring him not to
proceed, as he had got the wrong carpet ; but she received
in reply a notification that she was too late, as the cleaning
had commenced. When the Turkey was sent home tho
Brussels was delivered to plaintiff's man, and on the return
of that it was paid for, though entirely spoilt. Defendant
never intended the Turkey carpet to be cleaned, as she was
about to sell it.

His Honour—That would add to its value ?
Defendant—ln this case it greatly detrimented it.
His Honour—l suppose it was a relic of a past century ?
Defendatt (laughing)—lndeed, it was net. I remember
it being laid down.
His Honour—Ah, but it was not new ?

Defendant—Yes, it was—quite new.
His Honour thought there were laches on both sides, and
as matters stood he thought a verdict for Bs, would meet
the merits of this great Turkey carpet case. (Laughter.)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(211IS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A CONFIDENTIAL SERVANT; —Worthy
Rich, a young man lately in the employ of Messrs. Nicholls,
extensive clothworkers, of Marshal-street, Golden-square,
was charged with stealing a piece of deerskin, the property
of his employers.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prosecution.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was
allowed to live by the prosecutors in a private house attached
to the warehouse, and some degree of confidence being
placed in him, the keys of the warehouse were left in his
care; but in consequence of a quantity of valuable property
being continually missed, a watch was set on the warehouse,
two active officers being employed for the purpose, named
Crocker and Joy; and on the afternoon of Sunday last the
prisoner was seen to come out of the house, and return
about eight in the evening ; and from the position in which
they were placed they saw the prisoner go down the steps
leading to the warehouse, and shortly after leave. On the
Monday morning one of the prosecutors, Mr. Lloyd Hall
Nicholls, had a piece of cloth re •measured, and found a
quantity of it missing, and as the prisoner never re-
turned, he was sought for and taken into custody at the
Mogul Concert-room, Drury-lane, on' the previous night,
on suspicion of stealing it.
The prisoner denied being at the warehouse at all on the
Sunday.

Mr. Lewis said he should be prepared with further evi-
dence on a future day, and the prisoner was remanded.

THAMES.

TWICE MISTAKEN.—George Green, a man about 40
years of age, and described by the police as a card-sharper,
of Green-street, Walworth, was brought up on remand
before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing a £5 Bank of
England note and four sovereigns from the person of
Emanuel Ribero, a Spanish seaman, belonging to the ship
Salamanca, in the East India Dock.
The prosecutor charged a man with stealing a pilot coat
from him on Monday last, and positively swore to the
identity of the coat found upon the prisoner, who would
most undoubtedly have been committed, if a tailor, who
had made a pilot coat for each of the parties, had not come
forward and proved that he made the coat in dispute for
the prisoner, and sold it to him. The prisoner was, there-
fore, discharged.
On the same day Green was charged with robbing the
seaman of £9, and the evidence for the defence being very
unsatisfactory, the magistrate remanded the prisoner
until this day.

The statement of the prosecutor, delivered in the Spanish
language, and interpreted to the Court, was, that on Satur-
day, the 19th inst., he was in Whitechapel, when a stout
man met and asked him if he wanted a ship, to which he
replied, in the affirmative. His new friend then took him
to a public-house, where he saw. the prisoner, who tat

alongside of him. There were three men in the room, and
they all asked him to treat them. He consented to do so,
and opened his porte-monnaie, which contained a £5 note
and four sovereigns, and was selecting one sovereign for
the purpose of changing it to pay the reckoning, whet the
prisoner snatched the whole of the money and ran away
with it, and' the other men followed him. He went after
them but could not overtake them. H e went into the same
house again in the afternoon and saw the prisoner there,
and gave him into custody.
Police-constable, 34 1-1, said the seaman, in broken Eng-
lish, made known to him that he had been robbed, and said
two men had run away, and one was in the public-house
where the robbery took place. He took the prisoner into
custody. He knew him to be a card-sharper, and that the
house where the robbery was committed was frequented by
card-sharpers.
Mr. Charles Young, who defended the prisoner, said the
seaman was as much mistaken in this case as he was in the
other heard last Monday. He called two witnesses; the
first was •

Margaret Collins, servant in a public-house, whose evidence
was given in a rambling manner, talked about pots of half-
and-half and quarterns of gin, and then said,—Be me
shows, yer honner's wortchip, that man (pointing to the
Spaniard) was not in the house of me mishtress at all last
Saturday.
Mr. Yardley—This evidence is by no means satisfactory.
James Lowe, a respectable mechanic, said he was in the
public-house on Saturday last. The sailor came into the
house with two men. The prisoner was not one of them,
and was certainly not in the room when the man said he
was robbed.

Mr. Yardley—The prisoner is represented to be a bad
character, and the house has a bad name, but after the evi-
dence of the last witness I can't detain the prisoner any
longer, and he is discharged.

THE ARMY.

Yesterday morning the sick and wounded troops
who arrived at Chatham the previous afternoon
from India were marched from the invalid estab-
lishment, St Mary's Barracks, to Fort Pitt Hos-
pital, for the purpose of being medically inspected
by the staff at that establishment. The invalid
troops, to the number of 120 men of all ranks,
sailed from Calcutta in the Alnwick Castle, Captain
Wright, on the 12th of November, touching at St.
Helena on the 10th ult., the voyage occupying 102
days. The sick and wounded troops who embarked
belonged to the 2d (the Queen's) Dragoon Guards,
sth (Fusiliers), 6th, Bth (the King's), 10th, 13th
(Prinee Albert's Light Infantry), 19th, 20th, 23d
(Royal Welsh Fusiliers), 24th, 32d (Light Infan-
try), 34th, 35th, 37th, 43d (Light Infantry), 53d,
54th, 60th (Rifles), 73d, 78th (Highlanders), 79th
(Highlanders), 84th, 86th, 88th (Connaught Ran-
gers), and 90th (Light Infantry) Regiments, Royal
Artillery, and the Rifle Brigade, the whole under
the command of Lieut. F. Peel, 34th Regiment.
During the passage 22 deaths occurred on board—
viz., Lieut. Baillie, 2d battalion Rifle Brigade,
Lieut. Sewell, Madras Horse Artillery, 17 men,
two women, and one child. A considerable num-
ber of the men have received wounds or injuries
in their conflicts with the rebels, and all are entitled
to the Indian Mutiny Medal. After their arrival
at Fort Pitt they were medically inspected, and 40
ordered to be taken into hospital for medical treat-
ment. Nearly the whole of the others are pro-
nounced convalescent, their health having im-
proved by the sea voyage to England. These will
be forwarded to their depots in the course of a few.
days. The invalid troops belonging to the Royal
Artillery were forwarded to Woolwich.
The Royal Engineer Train are under orders to
proceed from Brompton Barracks, Chatham, next
week, to the camp at Aldershott, for the purpose
of taking up their, summer quarters.
The war authorities having decided on forming
an Indian depot battalion at Chichester for East
India depots, the battalion now at Walmer will be
transferred to that station, when it is expected that
the 3d Battalion of Infantry at Chatham garrison,
under the command of Lieut.-Colonel C. E. Fairte
lough, will be removed from the hut-barracks to
Walmer.

The Spanker gunboat left the Tyne on Thurs-
day on a cruise to sea with the Northumberland
Coast-guard volunteers, who are now under drill.
The men have been exercised with great guns and
small arms, and have made very considerable pro-
gress.