The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-17 00:00:00

On the evening of Friday, the 4th inst., a f,'bntle-
manly-looking man called at prosecutor's shop,
and requesting some one might be sent with him
for a timepiece to be repaired, the shopboy accom-
panied him to Jertnyn-street, The latter not re-
turning at shutting-up time,, the prosecutor having,
according to custom, cleared and deposited the
contents of his window in a tin box, which he
placed upon the counter, put up the shutters and
closed the door, Scarcely had he done 30 than a
knock drew him to it again, and he found a dog-
cart by the kerb with a man, he believed to 'oe
Tanner, in it, pulling at an apparently restive
horse. The man called him and kept I".iint in talk
about his uncle's clock, which ht said he would
send in the morning for repo.',r, and then drove off.
Returning to his stop prosecutor missed the box
and contents; out not in time to secure the dog-
cart, the man, or the persbn who knocked at the
door. No time was lost, however, in supplying the
pollee with information of the felony, and giving
the best description of both men, for it is hardly
necessary to say that the Jermyn-street timepiece
story was all a hoax—the " gentlemanly-looking
man" giving the boy " the slip," after leading him
to the far end of the street, and keeping him
waiting some time for his retura. • Acting upon
the information given, Detective Sergeant Cole,
with Constables Dawson and Brown, of the C divi-
sion, traced the prisoners to 22, Mape-street, Beth-
nal-green-road, and apprehended them, after
watching them fiom the house near Shoreditch.
On Gloss the police found a new gold watch and
chain, and at their residence a number of pawn-
brokers' duplicates for watches.
Mr. Beadon asked Cole if he had any further
evidence.

The answer was that. there was a city case he
was prepared to go Into.
Mr. Beadon said this Court had no jurisdiction
in that case.

The ofncer said there would, he believed, be
another from Notting-hill, but there was no wit-
ne&a now present.
Mr. Beadon asked if any portion of the property
in the case in this district had been traced in the
interim of the remand.

The officer replied in the negative.
Mr. Beadon said he must discharge Gloss.
Mr. Beard said he hoped he would do the same
with Tanner.

Mr. 13cadon said he certainly should not, and
would remand him till Wednesday next.

LAMBETH.--SENDING POWDER BY RAILWAY.
—Mr. Eley, one of the firm of Eley Brothers, cap
and cartridge manufacturers in Gray's-inn-road,
appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer to a sum-
mons charging his firm that they did unlawfully
send by the South-Western Railway Company a
quantity of gunpowder without distinctly mark-
ing its nature on the outside of the packages
containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in
writing to the company or their servants at the
time of, &c.
Mr. Thomas Bent attended from the South-
Western
Railway Company to support the sum-
mons,
and from his statement, and the testimony
of the 'witnesses called by him, it appeared
that a box, addressed " Mr. Webb, gun.
maker, Salisbury," was delivered at Clemmitt's
Inn, Old Bailey, on the 2d instant, from a cart
belonging to the Messrs. Eley, and on the 3d it
was forwarded to , the Nine Elms station of the
South-Western Railway, to be sent to Salisbury
as directed. The company's porter, doubting the
representation that the boxhcontained fruit, opened
it, and discovered, instead of fruit, that it was
filled with ball cartridges. He in consequence
made a representation of the fact to the proper
officer, and the present:proceeding was the conse-
quence.
The defence set up was that the intention was
to forward the box by carrier and not by railway,
and Mr. Eley produced a printed bill issued by Mr.
Clemmitt of the Old Bailey, in which the name of
" J. Dore" was inserted as the Salisbury carrier,
and pointed to the box itself, on which the word
" carrier" appeared in the corner.
Mr. Bent observed that it must be perfectly
notorious that for years past the road carriers to
Salisbury were discontinued, and thought the in-
tention must have been to forward this very
dangerous package by the railway, and from what
he had been informed the present was not the first
time that Messrs. Eley had been summoned for a
similar offence.
Mr. Eley declared that this was not correct, and
said the present was the first summons he had ever
received. With respect to the discontinuance of
the Salisbury carrier he had no personal know-
ledge, and founded his opinion of the contrary
from seeing the fact printed in Mr. Clemmitt's
bill.

Mr. Elliott considered the bill of Mr. Clemmitt
calculated to deceive, and
said that if there was
in reality no such Salisbury Carrier, the name of
J. Dore as such should not appear on the face of
it. Under the circumstances, and the name of
"carrier" having been written on the box, be
should dismiss the summons.

SOUTHWARK.—CONVICTION OF A FEMALE
SHOPLIFTER.—Mary Ann Turner, a well-dressed
young woman, was brought before Mr. Combe for