The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-11 00:00:00

THAMES.

PLUNDERING STABLES.—THE THIEF AND RECEIVER.
—William Conchman, a labourer, who is well known to the
police, end William Manning, a marine store dealer, of 8,
White Horse-street, Ratcliff, were brought before Mr.
Woolrych, the first charged with breaking and entering the
stables of Mr. Saul, butcher and omnibus proprietor, of 28,
Three Colt-street, Limehouse, Mr. Robert Passmore, South-
street, Limehouse, and Mr. George Barnett, omnibus pro-
prietor, of 7, Hume -terrace, St. Leonard's-road, Bromley,
and the other with feloniously receiving the property know-
ing it to be stolen.

It appeared that the premises of the parties named had
been forcibly entered in the course of the last week, much
damage done to their property and brass tenets and
other horse fittings, the brass work and fittings
of an omnibus, likewise the cushion of an om-
nibus, and various other property stolen. In one
instance, the burglar or burglars had wantonly
destroyed property which could not be removed. Yesterday
a police constable named Moses Nichol], No. 97 K, ar-
rested the prisoner in bed, at Bass's coffee-shop, in Old-
road, Stepney, and some of the stolen property was found
to have been in his possession. Manning was afterwards
taken into custody at his own shop, and some of the brass
tenets' stolen from Mr. Barnett's and Mr. Passmore's stables
were found there. Manning also delivered to police ser-
geant Nunn, 12 K, the cushion of an omnibus, stolen from
Mr. Saul's stable. The value of it was stated to be worth
20s. Manning said he gave Is. for it, and sold it to a butcher,
his opposite neighbour, for 2s. Manning obtained the
cushion from the butcher, and delivered it to Nunn. A
good deal of evidence was gone into affecting both priso-
ners, one as a thief and the other as a receiver of the stolen
property at very low prices.

Mr. Woolryeh remanded the prisoners for a week.

THE ABSENTEES FROM THE LATE
_DIVISION

(From the _Elector.)
Our readers will remember the nursery rhyme
prDsHrves the memory of " The Old Man of
Madeira," and the toast he daily proposed over a
bottle of the wine of his own island:
" Absent friends, and I wish they were nearer."
This sentiment of the venerable native of the
wine-producing island was, no doubt, felt by many
of our readers last week on perusing, the names of
the absent friends of the ballot in Table IV. of our
analysis of the division of the 23d ultimo. For
the absence of Mr. Brocklehurst, Mr. Cobden, and
Sir G. Dashwood there was in each case a valid ex-
cuse. Why Sir J. Arnott, Sir G. Bowyer, and Mr.
Buchanan were not present, we trust they may be
able satisfactorily to explain to their constituents.
We have no such feelings in regard to 'Viscount
Bury. This young nobleman, when member for
Norwich, announced to a public meeting in St.
Andrew's Hall, that " he had promised to vote
for the Ballot, and by —, he would vote for it !"
It will be remembered that in the storms of the
last general election Lord Bury was driven from
his moorings at Norwich, and found a harbour of
refuge in the Wick Burghs : in return for which
shelter he proMised the inhabitants of that re-
mote constituency to do all in his power to pro-
vide for them a similar place of refuge, only of
a real, and not an allegorical nature. Pending
the Wick election, a person in Edinburgh, con-
nected with the press, on behalf of Lord Bury
—though whether with the noble lord's know-
ledge or consent we cannot say—applied to the
ballot society to promote the viscount's return, be-
e ause he was such a thorough supporter of the
ballot. Lord Bury was returned without opposi-
tion, and was applied to to second Mr. Berkeley's
motion. He declined, saying, "he should not vote
for it, as his people did not want him to vote for
it." It is to the influence of the Duke of Sutherland
that Lord Bury owes his seat for Wick. The Duke
certainly does not want the ballot, against which,
while in the Commons, ha always voted. The ducal
person, in Lord Bury's eyes, absorbs the 657
electors of Wick • and, viewing them in the
duke, ha says—" Ay people do not want me to
vote for the Ballot !" To those who remember
the profanity of St. Andrew's Hall, this is suf-
ficiently disgusting. Mr. Divett, Mr. C. Fitz-
william, Sir J. Hanmer, Mr. More O'Ferrall,
Mr. G. P. Scrope, repeat, this year, their un-
explained absence of last year, which we trust
will not be forgotten. The general fidelity to
the Ballot of Mr. Lannigan, Dr. Lyons, Sir J.
Ogilvy, Mr. R. B. Sheridan, Mr. W. O. Stanley,
Mr. M. Sullivan, Sir J. Trelawny, Coi, Tynte,
Col. Watkins, and Mr. H. W. Wickham, leads us
to believe that their a hgenee Wan unintentional, and
In justice to these gentlemen the suddenness of the
division should be borne in mind. We are sorry that
the list of absent friends includes Mr. W. Fox ; his
state of health we know to be precarious, but he was
well enough to be at the house on the evening
of the 22d, as well as on a subsequent occasion,
Mr. Horsman and his tail, Sir J. Ramsden, were
of course absent; but we commend to our West
Riding readers the fact that Sir John Ramsden
was, to our certain knowledge, in the house imme-
diately after the division ; his absence, therefore,
was, in legal phraseology, of" malice aforethought."
The same may be said of Col. Kingscote, who being
written to by his constituents to fulfil his pledge of
voting for the Ballot, deliberately walked out of
the house, as soon as the division was called. Our
energetic fellow-labourers of " The Northern
Reform Union" will note the fact that Newcastle-
on-Tyne was wholly unrepresented in the division,
Mr. T. E. Headlam having apparently forgotten
that in 1859 he publicly confessed that the Ballot
would have been very useful at his election ; but on
the 23d he absented himself unpaired, as did
his colleague Mr. S. A. Beaumont. Default
on the part of members of the Government
is especially to be guarded against. Friends
in Stroud will note that that constituency
was also wholly unrepresented on the 23d,
Mr. Scrope repeating his absence without pairing,
is he did also in 1860. The Austrian tendencies
of Mr. Roebuck prevented, for the first time, his
giving a vote for the ballot. The absence of Mr.
Potts, M.P. for Barnstaple, one of the few Con-
,ervatives who support the ballot, looks as if
party ties were stronger with him than the
love of purity and freedom of election. We
have good friends in Barnstaple, and to them
we leave Mr. Potts. If there is one of the 36
absentees whom we would specially point out f,,r
reprobation, it is Mr. J. A. Turner; he stands
committed to the Ballot; not he says frankly that
he likes it himself, but because his constituents wish
him to vote for it. Looking at the Conference
lately held in Mancherter, whose petition for the
Ballot Mr. Turner presented to the House of Com-
mons, he cannot plead any change in the view9of
his constituents in justification of his absence,
leave
him , wive
out v:
out a pair, both in 1860 and 1861; and fo
bim and the friends of the Ballot in Manchester
gettiQ the qingti9l2 between OM.