The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-13 00:00:00

assistance.

The applicant said she received an order at Preston, Lan.
eashire, to go to Southampton, and there go on board a
ship bound for Madras to join her husband, a soldier, at
Rangoon. She went on board with her two children, and
when near the landing stairs she jumped from the ship,
leaving her two children on board, and mady her way to
London.
Mr. Beadon asked her why she did so.

The applicant said she was frightened to go the voyage.
She left the ship thinking they would give her her children.
Mr. Beadon said he could do nothing. He was not
going to send her back again. She should have stopped
and got her children out.
The applicant said the order came to her from the War-
office, but she did not wish to go. She had never been in
a vessel before, and she was frightened of the rats, and her
children wanted to leave. If she had thrown them out
they would have been killed. She asked the man who was
appointed over them from the shipping office to give her
her children, but he refused. She then made up her mind
to come to London, and a lady gave her 45., and she had
pledged some of her clothes at Southampton and came by the
ailway. Others had left the ship besides her. If she had
gone the pay she had been receiving (10d. a day) would
have been stopped by the War-office. Her only brother,
who was a soldier in the 45th at Preston, had given her also
snch a description of the voyage that she was frightened to
go, and she did not wish to leave her home.
Mr. Beadon said she had done the maddest thing she
could have done. She had abandoned her children. He
was not at present satisfied with her statement. She had
better go to the War-office, and he would send one of the
officers with her.
The applicant said it was all true.

Subsequently O'Shaughnessy, a very intelligent officer
of the court, and who used great diligence, reported that
he had been to the War-office, and was from there referred
to the Quartermaster-General's Office at the Horse Guards,
where be received every assistance and information from
Col. Clifford, and which showed that the woman's state-
ment was quite correct. The colonel said he would tele-
graph to the office at Southampton to have her two children
disembarked. He also gave her an order to travel by train
from London to Sodthampton and from Southampton to
London free ; and the colonel, who had behaved in the
kindest possible manner, also personally gave the woman
6s. to assist her on her journey, for which she seemed very
thankful.

The consequence of the woman's refusing the grant of
being passed to India to join her husband is that the allow-
ance of 10d. a day will henceforward be discontinued.

THAMES.

EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—Christopher Broughton,
a man about 30 years of age, and described'as a commercial
traveller, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with
forging an order for the delivery of goods, with intent to
defraud Mr. Daniel Spalding Cannon, tobacco manufac-
turer, trading under the name of D. T. Spalding and Co.,
in Royal Mint-street, better known as Rosemary-lane.
Mr. Chas. Young, solicitor, stated the case for the prose-
cution. The prisoner had been in the service of the prose-
cutor for three months, and it was his duty to obtain orders
for tobacco and cigars, receive money for the same, and ac-
count for it immediately to his employer. The only
case ho intended to establish at present was the fol-
lowing :—On the 13th of August last the prisoner
delivered an order to his employer for 61bs. of
cigars, purporting to be signed by Mr. John
Boakes, the landlord of the White Hart, public-house, in
the Strand. The goods were accordingly delivered to the
prisoner, and he was furnished with an invoice for the same.
The amount charged was £3 55., including 2s. for the box.
He would now prove that Mr. Boakes had never ordered
any cigars of the prisoner, who had appropriated the cigars
in another way.

Mr. Cannon said, that when the 61bs. of cigars were
given to the prisoner he said he would deliver them himself,
and a day or two afterwards brought to him a note as if the
goods had been delivered to Mr. Boakes. The prisoner was
to have 5 per cent. commission upon all orders he received.
Mr. Boakes said he had never ordered any cigars of the
prisoner.

Mr. Young then asked for a remand, and said the pri-
soner, in addition to having obtained goods of Mr. Cannon
under false pretences had also embezzled various sums of
money ho had received of customers for goods supplied. He
believed the prisoner's defalcations amounted to about
£lOO.

Mr. Pringle, a solicitor, who appeared for the prisoner,
said he was a person of considerable respectability, and as
far as the commission went there had been no settlement of
accounts. The prisoner was very ill, and in the position he
was in it was very necessary he should be out upon bail.
Mr. Selfe—l will take good and substantial bail—two
sureties of £lOO each.

The prisoner was unable to find bail, and was remanded
to prison for a week.

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

Lo?mow Oct. 13.—Wind this day at noon, North-
East ; light breeze and hazy, but inclining to be fine.
QUEENSTOWN' Oct. 11.—Wind E.—Arrived—Raven,
from Manzanilla de Cuba,- Carol, from Porto Rico.
TEIGNMOUTH, Oct. 12.—Wind W.—Arrived.---Wave,
from Labrador. •
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Trafalgar. from the eastward.
FALMOUTH, Oct. 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Leopold, from Bassein.
CARDIFF, Oct. 12.—Wind E.—Sailed—lnfanta, for
bitulmein ; Hortense, for Bombay; Osprey, for the Cape.
of Good Hope ; Junius, for Porto Rico ; Peter Amais, for
Port Royal.
OFF THE LIZARD, Oct. 11.—Arrived—England's Queen,
from Miramichi for Newcastle.

FLEETWOOD, Oct. 12.—Wind S.E.—Sailod—Androws,
For Hayti.

(➢Y BLEOTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.

Wind E.

Arrived—Courier, and Atalanta, steamers, from Jersey.
Sailed—Thalia, for Shields ; Lady. Constance, for Sun-
derland, Delta, for Alexandria; Havre, steamer, for
Havre ; Havelock, ' for Shields ; Despatch, steamer, for
Jersey ; Little Jam, for Portland.
LrvEuroor, Thursday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived, Oct, 12.—America, screw steamer, from Mar-
seilles.
Arrived, Oct. 13.—Stromboli, screw steamer, from
Havre.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPII.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Wind calm, tide ono hour's flood.
Arrived, Oct. 12—Maria Minna, from Berdianski.
Sailed—Quelly Shell, for Terceira; Brenda, steamer, for
Cronstadt ; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Wind N.N.W., light.
Passed—Allen, from London. for New Orleans.
Sailed—Palmyra, for Madras.

FALKIRK TRYST.

The October tryst opened on Monday on the
Muir, the ;stock las usual being sheep. English
dealers were not forward in such numbers as has
been frequently witnessed, though the usual num-
bers of flock-masters from Edinburgh, Glasgow,
Dumfries, and the south and east of Scotland, were
observable. At the close of the market a few in-
ferior lots of all kinds were left unsold. In con-
trast with recent markets, wethers were in demand
to-day, and ewes were a drug in the market in many
instances. The Cheviot wethers in almost every case
supported the prices of last month ; and the sales
effected after that time were from 2s. to 35., and in
some instances 4s, below last month's prices. The
blackfaced wethers of the better quality came
near last year's rates; but the second and in-
ferior kinds would be about 5 per cent. below
the corresponding market of last month.. The
ewes were rather a stiff sale, and a depreciation
had to be submitted to on the better qualities of
6d., and on the inferior kinds from ls, to Is. 6d.