The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

STEALING AND SWALLOWING A SOVEREIGN . —Mary
Ann Currie, a we►l.known thief, was brought up before
Mr. Se.lfe, charged with stealing a sovereign from the
person of James Francis, a cook on board ship.
The prosecutor, a simple fellow, said he had formerly
known the prisoner as the servant of Mr. James, a lodg.
house-keeper, with whom he was now staving. Yeater.
day evening he met the prisoner in Upper East Smith-
field, opposite the St. Katherine Dock, and she invited
him into a fish shop, and then asked him to treat her
with something to drink. He put his hand in his
pocket and took out same silver and a sovereign. He was
looking out a sixpence from among the silver, when the
prisoner snatched the sovereign from his hand, and
put it in her mouth. He asked her to return it, and
she said she would not do so, until be gave her a half-
crown. He refused to comply with her demand, and
she said, "Here goes," and suddenly swallowed the
sovereign.

Mr. Sdfe—Were you sober
Witness—As sober as I am now.
The pi ironer, in defence, said the sailor gave her the
sovereign, and she swallowed it accidentally.
Mr. Sella —You must find the money or the value:of it.
The prisoner—He gave me the sovereign.
Mr. Selfe—Wll,,,t for
The prisoner—To stop with we all night.
Mr. Selfe—Which you did not do, and the considera•
Lion fails as the lair says.
The prosecutor said he did not give the prisoner
the sovereign.

Mr. Self;;—l shad remand the prisoner until to
morrow, the sovereign may
then be forthcoming. (A.
laugh.) Lock her up.
DARING HIGHWAY RUBBERY.—Ann Dwyer, a savage
14oking woman, who has been in oustody 50 times for
asraults and robberies, was brought before Mr. Selfe,
c arged with assaulting and robbing Mr. Benjamin
Lougton, a respectable elderly man, of his watch and
chain.

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The prosecu'or, who said he was "rather fresh "
last night, was attacked by the prisoner and another
woman in Athett-strevt, Sbadwell. The prisoner
gra-ped him by the throat and nearly strangled him.
The other woman made a snatch at his watch, and
obtained possession of his chain. In a struggle the
woman left her shawl behind her, and got away. Mr.
Selle remanded the prisoner ti'l to-morrow.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly
general ineeiii.g, held yesterday, at the society's house
in Hanover-square, John S. Gaskoin,
Eq., F. LS., in
the chair, the Viscount Kirkwall, and Messrs. T. W. B.
Blakemore, M.P., W. Claridge, ;rid J. C. Pennell, were
elected fellows ; and Lady Lennard, and Messrs. W.
Gardner, C. N. Stuart, M. P , and J. T. Neste, were
propm•ed as candidates for the Fellowship ; and Mr.
Louis Fraser, as a corresponding member of the society.
The report from the council stated that the number of
visitors to the gardens duricg the last month was nearly
48.000, and that the total number during the year had
already amounted to 274,513.
PIIESEEVATION OF LIFE FROM SIIIIIVRECK.—Yester-
day a meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Captain
L. Pvrrott in the chair. The minutes of the previous
meeting having been read, the silver medal and 2/. were
voted respectively to Wm. Wedge and Jas. Turpin, com-
mission boatmen of the Coastguard at Salcombe, Devor,
and to Thos. D, Warder, boatman, in acknowledgment
of their gallant conduct iu putting off in a small boat in a
heavy sea, at the imminent risk of their lives, and retcu-
irg two out of three men who were capsized from their
fisising boat od Bentham Bar, on the night of the 27th
instant. A. reward of 61. was also granted to three
Coastguard men for .putting off in a small boat and
rescuing, at the imminent risk of their lives, f 'mr out of
five persons who had been in a heavy sea capsized from
their boat off Port Rush, on the coast of Antrim, on
' the 22.1 of July ; after they were rescued the little
boat again put off and succeeded in bringing in the cap-
siz-td boat. A reward of 6/. was likewise granted to six
fishermen for rescuing, at the peril of their lives, two out
of four persona who had been cap,.izei during a sudden
and heavy equal' of wind from their bunt off Haiunaroe,
Shetland, a few weeks since. It appeared that while the
boat was fishing the wind suddenly rose to a strong gale,
acconipained by a sudden squall off the land, which cap-
sizsd the boat before her crew of four men were able to
take in her sail. They were plunged into the sea ; two
of them were happily saved
it
clinging to their boat,
a'though twice washed from t ; two others sank to rise
no more. 'Much risk was incurred in the rescue of the
two men isnibourcllle, and thenast"couldnly be approached
after the sea
quickly snatched from
their very dangerous situation. The loss of life among
the She land fi,hertnen this year has been unusually
great. No doubt many of these accidents, which have
caused the greatest misery among the families of these
poor but deserving men, have been caused from the de-
fective coustruction of their fishing boat, and the unskil-
ful manner with which we fear tuev are too fri queotiv han-
dled in the hour of peril. Fishermen's boats* are
often of the most primitive construction, and are pro-
belle not the same in character as they were 100 or
200 R.N., the inspector of
lifeb
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Lancr.hire arid on the north and south coasts of Wales.
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boats are also regularly exercised once a quarter through-
out the year. lie reported highly of the qualities of the
new class of lifeboats of the institution, and suggested
that some of its older boats, built 20 or 30 years ago,
should be replaced. A communication was read from
the Boulogne Shipwreck and Humane Society, in the
manag,etnent of which sumo of the English residents take
avnleai
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Ipa the inspector of lifeboats to visit
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Their request was complied with.
o.tptaln Ward, R.N., and Mr. Peake, the inventor of
t .e lifeboat of the institution, were deputed to visit the
Bu
thenlogn closed.eife
Lifeboat Station accordingly, The proceed-
ings