The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-11 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROBBERY AT SEA ON BOARD THE MOSELLE STEAM-
SHIP.—Robert Tishwick, a man about 30 years of
age, was brought up on remand charged with steal-
ing about £2O worth of English and foreign coins,
and a blue coat valued at £3, the money and pro-
perty of Captain John Rogers, the master of the
General Steam Navigation Company's steamship
Moselle, trading between London and Antwerp.
Mr. Samuel Poynter, barrister, instructed by Mr.
J. A. Fairfield, solicitor, prosecuted for the General
Steam Navigation Company. Mr. Stoddart, soli-
citor, defended the prisoner.
Mr. Poynter stated ',the case. He said the pri-
soner had been guilty of the blackest ingratitude
towards Captain Ryan and Mr. James Hyde, the
chief steward of the Moselle. On Saturday, the
10th of last month, the prisoner was brought on
board the Moselle off Antwerp by two Belgian
gendarmes, wba had orders to conduct him to the
frontier, and who said that Tishwick had been in
confinement for one year in a Belgain prison.
There was also an order of the British Consul
that the prisoner should be taken to England as
a distressed British subject. It happened on
the same day that the chief steward of the
Moselle had a reason to dismiss his assistant fore-
cabin steward. The prisoner took advantage of
this, and related to Mr. Hyde a story of his suffer-
ings and privations, said he had been confined for
12 months in a Belgian prison for assaulting a
policeman, or gendarme, and thatihe was quite des-
titute. The steward was interested in the prisoner's
favour, and said he would employ him on board,
and pay him according to his merits. The prisoner
made several voyages between London and Antwerp,
and behaved very satisfactorily. On Wednesday,
the 22d of November, the prisoner absconded from
the ship, in the river Thames, and soon afterwards
Captain Ryan discovered that the bottom of his
private cash-box had been forced out and all the
contents abstracted. Captain Ryan also missed a
new blue coat at the same time. A letter was found
by the steward in the prisoner's cabin, and this gave
a clue to the prisoner's whereabouts. He was found
in Cardiff, where he had joined another vessel, and
he was taken into custody and lodged in Cardiff
gaol. It would be proved that after the prisoner
had left the Moselle he was in possession of a good
deal of English and 'foreign money; that he asked
a coffeehouse-keeper in Dock-street, Whitechapel,
where foreign coins could be exchanged, and that be
sold a blue coat in Cardiff.

Mr. Hyde said he paid the prisoner for his ser-
vices on board,.and that on the 30th of last mofith
he saw the prisoner in Cardiff Gaol, and said to
him—" You know what I have come here to charge
you with." The prisoner said, " Yes, I do" He
asked him if ho knew the consequences of his dis-
honesty, to which he replied, " No, I do not."
The prisoner was treated with great kindness on
board, and it was believed that he bad been unfor-
tunate, and had only been confined for an assault
on a Belgian policeman.
Captain John Ryan said he gave the prisoner his
cash box on Tuesday, the 20th of October, and
directed him to lock it up in the iron chest. The
cash box then contained coins of every nation.
When he saw the cash box again the bottom was
gone, and the whole of the cash was missing except
one halfpenny.

M. Jeremiah Downes, sergeant of police at Car-
diff, said that when he captured the prisoner he
had a large quantity of new clothing in his posses-
sion, and some foreign coins.

Mr. Poynter said he asked for a remand, as he
could not complete the case that day.
Mr. Paget —I shall bo hero again on Monday
next. The prisoner is remanded until that day.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty : —Lieutenant Charles F. llill to the
Valiant ; Sub-Lieutenant Emetic J. V. Pritchard
to the Ringdove ; Silas W. Parker, paymaster, to
the Juno; F. G. Farrow, assistant-paymaster, to
the Bellerophon ; Captain W. H. Edye to the
Satellite, vice Joseph Edye, C. 8., deceased ; Dr.
Robert Potter, assistant-surgeon, to the Boxer ;
W. Galloway, assistant-surgeon, to the Cambridge ;
and Andrew J. Ramsay, clerk, additional, to the
Royal Alfred.

kue quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and
Lie short exchange on London is 251. 15a. per £1 sterling.
nicJuiparing these rates with the English Mint price of
(O'd. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.ses that,
16 nearl, I.loth per cent. dearer in r,rie tian in London.