The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

enabled to obtain what may be considered fair profits.
The deficiency of good beasts abroad, and the advanced
rates demanded for them, caused the importers, in the
latter end of last year, to act with caution in their
op2rations, more especially as the quotations here were
ruling lower than at the corresponding periods of
some past.seasons. These, then, are the principal rea-
sons why the arrivals of foreign beasts have not
equalled in numbers those which were once expected.
During the present year, the arrivals of stock have
been tolerably extensive.
Our advices from Scotland state that harvest work
has progressed rapidly, under the most favourable
auspices, and that the principal portion of the crop is
already secured in excellent condition.
The various markets have been only moderately
supplied with grain ; yet the demand has ruled inac-
tive at about stationary prices.
In Ireland, cutting and carrying have been brought
to a pretty general conclusion. The produce of the
crops is fairly represented. Fine wheat has sold
freely, at full prices. In other kinds of corn a fair
business has been doing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A young man, named John Hitchcock, was brought
before the Lord 1114yor, charged with having stolen a
great number of pairs of boots in the house of Mr.
Smith, of Barge-yard.
The prisoner, who was in the employment of a
tradesman in the same building, was in the habit of
going into the prosecutor's warehouse, and having in-
curred the suspicion of one of the shopmen, was
seized and searched, and a pair of boots, which were
identified as the prosecutor's, was found in a basket
which he was carrying. The policeman into whose
custody he was given found upon him several dupli-
cates for boots pledged at a great variety of places,
and those boots were ascertained to be the property of
Mr. Smith.—The prisoner was committed for trial.

Two girls, named Ellen Hart and Emma West,
who bad very much the appearance of country-bred
girls, were charged with having plundered a shop in
Greenwich of about thirty yards of doe-skin cloth,
value 4/.

Mr. Lowe, jun., who is connected with the shop
which was plundered, stated that the piece of cloth
was exposed at the door, and had been suddenly missed
from the place. The firm had been very often robbed
by shoplifters.
One of the servants of the concern stated, that in
consequence of information which he received, he
went to the railroad, and saw the two prisoners go
into one of the carriages. The train was just about
to start at the time, and witness got into another of
the carriages, determined to follow and cause the pri-
soners to be apprehended. Upon the arrival of the
train at the London terminus he saw the two pri-
soners get out and take a cab, into which they both
went, and as soon as the cab reached Gracechurch-
street he directed a policeman to take them into cus-
tody. At the bottom of the cab the piece of cloth was
found. It was identified.

The prisoners both declared that a woman had
given the piece of cloth to them at Greenwich to take
for her to Aldgate-pump, where she promised to meet
them.

The policemen present, upon being asked whether
they knew the prisoners, replied that they had never
seen either of them before.

The prisoners declared that they had never before
been in such a place, and that they did not know
what it was to be before a magistrate. They were
committed for trial, and upon being introduced to the
lodge at Newgate, were immediately recognised as
persons who had been tried at the Central Criminal
Court for shoplifting, at which act it was stated they
were particularly clever.