The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-19 00:00:00

A DISAPPOINTMENT.

A vessel has arrived in the Gloucester Docks, from
St. Melo, during the last few days, with a cargo of
fine apples and pears, purchased in France by a
dealer of Birmingham, for the benefit of the lieges of
that town. An amusing incident is connected with
the voyage of the ship. The Customs authorities, it
appears, received information whilst the vessel was
making her passage, that the apples were merely a
cover fur 13 tons of tobacco which she bad shipped ;
and accordingly, off Beachey, she was boarded by a
tide-surveyor and his men, and practically taken pos-
session cf, on suspicion of being a smuggler. The
vessel duly entered the basin at Sharpness, and had
commezced.tracking up the canal, when a suspicious-
looking man came on board, and asked the master to
give hi en a passage to Gloucester. The request was rea-
dily granted, and the stranger lent a hand i❑ the work
of the ship, all of which not only tended to confirm the
Custom-house officers in their idea that they had got a
prize, hut led them to suspect that the stranger was
the owner of the tobacco. The master, on being
asked who he wag, could not te11,,, or, as the officers
thought, would nut; and, coupled with his vanishing,
made cocksure that they had got into a good thing,
and probably, in imagination, had touched the
three thousand pounds odd which they would
be entitled to if they were not disappointed. The
bn,lk was promptly broken by the merchant,
the officers kept a sharp look out on the
cargo as it was sent on shore, and at night they
wheeled a wooden house down to the side of the
vessel to watch lest any attempt should be made to
carry away the golden apples during the night. The
affair created much noise at the docks, and the gra-
dual shrinking of the cargo was eagerly watched. At
length, after much 6i hope deferred," the workmen
reached the keel of the vessel, and found—nothing.—
Gloucester Joarnal.

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SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 17.—The Royal . Mail Com•
pany's steam-ship Avoo, Captain Host, with the West India
inaii,, 120 passengers, a small amountnf specie, and full gene-
ral cargo, left this day. The Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steaut-ship Montrose, Captain Bowen,vith the Pe-
ninsular mass, also left this afternoon. Sir IThlliilton Sey-
mour and suite were passengers by her. The next home-
ward West India mail steam-ship is the Thames; she may
be looked for in the course of to morrow or Saturday. The
Ripon, for A!exsndria, will leave on the 20th, taking out a
very large number of passengers. The Washington, for
New York. will leave on Sunday afternoon. The new
stet.rn-ship Franklin, from New York to Havre, is expected
off Cowes in the course of the day, having left the former
place on the 15th instant.
MUNIFICENT CHARITABLE BEQUESTS,--The Will of
William John Frodsham, Esq., late of Stoke Newington, and
formerly of 'Change-alley, chronometer-maker, who d'ed last
June, has just been sworn to, and his property proved to be
80,000/. Amongst his legacies are the following charitable
bequests:—To the Worshipful Company of Clockmaker 3,
1,01)0/.; to the Charity School of Langbourn Ward, London,
250/. ; to the Infant Orphan School, Wanstead, Essex, 250/. ;
to the British Orphan School, 2501.; to the Lordon Orphan
Asylum, 2501.; to St. Ann's Society, Brixton, 250/. ; to the
Shipwifigked Mariners' Society, Bucklersbury, 2(10/.; to St.
Paul's Mochial School, Ball's Pond, `2501.; to the Fever
yospital, 2001.; to Kiag':. College Hospital, 2001. ; and to the
lientrolent Institution for the Relief of Aged Necessitous
- Vir.alatinau of good character in the several branches of the
Iratklkan lock trade, 2504
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