The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Nov. 19, 1844, is 31s. Old. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

William Fitzgeorge, a stoker on board the Earl of
Liverpool steam-vessel, trading to and from Ostend,
was brought before the Lord Mayor and Sir John
Pirie' charged, upon an information, with having
been found in that vessel in possession of a quantity
of tobacco, on which the duty had not been paid.
Coleby Atkinson Davis, the Custom-house officer,
stated that between five and seven o'clock on Thurs •
day morning he went on board the Earl of Liverpool,
which lay off Tower-stairs. The prisoner, who was
not at that time on hoard, arrived soon afterwards,
and witness, upon searching his berth, found under the
flooring under the bed about 71bs. of tobacco, and
subsequently he found 161b3. of tobacco in the engine-
room. In the forecastle he found, on the same day,
161bs. of tobacco, and in the after-cabin 101bs. of
cigars.

The prisoner was convicted in the penalty of 1001.
William Halls, also a stoker on board the Earl of
Liverpool, was charged under an information charg-
ing him with a similar offence.
The prisoner said that he was not guilty to the ex-
tent attributed, and that he thought he was justified
in having in his possession a certain quantity of the
article.

Sir JOIIN PIRIB—We are imperatively called upon
to check this practice, which now knows no bounds.
The prisoner was fined 1001.
Henry Ha'lden, steward of the after-cabin, was
charged with having been concerned in the smuggling
of tobacco.

Mr. Davis having repeated his former evidence, un-
derwent a cross-examination by Mr. Pickett, of the
house of E. B. Robinson, Savage-gardens, but the
cross-examination had the effect of more strongly
exhibiting the guilt:of the prisoner. The witness
stated that the chief steward, who was evidently igno-
rant of the stowage of contraband goods in the vessel,
said to the prisoner, " What a fool you must be to
do such a thing;" to which the prisoner replied that
he had deposited some of the tobacco in the berth
himself, and that he was sorry for it.

The witness, in answer to a question from Mr.
Pickett, who endeavoured to shuffle the offence from
the shoulders of his client to those of the chief mate,
said that the Custom-house officers were in the habit
of endeavouring with all their might to discriminate
between the innocent and the guilty, and that they
entirely exonerated the chief mate in the case.
Mr. Pickett—ls not a certain quantity of tobacco
allowed to each person on board ?
Mr. Davis—No. The captain is allowed the power
to deal out a certain quantity of tobacco to his men,
but they have no privilege at all of the kind. We are
well aware who are the guilty parties.
Mr. Pickett then begged that the Magistrate would
inflict.a lenient penalty upon his client, in considera-
tion of the large family the poor man had.
The LORD MAYOR said the Board of Commis-
sioners had the power to alleviate the punishment
which the Magistrates could not help pronouncing in
such a case upon such convincing testimony.
The prisoner was then convicted in the penalty of
1001.