The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-14 00:00:00

BOW• STREET.

George Milner, an assistant to Mr. Daws, ehyrnist
and druggist, of 24, Abbey-road, St. John's-wood,
was charged with stealing a letter containing a half-
sovereign and a florin.

Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-office, conducted
, the prosecution.
The prisoner, a young man of respectable family,
lived in the house of his employer at a salary of 101.
a year, and assisted in the business of the shop, which
is also a receiving-house for the letters of the district.
The frequency of complaints respecting the loss of
cash•letters posted at the shop, induced the Post-
office authorities to authorise one of their presidents
(Mr. Sculthorpe) to test the honesty of the ser-
vants employed in the district, which was done in the
usual mode, namely, by placing marked coins in
letters, and watching their course through the Post-
effice from the time of being posted. The letter in
question was posted before nine o'clock in the morn-
ing at the shop of Mr. Daws, and contained a half-
sovereign and a florin (both previously marked by
Mr. Sculthorpe). It should have arrived at the
General Post-office at eleven o'clock, but was not
found among the forty-five letters collected at the re-
ceiving-house, and forwarded in the Paddington bag.
On examining the bill registering the number of
letters in the collection, it was observed that the mis-
sing letter was not accounted for in the certificate;
upon which Mr. Sculthorpe, accompanied by Peake,
the constable, proceeded to the shop of Mr. Daws, to
make inquiries respecting it. The prisoner was pre-
sent, and admitted that he made up the letters, and
that the figures in the bill were his own. Mr. Scul-
thorpe then directed Peake to search him, and identi-
fied the marked half-sovereign among the money taken
from his pockets. In a pocket-book, also found upon
the prisoner, they discovered the letter which Mr.
Sculthorpe had written, and the seal of which was still
unbroken. The prisoner, who said nothing in expla-
nation of these circumstances, was then taken into
custody.
Mr. Sculthorpe produced his letter as it was found
in the prisoner's pocket-hook, and examined it in
court. One of the sides of the envelope had been
loosened, and tl'e half-sovereign abstracted ' • after
which the envelope had been again secured by gum.
The florin was left in the letter.
The prisoner made no answer to the charge.
Mr. HENRY committed him for trial.
It transpired that a letter was received for the
prisoner in the course of the day from a servant-
girl, who expressed her willingness to accept his
protection, and requested that her lodgings might be
out of town.

TV 0 RSHIP-STREET.
A gentleman, whose name did not transpire, but
who described himself as a surgeon, residing at
Ixworth, in Suffolk, applied to Mr. Hammil for his
advice and assistance under the following circum-
stances:—

The applicant stated, that about a month since he
was a passenger in one of the trains from Bury
upon the Eastern Counties Railway, accompanied by
Captain Lloyd, a friend of his ,when, upon reaching
Mark's Tey, the next station beyond Colchester, an
elegantly dressed woman, who bad an infant with
her, entered the carriage with a tottering step, and
apparently in a state of extreme illness and debility,
and explained to them that she had been previously
travelling in a first-class carriage, where she was
quite alone, but that, feeling greatly indisposed, she
had been induced to change her place for one in
another carriage, where there were other passengers.
He (the applicant) introduced himself to her as a
surgeon, and tendered his professional services, if she
required them ; but the lady declined his offer on
the ground that her illness was solely attributable to
her being unaccustomed to the fatigue of travelling,
and she appeared to have rallied considerably
by the time the train reached the Shoreditch
terminus, where he again offered his services,
but she told him that they were quite un-
necessary, as her carriage and servant ought
to be waiting for her outside, and requested him to
take charge of the child for a few minutes while she
ascertained whether they had arrived. The lady then
hastily descended the steps leading from the plat-
form, leaving with him and the captain her child and
a small trunk, which he at the time supposed con-
tained her luggage ; but after waiting for more than
an hour the lady did not again make her appearance,
and from that time to the present he bad neither seen
nor heard anything of her. After making numerous
inquiries, in the hope of gaining some trace of her,
but unavailingly, he conveyed the infant, which was
a female child two months old, to the house of a
private friend of his in town, and on taking off its
clothes they discovered attached to the inside of its
dress a letter containing two 10/.-notes, and convey-
ing a brief intimation that the infant was the offspring
of persons of the highest respectability, who would
continue to contribute all that was requi.site to insure
its comfort and proper maintenance, upon being
addressed by advertisement in the papers to that effect,
and that the little charge would be ultimately reclaimed
by its parents. The infant had ever since remained
under the care of the friends with whom he bad first
placed it, but he had since received letters upon the
subject, one of which was from another private friend
of his, who was most anxious to adopt the child ;
and in proof of his being actuated by anything but a
mercenary feeling, he was desirous that the money
which had been led on its account should be deposited
in some savings-bank for its future benefit. This
benevolent proposal, however, he was restrained from

acceding to, in consequence of a second communica-
tion having reached him from some gentleman in
I),.vonshire, who made a peremptory claim of the
child and the property atached to it, alleging that he
was cinpowen-d to do so by its own mother, although
he produced nothing satisfactory in authentication
of his assumed authority, and threatened bits, in
the event of his refusal to accede to the demand,
to adopt legal proceedings against him for its jai-
mediate restoration. Under these circutostances, 1)3
was totally at a loss how to act, as his only object 'Os
to release himself from the responsibility so singyierly
imposed upon him in a manlier which would be jointlY
conducive to his own safety and the interests of the
infant, and he was therefore induced to come to this
court to obtain the opinion of the magistrate as to thet
most advisable course to be pursued. The 3PPlicsnd
described the contents of the box which accompsme
the infant as exclusively consisting of wearing 3rd
parel of a tasteful and expensive description, nil,
adapted for a female child ; and having exprosed ?15,1
onde
conviction that the infant's mother was 3 m
woman, from the circumstance of his noticing "the
upon her finger, and that a portion of , 5
clothing, though still in excellent condition, Is:a
slightly worn in various places, added, that he h
been subjected to great expense, trouble. and ann°,3.ld.
ance, from the unpleasant position in vvbich he h`
been placed, and had been compelled to come up
etrY
pressly to town, leaving his patients in the cuunthe
wholly unattended to, that he might be put °him
way of adopting some measure by which this to
harassing affair might be brought to a satisfactorf
conclusion. A reef
Mr. Ilareattm, said that it was certainly
singular and unusual application, and he
exceedingly that he could not render the gentlembat
any effectual assistance; but he would suggest tbe
the best course for the applicant to pursue would. _
to place the infant in the hands of the officers of tods
parish in whose district it had been abandoned, an
s
they, he had no doubt, would take such steps sd
would release him from all further responsibility, snho
very probably lead to the discovery of the pers°llwia
had abandoned the child to the care of strangers
such an unnatural manner. • ed-
The applicant thanked the magistrate for his regret
exceedingly
vice and quitted the court ; but it vas pretty dent
feat from his manner that he was disinclined to At".
the suggestion thrown out by the Bench.

THE COUNTRX MARKETS; Air
NEWCASTLE CORN MAILKET, FES. 12.—We haA MARKETS;
supply of wheat from the farmers, but the arrivals co'. with
were light. Factors held firmly for an advance of I°' little
which the holders would nut comply, and in consequenf,eered.
business was done. Barley, oats, and other articles nos
NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKWT, FEL 12,--Thfre
art
large supply of cattle of good qtality, but trade 3111, an
esld'
remains unsold. Sheep trade active, and the nurn4l,63 ts
bited all cleared off. Beasts 800, sheep 4,000. nee",`
Si 6d mutton, 5d to d. in lb.
EDINBURGH MEAL 6
MARKET, Fit.l2.—There prl,Bolbo
meal market to-day 23 sacks oatmeal, each weigbing,lo
imperial, whereof 21 sold thus : latll 5s 03, 0 atl 10'
and 11 at 11 4s Od ; average price of the whcle 114 a gui,ll.oolol
5 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 285, and 3at 253• ";/41, 6(l'
pot-barley, whereof 15 sold thus :-1 at 1! 5s Od, 1 at '
1 at 1145 Od, and 12 at 1/ 25 Od. 12.;4
EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET, .—.1,001
Supplies of all kinds still continue large. Oat straw,,:: 6d t•
to Os 6d per kemple of 16 stones tron • wheat ditto, `Tod ref
Cd ; barley ditto, Is 6d to Gs 6cl. hay, from 83 t°
stone. r 5150
DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, FEB. 11.—There the
bags oatmeal, 20 of barleymeal, and 5 of pot-barlel $OlOl
day's market ; sales ready ; top price of oatmeal sag° don
week; second and inferior qualities 3d to 6d per bag
barleymeal same as last week; pot-barley is per bag uPibirci,
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Oa
imperial .. 23s 6,1 22s 3d 02,
01
Barleymeal, per ditto ... 16a 61 16s 3d ' 01
Peasemeal —s Od Od (34

Flour ... ...
Pot barley ...

_s od 1 OJ
—5 Od I 'e.

COAL MARKE
Bate'a West Hartley 15s 6d
Buddle's W. Hartley 15s 9d
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main l4B Od
Hasting's Hartley lss 9d
Holywell ......... 16s 6d
North Percy Hartley lss 6d
New Tanfield lss Od
Ord's Redheugh
Ravensworth'sW.Hart Iss 6d
ranfield Moor Butes l4s 6d
Townley l6s Od
West Hartley
West Adairs 14s OA
Wylam
Wall's End, &c. -
Buraton Killingworth 171 3d
Gosforth .
Marton
Hilda l6s 9d
Killingworth l7B 6d
Percy