The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

Yesterday Mr. John Webster, a middle-a7ed man of
respectable appearance, was charged before Mr. Henry
with embezzling upwards of 1001., the monies of Mr.
Young, a glue manufacturer, to whom he had been tra-
veller.

Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and the
prisoner was without professional assistance.
Three witnesses were called who had paid bills to the
prisoner on his master's account, which he had entered
in the books as paid, or paid over to his employer.
Mr. Humphreys here read a letter which the prisoner
had viritten and addressed to the prosecutor after his ap-
prehension. In it the prisoner had expressed much con-
trition for what had happened, and gave a list of the
diffefent amounts which he had received and not ac-
counted for. By this he admitted to have received
1051. 18s. 9d., and deducting his quarter's salary 451., left
a balance due to his employer of 601. ISs. 6d.
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Mr. HENRY directed that the evidence of the witnesses
in attendance should then be taken, and remanded the
prisoner until this day week.
George Baron, alias Brown, was charged before Mr.
Henry, on suspicion of stealing a silver watch, the pro-
perty of Mr. Wm. Webb.

The prosecutor stated that on Friday evening he was
at the Queen's Arms public-house, in Kennington-lane,
when the prisoner came in there in the garb of a sailor,
and complained of being in great distress. A youth
named May sat on one side of him, and some time after,
on his going home, he missed his watch. He subse-
quently saw the prisoner, and on asking him about his
watch he said that May had taken it, and had subse-
quently pawned it.

Theepiisoner denied this, but the policeman who ap-
prehended him confirmed the evidence of the com•
plainant, and said the prisoner had made the same ad-
mission to him.

The prisoner said ho did not know that May had ac-
tually pawned the watch, but admitted he had seen the
duplicate of a watch in his possession.
The policeman said, that on questioning the prisoner
as to where he had been on Friday night, he said he and
May slept in an out-house ; but on searching him he
found eight shillings in his possession ; and he had no
doubt that, if time was given him. he could fins May
and the watch.

The Prisoner was remanded for a week, to give the
policeman the time he required.

BROMLEY POLICE.

Mr. Benjamin Roberts, the postmaster at Chislehurst,
yesterday attended beforn "Viscount Sydney, IV. Norman,
Esq., and H. C. Morland, Esq., to answer two informations
laid against him at the instance of the Board of Excise,
charging that he, being duly licensed as a postmaster,
neglected to insert in his return to the Excise-office the
particulars of the letting of a horse by him on the 3d
July, whereby the revenue was defrauded of the amount
of duty payable thereon.
Mr. Jaques, the supervisor of Excise, appeared in sup-
port of the complaint, and from his statement, and the
evidence of the witnesses, it appeared that on the 3d
July a fly, drawn by one horse, was let by the defendant
to go to Peckham, and the usual Excise ticket was deli-
vered at the New Cross turnpike-gate, but no entry of
the hiring was inserted in the weekly return made to the
Excise.

Lord Sydney inquired why so long a period had been
suffered to elapse before proceedings were taken against
the defendant. This alleged offence appeared to have
been committed more than four months ago.
The supervisor said that these matters were always a
long time under consideration by the Board of Excise.
They first examined into all the circumstances, and then
called upon the party against whom complaint was made
for an explanation, and the matter was thus referred to
the solicitor of the Board.

The defendant, in answer to the complaint, admitted
that the entry had not been made, but he declared that
the omission was accidental, and he said that the fact of
his giving a ticket chewed that there was no intention on
his part to defraud the revenue.

The Supervisor said that the tickets were merely as a
check, and the only thing upon which the duty could be
claimed was the entry in the return made to the Excise.

Thr Magistrates, after a short consultation, said they
should convict the defendant upon this information, but
they would hear the evidence on the other before they
decided upon the amount of the penalty that ought to be
nil icted.

The defendant was then charged upon a second infor-
mation, with a similar offence on the 4th July, the
amount of duty exacted being half-a-crown.
In this case the Excise ticket left at the turnpike-gate
was produced, and a witness swore that the particulars of
the hiring, which appeared upon it, were in the hand-
writing of the defendant, and that no entry referring to
it, was made in his Excise return.

Mr. Roberts declared that on the day in question he
did not send out any job as that referred to in the ticket
and that there must be some mistake.

The supervisor said the Excise had nothing to do
with mistakes. It appea.red by the ticket in his own
hand writing, that he had let a horse and had made no
return of it. This had been a very coamon practice,
and he believed that one-half of the post-horse duty was
evaded. The Board of Excise, therefore, were deter•
mined to take the necessary steps to put an end to such
a system.

The Bench convicted the defendant upon this informa-
tion also, and adjudged him to pay a fine of 51 upon
each, and also the costs.

NOBLE INSTANCE OF INTRE-
PIDITY—A SHIP'S CREW SAVED.
About the middle of October last, the barque Helen,
Captain Clayton, of this port, left Quebec on her home-
ward voyage, with a cargo of timber. The weather
proved favourable till towards the end of the month,
when it began to blow a stiff gale from the eastward.
Early on the morning of the 31st it increased in vio-
lence, bet the vessel, under double-reefed topsails, rode
gallantly on, and, as she was stout and trim built, the
crew felt little fear. About half-past eight o'clock,
while off the east end of one of the Newfoundland banks,
they discovered a vessel less fortunately situated, and
Captain Clayton was not so selfishly concerned for the
safety of his own ship as to have no sympathy with the
crew of another, seemingly in a most perilous state. He
hailed the vessel, and asked whether they had any boat
which might bear them on board the Helen? The
answer returned was in the negative, accompanied with
an earnest prayer that he would do his best to save them.
Captain Clayton hesitated for a little what to do. The
vessel was water-logged, without a rudder, and her
mizen mast and foremast carried away; and if he aban-
doned her to her fate she must soon be buried with he•
crew beneath the billows; on the other hand ha
ordered some of 1-,ls own men to off in is a
boat
own andvess attemptel their rescue, they ..night perish, and
would be left with too few hands to work
her with, efficiency. dilemma he
placed a boat
at tte disposal of any 'or his crew who would volunteer
".-e a forlorn hor.:,4' to the 111-fated vessel. Three men.
' without hesit:Leion, offered themselves. We feel pleasure
in recording the names of the men who could thus cast
aside till ideas of personal safety, that they might at
least make an effort to rescue their fellow-creatures from
a watery grave. The men who acted thus nobly, were,
I Daniel Mearns, second mate, a native of the north of
Scotland ; James M'Kenna, the carpenter ; and John
Martin, of Belfast. Without much loss of time they
entered a small two-oared boat, the only one they could
command, and rowed on to the wreck, which they
reached after encountering a host of dangers. " The
ship hung heaving on the verge of death," and the crew,
in number twenty-two, were standing on the poop, their
voices rising loud above the air of the tempest, en-
treating deliverance. Seven of them were got without
accident into the boat, and the captain of the vessel,
which proved to be the Harrison of London, told
the boatmen to return for the others, and he would
reward them. But they did not require a pecu-
niary inducement to stimulate them in their mis-
sion of mercy. Again and again they returned to the
Harrison, and at length every individual was placed in
comparative safety on board the Helen. A poor cat, too,
it is worth while mentioning, which had shared the fate
of the crew, also participated in the deliverance. The
storm raged with increasing violence all the day, and
during the following night, and there was no doubt on
the minds of any that the Harrison must have sunk very
soon after her crew had been rescued. The Harrison
had been in a disabled state for nearly a week previous
to the 31st, and the storm of that day made the wreck
complete. The crew had been on short allowance for
some time, but there was no fear of immediate famine,
as they bad luckily a good stock of biscuit and beef, the
latter of which was stowed in a "stow-house" on the
mainmast. Their joy at being saved was, it may be con-
ceived, extreme, and the captain on reaching the deck of
the Helen, fell upon his knees and openly expressed his
gratitude to heaven for their wonderful deliverance.
About the 10th instant the Helen fell in with a vessel
bound for Greenock. which relieved her of nine of the
crew of the Harrison, as the provisions of so many men
pressed rather closely on their supplies. On Monday
last the Helen reached the port of Belfast, where the
captain of the lost vessel acknowledged the services of
the three men who had acted so heroically, by giving
each of them a handsome clouceur in money, as he pro-
mised.—Banner of Ulster.

A BULL IN A BUTTER-3110P.—Yesterday consider-
able alarm was occasioned by the vagaries of a bullock which
had been purchased at Smithfield by a butcher at Knights-
bridge, but on the wayfrom market escaped from the drovers,
and ran off towards the City-road, followed by a multitude
of boys and idle fellows, and it at last having become quite
wild from the noise and shouting, and after dodging somo
time around the omnibuses and other vehicles, made a
rush into the shop of Mr. Brook, a cheesemonger, &c., near
the City. road turnpike. Passing round one of the counters,
where its carcase completely filled up the passage, the animal
stood panting and gazing through the window into the road,
while, by his occasional efforts to get free, the butter and
eggs were scattered about the shop, and part of the counter
was thrown down. Nearly an hour elapsed before it could
be extricated. Relieved from that situation, the animal was
pursued by the disorderly rabble into Iloxton and back again
to the City-road, and finally ran into the yard of a wheel-
wright in the Curtain-road, where a cart was broken and
other damage done. Being at length secured, it was conveyed
in a cart to Knightsbridge, to the promises of the purchaser,
Mr. Boyne, who promised to pay the various parties for the
mischief it had committed.

STATE OF TRADE. - Trade is again a little
flatter this week. Yarns and wools remain the same. The
woollen glove trade is drawing to a close for the season.
Some manufacturers are putting their hands on half-work,
others on cotton. We fear 'there will be a diminished de-
mand for labour next year, if there should be no alterations
in our cern-laws in the meantime, and if the price of pro-
visions should rise, as it must do from present appearances,—
Leicestershire Mercury.