The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-20 00:00:00

(LEFT SPEAHING.)

TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING
QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK.
plumy.
5 to 2 agst Ugly Buck
5 to 2 agst Ratan—taken
9 to 1 agst Orlando
14 to 1 agst Leander
1G to 1 agst Akbar
17 to 1 agst Running Rein
20 to 1 agst Bay Momus
•25 to 1 agst lonian
25 to 1 agst Qui Tam
40 to 1 agst Mount Charles
50 to 1 agst King of the Gipsies
OAKS.

6 to 1 agst Barricade
6 to 1 agst Princess
7 to 1 agst Sister to Martingale
10 to 1 agst Mcrope
10 to 1 agst All-round-my-Hat
17 to 1 agst April Noddy

Suirwancic.—On the morning of Sunday last, the
12th instant, about two o'clock, the principal keeper at Kin-
naird lighthouse, while on his watch in the light-room, was
attracted by the noise of some ono kriocking at the door of
the house. Having summoned the assistant keeper, it was
found that the person who sought admittance was a ship-
wrecked seaman in a very wet and exhausted state. When
his necessities had been provided for, the statement that he
gave was, that his name was Alexander Hutchison, and that
his vessel was the Eliza, of Kirkcudbright, bound from Liver-
pool to Dundee, with salt. She struck on a rock on the 9th
instant in passing through the Pentland Frith, but from the
fog (lid not know exactly where it was. The wind was fa-
vourable for crossing the Moray Frith, and this they at-
tempted to do by working the pumps till the morning of the
11th (Saturday), at five o'clock, when the pump leathers
being worn out, and the water above the cabin floor, theysde-
termined to abandon the vesseL In putting the boat out for
this purpose, however, the rope by which she was attached
to the sloop slipped, and she went adrift. Upon this the
crew, consisting of four men, jumped overboard, leaving a
boy, who was unable to swim, on board the vessel. Hutchison
was the only one who made the boat ; the rest all perished ;
and the vessel went down in about an hour after he left her.
He was unable to render any assistance, as there were no
oars in the boat, which was gradually drifted towards the
shore, which he saw in the afternoon. The wind changed
at night, and, afraid of being drifted off again, he determined
to swim to shore, about a mile distant, which he reached at
midnight, about a mile west of• the lighthouse, and, keeping
the light in view, he arrived sea already mentioned.—Edin-
burgh Paper.

THE LATE M. BECKFORD.—Mr. Beckford's fa-
ther, the alderman, was not a,merchant, his connection with
the City was entirely political. .11e was the eldest son of Sir
Peter Beckford, accounted the richestsubject in Europe, who
left also extensive estates to 'his younger children, viz.,
Julius, grandfather of the late Lord Rivers, Francis, whose
descendants now alone retain the name; Elizabeth, Coun-
tess of Effingham, and Ann, the mother of Lord Seaford.
Peter Beckford was the son of a successful soldier, Colonel
Beckford, Governor of Jamaica, who was nephew to Sir Tho-
mas Beckford, of Ashstead, in Surrey. The family had ori-
ginally large estates in Gloucestershire, &c., but Sir 'William
Beokford died fighting for King Richard on Bosworth field,
and the fortunes of the family fell with him. And you will
not be sorry to hear, that the works published by Mr. Beck-
ford did not " exhaust his productive powers." Masses of
manuscripts remain which may be given to the public, and
which I do not think you will find unworthy the advantage
of your notice.—Correspondent of the Athenceum.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
WORSHIP-STREET.

Charles .Emile d'Atrobus alias Emile Vercoustre, a well-
grown and rather respectable looking Frenchman, was
placed before Mr. Broughton, the sitting magistrate, for
re-examination upon a charge of stealing 271 from Mrs.
Elizabeth Mead, of the Jamaica coffee-house, Commer-
cial-road.

About the middle of last November the prisoner, who
was then believed to be as he represented himself, a
young FrenChman of good family, on a visit to England,
went Do lodge at the coffee-house. At the commence-
ment of the present year a young fellow named Frederick
Watson, who had committed numberless robberies about
town, paid a visit to the Jamaica coffee-house, and
stole amongst other property a coat, with a neck scarf
in the pocket, belonging to M. Emile d'Atrobus. Wat-
son was at length detecte.i, and committed to Newgate
for trial upon many charges, and being convicted, was
transported for ten years. The Frenchman whom he
had robbed did not appear against him at the trial,

although bound over with other prosecutors, for he had
himself, in the meantime, absconded from the Jamaica
coffee-house, and was charged with stealing a purse con-
taining a 101. note and seven sovereigns from Mrs. Mead,
the landlady, and making away also with a coat which
Mrs. Meads uncle, Mr. Elliott, a pawnbroker, had lent
to him to wear when he attended at this court as a com-
plainant against Watson.
Westbury, 215 N, who apprehended the prisoner last
week in New Inn•yard, Shoredith, said the prisoner then
denied the robbery, and asserted that he had only been
in England a month. It was ascertained, however, that
he had been some time a patient in St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, in the borough of Southwark, and that during that
time he had scraped acquaintance and corresponded with
a smart servant girl in the neighbourhood.
Several letters were produced, professing the most
ardent love for the young woman, with whom the hos-
pital patient corresponded, and from thence it appeared
that the prisoner at that time assumed the name of
Emile Vercouste.

Mr. Elliott, the pawnbroker, who had, after the rob-
bery and disappearance of the prisoner, caused search
to be made for him in France and elsewhere, said ho
had received information that he was a deserter from a
French regiment, and had left a wife and family in Paris.
The prisoner, however, told the Magistrate that he
was not a married man, nor a deserter, but had been a
soldier in the French service. He knew nothing of this
robbery, he said ; and the cause of his being out of the
way was illness, which had confined him three months
in the hospital.
Mr. BROUGHTON, being informed that further evidence
was expected, remanded the prisoner again.