The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-03 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCE.

We have been favoured with a sight of a private letter
whi -11 conveys gratifying intelligence as to the improving
state of this important colony. The prospects of the
settles itre very promising at present ; wool alone will
realise !gout 1,.50,0001., and tallow, sperm, and black
hides, whalebone, gum, Sic. will yield an amount
c;,nnoi. be valued at less thin 550.000/. A friend
of ti niter was making p7eparati--lis "or boiling down
Ant cattle, and old sheep, to the extent of 24,0001.,
including the value of the hides. It is on the whole ex-
ri*,f,rti that the exports this year from the colo,y (owing
;to present system of economy) ,vill exceed the imports
swarly 700,000/ ; about two thirds of last year's
?!Oft be:,n shipped. The following extract from
he Sybizy ilornzny Herald of 2Gth of April last, being
lie day wl;en the last accounts left, will afford some ,1
;ch.* of the flourishing state of trade:—" By the ships
~hich leave the port for London to-day, produce worth
00 000/. in the colony, and at lea,t 150,0001. in Eng-
Nut], Nil( e. exported. The General Hewitt takes by far
die nio,y valuable
cAtyr. that ever left. the port, the prin-
c,pal item. being four hundred tuns of sperm oil, which is
90/. a tun in ficiudon, sixteen hundred and fifty
titles of vvool, one hundred tons of tallow, and two thou-
*awl four hundred hides. The PAlestine takes fifteen
inunthed and thirty-live bales of wool, sixty tons tallow
land four hundred 'and sixty hides. The Autumnus takes
lhonie thirteen hundred bales wool, thirty-six tons tal-
low, end five hundred aed eighty hides. Previous to
ve,iseie, there have been exported this month, by
the Herald, two thousand five hundred and fifty bales
wool, one hundred tons tallow, eirrhteen hundred
~u(1 ne litotdred and niru.:• tons black oil. By the
.t L'hinet there were exported one hundred and nine
tins sperm oil, and four hundred and seventy hides.
Ent I,sh value of the exports to London for the
month of April cannot be less than 200,0001" Cakdo-
).l(l4

K t:Tr 11'3 PERQUISITES.—After
the late exe-
tuti ,r, of Benjamin Ellison, at Bodmin, Jack Ketch sold the
rope will which he was hanged to great advantage, obtainin g
a shilling for the smallest bit of it, from persons who bought it
to cure fits and the King's evil.
ItAiLwA y DAy- TICK ETS.—The following letter,
,ht,Nt Shcreilitch Station, London, Aug. 25, 1845, has been
teceived reply to a memo:'al to the Directors of the Eastern
:Counties Railway, requesting the adoption of the system of
silay,tiekets, novv so general on other lines.
" I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the lath itist..nt, accompanying a memorial from the inhabi-
tants of Colchester, which have been laid before the Board of
3ireetor4 and I am desired to state that the sub!ect to which
five memorial refers has recently received the attention of the
Directors; and that the, had come to the determination of
first and second class day-tickets, at the rate of a fare
And a halt, arraneernents for which will be immediately made.
I am desired to add that the Directors derived much satis-
!acmsn in having anticipated the wisheq expressed in a memo.
sq ,respectably and numerously signed. I have the honour
to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,

" ANT. BULKELEY, Secretary.
J. W. Egerton Green, Esq. , Colchester."
Ipswich Express.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MA SION-HOUSE.
Thomas Taverner and William Sassons, journeymen car-
penters, were charged under the 4th of George IV., cap. 34,
sec. 3, with misconduct in the execution of a contra/it entered
into with their employer, Mr. Greenwood, of No. 10, Arthur-
street West. Alderman Moon sat for the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Greenwood stated that he had been engaged to pot in a
shop front in a house in Pope's Head-alley. The prisoners
were in his employment, and had been directed to perform the
work. Upon going to the house he found them intoxicated,
and it was ascertained that they had got into that condition in
the cellar of a neighbour of the owner of the house. The shop
front was completely pulled out and exposed, and left in that
condition. Witness paid them weekly.
It was ascertained that the prisoners had gone into the cellar
of Mr. Leathwaite, in Pope's Head-alley, and made free with
several bottles of wine which had been lately deposited there;
that half a dozen empty bottles had appeared in the place of
full ones, to the astonishment of the policeman, who designated
their drunkenness as a " most mysterious intoxication," before
he found that clue to its meaning.
The prisoners, who had thus committed the two offences,
of misconduct with respect to their contract with their master,
and robbery of Mr. Leathwaite, had nothing to say in pallia-
tion but that they had been really drunk, were sentenced to
hard labour in the House of Correction for one month.
John Haggart, a journeyman baker, in the emp oyment of
Mr. AnFarlane, baker. Jewry-street, Aldgate, w.as charged
under the same Act with having spoiled a batce of bread.
The prisoner had been taken into the service of the pro-
secutor as foreman, and had not only got tipsy ha his work, and
burned a batch of bread, but aetually laughed at the mischief
he committed.
A respectable baker, of Coleman-street, who called at Mr.
M'Farlaue's house, and saw the condition of the bread, stated
that the batch was quite spoiled.
The prisoner said in his defence that he had a great nunber
of customers to supply, and there never had been made any
complaint whatever of his skill or attention to business.
Alderman Moore said it would appear as if the Act of Par-
liament were not blown to be in operation at all, judging from
the innumerable breaches of contract whieh daily eccurred.
He hoped the press would let journeymen and labourers know
that they could be sent off te, the treadmill for, as it was generally
called, "leaving their employers in the lurch." The annoy-
ances to which men engaged in the most useful occupations
were subjected, in consequence of the gross carelessness and
misconduct of the persons employed by them was incalculable,
and it should be his endeavour to "heck the mischief as much
as possible with the aid of the treadmill.
The prisoner was sent to Bridewell, to take his station on the
treadmill with the two former prisoners.
GUILDHALL.
Two young men, of respectable appearance, who refused to
give their names at the station-house, and wire gave fictitious
names when put to the bar, but subsequently described them-
selves as George Symons and Greenwood Poole, gentlemen,
were charged with assaulting a watchman, stationed with a
lantern to prevent vehicles from falling into the sewer in Fleet-
street, which is open for repairs.
Thos. Jones, of New Hall-street, Islington, stated that he
was placed as a watchman at the open sewer in Fleet-street.
About half-past two o'clock the prisoners and another gentle-
man came along, and one of them blew a lantern out. Witness
went up to them and said they were doing very wrong. They
might occasion great mischief by extinguishing the light. He
went away to light it again, and the prisoners followed him arid
broke his hat and lantern, and gave him a kick behind, which
had caused him great pain. It had been deemed necessary to
apply leeches to reduce the inflammation.
William Turpin, a scavenger, stated that he was at work in
Fleet-street at the time, and saw the prisoners knock the
watchman's hat over his eyes, blow out his lantern, and throw
it several yards. It was Poole that blew the candle out.
George Ventom, a City policeman, identified Symons as the
man who kicked the watchman.
The defendants did not remember what had occurred, but
they were willing to make any recompense in their power.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND said it was very foolish sport to
put out a light set up to warn people against danger, and from
which a terrible accident and loss of life might have ensued.
This disorderly conduct in the street must be repressed, and he
should commit them for the assault, and instruct the City Soli-
citor to prosecute them at the expense of the Corporation.
They were ordered to find good bail for their appearance at
the next Lerelon Sessions.
James Spruies, an articled clerk to a law-writer in Castle -
street, Holborn, was charged with assaulting, with intent to
violate, Emma Cook, a servant in the house.
The girl stated that on the evening of the 14th ult. her
master and mistress went to the play. About eleven o'clock
she requested the three apprentices to go up to bed. She went
up stairs as far as the drawing-room, and one of the young men
(the defendant) left the rest, followed her into the room, tried
to get possession of the key, and failing in that, he exposed
himself, and tried to throw her on the carpet. She succeeded
iD resisting him. At a later hour be quietly solicited her, and
when she told him she was an orphan, and her character was
everything to her, he replied, " Oh, never mind that." He
on two or three occasions afterwards behaved in lee:n-11y to-
wards her.
Mr. Robinson, for the defendant, said his client was entitled
to aome property, and probably they would not have heard of
this charge if that had not been the case. Nothing was so
easily made as a charge of this nature, nor so hard to rebut.
The delay which had occurred in making the charge showed it
was not made in the proper spirit. He should show she had,
as it were, courted and sanctioned what reaily took place.
The girl was cross-examined to show that she had opportu-
nities of complaining to her mistress, but did not use them, and
there had been some chit-chat between her and the apprentices
on the night of the 14th. She complained now because he
continued to annoy her. She thought if she overlooked his
impropriety of behaviour to her, he would reflect and grow
cool ; but it appeared he did not. She denied that she had
given him any encouragement.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND was afraid the assault was the re-
sult of foolish " chit-chat" and play, and he declined to take
notice of the charge, as it was not made more promptly.
The complaint was dismissed.
('LERKE.IWELL
Mary White, John M. Mahon, and John Cashman were
placed at the bar, before Mr. Cambe, charged with having been
conce-ned in stealing a s'l. note, the property of Madame
Eliza Forgeet, of 23, King-street, St. James's-squara, and of
the French plays.
It appeared that on Monday afternoon last the male pri•
goner went into the Cart and Horse public house, Turnmill-
street, Clerkenwell, when, after playing at begatelle.lll- Mahon
asked for change of a 50/. note. It being suspected by the
landlord that all was not right, he said he could give change,
received the note, and sent for Inspector Penny. G, who pies-
toned the prisoners, and their account being unsatisfactory, he
took them to the station-house. From subsequent inquiries,.
he ascertained that the note had been stolen from Madame For-
geot, who had caused it to be stopped at the Bank, and on visit.
ing her house, the prisoner White was found to be her ser-
vant; the prisoner M'Mahow was in the habit of vis.ting tier.
and she was suspected and taken into custody en the charge of
stealing the note, which was now produced. White said she
found the note amongst the cinders, under the drawing-room
firegrate, and she handed it to Mellahon. Cashman said he
accidentally met M'Mahon in St. James's-park. He told him
he had received the note from his mother, to go to Ireland,
and he walked about with him until they entered the Cart and
Horse public-house, where they were given into custody.
Inspector Penny said that Madame Forgeot was travelling
in France, and it would require time to bring her forward.
Mr. C.)Maz remanded the prisoners White and M'Mahon
for a fortnight, for the attendance of Madame Forgeot, and he
ordered Cashman to find bail for his re- appearance.
John Smith and James Williams, well. known smashers,
were charged with passing a had half-coven piece to Mrs. Kelly,
the owner of a beer-shop in Myddleton-alley, Old-street, St.
Luke's, The prisoners called for a pint of beer, and gave a
good half-crown. They requested to have it returned, sly ing
they had halfpence ; and on it being given back they then ten-
dered a bad half-crown, saying, they had not enough coppers ;
received change, and left the place. They were en:sued and
given into custody.
The prisoners denied the charge.
They were remanded for the attendance of the solicits r to
the Mint.