The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-06 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS.

' AMSTYRDAM, Nov. I.—We are happy to announce that
• the herring fishery, which was at first very unfavourable, is
'sow so productive that there is no record of so many arrivals
-at Scheveningen, in the month of October, as this year.
fewer than eleven vessels have arrived since the 2ri No
hoof
'October, bringing, in all, 647,000 herrings.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 3.—Among the many measures adopted
.by the Government to procure from abroad a supply of pro-,
.visions to make up the deficiency in our crops, especially
potatoes, is the following:—" His Excellency the Minister of
the Colonies informs the merchants that, by the Kin-g's
. authority, orders have been given to the Governor-General
of .our East India possessions to encourage, by all possible
means, the exportation of rice to the mother country, and to
Aake care that during the year 1846 Dutch ships, the half of
whose cargoes, at the least, consists of rice to be imported
,Into the Netherlands, shall be admitted free into all the little
. ports of Java, to exempt them-Ist, from the payment of
,4XPOrt, duties on rice, or to cause it to be returned to them if
.thdy have already paid it ; 2d, from thoimport duty on the
imam for the rice ; and, 3d, from the anchorage, convoy, and
harbour dues. The captains of ships are only bound to give
"security to the amount of their dues in order to Insure the
jiiiNttation in the Netherlands.—Dutch Papers, Nov. 4.

..LICIEIFII3II.BT.—THE SEED.-TIME,
TTnn ticki g
is now over; and the farmers are very busy in stripping and
stacking the poles, carrying the bines off the gardens, thrash=
piQuithing, and sowing wheat, for which operations the
weatkeras highly auspicious. Where potato digging is going
op, but very few sound bulbs a* obtained; and are selling
Bd. an+lod. per gallon in this locality. Bo scanty is the
ply, we are at a loss to tell from whence our seed potatoes'
are,to Turnips are ls. 6d. per bushel; Soar is Is. sd.
per garsr•
on.—.. Dover aronisk.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ADMIRALTY COURT, Nov. 5.
THE JANE.—SALVAGE.
This was an action brought by the writers, owners, and
crew of two smacks, named the Benevolence and the Friends'
Goodwill, to obtain a reward for alleged salvage services
rendered to the schooner Jane, of Rochester, which, on her
voyage to that port from Middleborough, with coals, on the
29th of May last, was off the entrance of the Swin, in the
Thames, and early in the morning of the 30th, the wind
blowing hard from the N.E. by N., the weather densely
thick, with heavy rain, grounded upon the East-fiat of the
Barrow-sand. She was descried by the two smacks, which
came up to her assistance, and eventually the schooner was
got off the sand, and carried safely to Sheerness. The negotia-
tions which took place between the master and the asserted
salvors were matter of dispute between the parties, and
the subject of very contradictory affidavits, the parties who
proceeded against the vessel` contending that the schooner
was, in fact, abandoned by the master and crew; the owners
alleging that those parties, after their services had been
declined, took advantage of the accidental absence of the
master, the jolly-boat having got adrift with the master in
it, and obtained possession of her, employing expressions
calculated to intimidate the crew, by inspiring them with
the apprehension that the vessel would be lost. The ship
was arrested for 250/., the vessel, cargo, and freight being
worth only 800/.
Dr. LUSHINGTON was of opinion that the vessel had never
been abandoned by the master and crew; that the pretended
salvors had taken possession of her without the slightest
authority from the master; that the act approached as
nearly as possible to an act of piracy as any case which had
come before the consideration of the Court; and that the
claim had been supported by false swearing from the begin-
ning to the end. He pronounced against the claim, and con-
demned the pretended salvors in the costs.
THE MARY ANN.—BOTTOMRY.
This was a suit by Messrs. Good and Rigg, the holders of a
bottomry bond, against the brig Mary Ann, and against
certain parties claiming to be mortgagees in possession of
the ship, and also against other parties claiming under a
charter-party. The owner of the ship had become bank-
rupt; the ship had been sold under a decree of this Court,
and the proceeds amounting to 1,084/. 10s. 6d., had been
brought into the registry, as well as the freight, 6701.165. 2d.,
making together 1,7551. 6s. 6d. Out of this sum wages had
been paid to the amount of 3021. 3s. 4d., leaving a balance
in the registry of 1,4531. 3s. 2d., subject to other claims.for
wages and pilotage. This amount was insufficient to dis-
charge the various liens upon.it,,con.sisting of the bot-
tomry bond, a charter-party, and a bond in vendition
for 4501., executed at Yarmouth early in 1843, which had
priority over the other liens. These conflicting claims in-
volved the case in some confusion ; but the immediate ques-
tion resolved itself into that of the validity ofithe .bottomry
bond, which was given at Buenos Ayres, where the vessel
sustained considerable damage, and the sum specified in the
bond was incurred for repairs, namely, 670/., the interest
stipulated in the bond being 25 per cent. In opposition to
the bond, it was contended that Messrs. Dowse, at Buenos
Ayres, to whom the bond had been given, had advanced the
mony as consignees and agents of the owners or charterers,
on the personal credit of the latter, without the contempla-
tion of a bottomrybond, which was an after-thought. The
case was embarrassed not only by complicated accounts, but
by the fact that in her long continuance abroad, from July,
1843, to September, 1844, the vessel performed some inter-
mediate voyages, which raised a question of bottomry law
hitherto undecided—namely, whether the bond was valid
when it covered disbursements in such intermediate voyages.
Dr. ADDAMS and Dr. Cuirms were heard for the bond-
holders; Dr. HAGGARD and Dr. HARDING for the parties in-
,erested in the proceeds.
The reply stands over for to-morrow (this day.)

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
The following is a correct and complete list of the sentences
passed upon the several prisoners at the recent sessions of
the above Court.
The following were sentenced to be transported beyond
the seas for the periods to which their names are appended :
For Twenty Years—Richard Hodnott.
For Fifteen Years—Solomon Lyons.
Fourteen Years—Charles Gregory Maynard, Daniel John
Garrett.
Ten Years—Henry Ticklow, Robert Collins, Elizabeth
Riches, Walter King, Thomas Smith, 25, Alexander Ridge,
George Britton, William Minchin, John Ward, John Davis,
Anne Davis, William Jones, 17, John Williams, 24, John
Jones, John Lee, alias Robert Dalton, Moses Isaacs, Mary
Morris, William Maley, Thomas Fountain, and Catharine
Allen.

Seven Years—Joseph Nicholls, William Thompson, Edward
Johnson, Mary Nokes, Cornelius Strong, Thomas White,
Robert J. Jackson, George Maskell, John Thomas Beale,
Joseph Edge, William Henry Cousins, Robert Fitzpatrick,
Robert Newman, John Terry, George Doughty, James
Whiteman, Arthur Rowan Hamilton, John Sawyer, Samnel
Axford, Benjamin Henry Holyoak, Samuel Stevens, John
Wilkinson, alias William Chambers.
The subjoined is a list of those prisoners who were ordered
to be kept to hard labour:—
For Two Years—Richard Collins, John Johnston, and
Thomas Lancaster.

For Fifteen Months—James limns.
For One Year—Joseph Coster, James Yelden, George Mill-
ward, Anne Chase, John Waite, William Surman, George
Carter, Mary Anne Brennan, Elizabeth Thomas, Frank
Fowler, James Bewes, John Williams, 18, John Hopkins,
Mary Bowron, George William Reynolds, Henry Davis, 38,
Samuel Williams, 27, John Turner, Edward Hodges, Joseph
Cherry, John Rome, Henry Taylor, Jason Jonathan Rome,
George Whintle, William Reynolds, Henry Marks, Francis
M‘Carthy, Bridget Smith, alias Thomas, Benjamin Crusell,
Henry Tarling, Jane Jury.
For Nine Months—John Bally, Timothy Meegan, Alfred
Duckett, James Reddington, alias Peddington, John Harri-
son, Matilda Palmer.
For Six Months—William Powers, Henry Bradley, John
White, James Cramond, Benjamin Brook, Charles Stubbing,
Margaret Collins, Anne Fox, James Jeffreys, Thomas Mar-
shall, Alfred Carlile, Richardby Hibbert, Daniel M'Carty,
James Murphy, John Williams, 31, Joseph Jaques, Mary
Anne Wilson, James Phillips, Thomas Field, Edward Spicer,
Elizabeth Clements, Thomas Walton, John Jacobs, Raymond
Emanual Enquitea, John Peyman, Hannah Collins, Cathe-
rine Barrett, Henry Lea, Thomas Brown, Caroline Evans,
William Grandon, Anne Smith, 17, William Hall, John
Dempsey, Michael Corbitt, James Robinson, Eliza Martin,
Newman Long, Frederick Stanley, Edward Copping, William
Baynes, William Parsons, Ellen Lewis, alias Edwards, alias
Evens, and George Martin.
For Four Months—John Ellis, James Young, John Smith,
32, Sarah Page, Edmund Rimmington, Edward Neely, Wil-
liam Pearce, James Knight, William ousins, George Broad-
ley, Francis Gregory, William Ellis, Margaret Roberts.
For Three Months—George Bell, Ellen Smith, 18, Wil-
liam Lacey, Edward Sampson, Eliza Voules, Elizabeth
Lacey, Robert Burgess, James Davis, 28, John Furneux,
William Barnes, George Smith, 16, Mary Walker, 12, Han-
nah Coford, Ellen Gearing, George Andrew Gill, Frances
Brown, William Higgs, Daniel Deller, William Clark, 32,
Thomas Macrow, Charles Gibson, John Brown, 18, Richard
Bryan, Maria West, Thomas Higgins, Charles Jones, Thomas
Mills, Charlotte Mackie, Edward Bowers, Robert Berry,
Richard Wetenhall, Ellen Connolly, and George Sydney
Heath.

A number of prisoners were also sentenced to different
periods of imprisonment, varying from a month to one day,
in Newgate.
The bills against the following prisoners were ignored by
the grand jury :—Henry Clark, William Duffin, Robert
Barnett, Allred Barnett, Elizabeth Long, Martha Barnes,
Thomas Bridger, Anne Sinner, Christopher Harman, Thomas
Mooney, William Jefferys.
The following prisoners were acquitted by the petty jury:
—Benjamin Hall, Jean Deeiner, James Quested, Samuel
Wyndham Jones, Lewis Simmons, Jane Spence, Thomas
Mears, Robert Adlington, John Flint, Frederick Greenwood,
William Tapson, Thomas Smith, 52, Frederick Webb, William
Still, James Grant, Joseph Hempson, John Brown, alias
Thomas Wheatley, William Brackenbury, Joseph Tebby,
William Wright, Edmund Adolphus Hughes, Charlotte Body,
Ann Sullivan, Maria Locke, Edwin Locke, James Locke,
William Darling, John Guy, Elizabeth Fisher, Mary Gordon,
Alexander Atkinson, Rebecca Coleman, James Larkin, Henry
Stanton, Robert Ewings, Philip Ernst, Dennis M'Carthy,
Raphael Garcia, Sarah Hughes, Thomas Blackburn, Eliza-
beth Perry, James White, William Whitehouse, Edward
Cramer, George Hughes, John Alfred Catton, Michael
Kerrigan, John Snazell, William Richardson, David Rowell,
William Frith, Joseph Bryan, Owen Keafe, Mary Brown, 29,
Elizabeth Woodcock, William Scott, Matthew Henry Chil-
lingworth, Daniel .Williams, and Janet Stewart.
The Court, at its rising, adjourned to Monday, Nov. 24.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO W-STREET.

A delicate-looking youth, of 16, named Ford, alias William
Rowe, and otherwise Caroline Foster, who appeared at the
bar in the attire of a young lady, and sustained the character
extremely well, was charged with decamping from his mas-
ter's service, with a gold watch, value 71., two silver wataies,
value 57., and 10/. in money.
The evidence went to show that on the 28th ult. the pri-
soner was taken into the service of Mr. Webb, a silversmiths
in Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, as an errand-boy. In
two days afterwards he absconded with the abovementioned
property, and a reward was offered for his apprehension, a
description of the prisoner, as well as the stolen property,
being given in the handbills.
By this means a knowledge of the robbery was con-
veyed to Mr. Daniel Curran, a hatter, in the Black-
friars-road, who recollected having pawned one of the
watches for 2/., at the solicitation of a young woman
(as he supposed) who bad been lodging, a few days
in his house, as Miss Caroline Foster, a milliner, and who
had taken a shop which she (id est he) was just about to open
in that business. This circumstance induced him to appro-
priate a portion of some money entrusted to him by his new
lodger to the redemption of the watch, which, on being shown
to Mr. Webb, was immediately identified as his property.
Information was then given to the police, and the young
lady-gentleman, busy in domestic arrangements, and sur-
rounded by articles of furniture and kitchen utensils (newly
purchased to begin housekeeping with), was apprehended
and taken to the station-house. He wore a black velvet
bonnet, veil, and crimson shawl; .the falsity of a handsome
display of .black friaglets being well concealed by a neat
semi-cap. He was speedily unmasked, and possession was
taken of a trunk containing a quantity of feminine ap-
parel, including petticoats, habit-shirts, and a prodigious
bustle ; a variety of dress caps, and a large feather.
There were besides some articles of stock-in-trade, ap-
parently intended for the show-room department, and on
his person were found the bills of the different tradesmen
of whom the household goods had been purchased. Mr.
Curran declared_ that he never for once suspected the
prisoner of being a lad in woman's clothing, and it would
also appear that neither the tradesmen nor the landlord of
the shop had ever questioned his sex during his transactions
with them. It further transpired that the prisoner, after
absconding frem his master, actually returned to the shop to
make some slight purchase, and Mr, Webb was so struck
with his resemblance to the lad who had robbed him, that
he privately persuaded his wife to show him into a back
apartment, for the purpOse of eyeing him with a degree of
minuteness which he feared would he considered indelicate
on his part in the event of his suspicions being incorrect.
This contrivance was carried out, but as Mrs. Webb avowed
her conviction that the boy was a genuine girl, he was at
once dismissed with the customary civilities.
It was proved that the property had been pledged at the
shop of Mr. Delaney, a pawnbroker, at Greenwich.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and
Mr. Twy'onp committed him for trial.