The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-13 00:00:00

N' G. NOVEMBER 13, 1845.

were sworn to as having pawned various articles of property
belonging to Mr. Shaw. The property produced, and which
had been pawlied at the shop of Mr. Turner, was Hentified
by Mr. Shaw and Miss Calcraft. Some idea may be formed
of the extent to which the wholesale system of plunder and
pawning had been carried from the fact that from the 13th of
April, 1844, to the 18th of October, 1845, no less a sum
than 528/. had been obtained at the shop of Mr. Turner upon
pledges above 10s., and nearly 50/. upon pledges varying
from ss. to Ios. Mr. Turners's account of the transaction
was, that when the prisoner Mary Cummings first came to
Pledge a silver spoon she represented that the property be-
longed to her uncle, a Mr. Back, residing at No. 11, on the
Terrace, Walworth-road (not one hundred yards off). They
believed, they said, her representation, and though property
of the most massive description, sometimes to the amount of
20/. a day, and upwards had been pledged, and the principal
part of it bore initials, arms, and crests, none of which were
suited to the name of "Back," they never took the slightest
trouble to inquire who really resided at No. 11 on the Ter-
race, nor to find out who the real owner of the property was ;
nor had they even put a single address to a single duplicate
produced, though the latter omission renders Mr. Turner
liable to enormous penalties.
In the course of the proceedings Mr. Parry remarked, that
from the representation of the prisoner Mary Cummings,
when she first pledged the plate, that it belonged to her uncle,
an impression had gone abroad that Mr. Shaw actually stood
in that degree of relationship to her and her family. This
he (Mr. Parry) begged most unequivocally to deny. Mr.
Shaw was no relative whatever to the prisoners. He had
become their kind benefactor in distress, and the return they
had made was that which his Worship saw.
The two Cummingses, and Langley, were fully committed
for trial; and the others remanded to a future day.
SOUTHWARK. -.-

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John Johnson, a well-dressed man, between 30 and 40
years of age, was brought up before Mr. Cottingham,
charged with being concerned with others (not in custody)
in stealing a cash-box containing sixty sovereigns and some
important documents, the property of Mr. William Skelton,
the landlord of the Fleece public-house, in George-street,
Bermondsey.
The complainant stated, that on the preceding day, about
half-past three o'clock, a respectable-looking well-dressed man,
accompanied by a woman, entered his house, and went into
the parlour. They, however, had not been many minutes
there when the man came out again, and addressing complain-
ant, who was serving at the bar at the time, said that he
wanted to write a letter of importance, that the parlour had
company in it, and he therefore requested that he and the
lady might be permitted to occupy the bar-parlour for the
purpose. Complainant, from the apparent respectability of
the parties, at once acceded to the request, and the man and
woman accordingly entered the room, drew their chairs to
the table, and called for pen, ink, and paper. The writing
material having been placed on the table, the landlord de-
sired his niece, a young girl of 14, to remain in the apart-
ment with them while he was engaged at the bar, and the
man immediately commenced writing to the woman's
dictation, and both appeared to be wholly absorbed in the
business. Soon afterwards, however, the parlour bell rang ;
and as the waiter was out the complainant's niece left the
bar-parlour to attend to the bell, and during her absence,
which was very short, both the man and woman went out of
the house, the former going first and the latter immediately
afterwards. The complainant, surprised at the circumstance
of the strangers going away in such a hasty manner without
saying a word, left the bar at which hg was serving, and rushing
into the bar-parlour, immediately went to the table-drawer,
where he kept his cash-box, and, to his utter dismay, found it
was gone, with its contents, consisting of 60 0r62 sovereigns,
his license, together with the magistrates's certificate, and
other documents. Upon the discovery of the robbery he
gave the alarm, but before he got to the street-door both the
man and woman were out of sight. He added that two
strange men were standing at the bar, and that the prisoner
and another stranger were in the parlour, and that the mo-
ment they heard the alarm of the cashbox having been
stolen, they all left the house. The prisoner, however, was
followed, brought back, and given into custody. The land-
lord further said that he bad no doubt the whole of the

parties mentioned were acting in collusion, and that they
formed part of a gang of well-dressed thieves, who made a
point of entering the houses of licensed victuallers, and rob-
bing them under circumstances similar to those in which his
bar-parlour had been plundered of the cash-box containing
the money and documents.
In reply to Mr. COTTINOIIAM, the complainant said, the
prisoner entered the. house soon after the man and woman
above described had taken their seats in the bar-parlour, but
he assumed to be a total stranger to either of them, and
walked into the public room, and called for spirits and water
and a cheroot. _

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS,
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Derby and Crewe,
4k—Grand Junction, 229—Ditto, 401. Shares (L. M.), 52
Huddersfield. Canal and Railway, 91/B—Leeds and Thirsk,
13 4—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 2%—Mid-
land, 138—Ditto, 401. Shares, 2014—North Union (A), 203
—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 534—
South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 101/4.—Water-
ford and Valentia, 134—Dutch Rhenish, 71A.
LEEDS, Nov. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Brighton,
59—Midland, 139—York and North Midland Extension, 26
—Leeds and Bradford Extensions, 39—Leeds and Dewsbury,
18% c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 1314—Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 131,4—North British, New, s—Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole, 41—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 41/4—Lon-
don and York, 41. 1 1 s.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 3. lls.—
Cambridge and Lincoln Extensions, 4%—Direct Northern,
2—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 44—London and York
(Bawtry), 3%—West Riding Union, 7% —East Lincoln-
shire, 234—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 2s. 6d.
p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 2s. 6d. dis.—Leicester and
Birmingham, 10s. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 10s. p.—Man-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3 p.—Nottingham
and Boston, 12s. 6d. p.—Nottingham, Erewash, and Amber-
gate, 3—South Midlands, 3%p.—Wakefield and Bradford,
ss. p.—Welsh Midlands, 2%.
HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 12.
STocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Huddersfield and
Manchester, 131,4—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 22
Leeds and Thirsk, 131—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton, 171/4—London and York, 4%—Grand Union, 2%
—North and South Junction. 25s.—North Western, 3%.
HULL, Nov. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby (10
per cent. guaranteed), 101—North British, (Carlisle), 3
Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 1%—Derby and Gainsborough,
I%—Hull;and Barnsley Junction, 255.
YORK, Nov. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—York and North Mid-
land Extension, 26%—Newcastle and Berwick, 13—North
British, New Carlisle Branch, 3q—London and York, 4%
—Grand Union, 1%—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 2%—
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, VA p.—Welsh
Midland, 2%.

BRISTOL, Nov. 12.
STOCK EXCITANGE.-The sales are-Bristol and Exeter,
83-Ditto, New, 73/I-Bristol and South Wales Junction,
21. 138. 9d.-South Wales, 43/-Vale of Neath, 3%-Welsh
Midland, 2/. lls. 3d.
EDINBURGH, Nov. 10.
STocx Excluatax.-The sales are- Aberdeen, 71. 155.-
Arbroath and Forfar, 25/.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15/.-British
and Irish Union, 3/. 10s.-Caledonian, 101. 10s.-Caledo-
nian Extension, 3L-Clydesdale Junction, 21:1.-Direct
Northern, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 361.-Ditto,
New, 171.-Dundee and Perth, 91.-Edinburgh and Bath-
gate, 4/. 55.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 72/.-Ditto, Quarters,
18/.-Ditto, New, 13/.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbar-
ton, U.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 24/. 10s.-Ditto,
Preference, 191.-Edinburgh and Northern, 4/. 2s. 6d.-
Edinburgh and Perth, 51. 10s.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 72/.-
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Garnkirk,
451.-Glasgow and Greenock, 221. 10s.-Ditto, New, 101. lss.
-Ditto, Preference, 21. 55.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 31. 55.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 135.-Inverness
and Elgin, 21.-London and York, 51.-North British, 221.
-Ditto, Halves, 51.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 95.-Scottish
Central, 161.-Scottish Midland, 4/. 10s.-Scottish Western,
21. 125.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 21. 15s.
DUBLIN, Nov. 11.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Cork and Waterford,
11,x-Dublin and Drogheda, 82-Great Southern and
Western, 20-Great Southern, Clonmel to Thurles, 1%-
Midland Great Western, Extension to Sligo, 2-Killarney
Junctions, 11,1-Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junctions,
354Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 1 %-Wexford, Water-
ford, and Valentia, 13%.