The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Robert Thompson was charged before Sir John Pirie
with having stolen 6/. from a public-house in Smithfield.
Mrs. Lee, the landlady of the Half-moon, Smithfield,
stated that the prisoner came to her house on Thursday
night about flu: Ater-past eleven, and engaged a bed fur
the night. He went direct from the bar to the bedroom.
She closed the house a few minutes before twelve o'clock,
and placed 61. in silver, which was in a canvass bag, in a
room on the second floor. In the morning she found
that the prisoner had left the house, and that the money
was gone.
Mrs. Lee's servant swore that the prisoner was the
man who slept at the house on Thursday night.
Police-constable 456 stated that he went to 102,
High-street, Wapping, accompanied by the last witness,
where ho found the prisoner. The last witness said,
" That is the man that slept at my mistress's house on
Thursday night." The prisoner immediately turned
round, and said, "Do you mean to say that I slept at
the Half Moon?" although the name of the house had
not been mentioned by either of them.
A solicitor who attended for the prisoner called seve-
ral witnesses, who gave the prisoner an excellent cha-
racter. his brother-in-law's servant deposed that he
did not leave the house, 102, Wapping, on the night of
Thursday. It appeared, hog ever, that she had formerly
been in the service of the prosecutrix, and left her iu a
somewhat mysterious manner.
The solicitor contended that he had given sufficient
proof that the witnesses had been mistaken in the pri-
soner, and that he was entitled to his discharge.
Sir JOHN PIRIE could not satisfy his own mind in the
case, unless he sent it before a jury. He had no objec-
tion to remand the prisoner, and he was accordingly re-
manded until Thursday.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.-(THIS DAY.) -
LONDON, Nov. 11.—Wind N. to N.W., fresh breeze
and cloudy.
DEAL, Nov. 9, A.M.—Wind S.S.W., bard ; P.M.,
W.S.W., moderate ; 10th, W.S.W., a strong gale.—
Arrd. 9th, Mauritius, Simpson, Antigua; Luzon, Boston;
Feiro, Miramiehi. 10th, Shalford, Tate, Mauritius ;
Cumberland, Brice. and Welcome, Quebec. 10th, at ten
A.M., the wind shifted to S.S.W., strong gale with very
severe squalls until two nas., when it moderated and
shifted to the westward ; several vessels lost anchors and
ran for Ramsgate ; the remainder of the outward bound
rode out the gale all well, most of them with
two anchors down. The Earl Leicester, from Odessa
to London, got on the rocks off Deal Castle, but
was assisted off leaky, with loss of rudder and
pintles broken, and will proceed to Ramsgate.
The hull of a vessel of 353 to 400 tons, on her beam
ends, copper apparently new, and net long in the water.
being quite clean, was passed, sth.ult., lat. 33 N., lon.
59 W., by the Mauritius, in the Downs. The John and
Mary, of Dublin, from Quebec to Liverpool, out 57 days,
was spoken. 24th ult., with 4 feet 10 inches water in her
hold, and making 2 feet 6 inches per hour, having
sprung a leak the 21st ult., by the Cumberland, arrived
in the Downs, which has experienced very severe wea-
ther since that time, and it is feared the John and Mary
will not get home.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Wind S. to W.N.W. ; 10th,
S.S.E. to W., squally.—Arrd. Oriental (steamer), Alex-
andria, left 24th ult. ; Malta, 29th ; Gibraltar, 6th inst.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. her
Majesty's ship Nimrod, Bombay, sail( d August 10; Cape
of Good Hope, Sept. 19 ; Ascension, Bth ult.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind S.E. to E., fresh breezes.
—Arrd. 9th. Canopus, Esnouf, Labrador, sailed 14th
ult. ; Lady Wright, Caves, sails split, &c. ; Ann Raw,
Ichaboe. 10. Himalaya, Bunn, Valparaiso, with loss of
bulwarks ; Tam O'Shanter, Lawrence, Ichaboe. Sld.
Peterel packet, Madeira, &c. Off, Neptune, Bahia for
Hamburgh; Actif, Rio Janeiro.
WEXFORD, Nov. B.—The James Matheson, Cushing,
from Liverpool to China, got ashore in the North Bay,
here, this morning, NS ith fore and mainmasts cut away,
crew saved, cargo expected to be saved if the weather
moderates. P.S. The vessel is full of water.
DROGHEDA, Nov. B.—The Ellen Gower, Duff, of
Dumfries, from Liverpool to Newry, got ashore this
morning at Baltriggan, but is expected off if the weather
moderates ; crew saved.
LEITH, Nov. 9.—The Caroline, Hopperworth, from
Steids to Stettin, has put in here for repairs, being very
leaky. The Sunderland, Davidson, from St. Petersburgh
to Gloucester, arrived here this morning from St. Mar-
garet's Hope, in a very bad condition.
OFF CORK, Nov. 6.—Wallace, Valparaiso.
OFF CAPE CLEAR, Nov. s.—Ann, Falcon, Jamaica
for Liverpool, with mainmast sprung ; Albion, Quebec.
LEITH ROADS, PREVIOUS TO Nov. 7.—Arrd. Theo-
dosia, St. Petersburgh for London, leaky and both
pumps going.
LOUGHSWILLY, Nov. 6.—The Robert Burns, Messen-
ger, from St. Petersburgh to Liverpool, has been brought
in here waterlogged, having been on Skerry Vow Point,
and has been beached.
TEIGNMOUTII, NOV. 7.—Arrd. Leander, Miramichi.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9.—Wind S.E., moderate ; 10th,
S.S.E. to S. ditto.—Arrd. England (16th ult.) and
United States, New. Yoi lc. 10th, Herculean, Gibson,
and Symuirtry, Bombay ; Matthew Peace, White,
Ichaboe ; Unicorn, Tom zel, Buenos Ayres ; Prince
Lellewym, Gibbs, Macao ; Selina Watts, Porto Rico ;
Isabel, Griffiths, Antigua ; Emily, Foyle, and Ranger,
M‘Millan, Paraiba ; Cantab, Maracaibo ; Archelaus,
New Orleans and Boston ; Southerner and St. George,
New York ; Dorchester, Crowell, Boston ; Perseverance,
Bennett, St John's, New Brunswick ; England and Oak,
Quebec ; Eusebius, and Margaret and Anne, Newfound-
land. Off, William Mitchell (supposed), China ; Agri-
cola and Indus (ditto), Calcutta ; Rosendale (ditto),
Macao; Czar (ditt,9, Ceara; Islaen (ditto), Barbadoes;
Satellite, Argentina, Greenock, Greetelowe, Chacoes,
"arena, and Severn.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
Barrsse.i.s, Nov. 7.—We were mistaken in stating
yesterday, after another journal, that the general census
of the population of the kingdom is to be taken towards
the end of ne/t month, and that instructions had been
given for that purpose. The fact is that a sum of money
from the next budget of the Minister of the Interior
has been asked for to prepare this important operation,
the time for which is not yet fixed.
The Russian Government has published in the
Northern Bee the account of the produce of the mines
in the Ural mountains in the first six months of 1E44.
The mines of the crown yielded 68 poods 291bs. of gold,
and those belonging to private individuals 164 poods
131b5., in all '233 poods 2lbs. (the pond is 401bs. Russian,
361bs. English.) Of Platina the mines of private per-
sona yielded 75 poods 51bs., those of the crown only 31bs.
The Chamber continued to-day the debate on the pro-
ject of law for increasing the salaries of the judges.
The Minister of Finance presented a project of law for
the prorogation of the law of the Ist of June, 1842,,which
authorises the Government to modify the regulations re-
specting importation: for transit direct or transit through
the entrepot.
The King is expected to return from Ardenne on
Saturday.
BRUSSELS, Nov. B.—A general debate on the project
of law relative to the increase of the salaries of the
taties was closed to day.
ease asked for the First President and the
for the Advocates-General in
1 11, of the Court of Cessation was rejected,
equally divided,
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declining to vote).
Some provincial journals have given asser,
ports to the most unfavourable prejudices agains4
attempt of the Belgian Society's Colony at Santa
Thomas. It is to be desired that the facts should be
cleared up, and the matter conscientiously investigated
by men w orthy of confidence for their knowledge and
impartiality. We are assured that the Government has
just decided on a regular investigation, in which those
persons who have returned from St. Thomas from dis-
gust and for other reasons shall be examined ; the direc-
tors and persons employed by the company will likewise
be interrrogated. The Frankfurt journal says, "Mr.
Bicks of Maintz, well known for an invention, which
consists in cultivating all kinds of land without manure,
and obtaining from sundry soils a larger produce than
the best lands now afford, lately arrived from Belgium.
Ile affirms that at Brussels he was perfectly well re-
ceived by the Court, by the Minister, and in general in
Belgium by competent judges, and found the greatest
readiness to support his plan for a subscription. lie in-
tends to go to England and France' where he hoped to
have more effectual support than he has yet met with in
Germany."
We learn that Mr. Bicks has just set out for Paris
with Baron Lapeyrouse, to make a beginning, and enter
into some arrangements with the present capitalists.

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The registral statistics of Lancashire, as detailed
by Mr. Cobden, and stated in our last, indicate that the
time is not remote when that county will practically
assert at the hustings the principle of unrestricted com-
merce and free-trade. Twenty-one constituencies out
of twenty-five, instead of twelve against thirteen, is a
fearful look out for'the protectionists ; and if the Coun-
cil of the League 'are not greatly mistaken in their
figures, it is high time for the monopolists and their
Prime Miniater to be on the alert—as there must either
be a change of measures or a change of men. Sir Ro-
bert Peel, though an excellent tactitian, cannot perform
impossibilities ; and the Lancashire anti-free-traders
must either give way to men who will really represent
the interests of their great emporia of trade, or extend
the maxims of their narrow policy, so as to suit the in-
creasing intelligence and the dilating energies of the age.
If the perseverance of the League, in opening the eyes
of their fellow-countrymen to the evils of a restrictive
policy, be pregnant with results of this importance when
a good trade, and two good harvests, have replenish( d
the national coffers, what will not renewed exertion
effect, if a succession of diminished crops, and a decrease
of our India trade, should force the perils and evils of a
restrictive policy upon the minds, we had almost said the
stomachs, of all classes. We feel assured, to use the
words of a London Contemporary, that "The great
province of trade will no longer swell anti-commercial
lobbies, and give the plausible sanction of its approval
to anti-commercial measures. The time is at hand when
Lancashire will be ashamed of its share in the sliding-
scale, and Liverpool—aye, Liverpool itself, unless Bir-
kenhead is destined to be the real Venice of the west—
will emancipate itself from the fetters of monopoly, and
become alive at length to the magnitude of the blunders
which it sanctions.—Carnat von Herald.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.—The managing clerk of a
solicitor, near Brunswick-square, came home, after
leaving a tavern where he had been drinking till twelve
o'clock at night, with a severe wound on his head, the
effects of which caused his death on Friday, previous to
which he had been only able to declare that he had been
attacked by a man in the streets.
An old maiden lady, named Simpson, residing at
Snainton, near Nottingham, has such a penchant for
green, that sho has painted her bonnet, shoes, house,
furniture, fire-irons, and even her lap-dog of that colour.