The Sun. — 1840-07-01 (London, England)

BROTHER SHAREHOLDER.  COURVOISIER.  We are.requested, upon the authority of the She. riffs, to state that the report circulated that Courvoisier mentioned to them that he had about his person at the time the police searched him ten sovereigns, which lie subsequently concealed in the flooring of the cell in 34s-street, is without foundatio 1. No such communication was made by him to them, and upon being questioned by Sheriff Evans on the subject yesterday, he positively denied ever having made any such statement. The report that the murderer communicated such information to the Sheriff *has, in all probability, arisen from the fact, that he mentioned to Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate,in a very recent conversation, that he had about him at the time he was in the Bowstreet cell ten sovereigns, which he had deposited be- • tween double stockings which he wore when he was locked up in that place of confinement, and that he had taken an opportunity to throw them down the privy attached to the cell. The Governor, upon being informed of the circumstance, considered it to be his duty to go to Bow-street Office. The cell was examined minutely at his request. The privy, howeier, in consequence of some difficulty, has not been searched. Indeed, the statement is considered to be as false as many other assertions made by the murderer. Sheriff. Evans, in fact, gives credit to nothing that has been said by the wretch, except the brief acknowledgment that lie had committed the murder with the knife, and that he had contemplated it a week before the perpetration. Curvoisier has contradicted himself a vast number of times in speaking of the details. The Sheriff requested that the public should be informed that he could not possibly write answers to a twentieth part of the number of applications to him for admission to see Courvoisier and Oxford, and that they must be satisfied to receive an assurance through the press, that no one request of the kind could by any possibility be conceded.  A fashionable pickpocket was arrested lately in front of Tortoni's, just as he abstracted a watch from the pocket of a young Russian diplomatist. The mode of proceeding adopted by this industriel, who was always dressed in the first style of fashion, was to tread on the toes of his victim, beg his pardon amid a thousand salutations and excuses, and, at the same time, to relieve him of his superfluous cash or jewellery. On search being made at the man's lodgings there were found articles enough to stock a shop. THE SHIP " InoNsIDE."---This iron sailing ship, commanded by Captain Mitchell, completed her third voyage across the Atlar.tic (to South America, and lait to Texas) and back, on the 17th instant, and with such success as to establish the fact of the applicability of the sterner metal as a substitute for timber in the construction of ocean-going vessels. The Ironside brought a cargo of cotton from Galveston Bay, consisting of 665 bales, of which 65 were on deck, and she landed all in good order. The ship did not make any water during the voyage, and, while her bottom remained clean, made good occasionally from nine to nine and a half knots an hour. It is remarkable that she had no ballast in, yet was quite stiff, notwithstanding her deck load. Wooden vessels generally require about one-third of their cargo to be in ballast or heavy goods. The Ir-onside has made, weather considered, fair average passages. She is a remarkably fine vessel, and has tended to establish in ships as in warfare great faith in " cold iron."—Liverpool Standard.