ROBBERY IN A COURT or Law.--A1Mr. Kebble was robbed in
the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, of his pocket-book and a fifty-pound note. What specially marks the irregularity of the procedure is, that the thieves did not wear either gowns or wigs, nor was Mr. Kebble a suitor. Up to this morning no explanation has been given of the affair, although we have heard that the seniors intend to move the Court on this marked invasion of their privileges.
THE NEW POLICE.—The soldiers of the First Regiment of Foot Guards, the other evening, had laid a plan of attacking the police while on duty ; and were only prevented by the timely interference of Lord Saltoun, their Colonel. The enmity of the red, may perhaps tend to reconcile the non-military part of the community to the blue jackets.
SACRILEGE.—Some thieves broke into the church of Drayton on Friday night last week, and stole the communion-plate, the crimson cloth that covered the pulpit, and a quantity of black cloth that had been put up in honour of the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel.
ASSASSINATION.—A most atrocious murder was perpetrated in Charl- ton Row, Manchester, on Thursday night last week, on a Mr. Charles Robinson, son of Mr. Robinson, spirit-merchant, of Exchange Street. Be was returning to his residence, Platt Abbey, in the township of Rusholme, about ten. o'clock, and had proceeded up Oxford Road for more than half a mile beyond All Saints' Church, when he was stopped by a man who demanded his money. Mr. Robinson observed something glancing in the man's hand, and, in a state of alarm he exclaimed,
What's that ? " The man made no answer, but raising the pistol on a level with Mr. Robinson's breast, he fired, and then fled across the fields, in the direction of Plymouth Grove. Mr. Robinson felt that he was wounded, though he did not fall in consequence, and immediately turne I round, and proceeded to Mr. Partington's, a surgeon, who resides opposite All Saints' Church, and who is brother-in-law to the unfortunate gentle- man. When within about a hundred yards of Mr. Partington's house, Endinghis strength fail him, he called to two young men who were near, and by their assistance he reached the house. The ball had penetrated so deep as to defy all attempts at extracting it ; and the youngman, after lingering in great pain throughout the night, expired. The report of the pistol was beard by a number of persons near the place, and the as- sassin was even seen running off; but;from the unfortunate circumstance of Mr. Robinson making no alarm, no pursuit took place. Since his death, the body of the murdered man has been opened ; and it has been found that the wound was not inflicted by a ball, but by a marble, so large that it could not have been fired from any but a horse pistol, and marked in so peculiar a way that any one who had seen it before could hardly fail to recognize it again. From these marks, strong hopes are entertained of the murderer's apprehension. ASSASSINATION IN PARIS.—A gentleman in Paris a few weeks ago hired a hackney-coach to drive him a short distance. Finding that much more time was consumed in the ride than it required, he let down the glass; and perceiving himself in a different part of the town from that to which be was bound, he called on the driver to stop, when he was ordered to be silent, by a voice from behind. This circumstance still more alarmed him ; he opened the door, and sprang from the vehicle, but received two stabs from the man who had addressed him' which proved in a few m- flutes mortal. A person who was attracted by the groans of the dying man, fired at the assassin, but missed him, and the coach driving rapidly on, both he and the driver escaped. An attempt at robbery, and possibly murder, was on Thursday last made on Miss Smithson and her sister, while about to proceed from their lodgings to the Optra Comique. The means here also were a hackney- coach, from which, after driving about for a long time, the actress and her sister were fain to escape by jumping into the street, happily without s.lfering any damage.
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