No clue has been found to the discovery of the
person who pur- loined the thousand sovereigns from the money-bags in the Navy Pay- office. The box which contained them was deposited in a room, the door of which was left unbolted a short time before the money was removed. This is the only additional fact which has transpired since we mentioned the robbery a fortnight ago.
William Bradford, a letter-carrier employed in the Twopenny Post- office, was committed from Bow Street, on Tuesday, for stealing a so- vereign from a letter which it was his business to deliver. The theft was very clumsily managed ; it was quite evident that the letter had been opened. There was another accusation of the same kind against this man, but the evidence was incomplete ; and on this charge he was remanded.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Wednesday, John Stone, late the under-butler to Mr. Mitchell, of Charles Street, Berkeley Square, was committed to prison, for robbing his master of silver plate, which he had the temporary charge of, to the value of neally three hundred pounds. Since the robbery, he had been lounging about the town, dressed expensively, and spending money freely.
An omnibus-driver was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, at the Lambeth Street Office, on Wednesday, for engaging to take a gen- tleman to the Globe, Mile End, and then driving him in the direction of the Globe, Blackwall. He likewise abused and struck the com- plainant.
Last week, a man was fined ilOs. at one of the Police-offices, for il- legally pawning a hammer ; and being unable to pay the fine, was com- mitted for a month to Brixton House of Correction. As one of the constables was taking him there in a horse and cart, the horse took fright, and threw the constable into Brixton IVash ; where the water, owing to the late rain, was very deep. He was so stunned by the fall, that he could not get out of the water; and must inevitably have pe- rished, had not the prisoner (instead of making his escape, which be might easily have done) plunged in and rescued him. On the Magis- trates being informed of the praiseworthy conduct of tile prisoner, they immediately remitted the sentence, and he was liberated.
On Monday last, an attempt was made to rescue nine prisoners, seven men and two women, who were on their way to Newgate from the Hat- ton Garden Office, in the custody of the gaoler and his constables. They were walking down Holborn, when a gang of thieves and prosti- tutes assaulted the officers ; but only succeeded in rescuing one of the women, who has escaped. The constables exerted themselves very manfully, and took two of the ringleaders into custody. They were examined on Tuesday, at the Hatton Garden Office, and remanded.
l'a'mer, who was convicted at the Middlesex Sessions on a charge connected with certain bills of exchange drawn on Mr. Astley, is now liberated by an order of the Secretary for the Home department.
For some days past, the Irish population in Gray's Inn Lane have been constantly quarrelling and fighting. They have assaulted the Po- licemen in some instances, and hurt them severely. A number of them have been taken into custody, and committed to prison. Some ancient feuds have occasioned these disturbances.
Some thieves were disturbed, early on Monday morning, when rob- bing the premises of a leather-seller in Clerkenwell Close; and one of them, in attempting to escape over a wall, was seized with convulsions. He was taken to the nearest Stationhouse, and immediately attended by a surgeon; but he died within a few minutes after his arrival there.
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