ROBBERY AT HOLKIIAM.-•.-Lilly, the man charged with robbing Mrs Coke's
mansion of a large quail ti ty of plate, was re-examined on Wed- nesday; when a part of the property was identified. Lilly is to be again brought up as 'soon as Mr. Coke arrives in town. Mr. Coke has presented 5/. to Goodman, the Jew shopkeeper, through whose exertions Lilly was apprehended. ADULTERATION OV INGOTS.—A person was charged at Bow Street, on Monday, with cheating several silversmiths and refiners, by imposing on them pretended silver ingots, composed partly of copper. The copper was described as haying been introduced into the ingot while the silver was in a molten state, by suspending- a copper bar in it. The ordinary tests do not of course suffice to detect the cheat. The ingot must be sawn across, or tried by its specific gravity. BITRGLARY.—The premises of Mr. Chambers, the extensive tailor, in Maddox Street, Hanover Square, were entered on Wednesday night or Thursday morning, and goods to the amount of 300/. in value car- ried off.
THEFT.—A boy, named Seward, together with one Clifford, and a man named Wyno., and his wife, were charged before the Worship Street Magistrates, on Tuesday, with theft. The robbery was committed in July last. Seward was employed as clerk to Mr. Dimsdale, warehouse- man, Bread Street; was sent, on the 9th of July, to receive payment for a check of 2001. and never returned. It seems that the female prisoner, 1Wynn, had been taken into custody for robbing her husband of a bed, which sine had carried off to the lodgings of Clifford, with whom she had gone to live. The jealousy of the husband led to an exposure of Clifford's share of the robbery (he had procured sovereigns fin- the bank. notes paid to Seward on account of the Check), and ultimately to his own arrest as well as Clifford's. Seward was committed, and the man Wynn remanded ; the female and Clifford were discharged.
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