The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-27 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

George Doubleday, a boy only 16 years of age, was
charged with plundering his muter under circumstances
exhibiting considerable cunning.
The prisoner had been for the last 18 months warehouse
boy in the establishment of Mr. Lamb. pawnbroker, 196,
81oenestreet, Chelsea. In consequence of the discovery of
four tickets of redeemed pledges and a letter addressed to
the accused in an obscure part of the warehouse, Mr. Lamb's
assistant felt confident that the prisoner was plundering his
employer, and in order to prove the fact deposited some
marked silver money in one of the tills in the shop,
and in an hour afterwards discovered that one
of the half-crowns was miming. He immediately sent for
the prisoner, and having sent him into the parlour, told
him that he suspected he was robbing his muter. The
prisoner at once replied that he was, and upon the assistant
inquiring what had become of the half-crown purloined
that day, accused said that he bad put it in his box. The
prisoner's boa was then fetched, when the 'insistent told
him that if there was anything else in it belonging to his
master, he had better turn it out. Prisoner then took from
it seventy or eighty half-crowns, and some other silver,
amounting to 101. 10s. 3d., and • savings' bank book,
showing that 61. had been recently deposited there in the
name of the prisoner, who admitted that he bad stolen the
whole of the money, together with some silk handker-
chiefs and other articles, from his master, and had made
presents of a portion of the property. The letter alluded
to in the early part of this statement bad reference to the
acceptance of some articles, and the four tickets threw a
light upon the artfulness of the prisoner, by which be bad
so long escaped detection. It is the custom of pawnbrokers,
upon the redemption of any article, to calculate the
amount of principal and interest charged, upon
the back of the ticket; and, having pinned
that to the duplicate given up by the pawner, to throw
both into a till or • drawer kept for the purpose until the
conclusion of the doy's business, and then duly copy the
endorsed amounts. Prisoner, whose duty it was to bring
pledges to be redeemed into the shop, possessed himself
from time to time of the endorsed tickets, and, having thus
an opportunity of destroying or secreting them after pur-
loining a precisely corresponding amount, defied to a at-
tain extent detention.
Prisoner was committed for trial.

APPREHENSION OF BROOME,TIIK PUOILIST.—After
the close of the trial of Stalest and James on Friday, at
Lewes,• warrant was issued for the apprehension ofJohnoy
Broome, one of the persons concerned in the card cheating
case at Brighton, for not surrendering to take his trial with
the other prisoners. Broome, it appears, had been seen at
Lewes on the day of the trial, and also on the previous
afternoon. He was then traced to a small public-house at
the outskirts, where he was waiting for the verdict of the
jury in the case of the two prisoners. He was apprehended
by a constabulary officer of the Nunez police, and in the
course of the evening lodged in Lewes jail. The prisoner
will now have to remain in jail up to March nest before he
can take hie trial, the amine for the oonaty having eon-
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DEATH OF W. SCROPE, ESQ.—William Scrope—
author of two pod books, " Days of Deer Stalking,' and
" Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing," known by these as
the Marquis of Newcastle of the reign of Charles the First
was by his work on horsemanship, to readers who know
little of any other books—died on Tuesday last, at his house
in Belgrave.square, in the eighty-first year of his age.
Mr. Serape was the last male representative of the famous
tingly of his name saated at Castle Combs, in Wiltshire—
of which they possessed the manor and estate as early as the
reign of Edward the Third—and boasting among its histco
rill worthies the name of Lord Scrope, of Bolton Lord
Chancellor of England, in the reign of Richard the Bolton,
Mr. Bcrope was proud of his descent, but prouder, we be-
lieve, of his skill with the gun and rod, and, what is more
to our liking, justly proud of his classical attainments and
of his skill with the pencil. Ilis books above-named
are accessories of importance to that class of literature to
which Walton's " Angler" and Davy's " Salmonia" belong,
for Mr. Scrope had as eye alive to the varieties of nature,
and a skill in communicating to his readers what ho had
seen and what he knew. With his pencil he was, we
think, not so good; and his picture., in spite of the touches
which the late William Simeon would frequently throw
into them, are inferior to those of his fellow amateur, the
late Sir George Beaumont. It may be well to add, that
Mr. Berope was married in early life to Emma, daughter
and heir of Charles Long, Esq., the younger brother of Sir
James Tilney Law, of Draycot, in Wiltshire ; by whom he
had an only child, Emma, married in 1821 to George
Poulett Thomson, Esq., brother to the late Lord Sydenham
—who thereupon took the name and arms of Serope in lieu
of those of Thomson. Mr. Scrope was an active—some
artists have said an over-active—director of the British In-
stitution.—Athenesuis.
GREAT BOAT RACE.—The boat rue between
Thomas Coombea, of Vauxhall-bridge, and Philip Chandler,
of Millbank, for 501., came off yesterday, and was most spi.
ritedly contested throughout. Thomas Coombes, the bro-
ther of the ex-champion' has been before the public for
maay years. has earned considerable reputation as a miller
and oarsman, and in the exercise of the prowess of the
former won the beautiful coat given by Mr. Simpson, the
proprietor of Cremorne, last week. Chandler, the son is!
the veteran of that name, exhibited so much style and game
during last summer as deservedly to gain many friends,
some of whom backed him in the match of yesterday. The
distance contested was from Putney to Mortlake, and
Coombes,Wlthougha stale man compared with his opponent,
was the favourite. Chandler won the toes of station, and
took the beet place. The start was extremely even, but
was sueceeded by Coombes taking a slight lard, which he
increased foot by foot, at intervalW throughout, winning by
about two clear lengths, notwithstanding Chandler's way
mealy endeavours to change the tartans of the day.