The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-13 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13.

Tax groat. City Burglaries, the news of which
struck terror into the hearts of jewellers in every
quarter, and which provoked so much angry re-
crimination between the City shopkeepers and the
police, have now been investigated, in the most
satisfactory method, by the trial and conviction of
the burglars. It may be said, however, that the
result is satisfactory rather to public justice than
to public curiosity. The criminals have been dis-
covered by the discovery of the stolen property,
but, aa none of them has turned Queen's evidence,
we have still nothing but matter of inference to
tell us how the burglary was effected. We know
th►t on Saturday night the premises were duly
locked up, that the more valuable articles were
deposited in an iron safe, that the gas was lighted,
and the cunning mirrors arranged so as to enable •
policeman'seye, applied to the hole in the shutter, to
search every corner. We know also that when the
shop was opened on Monday morning it was found
that all these precautions had been in vain, that the
content+ were carried off, and that no clue was
left except the marks of " jemmies " on some
doors, and holes cut in floorings and partitions.
From these mute witnesses some positive informa-
tion indeed has been gleaned ; we know that the
burglars, having secreted themselves in some part
of the adjoining staircase on Saturday afternoon,
opened, by means of skeleton keys, the door which
led from that staircase into the offioes on the first
floor above Mr. Wauraz's shop. From there it
appeared they bad, by cutting a hole in the
floor, descended into another shop beneath, occu-
pied by a tailor ; that they had at first tried to cut
through the partition between it and Mr.
WALKKR's, but, being foiled by an iron lining, had
next, by cutting again a hole in the floor, let them-
selves into the basement, and thence by a third
hole in the ceiling ascended into the
shop, which was the objective point of
all these strategic movements. But when we have
pieced together these inferences, we have come to
the limit of our knowledge of the transactions of
these thirty-six hours, during which the shop was
deserted by its owners. Whether the work was
done on the Saturday night, on the Sunday, or on
Sunday night, or on Monday morning, nobody
can tell. Nor, if it lasted less than that full space of
time, how the thieves spent the interval—whether
they finished the work at once and instantly de-
parted, or whether they rested in the course of
their labours; whether, when resting, they indulged
in the wild though suppressed excitement of men
who enjoy the sense of danger and desperation, or
cowered with their eyes on the chinks that looked
into the street, and their ears strained for the
sounds that might bode discovery, or the steady
tramp of the paring policeman that assured them
as yet of safety, no one can tell, nor, probably,
shall we ever learn. We may indeed suppose, as
mere matter of probability and precaution,
that they most likely executed the hardest
and noisiest part of the task of breaking through
walls and cutting ceilings when there was still
some noise of cabs in the street to deaden the sound,
and therefore carried it on as early in the Satur-
day evening as they could assure themselves that
the buildings were untenanted. We may also
assume with some confidence that the ransacking
of the shop would not be performed during the
night, when the gleam of the gaslights through the
slit in the shutter would naturally draw the eye of
the policeman, but rather in the course of Sunday,
when the sight, dazzled by daylight, would not
easily make out what was only reflected by gaslight
in mirrors that could be viewed through a hole,
and when, perhaps, the sound of the church belle
might for a moment distract even a policeman's
thoughts from the duty of scenting the
doubling footsteps of crime. And in the evidence
at the trial there was one slight circumstance
which corroborated this idea. Ooe of the priso-
ners was proved to have been absent from his home
all Saturday night, and to have returned only on
Sunday afternoon. But this is really all that the
researches of the police have been able to tell the
public of the transactions in Mr. WALKER'S shop
during the whole period it was left empty by its
owners.

The facts on which the conviction did take
place were extremely simple. The police got in-
formation that a man of the name of ROBERTS,
professing to be a weaver, was in possession of
some of the stolen property. They arrested him,
and found a portion of it, the name of WALK=
being partly obliterated and another substituted.
They next made a descent on a house inthe White-
chapel-road, seized a man named Jerranv, and
another named 131111 WESTON, alias " Velvet
Nan," at the first onslaught, but not
so quickly that BREW/WOW had not tints
to hand something to his wife, who ran
upstairs. Inspector POTTER followed, and took
hold of her, but was suddenly reduced to an un•'
dignified impotence by his Tartar captive fixing
her fingers in his whiskers—a distressing position,
from which he was only released by the aid of
another officer. Gold chains and jewels, 301. in
notes, some sovereigns, and two deposit receipts of
the London and Westminster Bank for 4001" were

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the plunder discovered in the treablirst on
persons of the primeness, the`jewels and ehains
being identified as Mr. WALLaVs. Going next to
the house of a man, CAssizr, alias " Counsellor
" KILLZY," in Bow-road, a box was discovered
containing 52 gold watches, and another with
1901. in gold and a 501. note. Moreover, a
" jemmy" was foundwhich exactlyfitted the marks
on Mr. WALIIIOI doors. CAME; on being
arrested, admitted that he was a convict, but he
had served his time, and he declared he wee earn-
ing his living honestly. He also attempted at
the trial to set up an alibi, to the effect
that on the Monday night he had been
presiding at a concert. But this was not
considered by the jury as sufficient to outweigh
the real evidenos of the watches and the " jemmy."
And as all the men on being taken had dropped
expressions more or less indicative of a guilty
knowledge, the result was that Bizwintrox, Jar-
TM and CAXILIT were found guilty of the bur-
glary, while ROUSTS, acquitted of that charge,
was convicted of receiving stolen goods ; and the
women were discharged for want of evidence to
implicate them apart from their husbands.
The total result of the judicial inquiry into the
burglary at Mr. WALisn's may, therefore, be
thus summed up. Three men have been con-
victed of the offence ; some of sharing in the plun-
der; about a third of the property has been recd.
vered ; and we are as much in the dark as before
on the question how the deed was done. It may
be that the trials for the other burglaries, which
are proceeding to-day, may throw some light
upon this problem. But if this is not the case,
we can only draw the conclusion that the system
of leaving goods of immense value and small bulk
entirely unwatched for two nights and a day, save
by the casual eye of a policeman peering through
a chink, and entirely undefended except by
plaster partitions and wooden floors, is one which
cannot be relied on for the future. And in truth
the only wonder is that our acute explorers, the
burglars, have not long ago given us this notice.
But the idea of supporting the system by requir-
ing the police to pay more vigilant heed to the
inspection of abutter slips is plainly untenable.
It is converting them into private watchmen, in-
stead of leaving them to their true function as
equal guardians of the safety of the whole public.
If there i• any property of a character to require
peculiar supervision, it is only fair to insist on the
owners procuring for it that guardianship at their
'private cost and risk. It is well, perhaps, that
I this check has now been given to the progress of
the theory that the police ought to have special
eyes and ears for the repositories of special wealth.
For it would be impossible but that crime in other
quarters should flourish the more if the police-
man were to be regularly detained on his beat by
the necessity of screwing his eye to the holes in
successive shop windows, and exercising all his
faculties in the examination of the various kalei-
doscopes which the mirrors in the interior of their
-ceases might present.

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WINDSOR CASTLE,. Ann 12.

The Queen, accompanied by Pruicem Helena,
and attended by the Hon. Mn. Hews, drove in the Great
Park yesterday afternoon, and west oat driving this morn.
Mg, attended by Lady Augusts Stanley.
Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Florence Seymour
and Princess Beatrice, also went out driving.
Tim Doke of Neiman and Priem's Marguerite of Orleans,
and the Count and Countess d'Eu, attended by the Boron
and Baroness de Loges, arrived at the Castle yesterday, and
left this morning.
Prince Alfred returned from London Lot evening, at-
tended by Lieutenant Haig and Dr. Barnhardt
Lady Churchill has outmoded the Vineountess Jocelyn as
Lady fa Waiting. Lord Cremorne and Colonel the Hon.
A. Liddell have succeeded Vincent Torrington and LINA:
General Sir R. Sentinels as Lord and Groom in Waiting to
her Majesty.

novaehas ware received yesterday, at the Colonial.
office, from the Governer@ of Tasmania, South Australia
New &shed, Victoria, Naha, sad Rap Lad.

ROYAL VISIT TO EXETER-HALL.

Yesterday evening their Royal Highnesses Prince
Alfred and Princess Helena, attended by Colonel Du Plat,
Lieutenant Haig and lady Caroline Barrington, and
accompanied by the Hoc. and Very Rev. Gerald Wel-
lesley. the Dean of Windsor, left Windsor Castle
for Exeter Hall, in order to be present at the thirty-
third annual Peesioe-week performance of Handers
oratorio of the Menial,. The royal party occupied the
north gallery. The vocaliste were Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr.
Weiss, Madams Sainton-Dolby, Madams Parepa, and Mr.
Harper, while the organist was Mr. Brawnernith. The band
sad chorus °assisted of nearly 700 performers, the conductor
being Mr. Costs.

DIBIRIBITTION or HER MAJESTY% GIFTS. —(THIS
Dar).—Tbia morning—to-day being Newsday Thursday—
tbe usual Queen's gifts were distributed in the Chapel Royal
(formerly the banqueting-hall of James I.) Whitehall. The
Bebop of Oxford. her Majesty's Lord High Almoosr, oftl•
&Med, and was assisted by the Rev. Canoe Jell, IX D., Prin-
cipal of King's Collage, London, the contributions being
made to 46 aged men and 46 aged women, the number of
each set corresponding with the age of her Majesty the
Queen.
THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.—We are happy to
my that the health of the King of the Belgian' is se far re-
stored that yesterday hie Majesty was able to walk through
several of the streets of Windsor, and imperiled the newly-
bunt alenthonses in Victoria-street, adjoining the Royal
Infirmary and Savings Bank.
The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa Caven-
dish were to arrive on Tuesday at Liaison Castle, the noble
duke's seat in the empty Waterford, from Castle Howard,
the Earl of Carlisle's mat in Yorkshire. Lord and Lady
Frederick Cavendish were to join the duke and his daughter
yesterday at Lismore.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll left their resi-
dence at °Almaden Hill, Kensington. a few days ago for
Devonshire, to pose the recess, one of their children being
unwell.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland left Staf-
ford House. St. James's. on Tuesday afternoon, for Trfait.
ham. for the holidays. The Duchess Dowager, who has
beau residing some months at Stafford Hones, goes to her
beautiful villa at Chiswick to-day.

The Marquis of Hartingt3o, M.P., left Devon.
shire Home of Tuesday evening for Faris, for the podia-
watery ream.
LINT Panacnr.ss.—At her Majesty's Chapel
Royal. St. James's, to-morrow (good Friday), the sermon
will be preached by the Vary Rev. Dr. Stanley, Dean of
Westminster. The service oommeoces at 12 o'clock At
her Majesty's Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the memos will be
preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Bowers. Dean of Man-
chester. The 'ernes commons at II o'clock.
A correspondent of the New York Herald writes :
—" Semen letters from Dr. Livingrtme to his son have
been received at the State Department, mid these letters
repeated the statement that young Livingstem had been
kidnapped, sad abased this government quits roandly. The
State Deportment referred the matter to the War Depart-
ment, sad It was ordered that an inquiry should be made
and the facie reported, so that they might be communicated
to Dr. Livingatom. The report forwarded from Rieman to
the War Department showed, Is substance, that young
Livieptone, who seems as adventurous es his father, had
eslisted, and was Gee of the ben soldiers in his regiment.
Indeed so excelleat was his conned that he had been pre.
rooted to a sergeancy within a month after his enlistment.
All the °Mem spoke well of him. Details of fact cow
arming the alleged kidnapping could not be giro, however,
as Ferran Livinptone, much to the repel of his ems-
red's, bad hem token prisocatir by the enemy a few days
Woes the report was made. It is to be hoped that our
gallant army will seep release him, with thousands of other
esptirsa."