The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-01 00:00:00

ROBBERY OF PARCELS CONVEYED BY
MB GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

An extensive robbery of voluable parcels conveyed
by the Great Western Hallway Company has just been dis-
owned. On Tkusday morning last the mail train by the
Great Western Railway, leaving Plymouth at 6 2S p.m. on
the previous arming, sad selling at the intermediate towns
upon the route, arrived at the Paddington terminus at 4.16
am., lama, to sellasa I. the Pat-office mail bags, with
bstensea SOO sea 300 perish of a miscellaneous character,
Egtiat harikari' parcels, containing notes, cheques,
lecel to London Maitland solialtors' end other par-
of weadderable value, pausing between various metropo-
litan' sad provincial firma.
The week were deposited en mane in the parcels van,
sod shortly before seven o'el.ek the delivery agent of 61
Cliapit• and Home, accompanied by a lad, who remains in
Ins mart to mash awn, started on his round from Padding-
=w lls ining sittt
_Maths tercels, sorted out and strapped to-
iiriOri let., those foe the bankers in one batch,
Wan mined by the mdlway sleeks " the lawyers' parcels" In
another, the general commercial ones in another, and so on.
On arriving at Featherstone-building., Holborn, shortly be-
' fore elaht o'clock, the driver of the van, es is usual with
hint, alighted, leader, the cart In custody of the lad. Taking
with him the lawyers' parcel., of which on the occasion there
were 24, etsspped togs her, and end-read with their ad-
dresses, he proceeded with them, slung over his shoulder,
and with his entry boon, to the first place of calling in Bed-
ford-row, intending afterwards to go to Cbanccry-lane.
eoln'e-ion, and Gray's Inn, before proceeding to the city.
Accordingly he first of all proceeded to the offices of Mesas.
Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, one of tbe !Arent legal firms
in Bedford-row, and there, at a few minutes after eight
o'clock, saw the housekeeper who received the parcels fur
i the firm, and the man, who t would appear had en previous
occasions acted thus imprudently, ',bed permission of the
housekeeper to be allowed to leave all the pereels,strapped to-
gether, in the office, on aceount,.as he alleged, of their great
weight, while he went a little farther on in Bedford-row, to
deliver two others, one for Messrs. Alger, solicitors, the other
for Messrs. Stevens, which he did in the usual manner. In
the meantime, however, and witein five minutes of his
adman from the offices of Messrs. Gregory, a moot adroit
and daring abstraction of the remaining twenty plod(' left
then, sustaining deeds, wine, and valte.ble alignments, was
'Eroded. Immediately on his return the houu keeper said to
him one of your fellow servants has been here and stated
" Oh, my mate has left the wrong pocket of parcels," ex.
changiog at the same time the parcels that had been left for
• set which were " dummies" filled with waste parr.
lef-rinaion having been given to the police, • man, who
is " known" as one of the mat expert thieves in Loudon,
has been apprehended, and identifitd by Messrs. Gregory's
housekeeper as the person who left the fictitious pneels.
It is believed that the chief object of the thief was to se-
cure the banker's and solicitor's parcels. The real represen-
tative value of the latter is not yet ascertained, but it con-
lectured to be very large. A large reward will be offered for
the restoration of the parcels, should not any of them be
sethconing, and up to lost night eons had been recovered.

WEST SURREY ELECTION.—Mr. L'w, of the firm
of Pewtress and Low, paper manufacturers, No. 30, Gram-
church-street, has protested against the validity of this elec-
tion. Mr. Low tendered his vote before 9 o'clock on Wed-
nesday morning, at the polling-plaes at Ueda:Ding, but
found that Uaere were no °finish at the both to register his
vote. The Sheriff, it seems, named the election to Gom-
m-ace on Tut sday, the 25th of September, from 9 A.m. to 4
p.m , and on Wednesday, the 2uth, at 8 o'clock in the
morniag, finally closing at 4 P.M It is not in the pewee of
any candidate, when the poll is once commenced, to, strictly
speaking, resign ; he is in the hands of the electors, and if
the "lectors choose to elect him be cannot refuse to terve.
By THE DEATH OP GEORGE HENRY WARD E.g.,
of Northwood Park, in the Isle of Wighe, a very large
property will come into the possession of " Non-natural
Ward,' as he is termed, the eau well-known Puseytte mem-
ber for Oztord University, who subscribed to the articles of
the Church of Ragland in • non-natural sense, and who, like
Mr. Newman, and unlike Dr. Posey, left the churl of fing-
land to j .in that of R ,me. The Rev. Mr. Ward was desti-
tute of money when he left the established church, and has
latterly been living on 1001. a year, which he ebtained se
titer in a Roman catholic family. He is now pommel of
property tenth 10,0001.•_year. B
LOLA MONTHS IN OULOONE.—Late oa tho eTer,
lug of the 10th or 11th instant a lady, accompanied only by
a lege black Newfoundland dog, arrived at the Hotel de
Loathes, from the Folkston' pectet ; end having summoned
Madame Boutoir, the prop as of that well-arranged
establishment, to her presence, she informed berthas she had
been recommended to bar hotel, and meant to take up her
abode there until the arrival of her husband, eying, at the
same time, that the time she west by was Mrs. Trufford, to
whom her letters would be addressed, but that ere long she
should know who she really was. The clever host.. VI made
no further inquiries; and the lady, who was joked next
packet by her fillet de chamber, continued to welts alums
the town and call at the poet office without observation or re-
mark. In the course of her morning rambles she c-Iled
Duchowis, the jeweller's shop, in the Grand Rue, with
a superb ring—a Royal (quer*, Bavarian)) crown in brilliants
—to be repaired, leaving her name and addrees as above. The
' words " Uni9n vas Landsfeld" were afterwards disc .ve red
engraved on the inner put of the getting ; and on t e same
day a letter 'damped to the Countess of Landsfeld was .
brought the postman to the Hotel de LonCtes, but re-
fused by Madame &Moir, who could not recogniz., sutler
that name, the lady with the dog. In the course of that day
it was whispered that Lola Montt* was in Boulogne ; and
the lady in the grey dress and mantilla of the same colour
and texture, with bonnet trimmed with orange (not orange
flowers), protected by the large Newfoundland dog, became
at once an objet of attention; and It wee then, and only
then, observe d that her eyes were of peculiar size and lustre,
and that the pale cheek and negligle figure may lately have
bun all beauty and symmetry. tin toe evening mthe 16th
a youthful gentleman, with a downy light moustscFe and
nes retrousei' apparently not out of his teens, came from
London and claimed the lady with the dog as his wits.
giving hie name as Mr. Heald, eines when there has been no
&ovum and the lady and the youth may be .an
'latest
, daily inhaling the se raise the " Porte," or enjoying
rural excursions in the environs—the farmer riding a
donkey, seated on a pear de mouton, whilst the latter devo-
tedly leads the patsies animal, they being now k town as
Lola Monte' and Mr. Heald.—Ssusday Paper.
The LATE ATTACK ON THE REVENUE OFFICER
Ar Goarour.—At the Gosport Pet.; Sessions on Thursday
before E. P. Samuel, Esq., John Brown end John Matthews,
the ring leaders in the above, were brought up to answer a
charge of assault preferred against them by Stephen hlountie
field and Benjamin Woodfield. P. Beverley, Esq., solicitor
to the Customs appeared on the part of the Mountifitlds, and
contended that it was so gross an assault, that he hoped it
would not he dealt with in a summary way,—committed to
the quarter sessions, when they made application to be bailed
which Was pentad.
&loom° CASE or BURNING.—An inquest was
held at the Bed Hover publieehouse Southampton, on
Thursday evening, before R. Camel', Fem., coroner, on the
body of Lucy Newman, aged eighty-four years, who was
twat to death.—Mary Carter, widow, of No. 11, Eastern-
place, stated that the deceased was her sister, and she had for
many years lodged with her. She had been conlit.ed to her
bed more than a fortnight, and died about three o'clock oa
the previous day. On Tuesday morning last witness was
alarmed by the smell of linen burning. She watched till
daylight, and still emelt the burning. She then got up, and
put her clothes on, hod went to the stair-foot and called to
hew sister* Mee Proudly, to know what she was doing. She
answered" I will be with you in a minute " They went to
the room where the deemed was lying, and were driven
trek by the smoke. Wittier went to the front door, and,
having unlocked it, called for assistance. Witness did not
se into the deceased at that time, but she did afterwards.
The deceased never spoke to any one after the occurrence.
She was with the deceased at her death. and Ma' of opinion
that she was sensible to the last, although she did not
meek. Mr. Mordaunt frequently visited her, and Mr.
Dussotoy also came.—Rosa Proudly stated that she lived in
Rae same house with the deceased. The last 'items alarmed
her between five and six o'clock on Tuesday ramming, and
she went down stairs as soon as she could. She went to the
room occupied by the deceased, and found it filled with
smoke. When Mrs. Carer opened the front doer, the air
kindled the bed clothes into a flame. She got the window
opened, and found that the damaged had thrown the burning
clothes from her by means ea stick which she kept by her
side. Several neighboen same in immediately, and witness
sew her lying on the bed, mad Mouired if she wan
living. Witnollt was with her a little before 10 o'clock en
the previout evening, and left her Flee. A light was bet n-
ing in a large dish on the table. She left a chair between
the table and the bed. There was some candle left, but
ski could not tell whether it was found on the table or oa
the floor, for she was vary much alarmed. It was, how-
ever, evident to her that she was leading a little book
called the " Golden Treasury," wish which she was very
much delighted, end that, in order to de so, she took the
candle to bed. Witness found this book burning amorgst the
bed clothes. The deceased had been an invad many years.
—Mary Oram, wife of Joseph Oram, stated that she lived
nest door to the deceased. She was alarmed about twenty
minutes to seven o'clock on Tuesday morning by JIM.
Carer. She looked out of the window, and upon se iog
some things out of doors burning, she went down stairs. The
smoke prevent. d her entering at the moment, but she went
he directly afterwards with a man whom she called to her
assistance. Toe deceased was lying pealing for breath. Her
right hand was very much burnt, and also her right leg. Mr.
Dasautoy came, and said she was not burnt much to hurt,
bat she spoke afterwards. Titers was a bit of candle
in the candlestick on a dish on the table. The fire appeared
to have originmed on the bed, near the foot. She believed
it was a rushlight. The bed was not at ell burnt, laut, °pig „ rip
she upper part of the bed clothes. The sheet &gabfests' .1 f"
wen only burnt a little. Wiliam was of opiiiiperthat-ther-7,"
Are was accidentally occasioned by her reading , • ,
jury returne 1 a verdict, "That the deceived . • ,
oasts of burniug and suffocation." —ll •
portent.
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