The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-29 00:00:00

CHESHIRE INTELLIGENCE.

DARING BunotAns.—Late on Monday night last, or
early yesterday morning, a very extensive and successful
burglary took place on the premises of Mr. Blackwell,
watchmaker and jeweller, Argyle street, Birkenhead.
The following statement will show both the way in witicht

it had been effected and the extent of the depredation :
About ten o'clock on Monday night Mr. Blackwell closed
his place of business and retired to his house, situated
immediately above. Some time thereafter, the parties
engaged in the robbery, it would appear, hail removed
the hook attached to the grid of the front cellar. imme-
diately below the shop, and having thus got access to
the window, broke a pane of the glass, and sybaccptently
lifted the window itself. Thus situated, the thieves
proceeded at once, as if well acquainted with the premises,
and gained admission to the shop itself by a hatchway
which had formerly been used while the shop was occupied
by a cabinet-maker. Having struck a light, for the marks
of a candle having been used were apparent, they pro•
ceeded to the department of the shop where the watches
and other valuables were kept, and took therefrom the
following articles amongst where, .viz.:--Eighteen gold
watches, and.the same number of silver, forty gold
Albert chains,' three cases each of gentlemen's and ladias'
rings, a quantity of silver Albert and long chains, a large
lot of chased and engraved gold keep trs, with a great
variety of other precious jewellery, amounting, in all, to
not fess than from £4OO to £5OO sterling. The plunderers,
hovieree, seem to have been seared in their proceediegs,
as they left, close to where they had been pillaging,
upwards of thirty more silver watches, several very
valuable gold brooches, and pieces of plate. On retracing
their step. 4:, however; they had had the coolness to put the
grid on Its usual place. They then had' proceeded
evidently over the small green at Mere- place, and gone
below the railway arch, where they had picked all the
rings and other articles out of their cases. and finng:the
empty boxes' on the line. Prom information on which .we
can rely, we have every reason to conclude that
the depredators have had the services of a female
accomplice ; for about half-past twelve o'clock our
infprrna.nt says, that. while he was on his w,y home
from Liverpool, and while' standing at the corner or Mr.
Lightbound's bakery,' Conway-street, looking at one
of the night constabulary lugging off an unfortunate night
virgin, a woman rather, above the middle stature all of 8
sudden swept past him. and_proceeding down a short. dia•
tancer.went into tbeArst.lane leading through to Oliver
street. The woman in question hid 'on'a shawl or Cloak,
and had-something c trrying underneath it. And it is not
at all unlikely that the sudden departure of the burglars
from the premises was owing to the continuous noise of
the unfortunate nymph of the pave, already alluded to..
We regret very much the heavy loss which Mr. Bla-ckwelt
will undoubtedly sustain, and would now, more than ever.
urge on merchants the necessity of having Milners' safes
on their premises, while to our house proprietors, we
would urge the making more secure than at present, the
avenues of access 'to shops, h uses, and places of business
generally. -
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THE GLASGOW POVoNING CASE —Oar Glasgow covt
respondent say, A statement, appeirs in the columns
of an E linburgh paper to the Effect that the trial of Miss
Smith, on the charge of Priaoiiing I%ltns. L'Angellier, will.
in all Probability; be necessarily p 'stunned till the end of
July, from the difficulties attending the investigation. The
statement es to delay may be correct ; but it may be pre-
sumed that the investigation of the case, whether attended
with difficulties or not, will lie principally with the Glas-
gow authorities, on the one hand, and the legal advisers
of Miss Smith, nit the other. The former, there is good
authodtv for 'avinc, are quite prepared to go on with
the trial hr the end of May, while the latter are anxious
that it should he proce.ded with on as early a day as
possible ; consegacntly, if the report referred to be true,
the delay is most likely to result from deference to the
convenience of some legal dignitary, than any real difficulty
attending the investigation of the ease.—Edinburgh Daily
Express.
LITEnARY PROMI6E3 OF TIIE SEASON.—The literary Bee-
son promises to be fairly prolific in wot ke of fiction and of
general literature. Messrs. Hurst and Blackett announce
as forthcoming the following: —"Dark and Fair," by the
the author of " Rockingham ;" " The Two Aristocracies,
by Mrs. Gore; " Nothing New," by the author cf " John
Halifax;" '"A. Woman's Story," by Mrs. S. C. Hall; a
New Story, by the author of " Margaret and her Brides-
maids !" "Life and its Realitie," by Lady Chatterton ;
"The Life of Phillip Howard, Farl of Arundel," edited by
the Duke of Norfolk ; " Chou Chou, a Narrative of Indian
Travel!' by the Viscountess Falkland. Mr. Bentley
announces—" Historical a;ads:,Military Account of the
Defence of Kars," by Colonel Atwell Lake; "Egypt and
the Great Suez Canal, a Narrative of Travels in Fgypt."
by M, Barthelmy St. Hilaire ; and " Nightshade,"
by G. Johnstone, M.A. Messrs. Smith and Eider. an-
nounce—" The Rona Pass, or Englishmen in the High-
lands," by Elick Mackensie; and "Stories and Sketches,"
by James Payne,