The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-18 00:00:00

THE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.

EFFECT OF TfIE EASTERN GALES.—The
long prevalence of violent east winds has had the effect of
casting up great masses of sand and shingle on the eastern
coast of England. The harbour of Southwold has been
completely stopped up, and before a vessel can get in or
out considerable labour will be required to clear a passage •
ABUNDANCE OF AMERICAN TITLES OF
HoNona.—ln a late convention of Florida, appointed to
form a state convention, out of eighteen members from one
county, four were generals, six colonels, three majors, one
an ex.governor, one a dcctur. and one au cciuire, leaving
only two without titles.—A Voice front America to Eng-
land.

UNPARALLELED STRATAGEM, OR WOMAN'S
WIT TitiumtqtANt.—BEWAßE oto THE WIDOM I—:An un-
paralleled matrimonial adventure has taken place during
the last week in Dudley. A Mr. Wragg, patent smoke-
bottle maker, a few years ago, paid his addresses to a Mrs.
Lydia lkadley, in Birmingham street, Dudley. After
having had two children by her, he pro, ed faithless to his
vows, and a fete weeks ago 6netnented paying hit ad.
dresses to Mrs. Nancy Lane, who keeps a ttipe-shop in
the town. Mrs. Lane, happening to be on terms of
friendship with her fair rival, was determined to punish
Mr. Wragg for his faithlessness to his former love,
by putting into eXecution a stratagetil which ba3
no parallel in the annals of matrimonial bonds.
Feigning to receive his addresses with tender-
ness she consented that the bans of marriage should
be published in Wordsley Church, and, being experienced
in the forms necessary to be undergone; she undertook to
have than published Herself. This the did; hitt ihtnead
y giving the clerk her own name, she gave him that ot
cmrs: Lydia Bradley. So far all went well; but the diffi-
ulties to be overcome were still great—but not too great
for woman's wit, The morning for the celebration o f
the happy event came, and *I 11-It, also dame Mr. Wragg
to the house of his "new love."tn
he Mrs. Lane received
him with smiles, ready attireddress,
hand
informed him that if he would wait r weddingten
attiidinruutetshwer
veil
she made some little preparation up stairs,
on, she would accompany him to the church. No sooner
was this ruse over than she immediately transferred the
wedding garments to Mrs. Bradley, who doeeended the
stairs, duly veiled and decorated with the attire of Lane.
It is customary in Dudley for the bridegroom to lead th©
way to church, accompanied by the bridesmaid, the father
and bride bringing up the cortege. Of course this was all
in favour of the plot, and the party arrived at church. The
trepidation of the representative of Mrs. Nancy Lane's
charms may be more easily conceived than described when
her faithless one was brought thus far, and had to go
through the ceremony; but, despairing not, the ceremony
was entered upon ; aye, and such was the amazement of
poor Mr. Wragg, that he went throughout it • without
noticing that the name of his bride was Lydia Bradley,
and not Nancy Lane. After leaving the altar, and being
still in blissful ignorance of the trick that had been played
upon him, the gay benedict attempted to steal a kiss.
lie was successful ; but behold the face was not
Nancy's but _Lydia's! The sequel only remains to
be told : the bridegroom, who had been audibly consoling
himself on his way from church upon the prospect of
being " independent for life, Mrs. Lane's good busi-
ness," found himself in the wrong box. Indignant in the
highest degree, the newly-made Benedict forthwith pro-
ceeded to the residence of his " intended," and reproached
her bitterly. Nancy met his reproofs with such smiles of
consolation, that poor Mr. Wragg waxed wroth, and
sought to redress his wrongs by applying to an attorney.
Mack-a-day ! the gentleman of the law told him that his
only remedy was an application for a divorce, but he
would not be answerable for the amount of the costs, so
the faithless Air. Wragg has been obliged to put up with
his rib, to the no small amusement of the whole town.—
Kidderminster Messenger.
ColtN-LANs.--The number of petitions for the
repeal, by the 15th Report of the Petition Committee, is
393, with 496,953 signatures; the number of petitions
against the repeal is 2,973, with 297,866 signatures. the
average number of signatures to the former being 1.264,
to the letter just 100. We have on several occasions di.
rooted attention to the remote and ahm?st unknown dis-
tricts from which the petitions in favour of the Corn-la:vs
come, and the number of signatures to each show that
though the 'squires and parsons have been extremely ac-
tive, they have nut had very great influence over the farm.
era and labourers. The petitions are got up by them, not
by the people. Of late the advocates of the Corn-laws
have boasted of the number of persons interested in agri-
culture, and the more numerous they arc the more does
the few signatures obtained for petitions in favour of
Corn-law prove that the agriculturists, whether tenants or
labourers, do not regard this question as interesting tc
them. It is a landlord and parson question ;or do the
whole agriculturists of the empire only amount to 297,866.
AN AMERICAN OMNIBUS DRIVER.-A loco-
motive and tender shot down the inclined plane at Philadel.
phia like a falling star. A woman, eith two legs broken
by this accident, was put into an omnibus, to be carried to
/he hospital; but the driver, in his speculations, coolly
replitd to a man, who asked why he did not go on P—that
he was waiting for a full lead !—A voice front America to
England.

COMMITTEE ON IRELAND.—The following are
the names of the Committee, as contained in the Report of
the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed
to inspect the Journals of the House of Lords :—Lord
Fitzgibbon, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Clanbrassill, Lord
Wbarneliffe, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Plunket, Lord Clon-
curry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lord Glenelg, Lord
Hatherton, Lord Carew, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal,
Duke Buckingham and Chandos, Marquis Westmeath,
Marquis Normanby—[the Marquis of Normanby has been
since superseded by the Duke of Richmond, making nine
supporters of the Ministry on the question, and fourteen
against them]—Earl Hillsborough, Earl Gosford, Earl
Charleville, Earl Vane, Viscount Lcinstcr, Viscount Ha-
wardine, Lord Bishop of Exeter.
TRICKS OF LONDON.—Some time since a
lady of Biggleawade, happening to be in London, saw a
very handsome and apparently thorough-bred poodle, which
she purchased and took home with her. She petted the
dog, which began to get fat, but one day the skin became
lu rpon examination the animal turned out to be a
mongrel cur sewn up in a poodle's skin, and sold at a high
price.—Bristol Gazelle.

APPREHENSION OFI HENRY MOSS, ONE OF THE PRIN.
CIPAL3 ENGAGED TN THE ROBBERY, AND FURTHER EXA-
MINATION OF MR. SALOMONS.—Last eveuing, after six
o'clock, Mr. Henry Solomons, who had been examined on
the preceding day, on a charge of receiving the whole of
the gold-dust lately stolen from the Dublin Steam Wharf,
was again placed at the bar of Lambeth-street Office, be-
fore John Bennett, Esq , for further examination. Mr.
Le Mole and Mr. Clarkson,;as on the day before, attended
for the prosecution; and Mr. Abrahams and Mr. Jennett,
in the absence of Mr. Phillips, appeared on behalf of the
prisoner'.
Air. Clarkson, previous to the inquiry being entered on,
asked if Mr. Henry Moss was in attendance, and was an-
swered in the affirmative by Lea and Roe, the officers,
who had about an hour previously brought that person to
this office in a coach, Mr. C. then desired that he should
be brought forward and charged as one of the principals
in the robbery. Moss was then led from the private of-
fice and placed in the centre of the Court, a short distance
from where Solomons stood at the bar, and the glances of
recognition which passed between them appeared anything
but friendly. The former, Moss, is a tall slender man, of
respectable appearance, and i 3 the same person who, it
will be recollected, obtained the two boxes containing the
extensive property, from the Steam Wharf, on the order
of young Casper, on Monday morning, the 25th of
March, and who the officers, Lee and Rae, had subse-
quently traced to New-street, and from thence to a lodg-
ing which had been taken for him by his wife, in Monsell-
street,Goodman's-fields, to where he had removed the pro-
perty. Isis appearance precisely answers the description
given of him in the handbills announcingithe robbery, with
the exception of his whiskers being nearly cut off, and
that his anxiety since the robbery has caused him to look
much thinner and more care-worn.
After a lengthened conversation of no interest, the:pri-
sonete Solomons and Moss were remanded and ordered to
be kept apart from each other until the next examination.
It was Arranged that the Caspers and other prisoners
who stood remanj,A on the charge until this day, should
the time the others are re-
not be brought up unit:mauded to. - di•
It appeals from circumstances whim' u not transpire
before the Magistrates, but which will bo fully bu:_ne out
by the testimony of several witnesses on the next exami-
nation, that Solonons putchased the whole of the gold dust,
amounting in value to 4,640/., for 2,000/. ; and of this
sum he gave 1901. in Bank notes, and three sovereigns,
and his 1 0 CT, as will be seen above, for 1,8071.
the balance. The 1401. in Bank notes produced by Roe
was a part of the 190/., and formed a portion of the change
of a 300/., which Solomons had changed. This 3001. he
had received in payment of is loan of gold, which he sold
to Mr. Johnson of flatten Gardon, osi Wednesday the 3rd
of April,•for 5001., and which, with the two bars sold to
Messrs. Ball and Sons, of Cheapside, on the following
day, for 1,200/., formed a portion of the robbery. It is
stated that many of the circumstances connected with this
extraordinary and extensive rabbery, have been brought to
light by the parties concerned in it, " jewing" each other,
that it was the intention of Map to sacrifice the Coopers,
and not give them a farthing ; and that Mr. Solomons was
of opinion that if the 1931., which he paid Map, was made
up 200/ it would have been a fair equivalent for him for
his trouble. Map and his friends thought otherwise, and
hence followed the dkelosure, that have taken pace.

DREADFUL ACC[DENT.—A few days since a
most melancholy auident occurred in a mine near Ystym-
tnen, only a few miles distant from Aberystwith. Five
men were "holing" for ore in the vicinity of en old shaft
which had not been worked for many years, and which
contained an immense body of water. Through the most
lamentable want of caution in ascertaining, the distance of
the spot where the poor men were working from the a
that
was at least eight or nine feet distance, the water broke
through with a mighty rush, whereby four of them were
instantly drowned ; the fifth escaping almost by a miracle.
It was a considerable time before the water could be drawn
off; and when the bodies were found, three of them had
fast hold of each other, and they all had their candles firmly
clenched in their dying grasp.—Cambrian.
A poor idiotic unmarried woman of La Chatre,
in the Indree, is stated by a loyal paper to have been I,
eently delivered of a dill,: i.ith ennutli
of a pike, and containing three tongues, two'of Which are
unusually large, the other very small.