The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-11 00:00:00

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r one field, and wished to remov6::,loogiStric,
they, with steam up, were prohibited-fitiiiL
along the roads till night, particularlyAPlenaeyW
paid for the repair of the roads.
Sir G. GREY said if they would advance any tan-
gible and certain mode by which the frighting of
horses could be prevented and public safety ensured,
there was no doubt that a modification of the act
would be obtained through Parliament.
Lord KINNAIRD said that he was of opinion that
such modification would be obtained upon the argu-
ments they could produce ; and, on the part of the
deputation, thanked Sir George Grcy for his cour-
tesy and patience in listening to that which they-
considered was a great restriction on the agricultural

interest.
The deputation then withdrew

The Great robbery in Cornhill

I . Yesterday a committee of the whole Court of
Aldermen, which had been specially convened by the
Lord Mayor, was engaged for upwards of two hours
at Guildhall inquiring into they circumstances con-
nected with the recent burglary in Cornh',ll. The
meeting was private, as meetings of committees of
the Corporation always are; but after they had
separated the result of the proceedings became pretty
generally known. Tha Lord Mayor is understood
to have explained to the committee that he had felt
it his duty to, call them together for the express pur-
pose, holding that it behoved them as Magistrates
of the city to investigate a matter which had natu-
rally caused great public excitement and apprehen-
sion, particularly in relation to the conduct of the
police, which was called in question for the moment.
Mr. Alderman Carter presented the memorial
adopted at a public meeting of the inhabitants of the
Ward of Cornhill, of which he is the alderman, on
Thursday, expressive in effect with their dissatisfac-
tion with the conduct of the police and their con-
. tern that- so daring a robbery should have been-pos-7
sible in the city of Lonclon:• " •Colontl Fhtsver; tho
City Commissioner of Police, was in attendance,
and, at the request of the committee, explained all
the attendant circumstances in detail. Either at his
suggestion or that of a member of the court, the
circumstantial account of the burglary which ap-

peared in the Times of Thursday was read to the

committee, and the Commissioner is understood to
have said that it was a very full and correct version
of the affair in the main. He explained in a lucid
manner the whole interior arrangements of the pre-
mises in which the robbery took place from top to
bottom, and their relation to the adjoining property-,
particularly to Sun-court at the back. He also
showed in detail the manner in which the burglary had
been effected, laying stress on the circumstance that
but very little of the iron safe in the back shop was
reflected in the mirror at the opposite corner of the
room in consequence of a partition partly interven-
ing, and that that partition was used by the thieves,
first, in choosing the part of the floor through which
they cut the hole from the basement below, and so
entered the back shop, and then to conceal them
while operating on the safe. He remarked upon the
difficulties the police had all along experienced in
dealing with this particular house, from its being
wholly unoccupied by any living soul at night, from
the carelessness of Mr. Walker and his servants,
and from the stairs leading from the side door to
the office above and the photographer's shop at the
top being open to the public from morning till night.
The thieves were actually locked in the house by
Mr. Walker himself or his servants on Saturday
night without his knowing it. He is also understood
to have explained that Mr. Walker was in error in
stating that it was by the express desire of an in-
spector of police that the premises were left unoc-
cupied at night, and that what the inspector really
advised him to do was to light up his shop during
the night, so as to be visible to the police through
apertures in the shutters, in consequence of no one
sleeping in the house. The result of the delibera-
tions of the committee yesterday was that a
special Court of Aldermen was ordered to be held
on Tuesday next, to take into consideration the
memorial of the inhabitants of Cornhill on the sub-
ject, and to adopt such nreasut
necessary for the better prot
of the citizens

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This will now have become the more imperatively
necessary in consequence of another burglary iii
the city early yesterday morning, and

of a tea rob-