The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,- WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 185 4.

THE GREAT SEIZURE OF STOLEN PRO-
PERTY.-TILE BURGZ•ARS' STORES.

THE LONDON GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

The recent discovery, through the vigilance of the
City detective police, of a suspected notorious fence, and
the capture of the keeper, Moses Moses, a Jew, pos-
sessing considerable wealth, have led to the most im-
portant results as, to a system which appears to have
been extensively carried out in disposing of burglarious
plunder. The aocused, Moses Moses, it will be recol-
lected, was committed for trial from the Mansion-house
justice-room, on Friday last, on two charges of felony,
for feloniously receiving property, knowing it to have
been stolen ; but the police obtained a further remand,
many other cases being alleged against him, and since
then a host of persons have identified the property found
on his premises as stolen from them by burglars. The
prisoner is a man somewhat advanced in life. For
several years he resided in the neighbourhood of Houns-
ditch, his stores being in Bell-lane, Spitalfields, where
he carried on the business, as he describes on his card,
of " Government Contractor, General Agent, and Ex-
porter, &c." The stores possess many advantages now.
that their purpose has been disclosed, being peculiarly
situated in a neighbourhood filled with intricate
alleys and courts, and standing at a corner of a
gateway, with a cab-yard adjoining. Among the
immense quantity of property blind in the stores,
which the police seized at the time, suspecting it to
have been stolen, the bulk has been identified as the
produce of the following daring robberies and burglaries.
On the 15th of last December a case of jewellery of the
value of 1301., belonging to Mr. Alexander Pyke, of 16,
Hatton-garden, was stolen from a brougham while stand-
ingin the Strand. A boy, who had the care of it at the
time, and two men who enticed the boy to commit the
robbery, were convicted at a subsequent session of the
Central Criminal Court, and sentenced is two years' im-
prisonment. None of the property was recovered,
although the officers engaged in the case circulated hand-
bills throughout the metropolis, giving an accurate list
of the property, and offering a reward of 1001. for its
recovery, but without avail, until Mr. Mitchell, the in-
spector of the City police, on examining the jewellery
found in Moses's stores, discovered among them the fol-
lowing:—Several jew"l cases, containing plated gold
bracelets, brooches, nearly 300 sets of studs, 80 lockets,
42 fins gold rings, and numerous other articles. Mr.
Pyke, on being shown the property, at once identified
the whole of it as being part of that stolen from the
brougham. On the 13th of February the warehouse
of Mr. Samuel Hargraves, Manchester warehouseman,
of No. 15, Gresham-street, Guildhall, war burglariously
broken into, and' shawls and other property of the
value of nearly 4001. were carried off by the burglars.
A full description of the property was circulated by
the police, and a late reward was offered, but no
clue' was obtained of it until it came to light among
the articles seized. The proierty consisted of 185
black shawls,-three square black wool shawls, 19 scarlet
lama hankerbiefs, 16 green ditto, and numerous other
articles. Mr. Hargraves states, with the exception of
two pieces of cloth and seven or eight, shawls, the pro-
perty found comprises the whole proceeds of the bur-
glary. The other property identified was carried away
by burglars from the following places ;—Mr. Rossiter's,
122, London-wall, on the 20th of last January ; Mr. T.
Self, Artillery-lane, Bermondsey ; Mr. George Mat-
thews, Market place, Bermondsey ; Mr. Le Blond, hat
manufacturer, Southwark-bridge-road ; Mr. E. T. Jones,
Artillery-street, Bermondsey ;. Messrs. Hodgson and
Rogers, of John-street West, Blackfriars ; Mr. Smith,
of Artillery-place, Horselydown ; Messrs. Cooper and
Tress, of Church-passage, -Blaekfriars ; and several
others.. From inquiries made by the police of the ac-
cused how he became possessed of this property, he re-
plied he had advanced moneys on it, but who the parties
were who broUght it to him he had not the slightest
knowledge. He kept no books or entries of these trans-
actions, and admitted to the officers that he exported
largely in these goods to America and Australia. A
great mass of property remains at Bow-lane police sta-
tion, not identified, about which but one opinion can be
formed. Among them are 50 solid gold gentlemen's
rings, with space for crest, &c. ; a small silver-plated
waiter, with the letter R in the centre.; some plate,
with a crest coronet partly erased from it ; some black
silks, cloths,- and other articles. The re-examination
of the accused is appointed for Friday next, when all
the above cases of burglary will, it is expected, be gone
into.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, FEB. 22.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon John Kingston James, Esq., of No. 8,
Hertford-street, Mayfair.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 15.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for
the appointment of the Right Hon. Sir James Robert
George Graham, Bart., to be an Ordinary Member of the
Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross,
of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 15.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert Moles-
worth, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of
the Colony of Victoria.
WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 18.

32d Regiment of Poot—Lientenant-General Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton, G.C.8., from the 98th Foot, to be Colonel,
vice Lieutenant. General Sir Richard Armstrong, K.C.8.,
deceased, April 17.
68111 Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir William
Lewis Herries, C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General
Douglas Mercer Henderson, C 8., deceased, April 17.
98th Regiment of Foot—Major-General William Lind-
say Darling to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton, G.C.8., removed to the 32d Foot, April 17.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 17. -

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Second Lieutenants.—Francis Walter do Winton, vice
Booth, promoted ; Augugltus Henry Carr Hamilton. vice
Pelage, promoted ; Edmund Charles Cuthbert, vice Winn,
promoted ; Ernest Augustus Montague Lloyd, vice Brack-
enbury, promoted ; Pilkington Jackson, vice Markham,
promoted ; Jervis Tucker, vice Porter, promoted ; Brymer
Francis Schreiber, vice E. P. B. Turner, promoted ;
Michael Tweedie, vice Cromartie, promoted ; Robert
Loftus Tottenham, vice Joyce, promoted ; Richard O'Hara,
vice Gore, promoted ; Hugh Chetham Lyle, vice Teesdale,
promoted ; Leonard Griffiths, vice Lyons, promoted ; Wil-
liam liaymond Lluellyns vice Torriano, promoted ; Henry
John Foquett Ellis Hickes, vice J. T. B. Brown, pro-,
moted, April 11.
Corps of Royal Engineers.—Gentlemen Cadets to be Se-
cond Lieuteuants, with Temporary Rank.—Peter Henry
Scratchley, •ice Cox, promoted ; Gustavus Nicolls
vice Savage, promoted, April 11.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Southampton—Sir Jervoise Clarke Jervoise,
Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, April 12.
Hampshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Thomas George Baring,
Esq., to be Captain, vice Lora Ashburton, resigned, April
12.

County of Lancaster—Thomas Berry Horsfall, Esq., to
be Deputy Lieutenant, April 13.
3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Alexander O'Farrell, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 12.
Kin .'s Own Light Infantry Regiment of Tower Hamlets
Militia—Ensign Coles Lewis Harris to be Lieutenant, vice
Woodford, wholretires ; Thomas Rochfort Hunt, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Harris.
Royal Cumberland Regiment of Militia—James Brooks-
bank, jun., Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice, Parke, resigned,
April 5.
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Ist or Royal East Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
Robert Crowe, Gent., to be Ensign, April 8.
Ist or Western Norfolk Regiment of ,Militia—Captain
Hambleton Francis Custance to be Major, vice Bulwer,
who retires ; Samuel William Aldred, Gent., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Baker, deceased, April 10.
2nd or Eastern Norfolk Regiment of Militia—George
Blomefield, Esq. (late Lieutenant-Colonel, unattached), to
be Captain; James Haggard, Esq., to be Captain, April 11.
Norfolk Militia Artillery-John Penrice, Gent.' to be
First Lieutenant.; Edward Tredcroft, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, April 19 ; Charles North, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant, April 11.
[This article is substituted for that which appeared in the
Gazette of Friday last.]

East York Regiment of Militia—Arwin Shutt Ball,
Gent., to be Ensign, April 11.

BANKRUPTS.

John Summarsell, carpenter, Saint Marylebone, to sur-
render, April 29, and June 3, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-cham-
bers ; Hare and Whitfield, Temple.
James ll,nry Thomas Vaughan Hughes, chemist, Bays-
water, April 25, and May 23, at twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street;
Buchanan, Basinghall-street.
Henry Anstey and William Walton (and not Watson, as
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advertised in last Friday's Gazette), drapers, Birmingham,
April 27 and May 25, at ten, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official arsigupe, Birmingham • Worth-
ington and Shipman Manchester; Motteram„and Knight,
Birmingham.
Charles Bramer, wool dealer, Sheffield, April 29, and
May 27, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin, offi-
cial assignee, Sheffield ; Ryalls, Sheffield.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
J. Harrington, Grafton-place, Easton-square, dealer in
toys—E. A. Bardouleau, Great Winehester-street, City,
clerk to an attorney—J. T. Carey, St. Alban's-terrace,
Vauxhall-bridge-road, mason—J. Bates, Deptford, Kent,
commission agent—W. Wood, Denbigh-street, Pimlico,
builder's clerk—R. Holland, Tower-street, St. George the
Martyr, chandler's shopkeeper—J. A. Reid, Tabernacle-
row, City-road, and Basipghall-street, City, tailor--J.
W. Williams, Stonebridge-place, Dalston, merchant's
clerk—G. F. Bennett, Southampton-street, Camden-town,
seal engraver—W. C. Curry, Mansion-house-street, Lam-
beth, journeyman engineer—D. Lang, King-street Covent-
garden, dealer in foreign fancy goods—S. Bennett,
Goldsmith's-place, Shoreclitch, carpenter—J. W. Rateliff,
Harrison-street and Doughty-mews, Gray's-inn-road, cab
proprietor—W. H. Anslow, Union-street, Borough, pastry-
cook—G. Snell, Upton-villas, Kingsla,nd, commander in
her Majesty's Navy—J. G. Grew, Union-terrace, Bagnigge-
wells-road, journeyman tea urn manufacturer -J. Walls,
Etch-street, Poplar, foreman to a mat manufacturer—E.
Carter, Charles-street, Portman-square, licensed victualler
—R. S. Jones, Hayes-court, Leicester-square —R. Dyer,
Eden-place,-Old Kent-road—T. H. Heigham, Abdy-street,
Horsleydown, builder—Catherine Mary Ladewig, Mar-
garet terrace, Harrow-road, confectioner—J. Price, Bar-
ford-terrace, Liverpool-road—W. Fisher, York-place,
Vauxhill-bridge-road, lodging-house keeper—W. Hen-
, derson, Canterbury-road, Ball's-pond, manufacturing
chemist —J. W. Charlton, Regent-square, Gray's-
inn-road, clerk in holy orders—M. Bromhead Leather-
lane, Holborn, butcher—J. Dallor, Blackfriars-road,
auctioneer—G. T. Hiller, Great Cambridge-street, Hack-
ney-road, general merchant—J. P. Somers, Cambridge-
street, Pimlieo—H. J. Hirst, Grove-road, Brixton—F. J.
Attfield, Waterloo-place, Shepherd's-bush, builder—D.
Cockaworth, Broadway, Ludgate-hill, grocer—E. Flanagan,
Molyneux-street, Edgware-road—C. Nicholls, Great Port-
land-street, Oxford-street, house painter—N. G. Mns- a-
bini, Hunter-street, Brunswick-square,literary and politi-
cal writer—W. T. Lambert, Jermyn street, St. James's,
patent medicine vendor—T. E. Roper, Trinity-square,
Brixton, carpenter—P. Shonfield, Croydon, Surrey, tailor
—T. Green, Parker-street, Drury-lane, and Dry-arches,
Strand, greengrocer—J. Simpson, Brooksby-street, Isling-
ton, commercial traveller—S. W. L. Fox, Queen's' Hotel,
St. Martin's-le-Grand, gentleman.