The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Sir Robert W. Carden, upon
taking the chair, yesterday for the Lord Mayor, said he
thought it necessary to make a few observations upon
the subject of the reported proceedings of the day before
in the Court of Aldermen. It would appear, from the
words attributed to him in the discussion upon the ques-
tion proposed by Alderman Wire, that he might be sup-
posed to have included in his condemnation of the course
pursued by pretended brokers, the conduct of the mem-
bers of the Stock Exchange. Nothing could be more
erroneous than such a supposition. He could not be
guilty of libelling a body of gentlemen, with whose
honourable principles and liberal dealings he had been
for so many years well acquainted, by comparing them
with the persons whom he was in the habit of denouncing
in the Court of Alderman, for practising a system of
pludder which the regulations of the court, if strictly
acted upon, would, he had no doubt, considerably dimi-
nish, if not altogether put an end to, and he felt the
deepest regret that any misconception or • misrepresen-
tation of what had fallen,from him should have occa-
sioned a painful feeling amongst his brethren of the
Stock Exchange. Upon the repeated occasions on which
he had called the attention of the Court of Aldermen to
the objectionable transactions of persons who had acted
as brokers, and against whom complaints had been made
in the Court of Aldermen, he had drawn a contrast
between the characters of such persons and that of the
gentlemen of the house, and nothing could be more re-
mote from his disposition or intention than the idea of
ascribing to the latter a discreditable motive in any of
their transactions. Of the high sense of honour by
which their dealings were characterised, there were con-
stantly recurring proof, in the enormous amounts of
money which passed between them upon mere verbal
agreements.„

Michael Thomas Bedford was charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
James Tyrell (City police) said, this day as I was in
the Mansion-house, the prisoner called me aside, and
said he wanted to speak to me privately. He then said
that he wished to give himself up for having committed
embezzlement ; that he had taken money belonging to
his employers, and applied it to his own and his family's
use ; that he had been secretary to the General Ceme-
tery Company at Sheffield, and had absconded on Tues-
day week from that place. I asked him why he had
absconded, and he replied that by casting up his accounts
he found that there was a greater deficiency than he had
expected, and he thought it best to leave, and that he
got into a train accidentally and came to London. Upon
searching him I found a pocket-book, a silver watch,
and a small pistol in his pockets. He told me the
amount of thd deficiency was about 1701., but he could
not exactly say, and that he had been to a guarantee
society, where he had been guaranteed to the amount of
2001., that he had brought 131. away with him, and that
he had left 101. with the society.
The prisoner—l wish to state that I was at first un-
certain whether I should go to the chairman and make
a full disclosure to him, or whether I should leave the
town, and while I was reflecting what to do, I got to
the station, and the London train happening to be the
first, I got into it. If the northern train had been there
I would have gone by that, no doubt.
ReManded. ,

SINGULAR AND SHOCKING AFFAIR.—A most melan-
choly case of mental aberration has been noted to us.
Mr. Mann, the cashier at the works of the British
Iron Company, Acrefair, gaVe notice to the manager,
Mr. Wood, that he should quit the service, which
notice was accepted. On Friday morning, the un-
fortunate man made a journey to Wrexham, where
he purchased two canisters, each containing a pound
of gunpowder, which he conveyed home. It appears
that he made his way to the office where Mr. Wood
was employed, carrying a canister of the gunpowder
in either hand, with a fuse in each, which he had calcu-
lated would explode the powder. In endeavouring to
open the door, one fuse fell to the ground, the other ig-
nited the powder in the canister. The explosion threw
down the partition, carried away the ear and part of the
scalp of the unfortunate man, and shattered his hand
severely. Mr: Wood was, of course, much alarmed.
He got up, coolly walked cut of the place, took a car,
and drove to the Wrexham Infirmary, to seek surgical
advice. The affair has produced great sensation in the
neighbourhood.—North. Wales Chronicle.