The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

RICHMOND.

Lydia Dixon, a tiealllllady. like-looking young
woman, was brought before the Richmond bench, charged
with shoplifting. The prisoner was described on the
police charge sheet as a teacher of music, residing in the
Lower-road, Richmond.

On Saturday night, about half-past eight o'clock,
G. Woods, 209 V, a very efficient officer, was coming
down the Church-passage into George street, when he
observed the prisoner standing under the portico of
Messrs. Briant and Field's shop, who are linendrapers.
There was considerable property deposited there, and
amongst other goods was a piece of huckaback, which
proved to measure 65 yards. lie saw the prisoner, who
was apparently intent upon the show in the window,
give one glance round as if to assure herself she was not
observed, and then momentarily secrete the huckaback
under her shawl; the parcel was so long that it pro-
truded considerably above her shoulder. Tho prisoner
had got into George-street, and was walking away from
the shop, when catching sight of the constable, she ran
back towards the shop, and when taxed with the theft,
she said she was going to take it in to ask the price,
When apprehended the prisoner made a desperate re-
sistance, and it was as much as Mr. Field, ono of the
partners, and the constable, could do to get her to the
station. On passing through the passage to the charge-
room she contrived to break away some portion of her
dress in front. and down fell a cpacious pocket, capable
of containing at least half a dozen dresses, and in it at
that time were a cashmere dress and six lace collars. In
her apartments was found an immense quantity of pro-
perty of almost every description, consisting of dresses
in cashmere, woollen plaids, merinos, watered silks, and
cottons, furs, rolls of French and satin ribbons, cards of
lace, silk and kid gloves, silk neckerchiefs, bonnets, se-
veral pairs of ladies' boots and French clogs, two valuable
shawls, a bottle of ginger wine, and three enamelled sauce-
pans, besides numerous other articles of trifling value.
Strange to state, on all these stolen articles the private
mark of the tradesmen had been suffered to remain, and
through the exertions of Inspector Beard the greater
part of the property has been identified. No pawn-
broker's duplicates were found, but several disguises
wsre observed, consisting of a dark brown wig, with the
hair made to fall in curls at the back, t light brown
front in bards, and an auburn front, with short curls;
the prisoner's hair is binek. There was also a shawl,
with one side woollen and the other silk, and a cardi-
nal cloak fitted with capacious pockets. From papers
found it was ascertained that the prisoner is the daughter
of a once eminent solicitor, now deceased, and the mother
is, or was, one of the candidates for the " National Be-
nevolent Institution." A pianoforte and other musical
instruments were in the prisoner's :owns.
The prisoner did not offer any defence,
she might not be sent to prison, as it would assuredly
kill her. but entreated
of that previously, and remanded her that further Sir T. N. REEVE said, the prisoner should have thcught
in-
quiries might be made.

of Rotherham was thrown
by into a state of intense excite-
ment on Wednes
a report that Mr. John
ds lastrldent constable of Rotherham, and
high constable of
ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT AT ....PARRICIDE.—The town
Bland, the superintendent
district of the 'Vest Riding had
been assassinated by his son. An investigation being
„ered that the young man, who was of dis-
solutemade, ;
hAuabßrps':nd
.vindictive temper, had placed a loaded
pistol in his drawer in such a position that it would ex-
plode on the drawer being opened, he anticipating that
his father would probably search for money which he
bed abstracted; and that Mr. Bland did in fact go to the
drawer to make the search, and narrowly escaped with
his life. The young
man way kept in durance until ar-
rangements could be made; and on Friday evening his
father intrusted him to the care of a friend, who accom-
panied him to London by the mail train in order to enrol
hiln in one of her ,dajehty's regiments on the eve of going
abroad. Here the affair ends.
Two magnificent ships have lately been launched
in New York for the packet lines to this port; the first
being the Constellation, and the second the Guy Man-
nering, each of I,GOO tons burden. 'lhe latter will be
commanded by Captain Edwards, late of the celebrated
ship Sea, bitan2ion, and Ivanhoe.--Liverpool Mercury,