The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-29 00:00:00

HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.

No less than three daring highway robberies have
been committed in the near vicinity of Edinburgh within
the last eight days, and there is good reason to beliete
that each of them was perpetrated by the same two in-
dividuals. Monday night last, between ten and eleven,
Mr. Walker, of Crossmyloof, near Glasgow, was vio-
lently assaulted near the Whitehouse toll-bar, by two
young men, who took from him his watch, cloak, and a
small bundle. They pulled out his watch at a jerk,
and tried to search his person ; but Mr. Walker, who
is a powerful man, after knocking down one of the ruffi-
ans, went towards a hedge to search for a stick, when
the two sprang over a wall and ran through a field
towards the road to Gorgie, by Dairy. There, it
would appear, they immediately after attacked and
severely maltreated John Hunter, Esq., W. S., War-
riston-crescent., who was walking into town, and robbed
him of 181. in bank-notes, some silver, and a valuable
deed, which he had been preparing for a gentleman
a short distance out. Mr. Hunter also made a stout
resistance, and shouted out for help, as Mr. Walker
had also done. On both occasions one of the robbers
called to the other to cut his throat, and he would
tell no tales. However, after getting at their booty, and
cutting Mr. Hunter severely, they made off. It is some-
what singular, that Mr. Hunter and Mr. Walker met
at the west-end of Maitland-street, and came in to-
gether to the police-office to giveinformation of their
.loss. Their description of the two young men who
robbed them exactly tanks. One of them. was short
and stout made, dressed in a fustian pact and
trousers, and a bonnet ; the other was taller, and wore
also a bonnet, with blue jacket and moleskin trousers.
On the Thursday preceding, and on the Dairy-road,
Mr. Bell, carrier to Hamilton, was robbed of his watch
by two men, by whom he was so barbarously hurt that
he was unable to describe them farther than that they
wore, as he thought, dark clothes. Mr. Bell, from the
injuries he received, has not since been able to resume
his duties.—Edinburgh Courant.

HORRIBLE DEATH THROUGH DRUNKEN-
Iq ES-S.-Yesterday morning, about half-past two o'clock, as
police constable Armen, No. 93, of the M division, was on duty
in Kent-street, Borough, he was informed th. at a fire had take
nplace in the house, No. 5, Woolpack-yard, in that neighbour..
hood. Having repaired thither the officer found the cause of
alarm to have proceeded from the bed-room of a single woman,
named Philips, aged twenty five, residing on the first floor,
who, it appears, had some time previous to the discovery of the
fire, retired to bed in a state of intoxication, having first ob-
tained a candle to light her to bed. The officer, with some of
the inmates, removed her to St. Thomas s Hospital, while
others extinguished the fire, but not until the greater portion
of the contents of the house was destroyed. Phillips having river.
been removed to the hospital every attention was paid to her 1 REFORM IN PARLIAMENT.—The refusal of
injuries, but she was so dreadfully burned about the face, arms, the body called by courtesy, or rather calling themselves, the
and neck, that she died in the most excruciating agony about representatives of the people, to do anything to relieve the dis-
four hours after she had been admitted. 'f he cause of this tresses or extend or secure the liberties of the people ; the con-
dreadful catastrophe appeared, from subsequent inquiry, to tempt with which they have spurned the multitudinous peti_
have originated from the deceased laying herself on the bed in tions that have loaded the tables of the House, refusing even to
her clothes, and imprudently placing the lighted candle on Ike inquire into the subjectof complaint, have produced the effect
chair by the bed side, instead of the table in the room. The iwe had anticipated. The country is beginning to see, not only
Southwark-bridge-road engine and firornen promptly attended, that no real reform is to be hoped for from a Legislature elected
and thus saved the contents of the adjoining houses.
' like our present one, but that the first step to improvement of
Upwards of two hundred twopenny loaves will any kind must be a reform in the representation—a completion,
be sold for one penny each on Durdham Down, as last year, at
at in fact of the Reform Bill.—Somerset Gazette.
nine o'clock in the morning on the first Wednesday in may:— A pension of 3,5001. per annum reverts to the
Bristol Journal. Irish Civil List by the death of Lord Guillamore of Rockbarton.