The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-21 00:00:00

BURGLARY AT BIRMINGHAM.

An atrocious burglary occurred in this town yes..
terday morning. The premises lately occupied by
Messrs. Hall, grocers, High-street, in the Bull-ring,
have recently been taken by Mr- J. St. Losky, im-
porter and manufacturer of cigars, of No. 9, Bishops...
gate-street-without, London. The house at present
remains comparatively unfurnished, and Mr. St.
Losky slept in the room behind the front shop. He
retired to rest about half-past ten o'clOck yesterday
night, and soon fell into a sound sleep. Abcut one
o'clock in the morning on Thursday he was .disturbed
by a noise in the shop or his bedroom, and ca,iling out
" Who's there ?" he was immediately seized by the
throat by a man whose figure he could discern by the
feeble light which proceeded from the back w:j.ndow.
Mr. St. Losky grappled with his antagonist, anal both
fell to the floor. Both parties cried aloud for assist-
ance, and in an instant a companion of Mr. St.
Losky's assailant rendered his fellow aid, when Me.
St. Losky by strangulation and heavy blows on his
head was rendered unable to offer any further resist-
ance to his assailants. The miscreants, conceiving
that the cries of Mr. St. Losky had aroused some of
the neighbours, made their escape through the back
door. After some time Mr. St. Losky was enabled to
make his way to the front in the Bull-ring, and the
police, when all was over, having arrived, the
premises were searched. It was then ascertaiv.ed
that the burglars had packed up two carpet bag's
of cigars ready for carrying off, and that they
had succeeded in possessing themselves of about 301.
in cash, with which they have escaped. Mr. St.
Losky's person presented a most frightful object. His
head was most dreadfully beaten, and his night-shirt
saturated with blood. lie was immediately conveyed
to the hospital, where his wounds were dressed. We
are happy to state that, although serious, they are not
considered to be dangerous. The be(3-room floor
exhibited proof of a sanguinary struggle. There
were pools of blood, and the walls stailned with
bloody hand marks. The burglars left behii:kd them
cloth boots of neat make, hats of high finish, one of
which was trimmed with mourning crape, and two
jackets, all of which are in excellent condition. Mr.
St. Losky imagines that he can identify them as two,
men who represented themselves as farmers, and who.
on several occasions purchased articles at the shop..
The police, however, have no clue to the offenders..
The thieves are supposed to have entered through the
grating of the cellar window in the Bull-ring.

FAILURE OF THE ATTEMPT TO DRAW OFF THE
GREAT BRITAIN.—A correspondent of the Souther*
Reporter writes as follows :—" Dundrum Bay, Saturday
Evening.—When I wrote to you two days ago of the
Great Britain I little anticipated the unexpected result
of this day's labour. Sorry am Ito acquaint you that it
has proved a most signal and decided failure, in the
broadest sense of the word. Though aided by a Govern-
ment steamer (the Birkenhead), of 600-horse power,
yet they could not move her one solitary inch, whicb
seems a most incomprehensible thing, as the officers who.
conducted the experiment, engineers, &c., were so san-
guine of the result as to have all their luggage sent on
board, so as to take a passage to Liverpool or Bristol in
the ship. The conductors of the great experiment'
have been most plentifully abused, and their abilities not
a little questioned by the thousands who have been
watching the result in almost breathless anxiety for the
last four days. Indeed, after all that has been done, I
am satisfied that no other like effort will be again tried,
and that she will have to be broken up at once rather
than be exposed to the effect of another winter on this
iron-bound coast. Even the operation of taking her
to pieces will be attended with vast expense, and must
necessarily prove 'a heavy blow and great discourage-_
_
merit' to mercantile enterprise in building vessels ocf
her class. It is altogether a most unfortunate affair,
uselessthis failure
dis c u hasssi o n againo
of
through
causedrough to
what emri
misfortune,
etfrah eta tnowya,
ill-judgment, or whatever other cause, she
here. From the nature and object of my
visit
necessarilyconnected
with
a godho detrb ; and I
tam
deal in
pnienc ati
expectations
clearlycommunicationofhf o
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sio those
n
thatbuilders
she fully satisfied
banosdinoefssh, heraprreoepsrtisebtalirl,ead a newand important nd would, but for h tisu
era is
steam navigation.
Lieutenant Waghorn, who for some time has been
engaged in organising a more extended steam commu-
nication with our Indian possessions, has just obtained
a charter of incorporation for a new company, in cone
junction with several eminent merchants. The route
to be adopted, and which has been approved by the
Board of Admiralty, is by the way of Egypt, Ceylon,
Singapore, Batavia, Port Essington in Torres Straits.
and thence by Wednesday Island to Sydney. It I
calculated that Sydney will then be brought certainfzy.
within 64 or 65 days, and probably within 6130 days of
London, and within 30 of India. The time Ines:l47i
vided:—from London to Singapore, 8,39 mu
dlaoys
days;; fro mandSinfrgoampore
Portto Es Ports i
eni
sn to;_i_yan2„t oeoy_rfo.om2rm,i3legi,_
miles, 12 days; total, 12,795
that,
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will be no
in 641 days.
from Newcast e, e
at 7s. to 7s. 6d. per toe,
ton,wa boefinfgueslu,
where the coal can be
sshipped22s.
per ton; and another
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of
FATHER MATHEW IN DERBY.—For some days
past Father Mathew has been administering the tem-
perance pledge in the city and county of Derry, where,
amidst the Protestant, Presbyterian, and Roman Catho-
lic population, he wasmr.epee.,ivaendawtihthe greatßight cßoredvioaliDrty..
niiettghß
eyp Or
Roman
co' Brien,proceedings
adTnini
CgßsaEtohEnoltTihcaeßishop, took part in the
ooccasion.
MintM aritegrioenSsßnintuih
P
information was received by thoneepposii.—ceYtefshi:
terday t
3,0001. in Bank of England notes, namely, one of 1,0001.,
and four of 5001. each, had been stolen from No. 36,
Half Moon-street, Mayfair.
WASTE or CORN.—" What is the chief production
of your district of country?" said an eastern traveller
the other day to a young farmer in the Miami Valle*
as he was refreshing himself with a glass of " bald faes?r,
while the stage-coleh stopped to wieer. 66 C (!s To
the
corn; we raise on our land about seventy buqrl to gay
acre, which we manufacture into whisky-,
nothing of the quantity that is wasted
Burritt's Christian Citizen.
For some days
THE WEATHER AND HARVEST.--
th •
the weather has been rather variable thhaadn
so
heavy
efausft
this quarter. On Friday
• l evening
acwceeptable
elesihread!"—
to theygar-
of rain, which was exceechng
apsroacleseodsinh:ww-eirtyh;
little but
the cutting eevletua7esittiws
done ntehre. vOhno Saturday
weather has preponderated; and
interruption. Judging from what w e have seen of the
field in this neighbourhood, we think that very little
grain will be left standing by the end of the present
wi nhTtehanet h
bi hr
Aieesayt degree..-sgtTitrielo.a-lt-ILCitiih;nrn
nabbr
oiuc
stiA
tg eft:vz•
week; and the crops of all kinds appear to be luxuriant
eerxticseerp.tions,
the
parts of this county
are suaiciettly ripe,o cut and cast;; but an old practice
corn arrives ma.turity.2
iinns3.tteuoa_ods,lo7inaseyin'ttlinstances that of employing
prevailsriuomttbhesim, e n
;11Foe,,,ir
ta id,labouredsieti
r0,7;:a10n1n,7„
uodla.l3l;asemr certain
is now abroad vklii;h might have been stacked or housed.
Two men only are frequ-ntly seen reaping or mowing,
where four or six might be raoro profitably employed.—
Essex Herald,