The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

MANSION-110 USE.

A man named Edward Mason, was charged with hav-
ing robbed Mr. Joseph Taylor, his employer, a plumber,
of various sums of money.
John Paul, assistant-clerk to the Board of Guardians of
the City of London Union, stated that on the 11th of
April, IS4O, he paid the prisoner the sum of 11. 15s. 9d.,
the amount of a bill for plumber's work done on the pre-
mises of the Board, 35, Cannon-street, by Mr. Taylor.
William Wells, of No. 20, Budge-row, cork manufac-
turer, stated that on the 13th March be paid the prisoner
the sum of 51. Bs., for plumber's work -dune by Mr. Taylor.
The receipts of the prisoner for the money were pro-
duced.
Mr. Taylor said that the prisoner had been in his service
as a clerk about a year and a half, and in that capacity had
been employed to collect accounts from the customers.
Witness had recently discovered the embezzlement, by the
prisoner, of various sums cf money, and the prisoner had
never paid over to him any part of the two sums specified,
nor made any entry of them in the books.
A constable who apprehended the prisoner, steed that
in the prisoner's room he found a letter addressed to Mr.
Taylor, containing a full admission of the offaree, and ex-
pr,:s.sing hopes of forgiveness ; aid in the letter wss a list
of names (thirteen in nu.nber), and sums of money re-
ceived by the prisoner and not accounted for. The letter
was acknowledged by the prisoner to be in his hand-writing.
Committed fir trial.
Two well.dressed young moo, named George Hudson
and Samuel Mason, who have been in the habit of pick-
iag pockets, v.ere put to the bar, charged with havizag at-
tempted to rob a Mrs. Bacfoot. The prizoners were well
disguised with cloaks lined with silk, end decorated with
tas.els.
A gentleman saw one of the prisoners walk up to Mrs.
Barfuot in Fenchurch-street, raise her gown, and take
something from her ; while the other held his cl,•ak so as
to screen the thief from public observa'ion. Wocn Mrs.
Barfoot was asked whether she had lett anything, she
looked on thu ground and saw her purse lying there. It
contained several duplicates, which she valued at 5/. The
prisoner, who had picked her pocket, was immediately
apprehended, and the offer expostulated with him, re.
presenting that it was quite impossiblo that so respectable
a person could be guilty of an iv.:t of the kind. The two
prisoners were soon identities by the police as the asso-
ciates of well-known thieves.
Mason—Thieves! rot at all. lt's quite a mistake, I

do assure you, my Lord.
The LOLD MAYOR—Pray where do ycu live, young
man ? Mason—Why, my Lord, I don't like to say ex-
actly, not at present.
The LORD MAYOR—Tire officers seem to know some-
thing about you? Masou—Not at all. my Lore. I've only
just come to town. They say that I itA a cloak on me.
Now, I never saw that cloak in muf life before this day.
The Low Mavon—Has Hudson anything to say ?
Hudsou—Ncthine-.
The officer 6 said that the t'.tevcs dressed so elegantly
every thy, that it was difficult to discover them except
when actually engaged in plundering.; and it was a com-
mon manoeuvre to use dashing cloaks as a blind.
Committed.
FORGERY AND SWINDLING ON A LARGE SCALE. —A
paragraph appem-ed in souse of the panters cf Wednesday,
stat!ng fr.orne of the circumstances of au cstensive case of
swinuting, in which a SpaLi:ll refugee, who assume l the
came of the Chevalier ee la Mott, was concerned. The
paragraph truly represented that the pre:cm-led Chevalier
had obtained from Messrs. P. and L,, cminent merchants
in London, a large sum of money upon forged bale, by
means of a forged letter of introduction of Mews Chau-
vileau and Co., of Paris, but it did not state that the
capture of the offender was effected principally through
the activity and t..lont of John and Daniel Forrester, the
officers of this Justice-room. When these officers re-
ceived iaformaticn of the commission of the offence, they
soon succeeded in ascertaining the real name of the
offender, and his residence both in London and
Paris,
and upon making communication of these paniculars to
the plundered parties, John Forrester was directed to pro-
ceed to Paris, and after his arrivsl there on the sth inst.,
M—,
.the delinquent, was apprehended.

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Her Majesty and his Roya. .ighness Prince
Albert, with the members of their household, leave Wind-
sor Castle, on Monday next, for Bockinglom ralace.
NEW SOUTH WALES.—he following is an
extract from a letter which we received on thi; day from
Sydney, dated 4th Noveralzr, 1340 : Mer
" cantile aftlirs
plri
ogmh ti es
es t, dfooru bt
the
e butba nnekas
arc in a most deplorable state just now. There is nothing
but failures and rumours of failures.
sI have Lot the
rifyorallscthmecmicim pai-1 have discountedrcebants will.have to cern_
very sparingly, and, I dare say, will not, shortly, dis-
count at all ; so that 1 fear there will be a complete panic.
This
n'
his would be a grand. time for a person to arrive with a
tof specie. He might easily get 30 r 50 per Lea.
for it, and that secured on land, ''. Goods ire a corn-
Pkte drug, the market is so gtutod."—Dtibtin Evening
Post,