The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

UNION-HALL,

Ed wai d Willis; a medical student, was brought be-
fore Mr. Trail, chargel on suspicion with breaking open
the writing desk of Mr. Henry Lambert, another fellow
student, and sealing 44 sovereigns.
Mr. Lambert stat ed, that he and the prisoner, who
were fellow students, occupied lodgings at No. 47, in
the York-road, Limb( th, and slept in a double-bedded
room. On Wednesday last, complainant discovered that
six sovereigns had been taken out of his writing desk,
which was in the sitting room, and he mentioned tie
fact to the prisoner, who on Iwing apprised of the cir-
cumstance, said that he had also been robbed of a dia-
mond brooch and three sovereigns. In consequence of
the robbery the complainant took his writing-desk up
st sirs to his bed-room for safety, and ho then went out,
and returned at seven o'clock, when, on examining the
desk, he at once observed that it had been forced
open, and discovered that 38 sovereigns had been
abstracted. The complainant added, that he and the
prisoner took the lodgings, and that the latter did
not abscond.

In reply to Mr. TRAIL, the complainant said that the
prisoner did not complain to him that he had been
robbed of three sovereigns and a diamond brooch until
after he (complainant) said that his desk ha I been
opened, and six sovereigns stolen. They had break
fasted together the same morning, yet the prisoner did
not say one word about his having been robbed. The
prisoner afterwards said that he had the diamond brooch
given him the night before it was steles from him.
The bed-room and also the sitting-room which they
occupied were also open, and the landlord and landlady
and the three servants had access to them when they
thought proper.
Sergeant Aylesbury, of the L division, stated that
when the prisoner was given into his custody, he said
that the diamond brooch, of which he had been robbed,
was given to him by a lady at Wandsworth to has e re-
paired. Witness asked him where the lady lived, and
offered to accompany hies to the house to ascertain the
truth of his assertion, but he refused to tell him where
she lived, or to give him any information on the subject.
Mr. 'FRAIL asked the prisoner whether he wished to
say any thing to the charge? The prisoner declared
that he was perfectly innocent of the charge, and that
he knew nothing whatever about the stolen money. lie
said that he had lost three sovereigns and a diamond
brooch at the lodgings, but that he would be very sorry
to accuse any person, as he did not know upon whom
suspicion rested, as their apartments were open to all
persons in the house.
Mr. TRAIL asked the prisoner from whom he had the
diamond brooch, but he refused to disclose the name
of the lady, or even to give the place of her abode, as
ho had a strong objection that it should be even sup-
posed he was suspected of felony. Mr. Trail told him
that the inquiry could be made without any communica-
tion of the kind being made to the lady ; but the pri-
soner still refused to agree to the suggestion, and as
there was no further evidence to adduce, the Matristrate
said that he considered there was so muck suspicion at-
tached to the case, that he should call upon the ac•
cused to find sureties to appear at the Court on a future
day to answer the charge.
The prisoner not being prepared with the requisite
sureties, etas sent to the county gall.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF ROSSE.—We re-
gret to announce the death of the Earl of Rosse, which
took place on Wednesday evening, at his Lordship's resi-
dence in Brunswick-square.—Brighton Herald of Friday.
The deceased was in his 83d year, having been born May
21, 1758. He succeeded his uncle in 1807. By his
wife, Alice, daughter of John Lloyd, :Esq., he has left
four children, the eldest of a horn, Lord Oxmantown who
formerly represented the King's County in Parliament, is
in his 41st year, and married in 1836, Mary, eldest daugh-
ter of John Wilson Fitld, Esq., by whom he has several
children. The late Peer was one of the Representatives
of the Irish Peerage sitting in the Imperial Parliament ;
his death cooaequcntly creates a vacancy
in the number of
that body.