The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

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ROBBERY AT BIRMINGUAAL—A quantity of plate,
tonsisting of spoons of various kinds, knives and forks,
&c., amounting in value to upwards of 100/, was stolen
:from the Stork Hotel, in this town, on Saturday night
'East, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock. It
appears that the servant whose duty it was to collect the
house plate, before convoying it to the safe in which it
Was usually deposited at night, left a basket containing
tt portion of the articles on a sideboard in the hall, oppo-
site the bar, but near the entrance door of the hotel.
She then went into some other rooms to collect the re-
sidue of the plate, and on her return missed the basket,
anti immediately called the attention of the Misses Smith
to the loss. Search being made, neither the basket nor
its contents could be found. Information was imme-
diately given to the police, but up to the present time
they have not succeeded in obtaining any clue that is
likely to lead to the detection of the thieves. Suspicion
lees fallen upon two strangers who came into the house
to short time previously to the robbery, and proceeding
to the coffee-room, called for half a pint of sherry. They
then commenced talking loudly and arguing, apparently
Pat if they were commercial men transacting some busi-
rtess. When they had drank their wine, one of them
tendered a 51. note of the bank of Messrs. Taylor and
Lloyd's in payment. The bar-maid, however, not know-
ing either of the parties, and suspecting all was not right,
declined declined taking the note, on which the party paid her
113. 6d., after having assured her that the note was quite
s
etTrect. During this transaction the other person was
to the passage and about the door, and it is supposed
t hat in the interval the plate-basket was removed._
.lirmingham Gazette.
INDIA Conic —lt will be remembered that an nn-
pot tation was noticed, several weeks since, of a large
qsni.ntity of Indian corn, in the ear, or attached to the
at ern or cob, amounting to 28,000 heads of the article, by
a weasel named the Richard Cobden, which had arrived
fro m South America (Cuba, we believe), and was com-
ma rated upon, in a succinct manner, with respect to the
sini:ularity of the importation of the article in such a
St. ate in connexion with the remarkable name of the yes-
-80, in which the same was imported. The whole of the
pa,roel has remained in bond until the present time, and
the
bona e c owners now requiring the delivery of the corn for
onsumption, a difficulty arose as to the mode of
race tint* the same for the duty to which it is liable, viz.,
one shiLling per quarter, which of course it was impos-
sible to do in its existing state, and on an application
having been made to the revenue authorities for the pur-
pose, permission was given, in this pa instance,
for the whole quantity to be thrashed inrti the warehouse,
in.. order that the groin might be detached from the huge
h ask, cob, or stalk, for the purpose of being metered fur
Ilse duty due thereon. As this was the first importation
or Indian corn in this remarkable state, these particulars
or the operation allowed to be performed in the matter
will be interesting and of importance.
Nownt SUNDERLAND.—On Wednesday, the 30th
niti mo, the sea off this place, and for miles south, was
cos ipletely red, on account, we suppose, of the " fresh"
frefm the Tweed. It was never known for the fresh water
to extend so fur south before. Several carts of white
%tin lips were picked up at sea, besides great quantities
I wing washed on shore.
CAPTURE OF A Witar.E.—(Extract of a letter from
C Connemara).—" There has been a large whale
,lti4'ed here yesterday morning by General Thompson;
LL it sixty-five feet kng, and twenty-four feet broad,
;1,1:4 it has a fin about ten feet from the tail on the back.
whales about which I have read are not described
Mt this fin."
I.he attacks of the sea, and the insidious workings
Or th e land springs, have taken effect upon the cliff at
Si ilestrand, near Cromer, on which the village church is
ex' *eta The tower is, in consequence, partly in ruins,
the whole edifice is rendered unsafe.