The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-17 00:00:00

UNION-BALL.

Edward Haylock was charged on suspicion of
having been concerned in robbing Benjamin Kitchin,
a Lincolnshire groom, of 1131. in sovereigns and
notes, of the Grantham Bank. _ _

The complainant, who was dressed in a blue
smockfrock, bedizened in front with a profusion of
fancy needle-work, a broad-brimmed hat, and long
leathern gaiters, had come up to town to lodge 1004
in the bank. While gazing at the monument, and
lost in wonder, a well-dressed man came up to him,
and having introduced himself as a native of Lin-
coln, fell into conversation with the simple country-
man. They ultimately adjourned to the Rose and
Crown, in Collingwood-street, Blackfriars, where
the well known trick was played off. A second man
entered the parlour, and pulled out a quantity of
flash notes, which, he said, he should for security
place in his fob. The two fellows then asked the
countryman whether he had brought any rash up to
town, and, little thinking of the character of the
parties into whose company he had ventured, he
did not disguise the fact, but immediately drew
from his pocket one hundred and three sovereigns,
wrapped up in a piece of brown paper, together
with two .5/. notes of the Grantham Bank. The
moment the strangers saw the money, they implored
the owner to take care of it. Oue of them pro-
fessed to wrap up the money carefully, and to place
it in the fob of the countryman. Shortly after the
strangers withdrew, and the poor yeoman, on being
called on to pay' the reckoning, found that some
coppers had been substituted for his 1131. He then
roared like a bull, and deplored the loss of his
sovereigns, bewailing the day that he had ever
visited London. The prisoner, who is one of those
fellows termed " Magsmen," was taken into cus-
tody on Friday evening; he was identified by the
countryman. There were three other men with
the prisoner, but they escaped, and in his pockets
were found three sovereigns, besides several flash
notes.—He was reminded.
WORSHIP. STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF EXTORTING MONEY.
—Samuel Hewson, a bricklayer, living in Orange-
street, Bethnal-green, was charged with having un-
lawfully ob ained, trom Mrs. Thomas, the wife of
Mr. Thomas, of 225, Shoreditch, a surgeon, the
sum of 401.

Mrs. Thomas stated, that the prisoner came to
her on Sunday the Bth December, and said, " This
is a bad job between my wife and Mr. Thomas; he
has violated my wife, and I must have means to
leave London." Witness told him she did not
believe it was possible. The prisoner assured her
that the charge was true, and that Mr. Thomas
could be tried for his life. Unless he bad money to
take himself and wife from town, he must go and
make a charge before Mr. Broughton, of Worship-
street, with whom he was well acquainted. Wit-
ness feeling alarmed, a'ked him what money he re-
quired ? He said he would leave it to me. Witness
said she would give him 201., and fetched him 20
sovereigns, asking him if that would satisfy him ?
He put himself into a violent passion, and said,
" That's not enough. If you wish to see your
husband where I said he should go, you may do so.
If you like to make it 201. more, that will do. I
will take 401., but not less. Witness gave him 40/.,
and the prisoner left the house.
Mr. Thomas had attended the prisoner's wife
from July last to October; during that time he
never had any criminal connexion with her what-
evor.—The prisoner was remanded.

Letters from Paris state, that an application
was about to be made on behalf of the Bank of France to
the Chamber of Deputies, to be allowed a deviation from
one of its rules, relative to the security required on making
loans or advances on Government Securities, which is
found, from its gr• at strictness, to be an impediment to
general business. It is intended, we believe, in future
that the loans shall be made at the rate of five, or perhaps
ten per cent., below the market price of the day, and that
only one personal security besides shall be required in the
transaction. _

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A letter from the Bishop of Exeter to one of
his clergy in Cornwall, relative to the burial of unbaptised
children, has just been published. The clergyman in
question had refused to bury a child who had not been
baptised, but had been named by a Baptist minister, in
consequence of which refusal great excitement had pre-
vailed in his parish, and be wrote to the Bishop of hisdio-
cese for instructions in the event of such a case recurring.
The Bishop states in his letter, that it well he the clergy.
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man's duty to do as be has already don,, as the rubric
expressly says, " The office of the burial of the dead is not
dayTN beforeSS.—
to be used for any that die unbaptised."
EVIDENCE
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following e evidence
Smith :—Plase your Honour, it was on the morning of
the blessed St. Patrick's day, and
_l just saw a man with

his legs over the wall—Pat, says I ; what, says he—bist,
says I ; wist, says he—here, says 1; where, says he—
and piss,. your H gour, that's all I'm afther knowing about
the whole matter.

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himself Captain Hornby, dressed in a frock coat and boots
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odays at
one of our inns (Henley,) and admiring the town so much,
sent for his mother, the Hon. Mrs. Hornby, of Brunswick •
ytihneg t oa
terrace, Regent's Park, who was expected to arrive last
evening. Previous to this, however, the Captain takes a
well-furnished lodging, and, as his mother was coming,
he must prepare the fatted calf; accordingly, wines,
grocery, piano, medicine ! wearing-apparel, &c., all march
in, in due order, and a check or two is changed, drawn
upon the town bankers. This morning (Friday) the
window of the Captain's bed-room was observed open, and
when mine host came down stairs, the front door was
found alsa open. The Captain was found to have gone
out for a little walk, and the wine, grocery, wearing-
apparel, were gone also. Numerous inquiries were made
atter the worthy gentletnan, and some faint hopes were
entertained that the Hon. Mrs. H. (Oh !) would arrive in
clue course ; but here again was disappointment. She
was by some unlucky accident prevented then, but was t x-
'meted about this time. Up to the present moment, 9 P.M.,
no arrival has been announced. Perhaps it would not be
cruel to state, that our " shaver" has some idea of advanc-
ing his price during the present unlooked-for disastrous
season...—Berkshire Chronicle.