The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-28 00:00:00

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

The peaceful county of Hereford has been dis-
turbed to an unwonted degree during the past three
or four weeks by acts of violence committed within
its boundaries. First, there was the outrageous at-
tack upon the police- officers of Leominster on their
apprehending the:two men, Moss and Rock, charged
with various burglaries in different parts of the
country; then followed the burglary, with violence,
at Weston Beggard, within a short distance of Here-
ford, and we have now to report a case of highway,
robbery under rather unusual circumstances, the al-
leged robber having been taken before the Hereford
magistrates on Wednesday last, and remanded for
further examination. It appears that on Saturday
night last Mr. William Lloyd, of Bishop, a few miles
from Hereford, a farmer of some repute in the county,
was returning home in his gig from Hereford market,
whenjust as he left Hereford a man, named Thomas
Chamberlain, a mason by trade, asked him to give him
a ride for some distance, as he was going the same road
as Mr. Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd assented, and they proceeded
on their journey. Having arrived at a distance of
about five miles from Hereford, and about a mile from
Chamberlain's house, Mr. Lloyd descended from his
gig for a -certein purpose, but in so doing he fell on
the road. Chamberlain immediately jumped out of
the gig, and before Mr. Lloyd could recover bunself
begun kicking him in a violent manner in the side, so
that Mr. Lloyd became insensible, and so remained
in the road for some time. On recovering his senses
he found himself alone, his horse and gig had va-
nished, and so had his travelling companion, and in
great fear he made the best of his way home. At
the time when he fell he had in his pocket a Si. note
and five sovereigns, but on searching his pockets he
now discovered that the 51. note was gone ; the gold
had worked down into a corner of his waistcoat
pocket, so that it probably escaped the notice of the
supposed thief. The horse and gig were discovered
in the course of the night overturned in a ditch,
about a quarter of a mile from the place where the
robbery was effected. In the course of Sunday the
accused was apprehended in bed at his lodgings and
locked up. His defence is an alibi, and he strongly
denies that he was the person who rode with Mr.
Lloyd from Hereford on the Saturday night. Mr.
Lloyd, however, persists in the correctness of his ver-
sion of the story as given above, and the prisoner has
• acoordingly been remanded for the present.

TUE CITY ImraovEmErurs.—Yesterday morning a
large number of labourers were engaged in palling down the
warehouses and numerous dwellings in Little ,t. Thomas
Apostle, Queen-street, Cheapside, for the further extension
of the City improvements from King William-street, Lon-
don-bridge, to St. Paul's Churchyard. The commissioners
intend to carry out the whole line ofiftirriage-way and erect
modern and lofty buildings on either side.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—Yesterday afternoon a
most interesting sale took place at Messrs. Robins', Covent-
garden, of some of the most elegant articles, which formed
a part of the Grind Exhibition in the Crystal Palace. The
following are the most important :—A most elaborate and
elegant sideboard, embellished by finely carved medallions of
her Majesty and Prince Albert, sold for 310 guineas. This
sideboard exceeded in beauty. the one made by the same
artist for the King of Prussia, which cost 600 guineas in
making.
,A pair of splendidly embroidered curtains display.
ing 40 specimens of flowers copied from Paxton's " Magazine
of Botany," and obtained the honourable mention of the jury
—32/. A statuette of the Mother praying over her Child, in
pure alabaster-101. An elegant table, in SO different woods
- 92/. The Banner of All Nations, exhibiting the standards
and flags of the different countries—U. A statuette of the
Dying Gladiator-16 guineas. A beautiful fig," Faith in
God," in Carrara marble—U. 7s. Blr. Dobbie's;Atmo*pheric
Recorder, which indicates the thousandth part of an inch-
-10/. Group of Gladiators, in Serpentine marble-17/. 10s.
The Grand Coronation Chair, in which George the Fourth
sat and was anointed, before the Crown was placed on his
head, July 17, 1821-71. 7s. There was great competition
among the bidders present to obtain some of the vestiges of
the once world's fair.
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