The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-13 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

A young man of very respectable appearance, whoa
name, for reasons which will be obvious, it is unnecs-
sary to publish, was placed at the bar More Mr. Tyr-
whits, charged upon suspicion of having, in conjunction
with other men not in custody, barglariously broken
into the premises of Mr, John Edmonds, a silk menu-
facturer in Fort-street, Spitalfielcil, and stolen .11 large
quantity of raw and manufactured silk, weighing up-
wards of 5 cwt., and of the value of 650/.

The prosecutor dated that the prisoner had been
about six years in his confidential employment in tl.e
warehouse, and he had always entertained the highest
opinion of his integrity up to Saturday last, when, at
shortly after seven in the morning, he was hastily called
down stairs by one of his servants with an intimation
that the premises bad been broken into, and upon en-
tering the warehouse, which was in great disorder, he
found tha., the various drawers and other receptacles of
the stock had been taken out and plundered of the most
valuable portion of their contents, consisting of 323
pounds weight of raw silk, and nearly 1,500 yards of
manufactured silks, the entire bulk of which must have
amounted to about 5 cat. He also found, upon ex-
amining his desks, that one of them had been forced end
ransacked by the thieves, wl* had carried off between
7/. and 81. in loose cash and other articles. On inspect-
ing the premises to ascertain how ingress had been ob-
tained, it was discovered that the staircase window,
overlooking the main street, and which had been care•
fully secured the night before, had been forced, and was
then wide open. The whole of the property was per-
fectly safe at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, when
witness left the premises in charge of the prisoner,
whose duty it was to close the warehouse and depoiit
the keys in a box adjoining the kitchen when he left at five
or six o'clock in the evening. About two hours after the
discovery of the robbery the prisoner presented himself
at the warehouse as usual, bud after preparing an esti-
mate of the value and description of the goods stolen by
the burglars, was directed to distribute about the neigh-
bourhood a number of placards, offering a reward of
1001. for the apprehension of the thieves, and continued
to discharge his usual duties until the preceding after-
noon, when, in consequence of private information fur-
nished against him, be felt himself compelled to giro di-
rections for his apprehension.
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conclusive to justify the prisoner's further detention upon
relcrar.tion.

It was intimated by the police that no clue had as
yet been obtained as to the disposal of any of the stolen
property.

Lin VALUE OP OLD WINES.—kt the sale of the
cellar of the late Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart of Lee,
which took place on Saturday, in klessrs. Tait and Nisbet's
Hanover-street, port, vintage 'KO, brought 51. 3s. per dozen;
port, vintage 1822, 51.; old sherry, 41.45. ; claret, vintage
1625, 61., and whisky 255. per gallon. Caledonian Mercury,