The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE BANK ROBBERY.

We regret to learn that, early this morning, a most
extensive robbery was discovered to have been
committed on the highly respectable banking-
house of Messrs. Rogers, Towgood, and Co., of
Clement's-lane, Lombard-street. It is sup-
posed the burglars must have entered
by means of skeleton or false keys. During yesterday
some of the swell-mob were observed prowling about
Lombard-street, in the vicinity of Clement's-lane,
but as yet there is no clue as to the direction they
have taken. About 40,0001. in notes, and we believe
a thousand pounds in gold, have been carried off.
It will be seen by an announcement in another
part of our paper that the numbers of tha notes are
given, and of course stopped at the Bank of England.

SUICIDE OF A DESPERATE CHARACTER IN A STA-
TION-HOUSE.—Yesterday morning a most determined
act of suicide was committed in ono of the cells of the
station-house of the B division of police in the New-way,
Westminster, by one of the moat degraded characters,
Sarah Colley, living in the purlieus of the Almonry, a
locality most notorious. It appears that, at half-past
eleven o'clock on Saturday night, she and another woman
were creating a great disturbance near the Nag's Head,
in Tothill-street, and Colley was at last given into
charge, and taken to the station-house, where she was
placed in a separate cell. She was visited every quarter
of an hour by the man on duty, up to twelve o'clock. A
very few minutes after an odd " bumping noise," was
heard against the cell, and on the policeman going in he
found her suspended by her apron to the door. She was
immediately released, and it seemed that having tied
tightly one end round her neck, she had then got upon
a bench and fastened the other to a small bar across a
sort of ventilator ; she had then leaped from the form,
and being a heavy woman this was no doubt the cause of
the noise. Although she could have been hanging but a
very short time, scarcely a minute or two, and was in-
stantly conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, it was
found she was quite dead on her arrival there. This
woman has, in her time, been one of the most notorious
in the locality in which she resided, it is said, for the
last quarter of a century—desperate in her encounters
with all who opposed her, and a pest wherever she went.
SUICIDE AT THE RESIDENCE OF LADY GEORGIANA
FANS.—On Saturday night Mr. Higgs held an inquest
at the Malpas Arms, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square,
on the body of Joseph Keinch, aged forty, a servant out
of place. John Wigmore, helper to Lady G. Fane's
coachman, said that on Saturday morning, at seven
o'clock, he opened the door of the stable at the back of
her Ladyship's mansion in Upper Grosvenor-square,
when, though it was hardly light, he saw something
black in the water tub. Upon approaching it he found
the deceased with his head and shoulders in the water,
and his legs hanging over the side of the tub. Deceased
was then quite dead, and had evidently been so for some
time. The door leading to the back yard where the de-
ceased was found was sometimes left open all night, and
it was without doubt by that means that he got to the
tub. The tub was only about two feet in height, and had
deceased fallen in by accident, he could with ease have
got out again. James Field said the deceased lived at
No. 8, Shepherd's-court, and had been out of a situation
for the last four months, with the exception of three
weeks. On Wednesday ast deceased had a severe fit,
from which lie was with difficulty restored. The next
day, though better, he was by turns rational and deli-
rious ; and as witness feared from his manner that he
would lay violent hands upon himself, he advised his
son, a youth, to watch him closely. On Friday deceased
went out, followed by his son, and went to Oxford-
street, where lie walked so fast, and, as the boy said,
" dodged about so." that he lost him. Nothing more
was heard of him, until his body was found at the rear
of Lady Fane's house. Undoubtedly,. for the last two or
three days of his life, he was of unsound mind. Ver-
dict—" Temporary insanity."
STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADE 3.—
The condition of the wrought cotton hose branch is by
no means mended, the hands being in general either
stinted or obliged to wait long intervals for materials.
Tho cut-up hose hands, notwithstanding the extreme
cheapness of the articles produced, are not in a better
condition in regard to employment, but in respect of
comfort and excessive labour, there is no comparison
between them, as the cat-up hands working in wide
frames are very hard-worked. The silk glove branch
has had a few sprinklings of orders, which excite a
little hope. The silk hose branches, both plain and
knotted, are lingering on, !though declining ; this re-
mark is equally applicable to the Nottingham, Derby,
and Mansfield trade; an important improvement to the
workman has been latterly introduced, which is the
silk drawn from the bobbin by an apparatus, instead
of being pulled off by the weight of the jacks, enabling
the workman to gain his line of thread safer and
better, and avoiding the evil of slur-galls or slack
places across the stocking. The drawer and pantaloon
trade is worse than ever, and the masters with great
difficulty obtain material, even after long attendance
upon the warehouses ; this causes so much despondence
amongst them, that many are contemplating to turn
their attention to other means of obtaining a livelihood.
The bobbin. net trade is much depressed in almost every
description of goods. From the multiplicity of articles
now produced, it is almost impossible to speak in gene-
ral terms which shall hold correctly for all the trade.
In France, we understand, it is worse than in England.
The silk warp lace trade, except the jacquard and fancy
gloves, is in a miserable state ; this is attributed to the
large importations of French point net lace. The lap
and press warp branch is said by part of the bands to
be much depressed, whilst others insist that there is a
demand for all that is made. It is gratifying to state,
amidst so much gloom, that the cotton warp tatting trade
feels very little of this depression. These articles are
preferred to bobbin-net in both the Eastern and South
American markets, the ornament being made of a stout
thread, is bolder and more striking, whilst the net being
made of fine single cotton, appears much thinner to the
eye- Considerable quantities pass by transit through
Egypt to the East, down the Red Sea.—Nottingham
Review.

PunLic WHIPPING.—Aaron Walker, who was sen-
tenced at the Folkestone Quarter Sessions on the 16th
of July last, to six months' imprisonment in Dover gaol,
and to be twice publicly whipped, for picking the pocket
of William Till, at Folkestone fair, underwent one por-
tion of his corporeal punishment, at the hands of the
gaoler, in the market-place here yesterday forenoon, at
half-past eleven o'clock. The culprit, who was lashed
to a pillar, received twenty-two lashes, and is to receive
twenty-two more another day. He bore his punishment
with much firmness, and without uttering a single com-
plaint. A considerable number of persons had assembled
to witness the degrading exhibition, which seemed, how-
ever, to induce only a feeling of disgust and indignation
at its savage barbarity. The individual who suffered the
infliction is, it seems, ono of the metropolitan light-
fingered tribe, who had been plying his avocation at
Folkestone fair, some six months since.—Dover Chro-
nicle.

INSTINCT OP RATS --An old man named Turner,
living on Cotton's-common, while gripping last week in
a piece of land belonging to Mr. Reeve, of Bardelph
parish, cut into a rat's cave, where he discovered two
pecks and a half of beans carefully packed up. They
had been carried, no doubt, one by one, and hoarded up
for,the winter. He took home his prise for his pig.—
Stamford Mercury.