The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

MARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY

CAUTION TO LADIES.—AN ARTFUL TRICK.—John
Macdonald, a lad about 14 years of age, was placed at
the bar, charged with picking a lady's pocket of a purse,
containing 1/. 18s., under the following circumstances:—
The prosecutrix (Madame Mallet) stated that on the
previous afternoon, about five o'clock, she was prect cl-
ing along Dean-street, when the prisoner, who had a
basket of flowers slung before him, came up and pressed
her to purchase a bunch of flowers, as he was really
starving. She told the boy she was not in want
of any flowers, and bale him go away. He,
however, persisted in pushing his basket
in her face, and all at once she felt him withdraw his
hind from the pocket of her dress. She caught hold of
his hand, when he dropped her purse on the pavement.
A constable at that moment came up, and she gave the
prisoner in charge.
Police-constable Stringer said the prisoner belonged
to a regularly organised gang of thieves. Some of them
carried flowers, and others baskets of fruit, as blinds to
assist them in their operations.
The prisoner was fully committed.

ILLNESS or LADY PEEL.—The grief and sorrow
which pervades all classes of people, from one end of
the country to the other, owing to the lamentable
demise of our most illustrious and distinguished
statesman, will only be rendered more poignant and
severe by the intelligence which has gone forth to the
public that his amiable and beloved partner is now on
a bed of sickness. It is easy to imagine that a lady
possessing the sensitive disposition of Lady Peel, and
characterised by such beautiful traits of character,
should be almost completely prostrated by the
loss of one to whom she was so fondly
devoted and attached; but we had hoped
when the information of her indisposition was
conveyed to us that it was not of so serious a nature.
On inquiry -this morning at Whitehall-gardens, we
learnt that' although she had some refreshing rest
during the night, she was still extremely' unwell.
Sir Benjamin Brodie and the family physician were
in attendance upon her this morning, and it is to be
hoped they will be enabled to allay that nervous agi-
tation and excitement from which we believe her
Lodyahip mainly suffers. Inquiries after her Lady-
ship's health have been very numerous during the
morning.

THE FUNERAL or SIR ROBERT PEEL.—The fu-
neral obsequies of the late Right Hon. Baronet, whose
death spears to be sincerely lamented, have been entrusted
to Messrs. Dowbiggin and Sons, of Mount-street-Grosvenor-
square, but the funeral is intended to be as private as pos-
sible. It is proposed that the remains shall be conveyed to-
morrow evening, by special train, to Drayton Manor, to be
interred in the family vault. The inscription plate on the
coffin, which is covered with crimson satin velvet is, " The
Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., born, Feb 5,
1788 ; died July 2, 1850, aged 62." It is expected that
the Dean of Worcester, F. Peel, Esq., M.P., E. Peel,
Esq., and the other sons of the deceased Baronet, will take
the painful position of chief mourners.
DEATH OF LORD PETRE.—We regret to announce
the death of Lord Petre, which lamented event took place at
his town residence in Mansfield-street, at a quarter after
nine o'clock on Wednesday, the 3d inst ; he was in the 67th
year of his age. The deceased nobleman had the cos-
solation of being attended during his last illness
by his affectionate and now sorrow-stricken wife, a
daughter of the late ll.'nry 'Toward, Esq., of Corby,
and by all his children now in England. The next mail will
bear out to New Zealand the mournful announcement of his
decease to his two sons, Henry and Arthur Petre, who have
made that rising colony (which rrwes so much to the early and
earnest support of their father) their home and scene of
their enterprize. During many years Lord Petro was
well known as a promoter of the manly English
sport of fox hunting, and when declining health obliged
him to give up his gallant pack, the gentlemen of Essex
presented him a handsome piece of plate commemorative
of their esteem and sense of obligation. M a member of the
olden faith, Lord Petre was firm and zealous, without in-
tolerance, and was the main founder of the Catholic Chapel
at. Brentwood : he is succeeded in the title by his eldest son,
William Barnard Petre, born in 18 7.

A secret is like silence, you cannot talk about it
and keep it; it is like money, when once you know there is
any concealed, it is half discovered .—Eliza Cook's Journal.
CANADIAN BISHOPS.—The Queen has been deased
to authorise the foundation of a second bishopric in Lower
Canada, which will thus be divi ed into the two dioceses of
Quebec and Montreal. her Majesty has also been graciously
pleased to nominate the Rev. Francis Fulford, M.A., minis-
ter of Curzon Chapel. in the parish of St George, Hanover-
square, and late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, to be
first Bishop of the newly-constituted see of Montreal. The
present Bishop of Montreal, who now adynioisterA the un-
divided diocese, will henceforward bear the title of Dollop of
Quebec.