The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN—(Tuts DAY.)
A young man, named William Stephens, was charged before
W. L. Rocatas, Esq. with the following daring robbery
The complainant, a respectable-looking old gentleman, named
Wells, living at Staines, said that he had come to London yester-
day morning, to make purchases of grocery, &c. for his shop, and
was by circumstances detained until too late to return by the
stage. About eight o'clock he inquired of a female, whom he ac-
cidentally met, if she could recommend him to a lodging for the
night, saying he lived as far off as Staines. At this moment the
prisoner came up and said, " Don't talk to that woman; I know
Staines very well, and I'll get you a lodging." Ile went with the
prisoner to a public-house, and from thence to a court, up which
witness refused to go. Immediately on his refusal prisoner pushed
him two or three steps from him, and placing one arm across his
throat, held him against the wall, and at the same moment a hand
was thrust into his small-clothes pocket, and a leathern purse,
containing a sovereign and some silver, was forcibly taken from it.
Two men, whom he had not before seen, assisted in the outrage.
The woman whom he had first seen, now came up and advised
him to give information at the watch-house, which he did.
The prisoner denied the charge, and was fully committed for
trial.

The boxes at the King's Theatre have this season
produced unprecedented high prices. Mrs. Hughes Ball, " whose
form was fresher than the blushing rose," contributes liberally to
the support of the establishment, and has this season a double
box (the only one) on the first circle.

Among the forthcoming novelties at the King's
Theatre, Meyerbeer, Signor Coccia, and Signor Rossini, are said
to have agreed to compose each a new Opera in the course of the
season.

The Oratorios, at both Drury-lane and Covent-
garden Theatres, are in the ensuing season to be entirely under the
direction of Bishop, the composer : Sir George Smart having
relinquished the direction of them at the latter theatre in conse-
quence of his various other engagements.

Mn. 'MA TII UIVS.—On Monday week this Gentle-
•nan hail an opportunity of displaying that reedy wit for which he
is so famouv. In the entertainment of the Memorandum Book
there is a song called the " Liverpool Night Coach," in which a
travelling astrologer, an outside passenger, invites one of his fellow
travellers to look through his telescope, and describes to him the
names of the planets, &c. " There's Jupiter and his set-of-liter;
there's Venus ; there's Mars." At this point, a fellow in the gal-
lery, who had, at different times during the evening, created much
noisy disturbance, greatly to the disturbance of audience and per-
former, roared out, with a stentorian voice, "Look at me ;" upon
which Mr. Mathews, whose spleen had bees for some time
gathering within him, pointed his telescope at the fellow, saying,
with infinite promptitude, " And there's the Great Rear;"
which brought dawn a tremendous burst of laughter and several
rounds of applause.—Liverpool Mercury.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS IN FRANCE.—III a re-
port lately read before the Royal Academy of Medicine at Paris,
respecting the state of the prisons at Rouen, a curious statement
is given of the number of persons condemned to death in the de-
partment of the Seine (by the Course of Assize of Paris and Rouen)
for 26 years past—viz :.

From 1800 to 1805
1805 to 1810
1810 to 1815
1815 to 1820
1820 to 1825
Hence it appears that, notwithstanding the progressive increase of
the population, the number of capital offences has rapidly dimi-
nished. The writer (Dr. Vingtrinier) conceives that the princi-
pal cause of the difference apparent between the two former and
the three latter periods, is the introduction of new penal laws.
The result, however, is not the same in France generally ; for
upon an examination of the registry of the Conciergerie in Paris,
it appeared that the capital judgments in the city which were car-
ried into effect or commuted (including sentences par coaturnace)
were net sensibly less in one period than in the other—viz
From 1801 to 1806 ' 27
1806 to 1811
1811 to 1816
1818 to 1821
1821 to 1826
Nevertheless, he adds, if it be considered that the total number of
the population in the department of the Seine increased consider-
ably during the interval between 1806 and 1826, it will be evi-
dent that there were fewer persons condemned to death in the lat-
ter than the former years. The proportion of women to men,
amongst the convicts, was as 2 to 29.
CHINESE. NOTIONS OF BEAUTY.—It is well
known, that in China a ridiculous custom prevails, of rendering
the females feet so small, that they can with difficulty support their
bodies. This is deemed a principal part of their beauty; and no
swathing nor compression is omitted, when they are young, to
give them this fancied accomplishment. Every women
of fashion,
and every woman who wishes to 1* reckoned handsome, must
have her feet so small, that they could easily enter the shoe of a
child of six years of age. The great toe is the:only one left to act
with freedotn ; the rest are doubled down under the foot, in their
tenderest infancy, and restrained by tight bandages, till they unite
with and are buried in the sole. I have inspected a model of a
exactly
enlenf tigtlisheasonly two inches and three-
WChasintalelnadfry'osmfoelift,eex. description, which was assured
of the heel, eeven-eightldof au inch ;
fourths ; the breadth of timbal*
the breadth of the broadest part of the foot, one mad one-fourth of
an inch; and the diameter of the anele, three inches above the
keel, one and I/eves-eighths of au iuch. Gentil assures us, that
the women,
employ every art to
diminish theirin
thee nn
eyes. rtFhrnoerthispartFsurol'fo purpose, girls, instructed by
their mothers, extend their eyelids continually, with the view of
oblong
when joined to a flat nose, and large, open,
and entail. Thole properties, in the es-
pendulous ears, constitute the perfection of
b
Phi-
losophy of Religion. 1
- - beauty... PM-

At two o'clock, as the Lord Chief Justice was about
to retire from the Court for the purpose of attending his Majesty
in Council, in passing down the steps fromthe Bench, his Lord-
ship appears to have slipped
off one of them, end sprained hii
knee so violently, as to he instantly deprived of the power of mov-
ing. A short exclamation of pain brought Mr. Justice Bayley
and the other Judges instantly to his assistance with his attendants,
Who conducted his Lordship into his private room. A medial
gentleman, who was present, immediately visited his Lordship.
Mr. Justice Bayley, on his return, stated that it was a great satis-
faction to know that his Lordship had not done himself any ma-
terial injury.