The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-07 00:00:00

of felony, by taking part in the restoration of the
Warwick bankers' notes, and Messrs. Grimaldi's
watches.' The Lord Mayor has had his atten-
tion directed to the same subject, and an inquiry
is likely to be made in consequence. With
what success, however, is doubtful. Whoever
was engaged in those compromises will, very
probably, have ingenuity enough to say nothing
about' it. To ask a man if he has /committed a
crime, the confession of which is sure to send
him to )botany Bay for fourteen years, and to
expect any answer but one, argues either a very
generous opinion, or but little knowledge of hu-
man nature. We believe that the report of any
officer being engaged in the cases in question
was an idle tale, furnished on the usual terms
at which such important news is purchased,
and that it will be found so. The simplest
mode of ascertaining.the facts, however, would
be to 'hand up the parties confessedly impli-
cated, and to compel them to bear witness, or to
be indicted as principals. We presume the crime
of thief-bate has, to all intents and purposes,
been committed as completely by those to whom,
as it was by those through whom, the goods
were restored. If they do not know the parties
from whom the property was got back, they can
at least describe them ; somebody else may
know them. The attempt, however, to put
down such acts will, we fear, be quite in vain,
without an entire change of system. We per-
fectly agree with an evening contemporary, that
while there is such a tenderness of liberty and of
life in crimes unconnected with violence ; while
every advantage is given to the accused if he can
command a few guineas and so little to the accu-
ser; while Judges and Juries lean towards the
former, and while it is matter of etiquette that
even the Counsel of the latter should not lean
too much against him ; where the slightest flaw,
the minutest starting hole, the mis-spelling of a
name, the incorrect description of a sinle par-
ticular, are allowed to defeat the ends of justice
and slip the neck of the most consummate rogue
in Christendom out of the halter—while, in fact,
the whole endeavour in Criminal Courts seems
directed to save the thief, and not.the honest man
from being plundered—it is nonsense to look to
any better security of property than we have at
present. We see that a meeting connected with
the subject we are discussing has been held in
South Lambeth, an account of which will be
found in another column. It was proposed to
form a society in order to offer rewards for ap-
prehending criminals—a proposition which was
opposed in a very sensible speech by one of the
gentlemen preseht ; though ultimately, with some
'slight modification, it was agreed to. We fully
concur with the gentleman who -opposed it on
the folly of expecting that officers will ever exert
themselves to put down thievery, while they have
a direct interest in its continuance. We should
as soon expect a club of country squires to extir-
pate foxes.—New Times.

A number of the seamen at the Broomielaw
have for some time past had their suspicions raised against
a man who has been in the habit of passing and reprising
in the Belfast steam-packets. On Saturday, shoot three
o'clock, having got their eye upon the fellow as he was
lauding from one of the boats, a consultatihn was held ;
and it having, been whispered that he had on board a
Subject, a determination was taken by the tars that
he should be ducked. A rope was accordingly pro-
cure:l, and very nimbly passed round the waist of the sus-
pected violator of the grave, who, 'almost before he was
aware,• was raised in his turn half-way- into the air
by means• of a crane, which stood- very conveni-
ently
at' hand, where, like the coffin of the eastern
prophet, he was suspended for some time, amid
the shouts of a large concourse of spectators. In a few
minutes, by the turning of the wheel, he descended slowly
to the water, where be received dip the first, and wits
again hoisted'on hi,gli, to the infinite amusement of the
spectators, who insisted upon a repetition, which was ac-
.•
1 cormagly done several times. The poor man presented a
livery pitiable appearance, and seemed more dead than alive.
_Liv...e. 1.... t .- .masea tw• the police-off sera, and convey-
ed to the office. Be has since been ilismia.ed. He is the

individual who a short time ago was sciAed in Gallowgate
with the dead body of a female child in his possession.—:
But if he buy the bodies in Ireland, the people on this side
the channel
unel have no cause of complaint.--Giwvou,
Chronicle.

HEAD POLICE-OFFICE.-ELOPEMENT.-

HORRIBLE DRPRAVITY.-Saturday evening, an occurrence
of this kind, marked by circumstanoes peculiarly aggrava-
ted, took place in the 'neighbourhood of the Broadstone,
where the parties resided. The guilty pair Were both
married persons, living in humble but comfortable circum-
stances, and have each deserted their home, leaving behind
them respectively a helpless family of children in a state of
almost utter destitution. The facts are shortly as follow :

—On Saturday evening, the wife of a boat owner, named
j— D—, left the house of her husband on pretence of
going to market, but returned no more. On the neTt
morning the husband discovered that the loss of his frail
partner was not the only one he was doomed .to sustain,
as, on, visiting his desk, he found it plundered of the whole
of his worldly wealth, amounting to upwards of No?. in
bank-notes and silver. It was soon after ascertained that
had left his home at exactly the same hodr as
a mart of the name of M— also a boat-owner,
wife. Sufficient proofs were in a short time discovered to
place the matter beyond doubt, that they had been mutual
partners in flight. S—, it was found, hail, for a few
days previously, been exerting himself to raise whatever
sums he could, until he had collected a 'considerable
amount. His last act in this way, was characteristic of
singular inhumanity. Immediately before forsaking for
ever, his family, consisting of a wife, and three children
scarcely yet advanced beyond infancy, after securing what-
ever cash and portable valuables were in the house, he ap-
plied to his wife, then actually on the eve of child-birth,
for a few shillings and pence, with which lie departed,
not leaving a single penny behind him either for her suste-
nance or that of his children. Hie unfortunate paramour,
whose age is said to be about twenty-seven years, has left
three children also, one of them an infant at the breast.—
Yesterday the Magistrates, on the informations of the hus-
band, issued a warrant for the apprehension of the parties,
who, there is reason to suppose, have directed their flight
to Liverpool.,—Dublin Morning Post.
HUNT EXTRAORDINARY.--On Tuesday
afternoon we were a good deal amused by seeing a man
dressed in a red night cap, and snuff brown coat, plough-
ing his way through the waves of the sea, followed by hun-
dreds of persons along the beach witnessing the feat. The
Man sullenly kept on his watery way, his arms folded across
his breast, without noticing any one. Every body seemed
anxious to learn what all this meant, but nobody •appeared
to know. At length the tale burst from the lips of one
of those fair nymphs, who, with baskets on their arms,
frequent the fish market ; she, must uncourteously thrust-
ing forth her head,—and almost forcing her brawny fists
in the face of a young operative, exclaimed " a party
thing that a poor feller like Joe can't get drunk, and ha' a
Lit of a spree, without being taken up by sich as you be!"
The young operative's colour mounted to his check bone 6,
but as the blood returned with double force to his heart,
his face assumed an ashy paleness, and be muttered an ex-
ruse to the virago, that lie only " aided and assisted," be=
cause he was forced to " uid and assist." The woman,
as she turned round to follow (not in his wake) Joe, cast a
spiteful look on the poor operative, and said in quite a dif-
ferent tone, "poor feller, suppose lie is brought in a
drownded corpse to night !" We then learnt that Joe had
been keeping wedding with two couples tliet had been mar-
ried in the morning, and having taken too much heavy wet,
he was next compelled to take to the water, to avoid the
officers, who hail interfered to put an end to the affray.
in his native element, it being about half title,
Joe set u
tteleineerr at defiance, swearing by all the beach col-
lected at the new groynes, that he would drown, and make
a mermaid of any man that should dare to fish for him.
Time officers were not such fiat fish as to attempt it, and
therefore whilst he waded through the water till he got
nearly to Bove, they kept on the Cliff, certain that he must
ultimately come into their net. It seems there was a glori-
ous kick op, when the row first began—not less than some
dozen men fighting or wrestling together---several women
in fits-01E10,111mi, the Beadle, knocked down, and roll-
ed in the mud—and several fishermen plunging into the
sea to. avoid the officers,.....Bripkton Gazette.