The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-30 00:00:00

•,. (From thiLondou,' Magazine.) , . •
Ev,ery lawyer who‘goes a circuit knolvs thal
there i's as much fashion in hanging and transporting
as in the Set, shape, substanee, and colour of women's
caps. .At one time it is all the rage. to hang; at
another:to evade justice by quirk and 'qUibble.-
131OOd'ii now the order of the day,. and anon the
milk•of human kindness flows over the post har-
dened criminals. Lord Ellenborough's doctrine, that
it is irmatter of perfect indifference' to society, whe-
ther the :innocent or the guilty suffer„the mere
ample of suffering being, all that is required, is the
only argtunent to be Offered in -defence of this prac-'
itice. The Judge perceives. that horse-stealing, or,
sheep-stealing, is,much in; vogue in a particular dis-
trict, and he hangs 'all the horse-stealers, or
,sheep-
stealers, for areas.on. . Tha felonious public.. there,
upon, observing 'that horse-stealing, or.._sheep-
stealing, is attended with such disagreeable conse.:
~quences, apply their-parts-to some other pursuit;
crime takes .another,set andwhen.it has got suffi-
dent head in its new.direetiun, the Judges hang away
for it as before. The main advantage of this'is, that
the nigues are kept in constant practice in every pro-
N;ince of roguery. The Judges are their Voelkers-r-
-they exercise them in roguery as Voelkerelereiies
his pupils in gymnastics—they suffer none of/the
muscles of crime to dWindle in repose, or to suffer by
too constant and unrelieved an exertion. Whenever
the thieves have indulged too much in one line of
business, they are reminded of .the maxim me quid
,by a good batch of hanging. Thus the moving
power, the very pendulum of our great machinery of
crime, is the rogue swinging On the gallows. His
vibrations give but a new jog to' felonious ingenuity.
In the East, where there are despots equal to our
Jtidge's of Libel, men whose tails are of authority
tantamount to our wigs, .these things areniore phi-
losophically ordered. They punish ,first offences,
drastically it is true, but in a manner which still re-
commends itself to our secret prejudices. When
entertaining a party of distinguished Englishmen,
Ali Pacha found some feathers in -his pillau; he
very naturally turned pale with rage on the occasion
and very properly considering the' latitude and longi-
tude; turned round to his attendants, and ordered
the cooks to be led out and instantly how-strUng in
the court-yard. The English guests, with the im-.
pertinent officiousness and disregard for the manners
of other people which mark our countrymen, made
a tremendous fuss, and begged off the peccant cooks.
Bow-stringing a cook in the East is not a:greater
punishment than discharging one here; but let that
pass. As Ali had. despotic power, he was 'qnite
right in stopping first offences in pillaus."

SINGULAR FACT.—An elm tree, the pro,
perty of Mr. GOODYER, recently blown down, at Bury, near
Amberley Castle, containing 40 feet of timber, was sawed
through the middle, a few days Aince, when a tom tit's
nest was discovered, in a perfect state, containing five eggs,
as fair to the eye as if deposited but a few days. The solid
mass of timber which enveloped this curiosity must be the
growth of many years. No marks could be discovered of
the original entrance. The nest, at the nearest point, was
five inches from the outside of the timber.

DARING AND MYSTERIOUS BURGLARY.
Monday morning last, about half-past three o'clock,
some villains entered the dwelling-house of the Countess of
PORTSMOUTH, at Charlton Kings, near this town, and pur-
loined property consisting of plate, jewels, cash, &c., to the
amount of several thousand pounds. They entered by the
drawing room window, having climbed up the verandah ;
broke open the elieffonier, and took therefrom a considerable
sum in sovereigns and bank notes, a register of the birth
of her ladyship's child, and a number, of private letters.
They then proceeded to another part of the premises, and
broke open a plate 'chest, deposited. immediately,
,under the
roof, and took the whole of the plate contained therein,
and' what was most singular, left, every plated
article behind. They then entered another room, the
key of which they discovered in the store-room,
which was adjoiniq, from which they took her Lady-
ship's jewel box, containing jewels to a considerable
'amount, 'and 50 sovereigns the prOperty of heedauzliter..
• One of the 'thieves fell down stairs, the noise of which
awoke her Ladyship, and , a tremendous' crash being im-
mediately heard, arising &mil the overthrow of a conical
glass shade, belonging to a time-piece in the room below ;
an alarm was instantly given, and' on the servants going
d dining-rOom, they perceived the doors open,
candles
every direction, and the pictures cut
d
carried away ; several articles of furni-
ture,n:iii::e t
sroe burning.'''a tdlfye to
were found scattered on the lawn, and two silver can-
dlesticks stuck in the iron-work' of the verandah, with
lighted 'candles.° No traces of the robbers could be dis-
ctwered, from the extreme. darkness of the 'night. Per-
sons were sent in every direction to trace the depre-
dators ; a cart w
,heard to drive off abOut the, time the
robbery took place, and four suspicions looking fellows
were seen not far from the house i*ith a gig, and a sack
thrown over the back of it. The same day information
was given at the Police Office, when Mr. Rossta, chief
officer, and his assistants, were most active in endeavour-
Mg to discover the perpetrators of thisnt out-
rage, flags
singe, but their exertions have as yet been
a
unsuccessful.—
The same evening the whole of the plate and jeWels was
discovered by a countrynian in a sort of
cave about half a
mile from the house, the mouth of which
was covered with
leaves and furze, but.uo part .of the cash Nias to be
Cheltenham Chropicle.