The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-30 00:00:00

BOW.STREET.

On Saturday night, a man, who had the appear-
mice of being employed to look after horses, was
brought before Mr. HALLS, by police constable
Stewart, of letter F. division, charged with having
a hare in his possession.
The defendant had just arrived in town, and the
hare, which he was about to make a present to a
friend, had been given to him in the country by a
gentleman's gamekeeper. He refused, however, to
give up the name of the party from whom he had re-
ceived it.

Mr. HALLS observed that the law certainly im-
posed a fine upon parties in whose possession hares
were found; but as it was notorious that hareswere
publicly carried every day through the streets of
London, he was unwilling that the individual
who was now charged should be in a worse condition
than hundreds of persons who committed the same
offence with impunity, and that, too, in the most
open manner. The defendant, however, had given
a very lame account of his possession of the hare,
and had therefore subjected himself to the penalty
provided by the Act of Parliament, which, although
seldom acted upon in the metropolis, was in force.
The defendant was then fined in the mitigated
penalty of 10s. for having a bare in his possession ;
and the Magistrate added, that the penalty was 51.
if he had offered it for sale.

The defendant paid the fine, and was discharged.
The hare was ordered to be sent to the workhouse
of the parish in which it had been found, for the use
of the poor.
An elderly man named James Franklin, a young
fellow named Wm. Brice, and two prostitutes
named Thompson and Gilbert, were held to bail for
a violent assault in a brothel at 20, Little Shire-lane,
upon a respectable than named Winter, who resides
in Chancery-lane. The evidence was supported by
Police Serjeant Perry, and Police Constable Hark-
well.

Mr. HALLS also bound the witnesses over to in-
dict the the prisoner Franklin for keeping a dis-
orderly house.

BIARLBOROUGH-STREET.

On Saturday a man named Wm. Talbot, the
driver of the hackney-coach No. 542, who has been
in custody some days, charged with being concerned
in the following daring robbery, was brought before
Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, for final exami-
nation.

It appeared that about the hour of five o'clock on
the morning of last Friday week, during the preva-
lence of the very dense fog that darkened the me-
tropolis, a waggon arrived at the Green Man and
Still coach and waggon-office, inOxford-street, from
Cheltenham, and stopped there to deliver a variety
of parcels directed to that office, for persons in that
neighbourhood, and amongst them several for Mr.
Campbell, the East India Director, residing in
Argyll-place, m hose family were about to return to
town from Cheltenham. Of these parcels, when
they were removed from the waggon to be taken
into the office and placed for a moment on the foot
pavement, two trunks instantly disappeared with-
out any person having been observed to remove them,
no doubt, to the density of the fog, and search hay-
ing been made for them in vain, they were given up
as lost. At this time one of the new police con-
stables, named Condy,was on duty in Regent-street,
and observed a hackney-coach driving along at a rapid
rate towards the Quadrant, with another man besides
the driver on the box, and a man also inside the coach,
and suspectingthat all was not right, he determined to
watch the vehicle, if possible, to its destination. The
coach, having got partly down Regent-street, was
suddenly turned by the driver into Hanover-street,
through Hanover-square, up again into Oxford-street,
the direction from which it first came, and then
again down Regent-street a second time into Ar-
gyll-place by the door of Mr. Campbell's house,
and through Marlborough-street, passing the door
of this office. Condy, who still, notwithstanding
the density of the fog, kept the coach in view, now
seeing that all these turnings were evidently made
to escape pursuit, called to the driver to stop, but,
instead of doing so, the latter lashed on his horses
as fast as they could go; the second man from the
box and the man inside jumping at the same time
from the coach, and escaping in the mist. Condy
now redoubled his speed, and at last the driver,
seeing that he could not escape the vigilance of his
pursuer, pulled up, and, on examining the coach,
the constable found two large trunks in it, of the
loss of which from the waggon-office he then knew
nothing; but as the driver could give no satisfactory
account of them, Condy took hint and the trunks
to the watch-house, where it was seen that the
trunks were addressed to Mr. Campbell; and thus
the loss of them from the waggon-office was disco-
vered.

Two female servants of Mr. Campbell's house-
hold, who 'had packed the trunks at Cheltenham,
and had since arrived in town, attended and identi-
fied the trunks and their contents, which were of
considerable value, as belonging to Mr. Campbell's
family ; and a person from the waggon-office proved
the arrival of the trunks there, and their having been
missed in the manner described.

The prisoner was then committed for trial ; and
the Magistrate lauded in very just and warm terms
the good conduct and prompt vigilance of Condy,
the constable, in the affair, and said that such ac-
tivity in the new police could not fail to make them
of the highest value to society, and secure to them-
selves a valuable character and speedy promotion.