The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1825-09-03 (London, England)

SEPT. 2.—Three men, named Foy, .S:yrnmonr. and /Celt, were brought before the sitting 31agistrate(M.bweesr, Esq ), the former charged with having been concerned in stealing pockets of hops from the firm of :Bessie. Price and Co., the hop. factors, of Maidstone.huildings, Souttwark, amounting in value to between 7001. and OWL The two other prisoners were charged on suspicion of having received part of the property, knowing it to have hew stolen. Hall, the chief constable, stated, that a few days ago the above firm applied to him, stating they had discovered that they had been robbed of hops from their warehouse to the above large amount, and that they had strong suspicions against Foy, who acted as foreman in their warehouse, and who wart employed generally in weighing the article alluded to. Hall took the foreman into custody, and advised the firm to have hand-bills printed, offering a reward of 1001. for the recovery of the property. This plan was adopted, and the hand.bille had scarcely been distributed when a respectable person in the Borough proceeded to the office of the firm, and gave information that he had recently purchased two pockets of hops from a man named Symptoms, which (rattly nor. responded with the ones descrioed as having been stolen. Hall took this man into custody, and found a quantity of hops concealed in his house. . _  Orr being questioned respecting the hops he sold the person in the Borough, he stated that he purchased therida wan named Allen. This latter person was also taken into custody, and when confronted with Synimons their stories so materially differed that they were both conveyed to this office. When before tic /11agiltrate, Allen acknowledged that he and Synamons had frequent dealings together, and that the two pockets of hops now describedas having been sto►en, he (Allen) had bought trout a man whose name he does nut know, at Paddington. When asked, what he (Allen) dealt in ? He replied, that he was a dealer in anything. One of the firm said, that if the prisoners were remanded for a few days, he hoped ro bring forward evidence which would impli. ease them in the ►obbery. They were accordingly remanded.  At the Carmarthen Assizes, in the year 1742, a girl of only eight years old was tried upon the Coroner's verdict, for the wilful murder of her brother and sister, the one six the other four years of age, and acquitted. It appeared upon the trial, that the three children, who lived in a cot-. ace not far from the sea, had been dreadfully frightened with stories of the cruelty of the Spaniards, and the danger• of their landing upon that coast. These children having been one day left alone, when there happened to arise a violent thunder-storm, became so terrified as to imagine the Spaniards were coining, and the eldest of them, to avoid falling into their handy, took up a hedging-bill iu order to destroy herself, which the two younger children observing, cried out repeatedly, " Pray, sister, kill us first !" upon which she actually despatched them. She afterwards desperately wounded herself ; but not having strength, or perhaps courage enough, after feeling such pain, to complete her design that way, she ran out of the house towards a river which was near it, and was going to throw herself in, but was prevented by sume casual parsIsengers, to whom she said, in great terror, that she was going to drown herself for fear of the Spaniards, and that she had killed her brother and sister for the isme reason.