The Chief Commissioner of Police is a dreadfully ill-used man.
Thieves generally are considerate people, and rob the middle-class, who do not matter ; but a burglar has appeared in London who only attacks the very rich people, whose representations are heard even in the House of Commons. lie likes jewels, as at once portable and valuable, and he has taken those of four or five ladies known in good society. Last week he took those of Lady Margaret Beaumont, value 110,000. Ile is believed to be an ex- acrobat,—now perhaps a working jeweller in or about Soho,—and his mode of operation seems to be to fix on a house, learn all he can about it,—say from discharged servants,—watck the inmates, and then at night ascend by a rope to the balcony, and thence enter the room where the jewels are kept, force the boxes open with some strong instrument, and •"Pg MP as he came. In the latest instance the police seem to have suspected some- thing, for they warned the two Rothschild families in the neighbourhood, but not the house attacked. No clue has been obtained by the police, who, it is said, are very much harassed with drill, who are underpaid, and too few, and whose chief resides in a remote back settlement named Wandsworth, where, Mr. Bruce explains, he has a telegraph in his room, and whence he issues severe orders against poor people who, not being members of the Portland, have the audacity to play cards or skit- ties for money. Just fancy Pietri living at Sevres, and Napoleon's remark if he heard of it, "He likes to be en retraite, that man. Put him there." Will some Member of Parliament just ask for a return of the number of burglaries in London suburbs reported to the Police since 1st January ?
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