To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,I amr. anxioas to contradict a statement relative to myself in your Miansion-house report of *Vetnesday last, particularly as the case comea before the Lord Alayor for another hearing next Fri- day, and my silence miay be construed into an admission. The young man who stole the property was not in my office for any purpsse of husiness an hour after the first aetection. Believing it to be his first and only offence, I redeemned fromn the pawnbrokers the goods he had stolen, through an anxiety to prevent a young man in the opening of his life from being ihrust out of society: but I verv shortly discovered the further robbery, when I tbund soy iFn- terfcrence would he hopeless. It is important to iemember, that none of the goods werc stolen betwecn the discevery of the firstand second robbery. A perfectstranger in affairs of this kind, I could not be supposed to know exactly in what mode to proceed, especially as the property stolen is neither mmc, nor what I am bound to restore. So far, howrever, from keeping it secret, I informed, a few days aftetwards, Alr. Purse, the pawnbroker, who held tie greatest number of dupli- cates (19), of tbe circumltane, and he took upon himself to act In it, which he nevcr did. Thus, l believe, no blame rests with me. I nm, Sir, YOur very obedient seevAn- JAAIES EDMIESTON. 3ialvador.1louse, Oct. %ii.- TO TlUE EDITOR OF THE TldfES.