For some days past, the inhabitants of the New Town have been much annoyed by finding the brass plates at their doors, with their names, wrenched from the wall. The practice has prevailed to a great extent, and till lately no trace could be found of the perpetrators. On Tuesday, however, a young man came to a broker’s in Blair Street, offering a quantity of old brass for sale, which had evidently been parts of door plates. The broker sent up to the Police-Office ; but without waiting for an answer, he dismissed the lad, telling him to come back with the owner of the brass. In the mean time, the boy had related the story to M’Levy of the police, who immediately went down, and seeing a man running through Hunter Square, he followed, and apprehended him with the brass in his possession. From information received from him, the officer went to the house of some confederates, where they obtained an additional quantity—altogether making twenty-one door-plates that can be identified, besides a quantity of brass so broken that the names cannot be made out. We understand that the men have confessed their participation in these crimes.

1838