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London, England, 1826-01-18 00:00:00

POLKT.

MANSION ItOVS'e.
A constable brought. a mom beinteahe Loan Maros, oral
circumstances which are likely to cause some confusion tit this see
• semi perishes in the rnettotrolls, particularly or the
The cottemble orated that he found the pauper, who is an Irish-
man, on London liridwe, tied thotight himself bound to take him
into custody. for the purpose of delivering bigot to a constable of
Middlesex, in tvtler that he might bz panted on to his native
country, according to the provietnns of the 17th of George 11.
The city constable, however, was disappointed in his expectation
of thusgettitig rid of the Irishman, the 3litlilleeen officer having
acted upon the opinion of the magistrates of the county, that the
Act of the 1711 i of George II has been altoe,mtlier repealed by the
new Acte on the subject of the disposul of vagrants, and that
therefore the Passrmseter'e office is at an end.
ither to it has been considered that the recent Art retained so
much of the 17th of George elle Second as related to the removal
of Irish paupers to their own country ; and that opinion has, we
believe. been acted upon up to the moment bf this rejection, made
,iipon the authority of the county magistramr. The penalty axed
to the refusal of on officer to pace a paupet le 201, and this fine
must be imposed by the magietretes ne Quarter Scielorte. If the
ni.igistrates are of opinion that the providons alluded to arc inope-
rative, it would be ridiculous to expect that they would inflict the
penalty, and the city must continue to be burdened with those who
have no legal claim upon lee parishes. A MOM extensive evil
would trier from the cetehliiibinent of the fact that there now exists
no power for the removal of Irish referents to their nutlet country.
Such In the (treed felt by the Irish poor, who have been long
strangers to theircountry, to return thither, that there in no effort
they would not lie capable of leaking to avoid such an extremity;
and instance have been discovered where they preferred the alter-
native of being half-starred and l'elf-naked in England, to running
the hteart or the Addition.' misery of being oppressed in the land
of their birth. It is sitippeeed that, if those poor creatures, who
make no appliention for patish relief, tinder the fear of banishment
to their own country, were told Mere was no power to remove
them, they would immediately crowd in upon the different parishes
for relief.
The Lotto ,!Luton direet44l the City Solicitor should make
inquiry into the merits of the.eleft. and report re the Court of Al-
dermen, in order that mossulls may be takes upon the subject
forthwith.
Alicensed victualler applied to the Lord Mayor to know whe-
ther it was necetuary to have his measures stamped in the County
as &ell as in the City, he luring received information to that
effect ?
Ili§ lewelehip replied that it was quite unnecessary. It was ad-
nutted that the City Standard was infinitely superior.
GC I LIMA M..
Williewt. North, a lad, was charged before Mr. Alderman
al 00D. yesterday, with robbing his employer, Mr. Obbard, glass.
merchant. Bride-lane, Fleet-meet, to a lame amount.
llr. Obbard stated that tholprisener had been in his service, in
the capacity of errand-boy, fur a considerable time, and for sonic
months both money and goods had been missed, and the prisoner
had been suspected to be the thief Ifeknew he should he keeping •
within bounds if lie estimated the value of the glass stolen at from
three to four hundred pounds; and the prisoner himself sines his
apprehension had admitted that he had taken in money front thirty
to forty pounds. About W. worth of glass Mid been taken out of
one box lately, and he tilt a mule greater desire to get at the re-
ceiver of the stolen property than SO itttniKh the prisoner on account
of the money lie had been detected stalling. The circumstances
which led to his apprehension were them t—On Thumbs), evening
he ordered his apprentice to merk• all the money left in the desk,
which w* the place where the atilt emitted in the course of the
day was deposited, aud which was usually Telt unlinked ; and the
money was so marked, with the exception of two half-crowns
which were paid in at the moniesit the apprentice was ping up to
tea. and upon which the operation of marking could not then be
effected without exciting a suspicion in the mind of the prisoner
• that a trap had been laid for him: The apprentice dropped the
latch to the door-lock, so that no person coulifenter from the street,
and. then went up stairs to tea, leaving the prisoner in the sole pus.
session of the lower premises for about flee minutes. On his re-
turn he gavetheprisonerleave togs eat to his ten, and immediately
upon his qiiitting the house the apprentice went to the desk and
missed the two half-crowns which be had not marked. When the
I prisoner came buck be was seardied, and one half-crown, and a Wey
of s warehouse which had been missing two months, were found.
• upon him. The prisoner, in common with the other persons itr
his employ, had been asked about this key repeatedly, and had
always denied all knowledge of it, and the warehouse to which it
gave him accent had been entered only the night before the prisoner
was aninchended, and the groom's whole stock of apparel carried
of! 111 r. Obbard had since ascertained that the prisoner was ab-
sent from his lodging on that night, and had also discovered where
lie had sold some of the glass; but he wished for time to make fur-
ther inquiries.
Mr. Alderman WOOD mid, as far as vatted to the two half-
crowns, he did not think the evidence strong enough to warrant the
prisoner's being sent before a jury ; but, with regard to the key
and the other matters, he thought it reasonable the prosecutor
should have further time to inqulte, and he accordingly remanded
the prisoner fora few days.

HOIr.B.TREET.
The well.known Dirk Eitwertz3llc wooden-legged duffer, was
yesterday once more in comedy at this office, charged with his old
trick of imposing upon a gentleman by the sale of a parcel of rub.
bish. under the pretence that they were contraband goads of the first
The prosecutor in this instance was a Neapolitan gentleman
named Bono Carnintati, who, on last Thursday ser.night, was
walking in Regent-street, whew he was accosted by Rowers, who,
with a polite bow, and in an under tone, said he had got some*,

The gremecator said he did net want any. but Bowers pressea hiv
suit, asturing him that they were not to be equalled anywhere, anti
he could sill them at a shilling per pair, about one-third of their
usual price, " Becou.e you pee, Sir, said Dick, with a knowing
the and placing his finger - his - - " I them
a fair