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London, England, 1826-09-19 00:00:00

POLICE.

A DISLOCATED PROBOSCIS!
Massa oir-u o s • .—A Mr. Jackson was brought before the
Loan MAYOR, charged with having broken the' nose of a person
named Hough, who is in the employ of Mr. Blencaira, the
wharfinger.
The complainant stated, that 31r. Jackson came to the premises
• tew slays ago, and after haring had a few words with 31r.
Morgan, a clerk in the establislonent, seized the clerk by the throat,
sad seemed disposed to proceed to great violence with him. The
s qutiplainant thereupon, he skid, interfered for the protection of
Morgan? and the defendant immediately transferred his wrath to
We mediator, knocked him down, and brokehis nose.
Broke your nose !" said the LORD 111,‘YOR; why Time no gym.
goof of the (nature.—Comptainant. I assure your Lordship that my
muse is completely broken. The bone is smashed.
The Loan Al AYOn.—lt isnot likely that a nose could be broken
Ly violence without some valpable external] .symptom. I do not
(-raking very closely at the complainant)see any mark of the kind.
—Complainant, taking hold of his nose, and shaking about the
fleshy part of it, " Here It is, my Lord, feel it, you'll find it Is
Lrnken."—(A laugh.)
he LORD MAYOR.-1 can only take the evidence of my eyes
s.;son the occasion, as you have he medical man here to depose to
thafraeturs of the bone. 1 really think you are mistaken. You
I:offtplain of the violence • hich you say took place a day or two
ago, and you show me a whole nose in all appearance, and declare
oat it is al:token one. (Laughter.)-1 oniplainant.—Whatever may
Lo nought; my Lord, my rose is positively broken. I can feel the
fracture hare (again shaking his none).—Besides, my surgeon, after a
tt.orstigh exammatiou, told me that it was a broken nore, and he
i.t.l At for me.
The eyes of all in the Justice-room hsd b-en long fixed upon
Mr. Bough's nose, and a buns was beard generally expressive of
on the point.
The Loin Mayon (to Mr. Blencaiin)—Perhaps you have
arstortained whether or not Mr. Hough's nose is broken, or, per-
naps, you ate qualified to judge from feeling it.—(A laugh).
Blencairn shook hilt Lead, urd 'souk. have nothing to do
ratio the nose.
lie LORD MAYOR-1 do not want to he coos.dered as making
a jai of the nsaiter. I shotakt think. Marshal (addressing him-
i.elf to Mr. Cope), that you may be able to say whether there is a
1-se, ur not.—Do try.—Mr. Cope turned touod to the coin.
piamaru, as if he intended to &el the nose; but *lien he looked in
the complainant's face, he suddenly drew back, and begged not to
astral to touch the nose--(iniughter.)
.The Loon MAYOII.(to the Marshalmani—Harrison,
be a judge, for your nose has been broken.—(l laugh.)—
-3f lump tall me whether Mr. Hough's nose has been broken.
Harrison (shaking his own nose)—Nes, my Lord ; my nose ne-
vx bu been broken. lam no judge. (Laughter.) Harrison de_
-aimed any i iterferrnee. In fact. no person (and there were two or
oiselie.eillsiere in the Justice-room) could be prevailed upon to
Ip4llollfinfiosired experiment. Every man was seen feeling his
awn numeduring the investigation, but not a being would touch the
'aurae And was the boar of contention!
The LORD Marisa, whether he thought that the assault was
Melt Yielicaloualy ex crated. or that the oramplainant sendeed
jpest provocation, or-both, discharged file cuse—not, however,
ayethilut receiving from the defendant, who is brother to Mr. Blen.
-fioire's partner, a solemn assurance gust he would go no more to
• .the whirr.
at is needless to say, after what is stated above, that the nose
.haul every appearance of being perfect in all its parts. The skin
was Without a scratch, and the owner spoke without the slightest
.iwaeg.
SINGULAR CHARGE OF FELONY AND MISDE.
Id EA HOUR.

A woman of the town, mimed Thompson, was charged by a
windhman with having committed a felonyy.
Uptton whom has site committed a felony? said the LORD
AliYot.—Upon me, your Worship, said the watchman.
Very well, go on, avid the LORD Marcia. What did the do to
you ? Watchman—She-called me • b—d thief, and otber
gsflanguage.
The-Loan Matron—ls that the felony she committed upon
you i ‘Yatcbassn-1 Woosidcred that enough to bring her off
*int me.

;ficei:OßD MAYOR-1)0 you call illegal language a felony ?
-Weefimais--Yly Lord, 1 thick it a bad felony enough. (Laugh.
ter )
A eonstable, who smiled at the Ignorance of the watchman, as.
Apra the Lord Mayor, that, although the poor man mistook the
nature of the 18001141.11 OfCRCe, in incng the illegal language, she
hatersinultted d serious offence upon himself.
Wbat is that? said his Loansule.— A misdemeanour,' my
LS4, said the constable; she put her.band into my breathes
I;ecket, aod;stols a serponee out of it !
The LORD MAYOR—You seem both to soderound year btu&
ness eery well indeed !_

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It ha ring sppeord that the women wee one of the worst about
the city, and bad brew tong in the habit of robbiwgand insulting
Men, the LORD MAYOR committed her fto the House of Cot.
reel*.
tif,FECTB OF TIPPLING pil 'TOE SABBATH.
Three Irishmen, named Keats, Gr;intes, and Murray, were
licetight up, charged with haring etched tread tint in the par*
of illisbeingate, on Sunday.
Aii cower stated, that the netghboadltood of Bishopsgste f
thrown Into the greatest alarm in consequence of oae of &so trey

wendoua Irish disturbances which so frequently take place at the
Rain and of the town. When the witness went up to the scene of
nation, which was before the Rose public-house, near Angel-alley,
he saw the three defendants engaged in tighiing with several others,
anti with the assistance of other officers he took them into custody.
There appeared to he upwards of 500 persons in the squatble at one
time.
The landlord of the Rose public-holm' handed in a bill to the
Lord Mayor, enumerating the broken glass, &c., by which he had,
become a loser to the amount of I/. lb.. lle stated that the dos,
fendants had been drinking at his house. That when he endea-
voured to get them out before three o'clock', that being church.
time, they most grossly abused him and his servant girl ; threw
quart pots at them, smashed everything that was within their
retch ; and would no doubt, were it ;not for the efforts of the
officers, have taken away their lives.
The wife of the defendant Grimes declared that her husband was
In no way concerned in the disturbance. He had, it is true, been
chinking from a little after eleven o'clock until half.past two, in
the Rose, with the other defendants ; but he was walking offiquietly
with her, when the officers laid hold of him, and said he was o;c
of the rioters.
The LORD Martin asked the woman whether she was sure they
had been drinking at the Rose during the time she had specified ?--
She swore that they had.
The defendants all declared to the same effect ; and that they
had been drinking gin and beer, and got " neither tipsy nor sober,
bat betwixt and between," and did not really know whet hap-
pened.
The landlord declared positively that they had not entered his
honse until one o'clock, when they slipped in, as he was sending
to the baker's for his dinner; and that at half-past two
o'clock he got hobbled by endeavouring to get them out of
his house, as he was bound to do by Act of Parliament. Ile
described the int,: impossibility of expelling a body of Irish
within a given time, if once they got inside a public-house; and he
repeated, that his own life, and the life of his servant girljwere in
the umost peril all the time of the disturbance.
The beadle of the parish stated, that upon baring the diteadful
disturbance in the public-house, he knocked at the door for ten
minute., bat was refused admittance.
The Loan aran—Swear the landlord.
.When aria was done, his Lordship asked the landlord whether,
upon oath, the defendants had destroyed his property to the extent
stated in the MI.? _

The landlord swore in the affirmative.
His Lordship then dew red that Mrs. Grimes should be sworn,
and then asked her whether they bad been drinking from half-past
eleven till half-past two ?
She replied in the affirmative ;' she knew it, because it was the
first place they went to after prayers. (A laugh.)
" I'M well," said his Lordship, " you (to the defendant) must
pay the landb.rd's hill ; and you (to the landlord) must pay a fine
of 21. for allowing tippling in your house during the hours of divine.
service.•
Landlord—My Lord. it is not the fact ; my house is one of the
hest conducted in the City of London ; every one knows the diffi-
culty of expelling perrons of this description from a house ; I never
allow tippling.
• The-Loan Mseon—l have adjudged to you payment of your
bill by those men, although you do not deserve it, as you have been
the cause of all this yourself. If you had not given the people so
much hotroir, you would not have sustained any damage, nor would
so disgraceful an outrage upon public decency have been committed
in the streets. I trust that this public admonition will operate as a
warning to those few (for the body are generally respectable) who
may permit tippling during divine service on the Sabbath.
COACH-OFFICE IMPOSITIONS.
OVILDHALL.—Mr. Herring, of Milk-street, appeared before
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY yesterday, to show cause why he refused
to pay 31. ter the carriage and porterage of a puce! from Sandwich.
On ■ former day Mr. Herring had aesigned as his reason that,
although the coach by which it was brought from Sandwich came
direct to London, the parcel was shifted into another coach at Can-
teibury, and the carriage was thereby increased 2d. for remeliag
it from one coach to the other, and 2d. for booking at
A third 2d. was laid on, as he was informid, at Sandwich, foe boo -
tog there, ahhough it was notorious the parcel would not have been
received at all if the booking had not been paid in the hat in-
stance.
The ease stood over that some one better informed thug the pot-
ter, who was the coraplainant, might attend to explain and sup-
port the demand made. Yesterday, however, only the porter again
appeared, and the only additional light be was prepared to throw
upon the subject was the production of the way-bill of the Cham-
pion coach from Canterbury to the Bell. Holborn, wherein Mr.
Herring's parcel was enumerated, and charged with Is. 6d. car.
riage, and a memorandum that 101. hail been already paid upon
it at Canterbury, making altogether but 25.-4 d. and no' 2s. 6d. air
charged under the item " carriage" in the complainant's ticket.
Mr. liming said the production of the way-bill, admitting it to
be a genuine document, which he doubted, had not at all bettered
the complainant's Mt. He had been told that one of the trio-
pence* was a repetition of the charge of booking at Sandwich.
This information he obtained at the -.Bell Inn coact-office; but It
now appeared that it was an overcharge made at the saidlldilltur
coach-office itself, for the couch proprietor, it appeared by the way-
bill, demanded but 2s. 4d. for carriage, and that with &I. for pot
terage to Milk-street, made up a charge of th. 10d. He repeated
that the ordinary charge from Sandwich to Canterbury wasallosed
to have been increased fo Ithf. by adding 2d. tbr the fresh booking,
and 2d. for porterage.
31r. Alderman Astern said nothing could be more shameful
than the con:inual shuffling and contriving among derth-owiterwto
cheat the public. If the parcel .4ight to have been beiteght direct
to London, he would disallow the expenses of removing' it tit the
second coach.
Mr. Alderman WAIT II M AN, who happened to be present, said.
he concurred with the opinion delivered by the worthy Alderman.
If the coach owners might shift their luggage one*, tbey might do
it half a dozen times; and if there was any thing amiss, the facility
of obtaining redress was destroyed ; the blame was sure to rest on
the parties in the country. The lumping of charges of porterage,
and bookings too, under the head of " carriage," was extremely
reprehensible.
The decision of the Aldermen therefore reduced the charge for
carriage from 2s. 6d. to 2s.