The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-01 00:00:00

POLICE.

BARTIIOLOM ENV FAIR.
M wetow-lioust:.—Vesterday Mr. Wright, the ironmonger, In
Smithfield, waited upon the Lord Mayor, and expressed his hopes,
that al.hough it was resolved to continue the fair, the former re-
striceionr not be discontinued. Above all, he hoped fiat
care would be taken that every public-house would be shut up, and
every fiddle in the neighbourhood silenced, before twelve o'clock.
That, Indeed. was our hour too late, and they should cot be sllowi.ll
to let any one in'after eleven o'clock,
The LOAD MAYOR AMIUTeII 11r. Wright that none of the for-
mer restrictions should be relaxed, and that t7-.e time should as
much as possible be abridged. His Lordship expressed himself
fully sensible of the evil that was sustained by housekeepers, and
the heads of families, from the fair. He was determined to do all
in his power far their prevention. His Lordship then gave direc-
tions to 11r. Brown, the Marshal, upon the subject.
Mr. Wright said, he should arc impany the Marshal and officers,
to a!il in putting an end to die acme at twelve o'clock. lie was de-
aims not merely that the Mk of liquor should be prevented after
that time, but that the dancing should be stopped.
Mr. Brown said. that the officers would go in, and carry away all
the fiddles they beard after twelve o'clock.
The Loan MAYOR said he hoped they would this year he
spared the mockery of a printed proclamation against shows and in-
terludes, at the very time that the corporation received heavy tolls
from the proprietors of the booths erected for the performance.
3/r. Brown said, he believed die proclamation would not be
issued this year..
ANGEL-AbLEV.
Four men were brought up, one charged with having aided in
the demolition of a house in Angel-alley, and secreted some of the
materials; the other three with having endeavoured to rescue him
from custody.
Angel alley, in Bistiopsgate, Is well known to the inhabitants as
a neat of thieves and characters of the worst description. This
place, and flalf-moon-allcy, Still-alley, in Houndaditch, Petticoat?
Lane, and Ifoscinsty.lanr, are the chief places in the City for
the refuge and supply of thieves, receivers. rogues, and prostitutes,
of every description. Angel-alley„ which is, perhaps, in Pro-
portion to its else, the must prolific of vice and mischief, has been'
appropriately called " the %Potreo." A proportion of the inha-
bitants basing fancied that die houses they inhabited were ilex
Chancery. declared their intention to keep the rent in their o*n
pockets pending the suit. which they calculated would last out their
own lives, and perhaps those of their children t nor could they be
undeceived on this head, excepting by the exerc;se of a strong
force. Some of them having been ejected from a house, a number
of the others conceived the carcase, which was unoccupied, to be
fair prey, and set to work to raze it to the ground, but were inter.
cepted, after they had got away a considerable portion of the ma-
terials; one oldie prisoners was amongst them. Ilia mother, who
had got one of the rafters of the house, said she had endea-
voured to convince him that he was wrong, and ordered him to
restore the rafter, though it was a difficult matter to persuade him
that he was not entitled to it.

It was announced to the Lord Mayor by the landlord's solicitor
that this place would. at no great length of time, be cleared. It
was Intended to build a rem church there. and the ground et
Angel-alley would he required as part of the site.
Mr. HOaLER observwl, it was disgraceful to the metropolis
that such a place should have been so long suffered to exist
there. No idea could be formed of its nature, except by visit.
lle had gone over it once, in company with an officer, and though
he did not go into the worst parts of it, and was under good pro..
tection, lie felt glad when he got out of it.
The Lunn 'MAYOR expressed his pleasure at the prospect of
the place being rooted out of the City. Ile only liberated the poi.
sorters on their relations coming forward to be security for their
future goal behaviour.

JUVENILE THEFT.
James Baker, an errand-boy, was charged by Mr. Moses Cash-
more, merchant, of Desk Hacks, with having stolen much pro-
Pert •
Arr. Cashraore mated that the prisoner was his errand-boy. He
had repeatedly misatd things from the Moine. At length he sus.
pected the prisoner. and on Wednesday evening he caused him to
be apprehended, but, not wishing to send him to prison until his
guilt was made manifest, he offered him a bed, on his assurance that
he would not attempt to escape. Ile said to the prisoner, " Now, if
you attempt to escape, I shall consider it as a proof os your guilt."
He gave notice to the night constable to be on the look out for aniy
attempt of the kind. After midnight notice was given that the pr .
wrier had gone out. The officer and the prosecutor went .0 a
street in the Commercial road. While they were looking with
lantern far the number of the house they saw a door open ; they ran
to it and Mond the prisoner, whom they took into custody. They'
found upon him some spoons and a quantity of stolen property,
which he acknowledged he was about to secrete or destroy ; he
would then have returned to his muster's.

Air. Cadtmore lamented the ntcessity of prosecuting the pri.
saner. He was a niec boy, acute, and well informed, and had been
twice vatdoned. iu the hope that he would reform.
The hewn MAYon remanded the prisoner, that the other pro-
perty missed might be sought saki..
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