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IrLT 25.

POLICT.

MAN SION-11OUSE.—A disclosure of the conduct of a bankrupt
was made accidentally last week of a serious nature. A boy.
named Taylor, was stopped be Mr. Aaron, 1 awnbroker in
Houndsditch, in consequence of having offered.to pledge a piece of
kerseymere of considerable value for 21. There were thirty-two
yards in the piece' and it struck the pawnbroker that, as so small a
sum was required, the ',title could not have been honestly ob-
tained. Had three times the 1111111 been asked, what afterwards
came out would have remained a secret, and the creditors of the
bankrupt would hare lost some hundreds more than they are now
likely to lose.
The prisoner stated to the Lonn 31AVOR, as he had done to the
pawnbroker, that he came front a Mr. Noakes, a bankrupt, in the
King's Bench Prison, who had given him the duplicate, with di-
rections to redeem the kerscymere from another shop, where it had
been pledged. lie knew nothing about Mr. Noakes's motive for
removing the property from one shop to another; but he had
pledged cloth for hint before.
The Lonn Mar on, having ascertained that Mr. Noakes had
been in the woollen-trade, made some inquiry about him, and soon
learned that his creditors had never been able to make him account
for about 2001. worth of cloth, and that they supposed the pawn-
brokers had extensive dealings with him, although he had repeat-
edly sworn that be had given up ell his property.
The creditors of Mr. Noakes afterwards appeared at the Mansion
House, and were ready to produce the notes of the enamination of
the bankrupt; on which occasion he had declared that be had given
up every thing.
The lrankrupt'e Solicitor produced a bundle of pawnbrokers'
tickets, which he presented to the assignee. The articles panned
consisted of cloth and kerseymere.
The Loan Mayon asked what the Solicitor meant by present.
ing the duplicates ; to which he replied, that they were the only
property of which his client was possessed.
the Loan 31a...on—Why, he swore he had given up all his
property before.
The Solicitor staid that Mr. Noakes (the bankrupt) had been
obliged to pa'o the cloth, but he had done it before his bank-
ruptcy ; and he MO also been obliged to borrow money upon the
duplicate& It was, however,. thought the most advisable course to
pay what had been lent upon them. This the bankrupt had done.
Upon the cloth, &c. between 3001. and 4001. had, it appeared, been
lent. A fair
.price had been borrowed upon all, so that not the
slightest suspicion was entertained by the pawnbrokers, until this
occasion, when the boy, who bad not paid sufficient attention to the
directions of his employer, was apprehended under the suspicion
that he had stolen the goods.
The Loan AI Avon regretted that the pawnbrokers, who were
suffering so much constantly by the manteuvres of impostors of all
kinds, must also lose considerably in this instance.
His Lordship was, hawever, assured, that as the pawning bad
taken place for the most part before Noakes became a bankrupt,
and, of course, whco lie was at liberty to pledge, the pawn-
brokers would not suet at much as was apprehended.
The case here ended.
The Loan 31 AY oa liberated Taylor, and congratulated the cre-
ditors upon the good fortune of the discovery.

THE CONDITION OF THE UNTO:114101;SE.
It has been found necessary to prop up this building, in the
erection of which there have been such egregious blunders. Appli.
cation has been made to the Lord Mayor to block tap Thames..
street, in order to enable the workmen to proceed with the work of
underpinning the edifice, to-which it will be necessary to have a
much deeper foundation.
To this application the Lord Mayor said be was compelled to
give a denial, in consequence of the irreparable injury which the
stopping up of such a thoroughfare was calculated to do to trade.'
His Lordship, however, expressed his readiness to adopt, for the
purpose of facilitating the work. any course which appeareu not to
be at such variance with public convenience.
Mr. Acton, who attended officially as surveyor of the Hewers,
stated the necessity that existed tor underpinning the Custom-
house, andlliat the time occupied would probably not be less than
alz months.
The Lotto MAYOR suggested the adoption of some plan by
which such dreadful inconvenience would be avoided ; and the fol-
lowing was yesterday submitted to him by Mr. Boucher, the Yeo-
man of the Chancel :—The whole of the building to be under-
pinned, and piles to be dnven fourteen feet belOw the present
foundation, which has been wowed to be so ticklish a are. The
1 shores to support the building to be of .enormous strength, project-
' ing 26 feet Isom the front, and enclosed by a hoard, 2811 feet in
length, for the protection of the public. The space left by tilts
plan will be CU fficient to admit two carriages to pass in the middle.
The hoard to begin at the west wing of the building • and, as soon
as that end is finished, another hoard to be erected at the east
wing, leaving a passage for one.earriage. This project of making
a foundation for an immense building,• which has been raised upon
a bad foundation, is considered very bold. The whole of the front
of the Customhouse will he hanging upon the shores *hits the
workmen arc driving the piles, which see to constitute the future
foundation.
The Loitn Alsvort stated to the Yeoman of the Channel that
he was ansjous to do every thing poamble to mitigate the Inconve-
nience winch the public moot suffer by this undertaking, and
therefore he Arnold submit the plan for the consideration of the
Commissioners of Sewers.
The sulocet is to be immediately brought before the Cosnmis-
rionem. Tlie builders are Messrs. Baker and Lee, who are the
contractors for the new Post-office.
A man of respectable appearance, named Swan, was charged
with having stabbed a boy, with a canc-aword, in Gracechurch-
street, ou Saturday evening.
Cowtnn, the officer, stated that as he was passing through Grace-
ehurch-strtet, he saw the prisoner putting a mine-sword into hs
sheath, and it was said that the prisoner had stabbed a bey. Wit.
nets saw a boy, named Molten, soon afterwards, and (mind that he
had been stabbid in the thigh.
A Mr. Calthorpe toated that the prisoner, who was very tipsy,
fell up against and broke his window. Some persons desired Swan
to keit) him:elf up, and he ran against Molten, who was going
along inoffensively. and then drew his sword, and stabbed the boy
with it in the thigh. The prisoner was in a state of drpnken mad-
ness at the time, and had terrified all the passengers off the pave.
ment.
The Loan MSS OR made some observations upon the dangerous
practice of carrying cane.swords, which the present state of society
did not at all render nmessary, and remunded the prisoner for nine

days.
CRUELTY' TO ANIMALS.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Vesterday James Thwasoa, a drover
wan brought up in custody of a parochial officer. charged with
brutally treating some sheep, which he was driving.
Mr. James Woodruff. of Oloucester-street, Clerkenwell, stated,
that he was going up Si. John's-street in the mming, and ob-
i served the prisoner striking a sheep with a hesvy two-handed staff,
until the blood flow.d profusely from the head of the animal,
which sunk exhauged on the pavement. lie seemed rather in-
toxicated, and when spoken to by witness, and some other persons,
he became only the more violent, and swore lie would serve any
one the same who dared to interfere. lie then attacked the poor
sheep with greater fury than before, and knocked several - them
down. Witness conceiving it to be a case of wanton and
auy cruelty, gave him in charge to a street-keeper.
Gearing, the street-keeper, and several other persons, coni
the gentiontan's statement.
v. Litatu agreed that it was certainly a case that
pcmaishment, and it was highly creditable to the humanity
ranee who made the complaint.
eliodant was then °Mired to pay a floe of ten

accompanied by two friends, one of whom was now in attendance.
he was exceedingly surprised by a person stepping up in fro: t of
him, ftont amongst the company, which was very numerous in the
walks at the time, and striking him (the applicant) a blow. This
person he entilil not exactly distinguish at themoment of the assault;
he however broke away from his friends, and !wind his assailant by
the colts, whom he then discovered to be Mr. It. W. Elliston, the
late lessee of Drury-lane theatre. A scuffle immediately succeeded
the blow, which was put an end to by the interference of his (Mr.
Poole's) two friends. Mr. Poole then apprised the Magistrate that
the object of his application was to obtain a warrant against Mr.
Elliston, foe committing so unwarrantable an assault upon his per.
son in the_public place of amusement above-mentiontid.
A Mr. Jones, who accompanied Mr. Poole to Vauxhall on the
night in qnestion, here stepped forward, and corroborated his
friend's statement of the particulars of the assault.
The Magistrate expressed mime surprise en hearing the state-
ment, and observed that lie recollected having observed,in some of
the newspapers, an account of law proceedings between the appli-
cant and the person whom he now charged with having assaulted
him. If lie (the Magistrate) was correct, an action, whereini Mr.
Poole and Mr. Elliston were the parties. had been tried a short
time age in one of the law Courts: probably the assault now COM.
plained of arose out of the circumstances attending that action.
Mr. Poole did not, on the present occasion, enter into a state-
ment of the provocation on either the one side or the other, that led
to the assault he now complained of ; but he requested that the ap-
plication might he granted.
Mr. SWAIIET said that it would not expedite the matter to bring
Mr. Elliston to this office by a warrant; but recommended the ap.
plicant to Indict him at the ensuing Sessions fur the avail,. This
method of proceeding in the case, the worthy Magistrate observed,
would save is great deal of trouble as well as exposure to the parties
concerned in it. Perhaps, added Mr. Swabey, the affair might be
arranged without having recourse to any criminal proceedings, as
the assault did not appear to be an aggravated one.
Illy. Poole expressed his determination of following up the busi-
ness; and intimated that he preferred taking out a warrant against
Mr. Elliston instanter, as he had been informed that he was on the
point of leaving town for the country. Was he (Mr. Poole) to
take the advice of the Magistrate. with respect to indicting Mr. E.,
in all probability that gentleman would be at a distance from L widen
whenithe Sessions commenced; therefore the necessity of granting a
warrant was obvious.
Mr. Burnaby, the clerk, mentioned that the Sessions for the
county of Sarre y commenced on the 27th instant.
Mr. Poole—As Mr. Eiliston is about to leave town, his being
brought up here under the authority of a warrant will be a security
fee his appearance at the Sessions ; but, on the other hand, if that
mode of proceeding is not adopted, it will be the most uncertain
thing in the trorld where Mr. Ellistoh is to be found.
The Magistrate glum put the usual questions to Mr. Poole as to
his having been struck in the first instance by Mr. Elliston, without
giving any provocation, on the night in question, and Mr. Poole
having sworn to that 'fact, an assault warrant was accordingly
granted against Mr. Elliston.

ot tr H Y nerd blr. Poole, the dramatist.attended
/110/1 ALL.— e ay e,
unnecee- at this office, for the purpose of applying to the sitting Magistrate
(M. SWANEY, Esq.) for an assault warrant against Mr. R. IF.
confirmed Ellirion, by whom be had been assaulted in Vauxhall Gardens, on
Friday night.
t deserved Mr. Poole, having presented his and of address to the Alegi*.
ity of the true, proceeded to detail the tirpecostaness that led to the was.
shy of his present application. He state that, on Friday night
shillings, 'last, as he was balking round the priitnenade at Vauxhall Gardens,
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