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London, England, 1839-09-04 00:00:00

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the Magistracy to the presence of the King
HERRING FISH ERY.—The fishing continues at
the different northern stations, Helmsdale still maintaining
its superiority as to the average quantity taken per boat.
Some of the boats, however, have left this station and
proceeded to Anstruther, where they are reaping a second
harvest. Macduff has proved the most successful of the
stations on the Banff or Morayshire coast, as the average
here is as high as 125 crans, and some of the boats are
within six or eight crans of their stipulated quantity of
200 per boat. The averages hitherto, as far as we have
seen them calculated, appear to be as follows:—Helms-
dale, average per boat, 140 ; Anstruther, 130; Macduff,
125 ; Burghead, 100 ; Peterhead, 97: Wick, 94 ; Aber.
deco, 85. The number of boats at Wick far transcends
that at any of the other stations mentioned above, being
about treble the number at Helmsdale. Formerly it was
calculated that about a thousand boats frequented this
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herrings, he says. are generally larger than at Wick. At
the upper end of the Moray Frith they have been fre-
quently caught of such a very small size as to require from
1,000 to 1,200 to fill a barrel. Along the South side of
the Moray Frith, including Morayshire, Banffshire, and
part of Aberdeenshire, herrings are caught about the same
time as on the North side ; the quality is similar to those
caught at Wick, and they are also of a good medium size.
—Scotch Paper.
THE SHIP AIDECAMP.—This vessel, which
sailed from this port on the 18th of May last, for St.
John's, New Brunswick, on the morning of the 19th of
Jane, during a thick fog, struck on Friar's Island, at the
entrance of Kippel harbour, Nova Scotia, and became a
complete wreck. Sixteen of the passengers, viz , five men,
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jumping suddenly into the first boat when leav-
ing the ship. and by this means upset it. The survivors,
after remaining two days on the island, were conveyed to
Halifax, where they were furnished with clothes and pro-
visions by the Government, and those who wished to pro-
ceed to St. John's were promptly conveyed thither. The
vessel, at the time of the fatal occurrence, was within 35
miles of Halifax, and only two days' sail from the place of
her intended destination.--Londonderry Sentinel.
THE. POET AND THE PRINCE.—The poet
Beranger, as the Journal d' Indre et Loire relates, wrote
to the Duke of Orleans, recommending to his notice a
young man in the army, whose mother was ill and in dis-
tress, and concluded his letter with apologies for intruding
on the Prince without being personally known to him. The
Duke immediately returned the following note :—" Sir—
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pleasure to mu. Your ptotege. shall become mine, and I
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and has allowed him to go and support his mother.
When it was intimated that the Duke of Beau::
fort would not attend the Tournament, at Eglintoun, the
report reached the ears of Thodore Hook at a dinner table,
not a hundred miles from Kensington Gore. How's
that ?" inquired Theodore, hastily ; ne
" ~attir ort not go to
the Tournament—nonsense ; impossible I" " Tarda po-
a'aora won't consent," was the rejoinder ; steel boots are
not very comfortable in the gout." " Pooh, pooh," said
the wit, " the gout needn't baulk him ; can't he wear his
list shoes ?_Sporting Review.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

The Rev. Mr. Osgood, who, it will was
one of those who contended against the stupid infidelity
of the Rev. Robert Taylor, at the Rotunda, in Blackfriars-
road, a few years ago, waited upon the LORD MAYOR, for
the purpose of requesting that his Lordship would use his
influence to obtain for him permission to have a booth
erected in Smithfield during the fair for the distribution of
moral and religious tracts. He applied, he said, for the
accommodation at the instance of Mr. West, a man of
God, who was in the habit of addressing the people in
Smithfield on the Sabbath.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you mean to preach in Smith-
field during the fair ?
Mr. Osgood—Our intention is to speak to those who
may be disposed to listen on the advantages of temperance
and the exercise of the social duties, as well as to distri-
bute tracts.
The Lo RD MAYOR—Do you not know that on such an
occasion the introduction of a religious lecture may be
received in a way not at all calculated to answer the good
intentions of those who deliver it ; may it not have the
effect of causing disorder and riot ? Mr. Osgood—We
hope, My Lord, that what we may do will operate as a
counterpoise, in some degree, to the mischiefs and evils
with which public assemblages of the kind abound. We
are not at all inclined to take up our position in the body
of the fair ; we wish to act on the outskirts, and we are
not at all apprehensive of any ill consequences. Besides,
we shall have the protection of the police.
The LORD MAYOR—Why, the Magistrates of London
would not wish to add to the labours of the police by giving
them the new duty of protecting preachers assembled upon
such an occasion and in such a place to give serious advice to
a mob who were prepared to ridicule everything opposed
their levity and merriment. I do not think that it would
be judicious in you to appear in such a place. No two
things can in my mind be more incompatible than Bartho-
lomew fair, and the sacred surplice.
Mr. Osgood—We think, my Lord, that we may be able
to allay any bad spirit which might arise by our addresses t o
the people. We shall not excite or encourage any disposition
to violence or riot. Our object is to counteract as far as
in our power the injurious effect of attending exhibitions
which have produced incalculable mischief.
The LORD MAYOR said that the object was certainly a
most excellent and benevolent one. He was aware of the
great evils resulting from the debauchery of Bartholomew
fair, and he felt hesitation that morning about proclaiming
it, for as late as seven o'clock on the previous evening,
his attention had been drawn to a statement showing that
of twenty-five females in one of our penitent asylums,
fourteen, who had been servants, dated their ruin
in the first instance to their visits to fairs ; that the modes of
seduction were such that scarcely a fair was held without
producing a number of victims from amongst the female
servants who had permission to attend ; that in many cases
the unfortunate creatures never returned to their employ-
ment; and that after each Bartholomew fair there were to
be seen at least twenty new faces amongst the poor
deplorable outcasts in the streets.
Mr Osgood observed that it would be charitable to en-
deavour to sow some good seeds where vice was allowed
to take so fearful a range, and where moral disaster was
so prevalent. He and those with him had no idea of
coming into competition with the amusements of the
crowd, but they looked with hope to the benefit which
might flow from their labours to some of the mass.
The LORD MAYOR commended the intentions of the
applicant, but was convinced that the only way to remedy
the existing nuisance would be to make a resolute effort
to destroy it altogether. Upon receiving the statement to
which he had alluded, and much more information detailing
the mischief resulting from the fair, he wrote to the Town
Clerk for information as to any Act of Parliament or au-
thority of any kind which made it compulsory upon him to
proclaim Bartholomew Fair, well-knowing that part of the
Corporation had used vigorous exertions to put an end to
it altogether. It was only just before the carriage arrived
to convey him to Smithfield that he received the answer,
which was that there was no law but the law of custom ;
that the Fair was held by charter from Charles the
Second, and the Lord Mayor had always proclaimed it,
and that if the Lord Mayor did not go that year other Lord
Mayors would not be prevented by his example from
proclaiming it in future years. He further stated, that
his Deputy, who was Chairman of the Markets Com-
mittee, had been in communication with him on the sub-

ject of letting the ground, and he felt that after having
sanctioned it so far, it was then too late to
retreat, but if the Court of Aldermen would recom-
mend that the Lord Mayor should not attend in future
to open the Fair, in a very short time the nuisance might
be abolished, the Market Committee co-operating with the
Court of Aldermen by refusing to let the ground. A fair
existing from ancient times without a charter was different
from Bartholomew Fair, to hold which a charter was
specially granted to the City. The Fair was therefore
the Corporation Fair, and, when granted, was perhaps as
valuable to the citizens in a mercantile point of view as it
was now injurious to the shopkeepers of the City, and to
the morals of the community, and obnoxious to all the
decent inhabitants of the vicinity.
Mr. Osgood declared that the intemperance and other
vices which flowed from such a source was beyond all cal-
culation. He should greatly rejoice in the complete over-
throw of such scenes as were exhibited in the metropo-
litan fair ; but until something decisive was accomplished,
he thought the exertions of men who meant well for the
rising generation might, in the way he proposed, prove
advantageous. He had tried the experiment with success
at Camberwell and other fairs, and he really thought that
in Smithfield their efforts might not be fruitless.
The LORD MAYOR—I do not like the idea of
music, and dancing, and mummery in one part
of the fair, and preaching in another. The lat-
ter will in all probability be thrown into contempt and
derision in such a neighbourhood, and the interests of
morality are not likely to be promoted by such a collision.
However, you can apply to the Market Committee on
the subject, and if they consent I shall offer no objection.
Mr. Osgood said that he should at once make applica-
tion, and he trusted that the friends of morality and reli-
gion would accomplish some good even in Bartholomew
fair.

It is, we understand, the intention of the Lord Mayor
to propose, himself, in the Court of Aldermen, the total
abolition of the fair.

GUILDHALL.
Jas. TVilson, the keeper of a public-house in Long-lane,
Smithfield, was brought up charged, under the New Police
Act, with serving a lad with intoxicating liquor who was
under the age of 16.
The boy was produced by his father, and stated that be
was only 13i years of age. On Sunday last he was in
company with two young men; they were all in the tap-
room of the defendant, where his friends had some beer.
He was afterwards taken up by the police for being drunk.
He did not call for the beer, nor did he pay for it—that
was done by his friends.
Mr. Wilson said he had not seen the boy at all. On Sun-
day his pot-boy went out for a holiday and got another young
man to wait for him. He had served them with the beer
without stating that one of the party was a mere boy, or
the beer would not have been drawn. _ -

Sir PETER LAURIE said the New Act must be put in force,
it could not be evaded by saying that the liquor was
served to others, if young boys were in their company.
Several policemen and neighbours of Mr. Wilson, gave
him a very excellent character, and said he conducted his
house very orderly.
Sir PETER LAURIE said under the circumstances he
would not convict, but he wished it to be distinctly under-
stood that the New Act was in force. He at the same
time took the opportunity of telling the police that he
was not considered the best officer who brought forward
the most charges, but that one would be sure of promotion
who kept his beat so orderly, that he had no charges to
bring before the Magistrates.
Catherine Fitzgerald, an Irishwoman, was charged with
stealing a velvet coat, the property of her master, Philip
Hoskin.
The prosecutor, on being asked to spell his name,
said that he was no scholar.—(Loud laughter.) The
prisoner was his servant, and had been seen with the
coat in her apron yesterday. She had told the police
that she knew who had got the coat, but the would die be-
fore she told.

The Magistrate remanded her till to-morrow, when he
would commit her unless, in the meantime, the coat was
given up to the prosecutor.
H. Wilson acknowledged himself guilty of stealing a
basket and a dozen empty bottles, the property of Mr.
Protheroy, of Basinghall-street. He said he was in dis-
tress, and committed the offence in order to compel the
parish officers to do something for him, as he and his family
were in great distress. He acknowledged however, that
he had made no application to them.
The prosecutor begged that the prisoner might be sum-
marily and leniently dealt with.
Sir P. LAURIE ordered inquiries to be made respecting
the prisoner, and remanded the case till Thursday.

HA TTON- GARDEN.
Yesterday, Mr. HALL, the Magistrate, announced from
the Bench that he had been appointed to fill the situation
of Chief Magistrate at the Police-office at Bow-street, in
the place of Sir Frederick Roe, who had resigned. He
expressed his satisfaction of the officers of the establish.
ment during the time that he officiated and took his leave.
Subsequently Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Combe, the
Magistrates, took their seats upon the bench, they having
been (as we are informed) appointed by the Secretary of
State to transact the business at this office in future. Mr.
Benett, the Magistrate, remained upon the Bench for a
short period of time, and departed, leaving Mr. Greenwood
to perform the usual business, when the following case was
brought before him for examination:—
Thomas Smith, a short, thickset, dark looking fellow,
of determined but respectable appearance, was placed at
the bar, charged with having committed numerous and
daring robberies under the following circumstances. The
office was crowded to suffocation by respectable individuals
to prefer charges against him, and the most intense in-
terest was manifested.
Mrs. Eliza Hermitage, wife of Mr. James Hermitage,
landlord of the Sun Tavern, Gray's Inn-lane, being sworn,
stated, that on Thursday week last, between three
and four o'clock in the afternoon, whilst she was
standing behind the bar, the prisoner entered the house
and inquired whether he could be accommodated with a
bed, as he had come from the country. He was answered
in the affirmative, when he said he would go and fetch his
luggage. He subsequently returned with two carpet bags,
when he was introduced to a bedroom, where he deposited
them, and be slept there that night. On the following