The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-18 00:00:00

REX V. J. SMITHSON.

This was a like information against the defendant,
the landlord of the Grapes public-house, in Porter-
street, Nei, port-market.

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The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the Jury as
in the former case, and a verdict was given for the
Crown, 400/.

The following publicans were convicted in the
like penalty Talbot Smith, the keeper of a
gin-shop in Broad-street, Bloomsbury ; Mr. Tan-
field, of the George public-house, in Chapel-street,
Oxford-street; Mr. Thomas Dcvereux, of the
Cherry-tree, in Whitecross-street ; Mr. Thomas
Clarke, of the Horse and Sacks, Harrow-road ; Mr.
Thomas Wennington, of the Marquis of Granby,
Drury-lane; Mr. Joseph Bill, of the Angel, Fleet-
market.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, FEB. 17.
William Pullen came up on his application to be
discharged. The insolvent was not opposed, but

on his examination by the Court, it appealed that on
the 18th September he was arrested for a debt of
271. Ile gave bail immediately. At this tune he
was possessed of stock in trade, &c., to a consider-
able amount. A few days afterwards -he disposed
of part of his property for b 01.; and, on the 30th of
October, a very short time before rendering to prison,
he sold the remainder for about 171., making in all
G7l. Instead of offering to come to any arrange.
diem with the creditors who had arrested him, he
disposed otherwise of a great part of the money,
having 201. in his hands when he went to prison on
the 6th of November.

The CIIIEF Co IMISSIONEIi said the judgment of
the Court was that the insolvent be remanded for
six months from the date Of filing his petition.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW.STREET.

Yesterday Mr. Coghill, a constable in his own
right, of St. Paul's parish, Covent-garden, who was
charged on the previous day with having obstructed
the police at the fire which took place at the English
Opera-house, came to this office for the purpose of
asking the magistrates how far he, as a parish con-
stable, was boun(l to act under the directions of the
police. After commenting upon the manner in which
he had been treated by the police, he expressed not
only his unwillingness to act under such men, but
his determination to lie quietly in his bed on the
very next occasion requiring his assistance. He could
not understand how a respectable inhabitant of the
parish, holding the office of a parish constable, should
be expected to place himself under the orders of
mere police-officers, and he felt (he said) consider-
able surprise that Mr. Minshull should have ex-
pressed an opinion to that effect.
Mr. MlNsitur,t, observed, that, however respect-
able Mr. Coghill might be, he only knew him as a
parish constable, and as such it was his business to
act under the directions of the person who controlled
the police, instead of presaming to interfere with
his duties.

Mr. Coghill declared that no respectable man till-
ing the situation of constable in his own right would
consent to act under the orders of such mon as the
new police is composed of. Their conduct upon the
occasion of the late fire was disgraceful.
Mr. HALLS—Perhaps it would be just as well if
Mr. Coghill would follow his own suggestion, and
remain in bed on the next occasion of a fire.

Mr. Coghill was again about to speak, when he
was peremptorily stopped, and he then retired.

WORSHIP-STREET.

Mr. Albo, a Spaniard, of remarkable fine propor
tions, was brought before Mr. BENKTT by one of the
new police, into whose custody he had been given
on Tuesday night, charged with violent conduct, and
an assault committed in his own house.

The defendant, although a man of good income,
appeared dirty and negligent in person—was without
cravat or other covering upon his neck, and seemed
to have been unshaven for many weeks. He was
charged a
.short time since before Mr. Broughton,
the purpose then and now being to place him under
restraint as an insane person. The following state-
ment was, on that occasion, made respecting him :
He came to London about fifteen years since, and
was engaged in business with his uncle, a wealthy
Spanish merchant, whose daughter lie married
about three years afterwards, and at the death of
his uncle became possessed of very considerable
property, and is still in the receipt of an income of
3004 a year, upon which he lived with his wife
and four children. His conduct of late was stated
to have undergone a total change ; and Mrs. Albo,
believing herself in danger, sought the protection
of the Magistrate. The medical attendant of the
family was examined before Mr. Broughton, and
thought that the defendant's state of mind bordered
closely upon madness,but said he could nut take upon
himself to call it lunacy, but rather eccentricity;
and he also stated that Drs. Burrows arid Babing-
ton had refused to sign a certificate of lunacy. '1 lie
Magistrate saw no sufficient grounds for coercive
measures on his part, but he suspended the warrant,
and recommended that a person, then present, a
friend of the family, should reside in the house with
Mr. and Mrs. Albo, to guard against any appre-
hended danger.
It now appeared before Mr. BENETT, that the
person who had been residing in the house had on
Tuesday been replaced by another person, and Mr.
Albo, coming home at night and finding a stranger
in his house, flew into a violent rage, assaulted and
forcibly expelled the stranger, but was himself sent
to the watch-house by Mrs. Albo, who now assured
the Magistrate that her husband was a lunatic, and
she could not exist in safety while he was at large.
Mr. BEN TT—What proof have you that he is a
lunatic ? Mrs. Albo stated, in general terms, the
violent and strange conduct of her husband—his
breaking and destroying the furniture arid property,
and finally his violence towards the person brought
into the house as a guard.
The defendant said the stranger had no business
in his house. "Ifl am a lunatic," said he, " why
do you live with me ? You may leave me and
take half the property : you are at liberty in this
country, and I apprehend that a man has a right to
do as he pleases in his own house with his ow❑ pro-
perty. If I knock about the plates and dishes, they
are my own."
The Magistrate was informed of the proceedings
already laid before Mr. Broughton, and die state-
ments of the surgeon and physicians. The defend-
ant, it was said, sometimes drank to excess, and on
those occasions his conduct was that of a madman.
The defendant was therefore discharged.
UM() N-N A lA,.

Since the introduction of the new police on the
Surrey side of the water the slip of Union-hall-
office has been crowded every morning with im-
mense numbers of those most abject and degraded
of human creatures—nightly street-walkers. As in
very many instances there has been no charge against
these pitiable outcasts from society further than
" found walking the streets." Mr. Hone has ordered
them to be set at liberty, at the same time inform-
ing the policemen that a prostitute, unless riotous,
had as much right in the streets as any other person.
Yesterday morning the following conversation
upon this subject took place between Mr. SWAIM',
Mr. HONE, and Superintendent Dowling.
Mr. SwABEY—In consequence of some unfortu-
nate females being discharged who had been taken
up by one of your men whilst in the streets, he may
go away with a wrong impression-, and think that
these girls are not to be molested. At present the
policemen seem not to understand under what cir-
cumstances this description of persons ought to be
apprehended. It would, therefore, be hs well to in-
form them that unless they observe one of them
conducting herself in an indecent and riotous manner
she has as much right to walk along the streets as
any other of his Majesty's subjects.
Superintendent Dowling—l suppose if they see
one of them running up to a gentleman and taking
hold of his arm that would be considered indecent'
and riotous.

Mr. HONE—It depends altogether on the manner
in which it is done. With regard to the word riot,
in a legal sense, it is one of a most difficult defini-
tion, and I never yet heard two gentlemen agree as
to its precise meaning. I was talking with two very
learned Judges only yesterday on this ♦ery subject;
and I question very much whether if a girl, for tak-
ing hold of a gentleman's arm, is guilty of a rio: or
indecency. If they are found making a noise in the
streets and using bad language then they are riotous
and ought to be taken up.
Superintendent Dowling—There are a great
number of streets which are so much infested with
these women at nightfall that the respectable and
modest part of the inhabitants complain bitterly of
their being allowed to parade backwards and for-
wArds before their houses. However, the suggestions
of the Magistrates shall be attended to.

There is now living in Totness a tradesman,
who makes a practice every Christmas Eve to sleep in a
manger. This he terms celebrating the nativity of Goo !