The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
Margaret Bentley, aged 22, was charged with having stolen
a bank note of 561, the property of Mr. Pledger, late of the
Castle Tavern, boor; ate, but now residing in Bloomfield-
street, •Finsbury ; and two other young women, named Bald-
win and Laban, were charged on susnicion of being acce3-
sories. Bentley was servant to Mr. Pledger, and the note was
missed from the cash-box. A day or two after this she refused
to clean the room, and evidently wanted to be discharged.
Suspicion' was 'then excited, and an officer was called, who
questioned the prisoner, but she, with shocking imprecations,
denied the theft. On the day after her discharge it was as-
certained that the note bad been tendered at the shop of Mr.
Williams, of Aldgate, by the prisoner Bentley, in payment of
some shawls and other articles, she being accompaniQd by the
ether prisoners. Mr. Williams supposed Bentley was a lady's
maid authorised to make the purchase, but having some sus-
picion he gave her change for 201., and promised to give her
the rest next morning. He sent the note to the Bank, when
it was stopped, and the officer found Baldwin and Laban wait-
ing at Mr. Williams's, by appointment, for Bentley, who now
told the Magistrate that she had found the note. She was
committed for trial, and the other two girls were discharged,
it appearing that they knew nothing of_ Bentley having stolen
the note.

HATTON-GARDEN.
' Mr. Jcrmes, solicitor, and forty-two other inhabitants of Ely-
rents, Holborn, were summoned on Saturday by the authorities
of the Lower Liberty of Saffron Hill to show cause why they
refused to pay the paving rate.
Mr. James contended that they were not bound to pay, as
Ely-rents was originally the private mansion of a gentleman,
who caused houses to be built and let to various persons, and
they had ever since paved and lighted and lighted at their own
expense ; and under an Act of George 111. commissioners
were appointed in the City, with whom it was agreed that the
inhabitants should pave and light the rents at their Own cost.
Part of the place was in the city, and part in the county.
He (Mr. James) was afraid he could not produce the agree-
ment, but such a one had been made.
Mr. LAING said that the Court of King's Bench having de-
cided that the inhabitants should pay the poor rates he cbn-
ceived that after such a triumph the quiet and respectable
householders of Ely-rents should not he harassed, as it was
evident they had always paved and lighted the place themselves.
Mr. White suggested that a friendly action should be brought
to try the question before the Judges.
Mr. LAING conceived, that it would be the most proper
course, and they proposed letting the case stand over for a
fortnight. . _

The parties then consented that a friendly " trespass"
should be committed, in order to justify legal proceedings in
the King's Bench, that the question might be brought to a
satisfactory issue.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Wilmot, of Half Moon-street, was charged by Wil-
liam Noble with assaulting him. iThe com?lainant, whose
eye appeared to have been cut, said he was porter to a wine-
merchant, and having called for the payment of a bill, and re-
fusing to go away without the money, the defendant knocked
him down. A general fight ensued and the police were sent for.
Mr. DYER should inflict the penalty of one shilling only
on the defendant.

MA R YLE LI ONE.
A well-dressed young woman, named Mary Smith, alias
Wilson, who has several times been imprisoned for fraudn-
lently obtaining money from the
•nobillty and gentry, was
charged as follows :--The prisoner represented herself as the
widow of the captain of a brig which had been wrecked, all
hands on board perishing, and, by an artful and spicious tale pf
the sufferings she had experienced since the untimely death of
her " dear husband," and the production of a petition with the
signatures of many distinguished persons attached, obtained a
recommendatory letter from Miss Thrupp, of Gloucester-
place, to James Gordon, Esq., 2, Connaught-terrace, who,
being moved at the relation of the supposed widow, gave her a
sovereign. Miss Thrupp, however, subsequently discovered
that not only herself, but many other ladies, had been duped,
and she gave information to the Mendicity Society, whose
officers apprehended the prisoner.
The prisoner denied the charge, and was discharged.

WORSHIP- STREET.
A bricklayer of decent appearance, named Joseph Kcrrison,
was charged with having plundered houses to an extraordinary
extent, under the pretence of repairing them. Two other
charges were made against the prisoner ; and as it is sus-
pected other persons have been similarly robbed, he was re-
manded for a week.