The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-23 00:00:00

GAMBLING IN IithLAND.

The transaction detailed in the following extract of a
Carlow paper has been the subject of a motion in the
Queen's Bench Chamber, before Judge Burton, and will
be brought forward again in the full Court in the ap-
proaching term
SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.—There is no doubt
that Lieutenant Maclaine, of the 7th Fusiliers, was the
unfortunate victim of e. conspiracy entered into by a
hatch of gamblers to plunder him. It appears that two
of the craft, who reside in Dublin, having heard of the
attachment of Maclaine to gambling, determined on
fleecing him, and accordingly they sent a dispatch to
London to a well-known swindlers, named' Coyle,' alias
Antrobus, who occasionally styles himself Captain,' to
iproceed without delay to Kilkenny, where they would
join him, and assist in robbing Maclaine on the fashion-
table pretext of gambling.' Coyle left London, started
for Kilkenny, and was introduced to Maclaine as a
!' Captain,' and that he succeeded in his plundering spe-
culations our readers will learn • when they hear that
Coyle and his scoundrel associates won 1,700/., for
which Maclaine gave his bond. The history of Coyle
is a singular one, he having contrived hitherto to elude
the vigilance of the London police, although passing
under different names. He is what is termed a Greek'
attached to some of the hells of London, and by profes-
sion a swindler. This is the fellow who disposed of Mr.
Maela;ne, whose deplorable condition should operate as
a warning to those who are tempted to risk their cha-
racter and fortune on the hazard of the die."—Carlow
Sentinel.

The person who is stated to have acted as the decoy
in this case is a magistrate of the county of Wicklow, a
fine, strapping-looking hero, who sports moustachios and
a splendid imperial.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

IVORSHIIS-STREET.

CAUTION TO WORKING MEN.—Yesterday Benjamin
Simmons and Abraham Sandford, two journeymen
brickmakers were charged with having stolen the sam
of threepeence from the person of Francis Wicks, one
of their fellow-workmen.

From the complainant's statement it appeared that
he had recently obtained work at a bricktield in Clap-
ton, where the two prisoners were also employed. On
leaving the field the preceding evening, he was sur-
rounded by several of his fellow-labourers, who de-
manded from him the price of a gallon of beer, to pay
what they termed " his footing." He refused to accede
to their request, and walked away, but the two pri-
soners followed him, and one of them forcibly ab-
straeted threepence from his pocket, which he handed
to the other. Two policemen came up during the
struggle, and he gave the prisoners into custody.
Police constable N 174 stated that the prisoner Sim-
mons offered great resistance, and struck him two or
three times. The other prisoner went very quietly to
the station-house.

Mr. Allen, the prisoner's master, was asked by the
Magistrate if it was usual amongst his men to make
such a demand and to levy it by force, to which he re-
plied in the negative.
Mr. GnovE said that if such a system existed it was
a very bad one, and he should certainly have committed
the prisoners to Newgate to take their trial for highway
robbery, if there had not been the further charge of
assault against them, which he could dispose of sum-
marily.
The prisoner Simmons was fined 40s. or six weeks'
imprisonment ; the other prisoner 20s. or one month.

LISBON, OCT. 14.—Lord Palmerston, it appears, has
notified to this Government that he has taken it upon
himself to appropriate a sum of about 4,000/., which
was due to Portugal, as a balance for vessels improperly
captured by English ships of war cruising against the
slave trade, to the part payment of certain claims made
upon Portugal by some British subjects. Of this
money 1,5001. have been, or are about to be given to
Sir J. M. Doyle, and 1,000/. to General Bacon, under
the head of ceinpansation ; to the former for his incar-
ceration by Don Miguel, and to the latter for his ex-
pulsion from this country in 1837. A Cabinet Council
was held immediately after the receipt of this commu-
nication, to which several of the leading members of the
Cortes were invited, to deliberate upon the answer to
be returned to it. I know not what passed at it fur-
ther than that they, one and all, showed themselves
most indignant, and that an opinion was expressed and
unanimously concurred in, that if the question had been
with France, Russia, or any other powerful nation, the
British Government would not have ventured upon so
arbitrary a proceeding as, that of placing the disputed
claims of third parties as a set off against an acknow-
ledged debt.
DUNDEE, OCT. 17.—EMIGRATION.--Yester-
day, forty-five individuals left this town by the Dundee
steam-ship, for London, thence to proceed to France,
where they are to be employed in the manufacturing
interest. The great majority of these emigrants were
women, there being only ten or twelve men and three
children amongst them all.

THE BRITISH QUEEN STEAM-SHIP.-DIA-
BOLICAL ATTEMPT.—PreViOUS to the British Queen
leaving New York the engineer detected several
pieces of iron put into the machinery by some evil dis-
posed person, which would have caused extensive des-
truction had the discovery not been made in time. This
should be a warning to all engineers to examine their
machinery carefully whenever they have been in a po-
sition admitting of the possibility of malicious persons
having access to their vessels. The officers of the Bri-
tish Queen have not been able to fix suspicion on any
particular party.--Garotte.