The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-08 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

The New Police adopted a plan of detecting the
numerous thieves who annually frequent Bartholo-
mew fair to levy contributions on the pockets of
the fair-going gentry, and which succeeded to ad-
miration. Throwing of r their uniform, they dressed
themselves in plain doilies, and mixing with the
crowd, were wholly undistinguighable 'from those
ground them. By these means the thieves were

thrown en off their guard; they were pretty
well acquaintedtirY
i with the persons of the city officers,
mnj expected that the New Police dress would be
sufficient signal of the approach of officers of that
establishment; but this manoeuvre of several of
thut body took the pickpockets entirely by surprise.
The consequence was, that in many instances they
attempted to pick pockets with imaginary security,
in the very presence of police constablia, and in one
case positively attempted thepocket of a policeman.
A great number or young_thieves were detected,and
brought to this office in the custody of the police
constables; but their interference 'in the City not
appearing altogether agreeable to the city autho-
rities, and Mr. Alderman Winchester having ex.
pressed himself very strongly on the subject on
Monday last, yesterday not one of the New Police
made his appearance.
BOW-STREET.

yesterday a yowl female of 'rather interesting
appearance was brought before Sir R. Brion, by
a police constable, charged with riotous and disor-
derly conduct in the &rand on the preceding night.
Sir R. Mum asked if the defendant was known
at the oilier as a prostitute ?---Dodd, the gaoler, did
net remember to have seen her before.
The constable who. had taken her into,. custody
said., she 4-as in the habit of walking the Strand at
night, but site was in general a very well-conducted
&d. On the present occasion she had taken too
much liquor, which occasioned her to-misbehave as
she had done.
serjettra 111‘Sweettey said, that the poor girl was
very much to be pitied, as he knew that necessity
and not lice will had driven her upon the town. He

hail heard that she supported her brother, a child
"only eight years; old; by her prostitution.
Sir R. BIRNIE asked the defendant if -this werd
really the case ?•—The defendant replied that it wa
quite true. Her father and mother' were both dead
avid after the decease of the latter, which took Place:
about eight months ago, she was forced to walk the
streets, in order to support her poor little brother untl
herself ?
Sir R. 13mNIE asked her if she knew to
parish she belonged ?—The defendant belonged to'
St. Peter's, Cornhill, where her father had lived in
respectability for many years. •
Sir It. BinmE—And is "it possible that your
story can be known to the parish officers
Surely they cannot be aware that yott suppnrt I
your infant brother from your miserable earnings ?;
—The defeodant said, that the parish allowed her
half-a-crown a week towards the support of her
brother, and to that sum she added 4s. 6d, weekly,
which she cheerfully paid, to contribute to his main-
tenance, feeling that she was now his only protector,
and so long as she had a morsel of bread he should
share it with her. Here the poor girl became sen-
sibly .affeeted.
Sir R. BILtNIE observed, that this, indeed, was
rare instance of virtuous feeling in a situation of IVe
which was supposed to exclude it. The defendant
was then asked her father's name, and the businesi
he had followed. She declined, however, to -dis-
close any particulars connected with her family, and
merely Said, that her father had once been in a very
extensive_ way of business in the neighbourhood of
Cornitill,until, he became reduced by repeated mis-
fortunes, and subsequently failed, which event was
soon after followed by his death. In answer to
further inquiries, the defendant said that she had
committed the charge of her brother to a poor but
respectable: martian who- had . known her in better
days, as she did not wish that the poor child shouhL
be a witness of her unfortunate course of life. She

had great hopes, however, of getting him into tile
Orplow School ; as soon as that object we.
accomplished, she had determined to reform her life
and go to service.

s.,
Sir R. BIRNIE Observed, that the difficulty of
getting a boy into the Orphan School was greater
titan was generally imagined, and he feared in the
present instance that the attempt would be hopeless.
The Magistrate, after expressing his regret that he
had no means of serving the defendant, advised her
to make known her situation to some of the city
Magistrates, and also to the overseers of the pariih
to which she belonged, anti he was quite sure that
her appeal would not be made-in vain.
Serpent M'Sweeney said that the constable ha I
no wish to press the charge against the girl, and she
wa4 consequently, discharged, expressing her deter-
mination to follow the Magistrate's advice.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday Mrs. Mary Burke, the person who
caused James Ryan to be apprehended On the charge
of murder, complained to Mr. BROUGHTON, that
notwithstanding an arrangement entered into before
him on Saturday, the parish offieercof Shoretlitch
refused to relieve her in any other -way than by
taking her into their workhouse, to which she bud
an insuperable objection.
Mrs. Burke has lived separateirom her husband
for eleven years past, and it appeared that Mr.
Burke, who is very respectably situated as a'Coln-
mercial traveller, was summoned to the Guildhall
Justice-room, in the City, about three months sit*,
by the parish officers of St. Sepulchre, where his
wife then lived and became chargeable, and an
agreement was made by Mr. Harmer on his part, to
pay the wife 78. a week. The money was accord-
ingly paid for some time through Mr. Harmer's
office, but had lately been stopped, and the wife
applied to the overseers of Shoreditck, in which
parish she is now domiciled.

- Mr. Iturke said he :had been plundered and
cinclly used by his wife, who was the most aban-
doned of women. She had been living in adaltery
with several men, and amongst others with the man
Ryan whoM she now accused of murder, and
whom it had been intended to call as a witness.
Mrs. 13torkeYou knoW you've been transported
for seven years for running away with a woman with
fortune of 25,0001. and marrying her.
Mr. finoupwroN—lt is useless to keep the mat-
ter up here any longer.. 'rite law says that a man
who ►s able to support his wife, and refuses to do
it, shall be committed to the House of Correction
as a vagabond, and kept to hard labour; and unless
you keep your wife from being chargeable to the
parish you must be committed ?—The defendant,
after some talk with the parish officers, said he had
Jammed with them, and he then left the ace.