The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-MOUSIL
TALLYMEN IY COALS.—Yesterday Mr. Broderick
appeared upon the part of the Corporation of Lon-
don to prosecute two persons, named Daniel Bishop
and James Bishop, for offences in the vending of
coals. The City solicitor also attended upon the
part of the Corporation ; Mr. W. Cam Humphries
attended for the defence.
Mr. Broderick stated that the first case, which
was of considerable importance, inasmuch as it re-
lated to the labouring classes of society, was brought
against Daniel Bishop, a vender of coals. Formerly
what was called tally business was confined to
green-grocers, haberdashers, and a few other trades,
but now it was becoming more general, and the
defendant in each of these cases kept his tally or
score with the classes alluded to, and went about
soliciting custom from the lower ranks, whom they
charged in proportion to the extent of the accom-
modation by the week, until the whole amount was
liquidated. The defendant received Is. 6d. a-week
if he sent a quarter of a chaldron, and 2s. a-week if
he sent in half a chaldron, and so on in proportion
to the quantity. When the tallyman collected as
much as a waggon-load at a wharf he sent off the
batch for delivery to his respective customers. Mr.
Daniel Bishop, however, contrived to load his
waggon at night after the departure of the meter
from the wharf, and to send it off next morning be-
fore the arrival of that officer, whose duty it was to
attend from six o'clock in the morning until six in
the evening as this time of the year. The coals,
therefore, were not in this instance measured in the
presence of a meter. The defendant delivered in a
vendor's ticket, but it was not countersigned, as it
ought according to law to have been, and he did not
deliver in a meter's ticket.

Joseph Freeman, a cabinet-maker, residing near
Bethnal-green, proved that a few days before the
Ist of December last a clerk of the defendant called
on him to solicit an order for coals on the tally plan.
Witness gave an order for six sacks of the best
Walls-end Riddell's coals. On the 2d December a
loaded waggon came to the house, and out of it
were taken siz sacks of Walls-end Riddell's coals.
The vendor's ticket was not countersigned by the
meter, nor had any meter's ticket been delivered
with the coals. Witness re-measured the coals, in
which there was a deficiency of two bushels and a
quarter out of eighteen bushels.
Mr. W. C. Hnmphries made several technical
objections, which were overruled.
Sir P. LAURIE declared that he would overrule as
often as possible objections of the kind.
The defendant was their fined in the full penalty
of 101. and costs.
In the second case, that against James Bishop, a
shoemaker, named Thomas Boyd, of Coalharbour-
street, Bethnal-green, was the complainant. Boyd
was solicited by defendant's clerk, and ordered six
sacks of coals, without specifying any particular
sort ; three of those were shot into the premises,
but Boyd re-measured one of them, and found it to
contain two instead of three bushels, and he refused
to take any more. A vendor's ticket had been de•
livered with the coals, but no meter's.
The full:penalty of 101. was likewise inflicted in
this case.
THAMES-POLICE OFFICE.
Tile LATE RIOTS AT WAPPING.—Johrt Sullivan,
Giles Sullivan, Jeremiah lady, and Dennis Mur-
phy, four athletic Irishmen, were charged yesterday
before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. BRODERIP, the
sitting Magistrates, with having been concerned in
the late dreadful riots in Wapping, when several of
the officers of this establishment were cruelly beaten
and maltreated.
The prisoners are coal-whippers, and belong to
the tow-row club, the members of which have
formed a determined hostility to all those of their
fellow-labourers who may obtain employment with-
out a general and joint concurrence.
Timothy Murrall—On the night of the 7th inst.
was in the kitchen of the City of Quebec public.
house, at Shadwell, when a mob of Irishmen,
amongst whom were the prisoners, rushed in and
seized him. He was cruelly beaten, and had his
clothes torn from his back. He was afterwards
taken into the street and planked, that is, he was
placed on a plank, and carried on the shoulders of
several persons by torch-light. They carried him
through the streets with vociferous jeers, during
which time he was pelted with mud. The mob
were about to take him to the river side and duck
him, when the police-officers came to his rescue,
and carried him into a house for safety.
Mr. Ilarmer's clerk was about to address the
Magistrates on behalf of the prisoners, when
Mr. BALLANTINR said there was no occasion for
any defence, as they did not intend in this case sum-
marily to convict. He should send the prisoners to
the Sessions for trial, but good bail would be taken
for their appearance.
Mr. BRODERIP concurred with his brother !Magis-
trate in the decision, and observed to the prisoners
that their criminal acts, he feared, would, in the
end, lead them to murder.
The prisoners said they should soon get bail.
(We believe the reason the Magistrates did not
dispose of the case in the usual summary way, by a
fine of 51., was, that the great body of coal-whippers
contribute the amount immediately the conviction is
made, and the punishment is, consequently, nominal
and inoperative.)

Naples, during a short period of ten years,
suffered greater calamity than any place on record. After
the famine, and the revolt of MISANIELLO, in 1647, and
various alarming eruptions of Vesuvius, the great plague
iu 1656 came to fill up the measure of distress, on which
occasion more than 200,000 persons perished.
MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.—A meet-
ing of this Society was held yesterday evening at their
Rooms in Sackville-street, Earl Swanorr, President, in
the Chair. The minutes of the Meeting on the Bth of
DecenabTr were read, after which Lord STANIIOPF. said he
had a pleasing duty to perform, in submitting to the Meet-
ing a letter from Mr. Faos-r, dated the 24th instant, ad-
dressed to the Secretary, which, with their permission,
he would read to them. (This letter announced the in-
tention of the writer to deliver up, on Tuesday, the 260 i
instant, the hooks, herbaria, library, and all other pro-
perty belonging to the Society, of which he had hitherto
had custody.) The Noble Earl then proceeded to say,
that in conformity with his promise, Mr. Fmosr had that
morning surrendered into his hands the signature-book,
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THE NAVY.

NSW ARRANGEMENT OF THE CABINS OF FIRST*
RATES.

A new arrangement of the Officers' cabins on
lioard ships of 120 guns, is to take place, in comer
pence of a recommendation to that effect from the
;ate Committee of Naval Officers. The Caledonia,
rt dock at this port, and now nearly ready to receive
he Port Admiral's flag at Portsmouth, has her
•abins disposed on the new plan. In the fore-cock.,
Pit the junior Lieutenant of the ship, Second Master,
.trid Boatswain, will be on the larboard side; the
junior Lieutenant of Marines, carpenter, and gunner,
on the starboard side. The cabin formerly occupied
by the gunner amidships is thrown into the sail-
room, which will now extend from the main to the
fore-hatchways, thus affording abundance of room
for the stowage of all the sails, besides admitting of
those belonging to the foremast, &c. being all passed
up the fore-hatchway. In the after-cockpit there
are cabins on one side for the Mates, the Surgeon's
Assistants, Captain's Clerk, the Second Lieutenant
of Marines and Surgeons. On the other side the
Midshipmen, the Interpreter, the First Lieutenant
of Marines, the Purser, and Purser's Steward. By
this disposition two cabins from each side of the
middle deck have been taken away, thereby leaving
less bulk head to be pulled down when the capstan
is to be worked, or when the ship is to be cleared for
battle. In the latter case it will prove an important
advantage; for only persons who are familiar with
these things can form any idea of the amazing
quantity of fixtures on board large ships, which
must be removed before the guns can be left clear
for action. Possibly also the placing of so many
officers in the fore-cockpit may be intended to
operate as a check to any irregularities, which not
unfrequently occur in that part of the ship at unsea-
sonable hours.—Devonport Telegraph.