The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.
Deputy Hicks, the chairman of the Market Committee,
attended yesterday to make a complaint against a practice
which he believed was very prevalent in the neighbourhood
of the Scotch wharfs, and which was in direct violation of
the privileges of the City of London. The facts were as
follow :—On Saturday last he had received advice by
post from a Mr. D. M'Donald, of Inverness, that twenty-
six live pigs, shipped on board the vessel Earl Grey,
were consigned to him for sale. Upon receiving the in-
formation he sent a person to the vessel to receive the pigs,
but the messenger was told by the parties on board that they
did not know for whom the pigs were intended by the party
that shipped them, and that they had been delivered to a
dealer who resided in Wapping. The Wapping dealer stated,
upon being applied to, that he had certainly received the pigs
and sold them. This mode of proceeding, of which the ap-
pearances were very unfavourable, led necessarily to further
inquiries, and the explanations given, or rather attempted to
be given, were so unsatisfactory that Mr. Hicks considered
it his duty, in justice to the neglected interests of his prin-
cipal, to institute a public inquiry before the LORD MAYOR.
It was, he said, absolutely necessary for the maintenance
of the character of the city of London that parties who re-
sided 700 miles distant from the metropolis, who consigned
cattle to their several agents in the public markets of the
city for sale, which cattle, from variations of quality and
quantity had no fixed value, should feel assured that from
the competition amongst the buyers in those markets the
fair and full value of their property was guaranteed ; while,
if this system of selling their stock in private yards, in re-
mote and secluded neighbourhoods, over which there could
be no check nor controul, were not immediately put a stop
to, the public markets under the jurisdiction of his Lord-
ship, instead of being a great benefit, would prove to be of
no utility whatever.
The Loan MAYOR—It appears to me to be not only a
violation of the market regulations, but a fraud upon the
party to whom the property was consigned, by depriving
him of his commission upon the sale.
Directions were then given by his Lordship for a private
inquiry into the circumstances.
A big-boned, well-fed Irishman, named Stephen
was charged with having broken a lamp upon being refused
alms. The policeman who apprehended the defendant went
into a baker's shop, where the man was blowing up the
owner for not giving him some assistance either in cash or
in bread. The Irishman was intoxicated, and turned from
blarney to abuse upon finding that the baker was inexo-
rable ; and when he perceived that he must walk off, he
smashed the lamp, and insisted upon riding to prison in a
cab. In his pocket was found the sum of !I. 7s.
The LORD MAYOR—And was he begging, with It. 73,
in his pocket ? Defendant-13egging ! no such thing, ray
Lord ; I wanted nothing but a drop of drink.
The LORD MAYOR— What in a baker's shop ? De_
fendant—Upon my sowl I tuck it for a gin-shop ; but they
light up every place now as if they all sold nothing but
gin. It's a shame that it's allowed, for it leads people
astray. There ought be an Act of Parliament against it.
The LORD 'MAYOR—What ! against gin-shops, you
mean, I suppose ? Defendant—No, your honour, but
against these grand lights in the other shops. It was only
the other day I walked into a blacking warehouse when
the life was almost out of me for a drop of spirits.
The LORD MAYOR—But I am told you were begging?
Defendant—What should I beg for I was just after
getting my pension, and I'd rather give to a beggar than
ask a farthing. I had a drop, and it was such a trifle, that
instead of going into my stomach, it stopped in my head,
or 1 would not be such a fool as to mistake a mealman for
a respectable landlord.—(A laugh.)
The Loan MAYOR—l,suppose you are willing to pay
for the lamp and the cab ? Defendant—Certainly, please
your Honour ; but I hope your Lordship will give orders
to them, to prevent mistakes in future.
The LORD MAYOR—WiII you promise me, too, not to
go into a public-house again for some time ? Defendant—
Please your honour, I did no harm in any public-house in
my life ; but I'll promise you that I'll never go into a baker's
shop again as long as I live, if you choose.—(Laughter.)
The LORD Mavou—l am afraid I shall have you here
again, and then we shall find whether you won't see clearer
by the light of the House of Correction.—(Laughter.)

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday Mr. Bailey, a clerk in the Bank of England,
attended before Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY to claim a silk
handkerchief which had been stolen from his pocket near
Smithfield-bars, on the 9.d inst., and which had been seized
on the 4th, with about 70 other silk handkerchiefs, on sus-
picion of having been stolen, at the shop of Mrs. Alexander,
a dealer in clothes and handkerchiefs, in Field-land, Hol-
born-hill.

Sergeant Wailer produced the handkerchief, which Mr,

Bailey identified. Waher stated that a gentleman named
Underwood having lost his handkerchief, and discovered
it two days afterwards hanging at Mrs. Alexander's door,
came to him for assistance. He went and seized that and
all the other handkerchiefs in the shop, and brought them
next day before Mr. Alderman PIRIE, who, having heard
Mr. Wooler on behalf of Mrs. Alexander, thought there
vms not sufficient evidence of a guilty receiving, and libe-
rated her, but ordered nine handkerchiefs, which were
marked, to be detained, and advertised. It was one of
these nine Mr. Bailey now claimed.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY directed Wailer to appre-
hend Mrs. Alexander again directly, and in a few minutes
she was placed at the bar. She begged to be remanded,
that she might have the advice of her solicitor.
The Alderman asked her how she came by Mr. Bailey's
handkerchief.
She said she never bought anything. She received it
from her husband.
The Alderman asked her when she saw her husband last?
—She said, "On Tuesday, the 3d." Her husband was
of a surly temper, and had not spoken to her for a week
past ; but on Wednesday morning he gave several hand-
kerchiefs to her daughter, and desired that she would wash
them.
Waller said that when he seized the handkerchief she
said they had been left there by a friend, and did not be-
long to her.
The prisoner denied this. She only said she did not.
buy them. Most of them were redeemed from the pawn-
brokers.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY said that but for such women
as she was, the streets would not swarm with juvenile pick-
pockets.

" Don't cast reflections upon my character," said Mrs.
Alexander, indignantly, " I do not buy handkerchiefs of
pickpockets. When gentlemen pawn their handkerchiefs
and bring us the tickets we take them out, look at them,
and then give sixpence or a shilling more, if they are
worth it."
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY said this account did not
satisfy him. If he could possibly send her out of the
country he would. He asked where her husband was ?
She said she really did not know. He had sent her word
that he would never come home again, as he was so unfor-
tunate. Her father was one of the bail who undertook
that he should appear at the Old Bailey the Sessions be-
fore last, and was unable to produce him thero.
The Alderman remanded her for further examination.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday Wm. Ham, aged 19, was placed at the bar,
charged by Mr. William Thompson, brush manufacturer, of
No. 15, Gray's Inn-road, with having stabbed David Poole,
aged 12, with a pair of scissors, with intent to murder him,
whereby his life is placed in danger.
Mr. ROGERS remanded the prisoner until the fate of
Poole is known, and he directed Mr. Whitmore to send his
certificate on the next examination as to his condition,
should he be alive.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday a poor woman, with a basket of onions; which
was suspended from her shoulder by a piece of twine, the
value of her stock not exceeding threepence, was brought
before Mr. SI-MPSON, a county Magistrate, who sat for
Mr. Twyford in consequence of that gentleman's illness,
charged by Thomas Powell, streetkeeper of Shoreditch, with
obstructing the thoroughfare.
Powell brought the defendant up by direction of Mr. Da-
vies, a resident in Shoreditch.

Mr. SIMPSON-Mr. Davies is a banker, is he not?
Powell—Yes, your Worship. This woman, with some
more, stand before his door, very much to his annoyance.
Mr. SimrsoN—l think the pavement is very wide there.
Powell—lt is the widest part, yet people cannot pass or
repass without being very much incommoded.
Mr. Sl➢irsoN—l know the place very well, and I must
say that I never have been incommoded by these people.
Powell—But they stand close at his door. •
Mr. SIMPSON—I cannot conceive that Mr. Davies's re-
spectability will be any the loser by such persons trying to
earn a hard living. Since I have had the honour to pre-
side at this office I could never find it in my heart to inflict
a fine on poor but industrious creatures, who have a severe
struggle to get a livelihood for themselves and their families.
Mr. SIMPSON then directed the poor woman, who was
dripping with wet, not to remain in one spot, but to walk
about while she was exposing her goods, and to tell the
companions of her calling of what he had instructed her.

LAUGHING GAS.—The merits of " Bentley's
Miscellany" entitle it to a rank the first among the foremost
of the periodical works of the day. Its distinguishing cha-
racteristics are its total exclusion of politics, and its being
devoted almost exclusively to mirth. " Boz" is the editor,:and
his coadjutors are Lover, Father Prout, Hook, and a whole
phalanx of wits. Lover and Cruikshank contend in pro-
voking merriment by the grotesque creations of their pen-
cils. That phlegm must indeed be irremovable which can
withstand the song called " Who are you," " Recollections
of Colman," " Metropolitan Men of Science," " Terence
O'Shaughnessy," '' Life of Tulrumble," and numerous
other papers of nearly equal merit. There is a very supe-
rior engraving, and very fine likeness of Colman, which,
itself, is worth the half-crown, the price of " The Miscel-
lany." We have all the leading periodicals of the month
before us, and have no hesitation in saying that " Bent-
ley's Miscellany" has no competitor amongst them, nor can
have if it continue to be but half as good !as the present
Number.—News.

The Limerick Star gives a striking illustration of
the growing disposition of the people to respect the laws.
Faction-fights at fairs are almost unknown, and in other
respects a proportionate diminution of crime has taken
place. Our contemporary points to the criminal business
at the quarter sessions of Rathkeale. "In January, 1833,
the assistant-barrister and jurors were occupied for five and
a-half days in trying cases. At the January sessions of
1837, just closed, the court was occupied for the short
period offive hours, and the cases were all for petty larceny."
TIIE DUCHESS OF LA VALLIERE AND MA-
DAME DE MAINTENON. In 2 vols.—" These two volumes
are written by the celebrated Countess de Geniis. The
first volume is devoted to the Duchess de la •Valliere, and
appears at a very opportune moment, Mr. Bulwer's drama
of the same name having brought the subject before the
English public with peculiar prominency. •, The most popu;
lar of the two volumes, however, will be the second, which
exclusively relates to Madame de Maintenon. She was an
extraordinary woman in many respects, and, though serious
blemishes attached to her moral character, there can be no
question she was the means of doing great good during the
period of her ascendancy over the mind of Louis the Four
teenth. In this volume there are a great many highly in-
teresting details. "—Observer. 'l "—Observer.

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