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London, England, 1830-06-24 00:00:00

SCOTCH BURGH POLICE BILL.
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The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a Bill to
appoint a police in the Royal Burghs of Scotland.
CORN LAWS.

Lord MILTON gave notice, that he would on
Tuesday next bring forward a motion relative to the
corn laws, which dropped yesterday.
Mr. MABEILLY gave notice, that he would, on
the third reading of the Beer Bill, move a clause,
to enable the publicans to avoid ruin, by giving them
a certain time to withdraw from their business.
The clause would prohibit drinking beer on the
premises where it was sold, till the 10th Oct., 1832.
SUGAR DUTIES.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
in reply to a question from Mr. P. Thomson, stated
that he should certainly bring up the report of the
sugar duties to-morrow, if convenient ; if not to-
morrow, on Friday.
LABOURERS' WAGES' BILL•

Mr. LITTLETON moved that the Labourers'

Wages' BM should be recommitted.

Mr. HUME seized the opportunity to object to
the principle of the Bill. He had never before,
though he had waited for three months, found an oc-
casion of answering the long statement made by the
Hon. Gentleman on introducing the Bill. It was
contrary to the correct principle to impose restraints
on workmen making their own bargain with their
employers ; it was contrary also to the laws already
existing on the subject, and it would put a stop to
half the manufactures in the kingdom. Tke lion.
Member, after reading a number of letters and docu-
ments tending to prove that the measure of the Hon.
Member for Staffordshire (Mr. Lyttleton) would
exaggerate the evils it professed to remedy, ex-
pressed his determination to oppose the further pro.
gress of the Bill. To accede to the Bill would be
to increase the flame of discontent. In nine cases
out of ten the truck system was advantageous to
the manufacturing interests. The Hon. Gentleman
concluded by moving, as an amendment, :that the
subject be taken into further consideration on that
day six months.

Mr. ROBINSON supported the amendment. To
put an end to die truck system would, in many cases,
put an end to the employment of the workimn
altogether.
Mr. LITTLETON contended, that the truck
system had grown to such a height, that unless
some steps were taken to repress it, the greatest
discontent and most serious evil 4 would ensue. Ile
had received representations from all parts of the
kingdom to that effect. The Legislature had no al-
ternative but to put an end to the system, or to
admit of the utter extinction of the middle clasees
in the manufacturing districts, and to leave none
there bat the great manufacturers and their de-
pendents.
Mr. HUDSON GURNEY rose amidst loud
cries of question. The Hon. Gentleman opposed
the Bill.

Mr. N. CALVERT would support the Bill, as
an experiment.

Mr. E. DAVENPORT felt the greatest obliga-
tions to the lion. Member for Staffordshire for
having brought forward this measure.

Sir R. PEEL supported the Bill, being convinced
that no system was so calculated to destroy the in-
dependence of the workmen as the truck system.
Such a system was not necessary to the carrying on
of the manufacture, as was proved by the example
of Manchester, in which it did not exist. Although
he admitted that there might be some objections to
the measure, yet, apprehensive of a further exten-
sion of the present system, he gave his cordial as-
sent to their attempt to put an end to it. -

Lord STANLEY said, that unless some steps
were taken, the system would soon be greatly ex-
tended.
Mr. W. SMITH supported the Bill.
Mr. WARBURTON gave his decided opposi-
tion to it.

Mr. SLANEY, after considerable difficulty, had
made up his mind to support the Bill.
Mr. MABERLY opposed the Bill, on the ground
of the inexpediency of any interference on the sub-
ject of the purchase of labour.
On a division there appeared—.
For the Amendment 4
Against it
Majority
On re-entering the gallery we found the House

in conversation, during which Mr. nom, we Le-
lieve, contended and insisted that the Bill ought not
to be re-committed on a Wednesday evening, and
n such an empty House.
The gallery was then cleared, but we understood
that no division took place, and that the question
was adjourned to Friday next._

The Scotch Judicature Bill was read a shirt
time and passed.
The dropped Orders of yesterday were then re.
appointed,—Adjourned. •

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A fellowship porter, named Bellamy, was sum-
moned before the LORD MAYOR, under the follow-
ing circumstances
William Gibson, a lad who is in the habit of pur-
chasing fish in Billingsgate-market, deposed that he
went to the market a few mornings ago, and paid to
the defendant the sum of five shillings for a quarter
of a hundred of mackarel. His basket was, accord-
ing to the usual practice, sent into the hold for the
quantum of fish, but it never appeared again, and
he applied in vain to the seller for the fish or the
basket, or the money. He could receive no satis-
faction whatever, and upon making his complaint to
the Clerk of the Market, he was advised to repre-
sent the matter to the LORD MAYOR.
The defendant declared that every person who
paid him sris sure to receive the fish purchased
with the money. He begged to he allowed to assure
the LORD MAYOR, that the fellowship porters were
subject to great losses and annoyance from the boys
of this description who infested the market.
' The LORD MAYOR asked the boy whether he
could have made a mistake as to the person to whom
he paid the money 7—Gibson replied that it was
impossible. He had positively handed to him the
`money and basket at the same time ; the basket
went below, but he never set eyes on it since.
The defendant again insinuated that the com-
plainant was not a good character.
The LORD MAYOR—Do you know any thing
against the ezracter of this boy ? He does not ap-
pear to me to be an improper person.—The defen-
dant said he could not himself say that he knew
any thing bad in the boy's conduct, but a comrade
seemed to know him pretty well.
Here another fellowship porter declared that the
boy had in the first instance accused him of the con-
duct just complained of.
Gibson asserted, most vehemently, that he never
had.

The witness said he, moreover, knew the corn-
plainant to be connected with a gang that infested
the market, and that the boy and his " collegians"
were constantly about the place watching for oppor-
tunities to commit plunder.
The LORD MAYOR—If that be the case, it is
impossible I can believe a word of the charge against
the defendant. Gibson—l never was dishonest,
my Lord. Can he say what I ever did to make me
deserve such a character. This is all done to deprive
me of my property. My basket, that cost me .ss. 4d.
is gone, as well as my money.
The LORD MAYOR (to the witness)—You say you
know this boy to be a bad character ? Witness—
Please your Worship„he was publicly whipped at
the cart's. tail the whole length of the New-road,
Deptford. He was, selp me G—d.
Gibson—Oh, Lord ! oh, Lord ! Whipped ! For
what was I whipped ? Witness—For what ? Why
for thieving, to be sure.
The LORD MAYOR—Aye, aye ; so you have been
whipped, have you ? Gibson (much affected)—
Oh, never, never, my Lord, except once, when I
was a little child at school, and I was never whipped
after, and that was lower down than my back,
please your Lordship.
Witness—l can prove it, my Lord, that he was
whipped ; for I can bring you a note from the Ma-
gistrate at Deptford the first day I can go there con-
veniently.
Stay, said the LORD MAYOR, I don't like to give
you so much trouble. We shall decide the matter
here. If he has been whipped at the cart's tail, he
must have some marks of the cat upon hira. His
Lordship then desired Foster, the Marshalman, to
take the boy aside and examine his back.
Gibson threw off his coat in an instant, and would
have thrown off his shirt too before the whole room,
if he had been permitted. The witness's face
dropped the moment he saw that his veracity was
likely to be called in question. In a minute Foster
returned, and said there was not the slightest mark
upon the complainant's person; and the Lord Mayor
ordered that the defendant should not be discharged
from custody until the boy received the sum he had
paid, and the price of his basket.
Two Irishmen named Mahony and Barry, were
charged by a third named Casson, with having
stolen his coat and waistcoat from off his back.
Casson said he had just come home invalided from
India, where he had been for sixteen years. He
went into a public-house near the East India-house,

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and sat down, 1: n d in came the prisoners and another
man, and they took him out and introduced him to
another public-house, so one of them told him to
pull of his coat and waistcoat, and he did.

The LORD MAYOR—What for ? To fight or to
be whipped ?—( Laughter.) Cason—Neither, your
Lorthhip. I tuck it off to be measured.
The LORD MAYOR—For a wager, I suppose ?
Casson—No; d---1 a bit of a wager there was either.
I tuck it off b( cruse they tould me I was to be mea-
sured in the body.

The LORD MAYOR—Aye, it was not necessary
for them to measure your head ; they had taken an
accurate:measure of that before. (A laugh.) Casson
—So, your Lordship, when I tuck off my clothes,
one of 'em whips 'em up, runs off with 'em, and
the rest followed him, and left me " vacant" in the
room, without a stitch on me.---(Laughter.)
The LOUD MAYOR--Why they did'nt take your
shirt off your back, did they ? Casson—No, my
Lord ; I mean I hadn't a stich of a coat or waist-

coat on me.
The LORD MAYOR— Pray, were you in company
or alone, when they went to invite you to the other
public-house ? Casson—Oli, I was in company,
your Worship.
The LORD MAYOR—With whom ? Casson—
Who with ! Why, with myself, to be sure.
The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word, then, it
would have been much better for you to have re-
mained alone with that company, than to have gone
to have your body measured. Pray, did you know
these men ? Casson—No, I never saw them
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before ; but I know they tuck me away to rob me.
I seen them all three go out with my clothes.
Mr. Hobler—And didn't you call out after them,
" stop thief?" Casson—No; where was the use
it ? D—l a word I said ; for I knew it was of no use.
Mr. nobler—Use ! Certainly it might have been
of use. They might have been stopped, and you
have got your clothes. Casson—No; it was no
use. I didn't call out after 'em.

Mr. Hobler—But quietly suffered yourself to be
robbed ? Casson—Yes, your Worship—( Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor found, upon further investiga-
tioy, that Casson had been drunk; that he went into
one public-house without a coat and waistcoat, and
asked for his clothes, although he was never in the
house before.

The prisoners assured the Lord Mayor that
Casson had told him thumping lies. They were then
discharged.

ROW-STREET.

Information was received at this office in the
course of last week, of the elopement of a young
lady from her father's residence, in the neighbour-
hood of Shaftesbury, and the companion of her
flight 10,3 described as a foreigner, named Stanislaus
Jaunsen, a description of whose person was also
forwarded. The elopement took place on the night
of the 28th of May; and the family of the young
lady were greatly distressed upon ascertaining the
step she had taken. Every exertion was made to
discover the retreat of the lovers, but without effect;
and the father of the lady, thinking that his daughter
might be secreted somewhere in the neighbourhood
of the metropolis, determined to proceed at once to