The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HA TTO.N GARDEN.
Yesterday Mr. Thomas John Wall, gentleman, of Sey-
mour-street, Brunswick-square, was brought before Messrs.
BENNETT and RocEas, in the custody of Sergeant Campbell,
16, E division, charged by Mr. Page, of Kenton-street,
Brunswick-square, with having cut and wounded him.
Mr. BENNETT ordered the prisoner to find bail to appear at
the Sessions to answer the charge.

MARLBOROUGH. STREET.
Louisa Talbot, alias the Hon. Mrs. Talbot, was brought
before Mr. CONANT and Mr. COChTOY, for further examina-
tion on numerous charges of swindling.
The first charge was that of Mr. Churton, linendraper,
Oxford-street. The prisoner went into the complainant's
shop in January last, and obtained a shawl and a handkerchief.
She stated her residence to be at No. 36, Harley-street.
This address was ascertained to be incorrect.
Mr. CONANT—Did you trust the prisoner from her respect-
able appearance? Complainant—Yes, believing her state-
ment to be true.
Mr. CONANT—We cannot go further with this charge ; it
does not amount to a false pretence in law. Have you re-
ceived back your goods? Complainant—Yes, I have.

Mr. R. Marchant, silversmith, 351, Oxford-street, next
came forward. On the 13th of November last the prisoner
came into his shop, and on representing herself to be Mrs.
Kendall of No. 20, Oxford-terrace, she was allowed to take
away two pair of knife-rests, value 9s. The prisoner promised
to call and pay for them the next day. The knife-rests were
found in the hands of Mr. Ncate, pawnbroker, Duke-street.
Mr. CONANT.—Do you know any one of the name of Ken-
dall ? Mr. Marchant.—Yes ; Mr. Kendall, now of Univer-
sity-street, who formerly lived at No. 20, Oxford-terrace, is a
customer. He had left Oxford-terrace at the time the pri-
soner represented herself to be Mrs. Kendall.

Mr. •CONANT.--Would you have trusted her had you
thought she was not the person she represented herself to be ?
Mr. Marchant.—Certainly not.
Mr. Coventry, umbrella-maker, Oxford-street, proved that
the prisoner had obtained a silk umbrella in November last.
The umbrella was pledged at Mr. Neate's shop.
On investigation the evidence was not sufficiently strong to
sustain the charge of fraud ; and Mr. Neate expressed his
willingness to restore the umbrella.
The prisoner was then occlered to stand remanded till Sa-
turday next, at one o'clock. She appeared very dashingly
dressed, and her manners are calculated to deceive the un-
wary. She is rather short, and appears somewhere about
thirty-three.

WONDERS OF THE FROST.—A Berkshire paper
vouches for the fact, that on Saturday last, in fulfilling an
order fur a quantity of milk, the vendor, in order to prevent
disappointment, forwarded, a distance of five miles, half a gal-
lon in a frozen state, tied up in a newspaper. On being
heated, the milk is stated to be as good as ever. The York-
shire Gaz6tte of Saturday last records that "in a field near
Darlington a sparrow was taken hanging to the branch of a
tree. It was discovered to be frozen to the twig on which it
Lai perched, and could not disentangle itself."
We understand that so great is the urgency of the
distress existing among the poor at this inclement season,
especially among the Irish, that last week there was an order
made for more than 100 of the most indigent natives of that
country to be admitted into the poor-houses connected with
this town, as a temporary asylum from the storm.—Sheffield
Chronicle.

The Berlin Journal of Voss has the following
from the 'Dardanelles, December 20.--" During the high
north winds, from the 15th to the 18th of December, 120
ships passed the Straits without stopping at the Castles to
deliver their firman, as the regulations require. The Pacha
has complained of this violation of the treaties with the Porte,
and these complaints have been communicated to the Mini-
ters of the European Powers at Constantinople."
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, between
one and two o'clock, W. Hobbs, aged 40, expired in Charing-
cross Hospital, from the injuries he sustained by being run
over by a waggon loaded with coals, which he was driving up
Villiers-street, Strand, about four o'clock on the preceding
afternoon. The fore and hind wheels passed across the un-
fortunate man's abdomen ; he was removed to the hospital
with the blood gushing from his mouth, and endured the most
excruciating sufferings until he expired. The deceased has
left a wife and large family.
Notwithstanding the peaceful results which the daily
disastrous defeats of the Canadian insurgents are likely to lead
to, the recruiting is still going cn briskly both for the army
and the navy. Yesterday immense placards were posted at
the Admiralty, offering great attractions to able-bodied seamen,
in the shape of an immediate supply of grog and provisions,
and stating that they would be instantaneously placed on full •
pay. These lures, accompanied by a love of glory, which is
never a minor consideration in the estimation of a Briton, had
the desired effect, and during the day crowds of aspirants in
search of laurels had assembled around the depot in Thames-
street, eager to accept the wages of their country.
THE WEATHER.--The thaw has proceeded with
such rapidity as to have entirely altered the appearance of the
parks, which have been comparatively deserted. The water
is two or three inches deep on the ice, and there were few such
ardent lovers of skating, as to feel desirous to enjoy it under
such circumstanees. One or two did, however, splash through
the water, no doubt to the surprise of the geese and ducks in
St. James's-park. The ice in the river is a great deal de-
tached from the shore, and activity once more prevails on the
wharfs at the river side. In many parts the ice is so thick,
and has got so high up, that some time will elapse before it
can be wholly removed.
The flax-spinners in the north of England have
been much surprised by the recent observatiJns of a Morning
Contemporary on the export of that material to France.
Speaking of the French convention of manufacturers now in
session at Paris, it is observed by our contemporary that they
have become alarmed at the introduction of our linen yarns,
and propose to recommend a prohibitory duty for the protec- •
tion of the flax-spinners of France. The Yorkshire spinners,
however, have investigated this announcement against their
export trade, and have sent up a deputation on the subject to
the Bard of Trade. There is nothing whatever to be appre-
hended, we think, from the rivalry in manufactures of a country
where coals and iron are subject to a high duty on importa-
tion, and where a thousand other monopolies and prohibitions
are among the long list of anti-commercial regulations by
which the industry of France is so much oppressed.
Coals at this time are full 425. per ton, at Rouen, which
is termed by our contemporary the Manchester of France•
whilst steam-engines are about one hundred per cent•
more expensive than in England, and the advantages
in cheaper provisions and lower wages of labour are
by far outweighed by the superior skill and steadiness of the
higher-paid operative manufacturers of blanch,•ster and Leeds.
With fuel about 400 per cent. dearer than in Yorkshire and
Lancashire, there is no fear whatever of any permanent rivalry
in flax-spinning or weaving on the part of the population of
France. Even the cotton-manufacturers exist in that country
by means only of enormous bounty upon the export article ;
thus purchasing a kind of spurious prcsperity to one small
district of the country at the expense of all the remainder of
the population of France. The silk-manufacturers of the
southern provinces exist also with difficulty, amidst all the
starvation of the operatives of Lyons and Marseilles, although
France has the advantage of raw silk grown in the country
duty free; whilst the English silk-manufacturers have to Rat
a high duty upon the raw material, with all the freight, in"
ranee, and other charges attending its importation. sup-
posing the linen yarns of England to he excluded by a pro-
hibitory duty, as proposed by the Convention of Manufac-
turers, then the price of the article will rise to double its pre-
sent amount, and the temptation to the smuggling of English
yarns be accordingly doubled forthwith. Considering that the
fabric of linen is on the averacre fully doubly dearer than that
of cotton, there is no doubt whatever that the smuggling of
English linen yarns and linen would become at once a very
considerable branch of the French contraband trade. That
the rise in the price of linen would decrease its consumption
in France is an injury which the English flax-spinners would,
no doubt, have to apprehend from the proposed addition to
the barbarous mercantile regulations of the French, for to
spin a material such as flax in opposition to the manufacturers
of England, assisted by the smugglers of France, is held to be
impracticable to any very serious extent • and the only opera-
tion of such a rise in the duty upon linen will be to condemn
the French to the use of inferior Cotton articles of dress, and
thus to exemplify still further the folly and self-inflicting na-
ture of all such stupid systems of prohibitory laws.

BIRTHS.
On the 28th inst., the Countess of Burlington, of a son.
On the 27th inst., in Hill-street, the lady of W. Strahan, Esq.,
of a son and heir.
On the 28th inst.., in Portland-place, the lady of Captain Goldin
Taubman, Seots Fusilier Guards, of a son.