The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Nash, of Cateaton-street, attended yesterday
before Sir PETER LAURIE (who sat in the place of
Mr. Alderman Waithman), to show cause why be
refused to pay for the carriage and porterage of a
parcel from Carlisle.
The porter at the Three Cups, Aldersgate-street,
stwed the refusal to pay.
Mr. Nash said he objected because the parcel had
been taken to Liverpool, and there shifted from
coach to coach to enhance the charge, instead of
bringing it direct from Carlisle to London. The
parcel, which weighed but 3ibs., had been charged
4d. carriage; that is, 2s. 10d. for the 100 miles
Iron Carlisle to Liverpool, and only 2s. 6d. for the
<OO miles from Liverpool to London. An over-
charge of at least Is. 6d. had been made at Liver-
pool. The practice of sending parcels thus cir-
cuitously, instead of direct, was as great a grievance
as the increase of charge.

Sir PETER LAURIE said the evil was one of im-
portance to the mercantile world, but he did not
know that it as in his power to apply a remedy.
Ile fault was with the coach-office at Cid.lisle, and
not the innkeeper in London, who was charged by
the coach proprietors with the amount he had de-
manded of Mr. Nash. The charge must therefore,
be paid.
(7eorge Jones, Thomas Jones, and John Adams,
who were stated to be three of the " swell mob"
of pickpockets, were charged by John King, a City
officer, with attempting to steal a lady's reticule yes-
terday forenoon on London-bridge.
John Wallis, of the Albany-road, bookseller, de-
posed that two of the prisoners stepped. before the
lady to stay her progress and distract her attention,
a bile the third cut the strings of her reticule with a
Small penknife.
King corroborated this statement. There were
tivo gangs (one comprising fifteen persons) working
up and down on each side of the way from the
bridge to the top of Gracechurch-street, and the
prisoners were part of one of the gangs. He could
not take them all at once.
Sir PETER LAURIE said he should be satisfied if

he went on bringing three at a time.
Cowtan, the inspector, identified the knife as the
same that was found on Adams a week ago, whep
he was in custody for reticule-hunting on Ludgate-

hill. His brother-in-law was apprehended by Daniel
Forrester, on Thursday, on suspicion of stealing a
lady's purse, with 31. lOs. in it, which was detained.
Sir PETER LAURIE committed the prisoners to
hard labour for two months.
W ORSHIP- STREE T.

AN OLD GRUDGE.—Yesterday Law, a journey-
man carpenter, residing in the district of this office,
was charged with a,saulting a respectable-looking
man, named Johnson.

The complainant stated that on Wednesday even-
ing, near Finsbury-square, he accidentally met the
defendant, who owed him an old grudge. Themo-
ment defendant saw him he exclaimed, " There!s

the rascal I have been looking out for so many
years," and instantly followed up the words by aim-
ing a tremendous blow at his face, from the effects
of which he fell, and lay for a few moments in-
sensible.

A witncsc, who was passing at the time, corro-
borated his statement, adding that complainant's
face was streaming with blood.
Mr. BENETT to the prisoner—What have you to
say to this ? Defendant—(lmpudently)--What
have I to say ? why the case is this, that when I
met him he called me bad names, such as being a
thief and a coward ; and being' born of English
blood, I could not keep my temper, so I hit him,
that's all.
The complainant denied most positively having
used the offensive language imputed to him.
The Magistrate, on finding the evidence on the
other side against him, told him he was wrong in
using such language, and that if he chose he might
indict the defendant at the sessions, for which pur-
po,e he would hold him to bail.
The complainant left the office evidently dissatis-
fied with the result.

It is stated, on the authority of letters re--
ceived in Cork, that the I e isantry, to the number of
several thousands, had collected on. Tory Hill, in the
county of Limerick. So menacing was their appearance,
that the Gemral of this district left Cork yesterday for
Limerick, directing, before his departure, that a troop of ,
the Carabineers should be in readiness to proceed to Charle-
ville at a moment's notice.—Cork Reporter.
FACILITY OF SWIMMING.—The lighter the
body is in relation to its magnitude, the more easily will it
float, and a greater portion of the head will remain above
the surface. As the weight of the human body does not
always bear the same proportion to its bulk, the skill of
the swimmer is not always to be estimated by his success ;
some of the constituent parts of the human body are
heavier, while others are lighter, bulk for bulk, than
water. Those persons in whom the quantity of the latter
bear a greater proportion to the former, will swim with a
proportionate facility.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclo-
pedia, Vol. XVII.
DR. JOHNSON AT BANGOR.—Few of the
' present inhabitants of this city are aware of the fact of its
hiving been honoured by a short visit from the great lite-
rary lion of his day, Dr. SAMUEL JonNsoti. Such,
however, was the case, the Doctor having, in the summer
of 1783 or 1781, come into North Wales, in order to meet
and return to England with his friend Sir JOSEPH (then
Mr.) BANKS, who had been some time engaged in an ex-
amination of the Snowdon mountains. Arrived at
Bangor, the Doctor fixed his head-quarters at the house of
a widow lady of wealth and respectability, to whom he
brought letters of introduction, and who then inha-
bited the house now occupied as an inn, and bearing
the sign of the Vaynol Arms. Here Mr. BANKS
found the Doctor on the day after his arrival, and being
to dine with him, the lady of the house was at no small
pains to provide a mess worthy to be presented to the two
lions. Among other delicacies she prepared an apricot
tart, then a great rarity in this quarter, and for which the
fruit was furnished from the Bishop's garden. At dinner,
the lady, in the pride of her heart, could not refrain from
addressing the Doctor:—" Dr. JouNsoN, knowing you
to be fond of an apricot tart, I have made one, which I
hope you will do me the pleasure to partake of." " Have
you, indeed, my dear Madam," exclaimed the Doctor, his
eyes kindling with pleasure, " I am very fond of apricot
tart ; and in proof of his assertion, he instantly seized the
dish, dragged it towards him, and with one hand lifting off
the paste, with the other fed himself with the fruit until
he had fairly emptied the dish, on which he then carefully
replaced the paste, and shoving it back to its station in the
centre of the table, said to his astonished hostess, " There,
Madam, is your tart, which looks as before I touched it."
—North Wales Chronicle.

PROOF SPIRIT.—If oil, which rises to the
surface of the water, be mired with alcohol or some other
spirit, it will settle at the bottom. A weaker spirit is
heavier, bulk for hulk, than a strong one, and its strength
may be so far reduced that it will no longer float on the
surface of oil, but will sink below it ; this is the test which
fixes the strength of proof spirit. All spirit which floats
upon oil is said to be above proof.—Dr. Lardner's Ca-
binet Cyclopedia, Vol. X VII.

BIRTHS.
On the 16th inst. at St. Omer's, the lady of Captain Clifford,
Of a son.
On the 20th inst. at Staindrop, county of Durham, the wife of
Captain It. J. Castel!, of a daughter.
On the 21st inst. in York-terrace, the lady of W. Morgan,
Esq., of a daughter.
MARRIED.

On the .Ist inst. at St. Marylebone New Church, J. S. F. Tay-
lor, Esq. to Harriett, youngest daughter of the late J. Wad.
dilove, Esq.
On the tllst inst. at St. Marylebone, Mr. A. Knapp, of Ciren-
.7.e,ter-place, Marylebone, to Priscilla Bielefeld, daughter of J.
Bielefeld, Esq., of St. Martin's-lane.
On the 20th inst. at St. Pancras, R. W. Knapton, F•mi. of
Hamilton-place, New-road, to Caroline, eldest daughter of B.
Lacy, Esq., of Pentouville.
On the 20th inst. At Clifton, Gloucestershire D. Jamieson,
Esq. of Great Winchester-street, to Mary, eldest daughter of the
late C. M'Nish, Esq., of Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica.

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DIED.
On the 2_d inst. in Whitehall-place, Lady Wetherell, wife of
.iir C. Wetherell, M.P.
On the 2lst inst. in Rodney-buildings, New Kent-road, D.
Johnson, Esq. aged 79.
On the 20th inst. Mr. B. Corcoran, of Mark-lane, London, in
he 80th year of his age. •
On the '2lst inst. Elizabeth Eyre, the relict of the late Rev.
Thomas Ash.
On the inst. at York-terrace, Regent's-park, Mary, the
.vife of IL Small, Esq.
On the 2ith inst. at Enfield, J. Abernethy, Esq. F.R.S.

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