The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WORSIIIP-STREET.—IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VIC-
TUALLERS.—Mary Jackson, of the Salmon and 1311, Lamb.street, Spitalfields, was summoned for keeping her house open
at late hours.
The Bow-street patrol proved they found persons in the par-
lour with liquor in their glasses, about 17 minutes befote 12
o'clock at.night.
Mrs. Jackson admitted that persons were there, but she
•
proved that the tap-room was cleared at the proper hour ar4
and that the persons in the parlour were respectable tradesnieh,-
and that two of them had come a considerable distance, and on
their arrival came there for refreslunent.
Mr. BEVILL observed this was not a case for conviction.
The officer said, of this Were admitted, there would always be
found an excuse for parlour custom, and it would be no use for
the officers to trouble then,iselves about the parlour.
Mr. BEvrii...—Nor fs if our wish that you shodld trouble
yourselves with the parlour custom; where it is so respectable.
The act of Parliament says, " late hours ;" and in deciding what
late hours are, it leaves it to the discretion of the Magistrates,
and in exercising that discretion, they are aware, that what are
late hours to one class of. persons,
,may not be late hours to
another; and what may be a late hour for a labourer, may not
be, a late hour for a nobleman, or a person in a different station
of life. In administering the law, they were bound to extend:
it according to the purposes for which it was made.—The com-
plaint was accordingly dismissed.
BOW-STRF.ET.---CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—The driver of
a hackney-coach was charged, under the late Act of Parlia-
ment, with wilful cruelty to animals.—lt appeared from the
evidence of tic.° Gentlemen, Whose humanity induced them
to bring forward the charge, that the prisoner was driv-
ing a hackney chariot in Leicester-square, the horses
in it were so extremely weak and exhausted that they
were scarcely able to draw the vehicle, when the prisoner
flogged them to a very great excess, particularly about their,
heads; that they had every reason to believe he cut out one of
their eyes, and he gave one of them such a violent blow on his
head that it was heard at a considerable distance, and the poor
animal reared up with agony. The conduct of the prisoner at-
tracted a number of persons. The Gentlemen admitted, that
on the prisoner being remonstrated,with he was not impudent,
but, on the contrary expressed his sorrow for what he had done.
Mr. MINSHULL observed, that this was the first time the
Act of. Parliament had come under his cognizance ; and tinder,
all the circumstances he should inflict the smaller penalty which
was 10s., which the prisoner or his master not paying, he was
committed for fourdays.
11.1 Rua ono u Gn-s nma OT.-1n consequence of a re-
presentatiohat the office by the respectable inhabitants of Shep-
herd's Market, that fires were repeatedly made in the market
by a rabble who nightly assembled there, and the depreda-
tions committed upon property, the whole of the officers,
with plenty of assistance, repaired thither on Tuesday -even-
ing, it having been stated that the effigy of Guy Faux was
to be burnt there. An immense fire was burning, which the
officers put out, and they were assailed from the windows -
of the houses with stones, bottles, &c. John Probat, a but-
cher, was singled out as a ringleader, inciting the mob to as-
aaults, and he was secured. It was represented-4o the Magis-
trates that the nightly assemblage of vagabond boys was into-
lerable. Probat was ordered to find bail.

NEW LONDON BRIDGE.-The Bridge-House
Committee will, we are informed, enter, in the
course of this week, into an examination of the .
fifty-two plans for a new Bridge, sent in for their
decision. Before they commenced their task,
the Committee adopted an ingenious and effec-
tual plan to prevent partiality in their selection,
and to frustrate the efforts of those who would
have exercised strong interest in favour of parti-
cular plans. It was at first arranged that each
design sent in should have a particular motto.—
The name and address of the artist were written
in a sealed letter, which was endorsed with the
same motto. It was soon found, that although the
names of the artists were not mentioned, that per-
sons were disposed to exert themselves powerfully ,
in favour of those designs bearing particular mott-s.
The Committee, to put a stop to this system, before
they examined one of the designs, caused all •the. •
mottos upon them to be erased by two confi-
dential persons, and a number to be substituted.
A private account was taken of the numbers thus:
substituted for the mottos, which account was
immediately sealed up, and it will not be opened
until a decision has taken place. Other precau-
tions have been adopted by the Committee, to
the best of whose judgments the public may rely
on an impartial choice. The Committee, hoW-
ever, to whose pursuits matters of this kind are
foreign, do not intend to take the whole respon-
sibility of a decision upon themselves. They,`
made application to the Board of Works, that '
they, as a public body of scientific and practical
men, would examine the plans for the new bridge,
and give their opinions upon them for the benefit'
of the public. The Board, however, declined
taking upon themselves the task, and the Com-
mittee have in consequence deter Mined upon ap."
plying to a number of men of science, architects,,
engineers, and surveyors, by whose opinions and
advice they will be principally guided in this:
matter, in which the credit of the city is so much
at stake.

GUY FAUX DAY.—Tuesday night the whole
neighbourhood of Kennington was one scene of confusion, in
consequence of the celebration of the above day. The sky
was completely illumined by the various bonfires which had •
been made in the early part of the night, and sky-rockets: •
squibs, and every description of fire-works, were let off
in defiance of the public cautions that were generally issued
from the various Police Establishments. At a late hour of the
night the most grotesque figures, effigies of the izidivdual ,c)
whose memory the day was appropriated, were hoisted -ou
high gallows and consigned to the raging element, which very
soon demolished the men of straw, who bore tVeir sentence
without a groan. The hideous yells uttered by t.te wild groups
who attended the executions, reminded us of a body of savage
indulging in a peculiar ceremony,; and this lind of work was
carried on till a very late hour. Officers' attended at many
places, and took some persons into custay, but it was"im-
possible for them to attend at the num rrouo places where -
such proceedings were carried on. Numbers ofslight accidents
occurred, and the houses of the inhabit lots Updetwent the
greatest danger.

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING, PAPERS,
November 7, 18'22.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
M. de Chateaubriaud is, we learn, expected in
London by the end of the month. The return of
M. de Montmorency has also been announced in
the Paris Papers :—ln fact, the Congress has had
nothing to do. The Sovereigns had, no doubt,
made up their minds to do something, or they
ivotlld not have taken the trouble to cross the
Alps. As it would be next to madness to
expect any good from them, their inaction
mtist be viewed in the light of no ordinary
blessing. Even if we did not know of
their determination to enforce, wherever it
can be enforced, the Monarchical principle,
ai► assemblage of Despots or arbitrary Monarchs,
to regulate the affairs of the nations would, of
itself, be sufficiently alarming to those who have
at heart the welfare and improvement of the
Intn,an race. Thanks, however, to the instruc-
tions, of the Duke of Wellington, and the pru-
dent as well as manly part taken by the British
Cabinet, the prey has this time been withdrawn
from their grasp. The Royal vultures have been
deprived of their anticipated meal. With respect
to the Sovereign of Russia and Prince Metternich,
they must no doubt be greatly chagrined at the
disappointment they have experienced. They little
anticipated that the Government of England would
at last remember that it has duties towards its
own subjects, and that neither the advantage nor
the honour of the country could be promoted by
supporting a Confederacy which has for object
the triumph of barbarism and ignorance over
civilization. It was not by acting on the system
of the Holy Alliance that England became intel-
ligent, wealthy, and powerful, and it is not by
supporting that system that it can hope to con-
tinue so. The best reproof they can receive, is
the demonstration of their importance without
England, and the humiliating contrast now forced
on them between the resources of their overgrown
dominions, and those of a small island in the
Northern Ocean, naturally far from fertile, and
owing its productiveness chiefly to the industry
and enterprize of its inhabitants.

[TUE TIMES.]
Letters from Bahia to the 13th of September
were received yesterday. The expected contest
between the Portuguese and the Brazilians had
not taken place, but the crisis appeared to be
near at hand. General Le Batt, who com-
manded the Brazilians, had drawn his lines closer
to the city, and was receiving accessions to his
force. He had availed himself of the assistance
of a body of the natives, a class of men Su ffi-
cien tly formidable, and easily incited to join any
cause that held out the prospect of plunder. A
Portuguese soldier, who ventured beyond the en-
trenchments, had been found dead, pierced by a
poisoned arrow, the weapon used by tha natives.
General Madeira remained on the defensive, and
skewed no disposition to make the first attack.
This cautious conduct seems to have caused dis-
satisfaction to many of the Portuguese residents,
who urged more decisive measures, and who were
endeavouring to procure the removal of General
Madeira from the chief command.

[MORNING lIERAMLI
The Foreign Intelligence of yesterday would
induce a belief that the French Government me-
ditates making war upon Spain, even without
-waiting the determination of the Congress. This
is so improbable, that nothing but the most de-
cisive indications should obtain belief. The Go-
vernment of France has certainly shown its
hind—

" Willing to wound, but yet afraid to strike."
But it has been the general opinion, justified by
all appearances, that the more reflecting majo-'
rity of the advisers of the King had resolved to
sacrifice the gratification of the passions to consi-
derations of prudence. The symptoms of hosti-
lity are said to be at present multiplied and
strengthened. Accounts in the Paris Papers re-
present the Army of Observation as manifesting
signs of the opening of a campaign. This is not
all—French frigates are said to be cruising off
Cadiz and Corunna. It is true, under a pacific
pretext—that of protecting any French subjects
exposed to hazard in Spain. That this can be
no other than a mere pretext is obvious ; but it
is still more probable that there is in these ru-
mours—for they still are only such—much distor-
tion or exaggeration.