The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
A Scotch gentleman, who appeared in the charge list un-
der the feigned name of Charles Grant, was brought before
Sir P. LAURIE► (who sat for the Lord Mayor), charged with
having tumbled about the streets on Thursday night, in an
" awful" state of intoxication.
A constable stated that the gentleman rolled about Cheap-
side, and his condition was so awful that he made for the part
of the street in which the labourers were working at the large
sewer, and might have pitched in if he had not met a pro-
tector. Witness guessed what countryman he was when he
got close to the sewer, for the moment he put his nose over it
he began to recover, and feel quite at home. Witness was,
therefore, under the necessity of taking care of him elsewhere.
Sir P. LAURIE—How much money had he about him ? Con-
stable—About 8001. in cash and bills.
Sir P. LAuatc—And he's from the North too 1—( A laugh.)
Defendant—l am ashamed of myself, Sir. Ido declare
most solemnly that I was never in sic a scandelous condee-

tion before.
Sir P. LAURIE—Are you a clerk or a principal ? Defen-
dant—A principal, truly.
Sir P. LAI/sic—This is very bad. You might have lost
your life, or been robbed of all this property, if it had net
been for our police.
Defendant—l am aware that my condeetion must have been
deplorable, and lam heartily ashamed of it. It shall neever
happen again.
Sir P. LAURIE—Have a care. Remember, then, when a
Scotchman turns drunkard, he beats all other nations in that
vice.

Defendant--It is quite impossible that I can be so much
degraded again.
Sir P. LAURIE -I hope so, indeed. Pay five shillings for
this degradation, and remember that you are indebted to the
officer for protection.
The officer said that the gentleman had very kindly offered
him a sovereign.
The defendant then retired, evidently embarrassed at the
shake of the head which Sir Peter gave upon advising him
against any more taking a mouthful of the enemy.
The next person brought up was a raw-looking fellow who
had come to town with cattle. He was found lying drunk in
the street.
Sir P. LAURIE- Why this fellow is from the north, too.
Officer—Yes, Sir Peter, he is a Scotchman. I never see
a more drunken man than he was. He was terrible bad, to
be sure.

Sir P. LAHRIE—What have you to say for yourself? I sup-
pose you were never drunk before either ?
Defendant—Neever afore, your Lordship. I cam to toon
yesterday wi' beasts, and hoo I got into the mud I don't
know, but I don't recollect taking anything but a wee drap
of whiskey.
The officer said that the man must have been drinking a
great part of the day as he was in so helpless a state.
Sir P. LAURIE—WeII, if you never drank before, the dose
you have had, and the consequences will, I hope, be a lesson
to you.

Defendant—l'll neever touch it again.—(A laugh.)
The next person put to the bar was an elderly genteel.
looking man. He was charged with having been so drunk as

The prisoner was held to bail.
John Morgan, driver of hackney coach 1,775, was placed at
the bar charged with the following robbery :
Mrs. Sarah Holden, of High street, Shoreditch, stated that
the preceding afternoon she arrived in the Borough from Or-
pington. She hired a coach from the stand in Blackman-
street, into which her luggage was put. She entered the
coach, and had with her a reticule, in which were four sove-
reigns, 4s. 6d., and a few bottles of medicine. As it was
heavy she placed it upon the seat. When she reached her
home the prisoner took out the luggage, which he gave to her
brother. She received all but her reticule, which she forgot
till the prisoner had left. She then communicated the rob-
bery to her husband, who applied to Tilt, an officer of this
establishment.

James Tilt said that he accompanied the witness's husband
to the inn ii the Borough, when he found the number of the
coach to be 3,089.

Mr. GROVE—Then he was not the proper driver? Tilt—
No, Sir.
Mr. GROVE (to the prisoner)—Did the proprietor of the
coach give you leave to drive? The prisoner said that he
did not.
Tilt stated that he went to the proprietor, who is Mr.
James Thomas Watts, who gave him the name of the proper
driver, and by whose directions he succeeded in finding out
the prisoner. While he was in his custody, on passing the
rank of coaches in Blackman-street, some of the drivers called
out to him, " What about the medicine," showing that they
had some knowledge of the robbery.
Thomas Holden deposed that the prisoner gave him all the
luggage except the reticule.
The prisoner, who denied the robbery, was remanded for a
we: k.

gentleman On Tuesday evening the family of a
re-
siding in the vicinity of Dorset-square were tikown into a
state of the greatest anxiety in consequence of tht disappear..
ance of his niece, who was under his guardianship. It ap-
pears that the young lady had feigned a slight indisposition to
be excused accompanying her relatives to the theatre. The
footman, on his return from leaving them at the Haymarket
Theatre, having a message to deliver to her from his mistress,
was much alarmed at not finding her in the house, particularly
as a female domestic was likewise absent, and a letter in the
hand-writing of the young lady was on the parlour table. He
immediately took a cab, and hastened back to the theatre, and
delivered it to her uncle, who instantly returned home, and,
obtaining a clue to her destination from the letter, forthwith
ordered post-horses, and went in pursuit of the fair fugitive. It
is rumoured in the neighbourhood that she has placed herself
under the protection of an officer of high rank in the army,
who is upwards of 30 years her senior, and was on terms of
the greatest friendship with the family, who had not the most
remote idea of his intentions. The young lady has but just
entered her nineteenth year, possessed of great personal at-
tractions, and will be entitled to considerable property on at-
taining her majority.
The Courrier de Lyons announces the recent cap-
ture of a robber chief on the Swiss frontier, who was the head
of three formidable bands, one in France, one in Italy, and the
third in Switzerland. He has been brought to Lyons, where
he had formerly lived under his own name, but, at the same
time carried on his nefarious practices with the aid of his
French associates. He is an Italian by birth, and in the prime
of life. When taken be had a passport under a false name,
signed by the Duke de Montebello.

A company of coal-owners in England," says the
Debats, "have recently entered upon an immense speculation.
They are about to despatch forty vessels laden with this fuel,
for supplying Paris and the numerous manufactories in its
environs. They are expected to enter the Seine in the course
of next month. The duties upon this coal, before it can be
brought into consumption, are estimated at 1,250,000 francs,
of which about 700,000 will be for the customs, and the re-
mainder for the Octroi duties on coming into Paris."
On Thursday an inquest was held at the Town Hall,
Gravesend, on the body of Mr. William Elder, aged 45, late
of the firm of Alexander Elder and Co., bankers in Kircud-
brightshire, Scotland, who put an end to his life last Sunday
by hanging himself. From the evidence it appeared that de-
ceased was the owner of the Manganese mines, near Gotten-
burg in Swedes. In consequence of the mercantile embar-
rassments of the house of Eider and Co., about eighteen years
since, the deceased became so much affected that it was ne-
cessary to detain him for some sime in a lunatic asylum in
Scotland. About that time the deceased leased his property
in the mines to the house of Ebenezer Ferrier and Co., of
London, and from these parties he was to receive a certain
sum for every ton of ore they shipped; but in the contract it
was not made obligatory that the lessees should ship at certain
times or in given quantities. It accordingly happened that
they exhumed great quanties of the ore and carried it off by $
railroad. Being thus disappointed of a considerable incoznt;
the deceased came to London last August and submitted b
case to Sir William Follett, by whom he was advised tos lessees,
en-
deavour to come to some friendly arrangement witbthets
p,
he,
for by the loose manner in which the lease was drawn
was completely at their mercy. The deceased was
unsettled
affected on this account, and his mind bad been very
of late. Verdict—Temporary derangement,
STONE COFFINS.--
dof St. Dennis, Walmgate,
a grave in the church-yard On Sunday last,. in digging
the skeletons of two children. in this city, two small stone coffins
nc.offinßs wytehreesfioduenodf,
tihnewghriacvhewwere
das
The two taken up had the places where
a stone coffin of a size sufficient for an adult, which, however,
was not disturbed.
the head had lain rounded out. This church, it is perhaps
of our readers, is noted for having been the
the noble Pereies," Dukes of Northumbee-
land. Tbkenroiwalnptioshernee
alYf l
place where these relics of a former age were di,
covered is the site of what had formerly been the chanetl of
the church, which has been originally much larger than at
preseYontrk Courant, and
it
depth from the surface was about seven feet,
.

A BOILED TOOTH.--A boy of the name of Havard,
living at Crickhowell, had a tooth extracted ; he returned
home, boiled it a quarter of art hour, and replaced it. It is
now as useful as ever. A recipe to that effect appeared a
newspaper some time ago.—Merthyr Guardiax.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON B RIDGIE TO MORROW.
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