The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—HACKNEY-COACHES versus SHORT
STAGE-COACHEs.—Yesterday the Justice-Room was crowded
by the proprietors of the " short-stages," which convey passen-
gers from the city to the suburbs, and by hackney coach-owners
who have for some time past complained greatly that their
business is extremely injured by the great numbers of these
vehicles, which they allege illegally " ply" for hire, and make
a practice of taking up passengers, and setting them down, at
shorter distances than those which they are appointed to run.—
To try the question of the right of short stages to " ply" for
passengers, Charles Hearndon, the proprietor of the Kentish-
town stage, N 0.3,647, was summoned before the Lord MAY on,
at the instance of several respectable hackney coach-owners, on
a charge of having illegally plied for hire on the 9th Sept. last.
Mr. Burrx attended to conduct the prosecution for the hack-
ney coach proprietors. Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. ANDREWS
attended as Counsel for the proprietors of the short stages ; and
Mr. SYKES, of the Stamp Office, attended as Solicitor.
Having heard the argument on both sides,
The Loan MAYOR consulted with Mr. Hobler, the Chief
Clerk, and the City Solicitor : after which his Lordship an-
nounced, that after having considered the whole that had been
offered, he was clearly of opinion that the practice of the de-
fendants was legal, as the section of the Act cited had been re-
pealed by the operation of subsequent Acts. This decision
therefore confirms the right of the short stages to ply for .pas-
sengers.
GuiLD/I A William Eaton was charged by Mr. Au-
gustus Brown, of Wood-street, with having attempted toiim-
pose a piece of copper, or metal very little better than copper,
upon the house as gold. The prisoner had on Friday called at
the house, and left a small plate, which he said was gold, to be
assayed. He had frequently disposed of gold before to them,
and they were in the habit of assaying each plate at the corners.
They found, however, that the metal now presented to them
was not worth 20d. an ounce, instead of 255. having examined
it in the middle. When the defendant called next flay, they
' informed him of the quality of the metal, and taking the plate,
cut away the corners, which were of. gold, but bad been soldered.
on the plate and gave a value to- it, whiChitlostwhen they were
taken away. The prisoner had not received- any money for the
metal.

The Magistrate said the case was not in a fit state for a Jury
as no. money had been received.
Mr. Betts jun. of Long-acre, gold-refiner, stated that the
prisoner had disposed of several pieces of metal at his father's
house, and produced a piece which the prisoner, had imposed
upon them as gold, but which was of similar quality to that pro-
duced by the first complainant. Witness, however, did not wish
to press the case, as his father, without whose concurrence he
could not proceed, was not in town.—Under those circumstances
the defendant was discharged.

NEW REGULATION OF TIIE COLLEGE OF
SURGEONS :—" From and after the Ist January,
1823, not any candidate for the diploma, who
has not regularly attended three or more courses
of Anatomical Lectures in London, Dublin,
Edinburgh, or Glasgow, will be admitted to eK-
aminatioti."

A duel was fought yesterday morning in Bays-
water-fields, between a Mr. M—n—e and a Mr.
D—c--n, in consequence of a dispute on the
Doncaster St. Leger. Mr. M. was seriously
wounded in the right hip at the first fire.
On the 22d of August last 429 vessels, with
9,909 settlers, had arrived at Quebec this season.
During the alarm of Invasion, a Yorkshire
poacher was carried before a Justice on a charge
of wishing the French would land in Filey Bay.
On being asked how be could be so wicked as
to wish for the landing of the enemy, and parti-
cularly in a place where he had himself a family
and relation!.—" All I meant in wishing, your
Worship, for the French to land there was, that
your Worship might take their guns from them,
as you know you have done from me more than
once."

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Sunday morning, about
10 o'clock, an accident of a very dreadful nature,
which had nearly proved fatal to three persons,
occurred on Blackfriars-bridge :—A youth, nam-
ed Thomas Reynolds, groom to George Young,
Esq. of Lancaster-street, Burton-crescent, was
riding a spirited horse along Blackfriars-road,
when the animal became restive, and started off
at considerable speed. The youth kept his seat,
fearless of any danger ; and, on the horse reach-
ing the bridge, some persons joined arm-in-arm
to stop the career of the infuriated animal. At
the moment he came up to them he fell, and two
of the individuals were knocked down', and
slightly injured. The poor boy was not so for-
tunate : he fell over the horse's head, and, pitch-
ing on his skull, it was dashed literally to pieces.
It presented a most horrible spectacle. The un-
fortunate youth was conveyed to Guy's hospital in
a state of insensibility, and his death is momenta-
rily expected.
Between five and six o'clock on Saturday even-
ing last, Robert Hibbs, a convict under sentence
of two years imprisonment in the House of Cor-
rection, at Doncaster, contrived to effect his
escape from thence by forcing a long plank of
wood from one of the treads of the mill lately in-
troduced there, which he placed in a slanting di-
rection against the boundary wall of one of the
prison yards and gained the summit, and banging
by his hands dropped down on the .other side to
the ground, a distance of about 60 feet.