The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MaxsioN-Honst.—Yesterday, a drover was brought be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, charged by the Rev. Mr. Brougham,
one of the members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, with having neglected $o wear his badge. The
Reverend Gentleman spoke in strong terms of the cruelties
which he raid were still daily perpetrated in Smithfield by
the drovers on the poor animals placed tinder their charge.
The officers rarely, if ever, interfered, and the difficulty of
checking these brutal practices was greatly increased by the
non-compliance of the drovers with the Act of Parliament,
which required that they should wear badges when on duty. Mr.
Scales, a butcher, of Whitechapel, spoke in terms of strong
condemnation of the utter inefficiency of the city officers in pre-
ventiflg outrages and disorders in Smithfield market. They
spent their time, he stated, in sauntering round the pavement,
leaving the centre of the market wholly unattended. Mr.
Brown, the Marshal, and the officers present, denied the state-
ments of Mr. Scales. Mr. Brougham exhibited to the Lord
Mayor an ash stick, which was about 5 feet in length, and as
thick as the strongest walking-stick used by old men. It was
armed at the end with a nail, rather more than half an inch long.
—The Rev. Gentleman begged to ask his Lordship whether he
thought that a proper weapon to be used in driving cattle ? The
LORD MAYOR replied, that he must confess that if he were
driving an ox or a bull, an animal which he believed did not at
all times preserve his temper, he should prefer having a weapon
for his own defence at least as strong as that exhibited. Every
thing would, however, depend upon the mode in which the
weapon was used.—As the drover, who was charged with
having been without a badge, was not driving cattle at the
time he was seen by the Rev. Gentleman, the Lord Mayor dis.
charged him. His Lordship expressed his opinion, that the
Society had done much good, but he apprehended that the zeal
with which the objects were pursued was often immoderate.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday, Mr. Allcroft, the landlord of the
watering-house in the Old Bailey, and Roberts, the waterman
of the coach-stand in Smithfield, appeared to answer the com-
plaint of Wm. Barrow, the engineer of the printing-machine at
L a newspaper-office, who alleged, that seeing some coachmen come
in with a gentleman who had a considerable quantity of gold
about him, and perceiving by their winks and nudges that they
intended to rob him, he took the liberty of givingthe gentleman
a hint,when the whole body of coachmen fell on him, beat him,
and robbed him of 3s. and a handkerchief. He could not
identify Roberts as one of the men who struck him. Mr. All-
croft, in his defence, said, he took care the gentleman should
not be robbed, and that the complainant was drunk, quarrel-
some, and uncontroulably pugnacious. That he said nothing
of the loss of the money at first, and that the watchman Offered
to search every body in the room to recover the handkerchief,
but the complainant declined that course. Sir JAMES SHAw
dismissed the complaint, conceiving that the complainant might
have lost, though he did not miss, his hankerchief before he
entered the house, and because Barrow admitted he could not
say any one in particular had struck hiin a single blow.

BOW-STREET.—A young fellow, named James Edwards,
was brought before Mr. HALLS yesterday; charged on suspicion
of having stolen a 101. Bunk note, a gold watch, and other va-
luables, the property of his late master, Mr. Fryer, of the Upper
mall, Hammersmith.—The prisoner had been in Mr. Fryer's
service more than t*o years, when, on the 9th of last Septem-
ber, he was discharged under the following circumstance :—On
the evening of that day the house was robbed of the property
in question, in such a manner as made it evident that . it was
done with the contrivance of some of the servants. The drawers
and other places of security had been forced open, and a 101.
note, 8 sovereigns, a gold repeating-watch; and several valu-
able lace dresses taken away. In consequence of this robbery,
Mr. Fryer not being able to fix his suspicions upon any one par-
ticular servant, discharged the whole of them, and nothing fur.
ther was heard of the matter until within these few days when it
was discovered that the 101. note had been offered in payment for
some articles of drapery at the shop of Mr. Rawlins, in Oxford-
street, by the prisoner's mother-in-law, and upon being ques-
tioned, she admitted that the prisoner had employed her to get
it changed, and had instructed her to give a false name and
address. The prisoner was committed for trial, and his mother-
in-law was held to bail for her appearance to give evidence.

MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday William Thurlow, an appren-
tice to Mr. Fen wick, a farrier, of Marylebone-lane, was charged
with cruelty to one of Lord Templetown's horses.—Mr. Fen-
wick stated, that he had several times seen the prisoner treat
the horses which were brought to his shop in a very cruel man-
ner, and repeated complaints had been made of the blemishes
that horses received while in his shop. He had endeavoured,
by every means in his power, to prevent such cruelty, but with.
out effect. On Monday, two of Lord Templetown's horses were
sent to his farriery, and the moment the prisoner had shoed one
of them, he struck the animal on the quarter with a rasp
eighteen inches long, and inflicted a deep wound at every blow
he made. This account was confirmed by other witnesses.—The
prisoner, in his defence, said, that he only struck the horses
when in a passion.—Mr. RawLitisorr told Wm, that if he did
not apologise to his master, and promise to behave better in fa-
ture, he would commit hint to prison.—The prisoner imme-
diately said, he would never again be guilty of such conduct,
and he was discharged.

MARLBOILOTIGH-STREET.—Yesterday, Helen Kelly, an
old woman, the mother of Patrick Doyle, whose wife was
tried last Old Bailey Sessions, on a charge of having mur-
dered him in St. Giles's, was charged with committing
an act of vagrancy. The old woman had three half-starved
and half naked children with her they were her grand-
children' and the surviving children of the deceased
Patrick Doyle. It was sworn that she had begged in the Qua.
drant, Regent-street. The Magistrate ordered her to be
committed for one month ; and the children, in the mean time,
to be taken care of in St. Giles's Poor-house. The old woman,
on hearing the order for her imprisonment, fell upon her knees,
and uttered an exclamation in the Irish language—she looked
piteously at the Magistrate, and the children rushed to her, and
clung round her. In her agony, she tore nearly all the rags
from her half-naked body, and, it required six officers to force
the children from her, and to place her in the lock-up-room.

BIRTH.
At Perto, on the 3d inst., the lady of Charles (forme, Esq.,
of a son.

MARRIED.

On the 15th inst., at Vivey, in Switzerland, Charles Denis,
eldest son of Rodolph du Thou, Lieutenant du Consul d'Etat.
to Frances Amelia, daughter of the late Thomas Rundell, Esq.,
of Bath.

By special license, at Rosehill, Colonel Thackery, of the
Royal Engineers, to the Right Honourable Lady Elizabeth
Carnegie, daughter of the Earl of Northesk.
At it. Martin's-in-the-Fields, the Rev. William Lonsdale,
A. 8., Arlars Banks, Durham, to Miss Jane Power, of Buck-
ingham-street, Adelphi.