The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN. SQUARE.
Mrs. Sarah :King, a dealer in potatoes and cab-
bages, of 6, Church-lane, Chelsea, was charged be-
fore Mr. GREGORIE with putting in fear of her life
Mrs. Elizabeth Giles, the locum towns or house-
keeper of one Mr. Daniel Holkam, an established
green-grocer of twenty-two years standing, No. 8,
in the same lane.

It is an old adage, " that two of .a trade can
never agree ;" and it was fully exemplified in the
present case. The parties advanced to the bar with
fry in their eyes, and each appea•ed eager far the

Mrs. King, it .appeared, had only opened her shop
a few weeks ago in opposition to the complainant's
master, which had caused considerable jealousy be-
tween the belligerent powers.

Mrs. Giles now commenced her statement by
first pronouncing an exordium on her own charac-
ter, and insinuating that her late departed lord and
master had not treated her in a way which he ought
to have done. In short, she was about to give a
history of her connubial life from the moment she
was married to the time her husband died, when
she became the housekeeper of Mr. Daniel Hol-
kam. She was, however, cut short in her biogra-
phical sketch by the Magistrate, and desired to state
her complaint.
After another very lengthy speech, all that could
be elicited was, that the defendant had come itro I
her master's shop, abused her, and called her Dan;
Holkrim's mis•ress.

" But what else has she done to you ?" inquired
Mr. GREGORIE.

" Bless me !" replied Mrs. Giles, " why harn't
she grociously insulted me. I charges her with a
gracious suit, Sir. There was a lad came in for
three pounds of the best kidney tatoes at the time,
for we sells the very hest, as you must know ; but
out he had to toddle, for I couldn't sarve him for
her. Then in comes another for three pennorth of
salad, and out he pops again."
" Pray, Mrs. Giles, have you drank any thing',,
this morning before you came here ?" inquired the
Magistrate. Mrs. Giles—Nothing, your Worship,
except a glass of a'e.
Mr. GREGORIE recommended her, the next time
that she had occasion to come to a police-office, to
refrain from drinking ale at alt.
" Besides all these things wot I've been a telling
your Worship of," continued Mrs. Giles, " she
swore she would mark me."

Mr. GREGORIE—WeII, has she marked you ?
" No, not yet," replied Mrs. Giles, " but I consider
myself in danger—l am a marked woman, your
Worship, and I wants justice against her."
MIS. King now commenced her reply by stating
that Mrs. Giles sent for her to the shop.
" Merciful Powers !" exclaimed Mrs. Giles,
" what a bouncer ! me send for you, indeed !"
"And as soon es I got there," continued Mrs.
King, " she called the an old trump !"
" Oh, perjured woman, perjured woman !" ejacu-
lated Mrs. Giles ; "give me justice, your Worship,
for I've got witnesses."
Both parties now commenced together, and it was
with some difficulty they could be stopped. One
witness was examined on both sides, and each gave
a different version of the story, and, after a very
lengthy hearing, Mrs. King was ordered to find one
security that she would keep the peace for six
months, which satisfied neither party.
The bail wits immediately procured, and Mrs.
Giles declared that she would have further justice at
another office.

DANGEROUS NAVIGATION OF STEAM-

BOATS.

Olt Thursday evening an application was made to
Captain Richbell, the sitting Magistrate at the
Thames police-office, for a warrant against the mas-
ter of the Earl of Liverpool steam-vessel, which
runs between London and Calais, for going beyond
the legal speed of five miles per hour between Lon-
don-bridge and Limehouse-reach.
It appeared from the sta.ements of George Cra-
dock and James Haynes, watermen of Globe-siair,,
Rot herbithe, and William Thomas, in the employ of
Messrs. Beech and Hibbert, coal•merchmits, Chel•ea,
that about one o'clock that afternoon, the Easl of
Liverpool steam-packet came up the river at the
.rapid rate of upwards of eleven knots per hour,
causing such a heavy swell that the craft and boats
were tossed about as in a rough sea. Cradock and
Haynes were in their wherries off the above stars
as the steamer pa-sed, and the boat of the latter
was turned complely over, arid fell upon him. .After
receiving a good ducking, he with much difficulty
',crumbled out of the water, narrowly escaping being
drowned. Cladoek's boat was also capsized by the
heavy swell, and he was thrown out of it into
the river, and tossed to and fro again,t the
other boats, until quite exhausted. Some other
watermen picked him up, and took him home;
Haynes's whtrry was broken to pieces, and that
belonging to Cradock was stove, and sustained
considerable damage. A skiff belonging to
Thomas, which he had recently borrowed, his own
bring under repair, was turned bottom upwards, and
so much injured, that it was rendered quite useless.
Thomas also experienced some personal Injury. The
watermen declared that the velocity of the steamer
surpassed any thing they ever before witnessed, and
had any boats been upon that part of the river at
the time they must inevitably have been swamped,
and the persons in them drowned. Their means of
livelihood was now gone, in consequence of the in-
jury done to their boats.

Captain RICHBELL mentioned that a few days
since a large barge, laden with 12t) quarters of oats,
was sunk near that office, in consequence of the
rapid rate with which a steamer. passed it, and the
swell caused thereby. The men in the barge were
immersed in the stream, and narrowly escaped a
watc►y grave. The boats belonging to that esta-
blishment had also been injured and tossed about by
the illegal navigation of the steam-packets.
The applicants not being able to prove that the
master of the Earl of. Liverpool was a freeman of
the \tiate►man's Company, the worthy Magistrate
said he could only grant a warrant as for an assault
on one of the watermen, who was nearly drowned,
and this he could do on the sane principle of law
by which the (Liver of a vehicle is answerable fur
injuring another on the road, through careless or
furicus driving. A warrant was then granted.

HERNE BAY.—The Royal assent has just
been given to au Act of Parliament by which a Company
is formed for the erection of a pier at Herne Bay, ou the
coast of Kent. According to a design furnished by Mr.
TELFORD, the eminent :engineer, and Mr. Rttovss, the
pier is to extend so far into the sea that steam-vessels will
be able to embark and disembark passengers and goods
at all times of the tide. The design also includes a parade
or terraced walk of neatly a mile in length. Herne Bay
is situated four miles on the London side of the Reculvers,
and, of course, sixteen miles nearer the metropolis than
Margate; the sea is pure and free from weeds ; its sands
are dry and extensive ; the scenery immediately around it
is more picturesque than any other on that coast, and it is
within seven miles only of the ancient city of Canterbury.
These are advantages which, should the proposed design
he ever carried into effect, will go, neir to make the
Margate folks look blue " we guess.

ItTIM
On the Ist inst. in Burton-crescent, Mrs. B. Toinkins, of a
daughter.
On the 31st ult. at Hackney, Mrs. J. M. Morris, of a son.
On the 31st ult. in Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square, the
lady of W. B. Creadoek, Esq., of a son.
MARRIED.

On the 31st ult. at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Mr. A. Beaumont,
of Parkton.grove, Yorkshire, to Miss Cross, of Bartlett's-
buildings, Holborn.

Captain Donald
DIED.
On the :„..itli ult. the wife of _lr. E. Wright, of West Drayton,
Middlesex.
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On the :30th ult. in Cheapside, Mrs. E. Brand, aged 63.-
the Right Hon. Lady Caro-
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Friends. of the Society of
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Earl Waldegnive
and Lord Itadstcck, and aunt of the present Lords.
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