The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAIVSIOICI-HOUSE.
A licensed hawker, named Alexander Boyd, and a
publican named Storey, who resides in Somerset-street,
upon the borders of the City, was brought before Alder-
man
Thomas Johnson, under the following circumstances.
Richard Scott, a warehouseman in the Customs, stated
that on Monday, as he was going along Whitechapel, a
man walked up to him, and said " Will you do any thing
in the cigar or brandy way ;" to which he replied, " that
he would if he could get a good bargain." " You shall
have 500 cigars at a low price," said the stranger, " and
you shall have tho best French brandy at 12s. a gallon."
The stranger then made him put his hand to his heart, and
solemnly pledge himself never to divulge the secret. As
witness had not his commission about him, he did nothing in
the business at that time,but made an appointment with the
stranger for seven o'clock in the morning, at the house of
Storey. Upon going to the public-house he saw Storey,
who, on hearing on what business he came, seemed per-
fectly well to know all about it, and showed the stranger
and him into a private room, where the stranger said, " It
you can get 1001. I'll give you value for it in best French
brandy, at 12s. a gallon, and 500 cigars for 305." Wit-
ness having intimated a wish to deal, the stranger asked
him whether he would also purchase some fine French
shawls, and produced four shawls as a sample, stating that
he lived in the house, and that the shawls were real
French manufacture. The stranger also brought in samples
of other goods, but witness, pretending to disagree
as to the price, left the house, and applied to a
policeman, who accompanied him to make a seizure of
the contraband articles. Upon entering the public house
witness observed the defendant Boyd secreting some pieces
of shawls upon his person, in the presence of the land-
lord and other persons, one of whom was the identical in-
dividual who had invited him to make the bargain. Boyd
made resistance, and the landlord demanded to see wit-
ness's authority, after which witness took from Boyd's per-
son the shawl pieces, which proved not to be foreign, but
of home manufacture. Ile then went up stairs and took
two shawls out of the box in the landlord's room, and
lastly, 1,,e visited the cellars, but he found neither smug-
gled brandy, cigars, nor shawls there.
Mr. Hobler—And what became of the man with whom
you had the conversation?
Witness—lle absconded while we were searching Boyd,
but the shawls which Boyd had about him were those
which that man showed me as a sample.
Boyd produced his license as a hawker, and said that
he had purchased the shawls which were taken from him of
a shopkeeper, whom he could produce to prove the fact.
He declared that he knew nothing of the smuggled goods
or of the Custom-house officer, and that it was too bad to
interrupt him in his business, which was a perfectly legiti-
mate calling.
The landlord also remonstrated against the harsh con-
duct of the Custom-house officer in seizing upon his wife's
shawls, one of which bad been.in use three years, and nei-
ther of which could possibly have deserved the name of
smuggled. Ho described the behaviour of Scott, who is
an Irishman, and rather a raw one, as wild and rash in the
extreme.
The Solicitor to the Customs stated that he had no com-
plaint against the publican, whose wife's shawls would be
immediately restored to her; but he called upon the Al-
derman to condemn the four shawls which had been found on
Boyd, not because they were contraband, but because they
were attempted to be passed off upon the Custom-house
officer as articles of French manufacture.
Mr. Hobler—There was a great oversight in not taking
the man who was the principal actor.
The Custom-house officer—l know that all the per-
sons I saw in the house were licensed; for the man that
wanted me to deal with him, said that he had his agents
there.

Sergeant Williams said that be accompanied the Custom-
house officer, who appeared to him to be in liquor, and
who went very roughly to work, threatening to break open
a room door and a box. The Custom house officer said
that he was going to make a great seizure, and, on going
into the cellar, took hold of a bottle, and said " Here is
smuggled brandy." It turned out, however, to be pepper-
mint. He then took up a keg, which he was sure con-
tained contraband stuff, but it proved to be a keg of
spruce.—( Laughter.)
The Solicitor—l go merely for the four shawls which
Boyd had about him.
Alderman JOHNSON—I shall certainly condemn them. I
believe this hawker to be one of those persons who are in
the habit of taking in farmers and their daughters, by
pretending that the trash they vend is of French manufac-
ture ; and I consider that the publican has acted most im-
properly, in allowing such transactions in his house.
The four shawls were than taken to the Custom-house.
It was mentioned in the Justice-room that the whole
business was a joke, played off upon the Irish Custom-
house officer, who, it was said, was in the habit of bragging
of wLat he could do with smugglers: It certainly had
cry much the appearance of a frolic ; but if such was the
eve, although there was a good deal to laugh at in the
adventure of the Irishman, the condition of the two jokers,
at the Mansion-house, was much more ridiculous.

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' EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—On Sun-
day evening last the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in Douglas,
Isle of Man, became the scene of one of the most extraor-
dinary occurrences ever witnessed in any place of worship.
Divine service had proceeded as usual, until the preacher ,
the Rev. Robert Hayes, had given out the passage
of Scripture chosen for the discourse, when a strong
and muscular female, who sat in the body of the
chapel, rose from her seat, and with " deliberate step
and firm, ascended the pulpit stairs, entered the pul-
pit, seized the preacher round the arms and waist,
and, in a magical manner, turned him down stairs. at
the same time exclaiming, "Nosy, I'm satisfied !" " The
Messiah :5 come !" The effect produced upon the congrc-
Fatim was truly electrical, females fainting, gentlemen laugh-
mg, many moiling out of the chapel without their hats, and
all in the highest state of excitemea. The female preacher
commenced an exhortation, amidst an uproar and confusion
which almost rendered her expressions inaudible, and
which it would be impossible to describe. The expres-
sions, " You are sinners "t--" The Messiah is come"—
" The abomination that make,th desolate"—" The woman in
the wilderness"—" The drunkards of Ephraim," and others
similarly incoherent, were those which seemed to occupy
her mind. After the sensation had partially subsided, a
number of men ascended the pulpit stairs, for the purpose
of expelling this intruder; but this proved a more difficult
task than they contemplated, for she defended herself in
gallant style
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gle had taken place that she consented to forego her claim
to the pulpit, which, she stoutly maintained was built for
her use, and not for the Rev. ger.tleman. llaving, however,
being expelled by physical force, she contented herself by
exclaiming, " Glory to God !" and was put out of doors,
where she continued to ejaculate this and similar expressions.
Order having again been restored, the Rev. Gentleman
ascended the pulpit, and proceeded with his discourse. We
have since heard that the unfortunate woman has been sent to
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