The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDIIALL.—Yesterday Mr. Wilkins, a respectable car-
case butcher in Smithfield Market, was charged, at the instance
of Charles Wheeler, Mr. Martin's inspector, for ill-treating an
ox in the market.—Mr. Humphries attended on his behalf, and
objected, first, that the Magistrate had no jurisdiction, inas-
much as his client was not legally before the Magistrate.—
Mr. Martin's Act expressly directed that a complaint on oath
should be made, and it was in the discretion of the Magistrate
to issue his warrant, which in this case had not been done,
the defendant having been taken into custody upon show of
the offence. Wheeler on this occasion, shifted his ground.—
Mr. Humphries, he said, was mistaken. He was not proceed-
ing under Mr. Martin's Act, but under what is called the
Smithfield Act, 21, Geo. 11., which gave authority to any per-
son to apprehend the offender.—Mr. Humphries—Then I object
that under that statute you are not a competent witness, inas.
much as you are the person making the complaint, and, on
conviction, one moiety of the penalty is by the Act awarded to
you : you have therefore an interest in the conviction, and
cannot be a witness.

Wheeler said he had no witness, but he had been grossly
abused. The penalty was no object to him, and he was ready
to give it up immediately.—Mr. fIirMPIIIIIES said that in cases
of this sort, halt' the penalty must be awarded to the informer,
nor could he be released, in order to give evidence.
The CITY SOLICITOR was sent for, and when he arrived, he
said the objections made by Mr. Humphries were fatal, and
that there could be no further proceedings, as the case then
stood, either under Mr. Martin's or the Smithfield Act.—
Wheeler applied for a summons for another offence, and Mr.
Wilkins and his solicitor left the office.

The objection taken by Mr. Humphries rendecs Mr. Mar-
tin's Act altogether nugatory, for there is scarcely one case in
fifty that have come before Magistrates, where the offenders
would not have escaped punishment entirely, if they had not
been apprehended upon the spot. Scarcely any but the drovers,
who happened to have their badges on, could ever have been
brought to justice under it.
Al an Lnonou on-ST REET.—Yesterday Sir William Bur.
roughs, Bart. residing at No. 53, Grafton-street, Bond-street,
came to this Office, and applied for the advice of the Sitting
Magistrate how to proceed respecting the following robbery :
Sir William said that he had for sonic time past hired stables
and a coach-house of a Mr. Thompson, in Green Dragon-yard,
King-street, where his carriage and horses have been kept.
Ilis coachman has lately complained that the lock of the coach.
house door was very insecure, and Mr. Thompson was 4poken
to on the subject. On Wednesday the lock was removed,
with a view, Sir William supposed, of substituting a better
one, which, however, was not done that day, and the conch-
house was left all night without any lock at all; the conse-
quence was, that some thieves entered, and carried off a part of
the harness and the traces of the carriage, to the value of
about Si. and as he suspected the robbery must have been com-
mitted by some one acquainted with the absence of the lock, he
(Sir William) wished for some assistance in endeavouring to trace
out the offender. The Magistrate asked Sir William if the coach-
glasses had been broken.—Sir William replied, that they had
not ; and when he heard that the stable had been entered, lie
very much feared that they had been taken away. The Ma-
gistrate observed, that it was clear the thieves, whoever they
were, could not be experienced ones, or they would not have
' left the coach-glasses behind. An officer was then directed to
' proceed to the premises and investigate the affair; and Sir
• William was assured that every assistance should be afforded
him in discovering the offenders.
• For some time past the parish officers of St. Oiles's have
been very active in bringing, to justice all sorts of tradespeople
—butchers, bakers, &c. within their authority, who have vio-
lated the Sabbath, by pursuing their worldly calling on Sundays,
during Divine Service. The parish of St. Anne's, Soho, has,
it seems, become jealous of this activity of their neighbours,
and yesterday they completelyfilled the Office with defendants of
this description within their district, and amongst many other
tradespeople, there was no less than 27 butchers from Newport
Market in one lot. Most of theth pleaded guilty to the infor-
mations, and were all fined ss. each, and costs.
P-STIIEET. Yesterday Philip Chambers and
Lloyd, the termer a porter, and the latter a cook, in the
employment of Mr. Paul Mullett, were brought before Mr.
Benett upon a charge of robbing their master; as were also
William Pearson, a broker in Old-street-road, with Mary his
wife, charged with receiving the property knowing it to have
been stolen.

Mr. Mullett appeared, from his testimony, to have been a
cabinet-maker and upholsterer in a very extensive line of busi-
ness, at Finsbury House, South-place, Finsbury-square, which
house, with the warcrooms, is at at the corner of Wilson-street.
He also occupies as a warehouse the premises at the opposite
corner, which are distinguished from the former by the name
of the " old warehouse." On both these premises it appeared
that a most extensive system of plunder had been carried on.
Abraham Scriven, a man in the employment of Mr. Mullett,
and an accomplice with the prisoner Chambers, disclosed a
most extraordinary succession of acts of robbery committed at
various times tbr a long period. The goods were disposed of to
the prisoners Pearson and his wife.
The prisoner Chambers was committed for trial for stealing,
and Pearson and his wife for receiving goods knowing them to
be stolen. Eliza Lloyd was remanded.

UNIoN-11ALL.—Eleurior Lord, the girl lately in the service
of Mr. II indson, the Sheriff's Officer, of South-place, Kenning.
ton-Common, who was brought up a few days ago, charged on
suspicion of having been concerned in robbing her master, with
a man whom she concealed in the hay-loft, who was discovered
there by the wife of the complainant, underwent another exa-
mination yesterday.
Mr. CHAMBERS then asked if she was disposed now to dis-
close the truth, and state where this man was to be found. She
replied, that she had no knowledge where his residence was;
that he had paid his addresses to her for the last four months,
and she was sure that he was incapable of practising a dishonest
action.

The MAGISTRATE said, that he was of a very different
opinion, as it appeared he had been discharged from situations
for dishonesty. However, as no prosecutor now appeared
he irould not detain the girl any longer ; and she was then
discharged, after having received an admonition for the future
not to introduce such sweethearts into her master's house.

BELL Room LIGHT•HOUSE.—The late high
winds and heavy seas have, as usual, been very
sensibly felt by the inmates of the Bell Rock
Light-house, as appears from a letter to the en-
gineer from Mr. Macdonald, one of the superin-
tending artificers, who had been there during the
storm. He writes as follows :
" ARBROATH, 21st OCTOBER, 1824.—1 beg to let you
know that I came here with the Pharos, having made a finish
of the painting and other works at the Rock for the season.
The gale at N.N.E. which commenced about the Bth of Oct.
has been more severe, and the storm of longer duration than
any I have hitherto met with while at the Light-house. The
water came upon the house in an unbroken state to the height
of the kitchen windows (fl 4 feet above the Rock.) At times
the billows, for I cannot call them sprays, though of a whitish
colour, came above the library windows, and struck the cornice
(90 feet.) Indeed the appearance, in all directions around us,
was at times more dreadful and terrific than I have ever seen
it before. I really think, upon the whole, the house feels more
firm and entire than when I first knew it—shortly after it was
finished. The lamp-glasses in the light room, and the utensils
ill the kitchen, were frequently heard to make a tingling noise
during the gale, caused by the vibrations of the tower. I left
every thing in good order, and the light-keepers in good health,
after a residence of seven weeks and two days."

A fire broke out between 11 and 12 o'clock
on Wednesday night, at a linen-draper's in Oxford-street' two
doors from Orchard-street, which threatened destruction to the
neighbourhood. Owing to the nature of the materials with
which the shop was stocked, a sudden and tremendous burst of
tire issued from the shop window,i and it was with difficulty the
tamily could escape. There was, however, an abundant sup-
ply of water, sufficient to keep a dozen engines in play, which
fortunately confined the tire to the house in which it broke out.
BRUTAL AND DISGRACEFUL OUTRAIIE.-1t has
been often our disgusting task to notice the nuis-
ances in Warwick-lane, through the sufferance
of slaughter-houses in the heart of the city, and
this in the teeth of an Act of Parliament pro-
hibiting the same. The inquest of the ward have
repeatedly presented this intolerable nuisance ;
and yet, strange to say, it is still suffered. Yes-
terday afternoon four bullocks were hunted down
the lane, into Warwick-square, followed by a
posse of butchers and a mob of many scores, yel-
ling, and infuriating the tortured animals; and,
as a climax to the scene, one of the beasts was
hamstrung, and then stunned by a poll-axe on
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the spot. During the above exhibition, all in-
gress or egress to the square was totally impos-
sible, and the lives of his Majesty's subjects
thereby shamefully and wantonly endangered.