The Sun.
London, England, 1812-08-05 00:00:00

POLIC L.

"A youth of 16, named Owen, was brought up for
examination, charged with entering the house of
a publican in Tower-strcet; named Jones, yester-
day evening, and stealing ,privately from his bar,
his till, -containing a quantity of copper money.
Mc...Tones, having observed the prisoner, just
as he.got o-ff frcaa the door, -pursued him towarls
Tower-hill 3 when, 'perceiving that •he was fol-
lowed with a..cry of stop thief, the prisoner flung
away the till ; but was still followed and•taken-in-
to custody.
The priA.oner denied the theft, and 'said,, that he
had-been but a week in London, and was by'tradt
a ship-painter ; but the facts-Against hiin were tod
clear to be disproved-.
The Magistrate-, after a very strong admonitionk
gave him the choice of •
vol nteeri er for the. sea ser-'
vice, or of tieing committed to Neivgate, to take
his trial. He Preferred the. latter, and.was eoitix
inittcd accordingly.

UNI 01C-HALL .-- Thomas Holden, proprietor of
one of
.the 2ditcham stages, was fined 191. and
costs, on the informatiou of Mr. Lyon, a stock
broker, charging him with having carrie-dia:greater.
number of outside passengers on his coach than
areilloWed'by.Actof.Parriament.

James Smith, and John Antlers6n, charged with
obtaining goods under false pretences frOm Mr.
Hitchcock, of Tooley-street, were fully committed
for trial for the fraud.
A. baker residing in the neighbourhood of York-
street, Blackfriars-road, was -summoned before
the sitting Magistrate, for selling bread short.of
Weight ; ten •quartern and eleven' half-quartern
loaves were produced by the officer, deficient in_
weight 36- ounces. The defendant pleaded guilty
to the , charge ; but said it was owing to the ne-
glect of the man -she employed to manage her
business; slap being a widow. She was titled
IL 16s. and costs.

Fire.—The extensive Workshops of Mr. Reid,
cabinet-maker, in Glasgow, was destroyed by fits:,
on'Wednesday eV-ening last.l 'We are sorry to add,
that no less than five persons perished in the flames.
The 'lathes are, -Thomas Edict, clerk in a ware-
house ;‘, Andrew Pougal,-.ii gardener; Jame:; Fal-
coner, a chair-maker ; Jamesneutoul, a painter ;
and David M‘Gregor„ a wright.;, all young 'un-
niarried men. son of Mr. Hannah, butcher,
has been much burnt, and several others Were
considerably hurt,. but none of them are consi-
dered in a dangerous state. A Miscreant wag.
lodged in the' Police Office. for attempting t 9
plunder during the conflagration. •
A white crow was lately taken in a 'field near
Kendal, and placed as a cariosity in Mr. MD-
iiTiNTERS Kendal Museum.

Modern Greek Literature.—A Greek, of the
name of ANTHIME GAZY, Archimandrite of the
Greek Church at Vicuna., conducts a periodicel
work, in the modern Greek languag6 at that
place, entitled ifertnes.liq •Logios ; 'aud is pOlish-
ing o Dictionary of the language at Venice.
is the authOr. of several works in', modern Greek,
the principal of which are " A history of Gree-
Ltterature till the' taizii-tg. of CorAtantiriople"--
" A Gieek Vocahular"—" Translatins.uf Vol-
taire* History of Charics the 12d:1-7—'1,111e Abridg-
ment of Lalonde's ii.itTonomy"--Ifotreroy's
Philosophy"—and " Mop of Grecce' in-.-
12 sheets.