The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW,STII.EZT.—During the whole of yesterday morning the
office and its exterior excited the greatest degree of curiosity,
in consequence of between 50 and 60 of the most dashing Cy-
' prians, who nightly infest St. Martin's-court and Leicester.
%Imre, being brought up in custody of Bond's party of patrol.
The inhabitants of Leicester-square, St. Martin's-court, Cran-
bourn.street, &c. have complained to Sir RICHARD BrRNIE,
that in consequence of the nocturnal disorderlies, who in abun-
dance throng that quarter of the metropolis, it Is impossible
for them to carry on their business, and requested a warrant to
be issued for their apprehension, in order to preserve the peace.
Some of them, who had been riotous as well as indecent, were
sentenced to the House of Correction for a month ; and the rest
(the inhabitants not having appeared against them), after being
admonished by the Magistrate, were dischaiyed on paying a
fine of one shilling each.
GuILDRAT.L.— William-Anderson one of the hork-keepers
at Mr. Hearn's, King's Arms Inn, enow-hill, was brought to
the Office yesterday morning, before the Sitting Magistrate,
Mr. Alderman ATKINS, by Honey, the beadle of Farringdon-
Within, who bad just taken him into custody in Skinner-street.
Mr. Mitchell, of George-row, Bermondsey, master-mariner,
said, he was passing along at the time that a van, heavily
laden, drawn by four horses, was coming out of the King's
Arms-yard, with the driver on tha box. Ile observed the
prisoner beating one of the leaders with a carter's whip, in the
most barbarous manner possible. The animal had a wound
on one of its knees and the prisoner directed his' blows to
that particular place, and indeed to that place only. He
(Mr. IVlitchell),,, interfered to induce him to desist, when he
was almost instantly surrounded by grooms, stable-boys, and'
helpers, who loaded him with abuse as an informer, and en-
couraged the prisoner to persist, who on his part, continu-
ed his barbarity, saying lie hadmaster's orders, and he
would flog the horse as much as he liked ; in pursuance of this
determination, he accompanied the van up Skinner-street,
flogging the animal nearly all the way, till on Honey's acci-
dentally coming up, he (Mr. Mitchell ave him in custody. On the van being stopped near St. Sepulchre's Church, he and another gentleman examined the state of the horse, who was
veiled very dreadfully, and a piece of flesh, nearly threei inches
in length, had been cut away from the wounded part at the
knee.
Mr. Jones, a medicapupil, and a young man named Gun-
ping, in the employ of 3lessrs. Clementi, Cheapside, who had
witnessed the whole of the transaction, corroborated' the testi-4.?
Mony given by Mr. Mitchell, and spoke of the conduct of the*
prisoner towards the animal as barbarous in the extreme.
The prisoner urged that the horse was naturally a bad tem.'.
pered one, and a rank jib. The coachman called to him in
consequence of the horse's jibbing, and refusing to come up
the gateway; but he denied having struck the animal other.'
wise than on the flank and shoulder, and no more than was ne-
cessary to make him take to his work.
The Bookkeeper at the inn said the prisoner had been three
years in Mr. Hearn's employ, and always bore the character
of a kind horse-keeper. The animal, he said, was.certainly a
very bad tempered one, and never could be started without a
great deal of trouble.
Mr. Alderman ATKINS convicted the prisoner in the miti.
gated penalty of 40s.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday William Upton, David and
John Hamilton, Jerry Miles, John Burns, and Sarah his wife,
Cornelius Connor, and his wife, Mary Buckley, William Lee,
and Johanna Hamilton, were brought to the Office, escorted by
a large party of the Bow-street patrol, and police constables,
charged with being concerned. in an alarming riot in Tothil-
street, Dean-street, and the Alnionry, on Monday night.
William Bunn, of Duke's-court, Almonry, had given evi-
dence against two men committed from this office fbr riot on
Monday. He was going through Tothil.street, about eight
o'clock on Monday night, when David Hamilton knocked him
down with a bludgeon, and several others of his associates,
armed with swords, bludgeons, broomsticks and pokers, assem-
bled in Dean-street, crying out they would murder all the
people who had appeared as witnesses against their friends.
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Bunn, and broke her windows. At length two parties of the
Bow-street patrol and some of the officers of this establishment
arrived, when the mob fled in all directions ; the officers pur.
sued them, and took the above persons into custody, they hav-
ing been pointed out to them as part of the ringleaders. Peace
was not restored until about 11 o'clock at night.
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bayonet off' his belt, and rushed with it amongst the crowd,
but he was disarmed.

The prisoners said they were returning home from their work
peaceably, when they were attacked by the very men who gave'
evidence against them. They denied having had any swords
or weapons whatever, and complained that evil-minded persons
were daily insulting them, even in their own residences. The
prisoners were ordered to give twenty-four hours' notice of bail.
and were all committed. •

CONCUSSION OF THE EARTIL—On Tuesday,
the (49th of the last month, at six in the morning,
a concussion, of sufficient violence to disturb per-
sons in their sleep, and to cause those who were
awake distinctly to feel a violent shaking of the
house and room In which they were, as also or
the furniture therein, occurred in Swansea, and
in the neighbourhood at different places within
the distance of eighteen miles. By some persons
it has been described as similar in its effects to the
violent shutting of a very heavy door, or the fall-
ing of a great weight, without, as it were, their
being distinctly sensible that such was the case ;
by others again it has been said to resemble the
shock experienced by the explosion of a powder
mill. People in the fields, and, as we: have been
given to understand, some workmen in the coal-
pits, also noticed the circumstance.—(Bristol
Mercury.)

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BULLION.

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7
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New Dollars
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