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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAN SI 01V-Ll 0 USE.
Fuller and Pa' rell. y (eine; te Hew, who have 1%',..m often
1,;J: Col o
Feller had an leg, Mous mode of escaping detection.
lie had pocket-holes, but no Rickets, in the front of his
truck, and when his hands appeared to he in his pockets,
they were engaged with the pockets of others.
The policeman observed the adroitness with which the
artist exercis©d his professional skill, and asked a gentle-
man who had just passed him, whether he had lost any-
thing ? No," said he ; but, upon putting his hand to
his pocket, he altered his tone and expression. and said,
—"I have been robbed of my handkerchief." Fuller,
who was in the custody of another officer at the time,
bad whipped away . the handkerchief in question, and
had is o others in his possession, besides the duplicates,
which proved him to be a general dealer in the article.
The prosecue.r, in answer tea questien learn Alder-
man Gibbs, said ;hat he was obliged to leave town im-
mediately for Prussia, and th,t his deteution would be
attend. d with much lays to him.
Alderman Ginea--I uller is en experienced offender,
and certainly he ought to go fur trial to the Central
Criminal Court.
Fuller—l hope you will not send me there. Give me
but one trial more. My poor mother is dying, and it
will break her heart in her last moments if she hears
that I stand a chance of being lagged.
Alderman Gums—Your mother dying?—Fuller—
Yes; I'm blessed it she urn% dying as fast as she can.
God knows the minute she will be oft,
Alderman GIBBS—A, nd why do you go robbing people
in this manner?—Fuller—lt was a mistake to say I
robbed; it was another party that picked the gentle
man's pocket, and dropped the handkerchief near me.
It appeared that Fuller, upon being pursued by the
police, dexterously slipped the handkerchief into the
pocket of a gentleman who
.was passing along, and who
at once disengaged himself of the unwel, ome present,
but did not choose to bear a hand in the prosecution.
Alderman GIBBS—Your next turn will certainly be
at the Old Bailey.
Fuller—No, my Lord; when my mother goes off I
expect 4001. or 500/., and you may depend upon it, I'll
set up in an honest business. Ido assure you, my Lord,
I'm very anxious to begin.—(Laughter.)
Fuller was then sentenced to imprisonment and hard
labour for three months; and the other prisoner, who
was not sic, clever an artist, was sentenced to imprison-
ment and hand labour fur six wet ks.
LA MB E,7'H.
Mr. John Bentall, the proprietor of the Britannia
public-house, in the Wandsworth -road, appeared before
Mr. Norton, on an information laid against him by order
of the Commissioners of Police, and which charged him
with keeping his house open on the forenoon of Good
Friday, contrary to the tenour of his license.
Mr. Child, of the firm of Messrs. Wire end Child,
attended for the defendant.
In support of the information Inspector Coleman, of
the V division of police, deposed, that at twenty minutes
to eleven o'clock, on Good Friday, he saw a female come
out of a gate which led to the back premises of the de-
fendant, carrying something under her shawl. He ques-
tioned her as to what it was she had, and found it to be
a stone bottle containing a quart of beer, with which she
said she had been supplied by Mr. B ntall.
Mr. Child objected to the reception of any statement
made by the female, in the absence of Mr. Bentall, as
evidence, as it was not legally so.
Mr. Noterost admitted that it was not strictly evi-
dence, and asked if the female was in attendance.
Mr. Celetnan replied in ate negative, and went on to
say that he entered the house of the defendant, and
looked over it, but found no one there except the de-
fendant and his family.
In his cross.exansination by Mr. Child, the Inspector
admitted that the gateway from which he had seen the
female come led to large premises, in which there were a
number of carriages and tither vehicles. as well as t.o the
back part of Mr. Bentall's house, but he could not say
that there were soy private dwel inge there.
Police-constable 77 V was call. d, • and merely corro-
borated the statement of his inspector.
This witness. in reply to the MAGISTRATE, said he
knew Mr. Bewail during the time he kt pt the house, and
was not aware of any complaint having been made against
him pr. viously to the present.
Mr. Child could vouch for the fact, that for the six
years the (I,feuclant kept the house, the present was the
first complaint that had been made.
Inspector Coleman said he had not been in the dis-
trict more than is few months, and during that time the
house of the defendant had been most respectably con
ducted. He also said he had known Mr. Bentall for
some years, and had ample opportunities of witnessing
the mariner in which he conducted a public-house, in
Spitalfiehis, previously to his removal to Wandsv%orth-
road, and he telt it but justice to say, that no house
could be more respectably kept.
Mr. Bentall assured the Magistrate that he had not
served any female with beer or anything else on the
morning in question, nor had anybody in his house done
so to his knowledge. He begged to state, however, that
there was a number of persons employed in the coace-
yard alluded to by the Inspector, and some of those men
were in the habit of providing themselves with stone
bottles of beer on Saturday night, before his house was
closed, for their Sunday morning's supply.
Mr. Child hoped that in a case where the evidence
adduced was so slight, indeed where there was no evi-
dence at all, his Worship would consider it to be his
duty to dismiss the complaint.
I Mr. NORTON admitted that the evidence was slight,
and would, therefore, suggest that the defendant put 10s.
in the poor box.
Mr. Child replied that his client would most willingly
comply with his Wership's benevolent suggestion ; but
the result would be that it would be taken as a conviction
against him, and a regular return of it as such would be
made on the licensing day to the licensing magistrates,
so that in point of fact Mr. Bente!l would be seriously,
way, by having his license sus-
tended. It w tew days before that he (Mr.
en
Child)h punisheda
nt
o eaoannsottehhu nedrta
against the withdrawal of a license,
and the ruin of a respectable tradesman, upon similar
grounds. Even in cases where costs were merely awarded
the returns were made, and the licensing magistrates on
this ground alone suspended the license, so that the con-
sequences were of the must serious importance to the
tradesman. In the brat place, the lightest complaint
against a licensed house made a vast difference in its
value, in the event of its owner wanting to part with it.
In the next place, the parties seeking for the renewal of
the license, were obliged to memorialise their worships
the licensing magistrates, between the day of suspension
and the adjourned licensing day, and this was attended
with much expense, besides the trouble and annoyance
of
thesignatures of the churchwarden,
theirover-
respectable neighbours ; and alto-
gether put a respectable tradesman in a must humiliating
seer, procuring
and
sill
position.
Mr. NORTON expressed some surprise at the statement
of the Learned Genlleinan, and observed that the licen
sing magistrates should do the magistrates before whom
those cases were brought the justice to believe that,
before coming to a decision, they thoroughly .nvesti-
gated the complaint, and if after doing so, they merely
awarded costs, they (the licensing magistrates) shottio
conclude that the ease was but slight, and the payment
of costs therefore was a sufficient punishment. With
respect to the present case, he (Mr. Norton) (lid not
think it one which called fur pains or penalties, and
should therefore be sorry if h.s suggestion of putting
10s. in the poor-box caused the defendant turther annoy
ante. He telt le !tied to believe the word of a respectable
man like Mr. Bsntall that he had not served the beer,
and should therefore dismiss the case.
Mr. Cnild said he was happy to hear his Worship
exi ress himself in so kind and liberal a manner. His
sentiments, he hoped, would get publicity, and would,
he also hoped, be pFeductive of some good. Gentlemen
with legal educations, sitting in police-courts, could
scarcely form a judgment of the manner in which corn-
plaints against licensed victuallers were treated else-

where.
w
The case was then dismissed.

THE GLASGOW RIOTERS.
GLAsuow ciacutr COURT, MAY 4.
James (Nmpbell, hammerman; John Gallagher, la-
bourer; John Lafferty, porter; David Deans Muir, cot-
ton-piecer; and John Docherty, lately railway labourer,
were placed at the bar to answer fur the part taken by
them in the late Glasgow riots.
Evidence having been given that the mob on the occa-
sion hsd forcibly entered several shops, and carried off
money, ammunition, and other property in question to a
large amount; that Calapbell collected and attracted the
rioters to the various potte.s of attack by ringing a bell;
that Gallagher was a ringleader, and that the other par-
ties took more or less share in the disturbance,
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty of mobbing and
rioting against all the prisoners, and of stouthrief against
Campbell on three charges, Gallagher on three, Lafferty
on two, and Muir on one; but they recommended Muir to
the mercy of tlse Court.
Sentence was delayed.
FRIDAY.—The above prisoners, as well as those who
had been convicted on Wedne,day, were brought up, and
received severally the following sentences :
John Crossan, 18 years transportation ; Hugh Bar-
rens, Peter Keenan, James CAnapbell, John Gallagher,
and John Lafferty, 10 years' transportation ; David
Deans Muir, and John Docherty, two years' imprison-
ment.
SATURDAY.—The trials of the Glasgow rioters have
been continued, and several parties, convicted of having
taken part in them, have been sentenced to various terms
of transportation and imprisonment.

PANAMA, MARcet 23.—The Pacific Steam Navi-
gation Company's steam-ship Ecuador. from Callao,
arrived here this day, bringing, in addition to her usual
passengers and cargo, the mails in continuation with
the company's steamer Peru, which left Valparaiso
March 1, from the undermentioned ports in Chile,
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and New Granada, of the
respective dates as uwiernoted:—Chile—Valparaiso,
,
March 1; Coquimbo, March 2 ; Huasco, March 3;
Copiapo, March 3. Bolivia—Cobija. March 5. P, ru—
Iquiqu. March 6; Arica, March 7; Islay. March 8;
Pisco, March 10; Callao, March 13; Payta, March 16
Ecuador—Guayaquil,nieh stores,ha anisd
to madebe Granada—Bue-
naventura, March 21.
ern every
WooLvvrc Er MAY
17. New
aa,n for
to the
the service Are
ti i
regions in search of
in ~
AY 5 . —The Enterprise, Captain
p', tre,,
proceedrti,e
Sir James Clark Ross, having completed taking on board
her .
the officers Captain Sir John Franklin, and
cers and crews of the Erebus and Terror, dis
coveryhi vessel, Was towed down the river this afternoon
(L the
o hei Monkey, to have 11,-r compasses adjusted a,
. tho, •
The Inv, stiva,tor, Caprain Bird, is exp •cted
to be ready to leave Woolwich on Monday, to accompany
the Enterprise '
in the searching expedition to the North
Polar regions,

THE SIGN, LONDON,_ MONDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1848,