The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A journeyman tailor, named Tibbs, was brought before
the LORD Alayou charged with having mistaken a
r. mnant of black cloth for "cabbage," and appropriated
it accordingly.
A hatter, who resides in Leadenhall-street, very pro-
perly directed a pike officer to take the prisoner into cus-
tody. The prisoner had offered the cloth for sale to the
hatter, who suspected that it had been stolen, and udra,
questioning the tailor, received such answers as convinced
him that he was right in his conjecture.
The tailor said that the cloth was a mere morsel from
which patterns had been cut, and that it was kickine
about the shop, and of use to nobody until be took it up
The LORD Maroa—You mean, I suppose, that it was
nothing but cabbage? Tailor—Jist nothing else, my
Lord, we don't thick it no wice for to jilt take a bit as is
lying about.

The LORD MAYOR—And are you in the habit of taking
such large pieces as this? Tailor—No, my Lord, I never
took any before.
The LORD MAYOR—Because if you do you will soon
mistake •a man's coat for a cabhay.—(Laughter.) Tailor
—No, my Lord, it's quite duff-rent; sorry I picked up this
here; but I meant no harm, and when we picks up a little
thing, you see, my Lord, we never thinks of stealing of it.
The LORD MAYOR—No, ; there's no such thing
amongst you as robbery. Journeymen tailors are all very
honest men. They never rob, they only cabbage.—
(Great laughter.)
A tailor stated that he knew the prisoner to be an
honest man, and that pattern pikes when done with were
considered the property of the shopm in.
The LORD MAYOR—But this pattern piece has not
been begun with.—(Laughter.) Come tell me, if you
were deprived of a piece of cloth like this, what would
you call the act, a robbery or cabbage?—(Laughter.)
Witness—l assure you, my Lord, I would nut consider
it an act of dishonesty.
The Loan MAYOR—I assure you, you shall never
make a coat for me, for you wouldn't give such latitude
to a thief if you didn't cabbage a little too widely yourself.
—(Laughter.) It. ought the mystery of cabbaging was
confined to master tailors, and I am greatly mistaken if
they would not consider this ease an invasion of their pri-
vileges. As the prisoner's master does not appear I shall
discharge him, but if the master were present I could not
he prevailed upon to overlook a palpable theft because an
ingenious title is given to it.

The journeyman tailor and his witness then sneaked out
of the room, very unlike heroes of the goose.

BATTON-GARDEN:

Yesterday Mr. Thomas Watford, a carpet-manufacturer,
of Kidderminster, attended at this office, in company
of his son, residing in Gloucester-street, Clerkenwell, to
solicit the advice and assistance of Mr. LAING how to
proceed under the following extraordinary circumstances:—
About tour yeats airier, the wife of Mr. Wa!ford, sen.,
died, and being anxious to place his only daughter, who
was then 14 ye trs of age, under the protecti..n of some
female, he applied to one of his relatives, who is a married
man, residing in London, holding a responsible situation,
ho consented to receive the gill into his house, and for
her to assist in its domestic affairs. He hats frequently
written to London, inquiring after her, and received
answers that she was doing very well, and was in perfect
health ; and on the death of her brother, he communicate,:
the event to his relative, requesting that she might he sent
down in order to a•tend the funeral, when he received an
answer that she was too unwell to accomplish the jour-
ney, and although the individual (her protertor) had seve-
ral times since visited Kidderminster, and knew where to
find applicant, he never called upon him to acquaint him
how his child was going on, and he heard no more of her
until October last, when be received a letter from his son,
informing him that his daughter was suddenly missed from
the heti,e of her relative, who would not give any aids
factory account as to her disappearance. He accordingly
wrote to his son, urging him to mike every inquiry into
the matter, and the only account he could obtain was,
that his (applicant's) daughter slept with another girl,
and that she got out of bed at half•past six o'clock
in a morning in November last, and, after having
packed up the whole of her clothes, she decamped, and
had not since been heard of. Several other applications
were made, but the person alluded to persisted in saying
that he knew nothing at all about the girl ; he would nut
rive any satisfaction to her father ; and his not having
advertised her, and other circumstances, induced applicant
to suspect that his daughter had been murdered, or that
she ft ad been seduced, and secretly put out of the way
to prevent exposure. The persons who lived in the same
house, and neigh .ours, were also astonished at the sudden
d sa,ipeatance of the girl. Mr. Watford, jun., also strongly
suspected some unfair play. and he made an application to
Mr. Sergeant Sella% of this office, for hie advice, when he
informed him he could do nothing for him without the
presence of the girl's father, and information to that effect
having been forwarded to him at Kidderminster, he ar-
rived in town, and yesterday morning, in company with
his son. made an application at the house of her protector,
who refused to give any satisfactory account of her, fur.
ther than that she had got up in the morning, had run
away, and had not since been heard of.
Applicant was much affected while he made his statement.
Mr. LAING could not interfere, and recommended him
to apply to a judge tor an habeas corpus.
He quitted the office with his son, expressing his deter-
mination to follow the magistrate's advice.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION OF
" Gonowitu."—The composition, or the compilation,
of this work has been attributed to various persons, some
of note sufficient to make me fancy that it has a merit of
which I was not at first properly aware. It is not for me
to contradict such flattering reports. Let me content
myself with laughing in my sleeve at the mistakes that
have occurred in affiiiating a foundling which can make
but one step Irmo the cradle to the grave. The real
writer of " GODOLPHIN" is yet, and ever will be, unre-
veiled. He enjoys the satisfiction of giving to the world
the fruit of his thoughts, his speculations, and his ex-
perience—he leaves to others the responsibility of his
errors. Some indeed, say, that this book is a trifle of
Mr. D'lsttAom's ;—others, that it is either an imitation
of Mr. BULWER. or a bantling he has good reason to dis-
own. I have heard it attributed is Colonel CARADOC—
and to Mrs. NORTON-to the Turkish Ambassador—and
to the joint labours of Mr. who is living, anti Lady
CAROLINE L-- who is no more. I suspect that none
of these conjectures are right; but I am so much pleased
with them all that I will not venture decidedly to con-
cradiet one of them. This much will I say, that as no
woman would have written sonic parts of the book, so no
man could have written the whole ; and that it is soberly
and bona fide far more of a biography than a romance.
One who writes from experience cannot imitate; and
yet perhaps he (I use the masculine gender for conve-
nience) cannot wholly escape the style and manner adopted
by his contemporaries. The same cau-es that formed the
fashion in which they express themselves, formed also his
own method of thought and peculiarities of diction. I see
the principle and moral of this Book slowly working their
way. To tell truth of one period, is to prophesy the
events of the next. Adieu, Reader ; wouldst thou see roe
unmasked—thou must come behind the scenes of chi'
world; and when the lamps are out, and the curtain
dropped, thou sh.lt know me for what I am. But there
is only one authority who can admit you behind those
scenes—and his name is—DEATH !

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.-
On Friday evening, as the Superb Hamburg steamer
was coming up the River, opposite Limehouse, a c. Hier
was hauling out of the ti, r, and a rope which was fastened
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sprit coming against the maim ot of the steamer carried
it away, and it tell amongst the passengers on deck with
a dreadful crash. One gentleman was struck on the
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STRANGE AND MELANCHOLY COINCI-
, a dyer, had
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DENCE.—On Monday last, while the Coroner's Inquest
was sitting at Halifax, on two persons killed in the ma-
nufactories of Messrs. WRIGLEY and Son, a messenger
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arrived to say, that JAMES MURGATROYD
hung himself in a cellar, on which the Coroner deters
mined to take the inquest without dissolving the jury;
while that body was in deliberation upon the fate of
MURGATROYD, another messenger arrived to inform the
Coroner - that JOHN DUGDALK, a
chandler, had committed suicide in the same way • and
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