The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBORO U GH- STREET.
Rebecca Dinton, a very respectably attired woman of
two or three and twenty, possessing great personal attrac-
tions, was this morning charged with being a vagrant, hav-
ing no place of abode.

A
police constable found her sitting on the step of a door
in the middle of the night.
Mr. CHAMBERS inquired why she did not apply for parish
relief? Defendant had, three or four times, but they
would not in any way assist her. Her story is a pitiful
one. A young man, moving in a respectable sphere of life,
had paid, for a considerable length of time, his addresses
to her ; and, after having seduced, deserted her, had vio-
lated his solemn promise of marriage to her, and had been,
within the last few days, united to another. She had lost
her'situation from the unfortunate 'consequences of her se-
duction, and was so distressed as to be obliged to walk about
the streets, having neither shelter'nor food.
Mr. CHAMBERS directed Inspector Dewing to send one
of his constables with the woman to the Committee at St.
George's, and inquire why they refused to assist her in the
delicate state she was at present in. If they persisted, he
should be obliged, but with 'much reluctance, to commit
her as a vagrant, but then on her release they must take
her. It would be unfeeling in her present state to do so.
The case was then adjourned.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday James Balibur, a sallow-looking man,iupwards
of fifty ears of age, was brought before Mr. WEDGMAN
under the following circumstances :
The proprietor of Hanover House, at Peckham, stated
that for a considerable time past his family had been very
much annoyed in consequence of the conduct of the defend-
ant, who was constantly lurking about his premises. He
spent hours at a time in anxiously gazing up at the win-
dows, and if any female happened to approach, he bowed
repeatedly, kissed his hand, and behaved in the most
extravagant manner, pointing to his heart, and throw-
ing himself into grotesque attitudes, to induce a be-
lief that he was enamoured of some female. This, how-
ever, was not the only species of annoyance to which com-
plainant's family was subjected, for scarcely a day elapsed
that the defendant did not, by some means or another,
manage to have a letter delivered at the house ; and his
epistles were always addressed to " Miss Maria Mills," and
filled with the most fulsome trash, and many of them con-
tained pencil drawings representing Venus and Cupid, and
other figures, to denote the passion entertained by the wri-
ter for the object of his affections. Several of the letters
were here produced.

Mr. WEDGWOOD inquired whether there was a young
lady named Mills resident in the complainant's house ? and
the reply was in the negative.
The complainant stated that some months ago the de-
fondant was in thelabit of walkinc, up and down in front
of another gentleman's house at Peckham, and acting pre-
cisely in a similar manner ; and on that oecasion no fe-
male could approach the window under pain of being
subjected to the same kind of folly on the part of Mr.
Balfour, who also inundated the family with love-letters,
and all of them addressed to the nymph " Miss Maria
Mills," who it is believed only exists in the imagination
of the love-stricken gentleman. The complainant in
conclusion declared that the females in his family were
alarmed to leave the house, under the apprehension that the
defendant might insult them, and on Friday week be was
taken into custody ; but in consequence of his having
given complainant a written undertaking at the station-
house that he would go elsewhere, and not annoy his family
by bowing at them at the windows; and also that he would
-promise not to send any more of his love letters, he was
permitted to go at large. Since then, however, he has bro-
ken his engagement, appeared again in the neighbourhood, •
and not only places himself in front of the house to bow and
kiss hands at the females, but also has commenced sending
his love letters again.

The MAGISTRATE, addressing Mr. Balfour, said that for
a man at his advanced period of life.to go in such a ridi-
culous manner there was no excuse He had been at that
office previously for annoying another family under similar
circumstances, and it was hoped that after what had taken
place on that occasion, he would have desisted from pursu-
ing such a line of conduct.

The insepector said that Mr. Balfour talked of nothing
but Miss Maria Mills at the station-house, said that he
was positive she was in Hanover House, and that he knew
she was equally as desirous of seeing him as he was of be-
holding her adorable countenance.
The defendant smiled during the recital of his extraordi-
nary behaviour by the complainant, and at its conclusion
broke out into a rhapsody on the many amiable qualities
inherited by " Miss Maria Mills," said she was a paragon
of perfection, and that were he a Hector, that noble victor
who died a victim by a Grecian's skill, or was he a Paris,
whose deeds more various as an arbitrator on Ida's Hill, he
would range through Asia, likewise Arabia, or Penns3l-
- seeking for her through the dreary region of sage,
Orpheus, for one only embrace of Miss Mariaa-Mills2 '• •."
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fespAct pie f:Tnilies in' lhen—a'finei: deScribea,
and that l e must ciiter pito us own itrogniiiiiire„ lo 'l* di
good bell4viour,;* Apkitiii Nl:Cited
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14. offendizg. ,•

:.The Contin' ission-for. hoidingllie.t.ampshire .Assizes:
will be opened at the Clunty Hall, on Tuesday morning;lliel
3d bftlu~iutlges.. will enters the! eity.l
Their -Lordship%,will.theil-zatton4-tdivitie.ersliue at the .Cathei
dral, and imnreiliittery after ebmnien6e, the' business-of the!
Assize: on. this occasion is 'quite`
to those of former Asti s, and ;t t re.c?re, be nccessar3!
to Pill:inept pros!.etitor,,witnelsea„ and, othem ,give
attenilaticOr tits comri'ifsiop dityi —yap ts Advertiser.- •
,
The pleserit ntinLib!rhr oisoneio. In our county gAoly.
..chtirgediFtth_ 411;4; •kre.'zs 5.1,. or .2; will 'be' tried, at
the Adjourned Sessiml4 inst • 'and -1,4 nt -ttat
coming Assizes.— IV oreestii7ferad.'