The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-30 00:00:00

A SHARK AT THE NEW HUMMUMS.

Yesterday morning at half-past five o'clock, Major
Hampton Lewis, of the Isle of Anglesea, who is an
inmate of the New Hummums Hotel, in Covent-
garden, was suddenly awoke from his sleep by the
noise of some parson crossing his room. On looking
up,his to astonishment he discovered a man attired
only in his shirt, stealing softly towards the door,
with his watch and purse in his hand. The Major
instanly jumped from his bed, and seized upon the
intruder, catching him by the collar of the shirt. The
fellow showed fight, striking him in the side severely
with his elbow, and in the face with his fist. He
was a powerful young man, while the Major was up-
wards of sixty : and struggling violently, he suc-
ceeded in disengaging himself from the grasp of the
Major, and getting into the passage rushed up stairs ;
precious to his flight he dropped both the watch and
the purse on the floor. The Major gave an alarm
by calling loudly for assistance. Several other in-
mates, who were sleeping in the adjoining apart-
ments, as well as the servants of the house, soon
came to his aid. On explaining the cause of his
alarm, a police officer was obtained,and a search was
immediately commenced fur the thief. Several
rooms were examined, hit suspicion as to the real
" poacher" was not confirmed till the pursuers ar-
rived at a chamber on an upper floor, in which they
discovered a man lying in bed, apparently in a deep
sleep. On regarding him steadfastly, the policeman
was of opinion that he was only shaming. Ail
the parties having retired from the room for a
short time, again returned, and found that the
supposed sleeper had turned upon his side, a cir-
cumstance which confirmed the policeman's specula-
tion. While they were hesitating what should be done, ,
the man opened his eyes, and with real or affected stir-
prise,demanded " What was the matter ?" The Major
soon acquainted him with the cause of their visit,
when he expressed much indignation at the imputa-
tion which had been cast upon him. By this time
he had got out of bed, and the Major said, from his
size and appearance, he verily believed he was the
person who had been in his room. All the parties
now proceeded to dress themselves, the policeman
still remaining on the watch. and on afterwards as•
semblieg below stairs, the Major recollacred that in
the effort to escape from his hands the robber had
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no longer hesitated in
giving him in charge, and
the prisoner was taken to the station-house. He
stated that his name was Mactiamara, and
that lie lived in White Hart or White Horse-
court, Drury-lane. He was dressed very fashion-
ably, with a cloak and for collar, and was to all ap-
pearance respectable. It turned out, on an inquiry
into the matter from the porter, that he had come
into the hotel the same morning but a short titre
before; and it further appeared that other persons
had lost their purses and property. In endeavouring
to account for the absence of which, it was ascer-
tained that a person had been permitted to leave tile
hotel during the investigation, who, it was inferred,
was a confederate of the person in custody. The
prisoner wiltbe examined this day at Bow-street, at
eleven o'clock ; when, perhaps, some further eluci-
dation of the mystery may take place.

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.Telney rilZfn ho)day Fail ed
PORTSMCii, APRIL
the Parmelia transport, Lieutenant Sanders, agent,
and the Supply naval transport, for Woolwich and
Deptford. On Tuesday the Neva transport, Lieu-
tenant Adamson, agent, for Woolwich and D •pt-
ford ; and the Amphitrite transport, Lieutenant
Cooley, agent for Chatham. On Thursday arrived
the Diligence naval transport, from Chatham, with
stores for this Dock-yard. On Friday arrived the
Viper schooner. Sailed to-day the Confianee
steamer, with the Viper in tow.
The • William Harris and Hope transports, and
D ligence ;naval store-ship, will proceed to the
River as soon as the wind permits.
The William Harris, transport, Lieut. Steevens,
arrived on Wednesday, from Malta, which island
she left on the 29th of March, with sixty-four in
validsZ eleven women, eleven children, and a:-
quantity of returned stores. • Lieut. Stephens, 94th
Regiment ; Lieut. Yea, 7th Regiment ; Dr. Thomas,
Royal Artillery; and two sons of the late Colonel
Mareshead, came pars in her from Malta.
The Lord Willianipntinck convict ship will
sail for Van Die Land the moment her dis-
patches arrive.
The Lord ton transport, Lieutenant
Woodman, agent; Itoslyn eatte transport, Lieu-
tenant Deriman, agent; Maitland, Lieutenant Da-
vison ; and Leonidas, Lieutenant Wolridge, have
been spoken with in the Channel, from the West
Indies, and may be hourly expected to arrive at
Spit head.
The Discovery, the ship in which Captain Cook
circumnavigated the globe, and which fnr many
years has formed a hulk at Deptford, has been re-
moved to Woolwich, preparatory,it is said, to being
broken up.
At Spithead.—Britannia, Talavera, Donegal.
In Harbour.—Victory, Royal George, Briton,
INTeteor, Pantaloon, and Emerald.
(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
DEVONPORT, APRIL 21.—His Majesty's ;sloop
Satellite, 18, Commander Hare, arrived on Saturday
last from the East Indies, last from Ascension, which
she left on the 4th ult. She brings no news, and
came up harbour on Thursday to be paid off, having
been in commission five years and four months.
The Satellite was one of the experimental squadron
in the summer of 1829, since which she has been to
the Cape of Good Hope, East Indies, New South
Wales, round Cape Horn to the riendly Isles,
back to the Island of Ascension, and from thence to
England.
His Majesty's ship Excellent, 50, exercising ves-
sel, is to bear, as part of her complement, 15 mid-
shipmen who have either passed their examination,
or who are within a year of serving their time, and
who are to be appointed by the Admiralty.
The Meteor, surveying vessel, Commander Cop-
land, went into Portsmouth Harbour on Monday, to
be paid off.
Mr. J. Burdwood, of Plymouth, is appointed
second Master of the Jupiter score-ship.
Dr. John Brown is appointed Supernumerary
Assistant-Surgeon to the San Josef, vice Corral,
appointed to the Nimrod.
The Sphynx packet was paid off on Saturday, and
the Shelitrake packet commissioned. The Savage,
10, will be paid off this day. It is said that the Sa-
tellite will be recommissioned. _

Mr. John Winne, son of Captain Winne, R.N.,
of Plymouth, is appointed Second Lieutenant in the
Royal Marines.
Remaining in Hamoaze.—San Josef, Ranger,
Savage, Satellite, Triticulo, Romney, Echo steam-
packet, Sheldrake packer, and Jupiter.
In the Sound.—Caledonia.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A DAINTY DUSTMAN —James Daniels, a " fly-
ing dustmen," was brought before the Lord
Mayor on Saturday, for having " irregularly appro-
priated" a haunch of Dartmoor mutton, the property
of Mr. Drew, poulterer, Finsbury-circus. The
dealer in dust, it appeared, had been seen by the ap-
prentice boy of Mr. Drew to unhang the haunch
from the hook on which it had been displayed out-
side the door, and to walk with it d liberately
across the road. Being alarmed by the cry of " Stop
thief!" which the boy raised, he dropped the
dainty in the mud, and " cut away" as fast as a pair
of bandy-legs could carry him. He was, however,
overtaken, and lodged, together with the haunch of
mutton, in the watch-house. The haunch, when
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the table of the most epicurean gourmand. " Well,"
said the Lord Mayor, " how do you get your living,
and what have you to say in defence ?"—" Vy,"
said the dustman, " I got the milt?, of this here to
say. I vorks in the dust line, but 1 ar'nt had a job
o'nothink this vetk. I seed the mutton, which I'm
werry fond on, hanging outside this here good gen-
tleman's shop, and being precious hungry, as I
hadn't a bit o' wittles in my belly since the night
afore last, t borrowed the jint for a little vile; but
I'll take my sacrament oath as I intended to pay for
it ven I'd got the money ; and if nobody von't be-
lieve it, vy forgive 'em."
Mr. HOBLER—But why could you not content
yourself with something smaller?—Dustman :
" 'Cau3e as how there vorn't any thing else handy."
(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR understanding that the pri-
soner could get somebody to speak to his character,
ordered him to be remanded till Monday.
DEATH OS THE PALE Ass.—John Sullivan, a
labourer at a druggist's warehouse in the Borough,
was brought before the Loam MAYOR, charged
with having galloped furiously through the streets
on a donkey.
_ _ _ _

The defendant is in the habit of working in what
is called the Scotch, or more properly the brimstone
loft; and, as his hands are generally full of business,
he has seldom time to wash eiTher them or his face,
so that he often looks as if he had just arrived from
that place where the best authority says the article
he worka abounds in the greatest perfection. The
donkey being accustomed to the same sort of ele-
ment, matched his master in complexion, and the
speed with which they made their way amongst the
mass of carriages and carts, added to the supersti
tious fears of the crowds that started aside as they
passed along. The awful impression was rather in-
creased than diminished, when, upon being asked
where he was galloping to, the rider said, " to the
--, to be sure.
A watchman described the extraordinary appear-
ance of the two offenders, and the rapidity of their
progress, which was luckily impeded by a cart with
a toad of hay, which the donkey stopped to nibble.
They were both taken into custody.
The LORD MAYOR—" Was the man drunk ?"
Watchman—" About half-and-half, please you, my
Lord ; but they knowed what they was about well,
both on 'em, for the donkey was leaky, and he wen:
up against the very hay as he was a feeding upon
like a nasty ungrateful beast as he was."—(A laugh.)
The defendant declared that his donkey was the
most harmless animal that ever lived, and that thi
speed at which they went could not have exceeded
a pony's trot ; besides, the ror little fellow man:r
no disturbance in the streets, as he always went
barefooted.
Watchmao—Aye, there it is, please you, n y
Lot d. The neddy goes on without making no noist
in the world, so that he steals upon you, and goes

The defendant, who appeared, iecOrding to the
language of Scripture, "'like the abomination of
desolation standing up in the high places," promised
that he and his donkey, both on 'em, would in future
imitate humanity less abominably, and go mong like
other two-footed and four-footed brutes.
B 0 Wz,6TREE 27.
George Jones, alias Mims, was charged with
being concerned with a gang of thieves in en'ering
the house of Mr. Bax, the landlord of the Grapes,
in Newcastle-court, Strand, with intent to commit a
robbery. The prisoner, upon whom were found a
number of skeleton keys, a dark lantern, a phos-
phorus box, matches, and other implements of house-
breaking, was also charged with being a returned
transport. It appeared that he was sentenced to
seven years' transportation in the year 1825, for
cutting a trunk from a coach in Blatlfriars-road.
Mr. Henson, jun., the Solicitor, of York-street,
Covent-garden, attended for the prisoner, and pro-
duced his Majesty's pardon, which was granted to
the prisoner about three years ago.
The prisoner said that s nce his return from trat.s-
portation lie had worked hard, and by honest in-
dustry had supported his wife and four children. If
he were allowed time he could produce his employer,
in whose service he had been for above two years.
Mr. MiNsHurA, said he did not know whether he
ought to send him to trial, or convict him, as a re-
puted thief, to three months' imprisonment. If any
property had been removed in the bcd-room of the
prosecutor, in which the prisoner was found, he would
have committed him for trial for the felony.
Mrs. Bar, the wife of the prosecutor, said that a
bunch of keys was taken out of a chest of drawers,
and that a brass plate was forced off the key-hole of
one of the drawers. Had not the prisoner been dis-
turbed, no doubt the whole of the property in the
apartment would have been carried off.
The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next.

A poor half-famished young man •vas charged
with hawking the Poor Man's Guardian, the Cos-
mopolite, and the Slap at the Church, about the
streets.

Mr. MINSIIULL said he would send him to prison
for three months; but on his promising not to do
the like again, he mitigated the sentence to three
werk•' imprisonment in the House of Correction.
Saturday evening, a gentleman, who is the bro.
ther of a barrister in London, came before Mr.
MINSHULL, and applied for a warrant against a gen-
tleman who had married a relative of his, for having
sent him a letter containing language ca'culated to
excite to the commission of a breach of the peace,
and to provoke him to tight a duel. The applicant
placed two letters in the hands of the magistrate,
and requested him to read them. He observed, at
the same time, that the quarrel had arisen through
some false representation of the gentleman of whom
he complained, relative to his possessing Irish pro-
perty.

Mr. Aims Hum. said, he could take no cognizi:;ce
of money matters; they m;ght settle their pecuniary
affairs in a Court of Common Law.

The applicant begged the mag;strate to read °:r:
passage in the last letter, of yesterday's date.
Toe Worthy Magistrate read as follows :—" And
unitss you, within twenty-four hours, make the
apology and retraction which I have twice demanded,
I shall take that course which honour sanctions," &e.
The MAGISTRATE said, that if the applicant
pleased he might go into the Clerk's-office and take
a warrant.

The gentleman went there for that purpose,

LISBON.

Extract of a letter from a resident at Lisbon,
dated April 10, 18:32 :—" I had heard of twiny
acts of cruelty said to have been committed by Dou
Miguel, but I allowed for the exaggerations of party,
and was inclined to believe them Lather the acts of
his followers than of his own will. Last Friday,
however, changed my view. 1 rent him in tir
great square, followed by six servants. He was on
norseback, carrying in his hand a long casit't é, or
bludgeon, armed with an iron ring at the e, d,
which he held pointed forestil, in readiness to
swing right or left at the dogs that bayed as he
pas-ed. Etch of his followers was sirmed in like
manner; they were all at a smart cutter—he was
in a brown cow, with a cocked hat—he servants in
royal livery. When he had passe l me about firty
yards, he suddenly pulled up, and turning his tiody,
pointed with the stick into the street he had just
passed on his right, and said something to his ti
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supposed direction, and
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had sent them to Bemposta, his country sea', but
in a moment my ears were assailed by loud cries,
I walked towards the 'trees, and there saw the two
servants, aided by three mounted police, with drawn
swords, all sticking with the greate,t posstkle vio-
lence at a man who held a horse, and who endea-
voured in every way, even by creeping under his
horse, to evade the blows, but the frightened animal
bioke away, and the poor fellow ran by me covered
with(lieayitd i a
h,Lblood, and pursued by his murderous a‘suilants.
I lost sight of him in the crowd, hut soon after saw
!dm a prisoner. He was taken to prison, and this
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his
crime was the not pulling off his hat as the King
galloped by the end of the street in which he was
waiting with his master's horse. The master is a
great adherent of .111guel, being the Gnat da Mor of
the Custom-house, so that there could be nothing
political in the matter. Indeed it wtis a momentary
busine,s, and it is not improbable the poor fellow
lid not see, or at any rate did not recognise, the
King. I heard a short time since of a similar oc-
currence, with the same result, near Thlem, but. L
would not believe it; now I am compelled by 'my
own observation to give it credence. It has often
appeared to me a very unkingly act his striking at
he digs, for they bay at the heels of all horses that
pass at a quick pace, but are harmless, because the
aorses are used to it. Only a few days ago, he fell
from his horse in making a blow at a dog, which
its followers afterwads killed ; and a short time
,lace he knocked out the eye of a favourite dog of
t poor old woman, whom I saw in the road. endea-
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violence of, the times are to he attributed to his
%I misters. I am sadly afraid, from the specimen I
Jaye seen, to confirm what I have heard from so
natty, that he is a cruel tyrant, ncapable of pity,"