The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Ellen Shaw and Catherine Pike were brought
before Sir PETER LAURIE, the new Lord Mayor,
who sat for the first time, charged with having ut-
tered a counterfeit shilling. The prisoners went into
a public-house, called for gin, drank it, and threw
down a counterfeit shilling. The publican called an
officer ; upon which Mrs. Pike said, " Here goes !"
and swallowed two shillings, supposed to be made
of the greasy material of which the shilling given to
the publican was composed. As the women walked
to the Compter, Mrs. Pike said to the officer,
" Pooh ! I cool] swallow twenty on 'ern, and they
wouldn't do me no harm, for I am used to such
wittles."
Mr. Powell, the Solicitor to the Mint, knew the
prisoners perfectly well to be confirmed smashers.
He stated also that the hawkers and pedlars were
generally employed by the coiners in conveying
the bad money to all parts of the country.—They
were remanded.
The LORD MAYOR was occupied during the day
in hearing cases possessing not the slightest public
interest.
Miss Zoucii.—On the last du of the sitting of
Sir John Key in the Justice-room, an eminent so-
licitor waited upon him for the purpose of requesting
his interference in vindication of the character of
Miss Zouch, a lady who had been greatly oppressed.
Some time ago an account had appeared in the Ob-
server newspaper, which had been copied into all
the Morning Papers of the next day. It stated that
a courtship had been carried on between Miss Zouch
and an elderly gentleman, whom she had met in the
Zoological Gardens, and after representing several
ludicrous circumstances, mentioned that the aged
Romeo broke off in astonishment and affright at
finding that the name of his Juliet began with the
last letter of the alphabet. The object of Miss
Zouch in thus applying to Sir John Key, was to re-
quest that the Hon. Baronet would call the gentle-
man who had made this statement, and the gentle-
man who was equally an object of ridicule with her-
self to confront her at the Mansion-house.

Sir JOHN KEY, in consequence of a letter from
Miss Zouch, had written to the gentleman who had
mentioned the circumstances at the Mansion-house,
and had been assured by him that the heroine of the
story had, for some cause or other, taken the li-
berty to represent herself as Miss Zouch, and that
it had been ascertained beyond all doubt that Miss
Zouch was as utter stranger to the occurrence and
to the person who had been described as her lover.
Sir John expressed his regret that the feelings of
the lady had suffered, but observed that the para-
graph did not contain a syllable reflecting upon her
character. _

The Solicitor said the explanation was perfectly
satisfactory. It was true that the account contained
no serious calumny, but it had tended to affect his
client's interests in the noble family to which she
belonged. Miss Zouch was in the neighbourhood,
ready to meet at the Mansion-house any person
who had erroneously supposed that she had been at
all concerned in the affair.
G UILDHALL.

CRACKING A JOKE.-Mr. Charles Jacobs, a re•
spectable fruit salesman in Farringdon Market wa,,
summoned by a poor Israelite, named Levi, who
complained that he had put a lighted cracker into his
coat pocket, whereby his coat was damaged, and se-
veral eggs in it broken; Levi did not see the thing
done, but a man named Lewis Jacobs positively
stated that Mr. Jacobs slipped the cracker into his
pocket.
Mr. Jolly, jun., of Farringdon-street, and Mr.
Elston, a baker in the Old Bailey, on the other
hand, deposed that the " lark" was played off by a
lad who lit the cracker with a short pipe.
Alderman KELLY dismissed the case, and Mr. C.
Jacobs said he should prosecute the witness Jacobs
for perjury.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
A SHOAL OF PICKPOCKETS.—The Magistrates
were occupied some time in disposing of no less than
fourteen charges for picking pockets, on West-
miuster-bridge, on Friday, during the procession of
the Lord Mayor, &c., on the river.