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London, England, 1832-11-06 00:00:00

LONDON, 'HIES DAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 0, 1832.

see that this Sutton was the mainstay of the
action. His manner and answers at the trial
were none in his favour. The defendant had
now an affidavit that Sutton, with three or four
other persons was convicted of a conspiracy about
six years ago for selling an office in the &Ist India
Company, and that he was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment.
The COURT observed, that that did not disqualify
him from appearing as a witness.
Mr. WfwAms was aware of that; but that fact,
with some others they had learned since the trial,
being laid before the Jury, they might not put such
implicit faiih in the testimony of Mr. Sutton, the
only witness, as they did before.
The COURT granted the rule on the first and last
grounds. As to the notices, they thought Mr.
Williams should have inquired more into them on
the trial.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

The Assistant Overseer of the parish of An-Hal-
lows, London-Wall, applied to the LORD MAYOR to
sign an order to compel a resident of Bishopsgate
parish to.pay the usual rewards to the firemen, who
appeared foremost with their engines at a fire in No.
I I, Broad-street Buildings.

The LORD MAYOR, upon looking at the order pre-
sented for his signature, and perceiving that it was
not signed by either the Alderman, Deputy, or
Common Council of the Ward, could not, in accord-
ance with the Act of Parliament, compel the payment
of the rewards without such authority.
The Assistant Overseer said that the firemen who
had attended were present, and ready to swear that
they had gone in with their engines, and the owner
of the premises hail no objection to pay, provided
the Alderman, Deputy, or two of the Common
Connell, as the Act required, would, by their signa-
ture, prove that he was responsible. He (the As-
sistant Overseer) had called at the houses of Mr.
William Riwlins, the Deputy, and others of the
Common Councilmen, but he found that Sir William
was out, and the Common Councilmen refused to sign
the order, as they had not themselves seen the fire.
The LORD MAvon—l can't help it, and I am
very sorry for it.

The Assistant Overseer—What are we to do,
then, my Lord, if the Common Councilmen all
choose to reject upon such grounds ? How can we
expect that competition among the firemen which
leads to the preservation of so much property ?
The LORD MAvort—Why, you must knock at the
doors of all the Common Councilmen of the Ward
in which the tires may happen, whatever the hour
of the night may be, find call upon them to witness
the fires, if they won't credit anything but their ow❑
eyes.—(A laugh.) I don't know of any other way
of getting justice done.
The Assistant—l certainly shall do as you advise,
my Lord.

IV. Quin, one of the officers employed in taking
care of and exhibiting some of the curiosities in the
Tower of London, was charged by Kinnersley, the
beadle of Aldgate, with having deserted his wife and
left her destitute.

Kintiersley stated that Mr.Quin had prevailed upon
a lady of considerable property to marry him, and
that after having run out all the property so ob-
tained, he thought fit to render her as little assist-
ance as possible. He had agreed to allow his wife
ten shillings a week out of his salary at the time,
but he forgot the obligation, and now owed the
parish 81. 10s. for money advanced to the lady.
Mr. Quin said, that his lady, if she wanted money,
could easily get it by applying to her brother or
other relations, who were at all times ready to give
her .50/. or 1001. As for the charge against him of
having wheedled her into the matrimonial state, that
was, upon his honour, destitute of foundation. The
fact was, there had been a mistake upon both sides.
His wife fancied that he was a man of fortune, and
he fancied that she was quite able to supply his de-
facts in that particular.—(Laughter.) Although the
British Ambassador in Spain joined their hands, he
regretted to say that there was very little in them at
the time.—(Laughter.)
Mrs. Quin said that her husband had wasted a
great deal of property foolishly, and was now so ec-
centric in his habits that he could no t be depended
upon; and that were it not for the parish officers
her condition wou'd be desperate. She hoped the
Lord Mayor would protect her, by compelling the
regular payment of her allowance.
Mr. Quin—Upon my honour it is not convenient
for me to pay. lam sorry for it, but it is easier for
the whole parish to pay titan for me.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—If you don't support your
wife, Mr. Quin, I must send you to prison. Upon
my honour I must, Mr. Quin—(A laugh)—and then
you will stand a chance of losing your situation.
Don't you think so ?
Mr. Quin—Why, yes, my Lord; I think my
place would be rather doubtful if I was prevented
from attending to its duties. The fact is, my Lord,
I am now in arrears, and not able to pay my
wife, on account of a little absence upon one occa-
sion, for which I got suspended for a month.
EtmKi
eirsiitnicieesrusiiiinit—hNelt, is true, my Lord, that he was sus-
pended fur accepting an invitation to take a little
gin, when he ought to have been waiting upon their
Tower.Mthere was no gin in the question,
—not a drop. The truth is, my Lord, 11,.r Majesty
came to the Tower, and I was suddenly taken very
ill. It happened that when the Queen went to
the apartment of which I had the care, I was not
exactly in the way, and, us I had the key in my pocket,
no admission could be obtained, and I was put out
of the way for a month for not being in the way.—
(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR advised the defendant to
satisfy the parish•otlicers of his inclination to sup-
port his wife, and the parties withdrew for the pur-
pose of arguing the mater.
UNFORTUNATE DILEMMA.—A young woman of
respectable connections, applied to the LORD
MAYOR for permission to swear a child to a master
baker, who resides at Limehouse.
The applicant had, she said, gone upon an invi-
tation to the house of the baker, to attend his wife,
who was seriously ill. She did not go as a servant,
but as a friend. The sick woman died, and the
applicant remained in the house to superintend its
affairs for a short time. The baker availed himself
of the opportunity which her lonely situation pre-
sented, snd effected his purpose by force. She,
however, had the imprudence to remain for a week
under his protection, as it is called, and at the end
of that time was utterly abandoned by him. Upon
finding that she was enciente, she applied to the
officers of the parish, the baker having refused to
give her the least assistance, and was advised by
them to go into the Lying-in-Hospital, at St. Luke s.
As she was a widow, and did not inform the officers
at the Lying-in-Hospital that her husband was dead,
no objection was made to her admission,and she wa•
brought to bed there. Upon applying to the parish
officers at Limehouse, she was refused permission to
swear the child to the father, and was disdainfully
refused a single farthing by him. Under these me-
lancholy circumstances, she supplicated the Lord
Mayor's interference. All she wanted of the ma"
who had ruined her wag, that he would support his
child; she was perfectly well able to support herself.

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The LORD MAYOR unfortunately could do nothing
but supply her with the means of going to her de-
ceased husband's palish. His Lordship then gave

'ler some money, and she left the Justice-room in
great distress of mind.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

JUVENILE PLUNDEREFL—XOrah Con nor, an old
Irish woman, who sells fruit about Oxford-street,
ovas brought before Mr. CoNANT, charged with hav-
ing, in concert with a number of other fruit-women,
incited a little boy, named Cross, to obtain a large
number of loaves, in the name of his father, from
the baker with whom he dealt for bread.
Mr. CONANT directed her to be remanded for the

present, in order that further investigation might
take place, and that the other women might, if pos-
sible, apprehended.
" UNADULTERATED MILK."--Peggy Reardon, a
cherry-cheeked Irish milk-maid, charged Thomas
Hughes, foreman to a cow-keeper, in the New-road,
with having inflicted several thumps and kicks on
various parts of her person, on Friday last.
It appeared that it was customary for those retail
dealers who get their milk at this yard to send their
own milkers, in order that they might secure a sup-
ply of the unadulterated article; and the complainant,
Peggy, made her appearance in the cow-house on
the morning in question to superintend the interests
of one of the retail " genuine" milk venders. Hav-
ing milked a certain quantity, Peggy placed the pail
unthinkingly too near the tail of the cow, and while
her back was turned for a moment, the animal, by
an act which cannot be further explained, contrived to
add to the contents of the pail, without at all improv-
ing the quality of the milk. As soon as the " un-
toward" occurrence was discovered, the complainant
took the pail into the measuring room, and ex-
plained the nature of the accident to the foreman,
telling him at the same time cot to mix it with the

clean milk. The complainant having finished her
milking, returned into the measuring-room for the
purpose of receiving her quantity, but when the pails
were handed to her, she, judging from the colour,
and other evidence of a more conclusive nature, that
a portion of the dir:y milk had been mixed with the
clean, hinted her suspicions to the defendant, who,
denying such to be the fact, she passed the milk
through her strainer, by which process she made
manifest the fact of something more than milk being
in the pail. The defendant on this got into a rage,
and having applied in its most vulgar form the
epithet of Irish female dog to her, she retorted, by
asserting that he belonged to that class of quadrupeds
remarkable for the length of their ears. This fired
the Welch blood of the defendant, and the result
was that he committed the assault now complained of.
Well (said Mr.CoNANT), I think the girl acted very
properly in refusing to take the dirty milk. It would
no have been very creditable to have sold it to the
public under such circumstances ; and therefore, I
don't see why you should have assaulted her.
Your Worship (said the defendant ), I always has
a proper respect for the female sex ; but she fit me
about the yard; and, though I was compelled to
shove her down in the cow-house, she won't go for
to say she did'nt fall stft.
Is it salt you mane (said Peggy)? and may be
I did fall salt; but, your Wurtchip, my gown was
spoilt wid the cows any how; and I hope I'll get
satisfaction from the likes of ye.
Mr. CONANT suggested that the defendant should
give the complainant five shillings to pay the ex-
penses. Both parties accepted this mode of settle-
ment, and the case was dismissed.
Q UEEN-S Q UARE.

A DESPERATE CHARACTER —Yesterday a disso•
lute creature, named Ellen Stanley, was charged
with the following offence :—lt appeared from the
evidence of Mr. John Caddell, of the Waterloo-
road, that on his return home en Suaday night, with
his wife, the prisoner met them, and without the
slightest provocation, caught hold of Mrs. Caddell,
and shouted in her face. The lady was so exceed-
ingly alarmed at the audacious conduct of the pri-
soner, that she fainted. The prisoner ran off lank k-
ing, but was shortly taken into custody by a police-
man, to whom Mr. Caddell had given a description
of her person.—The policeman stated, that the pri-
soner was, perhaps, one of the most depraved and
desperate characters that could well be imagined.
She was well known at Union-hall, and he believed
that upon an average she had passed nine months
out of the twelve in prison for several years past.
The prisoner denied being the person who insulted
the complainant's wife, but as there was no doubt as
to her identify,

Mr. GREGORIE committed her to twenty days'
hard ►abour at Brixton her way to the
lock-up, she told the complainant to take care of his
wife when she came out of prison.
A very decent looking female, named Caroline
Holland, was fully committed for trial for stealing a
pair of boots from the shop of Mr. Stacey, in Lam-
beth-walk. It was evident from the manner in
which the theft was perpetrated, that the act was
not premedi!ated. While at the bar she trembled
greatly, and appeared to suffer much mental agony.
In her defence she stated that she was a widow
with two children, and in great distress, but when
she entered the shop to purchase a pair of boo's for
one cf her children, she had not the slightest inten-
tion of c nimitting a robbery.

APPREHENSION OF GUY FAWKES.—From the
circum,tance of a number of boys assembling rouud
the office in the early parr of the morning, the
curiosity of the passengers was excited, and they
were induced to make inqurries. The result caused
no inconsiderable degree of laughter. It appeared
that several boys had determined upon " making
up a Guy" yesterday, being the .sth of November,
and one little urchin, not " sixpenny worth of half-
pence" high, suggested among his companions that
more money would be gathered if they dressed up a
" Guy" to represent a policeman. 'I his was unani-
mously agreed to by the others, and Master Guy was
adorned with a policeman's old great coat, oilski It cape,
and bearing a truncheon in his right hand. The plan
was exceedingly successful, the coppers being ga-
thered in at a quick me from almost every passer by,
who could not refrain from laughing heartily at the
figure. At length an Iri-h policeman, not on duty in
Tot hill-street, consid, red his cloth d sgraced by
such an exhibition, and " screwing his courage to
the sticking point," he rushed among the motley
tribe of little urchins, brandishing his truncheon,
dispersed the supporters of the chair, and captured
" master Guy," which he bore off to the station-
house. Several of the leaders in this conspiracy
were also lugged, neck and crop, into the presence
of his superior officer, to answer for their offence—
the policeman, no doubt, recollecting the old pro-
verb, " That what was sport to others was death to
him." The Inspector, on hearing the nature of
the charge, which was delivered with peculiar so-
lemnity by the policeman, burst into a fit of laugh-
ter, in the midst of which he took hold of the
" Uuy " policeman by the collar, and bundled him
into the arms of the anxious crowd ofj uveniles out-
side, who were not a little pleased at the result.
Not 90 the officious subdltetn, who looked " unut-
terable things " at the inspector, for the manner in
which he treated the charge. The boys, who
were taken to the station-house, were of course sent
about their business; but a rumour prevailed that
they were taken to this Office, and hence the crowd
which had assembled.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday, Price, the hackney coachman, was
re-examined, charged with having stolen a box be-
longing to Mr. Baker, who left it in the prisoner's
coach. When he asked the prisoner for i , he re-
fused to deliver it up unless he was paid a shilling.
Mr. Baker declined giving this, and the prisoner