The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCI.

CIULLINIALL.--'-Two men, mined Hugh Hughes and
land Arnold, were charged before Mr. Alderman C.
4Ssurst yesterday with an assault of a serious nature.
Charles, Matthews, of Wootton-street, Cornwall-road.
seemingly a labouring man, was returning home between
11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday night, accompanied by his
wife, and drawing his children behind him in a little chaise,
when, as he was entering St. Paul's Church-yard from
Cheapside, four drunken men overtook them, one of whom
overturned the chaise, whether accidentally or not lie could
not tell. Witness stepped back in time to prevent the
children from being thrown out with violence upon the
stones ; bat while so engaged, another of the party (the
prisoner Arnold), without the slightest provocation, struck
his wife a severe blow upon the mouth, which threw her "
upon her back along the pavement; and being in the
last stage of pregnancy, she was now lying in a fearful
state, from the alarm and the coneussion. He considered
her life in imminent danger. Hughes was the man who
overturned the chaise.

Wilkes, a watchman, saw the party going along before
this affair took place, and observed Arnold dashing his
hat upon the pavement in a wild sort of way. Mr,.
Matthews was knocked down by Arnold without any pro-
vocation.

The prisoners, who did not deny the charge, were re-
manded until the next day, that a certificate might be pro-
duced as to the degree of danger Mrs. Matthews ►nay then
be in.

BOW-STREET.—Yeeterday a gentleman addresced Sir
R. ButNIE, stating that he appeared on behalf of Mr.
Shut; the husband of Madame Shutz, of the
Theatre, to request that the young man, Francois Yiyanio,
who had been remanded on suspicion of havin,, been con-
cerned in robbing him of nearly 500/., might be released
from custody, there being no further evidence against him.
Sir R. lIIRNIE asked if the boy Tagliano, who had ab-
sconded with the money, had been pursued to Paris.
The gentleman replied that the lad been pursued to
Paris, but no clue whatever could be found to lead to his
discovery.

Sir R. BLILNIE should not discharge the prisoner at the
request of Mr. Shutz, or any body else.
The friend of Mr. Shutz said that there was no inteu-
tion on the part of Mr. Shutz to go to any further ex -
pence, as he conceived he had already lost enough, and
that therefore the young man in custody might as well he
discharged.

UNION-LlALL.—Yesterday a stout able-looking sea-
man, named William TV/site, was brought before the -sit-
ting Magistrate, R.• J. CHAMBERS, Esq., charged wills
felony.
Mr. M'Lachlan, a boot-maker in the Borough, stater
that in the course of that morning the prisoner walked into.
the shop, and although there were customers there at the
time, he hooked a pair of boots from a nail, and instantly
ran away with them. Ile was pursued, and, atter a small
chase, secured, with the boots in his possession.
The MAGISTRATE committed him fur trial.
Three female fortune-tellers, all of whom had the title
of "Lady" attached to their names, were brought up,
charged with illegally pawning various articles of bedding,
from their ready-furnished lodgings.

An old woman, with whom the defendants lodged, said
that soon after they had taken the apartment, she was
surprised at the number of persons by whom they
were daily visited, p trticularly young women. She
at first thought that they were acquaintances ; but'
observing new faces constantly coming, she at length began
to 6' smell a rat," and discovered that her lodgers were'
no better than they should be; in fact, said the old
woman, "I soon found out that they had dealings with'
Old Nick, for the cards were never out of their hands from •
morning till night, and the company by whom they were
visited came there for the purpose of having their fortunes
told. Not wishing," added the complainant, "to have
such characters in my house, I gave them warning to quit,
and on going into my room on Saturday, I found my
blankets, sheets, and pillow-cases, all gone. I therefore
gave the ' ladies' into custody."
Myers, the constable, stated, that on taking the de-
fendants into custody, he discovered the duplicates of the
• complainant's p.--,derty, which they had pledged, in their
possession. Ile added, that he also found two .grasy
packs of cards, a pair of compasses, and a nativity of
Buonaparte in the room, all of which were emblems of
the trade carried on by the defendants.
The defendants began to quake for fear when the cards
and apparatus were produced; they declared they never
told fortunes except for the sake of amusement.

Mr. CHAMBERS alarmed them very much on asking
whether they foretold they were now going to Brixton, as
they should assuredly visit that place if they did not forth-
with release all the articles belonging to the complainant
firm the pawnbroker's.

One of the defendants, who was enceinte, said that her
friend was a corn-merchant, and if any person stepped
over to Mark-lane, he would advance as much as would
get them out of trouble. A messenger was accordingly
despatched to Mark-lane, and the corn-merchant sent bark
as much money as released the property pledged, and the
defendants were liberated.