The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—An ancient-looking Greenwich pen-
sioner, with a simple, smiling, gentle little creature by his
side, addressed Sir JOHN PERRINO yesterday as soon as he
entered the Justice-room, to complain of a breach of faith
on the part of the parish officers of Cripplegate towards
him. He said they had promised to give him 21., and
they had only given him half that sum.
" For what were they to give you 21. ?" asked the
Alderman.
The prisoner pointed with his thumb at the female, and,
after a little hammering, and show of delicacy, he hinted it
was to be his Marriage portion with the young woman,
whom he had married on 3londay last, at Cripplegate
Church, she having formerly been an incumbrance on the
parish.
The MAGISTRATE inquired their respective ages. The
, husband said he was 56, and his wife about 30.
"And what means of supporting her have Sou?" con-
tinned the Alderman.
The husband said his pension and his labour would be
sufficient for that, and proceeded to state that the commit-
tee had sent for him to offer him terms, and he had repeat-
edly told them he would consent to marry the woman only
on conditiOn that he should not be at any expense for the
ceremony, that a wedding-dinner should be provided for
them, and that he should have besides a sum of 21. with
her. The overseers wanted him to take the 21. alone, but he
told them over and over it would not suit him. On the
way to the church, it being agreed he should have what he
asked, he solicited Thorn, the beadle, to give him the cash
in hand before he tied the knot, but Thorn put him off
with a pledge that he would perform the promise as soon
as the ceremony was over. After it was concludedi he
would give him no more than a single pound.
Thorn said this was not the truth. He had not pro-
mised to give him 21., but merely said he might rely upon
receiving whatever the overseers had stipulated, and he
(Thorn) was informed this was 21., including all expenses,
being the amount usually given in such cases. The woman
was a pauper, receiving ls. 6d. a-week, and had for some
time been importuning the parish-officers for a marriage-
portion, stating that she had been living for a twelvemonth
with the old man, but that she was much ashamed of her
disgraceful situation, and as he was willing to marry her
if she could get something to make them comfortable in
the beginning, she hoped the overseers would meet their
wishes. She was told to send the old man, and he came
repeatedly to his house, and was introduced to the com-
mittee, where he was told the expenses of the ceremony
would be reckoned in the 2/. Those expenses were, 15s.
for the church-fees, and 7s. the wedding-ring.
Sir Jolts, who seemed surprised at the amount of the
church-fees, asked the man if they had been living together
for a year ?—" On and off abeut that time," replied the
pensioner.
" Were you living together at the time you were mar-
ried?" said the Alderman.—" Yes, certainly," replied the
husband.

The wife explained, that they were obliged to find their
own dinner out of the U. given them on leaving the
church ; and the Alderman, after hearing the parties pa-
tiently some time longer, said the impression en his mind
was, that the old man had been misled, or had misunder-
stood the committee, and that he might not suffer a disap-
pointment at such a time, he would recommend the gentle-
men of Cripplegate to give him the other sovereign. lie
could do no more than recommend it—it was a•matter in
which he had no authority.
Thorn told the old man to appear at the board on Friday.

Arrintrr AT BURGLARY.—A man, who said his name
was John William Sackett, was charged with attempting
to break open the premises of Mr. George Ward, carpen-
ter, in Greystoke-place, Fetter-lane, between twelve and
one o'clock yesterday morning.
Susanna Moone, daughter of Moone, who lives
opposite Mr. W.'s gate, said she beard some one pass up
and down the court several times, at a late hour, on which
she put out the light and watched at the window, and saw
a man take the padlock off and ge away. She called to
the watchman and described the man's dress. The latter
put out his light and concealed himself, on which the pri-
soner came towards the spot, and the watchman took him
into custody. On searching him, a small cbissel or jemmy
was found upon him, which exactly fitted the marks made
in the deor by the person who had attempted to force it
open, but was prevented by an inner lock and bolt.—The
prisoner was the man who took off the padlock, although
she did not see his face.
The prisoner protested his innocence, but
Sir JOHN PERRINO said he was sorry that lie could not
believe him innocent of the charge; the facts were too
strong against him, and he must rebut them at the Old
Bailey.
The prisoner was fully committed, and the witnesses
hound over to appear at the next Sessions.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A milkman named
Robert Mills, who supplies the neighbourhood of Lei-
center-square and that district with milk, was brought from
the watch-house of St. Ann's parish, Soho, charged with
assaulting a young female servant, and seducing her into one
of those infamous brothels in Little Dean-street.
The complainant, a very pretty-looking girl, who was
accompanied to the office by her mistress, the wife of a re-
spectable tradesman in Castle-street, Leicester-square,
stated, that on Wednesday afternoon, when the defendant
called at her master's house to leave the usual supply of milk
for the use of the family, he asked her if she could manage
to take a walk out that evening ; she replied that she could,
and in fact that she intended going that evening to see a
friend in Stanhope-street, May-fair. The defendant said
that he wan also going in that direction in the evening, and

he would accompany her part of the way. They accord-
ingly met at an appointed hour, and walked together some
short distance towards May-fair, when suddenly the de
fendant stopped in Princes-street, and asked her to go in
with him to a house that he pointed out close by, to sit a
while, and have some refreshment. Thinking that the
house was a tavern, she said she did not mind going in, and
she accompanied him there ; but they had no sooner got
into the passage of the place than she immediately suspected
it not to be a tavern, particularly.as an odd-looking woman
came and brought them a candle to go up stairs with.—.
Upon this suspicion, she asked the woman what sort of
a house that was, and the latter very candidly told
her that it was a house of accommodation for stray
ladies and gentlemen; and guessing at once the sort
of accommodation that such houses afforded, she (the
complainant) instantly darted out of the place, and
upbraided the defendant with the treachery of his
conduct. The defendant then seized hold on her,
and endeavoured to detain and bring her back to the
house, but she gave him a slap across the face, and ran off
as fast as she could home, and immediately told her mistress
how the defendant had treated her ; and her mistress, know-

ing where the defendant lived, employed a watchman, and
had the defendant soon after taken into custody and lodged

in the watch-house.

The defendant, who seemed to wish to turn the whole
matter into a joke, had nothing to say for himself, and after a
severe reprimand from the Magistrate for his base treachery
to the poor girl, he was fined 10s. for the assault, in at-
tempting to detain her by force.
MARYLEBONE.— William Canadine, a young man
of respectable appearance as a working mechanic, was
charged with having, by false pretences defrauded John
Marshfield and others.

John Marshfield, foreman to Mr. Cubitt, the builder,
of Gray's-inn-lane, to whom the prisoner had been recom-
mended, by the clergyman of the House of Correction,
Coldbath-fields, received directions from Mr. Cubitt, on
the 17th of March, to give the prisoner employment, and
provide him with tools until he could get some of his own.
He did so ; and finding he was destitute, be supplied hitn
out of his own means with food, clothing, and money. On
the following Friday the prisoner told Mr. Marshfield his
uncle, Mr. Scott, a banker in the city, was dead, and would
be buried on Sunday, at Norwood Church, and that in
consequence of his death, be was entitled to receive 1,2001.
When Se'Pßdn, mornipg came, he asked Mr. Marshfield to
lend him a suit of clothes, to war at the ftmeral, because
the mourning which he had ordered was not ready, and
borrowed his watch and seals, that he might appear more
respectable, and money to pay his expences, and with all
this he absconded. Mr. Marshfield found his watch, in a
few days, pawned for gl.,- at the shop of Mr. Harrison,'
Tuthill-street, Westmipste- • and diseoyered the prhoper.
on Monday last, as he was making bay, in a field at
burn ; and as soon as the prisoner saw ltim, he threw down
his rake, said he was guilty, and hoped to be transported,
for he had been miserable some time.

Richard Canadine, a brother of the prisoner, who lives
in Great Smith-street, Westminster, stated, that the pri-
saner married a niece of Mr. Scott, a banker, in the city.
Sbe is de4d, but he believes Mr. Scott is living.
There were, Other complai74ntp, but this charge was con-
sidered by Mr. GRIFFITH sufficient to answer the ends•of
justice, and he was committed for trial.

Some months ago the prisoner was convicted under a
similar charge, and sent to the House of Correction. There
he Otaii;ed the good opinion of the clergyman, and after-
wards turned it to ;he abovp aegoitnf
• •
Heitry Ansel', driver of the hackney-coach, No. 76,
was brought before Mr. Gulp-witand Mr. 111,AWLINsOn,
in custody, ,undeohe following
.serious circumstances:—
On Sub4y night, about eight o'cloik, he galloPed furiously
across the New-road, from tpFer Norton-street to Osna-

burg-street, by Trinity Church. Jane Howlett, a poor
woman, was crossing the road at the time, with a child in
her arms, and Mr. Henry Quinton, of 21, Upper Seymour-
street, Euston-square, who was waiting on the spot for a
Paddington stage to take him to the city, saw her in
danger, and ran to assist her, but his efforts were worse than
unavailing, for the horses knocked them all down ; one
wheel went over the woman,land broke four of her ribs;
and another grazed the shoulder of Mr. Quinton, very much
injured one of his hands, and put the thumb of the other
hand out of joint ; but the child most fortunately escaped,
with only bruises from the fall. The coachman took no
notice of the accident, but galloped along to Williams's-
mews, in Mary-street, and when the persons who followed
him came to the yard, they found him in the act of taking
off his plates, to avoid prosecution.
The poor woman was taken to Middlesex Hospital,
where she remains in great danger; and Mr. Quinton was
so much hurt as to prevent his coming forward yesterday
to give evidence.
The prisoner said his reins were broken, and he had lost
the command of his horses.

The Magistrates told him it would be well if the woman
recovered, otherwise his life would be in danger ; and
committed him to the New Prison until that knowledge is
ascertained.

WORSHIP-STREET.— William and IJenry Ledge
(brothers), and James Lee, a carman, were under exami-
nation the greater part of yesterday, charged with an ex-
tensive robbery, committed in January last, upon the
premises of Mr. Peter Callender, Bermondsey, a wholesale
leather-seller and dresser, to whom the prisoner Henry
Ledge was apprenticed.
The warehouses were broken into at a very early hour
of the morning, and great part of the stolen property, 124
skins of leather, found in the course of the same day in a
loft ever a stable, near Tabernacle-walk, Finsbury, in pos-
session of the family of the Ledges and the prisoner Lee.
The evidence, which Was extremely voluminous, having
been taken, Mr. TWYFORD determined on committing the
prisoners, but remanded them for the present to consider
whether they should be tried in Middlesex, where the pro-
perty was discovered, or in Surrey, where the robbery was
committed.

HATTON-GARDEN.— George Upward, the Bow-
street patrol, who was charged on Wednesday at this Office
by Bolton, a watchman, in Chapel-street, Pentonville, with
being drunk, and thereby prevented from endeavouring to
take a thief who was reported to have entered the area of a
house in that street (see the account in yesterday's paper),
now came forward to prefer a complaint against the same
watchman for assaulting him.
The young man who had informed the patrol that he bad
seen a person descend into the area eame forward and cor-
roborated his statement.

Mr. LAING asked what became of the supposed thief?
Complainant—l know not, Sir; I was dragged away to
the watch-house before I could have any opportunity of
satisfying myself whether or not any such person had ac-
tually got into the house, and it is most likely that if he
had, he seized the opportunity of the watchman's improper
interference to make good his escape.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON reproved the defendant for inter-
fering so unwarrantably with the duties of the patrol, told
him that his conduct was too gross for summary punish-
ment, and that he should therefore order him to find bail
to answer to the charge at the Sessions.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

WEDNESDAY, Auo. 27.—High water 28 min. past 12.
—Wind E. S.E.—Arrived the Thetis, Townley, from
Dublin; Lune, Prowse, from ditto; Corsair, Goodwin,
from Belfast ; Birmingham, Head, from Dublin ; Lord
Nelson, Dixon, from Dumfries ; Sovereign, Kegg, from
Stornaway.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The James Peake, for Prince
Edward's Island ; Montreal, Leith, for Montreal ; St.
Peter, Gernatrom, for Elsineur ; Wimmeline Kranenbay,
Prange, for Amsterdam ; Margaret, Bush, for Barbadoes ;
Majestic, Hodson, for Bahia ; Nautilus, Jacobs, fOr Liver-
pool, Nova Scotia; Lady Byron, Pickering, for Vera
Cruz; Sisters, Handy, for Africa.

ASSEMBLY Rooms.--Notwithstanding the
sensation which had been so recently created by the Ball
at the Montpelier Rotunda, the announcement that his
Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON intended to honour the
Full Dress Assembly at the Rooms with Isis presence on
Monday evening, created a general bustle in the fashionable
world ; and as early as seven o'clock, an immense crowd
collected round the entrance, all anxious to obtain a view
of the illustrious individual, whose visits to Cheltenham
have ever diffused such general and heartfelt pleasure...—.
The preparations made by Mr. and Mrs. LEa for the oc-
casion, were on a splendid and extensive scale. The
gallery was thronged with spectators, and the superb Ball
Room nearly filled with an almost unprecedented display
of rank, beauty, and fashion, before ten o'clock—when the
arrival of his Grace was announced by three distinct and
enthusiastic cheers from the populace assembled in front of
the vestibule. The Duke, with the Princess ESTERNAZY
and her daughter, were ushered into the room by Mr. MAR-
SHALL, Master of the Ceremonies; and their entrance was
hailed by every mark of respect from the numerous assem-
bly—the band playing " See the conquering hero conies."
Shortly after his arrival, the dance recommenced, and the
Princess honoured Colonel DummtEscl by joining him in a
quadrille. , His Grace was decorated with the insignia of
the Garter, and appeared in excellent health and spirits.—
He expressed himself highly gratified with the attention
which had beetk shewn him, and remained about half an
hour, when he retired much to the regret of /00 of the
Rite of fashionable society in Cheltenham.— Cheltenham
Chronicle.

PARTING WITH AN OLD FRIEND.—AbOU

two years ago a sailor had the misfortune to take on board
more grog than ballast, and falling into the hold, dislo-
cated his shoulder. The poor fellow was at sea, and being
without proper surgical aid, lost the use of his limb. It
hung useless from his body, and proved a great burthen.
Having applied to the most celebrated surgeon in. London,
he was told that nothing could be done for him but re-
moving the arm from the socket. He was not so ready at
first to part company with his arm, but being told it would
never again render him any assistance, Jxcit consented to
have it off, observing at the time that no hull should keep
en board more cats than could catch mice. He was ad-
mitted some months since to Guy's Hospital, and prepared
for the operation. All the pupils attended to see the ope-
rator take the arm off, and nothing could exceed the skill
displayed by Sir _on the occasion. The arm was
put aside: to be taken away. JACK never uttered a word
until it was over. He then said, " I should like
to see my arm, if you have no objection." " None," re-
plied Sir "if you desire it." The amputated limb
was brought, and JACK, taking the hand, exclaimed very
deliberately, " Farewell messmate ! You and I have
weathered many a tough gale together, and now we must
part. You have been a good friend to me : I shall never
find such another !" The surgeons were struck by the odd
manner in which he had taken leave of his arm, and a
handsome subscription was entered into for his benefit.
He got well in a few weeks, but he has not yet lost the re-
collection of parting with his old friend.
MYSTERIOUS MURDER/IN NEW SOUTH
WALES.—By the sagacity of a favourite dog, the murdered
body of an old man was found a few days ago, in a hole,
where it had been attempted to be concealed, on one side of
the road leading from Sydney towards Botany Bay. The
deceased is recognized as THOMAS Tumult, a stockman,
in the employment of a Mr. Wieser, who has appeared as
an evidence on the Coroner's Inquest. The purport of his
evidence is, that the deceased reported, on the previous
Tuesday, his having met with a marl whom he suspected to
be a bushranger. They had some trifling conversation;
which led him, the deceased, to form no very favour-
able impression of his new acquaintance.. Upon the
deceased going out next morning, Mr. WEST says he ad-
vised him to be cautious of the stranger ; the deceased re-
plied, he was net afraid, provided the man did not.
come upon him unawares. Deceased left home in the morn-
ing, and never returned after. No intelliganite could be
gathered of his fate till a dug, which was faithfully at-
tached to him, led the master towards a spot of ground
which seemed to have been recently dug up ; the dog here
expressed all that canine sagacity could to induce his master
to search the spot closer—he scraped away part of the
earth, and Mr. WEsT having dug into the surface, to his
amazement found the murdered body of his servant plunged,
into a hole. The throat of the poor fellow was cut, and
several stabs appeared on various parts of the body, which
was in a state of nudity. It was examined by a surgeon,
who gave it as his opinion that. the man cuold, not have
lived more than three mioutea after he was stabbed. • A
by.the deCeasell of the
man ansWeriai the description give"'
stranger alluded to, was seen near.WEsT's Station, employed
in washing a pair of 'trousers in a creek—the trousers are
represented to be similar in appearance to those worn by
deceased at the time of his departure, This stranger ,has
since been taken into custody ; he is thought to be insane.
Sunday forenoon,
but without inquestwiout be"iatti g6abtil onto casSattaunrydac)ieaarndlight on the myste-
rious affair. They have returned a verdict of wilful nuirder
against some person or persons unknown.—:Frorn an
Australian Paper of Jan,