The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

• M A NSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday, a superintendent of
the watch in one of the wards, was charged by Henry
Allen, an undertaker, with having stolen a silk hat-band
(such as are used at funerals by undertakers' men.)
The complainant stated, that he occasionally employed
the prisoner as an assistant mute at funerals, and that, on
Thursday, the prisoner having been engaged to attend a
job, and having performed it, adjourned, with his fellow-
mutes, to the Turk's Head, Aldgate, to unrobe and refresh.
Immediately after this most agreeable part of their duties
was executed, the hat-band in question was missed. It
was then determined that every man in the room should
be searched, as the article could not easily have been pil-
fered except by one of the company. The prisoner showed
a very praiseworthy alacrity upon the occasion, took out
his staff, in order to act with a formidable authority in the
cause of justice, and pulled off his coat, in order to show an
example of willingness to undergo examination. The
search was made upon every one present, but no hat-band
was found. The witness was not satisfied with this ex-
periment, and called in a constable, who might be less in-
terested in the robbery than the prisoner, and caused a
second search to be made. In delicacy to the prisoner's
feelings, he being an officer of justice, he was the last per-
son searched. Indeed it was expected that the article
would be forthcoming before it reached his turn. Every
other person, however, stripped, being subject to the
charge of robbery. The prisoner then as boldly threw off
his coat as lie had on the first search, and with his staff in
his hand, demanded to be examined. Some of the frater-
nity objected to any intention of giving the officer more
indulgence than had been yielded to the rest, and he was
of course ordered to do as they had done, when, to the
astonishment of all, down dropped the hat-band from his
person.
The constable who was called in to assist in the business
deposed, that upon examining the prisoner's person he
found the hat-band snugly deposited between the shirt and
the waistcoat behind.

The LORD MAYOR.—The prisoner is committed.
Superintendent of the Watch—Committed ! Oh, my
Lord Mayor, you won't commit me. Consider the dis-
grace, my Lord. You surely won't commit me !
" Upon my word I will," said the Loan MAYOR ; and
the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial.
On leaving the justice-room, he said to the officers about
the. place, " Isn't this too bad ?" He belongs to the Ward
of Coleman-street, a neighbourhood in which numerous
robberies have been lately committed.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday Mr. Walmsley, a pawn-
broker, residing in the London-road, was summoned be-
fore Mr. HONE, for refusing to compensate a French lady
for the loss of a gold chain, value ten guineas, upon which
he lent her the sum of 21.
The complainant previous to the month of March,
pledged the article above-mentioned at the defendant's
shop, and hearing that his premises had been destroyed. by
fire on the 25th of the same month, she proceeded therilin
about three weeks afterwards in order to make inquiries
about the article, when the defendant said that she need
not make herself uneasy, for her chain, and also a brooch
which she had also pledged at his shop, were safe. Upon
the faith of that representation, the complainant was satis•
fled; but when she subsequently called to redeem the
chain, the answer she got was, that her property was
either lost or destroyed at the time of the fire, and that
therefore she could claim no restitution. Under these
circumstances, the complainant obtained a summons against
the pawnbroker.
Mr. Walmsley said, that if he made compensation to this
lady, it would be a precedent, and he should have a hundred
applications of the same nature by persons who lost pro-
perty in his house when the calamity occurred. •
Mr. HONE.—But this lady swears that subsequent to the
fire, when she called at your house, you assured her that
her chain was safe.

A female was then called, who proved that she was pre-
sent when the defendant made the above declaration.

Mr. HONE.—I shall certainly call upon you to make
compensation to this lady for the chain. Pray what was
the amount of insurance on the property in your house at
the time of the fire ? The defendant hesitated, upon which
the Magistrate repeated the question, and at length the de-
fendant answered that his property previous to the fire was
insured for 7,0001.

Mr. HONE.—Was this lady's chain destroyed by fire?
Defendant.--The whole of the plate and jewellery were
saved, but a great deal was either lost or stolen in the con-
fusion that existed when the fire broke out. Her property,
I have no hesitation in saying, was lost in that manner.

Mr. HoNs.—Your having assured the complainant that
her chain was safe after the fire, demands that you should
compensate her for the loss she has sustained.
The MAGISTRATE having threatened to put the law in
force against the defendant for his reft.sal, the latter in-
timated his determination of appealing. At length, how-
ever, the matter was finally adjusted between the parties,
Mr. Walmsley promising to remunerate the complainant for
the loss of the article in question.

The late Lord HARLEY, who was amongst
the passengers lost in the Fanny packet off Jersey, was in
his 28th year; his brother, Lord Monummt, now Lord
HARLEY, is heir apparent to the Earldom of Oxford. It
is not a little singular that the heirs-apparent of the Earl
of OXFORD and of Mr. KNIGHT, of Dowiston-Castle,
whose extensive properties lie close to each other, should
have been cut off by untimely deaths, within a few months
of each other.— Worcester Journal.

DlvoN.—Last week, a poor woman of West
Buckland having occasion to leave her home, obtained per-
mission of a neighbour to leave her child, about thirteen
months old, in his house, with his children, and during
her absence, a little dog attacked the child, and bit it by
the shoulder, which so much frightened it as to cause its
death within ten minutes.—Plymouth Journal.
FIRE OCCASIONED BY WATER.—In Conse-
quence of a rick of hay, belonging to a respectable farmer
in the neighbourhood of Fordingbridge, being partly under
water during the late flood, it heated so rapidly as to catch
fire, and was completely burnt down.—Dorset Chronicle.

One of the most celebrated masters of hounds
in the northern part of the kingdom is so devoted
to his sport, that during the hunting season his residence
consists of two rooms, one for himself and another for an
old woman who waits upon him. The furniture of the
master's room consists of a turn-up bedstead, a sofa, half-a-
dozen chairs, and table. In this room he can do what no
man ran do in a palace ; as he lies in his bed, he can open
his window, shut his door, stir the fire, and rate his hounds,
if he hears them quarrelling in the kennel. —Chelmsford
Chronicle. Chelmsford

On Tuesday evening se'nnight the neighbour-
hood of Abergavenny was visited by a heavy snow-storm.accompanied by high winds. The road from Abergavenny
to Merthyr was rendered impassable for carriages by drifts
of snow from 12 to 18 feet deep; and the Merthyr mail
was with much difficulty conveyed to Abergavenny next
morning on horseback.—North Wales Chronicle.

The flood at Lincoln has been very extensive
in consequence of the late rains. Southward and north-
ward for many miles present an immense sheet of water,
and great apprehensions are entertained of the rot seizing
the cattle. The steam-packets, in consequence of the
navigateoverflow withoft precision,heWitham oneh of which actually perchedve found it very difficult to
upon the top of a hedge (rendered invisible by the water,)
the bushes of which incommoded the paddles. On Friday
last, owing to the almost overwhelming flood, the tempo-
rary dam erected across the river at the east end of the
High Bridge was obliged to be removed, to suffer the waters
to drain from the Skillingthorpe lands, which are flooded
to such an extent as has not been seen for a great number
of yeare,..—Stamford News.