The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGFfNCE.

GUILD lIA LL. —.Joseph Sheppard, a middle-aged
man, was charged with stealing a basket, containing three
dozen composition dolls, value two pounds. John Price,
an apprentice of Mr. Barton, a doll-maker, was passing
through Bow Church-yard, with the property in his pos-
session, and was accosted by the prisoner, who was stand-
ing in a doorway without his hat, and who asked him to
fetch him a cabriolet, and ordered the boy to leave his
basket. When the boy returned with the cab, the prisoner
and basket were gone, hut an officer had secured them.
The prisoner was remanded.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—An elderly man, of
most respectable appearance, who stated himself to be a
solicitor, was brought before Sir GF.Olttl E F IRRANT, eharg •
ed with stealing a work called " A Treatise on the Art of
Painting," with seventy plates, in two volumes, by Gerard
De Lairesse, from Mr. Mores's auction-rooms, No. 16,
Old Bond-street. It appeared from the evidence of Mr.
John Sidney Gere, who is in the employ of Mr. Mores,
that the prisoner entered the auction-rooms that morning,
and inspected a collection of books which were on vies
previous to their being sold to-morrow. In the course of
half an hour afterwards, Mr. Gore observed the prisoner
walk out of the rooms : and suspecting from his bulky
appearance that he had something concealed about him, he
followed him into the street, and drew (ruin underneath his
coat the work now produced, which was published by
Longman and Co. at four guineas. On Mr. Gore insist-
ing that he should be taken before a Magistrate, the pri-
soner entreated to be set at liberty, saying he was a gentle-
man in distress, and had been driven to the comtnission of
the offence through want. The prisoner appeared ex-
tremely reluctant to give kis name and address; but at
length he informed Sir Groaon that his name was James
Taylor, and he was sixty-three years of age. He hoped
that the circumstance of his being a member of the legal
profession would not be made public, and inquired if bail
would be accepted.
Sir GEORGE refused to take hail, and committed him to
Newgate for trial. I,
SAILOR'S RETURN.—Yester-
day a man name,VEbbes, a shoemaker, residing in Peacock-
street, Walworth, was charged with assaulting 3, sailor
named Mist, in a most violent mann%jkh kipoker. It
appear cl tl, . • Aliat went to sea some after hav-
ing
,
placed his wife under the protection of some of his rela-
tives, with a sum adequate for her support during his ab-
sence. The faithless wife, however, soon after the depar-
ture of her husband, became acquainted with Ebbes, the
shoemaker, with whom she formed a criminal intercourse,
and eloped with him from the residence of her husband's re-
lations. Poor Jack, on coming home from sea, instead of
finding a partner to receive him after the dangers and hard-
ships of the voyage, learned to his dismay and surprise,
that she had abandoned the home he had provided for her,
for that of the prisoner Ebbes, with whom she was living
in adultery. On the arrival of her husband, he having
ascertained where the " guilty pair" were residing, and that
she was contracting debts in his name, repaired thither ;
and on remonstrating with her upon her faithless and base
conduct, the prisoner beat him with a poker, and he was
found lying in a senseless state, covered with blood, by
Snow the beadle. Ebbw; said that he struck Mist in his
own defence. He was ordered to Sod bail.

The enactment of the American tariff', and
the early period at which it comes into operation, has no-
casioneil a depression in the woollen trade of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, which is in some degree aggravated
by the unsettled state of the currency. The inquiry be-
fore the Lords' Committee into the state of the wool trade
has terminated, and a strong case is understood to have
been made out against the imposition of any additional
duty on the importation of foreign wool. The appearance
of the Committee's Report, with the debates on the 4, i-
denee, are anximsly expected. The worsted stuff trade
does not participate in the depression of the woollen cloth
business. The sales at Bradford last Thursday were unu-
sually large. —Leeds Mercury.
EXPEDITIOUS AND COMFORTABLE TRA VEL-
LING.-A party of gentlemen left Liverpool OR Tuesday
last at 10 o'clock forenoon, with the Majestic steamer for
Greenock, where they arrived at nine o'clock on the follow-
ing morning; at 11 they went onboard ef the Eutiny steamer,
sailed up Holy Loch, landed at Kihnun, visited the roman-
tic burying place of the Argyle family, from that to the
steamer on Loch Eck, sailed through that beautiful fresh
water Lake, and thence to lnverary, where they arrived at
half-past four o'clock, thereby breakfasting at Liverpool,
and dining the following day at Inverary, having, during
that time, passed through the finest part of the Clyde
scenery, and the most wild and romantic part of Argyleshire,
with as much ease and comfort as if they had been sitting
at their own firesides.— Glasgow Chronicle.

SHIPWRECK.--We are sorry to announce the
loss of the ship bolus, Captain HOWLA 14, belonging to
P.ICHARD Pora and Co., of this city. She was bound
hence to Quebec, -and on the 11th of May, when off Cape
Gaspee, in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, was so completely
beset with ice that all on board were obliged to abandon her.
The Captain and six of tile crew took to the jolly boat, and
the remainder of the crew and eight passengers (all on
board) to the long boat—it is hoped that all reached the
shore in safety. The bolus had on board the entire rigging
for a new vsseel building at Quebec for Mr. EVAN THO-
MAS, of this city.—A vast number of vessels had been in-
jured by the ice in the Gulph. The Superb, from Bristol,
had been abandoned by the crew, on the 23d April, four
of whom had (lied from the severity of the weather. She
was afterwards brought into Burin. Newfoundland, by a
schooner, with her bows stove in. The City of Water-
ford and George the Fourth had arrived safe at Quebec.—
Waterford Mail.

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On Monday evening last, while the Duke of
Lancaster steam-boat was corning up the river, she was
boarded off Dumbarton by
two Excise officers, to ascertain
whether any contraband goods were en beard. They had
not continued their search long, before they discovered a
chest, containing spirits, which had been brought on board
by a passenger, off Caradale Point. The Captain pointed
out the person who had brought it on board ; he, however,
denied it was his property, but admitted that he had assisted
to carry it. While the officers were deliberating bow to
proceed, the person accused suddenly jumped overboard,
and swain till be had nearly reached the shore at Bowling
Bay, when he turned round, and perceiving that the officers
following him in a small boat, he gave a shriek and sunk.
Instant search was made for the body, but it was not got
till the following evening. He was then recognised to be
a dealer in eggs, from Canspbelton, of the name of
11 11.1n.LAN. The body was put into a coffin, by order of
Captain. NA Pr IC A, and transmitted to Campbelton.
burgh Observer.