The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Yesterday a young lady entered the office in a state of much
agitation, and requested some advice or assistance in the case of
a daring robbery that had been committed on. her a few
minutes before. The lady stated, that as she was passing
along Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, with her reticule sus-
petaled by a steel chain hanging from her arm, she was sud-
denly surrounded by a gang of juvenile thieves, who hustled
her of the foot pavement; and one of them seizing her reticule,
snatched it with such force from, her arm, that the chain
snapped in two, and they made off with the reticule, leaving a•
piece of the chain behind, and ran in diffinent directions
towards St. Giles's. She pursued the thief who snatched the
reticule as well as she could, tintil she got into Dyot-mreet, now
called George.street, where ho disappeared; and finding herself
, to a labyrinth of filthy courts, alleys, &e., she was so much
al anted, that she dreaded proceeding further, and it was with
difficulty She could find her way out again. She told the cir-
commence to a gentleman she met, who advised her to come to
this office. The reticule she said contained eight sovereigns,
besides a written order for a sum of money, payable to herself,
. ' and some other private papers together with a pocket hendker-
chief. Balland, the officer wile attended to the lady's state-
ment, assured her that it would be to as little purpose to go at
that Moment in search of those young thieves in the mazes of
St. Giles's, as it would be to hunt for a needle in a bundle of
hay; he, however, took from the lady an accurate description '
Of the thief who snatched the reticule from her arm, for the
purpose of setting on foot a sharp lookout after him ; and in
the mean time the officer advised the lady to make no delay in
sending notice to stop the payment of the order for money she
had lost.
Just as the office was on the point of closing, a diminutive
little female, apparently 80 years of age, and a very unin-
viting person and countenance, entered, accotnpanied by a man
neatly six fees In height, and of a most awfully forbidden as.
petit, and approaching the bench, addressed the Magistrate
thus—" Please your worship, I want to know from your wor-
ship, If a marriage celebrated in a private house in Dublin, by
an Irish Roman Catholic priest, be a lawful and binding mar-
riage in this country, because, your worship, I believe it Is not ?"
The Magistrate inquired if the officiating person was a regu-
larly ordained clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church 't
The applicant said, that she could not herself answer that
question, hut, added she, " I believe this good man by my side
can,—was he john ?" turning to her companion.
Yes," replied John, with a grunt.
The little woman now bustled about her pockets for some
time, and at length produced a little bit of dirty papers which
she handed to the Magistrate, stating it to be the certificate of
the aforesaid marriage, signed by the priest.
The Magistrate, very naturally thinking that she was trou-
bling herself all this time about her own affitirr, asked if that
was the certificate of her marriage ?
" Lord bless your worship," said she, at not at all : it was
not the that was married, but this good man here" (pointing to
liar sullen friend by her side, who stood with his eyes fixed
upon the ground, and his brows most luxuriantly overhanging
them.) " The case is this," she proceeded. " this good dear man,
your worship, who has a handsome pension, married a woman
in Dublin, n the way I mentioned, and she is coming over
now to c'aim half of his pension as his wife ; and I want,
you see, your worship, to prevent her if you can from imposing
un the poor man, because I um sure the marriage knot lawful."
The Magistrate, who until this time thought the applicant
was pleadirl in ter own behalf, now wished to have some
explanialon front the pensioner himself, who stood like a
mute by his advocate's side, es to the olkiect of this inquiry;
and accordingly asked him what was his motive for wishing
to anceitain if hie marriage in Ireland were legal or otherwise.
" Why, because," replied the pensioner, now for the first
time lifting up his downcast brow, " You see, if that ere
marriage of mine in Dublin be no good, 1 wants to marry
again immediately this ere little woman by toy side."
The Magistrate said, he suspected there was something
more titan saving his f'riend's pension for him in the view of
the applicant, from the extraordinary zeal she manifested in
the cause, anti cold her, that a magistrate Was not the proper
person to give an opinion on or decide if the marriage she
spoke of were or were not legal : but advised her, if the ques-
tion were one which concerned her very deeply, to apply. to
Doctors' Commons, where she would he Most May to obtain a
clear opinion on the point. d' Then," said the little womans as
she retired with a disappointed countenance from the Whey,
" the poor man will loose half his pension,3 ant afraid."
The gentleman who is the complaisant in the case of the
steam-packet-office is M r. Addison, late. of the Dragoon Guards,
and nut of the Foot Guards-