The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELIAGENce.

LA M nwrii-sTREET.
THE NEVI EXCISE Laws.—Mr. Gardiner, a wine trier•
chant, of Tower-street; yesterday came before the 1 te..,
and complained that a man who had heen in. his employment
had been illegally detained by Furlong, a conductor of the
flow-street patrol, while conveying a few bottles of spirits to the
house of his paltrier, Mr. Vanhouse, -in ,Mile-end-road. Fur•
long said, that on the previous evening he met the porter irt
Whitechapel, carrying a heavy basket on his shoulder; suss
pecting that the man had improperly become 146siessed of ►t,
he asked him what it contained, and he said fish ; he, however,
examined the hasket, and in it found twelve bottles of spirits,
for which there was no permit ; he. therefore took the matt into
custody. The Magistrate approved of his conduct, and directed
him to ascertain if a permit was required for the removal °tam
spirits. Mr. Gardiner said, the spirits were brandy,' rum, and.
gM, and there were not two gallons of any one sort, to enable
him to get a permit. On the return of the officer front the
Excise Office, he said that the spiritA had become forfeited to
the crown ; and that hit. tiardtner, had inettrred very hpavy
penalties, as the new excise laws did not permit any tue.rdlians
to send Out less than two gallons of any sort Of liquor.

MARLBOROUGB.STREET.
FltatrlN—Yesterday a poor journeyman cooper, who bad
dubbed himself " the Rev. Doctor Yates," waLdiartted with
obtaining money, under false pretences, from several of the
nobility. It appeared that he had written to the Earl of Stain.
ford, to Lord Rolle, Lord Dudley and Ward, ,946., Teem,.
mending to their Lordships' notice anti humane •considera.
considers-
tien the case of a poor woman, named Jones, who, he said,
had been , reduced to poverty by a series of misfortunes,
her house having been destroyed by tire. The Earl
of Stamford was imposed upon by the sham Reverend
Doctor's epistle, and sent six pounds, according to the
address given by the prisoner, whom the Noble Earl
presumed, to be no other than the Rev. Dr. Yates, the Chaplain
of the Royal Humane Soeicty, whose name the prisoner had
assumed to carry on his frauds. The prisoner was discovered
by a servant of Lord Dudley and Ward, who-apprehended him
at his lodgings, in Peter'spJace,Walworth Common. He de,.eel
being the author of the lifters. He *as remanded;
WATeilatiw.---Robert Gordon, Esq. M. P. -waited upon
the Magistrate, Mr. Dyer, and complained of the 'inactivity
of the watchmen in Bruton-street. The Honourable fiCntle.
man stated that he resided in Bruton-street, anti on' Monday
night the house of his next door neighbour, the Hon. Colonel
Lowther, was broken into; anti though the robbery took place
before 1 o'clock, and wad discovered by the watchman on the
beat, he did not alarm thefamily till past 4 rfeloCk..:l-The
gistrate examined the watchman .who found the prentiseshrokirt
open, and it appeared that he informed another watchmati, and
did not instantly proceed ihto the place with assistance; tir the
burglars might have been 4iiken. Mr. aim* blamed the watch.
man for his 'want of promptitude, and AIL Gordon took, iti3
leave. ISo property of value was carried eIF, as it is supposed
the thieves wire distUrbed. ' '

UN4ON-lIALL.
Yesterday oneof Barclay and Perkins's drayinen was charged
with having assaulted a Mrs.' Stroud, the wife' of one of his
fellow-workmen.. The complainant, who is a fresh-lniportii-
don from the mountains of Wales, was in the habit of taking
her husband's meals to him at the brew-house,Where She W4i
seen by the defe7.dant, who lel. in Inve ,with her', and took
every opportunity of declaring his passion. He invited the
complainant and her husband to a neighbouring publie.
house, tolako sums refreshment, when he .hehavert in a iiry
indelicate manner towards the:compluirinlit,
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COURT OV COMPENNATION..---YeSterday, a
Court of Compensation was held at the Town-Hall, South.
wark, for the purpose of deciding on the claims of those whose
premises hav_. been pulled down for the erection of the new
London Bridge. The houses for which compensation was
'claimed, were Nos. 314 and 315, in Iligh.street, in the Botongh,
and two tenements in the rear, situated in Pepper.tilley.
City had offered 2,500/. for the interest of the, whole mperty,
and it wa' stated that MOTO substantial premises 'could be pur.
Outsell tier less money,..., Three Surveyors they had beets
over the Fremises, and valued them at 'JAW/. But on the
part of the claimants, four Surveyors were called, end they
'proved that the lowest value of the premises *Ns 31f111/,'aiA
they varied from that sum to 3,700/. Thvjuty, havyatier, te.
turned with a verdict of 2,000/. for the ciititna. its

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to fly ever the lit r but tlitougb iittm tvelikrAs fen
into the watcr• ht* uriother. reAl-heeng, iteeink
its tliiitreinii situitiont to hist .1104i`41:11)c4. turd Seiiihg it
by the tuft of IvAtliers 0.0 its head, aCtunlly bore it sift to
t Tyne ;11, real yr.•