The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Among the applications for relief to
the Lord Mayor was a Manchester calico-printer ; he wished to
be passed home to his parish at Manchester. , He stated that he
had gone on the Continent for-work, and had been employed for
some time, but calico-printing was extremely Clack there. He
had travelled through the Netherlands, but could get nothing to
do. He had managed to get over to London, but had sot means
now to get back to Manchester.
The Loan MAYOR could not give the applicant the pass he
requested, and referred him to the officers of the parish where
he last slept.
GUILDHALL.— Thomas Williams, the porter, at the Black
Lion Inn, Water-lane, Fleet-street, appeared before Mr. Alder-
man Woon yesterday, to answer the complaint of a Mr. Barron,
of Higbgate-hill, for overcharging the porterage of a parcel, and
for misbehaviour, in carrying a parcel to the Camden Town er-
rand cart, which was especially directed to be forwarded to High-
gate, by a particular conveyance.
Mr. Alderman WOOD should dismiss,the complaint for not be-
ing made within 14 days ; the parcel wai delivered on the 30th
of November. The imposition was shameful, and he advised Mr.
Barron nut to have Any more parcels brought by that coach.

HAT,TON-G A RDEN. —Ctra RACTICRISTIC ROBBIE.RII. —Yes-
ter* William Pluck Rase, a journeyman tailor, was put to the
bar,; charged w►th stealing a fat goose, value six shillings and six-
pence from the shop of John Simes, a poulterer, residing in
Lamb's Conduit-passage.
lob. Roans asked the tailor what he had to say to the charge.
Pluck said it wawa impossible tor the poulterer to know who
took the goose, as the night was foggy.
Mr. llot:s:as told the tailor he was aggravating the .:Barge, and
the less he talked about the goose the better.
'the poulterer supposed the tailor waniril
Christmas dinner.

Pluck denied it, and said he never wanted a gowe fur an
occasion.

Mr. Roolas said, it W3S no matter what the tailor intended to
till with the goose, the felony. was proved, and the tailor should he
tent to Newgate.

The poulterer wished to know if he should he obliged to pro-
duce the goose at the trial; for, if so, he would lose an opportu-
nity of selling it in the mean time.
The Magistrate tutid, it was not necessary to produce any pe-
rishable commodity.
The tailor was then sent to prison, and the poulterer got his
goose. •

QUEEN-SQITARE.—Amonget the disorderlies yesterday
morning was a respeetable4ooking gentleman, who gwve his ad-
drew; Mr. Francis Burrows, No. 16, London-street, Fitzroy-square,
charged by a watchman with being drunk.
Mr. W#ITX.—You must pay 5.. for being drunk.
Mr. Burrows.—l wish to ask you, Sir, if lamto be hauled
into the blackhole by main force.

Mr. WKlTlC,;...eitrtainly, If yen are iii orderly.
Mr. Burrows (turning to the watchman).--There gentlemen,
you are to do as you like you see. The ss. was paid, and Mr.
Burrows left the office grumbling.

Gnosp.—lt would seem, from an appli-
cation made to the presiding Magistrate of this office, (It, J.
CHAMSERS, Esq.) that a ghost; or rather a mischievous person
hitherto unknown, has been annoying a family named Bedington,
residing near the Chapel, in the Wandsworth-road.
A gentleman named Irwin, who lived at Claremont Cottage,
on the Wandsworth road, presented himself before Mr, Chambers
for the purpose of having his Opinion in what way the mischievous
individual was to be detected. Some time ago • Mr. Irwin con-
verted a coach-house on his premises, into a dwelling-house, which
be let to a laundress, and her husband, named Beckington, who
bad a family of children; and, being in circumstances to keep a
servant, they hired one from the country, wham they recently dis-
charged; and this female, there was reason for believing, was in some
way or other accessory to the annoyance. Beckington, a coach-
man to a highly respectable family in the neighbourhood, hired
another servant, and since her entrance in his dwelling, noires
were continually heard every night, such as ringing of bells,
knocking against the walls, rattling of windows, which so alarm-
ed the girl and Beckington'e family, that they knew not how to
act, having in vain endeavoured to discover by whom the noises
were occasioned. So ingeniously were the tricks (if trick, they
were) contrived, that although a watchman was stationed at the
Booty the house-hell, which was connected-with it, would ring in
his presence. It was only on Monday night that, as the children
were going to bed, attended by the servant, they were frightened
by a thumping on the, wall ; their parents ran, and the noise ceased
for a while, but presently commenced again. Mr. Irwin, anxious
that his tenants should not be annoyed, resolved upon seeing the
Magistrate, and requesting his advice.
Mr. Coast➢one having heard the story, smiled, and said that
he would send an officer down,: if Mr. Irwin pleased ; but in all
probability the ghost would not exhibit his tricks as soon as the
officer was known to he in waiting. Iris Worship then put some
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LEITIL—The fever which has raged fur such a
length of time in this place, still continues to spread its malignant
effects, without abatement, over almost every part of the town.
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of cleanliness, in causing the houses of those infected to be
thoroughly cleaned in avers part. Were pyrolignions acid intro-
duced to the houses of those suffering from the fiver, we haVe no
doubt it would tend greatly, if not to lessen its virulence, at least
to prevent the contagion from gaining ground.—Ediaturyh
Negrajou Cvarant,