The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The case of the unfortunate Spanish
and Italian refugees, Is now beginning to attract public attention.
In the course of Satuiday, the Lord Mayor received various sums
of money, and yesterday additional contributions were sent, in the
whole, amounting to 501., which of course will do little fur up-
wards of 200 starving people. The sums have been forwarded to
Mr. Freslifteld, of the Stock Exchange, and the DAMN will be duly
ad vertiaed.

An _application was made from Winchester for. one of the re-
fugees, who could be recommended as qualified for the situation of
teacher of languages. The Spanish language, front the increasing-
connexions with South America, is beginning to he much taught.
in commercial academies, and since French has become so common,

the Italian language is more cultivated in seminaries as a fashion-
able accomplishment.
A waterman appeared to answer a charge of having taken more
than his fare, and used abusive language.
A gentleman went with the defendant from Ilotherhithe to
Tower Stairs, and offered him u shilling, which be refused, 11---1
him for a mere humbug, and refusing to let him go lbr less than
eighteen-pence. The gentleman paid the money, but insisted on
taking the defendant's number, And gut into the: bunt fur the pur-
pose. Finding he could not get at the number, he went as far as
Billingsgate to procure a lantern, and the defendant accompanied
him and " jawed bitn" all the way. When they returned to the
Stairs, the defendant jumped into the boat, rowed it off, anti left
him on the Stair* with the lantern in his hand, telling him to get
the name how he could. Having, however, recognized the per-
son of the defendant, he persevervd on
- the
following day, and found
him' out.

The LORA Mavott fined the defendant 205., and on his declaring
his inability to pay it, committed him to prison.
GUILDHALL.--One Mr. John Moore, a stately well-dressed
elderly, was charged by the watch of St. Bartholomew the Great,
with having drank more than enough. They found him stretched
out at full length at one o'clock in the morning, in Long-lane ;
but how long he had lain there they could not say—tho Ugh it was
very evident that let him have lain where he would, he must have
lain two yards long at the very least.
Mr. Moore—The watchmen perhaps did their duty in convey-
ing rue to the watch-house, but lied they taken me home, as a
gentleman, I would have rewarded them handsomely."
" How could we take you home as a gentleman, when you was
as drunk as a beast?" demanded the watchman ; to which very
unpleasant query Mr. Moore made no reply, and the Alderman
tined him five shillings for having been drunk. •
BOW-STREET.—A noted old thief; Tit Shields, was yester-
day brought before Sir Ruiskitn Bums, charged by Richard
Paul Jodrell, Esq., Portland-place, a very infirth gentleman, with
an attempt to steal his watch, and also on suspicion of having pick-
ed his pocket of a purse containing I h sovereigns.
Mr. Jodrell having corroborated this statement,

A person carne forward to say that he saw the prisoner very
active in the crowd around the theatre, together with several per-
sons who were pointed out to him as noted thieves. There was
a big man, named Smith, the elephant, who was also particularly
active. The person said that he had .to complain of the conduct
of Ledbeater, the officer, who seemed to be on a familiar footing
with, the thieves, and actually shook one of them by the hand.

Mr. HALLS said, that Lei!beater had informed fiim, he merely
tapped a thief on the shoulder, whom he }mew in the crowd,
warning him that he was watched.
Sir Menial) Murat regretted that the evidence against the
prisoner was not sufficiently strong to commit hint for the capital
offence.

The parties were then about to be bound over to prosecute,
when Sir RicamtnNzx said, on second thought he had a
very good reason fer remanding the prisoner, end Friday next
was accordingly appointed for that purpose.
MARLTIOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, an elderly decent-
looking man was Oozed at the bar, before Mr. CONANT, the
sitting Magistrate, upon the following singular charge.
Withers, men., the father of the youth who some weeks ago
preferred a charge against Colonel Archdnll, at this office, stated,'
,that the man at the bar came as a perfect stranger one night last
week to sleep at the public-house where' he. (Withers) lodges, in
Holborn, and the next day the prisoner thought proper to charge
him with having robbed him during the night of a sum of money,

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because they happened to sleep in the same rOOlll, and the prisoner
has ever since come regularly every day to the house, causing a
disturbance ito4 lowilymbuging him (Withers) with the robbery;
and when asked to give his name and address, he refused to tell
either.
?dr. Co NA NT told tlov man at the bar, that he ilid tint Kee any
grounds for accusing Withers of this rolAory, particularly zni a third
perian hail shin sAnin in the room. The IlltatCr WU% then dismissed.
UM( )ISI- i'l A I.L. —Yesterday a tiMoW named john smith, one
of a gang of desperate thieves that bare long infrsted the district of
this office, was brought before the sitting Magistrate, charged with

'giving committed 84") outrageous tut assault upon the person

OptsTr! Davidson, of Nelson-square, as to endanger that gentle-
man's life. •
The Captain was unable to attend the examination in conse-
quence of the injuries he received, and his eon produced a medical
certiticate, describing the dangerous state iu which his father Was
then lying, owing to a severe Wow on the breast, which, it ap-
peared, produced rupture of the lungs. - • _ _

Bhepitertl, the Witeinan, having btated that he should know

the man who accoMPanied the prisoner when lie knocked down
Captain Davidven, the Alagistrate remanded hint ,for another
examination.

HORRID DEPRAVITY.

On Monday evening. an inquisition was held
.at.the Two
Brewers, at Stratton-ground, Westminster, before Thos. Higgs,
Esq. nn the body.of James Woodward, aged 54. years.
Mary Grant stated, that she lodged in the smile house With
the deceased. 1.44 Saturday she was in the yard with the. de-
ceased,. When' ha exclaiMed, " Oh ! Mrs. Grant, I 'shall die."—
She assisted to get him up stairs, and gist him some medicine
Soon after his wife came • into the room, when the deceased ex-
claimed to Isis wife, " Yost lying, good for-nothing woman, yon
have broke my heart," and instantly expired. - His wife rum-
maged his pocsets, where she found 4s. and immediately went
out and got drunk.; she , came horns in the evening, when she
drew the covering from the corpse, and slept alongside of the de-
ceased during the night. Since the death of her huaband she has
removed every thing portable,, and witness has no doubt but that
she would sell the body, :if• some stop were not put to it ; . she
had pawned two of his coats yeaterd.sy, and got drnnk With the
money.
The Jury 'appeared astonished at the depravity of the woman,
and desired the beadle to take care of the holy till it was interred,
as there appeared no doubt that, if the body was not removed im-
mediately, it would be sold to procure gin.
Verdict...-Died ley the Visitation of God. • •

TIER WORKING COTTON SPINNERS.—A very
considerable reduction of wages, in some instances
equal to two-thirds, having, of late, been made by some
of the master spinners, a general " turn-out " was the
consequence, and the masters taking in.new hands at
the reduced prices, the old ones, supported by the
contributions of those who are in full employ, and re-
ceiving the old rate of wages,' have since been using
every exertion to induce the new hands to leave their
employment, and by joining with them in withhold-
ing their labour from the market, to raise its price to
the desired level. So however, has been the
general conduct oftbnaiu:dents, that they have, lath er-
ded,
tot with very few exceptions, kept out of the reach attic
!ei g
law's lash. This week, it appears, some slight dis-
turbance has taken place amongst the new and the old
hands at the factory of Mr. James Kennedy. Some
of the new hands complained of receivinif, obstruction
from the old ones in their attempt to go into the mill,
and, in consequence, the Police-officers went up occa
sionally during the week, but found »a occasion to in-
terfere ; so far from it, as respects the )hl hands, that
earth, and finding,
tuarefore, that they were in want of
the new 11(1"(18 actually assaulted them with cloth of
protection from the assaults of those they came
litert t
ex-
pressly to protect, they of course found it unnecessary
to pay them any
~mr:air:ho visits,fthe: exceptceraticcellarly I o
as
tile t wereheir
h
no signs of any
own persons.—Manchester Gazette,
ARBROATIL—LOA Saturday se'nnight, Margaret
Wishart was lodged in jail, accused of havi»g aihni-
nistered poison to her sister, while in child-bed, from
the effects of which both mother and child died. On
Sunday, the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers were
disinterred, and examined by Doctors Arent and Palmer,
who have not as yet given in their
burgh 'terms Courant,