The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-24 00:00:00

what it is, Mr. Hutton,' tar I, if you and your wife can't
agree better than what you do, I shall thank you to look for alto-
thee lodging, for I won't have such rumpusses in my house any
longer,' says Co and hang yourself, Mr. Cooper,' says
'No, I shall not go and hang myself, Mr. Hutton,' says I; 'but
I desire you to take notice to quit.' Then if I take notice to
quit, do you take that,' says he;' and with that he took and hove
the coal scuttle at me, whereby it took me right in the pit of
my stomach, and knocked me clean through the back door into
the yard, may it please your Worship."
" Indeed it does not," said his Worship, "but go on, Mr.
Cooper, and be as concise as possible."
Mr. Cooper, apparently quite in the dark as to the cause of
these repeated interruptions, stared round him for a minute or so,
in the hope that somebody would explain to him ; but nobody
being kind enough so to do, he proceeded :—" Then, please your
Worship, before I could gather up my senses to sceswhat was the
matter, he took and let fly at me right and left; and his wife,
what stands here, took and broke my head with a pitcher—a new
blue and white wash-hand pitcher, what my Missis had give two
and ninepenee for only three days before!"
This was the climax of Mr. Cooper's complaint ; and he seemed
to think it impossible for any thing to be more atrocious than the
breaking a man's head with his own two-and-nine-penny blue
and white pitcher.
" Well, Mr. Hutton," said the Alderman, " what have you to
say in excuse for this outrage?"
" Look at any wife, please your Worship," said Mr. Hutton ;
giving his superannuated slacks a bitch upwards, and sticking one
hand in his jacket ixstsktit, while with the thumb of his other hand
over his shoulder, lie pointed his worship's attention towards his
wife's face—" Look at my wife, please your Worship."
I see her," said this Alderman ; " what then?"
" Does she look like a woman to be putting a pitcher against
any -man's head?" asked Mr. Hutton, with his little crooked hard-
work'd thumb almost touching the.lady's nose.
" I care nothing abouther looks," replied the Alderman ; "the
complainant has sworn that she did. But tell me why you, your-
self attacked him?"
Why, your Worship, the matter is as this," replied the im-
perturbable Mr. Hutton ; " me and my wife has a fan words to-
gether now anti then,--man and wife like, as the
.saying is, and
that's nothing to nobody but we'reselves ; for we've been married
eleven years come Bartlenty fair, and its cruel hard we can't blow
one another up a bit, in a place we pays rent for, without other
folks meddling and making with us. But this Mr. Cooper, our
landlord here, he's a meddlesome sort of a customer, and I. was told
as he should say, if he ever catch'd us blowing up again, he'd kick
my bottom, saving your Worship's presence. So when I
saw hint coming along the passage last Sunday morning, I sings
out, wonder whether Mr. Cooper will kick any bottom to-day?'
and, i'fecks ! the word was hardly out of my mouth before he
did !—he kicked me a cruel bard kick, which it wasn't likely I
wee going to stand quietly ; so we tussled into the back yard, and
there we fit, and he got rather the worst of it; but I got two
black eyes, and my wife got one, and there was no pitcher put
against his heed, I'll swear, hard and fast."
Mrs. Hutton declared that every sinnalde her husband had
said was zackly true; and that instead of Mr. Cooper pulling
item, they ought, by rights, to have pulled Mr. Cooper.
The Alderman was of a different opinion ; and ordered that
Ur. Hutton should be locked up, whilst his wife went to look
for bail.

—MATILBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday last, a, gentle-
man came to this office, and addressing himself to Mr. PYilt, the
sitting magistrate, requested to know from him what might he
the extent to which the powers of the police establishment of this
country could reach as regarded the protection of domestic society
against any inroads upon its peace by any individual disposed to
disturb it.. _

Mr. Dian, before giving- an answer to so very general an in
terrogatory, desired to be informed what the precise object, of the
applicant might be in making the inquiry. •
The applicant then stated that the motive for asking 'the ques-
tion was this :—A young lady, the daughter of a friend of his,
has lately bad some very hair-breadth escapes from being carried
off against her will by a certain gentleman, whose name it was
at present unnecessary to mention, but happily, as yet all the
Plans that had been laid by this person for the abduction of the
young lady have been frustrated by the active vigilance of her fa-
mily and friends; but although the young lady is at this moment
secure in the possession of her relations, it is impossible to say
how hing she may continue there, so unrelaxing and indefatigable
are the zeal and exertions of her persecutor to accomplish his ob-
ject ; and not only this, hut he has been heard to vow and swear
eternal enmity against all who in any way obstruct hi* views.
Under these circontstances, the applicant wished to know if the
police authorities could interfere with the peniOlt in question.
so as to protect the young lady es well as her friends front his
machinations.
Mr. DYER said, that under the circumstances stated, the po-
lice authorities hail no power to interfere; all that themagistratea
could do was, in the event of the individual in question committing
any assault, or threatening personal violence towards any person,
such as to place that person in bodily fear, then to issue a warrant,
and have the offending party brought before him, and held to bail
to keep the peace towards the individual assaulted or threatened,
Or towards all the King's•subjecte as the case might require.
The applicant asked if a warrant could not be issued upon the
vow of eternal enmity which the. person complained of had made
against all who obstructed his views?
Mr. Dun said certainly lint. A breach of the peace must
have either been absolutelycummitted, or . else so threatened that
some individual had cause. of apprehension, before a warrant could
issue. A declaration of eternal enmity was ton general in its
terms to be construed into a threat of personal violence.
The applicant then inquired, if the person complained of could
not be placed under the " surveillance" of the police, as is fre-
quently the ease in France towards prisoners who are known or
suspected to have designs upon the peace of society.
Mr. DYER replied that the police authorities of this country
possessed no such power as that Winded to.
The applicant retired evidently much disappointed, and at a loss
how to proceed.
• - LAMBETH-STRFIT.......Tni Agoltous n
.. *DAGO° UE,—
Aniongtit the nocturnal' revellers whom either 0 love, war, or
wine," generally deposit in that involuntary dormitory--the
Round House, one in the person of Mr. William Pigott, a dis-
penser of the " classics,".and inculcator of morality in that ex-
treme of Cockney-laud, Brook-street, Ratcliffe, made his appear-
ance at the dread tribunal of this office on Saturday, charged with
caterwauling exhibitions, which disturhed the serene repose of
his Majesty's somniferous subjects of Back-road, and assaulting
one of those parish potentates called HeaAlboroughs, while in
the execution of his authority. The chargee • anti assaultcfe—
a spruce little chap, who appeared fully: sensible of his high
office, smirked forward to the bench, and told his Worship
that - while on the previous evening enjoying himself at the
watch-house, and thinking that the influence of his name, as
night-constable, would preserve peace and tranquillity in every
part of his dominions, hie pleasing reviews were destroyed, awl
he was called on by two of the inhabitants of the Back-road
to favour them with his presence, which alone could restore the
tranquillity that had been broken in on by the pugilistic as well
as the amorous powers of Mr. Pigott. He et once repaired to
the scene of action ; but his Worship could - scarcely believe it,
his presence had no Wed, hie arguments were Mdietened to, and
Mr. Bill Pigott would not be convinced that be was the very
Headborough whose name inspired such dread.. His authority
was not thus to be trifled with ; and as the indignant functionary
said, " out of regard to the dignity of my office, and the preser-
vation of the rights of my successors, londeavoureil to take the
refractory subject into custody. liithis I was not very success-
ful—he was most ronthustical and obstrovallus ; and after porn-
melting me and lacerating my shirt • (the remnant of which he
here exhibited) I brought him to the watch-house. ' The
" knight of - the birch"' pleaded that he was assaulted by the
g knight of theater on his knowledge-box, and that, on return,
ing the compliment with a misty castor under the right listener,
and ejecting three of hisivories with his bunch of fives, lie really
was not aware of the great dignitary's high office. Hs was dis-
charged.
-- ' TOWN-HALL...--" A bold-Aced villain," nothing indebted to
,his "human face divine," was charged before Mr. Alderman J.
J. Sstrrn, as being concerned in a Must daring robbery, coin-
mined last week upon a sailor, the mate of a coasting vessel,
named Spices, who was despoiled in a low brpthel, in QueenAtreet,
Miot, of his wearing apparel, watch,. and Upwards of 51; in mo-
ney, and found naked in' the street ; for which, three of the pri-
toner's confederates had been previously-committed, and he alone
was wanting to complete the Case for the Sessions.
This last, .though not least, in the lawless proceeding*, Was
taken two days .since, in company With-five others, for attempting
a robbery, at noon-day, 14 Berinondiey-street ;in which failings
they commenced a desperate assault upon the by-standers, to
whom they attributed their want of soma; and these six were
being conveyed to the Justice,room for re-examination this morn-
ing, by Kinsey and button, the officers, when the prisoner was
be
etfeti rubbery,ic;le t,l)
recognized at the door of the 114) by the sailor, who now tswpre
positively to him as one of the unit. who entered the room, and
held the candle, and assisted
which lay near him, whilst
1 Kinsey) upon 010 prionerd tieing put.- to ' the bar, told the
hbrYoiti agukifengaili.
is watch,