The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday a young man named
Richard Eldridge, clerk to Mr. Griffin, of No. 25,
Skinner-street, Snowhill, and two men named Charles
johnson and James Edwards, porters to Mr. Griffin,
were charged with having assaulted Mr. Hussey, a clerk in
the banking-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith.
The Loan MAYOa said the assault had been clearly
proved, and ordered that Mr. Eldridge and Johnson should
find bail; the other defendant was discharged.

BOW-STREET.—TILE WATERMEN'S NEW ACT.—
George Heath, a weather-beaten old sailor, mere generally
known by the name of " The Thames Chancellor," in con-
sequence of his intermeddling with every nautical affair, in
older to preserve the River from confusion, yesterday sum-
moned another waterman for neglecting, under the new Act,
to have his name painted on a conspicuous part of his boat.
George, who appeared a.s if something of a serious nature
had occurred to him, after having proved his case, stated,
that he was continually annoyed by the watermen who
plied at the same place, and it was more for the purpose
of checking that, than for the sake of doing an injury to
the defendant, that he had brought forward the charge.
Last night he left his boat safely moored to his son's ; but
when be went this morning to use it, he saw not the least
trace of it. However, he at last discovered it sunk a little
way up the River under a barge, with a great hole broke
in the bottom ; " and this boat, which to me," said George,
" was really worth twenty guineas, being speck and span
new, is now of the value of twenty-pence. A conspiracy,
in consequence of my activity, has been formed. When a
passenger comes they push me out of my turn ; in fact,
they endeavour to bring me to the most abject poverty.
This man is amongst those who insult me."
The charge preferred was clearly established. . _ _

Mr. MlNsuuLL—Your boat has nothing to do with the
present case. I shall fine the defendant 205., and 10s. 6d.
for costs.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—_A NOVEL AND SIN-
GULAR CASE.—On Thursday evening, the following curi-
ous and novel case came before F. A. Roe, Esq., from
St. George's, Hanover-square :—Four men, habited as
master butchers, were brought up by Julian, one of the
beadles of the above parish, charged with having obtained
a sovereign from Sir Thomas Neave, Bart., under the
following false pretence.

The footman of Sir Thomas Neave deposed, that on
Thursday morning, Digby Neave, Esq., eldest son of Sir
Thomas, was married to the Lady Mary, (laughter of Eve-
rard, the ninth Lord of Arundel], at St. George's, Hanover-
square. While the family were at church, one of the de-
fendants came to the house and rang the bell; on his
answering the door, he gave him a letter; witness asked
him who it was for, when the defendant said, for the
gentleman of the house. He then looked at the note, and
saw it was addressed to Thomas Neave, Esq., o❑ which he
replied there' was no such gentleman known there; when
the defendant said, he did not know what it meant, but
he had it given him by one of the gentlemen on their leav-
ing church, and he would call again. The letter was
accordingly left, and shortly after Sir Thomas Neave
and Mr. Sheffield came in, when he informed Sir
Thomas of the curious behaviour of the person tsho left the
letter, and mentioned that he had it from a gentleman on
leaving the church, when Sir Thomas observed, that it was
most probably'a piece of nonsense. It was then taken into
the drawing-room, where it occasioned considerable merri-
ment. The letter was relative to the marriage, and re-
quested to rerfw the marriage epithalamium with those
most classical instruments the marrow bones and cleavers.
Sir Thomas spoke to his brother upon it, when it was
proposed that a sovereign should he left for them ; he was
then desired to be on the alert, for it was a trick ; in the
morning they came again, when one of the party handed
in a large silver plate, festooned round with blue ribbons,
having in the middle something like a crown, and he be-
lieved some verses, and at the same time a hook was given
to him, with a request that Mr. Neave would sign his
name and the sum he gave. He told them he was certain
that Mr. Neave would not sign it, when they asked him,
and on his refusal Lady Harland's servant did it. He then
told them they were to come at six o'clock for the money,
and they then went away. At six o'clock they returned,
and on their presenting themselves Julian took them into
custody.
Julian deposed receiving them into custody, and handed
to the Magistrate the marriage offering book, which was a
porter's book hound in sheep, extremely dirty, and cer-
tainly very unfit for the distinguished autographs which it
contained ; the entry of which was—" Gentlemen are
pleased to enter their names and the sums they order to be
paid for the music on their wedding days ;" and, incredi-
ble as it may appear, the sums gathered as marriage offer-
ings, by those greasy fellows, amounted in one twelvemonth
to the enormous sum of 4161., and the following are a few
of the names which graced Hymen's Album :—Sir Ast-
ley Cooper, Bart. 11. Is. ; John Cant Hobbouse, Esq.
M.P., 11. Is. ; Sir Thomas Claridge, 11. ls. ; Connt
Gosport, I/. Is. ; Sir J. Johnstone, Bart. 1/. Is. ; Sir W.
Pelkenton, 1/. Is. ; Sir E. Stafford Jerningliam, 11. ls. ;
Sir C. J. Smith. 1/. Is. ; Captain P. E. Sidney, the son-
in-law of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, 11. Is. ;
Sir Thomas Apreece, 1/. Is. ; besides an innumerable
number of Right Honourables, Honourables, and Es-
quires—the sums are invariably the same.
Mr. noe—Did you pay the money to any of the
party'—Footman : No, Sit'.
Mr. ROE inquired of the prisoners what were their mo-
tives for going about to collect money in this way ?a1
One of the party, in reply, stated that it was a custom
which had been handed down to them from time imme-
morial, to celebrate every nuptial ceremony with the mar-
rowbones and cleavers. They did not consider it begging,
for they gave for the money an instrumental epithalamium,
as a nuptial invocation, which custom existed from the
most remote ages.
The parties were then discharged on their own recog-
nizances, to appear as yesterday, and as a kind of security
for their pledge the Album was detained.
_ . _

Just before the close of the office Julian came in with the
charge book, and informed the Magistrate that none of the
party had come forward, when the footman was ordered to
re-state the case, which he did.

Sir G. F.I.R.RANT (laughing)—The way those fellows
do in St. George's parish is, they constantly attend at the
church, and, upon a wedding taking place, if they cannot
learn who the party is, they follow the carriage home; and
if the party should leave the church in a hack-tiey coach,
one of them gets up behind, and continues there until the
party are set down.
The Album was placed in the archives of the office.
MARYLEBONE.—Ann.fohnson, a dashing courtezan,
who were a magnificent bonnet, covered with artificial
wheat and feathers, was charged by Robert Rownsley, a
watchman, with being drunk and disorderly, i❑ Russell-
place, Fitzroy-square, at midnight, on Thursday.
Mr. RAwLiNsoN sent her, with tears in her eyes, to the
treadmill for a month.

Two Irish labourers were charged, before Mr. Hos-
lc/Ns, with a crime of the moat heinous kind, and were
fully committed for trial.

ITNION-HALL,---MosT DARING ROBBERY.—Yester-
day James Wigg and John Atkinson were charged be-
fore Mr. SIVABEY, with stealing a quantity of wearing
apparel, and other valuable property, from the house of
Mr. Myers, surgeon, Kennington. They were both fully
committed for trial.

While the depositions of the witnesses were being taken,
Snow, the constable of Newington, entered the office; and
as soon as he saw the prisoners, said he had been in search
of them for some time, on a charge of breaking into the
house of a gentleman, whose name was Jones, and steal-
ing a quantity of articles. The property was traced to
the premises of one of the prisoner's father. Wigg has
been already capitally convicted for horse-stealing, buc
escaped with two years' imprisonment.

The loss of property resulting from the late
inundations is expected to turn out very extensive indeed.
It has been stated that injury to the amount of ten thou-
sand pounds has been sustained by the tenants of one estate
alone, that of R. BETHELL, Esq., of Rise.--Doncaster
Gat:ette.

\VHITECHAPEL HAY M A RKET.—Aug.
Hay Od. to 955. Od. I Clover Od. to 1153. Od.
335. Od. to 3tii. Oct.