The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILI)UALL.—NoYEAu iND BRANDY.—A very
stately person, whose name we understood to be Sticideto►r,
was brought before`kr: 'Alderman Wool), yesterday, on a
chargé of having. been .diinfireely at the. White, Bear, in
Bride-lane, Fleet-street. _ .

Mr, .Stickleton; it would: appear, is an amateur of, and.''
a connoisseur its; tlie articles coming under the denomina-
tion of lipieius: On Monday 'night; 'it rather a late hour,
he and kis friend, and their tivoipouses, had been taking
a rural walk through St. 'G'eorges,:fields, as far as the
Obelisk and on their return they called -at • the" White
Bar, in Biide-lane,`Ad take a. little .refreshment.' The
ladies,
_wished for ". short and sweet ;" and
therefore Mr. Stickletoa recommended, equal admixture
of noyeau and brandy as ' being; iri"hts' judgmerit, the
sweetest and shortest liqueur inaaginable. Four • glasses
of noyeau and. 'brandy were accordingly ordered—one
for Mr. Stickleton; one for his" friend; and one 'for •each
• 'of:their two wives. The futitogilassa. of 'noyeau and
brandy were shortly handed.v:4*m'; -and, sweetly they
were drank ; which being:disne, the proprietor of the White
Bear demand one • and 'eightpence in payment
thereof. To.this demand. Mr: Stickleton angrily demurred
alleging that it was a gross iMposition..i The proprietor of
the White- Bear assured Mr: Stickleton that his demand
was a just one—the noyeau being- of theifirst, quality, and
the brandy pure French ;_ but, rather than have.the peace
of the White Bear disturbed at that late houi,'he would
take Whatever Mr: `Stickleton' chose ''to pay. Mr. Stickle-.
.ton, however; .Was not to be thus " lanoothed down;"—
he felt that his connoisseurship, both as to quality and price,
was involved iri the question; and' he argued so strenuously,
so loudly, and sotengthily, that at last the landlord, with a
due respect . for the King's rate and the propriety of the
White Bear, called in the watch ; and the watch removed
Mr. Stickletion'from the barof the White- Bear to the bar
of this office,':
Mr.' Alderman Woon asked Mr. Stickleton what he had
to Saiin reply.
Sir;" 'said Mfr. Stickleton, " one shilling and
eightpence for four small glasses of noyeau and brandy is a
most extravagant charge—a sbameful charge, and a charge
not to be endured by any man conversant in the true value
,tif the Article. .
_ .

Mr. Alderman WOOO expressed his surprise that any
man should set so little value on his comfort and liberty as
to go to prison far a matter of fourpence. "However,"
added his Worship, "you will now have to pay their full
charge.
So 31r. Stickleton was removed from the bar to settle

,r. tickleton w.N _
the' Matter, .and 'by the time. that .was done, his noyeau
and brandy bad cost him just eightpence per glass, instead
. .
of the five Pence first demanded of him.
If Mr. Stickleton• be•hut as-Wise. as .he thinks he is
knowing, he will henceforwarti lake care to stickle about
the price of noyeau and brandy befo're be drinks it.
: BOW-STREET.--,Yesterday,, Mr. Thomas, the con-
stable of St. Paul's, Coventrgarden,.. who has been so ac-
tive in abating the nuisances that parish, appeared be-
fore G. R. Mitssituir., 5g., the . sitting Magistrate, to
charge three prostitutes with haying been guilty of riotous'
and disorderly, conduct on the previous night.
. Mr. Thomas prefaced the charge by stating, that the
streets contiguous to the theatres never exhibited a more
disorderly appearance than they did on the previous night.
Numbers of thieves and prostitutes were seen congregating
in groups together under the very me.of the police, who
certainly endeavoured as well as .they were able to prevent
the public from being robbed, but refused to take suspicious
.characters into, custody unless they found them in the ac-
tual commission of some specific offence,. " Now," said
Mr. Thomas, " as the thieves are well acquainted with
the persons of the officers, it is not likely that they wionlil
carry -on their depredatiotWwithin their view:'- I appOe.
bend that the duty of the police, therefore, would> be to
take into custody, or at least to remove from a crowded;
thoroughfare, all persons who are tiputed thieves:"—
Mr. MlNstium, said, that if Mr. Thomas could Prove
'that the persons he -alluded to-were such as the Act de-
scribed, he would have been fully warranted in taking them,
•
into custody. •

Mr. Thomas could prove the fact by the admission of
•the Bow-street officers, who were present at the time.
Four of the Bow-street patrol then came forward, and
one and all declared that they conceived they would not
have been justified, in depriving people of their liberties
unless they found them in the, commission of some unlaw

ful act. ' '
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE saiit,tliat. was exactly his im-
pression.
Mr. MINSHULL thought officer's would be perfectly jus-
tifiedin taking up known and reputed thieves.
After ',some further, observations,upen the subject, Mr.
Thomas said, that in con•--erience of what had fallen from
made
a specific charge against the
three ettin
the benbb; 'and the clause from the Act 'of Parliament
which the Magistrate had read, he. would know how to
act in
females,nfuture oflie aidingtli.en
andp abetting the thieves, and they
ad
were sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in the House
of Correction.
The lien. Colonel Fitzgibbon appeared to prefer a-charge
of assault against John Tarrant, a coachman in the em-
ployment of. Major Johnstone.
On Saturday night, as the Colonel and his lady were
leaving the Opera, the defendant drove his coach in the
spot about to be occupied by the Colonel's carriage, and. the .'
latter and his footman having attempted to back the de-
fendant's horses, he cut at them with his whip, and struck
them several times across the shoulders.
':.The defendant was held to bail.
UNION-HALL,—The Stewards of a Benefit Club,
called " The Independent Union," were summoned for
erasing the name of one of its members from the b00k5...:...
The complainant, an aged man, labouring under illness, bad
been a member for the last 23 years, and during that pe-
riod paid up his subscriptions regularly. He had, how-
ever, in consequence of illness, been obliged to declare en
the bot, and had received a weekly allowance for his sup-
port up to within a few days ago, when his name was
"scratched," owing to his having been observed by one of
the stewards in the act of closing the shutter of his bed-
room window.
The Stewards of the SoCiety now contended that, by
their regulations, the complainant had subjected himself to
expulsion, as he had infringed the rules. One of the ar-
ticles strictly prohibited any member Who declared on the
box from " work" of any kind whatsoever.
Mr. CHAMBERS Observed that a member, for merely
closing the shutter of his window, was not comprehended
within the meaning of the articles in question.
The stewards, however, strongly contested the point,
urging that the complainant had been on the sick list for
99 weeks, and had received during that period at the rate
of 15s. per week. Although they admitted that he bad
belonged to the society for so many years, yet the amount
of his subscription, which was 28s. a year, was all swal-
lowed up since his illness commenced, and the Society
were now 15/. or 201. out of pocket by him. Besides,
they added, since he had declared on the box, he had been
observed feeding his pigs. .
The MAGISTRATE, on perusing the regulations of the so-
ciety, decided in favour of the sick member, at the same
time he ' adviied the stewards to have the opinion 'Of an
actuary, otherwise their funds would soon be otbausted