The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---A ease of considerable im-
portance to householders was tried yesterday, It arose out of an
information lodged against a Mr. Vaughan, in Porter-street, by
the Com Missioners for the Pavement for the parish of St. Anne's,
Soho. The information was laid under the 77th section of the
aboVe-mentioned Act, and charged Mr. V. with refusing to take
down a railing which runs before his house, and prevents the free
circulation of air, and is otherwise injurious, so as to constitute
it, in the opinion of Commissioners, a nuisance.
Mr. Allen, the Vestry Clerk, in support of the information,
stated the inconvenience of the railing, and prayed the Magistrates
to authorise its removal.

Mr. Anoimmus (to the Magistrate)—lf, by your deeision, the
Commissioners are enabled to remove this railing, they may remove
every one in London.
Mr. ADOLPHUS—How long have you known the railing to be
before the house ?

Mr. Reynolds—Thirty years.
Mr. Anocenue—Was there ever a pavement where the railing
now is ?—Mr. Reynolds—No.
_ _

Mr. CONANT—Li there au area ?—Mr. Vaughan—Yea.
Mr. R4trolds—That is what make it an obstruction. •
Mr. Anox.mus—You think it would be a great convenience to
to the passengers, but say nothing of the couaequence to Mr.
Vaegluui.
Mr. Reynolds—lt would be a convenience to him. Ile could
get more light.
Mr. M'Owen said, the railing way only erected seven years
before.

Mr: A noLenos--,Mr. Vaughan applied to the Commissioners to
know if they had any objection. They visited the street, and ac-
ceded to his request, to erect what they now designated& nuisance.
Mr. M'Owen insisted that the alteration would be to Mr.
Vaughan's advantage
After some lucre discussion, Mr. CONANT said, he and another
Magistrate would visit the spot, that he might be the better able
to decide. It was understood that the penalty and expenses
would not-he pressed.
MANSION-HOUSE.--Yesterday a young female named
Mary jam Dixon, who is about Q 3 years of age, was brought
before Aldermen HUMORS. and LUCAS, who sat for the Lord
Mayor, under the following circumstances:—

The young female, who Was pale and wan, and evidenkly in a
tute of the great.eat exhaustion, was dressed in faded clothes, • and
the manner in which she answered the first questions put to her,
induced the worthy Magistrates to have her removed from the bar,
where the applicants are ordinarily placed, and to give her a chair
near them.

Collins, the beadle of Wa%rook Ward, stated that he was on
duty early that morning, when he found the young female sitting
un the steps of a house in Charlotte-place, near the Mansion-
house. She had evidently been out in the rain during the whole
Of the previous night, and was in such a state of exhaustion front
want and suffering, that she could scarcely give any account of
herself. He took her home, and gave her some food and apparel,
for she was in a state of the utmost destitution.
In answer to the questions put to her by the worthy magis-
trate, she now stated that she was born at Amiens, in France,
and educated in Dublin, where her family resided, at No. 12,
Marlborough-street, Great Britain-street. Her father had bean
an officer of the 8211 Regiment of Foot, but he was cashiered by
a court-martial, in consequence of a blow given in a fray to a
brother officer. He died in 1811, and the circumstances of the
family after that event 'became very reduced. In the course
of last year, her mother took her brother to Scotland, with the
view of getting him educated and settled there. She had some
money with her for the purchase of some goods of Scotch manu-
facture iii order to carry on a small business in Dublin. They
were, however, both lost in the Comet steam-vessel. Being thus
left an orphan, and without relations, as her only brother, who
had been in the navy, and served on board the Nimrod, the
Telegraph, and the Impregnable; had gone out to South America
in the year 1816, and was never since heard of, she took a situa-
tion with a lady. The lady died recently, and the young sufferer,
who had previously field the situation of governess, now deemed
it advisable to seek the aid of some persons in London who were
previously 'acquainted with her family. She, however, only knew
the address of one lady. After her passage front Dublin, she camel
to town by the caravan, and arrived on Saturday. She then die-
covered that the lady whose address she knew, had left town nearly '
two years. She had not sufficient money to procure herself a lodg-
ing, and she was compelled to wander about the streets. On the fol-
lowing day, she sought about, in the hope of meeting with sonic
persons who were known to her, until she became almost bewil-
dered. Having heard of the benevolence of Mrs. Fry, she found
out her residence, and addressed a letter to her, stating her cir-
cumstances. She was compelled to wander in the streets, and
seek occasional rest on some steps, front which she was constantly
driven by the watchmen, and other officers, who told her to seek
admission in another parish. When, on the following day, she
applied at Mrs. Fry's residence, she was answered, " We can give
you no relief." She was now in a state of the greatest misery :
she had parted with all her slender stock of clothes to obtain food.
She tried to obtain acmes to the Lord Mayor on the (lay before
yesterday, but was prevented by the crowd. She went to the
Compter at night, and besought admission from the inclemency of
the weather, but there she was told she could not be admitted
unless she was apprehended and brought thither by an officer.
She became delirious, and such was her despair at one time, that
she thought of suicide, when religion came to her aid. After hav-
ing wandered about the *tress during the whole of Thursday
night, she sunk down upon some steps, where the officer who hail
brought her before them found leer.

• The unfiwtuttate young girl answered with the greatest clear-
ness every question that was put to her, The two worthy Alder-
men subscrilwd fur her present relief, but expressed their per-
plexity as to what asylum they could send her to,

'They were informed that there was a society, called the Provi-
sional Protection Society, conducted entirely by Ladies, which,
though one of the least ostentatious, was invariably the most ser-
viceable in cases of an extraordinary nature.
Alderman Lucas immediately went to seek Mrs. Hicks, of
Cheapaide, the Secretary of the Society. In the course of the
afternoon he returned, and expressed his regret that he had, after
a diligent search, been unsuccessful. It so chanced that that lady,
and others of the Society, were all out of town.

The Governor of the Compter was then requested to take her
under his protection, and treat her with all the care which her
situation rendered necessary, until some mans comb' be found of
providing for her. She expressed her gratitude to the Magistrates
in an impressive manner, and was conducted to the Comptero
We were given to understand by the Governor, that the turn-
key, in refusing her admission, sided in compliance with an im-
perative order from the Magistrates. The applications for admis-
sion are often very numerous there, and the olficere are seldom
men who are able to distinguish such a case as. the above from one
of common mendicancy.

TIT FOR TAT.--The following ludicrous occur-
rence took place a few days since in a fashionable watering place
not quite two hundred miles from Cheltenham. It is known
to the generality of worldly people that there are such useful ap-
*degas to the proCess of the civil law as Sheriffs' Officers,
vulgarly called Bailiffs. Two of these professors resided in
the town to whidt we allude, and very naturally regarded
each other with some little feeling, in which jealousy was nr-s.
the least powerful. By some eeeident, one whom we shall
name A. was called upon to visit the other, B. in his !Alicial
capacity, and having made good his caption, lie said after
some time, "Come along, Mr. it., it's time for you to come
along with me. I can't stay any longer for you—so come !" The
prisoner, who had borne this exercise of " brief authority" with
all the sang frond imaginable, coolly replied, "Well, I think it is
time, my boy, but it would be just as well for you to wait a little
longer." " Oh, no," said A., " I have waited long enough al-
ready." " Then," retorted the other, " we'll stay very COlll-
Portable together, for I have
got a writ very much at your service,"
Anil so saying, he produced the legal document, and took the cap-
tor captive, to his no small mortification and surprise, but to the
amusement of those who witnessed the novel scene.

PRACTICABILITY OP A CANAL BETWEEN THIS
PACIFIC AND Anasittc„.....The province of Choco, in the king-
dom of New Grenada, contains, in the opinion of De Humboldt,
a line of country of about eighty leagues, through which a canal
could be cut, but which would nut be applicable to vessels of
burden, as the mouth of the Arato, or river Darien, has only six
feet water over it This seems the only part of America in
which the chain of the Andes is entirely broken. The following
is curious fact, which may interest some of our readers
the interior of the province of Choco, the small ravino of Rue-
bra& de la Ritspitilura unites the neighbouring sources of the Rio
de Noanatna, called also Rio San Juan, and the small river Quito.
The latter, the 'Rio Andegeds, and the Rio Zititra, form the Rio
d'Atrato, which discharges itself into the Atlantic Ocean, while
the Rio San Juan flows into the South Sea. A monk of great
Curd of the village of Novita, employed his parishioner,
atoct,iivityig:
anal' canal in the ravine De la Ritspathira, by means of
which, when the rains are abundant, canoes loaded with cocoa
pass from sea to sm. This interior communication has existed
since 1784, unknown in Europe. The small canal of Raspadura
unites, on the Coasts of the two oceans, two points seventy-five
leagues distant from one another.--MontAll/ Arugazino.