The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-lIOUSE..-.-COMPLAINTS AGAINST STEAM
pOirS.-Complaints are constantly pouring in against the
steam-veseelm, in some shape or other. A few mornings
ago four or five persons were wined in the Thames, in con-
sequence of the tilting of those rieketty boats in which the
watermen convey passengers from the steamers to shore,
and from the shore to the steamers. One of these was an
elderly lady, who had often expressed a great reluctance to
venture upon the water in so precarious a machine. Just
as she put her foot upon the edge of the boat, and was de-
scending from the vessel, she fell with what the watermen
call " a capsize," and paid dearly for her voyage. All the
others who took a dip, declared afterwards that they ex-
pected nothing less, and that they were cured of steamers
as long as they lived. It was supposed by Mr. Smirke,
the architect, that his project of a jetty, from the Custom-
house quay into the river, by means of which the steam
vessels might receive and discharge passengers without the
assistance of boats, would hare been adopted. We have
reason, however, to believe, that the Commissioners of
Customs, who have the plan before them, will not consent
to the proposition, as the consequence, no doubt, would be
a serious obstruction to the navigation of the river. A plan
of a similar kind was proposed by the St. Catharine's Dock
Company, and rejected upon this ground.
The LORD Mayon observed, upon the occasion of the
last complaint upon this subject, that he knew many persons
of both sexes who were prevented from even going on board
a steam-vessel on account of the great chances of a duck-
ing. Although he had been for many years accustomed to
the element, he did not all wonder at the extent of the
fears of the public. lie considered that there was great
danger in the venture, and hoped that until some safe and
commodious method was adopted the public would cease to
give them patronage.
Alderman FARKBROTIIEK too, had observed the vast in-
convenience of the conveyance, and the unparalleled inso-
lence of the watermen.
Mr. Geldham, who is in the habit of attending the
Justice-room on matters connected with Billingsgate-
market, was daily an eye-witness to the confusion and dan-
ger complained of, and was convinced that the passage from
the wharfs to tke steam-vessels was regarded by numbers
as infinitely more dangerous than a long voyage. Ile said
hat he had formed the model of a boat, which might ply

to and from the steam•vessels with passengers, without
subjecting them to the least hazard or inconvenience.
This boat was flat-bottomed, and by the simple movement
of a couple of planks, the passengers could pass from it with
great facility to the vessel, or to the shore. The form of
the bottom was such that a pressure against the side would
not make the boat tilt. He proposed to build ten or a
dozen of those boats.

The LORD MAYOR thought the subject well worthy of
the attention of the City, and desired to he furnished R ith
the model of the boat. This was forthwith produced, and
his Lordship directed Mr. Goldham to send it in to the
Rulers of the Waterman," to undergo examination.

The waterme❑ aeon learned that a new sort of boat was
to be introduced, and the consternation excited by the in-
telligence will not be easily abated. So perverse are they
(taking them as a body), that they would rather a steamer
should never appear in the river, than a flat-bottomed boat
should be, for a moment, adopted to render the passage to
it safe or convenient.

The proposed improvement is, we are given to under.
stand, to be immediately commenced.

In consequence of the public notice given, that those
steam-vessels which went at a dangerous rate of speed in
the Thames should be indicted as nuisances, the Proprietors
have thought it prudent to issue directions likely to render
it unnecessary to go to extremities with them. It is at the
same time but justice to repeat what has been frequently
said in the Justice-room—that there has been exhibited
upon the part of the steam-boat Proprietors, or snperinten-
deuts, th 6 ttrogeat dispositiQu tQ act in an arbitrary man-

nen—Passengers have frequently complained of being treat-
ed with insult.
A young man named Williams, was brought before the
LORD MAYOR, charged with having snatched a reticule
from the hands of Mrs. Whitmore, the wife of a gentleman
who has a high situation in the Custom-house.
The Loam MAYOR eemanded the prisoner.
GUILDHALL.--Yesterday James Abbott, the leather-
dresser, in Fetter-lane, of whose attempt to murder his
wife an account eras given in yesterday's Sxn, was
brought before Mr. Alderman AN sLEr, when the watch-
nwn who took the prisoner into custody stated the facts as
they have hem already published.—The Alderman inquired
whether there was a certificate from a surgeon of the pre-
sent state of the woman ? One of the watchmen stated that
there was not, but he heard from the nurse at the Hos-
pital that she was in the greatest danger.—The Alder-
man asked the prisoner whether he wished to say any
thing"?—The prisoner replied, Not at present." lie
was then remanded till Friday. He appeared to be
about thirty-five years of age, and was perfectly composed
in manner.

BOW-STREET.—ATRocious Ou ;a. sc E.—Yesterday
John Mayden, a tall rough looking man, was charged
under Lord Lansdowne's Act, with cutting, stabbing, and
wounding George Green, with intent to do him grievous

bodily harm.
The prosecutor stated, that be is a cowkeeper at Chelsea.
About three months ago he lent the prisoner, who is a
phunber, in Chelsea, a horse and cart, to cart some head,
and soon after the prisoner was brought to Bow-street en
a charge, in support of which the prosecutor was examined
as a witness. The prisoner was discharged, at in a day
or two after, met the prosecutor in Piccadilly, and abused
him very much, calling hint an informer. Ab•mat a week
after they met again near the prisoner's house, when lie
repeated his abuse, and a row ensued. The prisoner went
into his house, and brought out an iron instrument culled a
pump lock, with which he swore he would rip the prose-
cuter (pea if he came near hint. The prosecutor then
went away, and saw the prisoner daily after. On the
evening of the 30th of August he was paying one of his
men near the prisoner's house, when he carne out with lead
in his hand, which he shook at the prosecutor, and asked
him did he want any lead to pay his men with ? The pro-
secutor said to him you had better go in doors, you old
fool. some irritating langna7a followed, when the pri-
soner scent into his house, and running out with the pump

lock in his hand, drove it with great force into the proi,e-
tutor's right eye, which was completely destroyed. He
had since been under the care of Dr. Hunter and Sir Ast-

ley Cooper, but his eye was lost beyon i recovery.
Four witnesses ►orroborated this statement, and also
proved that the prisoner, after the act, had endeavoured to

escape.
The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence ;
and the Magistrates committed him on the capital charge.
This is the first committal under the Marquis of Lans-
downe's Act. Under Lord Ellenborough's Act, it was ne-
eessary that the wound should be inflicted by a sharp in-
sn•ument, to make the offence capital. In the late Act,
the word " wounding" is introduced ; and if death, or

grievous bodily harm be intended, " wounding" is capital,
whatever the instrument may be.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-11r. Very, the Swi,s
confectioner of Regent-street, entered this office yesterday,
in a state of alarm, accompanied by two other gentlemen,
who acted as interpreters, for the purpose of complaining
of a gross outrage oemniated et his premises on the previ-

ous evening.
It appeared that Mr. Very's elegantly fitted•up shop is
the principal attraction in the fashionable quarter where
he resides, in consequence of a particularly beautiful young
lady sitting there, which occasions a considerable crowd to
assemble round the doors of an evening, to Mr. Very's
great annoyance, as some of these persons will frequently
mount up on the balcony, and break the windows by lean-
ing against them, and commit other mischief, to the injury
of his business. A heavy stone was thrown into the
middle of the shop the night before, whilst the gentlemen
who explained Mr. Very'e application were there, which,
from its weight, must inevitaidy have killed the person it

was aimed at.
Mr. DvEx well understood the nature of the attraction
in Mr. Very's shop, having observed an immense.crowd of
per,ons there when he drove past a few evenings ago.
Mr. Very setmcd to consider the circumstance of his
baring a handsome young girl behind his counter a constant
snurce of annoyance, for people frequently pushed each
other inside the shop, and often threw old hats, 14,e. into
the shop, that they might hare an opportauity to enter.
He paid very heavy rent and taxes, and 'enumerated a
watchman fur keeping a guard on the premises, hot it was
of no avail.

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Mr. DrEa said that he often had occasion to reprobate

the condnet of watchmen in ordering respectable persons
to " move on," who considered they had a right to step
are! converse in the street. Mr. Dame then suggested the
propriety of having a curtain pmt up, so as to prevent people
from looking into the shop.—Mr. Very and kis friends
then retired on the Magistrate's promising that he should
have the assistance of an officer when the annoyance should
Is repeated.
WORSHIP-STREET.—On Tuesday evening the Rev.
Robert Crosby, of St. Leonard's parish, Shoreditch, and
chaplain to the Refuge for the Deetitute, at Hoxton, ap-
plied to the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. BENETT, for the as-
sistance of the police, to suppress what he considered a
grievous nuisance in his neighbourhood, an attempt to re-
vive a sort of fair formerly held in the Kingsdand-road.
For a number of years, upon the cessation of the chartered
fair of St. Bartholomew, the showmen and keepers of stalls
resorting to it were wont to disperse themselves in various
directions in the suburbs, forming numerous!, fairs, one of
the most considerable of which was at Edmonton; and at
some dietanee in its wake was another annual assemblage,
Black Horse Fair, so called from its being held in a field
near the Black Horse public-house, in the Kingsland-road.
Some few years since, however, Edmonton fair was put an
end to by Magisterial authority ; and, as a matter of course,
she minor Black Horse Fair shared the same fate, and no
attempt to revive it had been heard of till the present com-
plaint of the Rev. Gentleman abovementiened.
Mr. Crosby complained that booths had been erected,
ani the usual exhibitions of a fair, by which hundreds of
disorderly persons were drawn together. Even on Sunday
the road had all the appearance of a fair, and lie found it a
very serious impediment to the services of religion.
Mr. BErearr asked if there was any breach of the peace,
that called for his interference as a Magistrate ?
The Rev. Complainant conceived that the Magistrates
had power to prevent the assemblage of persons to hold a
fair for which no right could be shown ; and after the
statement previously made to Mr. Twyford, he felt surprised
that nothing had been done to prevent it.
The MAGISTRATE assured him that he had no power to
interfere summarily with such assemblages, when there was
not a breach of the-public peace.
Mr. Crosby was surprised to find the Magistrates had
not the power to prevent such illegal doings ; and expressed
his determination of applying to Mr. Secretary Peel.
Mr. Garter reported yesterday that he found nothing like
a fair on the spot. There was Wombwell's caravan in a field
and a number of persons collected, bet all perfectly quiet.
UNION-UALL.—Yesterday George Lewis, a young
shoemaker, was brought np on a charge of being found
concealed in the house of Mr. Burge, a picture dealer, with
iutent to commit a felony. Mr. Burge stated that the
night before, he eanse home something earlier than usual,
and had not been leng in his parlour when he heard a noise
in the bed-chamber inside the parlour, and in going in to
ascertain the cause, discovered the prisoner under the bed.
The prisoner aesnred him that he had entered the house by
mistake, having an appointment with a female who resides
in the same glee; and when he walked into the bed-room
he verily believed it to be the lady's. Not crediting this
account, he sent for a watchman and gave the prisoner
into custody.
The Magistrate (Mr. SWAEEY) inquired whether the
complainant had any females residing in the house ?
Mr. Burge had a housekeeper who had lived with him 9
years, but she was a religious character—it was quite im-
possible she could be guilty of such conduct as the prisoner
imputed to the female with whom he said he had an ap-
pointment.
Mr. SWAIM' inquired was she present?
Mr. Burge replied that she was.
The prisoner was then asked what he had to say to the
charge, and declared, without any hesitation, that he had
gone to Mr.• Burge's house to see the housekeeper at her
very warm and pressing invitation.—The complainant up-
peered almost petrified with astonishment, and exclaimed,
" I cannot believe it-1 am confident its a falsehood."
The prisoner proceeded to state, that between eight and
nine o'clock the evening before he met the housekeeper in
the New Cut ; they looked earnestly at each other and
stepped ; he asked permission to see her home, to which
she immediately consented. On the way she told him she
was a married woman, and he must not stay long lest they
might be surprised by her husband. They had been but a
short time together when they heard footsteps, and she ex-
claimed, " Here's my husband, for God's sake hide your-
self nntler the bed." She then left him in the dark, the
candle having been put out, and in getting under the bed
he made the noise heard by Mr. Burge. He declared that
this was a true account of his being found in the
situation from which he was taken, and desired that
rthe huuleteepof :night be examined tb confirm it, Mr.

Burge immediately brought in the housekeeper leaning en
his arm. She appeared a pretty woman, about SO yet"
of age, and when called on by the Magistrate to state what
she knew of the affair, for t•oine time remained in silencet
with her eyes fixed on the ground. Being pressed to de-
clare the truth, she confeftled that she had iarited the pri-
mner to aerompaay her to the door, bat had no idea that
be would intrude into her chamber. When he did so, 4'6
Wl:9 afraid of alarming the lodgers if she made a noise if,
trying to get hint out, but she was determined on telling
Mr. Burge what bad happened when he came home. "
you didn't de so, Harriet," said the complainant, elasping
his hands; " Well, I see faithless woman is mot to be 6"
pended on ; I have been once deceived, and will never 9106
confide in woman." Harriet sobhed aloud, and declared
nothing criminal had passed between her and the eline"

maker.
d the
The MAGIVPRATE discharged the shoemaker, an
picture-dealer became so far reconciled to his frail hoese-
keeper, as to leave the eftioe with her apparently on rya
ter tea.
Samuel Spicer, a shoemaker, was yesterday brddgM
before MAURICE SIVA BEY, Esq. charged with ill•treatiq
his wife.
The woman had in her RIMS a baby, and stated thather husband had been in the habit lately of beating her'and she really felt apprehensive of her life.
Spicer Najd, in a surly tone, "I have not injured yoe'•
It was only on Saturday last that you got drank, and let
fall a piece of beef which we were to have for supper, and
spoiled it."
" You wicked man," replied the wife, " to say that I
sees intoxicated."

The Macts-rikaTr inquired hew much he could earn
week, and was told upwards of twe guineas. His Wor-
ship then asked whether out of that sum they put all
money into the savings' bank ?
The woman, in a laughing manner, said, Oh, dear NO ;
as much as to imsinnate it was impossible to live for less.
You ought to endeavour to save a few shillings a week,
observed his Worship. What is to besorne of that child'
suppose you were to die?
It must be supported by the parish, remarked the %canal'
with the utmost indifference.
You ought to be ashamed not to have something eat 4.
your earnings. They are large for people in your cowl'.
tins of life, routinned the MAGIITKATE j anti with proref
economy that might he easily accomplished.
If I had a steady partner we possibly might do so, 31'"
steered the woman.
So we might if I had a steady partner, echoed the
husband.

The Macla-rasTa then recommended them to go home*
and resolve on mutual exertions to bring np their children
respectably, and abandon the gin-shop.
The man was then liberated, and they both departed.
An assault ease succeeded, arising ont of a pnblie-houfe
broil, in which a very respectable looking woman was the
complainant, and an old man, an oyster-eeller, the defendant.
The complainant, withont thinking any disgrace at-
tached to the fact, stated, that she was in from some liquor
which she had been drinking—in short, that she was
and when in that state the defendant strnek her.
His defence was, that she reeled against his tnb, and
upset his oysters, after emptying the contents of be
stomach among them.—He was ditaniesed en paying the
expenses of the warrant.

A German Paper gives the following, unde
the date of Agra, August It :-4, A vulture of extraordit
nary size lately took up its abode near the hones of a pea'
sant, who on seeing it fired at it, and it fell. The pas'
pant, believing it to be dead, wished to possess himself e,
his prey, but the vulture, which was only wounded, seize
him so violently tin the left hand with hie talons, that tr
was with great difficulty that same persons, who were et'
traded to the spot by his cries, could extrieote him. Three
days al terwards the wound became infltuned, and the Ile'
sant after suffering great agony expired.

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PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE FROM AN 114'
FURIASKI, LxoraxnEss.—On Trieeday afternoon, betlyeell.,
the hours of three and four o'clock, the utmost alarm iof
created in the menagerie belonging to Mr. WomawaLt,',P
the Kingsland-road, from the enraged state of that Ane 10v
mal, the leopardess, under the following singular circsiffl"f
stances :—A man was employed to paint the exterior c't
the dens ; by some accident he oversee a pot of pi°
through the grating of the den over the back of the 10;
r,ardetis ; the keepers endeavoured directly to get the pir!,
off by scrubbing her hack with saw-dost, but finding
did not succeed, they imprudently scrubbed her back SO
sides with turpentine; she bensrne infuriated, and in a riosAt
ferocious manner flew at hor koepor, got him down, 67;
dreadfully hit him on the head and arms ; assistance beim;
procured, he was fortunately released from his &tip{ou"
satiation.

CURIOUS MARRIAGE e/efitt
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lately took place at Aix, which inventa mach rare
romance than history, and which we never would beile.„,-
had it not been related to us by a person in whom we
place confidence. A marriage had been arranged sett,,
the children of two merchants. The banns bad been PQ,,
lished—there wanted nothing bat the " fatal yes.' 0,
the (lay when the sacramental monosyllable was to he rti.
flounced it was ascertained that the bridegroom had es:'ifs,
drawn from the happiness whidii awaited him. US,
ther instantly sent for another of his sans, who liven 4-,
Marseillo, and proposed to him to replace the deeerte`be
The relations of the young lady consented to it, and;a .
Christian names in the contract were changed. This "l',
expected suitor at once pays a visit to his fukre eFotT
but, on inspecting the family, he prefers a sister of ",;s0
New proposals were made, and a new change of ChO'.r.
names in the coatreet. In a word, this unexpected Iniel
riage, in every sense of the word, is about to be etlebrA d
after the indispensable delays of publishing the banns ,0
there is no reason to believe that it will not be as half µl
that which was meditated for many years. All the Op,
would be satisfied were it not for the notary, why, fbe
mended the price of three contracts. The relations el of
bridegroom objected, that notwithstanding the changefill
the Christian names of the couple ithe contract was !eon
the same. We know nut how this important distil'
will terminate.—Furst de Lotrdres.

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