The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-02 00:00:00

THr A'TTOltltili"-GIit4EAAL V. HOLT.

-This was an an information against a tallow-chandler, named
Holt, for defrauding the revenue by making candles to a greater
amount than that titated in his account to the Excise. •
The Jury found a verdict for the Crown on one count.

ArroRIONY-GENERAL 'numAs straits

•This was an information of a similar nature agaiust Thoimt
Burks, tallow-chandler, and soap manufacturer, residing at
Blacklands, Chelsea•

The proceedings ware opened at noon, and the case for the
proseci.tion was not concluded until half-past seven o'clock, when
the cause was adjourned until half-put ten to-morrow (this day.)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Fitauns AT BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
shorer, that is, a man who lands the fish at Billingsgate-
market, was brought before the Loan Melva, at the instance of
Mr. Goldliatu, the new Superintendent of the market.
The • facts proved by the evidence produced by Mr. Go!dam
Were, that a poor man tipplied to the prisoner to buy him half a
peck of oysters. The prisoner said the market price was
crown, and he received that sum for them and two-pence besides,
his commission for landing them. It was proved that the price
on board the boats was no more than I bd. ; that the prisoner had
paid no more ; and that, therefore, he had defrauded the poor man
of half the amount he received for them.
Mr. Goldham stated that this was au instance of au extensive
system of fraud carried on by these men, who acted as agents for
purchasers in buying and landing fish.
The Lone. Mayon, upon consulting his legal adviser, was
clearly of opinion; that the prisoner had been guilty of stealing to
the amount which he took beyond what he actually paid for the
goods on board the boat. His Lordship consented, as this was
the first case which had' arisen, that the prisoner should be dis-
charged, with the warning to him and his brethren, as to the pu-
nishnient they made themselves liable to, by continuing the practice.
A salesman complained to his Lordship, that other salesmen
connived at the practice carried on by these men. When a pnr-
chaser, who doubted whether he had not been charged more than
the market price, inquired of the salesmen, the latter asserted that
the charge was proper. He and the sharer divided the excess of
price between them. This busineis, it %vas-proper the owners of
tfte belt and the public should know, woo carried on to a great
extent: Were the salesmen who did this not liable to punishment
ai well as the shorts's?
' The Loan .14a-rox said, that assuredly they were.
The complaining salesman said, that the more respectable part
of their body were desirous that the practice should be put a stop
to, because, if one carried it on, others would be compelled to carry
it on in self-defence. The man who offered most conveniences in
this way to the shorers would become the greatest favourite with
them, and his goods would move off most quickly.
The LORD blaroa observed, that the roguery of one man in a
market would be no justification of the practice of it in another.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday William Topmen, a man of re-
spectable appearance was placed at the bar, before Sir RICHARD
Blame, charged with having stolen Bbol., the property of Mr.
.bunts Philip Devenish, from his wife, Mrs. Devenish.

Mrs. Desenish, in June or July last year, lodged at No. 22,
Bury-street, Bloomsbury, at a lodging-house, of which the pri-
soner was the " deputy landlord." About that time her hus-
band, an Ensign in the 87th regimout, sold out, and placed 3504,
part of the proceeds of the said Sale, in her hands to take care of.
It was her intention to place this money in Coutts's bank for
safety; the defendant was aware of this intention, and one
morning he offered to take the money to Couto's for her. She
objected for some time, but at last she wee prevailed upon to give
him the money, and he promised to bring her a receipt, and a
pass-hook from the bank for it. When he returned in the after-
noon he did not bring either, and when deponent asked him the
reason, he said the bankers would nut receive less than NU, and
when desired to return the money, he said be had placed it with
his brother, a watchmaker, for greater security, alleging as his
reason for so doing, that it was not safe in deponent's bands
" while so many gentlemen visited her." This was on Friday
evening, and on Saturday morning the prisoner absconded, taking
the money with him; and although a warrant was immediately
obtained against him, from that time to the present he succeeded
in eluding apprehension. - He had been traced to Norwich and
North Shields, and many other places, where be had passed un-
der fictitious names, but he always contrived to escape, till Thum-
day night, when he ventured to go into a public-house, in Bury-'
street, and notice of the circumstance being sent to deponent, she
had him taken into custody. -
Furzeman, a constable, was sent for by the last witness to ap-
prehend the prisoner. He ►earched him, and found upon his
person twenty-four pawnbroker's duplicates ; chiefly for watches
paWned by him : anti among other papers, one, which purported
to be a receipt given by James Philip Deveniah, the husband of
the complainant, in favour of tbs prisoner, acknowledging to
have received from one Diblln, on behalf of the prisoner, the sum
of 380/., on condition that the warrant against the primer should
be destroyed.
The prisoner had never denied that he had taken the money,
which he had since returned to the complainant's buiband through
a man named Diblin, who was then in Court and would prove it ;
and that Mrs. Devenish had given him (Diblin) the receipt which
had been found in his (prisoner's) pocket, and had burned the
warrant in the presence of DRAM and several other persons.
Sir R. BiaNte asked how the warrant could have got into the
possession of Mr. Devenish?
Mr. Woods, the clerk, said, that some time after the prisoner
had absconded, Mr. Deveuish came to the office, and begged he
might himself have the warrant, as he was too poor to pay an
officer to follow the prisoner, and his request was granted.
The prisoner then called his witness, Diblin, who stated that
about 12 months ago lie paid Mr. Devenish, by the peieoner's de-
sire, 100/. and got from him a receipt for the whole amount of
850/. lie SSW Mr. Devenish, too, burn the warrant, and he
thought it had been all settled. . .

Sir RICHARD BIRWID told this witness, that by his own con-
fession be had aided in compounding a very serious felony, and
he should detain him in custody, unless he could procure very
good bail for his appearance on Tuesday next, at which time the
complainant's husband must be in attendance.
The prisoner and his witness, Mr. Diblin, were-therefoie re-
manded.

I. A MBE STREET. —Yesterday, my. Clerk,
a grocer, re•
siding at Stratford, applied for a warrant against a youth named
,Reed, who had killed his son. He was evidertay in an agony of
distress, and stated to the Magistrate, that on Tuesday last, his
son, who was about 13 years of age, was
returning from school
With some other boys, when Reed, who was older, endeavoured to
make him fight with onk of them, which ha relhsed. I'o'4 then
followed him, and gave him a kick under the 4.71 p of the knee,
which at once disabled him ; but, recovering in a little time, he
however, eaule on, turd
tncldbbelvaderilyo:ree was ut
hhei mw: i fit4cabedti and a surgeon sent for!