The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—(Tans Day. )
DISTVNBANCEIP ON THE ARRIVAL or S'xxam-noaxs.--One
waterman appeared to answer the charge preferred by another for
taking a fare out of his turn...—The complaints of the disturbances
created 'by the contests of watermen to get fares on the arrival of
the steam-boats r are incessant. A gentleman, a few days since, ,
made a complaint at this office that himself and family, having, in
their endeavonl• to land from one of the steam-vessels, got
into the boat of one waterman, when another claimed them
as his fare by right : the latter in revenge, by a manoeuvre,
swamped the boat in which the complainant and his fa-
mily were. They were immediately helped out, but their
lives were placed in eminent danger. The complainant de-,
dared that if there were no tiffiCeri-Vitiotied to pieserve peace on
the spot, lives mutt be lost. By a bye law the watermen are
bound to take their fares iu turn. The complainant this morning
stated that those who were first in turn loaded their boats with
twice as many as they could safely take, and thus deprived those
who were lower down of their lair share. The latter, became
desperate at this usage, broke through the turn, and afight taking
place, the strongest prevailed. ,/"Tot:,a day passed without.a set-to
either on shore or in the boats, and the passengers waited as the
prize of the victors.
Mr. Houma said, the evil had arisen M to great a height, the
watermen were so exorbitant in their demands, and so outrageous
ill their conduct, not merely towardreach other, but towards the
public, that the owners of the steam-boats would be compelled, in
their own defence, to take passengers on board immediately from
some wharf, by bringing the vessels to the side, which they
might easily do. Many persons declined going by the steam-boats,
to avoid the danger and annoyance which was encountered in get-
ting on board. The watermen, by their misconduct, were cut-
ting their own. throats.
Several watermen, who came to support the charge from a
conviction of the necessity of obtaining order amongst their livery,
declared, that much of the evil was attributable to the Court of
Aldermen, in delaying to form a new code of practicable regu-
lations. The Regulations which the Court might form became
law as soon as they were sanctioned by the Privy Council.' The
Court for two years had had the new regulations under
their consideration, and seemed to have 'made little advance.
The crowding of the boats to a tlangerims excess was, note, al.:
ways the fault of the watermen. The passengers were so eager to
get on shore that nothing could stop them from rushing, into. the:
boats and overloading them. They did not want to hare ''the
defendant fined, it would content them if the opinion of the Ma-
gistrate on the subject were made known.
Alderman Titoerx, who sat for the Lord Mayor, ordered the
defendant to pay the costs, and, diclared that, unless their general
conduct were materially altered, some very exemplary manures
must be adopted against theth: He advised a general meeting of
the whole body, to adopt some rules for their annual regula-
tion. They could .not do better than be guided by the opinions of
such members of their body as the complainants.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET—(Tma DAY.)
Two dapper little grooms, named Win. Read and Robert
Macdonald, were charged by a tall, straight-haired, red-whisker-
ed, Irish footman, named Butler, with having 'salted him.—
The watchman who took them did not see the said salting, but
deposed that the complainant was at the time rather fresh than
otherwise. It carne out in the examination that the assault arose
from a game of bagatelle, by which the Irishman won a shilling.
Mr. Roe accordingly sent for Mr. Smith, the 'landlord of the
Cock, in Market-street, where the game was played,' and after de-
precating the custom of letting servants play for inoney, fined
him 131. Mr: Smith excused himself by stating that he never al-
lowed them to play otherwise than fur drink.
Mr Roe advised a settlement between the servant', but Pat
declared that " he, would notmuke to the potty at all."
Mr. Roe said,-Ahat under, these circumstances he should not
hold them to bail,. and ordered them to be dischargvd on paying
Is. mull. `‘,

'ARMY.--Yesterday .morning, between seven and
eight o'clock, the let Regiment of Life Guards,' under the com-
mand of the Earl of Uxbridge, marched from its barracks in the
Regent's Park, to Wormwood Scrubs., where it was put through a
variety of movements, all of which were executed with the great-
est precision, but at an easy pace their gallant commander not
wishing to put the troops through an rapid movements on account
of the exceeding hard state of the ground. The fineness of the
day attracted a large portion of fashionable* to the spot. The 're-
giment returned to its barracks between one and two o'clock.

A
CORONER'S INQUEST.-11.11111quest was head yes-
terday before Thomas Stirlieg, Esq. at the office attached to the
Powder Mills, on Hounslow Heath, on the bodies of Win. Ind
and Benjamin Horsey, who were killed by the explosion of one
of the mills on Tuesday last.-r-The Jury, after having extunined
the bodies, returned a verdict of—" Accidental Death."

Tilt CoINAGt.
—The egregious biunders of our
sapient Governors with respect to the currency, have produced the
most serious consequences. The l'er dal" cannot be Perinaded
that the recent proclamation, increasing the value of the old cop-
per coinage, tt►tea not ileterio
rate the English silver money in the
same proportion. Several labourers have struck from work, and
the utmost confusion prevails throughout the City.—Du6lis
Vvenin2 JU-ail,