The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE—Bow Bem.s.-;--in conseqUence of the
fall of a stone from the steeple of Bow Churchon --the top of a
:neighbouring house, which it completely perforated, the cele-
brated belle, whose sound confere.the title of." Cockney" to thou-
sands of the rising generation,
,have been for a few days.silent, as:
it was thought that the stone, had been ejected from its place by
,the strength of the vibration.
Yesterday, as Mr.. Hicks, the Councilman, entered the Jus-
tice Room, the Lord Mayor addressed him, and expressed a hope
that Bow Bells weir not to he for ever silent.
Mr. Hicks did not consider that there was any reason for the
extreme alarm which had been excited on the subject. They
were certainly stopped for the present, but he hoped, as soon as
the repairs were completed, they would again gladden the hearts of
his fellow-citizens. He paid considerable attention to steeples,
and he believed that Bow Church steeple was one of the best in
the city. It was now under the consideration of their able archi-
tect, and of another gentleman of high eminence, to re-hang the
belle in such a manner as would prevent their operating inju-
riously to the steeple.
.The LORD MAYOR exhorted Mr. Hicks, as one of the repre-
sentatives of the parish, not to be afraid to ring the bells, what-
ever any architect, however able or ingenious, might say upon
the subject. The snore able these gentlemen were, the greater
was the ingenuity that they often -displayed in detecting danger
in edifices which had stood well, and mould continue to stand well
for years.
G UILDHALL. —Elena Griffiths, a workman in the employ of
Mr. Edmunds, glass-cutter, Fetter-lane, appeared voluntarily be-
fore Mr. Alderman Warrens AN yesterday, to undergo examine-
tion relative to a Dublin-made pinchbeck watch, with a gold chain,'
triangular gold seal and key, which had disappeared in an extraor-
dinary manner from the chambers of Edward Keane, Esq., No.
2, Inner Temple-lane.
Mr. Keane stated, that at eight e'cloek on Saturday morning,
after looking at the time by his watch, which was conspicuously
placed on a stand under a looking-glass, he left his sitting-room
and went up stairs to an attic to breakfast. When be had nearly
finished hie meal, his boy came up to inform bins that the de-
fendant had called for 195., due to his master; he went . down
and paid him in about five minutes, and in the interim the di-
fendant had been left in She passage to the sitting-room, the door
of which was open, and no person therein. In a few minutes he
missed his watch, and after making inquiries of his laundress and
the boy, he sent the latter after the defendant, as no other stranger
had been in the chambers. The boy reached Mr. Edmund/es be-
fore Griffiths, and after waiting nearly a quarter of an hour, he
arranged with the clerk that the man should not be' told of the
suspicion against bins when he did come in, but that Mr. 'Keane
himself should come with an officer to question him. In return-
ing to the Temple, the boy met the defendant near the top of
Fetter-lane, going towards his employer's ; but upon Mr. Keane 's
arrival there he found the clerk, in spite of the arrangement with
the boy, had sent Griffiths nut again, having told him of the
watch being lost, and ordered him to go to Mr. Keane's to an-
iwer for• himself. Mr. Keane awaited his return. To search
him then was useless, hut he was asked to account for his delay
)n reaching his master 'e house after he left the Temple. Griffiths
showed embarrassment, equivocated, hut said he was conversing
all the time at the end of Fetter-lane with one Jones of Croydon•
A letter had been sent to discover this Jones, but no answer had
been received, and he therefore presumed no such person could be
found.

The boy and the laundress were examined, to show that no
stranger but Griffiths came to the chambers that morning ; but
they admitted the possibility that a person intent on robbing the
chambers might have entered the sitting room undetected.
Mr. Keane then wished the Alderman to question Griffiths par-
ticularly, as to the person with whom he conversed, the precise
spot, time, &c.

Mr; Alderman WAITHMAN--NO, Sir; I cannot do,that. You
as a lawyer, would hardly wish me to do any thing contrary to the
ordinary mode of conducting examinations.
Mr. Keane said certainty he did not.
Mr. Alderman WAITIVCAN then told the defendant, that he
had no right to call upon him to give any account of his conduct;
hut if he were innocent, he had no doubt he would be anxious to
give every explanation.
Griffiths said he was innocent; he had not shrunk from meet-
ing the charge in the beginning; he was here voluntarily now,
and would attend upon any future occasion.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, the evidence certainly did not
fix the crime upon him now ; and Mr. Keane might apprehend
him hereafter, if he discovered any conclusive fact. • He would be
discharged now, and if he was innocent it was most unfortunate
that the suspicions of him were so strong.
The case wee accordingly dismissed.

summons—
l.
BTOheWcomplainantglt Ora I tn
sFw. Vet th.
beinget vh
desired
serrte
cif ollobfrryt! FAalitrtOWnaiaalartna:Oaiffin4:Creast7in6athtrheeelsairnstotai
sitting
Magistrate, to state the nature of his charge,th said, that his me-
mory was not sufficiently collected for
had a written isptirsarpteose4
jebctittedthtaot
the
statement thereof. The Magistrate
complainant read a laborious ofst2t'emeonsetnted ; whereupon the
reading of it as unusual, but final!
his
.i
occu-
pying =cheat of foolscap, which entirely "se'
en ire y
Sundayamounted to this—
that he had engaged the waterman
himselftlsa the ewnadter4rnitfnri,enin sfoo for an feh.t.v.d,ttosdintem or n,
himselfthe ; and
last to row
pertinent and
o indecent
i,iolstlnf koanodneirriienmsrkaiinidg
isoirsartatlelmeilp-tfoior remarks on
g
the discourse to indulge
in the necessities of nature in their presence, gcr,
'fhe waterman, in reply, said, that the real canoe of the gentle-
m's complaint was, that he would not let the complainant row,
and he himself (the waterman) a gentleman looking no.
However, the Magistrate thought otherwise, end fined the Wa-
terman in the penalty of twenty shillings and 'coats, or in default
thereof, to be sent to prison for seven days.
Tut LON HON Bates COMA N —Lord Moincraosto and Sir
IlscHann BIRNIE having taken their *eats on the Bench, a
tradesman whose name was not announced, applied to Sir Richard
for a summons for Mr. Webb, the resident Director of the London
Brick Company, to show cause why the sum of 71. 16a. should
not he paid for goods furnished by the complainant for the use of
the said company.
•
Sir Ricsiaan—l know nothing about that company, nor can
I interfere; to whom have you given the goods?
Applicrint—To Mr. Daniels, their secretary, whom I cannot
find ; and when I apply to any .of the company, they tell me that
they are only servants, they have a large field at Peckham, where
there is a great number of brick-makers; and a lawyer ; when I go
there they send me to the lawyer, *a he laughs at me ; so that
I can snake nothing of them.
Sir llicsiaan.----AS there is . a peat number of brickmakers
and a lawyer I shall have nothing to do with them ; bricks. are
handy weapons, hut why don't you seize on their property ?
A pplicant.—Will you authorize me to tight them, Sir Richard ?
—(Much laughter.)
Sir Alen aar,.—No, indeed:4.ply' province is to prevent fight-
ing. You had better apply to a lawyer, for I can give you no
assistance.

M ARLBOROUGII-STREET.—" Bu r A BkOP)l."—Eliza-
be Kitty-Hilo lman, Eleanor Hoffinan, and Mar-
gatrh fl°4ffin
etia,HaZot n, four Flemish girls, who perpetually, annoy the
town at this seitann with the cry of—“ Buy a broom," ware
brought before Mr. azza, by Turner, the beadle of St. George's,
for' begging.
Fagan, of the Mendicity Society, said that these were the per-
sons about whom he applied on Tuesday to Mr. Conant.
Turner, the.,beadle, said"That.these girls walked four abreast
through Hill-street, Berkeley-square, that morning, without their
hrtionia,.and annoyed the passenger's..
Fagan said that they had fta, in copper about them, and that
they slept at Whitechapel.
Mr. DYER itiquited if they understood English.
Elizabeth Hoffman said she could speak a little—none of the
others could.

111 t. Dvzi told her if they were found beggiog about the streets
again they should be sent to gaol. He did not wish to commit
the poor creatures, as he believed they were4gnorAnt of its being
an offence.

Elisabeth Hoffman promised for herself and her iompanione not
to offend again.
Mr. DinEit asked what became of their brooms ?
Hoffman 'said they were all wild, but that they expeettel some
sticks a little time to make more.

Mr. DS arc said thattieTotiitto go, home, as they had no
employment here.

Holtman said that they expeeted to go home in about three or
four weeki.

Mr. rhea discharged them on their promise of not begging
again.

Kuvristitss or A 14A0Lit..--.Elizabeth Pincany, a child, aged
10 years, was last night lwought before Mr. CONANT by Buck-
land, the beadle, who stated that he found her, lying
in Regent-atreft, in most deplorable state, at four o'clock
in the afternoon. She had hardly clothes enough , to rover her,
and Wail afflicted with vermin to, a'rnoat dreadful, degree. She
told that her grandmother, who lived near soinera town, lied
tamed her out of doors about four mouths ogo, and that she had
elopt,in brick-fields, end satiated by beggiv ever .in„.
bad had her, hair cut, and had earefullyyreuslied her et his house i

and he considered it would be an act of great clarity to commit
her for fourteen days to the House of Correction; where she would
have the benefit of warm baths and clean linen.

Mr. Cow Arr commended his humanity, and .remarked on the
dreadful effects of so young a child being cast, in a state of
destitution, on the town. He thought it a case of great cruelty
in her grandmother, and saying that he should send her for ten
days, he ordered Buckland to make inquires about the grand-
mother, and, if possible, bring her before him.

The child seemed perfectly unconscious of what was passing,
but regarded Buckland with art affection that reflected great credit
on his kindness.

MARYLEBONE.—A man about 30 years of age, wretched
in appearance, and evidently labouring under impaired intellects,
yesterday came into this Office, and addressed the Magistrates in
the following language
Gentlemen, I beg your advice under circumstances the most
distressing ; I am a poor man, and wish to get my bread in an
honest manner, but 1 cannot get employ. 'lf I could, I need not
be as I am.

Mr. BROUGHTON—Where are you living, and how have you
been employing yourself ?
I can't say, said the applicant, lam living any were ; I have
no home, nor can I get any work. I last lived with Mr. Bache-
lor, at the White Hart, in Windmill-street, as waiter or pot-boy.
The power that oppresses me is immense—it follows me every
where, and `not only designs to ruin my character, but aims at the
destruction of my life. What I complain of is, of a number of
gentlemen, who appear to b# agents ; they follow me about, go
where I may, but for what purpose I cannot guess, but that they
do follow me there can be no doubt.

Mr. Bitoucrrox,44ow have you lately been employed ?
On leaving Mr. Batchelor, said the complainant, I was em.
ployed by Mr. Faulkner, an artist, of Hatton-garden, to go of
errands, and carry out pictures. I was:originally tt servant, but
am now glad to do any jobs I can get.
Mr. BROUGHTON....4IIIve you any father or mother, or a friend
'who will interest limself in your behalf? •
My father-and itiotheil, 'said the applicant, are both dead. I
have mentioned the circumstance to Mr. Bachelor; but he calls
me a Madman, if I speak to him of the power that pursues me;
and when I told him that I would come here and commit you, he
said you would not listen .to me; hut would turn me from your
doors with contempt. I said I was sure you would not—and I
hope you will not.

Mr. BaotrouToN—lndeed, good man, we will not treat you
with contempt, but will assist you-if we.can.
Then, said the poor fellow, if you will do that, you will dis-
cover one of the greatest systems of villainy that was ever prac-
tised. It is so great.that every one who passes the door must ob-
serve it. It Islay be seen by 'your officers in passing by, and 1
wish them to protect me against it. My master, Mr. Faulkner,
has given me leave to sleep in his chambers, for I have no bed of
my own, but I cannot, for the power is still after me, and will not
let me rest.

Mr. BROUGHTON. --Ate you a married man?—.Yes, he replied,
I have a wife and two children. My wife is now living with her
father, on Tower-hill, and the children are with her. I do not
feel satisfied with my wife, and till her conduct bas been investi-
gated, I shall never be easy.
Mr. BROUOHTON—I recommend you to go home to your wife
and children, and make yourself Comfortable with them ; and
when it is known that any power follows you, you shall have the
'assistance of our. officers.

The poor man, after pausing a minute, 'aid 1 im very thankful
for your advice, but I think a poor man should have the conduct
of his wife looked into, as well as he who is rich. He then bowed
and left the room.

QUEEN SQUARE.—Yesterday, a Miss Harriet Wilson, a
young woman of about nineteen years °lege, was brought up for
final examination, on charges of robbing a number of children,
boys and girls, of property belonging to their parents.
Elizabeth Johnson, a girl about nine years of age, being ques-
tioned.hy Mr. Gregory, as to the nature of an oath, stated, that
on Saturday week, about five o'clock in the afternoon, she was
sent by her mother with a mug of tea and some bread and butter
to her uncle, who was at work in the neighbourhood.—The pri.
soner came.up to her after she had proceeded a short distance, and
requested lief to go of a " little errand." Wilnesa hesitated at
first, but afterwards was induced to go by the prisoner, who made
a promise of something, and said it would not take her long to go
to the pear and apple shop,, in Little Chapel-street, where she was
to ask for " Mr., Wilson, and get a bundle for Charlotte Wade."
The prisoner on sending witness, told her to leave the mug,
&c. in her possession until she returned, and on her return she bad
decamped.
Ann Mason saw the prisoner take the property from Elizabeth
Johnson.,
Wm. Jude, a little boy, stated that the prisoner robbed him on
Friday week while he was taking some oil skin eases for soldier.'
caps to Mr. Bryant's, in Dartmouth-street.
ianson,
confirmed the
Mrs. Johnson, the mother of Elizabeth
testimony of her daughter.
al other charges were ready to be made against the pri-
hsat:Sererd:evvrb'3l: (11"1:irte. attl;ll7ornyit•dingiFrci:Entinitilittanedt i,nwahheinitthinheeitptahisriatgdiehsaelliLleuanddy
lveTtr:Nitel I)rNiinieAr prosecute.vl7. 7A day or ton back, a man named 'hinner
was brought before R. J. CHAMBERS, Esq., by ,a watchman,
charged with cruelty towards his wife.
The poor woman's face was
.dreadfully bruised, and her right
arm was dislocated. After some reluctance, she admitted having
received thok4 injuries froM her husband. The watchman who
gave the prisoner in charge, stated, that he had been several times
called in to quell a disturbance between the prisoner and his wife,
and in every case the latter was moat severely beaten.
Mr. CHAIKBERN—What do you mean, Skinner, by thus *hue.
ing a woman whom you ought to protect and cherish ?
Pris Oner—l am tired of living, with her, and would fain be
separated. "

1 Mr. Ctiospinta..-1 shall make you put in bail for this offence.
The woman now said, that she was realty apprehenaive of her
life; hut as she had a little prOperty of her own; she should be
gladly separated 'from a man' who had so repeatedly treated her
with great barbarity.
The prisoner, after some few remarks respecting his wife, was
taken away in the custody of the gaoler, and she was sent to
the hospitel.hy order of the Alagistrate, to have her arm examined:
Yesterday she appeared with her arm in a sling, accompanied
by two dirty looking men, requesting that her husband might be
liberated, and offering the two indiOiduali as bail.
Mr. SwAßr',, before whom thi present application was made,
inquired what war the nature of the assault ?
One of the men, said that it was merely a common assault.
Mr. liarnaby tim clerk, ' remarked, that 'it was a very serious
one, and detailed the facts as above related, which, when Mr.
Swabey heard, he said that the parties must apply to Mr. Cham-
bers,
,as he would not entertain the application.
The proposed bail then withdrew.
A youth named Elcoch, who it seems is a drover, was on Tues-
day charged by two Bow-street patrol; with cruelly . setting a dog
on a poor lamb, which he was driving, and causing the dog to
tear the lamb's nose in a dreadful manner. .
As the patrol were passing. along Blackfriars-road, on Monday
afternoon, the prisoner, who was driving four lambs, one of which
attempted to leave its companions, instantly set a sayso-19,"361111
dog he had with him on the lamb that was running away, wnetl'`
was seized by the nose, and most cruelly hit. On the prioonetrybelitnng_
desired to, show his number by the patrol, , witli a
moning him, he was insolent, and actually struck onel'oiefiv,th,4_,T,:
phinanta. A crowd presently assembled, and it was evil" 'mu"
The prisoner', master
derable difficulty that.the prisoner was secured.,
eteble4ooking
colonred statement of the transaction,
And
wa giessed part of the
woman who was passing along the road so,
dividital, it was
cent
affair. From the statement of the latter
toward, the innocent
clear that the, prisoner had acted with cruelty
animal which he was driving. r to ray 205., and in de-
Mr. CH A Hp,: iti ordered the prior!'
Id be conlmitted.
he won
called in a witness, who evidently gave a
fault of payment, told him that he
His master offered to pay
da f
t in
thosen the
cinn, sixth
oiv fbtull.
file
year,,sdegipo,:f
lower than what he had already
inorni'7_,a,
taken
away
in
the
The prisoner, not paying tile ne) "'
The Magistrate said that
custody of, the gstdar* t Barna', the owner of' a florae and cart,
I (Ilisen"i%evnoti.l_dniot mitigate the penalty
ing him with,conveying *niggled goods,
A few days ago,Renintnr.waged against him by a Cuatorn-house
hi, present MojeatY. %,—,lnw cause why the horse and cart should
aldla :: i calling'.
i .e. I :I, i I:::giCag:'3l.-e111:::::: nd e
largen bbrOi dXgsimilare u.
not be forfeited. .
appeared to an inforinselty a
i t a Custom-house officer, stated that u ht was
an
Act
Pa4thseet4
kilos at " n' ' tier end4nt driving a eart, and sus t. •
pa- - „cs. the . • ,
August, he frd goads, De questioned him as to the contents of
officer, under the authority
one of '''.- ') the coast of Prance 'to this . 'lli de-
are brought from
box did ' ' • - e nt alleged that the "mt.") eggs, and that he expect-
finds
, i a, Frenchman to meet lim.on the bridge to take it away. The
expect-
ed
not crediting the story, especially after waiting hi vain a
hart time for the tirenehman'a appeata„,,,
took tawny lie horse
and cart, with the contents, lo 'the Custom•-house. • On searching
the box it was found to contain:l,BoB ells of foreign silk, '4B ells

of velvet, with a variety of silk handkerchiefs, the whole' propertr
arnoluitint in value to no less' a sum-than 5081. Those artiqUit
had not paid duty, and were consequently detained at theenitaks;
bowie.
After the defendant had pleaded to tke information and' ofrerel
what he could in defence, his horse and cart were declared tccliave
been properly seized and forfeited, under the authority of the.Acis
of Parliament above cited.

THAMES POLICE.—Jean Hurst, Captain of the schooner
Hill. appeared to answer a sunmions, founded on an information.
of Thomas Simpsey, to show cause why be did, on the 2d of
July last, refuse to receive on board his vessel John Pentin, a
licensed pilot, contrary to the 58th section of the Act of 6th
Geo. IV. cap. 125.
The solicitor of the Trinity-house attended to support the itn.
formation. He addressed the Bench, and. said, that under the
77th section of the act, he claimed that the defendant might be
convicted in a penalty double the amount of wh. Itt the pilot's lersi
fees were, provided he should be able to prove his H. ti"

called—
James Pekin, who stated, that on the 2d of July .'e.tes he law
the schooner Hill going down the river under sail. Sh'ewae
ro
ceeding on her voyage. He went on board, and askedlit'u' urne7
he was going to. He said to Hamburgh, and was lade u
merchandise. He offered to take him down the river. His reply
was, that he was competent to navigate his own ship. He at the
same time had an unlearned pilot on board.
MT. BALLANTINE asked him what he did when the Captain.
refused to permit him to pilot the vessel ?
The Pilot said, he immediately came on shore, and 'in doing
so, he took her depth, which was about si feet, and his fees 'On
piloting .her would have been 71. 10..
Mr. BALLANTINE said, he should be glad to hear any defence
that could he made for the defendant. •
The owners of the vessel appeared, and stated that they relied
on the 59th section of the act, whereby it empowers all British'
vessels having a British register to trade inwards and outwards
without a pilot, provided they are constant traders from .the port*
between Boulogne, inclusive, and the Baltic, whilst within the
limits of the ports to which they belong. After much discuteriony
and on referring to the several clauses of the act,
Mr. BALLANTINE was of opinion, that while trading inwards
the act tpplied, but outwards, as it was the case in the present
instance, it precluded them from the benefit of that clause under
which they sought reiief—namely, the 59th section.
• The Solicitor for the Trinity-House, stated that he took the
opinions of the Attorney-General and Mr. Sergeant Bounciest'
upon the question, and he should just trouble the bench with read-
their opinions to the following query :—" Whether vessels bts,
longing to the port of London fall within the exemption given by
the 59th section of the- 6th -of George IV., whilst they are within
the limits of that port ?"
" We are of opinion that vessels belonging to the port of Lon-
don are excluded from tbs exemption given by the 59th faction
of the 6th of, George IV:, whilst they are within the limits of
that port.

• (Signed) . " J. S. Corcar.
" Sergeant's-inn, July 5." "J. B. lEtossaione'r•
Mr. Var,La NTI perfectly concurred in the opinions given by the
Attorner.General and Mr. Sergeant Bosampiet, and theref felt
it his duty to inflict the penalty muter the 77th section
would
"e
been Act, that is, of double the legal fees which the pilot wou-
been entitled to : he therefore convicted the Captain io the Pe;
natty of 151. 9d., being double the amount of the pilot'e feetr:s
the same time deducting tOe. for the costs front the
owners said, they would appeal from the decision,
ore