The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

The LORD MAYOR—Where was the tobacco found?
Officer—ln his hat and stockings.
The prisoner—l never had a bit of tobacco before, my
Lord, and I never thought there was the least harm in carry-
ing a bit that I got lawfully at the other side of the water.
The LORD MAYOR (to the officer)—Do you know thisman
to be a person engaged in this sort of business? The officer
—No, my Lord.
The prisoner—l do assure you, my Lord, I never did any-
thing of the kind before; and I never, s'elp me Lord, sus-
pected there was any harm in it.
The Loin) MAYOR—HoId your tongue. If you thought
there was no harm in it why did you stow it in your stock-
ings ?—(Laughter.) You are fined 205., and take care
.how
you are brought before me again as a defendant in this line.
MAR YLEBONE.
Yesterday Ellen Meadows, Henry Alderson, and John
Grow, were placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged
with having been concerned, with another person not in cus-
tody, in assaulting and robbing Mr. Robert Jones, who de-
scribes himself as an independent gentleman, residing at No.
17, Wakefield-street, Regent-square.
Prosecutor stated, that on the preceding night, about ten
o'clock, as ho was proceeding along Drummond-street,
Euston-square, adjacent to the terminus of the London and
Birmingham Railway, he was accosted by the female pri-
soner, who requested that he would accompany her to her
home ; he refused to do so, and was making his way on
when M'Graw suddenly darted from a lamp-post, and
pressed closely against him, at the same moment the pri-
soner Alderson struck him a violent blow, and the woman,
not yet in charge, pulled his left hand behind him, where
she held it forcibly, while Meadows took from his trousers
pocket a silk purse containing 111. 14s. in gold and silver,
and from his fob a watch, the guard of which was, by the
strength of the " tug," broken ; he also lost from the pocket
just named a halfpenny. The purse was handed by Meadows
to Alderson, and the whole of the party made off in different
directions. He (prosecutor) pursued Meadows, and on coming
up with her gave her into custody.
It appeared, however, that the prosecutor, when at the
station-house, had stated the else differently, and that he
bad alleged that Alderson, and not M'Graw, was the man
who ran against him ; the prisoners were therefore dis-
charged.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DESTITUTION.—A few days ago a young girl, covered with
111th and rags, was brought into Court, having been found
without any other place of abode or shelter than the parks
afforded.
Mr. HARDWICK requested Lacy, one of the officers of St.
George, Ilanover-square, to obtain temporary admission for
the girl into the workhouse, and to cause inquiry to be.made
into the cause of her dreadful destitution.
Yesterday Lacy brought the girl to this Court to report
the result of the investigation.
A wonderful change had been effected in the girl's appear-
ance. She was clothed decently and comfortably, and had a
look of extreme propriety, which caused some little prepos-
session in her favour. She was a very well grown girl, about
18 years of age.
Lacy said he had ascertained that the father of the girl,
who had been dead about fifteen years, was boatswain of the
Boadicea. The girl, whose name is Elizabeth Reading, had
been apprenticed from Greenwich School, as house-servant
to a respectable tradesman at Waltham Cross. After her
time had expired she had gone into service at Camberwell, to
better herself, but her master had gone away in debt, and
she was thrown out of a situation. A married sister in
Drury-lane had supported her for some time, but, about a
fortnight ago, had been obliged to leave on account of debt,
and from that time until found in the park she had been wan-
dering about penniless and homeless.
Lacy reported that the girl was in such a filthy state from
vermin when brought into the house, that her clothes were
obliged to be burnt. The doctor had reported favourably of
her moral rectitude under all her distress.

Mr. HARDWICK, after giving the girl a suitable admoni
tion, ordered 10s. to be supplied to her, to enable her to reae]
her friends at Waltham.

LAMBETH.

IMPORTANT TO PARISH OFFicEns.—Yesterday three of
the overseers of the parish of Lambeth attended before Mr.
Henry, in consequence of an intimation given to them of the
intention of two respectable inhabitants of the parish to be
present to put in bail to prosecute an indictment against the
keeper of a house of ill-fame, which has been recently opened
to the great annoyance of the respectable inhabitants in
the neighbourhood. As the law at present stands the
overseers of the parish are bound, upon notice being
served upon them. to prosecute the keepers of houses of
ill-fame, or in the event of their not doing so to pay
the sum of 101. each, and the expenses, to the parties
prosecuting. In the present instance two respectable
inhabitants of the parish, whose families were annoyed and
their property depreciated in value, had given the usual
notice to the constable of the parish of their intention to enter
into the required sureties to prosecute a bill of indictment at
the session in the event of his (the constable) not taking up
the matter on behalf of the overseers.

Mr. Humphreys, who attended on behalf of the aggrieved
party, said his clients had no wish whatever to proceed with
the matter, provided the pariah authorities took it up and
abated the nuisance. _ _ _

Mr. HENRY recommended the overseers to proceed in the
matter themselves, as by doing so they would save the
parish a considerable sum.
The Overseers observed that they were placed in an awk-
ward dilemma in the matter, as, in the first place, they had
no funds available to such purposes; and if they of them-
selves proceeded to prosecute the parties, and did not succeed
in such prosecution, the auditor under the poor-law would
not pass such an item of expense.
Mr. HENRY admitted that the overseers were placed in an
awkward position, but still, as a matter of justice to the rate-
payers, the most economical course should be adopted by
their officers. In the present instance the overseers should,
If pressed to do so, have to pay a reward of 20/. to the parties
prosecuting, besides the whole of their costs for prosecuting;
whereas, by taking the matter into their own hands, the ex-
pense might be very trifling indeed. He should recommend
the overseers to consult the officers of the parishes of St.
George's-in-the-East and Marylebone, and those of the
liberty of the Rolls, on the matter ; and he felt perfectly sa-
tisfied they would best serve the interests of the parish by
ad2pting the course he had recommended.
The overseers requested a few days to consider the matter,
and consult with the parish board.
Mr. Humphreys said he had no wish to press the parties,
but hoped, at the same time, that no more than necessary
delay should take place
It was ultimately arranged that the matter should stand
over until Monday next, when the parties will again attend.
SOUTHWARK.
Several of the parochial officers of Christchurch waited on
the Magistrate to complain of a nuisance which had lately
eprung up in that parish, and which the inhabitants were
moat desirous to abate. That Blackfriars-road, formerly a
turnpike-road, had within the last twelve months (since the
partial abolition ofeibunipikes) been under the control of the
parochial officers of Christchurch. Since then the road in
question has been inundated to a great degree with itinerant
venders of fruit and other miscellaneous articles, which were

conveyed in barrows with immense large( rays on the top, con-
taining the articlee they expose for sale. That
athaoseablathrroousgvhs werethe
d
complete obstruction to the passengers,
police have been apprised of it, still they will not interfere to
remove the nuisance. That they (the applicants) ware at_ a
loss how to remedy the evil ; that they meant to proceed by
summons against the parties as their names were not on
their barrows. That the collection of such a number of per-
sona of the above description in the thoroughfare named, had
the effect of congregating thieves to the spot, and as an in-
stance of the robberies that were so prevalent there one of the
applicants said that a few nights since both he and his wife
had their pockets picked. That they (the applicants) bad
not the power vested in them of engaging a street-keeper,
which was formerly the case when it was a turnpike-road ;
and that since then they had every reason to believe the
itinerant vendors of fruit and other articles were driven out
of Lambeth and had entered Christchurch.
Mr. TRAIL advised the applicants to make known their
complaint to the Commissioners of Police, especially that part
of it which related to the alleged frequency of robberies in
Blackfriars-road.

THAMES.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A RAILWAY SERVANT.—Frank Fowler
A young man, aged 24, who is respectably connected, wag
brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with embezzling the
sum of 25/. 135., the moneys of the London and Blackwall
Railway Company.
The prisoner, who is a well-educated young man, has been
lately reduced to a state of great distress, the consequence of
his dishonesty, and for several weeks past has been vending
penny bottles of ink about the metropolis.
Mr. Arthur Wightman, the superintendent of the Black-
wall Railway, stated that the prisoner was money-taker at
the Cannon-street station on Sunday, the 20th of July last.
It was the custom of the money-takers to remit all the cash

taken in the course of the day to the office atßlackwall, at

five o'clock in the evening. The prisoner did not comply
rsigith this regulation on the 20th of July, and witness re-
ceived ieannation that he had left his post before the trains
ceased rizaziing, and taken all the money with him.
W. BALANTINE said he should remand the prisoner for
the productiv of the necessary evidence till next Tuesday.

Mr. William Blocksaman, a share-jobber, was brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having caused an ob-
struction in Bartholomew-lane, near the Stock Exchange.
George White, policeman No. 24, stated that, on Thursday
week, the defendant, who was in the habit of jobbing about
the Stock Exchange, and using language, in the time of ex-
citement, of a very objectionable kind, exhibited a specimen
of more than ordinary powers of language in his favourite
line. The witness had had occasion to reprove the gentle-
man more than once for having uttered language calculated
to make any other gentleman shun him, but so far did he ex-
ceed his former efforts in the present instance, that it was
quite impossible to let the matter pass without an appeal to
a magistrate for the sake of common decency. It was in
vain the witness remonstrated with the defendant, who was
evidently intoxicated, and who, upon being requested to ab-
stain from the use of particular words, only known in the
vocabulary of vagabonds, became worse and worse, and
pulling out a purse of sovereigns, shook it, saying it contained
the little which talked all languages, and asked witness
to take share of a bottle of wine.
The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant whether he ad-
mitted that he was guilty of having used the language attri-
buted to him, and of having caused the obstruction ? The
defendant—The fact is, I was at Vauxhall the night before,
and the punch there got rather about me.
The LORD MAYOR (to the policeman)—Did the defendant
positively cause an obstruction in the place ? The police-
man—Certainly he did, my Lord. He is in the habit of
getting drunk, and then hislanguage is most awful, and his
extraordinary conduct collects a crowd, greatly to the impe-
diment of public business. In fact, it is frequently very
difficult for the members of the Stock Exchange to get in or
out of the building in consequence of the crowds of jobbers,
so that anything out of the common way caused quite an
obstruction.
The defendant--I am not aware of having acted impro-
perly. It is true I had taken more than 1 ought to have
taken, but I think the officer would have been better em-
ployed in removing the thieves which flock into the alley
and rob all round, than in annoying respectable men. I have
lost a fortune in the Stack Exchange, and now I get my living
In the alley, and can refer you to first-rate men for my cha-
racter.
The LORD MAYOR regretted that, within the last few days,
three cases had been brought befor him which were not at all
creditable to the parties concerned. He hoped he should
have no other cases of the description to adjudicate upon, and
he fined the defendant 10a. for the obstruction, observing that
with respect to the language, which no doubt more strongly
operated upon the respectable feelings of the policeman than
the violation of the laws, he should leave it to the cool re-
flection of the defendant to apply so bitter a corrective to the
moral offence which had been committed.
The defendant, upon whom the hint had apparently some
effect, paid the fine, bowed, and retired.
A sailor, named John Williams, who belonged to one of the
foreign steam-vessels, was charged with having in his pos-
session a quantity of tobacco upon which the duty had not
been paid.
A Custom-house officer proved that the defendant had
been seen getting away cautiously from an Ostend steam-
vessel, and cutting along as if he feared that every stone
tinder him would " tell the tale," and that upon tieing ques-
tioned he seemed not to understand what en earth smuggling
was.