The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—MichaeI Collins, a native of the Land
of Song and Saints, was charged with a sanguinary assault
upon the person of his 'aged mother.
Dennis O'Keefe, a watchman, of St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, late on Saturday night, was called into the house by
a little boy, who told him there was a man murdering his
own mother. " I went into it with all speed," continued
Dennis O'Keefe, " and when I came to the bottom of the
stair, I looked up and saw what appeared to be the dead
body of a woman, lying on the first landing, without sense
or motion—for neither hand nor limb did it move at all.
The people in the house wanted me to go up and seize the
man that done it—and they said he was gone into his own,
room ; but I didn't like to trust myself alone with such a
murthering scoundrel, so I sent off to the watch-house for
assistance. While waiting for it, I saw the prisoner come
out of a side room on the landing, take up the woman that
was lying there, and throw her vengeously down the stairs,
and she fell at my feet, covered with blood. She came
down from the very top to the bottom, her head and her
back bumping against the stairs cruelly—so that she got
enough to kill her then, if she didn't get anything before
that ; and the landing, and the stairs, and the place at the
bottom of the stairs, was all paddled in blood."
A surgeon's certificate was here handed in, stating that
the poor woman was in a very dangerous condition.
The prisoner, a dark, ill-looking fellow, treated the mat-
ter with levity ; and when asked by the Alderman whether
he wished to say any thing, he carelessly replied, " they
haven't told you that my mother was dead drunk, and that
she gave me the first blow."
"If your mother was the most wicked wretch upon the
face of the earth," rejoined Mr. Alderman WAITUMAN,
"it would not justify you even in lifting your hand againt
her."
The ruffian was then committed to the Compter to wait
tlit issue of his sanguinary violence.
After the whole of the charges on the list had been dis-
posed of, a respectably-dressed man approached the table,
and said he wished to obtain the Alderman's advice in a
very distressing affair. His wife having robbed him of
1,2501., and absconded with a rascally slaughterer of
horses ! . _

The applicant had been married to his faithless wife only
three years at the time of her elopement, which took place
seven weeks ago ; and the circumstance had so affected him
diet he had been confined to his room, and almost constantly
to his bed, ever since. Her paramour, the horse slaughterer,
who had previously signalised himself by debauching
another married woman, and afterwards abandoning her,
was in the habit of frequenting a tavern in which the ap-
plicant sometimes spent an evening ; but how this horse-
slaughtering Giovanni became acquainted with the appli-
cant's wife did not appear. Some few weeks previous to
her elopement he, the applicant, had 1,250/. by him in
his house, in contemplation of a purchase he had at that
time in view ; but, as that purchase had gone off, and he
was going out a shooting with a friend, he directed his wife
to vest the 1,2501. in stock, as it was a pity so much
money should continue idle. When he returned from
his shooting excursion, his wife told him she had
done as he directed her ; and at the same time she
handed him the papers relative to the investment ; which
papers, without taking the trouble to examine, he desired
her to place, with some others, in a private drawer; and
she did so. But after she and her horse-slaughtering gal-
lant had eloped, he discovered that she had invested the
stock in her own maiden name ; and, by making affidavit
before the Lord Mayor that she had lost the receipt, she
subsequently succeeded in getting the whole 1,2501. into
her pocket again.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN was of opinion that a Ma-
gistrate could not interfere; but he supposed the horse-
slaughterer might be punished by a suit in Doctors'
Commons.. _ _

With this advice the poor deserted Benedict withdrew.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. Keen, one of the
proprietors of the Reading coaches, applied for warrants
against two watchmen, named Ashton and Lawrence,
the former of whom he charged with a gross and unwar-
rantable assault, and the latter with aiding and assisting
his companion.
Mr. Keen, on Sunday morning, about half-past two
o'clock, was proceeding, in company with a friend, along
the Strand, and at the corner of Wellington-street, Wa-
terloo-bridge, they were accosted by a woman of the town,
who asked them for a penny to cross the bridge. They
accompanied the woman as far as the toll-gate, where they
stopped foe a few minutes in conversation with her. A
watchman, who proved to be the prisoner Lawrence, came
up and desired the woman to move on. She made use of
a very offensive expression, and passed through the toll-
gate, the complainant having paid a penny for her. The
watchman threatened to follow and take her to the watch-
house, when the witness observed to him that he wanted
to extort money. Upon which the woman repeated her
abuse, and the watchman went upon the bridge and
brought her back in custody. At this moment the pri-
soner Ashton, hearing a disturbauce, came running from
the Strand, and Lawrence told him to take the witness
and his friend into custody for creating a disturbance.
Ashton immediately seised upon the witness, who endea-
voured to keep bins at arm's length, but the prisoner caught
hold of his cravat, the knot of which he pulled with all his
force, evidently with the intent of choking him, calliag oat
" You are one of the thieves who come to this place every
night:* The witness with great difficulty loosened the
prisoner's hold of his neckcloth, who then seized him by
the mouth in the most savage manner, the inside of which
he lacerated with hit fingers. The complainant stated also,
that the prisoner Ashton, while conveying him to the watch-
, house struck him repeatedly in the face with his stick,
although he offered no resistance, whatever.
Tibbutt, one of the toll-takers at Waterloo-bridge, who
was on duty at the time, fully corroborated the com-
plainant's statement, and declared that the cenduat of Ash-
ten was the most brutal he had ever witnessed.

A Mr. Docker, of Broad-court, stated that he was pass-
ing through the toll-gate, and witnessed the assault upon
the complainant, who was bleeding at the mouth.
The watchman of Waterloo-bridge gave testimony to the
same effect. _ _ _

The prisoner's defence served but to confirm the charge
against him, and Mr. HALLS told him to find good bail for the
assault, and suspended him from his duty until a jury de-
cided upon the case. A more gross charge of ill-treatment
had never been before him. As to Lawrence, who did not
appear to have participated in the bad conduct of Ashton,
although by no means free from censure, he should not be
detained.
The prisoner was then locked up for want of bail, and
the complainant expressed his determination to prosecute
him forthwith.
John Young was charged by Grosemith, an officer of
Union-hall, with being a returned transport. He was
committed for trial.
A notorious young thief, named Michael Russell, charged
at this office, a short time ago with robbing a gentleman of
his watch, the proof of which, however, could not be sub-
stantiated, was charged
by Mr. Thomas Bennett, of No.
14, White Horse-yard, Drury-lane, with attempting to
steal a piece of blue broad cloth, containing 25 yards, and
value 101.—He was fully committed fer trial.
MARYLEB ONE-OFFI CB. —Mr. Kent, j un. a stable-
keeper near Russell-sqnare, was charged with wilfully and
wantonly upsetting a poor woman's basket in Tottenham-
court-road, on Saturday night, and destroying her fruit,
and with assaulting her person.
Mr. Kent not being able to refute the charge, was
ordered to give the poor woman a sovereign for the pro-
puty he destroyed, and give bail to answer the charge of
assault at the Sessions, or make her compensation.
John Williamson, the constable of Acton, gave informa-
tion of a robbery committed on Saturday in the country-
house of Mr. Cox, the banker, near that village.
The property lost consists of gold-mounted family snuff-
boxes, and plate from an upper room used as a school for
the children, and the drawing-room : other valuable arti-
cles have not been meddled with.
Mr. Ra wuNsow advised Williamson to eireulate hand-
bills, offering a reward of 201. for the apprehension of the
thief, without losing a moment's time, and he would take
the responsibility in Mr. Cox's absence.

Accounts from Rio de Janeiro have been re-
ceived per the Venus, Capt. Dorey, arrived off G"ernseY e
;
she brings no news; the exchange was somewhat
on th
rise, and is quoted at 34d. to 341 d. These letters con-
tain nothing new relative to the war with Bneno"Yres.
—The packet from England had not arrived at the above
date. Goods were in good demand.
Honduras Gazettes of the 22d of September
have been received at the North and South American
Coffee-house. From Guatemala we have advices to the
33d August. Affairs are going on the same as for so.ue
time past. We know that in consequence of the advance
of Colonel MILLER, from Comaya,gua towards La Miguel,
the Government of San Salvador despatched 500 men to
attack him. The Guatemala troops, therefore, who were
in St. Anna marched on the tOth inst. towards San Sal-
vador. We are anxiouly waiting the result.
A novel scene was presented in the West
Church, Aberdeen, on Sunday morning, in consequence
of a girl, for her owu interest, publicly forbidding the
banns of marriage betwssn a quondam lover of her own
and mother femaN,,,adecktnian,gerc TS.°

AUSTRIA AND THE GRAND ALLIANCE

AGAINST TURKEY.

Some of the newspapers are boldly speculating on
the conduct of Austria in relation to the affairs of
Greece and Turkey, and others kindly defending her.
It is probable that, except with a very few indivi-
duals, the diplomatic measures of Austria fcr the last
few months have been, and are now, as much a mat-
ter of conjecture, as is the future policy of that Go-
vernment, should the wounded pride or misplaced
alarms of the Grand Seignor determine him to risk
a war with one or more members of the European
Alliance.

From what appears upon the face of things,—and
it may be as well to confine ourselves at present to
appearances,—Austria, under the guidance of
Prince Metteriich, felt from the outset of the
Greek revolt, that the interests of legitimacy, even
Turkish legitimacy, were those about which it be-
came a despotic Government to feel the most anxi-
ous concern.

There seems from the whole context of the Aus-
trian policy, whether foreign or domestic, since
1115, to have been ene ruling and actuating pur-
pose at work in the breast of Francis 11. and his
Minister—namely, that of crushing in every part of
Europe the slightest gern of human liberty.
It is no secret that the Greeks and their cause
had not, four years ago, at Constantinople itself, more
deadly enemies than in Vienna; nor need their be
any disguise in asserting, that during the progress of
the war, Turkey was, by the Austrian Court, as
much encouraged in her efforts to overpower the
Greek nation as during the negociation of the treaty
of July 6 ; and since it became a public document,
down to a very short tim e before the battle of Navarin,
she was abetted in her repugnance to the provisions
of that treaty, and in her refusal to be bound by it.
The Porte was led to hope, it is believed, that
the Allies meant only a demonstration to intimidate,
her, or to satisfy the eagerness of large bodies of
theirsubjects upon the question of protecting Greece;
but that ere they could agree to act upon it, some
natural sources of discord would be opened among
themselves, and the treaty would remain a dead
letter. There seems further ground to assume, that
almost immediately before the action of Navarin, the
Austrian Government found reason to he convinced
of the positive resolution of the Allied Powers to
follow up the treaty by corresponding measures of
armed interference between Greece and Turkey.
Then, indeed, and still more on receiving intelligence
of the battle, the Ministers of Francis began to be
sensible of their mistake. They pressed as strongly
upon the Grand Seignor the necessity of immediate
submission, as they ever had done the good policy
of evasion and delay.
If we could calculate with the same security the
conduct of men under excited passions, as of those
whose obvious interest is their only guide, it would
be easy to predict the continuance of peace, pro-
vided that any degree of acquiescence on the part
of Turkey could bribe the most powerful of her
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6, was not unfriendly to the Turkish empire. Mr.
Canning, who planned the mission of the Duke of
Wellington to St. Petersburgh, and his Grace, who
there discussed the principles of the Treaty, and ap-
proved its objects, were incapable of promoting a
measure which would have contemplated the aggran-
dizement of Russia at the expence of any other Eu-
ropean (whether or not a Christian) Power.
The treaty was, and indeed was all but avowed to
be, a project at once for improving the state of
Greece, and for obviating, even on Russian princi-
ples, a movement of the assembled armies of Nicho-
las against the Northern frontier of Turkey.
It is by no means probable, that the contracting
parties in the treaty of intervention, overlooked the
possibility of a rejection of their proposals by the
Turkish Government. On the contrary, the mea-
sures consequent on such resistance are pointed out
and stipulated by the Treaty. They amounted to
an armistice de facto (that is, by force if necessary),
between the belligerent parties, and the recognition
Of Greece by Russia, France, and Great Britain.—
The Allies knew that they held in their own hands
the absolute power of defending Greece from the
intrusion of a single Turkish regiment, or at least
from its long continuance in that country, without
the necessity of their operating any where but in the
Levant itself ; and as the freedom of Greece was the
declared end of the intervention, so the authority of
that compact could not be adduced, to sanction mea-
sures which spread beyond its purview—such as a
bombardment of Constantinople on one side, or on
the other a transfer of the whole Turkish empire in
Europe, to Russia, or any other potentate.
If, therefore, there be nothing in the treaty of
London to justify the dismemberment of Turkey by
an invasion of her northern frontier, let us ask, is
there any thing in common sense or sound policy to
excuse Great Britain and the French Government
for tamely witnessing or permitting so awful a con-
summation ? This question it is sufficient to propose,
and to leave the task of answering it for others.
But there are speculations rather broadly made
upon the part which Austria is likely to perform
amidst the contingencies of the expected crisis.
Will she resist an invasion of Turkey, or is she to
promote, and, as in the case of Poland, to profit by it ?
It has been asserted that Austria was anxious,from
the beginning, to reconcile the Turks to those pro-
positions of the Allied Governments which were in-
tended to settle all subjects of dispute between them.
Yet it is likewise affirmed, that a treaty of partition,
of which Turkey was to be the victim, had long been
signed between Prince Metternich and Russia, as-
signing to each of the Imperial Courts its share of
the infidel plunder. Both accounts are not likely
to be true.

Austria may—we deal now with possibilities, not
alleging facts—she may have incited the Turks to
resist, for the sake of affording some pretence to Rus-
sia to begin the work of spoliation. But then, would
she at last have urged the Porte to submission?
And would there be any thing like consistency in
such a course ? No; unless she knew that her
seeming change of counsel was too late. As for
the part which Austria will take, it must depend
north,
upon her own calculation of her interests,as compared
with her resources.
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further east, than their, actual position within a few
days' march of Vienna. But if too weak to effect
the repulse of Russia, or even to prevent ber further
strides to the south and west of the Danube, what
is the policy. of Austria ? Why, undoubtedly, to
stipulate for so much of Turkey as shall save her
Hungarian territory from being enveloped on all sides
by Russia, as it now Is on the east and on the north.
Documents have been placed in our hands which go
to prove a degree of weakness in the Austrian mo-
narchy but little contemplated by the bulk bf politi-
cal observers. Perhaps, if these accounts be true,
there is no Power in Europe less consolidated; be-
cause, except in the Archduchy of Austria itself,
there is no Government so detested : Hurgary, Ga-
licia, Bohemia, the Tyrol, (the once devoted Ty-
rol), and Italy,—in one and all of these extensive
dominions, but more particularly the first and the
last, the Court of which Prince Metternich is the
ruler was besieged by loud and incessant complaints
while any hope remained that they would be listened
to, but has since been menaced by deep and despe-
rate resentments. The exclusive object of the Court
of Austria, since by the gallant exertions of its peo-
ple it was raised from under the chariot wheels of
Buonaparte, has been to make the same unhappy
people regard itself as fu.nctus officio, and to reduce
it to a condition more vile than that from which its
ungrateful master was rescued by its sufferings and
blood.—Times.

The spire of the parish church of Davenham,
Cheshire, is now being taken down. It was considered
dangerous and unsafe, and is to be immediately re-built.—
Tile admirers of the picturesque will be glad to bear of its
re-erection, fer it has for many ages formed a beautiful and
prominent feature in the fine scenery of that neighbour-
oecl, .4.40P091 Crier.