The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterhy a man of decent ap-
pearance, named Milton, was brought before the LORD
MAYOR, charged with having attempted tdclestroy himself.
Turnpenny, the officer appointed to attend at the watch-
house at London-bridge, observed the unfortunate man de-
liberately get upon the balustrades of the bridge, for the
purpose of throwing himself into the water. The officer
just reached hitt' in time to prevent the catastrophe.
Thu defendant said that he had, by his own imprudence,
lost an excellent place, and that he despaired of getting an-
other. He had therefore thought that the best thing he
could do was to despatch himself.
The LORD MAYOR directed that the defendant should
be kept at the Compter until his mind shall have recovered
froth its agitation.

GUILDHALL—The Stewards of the Amicable So-
ciety, a club instituted, as the preamble sets forth, " to
contribute to (an awkward expression by-the-by) and alle-
viate each other's distresses," appeared betbre Alderman
ANSLEY and-Lnuatc yesterdly, upon complaint of having
unlawfully expelled one Hugh Price.
The complainant had belonged to the Society 20 years,
and had paid about 50/. into the box, while he had drawn
back only 101. In June last, while receiving 18s. a-week
as a sick member, he was observed putting up the shutters
of his shop at eleven o'clock at night, without a hat on.
The Steward, who witnessed this act, walked up to.him
and gave him notice that he should report the circumstance
to the Society. Two general meetings were held upon the
subject, and finally Price was expelled.
I)*e said, he was a green-grocer, and his wife, who was
a very fat heavy woman, having been trudging about until
her legs were swollen, he was obliged to put up the shutters.
He acknowledged he was found shelling peas the next day,
but that vas under an impression that he should not be
allowed the sick money for that week.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said, that all societies of this
kind were disposed to draw the line too tight, the body
feeling a natural anxiety to get rid of members as soon as
they arrived at the age when they were likely to become
burdensome. They could not look at a question whether
the rules had been infringed by an ailing member without
prejudice, and authority was very properly accorded to the
Magistrates, who had no interest, to decide between the
parties. In this case, if the man had been detected i❑
bringing home goods from market, or serving in his ishOp,
and carrying goods to his customers, that would have fairly
been following his ordinary calling. But putting up two
or three shutters on an emergency was not so, and the pea-
shelling was not set up as a ground of expulsion.
Sir PETER Lauele should concur in ordering the man
to be reinstated in the society.
The complainant therefore was reinstated.
BOW-STREET.—CIorks, the officer of the Court of
Requests, Vine-street, Piccadilly, who was charged, in con-
junction with Foster, another officer of the same court,
who was ordered to find bail on Wednesday last, with an
outrageous' assault on Mrs. Teesdale, and her brother (Mr.
Jones), was yesterday brought before Mr. Mussrlutt, to
answer to the charge. •
Mr. JoneS restated his former evidence, and swore dia..
tinctly to his
.having been struck by the prisoner. Mrs.
Teesdah, corroborated her brother's statement, as did also
two other witnesses.

The prisoner was ordered to find bail, himself in 401.
and two sureties in 201. each.

Lieutenant Empson, an officer of the army, charged
Henrietta Stevens and Ann James, two women of the
town, with robbing him of the chain of his watch and its
appendages.
According to the statement of the complainant, he was
returning on Thursday night from the city, where he had
dined, when he was accosted by the prisoners, who wished
him to give them something to drink. It being half-past
one in the morning, the public-houses were closed, but the
complainant knocked at the Black Boy, in Long-acre,
the landlady of which he knew, for the purrose of treating
the ladies with a little refreshment. He found, however,
that one of them had made free with his watch-chain, &c.,
on discovering of which he gave both the prisoners into
custody.
The landlady of the house in question, however, admit-
ted that he was 'very much in liquor.
There being no evidence against the prisoner, James,
she was dischaiged, and Henrietta Stevens was ordered to
be detained for a further examination—the Magistrate
being unwilling to commit her for trial upon such evi-
dence, although the fact of the robbery was dtinctly
sw to to. - .

lIATTON-GARDEN.—A youth named George Miller,
late gloom in the service of an Oxonian, was brought be-
fore Mr. ROGERS, by the Overseers of the Parish of St.
Pancras, on an order *affiliation.—The mother, a some-
tbit fascinating little body, about 25'..iief age, with a
well-dressed chubby boy in her arms, positively swore to
the fathership of the youth.
Mr. Roczas---=Well, what have you to say, young
man ?—Master Miller (smiling)—l can only say as this,
your Worship, we were fellow-servants at Mr. S 's,
at Oxford, in the beginning of last winter, and that she
seduced me to her bed; I went to her purely out of good
nature; but I have now good reason to believe it was a
trick played upon me, and that my master has a preferable
claim to the honour of being the infant's parent. Your
WOrship,.the baby is the very picture of him.
Mr. ROGERS—How old are you, young man ?—Miller
Seventeen, come Sunday, your Worship.

Mr. ROGERS said he was not ignorant of the way in
which such affairs were managed, and ordered the youth
to pay Is. 6d. a week for the support of the child.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, soon after
Sir GEORGE FARRANT, the Sitting Magistrate, took his
seat upon the bench, a letter was handed to him by one of
the Overseers of the poor for the parish of St. *James's,
written by the governor of a farm-house at Islington to the
said parish, and to which it seems the authorities of St.
James's are in the habit of sending such paupers as may
require a change of air, or for whom there may not be suf-
ficient accommodation at the work house in town. This
letter stated that the governor of the farm-house was that
morning under the necessity of turning out three male
paupers, whom he named, and who who had for some days
past conducted themselves in a riotous manner.
Scarcely had the Magistrate finished the perusal of this
epistle, when in marched to the office 'the three worthies
alluded to. They declared that the statement made of
their conduct in the governor's letter was altogether
unfounded ; they were literally kept in a state of
starvation at this farm-house, so that they were often
driven to the most painful extremities ; and they need
only state as one slight instance of which, that they
were compelled on Thursday night last to kill one
of the farm-house cats, which was much better fed
than themselves, and eat it for their suppers; and as a
proof of this fact, one of them held up before the Magis-
trate the rope with which they hung the cat, while a
second displayed the blade, and the third a thighbone of
the poor animal, which,. they said, they were driven to
devour.

Sir G. FARRANT, who seemed rather surprised at this
statement, asked them if they had eaten the animal in a raw
state, or had it dressed I—They replied, laughing all the
while, that they first hung the cat, then boiled it in a pip-
kin, after
.which they made their supper of it.
The Magistrate, observing, that they seemed very merry
in their hunger, asked if they were sure it was a cat they
had eaten, for he could scarcely believe the story : perhaps
it was a rabbit.
They assured his worship that it was a cat, as any one
might see by the bones. They had no opportunity of
treating themselves to such dainties as rabbits ; it was a pet
eat of the governor's that they fortunately got hold of or
they mast have starved.
The Magistrate ordered the paupers to be taken for the
present into the town workhouse, and that the governor of
the farmrhouse should be directed to attend at the office to
give some further explanation of this cat transaction.

MARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday morning,
soon as Mr. GRIFFITH entered, a gentleman informed him
that with respect to an alleged charge against two of their
men, the Directors-of the Imperial Fire-office would do all
they could to further the ends of justice.
Mr. GRIFFITH observed, that there were charges, and
whether they could be answered he did not know. He
thought it quite necessary to give them information.
The Gentleman said, that the information the office bad
received, was by a report in the Times of that day.
Mr. Nathan, a broker in Chapel-street—On the 4th of
September, saw the firemen selling things in front of the
ruins of Mr. Fairbrother's house, which was burnt the
day before, and bought the remains of a bed, tied up in a*
old carpet, for 12s. He thought what he did was right,
for the fireman said Mr. Fairbrother had given the things
to them, to get themselves a drop of beer.
The Foilnan of the Albion, in which office the pro-
perty of the sufferer was insured, stated, that the fire was
abandoned by his office, before the above circumstance
took place.

The deputy-foreman of the Imperial said, after the pro-
perty was abandoned by the Albion, he took as much care
of it as if it had been his own. On the night of the sth
lie collected the things together. Mr. Fuirbrother threw
some of them aside, saying they were of no use, and told
him to let the men have the remains of the bed tied up in
the carpet, to get them something to drink.
This Atacama pot being refuted, Ur. upsirriril 6 d 1

Mr. Fairbrother bad acted very improperly in bringing for-
ward such a charge.

WOR S HIP-StREET.--,Yesterday Mr. BROUGwrox
gave his decision in the following case under the Turnpike
Act, between Mr. Davis, a lessee of tolls, and Mr. Bennet,
a coach-maker, who was summoned for non--payment of a
certain toll.

Mr. Bennet resides in Worship-street, within a short
distance of the toll-bar, near Clifton-street. On the occa-
sion in question he drove in a single horse chaise through
the gate, and no toll was then demanded, as he had not
passed 100 yards along the road of that trust. Having
passed the bar, he turned through Clifton-street, proceeded
round into Bishopsgate-street, and in about-half an hour
returned to his own house through Worship-street. In
the latter part of his route he entered upon the complainant's
trust nearly opposite the Curtain-road, but the distance
from that point of his own residence is still less than 100
yards, and he claimed an exemption from tell under the
Act, on the ground that he had not at one time passed a
distance of one hundred yards along the road of that trust.
The lessee, on the other band, contended that he was
liable to the toll, the distance from his house to the gate,
and from the point where he entered the road the second
time to his house, being together about 150 yards.
The MaorsraaTE had adjourned the case in order that
he might have an opportuuity of personally inspecting the
ground.
Mr. BROUGHTON yesterday observed that the question
now raised was, perhaps, one of the most curious that had
ever arisen. Since the last hearing he had looked for
cases, but he could find none bearing upon the point at
issue. In deciding the case, theiefore, he should have to
decide according to the best Of his judgment. It happened
that when he inspected the ground, he met both of his
brother Magistrates on the spot, and they concurred in the
opinion which he had formed. One ground of exemption,
he observed, was in favour of certain descriptions of car-
riages merely crossing the road : the toll could not be de-
manded for them, although they might cross the road 100
times a day. With respect to the other exemption, the
distance of 100 yards must, in his opinion, be a pass2e,e of
that distance on the road at one time only, and could not
be made up of parts of that distance performed at different
times. The defendant, therefore, was not liable to the toll
demanded.—The case was accordingly dismissed.
Mr. M'Hugh and others, vestrymen of St. Luke's
parish, attended before the Magistrate yesterday, with a
view to proceedings against Mr. Wilke for the recovery of
numerous heavy penalties alleged to have been incurred.
Mr. M'Hugh stated briefly the complaint which the
vestry had to make with respect to an embezzlement of up-
wards of 5,000/. of the parish monies, and the withhold-
ing of accounts, and other important documents, from the
vestry, and intimated that it was understood that Mr.
Wilks was about to leave this country, and to retire to
Italy ;, and it was their anxious wish to compel him to
come to a reckoning, before he went.
Mr. BROUGHTON asked the applicant if he was a trus-
tee, or appointed by the trustees 1 Mr. M'Hugh said
" No ;" but he was a vestryman.
Mr. 13Roucurox said, it appeared to him that such an
application must come from the trustees.
The parties retired with the intention of renewing their
application.