Star.
London, England, 1830-06-14 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

OVILDNALL--Ahn Pleasing was charged with hawking about
indecent publications and prints.
Richmond stated that in consequence of information he went to
the shop of Mr. Bowles, the poultry salesman in Newgate-street,
about four o'clock on Friday afternoon, and found the prisoner
standing near the counting-house. Be told him he had heard he
was offering immoral books for sale, upon which the prisoner be.
came agitated, and when witness searched him, he found several.
The prisoner expressed a hope that the Alderman would forgive
him upon his promise not to repeat the offence.
Well but, said Alderman AINILET, why not relieve your dia.
tress by selling religious books, something to mend, instead of cor.
ruhe morals?
Prisoner was apprehensive be should not be able to live by the
sale of godly books, but he would leave off bookselling altogether
if the Alderman would dismiss him this time.

The Alderman, however, eoounitted him—for trial, and directed
the City Solicitor to prosecute.

Bow.sTazET.—Joins H4klassd alias John Ireland, was
placed at the bar, before T. Batas, E.q. charged capitally with
having been guilty of uttering base coin, he having been before con-
victed of a like ofence.
IV'Warn Till, landlord of the Plough, Carey-street, Lincoln's.
inn-fields, proved that on the 27th of May, the prisoner came to his
bar, and had a glass of peppermint, in payment for which he ten.
dered the base sixpence now produced.
Benjamin Elmes, one of the turnkeys of Bonemonger-lane gaol,
identified the prisoner, and produced a certificate proving his former
conviction In October 1828.

The prisoner, who said nothing in Ms defence, was then fully
committed for trial upon the capital charge.
Mr. Matta remarked that in the present temper of Old Batley
juries, the prisoner would probably be acquitted. The Mint had
frequently been charged with not protecting the public by prose.
eutmg cases like the present. The result of some recent trials
proved, however, that blame had been attached to the wrong
quarter.

HAT T ON-GA IIDE 3lr—Datlid Richardson, about 15 years of age,
was charged by Mr. Geslen, of Upper Wooburn-place, with steal-
ing a gold watch, value 401. The boy had been sent on a message
by his father to the prosecutor's house, and the watch was missing a
short time after. The boy confessed to his father that he had com-
mitted the theft, and said that be and another boy had disposed of it
for 10s. He was fully committed for trial.

WORSHI P-ST RE ET. A respectably attired young WOMBS,
named Roche, attended before Mr. Broughton, the Magistrate, in
answer to a warrant of assault and battery, obtained against her by
Mrs. &Melt, who said she wass widow, and kept a chandler's-shop
in Golden-lane, St. Luke's. On last Tuesday emoting, the defend.
ant came to her house, and kicked up a row, in which she broke a
table, several glasses, and collected a mischievous mob about her
house, which threatened the total destruction of her establishment.
Mrs. Roche said, her husband was a sawyer, and lived in the
Curtain-road. He had latterly much neglected his family. and in,
place of 30s. per week, he generally brought home five or six ; she
attentively watched him, and traced him to the house of the prose.
cutrix, where she, on two or three occasions, found him with several
other ;warded men drinking with women of loose and dissolute cha.
meters.

The Magistrate, after discharging the warrant, held the prosecu-
triz to bail in defence of public morals.

31aar.sonoutm-sTwENT.—The wife of Reuben Marten attend-
ed this office to answer a charge preferred by an Inspector of Police,
for having admitted customers during the time of divine service on
Sunday. In answer to the charge it WAS proved by Ilall, the chief
constable of Union Hall, that having a warrant against Reuben Mar-
ten, as one of the persona present at the fight in which 111‘Kay was
killed, he went there with a party on Sunday to apprehend him.—
Marten wu not at home, DOT was there any customer or person
drinking in the house.
The Magistrate expressed himself satisfied that, the Police In-
spector was mistaken, and dismissed the complaint.
A man of respectable appearance, named Atrial:, was charged
with a singular fraud. Mr. Aldous, a pawnbroker, stated that the
Prisoner had been in the habit of pledging articles at his shop for the
ast two years; part of the property pawned consisted of unwrougbt
silver. About three months since he brought some bars of a metal
which he said was silver, aad pawned it. At different times since
he brought similar bars, and received on the whole upwards of 401.
Some suspicion having arisen in Mr. Aldous mind, he took some of
the bars to an assayer, by whom it was ascertained that they con-
tained no silver, and were not worth sixpence. The prisoner said
nothing in his defence, and was remanded for further evidence.
LAMBETH-STREET.—Among the paupers who applied to the
magistrates for parochial relief was a middle aged, weather-beaten
seaman. It appeared that about five years ago, while he was
absent on a voyage to Calcutta, his wife formed an acquaintance
with a gentleman, with whom she cohabited until he died, and he
then settled an annuity of one hundred and eighty pounds on
her. The parish officers, thinking it hard that they should be ob-
liged to support the man out of the parish funds while his wife was
in the enjoyment of such a handsome income, wrote to her at Whit.
by, where she resided, on the subject, but she declared that she
would not afford her husband the least assistance. The magistrates
said they knew of no law that would compel a wife to support her
husband, and therefore the parish must afford the applicant the re-
lief he sought far.
Town-HALL.—Mary Ann Edwards charged her husband with a
most grievous assault. The defendant having passed the evening in
social company, returned home somewhat fresh, at which, feeling
offended, she read him a lecture, and he incontinently kicked her out
of bed.

The Alderman advised the parties to kiss and be Mends, but
against this the lady strongly protested. The husband was ordered
to And sureties for his good behaviour.
Williams Lloyd, • single gentleman, was next charged uiih
threatening to knock out the brains of a spinster, one Ann Holder,
of Richnionrhstreet, Walworih. He was also held to bail.

THAMES Ponca.---John Callwood, Thomas Clayton, John
Coppiek, Thomas Griffith, and John Jones, stamen, belonging to
the brig Sylph, now lying off Deptford, were charged with stealing
a quantity of rum. It appeared that the vessel has lately been
freighted with a cargo of rum foe the use of his Majesty's troops at
Bermuda.

Daniel Blyth, a very active surveyor of the Thames-police, having
obtained some information of the affair, went on board, and in the
chests and sleeping berths of the prisoners found a quantity of rum
concealed in various bottles and utensils. He also discovered that
the casks had been bored with a corkscrew. A corkscrew found on
one of the prisoners exactly fitted the holes. The prisoners refused
to give any satisfactory account as to the possession of the runt.
The Magistrate amerced the prisoners in the penalty of Os. each,
for unlawful possession of the rum, which was ordered to be re-
stored.

A Pucxactous MILLER.—It is a pity the Ame-
ricana are at peace. One of the New York Papers says, that
Governor Miller, of South Carolina, gave the following toast, at the
recent dinner of the German Fusileers at Charlestown : " The right
to fight—the only principle in the law of nations worth preserving."
The commission of bankrupt against Messrs. Hogg,
of this place, woollen-cloth merchants and manufacturers, was
opened on Thursday. As we have already stated, the debts are
very much concentrated, and principally in the hands of opulent
parties; the event has not come unexpectedly upon the creditors
generally, and they are of course not unprepared for it. We believe
that there never was a failure to the same amount in this place,
which is likely to produce so little injury, either to trade or to
public credit : this is principally to be attributed to a sound cir-
culating medium, and to a state of trade free from undue specula-
tion.—Lseds Mercury.