The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

111 ANION-HOUSE.—Mr. Goldham, the superinten-
dent of Billingsgate-market, to whom the public are in
debted in a great measure for the protection of their health,
he being the most active enemy to kepper or sheddar
salmon, or salmon or other fish in spawn, has been lately:
employed in destroying vast quantities of such corrupt food.
A salesman named Polack attended the Justice-room on:
Wednesday, upon the complaint of the superintendent,
who seized a largo quantity of salmon in spawn on his stall.
Mr. Goldham declared that the fish was wholly unfit for
use; that it was, in fact, dangerous to eat it.
The salesman declared, that it was as good as any other
salmon in the market, and tilat he could produce persons
who would swear that it was wholesome food. To prove
this fact, it was, however, only necessary to say, that he
had himself purchased the fish of Mr. Ridpath, the extensive
(healer.

The LORD MAYOR said, that the subject was one of
vital importance to the public, and ordered that a summons
should he served upon the dealer in question, in order to
have the matter cleared up, and justice done to the public.
On Saturday the summoned party attended, but Mr.
Polack was not in attendance, although he had assured Mr.
Goldham that he would be punctual. It was not denied
that the purchase of the fish had been made as was repre-
sented by Mr. Polack, and
The Loan MAYOR said, that of course, as that salesman
was not present, the case must be dismissed for that day,
but the defendant must have known, es a tradesman of
Bil-
lingsgate-market, that the salmon was not fit for use.
The defendant said thLt it was such fish as was generally
sold in the market.
Tho LORD MAYOR said, that the general practice could
not justify an illegal act. To expose such fish for sale
was certainly an offence against the law.
The defendant declared that the people at the fisheries
send the fish to town, and those to whom it was consigned
were obliged to sell it; they had no alternative.
The LORD Mayon could not for an instant listen to an
argument of the kind. It must be palpable enough that
if the salesmen here refused to sell the unwholesome article,
those employed in the fisheries would send -up no more to
the market.
The defendant—lt is utterly impossible that I should
knew what I sell.

The LORD MAYOR—Not know ? why you must know
whether you sell good or bad fish, or I cannot give you
credit for the knowledge of trade which, knowing you for
so many years, I believed you to possess.
The defendant observed that his men sometimes opened
the parcels, wishing it to be inferred that he was therefore
not responsible.
'fhe LORD MAYOR-The practice of selling bad fish
must be done away with. You may be indicted for a
misdemeanour for having sold this. Another summons
must be sent to Mr. Polack.
Mr. Goldham, in order to show that the blame of sell-
ing bad fish at Billingsgate was not attributable to those
who superintended the fisheries, produced a document
dated the 17th of October, 1795, and signed James Turn-
' bull, stating the time appointed by law for fishing for sal-
mon in the river Tweed, and the penalties annexed to the
offence of fishing out of season, and requesting that the
Lord Mayor would enforce the penalties if fish unfit for
human food were sent to the London market. This was
the substance of resolutions entered into by the Association
for the Protection of the Fisheries in the River Tweed, and
the request was enforced by the statement that the London
market could not otherwise continue to. be supplied as
abundantly as before that period it had been, and there
could be no adequate security for the health of the inha-
bitanta.
The LORD Mayon. then directed that the following
notice, which was drawn up at the suggestion of the super-
intendent, Eibould be affixed in the market:—" The
Yeoman of the Waterside having been directed by the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor strictly to enforce the regula-
tions respecting the sale of fish out of season at Billincrs-
gate, I do hereby give notice to the several salesmen at the
said market, that such fish out of season as shall hereafter
be exposed for sale at the said market will immediately be
seized, and the penalties for that offence rigorously enforced,
pursuant to the acts and regulations in that case made and
provided.

(Signed) " Jorni GOLDHAII, Yeoman."
His Lottosliu, trusted that there would be no attempt
to impose upon the public such food as had been described,
and repeated his determination to inflict the penalty in
every case most rigorously.
GUILDHALL.—Joseph Henry George, Nicholas
Byers, and Charles Child, were brought up for final exa-
mination, before Sir PETER LAURIE, on Saturday, charged
with stealing a horse from Patrick Desmond, a groom out

of place.
At the last examination, Palmer, whose acceptance ap-
peared on the face of the bill for 28/. which was uttered in
payment for the horse, came forward and denied that the
signature, " Wm. Palmer," had been written by him ; and
the prisoners were remanded, that this circumstance might
be inquired into.
Palmer now entered into the history of his connexion
with the parties. He had the misfortune to be committed
some time ago to the House of Correction for three months
for an assault, and there became acquainted with a man
named Sharp, who, after their liberation, invited him to
the Fleet, under pretence of helping him to a job. This
job was to serve notices to the creditors of a prisoner about
to take the benefit of the Insolvent Debtor's Act. Sharp
introduced him to Byers and George ; and upon the re-
presentation of his friend Sharp that Byers' affairs would
be speedily settled, he was induced to put his acceptance to
several bills. He had been nearly entrapped by the party
into uttering a forged bill of exchange drawn by Nicholas
Byers, on his brother Robert, a respectable linen-draper in
East-street, Manchester-square. He was asked by Byers
to get it discounted ; but, upon inquiry, Mr. Robert
Byers declared that what appeared to be his acceptance had
net been written by him. He therefore locked the bill up
in his desk, and now produced it before the Magistrate.
Witness said there were doctors, lawyers, and a reverend or
two, belonging to the gang.
Saunders, the officer, confirmed this statement, as far as
related to Mr. Robert Byers disavowing the acceptance.
This bill was for 20/.
Colonel James Ormsby, of York-street, Covent-garden,
applied for three bills of exchange which had been found
upon Child, and which lie had intrusted to him to get dis-
counted, and for other purposes. There was a fourth bill
drawn by L. Mordaunt, upon and accepted by the Earl of
Strathmore, 13, Doughty-street, for 1001. This had
been put into his hands, Child said, by a Captain Wood-.
house on half pay. Colonel Ormsby spoke to the general
good character of Child. He believed him to be a very
honest man. '

Sir PETER LAURIE seemed to have an unfavourable opi-
nion of all these instruments ; but as no one had made any
complaint respecting them, he restored them to the prisoner
Child, to be disposed of as he pleased.
Palmer being questioned by the prisoner Child, admitted
he did not know him as being one of the " gang."
After a variety of other charges had been made; Sir P.

LA URIE announced that the charges of forgery would not
be entered into, and he should commit the prisoners only
for a conspiracy to defraud.
Palmer was arrested in Court on one of his acceptances.
Colonel Ormsby handed a letter to the Alderman, which
he had received from Child, entreating him and a Captain
Hipkins to come before the Magistrate and give him a
character.
The prisoners were committed for trial at the Middlesex
Sessions, with an intimation that they must give 48 hours'
notice of bail, each principal in 2001. with two sureties for
1001. eadi.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Faau D.—On Satur-
day G. .Avery and W. Scannell, two young Bleu of re-
spectable appearance, were charged With 'having obtained a
valuable gold ring under fraudulent pretences. Tke ring
was not forthcoming, but the evidence being conclusive
against Avery, he was committed for trial. The other
prisoner was discharged.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—On Saturday R. Moffat was
brought up for final examination, charged with being con-
cerned in a robbery at the residence of the Rev. George
Greigs, Viucent-square, Westminster ; he was fully com-
mitted.

MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday a young Irishman, of
gentlemanly appearance, entered the office for the purpose
of asking the advice of,the Magistrates how he should pro-
ceed to punish what he designated a gang of swindlers in
the city, who had cheated him most egregiously, and after-
wards laughed in his face. The parties, he stated, kept a
suite of offices in the neighbourhood of Ludgate-bill, and
bore the appearance of respectability. They advertised to
procure situations for young gentlemen to go to the Con-
tinent with single gentlemen, &c. ; and the applicant, after
having read one of them, proceeded to the office, where
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they demanded half-a-guinea, and promised to procure him
a situation as Secretary to a Chinese merchant, which pro-
mise, however, they never fulfilled.
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Guildhall, iA,
applicantcommitted in the city.
Saturday
who stated himself to be a wholesale glass-manufacturer,
applied to the sitting Magistrate for advice. He had, he
said, the previous evenino• received a letter from Newgate,
containing a number b,
of threats, and couched in language

by which it would appear that he, the applicant, had been
a recent prosecutor. It also accused him of being a noto-
rious receiver of stolen glass, &c. and threatened an expo.
sure. The letter was signed " John Adams ;" a name of
which he had no knowledge, nor had lie appeared in the;
situation of a prosecutor.
The MAGISTRATE CORM not, interfere in the business,
which was certainly singular. He had better make the
circumstance known to Mr. Wontner, the Governor of
Newgate.

WORSHIP-STREET.-CHARGE OF EMBEZZLENIENT.

—On Saturday, John Williams, a' young man very
fashionably dressed, was charged with robbing his em-
ployer, Mr. Hopkins, of High-street, Shoreditch, linen-
draper.
The prisoner, by the advice of his attorney, declined
saying any thing at present. He was then remanded for
another examination.

UNION-HALL ---BERMON osaY BURGLA RY. A
youth named David Hogan, and a woman with whom he
has been cohabiting, called Elizabeth Owen, were brought
up for final examination ; the first charged on suspicion of
having burglariously entered the dwelling of Mr. James
Bowman, a bookbinder in Neckanger-street, Bermondsey,
on the night of the 30th of August, and stealing there-
from a number of silver tea-spoons, a quantity of linen
and wearing apparel, with a pier-glass and other articks.;
the woman with receiving the property knowing it to be
stolen. The prosecutor swore to certain articles found in
the house occupied by the two prisoners, as being among
those stolen.—The prisoners fully committed.
Smith, a constable, said that in one week very recently,
not fewer than six houses were broken open by thieves in
Bermondsey palish, and property to a considerable extent
was stolen. There was a regular organized band of house-
breakers, he believed, and to.this gang the prisoners be-
longed.
•

THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, and SHORE.
HAM PNEUMATIC CONYEYANCE COMPANY.

(From the Brighton Herald.)
The following statement is extracted from Mr.
Vallance's Reply to Mr. Ricardo, as an outline
of the advantages to be derived from the appli-
cation of his principle of conveyance by a public

company, proposed to be established under an

Act of Parliament :

The principle of transmission by atmos-
pheric pressure being incontrovertible, and its
practicability having been demonstrated to the
conviction ,of every one who has examined 'it,
advantage may be taken of an opportunity for
putting it profitably into practice, and ascertain-

Lng at what rate it will be possible to go by it

what proportion of expense it will save ; and
whether the incalculable national benefits it ap-
pears to hold out can be realized, in the follow-

Lug manner :

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tons of goods are annually conveyed by land
more than 20,000 tons are landed on Brighton
brought into Brighton from Newhaven and
Lewes, besides those officially certified, 'the
amount of tonnage is at the least 75,000 tins,
while in the opinion of the collectors of both
places the total quantity exceeds 100,000 tons.
" Owing to the dangers attendant on the land-
ing of goods upon Brighton beach,* and to the
higher price paid for such goods delivered there,
it is obvious, that were a method of conveyance in
operation, between that town and Shoreham,
capable of reducing the present charge for car-
riage low enough, the whole of these goods
would be delivered in the harbour at Shoreham.
The principle of transmission by atmospheric
pressure will effect, not only a saving in carriage
equal to fifty per cent., but vessels need no
longer be exposed to the danger of shipwreck on
the beach at Brighton.
The charge for carrying goods from Shore-
ham Harbour to Brighton varies from five shil-
lings to eight and fourpence per ton ; and those
who have the largest quantity of the heaviest
goods (pig-iron) consider six shillings per ton
the average cost. The expence of power for
moving a ton of goods from Shoreham Harbour
to Brighton by atmospheric pressure will not be
two-pence, and as ten-pence more will cover all
the expence of transit, the mere cost of convey-
ance will be only one sixth of what is now paid :
one shilling per ton, that is.
" The principle can be executed and rendered
effective between Brighton and Shoreham for
75,0001. A toll of Is. per ton, on 75,000 tons,
will pay five per cent. on the total outlay; and
as reducing the charge for carriage 50 per cent.
will be a sufficient benefit to the public, another
shilling may be imposed, making the whole toll
2s. per ton, and the return equal to a clear pro-
fit of ten per cent.
" But, it is not from the conveyance of goods
alone that profit would be derived. Were a prin-
ciple so extraordinary as is here adverted to, in
operation between Brighton and Shoreham, cu-
riosity would bring persons from all parts of the
kingdom to see it ; who would doubtless will-
ingly pay a few (say five) shillings each, to be
carried from Brighton to Shoreham and back
again by it, and witness the effect of the ma-
chinery and pneumatic apparatus at both ends.
Thenssids2diai u
carriage
onlabnedr ofpersonsoutsidewho now visit Brighton,
mayexceeds 100,000 annually ; hence it be ex-
pected that the whole sum expended for putting
the principle in practice between Brighton and
Shoreham would be returned from this source
alone, within a few years ; in which case each
subscriber would receive back his original in-
vestment, while the profit accruing from the con-
veyance of goods (without passengers) would
yield an annual bonus of ten per cent. from the
completion of the work, till it was worn out : a
period of perhaps half a century.
" The principle nittylie- rendered effective be-
tween Brighton and London for 500,000/., so
as to bring these two places nearer together (in
paroeinnt
oowf. time)Th The number
much
of more
passengerstl half
from
il
than theyi e
Metropolis to Brighton, has been stated to ex-
ceed even now, 100,000 annually ; and allowing
for those who retur nteo,npt3ad of mayogo goods
nb ;
se whichc
includingoi,oo t visitors from
other parts of the coast and the contianae:nul a
r continent, the
by
estimated
omootoo amount
independent
actuallyeopueid
passage
only. The present fare (averaging
passengers) is 15s. each.
Now, if persons can be conveyed in half, or one•
fourth the time, without the possibility of being
overturned, and inincidental petor.feccot safety fromaciiconvcy otherconveyance,
e ac-
cidents
:with
greater certainty and convenience,t besides having
no road expences to pay, it will not be ne-
* " On an average of five years six vessels have been
annually wrecked on Brighton Beach ; the danger of which
renders coals landed there several shillings per chaldron
dearer than if delivered in the Harbour at Shoreham. Since
this letter was sent to press, two ships have been knocked
to pieces.
t "!Should it be wished, day light might also be ad-
mitted into the cylinder through its whole course. But
as it must necessarily be lighted with gas during half the
twenty-four hours ;—as providing for the admission of day
light would be incurring considerable expence, for a pur-
vase, which the provisions that must unavoidably be made
for gas.aight, would equally well answer;--and as the little
time a journey of one hundred miles might take up, would
render it a matter of indifference, whether we were, during
that period, cheered by natural or artificial light, it is ex-
pected that arrangements to admit the light of day will be
seen unnecessary, "w
—lnsular Defence.