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of his duties, to apprehend Capt.
.he late captains of the Barbadoes, for _
bi . The captain, we believe, was on his way to
the Lord Mayor, in order to make some communica-
tion to his Lordship with reference to the voyage to
Prince Edward's Island when he was apprehended
upon the complaint of his first wife, Fanny Pratt.
Mrs. Pratt stated upon this occasion that she was
married to the prisoner on the Ist of December, 1836,
at Dover Court, in the county of Essex, and that he
left her about two years and a half ago. They had
a child of two years of age. She had learned that
the prisoner had since married a Miss Jackson, the
daughter of a person who kept a circulating library
in Harbour-row, in the Cove of Cork.
The defendant said it was a mistake originating in
the jealousy of Mrs Pratt, and that there were several
Captain Pratts. He to all appearance made light of
the accusation.

The LORD MAYOR remanded the prisoner, and di-
rected that the second wife should be brought forward
to give evidence.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(1 ESTERDAY.)
UNION -HALL.
Thomas Green, a policeman of the R division, was
brought before Mr. Trail!, charged with taking a
clerk of Mr. Lambert, of Leadenhall-market, into
custody without just and reasonable grounds for such
a proceeding.
The complaint was sent for inquiry to this Court
by the Commissioners of Police, and the following are
the brief facts :—lt appeared that the Captain of a
vessel was robbed of six 51. notes. and twenty sove-
reigns, near the Bridge-house Hotel, sonic nights ago.
Information of the robbery having been given at the
station-house of the R division, the defendant was
employed to trace the money. In the course of his
inquiries he ascertained that one of the stolen Si.
notes had been paid into the Bank of England,
and having been apprised that it had been pre-
viously in the possession of one of Mr. Lam-
bert's clerks, the defendant went there and saw
the complainant Robinson, to whom he men-
tioned the circumstances of the robbery, and
requested that he would accompany him to the Bank,
in order to identify the note, adding that his (Robin-
son's) endorsement was on the back of it. Robinson,
although busily engaged at the time, went with the
defendant and the Captain to the Bank, where he saw
the note, but it did not bear his signature, and, al-
though he expressed his willingness to assist in the in-
-quiry, the defendant, while in the Bank, said that, as
he had grounds for supposing the stolen note was
traced to his possession, he should take him into cus-
tody. The complainant remonstrated against such a
proceeding, and requested to be permitted to go back
to his employer to acquaint him of the intention, but
this was refused, and he was taken to a city station-
house, where a charge of having a stolen note traced to
his possession was made by. the Captain, who was
robbed of the same, and he was detained and taken
before the Lord Mayor, who, upon being made ac-
quainted with the facts, immediately discharged him.
In the course of the inquiry it also appeared that
the defendant had conducted himself in an exceedingly
improper manner towards the complainant's employer,
Mr. Lambert, who accompanied him to the Bank to
look at the alleged stolen note. On the occasion the
defendant, in reference to that gentleman, addressing
the Captain, said, "I don't wish to let this man see
the note, as it was traced to have passed through his
house to the Bank."
The defendant, in ans e'er to the charge, said that
the " Captain" gave the complainant into custody at
the Bank. This assertion, however, was denied by
the complainant, who said that it was not till after he
was taken to the station-house that the Captain made
the charge wnich was reduced to writing in the police
sheet.

Mr. TRAILL said that the defendant's conduct was
quite unjustifiable on the occasion. Under all the
circumstances, he should inflict a fine of 10s. en the
defendant, which would cause his dismissal from the
police force.
In reply to Mr. Traill, Superintendent Melialieu
said the defendant had been nearly three years in the
police force, and that he was employed in tracing the
stolen notes in consequence of his having displayed a
great deal of tact and ingenuity in cases of a similar
description.
Mr. TRAILL said that he could do no otherwise
than inflict a fine, and, as it was tantamount to the
defendant's dismissal from the police, if he (Mr. Lam-
bert) interceded with the Commissioners, probably
they would not carry it into effect, but inflict a more
lenient punishment.
CROYDON..
Mr. Henry Garrard, a pawnbroker, carrying on
business at Croydon, attended before Messrs. Lucas
and Barclay, the presiding Magistrates, to answer an
information laid under the Pawnbrokers' Act, charg-
ing him with having neglected to mark upon a dupli-
cate the amount of the profit taken by him upon a
pledge, at the time it was redeemed.
Mr. R. Russell attended on behalf of the defendant.
Elizabeth Cable was called to prove that she had
pledged some silver spoons at the defendant's shop,
but Mr. Russell objected to the competency of the
party to give evidence, inasmuch as she was entitled
to a share of any penalty the Magistrates might in-
flict, and was, therefore, an interested witness.
The M WISTRATES said thaethe evidence of an in-
terested party was not necessarily inadmissible, al-
though the rule generally was to exclude such evi-
dence. It would, however, in many cases, be impos-
sible to prove them if such testimony were to be ex-
cluded invariably. If the charge in the resent
instance could be substantiated by other testimony,
they would exeude the evidence of the complainant.
Ann Mercer was then examined, and she deposed
that on the 15th of October she went to the defend-
ant's shop to redeem some articles that had been ori-
ginally pledged for 55., and she paid the defendant
9s. 9d. for principal and interest. There were two
pledgings originally, of different articles.
Cross-examined—She handed the duplicates to the
defendant, and he gave her the articles. She saw him
write something on the back of one of the duplicates,
and the one now produced she believed to be the same,
but 4ould not tell what the marks that were upon it
were intended to mean.
John Collier, Inspector of Police, deposed that he
produced the duplicates that had been referred to, and
that they were brought to the Court by the defendant
himself, on a former occasion.
Mr. Russell—This being the case in support of
the information, contended that the evidence did not
support the information, inasmuch as there was no
distinct proof that the article had been pledged, or
what sum it had been pledged for, or that any profit
had been received.
The BENCH said that there was evidence that the
amount on the duplicates was 55., and that 9s. 9d. was
paid ; the Bench must, therefore, infer that profit had
been received.
Mr. Russell said that under a penal statute like
that upon which the present information was framed,
the Bench ought not to infer anything to the preju-
dice of a defendant, but should take care that the
case was clearly made out by direct evidence. Their
defence was that no profit had been received, and
therefore they could not make any entry upon the
duplicate.
Mr. Lucas said that if the defendant set up as a
defence that he did not, in point of fact, take any pro-
fit, he ought to support it by evidence.
Mr. Russell said the defendant was not required to
prove anything.
The Magistrates, after a short deliberation, decided
that the offence had finer oved, and they adjudged
the defendant to pay a of 40s.
Mr. Russell immediately gave notice of appeal, and
entered into the necessary sureties to try the question,_
which is one of a novel character, at the next
Quarter
Sessions.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
to Alonte Vi-
,olioEffNAlNl'allTtlat.;--iiiviisiCihirmllDerasue
London, 3d, off Cape Bon, by the Audax, White ar.
TolrrcElis,s2EruSltP.
rived in the Creek. Ville de Lyon, Havre to kew
York, 11th ult., lat. 49, lon. 14, by the Uranie, ar-
rived at Granville. Bootle, Liverpool
Quebec, 24th Sept., lat 45,i10n. 46, b London to
Barstow, arrived at Boston. York, y the Kilby,
Morrell, Cadiz to
Havannah, 25th Sept„ lat. 26, lon "
Hardy, arrived at Boston. Glagg. 43, by the Henry,
from Quebec, 4th Sept., lat. 44," °f Liverpool,
Newcastle, for Quebec, 7th, lon. 42 ; Don, of
Collina, arrived at Quebec. lat. 47, lon. 49, by the
bee, 13th lat. 46,10 n. 4, Cestus, of Hull, from Que.
eight days, off Sept.,Gaspe, by the 3 ; Pearl, from Quebec, out
ar-
rived at Quebec.' Crusader Glenlyon, Muirhead,
7th nit., in the Wheatley, from London,
Traverse, by the Unicorn, arrived at
Quebec. Jane
miles S. E. of d Quebec to Jamaica, 27th Sept., 50
M'Cullu • Gape, by the Marquis of Queensbery,
m, arrived at Quebec. Rochelle, Amsterdam
to Chesapeake,
2d ult lat. 40, 1 ng 61 • W Beres-
ford to Bahia I_, sth, lat.
9th ult., lat. 49 lon. 51, by the Albion, Errington, ar-
rived at Cork. Vesta, from Odessa, 26th Aug., lat.
36 N., lon. 22 E. ; Agenoria, Danube to Hull, 27th
ult., at. 37, lon. '2l; Fancy,, Plymouth to Seville,
15th, lat 40, lon 11, by the Naler, Wilson, arrived at
Falmouth.
NEWFOUNDLAND COD FISHERIES. -The ITaion,
arrived at Brest, reports the Thalie, on her second
voyage, with 60,000 cod fish : Les Trois Freres,
60,000; Alceide, 35,000 ; Czar Pierre, in August,
20,000. The Union, Debon, Felecie, and Adolphe,
49 lon. 10, by the Amelia,
'l\ Nicol, arrived in the river. Ebro, from Bay Chaleur,
' had been lost in the Bay of St. Cemaire, crews saved

The Rev. Mr. Kearney, the parish priest of Clane,
in the diocese of Kildare, who died last Wednesday,
left by his will 8,0001. to the Right Rev. Dr. Healy
for the College of Carlow; 500/. to the poor of the
parish of Clane ; 3001. to the Society for the Propega'
la" Cif the Faith ; and 2001. to the convent a class