The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.— George Reilly, a respectable lookir
young man, was charged by his late employers, Messrs. Robinsc
and Burrows, solicitors, of Austin-friars, with appropriating
his own use different sums of money which he had been ent-rasti
with, in order to transact business. The two specific charg
preferred against him were not sitting down for bearing a Olaf
cery cause, and not taking out subpcenaes in the same cause I
hear judgment.

Mr. Burrows did not complain of the amount of which his fire
had been defrauded, but of the delay which had been occasions
by their supposing the business to have been done which bad ry
been done.

The ALDZILMAN—Bat how is it you have not discovered th
from August last to the present time.

Prosecutor'—The proceedings were in the Cosa of Chancery
my Lord—(Loud laughing-)—and the prisoner was the person o
whom I relied to look after them.

The prisoner was remanded for another examination.
GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday morning a man received one hale
deed lashes in Newgate-street, pursuant to his sentence at tLe 01
Bailey, for stealing a leg of pork from the shop of Mr. Barrio
the poulterer, at the corner of the entrance to the market in Nets
gate-sereet ; and a short time after this public whipping had take
place, a woman entered the shop under pretence of cheapening
sucking pig, and stole a fine fowl. A man who saw the trans
action gave Mr. Bowles a hint, and the woman was seised wit
the fowl under her cloak at a short distance from the shop.
When put to the bar before Mr. Alderman Key, she statei
that she had purchased the fowl from a woman who was l'angill
about the market. She gave her own name, Mary Colenuo
but declined stating who she was, or giving any reference to pa
sons to whom she was known, on the ground of the high reaper
tability of her connexions.

Mr. Bowles said he could single out and swear to his fowl,
it were mixed with five thousand, and he thought he could pro
duce the man who saw the theft committed.

Mr. Alderman KEY remanded the prisoner, to give Mr. BeAvle
an opportunity of doing so.

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which led to their conviction, the following particulars respectin
them may not prove uninteresting :
The gang, generally known as " the brick-field gang," wit
which these convicts had become connected, had long bee,
the terror of the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green; their' fs
quent attacks and robberies of passengers being conducted'
the most open and daring manner, and generally accompanie
with the most wanton violence to the persons of their victims
their numbers, too, enabled them to carry on their. dcpreda
tions almost with impunity. Mr. 4Fpller, a surgeon, resit]
ing at Cambridge-heath, Hackney, was attacked and robbe
by about twenty of this gang, who all escaped at that time
but at subsequent times a great number of persons suspects
were apprehended, and seven of them being at different time
put on their trial for the outrage committed on Mr. Fuller
three of the number, viz., James Boyce, George Houghtee
and James Bishop, were convicted, and James Boyce was exe
cuted some time since. The other two were afterwards include
in the death-warrant with the wretched White and Amelia Bo
berts, who suffered on the 2d instant; but the extreme youth c
Houghton and Bishop, one of them 17, and the other 18 years p
age, together with the positive manner in which they and thei
friends continued to assert their entire innocence of the transactioi
for which they were about to suffer, excited the deepest interestii
their neighbourhood, and were followed by strong representation
in their favour to the Secretary of State. An order for staying
the exeeution till the 9th instant was therefore issued, tad a my
note investigation was immediately recommenced. The evideno
upon which they had been convicted was again narrowil
sifted ; every circumstance that could be urged in tbeil
favour was strictly inquired into, and the testimony o
every person who could be brought forward to state and
thing respecting them was received. The committing Innis,
trate (Mr. Twyford) was closely engaged during the week, an'
generally until a late hour at night, in this inquiry, to which hi+
attention was, for the time, directed exclusively. As much de
pended upon time and distances, plans of the neighbourhood Weil
drawn to elucidate the circumstances, and the magistrate inspect'
ed the relative situations of the places, and walked the ground ir
company with the prosecutor. After a most laborious investiga
tion, all the fresh evidence that had been obtained was laid befori
the Executive, and the result has shown that this fresh inquirj
only tended to confirm the justice of the original conviction. Tho
convicts were sent on board the hulks shortly afterwards, in °vie'
to their being conveyed out of the conntiy for life; and it is be•
lieved, that but for the event which has just plunged the nation in
mourning, the capital punishment to which the culprits had beta
sentenced, would have been carried into effect.

FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE

COLLIERIES.

This mill, which bad been long on the lapis, and excited great
interest among the fancy in the neighbourhood of Bilston and
Derlaston, of which the men, Joe Burton and Jem Butler, art
respectively the champions, was to have been fought on Lichfielc
race course, but a hint was given that no more exhibitions of th!
kind would he tolerated there, and it was consequently decide
that it should cone off at Canwell Gate. The field chosen .o'o
the same in which the fight between Sampson and Hall tool
place. The match, it is said, was for 501. a-side, and the ill
terest excited was very great. Butler was the favourite at anal
odds. He bad the advantage of height and length of arm ;
on stripping, did not appear so compact in shape, or so well se
upon his pins as his antagonist, whose frame was broad, hard
and muscular. There was little or no variation in the rounds,
Burton almost uniformly struck first, and after one or two at'
tempts for a second or third blow, dropped easily, sometime
without a blow. Four or five rounds, however, particularly
from the 18th to the 2sd, when the men grew warm al
their work, were regular slashers. After the 44th round il
began to be pretty clear that Burton was over-matched. 11
contrived, however, by peppering his antagonist about the nob,
gradually to change the aspect of the fight. At about the fifty
sixth round, be was the favourite. He had closed Butler's right
eye, and cut up his frontispiece most terribly. If he could WI
put in two or three more effective blows, he would certainly hail
won the battle. Butler, however, was too eautione to give hits
the opportunity, and seeing his distressed state, preferred wearing
him out to risking a chance. In the sixtieth round also he gaol
Burton a smart nobber, which sent him reeling, and before he
fell, repeated the dove in such a manner that it was thought 11.1
could not come to time, and the Darlastonians, throwing up the,
greasy caps, began to chaunt in triumph. Contrary to expects.
tion, he stood to the scratch again, but his strength and his fist'
now totally failed him, and his blows became quite ineffectual.--•
His hits upon Butler's cannister were harmless. His hands were
so puffed that it was like trying to crack a cocoa nut with
sponge. His seconds seeing that Butler was a complete comma'
rant, and would take more than Burton could give, wisely gal'
up the battle for him, though against his wish, after the sixty-thin
round. It lasted one hour and thirty-five minutes.—Birmingham
Chronicle.

BIRTH.
On the 15th instant, Mrs. W. Imeson, of Charles-place, of
!daughter.

MARRIED.

On the 17th instant, at Alveston Church, Warwickshire, 1))
the Rev. Thomas Hunt, rector of West Felton,. Salop, Captaill
George Baker, R.N., second son of Sir Robert Baker, of Berner&
street, to Elizabeth Octavia, fourth daughter of the late WillisEt
Harding, Esq., of Barassat-house, in the said county.
On the 17th instant, at Abbots Langley, Lieutenant W. Sher.
wood, R.N., to Sophia Ann, eldest eldest daughter of the lat
Thomas Smith, Esq., of the said place.
On the 18th instant, at St. Antes, Alderagate, by the Rev..l
Hawkins, Mr. Stephen C. Wakefield, of Earl-street, Blackfriars
to Mary, third daughter of the late Mr. J. Spicer, of Folkeeton.
Kent.

On the 18th instant, at St. Mary de Crypt, in the city
Gloucester, by the Rev. Dr. Maddy, Chaplain in Ordinary to HN
Majesty, Edwin Maddy, Esq. barrister-at-law, to Maria Elizabeth
el lest daughter of Alderman Wood, M.P. for the city of London,