The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Saturday a street-keeper was
complained against by a poor. starved-lookino•' Irish fruit-
woman, who, in tears, said that the officer had knocked
about her basket, and tumbled her.fruit into the street.
The street-keeper said that he had been ordered to rid the
streets of the fruitwomen ; and that the gentlemen of the
ward would accuse him of neglect of duty if he did not
take every means to obey the order.
The LORD Mayon, expressed his contempt of that sort of

disposition Which fixed upon the poorest objects for the in-
fliction of punishment as an example. He adised the
street-keeper to exercise impartiality, and insinuated that
there were good reasons for passing by those who were
making more money than the wretched woman, who, if
Hot allowed to exercise her calling, must perish, as she
was not admissible into the workhouse.

Every one in the justice-room was gratified at the warm
humanity of this lecture.
GUILDHALL.—Messrs. Cawthortie and Twigge, tea-
dealers, No. ] . St. Andrew's-hill, appeared on Saturday,
before Mr. Alderman KEY, to answer the complaint of a
decent looking poor woman, about 35 years old, one Lucy
Langton, for unlawfully keeping a dog accustomed to bite,
whereby she was bitten on the 9th instant. The dog, a
mixture of the mastiff and terrier, was brought into Court,
loaded with a heavy chain.
Mrs. Langton stated, that as she was passing down St.
Andrew's hill, in the evening, the animal set upon her,
and seized her, not by the leg, but by the upper part of the
thigh. She was soon released from him some how or
other, but she was severely bitten, had paid ls. 6d. for a
lotion to wash the place, and now the defendants wished
to avoid making her any recompense beyond paying the

surgeon.
The gentleman who appeared with the dog replied, that
the animal was formerly kept muzzled, but the neighbours
had so repeatedly taken off and kept the muzzles, that the
practice was discontinued. But still the dog was usually
secured with a chain, and had not been unchained a mo-
ment from a truck he had been dragging, when tkis mis-
fortune occurred. He had seen Mr. Cox, the surgeon,
who had attended to the case, and had been informed by
him that the visible injury was a mere scratch.
" A scratch r repeated Lucy Langton, in a tone of sur-
prise. She evidently had not anticipated such an asser-
tion, and therefore not being otherwise prepared to prove

the extent of the injury, she, in an instant, began to
gather up her garments from the bottom, bending and
raising the knee, so as to exhibit most conspicuously
the wounded place. Exclamations of " Oh, good gra-
cious ! oh lawk ! Don't, don't ! No, no !" forthwith re-
sounded on all sides from a crowd ofspectators of each sex,
who, having heard where the bite was, did not conceive it
would be possible to exhibit it without most dreadfully
shocking their modesty.
" I would rather not see : I believe your statement," said
Mr. Alderman KEY, with eagerness; and some persons
averted their eyes when it became evident that Lucy was
firmly bent upon refuting, in the most incontestable man-
ner, the defendant's assertion regarding the nature of the

injury.
" Here, gentlemen, here," She cried with warmth, " is
here nothing but a scratch ?" at the same time baring and
exhibiting to the public gaze for some moments, by a very
cautious management of her drapery, only a delicately clean
plump limb.
There was a deep discolouration over about two inches
square ; such an appearance as succeeds a severe pinch.
After such evidence of the fact, the gentleman was

forced to allow the wound was more serious than he had
stated, and, at the recommendation of the Alderman, retired
and gave her as a compensation-20s.
MARYLEBGNE.—On Saturday a man who called
himself William Jones, and an elderly gentleman, were
brought to this office from the watch-house. Jones
charged the gentleman with having on the preceding even-
ing, in Hyde-park, made proposals to him of a nature not
to be described ; and the gentleman charged Jones with
extorting money. It appeared upon the investigation of
the case, that there is reason to suspect Jones of being in

the habit of extorting money by charges of this kind.
About twelve months ago, he brought a charge at the
Marloorough-street office, but did
.not appear when the

trial of the case came on at the Sessions. The name under
which he now brought that charge was not Jones, but
Tomes. According to the account he now gave of himself,
he had been three months out of employment. He had
obtained 3s. 6d. from the gentleman he now accused.
From information received respecting the character of
Jones, the Magistrates thought proper to commit him to
the New Prison, Clerkenwell, as a disorderly person, and
ordered him to be brought up for further examination on
Tuesday. The other party gave bail to appear again at
the office on Tuesday, or at the Sessions, if required.

UNION- HALL.—SUPPRESSION OF PECKHAM FA IR.—
The scene of riot and debauchery during Peckham Fair,

which has long been matter of complaint by the respect-
able inhabitants of the neighbourhood, is now about to he
suppressed for ever. The spot of ground which the fair
used to be formerly held upon now forms a branch of the
Surrey Canal, since which period the booths, stalls, whir-
ligigs, roundabouts, &c., have been placed in the main
streets of Peckham, to the great annoyance of the towns-
people and the resident gentry. Iu consequence of the in-
tolerable nuisance complained of, a summons was issued
against the Lords of the Manor of Peckham, wider the 3d
of Geo. IV. cap. 55., by the resident Magistrates, calling
upon them to show their right or title to hold such fair. A
Petty Sessions assembled for the purpose, and Mr. Dodd,
the Solicitor of the Lords of the Manor, attended, and
having :relinquished the right of holding such Ihir, the
Magistrates proceeded and adjudged Peckham Fair to be
unlawful.
Owing to the above decision, on Saturday Mr. Sergeant
SCRUM; and J. LETT, Esq., Magistrates of the county, at-
tended at this office, when the former gentleman having
apprized Mr. HONE (the sitting Magistrate) of the sup.
pression of the above fair, proceeded to state that the neces-
sary notices were then in the course of publication, and
would be forwarded all over the kingdom, and distributed
previous to the time at which Peckham Fair was formerly
held, for the purpose of acquainting the show-people, as
well as the public, that the fair in question would no
longer be permitted to be held. Mr. Sergeant ScarvEN
observed, that he had also to request, on the behalf of him-
self and the other county Magistrates, that the usual num-
ber of police-officers from the establishment, for whose as-
sistance application would be also made to the Secretary of
State, might be permitted to attend to preserve the peace
at Camberwell Fair during the three days—namely, the
18th, 19th, and 20th of this month--on which it was
held ; and that an additional force might be sent on the
Morning of the day previous to the holding of Peckhani
Fair, to take into custody any person erecting, or attempt-
ing to erect, any booth, standing, tents, or exhibition, or
in any way offending, by endeavouring to renew a fair
which was declared to be unlawful. Mr. Sergeant SCRIVEN
then proceeded to detail the outrages and robberies which,
were constantly committed during Peckham Fair, and the
state of agitation and confusion which existed the three
days. and nights of its celebration. With respect to
Camberwell Fair, it was to be held as usual, and measures
had been adopted which would completely prevent those
scenes of riot and disorder which were so prevalent at
Peckham.

Mr. HONE having expressed much pleasure on hearing
a fair calculated to do so much mischief was suppressed,
observed, that every attention should be paid to the ap-
plication of the Worthy Magistrates, and a sufficient force
sent from this office to preserve the peace during Cam-
berwell Fair, as well as to quell any attempts made to re-
new that of Peckham.

WORSHIP-STREET.—On Saturday, a man named
John Morgan., residing at No. 2., Bear-alley, Flect-ms.rket,
was brought before the Magistrate, charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
It appeared that on Friday night, a young woman
named Anne Garraway, who cohabited with the prisoner,
had been detected by Knight and Broad, pawnbrokers, in
Shoreditch, in offering a gold chain and seal for pawn.
On that occasion she stated that she got them from a man
in the street, who desired her to ask 31. upon them, and at
the same time he gave her a sovereign, which was found
upon her, but the story not being credited, she was locked
up. In the mean time, Brown and Groves, two officers,
repaired to her lodgings, and found John Morgan, and after
searching the room, found a guard chain. The pawn-
broker's clerk stated the value of the chain and seal to be
worth 10 guineas, which the woman offered in pawn, and
it was also ascertained, that she had on the same evening,
offered a plated spoon in pawn at Mr. Cotton's. The
officers on inquiry, found that Mt. Hanson, a jeweller in
Holborn, had been on Friday, about twelve o'clock, robbed
of a silver watch, gold chain, seal and spoon ; and that he
had a man in his employment brought to Bow-street, on
suspicion of the offence, but who was discharged for want
of evidence. The prisoner was remanded until (this day)
Monday.

HINDOO COMPLIMENT.—WheII a Hindoo
domestic receives a favour from his master, he
'has a curious way of expressing his gratitude.
Present leim with a new turban, or befriend him
in distress, and he exclaims with peculiar em-
Theis, My Lord, you are, my ;father and
motker I—London Weekly Review.

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Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. s. to 8. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s.
Andover...—....— 54 59 34 40 30 34
Carlisle 69 72 37 41 28 37
62 70 42 47 35 43
Morpeth--- 56 62 38 40 30 35 52 51
Newcastle 56 67 26 38 26 38 50 52
Roms 7 48 56 32 34 22 27 50 55
Sheffield 61 67 36 46 26 36 60 64
Winchester 63 ^
Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Birmingham. ... 66 74 50 56 39 46 70 78
Coventry 74 80 42 50 46 52 74 80
Newcastle (Staff.) 10 0 10 2' 7 0 72 50 56 90 10 0
Northallerton 79 86 00 00 43 46 70 76
Penrithx•.....`oo BB 00 54 48 00 00 00
Stafford 94 00 70 7 6 00 00 96 100
Warwick 70 79 40 50 49 56 70 80
Worcester 78 80 60 63 40 50 78 84
Per 8011.
Barnardcastle........ 13 6 17 0 0 0 11 0 7 0 10 0— 0 0 0
Darlington 13 0 16 6 0 0 0 0 6 0 9010 0 13 6
Durham. . 150 17 0 106 00 79 106 100 126
Stanhope 12 6 13 9 00 10 0 ,0 00 00 00
Stockton... . 146 159 00 00 76 86 00 00
Wolsingham..,..;lso lB 011 0 00 96 10 6 00 00

CORNWALL MARKETS.
Tauao.—Wheat (average) 255. Od.—Barley, 14s.—Oats, 12s. 9d.
HeLwron--Wheat, 265. Od.--Barley, 17s. Od.
ST. AusTntt—Wheat, 245. to 29s.—Barley, 15s. to 17s.—Oats,
15s. to 16s.
BODMIN—Wheat (average) 265. Od.—Barley, 15s.—Oats, 16s. Od.
LsuNcEsTow—Wheat (average) 255. Od.--Barley,:l3s. 6d.—Oats,
10s. Od.—Beef, 60.—Mutton, 6d.
Lisanuto—Wheat, 24a. 9d. to 251.—Barley, 15a. 3d.—Oats, —s.
to —s. Od.
Sr. Comma—Wheat, 275. to 28g.-Barley, 12s. to 131:—Beef,
and Mutton, 6d. to 7d.—Veal and Laanb, Od to Od.

SCOTCH MARKETS.
HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.-Aug. 10.

Only 9 quarters of Barley in market, and 8 sold ; ave-
rage up 2s. sd. A good supply of Oats, top 4s. up,
average. about Is. down ; it was a parcel of old Oats which
brought the top price. The Wheat market was well sup-
plied, sales rather dull; top ,1 s. ' up, but the average is 9d.
down No Pease sold. A small Bean-market, and prices
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down.
' Barley. Oats. POASe. 1 Beans.
,—s Od 46s Od
408-00 423 00 ---4 °d 48s 0
—4 Od
19 ...at ...... 595.:0d. 14 ...at .554.0 d.
60 . ........... 58 .0 11
ofr6Whgddeat inlmsassr°4ket, 4474wedereof Were sold.
4 ............ 57 0 10 52 0
21 ...... ...... 56 0 14 Unsold.-7 Grey.
21. 18s. sd. 11-12ths per quarter.

Wheat.

First eas Od I
Second 5BB od
Third
There were 258 qrs.
_5 ...at ls. Od.

$9 62 0
21
40 60 0
Average,