The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—WAR. AMONG THE TAILORS.--Yes-
terday six journeymen tailors, most of them without em-
ployment, all of them Irishmen, lately imported from Cork
and Kerry, were brought to this Office, charged with com••
mitting a number of desperate assaults upon constables and
others, and with acting in the most violent manner. It
appears that hundreds of journeymen tailors, and many of
them recent imports from the Sister Kingdom, are in the
habit of frequenting different houses of call daily, where
they receive communications from different masters who
want the assistance of an additional hand. There are two
rival houses of call, one for the " flints"—men who will
not work under price—and the other for the " dungs,"
who work under the trade price. One of these houses
is situate in Bear-street, Leicester-square, the sign
of the King's Head ; and the other is the Robin Hood, in
the same neighbourhood. From twenty to thirty journey-
men tailors were on Tuesday night at the King's Head,
when an equal number came from the rival house, and
forced themselves into the King's Head, when each party,
" dungs" and " flints," set themselves in battle array, and
fought like—tailors. They pulled each other's noses,
kicked each other's shins, tore each other's garments, and
bunged up each other's eyes. Screaming, hooting, and cries
of murder, with calls for assistance, raised the whole
neighbourhood ; and two constables who had the courage
to enter the house, soon repented of their temerity, for they
had no sooner set foot on the stairs than they were saluted
with two kettles of boiling water—were beaten, and their
staves taken from them. Nixon's party of Bow-street
patrol were informed that murder was being committed,
and they entered the house with drawn cutlasses, and at
that time the battle was at its height.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked the patrol to describe the
fight ?—The patrol said, there were about twenty-four in a
row, and they were engaged man to man.
Sir RICHARD Bina; rv..—You mean tailor to tailor, and
twenty-four tailors all of a row.—(loud laughter.)
The prisoners were the ringleaders, and were captured
and taken to the watch-house.

Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked the prisoners what they
had to say in defence of such desperate conduct ?—They
denied they were concerned in the affray, but they were all
identified, and were ordered to find bail.

LAMBETII-STREET. —A young'man, named Thomas
Emmett, was charged with having attempted to murder
his father. One of the Headhoroughs of Stepney stated
that on Tuesday night he was sent for to the house of the
Prisoner's father, in Globe-fields, where he found the
prisoner behaving in a most riotous manner, and flourish-
ing a large case knife, with which he had made several
attempts to murder his father. Witness endeavoured to
secure him, but the prisoner used the most blasphemous
imprecations, and swore if he approached an inch further
he would plunge the knife into his heart. Witness, how-
ever, endeavoured to close with him, but the prisoner
started off to another part of the house and locked himself
up in a room. Witness burst open the door, and then
found the prisoner suspended by a close line from a beam,
and almost choaked.

The prisoner said in his defence that his father and him-
self had quarrelled about supper, when he got into a great
passion, and knew not what he did. His father did not
appear against him, and he was therefore discharged upon
finding sureties for his good behaviour.
UNION-HALL.--A man, named Joseph Reding, was
charged with having assaulted Mr. Barrymore, the stage-
manager of Astley's Amphitheatre. The defendant was
formerly employed at Drury-lane Theatre; since he was
discharged from that establishment he had been in the habit
of annoying and threatening Mr. B. because he thought
Mr. B. was the occasion of his being discharged from the
Theatre. On Tuesday night he met Mr. Barrymore at
the stage-door of Astley's Amphitheatre, and seizing hire
roughly by the collar, exclaimed that he would serve him out
for the injuries he had done him. The complainant ender
voured to extricate himself from the defendant's grasp, but in
the attempt they both tumbled into the road, and the de-
fendant rolled the complainant in the dust. The defendant
implored forgiveness, saying that he was intoxicated at the
time, otherwise he should never have attempted to attack
Mr. Barrymore, whom he always considered his friend in•
stead of his enemy. Mr. Barrymore thought it a queer
way of showing gratitude for past favours ; had this been
the first attack, he should have passed it over, knowing
the defendant to have a wife and family ; but when he
*hewed such a disposition to persevere in his misconduct,
it was high time to suppress it if possible. He (Mt..
Barrymore) did not relish the fun of being rolled in the
street. The Magistrate held the defendant to bail.