The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
A Jew, named Jacobs, was brought before the LORD
MAYOR, charged with having violated Michael Angelo
Taylor's Act, by selling old clothes in the streets, to the
obstruction of, the passengers.
One of the officers employed in the almost desperate
office of keeping Cutler-street, near the East India Com-
pany's warehouses, clear, stited that he found the de-
fendant, who looked so like a monkey that some people
were actually afraid to approach him, selling clothes in the
middle of the street. When any body whom the Jew con-
sidered to have no friendly design towards him made his
appearance, he moved his features about with such amazing

quickness, and cut such fantastic and extraordinary tricks,
that a person who did not see him in the act of dealing
would swear that in his case no penalty could be inflicted,
,15 the Act was made for human, and not for brute, beings.
He, however, gave undeniable proof of his superiority by
receiving fur the article disposed of much more money than
it was worth. The officer immediately gave him the hint
to•depart, but he continued the trade, and was therefuie
charged.
The Loan Alxvoa, looked at the man for some time, as
if in doubt whether he really was, or ought to be consi-
dered, a responsible being. At last his Lordship said,
" What has the defendant (he could cot say man) to plead
in his defence?"

The defendant made two or three simultaneous move-
ments of his jaws, eyes, and hands, cf the most extraordi-
nary kind, and said, " Please your worship, I vas just a
valking that ere place vere those here people sells the tog-
gery, and I had a vaistcoat vat I bought in the 'tither end
of the town. Vell, your Lordship, this here man (the
officer) came to me, and says, I'll buy that ere vaistcoat.'
No,' says for it a'nt lawful (your Vorship, I know'd
it warn't the law) for to sell this Lere waistcoat in this here
place.' With that, your Vorship, he says to me, ' I'll pull
you afore tie Lord Mayor,' and so I coned for to tell your
• Lordship the rights on it, s'elp me God."—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR asked the officer whether he wanted
to be a customer of the defendant's, and whether there was
truth in the defence ? The officer declared that there was
not a syllable of the truth in the speech. The Jew had
been openly sitting in the street, and carried half-a-dozen
waistcoats on his arm.
The Loan Mawoa—l must put a stop to this most in-
tolerable nuisance. The public are constantly annoyed,
and complaining.. I shall fine you 10s., and if you come
here again for a similar offence I shall double the fine.
The defendant said he had not a half a farthing, and
that he had a wife and children.
' The officer assured the Lord Mayor that the 10s. would
be soon forthcoming.
His Lordship was inexorable in demanding the penalty.
The defendant then said, darting a terrific look at the
officer, " If I don't carve you out, strike me lucky, my big
un."—(Laughter.)
The Loan MAYOR—I'II fine you five pounds for that
instead of I Os.
Defendant—For what, my Lord? I said nothink, s'elp
me God.—(Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—For threatening to serve out the
officer. You shan't stir until you pay the 51.
Here the Jew's teeth chattered, and lie put on such a
woful countenance, while with both hands he scratched
his head with such amazing rapidity, that there was a
general burst of laughter. The Lord Mayor found it im-
possible to resist the general contagion, and joined most
heartily. Such an appeal was too strong not to meet
with a mitigation of the last penalty, and the Jew retired
apparently as grateful as he had been frightened.
GUILDHALL.
OWEN 17. HOLLAND.—Yesterday, Mr. Holland, a
" commercial traveller," appeared upon summons before
Sir PETER LAURIE to answer the complaint of Mr. Owen,
a warehousemadin Wood-street.
Mr. Owen's cause of complaint was thus :—As he was
standing at his door in Wood-street, on a certain day
named, he saw Mr. Holland coming towards him; and,
Mr. Holland being in his debt, he said to him, jocosely—
" How do you do, Mr. Holland ; I hope you are come
to pay me that trifle of money ?"—To which Mr. Holland
replied—" No, I am not ; but I am come to pay you
something else which I owe you !"—and without more
ado he began paying away, right and left, thump after
thump, upon Mr. Owen's own proper person, until be
was out of breath ; and then he went away ;—leaving Mr.
Owen (as may well be supposed) pretty considerably die-
guntled by the operation. Nevertheless, Mr. Owen, be-
having that Mr. Holland was under the united influence of
wine and misconception--:-some " good natured
friend.' having told him (Mr. IL) that he (Mr. 0.) had
spoken slightii gly of his (Mr. H.'s) wife;—would willingly
have overlooked the violence done to his person by the
operation aforesaid; but Mr. Holland thought proper to
return and repeat the operation more vigorously than in
the first instance, and that, too, after he bad been away
long enough to cool; and therefore Mr. Owen felt himself
bound to see whether the law would not compel Mr. Hol-
land to keep his fists to himself in future, and give some
satisfaction for the unwarrantable use be had made of them
already.
Mr. Holland, in reply, said—" I have been credibly in-
formed that Mr. 0. had traduced my wife; and, on the
day in question—being full of wine, and seeing Mr. 0.
standing at his deor, my indignation rushed into my arms,
and my reason gave way to my passion, and, I believe, I
seized him, and shook him; but I do not recollect that I.
struck him. It is true that I returned a second time, but
not before I had had time to cool, as Mr. 0. has alleged—
for I was not away more than seven or eight minutes ;
and I positively deny that I struck him in the second in-
stance. However, I repeat that I had been drinking with
a friend ; I am very sorry for what I have done to Mr.
Owen; and I hope this acknowledgment will satisfy hint.',
Sir PETER LAURIE enquired of Mr. Holland whether
he had ever felt his indignation rush into his knuckles on
any former occasion P—Mr. Holland replied that he did
not recollect that he had ; and he added, that in all proba-
bility it would not have done so in this instance, had not
his system been somewhat inflamed by the wine he had
just then been taking.
• " That is to say, you were drunk," rejoined Sir PETER
LAURIE, "and I am astonished to hear a person of your
gentlemanly appearance make such an acknowledgment;
for drunkenness is now generally looked upan as a disgrace ;
or, at all events, it is confined to the lowest of the low."
" To err, is human," responded Mr. Holland, with a
low bow and a graceful wafture of his band ; anti then,
turning to Mr. Owen, he added—" to forgive, divine."
But Mr. Owen refused to be pacified. It was utterly
untrue (he said) that he had traduced Mrs. Holland • his
feelings and his person had been grossly outraged ; and he
must have more ample redress than a mere apology de-
corated with scraps of poetry.
Sir P. LAURIE took much pains is reconcile matters
between the parties, and, finding he could not succeed, lie
allowed Mr. Holland to depart on his word of honour to
appear on the morrow with sureties to answer Mr. Owen's
complaint at the Sessions—unless he should happen to
make his peace with him in the interim.
BOW-STREET.

The following case, which was heard before Mr. HALLS
yesterday, furnishes a strong proof of the necessity of re-
formation in the system of nightly watch.
Nicholas Leonard, a young man in the garb of a me-
chanic, was charged by John Beazley, a watchman of St.
Martin's parish, with riotous and disorderly conduct.

Beazley having been sworn, deposed, that between one Mr. Wyarr believed such to be the fact : the evil, how-
and two o'clock that morning he found the defendant ever, was in the course of being remedied, and those clash-
ringing a bell :at one of the doors in St. Martin's-court, ing jurisdictions, which were so detrimental to the interests
and creating a great noise by shouting. He desired the of the community, shortly about being removed.
defendant to move on, but he refused to comply, declaring Mr. HisinwicK said that the new Bill would place those
that lie would take his (Be'zleY's) number, and have him men wider a proper controlling power, and give an unifor-
reported for his interference. Upon which, said Beaaley, mity of practice which could not possibly exist when so

many various and discrepant local interests as those which,
under the present system, prevailed, were to be consulted.
A representation of the misconduct of these watchmen
would be made to the trust, and, in the meantime, he
would advise Mr. Newton to find out their names.
Mr. Newton feared that the trust could not effectually
interfere, for the watchman, when he close, would at once
turn round on it and say, " We have no right to go into
any other district : if we do, you blame us."
Mr. HARDWICK—Ay ! such is the plea they will, in
all probability, advance ; but we will, however, try how
the trustees will deal with it.