The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—James Elliott and Rebecea Rogers
were brought up for re-eramination. Elliott is the lad who
it was supposed had robbed his employers, who keep the
waggon warehouse in Bell-yard, Friday-street, of some
silks and gloves, which he made a present of to the
female prisoner, who is a Jewess. When he was last
examined, he stated that he had bought the goods
at Exeter, and he was remanded till his employers could
ascertain whether his story was true or not. Mr. Muddi-
ford, one of those gentlemen, attended to-day, and stated
that be had found the statement of the young man to have
been altogether untrue. He had likewise learned that a
variety of parcels, containing silks and other light valuable
goods, had been lately stolen from their concern, which he
had not yet been able to trace, but which he had no doubt
he should be able to do, and therefore he applied to have
the prisoner remanded.
The Alderman remanded Elliott till Friday next, and
told the girl that, if she could get two housekeepers to be
bound for her appearance to give evidence at the trial,
against Elliott, should he be committed, she should be dis-
charged ; and this he almost thought too lenient towards
her, for public justice.
Fthe said she would try to get bail. The young man had
given her the parcel as a present, and she had accepted of
it as such.
HOUSE.I3RIAKING.—Edward Tapp was fully com-
mitted to take his trial for breaking into the warehouse of
his late masters, Messrs. Medgett and Co. Maiden-lane,
with intention to rob it. At about three o'clock yesterday
morning, one of the men who were sleeping in the house over
the warehouse heard a noise, and alarmed his masters.
They got up, called in a watchman, and found the prisoner
concealed in the warehouse. He had been discharged from
the service of the house on the Ist of September last, for
misconduct and having formed a bad connection.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Yesterday a heart-
rending scene took place at this office, originating in a
charge preferred against a man and his wife of the name
of Skinner, for pawning certain articles of furniture from
their ready-furnished room in Compton-place, Soho.
It appeared upon inquiry that Skinner is an industrious,
sober, hard-working mechanic, the father of five young
children of interesting appearance, who were, together
with their parents, placed at the bar. The father has been
out of work for the last nine months, during which period
the family have been in the most distressed state it is pos-
sible to imagine, from the description given by two respect.
table neighbours. The wife, ht despair, had taken to
drinking spirits, and the consequences usually resulting
from this vicious habit were soon apparent, for, during the
temporary absence of the husband, she made away with a
pair of coarse sheets, a pail, fire-irons, and other articles
of little value, which formed part of the furniture of their
miserable abode, fer the purpose of satisfying her newly-
acquired passion for drink. Skinner was committed on
Saturday for re-examination ; and yesterday the wife, with
an infant at her breast, a little boy about eight years old, of
fair complexion and large expressive blue eyes, clung to his
mother's gown on the left, whilst on her right rested a no
less interesting young girl, apparently about ten years of
age; the group presenting a veritable picture of charity
personified, which could not fail of arousing the most tender
feelings of the casual observer. Upon it being intimated
to the prisoner that she would be remanded to prison until
Wednesday, when her husband is to be brought up for fur-
ther examination, she simply requested that her children
might not be separated from her.
The Magistrate regretted that he had not the power to
grant her request, as by the rules of the prison, none but
infants at the breast were admitted into the gaol with pri-
soners.
The children, upon hearing the Magistrate's decision,
uttered the most afflicting shrieks, more particularly the
poor little boy above alluded to, who was almost frantic
upon being separated by force from his parent, nor were
the endeavours of the bystanders sufficient to Booth the
poor little fellow, who attempted several times, in a state
of frenzy, to make his escape from the constable appointed
to convey the two unfortunate children to the workhouse.
Indeed, such was the resistance made to a separation, that
the constable (we will not say with what degree of pro-
priaty) thought proper to confine the two children by the
wrists with a silken handkerchief—a mode adopted gene-
rally with felons, and in this way conducted them through
the streets to the poor-house.
It is expected that by the time appointed for the re-ex-
amination ( to-morrow), some charitable individual or
individuals may come forward to rescue an industrious
man and a family, of five unfortunate children, from en-
tire ruin.
A Porr.—A fellow, whose name we believe to be
Rough, had the assurance to present, himself before Sir
GIORGE FARRANT, to ask his Worship's advice relative
to what he termed a robbery, which had been committed
on his (Rough's) property, by the house-porter of Earl
Grosvenor.
Sir GEORGE asked the applicant to explain the nature
of the property he had peen deprived of.
Rough replied that he was a poet. He had also held
the situation of schoolmaster to the parish of St. Giles,
which situation he lost last September, and had been im-
prisoned unjustly,. as the humane Mr. Minshull could bear
witness to. He had written a new poem of 500 lines in
estimation of the virtues of her Royal Highness the Princess
Augusta, and had left it, with a polite note, for the peru-
sal of Earl Grosvenor. Upon calling on Saturday for the
return of the manuscript, his feelings were most seriously
wounded by being told that the result of his poetic labours
had been consigned to the flames of the kitchen fire. He
now applied to know what remedy he had against the
porter.
• Sir GEORGE inquired what was his object in sending
his poem to his Lordship ?
Rough said he was in expectation that his Lordship
would have found great amusement in reading the poem,
which formed a narrative of his sufferings for the last few
months, and perhaps his Lordship's compassion might have
been excited on the occasion. He had written a poem,
entitled the " Eddystone Lighthouse," which had met
with an extensive sale, but unfortunately little of the profit
had fallen to the poet.
The iklAcasmaTx—l cannot interfere in this business.
The applicant, after making a profound bow, left the
office.

MARCH OF MIND.--A devotee at Brinks-
way Church was observed to go there last Sunday with
Barclay's Dictionary under his arm. Being asked the
cause, he answered that he was sure Mr. Troshus was a
great man, for he had attended his Ministry twelve
months, without understanding a dozen words that he
uttered, but that he was now determined to endeavour to
learn the meaning of (at least) a few words, in the course
of a sermon.—Stockport Advertiser.

RARA AVIS IN TERRIS !"-Mr. Mark
Thompson in Appleby, joiner, has at this time a
young Rook ofpurest white,—equal to the swan.
Its bill is also white, legs yellow, and its eyes of a
beautiful bright blue. Another young bird (a
black one) was found in the same nest.—Carlisle
Patriot.

LAKES OF KILLARNEY—DUKE or CLA-
is known to be the intention of his
Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral, to
visit the Flag station at Cork shortly. We have
strong
.reasons for stating, that his Royal High-
ness will graciously avail himself of his conti-
guity to the Lakes of Killarney, to visit that
romantic and delightful spot. Neither do we
state without foundation, that his Royal High-
ness means to honour the races of Killarney with
his presence.— Waletford Chronicle.
A great sensation was occasioned at Kendal,
on Monday morning, by the circumstance of a
woman having been drowned in the canal. It ap-
pears that a man, named Mitchell, who is tra-
velling the country with a caravan, went out very
early on that morning, accompanied by his wife,
both of whom had been quarrelling all the night,
and he had used her very ill. They walked to-
gether; and it is not ascertained whether he
pushed her into the water or not. They were
accompanied by two male companions, but they
were at a considerable distance at the time, and
when they arrived she was quite dead. They re-
port that it was with difficulty they could pre-
vent the man from destroying himself. The jury
sat nearly the whole of Monday, and adjourned
and met again on Tuesday, at noon, and conti-
nued the whole afternoon in deliberation, and
twice returned a verdict of manslaughter, when
the Mayor (Coroner) desired them to re-consider
their verdict. However,; after further delibera-
tion, they returned4e. same verdict, which is re-
corded, and the 'hUstiii'd'is-- committed to Ap-
pleby pc:A....Carlisle Patriot.