The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
Another instance of the difficulty of obtaining red,reall
under the Pawnbroker's Act occurred at this r-
terday. •
Mr. Beauchamp, the pawnbroker, at Holborn-barn t
tended before Sir PETER LAURIE and Mr. Aldermse
tramits, to answer a complaint for having refused 0301;
mit Nicholas Deligny, a working jeweller, to inspect;i:
entry of the sales of various pledges made in, the year Ohl I.
This was about the tenth information the prosel
had filed against the same individual, upon various groin '
at an expence of 201., all the previous informations WO4.
fallen in consequence of technical defects. Ludt.
The defendant's solicitor, as usual, began with eitriab
ing to the want of certainty in the information, 11,°A
commenced thus—" London to Wit—Be it remete,
that on the :16th day of April, 1829, James CO9O clifit
before me, one of his Majesty's justices of the peace 10. Q.
for the said city." Now, no city had been before desert,
in the body of the document, the words "London to ,r.l',l'
ir.
being in the margin, and it was thareCre uncertain P!
city was meant.
Sir PETER LAURIE—Do not make there object°;
meet the question upon its merits.
Mr. Beauchamp said the complainant had actual re'
ceived the property which he now called upon him to:er
count for the sale of. He had summoned him beforeilr
specting every article mentioned in the p4sent
.bsforntri,
tion, and the magistrates had successively decided gait
complainant. As he was persecuted in this way withiter
informations, defendant considered himself entitled to, t+
every advantage he could.
Mr. Allen (the acting clerk of the peace for Middlegel I
we believe) being appealed to by Sir PETER LAURIEI OF"
that in declarations it was held to be sufficient if We ednr9
were laid in the margin; he had not turned bit
particularly to these informations.
Mr. Alderman VENAtLES apprehended there Might".
less strictness required in a declaration in an. action .itr
debt, than in an information under a penal statute.
Mr. Allen seemed to admit this might be the .fee,'
the Magistrates agreed to pass en to • the next ohk_cti;'
which wa., that the information.comMenced w ;tit , el4r7
James Cope to be the complainant;. and after reciting' tr.:
various pleadings, &c. by Nicholas Deligny,, at /Et,
length, concluded, that the said Nicholas prayeaindene,,i
upon the premises. It should have stated, that the tilIN
who complained prayed judgment.
The City Solicitor held this objection to be fetal;
the complainant might file a new information, sintee'"
were out of time (which we-understood to be the galef•)
The information was therefore, quashed.
LAMBETH-STREET. •
Yesterday Cornelius. Sullivan and Daniel, his brol/14-
were charged before the sitting Magistrates by four of
watcNnen of St. Mary's, Whitechapel, with-ass.
thern;on that morning, when coming off their du.ty!
'Downs, one of the complainants, who took upon' i!'•CT
self the office of spokesman, owed the nature of the
fetice, and called Turvey, a brother watchman, to calif'
rate his assertions. Turvey was going on very diPl:4_,nrot
in detailing his grievances, when he was interrupto! the
Mr. Almaroth, the parish constable, who infertocd_m
bench that the evidence they had just beard was unwn_ra
of credit, as both Turvey and • his companion. were4lr'
when they came to the watch-house, and for. that °PP"-,
were at that moment under suspension, .f
what he could learn, the prisoners wee the aggrier4Pl;
ties ; and he then attended before-their. Worships, in
that the complainants should be punished, if it shoulnf
he thought it would, turn out'that they were in (init.
After the prisoners and the Witichinen had en.cL3 gi,Lre
their version of the occurrence, the magistrates deei f
they should change places, and the four watchmen si,ere
placed at the bar. The deposition of Cornelius Sullive,..
whose person bore ocular. proof of the most. savage 04'
usage, was then taken; and was -in effect as follows t''"
On that morning he, accompanied by his brother stAd-theiL
wives, left home for the purpose
,of spending the
the country. As they were passing along the *449hArtlt
road they were met by the defertrlantiand,4eres in Pirri-
ber about nine or ten, who Instated against 'theta whiten.
their giving the slightest provocation. They did not knOr
at the time that they were watchmen, they being offedetfri
and having left their coats, and the other badges of
authority, at the watch-house : on their hustling',
he (witness) quietly asked them what they did Ito f(taits
ti
scarcely had he put the question, when lie receirt"ndi-i: on
blow from behind, which brought him to the gr", sticks,
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his ftlling, tthe entire party set on the withtbor "
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both to him and his brother.
Brown, the beadle, corroborated the statement .1 fat
it related to the intoxication of the prisoners, and D.
liven spoke of their brutal and unprovoked treatsnerl"'
him and his brother.
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The Magistrate observed, that every
.day's neri
supplied additional arguments in support of the,rrnss4
necessity there was for remodifying the watch, opPnAn ,
persons of creditable character as watchmen, and plac;la
nre n.,
their conduct Under the superintendence of a Ws--
trolling power.
Mr. Almaroth said, as constable of Whitechape! he Ws/
, ,__A, s,
most anxious to purify the watchmen over whom he
control, and whenever he perceived an instance of ilteira
linquencies be brought it under the notice of the bellek'',4
The Magistrates bore testimony to the efficient stars
the parochial police and the absence of crime tinge 41,;
Almaroth's appointment, and asked him if -in the prePen
instance they forbore fining the prisoners .for the 0:°11i;;:
assault, he would engage to represent their conduct. WV,'" •
trustees, and advise their dismissal.
Mr. Almaroth said, that he certainly shouidt and 1."4
t
convinced that the trust would not keep them a morals l•a
;'
its employment.
On this understanding the prisoners -were liberated.

RARE. OCCURRENCE.—A sparrow has, (la'
ing the last week, very unceremoniously taken possessiO•
of a most conspicuous place in the United Secession Meet'
ing-house, Kennoway, having built its nest in the middle:,
of the thistle which decorates the top of the cupola abed'
the pulpit. It has found free ingress and. egress
means of the windows, which are left open for 5"..1
ing • the chapel. This circumstance reminds :10
the following beautiful verse of the Hebrew butifid:
reeorded in' the 84411 Psalm—" The sparrow' 11; e
found an house whore she may lay her young, even 111
altars, 0 Lord !"—Fife Herald.