The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.— Was. Shepherd, Thomas Brillow, and Win.
Rouse, were brought before Sir PETER LAURIE yesterday, charged
with stealing a large basket full of plaice from a vessel nnloadiag
at Billingsgate.
Mr. Goidham, an inspector of the fish-market, saw the prisoner
Brillow carryirb, a basket of plaice on his head, and suspecting
that he had stolen them from a vessel lying off the Custom-house-
stairs, he stopped Lira, and inquired how be obtained them. He
replied, that Shepherd, a fellowship-porter, had employed him to
carry them. Witness went to Shepherd, who professed to know
nothing of the circumstance ; but witness being ,of a different
opinion, apprehended him and also Rouse, who was on board the
vessel, and must hzte handed the fish to Brillow, if Shepherd did
not. Other facts were stated, to show that the prisoners were
all concerned in purloining the fish, and that depredations of a
similar kind were constantly committed. The plaice were the
property of Mr. Laby, a salesman.—The prisoners were com-
mitted for trial.

Mr. Goldhara mentioned that a little before six o'clock yester-
day morning, he perceived a boat lying outside one of the vessels,
and he was just about .to jump into it, to inspect its contents,
when the waterman pushed off. He called to him to come back
three times, anti then fired after him twice ; but the fellow kept
rowing away, and escaped, no doubt with a whole boatful of stolen
fish. He noticed this to chew the Alderman the extent of the
depredations, and the audacity of the thieves.
Sir PrrEa Ls tTatv. thought the circumstances under which
the prisoners had been apprehended were so suspicious, that he
felt justified in sending the cage to a Jury, and, accordingly, com-
mitted them for trial.

Mr. Laby ordered the fish to be distributed amongst the prisoners
in the Compter.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, an unfortunate
" licensed schoolmaster," from Cahir, in Ireland, came to this
Office for the purpose of soliciing relief, being in the most dis-
tressed circumstances, and the Parish Officers of St. Giles having
refused to afford him any pecuniary aid. The poor fellow's name
is "Michael Rough, and he is the same individual against whom
the Countess Dowager of Glengall exhibited articles of the peace at
the last Middlesex. Sessions, in her own name, and in that of her
son, the Earl of Glengalt Mr. Rough's application,
however,
the Office yesterday, had no relation to that affair; it was i
to request the Magistrates to order the Parish Officers to give him
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country. He stated to the Magistrate that he was possessed of
considerable literary attainments, and that he had a pamphlet,
nearly ready for the press, which would sell for half a-crown, but
which he was unable to publish for want of funds. He might
indeed, send it to the newspapers, but in that case he would not
receive any remuneration, for he had written no fewer than seven
columns of interesting matter for the Morning Post the latter end
of last month, for which he bad not received one farthing, and he
therefore despaired of doing any thing in that line.
A gentleman in the office here asked Rough if he persisted -in
asserting that the Editor of the Morning Post was indebted to

Rough then retracted his words, and said he had been misun-
derstood.

" Because," said the gentleman, "from a personal knowledge
of the Editor of the Post for upwards of 9.0 years, I am enabled
to say that he is a most honourable man, and incapable of acting
as you have described."

Mr. Dr Fr:. said the Magistrates had no power to interfere with
Editors of Papers ; they might insert or reject as they thought
proper, and, as the applicant did not choose to accept of the terms
offered by the pari,h, they could do nothing for him.
Mr. Rough said he could not think of being sent hack to Ire-
land, and he then left the office.

MARYLEBONE.—On the 15th of December, two Maryle-
bone Parish Officers brought three little boys from the 'Work-
house, for the purpose of having them bound apprentice by the
Magistrates to a chimney_sweeper in the neighbourhood.
Mr. RAwLINso:i then inquired if the parents Were present
and, on being informed that they were orphans, he. expressed him.
self as follows :—" Seeing continually the miseries which such
children experience, and being invested by the Act of Parliament
with a discretionary power,
I conscientiously believe it to be my
duty to refuse to bind any child to this trade whose parents are
not present to sanction it. I find it to be a practice with parishes
to select orphans for this purpose ; a practice which I think high-
ly censurable, and I will endeavour to checkit by refusing to bind
any orphaa tinless'a superior power compels me. I shall send
the children back to the workhouse ; and if the parish is dissa-

tiaLed, it way apply to the Cou—r-t of itißlMtirli; a man
damns." _

Yesterday the children were again brought to the Office, ac-
companied by the senior Churchwarden and the principal Over-
seers, with Mr. Lloyd, their Solicitor, when a long discussion
took place between the Magistrates and the Parish Officers. Mr.
liawlinson and his colleagues still objected to bind the children
apprentice On several grounds. One of them was, that the chil-
dren were illegitimate, and the Parish Officers having received
from their reputed parents a sum of money as an indemnification,
the children were not legally chargeable. The next objection
was to the trade itself; and lastly, that if the orphans were ap-
prenticed, they might he subject to ill usage, in consequence of
having no parents to look after them, especially as it was a fact
that the Parish Officers did not interest themselves much about
the treatment received by the paupers they had bound to sweeps.
The Parish Officers departed very mush dissatisfied with the
decision of the Magistrate.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-JAN. 10.

PERJURY.—The Court wag adjourned yesterday till 12 o'clock
this morning, when the trial of

THE RING v. JOHN REECE AND AARON EDEN was appoint-
ed to take place. The Chairman, F. CONST, Esq. and one
County Magistrate, were on the Bench when the trial was called
on, and Mr. Adolphus appeared to prosecute. Mr. Miller, who
was counsel for the defendants, when his clients (who were
brought from the Fleet prison in the custody of a tipstaff) were
placed at the bar to plead to the indictment charging them
with perjury, objected to the trial proceeding before two Jus-
tices only.

The CHAIRMAN said, that the defendants were, no doubt,
entitled to have their trial before a commission of Oyer, and the
Court would therefore wait for the arrival of two other Justices.

The business of the Court wis suspended till between two and
three o'clock, for want of the attendance of two other Magistrates ;
when it was proposed to the defendants to consent to be tried by
the Court, as it was then constituted.

Mr. Mum?. said he would willingly accede to the suggestion
of the Court, if be might exercise his own discretion ; but his
clients bad made up their minds not to be tried unless there were
four Justices on the Bench.

The CHAIRMAN said, there appeared to be little probability of
two other Magistrates arriving; and ordered the trial to be put
off till next Sessions, and the warrant of the Court to be lodged
at the Fleet Prison, so that the defendants might be brought before
the Court to answer the indictment, in case they were discharged
from the Fleet.

This case is said to be one of a peculiar description. The de-
fendant Reece was a bankrupt some time ago ; and before the
Commissioners he swore that he had paid a certain bill of exchange
to Eden, in 1821 ; and Eden, on proving his debt, swore that he
received the said bill of exchange (which he produced at the
time) in 1821, from. Reece, for value, when it turned out that the
stamp on which the bill was drawn was not stamped till long after
1821, and could not have been existence at that period.—The de-
fendants were sent back to the Fleet.

The CHAIRMAN ordered the Court to be adjourned till Friday
next.

The Grand Jury returned a bill " not found" against Henry
Udall. This individual is the young man, a draper at Winchmore
Hill, who was so brutally assaulted and robbed in the house of a
miscreant named Jacobs, in a court leading out of Catherine-street,
Strand, and who was charged at Bow-street Office with present-
ing a pistol at a woman who had inveigled him into the house
when in a state of intoxication. Jacobs, not content with plun-
dering the young roan, and beating his teeth down his throat, had
the impudence to go before the Grand Jury, and prefer an in-
dictment for an assault against him, which the Grand Jury ig-
nored.

SURREY SESSIONS, JAN. 10.

(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)
THE TREAD-MILL.

Sir T. Towrom concurred with Mr. Briscoe, that the tread-
wheel was more beneficial to the male than the female.

Mr. PA1,1.5111R, M.P., expressed himself in favour of the mo-
tion. In his opinion it was degrading to make females work at
the tread-mill, and he advocated reasoning and religious instruc-
tion towards females, rather than a system that-would plunge them
further into degradation than they really were. Although strong
medical opinions had been given as to the tendency of the tread-
mill to improve the health, he was satisfied that it had a contrary
effect, as it risked health.
Mr. RANDLE Jacirsox contended, that it was a notorious fact
that great benefits arose from the use of the tread-mill, and he felt
himself called upon to oppose the motion.
Mr. DENISON concurred with the last speaker, that the effects
of the tread-mill were beneficial to that class of persons commit-
ted to it.

Mr. HOLME SUMNER and other Magistrates expressed them-
selves to a similar effect.

Mr. 13ntscox delivered an animated speech in opposition to
their opinions, and said, that irons and handcuffs were used with
females (cries of " No, no,") : in one instance a woman had fallen
from the "mill," and was injured materially.
Mr. DENISON replied, that the woman wilfully precipitated her-
self from the machine. Several Magistrates confirmed this state-
ment. .

Mr. Baxscor was of opinion that abuses still existed, and he
would persist in .his motion.
After considerable discussion, an amendment of Mr. RANDLE
IscitsoN was carried, and the Court proceeded to other business
of little importance.