The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The parish-officers of Saint
Stephen, Coleman-street, waited upon the Loan MAYOR
upon a subject of considerable interest. They had with
them a very pretty little girl, about nine years of age,
whom they have been maintaining these two years at the
parish expence, and to claim this child appeared an Irish
woman, who seemed to think of nothing else in the world.
The statement was to the following effect :—The Irish
woman used to carry about the little girl in her arms in
the utmost wretchedness, for the purpose of exciting com-
passion towards herself. She, however, thought proper,
with the view of getting rid of an irksome responsibility,
to take the child one day to tke Catholic Chapel, Moor-
fields, and leave her there. The child sat down on the
steps, and waited in vain for her old companion, and was
at length found by the parish officers in tears, not because
she had lost an affectionate friend, but because she was

hungry and alone. She was taken to the proper asylum,
where she was treated with great tenderness by the direc-
tion of the parish officers, whose humanity the Lord Mayor
did not forget to commend very highly, and appeared to
be fully sensible of the kindness she experienced at their
hands. She became the adopted child of the parish about
two years ago, and the Irish woman never took the least
trouble about her until it was reported that 500/. bad been
bequeathed to her by some old gentleman who lately died.
The Irish woman, as soon as she heard of this bequest, was
seized with a sudden fondness for the girl, and ran with

open arms to the parish officers, calling-upOn them to de-
liver up her child to her. The officers gave not the
slightest credit to this unexpected story of the girl's parent..
age, and refused to place her under the controul of one
whose affections are merely guided by avarice. They,
however, bad what is called an ugly customer to deal with
in the woman, who violently protested every where that

they had robbed her of her child. Under these circum-
stances, the parish officers determined to submit the case
to the Lord Mayor.
The Irish woman stood at the bar, and was questioned
by the Loan MAYOR, who asked her what proof she had
that the girl was her child ?—She replied, " Arrah, then,
didn't I suckle her—sure enough she is the babe of my
body. Arn't you, Agrah ?" The little girl—No, no ;
don't let her take me.

Mr. Hobler—lt is probable that yoii did suckle her, bui
you might have done that without being her mother.
Tho little girl ac. l 41..4 .I'e rememhored the women. and
that the woman used to carry her about begging, and to
use her cruelly.
The LORD Mairoa was of opinion that the officers ought
not to give up the child without very good proof that the
woman who claimed her was the mother.
Mr. Hoblor for some time questioned the women, who
either could not or would not tell the name of the father,
or of the child, or of the circumstances• of-the former. In
fact, she appeared quite ignorant of any thing relating to
the child, except that 500/. had been left to her.
The Loan MAYOR advised the officers not to give up
the child without some good authority.
The woman then made a rush at the child, who drew
back with terror from her. " Arrah, then give her to me,"
said she in a loud voice.
The child, to whom, we were given to understand, the
abovementioned sum has been bequeathed, was then taken
away through the private room of the Mansion-house, and
the woman walked off, declaring that she would have "her
babby."

BOW-STREET.—Belasco, the pugilist, was yesterday
summoned by the young woman whom he accused of rob-
bing him of a Bank note, of which charge she was ac-
quitted the other day at the Old Bailey, the Jury having
declared that they (lid not believe the prosecutor, to show
cause why he detained the complainant's clothes, and other
property belonging to her.
The complainant was accompanied by her sister, a decent
looking married woman, who after the acquittal of her sister
went to the prosecutor's house for the purpose of demanding
her clothes, but Belasco refused to give them up. Mr.
Wontner, the Governor of Newgate, told her that if she
found any difficulty in obtaining her property, to appear at
this office.
Sir R. BIRNIR had read a report in the papers of the
trial at the Old Bailey, and as the Jury acquitted the pri-
soner, he could not see upon what grounds the prosecutor
could attempt to detain her property.
Belase° wished the Magistrate to believe that the girl
was acquitted because he had held out an offer of mercy to
her, to induce her to confess.
The complainant's sister—No, your Worship, the Jury
would not believe him upon his oath, and that is the reason
she was acquitted. He is a bad man, and his house has
been the total ruin of my poor sister We have friends,
however, who will see us righted.
Sir R. BIRNIE regretted that he had no power to com-
pel the defendant to give up the property. Her only re-
medy was by an action at law.
Belasco persisted in declaring that lie would not give up
the property, because he knew it was purchased with the
money which he lost. The complainant might have her
own clothes if she wished.
Sir R BIRNIE advised the young woman to accede to
this proposal.
An information was laid against a man named Lambert,
who keeps a coffee-shop exactly opposite to this office, for
keeping his house open at unseasonable hours. The hear-
ing was appointed for an early hour of the day, but in
consequence of the non-appearance of the informer, it was
postponed, and finally dismissed, it being pretty generally
understood that the informer was bribed to keep away.
The magistrates of this office, however, and the parish
authorities, having expressed their determination to act in
concert, measures will no doubt be speedily adopted to
put down the night houses without the assistance of a
common informer.
MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—A Jew, who calls himself
William Baker, known in the neighbourhood of Oxford-
street, where he has been accustomed to sell oranges and
other fruit from a basket, under the name of Daly, was
charged with committing a highway- robbery in Hyde
Park on Monday night.
Richard Luscombe, of No. 1, King-street, Park-street,
Grosvenor-square, a servant out of place, stated, that on
Monday night, about eight o'clock, as he was crossing the
Park from the corner to Grosvenor-gate, the prisoner
met him ; he afterwards came up to him as he was pas-
sing a dirty piece of the road, which had been cut up by
gravel carts, and offered to show him a cleaner path ;
the prosecutor refused to follow him, and then the prisoner
snatched away an umbrella which the prosecutor had in
his hand, and ran with it round the barracks of the Life
Guards. The prosecutor followed, and when the prisoner
had drawn him into an unfrequented spot, he turned
round upon him, knocked him down with a blow of his
fist, which for a time deprived him of his senses, and rob-
bed him ; for, when the prosecutor came to himself, be
found both pockets of his trousers turned inside out, and
missed a purse, which contained four sovereigns and a few
shillings. The prosecutor being afraid .to follow the
prisoner any further, told the keeper of Cumberland-gates

what had happened, and requested him to dose them ; at
that instant the prisoner came up and attempted to pass,
the prosecutor seized him, he again knocked him down
and ran away in the direction of Kensington-gardens ; he
was pursued by the prosecutor and others, and two
privates of the Coldstream Guards, who were coming in
a different direction, bend the cry of " Stop thief," and

secured him.
Mr. GRIFFITH, the Magistrate said in all cases of high-
way robbery the prisoner ought always to be searched at
the instant of his apprehension, particularly when the pro-
perty taken consisted of money, which cannot be identified ;
and blamed the peace-officer into whose custody the soldiers
immediately gave him; for not having done so in this instance.

HATTON-GARDEN.,--John Bone, a gentleman con-
nected with the Stock Exchange, brought before the sitting
Magistrates, Mr. Serjeant SELLON and Mr. LUNG, James
Castree, driver of the hackney-coach 234, under an accu-
sation of having made an overcharge.
Mr. Bone, on the night of the 25th inst., engaged the
above coach at the King's Head, opposite to Tottenham-
court-road, to take him to Holloway. On their arriving
in Percy-street, Holloway, the driver demanded 10s. as his
legal fare. Mr. Bone tendered him Ss., which the driver
peremptorily refused. " The man," raid Mr. Bone, " was
too drunk to take any head of my remonstrance, and too
stubborn to admit a refusal of his demand."
Mr. Serjeant SELLON—What have you to say to this
charge? Driver.—l can swear, your Worship, I never
drove the gentleman at all;
Such was the unequivocating answer of a man who, in
truth, had been too drunk to drive himself, and conse-
quently was obliged to have a substitute.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON—Can you recognize the com-
plainant ? Driver.---I never saw him till I waited on him
at the Stock Exchange, in consequence of the summons I got.
Here Mr. Bone said he had two gentlemen to prove that
he acknowledged in their presence his having demanded and
received the 10s.
The Magistrates fined him 11. Os. 6d., that is, 10s. for
the offence, Ss. 6d., the expence of a summons and warrant,
and 2s. overcharge, which sum his master guaranteed the
payment of.

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MARLBOROUGH-SiTREET.—A young man, named
Thomas Todd, was charged with having assaulted a Mr. ,
Sharp, residing in Marshall-street, Golden-square, under
circumstances of rather a novel description. It appeared
from Mr. Sharp's statement, that he holds a confidential
situation at Messrs. Hawkes and Mosley's, army accoutre-
ment-makers, in Piccadilly, and on the preceding evening
he met the defendant at a shop in Silver-street, and from
the distressing tale he related of his indigent circumstances,
he was induced to offer him half his bed, and they accord-
ingly proceeded to his lodgings, and whilst he was in the
devout performance of his religious duties, the defendant
commenced a most violent attack upon him, by throwing a
glass in his face, which cut his forehead severely ; and
thinking that his intention was to commit murder, and
then rob the house, he alarmed the lodgers, and the prisoner
was secured.—The prisoner was ordered to give notice of
bail.

LAMBETH-STREET.—Sarah Turner, alias Mee

Man, alias Farrant, was brought up for final examination
on a charge of bigamy. On the last examination the pri-
soner was remanded in consequence .of no person being in
attendance to identify her as the person who was described
in the certificate. Her father would have been the best
evidence on that occasion, but he could not be met with ;
and Mr. Butler, the attorney, who appeared for the prose-
cution, called other witnesses.
Mr. Scholey, the Parish Clerk of St. Paul, Shadwell,
produced the register of marriage between Edward Meeehan
and the prisoner, who then passed by the name of Sarah
Turner. He could not, however, identify the parties.
A conversation here ensued, which ended in the pri-
soner's being remanded for a week.
THAMES POLICE-OFFICE.—Yesterday E. Jen-
kins, toll-keeper at the Poplar-gate to the Commercial-road
Trust, was summoned before Mr. BALL/0411ln, the sitting
Magistrate, to answer for having taken more toll than the
law entitled him to take.
A solicitor, who attended in behalf of the trustees of the
tolls, said, that this question had, within the last twenty
years, been twice litigated in that office, and on both oc-
casions it was decided in their favour. The Commercial
Trust Act, 44 Geo. 111., cap. 37, sec. 25, entitled them to
take a toll once in every day from all and every person or
persons driving or attending with any carriage," &c., and
also "so often in any one day as any coach or other like
carriage travelling for hire shall pass." Its return loaded
made no difference. They took the toll as they were en-
titled when vehicles passed unloaded, and as often as they
repassed.—The charge was therefore dismissed.
It was conjectured that the clause must be an oversight
of the legislature.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a number of ruffianly-
looking fellows were placed at the bar, charged on suspicion
with having been concerned in committing divers robberies
in Southwark.
Maisey, an active night constable of St. George's, stated,
that of late a number of the most daring robberies had been
committed by a gang of thieves, who frequented a public-
house, called the Flying Horse, in Blackman-street. It
was their practice to issue out of this house in gangs, and
knock down and rob the passengers. In consequence of
these depredations, Maisey proceeded to the Flying Horse
on the preceding night, and knowing most of the company
in the tap-room to be reputed thieves, he took the whole lot
into custody.
Mr. CitAstaxas—Well, what can I do with these men ?
The Act specifically states that offenders must be " then
and there committing felony."
Maisey-1 am convinced they are all thieves, and that
they are in the habit of rushing out of the house where I
took them in custody on passengers.
Mr. CHAMBERS directed Mr. Staples, the chief clerk, to
make a minute of the Flying Horse in the publican's black
book, in order that the house might be indicted as a nui-
sance.—The prisoners were then discharged.
A man of colour, named James Clements, of Jamaica,
a most eccentric-looking character, dressed up in the style
of a modern European dandy, with, braided coat and fora-
ging-cap, with broad gold-lace, was placed at the bar,
charged with being drunk and disorderly on the preceding
night.
The offence with which lie was charged having been
proved, it was stated that the defendant had been imprisoned
some time ago at Brixton, for felony.
Mr. CHAMBERS asked him how he had earned a liveli-

hood since he came out of prison ? Defendant—Your
Worship, lam an artist now. Since I gave up keeping
bad company, I make out the cause by taking people's like-
nesses.
Mr. CHAMBERS inquired where he practised his profes-
sion ?—He was employed by the customers of sundry
public-houses in Kent-street and that neighbourhood. Since
his reformation, he had lived servant, with the Rev. Mr.
Crosby, who, he had no doubt, would give an excellent
character of him. The defendant having expressed his de-
termination of sticking to his " profession" for a livelihood,
was then discharged.

The gardener of Lady Stapleton, at Grey's
Court, Oxon, lately cut a pumpkin, in her lady-
ship's garden, of the following dimensions ;
Girth, five feet five inches ; length, from eye to
strig, two feet seven inches and a half; weight
ninety-five pounds.
NOVEL EXPERIMENT.—BURYING ALIVE.
—At Neustrelitz (Prussia), Mr. Counsellor
Hesse, in order to prove an apparatus for pre-
venting injury to persons who may be buried
alive, had himself buried two feet under ground
in a close coffin, to which two tin tubes were at-
tached, one for breathing, and another for com-
municating with his assistants, by means of a
bell. He remained two hours in this situation,
and was disinterred in good health, except that
he was very hot. The thermometer, which stood
at twelve (Reaumur) outside, rose to nineteen
in the coffin.—French Paper.

CANAL EXCAVATION BY THE PLOUGH IN
LIEU OF MANUAL LABOUR.—It is remarkable
that England, which usually sets the example to
all Europe in the application of machinery as a
substitute for manual labour, should hare been
anticipated by the small State of Wirtemberg.
An extensive line of canal having been projected
and sanctioned by the Government, an eminent
engineer constructed a set of ploughs, of various
forms, to suit the nature of the soil to be inter-
sected, which, by the aid of from eight to twelve
horses, excavated the line of canal at less than
a fourth of the price which would have been ex-
pended in manual labour. It is yet more wor-
thy of notice, that there could be no want of
I hands, as this small kingdom possesses a greater
population, in proportion to its extent, than any
district in Europe.