Star.
London, England, 1830-12-09 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Genus nalchile.age tam, clerk to an attorney in the Tern.
ataseded before slr P. Laurie yesterday, for the purpose of swear.
that he he not stolen an atlas and a quantity of apparel
feemarillwantplitsper's hmeos.
IS, Pruner aesseliss bens dawn to the nature of the affidavit, he
asked the whether ids employer bad required him to make
this dspnitfii ?
The be had Dot, but when applicant told him
what he= :rho made no °koalas, but said, he should leave
the Malt 10 blafeesidas.
He gel& NM MP have mid so, observed the Alderman. He knows
lit& of bswis =we, Vbe believes that a man would not take a fees
esti, ear bees sulky of atmling, to cover his crime. An honest man
seed set stake oath *lb bassety ; his weed should be ea wed as his
oath.
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Hp weed met *aft as* as afildavit to be made bo him.
Applhatn sem*
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refer, the Cessosn, Mot spread to be the stets ot (thee nom—was
the pylons fuller dm issue f
No, air, IPO w gather thh, Nplied the Gerstner.
Mr Peter said there appeared be a rod dal of
lags the degree of digress 'bleb missed. in Masylab=td.ll6=4;
the pow were see pester than sena Ait
with
the tibpseition
to susses* wig* Wised had marred with rupees to

It had been reported that a body of penury had called at his
house and insisted on being relieved, and that he had given them
money to get rid of them. Now the truth was, that a deputation of
the householders had waited on him as the churchwarden, to ekpress
their determination not to pay the rates while the select vestry Krum,'
in the system of self-election, and that, after conversing with them foe
two hours, he referred them to the select vestry itself, and they of
I course went away quietly.
Mr. Savage said he could not bear testimony to the same effect, is
to the state of the poor in his garish (St. Dunstan's, West.) There
was no exaggeration in saying the number of the poor, and degree 4p
distressoras greater in that quarter ; but in comparing the present with
put times, be had the advontge of being many years older than hit
Peter.
Without Field, who has been in custody since Saturday, oo suipi.
don of stealing a lUL note. was brought up and diacharged,
LANBETH.ST RE ET. Yesterday, William Gardener, who has
been in custody fur the last fortnight, on suspicion of being concerned
in some of the late outrages in Kent was brought up for final exautioi.
don.

Mr. Drew, an inspector belonging to K. division of Police, aimed
that he had on that morning received a letter from Earl Brecknock, in
reply to one which he had sent to his Lordship, in which were detaiki
the circumstances under which the prisoner was apprehended. Mr. Drew
here handed the letter to the bench. Its purport went to show that the
prisoner had joined in some of the riots which had taken place in the
neighbourhood of Wrotham ; but as he had expressed a wish to go to
sea, and as his offence whs not of a very aggravated nature, he not ink.
log a prominent part, it was not the intention to press the chugs
against him, provided he consented nut to return to that part of the
country.
The prisoner promised not to do so, saying he would endeavour to gri
loses, and was discharged.
Tits Taanes' Paociestow.—Shortly after the procession of the
Trades' Societies moved from the Tenter-ground, Goodman's-fields, on
their way to St. James's, Mr. John Shave, a wine-merchant, of Smith's.
buildings, in that neighbourhood, came to the office, and gave informa-
tion, that a few moments before he went to his own door to witness the
Trades' Societies pass, and when about to close the door, he discovered
that be had been robbed of a valuable silver hunting-watch and appen.
doges. He said he recollected a number of respectably-dressed young
men coming in a body close up to him, and be had no doubt but it was
' erne Ode= who had committed the robbery. Several other robberies
a similar description are said to have occurred during the procemion.
111•11.1101OUGH-STREET. EXAMINATION Or ONE Or TIIE
TaIASHINO-MACHINII BREALlElll.—Yesterday Willient Cheater,,
respectable-looking man, was placed at the bar, charged as the ring.
leaflet ota mob which dstroyed a vast quantity of thrashing machines,
in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, during the late riots. The rum,.
log are the particulars of the prisoner's arrest, and of the evidence
against hlan
It appeesed, that the prisoner, who was known as the leader of the
mob, had evaded all attempts to apprehend him by the Salisbury
constables, and had absconded from that neighbourhood; and a re-
ward of 501. was offered for his apprehension. Sir Charles Earle, me
lot the Magistrates of Salisbury, we believe, suspecting that the prisoner
had come to London, wrote to a person here, who was well acquainttil
with him, and gave him directions, if he met with him, to give him into
custody. A few days since a labouring man met the prisoner, and they
got into conversation together, the prisoner sayin he was a countryman,
and wanted a bed. The man consented to take him to his own house.
where he stopped two or three days; but the person mentioned shore
meeting him, immediately recognised him, and gave him into custody.
The prisoner was remanded till this day, when be will be delivered up
to the persons authorised to take him to Salisbury.
Towx-nam..—Charke 'Watt was charged with attempting•to
eat a portmanteau from the back of a carriage with four horses. It
seems that his knife was not sharp enough, though he was seen to
sharpen it once or twice on the steps of some door.—lle was sent for
one month to Brixton.

THAMIS POLICL—JIIIIIItB Male and API 'MOW were charged
with attempting to rob a drunken sailor in Ratclithighway. The
woman was caught by a pollee.oilleer in the fact, and the man Ira.
standing by her ; she was apprehended, but the latter fled, and eft
subsequently captured, atter a desperate struggle, in which, not only
the icoer but the policeman were severely wounded.—The prisonerc
were sent, as reputed thieves, for two months to the Rouse of Cot.
recdon.