Star.
London, England, 1822-02-05 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW•IIII MM.—Yesterday Themes Kelly, Man Michell, and
Thomas Bush, three foppishly dressed young men, who appeared
from their accent to be Irish liw-students, were brought before
Sir RICHARD RHINIR under the following circumstances:—lt ap.
peered from the evidence of some watchmen and other wit-
nesses, that the defendants were passing along the Strand, on Sa-
turday night, in a very disorderly manner, jostling against every
woman they met. By pushing one woman they drove her head
through a pane of glass in a shop window ; and by shoving ano-
ther poor woman, who had her child in her arms, they caused
her to thrust her elbow through the window of Mr. Morris's pork-
shop ; and after achieving this manly and renowned exploit they
ran away. They were pursued, however, and taken to the
watch-house, where they remained all night, conducting them-
selves in a most improper manner; particularly Mr. Bush, who
struck the watchman in whose custody he was, and whose silly '
and contemptible ambition appeared to be, to imitate the charac-
ter (cn far as misconduct went) of a " Corinthian Tons."—Mz.
Hatehell said, that the woman's driving her elbow through Mr.
Morris's window was purely accidental, and that he had made
an offer at the time to pay for the window, which was refused.
Of the other woman's breaking a window with her head they
knew nothing. Ile (Mr. Hatchet!) had not been taken to the
watch-house, bat bad merely followed his companions there,
where he repeated his offer In pay Mr. Morris for his broken
window, which he again thought proper to refuse, utile.is he was
also paid for his time.—Sir Iliettaun BIRNIE said he had no
posyer to order the man to be paid for his time; but he certainly
should be peid for his winduw.—Mr. Morris was immediately
remunerated fur the loss of his pane of glass ; and the defend-
anti were walking out of the Office, whets Sir RICH ARD informed
them he had somahing Olio to say to them. lie then enlleti un
them for bail in each of the two assaults—that on the poor
woman, and that on the watchman; and the defendants, not
being p:epared with sureties, he order. ti thma to be taken into
custody by the jailor; and the witne,ses to be bound over to
prosecute them, at the etpense of the parish.
Ensign C. Smith was brought up fur Etna examin•ation, and no
prosecutor yet appearing against him, Mr. MiacueLt. told hint
he should liberate him on his giving bail for his appearance at
the Sessions, to answer any charge which might then be made
against hint. The amount of bail was ftNetl at aeino, and two
sureties in .C.. 30; and in the interim he was committed to St.
Martin's watch-hosts:.

liartis,n, a youn lanipliAnt.r, who, as one of the wit-
nesses observed, is rather gri.•:•r in the rat-nu-ler, was commit-
ted for further examinatino, charged with a burglary in the
house of Mrs. Hobson, of Stafford-r(,w, Pimlico. The thieves
enured through the drawing-room window, and carried olf
quatitity of ♦aluable Linen.
Several linters were convicted in various Imi:46es—some for
refusing to weigh their loaves when required sa to do; and
cr.hets with using improper weights.

Yesterday sennight, as Mr. ROBERT HOP; of
Newby (near Warwick), was proceeding homeward
from llayton, wl:en near his own residence, and
ascending a steep hill, leading his hone, sonic villain
hulled down the declivity a cart wheel, which, coming
in contact with Mr. Hore, broke his jaw-bone in three
places, and displaced nearly the whole of his teeth,
We are extremely concerned to add, that but faint
hopes are entertained of his recovery.

In the gale of Saturday night, a long extent of
paling on dhe branch of the Surrey Canal, on the
Deptford-road, was blown down and floated along
the canal. In some fields near the Bermondsey Grange,
a number of large trees were torn up by the roots.
In the same neighbourhood, in addition to the serious
damage sustained by an immense number of houses,
in windows, chimnies, and out-buildings, at Dock-
head a large stack of chimnies was blown down, and
a servant who was sleeping in the attic narrowly
escaped being crushed to death.—On the River, from
below bridge, most frightful havoc appears to have
been made by the storm, in carrying the coasters
from their moorings, several small craft having been
sunk, and damage to a considerable 'amount has been
sustained; the particulars of which, at present are
not known—Upwards of one hundred yards of wall,
at Homerton, opposite Hackney New Church, was
blown down. A number of houses, with fiat roofs,
on Epping Forest, Clapton, and places adjacent, have
had the lead completely coiled up, with which they
were covered. Nor has the Cathedral of St. Paul's
escaped its ravages, several of the large windows on
the South side, having their casements blown out.
By arrivals in town this morning, a melancholy
account is given of the many accidents arising from
the high wind on Saturday. Many houses were un-
thatched, trees torn up by the roots, &c. At Rom-
sey, Hants, great havoc has been done to the hot
and green-houses of several Gentlemen, whose houses
were situated upon the verge of the fote,t, by being
in a great measure stripped of all their glass.—
Two fine oaks were blown down near Lyndhurst, and
a horse found dead just by, supposed to have been
killed by the fall of the trees.
The gale this morning is more violent than even that
of Saturday. In l'ickett-street, the wreck of chimney-
pots, bricks, coping-stones, &c. strewed along the side
of the pavement, was considerable, and several per-
sons were injured : a young lad passing along the
north side of the Strand, between Pickett-place and
Temple-bar, was knocked down by a part of the
coping and parapet-wall which was blown from one
of the houses, and so severely hurt that doubts are
entertained of his recovery. He was conveyed to an
adjoining shop in a state of utter insensibility.
This morning, about eleven o'clock, a curious cir-
cumstance happened in St. Paul's Church-yard, by a
sudden gust of wind; which was so strong as abso-
lutely to drive back several of the pair and four-horse
Fulham stages, many yards towards Cheapside ; hats,
bonnets, men and women, flying and running in all
directions : one boy was much hurt in the knee by
the running back of a coach. To complete the whole
an itinerant pieman was completely dispossessed of
his whole stock in trade, which kept floating in the
air for a considerable time.