Star.
London, England, 1822-12-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

11E1A ELOOROUGISWERNEE..=PGRCHA OW SOLDIERS' CLOTIITIIG:•
On Monday, a clothes salesman, of the name Burreighs, re-
siding in Monmouth-street, appeared at the Office, to an Informa-
tion under the Mutiny Act, charging him with having purchased
four regimental coats, from two deserters from the 2d Regiment
of Life Guards, at the time knowing thg property to be part of
the King's stores. Ile was convicted in the penalty of eS; and
on a mitigation being suggested, the Magistrate intimated that
he had no power to mitigate the penalty, which was immediately
paid by Mr. Burroughs, who assured the Magistrate, that the
offence emanated through ignorance of the Act of Parliament.
WOI/SHIP4TREET.-•••A TEAT STRANGE DISCOVERY—WiIIiam
Thornhill was brought before War. Boorrr, Esq. the presiding
Magistrate, for being found in the house of Mr. Wm. Henry
Daker, of Chiswell-street, on Sunday night last.
Mr. Daher stated, that his wife, late on Sunday night, when
their woman servant was gone up stairs, was induced to follovi
her into her room. On entering the room she perceived the
bed-clothes move, 3nd immediately exclaimed, " Why you have
got some person in bed !" The servant said it was only her
sister. But Mrs. Daker seeing a pair of boots under the bed,
became alarmed, and her husband being instantly apprized of
the discovery, the prisoner was apprehended in the servant's bed.
The servant did not appear, but Mr. Daher said she had been
nine months in his service, and that they always found her
honest and correct. She was a widow,and had been twice married.
The Magistrate ol•served, that there was something mysteri-
out in this case, and it became the prisoner to give an account of
himself, and the reason for his being in the house. •
The prisoner said he was a hackney-writer, and wrote for Law
Stationers, and that he was invited to stay there by the servant,
who waa his sister.
Mr. Bairn.—" You do not mean that you and your sister,
if she is so, were going to sleep in the same bed?"
Prisoner.—" No, she was going to make another bed on the
floor."
The prisoner being called on to name any Law Stationer he
had worked for, mentioned the name of one, but did not know
where be now lives. _

The Magistrate ordered him to be detained till he could pro-1
duce some one to give a more satisfactory account of his character.
Bow-waver.—Taus Max.—A gentleman tailor, of the
name of Barnard, charged one of his workmen, John Car, with
an intention to commit an assault upon him. John Car, it ap-
peared froth the prosecutor's statement, is an excellent work-
man, can cut out a suit in the newest style-of fashion, and 4n
the shortest space of time, but is very noisy and dangerous when
drunk, which is only seven times a week. John Car Went to his
master's house on Sunday evening, entered into his hell, and
took out various articles, such as a goose, a lap-board, and a
large scissors. Alarmed by the noise which the goose- made on
the stairs, the master quitted the parlour, and asked John what
he had got there? John immediately threw down the. articles,
and seizing a knife threatened to rip out Mr. Barnard's entrails.
The latter retired into the parlour for a tongs, and now a furious
combat would have ensued but for the timely interference of
Mrs. Barnard, a mild peace-making lady. When asked what he
had to say for himself? John replied that he was drunk.
The Magistrate said that was no excuse, and that if he had
stabbed his master when drunk, he would have been tried for
his life ; as the case stood, he would send him to. the House of
Correction, there to be kept to bard labour.
A very curious application arose out of the conviction of six
Licensed Victuallers, for selling liquors during Divine Service. A
man, in a suit of raven grey,and mud-beipattered boots, presented
himself before the Magistrate, at the evening sitting, and said—
" Sir, lam an undertaker, and I and all other undertakers—
that is Looting undertakers, are under great difficulties in conse-
quence of the fines imposed upon publicans for suffering people
to take refreshments in their house during service time ' • because,
we are often obliged to wait an hour or an hoer and a half for the
clergyman, and if we have to stand in the streets all that time,
it will be a sad thing for us, especially in the winter. Now,
what we want to know, Sir, is, whether a publican would be
liable to be fined, or to lose his license, for sheltering undertaken?
At the same time we are aware that many are improper person
might get into the public-house under the cloak of au undertaker,
and thence arises our difficulty ; but still we hope something will
be done for the relief of the real undertakers, or else they will
be sadly put about."
TheMagistrate,in reply to these sad difficulties of a sod pro-
fession, said be had some doubt whether the undertaker's these-
ideas, in burying on a Sunday, did not ronder themselves liable
to a penalty, inasmuch as in so doling they were certainly follow-
ing their " worldly ceiling-H-4'l%e undertakir stared)-4 At all'
eventli;" continued his Worship, w I am opt aware of awl saving
clause in fafeurof mistaken 44 Ad, aucLif publican* Will