Star.
London, England, 1830-12-25 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

MAIIIIION-HOUSE.—Yesterday, a gentleman applied to the Loan
MAYOR for an order upon Mr. Cope, the Marshal, for a quantity of
plate, which that officer had, upwards of three years ago, seized under
circumstances of rather a peculiar kind.
A respectable mercantile house, in the year 1827, shipped a large
quantity of corn for a person with whom they had had sonic dealings.—
It has been reported that the amount of the shipment exceeded 2,50 n.
The firm took what they considered to be unexceptionable bills. They,
however, discovered, hut not until the corn had been completely
out of their 'reach, that the bills were all forgeries, and they im-
mediately made application to Mr. Cope on the subject. Mea-
sures were taken for apprehending the forger of the bills, but he had
laid a plan by which he escaped from this country, and the carriage in
which it was supposed he travelled from one part of Yorkshire to ano-
ther,was found to contain a woman, who had lived with him, and a guar-
tity of plate, which was believed to be his property. He was directed
to keep In his custody the plate; and for the purpose of holding Mr.
Cope responsible for the property, and to make it imperative upon him
not to give it up to any claimant, an attachment was laid upon it in his
hands in the Mayor's Court-
It was soon seen that there were other claimants. The present appli-
cant to the Lord Mayor represented to Alderman Lucas, when Lord
Mayor, that the forger was indebted to him the sum of 8001. and had
desired the plate should be given to him in part payment of the amount.
Alderman Lucas, however, objected to issue any order fur the delivery
of the plate.
The applicant said, upon this occasion, that he had in his possession
a letter from the person to whom the plate belonged, desiring that it
should be given up to him.
Mr. Cope said, he did not consider himself at liberty to give up the
plate, as there were several claimants. The mercantile firm who had
employed him would be very glad to get hold of the man who had tom-
mined such plunder upon them, and they had at any rate as powerful,.a
claim to the property as the applicant.
The Loan 3laYoa refused, under such circumstances, to interfere
and we understood the applicant to intimate that be intended to appeal
to another authority,
1110M-STRERT.—STARIIWO A HUSRAND...-Sarah Jones, a re-
spectable-looking elderly woman, was brought before AIr.AIIXIMULL,
charged with having wilfully and maliciously stabbed her husband, J.
Jones, with intent to do him -ome grievous bodily harm.
Mr Thomas, the superintendent of police, stated that the prisoner
and her husband were very respectable people; they had been married
twenty years, but as far as he could learn. the husband had not treated
the prisoner well. They resided in Brownlow-street, and last Monday
evening had a quarrel. The prisoner was very much excited by the
provocation t.he had received. and in her passion, grasped up a case-
knife, and plunged it at her husband's back. The force of the plunge
was such, that the point of the knife passed through the husband's
clothes and a leather brace Into his back, in which it inflicted a dreadful
wound. The unfortunate man was reduced to a state of insensibility,
and fears being entertained for his life, he was removed to the hospital,
where he now lies so ill, from the loss of blood and the medicines he
was necessarily obliged to take, as to be unable, without danger, to
attend.

The prisoner declared that she was unconscious of what she did at
the time, and pleaded in extenuation of her offence, the provocation
she had received.

Mr. MINUHULL regretted to see a respectable woman reduced to
such a state by her own violence. Rc had but one duty to perform,
and be therefore remanded the case for a week.

About eight o'clock, on Sunday evening last, a fire broke
out on Mr. Gatehouse's farm, Buckhorn Weston, Dorset,
and destroyed six outhouses, a stable, and a rick of hay
about six tons. The fire was most rapid and was visible
for many miles round the neighbourhood. This was the
act of an incendiary as yet undiscovered.
Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, as the City Solicitor was
passing through Fleet-street from the Temple, be was sur-
rounded near Hoare's banking-house by some of the swell
mob, one of whom held him from behind, while the others
hustled him in front, and picked his pocket of a canvas bag,
containing 15 sovereigns.
About two o'clock, yesterday, one of the workmen, named
Allen, employed at the King's College, while in the act of
conveying some bricks from the lower part of the building,
was strnek by a large pole which fell from the roof. The
poor fellow was immediately taken up, and conveyed to the
Middlesex Hospital, but died before he got there.
A fire occurred on Monday morning on the farm of Mr.
Johnson, at Tell Lodge, in the parish of Charing, near
Maidstone, and a barn, stable, and other outbuildings, were
consumed.