Star.
London, England, 1830-05-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday two apprendces to watamen plying at Hungerford.
stairs, were brought up by the new police, having been found in a
public-house pffed the Cannon, in Hungieford.market, at three
o'clock in the manlng, playing at cards, and In a state of intoxl.
cation.

The masters of the two boys stated that the house mentioned was
kept open all night long, for the reception of all descriptions of per.
sons, and at three o'clock in the morning they found the boys there
engaged at cards, and very tipsy. When they remonstrated with
the landlord, he said he did not care a d.— who came to his house
so long as they spent plenty of
ur monetoy
Mr. Mstera.z. discharged the s with an admonition, and
directed an information to be laid against the landlord of the Can.
non, under the Police Act, for suffering card playing in his house,
and intimated that in such a case the heaviest penalty would cer-
tainly be inflicted.
Yesterday morning Mr. Thomas, the superintendent of police of
this division, applied for and obtained permission to exhibit seven
informations against the landlords of as many public.bouses, for
neglecting to conduct their business with " good rule and order,"
and for suffering card playing and other prohibited games in their
houses, contrary to the tenor of their respective licenses.
Mr. Thomas at the same time brought forward a poor old man,
named Alullins, a pauper belonging to St. Paul's, Covent-garden,
who bad that morning severely injured a young woman in Rose.
street, Long.acre, by running a truck which be was droning against
a ladder on which she was standing, cleaning thew Wows of her
master's shop.
The pauper stated, that he was 86 years of age, and that he was
an inmate of St. Paul's workhouse, but occasionally jobbed about
with a truck. He admitted, however, that he was net quite caps-
, ble of so laborious an employment.
Mr. Minium. declared that he evidently was not, and that it
was vary wrong to suffer the poor man to be so employed. The
humane directed Mr. Thomas to apply on the subject to
theilltiara
:.1611Themos said be would do so, and, accompanied by the
pauper, retired.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BlGAMT.—Williala SaMadera. a shoemaker, war yesterday
before J. K. COXAKT, Esq. with the above offence. Eh.
sabchare& edChemberlayne, the second wife, proved the fact, and the pri-
soner was remanded.

THAMES-POLICE.
ROB BINS thILOIII.--BINGULAIL COINCIDENCE.—Yeaterday
Catherine Long, a notorious old crimp, was brought before %V.
BALLaxvint, esq. charid with robbing a sailor, named James
Wilson, of a M. note and l4i sovereigns, under circumstances of a
verictraordinary and singular nature.
is the person who, with her three daughters, was
lately charged
dwith administering narcotic drugs to sailors for the
purpose of robbing them, and is well known to the police.
It appeared that the sailor, who belonged to his Majesty's frigate
Briton, and was paid off from that ship on Tuesday week at Ports-
mouth, arrived in London on the following day, and met with the
at the inn in Ovacechtuch.eneet. He treated her with
rirgiluoor and soon becoming snapilied mounted one of the Black.
wall stages in LeadenbalLotreet, and laid himself along the roof of
the vehicle. The prisoner got up at the same time, and on the
reed abstracted the mosey, and was attempting to steal his watch
and' ends, With he awoke. The coach was stopped, and she was
given `to custody
eecustody of a police constable, div. K, No. 13, ohs,
on marsh b, found the /knots. and the 14 sovereigns and a
half width t sax bed lost eissmaled in bet bosom.
He !edged bee in the slatlea.beale, and en pommeling to her led&
IMP, or, rather, a mimpie.hence, he found sasethen sailor
pig to the aims ship leaf Asleep es a bed, sureetinded by tbletE
ones daughters. On soaking him, the sailor munplainal

his money was gone, otesisting of a 51. note and fourteen sovereter,
mod s half, being a precisely similar sum to that lost by the otrie.
WIN. On lirreberinquiry it was ascertained that the pewee uti
her family had been in waiting at the various inns for the arrival
of the Portsmouth coaches, in order to decoy the sailors paid a
from the Briton into her house for the purpose of fleecing the:
Both Daly and Wilson, the two sailors, swore positively to losinK
a 51. note and fourteen sovereigns and a half, but could not tell the
numbers of the notes, and in order to procure information on thr
point an aeon bed been despatched to Portsmouth, but theme „1,,,
paid the sailors had not taken down the numbers.
Mr. BALLAITIXI said the cue was 012* of the most 411X1111OrdlOgry
ever brought Ware him, and it was a singular coincidence that t,,c
men belonging to the same ship should both lose a similar km.
He thought no jury could cowries, as the identity of the money es,
involved in so much doubt, and he was therefore under the neaten)
of discharging tbe patience.
Buth the sailors then claimed the 51. note and !the sovereigns ir
the officer's possession which were taken from the pelmet when she
was apprehended,
Mr. BALLANTINE refused to make any ceder on the subject, ob,,
serving it was impossible to say to whom they belonged, but re.
commended them to settle the matter amicably.
After much contention the sailors agreed to divide the money, sod
they walked off in company.
HATTON.GARDEN.

Yesterday Mr. Alden, one of the overseers of St. Pancras, attend
ed at this o cs, before Mr. Sergeant Sur.r.orr, to prefer a complain•
against two female paupers, Ann Riley and Ann Wows, for keg.
leg his windows on the previous night, between 11 and 12 o'clock--
Mr. Listen stated that the damage done amounted to Ws. Theta,,
relprisooers bad applied to the board, and they bad given them so„,,
ief.

The phoneys, in their defence, stated, that what the parish allou
ad them would not get them a place to sleep in, and they had cost .
mined the offence for the purpose of getting out of the streets.
The Magistrate said they had no right to act in the manner 6,
had done, and ordered them to find bail.
A young mu, who pre his name George Wife" was brought
before Mr. Sergeant Scrwl! and Mr. Luna, charged with stcahrg
Parkinson's " Greek Lexicon," published at one guinea, from tor:
book-stall in front of Mr. Bumpus's shop, Holborn-ban.
Evan Bumpus, about ten years of age, the son of the prove.
eater, stated that his father was a bookseller in Holborn. Atop
seven o'clock the previous evening he first observed the pri.
toner lurking about the premises, looking at the books. He
was induced- to watch him; and, about half an hour after.
muds, he saw the prisoner snatch up a book and set off at fuli
speed in the direction of Gray's-inn-lane. Witness gave an alarm.
and infanta the shopman of the robbery, and of the direction the
prisoner bad taken. The shopman went in search of the prisoner,
and afterwards returned for witness to identify him, he being then
in custody at a public-house. Upon seeing the prisoner he itntue.
diately recognised him as the man who had robbed his father.
James Petit, the shopman, confirmed the evidence of the pre.
ceding witness, and added, that he was joined in the punuit of the
prisoner by a police constable, and they succeeded in finding hint
concealed in the privy of No. 3, Pheasant's-buildings, the
door of which he secured, and refused to come out; and they
were compelled to threaten to break open the door, upon which
he came out, and afterwards was secured, and taken to the
police station. On their searching the front parlour of the house,
they found " Parkinson's Greek Lexicon" concealed behind the bed.
and upon making inquiries ascertained that, the parlour door baring
been left open, the prisoner rushed in and attempted to conceal him.
self behind the bed, but being observed he rushed to the privy.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that be had been Ni!
of employ five months, and distress was his inducement to steal the
book.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

MURDER NEAR GILMERTON.
(Abridged fronM7l/Trth Briton.)
A murder, accompanied with circumstances of a shocking and
brutal description, lately took place at Gilmerton. The unhappy
victim was called Margaret Patterson. She was formerly a ser-
vant in Edinburgh, and while in that capacity had, as we are in.
conducted herself with great prop. Latterly, however,
she taken to the trade of hawking lace in and about Edinburgh,
and unhappily contracted a great penchant for liquor, which ha,!
very muck alienated from ha the affections of her relatives.
On Saturday, the 17th ult. at a pretty late hour in the evening.
this unfortunate woman set out from Edinburgh for Dalkeith. On
her way she came up with two Gilman* carters, whom she after.
wards stated to be persons of the names of Da* and Thomson, on
their return home with their carte. She never saw these persons be.
foie, and, supposing that they belenpd to Dalkeith, asked them for
a ride, oaring them a dram by way of compensation.
The manner in which these ruffian subjected the unfortunate
woman to an incredibly cruel death, is thus described in the North
Brims p

Quum H scelestissimi vehicularii supradlai, sands nequitie ct
immanitatis capaces, Mabel* suadente, fonninam etiam supradiaan 1.
sane! atque iterum, in vehlculo suo conststpraverant, atque its ai.
men raptils pont& capitali puniendum admiserant, prom' dubio cu.
ut in vaginam misenime lapides, tres, its similis quibus via publics
strata est, earbonem, stramentum, rumen cum spinis quibusdas.
injeoarant, awe thoracis wail* ut Hatuca, utentes : quo facto, rap.
tares, maids gaudentes, tniserrimam e vehiculo dejecerunt et postea
= taanima in reason jux viam publicamabripuerunt. Et plus
corpusl o,id at dum Gilmertcol ammonia at, Sc edam usquedum mars
Seem fecit misails famine hoax loth abdomen sumo habat
lcarbonem stramentum, grimes, cum spinis quibusdan4
e =ini is rani:lawns infata, more ndando, per os thoracis
null* ut jam supaius dictum at. Post mortem, dissectione
purls facts, minis bee Invents aut in recto aut In vagina ; pe.
rineum its dilaceratum ut ex vagina et recto was tantum malls
&eta, quod wits accidit etiam in parturition. difficillma ; lismor-
rhagla fire continua, qua multus sanguis efliasus et indusium peni.
tus totum more tinctum ; s violends cruribus impress'
atque omnla infra abdomen in Quibus ex causis mots
baud ono obvenit ut malorum et miseriarum infelicis remedial:.
The unfortunate victim made a full disclosure of every thing to
the medical gentlemen.
77ioonass is aged from 20 to 22 years, and unmarried ; Doti,.
who is about 28 years dap, is married, and has two children.—
They both have bad characters.

It has at length been decided that a principal office of
police shall be erected on the vacant ground formerl
part of Chandos-street, St. Martin's-lane, to which
houses will be attached for the magistrates and the
commissioners of Police, with offices for clerks, and a
sort of barracks for policemen. The plan, which, w e
understand, is by Smirke, has been approved of, and Mr.
Baker has received orders to proceed with the building
with all possible speed. Bow-street is one of the me,:
inconvenient police offices in the metropolis, and quit,
unfit for the purpose for which it has so long been appro-
priated as a court of
tjustice.

BIRTHS.
At Roebampton, the lady of A. B. Belcher, Esq. of a daughter.
—At Tidwell-house, Devonshire, the wife of J. Dart, Esq. of a
son.—ln Hatton-garden' Mrs. H. Wakefield, of a son, who sur-
vived his birth only a few hours.—The lady of G. 8. Foljambe.
Eaq. of Osberton, of a son and heir.—ln Limerick, the lady of
Roche, Esq. of a daughter.—At Bunratty, the lady of T. Studdert.
Raq. of a son.—At Roebuck, the lady of Alderman Harty, lon:
mayor elect of Dublin, of a daughter.