Star.
London, England, 1824-11-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

M A N SION- H OUSE.
Yesterday, a Gentleman called at the Mansion-House, for the
purpose of complaining of the whole of the City Police, for not
being sufficiently active on the night of the late fire; and he men-
tioned an attempt that had been made upon his pocket-book, by
cutting the pocket.
Mr. Cope, the Marshal, said, the officers of the City exerted
themselves to the utmost, and that it was little short of madness for
any person to visit the fire, where a great crowd was collected, with
money in his pocket.
Leadbetter said that an hour and a half elapsed before water could
be obtained; the plugs were all pulled up by the turncocks, but
the firemen were standing idle, there being no water.

GUILDHALL
Stalks was brought up fur final examination. About
nine months since, a parcel was sent from Birmingham to Mr. Wal-
lis, of Snow-hill, containing bone counters, &c. to the value of 101-
the parcel was stolen from the carrier's can, and no trace of it
could be obtained, until the prisoner offered a portion of the very
same articles for sale at Mr.Wallis's shop, and he was apprehended.
In his defence, he said he bought them at a sale ; and Mr. Wallis
being unwilling to go to the expense of bringing up the manufac-
turer from Birmingham, the man was discharged. The part of the
property be offered for sale was resumed to Mr. Wallis.

BOW-STREET.
A LOST Baornea.•--A young woman of respectable appearance,
came to complain of a rubbery that hid been committed upon her.
She stated that about eleven years since her brother enlisted into the
83d Regiment of Foot, and went abroad; since that time she had
neither seen nor heard anything of him until Sunday night about
twelve o'clock, when a man in the stable dress of a dragoon, knocked
at her door. He inquired if she had a brother, who enlisted as a
soldier some years since? 81te replied in the affirmative, when he
said "What would you give to see him ?" she expressed her desire to
meet with him again, when be said, " I am your brother, who ran
away from your house eleven years ago." his assertion was to her
a sufficient proof, and they kissed each other, and were happy they
had again met. She provided him with lodging, cleaned his boots
in the morning, and when he gut up he said he had but a short time
before landed at the London Docks. He was then without mousy,
but had been promoted to the rank of Serjeant-Nlajoc in the Army,
and was to call at the Duke of York's Office for his pay. After he
had breakfasted, he found her 'gold %vetch lying on the table ;
imagining that brotherly love would excuse the act, he put the
watch in his pocket, and although his sister required it should be
.returned, he still retained it. In the course of the day she wished
him to call witlt her on some of their brothers and sisters, but he
refused, saying, he did not Want to be made an exhibition of, and
asked her whether she doubted be was her brother? she, however,
insisted that they should visit hint, and while she called at their
heuees to epprize them of his re tura, he absconded with the watch.
S'r 11. bintete was surptised she should have been so easily doped,
and directed one of the officers to eneleevour to find out the man.
Caches-.—A tall -stout young Irishman, named Sheen, was
charged with a Most unmanly asseelt upon his son, a child eight
years of age. It appeared that Bower, one of the St.Gilee's Beadles,
on pa,sine through the Seven Dials, found the child sitting on the
step tit a door, crying. lie irquired where it lived, but receiving no
sariefectory answer, he took the chld to the workhouse. There he
ewe stripped, and discovered to have been much beaten about the
body. , The back of the child was scarified, and a large burn was
visible across. When le otieht before the Ilagiatrate, be said that
his father (the prisoner) had beat him with a thick tope, while
naked ; then took Irina up by both his eats, and slashed him against
the stove ; his back came against the top bar, and burnt it severely,
Sir R.Binera said he was happy to observe the promptitude with
which the Parish Officers of St. Giles's came forward, and commit-
ted the prisoner to the House of Correction ; at the same time he
directed that if bail was offered it should be persons of unexception-
able character, and that 48 hour,' notice should be given.
QUEEN-SQUA 11E.
Yesterday, Tames Smiih, a private in the Coldstream G cards, was
brought before 1). W. GREGORIE, Esq. charged wi:h stealing a
crown piece and three shillings, the property of George Sansone
The complainant stated, that be resides in the 'Vauxhall-road ;
the prisoner was employed in repairing his house. On Monday
last, his wife having occasion for some money, went to a drawer
where she generally places it, acd missed the silver. Suspicion fell
on the prisoner, who was at work in the room ; he denied
the robbery, but prodaced a crown piece (the one stolen witness
could swear to, as it had a black circle on the reverse side).
Weale, an officer. took the prisoner into custody; on searching
him he found a crown piece, three &hiding% and three sixpences.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate.

MARY-LA-BONNE.
Aitlon Dyson lodged a complaint against his late master,
Mr. Sutton, Liesou-grove, for refusing to deliver up his clothes.
Dyson was tried at the Old Bailey about a year and a half ago, on
a charge of having contributed to the death of Elizabeth Anthony,
a young woman of his acquaintance, who was drowned at West;
minter-bridge, under suspicious circumstances. Some time after
his release Irons prison, he was employed as porter by Mr. Sutton,.
who then occupied the Globe public-house, York Buildings.--:
During his service there, he. committed an assault on a young wo-
man in York-place, was tried at the quarter Sessions, convicted,
and sentenced to the tread-mill for a month. fits clothes were left
at Mr. Sutton's house, and an inventory of them made out by
Buckridse, the officer, who arrested him. lie now complained to
the Magistrate that all his clothes had not been returned, and Mr.
Sutton refused to give an account of them. It appeared from the
evidence, that Mr. Sutton knew nothing of the clothes left at his
house. Dyson and two other servants slept in the same room, and
at the time-of his arrest a list of them was made out by the officer.
These errthes had been delivered tip to him.
Buckridge, after giving an account to the Magistrate of what
be had done, stated that Dyson, since his release, had used threats
against his fellow servants, who had given evidence against him,
and was about to tell some other circumstances, when he was in-
terrupted by—
Mr. Gen-mu, who said, the only thing before hint at present
was the complaint against Mr. Sutton, and as there appeared no
ground for it, he would dismiss the charge.
Sitortirrtno.—A decent-looking middle-aged woman, whose
manner and style of discourse proved she had associated with per-
sons of respectability, was brought up on a charge of stealing a lace
cap from the shop of Mr. II ark, milliner and haberdasher, of
Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. The prisoner gave her name

Sarah Bert iagion.
The prosecutor's wife stated, that the prisoner entered their shop
that morning, and asked to look at some lace articles, which were
produced, when she contrived to abstract the cap in question. It
was immediately missed, and the prisoner pursued, and on being
charged with the theft, she produced the article. Its value was
wen shillings.
The prisoner admitted the theft, but pleaded distress in extenua-
' don. She said she bad been the wife of a respectable London mer-
chant, who died nine years ago, leaving her a moderate compe-
tency, of which, by the treachery of one of the executors, it was
her misfortune to be defrauded. She bad since struggled bard to
maintain herself and her three children, whom she had by her hus-
band. and it was from the distress that they were In (the children
not having a morsel of bread to eat), that she had been tempted to
commit the theft of which she then stood charged.
Mr. Harris complained that they were continually suffering from
depredations of this kind.—She was fully committed.
Het story about the distress of her children is ascertained to be
not strictly true, as she has only one with her, the other two being
at the house of a relative, at Norwich.
Yesterday, William Riddell, of Wells-street, Oxford-street, was
placed at the bar, to account for the possession of a quantity of
suspicious lead.
.William Forty, one of the surveyors of this establishment, stated
that he met the prisoner yesterday morning, in Foley-street, Mary.
la-bonne, carrying three-quarters of a hundred weight of lead; and
knowing him to be a general dealer, stopped him. The witness
asked the prisoner to account for the possession of the lead In
question? he refused to give any satisfactory account; in conse-
quence of which the witness seized the lead, and took the prisoner
into custody.
Magistrate to the prisoner—flow do you account for the pos-
session of the lead !Ting on the floor ?
Prisoner—l bought it in the general way of my trade. -
Magistrate—Can you state of whom you bought atry part of it?
Prisoner—No, your Worship, I cannot. •
Magistrate—As you are not able to give me any satisfactory ac-
count, it is my duty to convict you of a misdemeanour, for unlawful
possession; acid I adjudge you to pay a penalty of 41. in default of
which, you will be committed to prison for two months.
UNION-HALL. •
In the course of yesterday morning, Reed, the constable of
Clapham, gave information that a large trunk, containing consi-
derable property, had been cut from behind Major Craw ford's car-
riage, on the road between Upper Tooting and Vauxhall turnpike.
Lit appealed that Major Crawford was returning from his country
residence on Monday night, between eight and rime o'clock, when

he postillion; stopped at die above turnpike-gate, the trunk swat
missed. An. inventory of the property stolen was sent to the office,
which consisted of, besides a quantity of other property, a necklace,
chain, and ear-rings ; four bt::celets, a large gold heart :.nd chain ;
a ditto ring, and several ornamental rings. The tn.! %, rotwithstand-
ing it was fastened with a patent chain and two straps, was cut away
by the expert thieves.

Extensive new salt works are erecting at Droitv.ich,
and the trade of that ancient borough .ippears to be

greatly on the increase. A toll free ni 41 ket is to 1,;
established, fr( m which many advantages will accrue
both to the town and neighboni hood.

The great increase of the environs of London has of
late years produced very great inconvenience, &lir,
and expense, in the delivery of letters by post, in
parts called 41 off the stones," where there is a cony
nuation of neighbourhood. It has therefore been sfeert,-.)
necessary to apply for a removal of the above grieve: ,
and many respectable inhabitants of the parithes in
vicinity of Lond6n have signed a Petition to
ment, and another to the Postmaster-Genes al, pr.o ins
for an extension of the limits of the General anu
penny Posts. The juttice and reasonableness of the ap-
plication, and the great number of signatul-es amtclice,
to the Petition, give reason to hope that every attention
will be paid to its prayer. It is confidently expected
that the alteration will produce an augmentation Of Cie
Revenue, in consequence of a greater 'limber of letters
being circulated daily through the medium of the p sr,
and by a free delivery of Newspapers to the inkbit.
ants of the environs.

Sunday se'nnight, a fine child, about eighteen monols
old, belonging to the blacksmith, at West Kerse, in the
parish of Falkirk, had wandered out unheeded by its
mother, and it seems had directed its little steps :o a
well, a few yards from the door, into which it u.ifor-
tunately fell. In little more than five minutes after it
had left its mother's side, it was carried to her a l'oelrst
corpse. A surgeon was sent for, and every means that
could be devised used for its recoiery, but :•ithout effect.

Thursday last, a fine young Oeer, ahput three years
old, was observed crossing the river, by some navi a-
tors, near 13iggleswade, who immediately gave iofer-
mation to J. Race, Esq. when that Gentleman's
were laid on the scent, and, after a capital chace of
three hours, he was taken at Het:sold), Herts, and con-
veyed back to Biggleswade in a cart.
AIELANCHOI.Y ACCIDENT. Saturday sennight, at
Manchester, Mrs. Birch, the react of the late Mr.lliich,
G;tythorn, a Lady about 50 years of age, being un.
well, she had seated herself near the tire, for the pur-
pose of taking a little repose, when, it is s!”);,0-:cd. a
spark flew from the fire upon her gown, wlirch was
composed of light cotton, and she was shortly enveloyed
in 'flames. Before any as.siszance cculd be rendered her,
she was torched in-a most dreadful manner, and hied
about one okleck the following morning.
Thursday w cek, a collier of the name of Blyeh,
while woi king at Itothes colliery, met with an unzifo,?ly
end. The circumstances attending the death of this
young man are peculiar, and singularly distressing. Tke
seam of coal in the pit where he was working w ,s oiil
about twenty inches in height, and a mass of st,,zte,
forming part of the roof, fell upon Rhin. There wa: s..
little room in the working, and the stone was so heavy,
that it was found impossible to extricate him limn hi;
dreadful ti•uation, until the stone was blown with gun-
powder. He survived dutiog the whole of that tedious
and awful process, and was taken out of the pit in life,
but expired snob after.
Friday, the sth instant, the Morayshire Farmer Club
'held their first meeting for the whiter season. It was
very numerous, and made more thaw usually happy by
'the unexpected attendance rif the Most Noble the Al I
quis of- lloNmy, accompanied by Mr. Fox NlArtc.
His Lordship entered into all the objects of the
Society with the same exhilarating kindness toad warmth
which has distinguished his intercourse with th:s re-
spectable body for upwards of twenty-feur years.
Every eye and every heart were devoted to their Noble
Friend, whose disposition to please, and promote the
harmony and utility of the Clith, was never more con-
spicuous or more effective. In one of his Lordship's
addresses, he proposed to give two silver cups as pre-
miums for any agricultural objects which the Club
might resolve on instituting, generously placing the
purpose for which, and the time when they are to be
given entirely at the disposal of the Club. Before
dinner, a sweepstakes between two Members for the
best lot, and best individual, of two yeas old queys, of
the Galloway breed; and the best lot and individual
of one year old queys of the same breed, was de:er-
mined. Twelve were shewsi, which, for figure, sym-
metry, fineness of bone, and condition, the judges ad-
mitted they had never seen such stock bred in the
county. It was with difficulty they could decide.

BIRTHS.
October 28, at St. Andrew's, the Lady of Professor Alexander,
of a son.
November 5, at Kelso Manse, Mrs. Lundie, of a son.