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London, England, 1825-02-18 00:00:00

LONDON GRAND .CENTRAL etY'REETI
IMPROVEAMVfi.
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Ittwill have been observed in the proeeedinits'of.4lte
Court,of Common Council, reported
.in ear Paper pl
yesterdiy, that a Memorial was presenterb-y-Mr.
derthan Waitlitnratt, 'froth certain iitpiteratle
duals who had forentid a loint .Btot Cortipuhy,'lldritt
purpose of forming a new road to be extended-frt:ins
Fleet- market to Clerkenwell.green,and :hence right and
left to Islington and Battle-bridge, prayilg-the assist-
ance of the Corporation. A prb)eCt of thisiihd was, ft
seem, in contentplation about melee morklii'agtt. .aid
a Committee was then formed to Fake the subject iotb
consideration; and by that Committee, or their Solici•
tors, Messrs. Knight and Frson, a circular had Ike&
seat to the Members of the CorpGration, and others
appointing a General Meeting upon the business, to l
held at the guildhall, yesterday, • and by two' o7cikk
from 150 to 200 Gentlemen svete triter bled ih the 01A
Court of King's Bench,*hich, by the direetioh.of is
Lord Mayor, had been prepared for their reception.
Mr. Alderman WOOD took the Chair, and it ap:
red from his statement, that the Committee had not
tnand -that these was any legil objection to the. plan,
but recommended a postponenteht of 'further prucee&
i until the rentoVkli•Of Fleet A tatket should 'be id
.glater forwardness.: . . •
After speeches from Mr. Alderman Wsivauax, Mr.Gat.Lowror,
Mr. Firson, and other Gentiedieth the Meeting adjourned wirhuit
sitting to any resehadim in futtherarite of the object fir vrbkh k
was convened.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday,an elderly woman and two children wero brought up
by the officers of the Mehdicity-Society, charged with obtaining
Money under false pretences.
The Secretary of the Society stated, that the prisoner, who bad
assumed the name of Closs, the wife of a respectable farmer, at
Glastonbury, Somersetahire, was recommended to the Society by
a Gentleman who had relieved her to a considerable extent ; al-
though the Society proceeds with all due caution, yet she had the
address to get two sovereigns from its funds. As It is customary lo
enquire whom they know at their native place? she gave the names
of several Gentlemen, and amongst them Sir J. Cox Hippisley, and
)111r: Brown, a banker. The latter was written to, but his answer
as not favourable to the prisoner. When she was informed of this
-•‘`comstance, she declared the.statentent to be incorrect, and said
that Lord Glastonbury was acquainted with her. The Society sent
a Gentleman with her to his Lordship, who declared-that he had
no recollection of her-,-when she said, surely your Lordship must
recollect Dame Close, whose husband lives on your estate ; and so
eloquent was she on the occasion, that his I.ordship gave her a so-
vereign, which circumstance satified the Society. On Wednesday,
to their stuprisef.they found her in London, when they thought she
and the children were on the road home; and, concluding. that she
was an impostor, they apprehended her.—Ordered to find baiL

woasnIP:STItEET.

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On the6th instant, the house of Mr. Starkey; silver
street, City-road, was totally burnt down, and out of :',OO ounces of
silver on the premises at the time, only 193 were found inthe ruins.
'Mr. Starkey was not'at all satisfied, but he heard nothing of the re-
ms(inder till Messrs. Abud, refiners, in St.latnes's•walk, Clerken-
well, informed him Mr. Heath, a neighbour, had brought them an
ingot of silver, of 16 ounces, which they originally supplied them-
selves to Mr. Starkey, and which had evidently been in the fire, to
be refined. Heath was, in consequence, apprehended, who stated
he had the ingot from one South, of Bride-lane ;-who, in his turn,
said it was given him by Trotter, one of the [lope firemen, to make
the most of fur him. Trottee was next taken into custody; and it
appears tke Hope iretnen assisted two days in searching the ruins
at the fire.—After a long examination, Trotter was remanded, and
South admitted to bail
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UNION-HALL
A man of respectable appearance, named J.W.Jones, was charged
with having stolen a feather-bed from a shopkeeper in Southwark.
Mr. flak, the owner of the bed, met the prisoner with the property
on his tiack, and he was rather surprised that a man of such apparent
re►pectability should be so employed; on returning to his house, he
found the bed had been stolen from his shop, and pursuing the man,
took him Into custody. The prisoner admitted the rubbery, but
declared he was in a state of starvation, and that distress alone had
induced him to commit the offence. Ile had been a respectable
merchant hi 'Manchester, hut failing in business, he came to Lundoh
to procare a situation, which he found he could not obtain, and
being tiled of a country in which he experienced so many privations,
he committed the robbery in order that be might be sent abroad.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

Between two and three o'clock on Sunday morning,
a disturbance took place in a miserable hovel in Bridge-
gate, Glasgow, occupied by an Irishman, named
M'Manus, a dealer in dogs. The Police entered, and
secured the whole party' except the landlord, who
escaped, but next morning his body was feuni in the
river, a little below the Old Bridge.
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• A -letter from. Vienna gives the following particulars
of the Ex-King of Borne,. who, will he fourteen years of
• age on the 20th of next 'month. It is not true,.as• has
been said, that his education is neglected, or merely
such as would • fit him for:the ecclesiastical state. 'On
the contrary, 'it is en a .mtieb • more liberal plan, and
morelikely to render him a military character. Besirks
reading books of generalinstruction, great care is taken
to perfect him in all manly. and robust exercises. His
countenance, though handsomer than that of his father,
has still that character of expression. Its constitution
is strong, and his health uninterrupted ; he possesses for
his ages rare degree of sagacity. The Emperor sees
him frequently, and seems to take much delight in him ;
he indulges him in all his boyish fantasies. He has
already, though so young,. read the greater number of
the Memoirs-relative to his father ; bort through a fine-
nest of tact, extraordinary at his age, he never mentions
the name of his father. Lately, the Emperor made hint
a present of a little horse, which happened to resenib!e
a favourite Arabian horse of Napoleon, called Le risir.
The Emperor asked him what name he should give to
thii horse? 44 I wish to call him," said the child, with
great animation, "Le Fair, because"--fie ated
' fora moment, and then added, 44 because,sonerbodythat
/ love very much had a horse of ,the same name.'