Star.
London, England, 1831-07-05 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

BOW-ST St lEET.—Yesterday Henry WilliarmLloyd,
a well-dressed boy, only 11 years of age, was
charged with stealing four gold seals in the shop
of Mr. Widdowsoo, a jeweller, in Fleet-street ;
and William Cropley, an old man, and William
Carter, another lad, were charged with receiving
the seals with a guilty knowledge. The prisoner
Lloyd went into the prosecutor's shop on Saturday
morning and said he wanted to purchase a seal, and
a trsyof seals was sbewnhim,from which he selected
one, the price was 38s. He said he had only 30s.
about him, and went away, saying he would call
again with the full amount. In a few minutes
after he cilia gone four seals, value 61. were missed
from the tray, and information being given at the
Station House, Covent Garden, Mr. Thomas, the
Superintendent of Police, went to a house in Bed-
fordbuty, where he found the three prisoners in a
room together, and on searching the old man,
Cropley, be found pawnbrokers' duplicates for the
four gold seals stolen from Mr. Widdowson's shop,
and which he (Cropley) had pledged within an hour
from the time of their being stolen. He also found
upon him duplicates for four other seals, which
there is no doubt had been stolen. Mr. Thomas
ascertained that the youngest boy was constantly
sent out by Cropley to different jewellers' shops,
and that the latter waited at a distance. The
prisoners made no defence, and were remanded.
TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.— Last week a
poor lame woman of the name of Bryan, on
crutches, called to complain of being expelled from
St. Olave's workhouse with her two children.
On inquiry into the cause, it appears that her son
was about to be bound as an apprentice to a shoe-
maker at the expense of the parish ; but the wor-
thy Magistrate first inquired into the character of
the intended master; and finding him to be a man

of bad character he refused to bind the lad, and the
boy returned to the workhouse. The Overseers
were informed why the Magistrate refused to bind
the lad ; yet, nevertheless, they charged the mo-
ther with influencing the boy to refuse to be bound;
and, under this false pretence, turned her and her
two children into the street without money or sbel-

ter.—lt is to be hoped that some humane persons
will cause the affair to be thoroughly investi-
gated.
WORS HI P-ST ttET.—Mary Bond, a respectably-
dressed young woman, was brought up on a night-
charge, from Bunhdl-row station-house. charged
with being found, at two o'clock in the morning,
sitting on the step of a door.—lt appeared, from
what could be collected of the prisoner's account
of herself, who was evidently suffering from a dis-
ordered mind, that her mother resides in Gray's-
inn-lane, and that some time ago she had placed
her affections on a young surgeon, who, about a
week ago, was drowned ; since which she has
been suffering from fits of insanity.—Mr. Broughton
having placed her in the hands of an officer, ordered
him to accompany her home to her friends.
aigameaus
We stated yesterday, upon the authority of a
person who has long been in the habit of furnishing
accounts of accidents and casualties to the News-
papers, that a man named James Hill had died in
St. George's Infirmary on Saturday, and that " Dr.
Clark, judging from the symptoms attending the dis-
ease, coupled with the remarkable discoloration of
the corpse,attributed his deatleitoithe c holera morbus."
In this, as well as in many other particulars of the
statement, our informant appears to have been com-
pletely in error. We have received a letter from
Doctor Clark, denying in the most positive
terms that he ever pronounced any such opi-
nion as that attributed to him ; and at a Co-
roner's inquest, which was held upon the body
yesterday, the Jury, after having heard the
evidence of Dr. Clark, Mr. Howship, and other
medical men present at a post mortem examination
of the body, returned the following verdict :
"There being no sufficient evidence to prove that
the deceased took any thing with the view to sclf-
destruction, and it being satisfactorily proved by
the testimony of all the medical men, that the de-
emed did not die of cholera morbus; as far as we
are able to judge, he died from some deleteri4 us
substance taken into the stomach."—Herald.

On the 2d lost. the lady of .1. Comerford, jun. Esq. of a
son.—Sunday, at Enfield Old Park, the lady of the Nev. T.
N. Palmer, of a son.—The 21st of February, at Cape Castle,
Cape of Good Hope, the lady of T. H. Doyle, Eq. Paymas-
ter 75th Regiment, of a son.—Sunday. the 3d inst. in 'slim.
pole.street, the lady of W. Barge, Esq. M. P. of a &ugh-
ten—Friday last, the wife of Mr. T. E. Eden, Threatlnee-
dle-street, of a daughter.