Star.
London, England, 1824-07-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SIANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday, a number of publicans were brought before the Loan
MAYOR charged under thu recent Act passed for the regulation of
public-houses in the City, with baring each incurred the penalty of
Sl. by permitting tippling in their houses during Divine Service.
Herring, one of the new police inspectors, and an officer, stated
that In the houses of all the defendants they found men drinking
during Divine Service, without the least restraint.
The Loan Mato* said the Act required that all convictions
under it should be made by two Magistrates, as the penalties which
it direeted to be inflicted were bail, but se be could not then
the attendance of a heather Alderman, he would dismiss the
whole of die charges.
Om of the defendants, in behalf of his bredirou, wished to have
the opinion of_his Lordship on one point. Iltaroolf awl several
*ban had heft summooed-by one of the new Inspeemes for having
permitted their houses to be opened during Divine Service, when,
in rut. they had no one sitting in their houses but their lodgers.—
Few of them could live or pay their rent without lodgers, and were
they to confine them all to their bed-rooms daring Service time? If
the Act compelled them to do that, it would compel them to shut
up their houses, for no lodger would stay under such regulations.
The summoning inspector declared, that unless lodgers were in-
cluded in the regulations of the Act, there would be no carrying it
into effect. In all the houses be went into where the tap-rooms
were filled by men who were drinking, the landlords claimed the
whole of them as their lodgers. Every man carousing, when ap-
pealed to, was ready to swear to the truth of the assertion. In the
houses of seven of the defendants he found full a hundred men

drinking, and the landlords said the whole of these were their
lodgers. One of the men who said be was a lodger at one house
where be was turned out, was found by the witness when going his
rounds at another. lie there said, " This is my lodging really,
upon my honour!'
The Lose MAYOR was bound to state, that the words of the Act
did not bear the publicans out in the ingenious exception which they
wished to make. The fact of opening the house during Divine Ser-
vice was one offence—that of permitting tippling was another and
distinct offence. Though the publicans could not be convicted of
the first offence in the cues mentioned, they might of the second;
fur though a landlord might permit his lodgers to sit down stairs, he
must not permit them to tipple during Divine Service.
GUILDHALL

Maeurinuar. Poorer:lox or Pateosetas.—By the statute Sth
Geo. 11. cap. 18, it is enacted that no Attorney, Solicitor, or Proc-
tor shall be a Justice of Peace for any county during the time he
shall continue in the practice of that business. This prohibition,
however, does not extend to Magistrates who ex Wei° beeeme Jus-
tices of the Peace by charter in any Corporation; and thus, with.
out inquiring into the grounds upon which this apparent invidious
exclusion was founded, .an opportunity is occasionally afforded for
forming an opinion how far the enactment may be considered to
have been judicious. Mr. Alderman Baowx, before whom the
following case occurred at this Office yesterday, is, as everybody
knows, a practising member of the legal profession. •
A young man, named Jsnsess Gilbert, wasput to the bar, charged
with felony. A chaise harness had, it seems, disappeared from some
premises in Moor-lane, formerly occupied by Messrs. Pickfords,
but now rented by one Michael Murphy, who, from information
he had some how or other fished out in conversation with the pri-
soner's wife and sister, had him taken up, if. not . as the thief, at
least as having a knowledge of and being a participator in the rob-
bery.. All that Miarphy could say of his own knowledge was, that
the harness was safe there about the 12th or 15th of Jnne, was
missing on the 15th, and had not been.found since. He was very
:desirous of stating his reasons ,for suspecting the prisoner to have
been concerned in the robbery, with some fellow he called George;
but as he acknowledged his. sospiciou arose from what he had been
told, Mr. Alderman Baowx stopped hint short, by obserring—" I
cannot listen to what you were told; that is.= evidence against the
prisoner : you .charge hies with felenmyou must give me someproof
of it. Wheroare,the person; Who AIM you? lan hear then°
blarphy.-.-There is. the officer;, the women told bim all about it.
Mr. Alderman Baowx.—l cannot bear the officer. What sig-
nifies What he was told. Where are the women that told him? Do.
they know anything of the robbery? •
Two women were here br. ought forward. The first was desirous
of saying something, but the Alderman directed her to be sworn.
She, however, refused to_ take the oath, and the Alderman was
cautioning her, that he should be obliged, to commit her if the per-
sisted in her refusal, when ft came out that she was the prisoner's
wife. She was of course immediately ordered to stand down. The
other wwwan, the sister of the prisener, when called upon, also re-
fused to be sworn. . . •
Dlr. Alderman Baowx.—the ends of justice require that your
evidence should be given. I must tonunitiosi, if you refuse to be
ftwarti- • Why do you refuse? .
• Pta—Seeause my brother did not steal it, nor take part with
those that did.
Mr. Alderman Beows.—Well, then, if you say that on your
oath, your brother will be discharged; I have no wish to do him any
harm. The girl, however, still persisted in her refusal, even after
the Alderman had directed a warrant to be made out for her coot-

iiitment; -but being mod. by the primal* abllnegi......thWte•
Onsented to be sworn, and tbeissikeposower to the •
fin+ Alderman, what sh! knelt rosposfilt.tlio deetios
*laid she did nut knovrattythinfr St all about It. '
Alderman Aswwtt said dim Stu no eriZareeplehtet thelBr.
prbobetrand he must discharge MO. He was
BOW-snucrr.
AISAULT a Cliecol.-.-A Mr. Nicholson was charged with having
committed "an equestrian assault on the person of a Mr. Smith—that
is to say, with having wilfully and maliciously endeavoured to ride
him down.
•Mr. Smith is a very delicate and spruce young Gentleman.• Mr.
Nicholson is a stern and stalwart personage, with coal black hair
and whisker grim, and the matter between hem was thus t—Mr:
Smith, with a Lady on each arm, watt passing down St. Martiu's-
lane, in their way home from the Theatre, between twelve and one
o'clock on Wednesday night. Mr. Nicholson was at the same time
coining up St. Martin's-lane on horseback, and being a man
tuously given, he took it into his bead that the Ladies with Mr.
Smith were Ladies Of a certain description, and having got this
notion into his bead, be resolved on putting them to the rout.
8e be clapped spurs to his horse, and came clattering after them
on the foot-pavement. The Ladies shrieked, and Mr. Smith
seized Mr. Nicholson's horse by the head, and very coolly led it off
.the footpath into the bone-road. Mr. Nicholson was nix to be thus
repulsed, and wheeling round, he charged the party in front. Mr.
Smith once more seized the horse by the head, and would have led
him off the footpath as before, but Mr. Nicholson, instead of sub-
mitting to it quietly, as he bad done in the first instance, began a
dust-exciting attack upon Mr. Smith's chapeau with his riding-
cane. Mr. Smith kept his hold upon the bridle nevertheless, and
in the scuffle the poor horse was thrown down. Mr. Nicholson fell
with him, of course, and he was up again in a moment„
and preparing to remount, but the crowd, which by this doe
gathered around the combatants, would not permit him so to do.—
They told him be was either drunk or mad, and though he assured
them he was neither one nor the other, they sent his horse to the
green-yard, and consigned Mr. Nicholson to the care of a very
capital watchman, named Dennis Mack. "Come along, my Jewel !'
said Dennis," and I'll find you ikon) lodging for this night. Go
and hang yourself !" replied Mr. Nicholson, " it is not you, nor
thirty sock shall put me in the watch boot." " Deevle burn me !"
rejoined Dennis, " but myself shall do it say," and he did.
'Dins far was the statement for the prosecution, and Mr. Nicho-
lson being called upon for Ms defence, said—lnstead of two modest
ladies iu Mr. Smith's company, there were at least a dozen immo-
dest ones; and he did but ride up to see what they were squealing
about, when Mr. Smith seized his bridle and threw his horse down.
He concluded by assuring his Worship that he was as sober at the
time as he was at the present moment.
Mr. Smith and his witnesses declared that there were only two
ladies, and no squealing at all, until Mr. Nicholson rode at them ;
and the Magistrate (Mr. HALLO, having observed that it made
little difference whether there were two or a dozen, or whether they
were modest or immodest, ordered Mt. Nicholson to find bail, and
bound the complaining parties over to prosecute.
MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE.

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WM. Bliss was brought to this office on a charge of having, nearly
two years back, uttered knowingly a forged bill of exchange fur
£22, with intent to defraud Mrs. Nicholls, of Grove-row.
The prosecutrix stated, that about two years back the prisoner
introduced himself to her as a man possessed of considerable pro-
perty, part of which, however, he could not receive as yet, and that
in the meantime he wanted to purchase some fornicate, Which be
would as soon take of her as of any one else. Witness agreed to
let him have the goods be wanted, and to receive for them a bill
for £22, accepted by Mr. W. Mills, of Radley-street, St. Luke's.
The goods were accordingly delivered, for which he paid by giving
an acceptance, purporting to be that of Mr. Mills. Since that
period she saw nothing of the prisoner till a few days back, when
she beard of his being in custody.
Mr. Mills declared the acceptance not to be his hand-writing, but
a forgery. It was a good imitation, and which probably might
I arise from the prisoner's iteviagiseen in his employ, and hence bad
frequent opportunities of seeing him write. Witness had been called
on by the brother of the prosecinrix on Friday last, on which occa-
sion the brother offered to born the acceptance, if he (the witness)
arould pay him £l2. This crew be declined, but was led from it to
Inquire who the brother was. and the result of his inquiries was the
discovery that the brother of the prosecutrix and the prisoner had
been both in the House of Correction at the same time. •
Mr. Grurrarn inquired of the prosecutrix about the attempted
negotiation, which, however, she denied having authorized.
The Magistrate, to prevent the frustration of the ends of justice,
ordered the acceptance to be impounded in the hands of the Chief
Clerk of the o&-e, and remanded the prisoner until to-morrow,
when the brother of the prosecutrix is to attend.

The population of Glasgow, it is calculated, has in-
creased above 10,000 within the last twelvemonth*:
RETAIL BaEWERS.—A common brewer in Biros'
ham was a few daxs since fined by the Magistrates
that town in the mitigated penalty of 201. kir suffering
beer which he had sold to be drank on his premises.
A melancholy occurrence took place on the 4th inst.
at the Prince's Dock, Liverpool. A boy was standing
on a ship's stage, or gangway, attempting to get a bottle
which had been thrown from one of the vessels, and
thirty or forty individuals were drawn by curiosity to
the same spot, when the stage gave way, and the whole
were plunged into the Dock. The scene which followed
was most appalling—seven persons have lost their lives,
and the Dock Police were searching for more bodies.
A person has latterly been imposing upon several
silversmiths, watchmakers, disc. (it is calculated to the
extent of between six and seven hundred pounds) by
passing off what he calls old and choice coins, which
are so ingeniously manufactured as to deceive the trade.
The police are after thi impostor.
Colonel William Nichols, a Member of the Parlia-
ment of Upper Canada, after dining at the house of a
friend, at Fort George, started to return, in his wag-
gon, to his own residence above Queen's Town. The
night was extremely dark, and when Mr. Nichols had
descended the height just above Queen's Town, where
the road takes a sudden turn on the brink of one of the
most awful precipices on the Niagara River, his horse,
instead of turning to the road, advanced to the brink
of the precipice, when Mr. Nichols, his horse, and wag-
gon, were all precipited headlong down the fearful
steep, a distance in the whole of about 300 feet. Mr.
Nichols was killed instantly, his horse shared the same
fate, and the waggon was dashed to atoms.
Wednesday se ;might, a melancholy accident hap-,
pened on board the James Watt, steam-packet, while
on her passage from Greenock to Liverpool. Joseph
Dudley, the principal engine-man, having fallen asleep
close to one of the side levers of the engines, insensibly;
it is supposed, shifted his position so as to come in con-
tact with it, in consequence of which he was so severely
crushed, that he expired in an hour and a half after re-
ceiving the Snjury.
Thursday Morning' last, on the arrival of the London
Telegraph coach in Worcester, at the Union Inn, Broad-
street, a female inside passenger named Jones, who was
on her way to her native place in Wales, was discovered
to be a corpse. She was known to the other passengers
on her entering the carriage in town, to be an invalid,
but it was not until the door was opened at their jour-
ney's end, that the fatal catastrophe was discovered.
The last time she was heard to speak was at Pershore.
It is supposed that the motion of the coach, and fatigue
of travelling, was too much for her exhausted frame to
bear, and combined to cause her death. The verdict
found upon the Coroner's Inquest was to that effect.
In giving an account of a recent entertainment in
London, the Bloke translates " small-clothes" petits mien:ens, and
idds in a note, that the English Ladies will not allow this part of
the dress to be called by its true name, and that they also give it
the appellation of " neceseary.'"rhis is quite new and highly co-
mical. It would certainly lead a Frenchman into some amusing
mistakes. We have heard of iseespreuibles as a word at once point-
ing out the thing meant, and shewing that it is not to be named ;
but suppose a foreigner, in want of a pair of petits vermeil:, and
making use of the English of the Ensile to ask for them! Besides,
our friend of the Etoik is mistaken. It is only your half-bred people
who are so ridiculously over nice. English Ladies in general both
mute and ever' wear the breeches without hesitation !

SPORTING INTALLIGENCR. .
IPSWICH ACES.....luit 6, 11124.
For his Majesty's Pureed One liundrtd Guineas, .Col.Wilson'a
SI. h. by Juniper, 4 yrs old, walked over the Course.
PIGEON SHOOTING.
Saturday last, the Old Hats Club met for the third time this
season, when aime excellent shooting took place. Mr. OA::ldestel
shot at twenty.four pigeons during the day, Ind killed them *II
within bounds; and on Monday last, he killed his Ara rwenty•b'e
out of twenty-nine, within bounds, during his finishing mato
with Mr. Blunt. he last Meeting of the Old Hats Club will
take place on Saturday next, at the Red Home. •
His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, with his scra,tomed libPr.,l
feeling. most hanesomely gave to the North Devon Stag Hunt, I; .1
year, four brace of stags and two bract Of hinds.
The Duke of Rutland is going to give up the Turf. Lord Wa..
wick bought his Catherine, after winning the Albany Stakes
Ascot, for 250 guineas. The neat day the %ion 150 of it
spin, so that her noble owner had no fault to And with his bare,,,,,.

A fire broke out last night, soon after ten o'clock, at
MARRIOr's cotton-manufactory, Compton-street, Clerk,
enwell. By the exertions of the firemen it was ptc•
vented extending beyond that building, the interior ci
which was wholly destroyed. No lives were lost.
A woman of Grub, in the Canton of Appensal, is
Switzerland, giving way to that unhappy fanaticism
which now misleads the ignorant classes of society, re-
cently killed her child, to save it from the persecuti,.n
of the evil spirit, whom she thought she recognised in
the features of a stranger passing through the villate
in which she lived.
In the night of the 13th ultimo, Reannint's thermo-
meter fell to three degrees below the freezing point, in
Switzerland. This sudden cold has nearly destroyed
the crops of hay, and the cherry trees.
At the very,time when some r.cisy blockheads ate
introducing into our Theatres the silly custom of Call-
ing for performers after the. Play is ever, the French,
from whom the folly is copied, are prohibited from in-
dulging in this practice; or, rather, the actors are corn•
manded not to obey the call. A Paris Journal of Fri.

day says—
a The custom of calling fur actors and obliging them to appear
after the representation of pieces has been long degenerating into
an abuse destructive of order, and particularly of the trancptilt:f
which ought to reign at the. Theatres. The public authorities hare
therefore resolved to renew, in the most express manner, the nuts.
bition formerly enforced against the submission of actors iu b 441
cases to the demands made upon them."
An Inquest was held on Saturday last, at the Water-
man's Arms, Wandsworth, on the body of John Wood,
servant to Mr. Dedman, of Vine street, Lambeth, tint-
ber•merchant, who was recently drowned near Rid.
mond-bridge, with five horses. John Godfrey said, 1;:e
deceased was in the act of watering the horses at the
Three Pigeons; that the shaft horse, from the scope Le
took in getting off 'the causeway, forced off the cart,
and pulled the four horses along with him and the de-
ceased, and they were all drowned. Verdict-..Aci.:-
dextal Death.—The accident happened at Richmond;
and the body was found at Wandsworth.
A few days since, the wife of a butcher, in Lambeth.
walk, being informed that a constable was coming to
take her husband into custody for an assault, ass in.
sternly deprived of the power of speech, and a Jew
hours after she etpired.
Early on the morning of Sunday, the 27th uhimo, a gentleman
who bad arrived and slept the preceding night at Mr. Stewart's
inn. at Ardchinacrocan, about a mile front Loch Katrine, gut up
and left the house, remarking, that as the mundvg was fine, he would
take a view of the surrounding scenery. There is reason to dread
that in passing along the sides of the lake the heat of the morning
had induced him to bathe, and that, from causes which cannot now
be aseertarned, he perished in the undertaking, as, on Monday
morning, a man proceeding homeward by the Loch discovered the
Gentleman's clothes and shoes at a fevrpaces distant from the wa-
ter. Along with the clothes was a geld watch, and in one of the
pockets were eight small notes of the Grernock Bank and a spy-
=There was nothing that could lead to a knowledge of the
ual, except that his linens were marked “ J. H. W." ail
that the watch appeared to have been lately repaired in Glasgow,
but by whom we have not been able to arrertaiu.
The 22d of April, about five o'clock in the afternoin, a most
alarming fire broke out on the Race Course of Clarendon, in Ja-
mie a, which, in Vas than half an hour, reduced to ashes no less
than thirty-eight booth). The lire was observed by some Clamp-
donians almost at its commencement, but the wind blowing strong
from the South-east, and there being but a small supply of orate,
rendered all their efforts abortive. A great number of respectable
persons assembled from ail quarters, and exerted themselves in as
extraordinary manner in saving several articles. Not only were
the booths completely demolished, but the flames had communi-
cated with the Ladies' Stand, which would have been reduced to a
'heap of smoking ruins in an instant, but for the exertions of tho-e
who were afterwards so wrongfully accused of having been guilty
of arson. Fortun.aely, no serious accident occurred, although many
persons were in danger of losing all they bad there. It is not known
how the fire originated, lint if intentionally done. it is sincerely
hoped the perpetrators may be exposed, which will exonerate many
so unjustly accused.

BIRTHS.

I July 5, at his horse, Little Cloisters, Westminster, the Lady of
the Rev. James Webber, of a son.
July 3, at Chiswick, the Lady of Captain Alaliett, of the 4Cth
Regiment, of a daughter.
July 4, the Lady of Capt. G. R. Lambent of his Majesty's ship
Cameleon, of a still.bein daughter.

MARRIED,
Wednesday, at Woodbridge, the Rev. James Orford, M.A. of
Chelmontliston, Suffolk, to Min Sarah Elizabeth Jentiftitsi of
Ipswich.
r June 26, at Bath, Captain James Bradley, R.N. to Carolina
eldest daughter of the late Admiral Western, of Tattingstane.place
Suffolk.
July l, at Ehlersly House, Robert C. Bontine, Esq. of Ardocit,
to Frances Laura, daughter of Archibald Spier, Eq. of Eldersly.
Saturday, at Cambridge, the Rev. Henry George Keene, Fellow
of Sidney Sussex College, and Assistant Oriental Professor at the
East India College, to Anne, third dsughter of the late Chai
Apthorp Wheelwright, Esq. of Highbury.
Rev. John Phear, Rector of Earl &wham, Suffolk. to Catlie-
rine Wreford, only daughter of Samuel Budd, Bag. of North Taw-
ton, Devon.

Rev. John Lloyd, of Cardigan, to Miss Mathias.
June 21, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, the Rev. Wm. no or-
lett, A.B. of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Frances, fourth daugir
ter of Joseph Taylor, Esq. f Yarmouth.
Tuesday, at St. James's, Southebnham, the Rev. Frederick Bar--
way, to Mary Anne, only daughter of the late R. Cracku.:ll, Gt...
of Fressingfield.