Star.
London, England, 1830-06-17 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

OUILDXALL.—A lad, about 18 years of age, named Frederick
Joseph, an apprentice with Mr. Davis, a furrier in Bull's Head.
court, Newgate-street, attended before Aldermen KIT and Sir J.
Pimento yesterday, upon a summons for assaulting, or rather in-1
tending to seduce, two of his master's maid tenants.
The first complainant was a tall powerful young woman, named
Mary Steward.
A solicitor for the prosecution desired her to state what had
passed, beginning with the afternoon, to show that no encourage-
ment had been given to the defendant to take the step he did.
Sir J. Peaßtita objected to the witness being led at questioned.
She must tell her story in her own way, and the solicitor might
afterwards, if necessary, put a question to her.
The complainant proceeded to state, that she and her fellow ser-
vant went to bed about twelve o'clock, having fastened the room
door. They fell , but about a quarter past one she awoke, and
found the defendant l by her side in bed. She called to her fel-
low servant " here's in bed," upon which he started up
and ran out of the room.

Alderman lizir—What did you say to him P
Witness—l did not say a word to him.
Alderman JUT—Did not you express surprise ?
Witness—Oh, yes, I did the next morning when we got up.
Sir Jourr Pzaxixn--Then, what did you do after he ran out of
the room ?

Witness—We both went to sleep, and at a quarter before two
we found him in our bed again, lying by the side of our Betsy.
Betsy Roberts, the other young woman, immediately came for.
ward to finish the story. When she awoke and found him lying
at ber side, with his hand over her side, she gave him a smack in
the face, and he rushed out of the room. She called out aloud,
threatening to tell her mistress and master in the morning, and she
kept her word.
Sir John Perring asked the defendant if be should like to ask these
young women any questions ?
Defendant replied, he had no questions to ask, but be denied that
he was in the bell on either side. He was on the edge of the child's
bed on one side, and on the seat of the window en the other, which
certainly brought him close to the parties.
But why did you go into the room at all, said Alderman Key ?
Defendant said If liberties had not been given to him, he should
not have thought of taking any. The young women had said jocu-
larly that they were then pregnant, and talked very freely to him.
In answer to a question from the solicitor, he said he was con-
cealed in the cupboard, in the maid's room, from half-past eleven.
Mr. Davis said he was one of the most depraved lads in ex-
istence, and wished to state his general conduct, hut the Aldermen
declined hearing him ; and after some consultation ordered the de-
fendant to find sureties to keep the peace for two years, himself in
1001. and two sureties in 501. each.

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BOW-ST KEET.—lstuoitat. PUBLICATIONL—Yesterday, Jo-
seph Phair, a man who was convicted about 12 months ago of sel.
ling indecent prints and publications, was summoned at the suit of
Skinner, one of the inspectors of hawkers and pedlars' licenses, for
vending songs of a grossly immoral description, not having the
printer's name affixtd thereto.
Skinner stated that he had taken proceedings against the defend-
ant at the express injunction of the Solicitor for the Stamp Office,
who had received information that the metropolis was absolutely in.
undated with indecent songs, which were sold without any printer's
name attached, and could be purchased at the defendant's and other
shops at the rate of ad per quire.
A. man named Eames produced six copies of songs of the gross.
eat kind, which he had purchased at the defendant's shop, No. 69,
Great Peter-street, Westminster. _ .

The defendant in answer to the charge said, he hoped the Magill-
trates would be merciful, as he had a wife and five children.
Sir R. Brastur.--A wife and five children. Then your conduct
is so much the worse in selling such publications as these.
Mr. HALLS said, the case was fully proved, and the defendant
having had the warning of a previous conviction, could expect but
little mercy. He must know that the songs were grossly immoral;
and how a husband, and the father of children, could reconcile it to
himself to deal in such filth he could not imagine. An example
must be made of him.

The defendant was then fined 101. and ordered in default of pay.
ment to stand committed to the House of Correction for three
months, there to be kept to hard labour.
211•11LBOROUGH.STIS:ETCAUTION TO PAWNBROKERS,—
A respectable looking man, named Thomas Barudl, who has been
some clays in custody, charged with the following fraud, was yes.
terday brought before hlr. DYER, the sitting magistrate, for ftnal
examination.

Mr. Aldous, a pawnbroker, residing in Berwick-street, Soho.
square, stated that the prisoner had been for a considerable time put
in the habit of pledging at his shop bars of metal of the description
of those now produced, as bars of unwrought silver ,• and as they had
all the appearance of this latter metal, and weighed exactly as silver
did, he (Mr. Aldous) never suspected that there was any fraud
practised, and lent the prisoner upon all occasions sums in propor-
tion to the current price of silver; and he was still more thrown
off his guard by the fact that the prisoner used frequently to
redeem some of the bars and repledge them again on a subse.
quent day. At last he (Mr. Aldous) observed that the prisoner had
considerably increased the number of his pledges, without redeem.
ing any, and that advances had been made to him of nearly 501. al-
ready, and he determined therefore not to take in any more such
I pledges until he bad ascertained that the metal was a pure silver ;
and he accordingly took one of the bars to an assayer in Hatton.
garden, who, on submitting the metal to the usual test, discovered
that it was not silver at all, and was of scarcely any value ; so that
he, Mr. Aldous, was completely defrauded of the sums he had
lent on it.

'rho assayer stated that in assaying one of the bars of metal now
produced, he ascertained that it was nothing better than a sort of
metal known by the name of " German silver," as a compound of
zinc and copper, and not worth more at the utmost than 7s. per
pound. He was not however surprised, he said, that Mr. Aldous
had been deceived by it, for he, the assayer, would have been equally
deceived, if he bad merely to judge of it by appearance, and at was
only by the process of assaying that its spurious nature could be
detected, because it was made up in bars of precisely the same
length and thickness that silver was had exactly the same ap-
pearance in point of colour, &c. and weighed as heavily as silver
did. It was very difficult too, he said, to detect it, even in
the manufactured state ; for when made into spoons, forks, &c. it
bore all the appearance of silver, and wore in use precisely as that
metal did, never showing any different colour, as in the case of plated
articles, it being a solid uniform metal all through. Here the wit.
nee produced a fork made of the metal in question that had been
in use for the last three years, and it would be impossible for any
one not acquainted with the fact to say, from its appearance, that it
was not genuine silver.
Clements, the tracer, said, that he bad considerable difficulty in
tracing out the prisoner, as he was quite unknown, except by his
person, to Mr. Aldous ; but at length he discovered his residence
to be in the neighbourhood of St. Luke's, in the city, where he car-
ried on a manufactory of various metal articles, such as tea-pots,
&c. and was understood to be a very clever, ingenious man in his
trade.

One of Mr. Harmer's clerks attended for the prisoner, and under
his advice, the latter declined saying any thing in his defence for the
present, and he was fully committed for trial.

WII MSICA L OCCURRENCE.—A Corsham Correa-
pondent says— " A pig at the Harp and Crown, in the parish of
Coniham, was taught to drink beer out of a glass, and would ran
from his company in the court-yard into the tap-room, and jump up
into any one's lap for a glass of his favourite liquor ! Last week
being Whitsuntide, 'Jim,' (for that was his name, and to which he
would answer) had' quite a bout of it :' but not being satisfied in
the tap-room, he got into the cellar, and drank of the beer drop.
pine, till he died literally as drunk u a pig.'"
LIVERPOOL AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.•-•A1118
railway is to be 100 miles in length, of double rails, on the plan of
the Liverpool and Manchester railway. The capital is already rub.
scribed. Another company is formed to extend the railway to the
metropoli& : when that shall be completed, we have no doubt that
persons leaving London in the morning, may dine in Liverpool.—
That such expedition is practicable has been ascertained on the
Liverpool and Manchester railway.
Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Town Howl*,
hfile.end-road, on the body of William Fisher, aged 29. The de-
ceased, who was a furrier, walked to London from Glasgow to pro-
cure employment. On Monday night, being very wet and cold, he
went to the lime-kilns, near the Globe-road, where he fell asleep,
and was suffocated. A verdict to that effect was recorded.