Star.
London, England, 1830-09-03 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Mstrsiow-lioun.—Yeaterdayqwo men, named Awaits and Lour,
were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having attempted
to pass a gilt sixpence as a half sovereign.
.Ur. Ledger, the landlord of the King's Head, in Pudding-lane,
stated that the two prisoners walked into his house, and that Austin
called for a quartern of gin, and threw down the sixpence. Witness at
once
_perceived that the sixpence was not what it pretended to be, and
an or passing by at the time was immediately called in. Austin,
perceiving that all was up, said with great tact, "Come along, master;
give us the change for the sixpence."—(Laughter.) The witness,
however, who happened to be awake to such characters, would not
believe that Austin meant any thing but to defraud him of 91. 6tl.
and accordingly had both apprehended and conducted to the Jus.
tice-morn.

The Loan MATOR..—WeII, Mr. Austin, what Male have you to say
OD the subject?
Austin.—More I your Lordship ! Lord, what more an I say. I
vent to treat my friend. Says I to him, Jack, says I, I have got a
tanner, and I'm blowed if we don't lush it, so I calls for the gin, and
the landlord can't say as how that I axed him for more change nor I
ought to have.

Aye (said the Lord Mayor) but you expected that the landlord would
make a mistake in your favour.
Mistake! your Vorship, said Austin, that's impossible. The two
coins are quite different.
The LORD MAYOR—Yes; but you have made them pretty much
alike. Have you many sixpenses of this colour?
Austin—l've seen that ere one, and I knows nothing about the
colour. If it's a good sixpence, 1 don't care nothing about the colour.
(Loud laughter.)
The Loan MAYOR—I believe you to be a very great rogue.
Austin—What, my Lord I a rogue ? Am I a rogue, Jack ? Didn't
I tell you it was a tanner ? (A laugh.)
Law—You did, Jem, and you throwed it down quite careless, not
like what you would, provising it was half a sovereign—(Laughter.)
The Loan MLYOII—Do you colour the sixpences yourself, or did
this change colour in your pocket ?
Austin—l'm blest if I know how I got it, but I've seen people pus
them for sixpences ; and the bit of gilt don't make them a bit worse ;
they gilds silver watches, and why shouldn't they gild silver sixpences,
please your Lordship ?
The LORD MAYORYOtt are likely to do well ; but though I have
a very high opinion of you, I shan't let you go until you bring forward
some persona to tell me that you are not an utterer of base coin.
The prisoners were remanded.

BOW•STREET.—Yesterday two girls, named Isabella Josephs and
Jane Bartholomew, the former 1/3, and the latter 14 years of age, were
brought before Sir R. Brarrtz.
Mr. Thomas stated, that he had a few days since, received an ano.
nymous communication stating, that a number of hale children were
harboured in an infamous house in Eagle-court. This bagnio was de.
cidedly the very worst in London, and the heartless being who keeps it
derived immense gains from the prostitution of children. The little
girl, Jane Bartholomew, had been living there about three weeks. She
had one day been met in the city by a Jewess, who by promising to get
her a situation, in the family of a lady at the West-end of the town,
enticed her to Eagle-court, where she had since been living. The wages
of her infamy averaged nearly two guineas a day, and this money was
wrung from her under pretence of furnishing her with clothes, and board
and lodging.
Sir R. BIRWIE said if this were true, he knew of no punishment that
would be adequate to such unprincipled criminality.
The little girl corroborated the statement made by Mr. Thomas,
adding that site was an orphan, and that she would gladly leave a life
which was most disagreeable to her.
Mr. Thomas said there was a den of vile houses in I. agle-coutt, in
which every atrocity that could be thought •of was perpetrated, and the
disorders which existed in the neighbourhood, completely baffled all
the exertions of the police.
Sir R. BIRXIE said, that the keepers of these houses ought to be in.
dieted. There was now a clear cue against Belau:o,4nd lie would take
care that the pariah officers should take it up.
Mr. De Ville, the Churchwarden of St. Martin's, entered at this
moment, and Sir Richard stated to him all that had occurred.

Mr. De Ville consented at once to cause an indictment to be preferred,
and appointed an interview with Mr. Thomas on the subject.
After some further conversation, it was arranged that the girls should
remain in Bt. Martin's workhouse until they could be got into some
asylum.

Mea:.LA.Boxxts.—Y.sterday a young woman, named Eliza Jones,
was charged with stealing one 101. note, two 51. notes, and five sove-
reigns, the property of Mr. H. T. Green.
About ten days since, the prisoner and another young woman were
brought to the office, charged with refusing to pay the fare which they
had incurred by engaging a cabriolet, when a 101. and two 51 notes,
with a sovereign and some silver, as well as a silver watch, were
found upon Jones. In her explanation to the Magistrate, she',
then stated that a gentleman whom she had met at Camberwell
fair had made her a present of the money. Circumstances,
however, tranapired,which induced Mr. Rawlinson so have her remanded ;
but when she was brought for re-examination, no person coming forward
to claim the money, she was discharged, but the notes were detained. A
few days since, the prosecutor, in consequence of an advertisement, gave
such a description of the notes as to leave no doubt of their being his ;
but all trace of the prisoner was lost until Wednesday morning, when a
man came to the office and stated that he was authorised, by a young
woman of the name of Jones, to apply for 211 which had been detained,
and that she was so situated as to be unable to attend. Mr.
Rawlinson endeavoured to ascertain where she was, but the
applicant was quite silent on the subject while he was in the office.
Heys, the gaoler, however, happened to go out, and observing Jones
standing in a retired place, he brought her to the office, and evidence
was brought against her which went to show that the prosecutor having
been accosted by her in the stseet at a late hour of the night, on Thurs..
day se`nnight, he imprudently admitted her into his house for a few
minutes, and she took that opportunity of picking his pocket.
The prisoner denied having seen the prosecutor until he came to see
her in Clerkenwell prison.
Mr. Rawlinson said the charge was fully made out, and he should
commit her for trial.

TOWN.HALL.—RaphaeI and Ann Smith were charged on suspicion
of stealing a gold watch. Mr. Rose, silversmith, of Tooley-street,
stated that, on Wednesday afternoon, the prisoners offered the watch to
him for sale, saying that it was left to the male prisoner by his father.
He declined purchasing, unless some responsible person came forward
to vouch for the accuracy of the statement, and in consequence they left,
but returned shortly after with a person whom they represented to be
their brother, who denied having ever seen the watch before. Upon this
he (the prosecutor) insisted on detaining it, when the prisoners said they
would tell the truth, which was that the wife found it the night before
in Goswell-street-road. The prisoners were committed for re-hearing.
WORIIIIIP.STREET.--Yesterday, Louisa Elliott was fully commit.
ted to Newgate for trial. by Mr. Bennet, under the following charge.—
It appeared, from the evidence of Mrs. Banbury, of Mariner-street,
Horton, that the pawner lodged with her. On last Tuesday night,
the prisoner came home in a state of inebriety, and witness went to un.
dress her : in doing so, two seals and the duplicate of a waistcoat fell
from her boson,. Witness, knowing the seals, went and examined a box
in her back parlour, from which she missed a silver watch, two seals, a
new waistcoat, and a tablecloth ; and, on further search, she found that
a sheet had been taken away from the prisoner's bed. The following
morning she sent for an officer, and gave her into custody, and who, on
searching her person in the presence of witness, found the duplicate of
all the property.
THAMES POLlCE.—Margarel Ford was committed for trial,
charged with taking from the person of Elizabeth Pearce 15s. in silver,
and some copper money. The prosecutriz stated that, on the evening
of Tuesday, the 24th ult. she was passing through Twine-court, Shad-
well, when the prisoner, who knocked her down, placed her head and
shoulders between her legs, and took front her bosom a child's stock.
ing, which contained the money.
Luke Marjarlane was charged with an attempt to steal the police.
van, which is used for conveying the prisoners from the Office to Newgate,
while the van was standing at the door of this office, on Wednesday even-
ing. The accused drove off in the direction of the London Docks, but the
horses not having been accustomed to go that way, became restive and
began to plunge, and the prisoner in consequence became unable to
guide the vehicle. the wheels of which came upon the foot.pavenitnt,
when a man was knocked down, and narrowly escaped being run over.
The prisoner said he had laid a wager of half.a.pint of gin that be
would drive the van a short distance ; which wager he won, but he lost
his liberty, for he was locked up for the night. Captain Riebbell told
the prisoner that he had pbecd the lives of his Majesty's subjects in
jeopardy by his foolish conduct, and ordered him to find good bail to
keep the peace for the next six months. Not being provided with the
required sureties, he was placed as an inside passenger in the van, in-
stead of the box, and conveyed to prison.

An inquest was held at the Town-hall, Gravesend, un
Thursday, the 28th instant, before Eagle, Esq. %layor and Co-
roner, and a respectable Jury, on- the body of Mr. John Davis, a
respectable Licensed Victualler, and late landlord of the Three Crowns,
Old Jewry, aged 48 years. He lost his life by accidentally slipping off
a pathway, nine or ten feet, into an area, at the back of the Vann
Bath, and severely fracturing his skull, of which wound he survived but
a short time. Verdict—Accidental Death.

Fate.—About three o'clock on Monday morning, the
watchman discovered that there was a fire in the stable attached to the
Bush Inn, Manchester, and accordingly raised an alarm. Sot of the
men attached to the inn got up, and forcing the door, found that part
of the hay-loft was on fire, and communicated to the rack and bed-
ding of a valuable mare, belonging to a gentleman frau Liverpool, who
travels in the spirit line. The mare being tied up, was completely en.
veloped in the flames, and Its moans were piteous In the extreme ;
but there was no help for the poor animal, as the fire completely. pre.
vented any approach to it. The fire engines arriving, played upon the
building, and about six o'clock the fire was get under.