Star.
London, England, 1822-10-09 00:00:00

'ELLIGENI

POLICE

HATTOIhGARDIII.—Mrs. the wife of a very eminent
coppersmith, was brought up in the custody of a constable and
underwent a very long private examination on a charge of steal-
ing a piece of gingham out of a linen-draper's shop in Holborn.
Several friends of the prisoner were present. The Lady was
committed to Clerkenwell prison for another examination to-
morrow ; £lO,OOO bail was offered for her appearance, which
the Magistratesmfused to Itccept.
Maustox-House.—Five fishermen were charged with having
cirried on an unlawful and destructive system of fishing in the
river Thames.
The Than•es fishermen, from Greenwich towards the Med-
way, have recently adopted a system of fishing which is cal-
culated to destroy the young fish. The system is this :—A num-
ber of boats provide themselves each with a wide-mouthed net,
distended by iron rods, and attached to a beans ten feet in length,
which floats on the surface. A Humber of fishing-boats lay across
a stream with these nets, which must take all that comes, even
to the smallest fry. The practice had this temptation too for
the fishermen, that they might be in their boats and smoke their
pipes, whilst their destructive work was going on ; and that it
•only required of them that they should empty the nets at the
end of the day, and keep a good look-out for old Nelson, the
Water Bailiff, that he might not interrupt them.
The fishermen declared that they were forced, by their ex-
.treme poverty, to make use of unlawful nets, to save their fa-
milies from starvation.
The LORD MAYOR condemned all the nets, and the tackle at-
tached to them. The fisherman who ran to give intelligence of
the approach of the Bailiff, was fined 50s. in addition to the
forfeiture of all his tackle.
A man, named Worthington, was charged by Mr. William
Curtis, the son of Sir William, with having obtained from hint
a shilling under false pretences.
Mr. Curtis stated, that he sent a package by his servant to
book it for Hull, at the office of the Hull steam-packet, at Bil-
lingsgate ; but the servant went by mistake into an office of the
defendant's. The person in the office demanded a shilling for
booking it, which his servant paid. Mr. Curtis some time after
received a letter from the country, expressing surprise that the
parcel had not arrived. On investigating the eh cumstance, he
found that his trunk had lain in the defendant's cellar ever since,
and that the latter was not an agent of the hull steam-packet ;
the real arm would have forwarded the parcel for two-pence.
Mr. Curtis said, he thought it proper to bring the case before
tha Lord Mayor, that the l'ublic should he cautioned against
intrusting their property with any but the real agent.
The Agent of the Hull steam-packet declared, that the de-
fendant was not authorized to receive parcels for them.
The defendant said, the charge should have been four-pence
only, and that his wife charged a shilling by mistake. The reason
the parcel bad not keen forwarded was, because the servant of
Mr. Curtis had not paid for it, though he told his master he had.
The I,nan NIAVOR said, there was no evidence of the de-
fendant having received the money. His Lordship dismissed
the case, observing, that the Public were indebted to Mr. Curtis
for bringing it forward.
George Wilson, Catherine Norri-, and others, in all four men
and thirteen women, all taken out of a house kept by a man of
t to name of Summers, in Brewer's-yard, West Smithfield, were
brought up under the following circumstances :
James Saunders, a sailor, was picked up by Catherine Norris,
one of the prisoners, on the preceding night, and he accompanied
her to the above-named house, where they went to hed ; they
had not been long in bed when the prisoner Norris got up, and
taking his watch, which cost him four guineas, ran out of the
r.tom, and locked the door to prevent him following her. He
went to the window, and gave the alarm to the watchman. The
house was entered and searelled, and the prisoner Norris was
found in hed with George Wilson in another room. Both were
taken and searched, but the watch was not found on either of
them, but on George Wilson was found £7. 19s. Robert Harry,
Robert Rans, Elizabeth Green, and Sarah Baker, were all four
lying in one bed; the other ten female prisoners slept singly.
All were lodged for the night In St. Sepulchre's watch-house
Cew•-cross, u -cross, nd brought yesterday AM examination ; all denieel
knowing anything of the sailor's watch. The complainant swore
po,itively it was the prisoner Norris who robbed him; she was
committed for feather examination. The £7. 19s. found on the
person of Georg:" Wilson, was money, be stated, he had saved in
the Saving Hank, and which he drew out on. Saturday last ; be
was reprimanded and discharged,-but the money MS kept from
him, in order to make inquiry whether he received it at the
Saving Bank. All the other prisoners were severely lectuied
and discharged ; and Mr. Serjeant Sus.t.os told Barnsley, the
• beadle, to inform the Churchwardens of this infamous house, in
order that it might he indicted, which he did.
IllAtty-r.A-Bonxe.—Yesterday, at this. Office, a girl charged
het master and mistress, to whom :he was an apprentice, with.
creel treatment.
''he girl stated she bad been bound apprentice from the parish
to learn the " art and mystery of household work." On Satur-
day last she told her mistress she was unable to do the wort,
when her mistress beat her unmercifully with the hearth-broom,
so that she was compelled to leave the house, and was in the
street all night. She had to do all the household work, including
washing for seven besides herself, and wai repeatedly beat by
her mistress.

A Lady said that the child, on Sunday morning, was sitting
at her door in a miserable condition; she took h,:r in and gave
her au asylum until the following day, when she wai taken to
the workhouse. From the account of the girl she made inquiries,
and ascertained the statement was correct. _ _

The Parochial Officer stated that this was not the first com-
plaint that bad been made.
The master said he knew nothing of the transaction, and his
wife was unable to come on account of her family.
The '3lagistrate inquired what premium had been given? and
was informed U. is. she had been apprenticed to them for two
years. • Ile then ordered that the girl should not go back again
to her mistress, and that the master should refund to the parish
the premium given with her.
Messrs. and Ta,#ier, coal-merchants, Were convicted
in the mitigated penalty of 4/. and costs, fur not having a bushel
on or in their waggon, according to the statute.—Nutice was
given to appeal.
Another coal-dealer was also convicted its the sum of 40s. and
costs, for having two sacks short of measure.
Urttost-Ilar.L.—Thumus Sadler was charged with committing
an assault on his wife and father-in-law.
Monday evening the daughter of the complainant was at his
house, when the defendant entered and commanded her to come
out, or he would punish her severely, adding, that she knew he
bad forbid her going there. The father replied, that his house
should be a home for his daughter whenever she liked to come,
The defendant immediately went up to his wife and knocked
her down. Witness lifted her up, and defendant again beat her.
lie then took up the poker and drove witness and his two chil-
dren out of the house, and, following him into the court, struck
Lim a violent blow its the mouth, which knocked out two of his
teeth, and then throwing him on the ground, jumped upon his
breast; but for the arrival of the watchman, he believed he
should have been murdered.
The complainant said, that when Sadler first came into his
room, he took up a puppy that was lying by the fire, and dashed
its brains out against the bars.
Defendant said, that the dog was his property, and he bad a
right to do as he pleased with it; that his wife spent all the
money he earned, and that her father encouraged her.—The pri-
soner was committed for trial.
Wortstisr-sTaaer.—Seven Licensed Victuallers were convicted
at this Office yesterday, in fifty ,killings and casts, for keeping
their houses open after ultven o clock. In all these cases it was
proved that persons were drinking in the tap-room at nearly
twelve o'clock, and in some of them till one o'clock in the morn-
ing. The complaints against about fourteen others, Publicans,
were dismissed, on payment of the costs only.
Mr. Demi. observed, in the course of the investigation, that
under the late Act of Parliament Publicans were bound to shut
up their houses at a seasonable hour of the night, and it was for
the *Magistrates to decide what should be termed a late hour,and
at was his opinion, in which the other Magistrates concurred,
that eleven o'clock was a proper time when all public-houses
should be closed. Some consideration was due to Saturday
night, when masters paid their men at a public-house, and per-
haps at a late hour, therefore it was allowable that the time
should be extended to half-past eleven o'clock. Merely shutting
•up their houses was not sufficient ; there must also be no per-
sons drinking or remaining in the house after the time already
mentioned.
• One Publican suggested that he had a parlour frequented by
persons, and he wished to know if it was in..
• see that those persona left his house precisely

there was no dispc;aition to press this Act

moat respectablo pc]
cantbent on him to
at eleven?
Mr. ISzvu.s. said,