Star.
London, England, 1824-04-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTRI.LIGENCE.

• BOW-STREET.
name parse,—Mr. Ceorge ring was charged with an assault
and batterv-on the person of Mrs. Mary Canner.
Mrs. Mary Canner is the sister of Mr. George King, and whilst
she was Mfg.; ring, there never was a kinder brother than he was;
but when she married Mr. Gunner, all his kindness was at an end ;
for Mr. Canner is a cos:ermongrr, and Mr. George King being the;
litieal descendant of a long line of chimney-sweepers, and himself a
chimney-sweeper of no ordinary talent, he considered it as a cir-
cumstance extremely derogatory that his sister should descend to
marry a costerrionger. So he not only withdrew his countenance
from her altogether, but he has never met with her since, that he
has not manifested his anger, either by words or blows, and in
almost every instance he has given her the blows first, and the ex-
planation of them afterwards. This conduct was the more cruel,
as Mrs. Canner said, inasmuch as her husband, Mr. Gautier, " is a
little tircitp man," and, therefore, quite unable to protect her.—
I lowever, ,he bore It as will as she could, until a day or two ago,
when she "met him promise:alp" in the Strand, and he then and
there took uuon him-elf to lick her! And not content with
kicking her, he told her to go along for " a dirty donkey-driver's
dr,,h; ' and not content with this, he encouraged "the woman he
gars Wiling with" to abuse her.
!laving stated this much, Mrs. Canner proposed that a jury of
matrons should be impanelled front the Ladies then present in the
Office, in order that they might depose to the consequences of the
kick in qu•..stion. But the Magistrate told her such a ceremony
was not at all necessary, and he called upon Mr. George King for
his defence.

Mr. George King stood before the bench boldly, in ail his sooti-
ness, with his Mile daughter in his hand; and when his NVorship
asked him what he bad to say for himself, he replied—" Say for
mycelf, your Worship ! Why I ye this here to say—that she's only
w•ea'd becoz I won't let my little daughter here wissit her; and the
worst and the brat what f said to her was, ' Poll, don't put yourself
in a passion !"fhat's all what I've got to say, your Worship, fur I
never kicked her, not by no means."
Ordered to find bail far his appearance at the Sessions.
A NSIO N-11011SF.-

Three boys, named Woodward, Abbott, and Earnshaw, were yes-
terday brought before the Loan Moron, for his disposal as thieves,
found at large with intent to commit depredations.
On the f.:9th of March last, at about one o'clock in the morning,
a noise was heard in an old ruined house near the 'Binaries. The
disturbance bt cape great, and an officer went there to ascertain the
cause, when he lound a gang of eight little hungry wretches fighting
for the division of a piece of bacon, which they had stolen in the
course of the evening. The whole were taken into custody, and
brought before the Lord Mayor. Two of them were sent to Bride-
well, and the other three were sent to the Refuge fur the Destitute.
The Officer who took the boys to the Society informed the Lord
Mayorthat he had stated the circumstances fully, and the result
had been an absolute refusal to admit them.

The Loan MAYOR said he had received from the Secretary, the
Rev. Dr. Crosby, a letter which stated in substance, that the cases'
of Woodward, Earnsbaw, and Abbott, had been considered by the
Committee, who had directed him (Dr. Crosby) to state that the
last two were below the age admissible into the establishment, and
that the first was not criminal, and bad a father in employment.
and capable of giving work to his son. He begged to be allowed
again to remind his Lordship, that the Institution was occupied in
the reform of youthful culprits, under which character not one of
the above boys can be classed.
After some observations on the subject, the Loon Mavott ordered
the prisoners to be taken hack to the Compter, until he tried some
other place in which they might be taken and saved from the gallows.