Star.
London, England, 1826-06-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

ALL IN THE WRONGl.—Whilst • the Lard Mayors Mr. Alderman
Wood, Mr, Alderman Waltham and Ur, Alderman Thompson,
were on the hustings yesterday scrambling for the representation of
the city, Alderman Sir Ccavains HUNTER was busily engaged in
the Justicis.roons, endeavouring to reconcile the connubial differs*.
ces of a Mr. and Mrs. Gatehouse.

Mrs. Gatehouse, a small, loud-spoken matron, complained that
her spouse, a large, full-spread, comely, quiet-talking personage, had
for more than five years last. past been continually battering and
bruising her, and encouraging his daughter (by a former wife) to
call her hard names, and bump her with a certain heavy utensil, by
laondresses called a fist-iron, until by all these long-continued
bumpings, bruisings, and batterings, she was literally bumped,
bruised, and battered to a mere mummy ; and she therefore hoped
the Alderman would bind Mr. Gatehouse down in such a manner
that he could not repeat the like again.
Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER observed, that he really did not perceive
any outward sign of all those batterings and bumpings, and he el
deavoured to prevail upon Mrs. Gatehouse to tetire with her h,::-
band, and come to some amicable arrangement, as the interferetme
of the Magistrate could only widen the breach between them. !Lc
Mrs. Gatehouse was peremptory to have her husband " beat.d
down," and therefore the Alderman asked him what he had to s.:".
" Why, Sir," said Mr. Citehonse—having first charged his thti7-.4
and finger with a very anyele pinch of black rappee.—" Why, 5.r,
I hardly know how to make either top or tail of my wife!"
" Well, that is very possible," said Sir CLAUDIO! Hunitu; "
it is no reason why you should beat her."
" Beat her, my dear Sir !" rejoined Mr. Gatehouse, " Incest belt
her but when she deserves it. Site is of such a cantankerous
perament, that without a little correction now and then, it would be
impossible to keep her within bounds ; and she has no one else to
correct her—so what am I to do, your Worship ?"
" Why you are not to beat her," replied Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER ;
" the best way for you to do, when she will not he quiet, is to walk
out of the house and leave her until her anger is over, That is what
I should always recommend in such cases."
" But, Sir," rejoined Mr. Gatehouse," my circumstances will nor
allow me to leave home—l have my business to attend to ; and it
I was to leave home every time she is out of temper, I should hardly
ever be there, and my bul.inesswould soon go to ruin."
Here Mrs. Gatehouse, whet, being rather deaf, bad been anxiously
trying to hear what was going on, exclaimed—" Oh ! if your Wor-
ship listens to him, he'll tell yon a tale an hour long. This is the
way he's always talking at home ; but I hope your Worship won't
listen to him, for if you do there 'll be no Slid to it."
" I pity her !--from my lout I pity het !" ejaculated Mr. Gate-
house*absorbing. another pinch of Tappet, and regarding Mrs!
:Getehou.e with a look of much kindness.

" I assure your Worship,'Tcoutinued Mrs. Gatehouse," that his
daughter calls rue an old cat, and a eattairsaran and a vile old hypocrite,
only because there is a chapel I go to sometimes; and I was black
and blue for a month the last time his daughter bumped me with
the fiat-lron."

" Whi do you let your daughter beat her?" asked Sir Cam:inns.
Mr. Gatehouse explained, that his daughter was "a great bone
of contention" between them—ahe being a daughter by a former
Mrs. Gatehouse, and of course very obnoxious to the present Mrs.
Gatehouse, who was continually urging him to turn her out of
doors, which he was fully determined not to do.— Whilst the girl
was very young she used her cruelly, but now she WAS grown up
she retaliated whenever she was ill-treated, and that led to continual
squabbles between him and :Ws. Gatehouse. " But," added he
Is I pity her—from my soul, I pity her ! for I think she would he
better tempered if she could, and I have no doubt her deafness
makes her worse."

"Bind hint down, your Worship!" cried Mrs. Gatehouse.
His Worship, however, would not bind him dowh ; but observing
that he plainly perceived they were a all in the wrong," be dismissed
them, with an earnest recommendation to be all in the right us coon
as they possibly could.

BOW-STREET.

Caroline Preston was yesterday morning brought before the sitting
Magistrate, Sir Mamas Mount, in the custody of Cun„charge4
with stealing two sovereigns, the property of James BetheL —Cuss,
the constable, deposed to having seen her put some gold into her
mouth, and on applying his staff of (Ace between her Styria he
struck against something which be believed to be a sovereign, When
the prisoner threw back her head, *and a gulped it as he woul.t a
pill." The prisoner denied the chargers teto.--She was remanded.

M A LBO ROU G H-STRERT.
T. Williams, a Kensington toll-keeper, was summoned by S!:
John Lilly, fur detaining him while in Sir Edward Colnbrook's
carriage, on the pretence of wishing to see the post-horse ticket,
and for using abusive language. Williams apologised, and said is
was a mistake.—Sir John not wishing to press the full penalty, he
was fined Ns. and costs.

id A RY. LA-BONNR.
C. Butcherb was fully cOhtmitted, charged with nealirg two sheep
and three lambs, the property of R. Woodman, yf Sh. perd'• Bush,
the heads and plucks of which were found it• a cottage rented by
the prisoner, in the Harrow-road, and the turmtr vt,.re identifirl
by the sou f the prosecutor.

Sunday sennight a boy, who had been sent out with
some children, went into Aldermanbury Church to hear
evening service, and by some accident was locked in.
The parents the whole of th • night were in a state ni
distraction ; but from what they could collect from his
companions, they suspectei where he was, and sent to
the beadle; and having obtained adatishion into the
'church, they found the poor little fellow asleep in one
of the pews.
HENDIRSON, TEM CoMZDSAN.—When Hendersol,
the celebrated comedian, first made applicati n to
Garrick, and gave him " a specimen of his quality,"
the Roscius assured him that he could nit possibly con-
vey articulate sounds to the audience of any theatre.
Foote said nerrly the same thing. Colman at leath
took Henderson by the hand; said such was the success
of the man who could not possibly aonvey articulated
ound,that during the first 84 nights of his performance
at the Haymarket. the receipts were compated
less a sum than 4,sool.—Literary Chrostiele.

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