Star.
London, England, 1827-08-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION•HOUSF

Saturday a street-keeper was complained against by a poor
starved-looking Irish fruit-woman, who, in tears, said that the of-
ficer bad knocked about het basket, and tumbled her fruit Into
the street.

The street-keeper said that he had been ordered to rid the streets
of the fruit women, and that the Gentlemen of the Ward woold
accuse him of neglect of duty if he did not take every means to
obey the order.
The Loan Maros expreued his contempt of that sort of dial».
sbion which fixed,uPon the poorest objects for the infliction of
punishment as an'example. Ile advised the street-keeper to exer-
cise impartiality, and insinuated that there were good reasons for
passing by those who were making more money tban'the wretched
wonrau, who, if not allowed to exercise her calling, must perish, as
thewen not admissible into the workhouse.
Every one in the justice-room was gratified at the warm huma-
nity of this lecture.
GUILDHALL.

Sleitors. Cawthorne and Twigge, tea-dealers, St. Andrew's•hill,
appeared on Saturday, before Mr. Alderman Kay, to answer the
complaint of a decent looking poor woman, about 35 years old, one
Lucy Langton, for unlawfully keeping a dog accustomed to bite,
whereby she was bitten on the 9rlt MK. Toe dog. a mixture of the
mastiff and terrier, was brought into Court, touted with a heavy
chain.

Mrs. Langton stated, that as she was passing down St. Andrew's
bill, in the evening, the animal set upon her, and seized her, not by
the leg, but by the upper pan of the thigh. Sbe was soon released
from him some how or other, but she was severely bitten, bad paid
Is. 6d. for a lotion to wash the place, and now the defendanti
wished to avoid making b-r auy recompense beyond paying the
surgeon.

The Gentleman who appeared with the dog replied, that the ani-
mal was formerly kept muzzled, but the neighbours had so repeat-
edly taken off and kept, the muszles, that the practice was discon-
tinued. But still the dog was secured with a chain, and had not
been unchained a moment from a truck he had been dragging,
when this misfortune occurred. He had seen Mr. Cox, the sur-
geon, who had attended to the case, sod had been informed by him
that the visible injury was a mere scratch.
A scratch ! repeated Lucy Langton, 1* a tone of surprise. She
evidently had net anticipated such an samaritan, and therefore-not
being otherwise prepared to prove the ettent of the injury, she, in
an instant, began to gather up her garments from the bottom,
bending and raising the knee, so as to exhibit most conspicuously
the wounded place. Exclamations act " Oh,, good gracious! oh
lawk ! Don't, don't ! No, no!" forthwith resounded on all sides
from a crowd of spectators of each sex, who, having heard where
the bite was, did not conorive it would be possible to exhibit it
without most dreadfully shocking their modesty.
" I would rather nut see—l believe your statement," *aid Mr.
Mclennan Key with eagetness ; and some persons averted their
eyes when it became evident that Lucy was firmly bent upon re-
futing in the most incontestable manner, the defendant's assertion
regarding the nature of the injury.
" Here, Gentlemen, hem," she cried with warmth, " is here
nothing but a scratch?" at the use time baring and exhibiting to
, the public gaze for some moments, by a very cautious management
of her drapery, only a delicately clean plump limb.
There was a deep diseoluuration over about two lathes square;
such an appearance as succeeds a severe pinch.
After such evidence of the fact, the Gentleman was forced to
allow the wound was more serious than be bad stated, and, at the
recommendation of the Aldetman, retired and gave her as a com-
pensation-20s. _ _