Star.
London, England, 1828-08-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

, MANSION 110USF..
Saturday Thomas &los, a respectable looking man„was charged
with haying embezzled different sums of money, the property of
.Alr. James Brookbank, a Le+adenhall• Factor. Mr. Brookbank
stated that the prisoner wa. his warehouseman and collecring clerk,
and was obliged to account for all the sums he received daily.
Joseph Grange, clerk to the hat witness,. said the prisoner col:
lected the debts according to a list made out by the witness, con.
taitiu g the sums which be.was to collect daily, and the times 'of
the parties owing ;hem.. On the. 27th of. March he did not account
for any sum as received on that day from Mr. Francis; and on the
Bth of May he gave no account of 401. received from the same
pLrs•rn. There were some instances in which,he omitted to return
allya.um as received.

•Jobsi Francis deposed, that on the 27th of March he saw his
father, Wm. Francis, pay the prisoner 411. 161. and he put his sante
down in a book now prtaluced as an acknowledgment for that sum;
he also acknowledged the sum paid on the Oth of May.
John Sykes stated, that on the 41stof February he paid the pri-
soner a cheek of 4/. 2s. on his banker on Mr. Brookbank's account.
Alderntan FAreaaanrnae, who set in the absence of the Lord
Mayor, committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial.
The proprietors of the Sons of Commerce Gravesend steam-boat,'
navigating (runs London to Gravesend, were summoned before the
Loin Nlarna on Saturday, upon an information charging them
with having demanded 25.4 d. for the conveyance of a Gentleman
named Talbot, from the.form rto the latter place, the regular fare'
bring no more than ls. 6d. The Justice•roont was crowded. Mr.
Alley appeared for the proprietors. The City Solicitor, and Mr.
Driokald, the Chairman of the Waterman's Company, attended. • '
Mr. Talbot stated the facts of the overcharge, and submitted to
she Lord Mayor that the steam-boat being a passage-boat, was
liable to the regulations of the late Act relative to -boats of this
I,de4criptitta.
111 r. Alley,conteoded, that the vessel in question did not come
Ruder the denomination of passage-boat, and was not at aU under
the controql of .the. Court of Aldermen ; that the Act referred to
wherries and boats propelled.by ours, and not by steam. He stated
that his client, bad paid the sum of £2,600 for steam-vessels to
navigate.from London to Gravesend ; that the public derived the
greatest accommodation Irani such efforts, and that if the price de-
manded trete to be ;educed, that accommodation must cease
altogether.
Loup 111.stroa said.,tbat the steam-boat, as a passage-boat
Mint London.to Gravesend,-came directly under the jurisdiction
at the Mayor aud Alderman, who had regulated the fares. He had
no doubt the jaegislature • meant to include steamboats, and he
should therefore convict the .defendants.. The Lord • Mayer also
Mentioned, that if the proprietors would apply to the Court of
Aldermen, no doubt, there .vrussid be sonic arrangement made; but
the working people must be accommodated. -
, . GUILDHALL.
A OUR name4Alcott was brought before Mr.-Alderman Aststxr
nia.Bol9rday, sharged with hawking articles of saddlery for sale in
el
the horse fair on Friday.; under the Idea that it
WO k eel to eaposeany description of property for 'akin a public
market. . .
Defendant-sad he bad ;trended the market for many,years.; at
one tithe toll Wei received from' him for his. standing. Some shop-
keepers in the' saddlery' line in Smithfield, had instigated the city
authorities tar drive him away; but he thought he could claim to
walk about with his goods tbere,,as s matter of.rights and on Fri-
day lait 'he as scitoally seeking to deliver some bermes' which hi
had aide to ardit.

The there were a Skeen itch dealers is the Nine
•
awaiting the•rasok of this ease.
• ?dr. i
4idemia 41sakee- stated that he had read Is ao old Act of
Parliament which he Could not refer just then, that, the market
*Si inititUted fur tliti idle of horses, cattle, aqd.iheep only. It was
inidwful to lehose Cans or harness for sale there, but as
haat hen aware be was truisms:big, he Would ex-
Vim this AV, Law next offender that was brought to the
*Gehl certainly be lined. The.defenciant was discharged.
•' • WORSHIP—STREET.
This Office was crowded with Llcensed Victualler's, Patin-
imakors. and Others, to witness the final examination of Iranians
Apicessbilidas the former charge, three others were• now detailed
• him—xis. stealing a clock from. Mr. Richirsboa, of the
c of Oldinbuigh, Goewell-street-read ; a dial from Mr.
ffiligitst:4t the Cross Keys, Gditiveltatreet; abd istatiott froth Mr.
of the Queen's Had, kloatod.—Tiler wis fully
_ !:41, aro these lour. charges..: • .
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finsuni'focoe Fan.—A man, whgjavklole niuneasEdoserdifogg,
tbargid'itith Seale,* bieast'of !lose 'from Mr. Chambers, a
4ratriser to-Fetter:lane. Scoiti Mel" )1640:keeper, who took the'
fifilitfler into itinsfady, and who opparsett as `the prooatutor, ad-
/kg/cc,' tbc,Magiitrate (jJT. H att.!!!') to the following. effect :.0 Flout
ilciet: Worship, after all my trouldale °Sit here plisse of bushier,
Clianibeka refuse, to conic forward and swear to the Wing*
of the meat—(laughter), although it is Id, prolserty.
Mr. Harts—Then the prisoner will get free, and you may Zoo
scot free by taking the meat home wirti. you.—Scott. I humbly
than your Warship; I have fivg children. • • -
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'Mr. Haus—Very well ; let them have the meat aces and. lei.
But how did you apprehend the prisoner?--Scott. f heard the'
cry of Stop thief," and tripped Op his heels.
Mr. fl4r.a4Had by the meat in hit possession at . the time.—
' Scott. No; your Worship, be let it fall in the. street, •
Mr. ifattoSo'ilien you took It up?—Scott. Yes, your Worship,
and I took -Mtn 'llO too;—(la,togliter).
The prisoner was then diacharged, and. Scott .charged with the
couveyatice of the breast of lamb to his five children,
MAKY.:LA-BONNE.
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Saturday a young man named Horne was sharged with cutting
and maiming a person named Ludlow. The parties, who were on
good terms with each abet, were On the previOes .evening eating
oysters at a stall in Lissom-grove, when aidlow in a joke' knocked
an oyster out of the prisoner's hand, at the moment the latter was
patting it into his mouth. The prisoner retreatetia few paces from
Ludlow, and then threw the; oyster-knife at him, exclaiming—
., Take care of yourself." The knife entered Ludlow's loins, and
touched one of the arteries, &c. and he sustained so much injury
that he was couveeed to the Hmpital„ where he remains in a dan-
get eus state:—:-He was remanded until Ludlow should be declared
out of danger.
QUEEN—SQUARE.
An Irish labourer, named listrick Quinn, was brought up. from
Sc. Margaret's watchhouse, charged with having wantonly, and
with malice aforethought, devoured several plates of hot rant pork,
stuffed with sage and onions, at the shop of Dir. John Thorn, an
eating house keeper, in Tothill-street, well knowing he had no
insets in Lis pocket to pay for be same.
It appeared that about ten o lock en the previous evening, Paddy
Quinn was wandering up Tothill-otreet, somewhat hungry. when his
olfactory nerves wets assailed by the steam of a fine h9t leg of perk,
well stuffed with sage and onions, issuing from Mr. Thorn's shop.
He hovered about the glop, and, as be expressed himself," he could
sot set the smellout of his nose, as it was so like goose." At last, he
mustered sufficient courage to enter the shop, and he called boldly
for a plate of the said savoury roast pork, "and let there be plenty
of sage and onions," said Mr. Paddy Quinn, and plenty of
pertains." His order was instantly served, and in a few minutes
the plates were as clean as if they bad just been polished. " Another
and another" plate followed, and perhaps many more would Dave
shared the same fate, bad not . the landlord thought it advisable
gently to hint to his customer, that payment was necessary, as he
bad been gormandising for en hour and a half. This was a most
unwelcome sound to the ear of Paddy Quinn, Who had not a far.
thing in his pocket ; and so, to mike the best of it, he tried to
besince the landlord out of the supper,by considering himself greatly
offended at being asked for payment before he had finished his se-
past, and, therefore, be kicked up a riot in the shop, abused his host,
and threatened delteuction to any one that came In his way. The
islodlord, seeing Harris tistranistable outside, called him In, and
pee kb riotous mummer hi charge. Hem.* accommodated in the
wasabbouse with a lodging tio.digest his supper.
Orionis ordered him' to pay for the supper, and Ukelthe k

the ',pence. Rome Irish fehinsills follutlately,hetrig mi,„,d,
claims against Paddy Quinli-4teri itipirdated.
UNION HaieLL.
• ffenrdayll young rsilw, servant to Mr. Whitley, ava
of Bermondsey; wastbrought before the sitting Magistrate NI.
Finns), charged with robhimr Ilk master to a aorkitierable eve%
The complainant state:l4ll.a the prisoner was within one yeard
• being out of his time. On complainant taking stock about a yrt
ago, he bound a deficiency of nearly 300 t and suliecsing hie piku
copal shopman, be discharged him at the time. *Since dor di,
' chargepf this person various articles of jewellery and plate
been missed, stock was taken again a few damago, when e,
ther deficiency *of two hundred pounds worth of properly wt
a;certained.' Suspicion was then excited towards the pillow,.
and, on being starched, a vast number of duplicates of smicit;
that bad been pledged at 'kis matter's shop were Nand In
possession, and he acknowledged that, subsequently •to the anklet
being pledged, he took possession of them himself, and had
advanced upon them at the shops of diffetent pawnbroker,
town. In this manner he always contrived to raise as much mon.,
as not only to supply the estravagancies of a female whom he
but also to furnish a male companion with money, by whom here,
lates he was threatened with a dischkere of the system of plunder
that was going forward on •his mas:er's property if he was tin:
supplied with cash when he wanted it. The complainant addt,l,
that the prisoner had told him that he -raised between rq. and
per week on the property which he took from the shop. He wo:
remanded.
Saturday Cornelius Delany was charged with robbing Seri
Irech.—The complainant had been living for some years in Surrey,
but ber husband dying, and le,ving her in destitute circunntaneek
with a boy, about lour years aid. she determined on going home re
her native place, Hampstead. On Tuesday last she set our on het
journey, carrying a bag, containing all her worldly wealth, moms
ing of apparel and a five other necessaries. When within ale,
miles of London, and while stopping a few moinents to rest her..
pelf, the prisoner and two °diets (his countrymen) overtook NT;
The prisoner offered to carry the bundle; the poor creature con.
sentiug, they proceeded towards town, add the complainant trersg
tbem with beer, and shared with than) the little provisions Atha&
When within about a mile from town, she wished to turn ores
Hampstead, but they cautioned her •againat trusting her.eo alone
.on the road, it then bei g dark : assuring her they would proms
a respectable lodging where they were acquainted, and persuaded
her to accompany them. At this time, Delany.gave the boodhis
another of the party, and said he 'would take the " shild."
soon as the other got the bag, he set off at a round trot, so *every
' soon to be .lost sight of. Delany had the child—and the pour
wont an,. at this part of her tale, bursting into tears, exclaimed,
" Your Worship, I didn't know what to do—if I followed the
bundle, I might lose my child, and that I thought would even be
a greater loss !" However Delany assured her that his friends only
went on to engage lodgings ; that Terry Leary was an honest buy,
and they came to Hunt street, ritrough. Delany went into a how%
and asked if be could get a lodging for himself, his wife, and clulde
The complainant instantly declared he was not her husband, and
related the awry of the bundle, when she fouo9 she bad been tow
plane!), duped.—The prisoner was 4ully committed.