Star.
London, England, 1827-08-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

The public have been annoyed for a length of time by the dis-
putes betwe-n the Proprietors of the Paddington, kllaekwalt, and
sober stage coaches. The contest shears itself sometimes in races
along the streets, to the terror, and often to the more serious In.
jury, of the passengers; at other times, in obstructions which
nothing hut the infl. ction of heavy penalties can correct. In fact,
the Ponce are constantly occupied in endeavouring to remedy the
evil. The Lotto Means has, in consequence of the numerous cons-
tlaints spoil the subject, determined to put the Act in force upon
every occasion, arid has uniformly fined those against who'll proofs
of a violation of the law have been brought.
Yesterday Mr. Harper, an extensive proprietor of stage coaches,
and some other proprietors, appeared before the Lotus Moroi', to
request, for the sake of the public and for their own sake, that his
Lordship should order :hat the old system, established amongst the
coach proprietors as to the turns which the coaches at Leadenhall-
market were to take, should he adopted. It had been, they said,
agreed amongst the inhabitants of the immediate neighbourhood,
that a certain number of coaches should be allowed to stand at the
market. This arrangement had been productive of great advantage,
bur lately a Mr. Paul had put every thing in confusicm, by thrust-
ing himself into the rank with his unwelcome coach, to the great
prejudice of those who, for a series of years, accommodated the
puutic at the spot alluded to.
Mr. Battler, jun. who appeared against the monopoly, begged to
know bow many coaches Mr. Harper, who scented to be so severe
a sufferer by the violation ut this unauthorized arrangement, owned
upon the stand?
Mr. Harper answered that he had eight.
Mr. Hobier submitted to the Lord Mayor, that the proportion
between one, Mr. Paul's property, and eight, Mr. Harpers, ought
to teconcle the latter to whatever advantage the former derived
front taking what he called o Iris turn."
The Loan Marcos said that he was resolved to discountenance,
in the fluor' decided manner, so intolerable a system of monopoly.
None of the proprietors were justified in obstructing the public, but
Mr. Paul had as much right as any of the other coach owners to
take his turn in the rank of coaches, and be might do so with eight-
and twenty coaches if he bad them, as well as with one.

Mr. Harper said, that if men who were comparatively strangers
were to come in upon their work, they could not hope to exist any
longer.
The Loan havoc thought it odd in a man who kept eight coaches
to talk of s dliculty of existing; and observed that it was his (the
Lord Mayor's) duty to we that the public were nut annoyed, Astor
Hie Competition, he should by all means encourage that, as he knew
that the public would be benefited by it, whatever might be the in-
convenience to individuals.
The•coach-owu•rs retired miserably disappointed.
Page, who was oil Monday convicted under the new Smuggling
ACtgaWl C,lDDlitttd upon a warrant on hoard the Tender,.was yes-
fititay brtoujikt before the Lugo MarOL and Althrniln Tnnairsoi
tor the purpose of having a different sentence passed spun hint.
Haciss.thcoalcer; stated, 'bat he went with the warrant to the
ship of was, and &introd r.ge to the Captain, who usiltri.4 the

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surgeon to examine him: Mar Surgeon declared him unlit, and due
he had been Invalided formerly.
The Solicitor to the Customs, under those circumstances of re-
jection, referred to the Act, which supplies the desperate alternative
of a fine of setoo, or perpetual imprisonment.
The LORI) Nlavon—Prisoner, it is my duty, as you ate not fit
for the service, to convict you in this penalty. Are you able to pay
,C 100? Pt isootr—Nut one hundred pence.
The prisoner was then ordered to be imprisoned in the Compttr
until the payment of the fine. as the Act direct,.
GUILDHALL.
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.Tabt Lamar, a journeyman carpenter, was brought before Mr.
Alderman CIOMDtk yesterday, upon a warrant, wherein be was
charged with having assaulted his 'rife.
Jane Lomat, a middle-aged female, stated the case. She went
to her husband's place of work on Saturday week, and received a
part of his wages, he retaining the other part, to spend upon fe-
males of a certain class, as she suspected. She went home, changed
her clothes and disguised herself, and, after watching for her spouse
a short time, saw him enter into conversation with a prostitute,
kiss her openly In the 'treats twice, and then retire with her into a
narrow avenue. H. , however, contrived to get home before her, and
to-fasten her out. The next day be beat her, and turned her out
of doors. She entered into a history of sonic other affairs of the
sante nature that had happened previously, therein displaying that
she was possessed of a most annoying volubility. But her husband's
infidelity and his beatings did not seem more to afflict her than his
incaution in having once impudently underrated her personal at-
tractions and qualifications, by saying that when ale was gone he
would bring home .4 her betters." " But he says he has my mis-
tress" was ever and anon at her tongue's end.
The husband said, the short fact was, he had a most jealous wife,
and when he rat vied her home every sixpence of his wages, the saute
notion of his associating with prostitutes was uppermost in her
mind. He wished to part, and make her an allowance.
" Ay," said Mrs. Lomar, " he says he has my mistress."
" Well, never mind that," replied the Alderman. " Let him
have his mistress, and you be your own master. I know of no better
course under such unhappy circumstances. I have no power to
Interfere in this way ; but what do you (addressing the prisoner)
propose to allow your wife?"
" Why, she has neither chick nor child, your Honour," mid the
carpenter," but Iwlll give her los. a week out of my 281.
" He is destroying me," cried the wife—" I have eaten nothing
since Saturday, my_ jaws ache so."
" If," said the Alderman, " you exercise your jaws every day as
you have dace this morning, I am sure no ono here is surprised at
their going a little stiff"—(Laughter).
The parties would have come to terms, but a new charge was
preferred against the defendant. He had, notwithstanding Lead-
better, the marshalman,.exhibited his staff and the warrant, made a
very obstinate resistance to being taken out of his house, and the
officer bi log determined to carry his complaint to the Sessions, the
Alderman ordered the prisoner to find bail.

BOW-STREET.
Two dustmen, who were employed by Mr. Stapleton, the dust
contractor, of White-friars, were yesterday put to the bar charged
with having stolen a saucepan and fi,h.kettle, the property of Mr.
Lloyd, a tradesman, in I ftdborn, du ring the time they were employed
in cleansing the dust receptacle attached to Mr. Lloyd's house.
Mr. Lloyd's servant stated, that thefish-kettle was perfectly safe
when the prisoners commenced their operations on Monday morn-
ing, but that shortly before they bad finished both that and a covered
saucepan were found missing. As a great number of kitchen uten-
sils had from time to time disappeared, and always about the period
of the dustmen's visits, her suspicions in consequence rested upon
the prisoners, who were taxed with the theft, and who unhesitatingly
acknowledged that they-had taken a tin concern which they had
found among the dust. They, however, utterly denied even having
lumen the other article.

Another witness, who resides in an opposite house, however, saw
the prisoners shoot with a bushel of dust into their cart a saucepan,
answering exactly the description of the one lost, and came forward
and deposed to that fact.
The prisoners did not deny but that they bad taken possession of
the fish kettle. They, however, rested their possession upon a right
—the Ending It in the dust-hole, into which all that enters they be.
lieved to be their*. As to the mks matter, they were innocent as
babes of all knowledge of that; but if the gemman would suffer
them they would make it good to him.
This proposidon was however rejected by the Magistrate, who
committed them to take their trial for the offence.