Star.
London, England, 1828-12-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

NI A IfSION—IMUIMIL
Twe 'Moen or Motteu.— A boy, 'tamed Amenlend, Who ap
peased to be between 13 and 14 years of age, hut mid !bet be was
Robes open" 18. was' beauttist before. the Leas tlnvoes, &wird
with having tumbled about the streets blind shook. and broken a
shop window.
' A watchmen stated that be saw the boy staggering abodt the
streets in a state of intoxication. At liras erisness thought him MI.
as be could not suppose that so mere a child amid haw* n
an excess of liquor. The tiny. however, soon eshibitrd take such
cal proofs at the state of his isead,by dashing it up ag.inst a window.
The witness, finding it was alt up with the young fellow, took him
up in his hand, and put him to sleep in the watchhousr.
The whole Office were astonished at ibis statement, sad eke Loan
MAYOR, after having expressed his surprise and regret at suck an
instance of youthful debauchety, asked the watchman whether he
bad ascertained what the toy had drank ?
The watchman said, the defendant acknowledged that be bad;
drank gin, rum. and beer.
The LORD MATIIIR (to the defendant). Pray what did you drink.
that put you into so shameful a condition?
Boy—Drink! why I &inked gin. and rum. and Meta.
The Loan Marna—What do yell mean by Meal? water!
Buy—Water ! Goo love yoe, no good strong heavy wet; every
body knows what it it.
The Lome Alaroa—Do you know in what a shocking state of
drunkenness you were found?
• Boy--Ash, I believe you ; I was groggy, that's truth.
The Lotus Maros—.Where did you get the money to pay for the
drink?.
Boy—Eh! what's that you say?
The Loan MAYOR—Why 1 suppose you think you are speaking
to as drunken a fellow as yourself ; don't you know that yew are
before the Lord Mayor?
Boy—Augh, to be sure I do. Well. I got the money from Mr.
Ledby ; he's a brace maker, and I 54.11 s braces myself ; I axed him
for there bob, and he gived it to me ; I vas well enough till I took
the heavy. and that made me lumpy.
The Login Slave/a—And what do you expect to come to if you
continue to lead this life?
Boy—l'm sure 1 know nothink about It; we none of us knows
nothink about it.
. The boy, in reply to other questions. which were all answered in
the same unmannerly strain, said that he was independent of Mr.
Ledliy,although be was in the same trade, and that be was carrying
oat business for himself.
Ile LORD Name's asked whether he 'was able to pay for the
glass he bad broken?
Bay—Why no, I can't pay now, for I hau't net a mag ; but If
the Charley comes with me, gi' him what you wants of me.
The Loma Mayon ordered that some inquiry should be made
about the pour friendless buy. Shocking as the picture was, so
comical was the tone in which the defendant spoke, and so cher
was the resemblance of his manner and language to the experienced
blackguards of the town, that nut to laugh at the scene was
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impossible.
Six ascertain/tors appeared before the Loan Mason, to complain
against the Salesmen, for having sold to them sevetal bushels of
sprats, which were nut fit for the use of the human body. Thy
stated that they bad paid the great cairn of four shillings a bushel for
the sprats, but they were not long in the possession of the fish, when
they found then► stinking, and quite Impossible to be eat—(A laugh.)
Mr. Guldbant (the Clerk ul the Market), said the complainants
had the CA to produc.l, and requited that the stuck should be
brought in.
The complainants exposed some to view, which were not of in-
viting appearance, certainly, hut they wire not avast,' to the nose.
Mr. GoWham said, that he bad watched the manteuvres of the
complainants. and had contyletly detected them. '[be fact was,
they bad all purchased of at► early boat. at 4s. a bushel, hut they
'bad scarcely been supplied lint' the fish. when other boats arrived
and sold at 3s. They then iorn►ediateiy began to knock about the
fish they bad purchased to make it look stale. But be had brought
a dish of sprats which bad been taken indiscriminately from the
quantity boated. and he had himreN never tasted better. This he
bad done in justice to the Salesmen, who were is this case much
calumniated.
The Loan Maros', and others in the Justice Room, tasted the
sprats, which disappeared in five minutes. The defendants were
quite puzzled at this mode of exposing their scheme for getting
sprats at a shilling a bushel less, and walked of after the useless
kw of their time.
GUILDHALL.
The Solicitor to the Apothecaries' 'Company attended before
Mr. Alderman sxo►ws yesterday, .trsiellow cause why the said
Company refused to reimburse the churchwardens of St. Ann.'
Bistkfriars, certain sums which had been paid as rewards to Bre-
men for bringing their engines to extinguish a fire In a chimney in
the rear of Apothecaries Hall.
The Solicitor objected that warehouses and manufactories were
exempt front the operation of the Act ; and it was obvious that if
they were not exempt, such buildings as the glasshouses. from the
chimnies of which the Mimes might be seen to issue nightly. would
be continually chargeable with these rewards. The chimney in
question was not in a dwelling house, hut a factory', and was so
constructed as to burn itself out without danger. It was 90 feet
high ; no sweep could cleanse it, nor could any engine throw water
to the top of it ; and if there bad been any necessity for extinguish-
ing the fire. the parish engine in question would bate been about as
serviceable as a garden syringe.
The Alderman, on referring to the Act, put it to the Solicitor
'whether the premises in question were not included in the mean-
ing ot the terms, '• the tenant or occupier of any house or building
wherein tuck Site begins,- Ac. and finding that this was the first
time the chimney had been on fire since it was built six years ago,
expressed a hope that the Company would not require hint to
make an order, as the demand was not likely to be of frequent

occurrence.
The Solicitor, on this intimation of the Alderntan's opinion,
consented to pay the demand.

BO W—STR [CRT.
Noca AUCTIONS is TIM STSAIID.-A pale, toplooted. brown-
coated, youngish man, was ushered into this office yesterday mot n-
ing, with several others, under the guardianship of an °dicer,
charged with creating a row in the rooms of a mock auction shop
in the Strand, a few minutes before they had taken him into cus-
tody. The prisoner bad interrupted the ro-t rum orator in the dis-
charge of his public duties, and
_bad the crowd that he had pur-
chased a watch at the shop last Saturday for 275. that was nut
Wadi twopence farthing.
Mr. Josephus Levi, the mock auctioneer, protebted that all the
prisoner had said was false. He had the honour of belonging to
**Jewish persuasion, and the religion of his sect did not allow
him to mount the rostrum on their Sabbath Day--ergo, he did
not mount the rostrum on the day alleged—ergo, the prisoner was

wrong.
The prisoner now said that it might have been at the other mock
auction shop that he bought the watch.
-The Jew and the primmer were then sent about their business.
In the course of his address to the Bench the auctioneer said,
that be was aware there was a stigma attached to these auctions.
Sir R. Blame—Aye, and they tacitly deserve that stigma.
Mr. heard, a solicitor, was brought up on an assault warrant,
charged with having assaulted John Chandler, a warder of the
Middle Temple.
It appeared that Mr. lazard and a Lady were proceediag togs-
ther to the chambers of a Barrister on Thursday eveniug, when
tbteomplainant requested the latter to take off her patens, the
41ripetIonp of the Society Ming that no one with pattens should be
allgored to pass.
, ladr. MIMMULL—That is not an order dictstod by much ;Ala&
'try, it must he acknowledged).
Mr. lewd refused to let the Lady take off her pattens, and in-
sisted upon proceeding, which the complainant refused to suffer.
'A audit then ensued, and as the complainant swore, Mr. Isoard
'struck Mm. This, however, hlr. Isaard and the Lady denied,
although a young man, servant to a Mr. Tucker, stated that be was
whams to the assault.
Mr. blooms. Inquired if it were the intention of the Society
to go to the Sessions ?
Their Solicitor said, they were determined to assert their right,
and compel obedience to their orders.
Mr. Isaard was then allowed to enter into his own recognisance,
for his appearance at the Sessions, where he stated his determine
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then of going, whether or no.
Tus Wanness Roaster.—Johns lime, the man charged with,
having been concerned in the burglary in the house of Mrs. MereD.'
OK was busily curtained. The evidence given on the foam
occasions was read afresh. . -
Hannah Morley stated, that she was servant to Mrs. Baker, who,
keeps the Swan with two Necks at Finchley, and remembered that,
on the evening of the rabbet'', four men came so her inhume;
door, and she served them with a pot of porter and pipes ; the pri-
soner was one of those men ; he called at the Swan twice after-
wards—once to purchase a cow, and once in a lish-cut, when '
was taken into custody by the gardener, Lawrence.
Mr. Woolles —Would yqu know the Other three men, if ;
were to see them?
Witness—l should nut; the prisoner looked at me when I gave
hint the porter, and I looked at him in return.
Thomas Harris stated that he wet a labourer; he, on tbe.rright
of the robisety, saw four man paw through the turopike-pte
Whetstone. with pipes in their atooths; the •prisoiser wee one,
the men. and the m.n convicted at the OM Bailey was another.
Mr. hlissnuth, upon tbii evidence, ordered the prisoner's com-
mittal. •
Btesue.---Daniel Heath, alias Jobs V. d, the litturney'a Clerk