Star.
London, England, 1829-10-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE
Mary Hoper was brought before Alderman Vintennus, charged
with having deliberately broken the windows of the Sun and Apple
Tree public-hothe, because the landlord refused to give her what
would make a complete beast of her.
Alderman Wriccursves ordered the woman to be imprisoned
until she should pay for the damage she had committed.

GUILDHALL.
New Pouce.—Yesterday, after a charge made by a watchman
against a woman of the town for being disorderly in Fleet-street
was disposed of, Sit P. Lams, the sitting Alderman, asked the
watchman how far in Fleet-street his beat extended?
The watchman replied, front St. Dunstan's Church to Tern•
pie-Dar.
Sir Press—Do you find any increase of disorderly persons since
the establishment of the new police ?
Watchman (laughing)—Oh yes, I believe I do. The new police
are driving them all into the City.
Sir Parse—Then you must drive them all back again ; that will
be much better than bringing them here.
Watchman—Last night there was a row at the other side of
Temple-bar; I went through the bar just to look at it. A police-
man came up and said to the people that were making the row,
" Come, come, you must go along out of this; you must go into
the City with your rows ; you shall make no disturbance here !"
and with that, please your Worship, he drove them all into the City
before my face. I just said to hint, please your Worship, " Why
that's not right to drive your disorderlies into the City ; ' and the
answer he made me, please your Worship, was, that he would drive
all disturbers of the peace into the City ; and that he would go
into the City himself, and sure enough he walked through the bar,
and walked up and down on the pavement in Fleet-street, looking
at me all the time, as if to skew that he set me at defiance, though
he knew well enough be was on my beat ; but as I didn't wish to
have no row, I said no more to him, and when he saw that I was
peaceable, he went back again—(A laugh.)
Mr. Savage, the Common Councilman, who was in the Justice-
room, said be was informed by a friend, that the first night the
new police were on duty, one of them passed along Fetter-lane
and pushed a woman off the pavement. A person of respectable
appearance, who was passing at the time, said that was unmanly.
The policeman instantly struck him in his face with his staff, and
walked off.
Sir Parse Lame said he had herd that one Magistrate of a
county police-office had said the politenten should drive all the
bad characters into the City. If the Magistrate had really said so,
be could not help saying that it was a most imprudent and impro-
per observation, and 'bowed a bad feeling towards the City ; but
he hoped the City watchmen would be diligent in the discharge of
their duty, and drive all the thieves back again.
In the course of the day, several persons were brought up on
charges of vagrancy, mostly for being found lying in Fleet-market ;
Sir Prralt LAURIE observed, that he hoped the watchmen would
drive afi the vagrants into the county too, and show them that the
City could play at tennisball as well as they.
BOW-STREET.
Tem New Pouce.—An Irishman named Hogan was charged
with having assaulted one of the new policemen (N 0.132) and torn
his uniform.
Mr. HALLS sentenced him to pay a fine of 20s. or suffer a month's
imprisonment in the House of Correction, saying that the public
should be taught to know that the police were not to be obstructed
in the execution of their duty.
A woman, named Mary Lesion, was charged with having been
drunk and disorderly.
The officer, No. 56, said, that the prisoner stated that she was a
sister and the prototype of Lady Barrymore. She also represented
herself as Waterloo Jane, with a pension of is. a-day, who cared
not a fig for the Peelers, &c.
She was likewise sentenced to pay a fine of Ss. or sojourn in the
House of Correction for a mouth.
A gentleman named Bell, summoned a hackney coachman be-
fore Sit RICUARD Brame, for obstructing a stage coach.
Mr. Bell said, that he was a passenger on one of the Hammer.-
smith stages to the City, and that the hackney coachman drove his
horses upon the footpath, to hinder the stage coachman from stop-
ping to set down a passenger.
Sir R. iStasts—l do not know that he had any right to stop to
set down a passenger. lam not sure that if a stage-coach takes
up a passenger at the Pack-horse, at Hammersmith, his des-
tination is St. Paul's Church-yard, that he has a right to
set him down at any intermediate place. There is a practice
of encroaching upon the privileges of hackney-coachmen grow-
ing up, which I am determined to stop if I can. The stages
are in the habit of taking up passengers at St. Paul's, and
setting them down in any part of the town that lies In their

way.
The hackney-coachman said, that the stage was going furi-
ously, and drove him on the foot-path; but having no witness to
prove it, he was fined 10s.
Commo.—Yesterday, Richard Bishop, and Mary, his wife, and
Robert Bradbury, alias Rose, the persons who were apprehended
by Drew, Tyrrell, and Flower, on last Thursday se'nnigbt, in St.
Anne's-lane, Westminster, on suspicion of being engaged in the
coining of counterfeit money, were brought up for a final exami-
nation, when Mr. Powell, the Mint Solicitor, stated, that the pri-
soner Bradbury had volunteered to become a witness for the
Crown, and as it would be extremely difficult to establish a case
fully against Bishop, who was an old offender, without Bradbury's
testimony, his offer had been accepted,
Richard Bradbury was then called from the bar, and sworn—l
have known the prisoner, Richard Bishop, upwards of three year.,
and have always understood he got his living by uttering counter-
feit money, and within the last twelve months I have known him
as a coiner of money by the casting method. I have myself pur-
chased counterfeit coin Irons him. On Thursday se'nnight, the
24th of September, I went to his lodging in the upper back room,
at No. 23, St. Anne's-lane, Orchard-street, Westminster, about
ten o'clnck in the morning. He was dun at home with his wife,
Mary Bishop, whom I have known also as long as I have known
Bishop. The door was locked, and when she let me in I found
him mixing some plaster of Paris with water,which he then poured
into an enclosure made by a round band of tin, placed in a small
plate. He then waited a short time to let it set or harden, and
then turned it up and pared the bottom wit" a knife, the plate
having been first taken :tom it. He greased the upper part or face
with tallow from a cindlestick ; he then poured more of the mixed
plaster of Paris into the tin band,to make the second mould, which