Star.
London, England, 1826-06-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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Frederick Snelling *as charged with einbeszlir.g 611. Hs. lid.
The prisoner bas for some time been principal clerk to Mr. liebtir
Gray, jun proprietor of the lkilt.in-Tun Inn, Fleet-street, and the
above sum was paid to him by Hannington, the book-keeper it. :Lr
coach office, on the evening of the 20th instant. About two L61.:4
previously the prisoner 1,:,d paid over to hii master ail till.
then in his hands, amounting to 1.581. but abkondcd that 1,;1!:,
with the OIL and in a few days he wrote to his muter, that kr thid
some cash in hand, but his wages from January were to be set or
against it. He was going out of town,but should return to t ,k. a
tabular placf at another inn, and if Mr. Gray interfered wit!,
be should Make some unpleasant exposures. He was apprehenet,l
on Monday Netting at Pentonville, when 541. was secured.
wife, an elegant young female, to whom he had been married ;lid
four days, was present during the hearing, and wept bitterly. 'toe
prisoner was committed.

HATTON-GARDEN.

CAiTVRII 01P A GANG J,
Ake, alias Wilson, Wn. Say, and Jabs Moore, all well known
the Police, were brought before Attest S. Lipid, Esq. the sittlii
Magistrate under the following charge
It appeared in eiidence that on Monday night, between tea and
eleven o'clock, Waddington and Pyne, two of the Bow-street ono:
being on duty in the neighbourhood of the Foundling, saw the three
prisoners walking at a quick pace along Lansdown-place, and knoo_
ing two of them to be connected with a gang strongly suspected of
committing several burglaries in the neighbourhood of
square, they determined on getting more assistance, and taLtat (heat
into custody. On getting close to the Foundling watch-house, Wad.
dingten rushed forward and seised Moore and }Lily, and callti
loudly for assistance, which was promptly afforded by Hutt, the
watch-house keeper, who came up jest in time to prevent the escape
of Moore, he having bit Waddington through the hand, and nearly
caused him to relinquish his bold. In the mean time Pike, rho it
a powerful and athletic young man, had been secured, after a dc.i.
perste resistance, by Pyne, the other patrol. and a watchman. the
being taken to the watch-house they were strictly searched, snd the
following.articles, found on their persons, were produced before the
Magistrates :—Fourteen skeleton and picklock keys of all sizes and
descriptlboa, two gimlets' a knife, centre bit and stock, four crow
bars, or jimmies, and various other implements of house breaking,
with a phosphorous box and matches, a dark lantern, adapted either
for a candle or lamp, and two whole candles. The officers present
declared they had never witnessed so complete a set of instrumtnu
for burglary before.
The prisoners declined saying any thing In their defence.
Mr. Liuta then stated that they were no doubt going on some
expedition, the consequences of which, hid they not been stopped
in their career, could not possibly be foreseen. It was his duty to
prevent them from being turned loose on the public, at least for a
time, and)* should exercise that duty to the utmost extent the law
allowed him.

They were then ordered 10 be committed, pro tampon, to the
House of Correction, as reputed thieves, and orders were given
that the strictest inquiries should be made to ascertain if they caul,'
be identified with any of the late numerous attempts at burglary iu
that neighbourhood.

MARY-LA-BONNE.
Yesterday Mary Evasu and Louisa Busk, very young girls, were
charged with stealing a quantity of cotton bed furniture.
On Saturday morning, about five o'clock, as Robert Blarney, a
watchman, was leaving bis beat in Grove End-road, St. John's
Wood, the prisoners came up, and inquired what it was o'clock?
Seeing them in possession of a large buhdle. and in a great hurry,
he inquired into the particulars of their morning's adventure ?
They told him they had slept the preceding night in Portland-town,
at a house kept by Mrs. Du:bridge, under whose directions they
were carrying the parcel to Bermondsey, fur the purpose of bring
washed. The watchman doubted the truth of their statement, be-
cause he found the furniture already wet, and he took them into
Custody. The girls, when taken to i'ortland-town, were unable
to paint out their professed lodging, and Mrs. Duxbridge could not
be found.

Helen Kennedy identified the furniture as the property of her
master (Mr. Carew, of Kilburn); it was left upon the grass plot in
.the back garden on Friday night.
Mr. Carew said, the girls must have scaled a wall sic of seven
feet high to obtain possession o( the property ; but as they ap-
peared so young, and perhaps it was their first offence, he requested
Mr. Hoskins " not to push the law with severity."
They were remanded.
WORSHIP-STREET.
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Yesterday, Antes Clark, a wretched-looking boy, aged fourteen
yeara, was finally examined before Mr. TWYWOILD) charges] with
stealing a necklace from the person of a little girl, named Louisa
Bouchard. She deposed, that having been sent for a loaf by kr
father, she was returning home with it, when the prisoner met her
at the corner of a street, and laid hold of it. As she struggled
with him to retain her loaf, he snatched the necklace from her neck,
and ran of She pursued and overtook him, but be was assisted
by two other boys, and again ran of After having run some dis-
tance, he stopped and said be would run no further. denied having
the necklace, and said anybody might search bits He was then
taken into custody, but the property was not found.
The little girl stated, that when the prisoner snatched the neck-
lace, he appeared to thrust his hand into his pocket, and when the
two boys came up, he put both hands behind him.
Mr. Peter Bouchard, the girl's father, said the necklace was of
coral, and worth 15s.

The young delinquent was fully committed for trial.

A Gentleman expressing his wonder that so unwieldly
a man as Sir W. C. should be so attached to barges,
yachts, &c. a wag observed, that he had a great anxiety
to be a lighter-taan.
AN AIPICTING PREACHiR —While a Denise was
preaching at Bagdad, one of his hearers seemed vastly
affected. Proud of his power, the preacher asked how
his discourse had touched him so much. "Oh, Sir," re-
plied the other," it is not that, but your beard put me so
much in mind of a goat 1 lost, I could not help crying."
BRIDRB.—The custom of breaking a cake over the
brides head, when she enters her husband's house, is
borrowed from the Greeks, who, as an emblem of
future plenty, poured figs and other fruits over the
heads of both bride and bridegroom.
Maantaort.—One of Mahomet's rules for securing
happiness.ia the married state was this—" Wives, be-
have to your husbands in the same mannner that your
husbands behave to you."
General Weekly Average of the Price of British Corn, which
memo Importation, made up to the 17th of June.
Wheat Us. 4d. I Oats W I
e. 7d. Beans 59n. sd.
Barley Us. sd. Rye 445. W. Peas 41s. id.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, aompatei
trona the Returns made in the Week ending the mu day of
June, 111116, is Ms. 56d. per cwt. exclusive of the duties of Customs
polder payable thereon ea the Importation thereof.