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London, England, 1829-09-29 00:00:00

sou. each, for three year old colts Bst. 71b. and fillies Bst. 31b.

A. F.
Mr. Payne's Pauline... .. 1
Lord Exeter's Ada Celt 2
Mr. Irby's e. by Orville.
The following paid :—Duke of Graftotes Burman. Duke of
Grafton's Ronald, Mr. Rogers's Verderer, Lord G. H. Caven-
dish's ch. c. by Woful, Lord Exeter's Patron, Lord Grosvenor's
b. c. Ebury.—Won by a length.
The races at present down for
matches :
Sir M. Wood's Nessus, Bst. 71b. agst Lord Exeter's f. by Phan-
tom, Sst. R. M. 200 soy. h. ft.
Lord Verulam's Laurestinus, Sst. Sib. agst Sir Mark Wood's
Canary. 80. 21b. 100 sow. h. ft. A.F.
Lord Sefton's Juryman, Bst. 131 b. agst Mr. Greville's Discovery,
7st. 121 b. D. M. 200 h. ft.
Lord G. H. Cavendish's Mouse, Sst. 111 b. apt Mr. Oreville's
Xarefa, 7st. 131 b. 200, h. ft. T.Y.C.
Fifty guineas free (or any horse, &c. B.C.
An accident occurred this morning about four miles from the
town, by which a gentleman had his thigh broken ; his name and
the particulars of the accident have not yet reached us. As several
Noblemen and Gentlemen have not yet arrived, considerable
anxiety is felt on the subject.

are the following

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MA NSION- HOUSE.
Yeseerday Mr. Sheriff Copeland applied to the Low MAYOR re-
lative to a statement which has appeared in the papers of the
Sheriffs having detained money taken from a person named DeWitt,
now under confinement. Mr. Sheriff Copeland denied that he or
his colleague bad acted from any other motive than that of a de.'
sire to perform their duty. He found that he and his colleague
were, in some measure, the objects of dislike, from the desire they
manifested to put down a species of crime which was growing into
uie daily. He found that officers were ready to give back crow-
bars, phosphorus-boxes, and things of no value to the prisoners,
but when unfortunate persons had duplicates money, or other
valuables, they would not return them. One case he would ad-
vert to ; it was the cue of a poor prisoner, now under sentence
of death in Newgate, of whom the officers had obtained 291
The wife of the prisoner could not obtain one farthing of it, and
he (Mr. Copeland) would have attended at Lambeth-street office
to investigate the affair, but that he was prevented on account of
swearing in the new Sheriffs. The worthy Sheriff concluded by
saying if it cost him £l,OOO, be would nut grudge the money.
The LORD Miaow assured the worthy Sheriff that no impute.
tion could be cast on him. He had to his (the Lord Mayor's)
knowledge acquitted himself of the duties of his office.
Mr. Sheriff Copeland—As a sworn officer of the Crown, lam
compelled to keep the money until the right owner is found. I
will preserve the rights of my office.
The LORD MAYOR said, that in the case of the robbery of Mr.
Flint's, the Judge ordered money to be returned to that gentleman
found in the house of the thief.
Mr. Sheriff Copeland had made this statement, as some odium
was attempted to be cast on the Sheriffs for the performance of
their duty. The matter then dropped.
MR. Hour AND TDR CORPORATION Of Lornessi.—Mr. Hunt ap-
plied to the LORD MAYOR, with whom Alderman FARRIIIOTURI
was sitting at the time, for a warrant against the City Chamber.
lain, or for a summons, if his Lordship thought it the most cour
teous way ; that City Officer having refused to pay the sum of
2001. due to the Auditors of the City Accounts, for their labours
for two years. lie considered that the Chamberlain was respon-
sible to the Lord Mayor for having, notwithstanding repeated ap-
plications, detained that sum of money after it had been ordered
by a Court of Common Council, to be handed over to the gentle.
men who bad performed the duty of examining the City accounts.
" We have," said Mr. Hunt, "entered into the investigation for
the benefit of our fellow.citizens, and expected that the money
would be forthcoming. Upon entering into office, we declared
that we would not eat or drink to the value of one farthing of the
City money, and we applied in the proper quarter for the sum I
have just mentioned, in order to supply the poor widows of free-
men with something to comfort their poor hearts; but the Hall.
keeper, who is supplied by the Chamberlain with the means of de-
fraying the amount allotted for our labours, told us that he could
not give us the money for any purpose except that of devouring
—(Laughter). We persevered in our application for the 2001.
but were told over and over again that we had only to order a
dinner, and the bill should be paid without hesitation. Well,
we changed our application; and told the liall-keeper that as we
would not guttle and guzzle ourselves, and as a tavern-bill must be
contracted, or the money would not be visible, we should give a
dinner at White Conduit House to the widows. This proposition
the Hall.keeper seemed to consider to be for a legitimate purpose,
and we were led to suppose that it would be acceded to. We soon,
however, learned that our efforts in favour of the poor widows
were ineffectual. The money was not to be had for any purpose
except the usual one, and the officees expected themselves to share
in the guttling and guzzling distribution of it—(Loud laughter).--
Under these circumstances he (Mr. Hunt) thought it necessary to
address his Lordship at the present moment, in order to render it
unnecessary for him to complain to the Livery."
The Loan MAYOR said that the application was certainly a very
new and unexpected one, but he was convinced that he bad no
power to act. The Chamberlain was not responsible to him, and
the case was not one with which a Magistrate could interfere. The
Court of Common Council bad the authority to enforce the pay-
ment of the sum ; and if Mr. Hunt would petition that body, re-
dress or satisfaction would. doubtless, be afforded.
Mr. Hunt said that it would be extremely absurd in him to pe-
tition the Court of Common Council, after having been appointed
by the Livery to investigate a system of delinquency with which
the former body was chargeable (loud laughter). He and his
brother Auditors had detected the Common Councilmen in certain
nsislakes, and it would be indeed extraordinary to ask them to in-
terfere to obtain for those who were supplied With the means of
exposing the syetem the reward of their zeal in such a cause. He
trusted the Lord Mayor would endeavour to prevent the necresity
of making a padal complaint in the Common Hall which was to
be held (laughter, in which the Lord Mayor, Alderman Farebre-
ther, and Mr. /hint, joined).
The Loin Mevoir.iid that the matter wag eve of debt; end if
Mr. Hunt did not like an appeal to the Court of Common Council,
he could try the effect of a civil action.
Mt. Hunt thought himself bound to try the' means he had just
described, rather than any other. He did not wish to accumulate
espeuses by adding law charges, and swelling the pockets of the