Star.
London, England, 1826-12-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. James Curtis, of Old Fish.street, one of the Society of
Friends, appUed,to the Loss Maros for a summons against a hack.
neini47.llo3Ml for abusive language, and other gross misconduct.
Loan Memos, upon looking at the Act of Parliament,found
that the complaint must be upon the oath of one or more of the
parties..that the affirmation in this, u in other penal Statutes, bad
not been provided for—and, u be presunsed the complainant would
not tabs as oath, the summons could not be issued. His Lordship
regretted this, because the public suffered by the inadmissibility of
the conspielnant's testimony.

4 Barber, aimed Cleasby, applied for advice under the follow-
ing circumstances. A few days since, he received a formal docu-
ment, of which the following is a copy;
Crown Once, Inner Temple.
" You stand presented in his Majesty's Court of King's Bench,
at Westminster, as of Michaelmas Term, for certain nuisances ;
and unless you appear immediateliteorilfhe aid presentation, process
will be issued against you to the of Middlesex.
if WILLIAM BELT,
" 18.-0." "Clerk of the Grand Jury to the said Court."
When be applied to the Office to know what all this was about,
because be horse nothing or any mdsance he could be accused of, he
was informed, that the “ catah nuisances" of which he had been
guilty, was shaving people, so as to make them clean and comfort-
able on the Sunday, instead of dirty and discontented. He was
accused of having done this during the hours of Divine Service. He
protested his ignorance of having done so; but some charitable
poem having sworn he had, he supposed he must answer ft. Now
they told him at the Office, that if he went to trial, win or lose, he
must pay 410 in fees, but that he might settle the matter entirely
by paying 111 s. £d. Now he wished to know of the Lord Mayor if
this was law ? To pay the 410 was what he could not dit, it would
be his ruin; and be must be half-starved for more than a month to
pay the 1113. What was he to do?
The Chief Clerk expressed his regret at the scrape the poor
barber bad got himself into, but declared that it could not readily
be determined whether the demand was or not legal; it was, how-
ever, ofildal, and what was official must be presumed to be legal;
so be advised the unfortunate man to pay the les. id. or worse
might follow.
BOW-STREET.
Last evening five men, named Snead*, Whaler, (alias Tom the
Blacksmith) Quotes, Hedges, and Wilms, were enamined an the
charge of being concerned in the murder of William Morgan, a
Quarter-master .of the Preventive Service, on the 50th of July last.
They were also charged with assembling with other persons, with
arms, to assist In the running of contraband goods on the coast of
Kent, near Dymcburch, on the night of the 6th of August. MINI
prisoners, it was stated, formed part of the gang, several of whom
have been already committed from this Mice. The evidence now
beard was merely a repetition of the former statements, which we
have reported at great length more than once.
The prisoners were all fully committed for trial.

THAMES POLICE.
Ames Richmond was yesterday fully committed for trial upon a
charge of a shocking offence, preferred by a boy of the name of
Robinson, alleged to have been committed on lipard the ship Leafs-
der, on her homeward-bound voyage from the Isle of France. The
offender was second mate, the complainant steward's boy of the ship. i

Letters from the environs of Rome state,. that in
consequence of the great rains, the Anio has formed another issue,
and that the celebrated easaalles of Tivoli exist no more.
Some recent letters from Paris have brought large
orders for marine insurances, to be effected here. •

Lord de Tabley (late Sir J. F. Leicester) has made
an abatement of ten'per cent. to his tenants upon the
present half year's rent.
A blockade galley was suddenly upset near Lydden
Spout station, on Friday afternoon, and one of the crew,
John Connor, was drowned. _ _ _

Tuesday evening two Ladies arrived from the country
in a post-chaise, at the house of Mrs. Gibbs, No. 22,
Wyndham-street, Bryanstone-square, and their luggage
taken into the hall; shortly afterwards, some one
entered the house by a false key, and stole a large
trunk, containing a shawl worth forty guineas, and
other valuable property.
From a table drawn up by a Committee on the Pcor
Laws, in 1815, and ordered to be reprinted in the present Session
of Parliament, it appears, that the money raised for the poor, during
1766, was, to that raised for the same purpose in ISIS, as 17 to 81 ;
and from 1785 to 1803, the rate was in the proportion of 21 to 33;
and from 1803 to 1515, in the proportion of 63 to 81. The total
number of persons relieved in 1803 and 1813, was as seven to nine.,
Thus it appears, that the expenditure for the poor bad increased four
times in forty years, or bad doubled itself in twenty years. The law
expenses of removals, of officers, and other parochial charges, bad
increased to such a rate, as to double itself in a period of every 12
years. The increase of paupers, between 1803 and 1815 was nearly
one this d, and that of the population of England and Wales, between
1776 and 1815. was gradual from 71' millions to 10,000.000. or
about a third. From the abstract of returns made to the Tax °face
in 1804, it appears, that the rental of England and Wales was
58,000,000/. and the amount of the real property assessed to the
Property Tax in 1815 was 5,..00C,0001. being an increase of nearly
one halt in that period. The rate levied in 1814 for the poor, Ste.
was ts. 10. i. in the pound, and in 181.; 50.11 d. The population of
Great Britain and Wales in 1801 was 10,942,646; in 1811
12,396,503; and in 1821; 14,391,631.