Star.
London, England, 1818-07-10 00:00:00

POLICE.'

. GORsestall.-aal. Imes- was charged with uttering'
vtorged El Node, at the Bunch of Grapes public-
house, ill Jewin-streett The prisoner was remanded.
Riewstos-Hoosa.— Yesterday Ann Ohs, a young
girl, was brought up, charged under the following dis-
' graceful circumstances :—The prisoner lived servant
with a poor man named Difpree, and had the care
of two children, one two, and the other 17 months
' old. On Wednesday morning, her master desired
her to take the children to their mother, who sells
; fruit in the street, in order that the younger one
' might receive its usual nutriment. She, however,
went another way, and remained absent all day.-1
Towards night the father became alarmed for the
safety of his children, and went in search of the pri-
' saner. After' wandering about for several hours, he
at length found her near Shoreditch church, in a
state of intoxication, surrounded by a mob, and the
children in the care of other persons. The youngest
appeared to be dying from want of nourishment.
. and from the effects of a wound in the back part of
the head, which he learned was occasioned by the
prisoner suffering it to fall from her arms upon the
ground. A surgeon to whom he applied advised a
warm bath; as the only means of preserving the life
of the infant, and the father hastened home to pro-
cure one, but the child died soon after his arrival',
Mr. Edinborough, surgeon, of Fore-street, who at-
tended the child- at home, attributed its death mainly
to the wound in the head. The prisoner did not deny
the charge, and seemed to treat the circumstance
with great levity.
The LORD MAYOR observed, that the charge was
one of a very serious natUre, and demanded ample
investigation; and the prisoner must therefore be re-
manded until a Coroners Jury could determine upon
the matter.—Remanded accordingly. •
A Jury was assembled yesterday at the Swan's
Nest, Coleman-street, before Mr. SHRLTON, the Co-
toner, to inquire into the cause of the death of the
infant mentioned above ; but as the necessary wit-
nesses were not in attendance, the proceedings were
adjourned to a futurt day.
Lhuov HALL.--.IIOOD v. INGRAM.—This was an
inforeattion under the new act, for regulating the
charges to be made by brokers in levying distresses for
rent. The plaintiff is owner of a considerable num-
ber of houses, and the defendant is a broker residing
at Clapham, and has generally been employed by
the plaintiff to levy upon such tenants as were in
arrear for rent. In May last he was instructed to
seize the goods of a poor woman, with sir children,
who was unable to pay to Mr. Hood the money she
owed hint ; but his feelings of compassion being
called into action by the distressed situation of the
unfortunate tenant, he omitted to levy the distre:s,
according to his instructions, but allowed a farther
time forthe money to be procured, and when it was
paid into his hands a few days afterwards, he de-
ducted ss. for his trouble, and handed to the landlord
(the plaintiff) the remainder of the money. For this
deduction the landlord exhibited his information.
Mr. Tecuas,solicitor for the defendant, contended
that the Act applied only to cases where tenants had
been overcharged, and then only where a distress had
actually been Fevied. In the present instance, the com-
plaint was by the landlord, and no distress was made.
Mr. CARR, for the plaintiff, stated in reply, that
the solicitor fur the defendant had only given his at-
tention to a part of the act. The act had made it
highly penal for a broker to charge, either tenant or
landlord, or any other person " for any act, matter,
or thing, unless such act shall have been really done."
In the case before the Court, the defendant had per-
formed no act of brokerage, and yet he had made a
charge as if such an act had been really performed.
The Magistrate agreed with Mr. Carr in his con-
struction of the statute, an 1 stated his unwillingness
to inflict the penalty, when it was evident that the
defendant had erred, partly from ignorance of the
law, and partly a feeling of a virtuous com-
passion. He should, therefore, direct that Mr. In-
gram should make repayment of the overcharge,
and defray the costs of the proceedings.
CIDERN•SQUtaRZ.-•-It seems the watermen at Hun-
gerford-stairs are constantly charging one another at
this Office with breaches of the Waterman's Act, in-
stead of taking their complaints to Waterman's Hall.
Yesterday E. Saunders was charged with having
plycd a tare at Hungerford. stairs, and taken the turn
of J. Smith, who was then first, which ought to have
been a penalty of 2s. 6d.— Smith was then charged.
by Edwards for having on two occasions worked
with another man's name and number, which subjec-
ted him to a penalty of 20e. and not less than ss. but
in consequence of an error in the information, both
eases were quashed.—G. Heath charged Cadtvell
with abuse, by calling him an informer. The defence
was, that Heath gave aggravation, by saying Cad-
well's brother was transported. Convicted in the pe-
nalty of ss.

Tuesday night, while Mr. WAnnixostAu, of the
Constitution public-house, Bedford-street, Covent-
garden, was busily engaged waiting upon a party,
some thief entered his chamber, and plundered it of
money, jewellery, and wearing apparel, to the amount
of £5O. Among the property stolen was about 1.:15.
in curious coins, belonging to Mrs. WADDINGIIAM.
About nine o'clock, on Tuesday night, as Mr.
Nimia, schoolmaster to the Catholic School, in
Dean-street, Soho, accompanied by a Gentleman of
the name of CoNDY, were returning to town from
Hampstead, in passing by the Regent's Canal they
observed a poor woman, with an infant, about six
months old, in her arms, op the aoint of precipitating
herself and child into the water, they hastened to the
spot, and happily prevented her executing her dread-
ed purpose.

liiedcesday morning two fellows, passing the bowel
of Mr. Goonmsr, Southampton-street, Camberwell,
observed a mahogany writing-desk standing just in.
side the window'of a front room, the sash of which
was thrown up. A female servant was in the garden
in front of the house, and, in order to draw her at-
tention away while their felonious project was car-
ried into execution, one of them wont into the fore-
court of. the next /mum, atd entered into conversa-
tiara with het over the separating wall, while his ac-
complice drew the desk from its piste, and &camped.
Besidie other valuable *pies, it coat fiftocil
..pounds in Bank-aotes; . •