Star.
London, England, 1826-05-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL

Arrs..3fartia Wade, the wife of a publican in Whitecreetxteset,
was fined 101. for endeavouring to convey three quarts of gin IWO
the prison there, in long guts tied round her body.
Mr. Spencer, the Governor, said there were ahoy* S3O primmer,
in confinement, and her husband had been going about front ward
to ward soliciting orders the day before. They had, he was irs.
formed, smuggled three gallons into the gaol. She paid the Ilitsr
and was dismissed.
77sasickan, porter to Messrs. Jones. of Bow Lawc.l9ll*
dealers, was charged with carrying spirits from bin employers au
Mr. Newsman's wine vaults, Prince's-street, Barbican, witting
permit, whereby he forfeited 1001. He was accidentally observed
and stopped by an Exciseman.
Mr. An utxnus attended for the prisoner, and after a long ow-
manacles with the Solicitor to the Excise, established that, um,
trary to the ordinary rule of Revalue Law, which considers sax'
yams and masters acting in violation of it, amenable alike, a remind
sending spirits to another retailer is open to a penalty, but the still
cant he employs in conveying it it not. The prisoner was diw
charged, a permit not being noceascry for a gallon only.

1101117-STIEST.
doh Meek, a coal porter, was charged with 'purloining a pint at
rum, the property of Mr. Lynch, proprietor of the Crooked Billet.
in Wych.street.—Mary Sullivan, servant to Mr. Lynch, stated,
that on Monday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. Mack.
sates ceremenie put his hand over the bar, and took the bottle, now
produced, from the shelf on which it was standing, and carried it.
as well as a go of gin," which he bad ordered, into the tap-room.
She called to her master, whom she Informed of the starcitnweetage,
and who forthwith went with her Into the tap-room, where they
detected the Gentlemen in the act of secreting the bottle in a pocket
belonging to his frock coat.—Mr. Mack said it was a juke ; but he
was conveyed to the watch-house. Mr. Lynch confirmed his set►
van's statement.—ln defence, Mack denied secreting the bottle.
but admitted taking it off the shelf In a joke. This defence. how-
ever, was not deemed satisfactory, and he was fully committed.
Imams Crouch. a young man, was brought before Sir RICII4IIIII
Meuse, for a second examination, charged on suspicion of 'mhos
two horses, value about 401. the property of Mr. William L• awrence.
a botcher and farmer at Isleworth. .

Mr. George Samuel Lake, a chininey-sweep, was examined as a
witness, and swore, that on Sunday morning se'nnight the prisoner
Crutch offered Van the horse in question for sale for £ that he
agreed to take him upon trial, and that while indulging himself in
a gentle ride down to his country seat at Notting Hill, tal was
stopped and told the horse was a stolen one.
In defence the prisoner said be bought the hone from a dealer
at St. Albans, whose name he knew very well, but whom he did
not know where to find " at the pinch of the moment."
Sir R. Brawn said be had remanded him for a %reek, to give kiln
an opportunity of finding his St. Albans friend; but he had not
done so, and he must take the consequences to himself.—The
pri-
soner was fully committed to Newgate for trial.

. LAMBETH STREET.
Mary Gamuts and Meaner Collins, who appeared at the bar with
infants at their breasts, were fully committed, on a charge of stealing
from the shop of Mr. Ashdown, a linen-draper ha the Commercial
Road, a piece of printed calico, f the value of 3lits.
It Jones, a workman in the employment of Mr. Sodar, silk-dyer,
in Globe-lane, Mile End, was also committed, on a charge Gf pur-
loining some silt belonging to that Gentleman.

The Buenos Ayres packet brings intell:gence of the
safe arrival at Buenos Ayres of the brig Harmony, from
Glasgow, chartered by the Rio de la Plata Association
with one hundred and forty settlers on board, all well.
Accounts have been received at the Admiralty of the
arrival of the Herald yacht at Spithead.
A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday, at Guild-
hall, at which the Lord Mayor,l4 Aldermen, Recordei.
Sheriffs, and City Officers attended. The Chamberlain
reported the stare of the Orphans Fund far the last
quarter, upon which the Court ordered 14,8001. part of
the onstaading debt, to be paid off ; and the Cfralabtr-
lain was instructed to give notice to the parties inte-
rested to receive the lame accordingly. The order tor
keeping the hustings clear on election days was direttedi
to be issued as usual.
An unemployed weaver meeting with an acquaintance
the ocher day, was making his complaint about the present un-
depressor, of business and state of general distress. His
with great elongation of visage, exclainted—" Ah Jamk.
the hand o Ptomains is in't; it's a just punishment for our sins.°
• It may be sae, and it may not be see (replied Jamie), I canna
asgi. bat there's ae thing I'm sire a gin that which you say bi
live-4he weavers suffer mair for their sins than ony set o' men that
I hen o'."—Giessgow Ckroxide.
By an Account published by Order of the House of
Commons, of the Quantity of Foreign Grain remaining in Ware.
Wise at the different Ports of Great Britain, on the 1n May in-
stant, it appears that the Total Quantities of each sort of Grain are
as follows Quarters. Quarters,.
Barley . t 29,919 Rye . . . 4,255
Beans . . 12,052 Wheat . . 270.652
Oats . 227,100
Peas . . 2,505

BIRTH.
Uttertoo. of Norwood

DIED.

On the 22d, at Bayswater, where he bad removed for his health,
in hil 46th year, William Evans, Esq. sr Baker-street, Port-
ma*.square, and superiatendant of the Baggage Department, Past
India House, universally beloved and most deservedly regretted.
On the 19th instant, at Hampstead, the Rev. James Bean, one
of the Assistant Librarians of the British Musentn.__

April 16, at his seat of Rohl% in the county of Fife, in the 61d
year of his very active life, John Bruce, Bari. of Graragebili sad
Falkland, F. R.S. of London, Rillnborgb, and Gottingen.
Friday, at Boulogne-eur:Mer, after a severe illness, Lord Vis-
count Nevin, the eldest son of the Earl of Aber gavenny.
Thursday, the Rev. Dr. Short, the Preceptor to the. late Princess
Charlotte, at his Rectory of King's Worthing, near Winchester.
Monday evening, after a short illness, in the 55th year of ber age,
Harriet, the wife of A. K. Newman, Est of Leadenhall-streeis

deeply regretted.
At Zurich, on the Bth inn. aged sixty-two ran, the celebrated
painter Hans Conrad Gessner, eldest son of Solo n= Gamer, the
Peet.

COURSE OF RXC
Amsterdam l2 7. CIF.
Ditto at sight 12 4
Rotterdam... 2 U 12

TANGS, MAT 13:
5evi11e...... as
Gibraltar ... 3l
Leghorn ... 4li
Genoa-...... 431
%Dim !6'7o
Malts ......
Naples ...... 311
Pilermo 1 isd pesos.
fibre
Ala Nuseiro., 43
Dublin lf
-

Antwerp ... ...... 12 8
Hamburgh 4e U 57
Altuna 21 U 37
Paris,3cl ay's sight 25 70
Ditto 2 U 25 lIS
Madrid 35

Cadiz ......... ... 55
Bsrcelona ........5i
INlboa ...... ... —3O

PRICES OF GOLD AND SILVER.
Foreign Gold in Bars ... ...... v.4.3 17
Silver, in bars, 5tandard.......... 0 4 111

MAILS=
♦IL DUE.
1 0

LIS DAY.

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Guernsey and Jeney 0 0

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Hamblin* I 0
Randers 0 0
Brazil 0 0

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Gouenburgh
Malta
Holland

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Lewd b
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Buenos Apes 0 0
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