Star.
London, England, 1827-10-27 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Tuesday afternoon, after hr. ilderin Senate', bad retired
from the Justice-room at Geileibalk the Overseen of Crippiegate
attended, to apply for a warrant to apprehend a man who lived in
Golden-lane, on suspicion of having sold the corpse et his deceased
wife to the resurrection men. They said the practice of stealing or
buying corpses, before interment, bad existed to • shameful extent
lo their pariah ; and they considered themeekwe bound to attempt
to repress it by etpasure, if they were unable to bring posigment
arm the parties.
The defendant lodged next door to a notorious resurrection man,
and his wife died on Sunday of a consplaint in the head. Os Monday
he came to the overseers, and, ptotesting he mein extressedistress,
obtained from them a grant of a shell. Tint manse night he got drunk
with the resurrection-man and his friends. and on the following
morning he left his apartment Rio which the carper was lying), as
early as half-past four o'clock, giving the key of the room to the re-
surrection-man's wife, and leaving she street doer spa. The watelt.
men saw two men lurking about, and at =early War thebody was
missed from the shell, anti there were no marks of violence upon the
room door. When the husband was informed of the circumstance
at the shop where he works, be neither put on a show of surprise
nor concern, but kept on at his labour, coolly remarking to the Ws*
meager that be could cot help it, or something of that kind.
Islr. Payne, the clerk, replied, that it was coutrary to the prat-
I tics of our law to draw the evidence to convict a man out of Ms
I own mouth. Where a body was dug up from the graved an overt
act was committed, which would form a ground fur the taming a
warrant to apprehend the offender; bat here the bosband had not
I committed any overt act. The selling of the body was undoubtedly
lan act of gross indecency, for which be might be punished, but the
circumstances stated amounted to suspicion only, and We positive
proof that he bad e° offended.

ROW.STREET.
Yesterday morning Messrs. Cribb, Richardson, Machin, ad
Goatiewespectable inhabiraots of the parish of St. Paul, Corot
Garden, and all of them filling parochial offices of i
came to this Office; and Mr. Cri►b, addressing Sir Tlictuaa
Besets, said," We have done ourselves the honour of waiting open
yea, Sir Richard Binge, in consequence of statements which haws
appeared recently in the newspapers, charging us wish neglect of
onr duty with respect to the disorderly houses which *lnfos-moat*
rein in this parish. The whole blame of sufering these houses to
continue Goes, is, by the newspaper reports from this base, charged
upon the parochial authorities, when in fact no Wan whatever
is fairly attributable 40 us, for we have used every exertion in our
power to put them down. In my capacity as Cluatchwarden last
year, I presented all the disorderly houses that were reported to
me, and commenced proceedings is the Ecclesiastical Court against
them, but I failed. I was told that there was no law existing
which would antlimite me to enter the booms or disturb thous, ex-
cept by indicting them at the Sessions upon good epidemic; and dim
that Court had no power whatever to interfere. We are may
willing to do all in our power to remedy the evil.
Mr. Cribb ►ere handed a Morning d'aper, of Saturdaylast,
Richard, cootaiaing a report of the cam from this Offiestrin which
' the Chief Magistrate wasstated to have cost some censure upon the
parish officers for not taking steps to close the houses complained of.
Sir R. Bunt said, the statement was perfectly correct ; and he
repeated, that the parish officers ought to put a atop to such abomi-
nable nuisances.