Police.
The Times, 1824-07-07T00:00:00

MAAsroy_ztousa.-Ycsterday a nunmber of publicans were brought before the LOnRD MAYOR, charged under the recent act passed for the regulation of public-houses in the city, with having eack incurred tlhe penalty of 51. by permitting tipplingin their houses during divine service. Herring, one of the new police..inspectors, and an officer, stated that in thehouses of all the defendants they found men drinking during divine service, without the least restraint. The LORD-MAYOL said the act required that al convictions under it shbuld be made by two Magistrates, as tbe penalties which it directed to be inflicted were heavy; but as he could not then ob- taim the attendance of a brother alderman, he would dismiss the whole of the charges. One of the defendants, in behalf of his brethren, wished to have the opinion of his Ldrdship on one point. Himself and several others had been summooned by one of the new inspectors for having permitted their houses to be opened during divine service, when in fact, they had no oae sitting in their bouses but their lodgers. Pew of them could live or pay their rent without lodgers, and *'ere they to confine them all to their bed-rooms during service time ? If the act compelled them to do that, it would compel them to shut up their nooses, for no ledger would stay under such regulations. The summoning inspector declared, that unless lodgers were in- chuded in the regulations of the act, there would be no carrying it into ~cfLt In all the houecs he went into where the tap-rooms were filled by men who were drinking, the landlords aimed the whole of them as their lodgers. Every man carousing, when appealed to, was ready to swear to the truth of the assertion. In toe houses of seven of the defendants he found fuU a hundred men dtinking and the landlords said the whole of these were their lodgers. (&ie of the men who said be was a lodger at one house where he was turned out, was found by the witness when going his rouieds at another. He there said, "This is my lodging realy, upoi my honour !" The LORD MAYOR, was bound to statc, that the words of the act did not bear the publicans out in the ingenio usexception which they wished to make. The fact of opening the house during divine ser- vice was one offence-that of permitting tippling was another and distinct oftence. Though the publicans could not be convicted of the first offenee ini the cases mentioned, they might of the second; for though a landlord might permit his lodgers to sit down stairs, he must not permit them to tipple during divine service. A man, who we understood was a butcher, stated, that the other day he refused to give up some sheep to a drover,who begau to abuse him horribly, and to call him names, which the complainant repeated, addling emphatically, "And besides all that, he called mea fool, and said my head was as thick as Sir William Curtis's. Now I wish to know, my Lord whether I have no redress for that ?" The LORD AhiAyoit said, smiling-" That is certainly a grievous imputation; but, my poor man5 I have no remedy in my power. The law is particular in protecting animals from the ill-usage of drovers2 but gives no remedy to men for ill-usage like that you com- plain of." GUILDIIALL.--mAGISTEnRAL PnOVECTIOw OF ParsONERS. .-By the statute 5th Geo. Il. caD. 18, it is enacted that no attorney, solicitor or proctor shall be a justice of the peace fbr any county during the time he shall continue in the practice of that business. This prohibition, however, does not extend to magistrates who ex ofZcio become justices of the peace by charter in any corporation; and thus,without inquiring into the grounds upon which this apparent invidious excclusion was founded. an opportunity is occasionally af. forded for fbrming an opinion how far the enactment may be con. sidered to have been judicious. Mr. Alderman BRowsvE, cefore whom the following sase occurted at tlis office yesterday, is, as every body knows, a practising memberof the legal profession. A young man named Jamnes Gilbert was put to the bar charged with felony. A chaise harness bad, it seems, disappeared irom some premises in Moor-lane, formerly OCCUpie' by lessrs. Pickfords, but nowf rented by onec Michael Murphy, who, from information he had some how or other fished out un convcrsation with the prisoner's wife and sister, had him taken up, if not as the thief, at least as having a knowlelge of, and being a participator in, the robbery. All that Mfurphy could say of his own knowledge was, that the harness was safe there about the.l2th or 13th of June, was missing on the 15th, and had not been found since. He was very desirous of stating his reasons for suspecting the prisoner to have be-en concerned in the robbery, with sorne fellow he called George ; but as he acknowledged his suspicion arose front what he had been told, iNIr. Alderman BROWNE stopped him short, by observing, " I cannot listen to what you were told-that is no eviderice against the prisoner. You charge bim with felony; you must give me some proof of it. Where are the persons who told you? I can hear them ." lurpliy.-Tluere is the officer: the women told htm aU about it. Air. Alderman Brtowxt:.-I eannot hear the officer. What sig- nifies what lhe was told ? Where are the women that told him ? Do thev know anythingo of the robbery? 'tlwo women were hero brought forward. The first was desirous of saying somethitng, but the Aldermani directed her to be sworn. She5 howevet refused to-take- the eath, and the Alderman was cau. tiontig her, that he shonld be obliged to commit her if she persist- ed in her refusal, when it came oat that she was the prisoner's wife. She was of coarse immnediately ordered to stand down. The,-other woman, the sister of tli prisoner, when called upon, also refused to be sworn - Mr. Alderman BROWsNE.-The ends of justice require that your evidence should be given. I must commit you, if you refuise to be sw0tn2. Whydo you refuie. -Otief._Bec2ause mnybrother did notsteal it, nor takepart viththose Ibat did ;dUr. AIder'nanf-Bnsuw -Well; tben, if you say that an your oth your bwothet till be discharged, I have no wish to do him any har m. XThe girlkhowever, still persitcd In -her refusal, even after theAlderma had dir.ected Ia warrauttobe mede oatforher com- mintnient but be;hg. uriisdbg the jrisoner luinself,isheat length consenked to-be$wrom5;andrtlten, in answcrto thequestion from the 4Idbrwa2ini hat 8he,kftewtpecting thie stialsng of the hurnss, she ald.shc did hot; know any- thUat'at allabout .it: J. .r, Aldermnia BEowxs said there -was-no- evidence against the prisoner, and,ht~must'disclirge hie Wi.disckharged. I $ j htAiYoi3 BoctEA0FF4G7-=n1JZ B7lisi tvabtought to this' offic 1n a1 chXi6 ef having; nearly two years backs uttred knowingly a fcrgd bl of anelhe.for2M, with intemMO defra&udI5ijrsicbo&, '.rhe. pr. osecutri* stLted, thittaboat two yes badck the-riioner i. d hm,self to her as. man possessed of-eo5derabnert - part-of which, hoever,be could notrecemeas jet;-snd that zthe . uean time he wanredl to purchase. somue furnitur.j which he wo6di as soon take of her a ofany.one else. Witnes -agreed tei- lcibin have the goods he wanted, andt ediel tmabl'o cepted by Mr. W. Milte, of ey-street.St,LukdM. T were accordingly dilivered, for wIch he -a bygi an accpt an ce, p urporiting to ba thIfat of Mlr. Arlls tce that parted sheasaw 'nothing of tbeprisoner till a few day bgcZit~en slieb4rd oflis- being in custody. Mr.' Aills declared the acc'p tanee not to be his band.writing, bt.t a forgery. It was a good imitation, avd w*hich probably ing1gei arise from the prisoner's having been in his empty, and henze lad firequct opportunities of seeing bim wrnte. tines -ns2'"beet eal on by the btother of the prosecutrix.on Feiday.JIt, on which occasion the brother of4Fered to bumn the.:acceptance if lme ( ho witass) would pay him 121. Thie offar he declihLq-bat was led from it to inquire who the brother was, and the resatdtf hi6 inquiries was the discovery that the brctbhr of the prosecutit- and the prisoner had been both in the House of Coirection at tle Mir. G%LxuFITH inquired of the ptoFecUtriX aboutthezittempted. neotiation, whicb, hGwever, she denied having authorized. The Alagistrate, to prevent the frustration of the entds of jutstiee. ordered the acceptance to be im ounded in the bands of tb&eChI4 - Clerk of the office, and remanded the prisoner until to.momrow, whez the brother of the prosecuttix iR to attend. UwtOw .s- .._A.LAn interestinglookinggirl, named LouisaLower, about 17 years of age, applied to the sittingmagistrate for his advic under thii following circumstances :_ She stated, that about six weeks ago, in consequence of having a dispute with a lady with whom she lived in the capacity of a companion, at Little Bookharn, near Dorking she left her situaton, and came up to town, accompanied gv a female of the sare village. She took lodgings in Compton-street, Soho, and while residing there met with a young man, who stated his name to be Jacobs, and described himsclf as a man of propert After the acquaiiatance had lasted a fortnight or three weeks, ae pretended to be violently attached to her, decaTing that his whole happiness depended upon ber; and unless she consentecl to become his wife, he would put an end to the anguish of his mind, either bv poison, or some other deadly means. These threats of self-destructlon convinced her of the warmth of his af- fection, and sbe cotisented to marry him. The bans were put up in Christ Church, andat the expiration of the third Sunday tI.y were outaskedi, he rmade some frivolous excuse, and refused to keep his promise. Subsequently, by his flattery and deceit, she said he ad accomplished her ruin. He then took lodgings for her in b.k- lcy-street, Lambeth. Here a total change took place in his con- duct towards her, for he swore that if she did not go out ia the streets to earn money by prostitution, he would murder her. She refused to comply with his odioas commands, and he actually brought men into the house for the base purpose, whom she repalos with indignation. Finding that sihe was resolved on not giviiig her- self up entirely to a life of vice and prostitution, he deser!ed her. leaving her in such distress that she was obliged to part with anl her clothes for a subsistence. The poor girl added, that she had since ascertained that the name of the fellow is Wood, and rhat his rela- tions keep two or three brothels in Lisle-street.ELccester-square. IUr. ALLElf said that he greatly felt for her unfortunate situation, but he could be of no assistance to her in punishing such a villain. The worthy Magistrate then, having ascertained the parish to which she belonged, adviged her to apply to the officeers of Lambeth who would pass her immediately. The unfortunate girl embraZcj this opportunity of leavi2tg teovn, and withdrew from the once for that purpose. Information w'as given at this office that the house of Mlr. Ewing- ton, Hill-street, W5alworth, was broke ooen on Sunday evenin, be- tween rux~ andi eight o'clock, during the absence of the fam2ily at chapel, and the followin property stolen :-One l@OL Bank of EngI landi notez one 501. ditt.o, 60 sovereignas, and 51. ir silver; a nm-be, of tea and table-spoons: also a silver wratch. POLIrCE.