POLICE IrrsPEcTons.-We perceive one of these people, of the at
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sion, as he is hieroglyphically designated, bringing before the Union Hall Magistrates a sailor charged with-what does the reader suppose ?-with courting a young girl, and intending to marry her ! The ferreting out of
runaway damsels, by means of the 31 and ar gentry, is a high joke. The thiefcatcher, it seems, was a critic too; he had seen the young lady's (pis- ties., and they were well written, and the language of a soft and tender
kind! " Bless the memory of Sir John Fielding ! what shall we come to, if the world progress after this fashion ?. By and by these gentlemen will be taking the press as well as the public under theircare,-now penning topics,
and now protecting pockets ; investigating a petty larceny oneloar, and a question of political science the next. We really. wish that the police would learn, and that the Commissioners would teach them, that their duty is to prevent brawls, or put an end to them-to prevent stealing, or to capture depredators ; that where no breach of the peace is made or attempted, plunder planned or perpetrated, all that the police have to do is to go on tie; way in silence, and leave the people to go on theirs as they list.
An inquiry took place on Thursday at the Metropolitan Police EstabliFli- ment, before Mr. Commissioner Mayne, relative to the misranduct of two police constables, Howlett and Jeffries, who arrested John Dryden for ;,,t alleged assault on the Duke of Wellington whilst he was walking through Parliament Street on the 1st of March. The evidence proved the arrest of
Dryden by the defendants upon tile unfounded charge of assaulting thin Duke, anti it was stated also that the policemen had received money and liquor from Dryden's friends, to procure his liberation. The Commissioners, therefore, ordered Howlett and Jeffries to lie dismissed the Service. A LATE CALL.-The Blansionhouse was alarmed oN Tuesday night with a long and formidable rap at the private door at the witching hour of twelve. On the drowsy domestic proceeding to ascertain the cause, lie found a tall unshaven personage, who insisted on seeing the Lord Mayor. The visitor was told to come the next day at twelve, when he would he satisfied ; but he persisted in his attempt to obtain an immediate interview, and was sent in consequence to the Compter. It appeared he had applied at one of the police-stations in the Borough ; and having stated that he had come thither through the City, the Inspector told him he ought to have ap- plied to the Mayor, while he was there; on which. hint he retraced his steps for the purpose of making an immediate tender of his reSpects to his Lord- ship. He was ordered to be passed to his parish, and tbia gained the point at which he aimed, and which, in the case of a more opportune application, he might perchance have missed. PLUNDERING CHURCHYARDS.-The advice of the Hatton Garden Ma- gistrates was invoked on Tuesday in the following case. On Saturday, .a deputy gravedigger, of St. Mary's, Islington, lighted in the course of hits work on a leaden coffin, containing a few bones, the remains of a corpse that had been buried no less than fifty-six years. He cut the coffin in pieces, and laid it in the new burying-ground, and deposited its contents among the mould of the grave. The overseers wished to know if they should prosecute the head gravedigger, or his said deputy ; and the Magistrates directed them to have at the deputy. We should suppose there will be sotne ffifh- culty in making out a substantive offence. To whom did the lead belong ? SWINDLING IN DOCTORS' Commoars.-A female styling herself Mrs- Brown, was charged at the Mansionhouse yesterday, by Captain Cook of the Cambria, with having attempted to defraud the relations of one of the Mates of his tesSeli by taking out letters of administration as sister of the deeeased: • The systein Was stated to be a tery common One. There is an orgaliiied'gang, who retain a proctde in Doctors' Commons to regulate their feauda ; and a nember of agents, of which Mrs. Brown is one, to defraud the relations Of de&ased seamen. Mts. Brown was ordered to find bail. A TAILOR'S PlIOSPECT.—A journeyman tailor was a eight up yester- day at Union Hall, foi• neglecting to maiiitain his wifeaa, i.e stated that he could find no work ; but added—" Your worship, if it pleas the Almighty to take the Kiag to his boson:, there will be plenty of work for the tailors, and I expect to get something to do as well as others; and then I shall sup- ' port her ; but if that does not take place, what IUD I to de P" Magistrate —" If you look forward to such an etent as that occurring before you obtain employment, I trust you will be disappointed." Finally, Snip was given to iniderStand, that if he did not contrive to Maintain his wife, he should be sent to the tread-mill.
ROBRERY.—A female, whose dress denoted abject poverty, appeared at Queen Square Office on Thursday, and stated that • her lodgings had been robbed of plate and jewels of the value of 1000/. It was at first supposed that she Wee insane ; but, on inquiry, it appeared that she had actually been robbed of property to that amount. She was a lady of respectable fa- mily, and had been at one time the inmate of a lunatic asylum. The fear of being again immured had induced her to live in the most secluded and miserable style. The robbers have not•been traced. On 'Wednesday evening, a daring and extensive robbery was coremitted at the house of the Marquis of Bath, Grosvenor Square. During the ab- sence of the servant who had charge of his Lordship's plate, sixty-one plates of solid silver were carried off. A discharged servant is in custody on sus- picion, and was yesterday examined at Bow Street.
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