A Mr. Teale, living in Eversholt Street, Camden Town, applied
at the Mansionhouse on Monday, under these circumstances. He was accompanied by six Indians—Walpole Islanders, from Canada. He stated that these Indians, with four squaws, had been brought to England by a Mr. Baby, on pretence that they should be enabled to appeal to the Queen respecting lands of which they had been dispossessed. The real and sole 'object of their importer was to make money by exhibiting them. He had attempted this, but the scheme had proved a failure : he then deserted them. They had been lodging with Mr. Teale ; Baby owed him' money on their account, and: Mr. Teak said he-could not keep them any longer. To send them back to America would cost 601. or 70/. The Lord Mayor said he would write to the Colonial Secretary ; and if he did not aid the Indians, no doubt something could be done by way of a public subscription to send them home. Sir Robert Carden asked Mr. Teale, why he came to the City —why not go to the nearest Police Court ? Mr. Teale said, he thought he could get the best advice in the City. Sir Robert was by no means satisfied with this reply : the City has enough to do with the claims that -arise within its own bounds—if such applications were encouraged, the City would be overwhelmed with appeals of the kind.
For some time past a number of most mischievous robberies have been effected at post-office receiving-houses : just as letters have been tied up in bundles to be despatched, a fellow has rushed in, seized a bundle, and run off. The police appear at length to have got two delinquents. I bundle of letters was stolen from a shop in King Street, Covent Garden, on the 21st of last month. One of the letters contained a check on Coutts's : payment was quickly stopped. Next day, a youth named Davidson presented the check : he had been sent by a man who accosted him in the street ; but this man could not be found at the time. For many days the youth and a policeman walked about London looking for the man. At length they met him with a emnpanion in Fleet Street; and both were arrested. One of them, Thomas, was identified by Davidson ; the, other, Hillyer, appears to have been implicated in the robberies. Alderman Challis has committed both.
Mr. Nicholas Rowe, an army contractor of Bankside, has been held to bail by the Southwark Magistrate, • charged with the abduction of Eliza 'Bradshaw. Rowe is a married man of thirty-five ; -the girl is not yet fifteen years of age. Her parents keep a beer-shop, which Rowe free,uented : last Saturday night he privily induced her to leavethe place with him ; and they passed the night together. 'It came out in cross-examination that Rowe had been allowed to take the girl out alone on former occasions, and had made her presents; and she herself admitted that she had been-seduced by him, at her father's house, three weeks before the abduction : but the unfortunate parents knew nothing of this. The girl is fine-looking, and seems much older than fifteen.
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