At the Marlborough Street Police-office, on Thursday,Edward Lee, a ill-sticker,
was charged with sticking Anti-Tory placards on the mansions of the Duke of Wellington and the late Duke of Gloucester.
One of the bills, which was of a very conspicuous size, was produced :
is was headed, "Tory Misrule ;" and the body contained a description zieertain political works, one of which was stated to be " The Duke's
Mode of Keeping the People Quiet," pnblished by Mr. Effingham Wilson, of Cornhill. The man, when questioned, said he had been aseployed to stick the bills in different places, and against the houses saf certain of the nobility, upon receiving an assurance that he would be relieved from any consequences by the person who had engaged him. Mr. Chem sera asked who had employed him ? The defendant said, it sras Mr. J. Wilson, of Cornhill. Mr. Chambers remarked, that it
ee US for the City authorities to deal with that part of the case, he only ha sing jurisdiction over the charge brought before him. The Police-
n‘an said, the defendant had stuck one of the bills against the residence e l Lady William Gordon, Green Park Lodge, and had attempted several times to stick similar bills on the residences of the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Gloucester; but he prevented him. Mr. Chambers considered that the defendant had acted very improperly, in defacing the houses of private individuals with his placards, and he thought that it would be his duty to hold him to bail. The defendant was remanded for about twenty minutes, and was then called in and discharged.
[The Morning Chronicle remarks, in reference to this case—" The Duke had no sooner seized the reins of Government, than a peculiar
aigilance against all indications of popular feeling began to be mani- fested. The main body of the unprincipled press,' as Sir Robert Peel termed the newspapers which supported the Reform Bill, could not well be attacked as yet ; but with the wariness of an old cam-
paigner, his Grace began at once to direct his attention to the tirailleurs a the press. Against the bill-stickers, who, during the former Admi- nistration had become formidable, the operations of the Police were assiduously directed. All hand-bills calling meetings to petition for the removal of the Duke were carefully pulled down by these guardians of the public tranquillity. There have been, during the last three or four weeks, loud complaints in every quarter of the prevalence of theft. The truth would seem to be, that the Police have been occupied, not "ni preventing crime, but in assisting the Duke and Sir Robert by giving chase to ballad-singers and bill-stickers."]
At the Thames Police Office, on Monday, Palmer, who has been three times under public examination, charged with setting fire to
✓ arious buildings in Rotherbithe, was again brought up for reexamina- tion. Another charge against him was investigated ; and at the ter- mination of a long inquiry into the circumstances attending the fires, Mr. Ballantine said, it must be further pursued, as the facts and pre- varications he had beard that day confirmed the very suspicious circum- stances already deposed to against the prisoner; and be remanded him for another week.
A Coroner's Jury on Monday fcand a verdict of Wilful Murder against Edward and Felicia Chabasaier and Mary Ann Taylor, who are charged with having poisoned the infant child of the two former. The supposed murderers have made off to the Continent. They re- sided in Mount Street, Grosvenor Square.
The George the Third convietIship sailed on Sunday from Woolwich, for Van Diemen's Land, with 2iO male prisoners, under the superin- tendence of Dr. Wyse. A detachment of the Fiftieth Regiment, corns mended by Major Ryan, went out also in the same ship.
The nurse in the family of Mr. Henry Whitmore, of Wyndham Street, Bryanstone Square, having gone on Sunday evening to a box in which were a cat and kittens, with intent to take one of them out for the amusement of an infant in her arms, as she was stooping down the cat flew out in a rage, and tore out one of the eyes of the child with her claws.
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