POLICE OF LONDON.—TnerT.—George Leers, painter and glazier, Bear's Alley, Fleet-street,

came before Sir Peter Laurie, at Guildhall, on Tlnirsday, in the painful character of prosecutor of his own sou for felony. The voutli had long been addicted to crime ; and to reclaim him, if possible, Iris later had two years since sent him on board a frigate. He however ran away &cowl the ship, and as he had not amended his conduct, he was now gii-en in charge for having stolen 3/. 10s. His father's object is to have him transported, to save him from the gallows ; and if he persist in his determi- nation, Sir Peter Laurie is to send him to Newgate for trial. &moos FOR 'futsves.—Joseph Fernandez, a Jew, was ordered to find :good bail on Friday at Lambeth-street office, for keeping a nursery for young thieves, and enticing them to gamble. Don STEALING.—Mary Strainger, residing in Bethnel-green, was sen- tenced on Tuesday by the Worship street magistrates to pay 201. or six snunths' imprisonment for dog -stealing. The carcasses of forty dogs were found in her residence, and upwards of 600 skins discovered on the premises of one Whitney, a tanner at Hoxton, to whom she had sold them. She was dis- charged on Thursday, the Magistrates discovering they could not convict, as Mo proof of identity in the animals could be adduced.

Smeciesisn.—A man named Chapman was on Wednesday accused at the Nansionhouse, of having caused two casks of cigars to be removed from the 'wharf, the duty upon them not having been paid. The Solicitor of Excise ad- duced his evidence, which he thought made his case so clear that a Jury would give him a verdict without hesitation. The Lord Mayor and Alderman Wood did not think the evidence so very conclusive ; and though they thought the case suspicious, they ultimately dismissed the information.

INFORMERS.—Mr. Heisham, a surgeon in Wilitechapel road, accompanied by his assistant, waited on the Magistrate at Lambeth-street Police-office, on Saturday, for the purpose of swearing an affidavit to lay before the Commis- sioners of Stamps. A few days ago, a person entered Mr. Helsham's shop, and complaining of a violent complaint in his bowels, and a nausea in his mouth, requested to be supplied with a bottle of soda-water. The assistant told him that they had none in the house, and that it was an article in which they did not deal. The applicant then requested to be supplied with some- thing that would have the same effect ; and he added, " I am cursedly out of the .Way," splicing his hand on his stomach. The assistant instantly prepared art effervescing draught, composed of crystallized salts of lemon and carbo- nate of potass, which the man drank on the premises. A short time after- wards, Mr. Heisham received a summons front the Commissioners of Stamps for selling soda-water without paying the duty ; and to rebut the evidence of

the informer, Mr. Helsham and his assistant made an affidavit, stating the real facts of the case, which they intended to lay before the Commissioners of .tamps.

PRIDE IN GOING TO THE GRAVE.—Mr. Earle, the undertaker, attended on behalf of his hearse-driver, who was summoned on Wednesday by the

agents of the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals. Sir PeterLaurie- " Mr. Earle, did you find your horses waled when your driver returned home ?" Mr. Earle—" Certainly not ; they did net appear ill-treated in the slightest degree." Sir Peter Laurie—" Was the driver intoxicated?" Mr.

Earle—" He did not appear so." Throsby, the prosecutor--" A sponge and some hot water would remove all marks of the wales in half an hour." Sir Peter Laurie—" I doubt that; the skin of stallions is so particularly smooth that it is peculiarly susceptible of being marked." Mr. Earle—" I don't think the man could flog them, consistent with his own safety, for the horses are enti rely above their work." Sir Peter Laurie—" But why do ye use stallions under hearses ?" Mr. Earle—" People prefer them, Sir Peter, because they make a greater show !" Sir Peter Laurie—" Would not geld- ings look equally as well ?" Mr. Earle—" Oh, no, Sir Peter: geldings won't keep the colour ; at certain seasons of the year they become quite brown." This explanation was satisfactory, and the charge was dismissed.

BAKING ON SUNDAY.—Thomas Fenton, a baker, at Kensal Green, Har- row-road, was brought to Marylebone office on Thursday, and convicted in

a penalty of 10s. and costsfor baking rolls on Sunday. This wa.s a mitigated fine; but the Magistrates expressed a determination to deal more severely with future offenders, in order to protect bakers who pay respect to the laws front such innovations.

CHILD-DROPPING.—Louisa Hawkes, an interesting female, about twenty years of age, was accused at Hatton Garden office, on Wednesday, of having

left her female child at the gates of the Foundling Hospital. Tire child was illegitimate, and about five weeks old. She admitted that she had left it where it was found, because she was informed that there it would be taken care of, and she could see it every week. She was ordered to be kept in the workhouse in the mean time.

Fee toes Dam:sc.—A Paddington stage coach driver was fined 101. at this office for driving at full gallop.

COACH FARES.—A gentleman was summoned to Queen-square office on Thursday, for having paid a coachman sixpence less than his fare. The

defendant contended that he had given enough, as the distance was not so much as the coachman alleged. The ground was measured, and found to be one furlong more than the distance which entitled the complainer to the dis- puted sixpence. The defendant had therefore to pay the sixpence and 1/.8s. for expenses.

EMBEZZLEMENT.—Henry Downer, confidential clerk to Mr. R. Davis, of Shoreditch, is fully committed to Newgato, charged with embezzling 13601. The prisoner admitted that " a criminal connexion with a dashing female of extravagant habits had brought him to his present disgraceful situation."

A confidential clerk in the employment of Messrs. Bishop and Co., soli- citors, was yesterday examined at Guildhall. on the charge of having em- bezzled several sums of money belonging to his employers. Potaev.—Twenty men were yesterdaybrought in irons to the Thames Po- lice-office, by a strong escort of Marines and Police, front Deptford, to which place they had been brought froireSierra Leone, in his Majesty's ship Plumper, charged with piracy. Seventeen were Englishmen, one was Irish, and there were two men of colour. Their irons were knocked off before they were brought into the presence,of the Magistrates for examination. Com- mander William Turner, late of the Black Joke brig of war, stated, that on the 28th of August he commanded the Black Joke, as tenderto the Sibelle, on the coast of Africa. The prisoners were the crew of a piratical schooner. On the day mentioned, he saw two schooners and a brig lying at anchor—at that time he had not his colours hoisted ; the schooner, called the President,

fired a gun across his masthead—he then caused his colours to be hoisted, the ensign at the head, and the pennant at the mast-head. The schooner fired again, and hoisted French colours, which she lowered, and put up Spanish colours. This was about dusk in the evening, and the schooner continuing to fire, he bore up. The next morning, at day-break, he came to action with the piratical vessel the President, boarded, and took possession of her. The other schooner, which carried seven guns, and the brig, two guns, escaped. lie carried them into Sierra. Leone ; the prisoners were all in the schooner he captured. Two of the prisoners made a short vindicatory statement. They were remanded till the necessary evidence be collected. Some other charges of piracy are to be brought against them.

Duer..—A meeting took place yesterday morning, near the Red House, Battersea, between a celebrated musical composer and a gentleman belong- ing to the Crown Office. Shots were exchanged, and the former received a slight wound in the fleshy part of the right arm; after which matters were adjusted by the interference of friends. The dispute arose through some per- sonal allusions made on a lady of high talent, whom both gentlemen had been in the habit of visiting.

A meeting took place yesterday at Ascot-heath between Alfred D—s—n, Esq. and Francis P—s—t, Esq , a foreigner. The former accompanied by Captain W—d, and the latter by a foreigner of distinction. On the signal being given to tire, Mr. D. tired in the air, and Mr. P's ball entered the ground about two inches from Mr. D.'s feet. Here the seconds interfered, and attempted to settle the affair, but Mr. P. insisted on their again taking their ground. Mr. P. fired again without taking effect ; but Mr. D's ball, taking his opponent's left hand, shattered it in such a manner that the first and third fingers were obliged to be immediately amputated.—Morning Journal.

ADULTERATED Taa.—Another system of adulteration in tea, which has been carried on to a great extent, is now under the consideration of the proper authorities. It is well known, that in all public establishments, as well as in the private houses of the opulent, it has been customary to give the waste tea-leaves after having been once used, to the indigent. For some time past, however, a regular and systematic traffic has been carried on, and that too in many cases by hawkers of tea, who supply the lower classes. These men allow a certain quantity of what they call fresh tea, for the leaves that have been used, and such leaves are so procured, or bought in larger quantities, for the purpose of being again dried on hot sheets of copper, which, added to other preparations, produces, apparently, a new tea, but of a very dangerous and even poisonous quality, resembling green tea. Some curious disclosures will shortly take place on the subject.—Times. [There is nothing very new in this practice: the scale may be extended.] ROBBERIES.—There has been no lack of robberies this week, both in dwell- ing-houses and on the highway ; but the sameness and similarity of the crimes render the details uninteresting. A chapel on the Surrey side, and another at Pimlico, have been despoiled of gowns, cassocks, and other cle- rical paraphernalia.

MURDER Saturday evening, the body of a new-born child was found near the basin in Hyde Park. A surgeon said that it died from neglect and exposure; and a Coroner's Jury found a verdict of wilful murder, against some person unknown.

On Thursday morning last week, James Barfoot, student of medicine be- longing to one of the Borough Hospitals, was found dead in his bed. It ap- peared that the young man had swallowed nearly ten drachms of prussic acid,—a quantity sufficient to have destroyed many lives. He had been af- flicted for some years with gloominess and lowness of spirits, and had once before attempted to commit suicide.

DESTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL PROPERTY.—On Saturday morning, the farming premises and stack-yard at Teddington, near Stratford, were disco. vered to be in flames; which the utmost exertions proved inadequate to sub- due. The loss is calculated at 16001.

A wilful fire in a barn in the parish of Thornton, near Buckingham, on the evening of the 15th, occasioned the loss of 2001. worth of property.

The• peasantry in Essex are becoming notorious for outrages. On the 16th, a party of labourers demolished a machine for thrashing corn at a farm in Toppesfield. Great numbers of labourers are out of employment in these parts. The farmers are obliged to watch their flocks, independent of the patrol. The other evening, while a farmer was thus employed, he came upon three men carrying loaded sacks ; which. being thrown down and inspected, disclosed sixty-nine fat ducks.

The slaughter and stealing of sheep appears, from the Cambridge paper, to be a very common crime in that quarter. In one night last week, eight were slaughtered and stolen in Long Sutton Marsh.

At the Lindsey sessions, a man was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having, in a drunken squabble, seized the ear of his opponent between his teeth, and torn it off; and then threatened to worry him. Some of the parties who picked up the ear next morning on the road expressed a wish to broil it.

During the performance of the pantomime at the Manchester theatre last week, a drunken fool hurled a quart bottle from the gallery, which struck violently against the edge of the stage, rebounded back into the orchestra, and destroyed a flute worth twelve guineas, but happily inflicted no bodily injury.

• ESCAPE OF A LUNATIC FROM BODM/N Asrhusr.—The ingenious lunatic James Parsons of Modbury, in Devon, whose pranks we are now to disclose, escaped from Bodmin Asylum about seven o'clock on the evening of Wed, cesday the 21st instant. This man has been twice convicted of horse-stealing- The last time, which was about nine months since, he was sent to our asylum. under the Secretary of State's Warrant; and the King's sign-manual. For several months he conducted himself with great propriety, and had nearly obtained the confidence of every one. A box had been given him for his gob(' conduct ; and he was promised that he should have on new-year's-day, a good suit of new clothes, which he knew was prepared for him. On new-year's-eve, he attired himself in the clothes and boots of a subscrip- tion patient : stole a 5/. note from or), of the keepers; • scaled the wall, and went to a public-house in Bodmitt,Isfitere he boasted of the money he had got in his box. He came bad.: again aserthe wall, it is supposed for a large booty. Hewes taken and a flat ring of iron prepared for him six and a ballinches across the outside and three and a half in internal diameter : this had deeply engraved on it Bodmin Lunatic Asylum ; it was case-hardened, and secured with four counter-sunk rivets on his right ankle. With this on his leg he escaped, after tearing down a floor, on the evening of Wednesday last. He was seen about eight o'clock that evening, hiding by thehedge-sideabout two miles from Bodmin, on the Lostwithiel road. Having been bred a carpenter, he is very ingenious, and can pick most locks. He escaped once from Exeter gaol, by dressing a figure made of his bed in some of his clothes, and thus deceiving his keepers:. He was retaken at his borne. Some of his contrivances are too clever for. publItation. A second time he nearly escaped through the wall, having picked the locks by which he was confined to a post, with a wire he tore out of the tint of a saucepan. He has destroyed many double handbolts by striking them against a stone suspended from his mouth. He has given many proofs that he will make free without ceremony, with any money, clothes, or horses that fall in his way.—Western Luminary. Assauhrs.—An attempt at rape was last week committed in the parish of Urray, RoSt-shire, by a blind man named Munro, on the person of a young woman about fifteen years of age. He knocked the girl down, in consequence of which her arm was dislocated. After a severe struggle, the girl escaped At the time et this brutal assault, the man's wife was going about the country with a begging petition on his behalf!—Inverness Courier.

hum OUTIIRGES.--On the night of the 9th January, an armed band of Orangemen entered the townland of Beltony, near Augher, and attacked, seven houses occupied by Catholics. In one house, two young men had their limbs shattered by shots fired at them, and a young woman, their sister, was also cruelly wounded. Two pregnant women are said to have been mur- dered in the village. None of the assassins have been apprehended. Last week, a farmer was murdered in the South Liberties, Limerick, while returning from the market. He was found lying on the road immersed in a pool of blood, his skull beat in with stones in three places, and the brain protruding through the wounds ! On the wall immediately adjoining the fatal spot, were imprinted in blood-red colours, the marks of the man's fingers, while struggling with his murderers. This savage outrage was committed on a thoroughfare, and before day-light was gone. from the rain and thaw of the morning, we observed him picking On the 15th of December, two men confined in the gaol of Chester, Rich his steps with the greatest care. Arrived at the platform of the scaf- mond, U. S. under sentence of death for murder, determined to destroy them- fold however, he was apparently somewhat blenched by the appalling selves. They had been furnished with razors ior shaving, and one of them shouts and yells of execration with which he was assailed, and cast a look of had been secretly furnished with a knife. The latter placed the knife handle fierce and even desperate defiance at the spectators, who reiterated their against the wall, and leaned upon it, until the blade had penetrated the lower cries, intermingled with maledictions ; some crying, " Bring out Hare," part of the heart; but believing this not to be sufficient, he took the razor, " hang Knox," &c. Having taken his station in front of the drop, he kneeled " and presenting his face to the glass, to see with more certainty where to with his back towards the spectators, his confessor on his right hand, and the give the fatal stroke, he drew it deliberately and carefully in the same place other Catholic clergyman on his left, and appeared to be repeating a form of several times, and with the left hand drew the flesh down to give greater prayer, dictated to him by one of the reverend persons; Mr. Marshall, in the

effect to each stroke, and in a few seconds fell and expired without a groan " meanwhile, offering up a fervent supplication to heaven 'in his behalf. His The other drew his razor several times across his throat; but the wounds position at this moment again called forth shouts and clamours of " Stand were not mortal. There were two other prisoners in the room ; but on their out of the way," "Turn him round." When Burke arose, he was assisted to

attempting to interfere, one of the wretched murderers dealt him a blow with mount the drop, and the executioner commenced his preparatory operations. a stick in order to make him stand off, One of the persons who assisted him to ascend having rather rouglily.pushed CRIMES IN FRANCE.—The department of the Var has not been exempt from those missions which have called at Nogent le Rotrou for the inter- ference of the tribunals. 14 a village called Calas, not far from Dragninan, the chief of the mission led all the women to the burial-ground ; then he caused the earth to be dug until he had discovered a head, which he took up, and showing it to the persons who surrounded hint, drew a dreadful picture of death and hell. The shades of night, which were approaching, added to this scene of terror. The wonted uttered sighs, sobs, and cries of agony. The missionary, with bare feet, a rope about his neck, and a large crucifix in his hand, made the circuit of the cetnetry, sending forth sad lamentations, and crying for mercy for the sinners of Calas.—Constitutionnel.

Some days since, a boy twelve years of age, the only son of a farmer at Crossington, Somerset, having beefy rebuked by his fattier for some offence, retired to the byre and hanged himself.

The revenue officers of Valenciennes seized, a few days ago, several chests of books which were attempted to be smuggled into that city; Arnow; them were a great number of copies of Beranger's Chansons.

The number of prisoners Sit France now undergoing punishment is 20,3004