Several persons have been taken up and examined at the
Metropolitan Police-offices during the week, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Mr. Richardson, near Banstead. The evidence against SOIlle of them, however, has net been at all conclusive ; and they have been sent to Epsom, to be examined by the Magistrates there, who have discharged four of them. Two men, named Cotterill and Woodhill, are still in custody. They answer the description given of the murderers ; and Cotterill told the Policeman) who apprehended him, that it' he was concerned in the murder, Woodhill was quite as much so. There is said to be some unpublished evidence against these men.
Two Irishmen were sent to prison for three months by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday, in default of paying a fine of thirty pounds each, for illicit distillation in a house near Liverpool Street. The exciseman said that there is a vast deal of illicit distillation going on. He had seized six prisate stills himself within a fortnight. Hundreds of gallons are daily sent from London to the country, and sold as foreign brandy. [ Yet there are some wise persons who are for augmenting the duties on foreign spirits, by way of increasing the revenue.] On Monday, three large Irish coal-whippers, were examined at the Thames Police-office for being concerned in the assault on a waterman named Mumts, who was attacked by four men, on Saturday, at New
Crime Stairs, and, after being kicked and beaten by the ruffians, robbed of his ItIODCV, and left for dead. There was no distinct evidence pro duced against thsin ; bat it was proved they had used threats to the man for giving evidence against some of their companions for a riot ; that other anibigumia expressions after the attack on Menus had been overheard from thcm ; and that there was a probability. of their identifisarian by the wounded man. They were in consequence remanded.
Charles Bannett, the conductor of the Red Rover, Mile-end omnibus, was lined five pounds, at the Lambeth Street Office, on Tuesday, for a most brutal assault on two female passengers, from whom, as well as from a gentleman who was with then), he was endeavouring to extort double litre. The fellow knocked the younger of the women down in the street. She was carried insensible into an apothecary's shop, her mouth and nose bleeding profusely. [If the expense of prosecuting this man at the Sessions were nut too great, the complainant would doubtless have brought him before a Judge, whose power extends to the infliction of a degree of punishment mere suitable to his offence. At pfeerlt, it is not uncommon for a highway robber to escape by paymeet °fa of live ;annals ; as the injured party is unwilling or marble to iireur an expense of sixty or severity pounds in prosecuting him ; while he does not rut the same time choose to claim his expenses ji,rimi pauperis.]
A sailor applied at this Office on Wednesday, to be sworn to an at& davit of the loss of a iive-pound note a ith nvhich he had lighted his ripe, it a public-house, mistaking it for waste impel. lie finind that he ass without his money when he returned home ; and recollecting what he had been about, lie went again to the public-house, and found a remnant of the uote, which fortunate!y contained the number, upon the Iblor. Upou application at the Bank, and showing the number, he was told that the money would be paid.
Early on Sunday morning, a fire broke oat in the extensive premises of Messrs. Smith, distillers, in Whitechapel Road ; but Messrs. Smith having fire-engines of their own in readiness, and an abundant supply of water, the flames were entirely extinguished in a short time. Irhe damage done is inconsiderable. Great praise is due to the men of the fire establishments, and to the turncocks of the East London Waterworks, for their prompt arrival.
Sixty labourers, principally Irish, employed at the Imperial Gas Light Company's iVorks, Maiden Lane, were discharged on Tuesday, because they were members of the Trades Union.
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