Transcribed without making changes to spelling and grammar. Transcribed by Joyce Robinson The Portsmouth Times Dated: February 12, 1870 POLICE NEWS Things have been lively in police circles. Ten arrests were made in the city on Thursday evening on various offenses. The parties were brought before the Mayor on yesterday morning, and fines to the amount of $130 were assessed against them. Madame JELLEY and three of her boarders were arrested and placed in the station house. The former was fined $25 and costs for keeping a house of ill-fame and the others $10 each. They were in the lock-up, yesterday, and unless the fines are paid they will be committed to jail. The colored boy, named Johnson, mentioned in the Tribune as being fined $27, for carrying concealed weapons, was arrested upon two charges -- assault and carrying concealed weapons -- plead guilty to both, and was fined $10 in each case.