Star. — London, England, 1826-01-06 00:00:00

THE NEW YEAR. • , FROM THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. I stood between the meeting Years, The coming and the past, And asked of the future one, Wilt thou be like the last ? The same in many a sleepless night, In many an anxious day? Thank Heaven! I have no Prophet's eye To look upon thy way ! For doerow, like a phantom, sits Upon the last Year's close. How much of grief, how much of ill, In its dark breast repose! Shadows of faded hopes lit by, And ghosts of pleasures led : How have they changed from what they were ! Cold, colourless, and dead ! • I think on many a wasted hour, And sicken o'er the void ; And many darker are behind, On worse than nought employ'd ! Oh, 'Vanity I alas, my hew, • How widely b ast thou stray'd, And misused every golden gift, For better purpose made ! I think on many a once-loved frietad, • As nothing to me. now • And what can math the ;apse of time As does an altered brow? • Pexhaps 'twas but •a-careless!word That severed Friendshies chain ; And angry Pride stands by each gap, Lest they unite again ! Less sad, albeit snore terrible, . Who; think upon the dead, • Who,- quiet in the lonely grave, Lay down their weary head ! • • For Faith, and Hope, and Peace, and Trust, Aar piste their happier lot Thnush brokeu is their bond of love, At leist we broke it not ! . • Thus thinking of the-meeting Years, The coming and the past, I weeds must ask the future one; Wilt thou be like the last ? Th ere came a sound, but not of speech, That to any thought replied, 44 Misery is the nuariage-gift * That waits a mortal bride ! " But lift thine hopes from this base earth, -"this waste of worldly care, And wed thy Faith to yon bright sky, For Happiness dwells these !" - - L. E. I. _ - SWISS .ASSASSUIS. ; • . LUCERNE, Demise* 113. For several v eeks the inquiry into the death of 'M Keller has been continued, and a great number of per• sons have been examined. Clara Wendel and her sister, before their journey to Zurich, were conducted to the spot where the crime was committed. The following is an extract from the depositions made at Lucerne by the own now detained at Zurich.- .The day on which the,crinse was committed, Krusi Hans and his accom plices had met at one of their places of rendezvous, about half A league &Om Lucerne. They then went to tavern outside of the walls, and drank; afterwards they were summoned into the town, and to a cabaret, where they found Doctor Corragioni, and, according to some depositions, Eine other Gentle Men. Towards the evening they left the town in two parties, and re- . pelted by. two different roads to a little wood not far from the country houses of MM. Keller and Pfyffer. They were afterwards summoned by a servant to M. Pfyffer's, who was then Prefect of Lucerne. On arrive ing at h's house, some drink was given them; some of, them blackened their faces. On their leaving the' house, M. Pfyffer reminded them of their promises and engagements. They then watched for M. Keller; two of the assassins, piecing themselves as sentinels on the road to Lucerne. At a given signal, when M. Keller appeared on the road, he was seized by Krusi Hans, and two of his accomplices, and forced over a perpen dicular precipice, at the bottom of which runs the river. The crime being completed, the assassins re. turned to the house of M Pfyffer, where they again re ceived some drink ; some of them afterwards went down t:, the river, the 'teas, to see if the body had been cast on shore. One r f the Womenassertsthat she was in the house of the Prefect, when the daughters of M. Keller came there, deploring the loss of their father in accents of the greatest despair. The murderers then • returned into the town, and went to Dr. Corragioni, where they again received some drink. The Doctor drank with them, and then paid them. This is differently stated in some of the depositions ; some say they received five Innis, others say they nar=y received a few florins. The depositions vary als) as to the time when the asassins uon was committed ; some say that AI. Keller was thrown into the river by day-light, as he was walking and reading a book ; at a later period to ey declared .that it was done in the evening, and even in the night. If these stories are accurate, two Magistra ec, generally respected,must have associated with a bad of robbers; they must have called to the meeting won:en and children; two of the persons detained were th e n onl y fourteen and fifteen years of age; tley hav'e made ct:n. tideuts of one of their servants and a geadat me, and generally have net four or five scoundrels in different cabarets, and drank with them ; they have braved the suspicions which their conduct must have inspired, and in these public places they concluded their agreement. , • —Their borises were open to this horrible band ; and . these, under lire eyes of their own family and domes tics. they encouraged them to commit the crime for which they prepareti.drem by wine. Finally, it was in an open apothecary's shop that their wages, were given them ;. and it ways in drinking that they celebrated the success of their horrible crime. We do not think it is 'necessary to add a single word in'explanation of these circumstances. Mr. etEws, allritish. Cabinet Messenger, passed t` - tough Berlin on the I.lth ult. on his way from Lon alon to St. Petersbuigh. Vie Liverpool Albion says—" According to the state. scent published by the hrokers, the st-ick of cotton in this port on the 31st 44. would have been 20,700 bags • but, from the returns, made on Sat day morn ing gom the holders, it appears to have *en-41.00 0 - . 1U import,'dtiring the past-year, into this pr rt alone, amounted to 706,303 bags. The returns of the stocks its Landau and Glasgow have not yet been received." ()a the 7th of November the steamboat Bake, towing don the ship Virginia, from New Orleans,. bound bi New York, tonic the below, and the flame, spiead with such great rapidity that the crew barely had time to effect. their escape on board of . the ship. The Virginia was cut loose and drifted asliure, but was got off in a short time,without suffering mirth daniagt. 10 NEW IfVF.IGIITSr AND MEASURES. Yesterday a tradesmao came before,the.Lord,Maypr, to complain that the City Officers had refused * tu sltipp a measure, although it was accurate in. its dimensions according to the legal measure. He produced an iron. eessel, on which was inscribed, gi Imperial Half Peck." He had, he said; come all the way from, Ireland, 2nd had procured 141 of, those vessels 14): be made of wrought iron, as the least petishable material, for the use of the Government Officers at the Otiaports, to save as standards. The Hall.keeper of Guildhall, however, positively ref used.to stamp the, veakels,,althoogh he ad mitted they were perfectly accurate... NO reason V. as assigned for the refusal, except that it was contrary to, practice to stamp iron vessels, but there was a pro digious outcry against such vessels by the makers of wooden measures, who exclaimed against things Of so durable a nature -as A ruinous innovation. 'Mr. Temple, the Hall-keeper, was sent for, and be said he had ob jected to stamp the iron measurer on the ground of custom. There was no instance of the stamping of iron measures, and the process was extremely difficult and inconvenient. The City Lands Committee had declined to stamp such measures. The LORD MAYOR rematked, that a variety of things were now made of iron, and he' considered that the measures should be stamped upon the payment of a proportionate fee.for the extra trouble. Mr. Temple said, the matter must be sumbiued to the City Lands Committee, and with regard to com plaints having been made of measures not being stamped, he said that the measures were stamped in turn, and only a certain number for each pe r s on.— The City SolicitOr, on several . points relative to the New Measure Act, has pronounced. that old pewter pots, if they be reduced to the. stet:laid size, and the old mark be erased, may be stamped, and that the same may be done with respect to the coal measures. There are, upon the best calculation, 1,800,000 ale and beer measures in the City and suburbs. Of these, 49,040 pots have been stamped at the Measure-office, from the 28th of November to the 51st of December. 'As they have not so many persons employed at the Measure-office, Westminster, it will be some time be- 1 fore the whole are completed; and the publicans, if the Act were to be put in execution, are liable to the penal ties. affixed to non-compliance. There have been .. stamped 2,660 great mine measures, 3,268 pints, and 9,495 small measures and other measures, in the whole 22,992. The new standards are about one-sixth let ger than the old wine measutes, and one-sixtieth smaller than the old beer measures. The new dry =mile is about one thirty-sec( rid part larger than the old. Great quan tides of the old beer measures are made to serve, by having the bottoms a little 'raised. The poorer classes are much discontented with the new n ensures, as they conider they will suffer by the regulation, rebile.the trine-drinkers will gain. The trial of the measures in the City is extremely strict, as in the olden time, and. the capacity of every pot is tried by water from the standard measures, while at Westminster, only half-a dozen, or little more, are trier:lout of each lot, and the rest are stamped on the faith of those which were tried. Such is the popular reliance placed on the superior attention, given, time immemorial, by the Corporation, with respect to the full and legal - measure far the use of his Majesty's subjects, that during the last fortnight a number of measures which had been tried at Weat= spinster, sere afterwards brought to Guildhall, in order that the City Seal might be impressed upon them. The feu in the City for trying and stamping pewees pots, are three'pence per dozen. Tho.e opoe the aseritirttion of weights are precisely similar. The littoui' - ii;biihis alldwasce, barely - paid. The fees paid elsewhere are bight r. In all cases of reference to *local custom; its ratio to the new standard is to be specified in the eon tract, or the contract to be void. Local measures Pray be used, .if their proportion to the new standard !inns certaitied and impressed upon them. The proportions are not easily ascertainable by those in the country. Numbers of local measures have been sent to Guildbill to be stamped, but their have been reje c t ed . ' f, . .1.111.1......... 1 . . Messrs. BARCLAY and Co. the brewers, yesterdige morning Limed a circular, announcing that a reduCtionl of ss. per barrel has taken place on porter and stout. . . The letters received yesterday give a gloomy p : cture of many oa ' rts of the cruntry. Anis:the and labourers ih general have been thrown out of work .in great num bers. In Gloucestershire, 1800 have been discharged by one firm, and 600 by another. On the morning at Friday, the 1 6th init. two y oun g couples presented theMselves before Hymen's sacred altar, at Abergele, in North Wales, to ratify their plighted troths of connubial fidelity, u till death them should part." The first couple that entered the Gordian] knot were Mr. Edward Jones, of Tyn-y-coed, new Abergele, and Miss Elizabeth Williams, of Moelvre, dress-maker. The second, Mr. William Jones, of Aber. gele, painter and glsziet, and Mies Ann Hughes, of the same place, another dress-maker. Such a day was. naturally anticipated as one of jny and hilarity : but,. 'alas ! how uncettain are human affairs! The run people of both parties, with their friends, had made ,arrangements to spend the afternoon at ti e houses of their respective parents ; but, on their road thither, both brides were taken very ill ; and the formr died before she leached home, ant seas canvoyed thither in a cart! Th e 1 steer was o bliged, with difficulty, to :emir to Abetgele, where she lay ill for several days, but is since tecovet ing. PARISIAN STATISTICS.—CaIcuIAtiag t' e number of inhabitants of Paris according to the births of 1824, or *multiplying the number by thirty-three, we shall end, in round numbers, Mt. the—inhabitants amount to 059,000, being an . augmentation of 256,000 persons in lure natl. fhis imuctsf agrees with the con. conption—that of 1824, belhg greater than that of 182.3, by 7,000 head of horned cattle, and 26,000theep In 19e4, there was drank, in Paris, without including the gnomons consumption aubide of the barriers. 5,1110,000 bottles. wiwine more than in 18 . 4. The following curious statistical accyunt if given in the asset d rhian.l4.; for the year 1826 :—The 100'moAt populous cities on the globe are----Jeddo, in Japan, 1.680,000 inhabitants; Pekin, I .sOO,B OO ; London, 1,214,000; H asts-Ischeo,. , 1,108,000 % 41- tutu, 900,000; Madras, 817,000; Nankin, ammo; (Alga , lichen, 61/0,000 ; Pari5,717,300; Wets Cheri, 600,000; Ct'n.tu tinople. 597,800; Benarss..s.slll,ooC Kio, 920.726; Su „...,., „ a 500,000; Houng Isamu, 500,000; i11e.4.c. The f tit t oitine list is Berlin, con t aining 1e3,045). and the last,: .0 - .3.6 Amoiq the 100 cities, dove contain more than • a WV Vine from half a rtlilliall to a =Kinn ; 23 from '2 . 09,009 .1 6 0 1 0 , '.A).01113•' ssi front to t:4q,otAl ; six front 87 to 10 0 , 000 . 0f,,1l legait..kti cities, .55 are iu Asia, and 32 in Europe; of which. four wmio eis..'i many; four in France i five iii Italy ; eight in likiglanil A these its Sp .in ; Eve in Africa, snd five in America. A list of the P •ti,m A* 64 suites b rivets; the follow rig. it an extract L—tt I ?.64,LC0,000 ; British Empire, 136,500,000; ilusaia,•s9.ooo,ool4_ Japan, 40,0()0.000; France, 31,500.800; Austria,3o 000,000; Turk. hit Empire, a4,E00.000; Anent, 23,000,000; Spain, 15,1100 000 ; 44 orocco, 16,000,000 ; Persia, 13,500,000; Atghauistait,.ll4B4,k).ooo; Low Camp les, 12,800,000; Buriutse 19.4 00;' Vorea, 12,000,000; T ' hibet 12,000,900; Prussia, 11,370,0u0; lkaittil :States, 10,645 ,0 00; Napluir.-7,300,,000 ; &Jail, 5,306,001 k ,l'he principality St Lichtenstein contains the smallest number of tnlta- Imams out of the 94 states, having.only moo itihabitauts. POLICE. ItagatfiNc C. --- . Ai A taLoN-HOLISP• • Janes awed, was charged with stealing a musleal snuftbox.— The prisoner and another man went into the shop of Mr. man Saysry, a jeweller, in Comilla. and • while the attention of the sh o p Wad engaged, lids companion walked off s with the property.—lternanded . Thomas Woashmul, an extra waiter at the London Tavern s was brought up on the following charge:—Mr. lileaden stated, that after a public dinner at his house the prisoner was about to leave,' when an increaie of his bulk excited suspicion, and he was searched, when the officer found a considerable quantity of fruit,meat, fowls, ice. the former of which was intended for part of the dessert, but was taken before it had been plated on the table. The character of his house was considerably injured by such conduct, as the com pany complained of the scantiness of the good things set before them. The prisoner, who begged hard for forgiveness, was remanded. Adis was charged with stealing a ream of paper, the property of Alderman itlagnay. prisoner contrived to take away the property while the porter was engaged in taking down the abutters of the warehouse. —Fully committed. GUILDHALL. •Joohn and Thamas Flynn were charged with stealing a great coat, which Johnson, a journeyman carpenter, employed in making re pairs at Mews. Gilbeet and Palmer's, paper-stainers, in Old Fish street, had left in the warehouse while he went to breakfast. On his return it had disappeared. MI the persons about - the premises, except T. Flynn, assisted Johnson in searching for it from the roof to the cellar, in which litter place it was at length found, hidden soder some shavii:gs. There it was allowed to remain with the i view of detecting the thief. Thomas Flynn was the last on the premises at night, but Mr. Dever, the clerk, watched the premises eutaide, and at nine o'clock John Flynn came up, and Thomas lowere the coat, packed up as a parcel, by a string, from an upper. window. The prisoners were then secured. Thomas said, in his defence, that he bid the coat as a joke ori ginally, but when Johnson made such an outcry, and used such threats of prosecution, he became too frightened to tell the truth, and sent-it out of the house at night that it might come by au er rand-cart the next day, and the clue to him be broken. John declared his brother told him he had been buying a coat.—Coat mined- BOW-STREET. Yesterday rather a curious affair was unfolded to Sir R. BIRNIE, of which the following are the circumstances:—One Sir Thomas Wright Wilson, who gave us pretty clearly to understand, that be either was, or had been a tradesman, but woe bad been forty years in the commission of the peace, and had a large family, whom he always clothed twice a year, appeared before the sitting Magistrate to complain of his servant. The latter, as he stated, had formerly been his apprentice. At the expiration of the seven years he took him into his service, and retained him fur five years. At the end of that time, having taken a horse front the stable, and ridden it contrary to the wish of Sir Thomas, be determined to discharge him, and discharged he was. When he left the house, the servant took away with hint his old liveries. O n this ground Sir Thomas applied to Sir 11. Blame for a warrant, in order to apprehend him on a charge of felony. This the worthy 'Magistrate refused; but as there appeared some circumstances requiring explanation, he issued a summons for him to attend yesterday. Accordingly he appeared. accompanied by a friend bearing the clothes, which formed the subject of the proceeding. The respectable prosecutor then, with considerable warmth, addressed the bench in a half hour speech, accompanied with aU the graces which eloquence and action could give it. He dwelt with great effect on the innumerable kindnesses which bad been lavished eo the defendant. Mr. William Hays Petit, one of the Committee of the Foundling ,liimpital, said he appeared there on the part of the defendant, as, when the Committee fiaund that those whom they had formerly fostered in their childhood, acted in a becoming manner, they were OM accustomed to desert them. There did not here seem any wet founded charge against the young man now before the Court. The young man had taken the clothes, fairly imagining that he had a right so to do. If he had not done so, be must, after twelve years of satisfactory service, have been turned out naked. Fer his owe part, he would rather go without a coat himself, than turn out a servant in such a state. The youth, however, was willing to re store the old clothes to Sir Thomas Wilson, to make what use of them he chose. . ' Sir It. Bums said, he thought the young man bad acted under a mbtake very prevalent among servants, but which be might -Itssit with the greatest innocence. He bad supposed that his livery belonged absolutely to him, and therefore that he bad a right to do what he chose with it. This was an erroneous supposi tioo. Ho must return the clothes. But there was not the slightest shadow of anything like even a constructive felony. He was there fore to be discharged. Caw( or TASTAIO—IIiss Maslen Smith and Miss Ursula Mit oses were brought before Mr. Miesnutx., on Wednesday morning, from Covent-garden watch-house; to which uncomfortable place they. had consigned each other en mutual charges of assault;- Misr Hhliman having charged Miss Smith with spit/Peg in her face and tearing her lace cap; and. Miss Smith having charged Miss' Hillman with endeavonring to pull her down stairs backwardeby the skirt of her sky-blue gm: de Naples pelisse. Miss Smith is tall, stately, add drab - c om p ; arrayed in ddichilia-trimmed sky-blue gros de Neptesp-muffed, buckled. beaceletted, and reticuled, "In a corresponding style of elegance. * Miss Hillman, on the other band, a very diminutive damsel—us.. mildied, and clad in bumble brown calimanco ;—her complexion at the olfactory apex, of a fine purple, and gradually softening Bowe over her cheeks into a pale primrose. -Miss Hillman opened bur carte to the Magistrates, in form and manner following : " This morning at one o'clock, please yohr Worship, I was at Mother H.'s—" "And pray where is Mother H.'s?" asked his Worship, inter: rutting bor. , , ._. . ;all_ _ e .ettending gaoler explained. . . - Bliss kli li maa proceeded :—" It was about one e'clock, please, yoir . Worship, and at I was passing down .the stoics this Lady gave me a push--" Why did you pus& me, ,Mess 7 said I. ,I'U smack . yaw .usly,lookijig chops !' said she;—and, with that, she spit in my face three,times running. 1 Why do you spit,' at me. p ifirif i' said I, • l'U tell yon in a minute,' said she--,and with that Adstetore my cap to tatters ;—and here it is for your Worship's in 'pectic% -sprit hest lace cap!" .. . , . . ... ;MiseSultith looked scornfully down upon the tattered best lace cao which Miss Hillman held up,for his Woratip'siespectiuti ; and, thrusting lier.liatids up to the elbows in her own proket muff, she proceeded to gilts her account of the matter. " Upon my word, Sir," saickshe,•l it illber.einestne to take any notice otwhat the hasig nificant little creature bas said. The fact is, she has insulted me repeatedly, tie-Care..when we were at Mrs . Hodskinsun's the ofilet.oiglit,..acoaltleman with • whom 'this little body presumes to * em terms, took me by the hand, and said ' my. shear, will you take ,row stigikem with, me ?' To which polite invitation 1 very nee tunny replied,' Oh, certainly. Sir !'• Of course 1 and the Gies deman supped together; and ever since thin paltry small moduli I bis taken every opportunity of insulting me; lie spit at her indeed! lavas she Wits spit at sae." • . . • • W. Let these ladies be locked up together," said the Magistrate; 4 kritliit they may have an opportunity of arrang in g their differesem Vett , and I will bear them again presently." ....3hey were lucked up accordingly in one of the iron baudoirs.aed llow the dispatch of some less interesting busibess, die Magistrate 1 *Mita that they might be again brought into the office. " Well," siad his Worship," have they settled theif disputer • , 58 1 don't know, Sir," replied the ga o ler ; " there has been a Feet deal of talk between them—but as they both talked at once, titippose neither of them heard what the other said." .. Aliss Hillman said, Miss Smith was "'so intertkrate that arrange. merist was 'spite impossible. Miss Smith was about to put in a rejoinder to this; but his Worslaip said he bad heard quite enough to convince him that they werv e both, equally to blame, and therefore he mould hear no more; butileave them to. indict each other at the Sessions if they chose. — And then they were discharged. HATroN-G ARBEN. raontioxfn SILK Goon:.—Yesterday Mrs. Ellipse • Cups, milliner and dross-maker. of Regent-street, was summoned to ap pescbefore the Magistrees of this Office, to answer a complaint of the oillset• of his• Majesty's Customs, for having in her possession, vsnowA articles of foteign manufactured silk goods, gloves, &c. cs..,t‘opao the statute. On her name being called, she did not answer, but a French Gen tleman, oho gave his name as M. Oenolley, came forward, and Amid that Mr.. Cops wa. in France, he appeared for her. Mr. I.atsc asked him if he wa,s prepared to take the copse- quences ? •ft. M. Denorey said that he did not kaow anything of the muter; Ase only came there to hear the Magistrate's decision. Mn lama said, that of course the case should go on as if ao de fendant had appeared. 'ice seizing °dicer was then sworn, and proved the finding the artigikamanacd in the information on the defendant's premises, they were of the volur of B 6 I[.s. 4d at d'of foreign manufacture. Thes.Solicitor of the Citsttatts said, that the Llonourahlt Board bring Merit: that the defet.datit hdil frequently offended, had with a tom to protectar.g the liti.ash ►ue..utaciure thuusht proper to proceed under the 57th Geo. 111. which allows a pereate £lOO on conviction oT this offence. the Magistrates having a d ' creti.mary power to mitigate it to one-fourth of that anio:.in. though the ordinary mode was to proceed for treble the value of the article seized. • The defendant was fined in the lowest penalty, t;5, and LS t. costs. Yesterday, this office was much crowded to hear the final eta mination of Patrick Caen, Mary Cwt, and Margaret Caere, !the daughter. who- were charged with the wilful warier of Maurice Fitzgerald, in Horn's-alley, Gray'sdnrs.lacre. A. woman named Casey said, that when-she beard of the murder having been com mitted, she ran into the Court and said, " what a pity tag tine is killed—what did you kill the man -to: ?" to which Mrs. Cant re. plied, "ifbe is kiikti, what right bad he in nay place? I'll let you see "what business you have in my place, 51.turice Fitzgerald.**—. Mem Ford heard Mrs. Caen say to Fitz3erald, " yuu have es business here." Mrs. Caen also accused her of having accepted 2s. Gd. on the previous evening from Fitzgerald. Mr. gerjeant Setsoe having heard ail the ',harems, ordered the daughter to be removed from the bar; but before he took bee evi dence, he cautioned her to tell the whole truth. She said she wa sent for by her mother, and on her arrival she found the deceased lying on the ground. She shouted " murder! murder!" Het mother was staiiding in the passage, but she was una'Jle to state whether she had a knife in her hand. She had a child on her kill arm, and desired a woman who came down to attend to the dee ceased while she went for a doctor. She asked her mother whether she committed the murder? and she said, " don't bother me; do you think I did it' . She went for a doctor, and on her return into the yard she saw her father for the first time; several persons were also there. There not being any evidence agairest the male prisoner; he was also removed from the bar. The prisoner was then called upon for her defence; and she said, that on the night in question,. while she was preparing supper, one of her childrm ran out., She went after it with a knife in her hand, with which she bad been peeling onions. She had taken two glasses of gin, which took suck an effect upon her, that she was almost frantic, and knew not what she did.—Committed for trial. lIARLBOROUGH-STREET. 1101111 MY AT Loan LOYASNZ.II.—Forr well-known characters, of the name of Willis. Williams, Sermon, and Mood , were brought to this office yesterday, on suspicion of being concerned in rubbing the house of Lord Lovalne;s6,Upper Brook-street, on Tuesday night. Lord Lovaine's butler deposed•that. about ten o'clock on Tues day night, having occasion to go to a neighbouring hotel ou a mo mentary business, he kft the area gate open, and upon his return found that there had been stolen front the hall three travelling coats, two travelling cleats, and two . pelisses . In the p ocket of one of the coats, his own property, was a pocket-book containing a SOL promissory note and several valuable memorandums. One of the footmen deposed, that while the butler was out the ben rang, and upon hls.answering it, a person whom be was con ident was the prisoner Williams, inquired which wa= Gilbert street? Witness informed the prisoner that the street inquired foe was opposite, on which he went away. Mr. Drat —Are you confident that Williams is the person who made the inquiry? Witness—l have no hesitation in saying that he is. Scholefiekl the officer deposed; that in consequence of the infor mation he had received, he proceeded to Lord Levaine's house, and examined the area gate, which had no appearance of having been forced. H. then went to Willis's house, in fidhert-st ern, which he found Williams entering with a bottle of wine, and knowing the whole of the prisoners to be suspicious characters, he brought them to this office.. The prisoners, in defence, denied all knowledge of the robbery, and Williams said the servant was mistaken in his identity, fur that ho had not been in Brook-street on the day in question. Mr. Dram observed, that although appearances were very mach against the prisoners, yet the evidence was _insufficient to warrant any further proceedings against them. They must, therefore, be discharged. The prisoners were discharged accordingly. • UNION-HALL. _ _ A young man, named William Cwe, was charged with commit ting a burglary and robbery in the house of a widow, named Mary Brown, residing in Inman* i i-buildings, in the New Kent-toad. The prisoner lathe son of Cave, the chief turukey of Horsemen ger-lane. It appeared that on the Mt December, the prosecutrie went out to pvrchaseta few articles, when she met a woman named Dick, with whom the prisoner cob:hired, and who persuaded her tu go into several liquor shops, and drink some teturnin - to her house, she found it had been entered , and r o b bed, and the wisaule of her drawers.and cupboard. carried aw.sy. The principal witness against the prisoner was a young woman, Ward, who lodges opposite the complainant' s h o use, and who, luring Mrs. Brown's absence from home, saw the prisoner enter, and come nut with a large bundle. She was afraid to give an alarm, as she considered it more than her life was worth to give information against the prisoner. The Constable who took the prisoner into custody, said be re quested to have his liberty unt4 the next day, and promised to meet him at a certain hour, he, however, kept out of the way. . The prisoner was fully commlted for trtal. THE Ex-kING OF SwEnew.. 7 -The following curious statement appears in adignamis Messenger:—" Ex tract of a private letter of the 25th instant, from Mentz: —The public attention is at this moment powerfully excited by the dissppearance of Colonel tiusrAvsom (ex -King of Sweden), wham it was customary to see almost daily within our walls. His he is situated at Cassel, a parish comprehended within the fortifications of Mentz. His attendants assert that be went to hi: son, who resides at Carlsruhe, with his mcelier, and that from thence they both step ted for Russia. Well-in formed persons say that GUSTAVUS was very intimate with Prince CONSTANTINE, and kept up a regular cor respondence with Monday evening, soon after dusk, Mrs. Ann Patter, residing near VV'est 7 square, Lambeth, was proceeding along the wall of New Bethlem, on the Lambeth-road, when she was tusiderily attacked by a stout fellow, who, after knocking her down, robbed her of a hand-basket, containing Is. 6d. in silver, six pair of unmade slate coloured gloves, besides severa l other a.ticles, instantly made . a2Lecipitateletreat. with the intopeity. MARRIED. Dec. 31, at Wareham, Berk' , the It-v. Wm. Dockland, D.D. Canon of Christ Church, 414 Professor of Mineralogy and Geo logy laths University of (hfur4,. and President of the GcOlOgie. ll Society of London, to Mary, eldest daughter of Iktijando 111or land, Esq. of Sherpstead House, near Abingdon. . . , Jan. I, at Marston House, Viscount Dungarvan, aged 27. tu, at Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh, Ilenty Pery Corry, Esq. of the 6th Dragoon Guards. Tuesday, at the ltectory, Am e rsham, the Rev. Dr. Drake. Saturday, in Can Grove, aged 34, Captain James Ives Edwards, late commander and owner of the Golconda lodiam. r. July 20, at Itatnree, East Indies, of a bilious fever, Lieu:era:A George M. Pilgrim, 40th Regiment. {tee. 20, at Woburn, Mr. Isaac Ahlett, of Parker's court, Lon' don, and formerly of d Manchester. Liis death Was occasioned by the upsetting of the anchester mail at that place wattle above date. October 24, en board his Majest}.s ship Scylla, ott the Jam aica station, to which be had been recently appointed, Captain Aug. tut Chhispion De•Crespiry. At Clifton, on the Stith alt. Colonel Write, late Deputy Liea• tenant of the Tower. 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