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1 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—CROYDON, Ago. £7. Before Mr. Justice GAUL= CIIARGE OF MURDER. • Ann Harris was charged on an inquisition with felo niously killing and slaying Mary Fryer. Mr. ADOLPIIUS, Mr. BRODRICK, and Mr. PRATT, were for the prosecution, and Mr. BA cox for the prisoner. Mr. Tobias Brown said that he was a surgeon and apothecary at Camberwell. By direction of the parish °dicers he went to the prisoner's house in Regent-street, Rosemary Branch-lane, to examine a body, on the 15th of April, after an application by the beadle. The prisoner ...lid at the time, " I will allow no one to enter." At five o'clock in the afternoon he returned, in company with Mr. Bristow, a surgeon. Found the corpse of a female in a back bed-mom. It was apparently the corpse of an old person. The body was examined, and there was a contused wound on the right side of the frontal bone, about two inches in length and width. The skin was broken. The wound appeared to have been given by some blunt instrument. There were bruises on the left side, and marks of leeches behind the ear. On the back of the head there was an incised wound above an inch and •t half or two inches in length, and just penetrating to the hone. There were also bruises on the back and shoulders, and great discolouration. On the left fore arm, just above the left wrist, there was an ulceration, apparently caused by some tight bandage. He examined the legs and found bruises on them. He then opened the skull, and found an extravasation of blood, to the amount of two ounces, on the left side of the brain. This would cause death; he believed it arose from a wound on the opposite side, which was the usual effect—from the con tused wound on the opposite side of the head. The brain was otherwise healthy ; he examined the abdomen and other cavities, and found them peculiarly healthy for a woman of her apparent age. Judging from all appear ances, he believed that death had been caused by the ex travasation of blood upon the left side of the head. Cross-examined by Mr. BACON.—The only persons present were myself, my brother, and Mr. Bristow. We could not tell how the contused wound had been inflicted. Such a wound was not so likely to be caused by a fall as by a blow, as the weight of her body was not sufficient, although she fell in a fit. But that would depend upon the height from which she fell. There was neither frac ture nor depression of the skull. The leech wounds were on the left side of the head, where the extravasation of blood was. Drowsiness and headache are commonly the symptoms of extravasation of blood, and leeches are fre quently applied to relieve those symptoms. If the con tused blood had not produced extravasation it would not have caused death ; he could not say whether the bruises on the back were caused by blows, falls, or lying in bed for a length of time ; he did not make any examination of the bruises, so as to say they were not caused before death ; he did not make the examination advised by Dr. Hutchinson, of removing a part of the skin, to try whe ther infiltration of blood into the cellular tissue had taken place. Re-examined—He believed that the bruises had been caused by injuries before death. The wound on the head could not have been caused by her falling from her feet, or low chair or bed. There were abrasions of the skin, caused by lying in bed, and bruises apparently produced by blows or falls. In answer to a question from Mr. Justice GASELEE, the witness said that he was of opinion the wound had been inflicted three days. Mr. John Bristow, a surgeon, at Camberwell, and who had examined the body with the last witness, agreed with him perfectly in what he had stated. Cross-examined by Mr. BecoN—He once saw the de ceased at the house of the prisoner. She was tied in a chair, and the explanation given was, that it was to pre vent her falling out when asleep. Such bruised appear ances would sometimes be produced in old people by mere pressure. There was nothing improper, to all appearance, in the mode in which the deceased had been tied in the chair. Mary Spencer, a married woman, and living at Regent street, Rosemary Branch-lane, next door to the prisoner, said that she had known her these two years, and that she had also known the deceased two years, and believed her name to be Fryer, but did not know her Christian name. Was only once in Mrs. Harris's house—the house was like her's, and there were six rooms in it. She kept a chandler's shop, and Mrs. F. slept in the back room on the first floor. The deceased appeared to be upwards of seventy; she was very healthy ; she used to run about as smartly and as quickly as a little girl. In some things she did not speak plainly. Could not say whether she ate and drank at the table with Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Harris's con duct was very unkind towards the deceased : she had seen her strike her in the garden with a pitchfork, or broom stick, or any thing which happened to be lying there ; never in her life heard Mrs. Harris speak kindly to the deceased. About a month before her death heard Mrs. Fryer call out for water, and Mrs. Harris (apparently) took the light out of her own bed-room into that of Mrs. F. She said, " You d—d old bitch, what do you want ?" She asked for some water. She then heard blows, and the deceased called out, " For GOD'S sake don't—do leave off l" She heard three or four blows given. When Mrs. Harris returned to her room, she said, " D—n her, I have settled her for to-night ; there will be no more about water." This was at eleven at night. On the Sunday before the death of the deceased, Mr. Harris spoke to Mrs. H. about the old woman; and she said, " D—n her, roll her in a sheet, and throw her from top to bottom." Heard no more of her till Tuesday, when she died. by Mr. BACON—I was about two yards and a half from my own door when I heard the words used by the prisoner to Mrs. F. Charles Spencer, the husband of the last witness, said that he knew the deceased. She died on the 14th cf April. Recollected the Sunday week before her death. He heard the prisoner say to the deceased with an oath, " Get up !" He heard a blow struck, and the deceased cried out. Margaret Brush, servant to Mrs. Harris, said that Mrs. Fryer's bed-room was on one side of Mrs. H.'s bed room. The windows looked into the same yard. Two months after she had left the service heard that Mrs. F. was dead. The prisoner used to send her food to the deceased. The prisoner beat her very severely, and used her very ill. Has heard the prisoner my, when the deceased had done any thing to aggravate her, that she would murder her, or throttle her, for she would not be troubled with her. Cross-examined by Mr. BACON—The deceased some times used provoking language to the prisoner. She was in very bad health, and could hardly move. She used sometimes to untie her shoe-strings, and untie her apron strings, in order to aggravate the prisoner, and she spoke harshly to her. Re-examined—She used to call her an old bawd, and beat her with a cane, or any thing which came to hand. Sometimes she beat her without her having done any thing. By the Jul:ion—Sometimes, when I went to bed, have found Mrs. Fryer lying partly on the bed and partly on the floor. I have awakened her, and induced her to go to bed. Never saw the deceased lying upon the floor upon her face after she went to bed. Elizabeth Rudd—Was acquainted with the deceased, and saw her the morning of her death. On speaking to the prisoner of the deceased's death, she said, " Yes, she was laid out comfortable." Went by the prisoner's de sire to see the body. The deceased had on a clean shift. Witness touched the face. Mrs. Harris said that the deceased had died at 5 o'clock, as her alarum went down. Returned at half-past nine, and observed that the de ceased had a sleeping jacket on, two caps on her head, and a pair of lambs' wool stockings on her legs. Asked Mrs. Harris for something to put the corpse decent with, and she said, " D—n your eyes ! what business had you to let the doctor up stairs ?" She had not let the doctor up stairs, but he came up whilst she was standing over h e corpse. Martha Rudd said she was eleven years of age in Au gust. Knew the old woman, and one day Mrs. Harris desired her to come and look at her d—d old bitch." She did so, and saw the deceased sitting in a back-room, on a rush-bottomed chair, the bottom of which was gone, and under it was a little wash tub. She had shoes, stockings, and a flannel night-cap on, but her body was quite bare. The prisoner struck her several times across the back with a cane ; and the deceased said, " For Gore's sake, don't." This was about three weeks before the death of Mrs. Fryer. Cross-examined by Mr. BACON- She was very dirty, and so were her clothes. Thomas Simpson said that he knew the deceased. He paid no money to the prisoner for her support ; she had 641. a year income ; it was the net of the deceased to go and board with the prisoner ; she was the wife of George Fryer, who had been dead about ten years. Cross-examined by Mr. BACON—I am the executor and residuary legatee of George Fryer's will. Mrs Fryer never made any complaint to me about Mrs. Harris's treatment. Re-examined—l never saw Mrs. Fryer whilst she was with the prisoner, except in company of the prisoner. The prisoner was then called upon for her defence. She said that she knew not how the blow came upon the fore head of the deceased ; she did not know that it was there, and that it must have been done by some other person. Mr. BACON called several witnesses, who spoke to the humane and quiet character of the prisoner. Mr. Justice GASELEE said that the question which the jury had first to decide was, whether the deceased came to her death by the blow on the forehead described by the witnesses ? secondly, whether the prisoner was the per son who struck the blow ? and thirdly, whether the blow was struck with a previous intent to murder, or merely in the heat of passion without any such intent. If the jury found the affirmative of the first two questions, and the second part of the third, they would convict the prisoner of manslaughter. If they found the affirmative of the first two questions, and the first part of the third, they would convict her of murder. The jury retired, and in about an hour returned with a verdict of Guilty of Manslaughter. The Learned JUDGE expatiated upon the enormity of the prisoner's offence, and sentenced her to be transported for life. CONSTITUTION RESPECTING THE JEWS . BY POPE GREGORY XII. The Holy Mother the Church, of which CIISIST is the Head, in the wide diffusion of her innate charity to all mankind, never ceases to compassionate with pious affection the peculiar remains of the ancient Israelitish race and people of Gots, and grievously mourns that the nation of the Jews, once distinguished by gifts and graces, whose was the adoption of sons, the glory, the covenant, the giving of the law, the obedience and promises, of whom also according to the flesh. Coarse our SAVIOUR vouchsafed to be born, new for so many ages dispersed over various parts of the world, and, like an infectious flock, miserably wandering through pathless and unwatered places, is perishing with hunger and thirst for want of the word of GOD and the water of life, and is driven far away, not only from the earthly Jerusalem over which the LORD wept, but, what is more grievous, from the heavenly Jerusalem also, un less they confess Come, whom they have denied. With which compassion and grief, we also, being not a little moved, are from day to day always devising some means, which, under the mercy of Gon, may better promote their conversion and salvation, and enable them to walk in the way of understanding, from which they have debarred themselves. Wherefore, meditating on these things with solicitude of mind, and treading in the steps of Pope Nicholas V. of blessed memory, and of some other Roman pontiffs our pre decessors, by the present general constitution we enjoin all patri arch., archbishops, bishops, and other prelates of churches, and those also who are invested with the dignity of cardinals, that in their re spective cities, countries, and places, in which reside any number of Jews sufficient to constitute a synagogue, they take care that on the Sabbath, or other stated day of every week, before those Jews, con yoked in a place appointed, but not a consecrated place or one in which divine services are accustomed to be performed, before some Master in Divinity or other competent person to be chosen by them, with a suitable saluyi to be furnished by the contributions of the Jews themselves, or otherwise, as to them shall appear more proper, sermons or lectures (in the Hebrew language, if possible) be delivered, in which shall be expounded to them the Scriptures of the Old Testament, namely, of Moses and the Prophets, but especially those which are read on that Sabbath, or which have been read in their Synagogues, but according to the interpretation of the Holy Fathers, and the true sense of the Catholic Church, and that those sermons and lectures do treat of the truth of the Christian religion, of the certain advent and incarnation of the Sow of GOD, of his nativity, life, miracles, passion, death, burial, descent into Hell, resurrection, and ascension to Heaven; of his Gospel preached throughout the world by his Apostles and other saints, confirmed by innumerable and most eminent gifts and the glory of illustrious miracles ; of his spiritual and true kingdom ; of the &holiness of the impious worship of idols; of the calling of the Gentiles ; of the perpetual desolation of Jerusalem and the country of those Jews, and their captivity And perpetual dispersion throughout all the world ; and of other doctrines and articles en forcing the like argument from the law and the prophets; more over of the long-continued and disappointed expectation, enter tained by the Jews, of the advent of the !avatar( and his carnal kingdom; of their vain hope, by which they have been often and even daily deceived, of a return to the land of promise, and the restoration of a third temple; and finally, of their manifold and various errors and heresies into which they have sunk since they refused to acknowledge CHRIST the Lotto coming in the Seth, and of the false interpretation which their Rabbis have given of the Holy Sceiptures, which, perverting the letter and sense, by fables, falsehoods, and various methods and subtleties, they have corrupted and wrested, and still continue to corrupt and wrest ; and that, with a prudent consideration of time, place, and argument under discussion, they treat of an other things which may convert them to an acknowledgment of the truth, to a correction of their errors, and to the orthodox faith ; and that, by demonstrations true, and drawn from the Holy Scrip tures, without any detraction or wrath, but with great charity and modesty, they endeavour to open to them the light of truth. To which sermons and lectures, we will that all and every the Jews of both sexes, from twelve years old and upwards, not prevented by sickness or other lawful cause, of which they ought to inform the Ordinaries residing in the cities or places as aforesaid, or com kg from any other place, although they have no residence there, do assemble in each district, so that at least a third part of them, and never less than a third part, be always present. Which if they shall neglect to do, they are forbidden all intercourse with the faithful, and by other punishments inflicted according to the de gree of contumacy at the pleasure of the Ordinary. till they shall have made due satisfaction, let them be compelled to hear those sermons. But if any one of the faithful shall have been so regard less either of his own salvation, or of that of hie neighbour, with which every individual is charged, as to have directly or indirectly hindered or kept them away from such salutary lectures, or in any way what attempted to do so, let him be instantly bound with the sentence of excommunication, and be proceeded against by other punishments entirely at the discretion of the Ordinary. But the Emperor, and all Kings and Princes, Republics, Magis trates, and temporal and secular Lords, we beseech and conjure in the Loan, that to Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Or dinaries aforesaid, and their Vicars and Ministers, they afford their aid in the premises, in the confidence of receiving a moat abun dant reward from Aunante GOD in the supreme mansions of glory everlasting. ILLUSTRATION OF OLD VULGARISMS. FROM 711 XllllOll. " As." To ask. This word, which now passes for a mere yid prism, is the original Saxon form, and used by Chaucer and others. See " Tyrwhitt's Glossary." We find it also in Bishop Bale's" God's Promises." " That their synne vengeaunce aired continually." Old Plays. i. 18. Also in the " Four P.'s," by Hey wood, " And aced them thys quebtion than." Old Pl. i. 84. An acing is used by Chaucer for a request. Ben Jona= introduces it jocularly : " A man out of wax, As a lady would as." Manses, vol. 6, p. 85. Between she Cup and the Lip." The proverb that many things fall out between the cup and the lip, is • literal version of one hi Latin. Aruba inter pocula ac lobo csdaatt. The origin of which was as follows :—A King of Tbrace had planted a vineyard, when one of his slaves, whom he had much oppressed in that very work, prophesied that he should never taste of the wine produced In it. The monarch disregarded the prediction, and when at an enter tainment he held a glassful of his own wine made from the grape of that vineyard, he sent for the slave, and asked him what be thought of his prophecy now; to which the other replied, 6' Many things fall out between the cup and the lip," and he had scarcely delivered this singular response, before news was brought that a monstrous boar was laying waste the favourite vineyard. The King, in a rage, put down the cup which he held in his hand, and hurried out with his people to attack the boar; but being too eager, the boar rushed upon him and killed him, without having tasted of the wine. Such is the story related by some of the Greek writers, and though evidently apocryphal, it certainly is productive of a good practical moral. " 14 the merry p 14." This is said of those who have drunk freely and are cheerful in their cups. Among the ancient northern na tions, it was customary to drink out of large horns, in which were placed small pins, like a scale of distances, and he who quaffed moat was considered as a toper of the first magnitude, and respected accordingly. The merry pin was that which stood pretty far from the mouth of the horn and he who, at a draught, reduced the liquor to that point, was a man of no ordinary prowess In bacchanalian contest. " Under the rose be it spoke's." The rose being dedicated by Cupid to Harpocrates, the God of Silence, to engage him to con ceal the amours of Venus, was an emblem of Silence ; whence to present it or hold it up to any person in discourse, served instead of an admonition, that it was time for him to hold his peace ; and in entertaining rooms it was customary to place a rose above the table, to signify that what was there spoken should be kept ptip vete. This practice is described by the following epigram : Et rosas Hos Veneris cajun quo facts laterent, liarpocrati matrix dons dicavit Amor, Inds rosam mensit heves suspendit amid. Cunvivii et sub ea dicta tacenda Kim. Potter's Alt. Greece. " Cast." This word, which is now generally applied to fanad cal preachers and hypocritical apprentices in religion. derives its name from two Scotch Presbyterian Ministers, in the reign of Charles 11. They were father and son, and both called Andrew Cant ; and Whitelocke in his " Memoirs," p. 511. after narrating the defeat at Worcester, in 1651. says, " Divers Scotch ministers were permitted to meet at Edinburgh, to keep a day of humilla tion, as they pretended, for their too much compliance with the King ;" and in the same month, when Lord Argyll had called a Parliament, ,Ir. Andrew Cant, a minister, said in his pulpit, that " Goa was bound to bold this Parliament, for that all other Par liaments were called by man, but this was brought about by his own hand." " t please the pigs." In this phrase there is not only a pecu liarity of dialect, but the corruption of a word, and a change of one thing for another. In the first place, on, in the midland counties, is used for if ; and pigs is evidently a corruption of rys, the sacred vessel containing the host in Roman Catholic countries. In the last place, the vessel is substituted fur the power itself, by an easy metonymy in the same manner as when we talk of " the sense of the house," we do not mean to ascribe intelligence to a material building ; but to the persons in it assembled for a deliberate pur pose ; the expression therefore signifies no more than " Deo voltaste," or Goa willing. " Bumper." In many parts of England any thing large is called a bumper. Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed uncivilized rustic ; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness. Dr. Johnson, however, strangely enough deduces the word bumpkin hoe bump ; but what if it should prove to be a corruption of bumbard, or bombard : in low Latin, bombardus, a great gun, and from th ence applied to a large flagon, or full glass. Thus the Lord Chamberlain says to the porters who had been negligent in keeping out the mob— " You are lazy knaves : And here ye lie, baiting of bombard, when Ye should do service." —Stairs. Ben. VIII. Oct 5, Scene 3. " Baiting of bombard" is a term for sitting and drinking, which Nash in his Supplycacyon to Dettyll," calls by the like metaphor, " bear baiting." So Sbakspeare again in the Tenyest, says— " Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, Seems like foul bombard, that would shed his liquor." Tempest, Jet t, Scene t. Which Theobald rightly explains thus :—" A large vessel foe holding drink, as well as the piece of ordnance so called." " Latter Lammas."—Lammas day is the first day of August, so called quasi, Lamb-mass, on which day the tenants that hold lands of the Cathedral of York, which is dedicated to St. Peter, ad Vin cula, were bound by that tenure to bring a living lamb into the church at high num.—Cowell' s Interpreter. Lammas Day was always a great day of account, for in the payment of rents our ancestors distributed the year into four quarters, ending at Candle. mas, Whitsuntide, Lammas, and Martinmas, and this was as common as the present divisions of Lady-day. Midsummer, Michaelmas, and Christmas. In regard to Lammas. in addition to its being one of the days of reckoning, it appears from the Confessor's laws, that it was the specific day whereon the Pc terpence, a tax very rigorously executed, and the punctual pay ment of which was enforced under a severe penalty, was paid. In this view, then, Lammas stands as a day of account, and Latter Lammas will consequently signify the day of doom, which in effect as to all payments of money, or worldly transactions in money, is never. Latter here is used for last, or the comparative for the au• perlative, just as it is in a like case in our version of the book of Job," I know that my Redeemer limb, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth," meaning of course the last day, or the end of the world. That the last day, or Lat ter Lammas, as to all temporal affairs. is never, may be illustrated by the following story :—A man at confession owned his having stolen a sow and pigs ; the father sonfessor exhorted bins to make restitution. The penitent said some were sold, and some were killed, but the priest, not satisfied with this excuse, told him they would appear against him at the day of judgment if be did not make restitution to the owner, upon which the man replied, " Well, I'll return them to him then. " Lydford Law." In Devonshire and Cornwall this saying is common : " First hang and draw, Then hear the cause by Lydford Law." Sometimes it Is expressed in this manner, " Lydferd Law, by which they hang men first, and try them afterwards." Lydford was formerly a town of note, but now an inconsiderable viUage on the borders of Dartmoor, not far from Tavistoek. It is famous for a ruined castle, under which is a dungeon that used to be a pri son for the confinement of persons who offended against the Stan nary Courts of Tavistock, Ashburton, Chapford, and Plimpton. These Stannary Courts were erected by a charter of Edward 111. for the purpose of regulating the affairs of the tin mines in Devon shire, and of determining causes among the timers, whether cri minal, or actions for debt. The proceedings were very summary, and the prison horribly offensive. Near Lydford Is a famous wa terfall, and a most romantic view down the river Lyd, over which is a curious bridge built with one arch. The parish is the lirgest In the kingdom, 'Deluding the whole Forest of Dartmoor. Wm. Browne of Tavistuck, and the Author of Britannia's Pastorals, gives a humorous description of Lydford in the reign of James I. GROUSE AND BLACK Cocx.—Perhaps it is not generally known, even among sportsmen, that the grouse and the black cock, a black game, are inveterate enemies; and whenever they come in contact, are sure to wage war against each other : the black cock, being much the must powerful bird of ti . e two, always comes off victorious, while the grouse, " being game to the bottom," never yields to his anta gonist till death compels him. Many Gentlemen, especially, we believe, in North Wales, are now encouraging the breed of the black cock as much as possible, but they are surely not aware, that when the black cock is introduced on the hills where grouse are plentiful. that every year they will find the latter birds rapidly diminishing, till they become quite scarce, or even wholly extinct. Some instances we have beard of, especially in parts of Yorkshire. and other counties. as wall as in Scotland, that where these fine birds have bred on the same ground, the black cock has almost exterminated the grouse. Now those gentlemen who enjoy the manly sport of grousing, and peke these bird* to the others, will do well in not allowing the black cock to increase much on their rousing grounds ; if they do, they may rely on it that in a few years they will have real cause to regret it. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A young lad was charged with having robbed a man of tw o squares of soap and a pocket book. The prosecutor was walking up a street in the neighbourbotal of West Smithfield, when be was accosted by the prisoner, who mediately claimed acquaintance with him. and offered, seein g. „ he said, that he appeared a " little on," to see him home. fl , prosecutor Inspecting, not recognising the prisoner, that he in. tended to rob him, pretended to be much worse than he really was, and he very soon felt him put his hand into his right hand coat pocket, and take out of it two squares of soap. Shortly after he discovered hint taking a pocket book from the other pock et . Not finding a watchman, he made an excuse for turning back, by asking the prisoner to take a drop of beer with him, and on his ar. rival at the watchhouse he Wd bold of him, and on the door being opened be gave him in charge. The prisoner immediately ddi scrod up the articles. The Alderman committed the prisoner BO W—ST 'MET. A fellow named Thaws Tuft, who is an itinerant vender of pamphlets in the employment of a London bookseller, who go es about the villages in the vicinity of the metropolis to vend his works, was brought before Sir RICKARD Mons last night, charged with committing the following atrocious outrage Mrs. Sophia Coleman said, that she and her husband resided at Turnbam Green in a cottage of their own, which was isolated from other buildings. On Monday last the prisoner came to the front of the house with a parcel of books and pamphlets, which he offered for sale. She told him that she wanted none of his books. He offered to leave various numbers of works for her inspection and approval, but she peremptorily refused. He left the door, and went round to the back of the house where a watch-dog was kept ; the dog barked at him, and he struck the dog with a stick; the animal bit him, and he ran away. On Wednesday morning, b e . tween eleven a nd twelve o'clock, the prisoner came to the house again armed with a two-prong pitch-fork, and went de li berat e l y to th e dog's kennel, and stabbed the faithful animal repeatedly.— She (witness) cried out " Murder! " and entreated the prisoner to spare the poor dog's life ; but be continued to thrust the weapon into the dog till he fell dead. When she attempted to interfere to save the dug, the prisoner lifted up the fork, and struck it forcibly at her person, and if the prbngs had not caught some articles of wearing apparel which were hanging on the line, she would have sustained considerable injury. The prisoner bad got the fork sharpened at a smith's shop in the neighbourhood a few minutes before. Sir R. Bianca—lt appears that the fellow came with the most cool deliberation to kill the dog, and it is lucky for him he did not wound Mrs. Coleman with the fork, or he would have been com mitted on a capital charge. The prisoner attempted to justify his conduct, but Sir R. BIRNIII told him that he deserved the severest punish ment, and committed him for the assault on Mrs. Coleman, in de fault of bail. A young man came to this Office yesterday, and stated that he had been robbed on the preceding evening of St. all the money he possessed in the world. By his account he had been a clerk to an attorney at Lincoln, and he came from Lincoln to London, on Thursday night, for the purpose of engaging as clerk to a solicitor, who bad been the agent of his former employer. When he got off the coach, he was spoken to by a young woman, who asked him if he did not come from Lincoln ? He replied that he had just come from that place by the coach; she made inquiries about different persons and streets well known in that city, and expressed bench very much delighted at meeting a countryman. She led him up a passage; and while she was conversing with him, she contrived to extract his money from his pocket. He did not discover his loss till some time after he had parted with her ; and, to add to his distress, he found on inquiring at the office where he had expected employment, that the gentleman had suddenly died, and his esta blishment was broken up. The young man was asked what he applied for ? He replied, that as he had not a penny in the world, he only required a pass to carry him ba.k to Lincoln, which be obtained, and kit the Office. MA itY-LA- BONNE. Thomas Hall, a middle-aged man, was charged under the follow ing curious circumstances. The complainant, a poor widow wo man named Sarah Biore, residing at 5, Link Albany-street North, Regent's Pak, had a letter addressed to her by a gentle man named Brown, at Tonbridge Wells, containing a 51. note. The letter was delivered la Albany-street, on Friday ; but owing to the remarkable circumstances of there being two numbers three in the same street, and a person of the name of Sarah Blore red. ding in each place, it did not reach the complainant, bat fell into she hands of the wrong Mrs. Blare, with whom the prisoner co habited. The prisoner confessed that the letter bad fallen into the hands of Mrs. Blots, with whom he resided ; and as she had fre quently received remittances from Newcastle, he did not suspect anything wrung. The wrong Mrs. More was not fonhconung, having left home Immediately on opening the complainant's letter, and had no: since been heard of. )►ir. Ravranisost avid, that as it did not appear the prisoner was implicated in the female's proceeding, he would not commit him, but ordered him to find bail for his future appearance. On the night of Sunday last, Cheltenham and its neighbourhood were visited by a tremendous storm of rain, mom. panied by vivid flashes of lightning and awful peals of thunder, which continued till early the following morning. The numerous brooks and rivulets from the surrounding bills were swollen into torrents, and a number of meadows in low situations were inun• dated. We are sorry to add that a great quantity of corn has been beaten down, and many fields that on the preceding day were smiling with the golden blessings of buvest, are now completely desolated by the storm. Nearly two hundred acres of bay at slytton are entirely spoiled by the overflowings of the Avon.— Obefteiskens Chow's. BIRTH. At Southend, Essex, the Lady of Captain Alexander Shairp, R.N. of a boo. MARRIED. At Great Chesterford, A. H. Pearson, E►q. of Queen's College, Cambridge, to Isabella, daughter of the Hon. and 1t,,. R. F. King. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS, Ave 23. 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