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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—BODMIN, Atm. 20. CROWN Stec —Before the Lord Chief Justice Tema. John Abram, jun. was indicted for stealing 701. in so eieigns and half-sovereigns, the property of his master, liithanl Thomas, a butcher, at Penryn. Mr. LESTER stated the case for the prosecution, and :After detailing the ftcts that would be detailed in evi dence, said, that one circumstance would be stated which it was as well he should explain at once, and that was, with reward to the conduct of the prosecutor's wife. When the box which had contained the stolen property was found by a neighbour of the prosecutor, Mrs. Tho mas was asked if that was her box ? and she answered in the negative. The cause of that answer was this : Mrs. Thomas's husband, though an industrious man, was occasionally apt to spend too much money at the public house ; 'and Mrs. Thomas, who had in the course of 15 or 16 years laid by this money against the time when ..he might be in need of it, answered in that manner be cause her husband was present, and she did not wish him to know any thing of the matter ; the box, however, was her's, and part of the property found in it she would identify. Mrs. Thomas, the wife of the prosecutor, proved that ,he had been married to her present husband fifteen or sixteen years ; he was a butcher ; she went to market, and since their marriage she had put together the greater part of the sum of money mentioned in the indictment ; a few days before the robbery she had seen the box in the place where she usually kept it, namely, under the bed ; she did not open it at that time, but she lifted it and found by the weight that the money was still in it ; she swore to some sovereigns that were shown her, and which she said, she knew by marks put on them by herself when she put them into the box. She was cross-examined at some length by Mr. Ihtinexe, who appeared for the pri soner, as to her means of knowing these sovereigns by marks which, she admitted, might very much resemble those put on sovereigns by persons who scratched them to try if they were pure gold. She had lost the key of the box about a month before the box itself was discovered to be stolen ; she always kept the box under her bed ; her husband might see it there; any body might see it that looked under the bed. She had recently discharged a maid-servant ; that servant sometimes cleaned the bed room, and might have seen the box ; witness did not dis charge her for any cause of that kind. Witness generally cleaned that room herself. Her husband could easily have found the box if he had looked under the bed for it, but she did not believe he knew of her having the box there. She did notthink he had.been more than usually merry at this time; she did not know he had spent more money in the month before the robbery than at any other period. Other witnesses proved that 'they had received sove reigns from the prisoner about the time in question. — Some of these were produced, and Mrs. Thomas swore to one or two of them. It was also proved that.in a con versation with one of these witnesses, the prisoner had exhibited several sovereigns in his hand, and in answer to a remark that such things were very pretty to look at, said that if a man had sixty or seventy of them it would he very handy. Some of these witnesses, in cross-exa mination, said the prisoner had sometimes sold most in the market, and had brought home as much as 91. or 101. at a time. They also spoke to his general character for honesty and industry. The prisoner called witnesses, who gave him a good character. The CHIEF JUSTict left it to the Jury to say whether, from the fact of a marked sovereign being found to have been in the prisoner's possession, they were satisfied that he had committed this robbery ? or whether, under all the circumstances, they were inclined to believe the in ference attempted to be raised by the cross-examination of Mrs. Thomas, that this money might have been taken by some other person, and had come into the prisoner's possession in the course of its circulation ? If they en tertained any doubts upon the subject, they would give the prisoner the benefit of them, and acquit hint. The Jury, after having deliberated in the box for about half an hour, retired from Court, and in a short time afterwards brought in a verdict of Not Guilty. John Cleathers was indicted for stealing two bridles from two horses put up in the yard of the Seven Stars Inn, at Truro. The case was proved in the clearest manner against him, but several witnesses, and among them one of the Jury, gave hint an excellent character for his con duct previously to the robbery in question. Lord Chief Justice TIN DA L said, that in consequence of what these witnesses had said, and of communications made to him from other quarters, he should pass a sen tence as lenient as possible upon the prisoner. His Lord ship then ordered him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. CIVIL SIDE. Mr. Justice B t:ltao uG II has been engaged during the whole of the day in hearing a case of contested property in part of a wharf. Sir J. SCARLETT is here on a special retainer, as the leading Counsel for the plaintiff in the case, the nature of which he described in his opening, as regarding a mere right of property, and which, though he feared the Court and Jury might be detained for two days in its investiga tion, was one that would not in its course afford them any manner of interest to lighten their labours, and would be from beginning to end a dry question of superiority of title. WARWICK. Ave. 22. George Bromley was indicted for uttering a counter feit half-sovereign knowing it to be such, he having been previously convicted of being a common utterer of base coin. It appeared that in September last, the prisoner, who is a common vulgar looking follow, met a young man, named Jones, in the street at Birmingham, and asked hint if he wanted a place, as he (prisoner) was in quest of a man to drive his malt-cart, drawn by three horses. Jones agreed to be hired, and the prisoner gave him his address as Sir John Smith, of Moulsey. He then took him to a public-house, and treated him to a pint of ale, after which he directed him to come to his place next morning, and bring a saddle and a pound of tea, with him. Jones promised to be punctual, and the prisoner was about proceeding home, when lie suddenly recollected that he wanted some change, and asked Jones to lend him ten shillings until he went home. Jones instantly handed him the money; and his new master departed. It is needless to add that poor Jones was unable to discover Sir John Smith at Moulsey. In the month of April last the prisoner ac costed another young man, whom he also met in .the street at Birmingham, and offered him the situation of driver to the mail cart and three horses, whith the young man gladly accepted. The prisoner then asked Min for change of a half sovereign, but the young man hav ing only 7s. 6d. about him, the prisoner took 'that sum, and giving him the half sovereign, told him is I% tune- . tual at his new place, and he would make him a,present of the 2s. 6d. He then went away, saying be.weuld re turn immediately. The young man, after waiting in vain; for hint for some time, discovered that his neat' muter was an imposter, and his half sovereign a counterfeit. — Shortly after this the prisoner again accosted a young man in the street, and proposed to hire him to drive his malt cart and three horses. The young man looked at him for a moment, and then said he would accept his offer.— The primmer told him to accompany him home at once, but on his way he recollected that he wanted some change, and asked the young man to lend him half a-crown. The young man replied` by seizing him by the collar, and desiring that he would forth with return him his 100.; for it was his former dupe, Jones, to whom he had unwittingly addressed his favou rite proposal. At first the prisoner denied that he was the person, but finding Jones positive and resolute, he pulled out a half-sovereign and gave it to him in pay ment. Jones, looking at the half-sovereign, said it was bad, and returned it to him. The prisoner then offered Jones his coat, which the latter declined to take. The prisoner again gave him the half-sovereign, and Jones showed it to two or three persons who were standing by. Whilst they were examining it the prisoner attempted to snatch it, but Jones prevented him, and calling a con stable, gave both prisoner and half-sovereign into his custody. This, as well as the other half-sovereign, turned out to be counterfeit, both being from the same die. _ _ The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentence of Death _ . recorded against him. Lord TENTERDEN informed him he would recommend his life to be spared, but he must never expect an oppor tunity of passing bad money in this country again. The Assizes terminated at a late hour this evening. REVENUE - COURT. 11014 TZB CALIDONIAN Saturday, a Justice of Peace Court for the trial of offenders against the Rivenue Laws, was held in the Sheriff Court Room. The Justices Were the Sheriff Substitute, Sir Patrick Walker, and Mr. Graf. The majority of the causes were for retailing spirits without license; and the parties were in most in stances fined 121. los. being one-fourth of the statutory penalties. One information charged a trader with refusing to exhibit his license, and with deforcing the officers of excise, by committing them to the watch-house.—An objection was stated to the citation for the first count, which the Justices seemed disposed to sustain ; but on the Solicitor of Excise passing from the count as to deforce. ment, the trader withdrew his objection. The next case of interest was an information against a spirit dealer, who had only a retail license, for attempting to send out spirits with permit. By law, no retailer, that is to say, a dealer, who has only a retail license, can obtain a permit. Notwithstand ing the trader pleaded be had lately commenced business, and was unacquainted with the law, the Justices held that every man is presumed to understand the rules of his own trade, and found him liable in the mitigated penalty of 251. A paper-maker appeared on an information for haying three reams of first class paper in his works without labels, for not keep ing a proper book containing the progressive numbers and weights of the paper sent nut from his mill. The facts as explained in evi dence were merely these : two general surveying examiners called at the mill, and observing three reams of paper without labels, told the trader these were liable to seizure. The trader not know. ing, or pretending not to know the officers demanded a sight of their commissions, and they not being Ale at the time to produce them, he o rdered them both out of the mill. The officers went to the house of the supervisor of the district, with whom they returned to the works, when they found eight reams with the labels damp; three of these they seized as the three for merly noticed without labels ; the labels were so wet as t t be re moved from the wrappers with ease. The trader cautioned them at their peril to remove the labels. As to the book, it appeared a slip of paper had been produced, but no book, kept as required by law, was forthcoming. The trader stated that, at the time the officers came, he did not know them—that he was then busy preparing a large order lee exportation, which if not ready by a certain hour he would lose an opportunity of shipping. He maintained that, acccording to the former law In the paper trade, and practised even lately, labels were pasted upon the reams after they were made up. He complained of the charge hiving been allowed to . lie over for more than a year, in the coarse of which time. two persons, his workmen, who could have proved that the whole transaction was hi the regular course of manufacture, according to law, had left the kingdom. As to no book being kept, be stated that the book in question was kept by his son; who was a few days be fore suddenly called to London, and the slip of paper was merely marked upon until hi. return; the book 'Melt' was sometimes not asked for once in twelvemonths. he Solicitor of Excise referred to the statute, which compels paper-makers to attach labels to the wrappers with paste or glue, and to press them in such a manner that the two papers shall adhere as firmly as if one fabric, before the wrappers are put round the reams. He did not press for a conviction as to the book, but craved penalties for the unla belled paper. The penalties forfeited on this count were stated at £6OO, but the Justices mitigated them to one-fourth of that sum (.elts) and as no fraud was Charged, agreed to recommend the ease to the Board of Excise for a still farther mitigation. The bailable writs issued out of the three High Courts of Law at Westminster, els. : the King's Bench, the Common Pkas, and the Exchequer, during the Ave years ending is 1827, were as follow : Years. 1893 1824 1823 1826 1827 17,320 18,576 22,713 29,950 • 23,908 Zing's Bench. Common Pleas Total. and Exchequer 7,820 25,140 7,424 26,000 4.9,032 31,725 15,184 45,154 10,556 34,244 The total of tie smallest number of bailable writ's tuned in one of these five years, is 25,000, and the total of the highest of one of these five years, is Ise less than 45,000. • SALE OF • Row LAND STEPHENSON'S PROPERTY. Friday, at the Auction Mart, the remainder of Rowland Stephen. eon's freehold and leasehold propenj was sold by the order of the assignees, under the commission of bankruptcy. The Cock and Bull public-house, at Rumford, and several dwelling-houses and gardens, with ab out 20 acres of land, were sold, in eleven lots, for wails amounting to 4,3751. A leasehold house and premises in Leadenball market, held under the City for 474 years, at 451. ground rent, fpr which Rowland Stephenson, a few years since, paid 6,0001. brought no more than &SOL DEATH BY .DROWNlNG.—Saturday morning, be tween six and seven o'clock, a respectably dressed female was dis covered in the Regent's Canal, near Albany-bridge, Park-street, Camden Town. The body was discovered by a little boy who was walking on the towing-path, who immediately gave an alarm to some men who were passing over the bridge. The body was got eur,qad lies at Mr. Green's, landlord of the York and Albany, Park-street, Camden Town, to await a Coroner's Inquest. DEATH OF LAMBOURN, TILE MURDERER.—Thin miserable criminal; after enduring the severest sufferings from the dreadful wooed he inflicted on his throat, expired in Guy's Hos pital, at half-past ten o'clock on Friday night. In the course of the evening be became extremely restless, and repeatedly pulled the bed-clothes from off him, as though insensible of what he was doing, and lt became necessary to confine his hands with cords. About nine o'clock he was more placid, and cautioned so until his death ; indeed, so calm were his last moments, that the attendant appointed to watch him did not observe the precise moment of his dlseolutke. The Rev. Mr. Blenkarne the Chaplain of the Hos pital, visited him between seven and eight o'clock, *ben the wretched man waste too much pain to attend to his admonition., aid beckoned to bins with his hand to withdraw. Lsmbourn ex pressed hi. sorrow for the dreadful act be had committed, and said "be bailed Goo would pardon him." Much has been written in the daily papers regarding the attention paid to Lambsurn by his relatives • the accounts of which had been greatly exaggerated.— None of ;bests have visited him since Thursday se'nnlght, when his son called at the Hospital ; and his daughter has nut seen him since last Sunday fortnight. ACClDENT.—Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, an Inquest was held at St. Thomas Hospital, on the body of a man of the name of White. The deceased was a painter, and was employed Os Wednesday afternoon in painting the front of a house in Lesdenhall-market, In reaching his bra-h be overbalanced the lkdder on which he was standing, and bis body, in ralliegicanus in contact with one of the large iron hooks fixed in the shambles to hang carcases upon, Which entered•bis abdomen, and suspended the unfortunate man about nine feet from. :he grants& Ili this hatable situation he remained until amistance was procured, and he was lifted off the hook., .17itu wound, which hied profusely, we s immediateir, dressed bia . neighbsurieg surgeon, sehw ordered hi nt to be conveyed ia 'Guy's Hospital. where he expired,in the surgery in about nine minutes after his arrival. Dlr. Sampan Boycott, one Of, thf aseistaat•sureeons. on examining. the body, found the liver Ind abdomen much ',nitrated. In thelatteg was st quaoticg of blood and water aqd coagidaisd,hlood. Of th e w is t ie t i eeee d t h e . fuse:sof die groin the deceased divd. Verdict7-Accidental Dow' • • • • • .1 • • : • POLICE INTELLIGENCE MANSION-HOUSE. Saturday CkristopWr Young, brother to Mr. Young, one of the partners in the City of London Tavern, was charged with having waited in ambush armed with a carving knife, for the purpose of stabbing his brother. The complainant stated that the defendant had of late entertained the most horrible aversion towards him, and sought opportunities of putting him out of the world. On the preceding day the defendant approached, thrust his hand into his breast, and advanced towards him, evidently with the intention of dispatching him. Sapwell, the officer, said that the defendant bad firmly grasped in his hand a new carving knife, extremely sharp, and pointed finely. The defendant expressed his regret that be bad not stabbed his brother to the heart. Mr. Young produced a letter which the defendant had written to their sister, in which he in formed her that he bad sharpened the carving knife, for the pur pose of stabbing him (complainant) to the heart. The defendant had an animosity, he said, towards his brother, in consequence of his mother's heart having been broken by him, and he sought sa tisfaction for this most dreadful of injuries. The Loan Msvoa asked in what manner the mother of these young men bad died? The prisoner said, his father, on his wedding day, presented his mother with a likeness of himself, and about three months before her death he took it front her in an angry moment, and hung it up in 'the complainant's parlour, so that she might see it every time she entered the room. This was a cruelty which had been sug gested by the complainant, and his mother could not endure it. She pined away and died, and her death had made him almost frantic. Mr. Young said that this •indication was for the most part groundless. There never had been any cruelty used towards her, The Loan M*voa—Do you think the prisoner is in his senses? :10. Young—Perfectly so. I know that he will, if not biked up, destroy my life. He is perfectly rational, except in his abhor rence of me. He had pistols with hint on the day of my father's funeral, and he intended to shoot me, so that 1 might fall into the grave of my father. He has taken poison twice, and is afraid of nothing.—He was ordered to find bail in the sum of 200 L BOW—STREET. Tilt LATZ AFFAIR 11$FIC11/10 Ma. Couture's FAMILY an. Ma. Famscu.—Mr. French, the barrister, and Mr. Riley, the late Secretary of Mr. William Cobbett, of Kensington, the political writer, came before Mr. Hasse on Saterday, and applied for a warrant against Mrs. Cobbett. Mr. Riley, who is about 30 years of age, said, " I apply for a warrant against Mrs. Ann Cobbett, the wife of the celebrated political writer, for an offence of a must serious nature ; she has charged me with being in the practice of a crime of so heinous a nature that, in my mind, murder is not equally shocking. I have Mr. French here as my witness, and he will prove to you the dreadful Imputations which have been uttered against my reputation as a man." Mr. Hau.s—What can Ido with your injured reputation? If she has slandered you, the Courts of Law are open, and there you may have your remedy, which Mr. French might have informed you • for he must know, I should think, that I could not take cog nizance of such a charge. You must apply to your attorney, if she has committed an set of defamation. Mr. Riley—l thought you could have proceeded summarily in the affair l Mr. French has already been beaten fur his interference in the transaction. Mr. HALLs—I have no summary jurisdiction in such cases. Mr. French—Why, Sir, it is a hanging matter, if Mr. Riley be guilty of the offence imputed to him. Mr. Hams—Hanging, did you say, Mr. French—what, by the head or by the heels?—(laughter.) Mr. Rostesox (a County Magistrate, who was sitting on the Bench)—You are a Barrister, I believe, Mr. French? Mr. French—Yes, I am. Mr. Rozutsos—Then, Sir, you ought to know that a Magistrate has no jurisdiction in a case of 'tinder. Mr. French—That is an impittinent observation to me, whoat tend here as a witness. _ _ Mr. Roansom—As a Barrister, I say again, you ought to know that we have not jurisdiction. Mr. French—And pray, Sir, are you. as a Barrister, acquainted with the whole compass of the law? what do you think, for in. stance, of the law of real property? Mr. Romxsom—You do not act with propriety, Sir. Mr. French—You make a very impertinent observation to me, Sir; and if I were to ask yon the meaning of a conditional limita tion, and how it differed from a contingent remainder, I doubt if you could tell me--(Bursts of laughter). Mr. Haus here interrupted the conversation. Mr. French—One Banister should not boast over another of his knowledge of a particular branch of the law. Mr. Hare—l'll hear no mere of this; clear the office, gaoler. Mr. French—l doubt whether you have a right to remove me, as a Barrister, from the Court. Mr. French and Mr. Riley retired from the Office in high dudgeon. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Saturday three young men named friWINN tuts, a blacksmith, John &whet*, a boot closer, and Henry , a tailor, were brought before the Sitting Magistrate, charged with the singular robbery of stealing three geese and a " pair of stays." It appeared, that about five o'clock in the morning, a watchman at' liammenmith took the prisoners into custody just as they had , crossed along the Suspension-bridge, but before he could secure them; they flung, in their attempt to escape, a sack which they car. tied into a neighbouring ditch, and on examining the sack, it was found to contain three large geese, minus their heads, and a pair of stays. Dlr. Halt, a farmer, residing at Barnes Common, stated, that the three geese now produced belonged to him, and had been Left safe the night before with seven others in his goose-house at Barnes Common, but in the morning it was found that these three had disappeared, leaving their heads behind them Mrs. Lawrence, a respectable elderly lady, reacting, /len l!t Barnes Common, said that the pair of stays produced were her property, and had been left for tit airing out in her garden the night before, and in the morning they were gone, but how they hap pened to get into company with Mr. liak's geese she could not for the life of her tell. The prisoners, in their defence, said that they knew nothing whatever about how the stays or the geese (not even the tailor) got away from their owners. The fact, they said, was, that instead of going tome to bed the night before, they all three agreed to go and see the new Suspension-bridge at Hammersmith, which they held never seen, so they started at about one o'clock, and got to the bridge about five in the morning, and while they were standing near the bridge admiring its structure, and watching the progress of the rising sun, for it was a beautiful morning, one of them (the tailor) kicked his foot accidentally against a goose on the road, and stooping down be picked up the three dead geese ; in a minute pr two after another of them kicked against the pair of stays, sad he picked them trp, and while walking on the bridge they saw the sack lying on the ground, and they picked that up too, and put the geese and the stays into it, and soon after the watchman came up and stopped them; and the reason they threw the sack away in the ditch was, that they knew the things did not belong to them, and that they might be suspected of stealing them. .Upon my word, said the Magistrate, that is a most clear and satisfactory account of the affair. So it took you from one o'clock until five, that is four hours, to walk from town to Hammersmith Bridge, and just as you got there, you were so lucky as to find these things on the road; however, you must try your luck with • this /tory before a Jury. One of the tall-col actors on the Suspension-bridge said, that so far from the prisoners having gone direct from town to Hammer smith, or having picked up the things near the bridge, he saw them come from the Barnes Common-road to the bridge, and cross it, each paying him a halfpenny, with the sack and its contents then in their possession. The prisoners, who could scarcely refrain from laughing at their own impudent inventions, were then fully committed for trial. HATTON-GARDEN. Saturday Elks gay was charged with robbing John Ma il . The prosecutor stated, that he was accosted by the prisoner, who clasped him in her arms. The prosecutor returned the prisoner's kindness with a push, in doing which, he found her hand in his pocket, which contained .4.. and one half-crown ; it was tone. A witness deposed to having seen the prisoner drop a halGerown, which the witness picked up and marked, and delivered to the constable. The watchman and the constable spoke in corroboration ; and as Ellen Kelly was a well-known customer at the office, she was fully commiited for trial. When she heard that she was about to be sent for trial, she. hi en under.tone, told one of the officers—" 0 then. I don't care a din aboht it, that yeu know, and no piistake." QVItitIiTS4DARE. Saturday. several stage-coach proprietors and drivers were sum moned, and convicted, for carrripg • more passengers than allowed • by Act 6f Parliament. William Nussell, the drjver s g one,tf , Tapp's Hampton enacts., was fined' 31. fir carrying one snore Ras ? . ~edger than allowed by law. • Charles Wattok•driYer of a •Duildfind stake c oac , wfi offeriee. ' Thomas Staminers, driver 'And proprietor of another gagg-couili, .... • was find tOf. fork' ilmilal'~ + 6entc. • . ia,•lt -vs.! • MARY-LA-BONNE. , dwae Gaffe She on'ffratoritily rharged with Itavistiseinkiisly F , eaultesi Hannah Looms*. The complainant stateditinit * between orce two' q•CiPC/I on siseweley Riarisibe Otology 'shrittg up for 'her' luisbigt, who had 'eubsbutaid . 1111111ilr'frork '" bed and board" since Thursday. ans' "" a Medi at the abor; dielof fully it ip* %Attars, thitilif , rtg .., r.• " . 4 ; • t !! it was her husband, to let him in. When she opened the door the female at the bar demanded if her dear Jemmy was at home (meaning the complainant's husband), and beinginforsted iss the negative, the defendant rushed into the passage, seized the con,. plainant by the bead, tore her cap off, and pulled her hair out by the handful. Complainant called for the watch, and her husband came in, and instead of protecting her, assisted maltreating her. At th is moment the husband entered the cake, and Mr. Ros ma, (the Magistrate) asked hint what he had to say for himself? but be stoutly denied any knowledge of the quarrel, its commence ment or conclusion—lndeed, he said, he was not near. The watchman proved that Jemmy was very drunk, but hi. *here oasis was more so, and further, Jemmy was most active in the assault upon the complainant. Mr. HOSKINS told Jemmy be was satisfied be was drunk, and a bad fellow. He should fine him Ss. for being so, and ordered him to find bail to keep the peace.—He was locked up In default. WORSHIP-STREET. - - - E. 13eazley a shoemaker:living in Islington, nude the follow. ing extraordi nary statement to R. Baoturnavnt, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate : He stated that he had on Wednesday been arrested at the suit of a person wit° named himself William Jonathan Fisher, a lea t h er dresser, in Kent, who made oath that the applicant owed him 100/. Mr. 13eazley distinctly swore that he never knew any person of the name of Fisher, and that be never owed any person the nun of one hundred pounds. The only explanation of this proceeding which could be given was, that he summoned a person of the flank of hiawby, a lodger of his, who owed him Xi. for rent. The person, Mawby, then declared that he would ruin the applicant, Beasley, and in a short time he would find himself in the King's Brach. In fact, this affair has nearly ruined him, for the landlord of the house bad no sootier heard that he was arrested than he sent In a broker. It likewise cost him three pounds before he could obtain his Übera. Lion on bail. . Mr. Beaxley bunt into tears, and sat down quite overcome. The Magistrate declared that the transactl'.n was most infamous, and directed summonses to be immediately issued, requiring tl:c attendance of the attorney who issued the writ, and the penor„ John Mawby, to answer a charge of conspiracy. LAMBETH—STREET. Mr. Reynolds, a pawnbroker, of Mill End-road, appeared to au information preferred against him by Henry Easley, for taking more than the legal interest. William Kedding proved that he pledged a wedding-ring on the 23d of February, for four shillings, and on redeeming it, on the 15th of August. the defendant's shopman demanded 6d. interest, at the rate of Id. per month, which was id. more than his legal Interest. Magistrate—What Is the legal interest? Pawnbroker—One penny a month for all pledges above es. 6d. acrd not exceeding ss. Mr. Walker said he should inflict the lowest fine (405.) THAMES POLICE. Captain Rising, commander of a vessel called the Newton, was charged with beating John Hedges, his chief mate, on the brad with a hammer, with intent to murder him. The complainant, who conducted himself in a most insolent manner, said that one day be went into the cabin to look for a quadrant, when the steward knocked hint down ; and whilst be was down, the Captain ran down the steps with a hammer in his hand, and struck him (complainant) on the head with it, and he was covered wit► blood. Thomas Gibbs, a sailor, said, that hearing a cry of murder, be hastened below, and found the complainant lying on the floor, with the blood flowing fron► a wound in his bead. The Captain dropped a hammer as witness entered the cabin. Captain itising, in his defence said that the complainant bad acted in a mutinous manner on bo ard, and bad incited the °unto join him in his infamous design. On the day snentloned,.la* Irks stapling on the quarter-deck of the vessel, and had his qnadrsot and chronometer with him, and a wooden instrument called ".a sword," in his hand. Hearing a cry of murder in the. cabin. be hastened down stairs, and found that the complainant had knocked the steward down, and was treating him with great violence. He then struck at him with the instrument be held in. his band. • The steward corroborated the Captain's accoent, and the Ma gistrate instantly dismissed the case. - --- --- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BURDEROP RACES, Aua. a. SECOND DA T. A Gold Cup, value 100 so•s. by Subscribers of 10 so's. each. Three miles. Ten Subscribers. Mr. br. h. Brownlock, 9st. Mb. aged Mr. T. M. Goolake's Dandelion, S yrs, est. 91b A Handicap Plate of 501. given by the Members, for all ages. Two mile heats. Mr. H. Jones's Smilax, 4 yrs, Bst. 121 b. Mr. Goddard's Lycurgus, 5 yrs, Bst. 41b. Mr. Appky ard' s Broeard, 4 yrs, 7st. 10Ib 3 Mr. Smith s Ruby, G yrs, bit. 101 b. 4 4 NEWPORT PAGNELL RACES, Atm. 20. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 was. each. Twice round, about three miles. Mr. Sowerby's bi. e. Coroner, 4 yrs, eit. 21b. Mr. Day's b. g. Liston, aged, bat. Duke of Grafton's f. Turquoise, 4 yrs, Sat. A Farmers' Stakes of 18 son. each. Heats ems round and a distance. The winner to be sold for Oa lc& 20 &A. Mr. R. Kitelee's b. f. Milkmaid, 4 yrs 1 1 Mr. Tarry aimed b. a. Matilda, 6 yrs' - • ' • 0 Mr. Oshaldiston's b. g. Don Juan....... A Welter 'Stakes of 10 soya. each, for barns Est bred, seven Subscribers, was won by Mr. Seabrook's b. aged, beating three others. . A Plate value .50 son. Heats once round and a demi. Mr. Day's b. b. Haji Baba aged Lord Tanstock's cb. a. aeway, 6 yrs .... Mr. O'Connor's br. b. Daimon, S yrs ... .. 11r. Bentun's b. f. Emily, 4 yrs Mr. Sowerby's 1,. m. Tow, 5 yrs Wednesday a distressing occurrence took place at the Basin of the Crinan Canal. Three young ladies went into a boat and upset it. One of them was soon taken out without injury; the other two were fifteen minutes in the water. A surgeon ar rived from Lockelphead, and adopted the usual means for the re storation of suspended animation. One of the young ladles re covered; but the other, an interesting girl from Glasgow, seven teen years of age, baffled surgical skill, and remained a lifeless corpse. ' . HkODOMADAItY. Toss DAY—Holiday at the Bank. St. Bartholomew. Chat terton died, 1770. Rome taken by Mark, 410. To-ssosaow—Venus sets 81 min. past 7 evening. Wammsnav—Mercury sets 15 minutes past 7 evening. Julius Cesar invaded Britain 1884 years ago. Day decreased s hours 38 minutes. Tnumnse—On this day the Romans celebrated the Volt .-vratetl the Volturnalia, In memory of the victory over the Latins, which led to the division of their country and that of the (pans. among the Roman., as far as Ma *ler of Volturno's. The siege of Algiers, 1816. Feiner —St. Augustine. Sun rises 6 min. past 6. &TURD.% T—.SI• John the Baptist beheaded. New Moon 55 min. past 8 morning. BIRTHS. Lady • oward De Walden. of a daughter. The Lady of the Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, of a daughter. Sunday se'nnight, the wife of the Rev. Aubrey Charles Price, of Chestemon Vicarage, of a sou. MARRIED. •• Captain George Armstrong, late ads Royal Veteran Battalion, to Margaret, third daughter• of Winton Graydon, of Carrick- House. Limaskea, Esq. • • • .At Brislington, mar Bcistol, Dr. Frauds Ker Fcz, tit Janet Saiala p eldeat (langhie: of the late Rev. T. B. Simpson, of the same At florghM, Herefordsblteoii Rev. Alfred Jones, M.A. to Jane, daughter of the late Richard Prodwroe, Esq. of Wotan°, Cirotarthenshire. The ltrv. John Davis, of Ashwick, to Miss H. E. Gane, of Ddilherne Port. At Tittleshall, the Rev. T. York, to Min Forby, daughter of Mr. H. Forby, of Gatwick. The Rev. Algernon Langton, B.A. Reader of the Roll's Chapel. 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