Star. — London, England, 1829-09-14 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ROTIIERTIIA 11 METING, Sim. 9. Sweepstakes cf 20 sous. each, p. p. for two-year-old colts, Sit. .51b. and fillies, Sit. 21b. Three-quarters of a mile. Lord Queensberry's h. 1. sister to Emma Mr Shepherd's h. c. by Waxy Pope ... Foljambe's br. 1. by Whi.ker Mr. Attwood's ch. c. by Chesnut Arabian ... Sir Sitwell's b. f. by Figaro ... it .. 4 .. 5 The Southwest Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavahy Stakes of 5 guineas each, p. p. with 20 guineas added by Lord Wharneliffe ; three years, lOst. Vb, four, list. five, 11 st. 91b. six and aged, 124 t.— One mile heats. Mr. J. Hodgson's bl. h. King George the Fourth .. 1 2 1 Brown'4 br. h. He:grave, aged 2 1 it %lr. W. Wation*s b. f. by Phantom 3 3 3 Mr. Niarsden's b. h. by Sir Richard, 3 years .. 4 sdr ii. Wheatley's b. h. Recruit, 6 yrs. .. 5 4dr One paid. he Sheffield Plate of 50 arms. given by the town of Sheffield, !be maiden horses of all ages; three years-old, 7st. 21b. four, Bst. 41b. :ive, Bvt. 101 b. six and aged, iht. 131 b. mares, &c. allowed 31b. Two mile heats. 'Jr.. Fletcher's br. E by Blacklock, 3 yrs. 1 Captain Davison's b. e. by Borodino, 3 yrs. NI r. Bayley's br. c. Brielle, 3 yrs. .. 2 5 Ilr. .J. Clark's br. f. Dais, 4 yrs. .. 4 Nl7 Duncombe's br. c. Catesby, 3 yrs. ... .. 4dr Five piid. POOLE REGATTA. POOLS, FILIDAY, CIPT. 11. Our Regatta, which was this year confinA to vessels belonging to the port, took place on Monday last, when several excellently contested matches were witnessed. The weather being remark ably fine, the quay and surrounding shores were thronged with spectators. The first prize was admirably contested by the Jane, Blundell, and Britania, Brown, and was won by the former; Greyhound. Palmer, and Hope, Brown, also started for this prize, but the former carried away a rudder and shroud, and the latter got on shore. The second prize was won after a well-con tested race by the George, Oats, beating the Arrow, New Eagle, and Richard and Mary. The sailing for the other prizes also afforded much amusement, and displayed a degree of emulation, which cannot fail to have a beneficial effect on the conduct of the pilots and others who contended for the prizes. In the evening a Ball was held at the Town Hall, which was attended by nearly seventy of the fashionable, of Poole and neighbourhood, ex hibiting a display of grace and elegance seldom equalled in this town. LOSS of the BIRMINGHAM and LIVERPOOL MAIL. It is our painful duty to record a most shocking acci dent, which happened on Friday morning, at a place called Lawton-bridge, five miles on this side of Newcastle, to the Birmingham and Liverpool Mail, by which the lives of two Gentlemen were lost —one, we understand, a resident of Man. cheater, and the other of Liverpool. It appears, that between the hours of two and three o'clock in the morning, the mail was proceeding from Birmingham to Liverpool, containing two inside passengers the Gentlemen above alluded to and one outside passenger; when, on reaching a small village, called Lawton, which lies in a valley on the line of the mail-road, it was found to be exceedingly flooded from the effects of the im mense quantity of rain which had fallen during the whole of the night, so as to render it apparently dangerous to attempt a passage. On reaching the bridge, erected much below the canal, and which the mail generally passes along, it was found to be inundated with water, scarcely a vestige of the bridge to be seen; the coachman, however, whipped his horses, and proceeded onwards, hut had not gone far, when, shocking to relate, the brick-work of the bridge gave way, and the coach, horses, and passengers, with the guard and coachman, were precipitated, en masse, into the water! The coachman, guard, and outside passenger, succeeded in swimming to the shallow water, and making their escape, as did one tit the horses, which by some means or other had become disentangled from the harness; but we regret to state that the coach, with the two unfortunate inside passengers, and the three other horses, were swept away by the immense body of water. The guard and outside passenger fortunately reached the land with very little difficulty ; but the poor coachman narrowly escaped with his life, and remained in a state of insensibility for a considerable time. Some of the newspaper bags, we understand, are picked or, but the letters were washed away with the coach.- 1 his mail generally brings the London morning Papers intended for Manchester, which are forwarded by a branch mail front Knutsford ; but on the Friday morning none were received in Manchester, to the great surprise of the inhabitants, till the news of the dreadful accident reached their ears. Although the country people during the whole of the afternoon of Friday, were busily engaged in searching for the bodies of the unfortunate gentle men, neither they nor the coach had been found when the mail left Knutstord for Manchester. The bridge on which the accident happened, it appears, from the statement of an individual residing at Congleton, has been recently repaired, and the coach passing along the new part, combined with the immense weight of the water. was the cause of the melancholy catastrophe. The way-bill having been lost, it is at present im possible to give the names of the two sufferers; the guard Is ac cm;inted with them as passengers, but not with their names. One o: the gentlemen, it is supposed, is a merchant at Liverpool, and the other a resident at some ball in the neighbourhood of Man chester, but we cannot vouch for it as authentic. We hear that incalculable damage has been sustained In the part of the country where th eaccident happened from the floods, as the roads about acre are surrounded by bill% and at the time of Incessant rain the water pours into the yanks in torrents. ANOTHER ACCOUIn. From the Liverpool Albion. The non-arrival .of the mail from Birmingham, at the usual boor (half-past seven) on Friday morning, gave rise to appre hensions for its safety from the floods, which it was expected would have been caused by the almest incessant heavy rain which fell during the prededing twenty-four hours. The fears thus awakened, increasing with each successive hour of delay, bad spread throughout the town, and reached a pitch of in tense anxiety among those whose expected friends were sup posed likely to have been travelling by that conveyance, when the Rocket post-coach, which leaves Birmingham some hours after the mall, arrived about noon, bringing the account of the melancholy disaster, of which the following particulars have been communicated to us :—ln the parish of Smallwood, about three miles on this side of Lawton-gate, in Cheshire, the road crosses a hollow by a small bridge, called Smallwood-bridge, under which passes a narrow but somewhat rapid stream. When the mail coach arrived at this spot, it was found that the stteani, swollen by the rains, Ithich were still falling heavily, bad overflowed its banks and flooded the road, and, the waters continuing to rise very fast, washed away the bridge at the moment when the coach was cross ing, which was thereby precipitated into the stream. The coach man (Ball), falling from his seati , after much difficulty, and bay ing sustained very considerable injury from the kicks of the af frighted horses, succeeded in leaching the opposite bank. The gu urd (T. Moreton) was tarried down by the impetuosity of the si ream a considerable distance. At length he caught hold of a tree, on which be hung for shout an hour, when, it having been discdvered where he..was, a rope was thrown to bins, and he was rescued almost as . Much dead as alive. Of the horses, one was drowned, and two dthers are stated to have been so much injured asap render it improbable that they can ever br worked again. We now come to thep.agical part of the event. There were but three passengers, and those were inside, of whom one, i alight made active yours man, forcing himself through the window of the coach, was extricated froM his perilous situation by the persons whom the ac cident had drawn to the Spot ; the other two, being too lusty to pass through the aperture by which the former attained safety, unfortu nately perished. ere the utmost efforts of the active and humane people of the vicinity for their relief could avail them. The body of one of them was found in the coach when the latter was got out of the water, after having been immersed in it for seven or eight hours; but that of the other had not been recovered at the time to which our accounts extend. Their names, as entered in the way bill, are Trueman and Bennett : the latter was, we understand, a resident of Liverpool. The coach, with all the mail-bags. parcels, and luggage, remained under water, persons being s:ationed to watch it until the subsiding of the waters admitted of its being recovered. This was effected in the course of Friday forenoon, anti the guard reached the Liverpool post office, with the letter hag, at four oclock in the afternoon.. Great alarm prevailed, during a considerable period of the forenoon of Friday, fur the safety of the London mail, which left this town on Thursday night, its ordinary route being by the sante bridge; but it was at length hiPpily dis sipated by the arrival of information, that, hearing of the waters Ailing out in that direction, the guard bad taken the precaution of going by another road, through Sintifiach, and thus avoided the' danger. The neighbourhood of Staniferd-street, Christ ~hitreh, Surrey, has again become the scene of burglary... Qa Friday night or Saturday mouth's, the dwelliug-house of Mr. Thornton, Ben ner-street, was.broketi into and topped itf i valuable table-clock and some silver . articles. Little more than eight mouths have elapsed stoic two men were corvi ted and transported for a bur glary on the same premises. LANCASTER ASSIZES, Thursday. TILE KING V. CRANE. This was an indictment imputing to the defendant wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. J. %Yuman', for the prosecution, stated the case to the Jury. The facts, he said, lay in a very small compass. At the last Summer Assizes in this place, an action was brought against the then High Sheriff by a person of the name of Deeming, at Man chester, for an improper levy made upon his goods by a Sheriff's Officer at Manchester, under an execution from the County Court, sued out against a Mrs. Williams. A verdict was found for the plaintiff. Upon that occasion the present defendant was examined as a witneu, and he swore, amongst other things in his evidence, that he saw young Chew, the attorney's clerk, go to Mr. Deeming's door with the bailiffs on the day of the levy, and heard him tell them to go in, and say take away these goods, there is enough there to satisfy the execution." Now thisstate mean was altogether false, as it would be proved that Mr. Chew was net at the haute of Deeming at all that day, nor anywhere in the neighbourhood of it. This would be proved by Mr. Chew himself and other witnesses, and the assignments of perjury thus supported. Mr. John Gardner, a Reporter, said that he was present at the trial of the cause " Deeming v. Gibson." at Lancaster, at the Lammas Anises, 1828, when the defendant was examined as a witness, and swore that young Chew was at Deeming's house with the bailiffs upon the day in question, and that he directed him to take Deeming'sgoods In execution under the process of the County Court, in a cause of" Cheetham v. Smith." Mr. Chas. Cooper, clerk to Mr. Makinson. an attorney at Man chester, spoke to the same effect. Mr. Edward Chew, the prosecutor, said he was now twenty five, and was the son of an attorney at Manchester. Was present at the trial of the cause of" Deeming a. Gibson," in this place, be fore Mr. Baron Hulloek,-last summer. The present defendant was examined as a witness. In his evidence he swore " that he (Chew) bad accompanied Gerard, the bailiff, to the door of Deeming's house, and told him and his men to take the goods ; that there was enough there to satisfy the execution." This was untrue in all respects. He (witness) had not gene to Deeming's house upon the day in question, nor did he give any directions to the bailiffs as to what they were to do. He took notes in pencil of the defendant's examination by his father's request, who then said he would indict him for perjury. These notes were made not during the defendant's examination, but afterwards, at witness's lodgings. Cross-examined by Mr. COUR TTTTT —At the time of this seizure did not know of such a place as Prince's-street. Did not know Miss Smith, and never said that Mrs. Smith, mentioned in the execution, was either the mother or the daughter of the woman who called herself Mrs. Deeming. He never said that he bad in vestigated the whole matter, and found it to be so. Mr. Law, the attorney, came to witness's father's office, to say that the levy had been made upon the goods of the wrung person. Did not recollect saying, in answer to that communication, Pooh! we know all about it, and for whatever we have done we are responsible."— Never said to Fanny Smith that she was the mother of Mrs. Smith, who lived with Deeming. The goods never were restored to Dee ming. Believed Gerard, the bailiff, bad been often employed by his father before, but not the young Gerard& Did nut know the names of these young men ; never lived in the sante house or slept in the same bed with one of them. Re-examined—He considered himself an ill-used man by the defendant swearing against him. Was arrested, and discharged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act; but the debt and costs were never paid. James Charnock, a bailiff's follower at Manchester, said that he was employed by Gerard to levy under the execution in question. He was directed to follow young Gerard and the defendant into Brasenose-street, and to keep them in view. Went afterwards to Deeming's house. Young Chew did not meet us in Brasenose street, nor was he at Deeming's at all, as far as witness saw. James Pickup was also at Deeming's upon the day in question, but did not see young Chew at all that morning. This was all the evidence offered for the prosecution. Mr. Justice BA thought that the case was too light against the defendant to call upon a Jury to convict him of wilful and cor rupt perjury by stating that Chew was at this house upon the par ticular day in question. The evidence of t h e last witnesses was only negative ; and, as there seemed to be a good deal of confusion in the way the bailiffs went about watching and waiting for each other, it was hardly a case to call for a conviction.—The Jury found the prisoner—A - cot Guilty. fIuDSOX V. URGE. This was an action upon a banker'itheque for 20/. drawn by the defendant in favour of the plaintiff. The cheque in question, it appeared, arose out of a sporting transaction between the plaintiff and Mr. Barge, who is well known as a betting man. Some short time before the Liverpool Races last year, the parties met at the Bush inn, in Lancaster, ,and the conversation turned upon the relative merits of the different horses that were to start for the Tradesmen's Cup at the races. The de fendant bet the odd' against the horse Velocipede. The plaintiff signified his willingness to bet, and, in the result, agreed to take 20 to 2 against the horse. The horse won, and the defendant lodged the cheque in the hands of a stake-holder to abide the issue of the race. He afterwards gave notice to his banker not to pay tde cheque ; and hence the present action was brought. Mr. Parraitson, for the defendant, objected, that this cheque was given for a gambliil debt, and was, therefore, voided by the Statute of Anne. That it was a gambling transaction was proved by the bet being larger than 101. for a horse race. The Learned Jenne held the objection to be fatal to the action, and accordingly directed the plaintiff to be called. Mr. ALniason—l think we have got rid of the defendant's hodour. Mr. Justice BATLEY—He had better not go upon the Course agaio.—Nonsuit. =trump •. 1112 SUDO? OP CHUTES ♦ND °THAIS. This was an action of Qua►e Inspedit, and it was brought to de termine the right of nomination to the curacy of Greyrigg, in the parish of Kendal, in the county of Westmorland. The plaintiff in this accion,upon the death of the last incumbent, was nominated by the landholders of the chapelry to the curacy. and presented to the Bishop of Chester (in whose diocese the chapelry is situated) for a license. The Bishop refused the license, on the ground that the right to nominate was not vested in the landholders of the chapelry, but in the Vicar of Kendal. The issues raised upon the pleadings in the cause were various ; but the questions ultimately left to the Jury were two-Ist, whether the landholders of the chapelry of Greyrigg had the right of nominating the Curate? and, 2dly, whether they possessed that right in concurrence with the Vicar of Kendal? - ------- The plaintiff's Counsel offered in evidence the two last nomina tions that had taken place, in order to show that the right of nomi nating was vested in the landholders. The last Curate bad been nominated in 180.5, and on that occasion the nomination had been forwarded to the Bishop, and the Bishop had licensed without any notice or interference on the part of the Vicar. The Curate im mediately preceding had held the curacy for 63 years, and had been nominated in 1742. His nomination b a d b ee n preceded by a con tested election in the chapelry, which had ended in bis favour. On that occasion, however, the nomination had been forwarded to the Vicar, and by him transmitted to the Bishop. Mr. Justice LITTLIDALZ thought that upon this evidence the plaintiff must fail, as only two instances of nomination had been roved, and those two inconsistent with each other. Mr. BROUGUA3I, for the plaintiff, contended tbat the nomina tions were not inconsistent with each other. u both nominations supposed tbr original right of election to be in the landholders ; and the concurrence of the Vicar was only a matter of form in making the election of the landholders known to the Bishop. After a trial of considerable length the case was left to the Jury, and they found that the right of nomination was vested in the land holders, with the concurrence of the vicar. . HEBDOMADARY. Taus DAY—Holy Cross—a festival in memory of the recovery of the Cross which the Persians had carried awa) from Jerusalem. The salmon fishing &castor in Scotland ends. Thrburning of Nlos cow, 1812. TIM/MAT—SW% rises 41 min. past 3. Winxesnav—Ember Week. Day decreased 4 hour... THuasnay—Lambert, a Bishop of Maestricht, who was mur dered at Liege in 703. His name is not to be found in the modern Roman Catholic calendar. FAIDAY,—Set your watch Z minutes 56 seconds slower than the time by the sun dial. SATURDAY—BattIe or Poictiers, 1356. Saturn rises 45 min. past 1 morning. A dreadful acciuott : iztpit ‘vook to Mr..l. Pa-s - nsoN, merrhstst, in I ;.:lirotr. He was remarkable for, among (glter singul.r nibits, that of sitting up great part of the night, and keeping his bed fora considerable time every torenoom.He allowed nu one to live in the lonise with him, hut performed all the duties ofa housewife himself. It appears that oat Monday se'nnight his fire had - gone out, and he had recourse to' gunpowder to re-kindle it, when some of the scattered grains on the Boer commtanicated to the canister, which - contained I ilb. and which expluded, throw ing the window of the ap4r:ment to the oppo s i te side of the street. - The fire was soon gOt under,but Mr. P. was to dreadfully scorched, that he lingered in torment till Saturday, when he breathed his last.—Greeneck Advertiser. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Sept. 12. THE STOCK EXCHANGE FORGERY. .Richard Geprd, aged 26 years, stood indicted for forging and uttering a transfer of 5E12.5 Stock In the Three per Cent. Conso lidated Annuities, with intend to defraud William Green, whom he personated. He was also indicted for committing a like forgery upon Richard Mann, whom he fraudulently personated, and defrauded of the sum of £27 Stock in the Consolidated Three per Cent. Annuities. The prisoner, who is a respectable looking man, on being called upon to plead to the indictments, replied that he was Guilty. The RI:CORDER recommended him to withdraw his plea, and take his chance of a trial ; because he would not entitle himself to any favour by persisting in a plea of Guilty. The prisoner said that he bad resolved to plead Guilty; and that plea was recorded. James Sufis*, aged 52 years, was indicted for forging and utter ing a wW, purporting to be the will of Thomas Brandreth, de ceased, with intent to defraud the next of kin. Messrs. ADOl.Plius and BRODERICK were Counsel for the prisoner, and M . Botnano and Booein for the prosecution. The trial occupied the greater part of the day, and the evidence, which was very voluminous, proved the following facts : The prisoner and the deceased were both Non-commissioned Officers, for a groat number of years, in the Grenadier Guards, and lived upon terms of friendship. They were discharged upon pensions soon after the Walehern expedition, and went to reside at Langley, in Kent. In the early part of the month of August, 1828, the deceased went to lodge at the house of the prisoner, at Langley, and he had repeatedly expressed to different persons his iutention, in case of his death, of leaving his property to his old comrade, the prisoner ; and his watch, which was presented to him by Lord Barrington, whose life lie had saved, to the pri soner's wife. On the 13th of September, 1828, Brandreth died in the prisoner's house, and a Mr. Rouse, an auctioneer, was called on by the prisoner to bury the deceased. The prisoner said at that time that the deceased had left money in the Bank of England,and he believed the deceased had a sister living, to whom (if the de ceased had left no will) he would give up the property, after paying all expenses. The prisoner said that the deceased's sitter, it alive, was residing at Chester, and a letter was sent, addressed " Miss Brandreth, Chester, or elsewhere;' which letter was returned by the Post Office in a month afterwards, as no such person could be found. Shortly before last Christmas, the pri soner was urged to adopt some means to find out the next of kin of the deceased, and he said he would write again. The pri soner came to London in December last, and was introduced to Lee, an officer of the Marshalsea, to whom he said he wished to recover a debt of 901. due to bins by li'randreth, the deceased, who had left money in the funds. Lee told him that he must employ a Proctor, and introduced him to a Mr. Beetham and a Mr. Clarkson. On the Bth of December the prisoner went to a house at Pimlico, where he received a trunk, which he said had belonged to the deceased, and he produced to Mr. lieetham a will (the subject of the present indictment), which he said he had found b:tween the lining and the lid of the trunk. The prisoner obtained probate, and on producing it and the will to Mr. Spivey, a Stockbroker, the latter sold out stuck amounting to 3901, which the deceased had in the funds at the time of his death. The pri soner, having possessed himself of the money, returned to Langley, and after that he stated that the deceased had left no will. `sub sequently hr avowed that he had found a will, to which he had administered, and obtained the property. Two of the sisters of the deceased, residing near Maiichester, in June last. heard of the death of their brother, and they sent a solicitor to the prisoner, who discovered that some time after the death of the deceased the pri soner had borrowed the copy of a will front a person residing in the neighbourhood where he lived, named Collison, and upon comparing the copy of the will which he bad borrowed with the will to which he administered as the sole executor of the deceased,they were found to correspond in form, and there was one particular expression in both—" of what property now here, and every kind whatsover."— A witness proved that the prisoner admitted to him that he learned sometime after the death of deceased, of the existence of a will in his favour from a Mr. Wyman, a schoolmaster, residing at Lang ley, who had informed him (prisoner) that be had made the will for the deceased about a month before the deceased's death. The witness, on looking at the will, said the hand-writing resembled that of Wyman, who had absconded from Langley. Ruthven, the officer, proved apprehending the prisoner at Battle bridge ; his property was packed up, and be appeared to be quitting the place. The prisoner in bis defence said, that the deceased had repeatedly told him that he should leave all his property to him, and after his death he learned of the existence of a will of the deceased in his fa vour, Irons a Mr. Wyman, who had prepared it. He believed the will produced to be the genuine will of the deceased. A Quarter-Master of the Grenadier Guards was called, and he gave the prisoner the highest character for honesty and general good conduct for a number of years, while in that regiment. Mr. Justice GAZILIZ summed up the ease with remarkable clearness. The count for forging the will had been given up by the prosecutor, because there was no proof of the forgery having been committed in the City of London. The first question the Jury bad to consider was, whether the will was a forged instrument or nut ? and if they were satisfied that it was forged, be thought the evidence proving tke uttering of the will . by the prisoner to the siockbruker, in the City of London, was conclusive. That it was a forged paper, they must form an opinion, not from the conduct of the prisoner only, but from the facts he should bring to their recollection, which had been proved during the inquiry. Long after the prisoner had obtained probate on the will, be derided that he knew that a will was in ex istence. it was important to look at the slate of the will—the 18th of August, 1828. The copy of the will which the pri soner had borrowed was not obtained by him till October, above a month after the death of the deceased, and the Jury would compare the two, and draw their own con clusions as to whether the one was not the model upon which the other was framed ? If that should be their opinion, the forgery was proved beyond qustion ; because the prisoner did not obtain the model till after the death of the deceased. His Lordship adverted to the excellent character the prisoner had received, and if there was any doubt of bis guilt, it ought to weigh in his favour. His Lordship said it had been proved that the deceased had repeatedly expressed his intention to leave his property to the prisoner, and he thought it probable that when the prisoner found there was no will in his favour, and lie could not find the next of kin (there being evidence that he caused a letter to be written, for the purpose of finding the sister), that he, sup posing the relatives were all dead, and the property would go to the Crown, had Clll4edtbe will to be fabricated, to obtain it himself. If the Jury were of that opinion, they would say he was guilty. The Jury, without a minute's hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty—Death, but strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. The Judge said the recommendation should most certainly be attended to. NEW COURT. S►rr. Before :11r. Commou Serge.dtt DILNICO7. • Solomon Ba►liener, ag,d 27 years,and Philip Levy, aged 16 years, two German Jew pedlars, stood indicted for stealing on the 241 of Sept. in the city of Worcester, a Bank of England note for M. six valuable gold watches, and other attacks, value 3001. the property of 'Matthias Lesser. Both the prisoners, on being placed in the dock. rem cted their plea of " Not Guilty," awl pleaded " Guilty," which, 41 - ter a long but ineffectual attempt by Mr. Common Sergeant (through an interpreter) to alter their resolution, was recorded. Several persons came forward and gave t!•c pri.mier Lery a good character for honesty, &c. and stated that they helievkd hi 11 to have been the dupe of Barlirner. Francis Parsons, aged 26 years, stool inticted for stealing two hams and 1001 b. of bacon, value .51. on the 24th of July, the pro perty of :Mr. Thomas Brown, of Grafton-street, SAD; and mos and Margaret Jackson, for receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. It appeared front the evidence adduced that the prisoner Parsons came to the shop of the prosecuior and ordered the t.;11043% lied ::1 the indictment, saying they should he paid for nit delivery. On their being sent home, the prisoner told the porter that if he would ,go back with him to Ali. Brown's sh p he wou4 there pay Mr. If. for the good.. On the way there P.sf 401 M gave the porter 4. I. g hail," and the bacnti and hams were found concealed in the cellar of the mist:slier Jackson's hour, in Bainbridge -street, St. Gies . .. Nlr. Brown stated that he saw nothing of value in the pris , serr . s house save his own goads. There w•:14 nothing hut a few ilia/shine pigs' beads. C. PHILLIPS—So you cdl pigs' heads rubbish, do you?— Pray, do you not deal in pigs' heads yuur-el'? Prosecutor—Not such as I saw in the prisoner's shop. *or. C. Plittrars.—Had ti.e one you saw' in Parsods, sh p as inuch under-jaw as you have? Prosecutor—No ; it was an In sit pig's ,head—( Great laughter). Ur. C. Puttd.tes--Oh ! it was an Irish pig's head ; I suppose, then, you conversed with your friend, and can swear to its having been Irisb by its.accent—(Laughter). Prosecutor—l hey are all Irish pig,' heads that come to London salted. Mr. C. Nauss—Oh! then Irish pigs' heads are the only migratory ones. • Mr. lirowu, you call a ll pi gs ' b ea d s t h at come to London, Irish, do you? Prosecutor—We consider theni to be Irish—(Mitch laughtet). Mr. C. Pansires-4Whether from' Wiltshire or Yorkshire, they all pass for Irish. sod you swear they are rstiltisks•—(Great laughter). The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. Saturday a young man, named Anderson, was charged by a baker with having stolen his dog. The defendant said the dog was his own, and its name was Tippoo. The baker denied this, and said the dog's name was Jack Scroggins.—llis Lordship called out, " Tippoo, Tippoo!" but the dog took no notice. " Come here, Jack Scroggins," said Mr. Holder, and the dog was at his feet in a moment, amidst the laughter of the crowd. The Loan MAYOR said there was no doubt that the dog was " Jack Scroggins," and the name reminded him of the very just sentence of transportation for life passed upon two brutes in the human form, for manslaughter. He trusted, that though the bru tal love for prize fights was countenanced and sanctioned by brutes of high rank, the determination of the Judges of the land to sup. press it would be attended with success. Mr. Nobler said that the sentence passed upon the fellows al luded to had thrown a complete damper upon the spirits of the gentlemen of the Fancy. He thought that if transportation were extended to all the blackguard backers of the thieves who filled the prize ring, society would be greatly benefitted by the permanent departure of bullies and gamblers, and rascals of the basest kind. The Loan MAYOR asked the prisoner if he bad any one to speak to his character? The prisoner had no one present but his wife, and was remanded. " Jack Scroggins" and his master went home together. GUILDHALL. Saturday an ostler, named Howsun, in the employ of Mr. Eames, the coach proFietor, was charged with driving a van over a poor woman, named Ann Smith, on Thursday evening, at the corner of St. Mar tin's le-Grand. Wilmer,a patrol,stated,that as he was passing alongNewgate-street he heard some boys shout, and saw the prisoner driving a unicorn team, at the rate of ten miles an hour, up St. lilattin s-le-Grand. He held up his stick and called to him, to induce him to slacken his pace; but he disregarded him, and turning very sharply round the corner, one of the horses overtook an old woman just as she was reaching the pavement (having crossed) who fell, and the wheels passed over her thighs. The horse had previously tram pled on her body. The prisoner was in a slight degree intoxicated. but not so much so as to be unfit to be entrusted with the care of the horses again. She was carried to the hospital, and the house surgeon had certified that she had suffered a fracture of the leg and other severe injuries ; and though it could not be said that she was at present in a dangerous state, yet, considering her age, which was understood to be 68, and the extent ..of the injuries the had received, he was of opinion that she might become so. The Alderman committed the prisoner. NI Ait LBOROUG H-STR ET. A man named Lacey, in the employ of Messrs. Sever! and Cross. the silk-mercers, in Compton•street, was charged with defrauding his employers. The prisoner was a porter at Nles,r,. &well and Cross's, and it appeared that he was in the habit of charging more for the carriage or parcels, which he conveyed to the wharfs in the City, than be paid for them, and in this manner he had defrauded them of various sums of money. The prisoner had nothing to say in his defence; and :11r. Draa, in remanding him, observed that the firm of &well and Cross were more frequet•.tly plundered by their own servants tban any other house in the metropolis. On Saturday an application was made by the mother of an inter. eating girl, aged 17, for a warrant against her master. According to the statement of the mother, the girl was foolish, and incompe tent to judge between right and wrong. Her mistress is confined, and about a week since bcr master took the opportunity of accom. plisbing his purpose. The Magistrate. Mr. Rot, to.d her he could afford her no redress, as the daughter (who seemed unconscious of what was passing), was incapable of giving evidence. WORSHIP-STREET. On Saturday F. Bunten was chargedwVisbeing concerned with a man named Kent, in stealing a horse from Mr. Alexander,of the Repository, in Well-street. The prisoner had been taken into custody at Islington, on suspicion of having stolen two sheep and a horse, found in his possession. Those charges, however, proved untenable as matters of felony, and the sheep and horse have since been returned to the person from whom they were obtained. He is a very young man, but known to be very suspiciously connected with others. Kent was supposed to have arrived in London with the prisoner after the horse in question was stolen, the latter acting as servant,. He was remanded. QUEEN-SQUARE. Saturday J. Christmas was charged with stealing a horse, the property of Mr. ';lover, a hackney-coach master. lie had taken his master's coach and horses out on Thursday last without orders; and, on passing along Westminster-bridge, one of the horses was taken ill; be drove to a farrier's in the neighbourhood, where un luckily the horse died, and the prisoner sold the carcass to the knacker for XI 12s. 6d. he drove the coach home with the re maining horse, and absconded with the money. Nothing was heard of him until he was apprehended by Drew the officer. The prisoner was remanded. TOW N- H A I. L. Saturday R. Riggs„ clad in a flannel waistcoat with sleeves, and lately returned from transportation, was charged with stealing, or being concearned in stealing, blankets from the poor-house. Several blankets having been missed, an inquiry was insti tuted, productive of the information that a man named Rear don, applying for relief, had tampered with a boy at the gate, by asking hint if he could not sneak a blanket or so? To the the boy's credit, whose name is Blizard, he said " No ;" when Reardon replied, " Oh yes you can, and you and I will go snacks, and I'll put you up to it. When you've got the blankets, put as many pipe-tubes under the door as you've got blankets, and that shall be the signal." The boy said no more, and the villain departed. —Thus stood the affair until twelve o'clock, the time appointed, at night, when matters being arranged, through the boy's fidelity, the gate was kept upon the hasp, and two pipe-tubes passed under neath, followed by as many blankets ; but ere they could be well picked up, out sprang the gate-keeper himself, Fife, who seized upon the prisoner, with one of the blankets in his possession, Rear don dropping the other and running away. Ile was committed for trial. . UN lON- HA LI.. _ _ Saturday a coal-meter, named Btiu,w;s charged with hav'ng allowed a greater portion of coals to be carried away than he was authorised to measure. Ile had measured thirty-five sacks instead of thirty-one, for two cbaldrons and a half. This subjected hint to a penalty of 104 by the act of Geo. IV. After some discussion, the information was dismissed, in consequence of an informality. In consequence of great aumbers of complaints having been made to the Magistrates, against persons carrying on their trade eml call ing on the Sabbath-day, summonses were issued lay the orders of Mr. Chambers against the offenders. Five-and•forty of them ap peared on Saturday, and were fined, some .55., others Gs. 8d ; the amount altogether was nearly 81. 13111 . 111. At Birr, the Lady of Nlajur Pilchard, 56th Regiment, of daughter. :MARRIED. At Dronsore, Witham Needham Thompson, Esq. Collector of Customs. to Eleanor, daughter of the late Robert Waddell, uf Island-derry, County Down, Esq. Rev. Chas. Slontau. of Twickeobani, to Nliv, liartitt Smeet. Bee. Luke llckiker, IL 1). F.IIS 1.. &c. Vicar uf Dudley, to younge%t dauzhttr of the :ate Dr. Bareay, of Condialt &Erre:. Ike. C. 13. Brine, P,ec,ur ut St. Julia* , , Sou•helmham, Et ffolk, to Margaret Augusta, eldest daught, r at the late Major-Grucrel Robert Krlso. Rev. J. Dickinson, Vicar of Compton I)undnn, to Fro Eli zabeth Salmon, second oaughlet w tile late Rev. Y. A. SJl:non, rtebutitl of Wrlls. Rev. Sir Rd. Wl) Seley, Bart. t.. Snlith.nt Rev. John Baylie, Perpetual Curate ut ::oxwich. t.. Catherine ; daughter of William Neville, Esq. ut 31et..111y At,h..y, Stafford shire, • Rev. Allan Borman Ilutchin., of Wtyll.ll, to Jo•itia Frances, only daughter of E. G. Bouttlillon. Esq of lli-hopstoae, Rev. Charles Griffith, ',ALA. Card.L.,...hire, glary, youngest daughter of C. 31..r.C.11, of &epilog, Sussex. • • • DIED. Tl.ursJay. aged 62, after along illness, Mr. I'. P. Cox, for many ye;:rt Quatter.mattcr ut the (hfordsh:r•• Ilrginient of i\lllitia. At li.ctster, in Oaturdshite;•aged 74, Mr. Thum,' Tanner, a well kil..wn sportsman in the4lostyn I lunt, having for upwards of ve..rs bunted with Nlr. Ward's 3:,t1 S:r Thum'. Almayses fW iniut:s. lie was a of unas.aming in..nners, ard highly re •pec.:.d by the gentlenuli of the hunt and all teat knew hint, for ,C,rn integrity and upright conduce. . . - • Aug. 7.4.). in Walcot workhouse, Bath, Adam Batchlor, apt! 90. This vetersis had s,:ved :U year: iu ths t t th regiment of foot, and discharged in the year 17M0 (bring uilit for service) with of 6d. per day, wh'cli Was augMented some :so years agt: per day, which he enioyed till his death. .At Thornton, near Pickerin,, the Rev. 31 Nlackcreth, aged 1115, upwards of 41 years Master of the Grammar School in that place. . The Bev. W. Jewal, M.A. Rector of Borough and liactford. aged $O. Ilev. John [loupe. of Adam-street, Adelphi, aged 84. lie was• ,a distinguished scholar, and the intimate triend of Porno:, Parr, and many other luminaries of the literary world. 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