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: LAW RSPORTS. Seals. Re.hearings, Appeals. and Petitions, before the Lord Chan cellor. previous to 3lichaelmas Term, 1830. 1.. t November I —The First Sod. 'Tor•.l.,y 2, and Wredneralay 3-11 c-hearings and Appeals. 1* , ,,i1 , 4i1ay, 4—The Second Seal. P, , ,tit ions. .!, .1 Petitions, before the Vice Chancellor, previous to !di. chaelmas Term, 1830. klorday, Nov. The First Seal, and Bankrupt Petitions. TErsday 2, and 'Wednesday 3—Bankrupt Petitions. 'Thursday, 4—The Second Seal. FrAty. s—Petitions. AVIZE INTELLIGENCE. IMFORD ClRCUlT.—lizazrohn, Auo. 16. Mr. Justice PARK finished the business on the NW Prius side last a/ht. His Lordship was engaged the entire day in bearing an .-.rtion of ejectment relating to some property in Wales, which did oct possess the least feature of public interest. There has not, ':rein the recollection of the oldest individual living, been so little I , its.ncss on the Civil side at any former Assizes in this county. Out sevt.n causes (not a quarter of the average number) entered for trial. the rtcord in two of them was withdrawn, and in another (an ;rdictment) there was no prosecution, so that, in reality, there were oily four actions to be decided. Mr. Justice PARK pleasantly ob. *treed to the Gentlemen of the Bar, that Hereford presented but •• short commons." 6. Yes indeed," replied Mr. Campbell, 6. there is rot su ffi cient here, my lo rd, to pay the legitimate expenses of the Stafford eicction"--(A laugh.) Mr. Justice PARK will assist Mr. Justice Bosarrctuur to.mor. row in trying the remaining prisoners. CROWN SIDE. Joseph Wilson was Indicted for feloniously forging and uttering it, Richard Dwyer a promissory note for the payment of 101. pur. porting w be drawn b y John Finch, and payable to Wm. Dobbins, with intent to defraucithe said John Finch. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET, in summing up, Raid, if the Jury be lieved the evidence of Wm. Dobbins, there could not be a doubt of the prisoner's guilt. The Jury, after some deliberation, however, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Eleanor George was indicted for stealing a pair of sheets from a poor woman, named Ann Lewis, a neighbour of the prisoner. The prisoner, on being called on for her defence, said, " Plage your honour, my Lord Judge, this is all spite, because I would not take a false oath respecting a child being murdered; and It is a pity, my Lord Judge, it is not looked into. It is all spite; it is indeed." The Jury, however, found her Guilty, and she was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. GUILDFORD, Ann. 16. (Before Mr. Baron Gaartow.) Joseph Morris was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying John Powers, an infant of four years of age. The prisoner had been driving a timber carriage in Vine-street, Lambeth, when the child accidentally fell under the wheel, which passed over his arm. He was carried to the hospital, where he lingered for some time, and then died. Some of the witnesses examined stated that the prisoner was drunk at the time, while others deposed that he was quite sober; in addi tion to which, it was said that a timber carriage is the most difficult to manage of any. The Jury returned a verdict of acquittal. Win. Furness, Win. Huntingdon, Robert Jarvis, and Win. Carter, were indicted for breaking into the house of Wm. Carter, at Clapham, and stealing a clock and other articles. Jarvis, at the tune of the robbery, was a new policeman, of the letter M division. Mr. Cr.saxsoir conducted the prosecution, and called Ann Carter, who deposed that she resided with her husband at Clapham, and ou the sth of July she went to bed about twelve o'clock at night. After having fastened the doors and windows, as she was getting into bed she heard a noise, but did not then aka any particular notice of it. At three o'clock she was again alarmed, when her husband, who had up to this time been from home, re turned, and found the house bad been robbed. Wm. Curter, husband of the last witness, stated, that he found on his return the parlour windows had been broken open, and, on fur. ther examining, that a number of articles had been stolen. Mary Ward stated, that she lived in Dorset.street, and that on the 6th of July a woman brought her a clock, which she purchased of her. The woman lived with Huntingdon as his wife. Hun. tingdon himself afterwards came, and put the clock up. He then wore a fur cap, which was produ ced. Charles Kemp, who is a pawnbroker, Borough, produced 'a tea. caddy, which he said the prisoner Carter pledged with him on the 6:11 of July (the day after the robbery.) Rii.hard Myers, a constable, said, that in consequence of infor mation he had received, he went with two other officers to the house of Huntingdon on the 16th of July. He there found Huntingdon and Furness, with their clothes on, in bed, and a woman in bed with them. They took the men into custody, and on searching the room found two large bunches of skeleton keys, a dark lantern, and other housebreaking implements. The suspicion of witness was excited against Jarvis in consequence of seeing him go to Huntingdon's house on the evening of the 16th. He therefore apprehended bins next day. when he confessed he had supped the night before with Huntingdon. Kinsey, an officer in the Borough, corroborated the above evi dence, adding, that he apprehended Carter the following morning, and also spoke to Mr. NI ilkinson, inspector of letter M. division, of the suspicion he entertained of Jarvis, who was accordingly brought before Mr. Wilkinson at the station house, and questioned about the tes.caddy. At first he denied all knowledge of it, but on being told that the officers knew all about it, he said, " If you will go to my lodgings, I will give up the duplicate." This be did. Mr. IVilkinson, in addition, stated that Jarvis accounted for the possession of the duplicates by saying he had exchanged it with Huntingdon for another for some spoons. This one was found in the latter prisoner's house. The different articles were all identified by Mr. Carter. Huntingdon, Furness and Carter, declared they knew nothing of the matter. Jarvis s aid he had re ceived instructions to apprehend a man named Bradbury, for rob. bery, and that in passing Huntingdon's house, he had inquired there about him telling bins further that he would give him a sovereign for informing him where Bradbuty was. The next day they met again, and he (Jarvis) treated him with some beer. Huntingdon said he would have stood treat if he could, but that he was so poor as to be obliged to pawn his tea-caddy. After some further talk he (Jarvis) bought the duplicate of him. On the evening of the 16th of July he again visited Huntingdon, to gain some information con. caning Bradbury, and supped with him. He had been on the new police since its formation, but had been discharged in consequence of this affair. He then called Mr. Manning, an inspector of police and his serjeant, who said that Jarvis had always been very attentive to his duty while in the new police. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Huntingdon and Carter, but acquitted Fume's and Jarvis. CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord TZIFTZADLIC) The Court was occupied with the trial of a question of nuisance the whole of the day, Child and another being plaintiffs, against Smith and another, defendants. The issue was directed to be tried isy the Vice-Chancellor. The defendants bad erected a mill for grinding bones for the purpose of manure, at College-wharf, Lam. beth : and the question was raised to ascertain whether such bone grinding was or was not a nuisance. A number of witnesses were called to prove that it was a most intolerable one ; while, on the part of the defendants, a number were also called to prove the contrary. A verdict was ultimately returned for the plaintiff. This was the last cause to be tried. POLICE REPORTS MAII9IOII.IIOIIIIII.—Two labouring men appeared es plaintiff and defendant before the Loan 111.twon, in a caw which is likely to terminate in a manner not at all e_ xpnted by eit m her. The complainant stated, that he bad lately come out of the hoe. pital, where be had been congaed for some time by severe illness. On appearing in the streets he met the defendant, with whom be had been well acquainted, and whose rival he had been in the affee tiens of a young woman. They went together to a grog-shop, end there they chant a little too much gin.tin . d.water ; and the coon. plainant's bead being weakened by the hospital regimen, he was not very well qualified to take care of himself. As he had the infirmity of " woman-hunting" when he got a drop -too much, he 'thought it would be advisable to leave his vetch in the care of his friend, the defendant: but to his great sat/wise, that person upon being applied to next day for restitution of the watch, declared that it was his own property, and that the com plainant had made him a present of it while he was sober on the preceding evening. Under these circumstances, the complainant was of opinion the conduct of the defendant was neither more on less than a flat robbery, and finding tbat possession would be per. severed in, applied to an officer, who recommended that the matter should be represented to the Lord Mayor. The defendant's statement was to the following effect :—/le had been for some time courting a lady, who, however, bad bad taste to prefer the ceniplaiaant to him, and even to b ecome the wife of his rival. While he was in the height of his addresses, be made her several presents, which she never objected to receive, although ibe woe detenninid never to make the son of return which was coml. dewed secesmity .by him. She, however, Sive him 'a couple of watch seals. As the love business was wholly at an end, the defendent proposed to dee emplalient that doe lady should tadierbh Wee 'up the mansehle'ef the palm he ones enter. Weed fur her. Se it the dime tbewi meld, he had bee seals ready to restore to her. The complainant candidly ac knowledged that his wife was no longer in possession of the trinkets, for it happened that the moment she received them she handed than over, as proofs of her attachment, to the complainant. who dispersed of them to a neighbouring Jew for about a fourth of' , their value. This was considered unfair dealing, although a love transaction, and the complainant upon being reproached with having firmed a conspiracy against the propery of the defendant, pulled out the watch, and handing it to him, requested that it might be kept as a compensation for the articles out of which he had been wheedled. This being the state of the case, the defendant thought he was en. titled to the watch. The LORD klayoa said, he never wished to be concerned in teansactions arising from the tender passion, for fear he should hurt the nice sensibilities of the parties : but he should like to know what sort of a watch the watch in question was. The complainant said it was a metal watch. A metal watch !" said his Lordship, looking at it ; " why, my Mend, this is no watch of your's. It is gold, and double-cased, and goes upon a patent lever. Where did you get it ?" The complainant and defendant were both struck with amazement at this discovery, and were evidently sorry that they had not con trived to divide the watch between them. Mr. Hobler—You must tell us by what means you obtained pos session. It is probably very lucky for the right owner that you have quarrelled, and brought the matter before the Lord Mayor. The defendant said he knew nothing about the watch, but that he had received it from the hands of the complainant; and if that worthy was brought to the Old Bailey for it he should most wit tingly attend to give evidence. The Loan Mayon—Except a satisfactory explanation be made to me, I shall not let the watch out of my possession. The Complainant—The watch is mine by the laws of finding. As I was passing through Leadenhall.market about two years ago, I sees it lying there under a butcher's stall, and as there was nobody there that seemed to have lost it, why I takes it up and claps it in my pocket, where it went very well until it went away from me. Mr. Hoimiti...-The watch may have been stolen. I see the mimed " Martin Clayton, Manchester, No. 1,227," upon it, and that may lead to the discovery of the owner. It would have been no more than honest in you to have advertised the circumstance, or to have made it known here. The complainant said he always understood that if a body found a watch, he had a right to keep it, and he hoped the Lord Mayor would act upon that understanding. The Lou) Maxon —No : I shall keep the watch until the right owner makes his appearance. The complainant and defendant then retired, greatly discon certed. It will be recollected that a person of respectable character and connexions, named M'Pherson, was committed from the Mansion house some time ago upon a charge of forgery, and prosecuted by the committee of bankers. The Lord Mayor was informed that the grand jury at Guildford at once threw out the bill against him. Gunnnam..—Yesterday Joseph Jones and William Parker, the former an assistant in a public.house in Newgate-market, and the latter an old man who has for many years claimed the exclusive privilege of working the market pump, were charged before Mr. Al. dermsn AIIIILLT on suspicion of being concerned in an extensive and daring robb ery committed on the premises of Mr. Frederick Frame, the landlord of the Red Cross, in Newgate-market. Mr. Frame stated, that he closed his house on Sunday after. noon, and left home, accompanied by his wife, and the servant having had permission to visit her friends, no person was lett be. hind on the premises. The prisoner Parker was therefore employed to sit upon a bench at the door, and look after the house. W hen complainant returned in the evening, soon after 8 o'clock, he found an iron chest in his bed-room had been broken open, and bank notes, cash, jewellery, and various articles of plate car ried off, to the amount of about 2001. Joseph Bates, a patrol, stated that he passed the Red Cross about 8 o'clock, and saw Parker sitting upon the bench. The door sp., to be closed at that time; but on returning five minutes after, re ai found it wide open, and on entering he met Parker coming down stairs. He asked him what he was doing there, to which Parker re plied that " he would face a lion." Witness went upstairs, and on entering the bed-room he found the drawer in which the keys of the iron chest were kept had been forced open, the keys taken out, and the chest opened by them. The contents of the chest were gone, the cash-box emptied, and a yellow bag and a pocket-book were thrown on the floor. It seemed that the outer door, as well as the staircase and bed-room doors, had been opened with skeleton keys, and there could be little doubt the felony was committed by a person well ac quainted with the house. Parker was searched, but nothing was found to criminate him. Mr. Frame said, the ground of suspicion against Jones was, that be had been seen in company with Parker and two noted characters in the course of the evening, and that Jones had paid for half a pint of gin to treat Parker. Jones and Parker were seen in close con versation in a street adjoining the premises at the time the robbery was supposed to have been committed. Mr. Alderman A waxy asked if it was understood that Parker should not quit his post at the door ? Mr. Frame replied it was. He would have employed another person to watch if he had supposed he would quit the place. Parker said it was no part of the agreement that he should forego any job which might turn up, and at six o'clock he was sent with a message to Cheapside. When he returned to Mr. Frame's he was told by a neighbour's daughter that the outs door bad been opened, and on ascertaining mischief had been done, he was coming domain give an alarm when Bates met him. Two bad characters had seated themselves on the bench, but he drove them away. Jones offered no defence. Mr. Alderman Ametow directed search to be made after the two suspected persons, and in the meantime ordered the prisoners to be remanded. Bow-STREET.— Williams Randall was examined on a charge of having violated a child, only eight years of age, named Mazy Ann Robinson. The details of the case are unfit for publication. The prissiest was remanded fora week. Two Irishmen, named Murray and Berry, were charged with having assaulted two police constables. It appeared that the constables were walking together on the pm. vious night through Shore's Gardens, Drury-lane, when the deft& ants came behind them, and without provocation, knocked amts down. The defendants on that occasion effected heir maps bee were subsequently identified and taken into custody. Sir Rieman]) 13inxis demanded to know how it came to psis that the defendants had acted towards the of in the MUM, described ? The defendants scratched their heads. and said they bore heavy hatred towards the police in general, and these officers in particular. Sir RICHARD Mawr: fined the defendants 40s. each, and in de. I fault of payment, sentenced them to a sojourn for six weeks in the House of Correction. John Wise was charged with entering the premises of Mr. Do. pee, coal merchant, Surrey Wharf, and stealing four fowls. Mr. Thomas, the superintendent of police, stated that, in MOW queuee of the frequent robberies that had lately taken pl ace, dine. dons had been given to the police to be on the 100k -out, and the result was that the prisoner was found on the wharf about three o'clock on Sunday morning. It appeared that he had obtained ad mission by wrenching off the lock from the outer door, and that four fowls belonging to Mr. Dupree, were missing. These were subsequently discovered in a heap of dung. Hans, a subsequently watchman, proved the facts stated by Mr. Thelma Sir R. Banns ordered the prisoner to be detained for the pea. deetion of other evidence. Hawsoir.Gannsw—Charles Combs, a discharged policeman, vas yesterday brought before Mr. Lama and Mr. Serjeant Sot.. 140 y to answer the complaint of John Chayters , of Comwall-place, Helloway, an undsewriter, for an assault. Mr. Moods, ono of the inspectors of the Finsbury division, in. hied the Megistentes that this ease had been heard by the Com. islaissers on liaday, and that the defendant was in coneequence allisz umths sl, and a week's pay then due to him stopped ; but that, as the loans were not satisfied with that punishment, and wished the ease not to rest there, they ordered the man to be takes into custody, end brought to this office. The complainant stated, that on Saturday morning between two end these eicleek, be was passing along Cornwall-place, on his way bano t eed elm he got within a few doors of his own house, he was knocked down, and his bead dreadfully cut, as if by a blow of a mds u's& Being inteudeated at the time, end the Mow having seadmed him quite isible, be did not know of his own know. Wes that it was the diedent who gave the blow, but the drains stems removed all doubt spill the matter, and It suluer Lit m 7 ap. pied that the defendant took possession of his wat ch Line ilk. Re was taken home by another police constable, and in the sown of the day, digi extremely ill, he attended before the seastiodosa at Whitehall, who seemed to view the case in a very alas Vt. Jams ay police constable, No. 198, division N, staid it hearing amy ie CAmtwoMolout_at dm time already mentioned. WI hand Webs spa, owl in ns die compliant on the pill hyaMis ditalist 11•11 swift at a shut distance from kiss. Ail ea in his bald. Wei Winfred what wet tie mew, sad the deleident replied it the mesplainant bed rrgt Idsktidos, swilikst be strsek the amploiaos with his me =7 6, eg iaggimme hosoo, out toss Awards WI V ar y do. Ilist do ado& ad a waskodals be rodeo*, ado oosigldssa. Visas Wilde dist leo bed sad v ery Many t deo gadoloals wadi saboells o and ism& Mandy re olusopassoist Tim ass liked wbst i t i t=to c:= Wilk dist ad the asspisisent dub( a dm vela Rh bit ass *oh his toolsons is another, o l oilk kakk k, another a s the pavement. Ito isaspted seam ha to his home, but was struck by him twice ; upon which be struck him, he admitted, with his staff. Mr. LAING observed that the best way to deal with the case was to hold the defendant to bail. Mr. Serjeant Sect.ox said that he could see nothing In it to in. duce him to send it to the sessions. The complainant requested that the magistrates would dispose of it in a summary way, and not put him to the expense and loss of time attendant on an indictment. The magistrates then agreed that the punishment already inflicted on the defendant was sufficient, and they discharged him. Mary Ann Griffiths was finally examined on a charge of admi nistering poison to a young woman named Dorothy Turner, residing at No. 25, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury. Mr. Harmer attended for the prisoner. It appeared that the pri. loner lived as servant in the same house with the prosecutrix. On Sa turday week the prosecutrix sent her own servant to the kitchen foe boiling water for tea, but the prisoner would not admit the servant into the kitchen. but taking the kettle filled it herself,and then handed it out. The prosecutrix immediately after tea went to the Adelphi, where she was seized with dreadful pains in her stomach, and vio lent retching. The servant and a child, who had drank also of the tea, were affected in a similar manner about the same time. The prosecutrix continued excessively ill until next day, when she took an emetic that greatly relieved her. Suspecting that the prisoner had infused some poison into the water, she had her taken into cus tody, and a portion of the discharge from her stomach was analysed by Mr. Garden, of Oxford-street, chymist, but the presence of any thing deleterious was not discovered in it. It was also asserted that the prisoner had thrown a quantity of vitriol over the prosecutrix at the moment she was going out to the theatre, but of this there was no proof. The prisoner was accordingly discharged. MARLBOROUGH•STATET.....AIRZUN ASSAULTS. .... Several respectable inhabitants of Regent-street yesterday waited upon the Presiding Magistrates, A. Rox, Esq. to solicit his assistance and advice under the following circumstances: — The gentleman stated that for the last few days they had been shamefully annoyed and endangered by some unseen agency. On Saturday night last there had been several air-gun pellets discharged indiscriminately at the shops and at passengers, and from the imminent danger they felt themselves in from the repetition of this nuisance, they had thought It prudent to wait upon the Ma. gistrates, in order to know if there was any possibility of checking so abominable an outrage. Mr. Rox said that if they could in any way detect the delta quests, and could substantiate a case against them, he would visit the offence with the heaviest penalty of the law. One of the shopkeepers said that a missile had been discharged at his window, which, had it been a quarter of an inch further on one side, would have done him 81. damage. On going out he looked for one of the new police, but full twenty minutes elapsed before one could be found. Mr. Rox said he could not account for that. If the Gentlemen would taka the trouble to go to the Commissioners and state their case, they perhaps would appoint an extra force to attend there. He (the Worthy Magistrate) was sure they would pay every attention to their request. The Gentlemen inquired whether the County would remunerate them for any damage sustained by,these outrages ? The Magistrate said he apprehended that the County would coot. them only if the damages had been done during a riot.- 7i s trregard to the nuisance, he could only repeat that it was abs. minable ; and if they succeeded in tracing the offenders (so very probable matter,) they should not escape the punishment they se well merited. 1 The parties thanked the Magistrate and withdrew. Annoyances of this nature have for the last month been commit ted to a great extent at the West End, but from the extreme porta. , bility of air guns, and the silen c e of their discharge, it is very diffi cult to detect the offenders. MART.LA.SOUNE.-..A tall thin man, in a suit of black, very threadbare, was charged with a breach of the peace. Mr. Rawlin. son asked him his name. "I am here," replied tae defendant," in the name of the Lard JESUS Guam." K. Holland, a constable, stated that the defendant had lately 1 =hsermons in the open air, and eandoned persons to assem. ale of whom making a disturbance, Instruction were then rem to put a stop to it. He saw the detadant at setae o'clak at Sunday morning in Brill-row, preparin balk sod WM hiss that be must not come there to p reach. - The sea mid be bed chosen a text, and preach from it he would. Deladent was rang en with a sermon; a mob of thirty persons was assembled arcs him. The constable told him to leave off. The defendant said be wield not. The mob hooted the constable, and be got some of his semeades to assist, and took the defendant to the watch - boom Complaints had been made by many respectable inhabitants of the ,ctice and the object was to suppress it without severity. The defendant was offa -a his liberty, but he would net go. Defendant (to the constable.) —Do you know the dares.' be. twein si a:ing and praying ? The constable made no reply. t—He don't answer me. Mr. Rawtrweow—He is not obliged to answer such a question. After some further conversation, Mr. Wartime' told him, he and Ids brother Magistrates believed the evidence, and they should de. , py l on tain him until he gave bail to k p the peace. He was required to withdraw, but he refused, and e was carried to the lock-up room by four of the officers. The neither gave bail nor his name ; and when the van came to remove the prisoners to Cierkenwell New Prison, Keys, the gaoler, was obliged to carry him to it upon his back, for he would not walk. Lawarrn.szasyr.—YesterdajMr. Elliott, the landlord of the Three Pigeons, at Stratford, an account of who se application for a warrant against a master tailor in the Strand, appeared in our Paper of yesterday, waited on Mr. Walker, the Sitting Magistrate, andrequested that he would discharge the warrant. Mr.Watzza at once consented, observing that he considered it the most prudent course. Among the number of disorderlies which were brought before the Magistrates, a spectre-looking, shirtless Irishman was placed at the bar, charged with having committed divers assaults and bat. arks on the persons of his Majesty's more peaceable subjects. The defendant exhibited marks of a most woeful drubbing, his face and had bearing ample proofs of the unsparing attacks of his opponents. The charge of assault was princi pall y sustained by police constable H, 0K who deposed to the outrageous conduct of the defendant, while labouring under the effects of intoxication. The defendant admitted having kicked up a bit of a row, but laid it all to the fault of a drop of drink, which had overcome his peaceable propensities. The policeman, he also asserted, had been drinking with him for a considerable time, and when the scuffle ensued was as drunk as himself. The Magistrates expressed their disbelief of the latter part disks story, and inflicted a penalty of 40s. or six weeks' imprisonment. The next charge placed a: the bar excited much merriment. It was utterly impossible from the garments to guess the sex of the defendant. A drab Mee great coat and waistcoat proclaimed the masculine gender, but the remains of what had been once a beaver bonnet asserted the owner's claim to the privilege of one of the fair sex. The latter opinion was confirmed by the reply, in a double base tone, of Norm% Mealy to the question of what was her name ? The charge against Norah was for setting the powers of the police at defiance, and maintaining her station with a basket of grans in Whitechapel, in spite of their prohibition ; and also for having got particularly drunk, and thereupon abusing the super intendent. At the recital of these charges, Nash assumed a most penitent expression, and upon being called on for her defence, pointed to the Rev. Mr. Mathias, who was on the bench, wad begged to ax his honor's reverence for a tweeter. Mr. MATSU/IS i astonished at the reference, dhclaimed all know. ledge of the defendant. " Ooh, plait your honor," said Norah, you oche to give me a good lumens at any rate, for you chris tened my_babbylest 13 years, and have got him under your keep ing now."—" W h y, how is that," inquired Mt. MATSU" still more astonished ? " Because," said Nash, " didn't you berry him awhile ago !" This reply excited a smile from the Magis trates, and upon the solemn promise of Norah to abstain from gin, the Magistrates allowed her to depart. Tnanze.PoLicz.— Margaret Corbin was charged with cruelty towards her mother, an old deaepid woman, aimed Rhoda Rolla, aged 70 years. It affm that the usfrelig denglitur had long been in the habit of c ragbre her aged present, and the new polies bad been frequently called upon -to inaction On Sonde, ni t, the old woman being destitute of firing, phrased an old pie of s in the rate to kindle one. This gave oginw to the elslasr, who beat her mother with the shoes, but her swains bass teeth by the policeman on duty, he interfered on her behalf. At alba hour cries of murder were heard from the house la Brook-street, lawillts, and the officer, on entering, found the prisoner bating ha medar is a must savage manner with a heavy poker, with which she bed out her head open. The clothes es the old woman wars enteeetel with blood, and her arms and shoulders were wend with weenie. The poker, which was hot, bad been taken out of the fire, and sear* smirched her desh. The prisoner, who behaved in the most unfeeling manner, said die chastised her mother for pledging the clothes is the room to reruns liquor. Certain Ilicuazzi. said the defendant was • most unfeeling beam, and convicted her In the penalty of M. and in default of pay ment she was sentenced to two months' imprisomeet and hard la. hour, and also ordered to find bail to keep the poem le future. THE Ex-KING AND HIS SON POLIONAC.CIIIIIIIII the Teeth, the gossips of Park4shisper, has bet only se deplete the evils which have evemskee legitimacy, but then whisk fall ea Illegitimacy aloe. Betides*. mischief dose is the et the lhapitht, the Dauphines, sad the Dake of ficedeess, its ma P. Ilgase Wes a pud aiteedea, if set hie bead late the beryls. SCINTILLA. ST. JOHN'S WORT.—The peasants of France and Germany gather on St. John's day a species of the plant St. John's Wort, and hang in their windows, as a charm against evil spirits.— Meg. Nal. Hist. ST. JOHN'S B REA D.—The fruit of the carob tree was supposed to have been eaten by St. John in the wilderness, whence it was named St. John's bread.—lbid. THE WINGED LIZARD.—The Pterodactylus, winged lizard, one of the most extraordinary productions of the fossil world, is an animal which forms the intermediate link, hitherto deemed to exist only in fable, between birds and reptiles. This creature, previously known in two formations upon the con. tinent, has been recently recognised in the lies of Dorsetshire. We cannot resist the temptation to introduce this remarkable animal in the language of Professor Buckland :—" In size and general form, and in the disposition and character of its wings, this fossil genus , according to Cuvier, somewhat resembled our modern bats and vampyres, but had its beak elongated, like the bill of a woodcock, and armed with teeth, like the snout of a crocodile • its vertebra, ribs, pelvis, legs, and feet, resembled those of a liz ard ; its three anterior fingers terminated in long hooked claws, like that on the fore finger of the bat ; and over its body was a covering, neither composed of feathers, as in the bird, nor of hair, as in the bat, but of scaly armour, like that of an iguana ; in short, ammeter, resembling nothing that has ever been seen or heard of upon earth, excepting the dragons of romance and heraldry. Moreover, it was probably noctivagous and insectivorous, and in both these points resembled the bat ; but differed from it, in having the most important bones in its body constructed after the manner of those of reptiles. With flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less monstrous lchthyosauri and Plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shines of the pri. metal lakes and river—air, sea, and land, must have been strangely tenanted in those early periods of our infant world."—Mr. R. C. Tal_lor's Illustrations of Anted il uvian Zoology. REFINING Su o n.—The art of refining sugar ap pars to have been known, at least as early as the reign of Henry VIII. as a roll of provisions of that period mentions, " two loaves of sugar, weighing 161 b. 2oz. at per pound." A letter from Sir Edward Wotton to Lord Cobham, dated Calais, March 6, 1546, in forms him that be had taken up for his Lordship twenty-five sugar. loaves, at six shillings a loaf, • whiehe is eighte pence a pounde." —The earliest record of refined sugar we read of, is a quotation in Whittaker's History of Whalley,from a eomputus of WhalleyAbbey, in 1614: "Pro swears inrolut. et al. spebue Mr. d."—Mirror. BATONETS.—Bayonets were introduced into Francs about 1673; and among the English grenadiers, in the short reign of James the Second. Many such are yet to be seen in the small armoury at the Tower. The use of them, fastened to the muzzle of the firelock, was also a French improvement, first adopted about 1690. It was accompanied, in 1693, at the battle of Marseille, in Piedmont, by a dreadful slaughter; and its use was universally fol lowed by the rut of Europe in the war of the succession. SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. —Among the rolls of Parlia ment of the year 1380, a petition occurs from the inhabitants of Smithfield and Holborn, against the butchers of Butcher Hall Lane, praying that some penal ordnance might be enacted to restrain the nuisance of throwing the blood and entrails of slaughtered animals into the channels connected with the river Fleet ; and that the but. chers might be forced to kill their beasts at " Knyghtbrigg," or elsewhere, away from the annoyance of the people, under penalty not only of forfeiting such animals as might be killed in the " butcherie," but of a year's imprisonment. The prayer of the petition was granted, and its penalties enforced for several reigna.—. Correspondent of Me Mirror. DRYNESS OF Till E AIR AT FLORENCE.—The Su perior dryness of the air in Italy in summer, compared with that of England and many parts of the north of Europe, is well known ; but (says Mr. Spence) I was not aware that the difference is equally striking even in the rainy part of winter, judging, for want of a better hygrometer, from the condensation of moisture on the inside of windows in rooms without a fire; which I have always observed to be very considerable in winter, both in England and also at Brus sels during a three years' residence there, whenever a cold night succeeds a rainy or warm day, the condensed moisture often even running down to the floor; whereas at Florence, under precisely similar circumstances, I have never but once observed more than a slight eoodensstion in the middle of the panes, as if breathed on, even in rooms with a north aspect; and only once during the frost, any , and that but slight, of that thick crust of ice formed on the reside of the panes in England and at Brussels whenever a hard frost sets in. Among many other proofs of the greater dryness of the air in winter, one is afforded by the profusion in which grapes are to be had, at leis than two-pence a pound, at the corners of every Thhtap to the end of March, quite free from all mouldiness, cut full four months, and kept merely by being hung at the 1472 - rooms without a tire.—M2 p. Nat. Hist. EXPLAINING A HARD WO RD.Tile following singu le occurrence actually took place at a Wesleyan Chapel, in a market town in this country, a short time since. A reverend preacher Ras dilating with much freedom and ability on the subject matter Olds text; and in the course of his sermon having occasion to refer Is the commentaries of several learned divines, he repeatedly made use of the word "Commentator." This was a complete puzzler for a countryman who formed part of the congregation ; and although his mouth, as well as his ears, had been wide open to swallow every sentence of the discourse, yet he could not comprehend the meaning of this hard word. At the close of the service, on his way out of the chapel, addressing one of his neighbours, he said, " I say John,dost thou know the meaning of that word that the preacher tould us of so often—l think he called it cosemonlater it" John, astonished at the ignorance of the applicant, replied, " Why, dos'nt thou know? why, the preacher meant common tatoes ; thou knows that oz's nobles, or sAortdrisks, or some such sort of common tatoes as Mose." The in h quirer to ;nexed satisfied with the explana tion; and they trudgedborne ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDIN•RY. A KING our or PLACE.—Oh, yes oh, yes ! oh, yes I This is to give notice to all countries, and particularly to those that are as yet un. civilized, that a King is to be had cheap. He will suit Algius, inasmuch as be is tyrannical, despotic, and absurd. lie will suit Greece, inasmuch as he is crafty, and yet easily led by the nose. He will suit Rome, because he is greatly attached to the Lally on the seven hills (who, by the way, is not the only "scarlet abomina tion" extant.) He would suit Turkey, because there they are sworn foes to the liberty of the subject. He would suit Spain tolerably well, only that the country is already blessed with one of his in vited breed. In short, he will suit any country where despotism is favoured, and where tyranny has swar—where the people go for nothing, and the King and Ministers only are held in consideration ...where the people are content to exist as serfs and vassals, to be so for the aggrandizement of the few and wealthy ; to pamper their lusts and their appetites by toil and submission—in fact where the people are content to lose the name of men and the char acter of hu. inanity, and are willing to forego their birthright, liberty, and be the willing and uncomplaining bondsmen of crowned despotism. But in a country where the voice of the nation will be hard—where the middle and lower classes do stand for something in the great ac. count—where, on an attempt to fetter their free-born limbs, the nation will rise as a man ' and vindicate its rights to liberty at the expense of life—for such a nation, this ex-King will not be suited. He only requires, as a security, 100,000 soldiers to enforce the mild. Den of his measures, and convince the lucky nation that shall select him foe their Monarch, that "the King can do no wrong." He nay be a bad bargain, but will not be taken back when once sold. Enquire of Messrs. Polignac, Peyronnet, and Co. near the Gallo. tine, Place de Greve, Paris. PRINCE JULES OF Pomo c.—The father of this Prince emigrated, like many other French Nobleman, at the begin ning of the Revolution, and resided for some time at Ratistant, Grand Duchy of Baden. On the birth.day of his son Jules (the mean too famous ex.Miniater of France), when be had attained his yelp year, Ito invited all his companions in misfortune, and sass sage hew% mil showed them into a room, where, upon a Is his, • sad ant two lighted candles had been placed. He then Moped poems Jules to approach the table, and, in imitation of Amami (Hannibal% father) bound him try an nub, AM be would skips the French revolution and the principles to which is bid Om7lifi. This solemn set neon to have powerfully worked ups thoploml of the you Nobleman, and may explain in some unsime lisistestatiss ef ng liberal ideas. With right, one can apply M him Oat Ike post says— " Miklos like tender esters, take the bow, Aisles bey Out ass farhioned, always pre" • This anadois is from as eye.mitneto, and play fellow of the Prince, whew lives at Rarimadt. 11 3.111.1 771 1.1111 . At Paisley, on the 9th inst. the lady of Captain Kirk, 70th WO of a son—On the 12th inst. at Wiltomatmet, Groevenon.place, lAs lady of Captain Eyre, Resident at Tanjore, of a daughter-0 0 the 11th alt. at Edinburgh, Lady Oswald, of Dunikier, of a &mishit*. MARRIED. Oa the 1011 et July hot, at Fallalmagh. the Rev. Dr. Robert Maile d Wit* of the pariah at Cladommam, Elliabeth, hunts at dm km Adam Auilmeam, mardstam, Rdiabwigh—On d eLl i a l lamm Edkabough, tin lbw. Diumml Wolerla 2111 1 60 t , alagam. maim 10Millaii Amt, easselwar of the lam Rabat Rana, Eat at the /tat! Ihmtrais, Luuio•. Lt At Sdisbersk, ea the lth lest. Mrs. Ades links, widow ei 0. Miller, Ibi. C.assid he Ms Majesty at Chirie stee , South Carelliew—ht ilhegow, es the 30th July, the Bev. D. Lois* ef Latithal 1 Planted wad Mixed b Join Ilavite. at Ms thaw Orme We. t. Plasit-plases %gift ea*