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alone, (as they conceived) the regulation and ordering of business of that nature most properly and peculiarly ought to reside and that many persons of quality (parishioners of the said parish) very fit to he entrusted with business of that nature and concernment. are. notwithstanding unwilling to act. unless lawfully appointed as aforesaid ; by which means the good and benefit of the said church and parish hash been, and still is, very much obstructed ; and therefore humbly desired that, according to the manner and prac tice of and its other parishes within our diocese, we would be pleased to grant and confirm unto them a select vestry consisting of forty-nine pawns, all parishioners and Inhabitants of the said parish.' "We therefore, the Bishop and Chancellor aforesaid," have and do, by these presents, for us and our successors, ap prove and allow of this their petition.; and (as far as by the laws and constitution ecclesiastical of this realms, and temporal laws of the same, we can or may) have and do. by our authority ordinary and episcopal, order and decree, that from henceforth there shall be a set or select vestry established in the said parish."— Lord Morrow " The faculty, praprio vivre, is a dead letter." Lord TRIZTILDEN : " The faculty has no validity in law." Paoor s.—The Vicar and Churchwardens admit the above ap pointment in th, following petition to Parliament in 1695. The Churchwardens deny this fact in 1829. " A petition of the Vicar and Churchwardens of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields was presented to the House and read ; setting forth, that the said parish greatly increasing with inhabi tants, a select vestry of forty-nine persons, besides the Vicar and Churchwardens, was, by instrument, under hand and seal , insti tuted by Gilbert, Bis hop of London, 1662, and in 1673, con firmed by Humphry, then Bishop of London : That the said vestry, by successive elections bath ever since continued ; and managed the affairs of the said parish, to the satisfaction of the inhabitants; but the petitioners are informed there is a bill de pending in the House for regulating of Select Vestries, and pre venting abuses arising thereby ; which may tend to alter their said constitution : and playing, that they may be heard, by counsel, before the said bill do pass this House." Dated 1695. PRODP 6.—The vestry confirm the above fact, of the Bishop's appointment in 1774. Ordered, that the faculty constituting this vestry be read an nually on Easter Nionday."—Testry Minutes. The fact of the legal right of the parishioners to elect themselves, and the mode of so doing, are not denied by the churchwardens, — We have the authority of Lord Chief Justice 'fenterden for the following Important fact, who said, upon the trial in 1827, " If it had been thought essential to inquire into the mode in which the select vestry was anciently chosen. whether by the pa rishioners at large, or by they themselves filling up vacancies in their own body from time to time, that should have been presented to the consideration of the jury by a question distinctly propounded on the record, which, on this occasion, has not been done ' • it may he done hereafter, if ever it should be though t necessary, but, upon the present occasion, it has not been done." It appears, from the records of the parish, that the Church Rates have 910, always been made by the select vestry ; and, as proof is better than assertion, we give the facts from the vestry Minutes : " A Public Meeting of the Parish, in the Vestry, August 10, 1663 • concerning the rebuilding of the tower , " ( of the church). " Resolved, 1. The tower to be repaired according to the model and estimate brought in by Captain Ryder, the sum of the estimate being 1,7801. 12s. " 2. That three times the rate which was for the poor in the year 1662, is to be made upon the inhabitants of this parish. " 3. That the said rate be paid at three several payments; the first payment to be at or before Christmas neat ; the second to be by or before Midsummer ; and the third payment at or before Christmas, 1664. " 4. That the gentlemen on the other side, aforesaid, be the Col lectors of the rates aforesaid. " S. That Mr. Burgh • be the Treasurer of all such sums of mo ney as shall be freely given or collected by the several collectors, and by him to be paid to the workmen as the work goes on." • Note—Mr. Burgh, appointed Treasurer, was neither a Church warden nor a Vestryman. Osseays.—This took place the first year after the illegal ap pointment of the Select Vestry, by the Faculty of the Bishop; and the parish books show, that the newly appointed Select Vestry did then first unsuccessfully attempt to make the rate. The first rate made by the Select Vestry, was in the year 1799, without any law ful authority. 111. The Churchwardens and the Vestry know, that these ver dicts are directly opposed to truth, as the parish books unequivo cally testify. " Register Book of Parish Officers, from 1611 to 1730." " The Parish Choice of Officers, for the year 1638." " The Parish Choice of Officers, for the year 1640." " A Vestry held by the Ancients of the Parish, 1641, to choose Sidesmen, and Over Officers." " The parish choice of sers, 4th of April, 1643." " Churchwardens chosen at a vestry by the parish, on Monday in Easter week, 1648 " " Monday, 31st of March, 1651. " Confirmation of officers, the parishioners being present." " A Public Meeting of the parish, 1656." Parish officers confirmed— " Parish officers for this year, 1661, chosen on this 15th day of April, being Monday in Easter week, the publique coming in." The Vestry minutes of that day sbew, that a few unlawful per sons claimed the power, on the Thursday before, to the right of nominating the Parish Officers. " The publique coming in" on Telonday, soon settled the question by striking out the names of the select nomination, and appointing a new set of Officers, who served the office the following year. IV. As the Churchwardens have not denied the right of the pa rishioners to elect the Evening Lecturers, the Committee have only to refer again to the parish books, in order to refute the statement " that the Vestry ever agreed to pay the Lecturers out of the Rates." " Ordered. That the lecturers for the time being be allowed 120/. per annum, and that the Churchwatdens do pay the same half yearly ; and that this vestry •do make good the same out of the funds under their direction."—Vestry 51inutes, Dec. 6,1613. This entry proves that the Churchwardens ' after paying the lectures out of the pew-rents, are reimbursed by the select vestry. out of the church-rate, that being the only fund under their di_ rection. V. The Churchwardens,assert, that " the management of the poor is altogether independent and unconnected with the 'vestry." Is it possible that any acts or words can exhibit a stronger proof of the evil of irresponsible select vestries than this admission? Here is at once the true picture of the system ; the accounts of the overseers of last year strew, that several " gentlemen of the vestry" have been the principal receivers of the poors-rate money, by supplying the workhouse with the articles in which they respectively deal ; for which act, had they been a lawful select vestry, they would have subjected themselves to a heavy penalty. The Parish Books chew, that front the earliest period, the inhabitants did rate themselves, and audit their officers' accounts in vestry, and then submitted them to the Magistrates for their final approval ' • and the parishioners, being rate - payers , are at Midsummer and Christmas invited by a public Notice given out in Church to attend in vestry, under the denomination of " The Ancient Inhabitants"—let every parishioner on those occasions at tend and do their duty. The Churchwardens have voluntarily introduced the fact, that the vestry have been charged with injudiciously expending the parishioners' money : this " fact" they do not deny, but they make an apology that it has only amounted to one penny in the pound ; yet it will be seen by a reference to the Parliamentary Report, 1828, that these pennies only, amounted to the smaU aunt of 240,000 ! !! The Churchwardens now invite the inhabitants to inspect the accounts, a right which a few weeks ago, in vestry, and at the Public Office at Bow-street. they publicly declared" their deter. mination to oppose by every means in their power." The pa rishioners have therefore only to refer to the fifth resolution, and act accordingly. VT. If the Churchwardens wrote the statement to which they have unfortunately affixed their names, every patishiouer that knows them will at once acquit them of all intention to mislead ; but it is a singular fact, that the Resolution in which they say their names are introduced, and which caused them to write, has been by them altogether left unanswered. Vtoonous OLD AGE.—Three persons, a man and two women, worked together as reapers during the last harvest at Antonshill, in Berwickshire. the property of General HUNT'S, and they kept up with the beat shearers in the field, though their united ages amounted to 210 years. One of them had shorn for 52 years, and was never, durirg that period, absent a day from work .—(liiso Mail.) Much to the disgrace of the innkeepers and pub licans of Westmoreland, nearly all of them bad their spirit seized by the excise in the first day of the fair, as being under proof. Of course there were some few exceptions. The public can have little pity for persons who, not content with reasonable profits, thus shamelessly defraud them. DARIN t. ROBBERY .—A daring robbery took place on Monday evening. A large quantity of cloth had been deposit"! in one of Messrs. Tanner and Baylis's stage waggons, in order to be brought to London, but on arriving between Langley Broom and Coinbrook, Bucks, as ends of superfine black cloth, of a large value. had been abstracted. Not the slightest trace has been discovered of the property, although a large reward has been offered. WAVERLEY NOVELS. MUMPS' HA'. FROM • MOTO TO GUY 11411MORING. It is fitting to explain to the reader the locality de scribed in this chapter. There is, or rather I should say there was, a little inn, called Mumps' Hall, that is, being interpreted, Beggars' Hotel, near to Gilsland, which had not then attained its present fame as a Spa. It was a hedge alehouse, where the Border farmers of either country often stopped to refresh themselves and their nags, in their way to and from the lairs and trysts in Cum berland, and especially those who came from or went to Scotland, through a bayren and lonely district, without either road or path way. emphatically called the Waste of Beweastle. At the period when the adventures described in the Novel are supposed to have taken place, there were many instances of attacks by freebooters on those who travelled through this wild district, and Mumps' Ha' had a reputation for harbouring the banditti who committed such depredations. An old and sturdy yeoman belonging to the Scottish side, by surname an Armstrong or Elliott, but well known by his soubri quet of Fighting Charlie of Liddesdale, and still remembered for the courage he displayed in the frequent frays which took place on the Border fifty or sixty years since, had the following adventure in the Waste, which suggested the idea of the scene in the text : Charlie had been at Stagsbawbankfalr, had sold his sheep or cattle, or whatever he had brought to market, and was on his re turn to Liddesdale. There were then no country banks where cash could be deposited, and bills received instead, which greatly encouraged robbery in that wild country, as the objects of plunder were unusually fraught with gold. The robbers had spies in the fair, by means of whom they generally knew whose purse was best stocked, and who took a lonely and desolate road homeward— those, in short, who were best worth robbing, and likely to be most easily robbed. All this Charlie knew full well; but he bad a pair of excellent pistols, and a dauntless heart. He stopped at Mumps' Ha', not withstanding the evil cbatacter of the place. His horse was ac coosmodated where it might have the necessary rest and feed of corn ; and Charlie himself, a dashing fellow, grew gracious with the landlady, a buxom quean, who used all the influence in her power to induce him to stop all night. The landlord was from home, she said, and it was ill passing the Waste, u twilight must needs descend on him before he pined the Scottish side, which was reckoned the safest. But fighting Charlie, though he suffered himself to be detained later than was prudent, did not 'account Mumps' Ha' a safe place to quarter in during the night. He tore himself away, therefore, from Meg's good fare and kind words, and mounted his nag, having first examined his pistols, and tried by the ramrod whether the charge remained in them. He proceeded a mile or two at a round trot, when, as the Waste stretched black before him, apprehensions began to awaken in his mind, partly arising from 11leg's unusual kindness, which he could not help thinking had rather a suspicious appearance. lie therefore resolved to re-load his pistols, lest the powder had become damp ; but what was his surprise, when he drew his charge, to find neither powder or ball, while each barrel had been careful ly filled with tow, up to the space which the loading had occupied ! and the priming of the weapons being left untouched, nothing but actual drawing and examining the charge could have discovered the inefficacy of his arms till the fatal minute arrived when their services were required. Charlie bestowed a hearty Liddesdale curse on his landlady, and re-loaded his pistols with care and ac curacy, having now no doubt that he was to be way-laid and as saulted. He was not far engaged in the Waste, which was then and is now, traversed only by such routes as are described in the teat, when two or three fellows distinguished and variously arm ed, started from a moss.bog, while, by a glance behind him, (for marching, as the Spaniard says with his beard upon his shoulder, he reconnoitered in every direction) Charlie instantly saw retreat was impossible, as other two men eppeared behind him at some distance. The borderer lost not a moment in taking his resolution, and boldly trotted against his enemies in front, who called loudly on him to stand and deliver ; Charlie spurred on and presented his pistol. " 113-0 your pistol," said the foremost robber ; whom Charlie to his dying day protested he believed to have been the landlord of Mumps' Ha'. " 1)--n your pistol! I care not a curse for it." " Ay, lad, said the voice of fighting Charlie, "hut the tow's out now." He had no occasion to utter another word ; the rogues surprised at finding a ma. of redoubted courage well armed, instead of being defenceless, took to the moss in every direction ; and he passed on his way without further molestation. The author has heard this story told by persons who received it from Fighting Charlie himself; he has also heard that Mumps' Ha' was afterwards the scene of some other attccious villainy, for which the people of the house suffered. But these are all tales of at least half a century old, and the Mute has been for many years as safe as any place in the kingdom. SWINDLING. A few days ago information was given to the Police that an extensive system of swindling had been practised upon Messrs. Read and Scott, the surgical instrument makers, under the following circumstances : Messrs. Read and Scott are well known to the surgical profes sion, as the patentees of the stomach Funsp, and in consequence of the instrument being procured only at their manufactory, they are in the habit of receiving orders front numbers of the medical pro fession in all parts of England, and it often happened that they were applied to for the stomach pump by Gentlemen in the profession with whom they were totally unacquainted. This circumstance .has enabled a gang of swindlers to obtain, by means of fictitious orders, goods to a large amount, and which system, it is believed, has been carried on for a considerable time past. The fraud, how ever, was detected about ten days since. About three weeks ago a lad came to their shop in great haste, and handed to Mr. Read the following note :- 0 Mr. Hall will thank Mr. Read to send him, per bearer, a stomach pump, and one of Adams's trusses; and, if Mr. Read will send the bill with them, Mr. Hall will send the amount. Claremont-place, Pentonville, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1829." Mr. Read, supposing that Mr. Hall belonged to the medical profession, sent the articles by the boy, and also the invoice ; no. thing more was heard of Mr. Hall until a few days after, when the following note was brought by a lad : " Mr. Hall will thank Mr. Read to send him another pump, the same as the last, for a medical friend of his, which he in tends to send to Yorkshire. The truss and the pump answered exceedingly well." Signed the same as the former. The second pump was sent ; and about a week or ten days since, Messrs. Read began to suspect that all was not right with these orders, and on Friday their suspicions were confirmed by l.h. Reece, of the Medical Hall, Piccadilly, informing them that a man had called on him and offered a stomach-pump for sale, for which he asked the suns of 21. On looking at it, he discovered it was a patent one. Finding the price to be less than one-half of the trade price, he desired the man to call again. In the mean time he called on Messrs Read, and gave information of the cir cumstance. An inquiry was then made, and it was discovered that no such person as Mr. Hall lived in Claremont-place. The man who offered the instrument to Dr. Reece called again, and was then questioned as to how he came in possession of the pump. In reply, he stated that he was in the habit of selling goods on commis sion for a person resitting in Charter-lane, Doctor. Commons, who had persuaded him to sell the pump ; that person said he had re ceived it from a person residing in Barbican, under these circum stances :—some time since the person in Charter-lane lent a small sum of money to the man in Barbican, and a few days since he called and reques• ed a further loan, at the same time offerina to leave a couple of duplicates for stomach-pumps as a security. The money was lent, but not being repaid by the time specified, the ar ticles were redeemed. They had been pledged for 204. each. The invoice at the time was produced to the pawnbrokers, to show that the cost price was 31. 104. Mr. Read, on making this disco very, examined hi. orders, and found that the following were ficti- tious : " Sut.--Be ao good to send me. with all possible expedition, one ' of your stomach-pumps. In haste, your obedient servant, " JOHN SMITH, Surgeon." Hnightsbtidge Barracks, Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 20. " Sta—Having an application from the country for two of your stomach-pumps, I will thank you to let the bearer have them, making me such allowance in the charge as is usual with you.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Wirdaam EVANS, Surgical Instrument Maker, Uct. 1. near the Hospital, Whitechapel-road." " should be muck obliged by your sending me per bearer one of your excellent instruments, the stomach pump, and be all good las to send the price with it.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, Sept. 22, 1829. " JOHN CLARKE. Surgeon. Enfield." Upon the receipt of these letttrs the orders were executed, without any doubt existing as to their being fictitious, it being cut tonury in the trade to send instruments upon, application, without making inquiry; for if time was engaged in making bigotry, many lives might be sacrificed by the delay. Mes.rs. Read have also sent a large number of instruments to various parts of the country, in consequence of similar order., which they are afraid will turn .out tbt rune or the abolfe.. • HARD DRINKING.—Sittnq on a winter's day, on a cold stone. and drinking nothing but water. SY mPAT is ETIC IN K.—A Weak solution of nitrate of mercury forms a good sympathetic ink on paper. The chanlcters become black by beat. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DUMFRI~B:i, Oct. 1. A Gold Cep, vales 100 sun. by sabscription of 10 sou. each. Three miles. Sir J. Boswell's br. m. Leda. syn .. 1 Mr. Margetson's br. h. Brunswick, 5 yrs .• ... • •• •• 2 Gen. Sharpe's ch. h. Match, Syn ... •.. 3 Sir J. H. Maxwell's bL c. Glenamour, 4 yrs 4 A Plate of £5O given by his Grace the Duke of Bea:leech. Two miles. Mr. Hudson's b. c The Rail, 4 yrs Mr. Gilmour's b. h. Gallopade, 5 yrs Sir J. H. Maxwell's br. 1.5 In A Plate of £5O given by the Southern birettas. Two mile heats. Mr. Ramsey's ch. c. Parson Harvey, 4 yrs Mr. Simpson's b. m. Young Duchess, 5 yrs Mr. Hudgson's b. 1. Agnes, 4 yrs_ ... • ills !LIDA T. A Sweepstakes of 5 soy. each, for horses not thorough-bred, the property of a member of the Western or Southern Meeting. Heats, once round and a distance. (11 Subs.) Sir J. Boswell's ch. h I 1 Mr. Dunlop's b. g. Top Thorn . . 2 2 Mr. Hope Johnstone's b. g. by Eppentone ... 3 3 The County Members's Plate of 501. added to a subscription of 10 sou. each. Three miles. (3 Subs.) Mr. Hudson's b. c. The Earl, 4 yrs.. ... Mr. Simpson's b. m. Young Duchess, 5 yrs. A Plate of 501. given from the Racing Fund. Heats, a mile and a half. Sir J. Boswell's br. m, Leda, 5 yrs .... 1 1 Mr. Hodgson's b. 1. Agnes, 4 yrs Mr. Kilvington's b. f. Gaylass, 4 yrs. Mr. Simpson's b. f. Queen Sheba, 4 yrs . Cul. Blair's b. m. Mary, 5 yrs 4 0 Mr. Willlarnson's gr. c. Dicky Walkington, 4 yrs WREXHAM RACES.—Sare. 29. Sweepstakes of 50 sou. each, h. ft. for three years old. Once round and a distance. Mr. Giffard's Lucy 1 Lord Grosvenor's Parnassus Parnassus the favourite.—A beautiful race, and won by a head. The Gold Cup, value 100 sou. Three times round. Major 0. Gore's Hesperus Sir W. Wynn's Courtier.. Courtier the favourite.—A good race. The Town Subscription Plate of 501. Heats, one mile. Mr. Mytton's The Crofts 1 2 3 1 Mr. Wadlow's Niagara Sir T. &anley's b. g. by Filbo Mr. Giffard's Lucy Sir W. Wynn's Sally Magp 0 dr Sir T. Stanley's gelding bolted in the fourth heat. A beautiful race ; each heat won by little more than a head. WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes of lOgs. each. Heats, two miles. Sir R. Brookes' Gamecock Mr. Hobson's Judy Nicholson 3 2 Mr. &onion's ch. m. by Grand Duke 2 3 Mr. Stelfox's br. f. by Muley The Gentlemen's Subscription Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Lord Grosvenor's Fag .. 1 1 Sir W. Wynn's Courtier 2 to 1 on Courtier—Won easy. Handicap Stakes of 10 sous. each. Heats, two miles. Major 0. Gore's Hesperus ... . Sir W. Wynn's Effie .. . . 1 4 2 Mr. Alytton's Hedgford .. .. 3 3 3 Air. Turner's Navarin 2 2dr A excellent race. HUNTING. The Sanderstead Harriers, every day, at the Kennel POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. THE New POLICE AND THE ANCIENT CITY WATCNlERN.—Yester day Mr. Taylor, the Common Councilman, waited upon the LORD Maros, for the purpose of complaining to his Lordship of the con duct of certain Police Magistrates, and of that of a worthy Al derman, who b3d acted as if in concert with those Gentlemen. Mr. Taylor stated, that the Ward of Parcingdon Without being upon the boundaries of the County of Middlesex, the plan adopted by the Police Magistrates for getting rid of the swarms of thieves and vagabonds had placed the representatives of the Ward in con siderable difficulty. The new Police made a practice of driving all offensive persons who appeared in the neighbourhood of Holborn, Hatton-garden, &c. &c. into the City, which would, if the practice were not discontinued, have the effect of converting the City into a receptacle for all the refuse of society. It was, he submitted, ra ther unconscionable to get rid of a great evil by saddling it upon others. In fact, the inconvenience now constantly experienced rendered it necessary that the Chief Magistrate should interpose.— The Common Council of the Watd found it impossible to perform their duties to their constituents if the Ward was subject to such visitations. The LORD blavoa said the evil was certainly a serious one, but he could not see how any thing be was authorised to do could tend to remedy it. He had no means of eontrouling the Middle sex Magistrates, nor of punishing the new police for driving bad or disorderly characters out of their districts. It appeared to him to be the duty of police officers to remove all such persons as had been described, from the districts which they were directed to protect. Mr. Taylor said that the conduct of Alderman Scholey of late, at the Justice-room of Guildhall, appeared to him to he very re prehensible. Sixteen or seventeen disorderly persons had been brought before the Alderman. It was stated that they had been driven by the new police into the City, where their behaviour underwent no improvement. Alderman Scholey, however, thought fit to discharge every one of the defendants, and when expostulated with, and told that the Common Councilmen would not be able to discharge their duties effectively if the Aldermen did not second their efforts, said nothing, but " Oh, I know what all of you gen tlemen of the Common Council wish to be ; you all desire to be Aldermen." This sort of treatment bad the effect of making the City Police officers pay but little regard to the orders of the repre sentatives of the Ward. The Loan MAYOR was still as much in the dark as to the course he should pursue. He could not think of sitting in judgment upon a brother Alderman, and he had no power whatever in such a case. lithe members of the Ward would draw up a petition, or memo rial upon the subject, he should most wiilingig present it to Mr. Peel, whose anxiety for the protection of all his Majesty's subjects was well known, and who, no doubt, would take the matter of complaint at once into consideration. Mr. Taylor will, we believe, adopt his Lordship's suggestion imin Hi e : l Lo iate- r l d y. ship frequently, in the course of the last week, stated, that from all he had heard, the new police regulations had already been productive of great good ; and that he should advise that they be, as soon as possible, extended to the City. His Lordship after severely condemed the plan of parochial watching as excessively de fective, and fraught with evils of great magnitude. He had, he said, been lately engaged in an inquiry into the circumstances of a most daring robbery which had been committed in the neighbour. hood of the Mansion-house, and he had every reason to believe that the constable, who had charge of the district, had a knowledge of what had been meditated by the thieves—if not, the man's conduct was wholly inexplicable, and at all events he was unfit for the situation. It is believed that Mr. Peel will recommend the adoption of the new police to the City as the only remedy. A man named Canaan was brought before the Loa o Maros yesterday, on the charge of having forged bills of exchange to some amount. Only two cases were gone into, in order to warrant a remand. Mr. Ellis, the extensive hop-grower in Kent, is one of the parties whose names have been used by the prisoner, and time was given for his attendance. The LOllO MaTua said that the public must be protected from was then remanded. prisonrr BOW—STREKT. The Rev. Win. Henry Hensiow appeared ye,terday morning before Sir R. Mama and Mr. Hanna, the Sitting Magistrates, to substantiate a complaint against the driver of a Woolwich stage for very gross misconduct. Mr. Henslow stated that his brother and himself having had oc casion to go to Woolwich, took two inside places in the defendant's coach. When they got to the Ship, Charing-cross, however, they found that the coach was full, and that the defendant would afford them no redress. ' After great difficulty the book-keeper prevailed on the defendant to return them the money, but not until he had abused them in language both foul and blaithemous, and even carried his violence so far as to thraten to wring the complainant's nose. It was in vain to attempt to expostulate With the defehdant ; be tossed his bead about with an air of conseimis dignity, declared th .t he was 'as math E geutleman - as either the complatuant or his .htnthsr,•and homily , called oo them for their cards. Sir ltscmaao-t-Called on yosi for your cards ! is that possible ? Mr. HetistOw—lt is molt true, Str. Mr. Hat.i.a.-Durdld the fellow offer you his in return? Mr Hasler, said he•did not; and continued.-6tle aid his k thee walked wain the hope uf‘ meeting another eonerryance, ; and . were o vertaken on Westminster-bridge by the defendant, who re newed his abuse as be passed theth. Mr. Hanna &sir& the &haft' what he had got to say to $ cbarge so gloss and unprovoked? The defendant was about to enter into a history of the causes which led to the great disappointment of the complainant and his brother— I don't want to hear anything on that subject. What was your ream), tell me, for threatening to wring a clergy man's now ? _ Defendant—Because after I returned him his money, he called me a thief, a robber, and a blackguard ; I am neither, and of course was naturally irritated at such provocation. Mr.Hacts—This *lust say, that such epithets might have been spared; but did you use them, Mr. Henslow? Mr. Henslow admitted that he did. Defendant —I consider myself a tradesman, and this was very unfit language to be applied to me. Sir iticuaao—A tradesman, forsooth! why, you are a driver of a coach, and not a tradesman. Defendant—l consider myself as a tradesman. Mr. Hafts—Consider yourself what you please; you must, however, be taught to keep a civil tongue in your head, and act fairly by your passengers. A case has been established against you, and I convict you in a fine of los. and emu. The defendant gave notice of appeal. 'Ns Nsw Pocics.—After the night charges had been disposed of, Mr.Haccs took °tusks° to say that the present method adopted by the new police, of furnishing the Magistrates with only a list of the charges, instead of the nature of the offence of which each pri soner is accused, was attended with manifest incooveniesee. He therefore recommended that the substance of each charge should be taken down, and signed by the complaining party, as well as the canker of the night. Mr. Thomas said, that be would mention the subject to the Commissioners, who, no doubt, would adopt any suggestion likely to facilitate the public business. H ATTON- G A RDEN. Drsezaare Assains.--Yesterday morning, Mary a powerful woman, was brought before Mr. Rooms, ut i r d r l 4. lowing circumstances Henry Bartlett, a watchman of St. Sepulchre's, stated, that at about eight o'clock on Tuesday evening be was sent for to the house kept by the prisoner's husband, in Turnmill•street ; when be got to the door, he heard the cry of " Murder" proceed front the house ; be immediately went in, and found the prisoner's hus band all over blood—it was not possible to distinguish his features. He stated that Ms wife bad wounded him with a knife, and he gave her in charge. The prisoner refused to go to the watch. house, and struck at every one who approached her. He called for assistance, and it took no less than eight persons to take the psi goner to the watch-house, she biting and sulking all the way. Mr. Rooms (to the watchman)— Where is the husband? He is not here; a surgeon has examined the husband this morning, and he has stated the wounds be has received not to be dangerous, and he declines appearing against his wife. He has received a severe wound on the cheek, it being completely laid open. Mr. Rocans (to the prisoner)—What a wretch you must be. woman ! Are none of the persons here whom she struck going to the watch-house ? The watchman answered they were not ; they did not like to lose their time. Mr. Rosaxas—Well, as there is nn one to appear against her, the woman must be discharged. Discharged accordingly. MARY-LA-BONNE. Mary Aries, a woman of most respectable appearance, was yes. terday placed at the bar for re-examioation, before .1. Ramuasust, Esq. charged with stealing some trifling articles of wearing apparel, the property of Elizabeth Swayle, under the following distressing Circumstances : The prisoner had been brought to this office on Monday evening in the custody of one of the newly.appointed constables of police, charged with stealing two gowns from the prosecutrix, for whom she was in the habit of washing; but the case then not having been gone Into as occurring in the evening, the prisoner was ordered to be remanded ; and between the interval of the first and second ex amination, Jones, the husband of the prisoner (to whom she has only been married three weeks) searched his place voluntarily in the presence of Mrs. Sersyle, and on turning over her drawers, showed her several articles, amongst which were two caps belong ing to the prosecutrix. Mr. RAWLINSON inquired if Mrs. Swayk could swear positively to the articles. She replied in the affirmative, as she had similar caps at home to thoselound by the husband of the prisoner. Mr. RAWLINSON said, that however painful to his feelings, he was bound to commit the prisoner for trial ; at the same time, in his opinion the conduct of the husband in furnishing the pr o secutrix with evidence, and that too with apparent readi ness, was very far from kind, more especially as they had only been united so short a space of time. The unfortunate prisoner immediately sank from the dock Wain lent hysterics, in which she continued for nearly an hour, her heart rending cries echoing all over the immediate neighbourhood ; nor was the condition of the proseentris much more enviable, as upwards of an hour elapsed ere she was sufficiently tranquil to have her depositions taken, prior to her being bound overto- pro secute. INTERESTING DISCOVERIES.—During the progress of the excavations which have been rendered necessary to obtain a substantial foundation for the new wall which, since the closing of the Old Dock Gut, forms the south-eastern corner of the Dry Dock, considerable difficulties presented themselves to the accomplishment of this object, and it was found necessary to drive piles in this particular part of the work, owing to the great depth of the submarine strata which was lodged in the bight of the ancient pool. Its bed has also been traced more to the eastward, by the workmen in the employ of Messrs. Jones and Perry, in sinking through the various strata to the solid rock, for the foundation of the western wing of the 110111 Custom. house. The silt or deposit of the Old Dock lay 19 feet below the level of the quay, was about three feet in thickness, and near the bottom was a vein of fine sea-sand, which doubtless constituted the original marine bed of the pool. Below this lay a firm blueish marl, of a con sistency sufficiently strong to make brick,in which were intermixed lichen,fibres of plants,and decomposed leaves. Lower dowu,branches of of different kinds were discovered ; and deeper still, the spades of theworkmen encountered larger trunks of trees and roots of considerable magnitude, partly decomposed, but sufficiently defined to characterize the class to which they belonged. Some specimens of oak and other forest trees were very readily distinguished; and it is a fact that the fir appears to have resisted, in some instances, the operation of decay with mote tenacity than the oak. Ist this bed of mail, and about 50 feet below • the surface of the quay, a pair of large stag-horns were discovered, lying nearly a yard asun der. Below this clay bed a large quantity ur black peat, in which nut-shells, fibrous particles of timber, &c. all lay closely 'com pacted together ; this was about a foot in thickness, and rested on the rock, nearly 40 feet below the level of the quay, and 20 fret below the level of the pool.—Liverpool Courier. DEATH or Mit. KELSEY.—We mentioned last week the remarkable case of abstinence of Mr. Reuben Kelsey, of Fair field, who is since dead. Exhausted nature could hold out no longer than the filly-third day of his starvation, and the unfortu nate youth expired on the 24th inst. We ar.• told that he omitted going to the well for water (as fast) on the day preceding his de cease, and that his friends induced him to take two table spoonfuls of wafer gntel at that time, which, as they all aver, and the physi cians acquainted with the case believe, is the only article of suste nance width he had taken for fifty-two days! His body is repre sented to have borne the appearance of a mummy—the flesh being wasted away—the skin discoloured, and dried to the bones. The deceased appears to have laboured under the delusion of an extra ordinary revelation being committed to him, telling his friends it was his lot to fast for forty days. At the expiration of that time it was expected that persuasion might induce him to eat ; but he persisted in saying he had no divine cmassond to eat, but wonders would yet be wrought by him, Su. In this way he continued, till fasting rendered his speech quite inarticulate , and his remain ing faculties gradually failed. — Li ttle Falls People ' s Friend. BIRTHS. At Albyn Place, Mrs. Charles Gordon, of a son. At Sir Robert Blair's, Harley House, Bath, the Lady of Lieut.- Colonel M. Swinton, of a son. NI A LIMED. This morning, at Christ Church, St. Mary-la•bonne, by the Rev. W. J. Hutching, 111:A. Samuel Harman, Esq. of Euston-place, to Miss Palmer, of Limon Grove, South. At Tichborne, the Hon. Henry B. Arundel, to Fiances Ca• *theline. second daughter of Sir Henry Tichbotne, hart. of Tich borne. Hants. DIED. At !Stogie, Mrs. Dunbar Brodie, of Lethen and l'urgie. At Perth, Alexander I•Glashan, Esq. sometime of Calcutta, aged 77. At the 'Manse of Salton, the Rev. Andrew Johnston, in the 66th year of his age, and 38th of his ministry. Mr. George Fnrre.ter, writer, Edinburgh. At Edinburgh, George Hall, writer, aged 34. Is the '69th year of his age, Mr. Da vid Hume, farmer, Castle Mix, East Lothian. Printed and Publiabrd by John Mates*, at the 9sBe- Orrice, Nn.l, Pickctt.place,Tentple Bar. g!( ;3.wATgKu LONDON-SUMGR TO AIOKKOW Morning . • 52 minutes •ttef 11 Afternoon 12 atlnUtea atte► 12 r \ • \