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pc. = 441.3tr.WITINA .Ic 6 l, i Ld tai •'tire• 4 - • : • MR. 'EN. ROBERT OWEN. ADDRESS• TO THE RELIGIOUS OF EVERY DENOMINATION. BREIIIREN—I am intimately acquainted with your feelings and thoughts, and with their origin ; and I therefore know that many of you most conscientiously entertain the opinions and feelings which you have been made to possess ; and that under your present convic tions there are many who would prefer death rather than be compelled, by any other human power than the force of a stronger conviction, to deny what they now deem the fundamental truths of their respective religions. This conscientious character has been formed equally over the world—for the Jew, the Christian, the Mahomedah, the Hindoo, and the Pagan. And by it you have been made to view each other as irrational beings, and to act most irrationally, both as individuals and as members of the particular sect, by whatever name that sect may be called, to which you have respectively been trained to belong. You have desired to be superlatively wise and good, and many of you imagine you have become so by the choice of the religion which you think That by your own decision you have adopted, and therefore expect un speakable rewards in some future state of existence. I . regret the necessity, even when it may be for their ultimate benefit, to give to any of my fellow-beings even momentary pain ; but the highest duty that can be per formed for man, is to remove error from his mind, and to enable him to see those great truths, upon which his own permanent well-being and the happiness of his race depend. My friends, it now becomes therefore my duty to in form you, that one and all have been in error; that you have been deceived by your education, and that you have been made ready to sacrifice your lives in support of a fallacious supposition, which is the real origin of evil, and to oppose a principle which will produce the greatest per manent good to yourselves and to all mankind. The character of man, as it is exhibited in the particular character belonging to each individual, is an effect of the circumstances in which he has been placed, modified by the original organization or constitution which he may have received at birth. We have all therefore been made to be as we are ; and we have been compelled, from our in fancy, to believe that we possess the power to feel and to think as we please; on which basis alone has been formed the whole fabric of human society. This supposition is the sole foundation of all the religions which have ever been invented—of all governments, of all codes of laws, and of all institutions, which have ever existed in any country. Yet, strange as it may appear to you, there never has existed one single fact to prove the truth of this supposition ; on the contrary, all facts connected with the subject show it to be one of those popular errors received, ithout investigation, into the human mind, which it has required the experience of all past ages to detect, unveil, and remove. Contrary though I well knew it to be to your present strongest conviction, it is nevertheless true that the greatest of all evils to man would be for him to discover that he is capable of feeling and thinking as he pleases, did he make no better use of his power than he has hitherto done. Fortunately, however, for all, it is now ascertained by facts, equally free to the examination of every one, that man has not been created with the power to feel and to think as he pleases, and consequently the direct road to the attainment of the highest virtues, and of a very superior state of earthly existence, is opened, and may be securely travelled, by all of the human race, without their experiencing any of the innumerable evils which the con trary supposition entails, and particularly that arising from a diversity of religious opinions. You desire to introduce into practice universal cha rity and kindness ; and to hasten the period when peace and good-will shall pervade the population of the world ; and when truth, being freed from error, shall be made to extend its dominion over every part of the habitable globe. These results can only be secured, when all shall be taught, from infancy, to understand the laws of their nature; and, especially, to trace the causes which de monstrate that man has been formed to feel in obedience to the impressions which are made upon him ; and to think in obedience to the strongest conviction which is made upon his mind. If you desire that a state of society should be brought about, such as you have been taught to expect the Mil lenium to be, then you should endeavour to examine these subjects without prejudice ; because, if you succeed in doing so, you will discover that the supposition that man Les been organized with the power to feel and to think as he pleases, is directly opposed to the attainment of such an object, while the contrary supposition would tend in every way to promote it. And as to the future state of existence, about which you now trouble youselves so much in vain, it is sure to arrive to all material things; but no one, with our pre sent knowledge, can ascertain what this change will be. We may feel certain, however, that the best preparation for it here is a life replete with good feelings and kind actions; which the knowledge that man is not formed to think and to feel as he pleases will infallibly create in every human being. You, therefore, brethren, of all men are the mast deeply interested in having the truth or error, of this im portant position ascertained ; that the proposed change of circumstances throughout society may be speedily in troduced, and thus, all be relieved from the demoralising effects of poverty, ignorance, and hypocrisy. Your minds, through the influence of the belief that you are capable of feeling and thinking as you please, have hitherto been kept in a state of irritation or anger towards each other, and towards those whom you deem irreligious. But a correct knowledge upon this subject will exhibit to you the error by which these irrational, feelings are engendered, it will calm your minds, destroy within you the seeds of anger, and fill you with that pure and genuine charity which will create in you good and kind feelings only for every child of man. That you may be thus blessed, is the sincere desire of your friend and servant, 49. Bedford-square, Jan 19. The Journal du Commerce, of Sunday's date, states that the ice on the Wane broke up on the 10th, at the moment when no less then 400 persons were on it. Two were drowsed, but the remainder succeeded in teaching the shore. This Paper contains an article from Christiania to the 16th ult. which mentialle that the sliver mine discovered at Kongsberg bad produced, keel ibi Ist January, 1929. to the ad of December last, 1.1142 mares el solid silver. is was expected to be still Wes productive, as a rich vein was reported to have been mat with. TB.ANSIPA.AIIsatTIOIII or HUNAN COMM ionnicstion to the Academy of Padua, Dr. Nardo bas imparted some shigular observations in reference to the growth of the human hair after death, nay, even after it tied hien fbrdbly plucked from the skirt, 'Having up s hair by the roots from liis own head, he it in a pore be had opened with * needle in his breast, .ex. cited a trifling inflammation around* by rubbing, and ia a abort time remarket that the hair baa . taken freeh root, and continued to thrive and grow perciptibly.— Foreign Literary Gazette. STATE OF TRADE. From the Morning Herald. In despite of the appalling accounts which are every day arriving from all parts of the country, relative to the rapid progress of misery and ruin, the Ministerial papers are ever sad anon putting forth pretty little prosperity paragraphs about the improvement of the cotton or other trades, no doabt hoping there by to delude the public into the belief that things have seen the I worst ; and, by so doing, neutralise, as much as In them lies, the very proper exertions which ate now maklug to lay before Parlia ment such a description of the state of the nation as shall force the Government into effectual measures of relief. But surely no one can be so besotted as to be misled by such stale and contemp tible mansuvres. We have recently been informed, by the scribes alluded to, that the trade of Preston was progressively improv ing, and that, In fact, comparatively speaking, little of misery has existed in that town. But let us see what is the fact. It appears that no less than ten thousand persona are weekly relieved by the Soup Committee of Preston, and that one third of the population are actually receiving charitable relief In one shape or other. But this is not all. No person receiving more than half-a-crown a week is entitled to relief ; a circumstance, as the Preston Pita ob. serves, from which we may form some e stimate of the wretched earnings of the ten thousand who are relieved. The probability is that the average does not amount to two shillings a week. Notwithstanding this mi.erable state of things, we are as sured, upon good authority, that Preston is " infinitely better off" than most of the neighbouring towns! But every branch of industry is equally depressed. Some months ago we took occasion to make a few remarks relative to the iron trade. We observed that this business was in a most deplorable condition— that the iron-masters were carrying on their works at a lou, and that many of tkeni would, no doubt, suspend their operations, could it be done without involving them in absolute ruin —for the stoppage of iron works for even a short time is attended with a great and irretrievable loss of capital. At length, however, the masters have been obliged, in many instances, to submit to this alternative. The Birmingkans Journal says—" A few weeks ago we intimated that it was the Intention of the Staffordshire masters to blow out fifteen of their furnaces ; some little difference, how ever, occurring amongst these Gentlemen, each person has since acted upon his own opinions; the result h as been, that ten furnaces have stopped working, and it is anticipated that at least ten more will be suspended within the next fortnight, if no change in the state of affairs takes place." But, so far from any change in the state of affairs being likely to take place, the prices of iron are on the decline. The Shropshire iron-masters last week were com pelled to submit to another reduction in price—via. ss. per ton on pig iron; and this will ultimately cause a depression of full 101. per ton on manufactured bars and rods. The Staffordshire mas ters must, no doubt, as regards their future transactions, also give way in price. The price of the Staffordshire cinder pigs is .e 2 151. per ton, best ditto, ; the same article, in 1825, fetched £9. The present quotable price of Staffordshire bars is 865 106. and rods .135 171.6 d. which, in 1825, were selling at from sold to £l6 per ton. At least the fourth of the furnaces in Wales and Staffordshire are now out of blast, and with little prospect of many others centinuing in work. There are only 75 furnaces now in blast in Staffordshire. Such is the state of the iron trade, and the lead trade is equally depressed. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jam. 20. The Vice CUANCILLOR took pleas, demurrers, exceptions, and further directions to-day. At the sitting of the Court his Honour struck several of the cases out of the paper, in consequence of the absence of the parties and Counsel. Many were ordered to stand over on account of the Indisposition of Mr. Hoene; a few were disposed of, and his Honour, having gone through his paper, rose at a quarter past eleven o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jan. O. 'SLAWS V. This action was brought by the Assignees of Aisego, a Spanish Merchant, to recover a balance of A 116,9113 ills. 4d. claimed as being due from the defendant to the estate of the bankrupt. The question of fact In this case was, whether the defendant as a gua rantee was liable to pay over the above balance. It appeared that the bankrupts bad made large advances to a merchant named HU. ben, by accepting bills. They were secured by the defendant be coming a guarantee, and depositing bills of lading in respect of a large quantity of Petenburgb tallow. The investigation of accounts between the parties occupied a con siderable length of time, and the Jury ultimately found a verdict for the plaintiff foe AII6,MIS ills. 4db the sum claimed. This is the second trial of the cause. OW 7PIII v. CROSSWAITIL This was an action to try the validity of a reteendende bond foe AP5,000. It appeared from the statement of the Arroanar-G.. max, and afterwards manned by the testimony of several wit. messes, that in the beginning of the year 1525 the Defendant, Crosswake, who was at that time an extensive shipowcer, ap plied to the Plaintiff; a merchant of Paternoster-row, for discount of some bills. This application the Plaintiff refused on the ground that he devoted all his surplus cash to lending money on respondastio bonds. The defendant then, after some further nego tiations as to the terms required, agreed to obtain three other per sons to join hint in a bond of that nature, which was accordingly done, the bond for ,83,002 executed, and the money paid over to the defendant. Some time after this, Crosswaite, the defendant, became a bankrupt: and when the plaintiff preferred his claim to prove under the estate, it was refused, and an applica tion was In consequence made to the Vice-Chancellor for an order to admit the proof. This application was opposed is the Court of Chancery by the assignees of the defendant, on the ground that the whole transaction was tainted with usury, and that the plain tiff, when he requested to have a rapendenrie bond, had a usurious Intention in contemplation, and to avoid the &atute • and also that the bond itself was not a legal rapendemis bond. The Vice-Chan cellor, as the time the matter was before him, directed the p e ti t i on to st and over. to give the plaintiff an opportunity of trying two questions which these objections raised, via. whether the rams undo bond was a legal bond, and executed accswding to the terms of the Statute, or whether the transaction was tainted with usury. These were the questions now at issue. Mr. Baonomus (Mr. Comex with him) contended at greet length that the transaction was merely a simple one of lentil's money, and thereto', the terms of the bonds clearly showed usury. The Loan Cum Janice summed up, and the Jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff, thus establishing the validity of the bond. SURREY SESSIONS. IMPORTANT TO !AIMS £P$ TOO MINACs i This was an appeal from the decision of the Magistrates of Union Hall, upon a conviction made by them under an Act passed in the reign of his present Majesty, which enforced the weighing bread at the time sold, for the purpose of protecting the public agelnet short weight. Mr. TIMUNIER said he appeared on behalf of tbeAppenatet, and argued that the conviction could not stand, and was about to sug gest some objections, when The Cowan said they thought that as it was a UN of such greet importance the evidence should be gone into, and thus the objec tions might be argued. Mr. Camases', for the respondent, called Ms witness, John Edmonds, who deposed that be knew the appellant, Mr. James Glasscock, who was by trade a baker, and lived In Bollsionlig street. On the day named in th e conviction be went into . Glasscock's shop, and asked for a twopenny loaf. A person came out of the shop parlour and said they had not one, but had two ono-penny loaves. Witness replied, they would do quite as well. There were no scales in the shop, and the hewed was delivered to him without being weighed in his presence. Mr. Tionesta's, in reply, said it was clear die t% Act of Par liament required breed to be weighed, wbodwe eamoodot by the purchaser or not,. but It was merely an ezperisentat Au. The peothions only extended to two years, and that peeled of time had elapsed when the conviction was made, and which was now the subject of appeal. The CE611111111.411 (Sergeant said the Court agreed with the icarned Counsel ( Mr. Thacker) that the isformados could not be supported. The Act which insperstively called for the weighing of bread, 'thriller demanded or am (and there could he no doubt, from its operation being extended ee two years, davit wee an experimental Act), had expired before the cesnactioa ap• pealed aping had been made. Had the Appellant refused to weigh the bread, or if there bad not bees scales provided for the purpose in the shop, the presemption under the teeing would have been against hint, and convictions must have The tare, however before them was different, and the Court decided that the cooviction should be, slonnbn4. SHOCKING ACCIMINT.—On Tuesday last, a fiaa child about 'even yeses of sge, of tbe nail* of 'awe, whose /-- rents rail/she New.strest, Kenftitten,haviegapprombed was near ' the Ors. Ilse lessee ounwowsicated to its dodwa r and Its body mu burnt in a shooldni Bonner. Mt. Wheeler, soNsioun, of . water, balm boss sealed le, feted the stadium owl A NN child so dread,* ioitirod, that than was sot tbe lesselqs . weary, sad feu as could •d o, was to fladsale ' external appliestions. TM child Invited of spord* Blit that dreadful pain that oust hove occurred without peopee oh - 'Heal assistance. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, Jan. 20. OLD COURT. Before the Recesses and • London Jury. &ususd Clough, aged 24, stood capitally indicted for breaking and entering a warehouse belonging to the incorporated Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies, and stealing therefrom divers silk shawls and other articles of Indian manufacture, value ‘3O, the property of the Company. Mr. Seepages and Mr. NMI, appeared for the prosecution : the former Learned Gentleman stated the case for the prosecution. The prisoner had been employed in the service of the Company down to the 28th of November, at the warehouse, No. 35, which Is situate in Castle -street. Houndaditcb, and his business was to repair such tea-chests as might have been damaged an shipping or otherwise. The warehouse in which the prisoner was employed stood directly. opposite that numbered 83, in which the articles stolen had been deposited. The prisoner, on the 28th of November, asked per mission of Mr. French, the superinteudant, to go out for a short time, and he bad not returned at three o'clock, when the names of the men were called over. This was on a Saturday, and on the Monday morning following, as two of the men were proceeding through the court-yard to their work, they observed a large pile of India crape shawls and crape hanging from the chimney. In No. 83, a quantity of tea-chests was piled up to term a platform, and the ceiling was cut through. An Iron bar bad also been removed, and a number of things were found strewed about. The prisoner, it would appear, on leaving the place in which be had been employed on the Saturday, went into the warehouse, No. 83, and concealed himself there until the men bad left, and it was locked up. He then proceeded to select goods to the amount of from sir hundred to seven hundred pounds, which he intended to have dropped over Into Pet ticoat-lane, but In attempting to scale the wall himself, be fell into the cistern, and was immersed up to his neck in water. This event prevented his accomplishing his purpose, and he told two persons that they would find a quantity of goods on the roof of the building, and some in Petticoat-lane. Search was accordingly made, and goods were found in each of the places pointed out by the prisoner, who was without either shoes or stockings; these. with his shirt. be bad hung up to dry. The roof of the building was cut through, and the implements with which that was done were also discovered near the spot. A number of witnesses were called, who fully bore out in evl deuce the statement et the Learned Counsel. The prisoner did not deny that the statement given by the seve ral witnesses was strictly true, but urged that as the place in which the robbery was committed was not a dwelling-house, the capital part of the charge against him could not be sustained. The Stemmas, in summing up the evidence, directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner of the capital part of the charge, on the ground which he had very properly urged, but left it to them to say whether or not he was guilty of stealing the property which he ad mitted he had removed in the manner described by the witnesses. The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Guilty. The Ricotta's sentenced him to transportation for life. George Jones was indicted for breaking and entering the dweUing house of James Heath, and stealing therein 20 silver spoons, two pair of sugar-tongs, and a silver milk-pot, his property. The prosecutor stated that be resided on Snow-hill. About six o'clock in the evening of the 20th of December, witness was sit dng alone in his drawing-room, when he heard a noise, and pre sently afterwards a head peeped in at the door, but was withdrawn 'unaptly on his rising up to go towards the door, and some person retreated down stairs with considerable precipitation and noise. Witness threw up the window and gave the alarm, and on going down stairs could discover no signs of any one, but found that the articles mentioned in the indictment were missing from the kitchen. Cross-examined by Mr. C. Petersen—There was no appearance of any one having entered the house by force, nor did witness hear the hall door pulled to. Henry Chandler stated that be resided in Cock lane, at the rear of Mr. Heath's house, and bearing the cry of " thieves," he went out to ascertain the cause, when he saw Mr. Heath at his window, and presently afterwards the shutters of the kitchen window fell into the street, and the prisoner jumped out followed by another man. Witness immediately pursued the prisoner, and saw him stopped. The prisoner protested his innocence. He said that he was passing at the instant the shutters were pushed into the street, and was knocked down. He lost his hat in the fall, and seeing a man running he followed him, and was taken into custody himself.— The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. NEW COURT. Before the CO3OllOll SIM:SLUM Sokmais Colman, Rickard Thomas, Thews Cook, Thomas Price, and Jose Thomas, were Indicted for stealing ten reams of paper, of the value of AS the property of Messrs. Alderman Key and Co. Mr. Anoxruus appeared fur the prisoner Colman. Thomas Browne, a green-grocer, at Shureditch, saw the pri soner, Richard Thomas, sitting on several reams of paper in Len gthy. Saw him deliver them to Colman, who took them to No. 4, Sanders'-buildings, Horse Shoe-alley. Had a suspicion and pave information to a police *Nicer. Cross-examined—Was ha trouble myself last June or July. Was in prison over the water, where I was tried on suspicion of robbing (4 laud& )my master. The Jury were cruel; enough to find Me guilty.— Van, an dicer of Worship -street, went to the house in San dere-buUdings, saw the four male prisoners there ; Cook exclaimed, " We are all marplotted." There were several reams of paper, which he seized. Alderman YET identified the paper produced as bin property. The Jury found Colman, Richard Thomas, and Price, guilty ; and acquitted Cook and Jane Thomas. A number of prisoners, the bills against whom bad been Ignored by the Grand Jury, were discharged by proclamation. Missed Wdch, aged 31, was Indicted for stealing, on the 13th of December, a watch and appendages of the value of £3 Ss, the property of Dennis Sweeney, and from his person. Mr. C. Patttt.trs, for the prisoner, requested the witness to go net of Court. Dennis Sweeney. In a rich Tipperary brogue, deposed, that on the day In question be and his wife had attended a funeral of one of his countrymen. The prisoner was there also. After the funeral they adjourned to a public-house, where the prisoner told him a loos story about males actions, and seemed to bins toe loving by half—(Laughtee.) He missed his watch after coming out of the public-bouse. Cross-examined by Mr. C. Psi:sr-es—The prisoner was taken to the watch-house, and there set at liberty. There was a fire that night, and I stopped to look at It before I wept to the public-boom. I might have drank half a gallon of beer. Ido not know what " mobaloe" means. I was " mobeloe" tbougb.—(Laughter.) I seyou understand a hit of Irish—(Great laughter, In which Mr. Phillips joined.) Balsa Sweeney, wire of the prosecutor, examined by the Comae. —I was with my husband the prisoner at the public-house ; there was not more drinking than sorrow—(Laughter)--he drank beer and gin. Mr. C. Pnatme—Oh. Dennis had forgotten that : be would not allow the gio—(Laughter). Witoese—Och, Dever fear; be did not taste a drop of it—(Greet V ughter). The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Yesterday information was givest at Queen square %Nordic* that the premises of Mr. George Hununersten, land lord of the White Hoeft, in Orchard -street. Westminster, were broken opal, and several valuable oil paintings stolen out .if the beck parlour. The thieves. it appeared, got to the back of the hew dime& a passage adjeioing. belonging to a baker, and then forced the back windows open, when dory stripped the room of the whole of the paintings. Yesterday afternoon an inquisition urns taken before Thomas &klieg. Req. Is the Committee room of !Indiana , : Hos pital, upon the body of Ism Abbot, who died le that Hospital from Injuries received In jumpiss from out al a window of hit. Wilde s house, in Ratisbone-place, doting the fire which took place a. Friday night. The particulars of the unfortunate event have already appeared. The whole of the evidence having bees gam through, the jary proceeded is view the body, which premomea shocking and on their return they delivered a verdict. finding " That the deceased &Han Abbot came to her death through falling from a second floor window of the hoes* No. 31, Bath house-place, at the time Bits being on ere." Yesterday an Inquest was held at Kensington work bout, an. the body of Oliver Whlitey, aged 41. The deceased had beta butler to }leery lode% leg. of Bryanstoe-equare. He was anteldered a man of strict integrity. For several weeks past be was observed to labour soder great depreston of spirits. Oh likeday be absented blieself from his master's house, sal hi the aeons of the day forwarded his waste, a latter, locks-Mg about SO pewebrokers' deplieates far plate and ether property. beleogiqg to Mr. Irides, ped at mime periods. The lamer was as follows : Nock In jured Sir—WW horror I mime &he, and "bee lop, teak. them I Ma* he as mere t I bee retread ay Ooeislitfatil. 'stemma. 0. Whlssey."....)The desamedtras loved in ICeswingsas gastagmee Meaday 41beauesia, vomitinitsery mech. .N* wee mhos s mehe werbakleae, and died is a few hear. ahertharlie. A d edida I semi in it, est resod ils sitteo ids pedittlis: 'Them" die aid tigallited Ike beiIt,SMAS diseicke Ile hp odd be attiaitttbo *pleat Lli ftd i da ta . , sma4l NW, added to itigiretel6 , 3igrletented a ' That the deemed died front bin seceter;V i b t ) =mere to the es*" POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Dissansaan Poo...—Ttte complaints made of the distrvssed st • ci the poor appear to be daily increasing, and the parish office-, who attend at the Mansion-House to bear the complaints at the poor who appeal to the Magistrates for Relief from the pa. date, state that it is impossible to get in rates sufficient to tucct the demands on the poor rates. In Spitalfields and Betbnal.grec.. parishes, in Rishopsgate and other parts of the c i t y, great t h aw ,. among le poor prevails. Subscriptions were recommended. A man named Rislutrdson was brought up on the charge "I having fallen desperately in love with a young female, who servo' in Le Man's biscuit shop. A gentleman from Mr. Le Matt's stated that the prisoner came into the shop the evening before last, and evinced a strong desire to be in love with one of the femak,. She ran for protection into the back parlour, and was followed by the prisoner, who declared he would not stir from the spot, till the lady granted his suit, and used most improper language. He Wi. given hi custody. Sir Pass.. Logan—Are you married, Richardson ? Richardson said nothing, but looked exceedingly grave. Sir P. Lamm—Answer the question. The Prisoner—The more shame for me, I am. I was fresh at the time, and ant sorry for it. Fined ss. and discharged. BOW-STREET. Memos or msz Tutu.—Mr. Corder, the Vestry Clerk or Sr. Paul, Covent-garden, In attending yesterday to answer to the com plaints of some paupers who claimed relief, observed to Mr. 'MIN- I wore, " I assure you, Bit, I am not at all disposed to withhold relief from any one wbo has a legal claim ; but in the present state of our finances, and the enormous claims every day made upon them, lam constrained to be very cautious. Many of our tate payers are as much in need of relief as the rate receivers, and I assure you that persons not holding offidal situations of the kind which I have the honour to fill, can have but little conception of the distress which unhappily prevails. In my communication. with the authorities of other parishes, I find that distress eking in a degree truly alarming—that every parish in the metropolis al most is suffering dreadfully from the pressure of the times—al...l that hundreds are nearly perishing from want every day, many of whom have been rate payers themselves." Mr. Mannuat. said he was aware that great distress did eti,t, and he could only bops that Parliament would be able to nevi-e some effectual means for relieving it. HATTON-GARDEN. James Colinas was yesterday charged with robbing Mr. Sutton, ironmonger, Red Lion -street, Holborn. Mr. Sutton deposed that he had discovered that the prisoner, wbo was in his employ, bad been robbing him for some time past, and if the Magistrate would grant him a search warrant apinst a party be named, to whom the prisoner bad sold the articles, he bad no doubt he should be able to find a quantity of his property. The Magistrate granted the search warrant, and the prisoner was remanded. Henry Skinner was committed for a month's imprisonment and hard labour, as a reputed thief, hawing stolen a till containing a quantity of halfpence from a shopkeeper. Pal ARLBOROUGH-STREA Wakes Langley and John Langley, brothers, together with the wife of the latter, were yesterday :placed at the bar for re-exami nation, charged with stealing and receiving, knowing to have been stolen, £147, the property of the father of the female prisoner, a respectable man residing at Gillingham, in Kent. It appears that a short time since the female prisoner went N her father'. house in the country, for a few days, and after her departure the money, which was all in gold (and had been deposited in a pri vate place, known only to the father and daughter,) was missed. Suspicion fell upon the female prisoner and her husband, and in formation being given at this Office, Andrews and Ballad, two active constables of this establishment, after diligent enquiry, ascertained that the whole of the prisoners were gone to Portsmouth, and had , taken places in a vessel bound for the Swan River Settlement. The officers ascertained another very important fact, that they had booked a quantity of luggage at the Green Man and Still, in Oxford , street, which was to be ant after them. In this stage of the affair it was ascertained that W. Langley bad deserted his wife, having packed the whole of the furniture and her clothes up, and carried them off during her absence, together with some linen belonging to Mr. Goram, of Lower Brook -street, which W. Langfey's wife had had sent to her to make sons shirts from ; and on that gen tleman's application at this office, the prisoner's property at the Green Man and Still was searched, and the linen was found there. In the meantime the prisoners sent two or three threatening letters to the proprietor of that office, and receiving no reply, at length came up to the Office, where their plans of emigration suffered a material change by their being instantly taken into custody. Owing to the absence of the father of the female prisoner, the case was not fully gone into, and the prisoners were remanded. George Parrott, a supernumerary police sergeant of the C division of St. James's. was yesterday brought up on a warrant before F.A. Ron and IL Al. Dreg, &qrs. charged with cruelly assaulting Eliza Smith. The complainant stated that she was standing, at eleven o'clock on Sunday evening, in Shepherd-street, when the defendant came up, and said," Madam, you must go on." She replied she would, when he immediately took her by the shoulders, and threw her violently into the road, where she lay senseless for mate time. Mr. Drat inquired what the defendant had to say? The defendant replied, that the girl was standing, whets he de sired her to go away, and he only pushed her, when, from extreme intoxication, she fell. A police constable stated that he saw bee ten minutes before the affair, and she was then so much the worse for liquor that she was abased to bold by the railings. The Magistrates encashed for an instant, and having ascer tained that the complainant bad been frequently at the OMee as a disorderly, discharged the warrant. QUER N-SQUA R B. Yesterday, Jibs O'Clowser, who getedda living by hawking about the streets what he terms the best genuine Cogniac brandy, but which is nothing more than British brandy, was charged with re tailing some of the above mentioned liquor to the soldiers at the Horst-barracks at Knightsbridge. O'Connor entered the barracks on Tuesday evening, laden with his brandy. A soldier named Sykes purchased a bottle of the spirits, for which he paid Ss. and then told him he should give him in charge for retailing brandy without a license. The prisoner was fairly caught in the trap, and had nothing to say in defence. Mr. Warm told the prisoner he had tortured a penalty of 1001. but be would mitigate it to the lowest sum, which was 2.5 t. The prisoner being unable to pay the penalty, was committed to the House of Correction for three months. TOWN-HALL. Matthew Marsh, the driver of one of Nelson's Maidstone coaches, pleaded Not Guilty to an information, under the Coach Act, for carrying on. outside passenger more t►an the law allowed. John Bailey, the Informer's witness, said that en the eltb of this moods, he observed a coach called the " Reliance," drawn by four horses, Le the parish of Su Saviour's, with eleven outside passen gers, besides luggage, and the words Robert Nelson, Maidstone, painted en the panne!. Alderman J. J. Slam asked what other words be saw on it?— The warns not chasing to swear he sew the wad London, gave place tb a confederate named Lee, whose evidence going not a jut further, tbeinformsdon was quashed. • nertasamesermefelmems Upwards of 400 packages of contraband spirits and light rode were unload on Saturday last of Kingston, by die Blockade Serving. The seizure was deposited in the Otstoat• I Moo at •runnel. MARRIED. At Best Eareet Chersh. Thomas C B Esq. of Dolly. mount, in the Camay ef Dublin, to Emma, only daughter of the Vu Rev. P. Cute' Sward, of Dimon, Huntingdonshire. At liten.ington. Frederick. second son of Win. Taylor. Yes ! of Worcester-pub. Sertey, to Frances Mary, only child of D. Will• Aaron. Esq. of Median, in the tame comity. DIED. Suddenly, of an apopleede St, at Shadefield House ' near Wyke ham, Heats, Augustus Atltyns, Esq. yeoman of the Guards. At hie noose In Shisamstmet, suddenly. of apoplexy, Neptune Blood, Eeq. Captain In the Clue Militia, and formerly in the 11 th Light Dragoons. At Hilibead. bear Cords, tbe 17th utt. Mr. Patrick at - at the advanced age mt Isti ; and on the Monday following his bro ther Matthew Caves, in Ids isilth year. At Castle-Irvine, aged 103 years, Eleanor Jones. She retained her faculties to the last, and was never lusown to have • day's dulness. is Portmaimatmet, Christopher, third son; end es the filth inst. the lawn son et W. Adis. freq. i ht e rg if • 04's Wass% hitia . d year James Sok° Dangles. . te Ceara General at at Sat Wise bi'Alilatiliblile-etthr t 11i lids year er her age. Obikede Left MO% Mike 4f dm Oise air Richard Newse, lURROOL •4 1111111Iffes *after •••• . t • 04 010481.0 aft , .. . • riw: M.'. Lames s fMlnt.4 rJ Vol Ornes Ss. 1. IN Wars, at d tawny& Oaf.