Star. — London, England, 1829-09-03 00:00:00

!, '7 7 . ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, LANCASTER, Sim ;. Mr. Justice BAYLEY arrived here on Saturday even ing, and shortly after proceeded to the Court and opened the commission. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE did not ar rive here until yesterday morning. The calendar contains the names of near seventy pri soners. Amongst the cases there are six charges of murder, and several cases of manslaughter, and nearly thirty charges of having maliciously entered certain loom shops, with intent to destroy manufactured goods, and ith intent to break and destroy looms, machines, tackle, ;ifid implements. Against some of them there are no less than six indictments, and some of the indictments con tain as many as fifty-two counts. There are also several aggravated cases of uttering forged notes to a very great extent. At an early hour Mr. Justice BA YLEY took his seat on the Bench in the Crown Court ; and the usual forms having been gone through, the Grand Jury were sworn, Lord STANLEY being Foreman for the seventeenth time. Elizabeth Holder, wife of Henry Holder, aged 29, was indicted for killing and slaying John Holder, her infant child, at Manchester ; she was also charged on the inquisition of the Coroner with the like offence. Mr.- BRANDT stated the nature of the case. The pri soner placed her child on wet straw, and wholly neglected it ; she did not give it sufficient nourishment, and by such ill-treatment and neglect the child became ill, and lan guished from the Ist of May until the Ist of August, when it died. The Learned Counsel then called the fol lowing evidence : Susannah Ellison was in the service of the prisoner from Easter last until the Bth of July; the prisoner's husband was manager of the liquor-vaults at the Swan Inn, Deansgate, Manchester ; when she went to live with them they had four children ; the youngest was named Thomas—it was always called Thomas—it was christened by that name. (This being a variation from the name .lobn, in the indictment, was fatal to it). Mr. BRANDT then proceeded on the inquisition. Susannah Ellison's evidence continued—The child was six weeks or two months old ; it was suckled by its mo ther for a short time ; it was usually put into a cradle, and there laid upon straw ; it was frequently put upon the straw at about seven o'clock in the evening, and re mained there until one or two o'clock the next day ; the straw was in a very nasty state. The husband usually came home at about 11 o'clock, and he often went out afterwards with his wife, and stayed out until two or three o'clock in the morning, and sometimes all night ; they had done so as frequently as two nights in a week ; she (witness) had often offered to nurse and to feed the child, but the prisoner told her to mind her own busi ness ; her mistress gave it sleeping stuff, and the food that it had was bread cut off the loaf, dipped in treacle ; it had a bottle of stuff given to it which came from the doctor's ; her mistress had asked her if there were any searchers there, as there were in London, and she re plied that she did not know what searchers meant—but thole were two old women who looked at dead pergola; the father, she understood, had 30s. per week ; he was not in want; he was very fond of the child; the child would sleep all night, and when it awoke it was not fed ; witness never had any quarrel with her mistress. Re-examined.—Her mistress went out every night. She had seen her mistress give something out of a bottle three or four times. The stuff was called " Davis's quietus." She only cleaned the child once. Her mis tress sometimes cleaned it, but not frequently. The straw was not changed. The child was very seldom taken up into the arms, and was not then always cleaned. Its covering was a petticoat, or any thing else that she could find. The mother put its petticoat on its body. The fa ther and mother differed about the child. By Mr. Justice BAY I.F.Y—She never named to any body but to Mrs. Taylor the manner in which the child was treated ; there was no sheet in the cradle, nothing but straw ; it had napkins on ; its mother changed them; its mother sometimes gave the child port wine for about a week when it was poorly; no doctor came to see it ; the mother when it was poorly attended it very indifferently. Esther Taylor had known Mr. and Mrs. Holder for about nine months. (The testimony of this witness went to confirm that of the servant). She had often begged of the prisoner not to give it the sleeping stuff; the pri soner, she believed, was very fond of drink ; she had ex amined the body of the child ; the lower part of its body •was in a shameful state. She was the mother of eleven children, and she did not consider bread and sugar was proper food for such an infant ; the mother would have allowed her to suckle the child, but it would not take the breast. On being cross-examined, she said that the child lived three weeks after Ellison left ; the child was weaned at seven weeks old. It was a healthy child before it was weaned, and it then began to pine away. Other witnesses deposed as to the state of the child. One of them who had nursed the child admitted that the mother would not let it stay away from her all night, and that she had told her to get every thing proper for it, and if she wanted more money to be sure to send for it; the mother appeared to be fond of the child. By Mr. Justice BAYLEY-It had no wounds upon it, and did not appear to have been neglected. Mr. BRANDT here said he did not wish to press the case ; and Mr. H. Oilier, surgeon, of Manchester, 'being called, said that from the evidence that he had heard he could not pronounce an opinion as to the cause of death. The Jury, therefore, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said that the prisoner would be set at liberty without the least suspicion being attached to her character. OXFORD CIRCUIT—GLOUCESTER, Am 31. James Walkley was indicted for stealing from Michael Clunie, mariner, at Rodborough, on the 13th of February last, seven bank notes of 1001. each, and a 201. note. Mr. Cunwoon and Mr. WATSON conducted the pro secution. Michael Chmie—l am an American, a Captain of a merchant vessel ; I have been in England two years ; I brought with me 1,025 ounces of silver, which was lodged in the Bullion Office at the Bank of England ; I after wards received 8201. for it. I lodged in Savage-gardens last autumn ; I frequented a coffee-house in Crutched Friars, the French Horn, kept by Cave; he introduced me to the prisoner as a Gloucestershire man in difficulties then, but who had seen better times ; the prisoner had then a different appearance, more respectable ; I intended to invest my money in English goods—some front Bit., minghant. I came to Gloucester to see the country—my only motive; I found the prisoner lining in a small house at Hedlntry ; I lived with the prisoner at his recommen •dxtion, to save expense ; I had then nearly 800/. with me, which the prisoner knew ; he had often remarked that he thought it very wrong to carry so large a sum about with me: On the 12th of February I lost a 501. note ; - the same day I had lent him a 101. note. I asked him if • lie had seen it ; I thought I might have lent hint a 501. instead of a 10/. ; I did not impeach him ; I would have trusted hint with a houseful of sovereigns; I did not sus pect him ; he said, "Oh ! you can't have lot that with out losing more ; you must have lost all if any ; I took my notes out, and he snatched a 1001. note up ; he returned it in the morning; he said, " you see you've lost, or dearly lost a 50/. note ; you'd much better leave your money at home." At his suggestion, I counted out 7501. and gave it to the - prisoner's wife to keep ; shortly after, the prisoner said he was going to Stroud ; I was going another way, and I asked him what time he should return ; he said one o'clock ; I returned at one ; he had not come home at eleven o'clock that night ; I found he had taken my money ; I did not see him again till the 23d of June ; he was then in custody ; I endeavoured to find him before, but without effect ; I called at Mr. Robinson's, in London, in whose service a daughter of the prisoner resided ; she gave me a letter written by the prisoner to his daughter. [This letter was read, confessing that he had taken the money, but attempting to justify himself.] Mr. Hincks, a clerk in the Bank of England, produced the 1001. notes. Two other clerks to country banks proved that the pri soner had brought in the notes for change, and had given his own name. The Jury retired, and found the prisoner Guilty. George Walkley, the son, was indicted for receiving the above notes, and Acquitted. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 1 ---... MORPETR RACES—Aucterr SS. Fifty Pounds, added to a fireepwakes of 10 sus. tub, for aU saes. Huts, once round and a distance. The owner of the second hone received back his stake. Mr. Maldand's Major, aged • • Sir C. Monk's Black Heddon. 4 yrs Mr. Marptson's Brunswick, sln Sweepstakes of S son each, with 25 added. Heats. one mile and a half. Mr. Lamb's Lady Mary, 6yn.. . . .. Mr. Hedley's Jug', 5 yrs Mr. Hudson's The Earl, 4 yrs 2 2 3 Mr. Joplin's Cottager, syn 6 4 4 Sir C. Monk's b. e. by Whisker, 3 yrs 1 3 dr Mr.WyelU's br. f. by Y. Filho, 4 yrs 3 6 ten THURSDAY. The Gold Cup, value 100 gs. given by the Town of Morpeth, with a Sweepstakes of 10 sews. each added, for all ages. Two miles. (Sit Subscribers). Mr. HesseMoe' The Captain, 3 yn .... 1 Mr. Johnson's Jupiter, 5 yrs Mr. Maitland's Major, aged Sir R. Moack's Black Heddon, 4 yn Mr. JopUng's Cottager, 5 yrs The Members' 501. Heats. once round and a distance. Mr. Hudson's Mansfield Lass, 4 yrs 6 1 1 Sir C. Menck's by Whisker, 3 yrs Mr. Joplin's Johnny Myers, 4 yrs Mr. Riddell's Principe, 3 yrs Mr. Robinson's by Ahjer, 5 yrs Mr. Rowntree's Romeo, 4 . yn ENGLISH AND ARABIAN HORSES. The result of which took place over the Barrackpore Conroe, Calcutta, in Janusry last, between an English horse Re. trait, and Pyramus, the best Arabian on the Bengal side of India, has established the point, that no allowance of weight within the bbunds of moderation can bring the best Arab, even in the climate most congenial to him, upon a par with an English thorough.bred horse of even moderate goodness. THE SHOOTING SEASON. The shooting season commenced this day (Sept. I), under very unfavourable auspices. We could hear of no sportsman who had ►agged more than a brace or two, though on the first day last year there were several who killed their twenty brace in this neigh bourhood by noon. The scarcity of birds is not so generally com plained of ; but the fact is, from the backwardness of the harvest, there is so much standing corn that the birds bud immediate refuge after the first shot. The Marquis of Bristol does not mean to commence shooting till the Bth; neither, we believe, does the Duke of Norfolk, and other proprietors near this town.—Bury Herald. In some parts of Sussex the shooters hopes have been entirely frustrated by the late unseasonable weather—many whole covies having been actually drowned. The accounts from the moors, confirmed by the daily passage of game boxes, represent the success of the sportsmen as undiminished. The game cootinues plentiful, and the weather bas this week been highly favourable.—Pioth Courier. - CHELSEA GRAND REGATTA. The fifth annual contest among the watermen of Chelsea, for a new wherry and other prizes, took place on Monday. The fol lowing were tke competitors for the prizes: /DIST HUT. W. Coates and E. Coats . G. Taylor and W. Thomas Yellow. H. Gaykard and Thomas Chink Light Blue. UCOND MCAT. G. Brown and J. White Pink. A. Graves and W.Waight Scarlet. G. Cole and W. Gaines Purple. After an admirable struggle they cams in a follows in the last heat : _ _ _ Green Pink . 4 Yellow . 4 Green received the new boat. About 15 sovereigns were dis tributed among the others. Yesterday, the annual contest for the prize-wherry, and other prizes, presented by the inhabitants of St. Paul, Shadwell, to the tree watermen of that parish, took place, in four heats, at different periods of the day. The heats extended the whole way from Bell Wharf to King James's Stairs, the distance in each heat being rowed three times. The first heat took place at eleven o'clock, between William Frogley, Shadwell-dock, blue; John Raiment, Cole-stairs, orange ; and Charles Cole, Wharf-stairs, yellow ; which was won by Raiment. The second heat, between John Fenwick, Shad well-dock, pink ; Charles Fox, King James's-stairs, red ; and Joseph Lane, Cole-stairs, green ; was won by Fenwick. The third heat, between the first and second men of the last two beau. was won easily by Frogley. The grand heat, between Fen wick, Frogley, and Raiment, was admirably contested; and after a very arduous struggle, in which the men passed each other alter nately, Fenwick came in first, the winner of the prize wherry, by arrival boats' -lengths. • COCKNEY SPORTSMEN.—Our readers who are sports men will perceive that the following good-humoured satire upon what he considers Cockney Sporting, proceeds from a genuine Cockney Correspondent A few day since, two attornies, both inhabitants of Walworthond both indebted to Galileo for quick ness of sight, made a best of 10 guineas, to be gained by. the bile shot. They agreed to decide the important question by firing at sparrows, but having due regard for law, postponed the trial of skill until the first of September. According to previous arrange ments they proceeded *ith double-barrelled percussion guns, to a field at the back of the Green Man, in Cold Arbour-lane, Brixton, where they fired alternately at twenty sparrows, let out of a trap. The birds had the good fortune to escape with the eiception of two, which had been previously wounded. They were killed oa the ground by discharges of partridge shot, at the distance of five yards from the trap, by the moat skilful of the sportsmen. The other missed every bird, and consequently lost the wager." A PLEASANT RlDE.—Sunday se'nnight, while the Portpatrick mail was on its way from Dumfries to Annan, a trace broke, about six miles from the latter place. The guard and driver instantly slighted to repair the damage, and while so engaged, the horses started off at full pace,and took the coach safely to Annan, without guard or driver , in he usual time. Some passengers who were on the outside, leapt off the coach, but two Ladles who were within wisely sat still, and had a pfemassi ride! The ancients never drank any great quantity of wine but upon particular occasions, when they thought by their excess that they did honour to the Gods. In Scotland a " backgammon board" is generally called a 4 . Dambroad." the men being called "dams," and the Scotch pronunciation of " board" being " broad." A Scotch lady one day lately went into a shop in London in order to purchase a table-cloth; various patterns were shown hes, but she :ejected them, and inquired of the shopman if he had any A donsbroadpat- . um," meaning those which are squared or checkered ; to which the shopman answered smartly (being somewhat surprised at the queatiim), " Mem, we have some pretty brood, but nose rionsx'd bread." A tall fellow standing in the pit a few nights ago, at the Dublin Theatre, was repeatedly entreated to sit dowu, but wou ld not ; when a voice from the upper gallery called out, " Let him alone, honey ; he's a tailor, and he's resting himself." The American Com. BARRON recommends pumping air front the holds of ves.els as a remedy against dry-rot, the common mode of ventilation. by forcing pure air, or dashing water into the bold, being fond an impertece preservaive.— The Albion. ANCIENT GREEK LEASE. PROM Tin reams QUAILTSRLIF The attention of the learned world has recently been called to some inatriptions of unquestionable authenticity, brought from Greets many years sine*, and now in the University of Ley den, which had hitherto been most strangely overlooked, that con- • tido, not merely an allusion to the practice of letting land in Attica, but leases actually entered into. One of these inscriptions was found near Mount Hymens; and is dated in the fourth year of the 1011th Olympiad, or 345 years before the Christian era. It is a lease by the lEsoniaos, the town's-people, sr demos of Atone, of a piece of land called the Philais. near Mount Hymettus, to a father and his son, for forty years, for ISt drachmas a year. Hot as the inscription is eneedingly curious and instructive, we take the liberty to subjoin the following translation of it, which we be lieve will be found to be sufficiently exact : " The demos of /Exone let on lease the Philais to Autocles, the son of Amens, and to Auteas, the son of Manacles, for forty years, for 152 drach mas a year ; the said land to be farmed by them, or planted with trees, as they please ; the rent to be paid in the moods of Mcatomboon. If they do not pay it, they forfeit their enmity and as much of the produce as they stand in arrear. The /Esti' nians not to sell Der to let the said land to any one else until the forty years have elapsed. In case of a loss on the part of the te nants by hostile invasion, no rent to be paid, but the produce of the land to be divided between the /Ezonians and the tenants. The tenants are to deliver up half the land fallow, and all the trees upon the land; for the last fi ve years the /Einnialts may appoint a vine-dresser. The lease to begin with, respect to the corn land with &Indus, the Archon, entering into office : but with respect to the wood, not before Eubulus goes out of office. The lease to be cot upon stone, to be set up by the Magistrates, one copy in the Temple of Hebe, the other in the Lesebe, and boundary stones (orol) to be set upon the land, not less than two tripods se each side. And if a tax should be paid for the land •to Government, the said tax to be paid by the affizanians, or if paid by the tenants, .to be deducted from the rent. No soil to be carried away by dig ging from the ground, except from one put of the land to soother. If any person makes a motion in contravention of the contract, or puts it to the vote, he shall be answerable to the tenants for the damage." And there are some further stipulations with respect to the cutting of the olive trees, and the division of the price obtained for them between the Oxonians and the tomtits. Now it appears clearly from this inscription or lease, that the mode of letting land for a money rent, for a considerable number of years, and under conditions with respect to management, must have been well un derstood in Attica. The terms of the lease are suck as indicate a very high state of civilization, and a very considerable knowledge of agriculture. In proof of this, it is only necessary to advert to the clause binding the tenants to have half the land in fallow, at the termination of the lease, and to that which authorises the Szonians, or lessors, to appoint a vine-dresser for five years pre vious to the expiration : the making different entries to the corn and vine lands, the provisions with respect to the damage that might arise from hostile invasions, and the interdiction of car rying away any portion of the soil to another farm, all discover a disposition to protect, as far as possible, the just rights and in terests of both parties, and to advance the progress of agriculture. The lease cannot be objected to on account of its being for too short a term ; in this country It might be thought toe long. THE ARTISTS. The Morning Chronicle had an entertaining notice yes terday on the motions of these gentlemen. Our learned contemporary sets out with stating that—as that which MOORE, in his Almanac, and in his " March of Intel lect," is pleased to call " pluvial precipitations," by which, we presume to think, he means heavy rains, has rendered excursions to the coast perfectly unnecessary— every place being, this summer, a watering-place—many of our Artists have not emigrated. "Sir Tnowas Lawagees remains at his post, and is seen at his door as the day declines, smirking and simpering set a stray Duchess, or deserted Countess, to her carriage. To give by-gene bloom and unknown beauty to these flowers, and leave those in the country to waste their sweetness on the desert sir, may be bad taste ; but Sir Thomas bas, doubtless, weighty reasons to ex cuse this, " the head and field of his offending." A similar feeling, inspired by his tender regard for engravers, may also tend power fully to reconcile him to Ids town quarters. This face-painting and millinery is dogged work, and knows Do season of rest. The golden harvest and green fields have no fertility or charm for melt artists, as all their plants flourish thick and most profitably amongst bricks and mor tar. " Lama seems to think Covent-garden the best garden in the world, and keeps his feet front catching cold, by leaving the orchards and gardens in the country unvisited. " Not content with his reputation as a fruit-painter,which might content any artist, if genius were ever satisfied, he has betaken himself to a different class of still We, which latter however will be potently ancillary to the former in point of grace, elegance, and beauty of composition. Having in hand a picture for Mr. Few carr, the actor, which requires the rich ornaments of the table, and another, the Robber showing Gil Bias the plunder in the Cave, he has, with the kind permission of Masan. Rundell and Bridge, been engaged for several weeks making sketches from their gar gem, specimens of jewellery and plate. His success in the jewellery is of surpassing excellence, and we question whether silver and gold, with theirelauic designs and exquisite execution, were ever so brilliantly and truly depicted on canvass. The King's Wino Cooler, which weighs 8,000 ounces, and which is unique not esiy in its size, but in its admirable design and ornaments, as perfected ender the tasteful direction of Mr. Bridge, he has also been am miseloned to paint. It will be of the size of the original, with err tain accessaries and adjuncts of colour, &c. to form a picture,which, u a work of an, as far as the materials will allow, promises to be perfect. It will be particularly interesting and valuable to the in genious inventors, when the original takes up its lasting abode in that Palace of Kings—Windsor Culls. He has also on the easel, end nearly finished, a beautiful group of fruit for Mr. WILLI. " K Melia is vulgar, but FIRAZIR is the most polished id his sex ; the former having continued in town, while the latter went to Paris. His stay was very short, but short or long, we cannot see bow France, to kik France, could have done hint any earthly ser vice. Cunt Scenes and Coillish are in greater perfection at home. and he may rest his fame on these, in which be has few rivals.— Kaunn has been very busy In the higher branch of his art, and in painting portraits. When an artist can do any thing better, and for the profit paints portraits, the latter are, in their conventional phrase, termed " Pot Boilers." We wish such artists as Keane:, who could paint such a delightful picture as the Auld Robin Giuji, would not pop these calves heads into their pot. " LAIIDUZIL is no doubt hard at work—but where be h e m. what piece he is now upon, we can't pretend to say. Hoarse is still at home coining—not the King's head, but one that may be a King's bead—the Duke of Clarence's. Scotia, after his marvellous exertions within a short time on the Pandemonium and the Pano rama of Cbautantinop/e, is gone to Brighton. We have a proper horror of puns, or we should say that if some of his brother artists thought of going to brighten. and actually did, we should rejoice at their success. Mr. Swamis an artist of eery excellent talent, and we grieve to see it spent on such perishable works as pano ramas. As the coadjutor of Lance in the Gil Bias picture, we look to see bins to advantage its a better and a nobler style. Though not exactly pertinent, but as relating to the arts In this country, and a curiosity, we shall tack to this article the original order given by the Empress of Russia to Count Bezborodko, at St. Pecersburgh, June 1790, fnr the bust that was here executed of Charles James Fox— " &rives au Comte de Woroorm qu'il me 'raise avoir en mar bre blanc le Butte restemblatit de Charles Fox. Je yam le 'ochre sur ma Colonnade entre mu: de 'Demostene et Ciceron. Ii a delivrE par son Eloquence ea patrie et la Bunk dune ;mem° laqueUe ii n'y avait ni justice ni raison. (Signed) "CATHERINE." • If the reader should not know what War this relates to, he will be desperately puzzled bow toand it out, and identi'y it, by the Exraus's comment. A negro woman being asked for her ideas of an earth quake, teplied, "she thought the Diety was passing by, and the earth made him a curtsey." Lieut. K. DA v !SUN, It. N. who commands the Coast Guard at Holywood, has communicated the following distressing facto relating to the loss of four men during the storm of Thursday. " Holywood, Aug, 2T.—lt is With feelings of regret I have to communicate to you the melancholy loss of the pilot yawl , Thomas, of Belfast. The boat was observed from the Coast Guard station at Cultra, last night and to-day, lying.astem efs sthoonerliding at anchor off Cakes. At about live, p. m. I observed the. yawli with four men in her, leave the schooner, .and, when she was about twice her own length front the vessel, she svatystpletlay a heavy surf, and I could not perceive her any more with my gYss. The boat and materials have been saved by the Coast Guard crew. From the heavy gale and surf Which prevailed, co Coast Guard boat could have been launched to save' the unfortunate men, who so imprudently left the vessel. A - life-boat might have gone dr, but even before the could have reached half-way to the schooner the'peoPle mvii b'svh=d." The following aro the names of the sufferers; viz. : pilot ; Wm. Kelly, Archi bald ll'Donnel, and Wm. Callan, boatmen.—Belfost amuck. `POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Juba .Thern. a labouring coal meter, appeared on gammons yes tared Word the Loan Karol', to answer the complaint of Mr. Solomon% a coal merchant, arising out of the following circua►- stances : , --- lia.4)lsmleod. the mincipal coal meter, said be bad. brought the defendant before his Lordship in consequence of Mr. Solo:nuns basing complained to him that he was absent from his duty at Hat notes wharf. Wapping, oa the 18th of the present month, from the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon andl between five and sit o'clock la the main( ; and that when he returned be was intoxi cated, and unit to attend to business. I. the MC= time the busi ness of the wharf went on In the absence of the coal meter, who was too drunk to write his name. Mr. Weems corroborated this statement, but evinced great reluctance to mower the questions of the Lord Mayor. The Loan Masca—Did you state to Mr. emceed, that no tickets were signed by Thorn, for the coals measured and sold at the wharf on the afternoon of the 18th instant? Mr. Solonrons—My Lord, I shall be eritninating myself if I answer that questkm. If your Lordship will guarantee that I shall not be proceeded against, I will answer it? The Loan MAroa and Mr. Bounstead both assured Mr. Solo. mons that no such intention was entertained. _ Mr. Solomono—l hope, my Lord, you will not press the question. The LORD ILUMS...4 MDR call you to IDIOM it; it is neces sary to the ends of justice that you doss Mr. Solomon. at length yielded, and said none of the coals mea sured that afternoon, and for which Thorn signed tickets were measured by him. Mr. Solomon' than reloctandy produced the tickets and proved their identity. Mr. Welder, for the defendant, said Thorn had that day en. gaged to perform the duty at Harnott's wharf u well as his own ; and thinking business was over for the day, had guns with some of bU breaker meters to share a pot of beer. He had been in the ()f -ace for eleven years, and he had always conducted himself with propriety; and he hoped his Lordship would not inflict the ex- Creme penalty named in the Act—that of flnal dismission from his situatioo. The Loan Maros said the case was one that requited a severe notice, and adjudged the defendant to be discharged from his situation as a coal meter. Mr. Wooller to vain endeavoured to induce his Lordship to alter bis anions. • BO W.-STREET. • Yesterday two young fellows, of a very suspicious appearance. named Juin and Wright, were charged by Mr. Orme, a linen draper. in Little Russell-street, with attempting to ste al a piece of silk handkerchiefs, value 20e. his property. Mr. Ono, stated, that the two primeness came into his shop and asked to look at some silk handkerchiefs ; not liking their looks, he stationed himself end a bey where they could watch them un observed. They remained tumbling the goods over for three quarters of an hour, without bidding for any thing. At Smith me of them polled a piece *I handkerchief, off the Minter, sod the ether, who sit OD a chair, cried to pull it towards him. and to get it into his lap, under the apron thathe had on, but it came unfolded, and he could not manage it. The other one, then finding the young woman who waited on them was alanned.piched it up, and giving it to her, said it had fails. en the floor. They were then taken into custody, and, on being searched, a piece of silk handkerchiefs, ap parently stolen from another shop, was found in the hat of one of them ; but they had only 61. in between the two. The prisoners were remasded a t t ill n ; Y eesday next. Tuesday night, a decent-looking old man and woman applied for assistance to recover their daughter, a girl ism fifteen years of age, who had been induced, they said, to quit her oarTice, and to withdraw hendf from her friends without any caw. . She was a girl of great beauty, and they muck feared SID had fallen into bad hands. Mr. HALLS directed Upson to promente the inquiry, and, after great pains, be yesterday succeeded lo ascertaining that the unhappy girt was au inmate of a house of ill-fame in &log's-Court, Piccadilly, where th e had been induced to take up her .hods by the persua sions of another female, who bad made her represent herself as a homeless wanderer, in order to obtain admission. On going to this house, Upson found the deluded girl attired in a splendid manner, sad a more lovely creature, he said, he never before saw. He represented to her the consespences of the life which she was pursuing, and at length brought her to consent to return to her distracted parents. They accordingly set out for bee father's house, and oa their arrival there, found seventeen of her relations anxiously awaking her arrival. To describe the ism that followed, be mid, would not be possible ; it was the most affecting he had ever witnessed. The girl, he said. was alternately clasped in the embrace of her father, mother, beethen, and sisters who, as they clasped her in their arms, wept for joy that she ret urned, and appeased to have buried the past in oblivion. M A RL BOROU H-STR SET. . Messrs. awry sod Simonds, ettensive col merchants in Aran. del -street, &rand, yesterday appeared before the presiding Magis trate, H. M. DYIIII, Esq to answer an information laid against them at the instance of Mr. Tourquand, principal coal-meter for the county, for obstructing th► meters in measuring some coals which were deficient. Mr. HARMS& attended for the defendants, and submitted, be fore going into the case that the proceeding was Wept ; the sum mons did not set forth the place the coals bad come from. Mr. Torquand said it was necessary it should be worded to part. ticular information. Mr. Hassan replied that there should have been by the Act an information lodged, upon the merits of which the summons should have been taken out, but in this case no information bad been laid. . . . Air. Dram. after referring to the Act, coincided in opinion with Mr. Harmer, and the case mas issined.lately dismissed. MARY-LA-BONNE. IPm. Henry Taylor was yesterday brought before the presiding Magistrate, Mr. ilawmenn, charged with creating a riot at the house of a gentleman named Brown. It appealed that the defen dant went to Mr. &OULU'S house, miters has (defendant's) wife was engaged at work, and made a riot about the door, and was given into custody. Mr. Rowunson inquired what the defendant had to say? The defendant replied, " my eyes, Mr. Hewitson'', I'll shoot him." --- ----- The worthy Magistrate *scoldingly ordered the &knifing to find bail ANECDOTE OF MATIIEWs.—An intimate 'friend of Mathews the other day, having shaken hands and taken his leave of blot at his carriage door, near Highgate, took it into his head, the road for a short distance being unusually muddy, to mount the footstep of the carriage behind, which Mathews perceiving, shortly afterwards put his head and shoulders out at the window. desiring him, authoritatively, to get down. " Get down, I say. sir," vocife rated •Maithews ; "get down, I my," repeated h- as his friend nodded and winked familia rly -in xenon, evidently relishing the joke, until Machines, takbag his toachrnaies.wldp in, hand, sad "eating the at:09040 the word, and the weed to the action," an (madly applied it to the nether end of the unfortunate wight that be was glad to nape in making a 'immerse( into a mud heap, to the Vest delight of Mathews, convulsed wick laughter within. and the welcome applause of the bystanders. So daring have the poachers got in this neighbourhood, that they quite set the gamekeepers at defiance. • A number of them. to the amount of twisty, assembled a few days ago on the Moor, occupied or held by the Duke of Leeds. , His Grace engaged -several men to disperse them ; but the poachers pr esented their arms, aid threatened to•fire upon them. The. Duke s party, eon equefiely, returned to their post, leaving the poacher, tu ramble at • pleasure.-Yark Costront. The 'shoals of loose fish every night in Fleet-street are become an intokrable annoyance. The words " move on" have no effect, and instead of the watchmen being able to abate the nuisance, many of them appear to' be under petticoat government themselves. AIEL A N CDOLY CA T AST ROP II E.—IIODdaT last the son of a labourer in the employ of Sliss Ponsonby, of Plasnewydd, Llangollen. having been sent with the horses of Sir. Knight, of Oswestry, which were shea at Llangollen, to the river Dee to be awans,—the river being very high iu consequence of a flood, the horses. as well as the boy. were unfortunately carried away; but thmugh.the exertions of some of the inhabitants, the former werr saved, with little injury; but the unfortunate boy sunk to rise no , more. It is hoped the above may act as a warning to deter post • boys and othets from trilling with their employer's property. at . well as thelives of children, and the happiness of parents.--Aretro eingr•Oirmicle. BIRTHS. ' At. Frame, ,Mrs. Vaters, wife of Mr. W. Vaters,• baker, of twins! Mrs. Hinton, wife of Mr. Hinton, of the Ship Inn, of twins .! and ?Ira. ape, near the Jolly Butcher, of three bop!!! DW.D. At Dallreith, Mr. Alexander Arthur, pastor of the Conrail— tional Church dieser In the afty.fiest year of his axe and thr , Orrsontroeventh o6bisi pink/try. H! ti rs• W AT.EII at LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORROW. .. Morning 9 =nue. after S . Attarnatie . 29 - mmetwo after S _ ____ s i Lasso Mind sed !obliged by JOIIP Nlvrite. at do Beim: Onus, SM. Pleliett-place • Temple Bar.