Star. — London, England, 1829-09-04 00:00:00

f'• If V°"' r , e4a , t 3 W - O ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CTRCUlT—Brurret, Sin. 2. SPENCER. V. GRANT. Mr. Sergeant WILDE (with whom was Mr. BatcE) stated that this was an action brought by Mr. Spencer, a resident in this city, to recover a compensation in da mages for the breach of an agreement entered into be tween the plaintiff and defendant, thatthe defendant would not open a shop in the same line within the city of Bristol ; this agreement he had broken, and it was for them (the Jorv) to give such damages as they thought the plaintiff entitled to receive. The defendant's conduct he con idercd most scandalous, and such as he hoped few in she city would be guilty of. He (the defendant) was a surgeon and apothecary, and the plaintiff was a respect able individual who kept a shop in the same line at a distance from the city. Grant wishing to dispose of the business, advertised it for sale, and a bargain was entered into by which the plaintiff was to pay one hundred pounds for the good-will, and the stock and fixtures to be paid for at a fair valuation, and the whole sum paid was 3501. On the 4th of August, 1827, an agreement was drawn up and signed by the parties, by which the defendant un dertook not to set up within the City of Bristol. This agreement was kept by the defendant, and from what has since transpired, a dispute having arisen between the parties, application was made to the defendant to produce the agreement ; this he refused to do, and the Jury might judge from his conduct the disposition of the man ; on that occasion he said, " True it is I had it, but it was not stamped, and I have burnt it ; whether he had AO done he (the Learned Sergeant) would not pre tend to say ; but he would say that he (the defend ant) would gain nothing by the attempt at fraud, for he should be able to show by a paper in the defend ant's own writing, sufficient for the purpose of making out the case. The question for the jury would be, what damage they thought the plaintiff had sustained. He ap prehended that where a party entered into a formal con tract for a business of this description, they would not countenance such conduct as the present, which tended to deprive the plaintiff of the means of gaining a liveli hood. He could not tell how many customers the plain tiff had lost, but the defendant had opened a large shop, and appeared to be gaining a large connection, while the plaintiff on the other hand was losing his. What de fence could be set up he did not know ; but if there was half the fraud in the defence that there had been in his conduct, the jury would soon come to a decision as to the sum they should award the plaintiff ; and they would give such damages as would show the defendant that he would be no gainer by such conduct. Notice to produce the original agreement was admitted, and affidavits were put in, by which it appeared that an agreement had been entered into between the parties, but that it was unstamped, and that the defendant, thinking his part of the agreement performed, destroyed it. The substance of the agreement, in the handwriting of the defendant, and signed by the plaintiff, containing the terms, was then put in. Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS, for the defendant, objected to its being put in in evidence, contending, on the authority of Rippins v. Wright, 2 Barnewall and Cresswell, that the original agreement being unstamped, a copy of that unstamped paper could not be admitted in evidence. Chief Justice Ti x DAL—The defendant has entertained I wrong idea of the agreement ; his contract was not at an end on the payment of the money by the plaintiff. I shall admit the copy, with liberty for the defendant to move. Two witnesses, both under 16 years of age, in the plaintiff's employ, proved the state of the business when the plaintiff took it ; also that it had very materially fallen off, and thnt the defendant had set up in the same business within a short distance ; there was also a witness to show that she had formerly dealt with the plaintiff, but since the defendant had opened his new shop she had dealt with him. Mr. C. F. WILLI A MS, for the defendant, said he did not regret the decision his Lordship had come to in ad mitting the paper in evidence, as it would save the par ties the trouble of again coming down for trial. It was his duty to submit a few observations for their (the Jury's) consideration. The Learned Sergeant had used harsher words than he was generally accustomed to do, thereby wishing to create a prejudice against his client. He could show, if it were admissible in evidence, that the defendant was " more sinned against than sinning ;" but he was obliged, by the nature of the else, to confine himself to the agreement, and to show the Jury what the real case was that the plaintiff had made out. Only one witness had been called, out of so large a city, to show that they had forborne to deal with the plaintiff. How was this to be accounted for ? It was obvious that the real cause of the business falling off was, there not being proper persons to attend to it. He would appeal to them (the jury) as men of the world, how they would like, when they went into the plaintiff's shop, to he served by the first two witnesses called ; one of whom was a fine smart boy, but who probably had on his first pair of trousers, and the other a lad who, none to his dis credit, did not appear to have sufficient learning to know the name of the drugs he was dispensing to his Majesty's subjects. Was that the way for a man to conduct his business, and then come into Court to claim damages ? Were they the persons likely to give satisfaction to the customers using the shop, and on the whole, could they (the jury) come to any other conclusion than that the failure of the plaintiff's business was more attributable to the manner in which it was conducted, than to the de fendant's having opened another shop, which he (the Learned Counsel) did not attempt to justify, but as he had before told them, if he had been able to shew them the real nature of the case, they would give the plaintiff but very moderate damages; as it was, he trusted the sum they would award the plaintiff would be small, and he knew it would be such as would meet the justice of the case. Lord Chief Justice Tx!: ns I. summed up, and told the Jury, as there was no evidence to show what loss the plaintiff had sustained, and altogether the evidence being very slender, and not giving that full information which a case of this nature required, the damages they gave should be reasonable. The Jury, after a short consultation, found for the plaintiff, damages 1001. A few days ago two young men named Bourdet and Renew, the one aged 2S, the other 12, were tried at Rouen for assassination and robbery. The victim was a woman named Dnvivier, who was found in her hou4e near that city bathed in her Wood, on the 12th • April, a dreadful wound having been inflicted in her neck. The > ted kept a baker's shop, and it was proved that Bourdet wst to buy mom bread at the time when the assassination &WM prapeny which ivas known to have lielongertik • " woman wailbood in Bourdet's posses. sion for whipit ' • ted by sayku bad been given to him by fiN tam Met: — Hestia:, hoWever, denied this, and tie tiro p • °f en,. endeavoured to shew that it was commit ted bd the Miler: 'The 'eildrace, however, proved that they' both participated in it ; and the jury having found them Guilty, they were sentenced to Dee& WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced yesterday morning before FRANCIS CONST, Esq. and a full Bench of magistrates. William Stewart was indicte4 for stealing a silver snuff-box, the property of Mr. John Gough. The prosecutor stated that on'the evening of the 13th of August he was passing through Drury-lane, when he felt a tug at his coat pocket, and immediately missed his snuff-box; the prisoner was close behind him at the time. He seized him by the collar, and forced him into a shop, where, on searching him, he found the box in his waist coat pocket.—Verdict, Guilty. Transported for 7 years. SHERIFFS' COURT, RID LION SWUM, Sim 5. FALSE IMPRISONMENT. HARDING V. ALLEN AND OTHERS. Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS opened the pleadings, and addressed the Jury on the part of the plaintiff. He stated, that his client was a butcher, residing near the Regent's Park, and carried on a respectable business, by which he derived a profit of about 51. a week. Two of the de fendants, Messrs. Allen and Anthony, were, he would in justice to them state, respectable solicitors, residing in the city of London ; the other defendant was a sheriff's officer. The circumstances that gave rise to the pre sent action were as follow :—On the •twenty-ninth of April the plaintiff was sitting at home with his family, when the defendant Sloman, and another officer, called, and producing a warrant, arrested him for a debt of eighty pounds alleged to be due to a Mr. Norris, an attorney at Manchester, for his bill of costs under a cer tain commission of bankruptcy ; in vain the plaintiff declared that he knew nothing of Norris, and that he could not be the person named . in the warrant ; in vain he called his landlord and his son-in-law, who confirmed his statement ; the officers would not listen to him, but dragged him off at once to Whitecross-street prison,where he was kept six weeks and two days before he obtained his liberation. After being immured in that prison about ten days, he sent to his solicitor, who drew up an affidavit in which the plaintiff distinctly and positively swore that he was not the person named in the warrant, in order to ground an application to the Court of King's Bench for his discharge. Previous to the application being made, the affidavit was shown to the defendants, Allen and An thony, who said they should oppose the application. When the motion was made, they requested a week's time to write to their client in Manchester on the subject, and which the Court granted. At the expiration of that - period the parties went before Mr. Justice Littledale, when, instead of producing affidavits in answer to that of the plaintiff, the defendants took technical objection that the affidavit was wrongly entitled, describing the name of one of the defendants as Rymer, instead of Ryner—using an re instead of an n—the Judge decided this objection to be fatal to the proceedings, and the plain tiff's attorney had to commence de noro, by which delay the plaintiff was kept in custody an additional week, and the day after the second summons was taken out, the defendants sent the plaintiff's discharge to the pri son, without offering him the slightest remunera tion for the injury he had sustained by such a lengthened imprisonment. He anticipated the de fence set up would be that Messrs. Allen and An thony had only acted upon the instructions of their agent Norris ; but surely before they did so they ought to have made proper inquiry, and ascertained that the plaintiff was the person against whom the writ was directed ; in addition to this, after the plaintiff's affidavit had been shown to them, why did they oppose the appli cation for his discharge, and raise the paltry objection he had alluded to? His client had not only suffered in person by the imprisonment, but had lost all his business, in consequence of being unable to attend to it himself. His family, too, during his confinement, were indebted to a relative for even the means of subsistence. He would ask the Jury what compensation they themselves would expect for such treatment ? He thought it a case that called for Ample damages. He then called Mr. Barrett, the Governor of Whitecross-street Prison, who stated that the plaintiff was brought there on the 29th of April, and discharged on the 12th of June. Cross-examined by Mr. Adolphus.—The defendants sent his discharge. There was no other detainer against him. Mr. Peter Greaves stated, that he was the plaintiff's . son-in-law. He was present when Sloman and another officer came to arrest him. Sloman said it was for an attorney's bill, amounting to 801. Plaintiff denied the debt, and said he did not know the attorney. Witness said if he (plaintiff) really owed the money, he would be come bail for him, but if not, he would leave the officers to proceed at their peril. Sloman tried to persuade wit ness to be bail for plaintiff, but he refused, and plaintiff was then taken away. The plaintiff was a butcher, and had a wife and three children, who were dependant upon him for support. Witness assisted the family while plaintiff was in prison. His business fell off in conse quence of his absence from it ; nearly all his customers had left him ; his profits were about 51. a-week. Mr. Tucker, the plaintiff's solicitor, stated that he was sent for by him on the 12th May, and after hearing his statement, he drew up the necessary papers and affidavits to ground an application to the Court of King's Bench for his discharge ; he showed the plaintiff's affidavit to Messrs. Allen and Anthony, and told them of the in tended application. Mr. Anthony, after reading it, said he could contradict it, and that it was incorrect in many particulars. The Court of' King's Bench granted a rule Nisi, to show cause why the plaintiff should not be dis charged; and the defendants, when they showed cause against the rule, instead of producing any affidavits in answer to that of the plaintiff, took a technical objection to the manner in which the affidavit was entitled, and which was allowed by the Judge. The defendants, on the objection being allowed, applied to the Judge for their costs, but the application was refused. Cross-examined—Plaintiff did not send for him until he had been in confinement about 12 days, and the ap plication of the Court of King's Bench was not made until the last day but one of Easter Term. Mr. Heaviside, Mr. Hornblower, and several other customers of the plaintiff, were then examined, who proved that in consequence of his confinement in prison, and there being no one to attend to his business, they had discontinued dealing with him, and that his business had been altogether destroyed. This was the plaintiff's case. Mr. ADOLPHUS then rose and addressed the Jury for the defendants. He contended that his clients had acted merely as the agents of another person, residing at a dis tance, and who alone was to blame for all that had hap pened. His clients were not actuated by any malicious motives in what they did. He would admit that they had acted.wrong, and that the plaintiff was entitled to some compensation for the injury he had sustained ; but he thought that very small damages would satisfy the justice of' the case. The UNDER SIIERirr summed up, and the Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. The drrmage4 were laid at 500/. - Saturday morning; a porter, while employed in putting coals on board a Steam Boat at the Broomielaw, fell from the plank into the river and was drowned. DUMFRIES, September 1. THE HARVEST. Harvest labour proceeds apace, though still liable to serious interruption. Last week we bad four dry days, with two wet ones intervening. On Saturday, the weather appeared to have set in warm and dry, but on Sunday the atmosphere became close and moist, and the same state of things continued yesterday. At times, the sun burst forth with great power, and considering the previous damp, many considered it as the most critical day we have seen during the season. So many changes are truly per plexing, and it may be said with truth, that during the last fort night, the farmer's hopes and fears, like the instrument that acts as an index to the clouds, have been in a constant state of oscil lation. A very few hours' repose is all the husbandman can claim at present, and however early he may rise in the morning, his toils are sometimes protracted till the moon or stars have set as well as the sun. Yesterday we made it our business to consult various respectable farmers, all of whom auute us that no damage has been done to the crops as yet, though their fears begin to point to a disastrous future. The grain ripens very slowly, and after-growths are common even in the furrow.. Still the ears are well filled, and fall well to the barn floor. Various meters of meal have been made, and we have heard of different parcels of oats that yielded fully more than a stone per bushel. Around Dumfries two-thirds of the wheat have been cut and carried, free from sprouting, or indeed damage of any kind, but still in a softer state than could be wished. A considerable quantity of barley has also been stacked; but of the oat crop three-fourths remain to be reaped, while the quantity carried is very trifling. On Thursday last there was a roup of growing grain in the immediate neighbourhood of this town. The day was dismal, and the crops sadly twisted, bleached, and fatten ed. The buyers of course were in bad spirits, and one field of wheat went off " worth the money." Next morning the weatbe was favourable, with a smart breeze, when Mr. Dickson, naturally anxious to make the most of his opportunities, set a great number of people to work, and actually reaped and stacked the produce bes fore be went to bed in the evening. The grain was remarkably clean in the bottom, and secured, as is believed, in a good state. Instances of this kind are well worth recording, though we are sorry to add they are rather rare. Our agricultural informants still cling to the opinion that the crops around Dumfries are above an average. Front the higher districts, the accounts, we are sorry to say, are less flattering. There the oats and barley are in many cases thin on the ground, though, at the same time, plump in the pickle, and sufilciently corny. A redundancy of moisture is considered unfavourable to the bulbing of turnips; still the crop has a healthy appearance, and is covering the ground to admiration. The potatoes on dry soils are strong and luxuriant, and may be expected to yield a large re turn. On wet lands the prospect is not so good, where they are probably getting sour and stunted at the root. The pastures were never rougher at the same period ; and how can it be otherwise when the streams are so full ? The NMI, on Thursday afternoon, was as high as we ever saw It in summer, and must have deluged various fertile hoims, if we may judge from the numerous sheaves which were seen floating on its surface to the sea. In addition to these, a drowned stirk was grappled and pulled on shore near the town, and as every burn and river was in the same flooded state, these may be very trifling items in the list of casualties that occurred on the whole. The Lochar in particular looked more like a lake than an ordinary stream, and ft was melancholy to see goodly crops of grain, to take no note of the peatman's harvest, bent, flattened, and as completely sub merged as If they had been buried many fathoms down. The heavy rains of lest week and the week preceding, appear to have been general in Dumfries-shire and Galloway. On the dread ful Saturday recorded in our last, the storm raged with peculiar severity in the upper and lower districts of Wigtownshire, pros trating the crops, where at all heavy, and flooding the merses to a considerable extent. Around Wigtown, harvest has been in pro- gress for nearly three weeks; and a correspondent Informs us " that the crops, to aU appearance, are moat abundant. In the Baldoon district they are particularly heavy; and It is hardly too much to say that the lands possessed by Mr. Arbuckle and Me. Hannay rival the Carte of Gowrie itself." SPOR 'ING. ,L'S. Sam 3. 7 to 2 sg.t Voltaire 15 to 1 —Exquisite (tak.) 61 to 1 —Sir Hercules (tak.) 20 to 1 —Stotforth (taken) 61 to 1 —Rowton 20 to 1 apt Felt 10 to 1 --Frederick (tak.) 20 to 1 —Rhodacantha 12 to 1 —Clodlde 22 to 1 —Apollonla (taken) 7 to 4 on the held apt two. WARWICK RACKS—Sm. 2. TATTERS A Q. L The Guy Stakes of SO sous. each, h. ft. for three year olds, One mile. Mr. Sadler's ch. f. Device, Bst. 41b 1 )Jr. Mytton's e. Independence, Bst. 7lb ..... . Eight others started—eighteen drawn. The Leamington Stakes of 25 sons. each, 15 ft. with 100 sou. added by the town of Leamington—two mik heats. Mr. Miles's b. m. Sarah, 5 yrs, Bst. 9lb ,l Mr. Sadler's br. g. Jocko, 6 yrs, Bst. Blb Mr. Day's b. g. Liston, aged, 94t. lib 6 others started-10 drawn-19 declared forfeit of 5 sons. cub. A Sweepstakes of 5 sons. euh, with 50 added. Two mile beats. Mr. Goodlake's b. h. Alderman, aged, 9st. 131 b lA. Warwick's ch. c. brother to Paul Jones, 4 yrs, sit. illb 3 2 Mr. Sadler's ch. g. Popinjay, aged, 9st. 91b .. 2 dr Mr. White's br. c. &. Nicholas, 3 yrs, 7st. 91b.... . 4 dr Two drawn. The Warwick St. Leger, of 25 rove. each, 10 ft. for three year olds ; colu, Bat. 21b. fifties, Sat. Two miler. Mr. L. atarlton's Harold.. . Mr. Ormsby Gore's b. c. Porkington.. Mr. Tomes', br. c. The Burg.•ss.. . •••• . Two drawn. Match for 400 sot. b. ft. off by consent. PONTEFRACT RACES, Sarr. 1. Sweepstakes of 30 sows. each, 10 ft. fur three yrs old colts, Bst. 51b. fillies, B.t. 21b. One mile and three-quarters. Mr. IL Richardson's b. e. Felt, by Langan... Mr. Healey's b. c. by Grey Mahon.... Won easy. Produce Stakes of 50 soy. each. h. ft.--No race. The Hougoumont Stakes of 50 soy. each, h. ft. for the produce of 1826 ; colts, Bst. 611). ; fillies, Bst. 511), ; Slb. allowed, &e. T.Y.C. Mr. Petre's ch. f. Laura, by Figaro (31b.) Mr. Houldsworth's b. c. Crescent, by Blacklock (31b.) .. 2 A good race. Fifty Pounds, given by the Noblemen and Gentlemen in the neigh bourhood of Pontefract, for horses. &c. of all ages ; three yrs old to carry 6st. 61b.; four, 7st. Mb.; five, fast. 61b.; .iz and aged, 9st. mares and geldings allowed 31b. ; a winner of a 301. Plate, Match, or Stakes in 1829 to carry Sib. ; of two, 51b. ; and of three, 61b. extra. Heats, one mile and three-quarters. Lord Fitzwilliam's b. 1. Dora, 3 yrs Sir E. Dodsworth's b. e. Young Patrick, 3 yrs .. 2 2 Mr. Davidson's b. c. by Borodino, 3 yrs 5 3 Mr. Clark's br. m. Iris, 4 yrs 4 0 Mr. Hooldsworth's f. Deposit, 4 yrs Mr. Haworth's b. f. Brenda, 4 yrs 6 0 Five drawn. Leominster Races are unavoidably postponed to Wednesday and Thursday, the 23d and 24th instant, in consequence of the late floods having inundated the course. s GAME. Partridge shooting commenced on Tuesday ; but the birds, in this neighbourhood at least, are remarkably scarce. One sportsman front Brighton got only a single shot during the day.—Briedon Gas. EXTRAOADINA LE.tPlNG.—Monday week, number of persons assembled on the Chamber 11311 Estate, near Oldham, to witness a leaping match Lately made at the hound of Mr. Thomas Mills, the Noggin Inn, at Holbns, near Oldham. be tween one Greases, of Haslehurst, and Wroe, of Oldham, for 201. a side, at two hops and a leap; the distance they cleared is as fol lows :—Greases, 37 feet 6 inches ; Wroe, 56 feet S inches; Greases thus beating Wroe by I 3 inches. The ground they leaped upon rose one inch and a half in the distance leaped.—lhtellesterraper. The damage done in Scotland by the late inundations is immense. The loss sustained by the Duke of Gordon alone is estimated at 30,0001. as the water rose so high in some places, that a house of Lord Fife's, near the river Spey, was flooded to the first floor, which was found covered with mud a foot deep, after the water receded. Two new bridges have been de•troyed .by the overwhelming element, and two others, that had resisted the floods for a century, have been nearly swept away. In consequence of the thin population in this part of Scotland, it will be scarcely possible to repair the damage, so far as regards the bridges, without Go vernment aid, as numerous indu,trious intlisiduala • have been com pletely ruined, and others much. injured in their property, in an extensive district, by the late tremendous storms and unprece dented inundations. • TIIE UN CONSCIOV% PUN,411:11.--A Ingesi urchin %vas taken before a magistrate, charged by his mother (awa.hervfoman) • with robbbig her of articles entrusted to her 117 her customers. " I have tried every way with him, your worship," said the woman lobbing ; " but it's •oo use • be's quite isionhigeolide# as soon as I • iron the things bin Weis c heat!" The Mittaposision Of the two words was so ludicrous that the magistrate could not refraba from I laughing, notwithstanding the woman's situation rather deserved compassion than risibility. POLICE INTELLIGENCE MANSION-HOUSE. The City Solicitor waited upon the LORD MAYOII, in conse queue of an application to him from the Greenwich coacbmer, who have ►egun to find that they sustain great injury on account of the late regulations with regard to stage-coaches driving into the City during church time on Sundays. The City Solicitor stated that Greenwich coachmen were as re markable for their civility as the Paddington coachmen were for opposite conduct, and that they had, since the new regulations had been entered into, sustained considerable Lou by being prevented from taking their accustomed station!. They begged that he would intercede with the Loan Mayoa, in order to procure for them some accommodation, and suggested the following, viz. that they should be allowed to station themselves in future in Gracechurch street during the hours of Divine Service, and they promised that they would depart each in his turn, withoot noise, after the lapse of every quarter of an hour. They promised to observe this re. gulatioc, if it were approved of, most punctually ; and be (the City Solicitor) thought that his Lordship might consent to it without any fear of its violation. The LORD Maros said he thought the proposition a very reason able one, and that he should receive a deputation from the Green. with coachmen on the subject. He was determined that Divine Service should no longer be subjected to interruption from stage coachmen ; and as for the Paddington coachmen he should direct that a constant eye should be kept upon them. He should not at all wonder, from what be was constantly hearing about %be conduct of the latter, if he heard that some of them would be brought out for public execution. Tbo regulations have, as may be supposed, excited a great deal of annoyance to the heroes of the whip, and the church-goers re ceive a corresponding accommodation. The public who merely come into town or go from it, without thinking of church, com plain a good deal about the existing restrictions. BOW • STREET. Mr. Edge, the Solicitor, of Essex-street, whose house was braes into and rubbed at four o'clock on Sunday morning, waited on Sir It. Bums with a letter from Mr. Peel, the Secretary of State, re commending the case to Sir Richard's attention Sir R. Mauna said that there would have been no occasion have troubled Mr. Peel on the subject if Mr. Edge had applied here earlier. Gardner, the officer, said be had been engaged all the week in endeavouring to discover the thieves, and hoped soon to succeed. They left behind them several tools, which had been stolen from Mr. Cubitt's, fur the purpose of effecting an entry into the house , also a rope, with which one of the patty had let himself down through the bole of the coal vault. Mr. Edge said he had lost a great deal of property, and every day missed more and more. He heard the noise made by the breaking, but was too much alarmed to stir. His house was broken into before this, on the sth of May, and above 7oot. worth of pro- perty stolen, but many trifling articles, and even some notes and sovereigns that he had sealed up, were returned to him at different times. Sir RICHARD BIRXIE desired Gardner to use all the diligence possible to find out the parties. MA RY.LA-BONNE An ill.looking fellow, named litskAissam, was yesterday placed at the bar before the Presiding Magistrates. Messrs. Rawumos and Hostas. charged with felony under the following aggravated It appeared that Mary Tint, a young woman of most respecta ble connections, lived as servant with a gentleman's family in the country, during which time the prisoner paid his addresses to her, and prevailed upon her to leave her place, representing that be would marry her. She accordingly came to London and resided with the prisoner, be promising her marriage, and that he would have the ceremony performed at a small house and estate be pos. served at Hull. He accordingly, atter borrowing .7.t. of her, took her boxes, containing several articles of wearing apparel, away with him, and on returning a few hours afterwards, told her that he bad sent them to Hull ; it however subsequently was discovered that be had pledged teem at St. Mary Axe, and had deserted her. Several witnesses were called, but the case was somewhat intricate. Mr. ILswznisou inquired what the prisoner had to say. The prisoner (who was laughing during the unfonunate young woman's statement) replied, with amazing noveciudance, that she had waited outside the door while he pledged the things, and he concluded by making some very unhandsome reflections. Mr. Rawzresou, after reviewing the evidence given on a former occasion, that the boxes had been obtained while she lived with the gentleman in the country, said be now understood her to say that they had been obtained while in London. The prosecutriz replied that they were obtained in London. The Worthy Magistrate remarked that a more impudent fellow, or a more shameful case, never came before him. He had acted in the most scandalous manner. There was not in his (Mr. Raw limn's) opinion the least moral doubt of his guilt, but the case was so confused that be regretted he could not commit him fen trial, for he would there be acquitted, and duis escape a punishment he so well merited ; he therefore should require him to enter into re cognizance., and give good bail for his appearance on a future occasion, when the case might be made stronger against him. The Wonky Magistrate deeply regretted the young woman's situation, and was sorry he could not afford her any assistance. The prisoner was locked up in default of bail. QUEEN SQUARE. Yesterday, Wolter Fientstsieg was charged with intermarrying with Sarah Farence, his first wife, Johanna, being at that time alive. Jobanua Flemming. an elderly female, stated that she was married to the prisoner at Clasbmore, in the county of Waterford, in Ireland, about eleven years ago. Sarah Farence, a pretty look ing young girl, stated that she was married to the prisoner on the 2d of December, 1827, at Chelsea new church. The prisoner said that, unfortunately, Sarah was in the family-way by him, mad she threatened to bang herself if he did not marry her ; but it was not before he caught her with the rope round her neck that he consented to the match, and be married her to use her Irk. lie was fully committed for trial. TOWN-HALL John Smith was charged before Sir JOHN PLUM by the Over seers of St. John's, Horslydown, with refusing to maintain kis son, a boy seven years old. Alin Stot said she lived next door to the prisoner; on Tuesday last she saw the boy lying on the stairs of an empty house in a state of high fever, and nearly naked. She asked him if he had no friends? He replied, that his father had turned him out of doors, but that he had a Aster, living in St. John•street. She went to the sister, who gave her a shirt and a pair of stocking.. She then took hint to his father, before whom be went upon his knees, prayed for forgiveness if he had offended him, and besot! to be taken in, when hi. father shut the door in his face. She had frequently heard the boy, while at home, scream for mercy. hut did not know whether It was occasioned by the father or the mother-in-law. William Welch could positively assert that the boy had been with out linen for three months, and slept in the dirt-fields; he had seen him pick up bones and offal in the +meet, when his lather passed by without taking notice of him. The father replied, that he had ever loved his son, but his present wife detested hint; she it was who had turned hint out. He called GOD to witness that his heart had often bled on witnessing his wife correct his child. Upon this, a Mi. Wordaley desired to be sworn, and deposed to sating the prisoner kick his son into the street, whom he had ample means of supporting, if he chose to work. Sir Jonit—is it the intention of the parish to prosecute WA/1:r replied in the affirmative ; upon which the father was called upon to find bail, and in default was committed. F.x EC UTION .—Monday morning Edward Reed wa• executed at fichester Gaol for the murder of his wife, by poisoning her. Immediately after his conviction he made an ample confes sion of his guilt, by which it appeared, that, for the sake of the trifling sum of 61. ss. 6d. which he became entitled to on the death of his wife (he belonging to a burial society), be committed the horrid deed, fur which be has paid the forfeit of his lite. After hanging the venal time the body was cut down, and delivered to the surgeons for dissection. BIRTHS. At Wycombe Abbey, the tidy of Lord Granville Somerset, of a son. At Inchintun Manse, the lady of the Rev. L. Lockhart, of a ann. The wife of the Rev. Malcolm Mac Laurin, Isla', of a wn. MARRIED. At Tipton, F.. T. Complin, Esq. of Charter-house-square, tc Catherine, daughter of J. York, Esq. banker, of Stony Siritford. DIED. At the village of Kirkpatrick-Durham, on the 24th ult., Mr. John Pergusson, schoolmaster. in the 88th sear of his age, and 67th of his public duties as a parochial teacher. At Minnizaff manse, on the 20th ult., Margaret, third daughter ' - of tie Rev. JAn Gates Maitland; of . r.iirgirth. On the 3d of May, un his passage horn Sincapore for London, in the prietit of We, Captain William Emile, of the Mjg Indian. HIGH-wATltitst LONDON-BRIDOR TO'NfOklloll Morning $0 nusum ant? 5 • Afterpoo6 11 =mitre seer 6 • Lorene: Printed and Published by Jonn Maxus, at the &NA Orrice, No.l. Plekett.plase. Temple Bar.