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ASSIZE IVTELLIGENCt:.. MONMOUTH, Ma ROI es. Alrnham 'Owen was indicted for the wilful murder of Morgan Saunders on the 12th of November last, at Tievethin, in this county. . Mr. Mama and Mr. JUSTICE were for: the prosecu tion. and adduced the following evidence : Phiap Williams—l- am a mason, and I worked for Morgan Saunders, the deceased,. who was a master. mason. I was at the Pentwynn Tavern, at Pontypool, on S aurday evening, the 121 h of November last, about seven o'clock. Several other masons were there as well as me, to receive their wages from the deceased, who generally paid us at that house. I left the house first that evening. My dog was with me. When I got out of the house, I perceived two men standing in the road; I did not know them. The biggest man kicked my dog. and my dog cried out. I went up to the man, and asked him for what he kicked my dog, and he imme diately struck me down. After I was down, he began, kicking me; hekicked me so often, that I cried out " Murder!" Mark Price, my fellow workman, then came-up, and asked the man what he meant by using me so ? The man then went from me to Price, knocked him down, and kicked him whilst upon the ground.— He then returned to me, and taking me by the hair of the head, he kicked me several times. Mark Price went again into the public house. I was crying out " murder r all this time. Soon after, he returned with Daniel Lewis, and Morgan Saunders, the deceased. When Morgan Saunders came up, the big Man let me go, and went up to him. Then the big man and the man with him said they would fight any man on the road. Mor gan Saunders said, " I am no fighting man; don't strike sue, for if you do, you will repent of it." The big man who struck me, then knocked Morgan Saunders down. eiross-examined by Mr. Russeta..—There were many masons at the tavern that night—perhaps more than ten or twelve; they were all the workmen of the deceased; they had received their week's wages, and they were all drinking some ale. Mark Price and I • kit the house pretty much at the same time; be followed me out. I t s be two men I have alluded to were about twenty yards from the door;• it was not so dark but that I could see a man. After the • big man had kicked my dog, I did raise my hand, but only to fend' off the blow he made at me ; his hat fell off but I did not knock it +off; my hand went towards kis bead when defending myself. The big man knocked down Mark Price; he was then close to ow while I was on the ground. Price ran bark to the public-house, and then at least a down mess came out, with Morgan Saundets the deceased heading them; they came towards the biggest man; they did not press upon him, nor did he retreat from them • he retreated front me, bast not from them ; be then struck the deceased. Its-examined.—l was quite sober, and so was the deceased. The . big man first kicked my dog, and was then about to strike me, when I raised my hand to defend myself. Esamined by the COUIRT.—;III dog had not barked at him; I gave the man oo provocation whatever; I had never met with him, nor did I ever see him before. . Mark Price called was at the Pentwynn Tavern on the night of the 12th of November ; I had been re ceiving my wages there; I bad only drank a pint of beer, and I was quite sober ; Morgan Saunders was in the house, and was quite sober ; I followed Philip Wil liams out of the house, as we were both going home; I left Morgan Saunders in the house. When we went out, I saw two men standing in the road a little below the, house ; there was a big man and a little man ; the big- man had a smockfrock on, and he kicked Williams's, dog, without any provocation whatever. Williams Eked the big man why he kicked his dog, and he im mediately knocked him down; be then kicked him set ' veral times while he was down. He continued to beat, Williaps; and he cried out " murder; ' on which I went up, and told the big man not t-i mur derWilliams;, • he then jumped from Williams to me; knocked me' clown, and kicked me after 1 was down; he then went to Williams, and began beating and kicking him again, on which Williams cried out " murder;' I then went to the tavern, and called for assistance, and iaid that I n as afraid Williams would be murdered ; I said. " for Gon's sake, let sostsebody come out," The people in tie bousethen came out. The first man that came out was the deceased Morgan Saunders ; the big man then left Williams, - and came towards Morgan Saunders; I saw the deceased hold up his hand, and I heard him say, "I am no lighting man ; do not strike me ; if you do, I will make you suffer the punishment or the law." The big man then jumped at the deceased and knocked him down. Cross examined by Mr. C. Pinturs—lt was then between seven and eight o'clock. It was six when I went to the tavern. I only drank about half a pint of beer. The dog, in going along the road, went towards the big man, who had his hat on then. I did not see his hat fail off. The roa dl is rather narrow there. It war not i wry dark night; it •was star fight. When I came out of the house a second time, I ran by the big man and the deceased How. ever, I was near them when I beard Morgan Saunders say, " I am Pe) lighting !lupi n I did hoe bear anything said before that; I did -not see Williams knack the big man's hat off; I did not see the little man after th. t. Daniel Lewis—l am 0 mason, and was apprenticed to the deceased. There were ten of us together at the public-house on the night in question. We bad eight jugs of beer to drink, and each jug was a shilling's worth: that was a!1 we had among us that night, and in my opinion we weir all sober. Mark Price and Philip Williams left us first. Shortly afterwards Price came in and said that somebody was beating Williams. We wentout. The deceased and I went first. I ran, and got before Saunders, who. I suppose, is about forty-five years of age. 1 ran beyond Williams and' the man who was beating Mai, but I returned back to the spot, as I heard them talking behind me. I heard Morgan Saunders say, "I am no fighting man; do not touch Me, or I will make you lei.ent it." Same big man .then ran at him, and down he went. The big man , first pulled off his smock-frock. While he was taking it off some man behind said, that the big man would fight any man on the road. The big man 'and Morgan Saunders struggled together, and the big ~man got in a sitting posture, with his back up against , -the bank, and Morgan Saunders had his head on the big man's knee.. The-big man then placed one of Iris harnle in limit of the aeceased's thr at, and the other hand at ii e back of at. He held him in that manner. • Mask Pr ice said, "Loose the man or you will certainly 'kill lam" He did nut let him go, and then Price struck him. Hi then let him' go, and some man threw Morgan Saunders off his knee, and the big man then got up._.. Lade Charles then came up, and taking the big man by the shoulders, said, " This is the man that has killed :Morgan.'' Then the other people came up, and they tried to take the big man to the house. lie kicked, alog,led, and got tree. No one else attacked Morgan Sou :dens. A quarter of an hiur afterwards, I saw axis rgan Saunlers dead in the house. Soine short time afterwards, three men here shewn to me. I knew one of them, because I and another man caught' I.oid of him that t.ight. I should not know the person of the. big man a-1 Vk as to see him. Cross-eaantined by 11r. Itussal.t.—lsaac Charles was a fellow workman of mine; it appeared to me that the big man took oft his smock frock like a man who wa. going to fight fairly ; I don't know that the big man's party wtre beaten that night by the masons. Other witnesses were then railed, who proved that the prisons: 1 throttled the deceased until he completely strangled him. The prisoner in his defence said, that the dog of the first witness: had bitten him in the road. and be haibig 'kkked the dog, a violent riot commenced, in which the prisoner was severely beaten. Two witnesses were then called to substantiate the prisower's statement. but, they proved nothing to justify' the stuck made upon the deceased. Mr. Jintke PAM! summed up the evidence to the Jury, arid they found the prisoner Guilts. His Lordship then passed the awful sentence of the law on the prisoner, and ordered Mm for execution on Friday morning. . CARLOW, MASCH 21. TRIAL OF JOHN KELLY, !JR MURDER. The prisoner was indicted fir the wilful murder of Thomas Mooney, on the 16th of February lace, by striking deceased with a stick and by other means, which produced the death of Mooney. Counsel for the prosecution stated that the deceased, Thomas Mooney, was a boy in the employment of the prisoner, who is a chimney-sweeper; whether the boy was an apprentice or not, was not the question, al though it was supposed that he was the former, on the 16th of February last; that the prisoner was on that day accompanied by a wonflus and two boys, and that he applied for lodgings at the house of a person named Byrne, at Ballynocken, in the countyof Wicklow; that Byrne's wife was at present there; that the deceased boy was sent out to buy a candle, but remained out longer than he should; that the prisoner expressed his - determination to inflict punishment on the boy, and accordingly rushed out with" a heavy stick; followed and struck the boy, who cried out," Oh, John, honey, I'll never do it again ;" that by some of the blows given the boy was finally knocked down; that he made no complaint after, but went to bed, and appeared exceed ingly hurt. That on Sunday, 20th February, the pri soner, the woman, and the two boys went thence to one' Hagarty's, at Tullow. Here the Learned Counsel would prefer, he said, leaving the details of the case to thewitnesses; but he would remark that theme were not on the face of the earth greater objects of tender com passion than the children brought up to the trade of chimney-sweeping. He said, that if an apprentice mis demeans himsel, it he dues not attend to his legal or ders, the master has a right to chastise him, as a parent would, with a view to reasonable correction. But if, under colour of such chastisement, he seemed to gratify malignity of heart, and appears totally regardless of so cial duties by the infliction of severe and brutal treat ment, in such a case there is no necessity for other ex• pression of malice; the law implies it from the frequent repetition or weight of the blows, the nature of the in strument, and the amount of correction. Eleanor Byrne, examined by Mr. CLAREE.—Said she lived at Ballynocken, in the county pf Wicklow, sear liathdrum 1.- was married: identified prisoner ; saw him at ten o'clock, on the morning of the 16th of February last; a woman,two little boys, and a person who was half brother to prisoner, came into her house to get lodgings. in all five; they remained from Sunday until Fr iday morning ; Thomas Mooney, whose name she heard, was sent for a candle in the evening to a place called Ballynaclash, three quarters of a mile dis tent ; the boy was eleven or twelve years old: the boy had been out about a quarter-of an hour, and the pri soner saying be was nut too long, took up a bandstick, and went out ; soon after she heard a child's cry, and, on going out, saw prisoner strike the child and knock him down ; she saw but one blow ; she dirt not hear any words except that the boy, after rising, said, "John, honey, I'll never do it again." Prisoner called to his mother to warm some water to wash the boy; she saw his left ear cut; the boy was left outside washing him self; the prisoner came in ; the boy ate little or no supper and appeared sick ; be was in good health before he went out for the candle ; witness saw all the parties next morning ; be was then very sick, very unwell, and went to Rathdrom, to sweep the chimneys of the police bar rack there; they all went away on Friday morning, ' and witness did not see him after; she did not know where he died. Sarah Hagarty, examined by Mr. CLaazz.—Said she lived at Crosslow, near Tullow ; the prisoner, whom she recognized, was at her house, at Shrovetide, in com pany with his mother, brother, and two little sweeps. Thomas Mooney, the creature that died. was bare, naked, and cold; on a Sunday evening, about six or seven o'clock, prisoner told witness, on her asking him what ailed the child, that he was almost killed from falling out of a window at Rathdrum ; he said that he brought him from Carnew to Newtonberry, and that no one would let him in, the child being ill; he had two cuts, one on the calf of his leg, the other on his bead; witness said the child was in a cold place, and prisoner's mother took him to the fire, and called for a saucepan, to warm a sup of Milk; prisoner had his teeth closed, and witness said the child was for death, and told pri sOner he was " a big rogue;" prisoner then pulled the boy by the ears, and slapped him, but not severely ; he used to say 66 Tommy, won't you drink ?" The prisoner had a black-thorn stick, which he had brought with him ; the boy died at her cabin; witness told prisoner to go to D r . Nolan for relief. Lord Noaseay.- 40 . Whose estate do you live on?" Witness.— Mr. Jones's my Lord. I have a poor miserable family of seven children, and I was obliged to go out that day to seek for money to pay for a quart of meal that I got on credit the evening before. Anastasia Hagarty, examined by Mr. PLutterrx.— Swore that prisoner brought the child in with a piece of an old sheet on him : he went and put the child sit ting down on a stool, when the child slipped off; pri soner said it was roguery ; pulled his ears and slapped him on the cheek ; he took the child up after that, and threw him into a corner : she did not see the boy dying, but saw him dead in a coffin ' • heard him called Tom Mooney; Ned Darcy is her landlord; she knew Dr. Nolan and Mr. Doyne. . . ' ib a Juror.—She said primner put souse lighted straw to the child's belly, but she did not swear it. Pilsworth Whelan, Esq. examined by Sir J. GREENE —,Witness . ix a Magistrate; thinks it was on the 21st of February that prisoner was brought brfore him; he and Mr. Doyne held an inquest on the body, but held out no hope; to the prisoner for any disclosures he should make ; helm' heard there that the prisoner had sent the boy out on a message, and on his return, beat him as fear staying out too long ; that the boy was saved by people returning from a lair; that the boy was again sent out and again beatn; that he was after ward. carried away by prisoner from that place; witness heard a story of the child's h fallen through a chimney, but cannot say whether it was prisoner or his. half brother now in gaol that told witness this story; the child was not, as prisoner had acknowledged, an apprentice to him, and prisoner could not account for where 1 e had got him. Andrew Nowlan, surgeon, sworn—Said be resided in Tu:low ; was called on professionally to visit Thomas Mooney, the deceased; went to Magarty's, a former witness, where the child was, on a Monday, at seven o'clock vac the child was then quite in,en•ible; little mere than just alive; there was a calm his left eat ; the left arm was moth swollen; there was a trills* wound on left leg, and he died in a few hours after. Witness examined the body at the Invest next day ; ou removing the skin from the head, there were hruises under the skleillt both sides of it. down Inside the skin of the neck, both shoulders, and breast in front; the prisoner ac -tanned for it-by sayhqrthat the child had fallen down a chimney. The cause ofdeath wee "anion in the Mad, and an bliinnimation the lungs that corresponded to the injuries milks chest. J. Hanlon, a child about Beene sin years old, was here produced oa the table; this very interesting little child, if we consider his features merely, notwithstanding • the most squalid misery, could give no account whatever of himself. He was totally ignorant of any principle or duty of religion—.had never been to any house of worship or been taught a prayer, and never heard of bailor heaven ! This child having been dismissed, his mother was brought up on the table. When called upon by the Court to give SOMo ac count of herself, said she was an Englishwomann, which was evi dent front her accent ; that, from distress, she was obliged to sell to prisoner the child last produced for fifteen shillings ! Said further that she came front Basingstoke, in liampahire ; her husband is dead, be was a pensioner, and she has been seven years in Ireland. To Lord Norbury.—She knew nothing of a Parson Craven, who lived at Basingstoke. The unfortunate woman retired after receiving some money collected for her round the table. Shortly after the case of the prisoner had been given in charge by his Lordship to the Jury, they returned a verdict of Guilty of Man dauglaier, and the prisoner was sentenced to transportation fur life. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. Tina EQUITAILZ TEA Aomtcr CWll'll3ll' .S4lllne Gentlemen of the Society of Friends attended yesterday to inform the Loan MATO& that Mr. Goundry, the Manager of the above Company, had not for some time belonged to their body. 'lhe LORD NIETO& sent a Messenger to Mr. Goundry's counting house, requiring bis attendance, but no person was visible there except the porter, who was ordered tb attend, and underwent the following examination : Thy Loss Nlatroa—Are you employed by the Directors?—No, my Lord; I am employed by Mr. Goundry. How much does he give you a week am paid by the day I sets 2t. How many Clerks are in the counting house?—None but my. self—(A laugh). Who writes the letters?—Mr. Goundry. Who keeps the books?—Mr. Goundry. Who is the Treasurer?-11r. Goundry. Where is your tea warehouse?—The East India House is our tea-warehouse—( Laughter). Who are your Bankers?—That I can't ten—l know nothing about Bankers. How often do the Directors of the Tea Agency Company meet? I never saw no meeting of Directors, nor nobodyielse--( A laugh). Why here are the names of several Directors (his Lordship then read over the names mentioned in the Prospectus). Has the Company done much in the tea business ?—Not a great deal, I believe; there was ten chests purchased; but Mr. Goundry never told me nothing. What business have you seen dime ?—I have seen a chest of tea taken from the East India Warehouse, and Mr. Goundry gave directions about it, but he never tells me nothing. Do you know anything about those (shewing bins some of the Shares produced the day before)—Yes; there was 500 or 1000 of them printed off. How happpens it that some of them in my band are:numbered COCO and upwards ?—That I can't tell. Mr. Hestia—The Managing Director began, most probably, with a high number to make the shares pass o ff well, as watch makers are in the habit of numbering their first attempts by multi plying everyone by 1000.—(Laughter.) Some fashionable Gentle. men number their shirts upon the same principle.—(A laugh.)— Porter. I don't know nothing of that ; but lam sure that the printer never got no payment for what he printed. The Loan Mav en—Has nobody been at the counting-house to inquire about things of this kind?—(Pointing to the shares.)- 1 Porter. Nobody. The Loma Maros said, that if Mr. Goundry should continue to disregard a second summons, a warrant should certainly be wilt after him. GUILDHALL. now In,ledge,* compositor on a Morning Paper, was charged with corinnitting a violent assault upon a fellow-workman, named George Steele. In consequence dime trifling mistake, high words were exchanged between the puties ; but the quarrel had not con doned Mire minutes, when Worledge ran across the room to the part where Steele was kt work, and struck him three or four blows. He then commenced tearing the skin off his face. from antler the eye downwards, with his nails; and upon Steele seising his hands, be actually bit a piece out of his fore anger. They then had a few blows; Worledge fell; but upon getting on his feet again. be seized a weapon called a foot , stich, and rushed towards Steele in a most furious manner. The defendant said, that Steele interfered with some advertise ments which he was arranging for the next day's publication, and when he complained et it, Steele taunted him with some blew ex pressions, and in attempting to pull his nose he scratched his face. He used the toot-stick in self-defence. Mr. Alderman GARILATT recommended the panda to become re conciled to each other.—Steele said he would be satisfied with an apology in their Paper, or a subscription of one guinea to the Licensed Victuallers' SchooL—Worledge said, the first was too degrading, and he was unable to pay the guinea. fie found bail. BOW-STREET. Wednesday evening, Mr. Arnold, the proprietor .f the Englisir Opera House, and a Magistrate for Middlesex, preferred the fol lowing charge against a man, named Metcalfe , a street.keeper for the Piazzas, and constable tiCovent-garden Theatre:— Mr. Arnold stated, that as he was walking through the Piazzas that evening, he beard the sound of a heavy blow, and, turning round, saw a girl of about eleven years of age, and a cripple, pros. trate on the ground, and the defendant standing over her with a thick stick raised In his hand. The girl was screaming as if with pain, and the witness thought the set so brutal and so unwarrantable in an slicer, that he went up to Metcalfe and remonstrated, observ ing, that whatever might have been the conduct of the girl be could have no right to treat her as be bad done. Metcalfe, in a rough tome, replied that the girl was a young strumpet, and a pest to the neighbourhood, and he should do his duty as be liked, without being dictated to by any body. The witness told him that, if the girl had committed any offence, if she was the character he de scribed, it was his duty to take her before the Magistrates—nothing could justify the exercise of such brutality to sualren object. Met calfe became very insolent, and said, 14 Who are you, I should like to know ?" Witness told him he was a Magistrate,and desired that he would accompany him to Bow-street, and here account for his conduct. On the way a crowd gathered about them, and the defendant endeavoured by his language to excite a strong feel ing amongst the people against him (Mr. Arnold). The girl, who seemed terribly afraid of the defendant, slipped away as they were coming tolls. office. In defence, Metcalfe said that the girl spoken of was one of a gang of .young prostitutes, whose conduct and language were such that the inhabitants of the neighbourhood were must shockingly annoyed. He denied striking the girl. Mr. Arnold declared that the defendant admitted having struck the girt. Sir lt. BIRNIZ and Mr. Mnosnort. both said that if the girl was what the defendant described, it was his duty to have brought her before them. Metcalfe said, that if he were to bring every girl who behaved ill all day long before their Worships, he shooks have nothing else to do, and the Magistrates would be pestered to death. After some conversadon, Sir IK. BUMS raid he was of opinion that Metcalfe had been guilty of a violation of Ms duty of a gross description, and the Magistrates, be thought, would not be doing their duty if they were - not to mark the case in such a manner as to hold out a warning to other oMcers. If they acted otherwise they might fairly be accused of delegating power to men who hid beep &mud to be capable of abusing it. He was of opinion that the de- I Pendant ought to be suspended from his oifice. Mr. Minstut.t. was of the lane opinion, and he was suspended accordingly. MARY-LA-BONNE. Howard, a Constable of Mary-la-bonne parish, was ordered to find bail for Making a forcible entry, in company with one Smith, a broker, In order to distrain the goods of Mr. Gaskin, of Porunan greet', Edgeware-road. The defendant said, he supposed his own recognizance was sufficient, but Mr. Griffiths refused, saying he would convince Peace-officers that they were not with impunity to break open people's houses ; and be wished it to be publicly known that such conduct is unjustifiable. 3IARLBOROUGILStRCET. • Yesterday being the day appointed for the re-examination of John Owen ' a young man of fashionable appearance, who has been in custody for several days on a charge of stealing two gown pieces of muslin from the shop of Mr. Woodhouse, Unto-draper in Oxford. street, the Once was crowded, in consequence of the notice taken in the public papers of the case. with tradespeople of various descriptions, who had lost, or imagined they had t, property, that might with the pawnbrokers' duplicates found its the p oss ession :arinisoner when apprehended and searched; a arge assemblage of pawnbroben were also In atteliaanets. wii% different articles pledged by the prisoner at their respective shop,. Upon an inspection, bowever. of the several articles by the tra%les. people, not one could identify any parte/ the property as belangiog to him, and consequently no fresh charge was mark out agaiost time prisoner, but he was sent off to prison under acoasodianout so We his trial for the robbery in Mr. Wiodhouss's Mop THE BURIAL SER-VICE The following remarks relate to a question tukids has been started in con , mquence of a correspondence between Mr. Rowe, a Disenting Clergyman, ald the Bishop of Norwich; in November last. Is a Chorch of England Minister called on to read the Burial Service over one who has not been baptised by a regularly ordained Clergyman ? It is always easy to raise the cry of " intolerance"—" illiberality :' but we would put it to the candour of any sing le - hearted man, whe ther the one or the other be fairly attributable to a Gentleman who acts up to the statutes made eapressiy for the regulation of his professional conduct? Whet , Cher these statutes are intolerant or illiberal, is a subject which has no connection with the question in-dispute The burial office is solemnised by authority of a &mote of the 13th and 14th Car. If, of which the following are uneepeakd provisions:— The office ensuing is not to be used ter any that die unbaptised.' To ascertain the fact of susception of baptism, the leading question is—' By whom was this child baptised? What is the ground of this interrogatory? Another provision—' That the .fiLinister of the parish, or, in his absence, any other bola Mailer, be procured.' The same Statute defines a ' lawful Minister: er enacting, that' From the Apostle . : times, there having been 'twee orders of Ministers In Christ's Church, Bishops, Priest', sod Des. coos • which offices ao man might presume to execute , exc e pt wt. mined thereunto by lawful authority ; and, therefore, that no slut shall be accounted or taken to be a found Btsboi,Priest, or Dees's: that Is a • lawful Minister;" in the Church of England, or be rt. fered to encode any of the said functions, except be bath bail Bpi*. copal consecration, or ordination. The precediug unrepealed law, concurs with the same Statute's having recognised the Decree of the Council of Nice, in 1 acknow. 'edging one baptism for the remission of sins.' Neither general nor particular power of ministerial remission of sins, has bora committed to persons not episcopally ordained ; therefore, manse precluded from' executing any of the said functiosis.'.. By a provincial constitution neither ' repugnant nor conttariam to any other existing law of tie realm,' therefore obligatory by is Hen. VIII. it is decreed, that • Quibus son ausiasinsicarais me cornsinuliesessis denoted': . • NAVIGATION OF Tilt SOUND.—The 10,509 vessels Which sailed through the Sound in 1824 belonged to diffeient nations in the following prop 'lions :--3,542 English, 2,080 Prussian, 1,304 Swedish, 756 Danish. 556 from Mecklenburg, 400 from the Low Countties, 371 Russian, 358. Hanoverian, 167 American, 115 from Lubeck, 33 from Bremen, 31 French, 90 from Oldenburg, 29 from Hamburg, 11 from Norway, and six from Portugal, BAPTISM Rectsreas.—An action was lately raised before the Sherif of Aberdeen, at the instance of the keeper of a parish register for births and baptisms, and of the kirk beadles, for ordinary dues of registration, against certain persons who refused to register their children's names. The pursuers maintained that this claim was authorised by a decree of the Court of Ses sion, iso the case of the Session Clerk of Dunfermline. against James Bayne and others, 26th June, 1765. The defenders, on the ether hand, contended that the does in question could only be demanded as a recompense for trouble, and that as they did not choose to register their children's names in the parish register, and had not employed the pursuers in any way, the action was untenable. The Sheriff decerned against the defendeti, and found them liable in costs of sejt. PORT OP LONDON.—The trade of London employe about 3,500 ships, the cargoes entering the port being annually bot less than 13,500. On an average, 1,100 ships are in the river at one time ; together with 3,419 barges and other small craft, employed in lading and 'Wading them; 2,288 barges - and other craft engaged in the inland trade, and 3,000 wherries or small boat% for passengers. To this active scene which the port of London exhibits, are to be added about 8,000 water. men actually employed in navigating the wherries and craft, 4,000 labourers lading and unlading ships. and 1,200 revenue officers constantly doing duty on the river, beside the crews of the several vessels. This scene occupies a space of six miles on the Thames, from two miles above to four miles below London Bridge and Limehouse. Some time ago, an incorrigible dram-drinking Km of the excise called on a rerprctable disciple of Galen. S:irling, to advise regarding a stomach complaint, with which he was most grievously plagued. The learned follower of the healing art had no diffsculty in ascertain. ing that his patient's disease Lose from a sort of sym pathy that existed betwixt his stomach and tie 4 1 wale o' Scotia's drink," which never permitted him to set eyes on a glass of whisky without -feeling an irresis• ible desire to take the most expedition method of gauging its contents. The Doctor having accordingly lard he• fore the poor gauger the present and future come , quences of bis tippling propensities, proceeded to make up a box of pills, which he presented to him with in. junctions to take a certain number of the pills three times a-day, but on no account to indulge in his old habit of dram-drinking. " To be sure," said the gauger —at the same time laying down 'sixpence as the price - but ye surely canna object to my taking a dram *forehand to fortify my stomach, maybe another to keep the pills down, and maybe a third to settle all: The Doctor remonstrated, And told him it was neces sary be should completely forego the pleasures of whisky-drinking to give the pills effect, 44 ye're sure they'll no agree " said the gauger—.. I'm certain of that responded the Doctor. .. Then I'll no lash myser wi them—tak ye your pills and I'll talc my Wier, ' said the gauger, at the same time pocketing his money and walking off very deliberately. 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